The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-07-23

AT this season of the year farm worl
crowds aud few farmers hut are hurried
from one Job 10 another. Hoeing, having
and harvesting follow each other In ouicI
succession. If happily they are moi All
pushing the farmer at once. The DAYS are
at their longest these summer months. and
scarcely anywhere In the country has the
eight for even ten hour rule found follow
ers. Farmers invariably rise early. which
Is well, but loo many of tham keen nm
work almost necessarily, allowing only
time az noon for a hurried dinner. andthi.
IL not well at all. Fourteen. fifteen and
even sixteen hours work per dav in snch
exhansting labors AS the hay and harvest
field during the hottest weather of the
year, Is too much for any constitution.
Every season we hear OF sunstrokrs in the
harvest field, whereby many able. healthy
men are disabled for life. If not killed
The far better way j. 10 rise rs early a.
you please, work TIL 10 or IL O clock and
then take two, three or four hours noon.
ing during the heat OF the day, eating as sub
stantial dinner in the meantime and about
> O'Clock have tea at the house or serve p
light lunch in the field. eating supper after
the days work Is done. This afternoon
lunch IL. through most of the season, not
only a refreshing respite from work but
really profitable for the farmer. Men will
work better and feel more satisfied after a
bite Of something 10 eat and a cup OF tea
or glass of lemonade. Some OF the
shrewdest farmers say they would always
provide this, il only influenced by selfish
motives.
At no time should work be too severe
or too long continued. especially such se-
we're work as is vet done i'm the hay or
harvest field, despite mowers. rcapers.
horse rakes and hay leaders. Rest a little
before you are completely exhausted and
keep yourself always In such good bodily
health that work can be dene with vigor
and with real pleasure. Any really
healthy man will know what we mean by
this-that ii Is easier sometimes TO work
heartily and vigorously than To idle and
a." dawdle " away the time.
The difficulty with most farmers and
the cause of so much overwork j. that too
little help is employed. Not one farmer
in a thousand hires as much labor a. be
ought to be able to probably use, and
very few employ enough . keep up with
the work which they lay ont. The result
is that work gets ahead OF them. weeds
grow till they cost fourfold TO destroy
besides injuring the crops, and the poor
farmer ne. two or three weeks behind.
hand with his work, goes through the
season always at a disadvantage. "a
stern chase Is a long chase" is am old say.
Ing. and nowhere is IL more true than III
farming.
We have not forgotten the women folk.
Our proposal for lunches between
meals requires additional help in the
house, and the good farmer, if he be like
wise a good husband and father. should
see that it Is amply provided. Farmers
wives and daughters are quite as apt 70 be
overworked as farmers themselves. and We
suspect, rather more so. Work IN the
house Il incessant and monotonous drudg-
ery-the same thing, or nearly so, from
years end 10 years end-while work on
the farm is always varied and generally
includes for the farmer a good space for
rest and recreation during our long win
tiers. We shall have more TO say hereafter
OF means for tightening woman's labors.