River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-28
FARM AND GARDEN.


full farming as follows:
1. Have order and system in all YOU do
having in your mind in advance what
crops you intend to grow and provide
the seed, SO that no delay will occur when
the time comes for sowing and planting.
You should also closely estimate the
amount of stable dung that you can spare
for crops, SO that in NO case shall crop
be grown on land that has already been
over cropped, unless some fertilizer has
been applied TO it.
2. Obtain good help, if possible, as
half of your success depends on the kind
of hired help you have; and don't employ
too many hands, man and a boy will
often DO as much as two men, especially
If the latter are left to work by them
selves. as they frequently spend half of
their time in talking hut man is not
apt to talk much with boy, and the con-
sequence is that he attends to his work
Of all the nuisanccs that I ever suffered
on a farm, have found Cabling help to
be the most Improbable. When | hire
a man, tell him plainly that he must
not ''fool' away his time (my time) in
talking to other men while at work, UNI
less he wants his walking papers"
3. Work with your help. This is the
key that unlocks the door that leads to
prosperity; don't say any more to them
while at work than is necessary, as you
will set bad example by telling. yarns"
etc. Suppose that farmer is hoing
corn with two or three men, and he says
"Boys, have you heard the news2" And
he and all stop work, or partially stop to
hear the s'news," which takes, perhaps,
Is minutes to relate, and what little corn
is hoed while the "boss' is relating the
news" Is but half hoed, and might as
well have not been hoed at all. Now, a
day is made up of minutes, and the waste
of few in this or that way constantly
during the day, is sure to result in un-
successful farming in the end. Say to
your man, in plain English: "Shut up
and attend to your work, or take your
money and go. / hire men TO work-not
to spend their time in talking
a. Don't covet the name, "he is a
good man to work forn; but rather the
name that had many years: 'He is
hard man to work for, but he is good
pay" That meant that I made my men
do fair days work, which hired men
nova days call hard" The fact is, farm
ers, that nine farm-hands out of ten won't
do half days work, on an average, if
you are 50 easy with them that they call
you g nice man to work for"
5. To do good WORK, you want the
best farm implements that you can OBJ
tain, and plenty of them, SO that if one
gets out of order while in the hurry of
work, you can use some other implement
till the broken one is repaired. You will
save money in the end, by throwing away
your old plows, which were made about
the time of the deluge, and getting the
best patterns, with steel mold boards, as
they pay for themselves in a single sea-
son in the saving of horse-fesh in their
draft. Again, see the old rusty hoes that
many of you use, bought perhaps twenty
years ago! Take out the handles and sell
hoes as old iron, and buy new ones, be-
cause you can do onc-third more work,
and do it much better, in day with one
OF the most improved new ones, than you
can with one of those old stubs that some
of you use.
6. Feed your land, if you expect it to
feed you.
Make all the manure that you can, this
is the bank that pays your drafts and
notes The best farm that exists may be
ruined in a few years by a continued
cropping, without applying manure; and
put under the pillow only what land you
can fertiize literally. Adopt rotation,
of crops, and keep your pasture and
meadow lands in good condition, as the
rofts on your cows depend on the quail
ity of their pasture, and the quality and
quantity of hay that you cut; and keep
good stock, as COW that gives twenty
quarts of milk day, can be kept almost
as cheaply as one that gives only five
quarts.
T. What is worth doing, do acelI." Put
this into your memorandum book where
you can see it often, Did you ever hear
of a slovenly farmer getting rich? No,
not one of you. Then do your work
well, as it pays the best in the end. If
you are making fences make them to stay
as built, for years. A good farmer may
be known by his fences alone.