The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-29

" nave known people ambitious 30
make money, who would spare no labors
20 increase their income, and when they
had secured 1t, would spend it TO no pur-
pose waste it get rid Of it they scarcely
knew how-and have nothing to show for
IL They were good to make money, but
could not keep or use it well. The only
good they could get of their money was
the doubtful good of having it pass
through their hands There are MANY
people OF this stamp; they can get bu-
slness and do it /; can earn great wages !;
drive and push through any amount of
toll make long and close calculations !;
talk largely and well enough about bust
ness, but cannot increase their own capi-
tai. Their purse will not hold money
1t leaks; IT seems like the tabled pit,
without bottom or, like the miller's
dam, whether it rained much or little.
would hold no water; or, most likely,
they have no purse. Their money burns
their pockets and hands; they have it
spent before It is got, or plans on hand
for its disposal. Much like this class of
people are many farmers-they can raise
good crops, but cannot make them pay
they neglect their fences, and the cattle
break in just before harvest, or if they
get good crop they have no place to Sc
cure it fine fields of hay and grain are
gathered. but there are no barns and
granaries to keep them; the fruit trees
yield well, but there are no means for
preserving the fruit, and it goes to waste;
the root crops are good, but the frost and
the winter destroy them, because they can
mot hoar tho
ments rot more than they wear, because
the rain and sun are ever pelting and
scorehing them; the cows give good milk
but the want of dairy appliances makes
the milk of but little value; the pigs are
in the corn-crib ; the sheep are in the
garden; the kitchen has no wood, but
lives from hand to mouth the house has
no cellar; the water is far away. Every
thing works the hard way; there is much
done but little saved. When spring
comes everything is gone /; seeds of all
kinds must be bought the rotten uten-
sis replaced by new the broken down
fences made over the peeled and brows-
ed fruit trees replaced by new and young
ones; and world of labor spent to get
the farm into working order. So it goes
year after year much is done, but little
Improvement made, and all the difficulty
lies in want of order and taste in the
style of farming. No man of order or
taste will see gates hanging on one hinge,
fences Keeling, everything looking like
old chaos or young ruin; men of taste
will husband we'll their farms, and men
of real farming skill will have arrange
ments for making the most of all they
get, for saving or marketing, that moth
ing be lost 1t is farmers losses that
keep them back, and the most of their
losses are by their own negligence or
want of skill. There is much half farm
ing; they waste great deal of labor and
time. The art of keeping everything in
order lies in having a place for every
thing, and putting everything in its place
when use in maxim repairs when needed; |
in always putting in odd moments of
time, rainy days, &C.; in making i'm
arranging conveniences, and
in getting ready for the seasons active |
labor. Let all half farmers mend their |
ways as fast as possible. sowill they mend |
heir fortunes and all their temporal in |
ersts9.