River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-09-13
4 Chapter on Farming.

As near as can crawl up to the facts
in the case, Adam was the first farmer.
have given this subject large pile Of
thought, but cannot find any reliable
person, who wants TO give bonds that
he can name q men who tried to earn
a dollar by farming before Adam struck
IN.
/ consider that Adam, / forgot his 9TH
er name, started in on his career under
very favorable auspices. Adam had his
garden all planted and the things up be-
fore he rented it. All he had TO 90 was
TO Just 90 right in and occupy.
He had no competition. He could put
any price he pleased on his garden truck,
and not lie awake nights and worry be-
cause somebody might undersell him.
He could charge twenty five cents for
strawberries, and if his customers didn't
like ii he could tip his hat over his ear
and intimate that if they didn't like his
berries at that price they could refresh
their stOmachs on dried apple.
He had TO take no ones advice as to
how he should plant his stuff, or when
he should hoe ii. If he wanted TO plant
his dried PUMPKINS in the same hill with
his baked beans he did not have to read
through an agricultural paper, TO see
what some editor who never saw a farm
had to say about it. His post office box
was not filled with circulars, advertising
fertilizers and patent dressings for raising
salad and mixed pickles.
Ali Adam, if you were here now, and
had 20 take all the advice that the farmer
Of to-day does. you would wish yourself
back in the Garden of Eden putting in
your winter rye.
Then Adam had splendid wife. 1t
is not Every man that can get such Il
woman. / know there is a good deal OF
fault found with Eve, but she certainly
was the best woman in the world when
Adam married her, and / shall stand up
for her as long as | have legs. Eve didn't
have any great amount of clothes. She
didn't worry herself what she should wear
to church, or have to run and fix herself
up when she had callers.
take it that the Eden farm was run
on the military plan. At any rate, Adam
had a commissary connected with the
farm, for we read that the serpent was
sutler than any beast Of the field, and the
account shows that he got mortgage on
the Idfi1t anu lOTtCiOccu On Audui DclOTt
he had taken off his first crop. Suffers
have changed bat little since the crea-
ton.
But the farmers of to-day are different
creatures. They are really the only use
full class of people we have. Were it not
for the farmer, you and / would go to
bed hungry before Saturday night, but
if were put under a hydraulic cotton
press and all the farming qualities
squeezed out of me. there would not be
enough to raise one grain Of mustard
seed. I would sooner be cut into railroad
spikes and driven into oak ties, than
farm it, so little do / love the pursuit.
If it were left for me to earn my living
by farming, / don't think / could raise
sausage enough to keep me from star
wing.
| honor the farmer. as / do the truth
fitness of George Washington, but
should have lied the old man right out
Of his boots about that cherry tree, if /
had been George. l freely confess that |
do not like farming any better than do
castor oil. There Is more hard work 10
the acre in farming than in any occupa-
ton know Of, if we except the dentist.
There is heap of hard work 0 the acher
in thet business, though the work IS