The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-06-07
Agricultural.

TAisss . Farmer SAssi1 80 Kssv.
A farmer should never break up NOR
land than be can cultivate thoroughly
half titled land j. always growing poorer
while well titled land is constantly i'm
proving. A thrifty aud prudent iArme
will not devote his sole ai,entlon 10 th'
improvement of certain fields on his farm
because the land is easy 10 work 81. " ans
le. other portions 81 bis premises so IN
cultivated. and gros nothing but brush
bcgs and briers
A farmer shouii never have more csitl,
and horses than he can keep IN good ordor
An animal in good order al The beginning
Of winter is already half winicred. MOI
should be le, his cattle endure the chilling
storms Of winter IN an open yard or Geld,
whilst few dollars expended in the way
Of making comfortable stables would am
ply repay him in saving fodder, aud A.
ford greater amount Of milk.
A farmer should never depend too much
on his neighbors for what he can by care.
ful management produce on his own land.
He should not make ii commos practice
10 either buy or beg fruit while be can
plant trees and cultivate them on his own
ground nor annoy his neighbors by bor-
rowing tools TO work with. while he can
make or buy them. "The borrower 10
servant TO the lenaer'
A farmer should never DO so immersed
in political matters as to neglect doing his
various kinds Of work ia due season. and
10 snug up matters aud things for winter:
nor should be be inattentiye to politics Is
TO remain igorant Of those great questions
Of national and state policy which will
always agitate more or less free people
Afarmer should never be continually
borrowing his neighbours newspaper,
while he can easyily save money enough,
by curtailing some little extravaganza. to
subscribe and pay for one or more OF his
own.
A farmer should never refuse fair price
for anything he wishes to sell. have
known men TO refuse dollar and o half
for busbel Of wheat, and after keeping il
five or six months they we're glad to get
dollar for II. have known farmers to re-
fuse to take fair marketable price for
their diaries Of butter, and after keeping
it three or four months they conclude to
sell the butter for only two-thirds Of the
price which they were first offered. "A
bird 10 the hand is worth two in the bush"
A farmer should not allow his wood.pile
to be reduced down to the ''shorts, mere
ly drawing little by piecemeal, and green
at that he must expect TO encounter the
sour looks Of his wife and family, and per.
haps be compelled lin series Of lectures)
to learn that the man who provides. green
wood to burn in the winter has not mas.
tered the first rules in domestic economy.
Nor should he employ some "botch" ms
son to builG his chimney upside down"
so that his family will be nearly smoked
out OF the honse. and the walls Of the room
become as yellow as saffron.
A farmer should not let his buildings
look as old as the hills, and go to decay,
while he can easily afford the means to
keep them in good repair; nor should he
allow tattered clothes anl old hats to be
stuffed in the Windows. in place OF glars.
Ii he does, he neel not be alarmed il hs
acquires the reputation Of mean man, or
one who tarries long where liquor is sold
by the glass.
A farmer should not be contented with
looking fences on his farm, SO
rs to tempt his cattle TO become unruly
md 'listroy his crops, while he has plenty
II opportunities to make or keep them in
repair. Cor. Working Farmer.