Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-20

ssAv AND ssB,, AS FARMERS.

Many people attribute success or its oppo.
site, to coed luck or bad luck; but, after
watching and scanning closely the actions OF
people, we have come to the conclusion that,
in general, people are the authors of their
luck. Take, for instance, two farmers, whom
we will call A and B. After A has gathered
all his crop he begins preparation for another.
He clears his ground Of sprouts and bushes,
fixes his fences and water.gaps, and if he
breaks his land before Christmas, it is work
that will be we'll rewarded. After B has
gathered his crop, which is very easily done,
he sees nothing at all to do. It seems to him
a long time before he need do any more work.
He goes to every public place within his
reach, generally without any business at all.
He will ride eight or ten miles to cash sale,
as though he designed to buy at least thou
sand dollars worth, when at the same time
he has not cent. He does no work of any
sort until after Christmas. He cuts a few
brush and throws them on some of the lowest
pannels of his fence half breaks his land,
and gets ready CD to plant. A begins to plant
calmly and carefully sees that his rows are
laid off right, and the seed deposited at the
right distance, and is very careful to have the
seed we'll covered. ,..<-.-ee,
B commences planting in hurry. All is
hustle and hurry; he little cares whether his
rows are laid off uniformly and of the right
width or not; he would as soon lay them up
and down the hill as on the level. He cares
but little how his seed are dropped, and fully
as little how they are covered. A generally
reports to his neighbors that he has very
good stand Of corn, cotton and everything he
plants B never was known, by the oldest, to
have good stand of anything. Sometimes
his corn comes up as thickly as his cotton
ought to- and his cotton so thick that he does
not get it thinned till dog-days; but this is
not good stand. As soon as AS seed are
we'll up, he begins work in real earnest-losing
as little time as possible B is afraid to work
his young corn and cotton too soon, as it may
make late frost kill them, or else it may
injure the tender roots. So he hunts, fishes,
and frolicks about till his fields look like a
bolt of green silk from centre to circumfer.
ence. A begins working over the second time
while his crop is yet clean, and works as dill
gently as he did the first time. B is now in
great hurry to get over the first time. He
always says it is the worst spring to tend a
crop he ever saw. He gets over; but he has
just about tbinned the grass and weeds enough
to make them grow and do we'll A keeps on
and loses no time. If the ground is dry, he
ploughs on if it is too wet, he spends his
time in pulling weeds, bushes, grass, or any
thing else that is doing an injury. The
ground soon becomes too dry and hard for B
to plough. He says it will kill corn and cot
ton to plough them when the ground is so dry
and hot. So he takes his gun or fishing pole,
or both, and sometimes spends almost week
sauntering and idling about. When it rains,
B thinks the ground will be too wet for sever
al days, and goes out fishing or hunting again.
When he begins to plough the grass chokes
him up. He says it outgrows any grass he
ever saw. A works at his ease and keeps his
farm clean. B throws away several acres
which he had planted, laying all the blame on
the difficult season to till the ground. A lays
by clean and nice, and in the meantime keeps
sharp lookout around his fences. B lays
by very grassy; says the grass will keep the
corn cool, and that when the cotton opens
there ought to be grass to keep the rain from
beating the dirt on the cotton for fear the
sample might be injured. He pays no atten
ton to his fences, but idles about till stock
gets into his fields and almost eat up what
little he has made. A gathers, as general
thing, tolerably good crop, whether the
season is wet or dry. B never gathers good
crop, no matter what the season may have
been.-HartweH Sun.