Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-02-23
fielS an6 Gae6ett.
HaxiI1ns for EasIsa rs-

The following good nlaxixs are well
worth preserving for constant refer
encc:
1. Only good farming pays. He
who sOws without reasonable aSsur-
ance Of good crops, annually, might
better earn wages of some capable
neighbor than work for so poor pay
master as he is certain to prove him.
self.
2. The good farmer is proved such
by the steady appreciation of b S
crops. Any one may reap an am
pie harvest from fertile virgin soil !;
the good farmer alone grows good
crops a. first, and better and better
afterward.
3. 1t is far easier to maintain the
productive capacity of a farm than to
restore it. To exhaust is fecundity.
and then attempt its restoration by
buying costly commercial fertilizers,
is wasteful and irrational.
1. the good farmer sells mainly
such products as are least exhaustive.
Necessity may constrain him, for the
| first year or two, to sell grain. or even
( hay. but he will scon send off his sur
! plus mainly in cotton, or wool. or
meat. or butter and cheese, or some
thing else that return to the soil near
| ly all that is taken from it. a bank
account daily drawn upon, while moth.
ing is deposited to its credit. must
soon respond "uo funds So with q
farm similarly treated.
). Rotation is at least negative
fertilization, 1t may not positively
enrich farm: it will at least retart'
and postpone its impoverishment.-
He who grows wheat after wheat corn
after corn, for twenty years, will need
to emierate before the term is fulfilled.
The same farm cannot supporter en-
dure-him longer than that. All ouI
wheat growing sectios of fifty years
ago are wheat growing no longer
while England grows larger crops
thereof on the very fields that fed the
armies of SAXON Harold and William
Conquaror. Rotation has preserved
these as the lack of it has ruined those
6. Wisdom is never dear, provided
the article be genuine. L have known
farmers who toiled constantly from
daybreak to dark yet died poor, be-
cause through ignorance, they wrough
to disadvantage. If every farmer
would devote two hours Of each da,
to reading and reflection. there would
be fewer failures in farming than there
are at present.
. Z. The best investments farmer
can make for his children is tina
which surrounds their youth with thu
rational delights Of beanteous. at
trac;ive home, The dwelling may b
small and rude. yet few flowers viii
enrich and gladden. it while grass ant
shade are within reach of the hum
blest. Hardly any labor done on :
farm is so profitable as that which
makes the wife and children fond ant
proud of their home.
s. A good practicle education, liz
GLIDING a good trade. is better out
ct for a youth than a grand estate
with the drawback of an empty mind
Manv parents have shaved and pinch
ed to leave their children rich, whel
half the sum thus laviShed would bav,
profited them far more had it beer
devoted to the education OF thei
MINDS. the enlargement of their ca
pacitv to think. observe and work. -
The one structure that no neighbOr
hood can afford to do without is th,
school house.
3. 4 small library of well selected
books in his home has saved many {
youth from wandering into the banefl.
WAYS of the prodigal son. Where thu
parental Strictness and severity would
) have bred nothing but dislike and :
fixed resolution to abscond at the frs
opportunity. good books and pleasan
III roundings have weaned many :
youth from his first wild impulse t.
90 to sea or cross the continent, ant
made him docile. cOn.en;cd, obedi
ent, happy lingerer by the parenta
freside. In a family. however r;ci
or poor, no ether food is so cheap o.
so precious as thoughtful, watchfu
love.
10. Most men are born poor, bu
no man, who has average capacitie:
and tOlerable luck, need remain so
Ard the farmers calling, though prof.
ering no sudden leaps, no ready shO.T
cuts to opulence, is the suresi of al
ways from poverty and want to com
fort and independence. Other me1
must climb; the temperate, frugal
diligent. prOvident farmer may grow
into competency and every accessory
to eternal happiness. Each year o
his devotion to his homestead may
find it more valuable, more attractive
than the last, and leaves it better