Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-04
2feric,llfllral Department
/. D. R. COLLINS Editor.
UGGEsTIONs TO COUNTRY BOYS.

SUGGESTIONST To COUNTRY BOYS.
In recent address to the country
boys, Hon. D. D. I. Moore, editor of
Moore's Rural New Yorker, after assign
ing certain cogent reasons why many
farmers sons are constrained to change
from country to city life, or at least for
sake the farm for other occupations, he
proceeds: Taking the standpoint and
surroundings of many farm boy, let us
now endeavor to show why so large a
number of this class fly from what ought
to be pleasant homes, seeking unhealthy
and often precarious employment else
wherein village, city, or the briny deep.
The view may prove useful to parents,
in suggesting how the rights of their
children should be respected, and their
tastes and inclinations properly regarded.
Country homes are too often rendered
forbidding,-both unpleasant and un-
comfortable, socially and physically
by the negligence and lack of taste, dis
elimination and liberality of their owners
and occupants. Their lack of both ex-
ternal and internal convenience. neat
ness and adornment, and especially of
the requisites to entertainment and rec
reation for the young, is often primary
cause of the distaste of many youth for
farm life. Indeed, the discomforts, dis
couragements and hard tasks to which
some farmers sons are subjected, have
direct tendency to produce discomfort
and repugnance, and to create a longing
for other, and what it requires little or
no imagination to suppose, pleasanter
scenes and occupations. The decaying,
dilapidated and tumble-down condition
of buildings and fences, and poor nipple
ments and tools (or great lack of them)
on many farm, often disgust and dis
hearten boys who possess manly pride
and ambition. And moreover, the hum
drum, stereotyped line of young people
(both boys and girls on such FARMS
where little time or opportunity is afford
ed for recreation, amusement or mental
improvements, while their associations
and surroundings are unpleasant, if not
positively repulsive-not unfrequently
drive to uncertain, if not immortal and
dangerous callings, those who if proper
ly cared for, entertained, trained and
educated, (at home, as we'll as at school,
would become intelligent, refined and
prosperous ruralists, fully developed,
| physically, mentally and morally,-and
noble men and women in all the relations
of life.
Farmers who regard the future we'll
being of their children-espe specially those
who desire their sons to remain at home,
adopt their profession, and become intel
ligent and enterprising cultivators and
managers of landed estates, thus secur-
ing competence if not wealth, and an
honorable position have much to do,
by both precept and example, to accom-,
plish the desired result. Home and its
surroundings must be made pleasant
rather than forbidding. Regard should
be had to the arrangement and pleasant
ness, as we'll as convenience and utility
of the homestead building and its sur
Notwithstanding those inexpensive
adornments which good sense, taste anC
attention easily secure; yes easily, fol
those who think home cannot be rem
dered beautiful and attractive without ;
large outlay of time or money, are mis-
taken. 1t is not expensive to have
neat flower garden, and such trees ant
shrubs as delight the eye and make hom
attractive far more than costly objects
Nor is it prodigality, but rather economy
to have neat and durible t-buildings
fences, gates and other farm appurten
ances and conveniences, including tn
best labor-saving implements and tool
to facilitate and lessen both farm an,
domestic operations. And by the way
it is never wise to give the boys tn
poorest rakes, hoes ETC., and then com
; plain because they do not accomplish a
much as full-grown, able-bodied mer
1t is only just that they, being weaker
should be accorded the best tools an
be favored and encouraged in other rt
4 spects.
q Some farmers-we trust their nun
!, bers are increasing-wisely encourag
S their sons by giving them plots Of groun
= to cultivate for their own benefit, or al
t finals, the increase or produce of whic
e is their own. In this, and like name
e many a young boy has been encourages
o given lessons in management and acqui
S ed means which not only produce col
d tentment, but led to success in after lif
j. The hint, though not new or patentabl
: may prove suggestive to those parsimon
n Gus farmers who force their sons to r
; main at home, laboring most unceasin
IS ly, with rare holidays or opportuniti
P? for amusement
e All farmers who desire to Undue the
is sons with manliness and independence
lie and teach them to manage for themselv
D to produce, and save or invest JUG
r. ciously-may safely act upon this su
ot gestion. Let the boys have somethil
to which is their own, and thus not on
es encourage just pride and ambitio
but test and develope their industr
ot economy and management. If you C;
n do no more, give your boy or girl or eac
We plot of ground for flowers, 1t W
is pay you, as we'll as them, both now al
S. in the future
IN REGULARITY IN FEEDING Stock
n, The Mirror and Farmer mentions t
k, case of neighbor who last winter sta
foJ q ro1,o &c ovo, ox,l 1,L.ol