The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-07-31
FARMING.
A Few Ideas on the Subject, got Together
with Coarse Harrow.


farmer. have given this subject large
pile of thought, but cannot find any
. reliable person, who wants to give bonds
that he can name man who tried to
earn dollar by farming before Adam
struck in.
consider that Adam, l forget his
other name, started In on his career un-
der very favorable auspices. Adam had
his garden all planted and the things all
up before he rented 1t. All he had to do
was to just go right in and occupy.
He had no competition. He could put
any price on his garden truck, and not
lie awake nights and worry because
somebody might undersell him. He
could charge twenty-five cents box for
strawberries, and If his customers didn't
like it 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 apples.
He had to take no ones advice as to
how he should plant his stuff, or when
he should hoe 1t. 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, adver-
tising fertilizers and patent dressings, for
raising salad and mixed pickles.
L.
had to 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. It is
not Every man that can get such
woman. l know there is good deal of
fault found with Eve, but she certainly
was the best woman in the world when
Adam married her, and 1 shall stand up
for her as long as L have legs. Eve did
not 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 1t that theEden farm was run on
a military plan. At any rate, Adam had
commissary connected with the farm,
for we read that the serpent was sutler
than any beast of the field, and the ac-
count shows that he got a mortgage on
the farm, and foreclosed on Adam before
he had taken off his first crop. Suffers
have changed but little since the creation.
But the farmers of to-day are different
creatures. They are really the only use
full class of people wenave. Were it not
for the farmer, you and l would go to
bed hungry before Saturday night, but If
/ were put under hydraulic cotton
press and all the farming qualities
squeezed out of me, there would not be
enough to raise one grain of mustard
seed. would sooner be cut up into
railroad spikes and driven into oak ties,
than farm it, so little do 1 love the pur-
suit. If it were left to me to earn my
living by farming, don't think 1 could
raise sausage enough to keep me from
starving.
/ honor the farmer, as do the truth
fulness of George Washington, bnt L
should have lied the old man right out
of his boots about that cherry tree, If 1
had been George. freely confess that
do not like farming any better than L
do caster oil. There is more hard work
to the acre in farming than in any occu-
patton l know of, if we except the den
tist. There is heap of hard work to
the acher in that business though the
work is chiefly to the acher rather than
to the dentist.
The farmer has an Unborn idea that
the sun will not rise unless he gets up
and personally superintends the job
When was small boy / was told by
my good mother that the sun rose every
morning and-I always believed her,
never got up to see, for always felt as
if it would look as if doubted her word.
The kind of sunrise most common at
our home was when my mother used to
bring me out of bed by the hair.
After the farmer is up he must cut up
some green wood for his wife to build
the fire with. A farmers wife who had
kindlings and dry wood furnished for
her would consider that she had good
ground for divorce. While the break
fast is being cooked the farmer hies to
the barn to take care of and feed his cat
tie. Anybody who has ever taken hold
of pitchfork handle when the ther-
mometer was below zero never will out
live the remembrance of it. There may
be things colder, but 1 never touched