The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-02
FTomthe Maryland Farmer.
The Life Of a Farmer-S0me Kindly
Suggestions.


p The life of a farmer can be made
easier, Pleasanter, and healthier, and
his home more attractive, beautiful.
and enjoyable, by q careful attention
to certain rules too often forgotten.
1. Too much work is frequently IN
dertaken, or more land attemDfed 10
be cultivated than the means at his
command viii fairly allow. Having
once started on the wrong path. and
only looking at the profit that NAV
accrue if all his plans can be accom-
he presses all his energies into
the service, only to find at the end of
the season that the task he has i'm
posed upon himself was too heavy
and that much of his labor has besY
wasted from the want of prudent
cautious calculation. It would have
been far better to husband hisstreDrtb
and that of the force at his command.
so that the work shall be kept within
the ability of the held hands and
nothing sighted. Larger areas under
cultivation than can be cropped s,Ic-
cessfuIly make more show and put ON
an outward show of prosperity; but
it is wholly deiusive where there is
weakness behind it all. Less land.
better tillage, and fewer mortgages
do some of our counties an immense
amount Of good, and not only keen
the minds of embarrassed owners
easy, but ultimately bring them, by
concentration Of means and power an
increase of property. The sentiment
underlying the desire to preserved intact
50 the paternaI acres,n is one which
every right-thinking mind will re-
spect. But there is a point at which q
sturdy adherence to it tends to work
serious injury to the owner of propartv
which has become an incum br6nce.
This is especially the case when the
paternal acres are sadly weighed
with paternal debts.
For the working farmer it is far beE-
ter that he should lay out fCrthe season
only SO much work as NAV be within
his means and his capacity, and to do
well whatever work he undertakes.
1t is also most desirable that the inn
pOverished land owner, and there are
many such, should partition of nor
tons Of his land into smaller farms.
or sell outright what he cannot man
age conveniently, and concentrate all
his ability on 8 smaller number of
acres. & hundred acres well titled
will bring him more profit than three
hundred acres indifferentIy and huf-
rie6ly titled.
2 The work on the farm should be
better systematiZed than it is usually.
IL IS important That the work should
be arranged that there shall be time
allowed for doing everything that
may be required to be done, without
undue strain, and allowing for contin-
gencies, so that there shall be q fair
margin to count upon in any event.
When once such regulations are laid
down they should be rigidly adhered
to, tor any departure from them, un-
less under exceptional circumstances,
would be likely to prove embarrassing.
More time is frequently lost at the
last moment in thinking what to do
and how to do it, or where the means
to do it shall be found than ia per
forming the work when once deter
mined on and begun with method and
conducted with precision. Think,
then, beforehand ; map out things to
be done, and it will be q matter of
surprise after q while to find how
easily the days routine runs in it's
groove. OF course perfect regularity,
under all conditions of time, place, and
weather, is not to be expected, for the
best plans sometimes fail just as the
best regulated railway train may break
4 damaged rail.
But any method carefully devised
for carrying on the work Of q farm
Systematically and with due
regard to the circumsi ances of the
farmer and planter and his ability to
command q sufficient force Of field
hands, when it is more wanted, is
infinitely superior to 3 hap hazard,
" happy go Iuckyn way of trying to
do the same thing and missing it.
There IS nothing mere beneficial in
carrying on systematic farming than
the keeping of a regular account of in
come and expenditure, and a simple
diary of each days occupation, with
the condition Of the crops and the
state of the weather. We venture to
say that the man who does this, for two
years faithfully, viii find it of SO much
advantage, as q means of reference
and as assisting to correct slips of the
memory, that will scarcely fail to
continue it thencefOrward.
8. Pay more attention to the health
of the body. Care in changing from
thin to thicker garments, or the re
verse, as the case may be, in accord
anee with the variations of the wealth
er, will often prevent sewers attacks
Of sickness. Malaria should always lie
guarded against, not only by caution
in exposing one self to its balefnl in
fiuences; but by the use of small
doses of quinine, and in damp situ2-
tons 10y keeping the apartments dry;
even in hot weather some fire has to
be used. The farmer, especially Of
the Middle States, is. constantly ex-
posed to sudden alterations of cold
and heat, aud is furtherl liable to suffer
from checked perspiratiou, when Sc
we're labor demands q short period of
rest, it Is such things as these COM
bined with work, that break down,
after a while the constitution. Reason
would tell US that 3 life passed with
out violent mental ST. ain, ia the open
country and in q pure atmosphere,
would be more likely than almost any.
other, to reach the limit of three score
years and ten. The statistics show that
the average duration of life, among
persons engaged ia agricultural pur-
suits, is actually less than that attain
ed by persons engaged ID some of the
most labOTiOus occupations of 8 town.
4. Make the home life cheerful and
bright, as well as comfortable; see
that the house is made pleasant, by
neat adOTnments, and that it has also
pleasant surroundings, books, papers, /
pictures, p1usic some OF these at least,
IF not al, are within the reach of those
whose minds crave them, and whose
eyes appreciate them. When homes
are bleak, bare and cherries, life il
robbed of some of chiefest blessings.
The outward appearance of q country
home is a matter of no less cOnse-
quence. It's adOrnment, though SIM
pie and inexpensive, may yet be made
to add a new charm TO the inner COM
forts. Flowers over the pOrches, and
shrubs and flowers on the lawn, are
natures arts, and though cheap, are
in their natural beauty more attractive
than any other thing that the costiiest
art can supply.
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