Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-12-20
Numuruus department.
A CHAPTER ON FARMING.

A CHAPTER ON FARMING.
As near as I 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 man who
tried to earn dollar before Adam struck in.
consider that ADAM forget his other
name-started in on his career under very
favorable auspices. Adam had his garden
all planted and the things up before he rent
ed it. All he had to do was to 60 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 because some
body might undersell him. He could charge
twenty-five cents box for strawberries,
and if his customers did not like it, he
could tip his hat over his ear and init
mate 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 it. IF he wanted to plant his dried pump.
kins in the same hill with his baked beans, he
to see what some idiot, who never saw farm,
had to say about it. His postoffice box was
not filled with circulars, advertising fertili.
zers and patent dressings for raising salad
and mixed pickles.
All Adam, if you were here now, and
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, 1t is not
Eve-ry 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 l
shall stand up for her as long as have legs.
Eve did not have any great amount CT clothes.
She didn't worry herself about what she
should wear to church, or have to run and
fix herself up when she had callers.
I 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 better sutler
than any beast of the field, and the account
shows that he got mortgage on the farm,
and foreclosed on Adam before be had taken
of 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 useful
class Of people we have. Were it not for the
farmer, you and would 60 to bed hungry
before Saturday night, but if were put un.
der hydraulic cotton press and all the farm.
ing qualities squeezed out of me, there would
not be enough to raise one grain Of mustard
seed. I would as soon be cut up into railroad
spikes and driven into oak ties, than farm it.
SO little do love the pursuit. If it were left
to me to earn my living by farming, l don't
think could raise sausage enough to keep
me from starving.
I honor the farmer as I do the truthfulness
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 I do castor oil. There is more
hard work to the acre in farming than any
occupation know of, if we except the dep
tist. There is heap of hard work to the
acher in that business. though the work is
chiefly to the dentist.
The farmer has an Unborn idea that the
sun will not rise unless he gets up and person.
ally superintends the job. When l was a
small boy 1 was told by my good mother
that the sun rose every morning and al
ways believed her. I never got up to see,
for l always felt as if it would look as if 1
doubted her word.
After the farmer is up he must cut up
some green wood for his wife to build fire
with. A farmers wife who had kindlings
and dry wood furnished her would consider
that she had good grounds for a divorce.
While the breakfast is being cooked the far
mer HES to the barn to take care of and feed
his cattle. Anybody who has ever taken hold
of pitchfork handle when the thermometer
was below zero, never will outliye the re-
membrance of it. There may be things cold.
er, but | never touched them. | took hold
of white oak pitcbfork handle over twenty
wears ago, and have never had full use of my
hand since.
After completing the chamber work in the
barn, the next thing is to water the stock.
Watering stock on Wall street and watering
it on farpa are two different things. Pump
ing up water thzoseh leaky pump, when
it seems as if the frst drop came from the
centre of the earth, is more cheerful to read
than to do. Perhaps it is pot pump, but
any icy wel.pole that you are called upon to
embrace, and, as it slips through your fingers,
and the cold drops of water 60 up your shirt
sleeve, you begin to wonder whether this
really is the bright world that you always
thought it was, and whether you will be call
ed upon to draw water from q deep we'll with
an icy pole in the other land beyond the
skies.
It is during the winter that the farmer
throws aside the drudgery and hard work of
tLo farm and ENGAGES in the sport of cutting