The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-30

saving machines, and working all by system,
that you can do more work in a day than you
do now, and play half your time 1t will take
longer to cut down large tree with dull axe,
than if you stop and grind your axe, and then
cut the tree. And this simple illustration will
apply to many more cases connected with
farming than you have any idea of. Again,
your plow-handle gets loose in the feld-ham-
mer and nails at the house-you must 60 for
them When you get there, the hammer is
misplaced, and no one can find it. A fuss is
raised, bad temper excited, the whole house
thrown into an uproar-all for the want of
some system, which gives to every tool a place.
Thus the plow stands still in the field, it may
be for hours, the horse biting the corn down,
and you at home madly wrangling about the
hammer. If you adopt any division of time
by system, much time for reading might be
gained, and many vexatious troubles occasion
ed by the want of it, saved you. You ask me
what division of time do I propose? 1t is
this To so divide the twenty-four hours in
such way as to give so many hours for sleep,
so many for labor, and so many for rest and
reading. And would recommend you to
divide them thus Get up at daylight regu-
larly, feed and attend to your stock, rest or
read till breakfast. Then plow till II o'clock.
Then feed, rest and read till 8 o'clock p. m.
This space will give you half hour to rest, half
hour to eat dinner, and two hours to read. To
determine what hour you should 60 to bed, you
must first determine how many hours of sleep
are necessary for your health. 1t has been
said by some writer that eight hours sleep is
necessary for men, and nine for females. This
you must find out for yourselves. You will
find out by examining your Almanac, (if it is
like mine, that the length of the nights in
January is II hours-S for sleep, 8 for rest.
February, 10 hours-S for sleep, for rest.
March, - hours-S for sleep, 4 for rest.
April, II hours-S for sleep, for rest.
May, 10 hours-S for sleep, 2 for rest.
june 8 hours-S for sleep, for rest.
July, 10 hours-S for sleep, 2 for rest.
August, II hours-S fox sleep, 8 for rest.
September - hours-S for sleep, 4 for rest.
October, 13 hours-S for sleep, for rest.
November, IA hours-S for sleep, 6 for rest.
December, Is hours-S for sleep, 7 forrest.
Carry on this calculation further. January
has 81 days, and we have found above that
after taking off hours for sleep, there is left
hours for rest and reading. Thus then
Jan. 81 days, multiplied by 5, makes 155 hours.
Feb. % days, multiplied by 6, makes 16S hours.
Mar 81 days, multiplied by 4, makes 124 hours.
Apl so days, multiplied by 8, makes 80 hours.
May 81 days, multiplied by 2, makes 62 hours.
June3O days. multiplied by l, makes 30 hours.
July 81 days, multiplied by 2, makes 62 hours.
Aug 81 days. multiplied by 8, makes 93 hours.
Sept. 80 days. multiplied by 4, makes 12O hours.
Oct 81 days, multiplied by 5, makes 155 hours.
Nov 80 days. multiplied by 6, makes $50 hours.
Dec. 81 days, multiplied by 7, makes PIT hours.
makes 1476 hours
of night in year, besides hours for sleep
every night Reduce these 1476 hours into
days, and you have 81 days of rest time to
study in every year, which extended to 20
years, makes 1920 Days years and 125 days.
There is no telling how much knowledge
might be gained by an industrious reader in
that time. If this system be tried, much may
be gained in the education of children by in
ducing one to read at night while the others
work and listen. Good readers of both sons
and daughters, reading alternately, may be
made by this plan, and both the father and
mother be edited by listening.
1 do not expect the division Of the day as
have suggested will suit every one All I wish
is, to fix in the mind of every farmer the great
advantage of system in all his management,
and let him arrange the division to suit his
particular notion. ANY system is better than
none.
But what books must we read says one, and
where to get them says another? Don't forget
to read at least a chapter in your Bible every
day; then some book or journal on agricul-
ture. And especially don't be afraid of "book
larning." 1t is to books, and conversation
with those who read books, that you 60 to get
knowledge Enquire of some man who does
read what book will give you most knowledge,
and buy it for yourself and children, to have
at all times handy. You cannot lay out your
money for anything that will give you better
interest AS to where to get them, borrow if
you cannot buy. AS to any scientific work on
agriculture, you must look to European writer's,
or American journals that copy from them.
There are but few American writers who have
written of the sciences calculated to teach
farmer.
am aware that it will be more difficult for
mothers who are raising families to make any
sustan, that will snit all Still anv mother