Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1873-04-03
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This good advice from IS" in the
Journal Of the Farm. We commend to
slothful farmers:
As the time will sooil be at hand for
tbs farmer to his spring opera
lions, he oughtto have his plans laid, and
commence carrying them out in systematic
order just as soon as spring opens. Every
teol should be examined. from q gimlet to
the reaper or mower, and such as need
repairing should be repaired at once. A
little f~orethought and action now, will
save him a good many dollars in time,
Whom the busy season arrives. Many
farmers will wait till thoy want to hitch
to the pillow before as%certaining whether
the plow is in working order or not. The
soil having become dry enough to plow,
the pillow is got out and the clevis found
to DO broken. and the share worn out, and
no new one being at hand, the team must
be 'hitched up" and sent to tho village
stors or foundry, probably 8 or &c miles
Of, aud the broken clevis to the shop to
DO msndod. The blacksmith is very busy,
and cannot mend the clevis before next
day afternoon SO thore goes one aud a
half days work. Gu the second day at
noon it il discovered that one OF the plow
whif1etrees was broken while hauling logs
- tie saw-mill during the winter, and
another half day must be spent in getting
q new one made aud ironed.
After losing two 6ue days for blowing
he kets to work and plows till a heavy
rain comes, which winds up his blowing
for three weeks, aud he has an acre yet
to plow before his oat ground is flushed.
His neighbor just across the fence COM
nsnced blowing a field Of tho same size
two days before he did, and, when the
rain came, had his oats sowed and har-
rowed in. The early sown oats weigh 4
lbs, per bushel more than the late sown,
and allowing the oats in either case to
yield 40 bushel per acrs-by measure q
fair sstimate-the grain would be five
bushels per acre in favor Of the early
sown.
Our careless farmer, by losing two days,
loses Eve bushels per acre on his oats
enough to pay for blowing his feld-and
also will be behind with his work the
whole season.
When he clutches up to finish his oat
ground, his neighbor clutches up" to COM
msncs blowing his corn ground, and be-
fore our careless farmer gets his corn
ground ready to plant, another rain comes
md binders him another week. or more,
aud 80 it goes to the end Of the year.
lie is always "heels over head' in wo!S,
and bis work never done when it should
b..
The saying that "a stitch in time saves
nine" is q good one to be needed in farm
work.
can point to several farmers (?) Of
the stamp above described within q radius
Of Eve miles Of this place who practice
5ear after year this carelcssness, and l
presume the same can be truthfully said
Of many other neighborhoods in this coun-
Try.
As a general thing this class of farmers
do not read agricultural pSpers-'they
cant afford to take an agricultural paper"
but can afford to lose several days of
their best time in running to the village
10 get their tools, &C., repaired, when
they could, just as we'll as not, have had
everything in readiness beforehand.
1t is no uncommon thing to sec mowers,
plows and harness out in tho field in
dead Of winter" just where they were
used last in doing tin work for which thev