Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-08-03
Neatness ON the Farm.

1t does not cost as much 10 be neat
and orderly as it does to be slovenly,
and it is much better to be neat and is
more agreeable and pleasant. In pass
ing farm it is easy enough to tell
whether its owner is a neat farmer or
not If the door yard is strewn with
old boxes, barrels and farm imple-
ments, broken and otherwise, the gate
broken or minus, broken apple trees
lying in the orchard or thrown in the
road, which is worse, the character of
the owner is known at once.
Are the fences straight from one
point to another, or do they wind ser
pentine like, using up twice or thrice
as much land as is necessary, and
nearly hid with 5riars and young
trees ? Are the roads filed with
fragments of stumps, stones, logs,
brush and every other kind of unmen-
tionable rubbish that could be much
better and more proftably disposed of ?
These are marks of idleness, careless
ness and often drunkenness.
Again, neat farmer has his rows OF
corn, potatoes, etc, straight across the
field; they are easier made so; are
easier and cheaper worked, and there
are many more hills to an acre, and
how much better they do look
Many farmers think they can not
find time to keep things neat and tidy ;
that the general farm work is all they
can manage. This might be so if
these habits of slovenliness did not
hinder and make three times more
work than it would take to keep them
straight. If on some day after a rain,
when the land is too wet TO work,
any one will go TO Strengthening up
things little, he will be surprised to
see how many of these odd Jobs can
be done in few hours, and what a
difference can be made in the general
appearance OF things, and how many
little things can be fixed in ten II in
utes which, if neglected, may cost q dol
lar to repair.
A better way is to sst apart half a
day in every week, say Saturday after
noon, for this work, and in few
weeks it will be found to be the most
profitable half days work in the week
A minute of many little things can be
kept during the week, and on Satur-
day afternoon the list cleared up.
A little care about building fences
straight will save itself i'll fencing ms te-
Iial, and will add few more rows of
corn or rods of grain to the crop on
both sides of the fence / have made
1t rule never to put any thing in the
road. Brush or stumps burn. Stones
piled up out of the way or where they
will be needed l am sorry and al
most ashamed to say that many farm
ers make the road general recepta
Gle of rubbish of every kind. Instead
Of having clean and green roads, they
are nearly blockaded. / was surprised
a few weeks since, while travelling a
circuit OF few miles. to see the vast
amount and variety of these obstruc-
tions Runaways often occur by teams
getting frightened at objects in the
road that have no business there, and
no true gentleman would ever put
them there. Every one seems to think
the little he puts in the road will not
be noticed, but all thinking so fills the
road.
Let every farmer (and any other
MANI keep his rubbish out of the road
and clean up his road, and the country
will look WsterR Farmer.