Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-09
Sharpening.

There Is practice IN which the
young farmer ought to become early
an adept, inasnuch as to do it etfec.
tually will constitute Il great element
of success in his business. We do
not mean the being able to put an
edge on pen knife, an art which
personally we never could attain, nor
even the setting of the n,atu,ina III
zor, which in this bearded generation
is all but matter of superhuity, nor
even do we refer to that which Vir-
gil in his pleasant pastoral names as
tittin. occupation for the rustic in
bad weather, the pointing of stakes
and following of wooden bowls.
The sharpening We refer to is the
keeping quick the circulation of az
gressi,e performance.
She was thoughtful women, that
brown gypsy, who prescribed for the
disconsolate and failing farmer that
he should quatf every day JUS, one
cuptul (of course she sold him the
cup Of bright water Il, an appointed
spring at the extreme point OF his oc-
cupatlon. Ii was to be exactly 1T
SIX i'll the fresh spring morrin-, and
,ht prescription wrought cure, we
are further int"rmcd In The exer-
els, OF trained observation she had
sci rr finger on the very buried
thorn ui his affairs. n" sooner was
The m.aster about than the systematic
idlrrS were aware. "Once begun is
half done," saith al ancient provcrb
of value, and SO it came about that
real work, entered on Il, the break
ing Of the day, was apt to run :.
heightened course before Stacking,
and left insensibly an accum alton
If worth ere ev' min. had descended
Oh the landscape. This. then, is the
first Thing I" he prartice.i-early ris
ing. II you, habits he studious, ard
YOU require to burn the nIdni oh, oil,
yci occasionally draw curtain ana
hlil'i jus, ath"art y"ur eyes and let
lie br Ais= OF h, iawr, arouse You
Unrr nnm a;.! then will effect all
,,"n purpose. Just slip on you,
lo.hc> 10. lie you have time to ~
"nI, and, without Waiting to tub,
uhbuit :hc front dr., (naking sutfi
cithi "i>r Tor up stair donestics to
''aih tina; 81 a>rcr lis abnu,), aud
thcn Iii t. the fresh fields, letting
,."iir eye rahge freely rs your steps
Make Il list t detects, in memory il
not i'll p"ckel-book-broken fences
that want stopping, weak places in
the wheat plant, sheep that wande,
from the flock, the COW drooplng
apart, the colt fast IN the pond mud
the ducks S,raying from the home
stead-ani put together in mental
order the operations that will best
suit season aid day. Done at irrcg'
ular periods, this practice tells better
than Il stcreotyped overlooking
Your own eye is keener to note and
the reproof from its novelty hath Il
more tonic influence on the offend
ing. Then, during your excursions
over the land, never pass your flock
without counting them; never come
to erd OF colts without MAXIM. Il
minute individual inspections; never
step furrow without noting the
depth, or pass chatf:cut,er without
feeling the knives; stop regularly at
hay-ricks and root-hcaps to note rate
OF consumption; never return within
doors withoa reading in competent
authority the proper mode OF opera
ton you have been Watching, and
you soon will be sharpened to Il keen
edge yourself.-N. Y. World.