Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-12-01
agricultural.
Ttco KINDS Of. Farmers.

Forrest Moreland, of Heuvelton \. Y.
in writing to the Country Gentleman
says:
The farm of the careless, slothtul, ig
norant farmer is separated from that Of
his more intelligent neighbOr by bounda'
ries more plain than line ieaces. Mr.. A.
while driving poor team attached to an
inferior drag by a malicious harness
which had already taken Its revenge on
the poor animals by CALLING in numerous
places, suddenly strikes a stone and breaks
the drag long since deserving a pension
for previous injuries. To quote Mr.. y.
own words, "Ihls Is Just NV luck. In
fact, as fast as his tools grow old from toe
much exposure to the weather and lack OF
suitable care it Is Just his luck 10 have
them breaking when he Is in hurry.
This by no means uncommon accident
furnishes a respite for the horses. and a
journey to Mr.. AS fayOrite haunt-the
blacksmith's shop.
Passing farmer BIS well fenced and
highly cultivated farm, be observed sew
eral Young men also engaged in prepar-
ing the soil aud sowing grain, but in quite
a different style. One is driving a we'll
kept team hitched 70 the Cultivator on
which be was riding. II IS an improved
implement, which has frequently caused
Mr. A. 70 wonder why on airth Mr. B.
wants to pay so much for a cultivator
when a drag Is Jest as good The cult
vator leaves the ground in good condition
for the improved grain drill seen in an
other portion Of the field still another IN
vention. as Mr.. \. maintains for making
lazy farmers. lie callers believed in
larnin' boys 10 SOW BY hand, as their
fathers and grand;athers did before them -
Mr.. As boys 10 overcome their fathers
overweening confidence in the Agricultural
lore Of the past, or pass the boundary
lines that separated their condition from
that Of the more fortunate sons Of Mr..
B.,-bOundary lines that hedged them in,
warped their very souls, until they were
driven in disgust from a vocation they
should have learned 70 love.
The substantial fence that separates Mr..
AS farm from that Of Mr.. BIS is second
only 10 the strong line Of contrast that
separates them 10 their fartherest extent.
On the one hand. farm well laid out and
convenient in all us arrangements; farm
well titled and susceptible Of the highest
cultivation. On the other hand, u farm
that was never permanently laid out, but
Is laid on, anew, year after year, to suit
the eOnvenienees and varying taste Of the
owner. Variety is the spice Of life
and Mr.. A. has only 10 look AZ has I'm.
and the view there is so much variety in
IL should make him feel quite spicy. The
variety in the shapes Of his different
fields is simply astonishing. His fields
are regular and irregular; angular, tri-
angular and quadrangular No two of
his fields are alike. In one the stones
have broken bis pillow and his drag; have
worried his team and bis teamster year
after year. But" says Mr.. A, 'it
never did pay TO give that ere field an
extra work; it dou't give half crop
anyway" The result is that those stones
get a permanent letting alone. In an
other there Is an obvious want Of under
draining. and Mr.. \. has "hearn some
thin somewhere bout uuderdrains, but
never raaly did believe in this ere fancy
farmin'" Mr.. As farm is devoid Of all
that pleases the eve or the pocket of the
intelligent farmer, for his crops are so
poor that they do not pay for even his
poor cultivation. Seasons are gettin'
awful onsartin," says Mr.. A.; in fact,
seasons do not seem TO be as good for Mr..
As farm since he began selling his hay
and grain instead Of feeding it on the
farm. Mr.. A. is a practical (2) farmer.
Men Of his stamp are found in every
farming community. They have been
unfortunately placed on farms, and they
stay there. The world moves they DO
not.