Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-02-07

paying him there would have beel
"little left" This was the first croI
A cali would have starved while wait
Ing for the second crop to grow.
This year, half days moving OIL
the SAME lot gave us ID large two-hors
loads Of hay at the first cutting, and
at the second. Clearing up, draining
thorough cultivation and a very it'll
manure made the difference in yield
IOf course In clean, well-shaped lot
with mower cutting n six-foot swath
we cut over more ground in half day
THAN we did In the stony, stumpy, bad
lshaped field with fonr-foOt machine
Fourteen years ago paid ont for hired
help 10 only during the season.
Good friends told me mo doubt believ
ing what they said } that could moi
afford to hire any help One man
says: !" What could you raise on your
farm that would bring money enough
to pay hired man year ? If you
should put all your pillow land into
wheat, you couldn't do 1t. "a piece on
the farm the previous year had yielded
eight bushels per acre No, you had
better do what you can yourself and
let the rest 90. and then you will have
all you make" After finding that my
friend was wrong. and after indulging
IN hired man by the year, | have
since received STAT cash from l1T acres
Of wheat.
My friend s. F. closes up by saying ::
The man With small farm is indeed
In a sorry state If lie has to depend on
hired help"
THIS treads on my toes, for ! have a
| small farm (55 acres), and depend on
hired help, and think l pay my man
(the one kept by the year larger wages
than any other farm hand gets in this
town. This WAS done voluntarily, for he
did not ask SO much.
Still, lit has not for the last three years
taken over one fifth of the gross cash
income from the farm to pay the whole
labor bill. And, what il particularly
interesting TO me, have more than
five times ~ much cash left to spend,
after paying the terrible bill for hired
help, AZ | used to have when I did all
the work myself SO as to " have all l
made"
S. F.'s experience, that it takes the
most of what they make to pay the feed
and labor bill, reminds me of al
little conversation which took place at |
a certain tea-table in Ohio just after we |
had all returned from one Of Secretary
Chamberain's rousing farmers insti.
tutes The farmers wife, who WASH t q |
least bit afraid To use her tongue, said to |
me: " Can't you tell us some way in |
which we can manag our farming 50
a9 to have more money %
The slight frown on the husbands |
face made me try to smooth things by |
saying, Surely you must have plenty
Of money from your dairy and wheat,
and corn and oats" " No." says she,
y we do not ; for the horses eat the oats,
the pigs eat the corn, and we eat the
pigs and the wheat. Well, it takes al
most all we raise for -four and seed, and
10 buy new reapers, or to hire binder.
Az for the dairy, when payday comes,
my husband takes tho money and puts
'tf to the city to buy feed for the cows
md If there il any money left, the
hired man wants it," You see, s. f.,
We have such farmers in Ohio as you
ell of.
fla farmer cannot pay his hired help |
,ooc llDerai wages, AMI, alttf taklnRI
tut fair interest for the use of money
Invested, and paying other running ex-
lenses, has not better wages lett for
or his own time than he paid his help,
hen hs nee'!s to improve his farming.
And this winter is good time TO think
he matter over, and see where the trOu-
lie Is. Therei is rs much money In farm
ng az in any other safe, legitimate bust
ness, in proportion to the capital invest
ID, provided the farming is AZ skillfully
nanag ell as the o; her business.