The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-05-07
F&RMinc GOES PAY.
81 A NEw.FAyGLED FARMER.



" Does farming pay?' is an old,
drled-up question. As an honest farm
err O.! my own school, answer that ii
viii. without doubt, where more alien
ton Is paid 10 the saving Of time, wbich
has great value IN the market. Zoo
mich time is allowed to be wasted in
small lots; "every minute saved is two
minutes earncd'-pleasc make minute
Of it. Put your foot on il, and do not
let minute gc' away. BE always do
ing, or get yoar boys to do -.
Besidrs money, there is nothing like
saving time. Since first followed the
pIow when a boy (for fish worms |
nave aIaays made il my object TO make
the most out IT every minute, and /
can assure you :hal my style Of farming
iias paid, from the fact that at my pres
cnt time Of life there are not more than
one or two mortgages On my farm, ana
they could easily be removed by the
money. III agricultural economy there
Is nothing Ike doing two things at once,
and my most distant relatives and
friend, say that nm humane, easy
farmer, and lay claim to being iudus-
trious. Nov You know every farmer
loses a great deal Of time just III grind
iug hi, axe, and knives. ! have chang.
ed all this. BY slight contrvanee On
the other side vi the grlud.stone, | have
attached a selt-tceding atraw.cutler; SO
when The boy turns the grind-.tone the
straw-cHtter goes ut the -ame rate, and
thus two objects are accomplished at
the same tme-if the boy does groWl,
and growing doesn't make it any easier,
goodness knows. | can't sec how ii
could.
When agents" Of any kind call on
me, or even my ueighbors, invite them
to the barn and get them to help me
husk corn, while | listen to their talk ;
and You see | get Il good deal Of work
done while am getting Il good deal Of
7 valuable information, aud nobody lose,
any time--but them.
70 assist the womcn-toiks in THEN
woik and facilitate it, | have altachcC
the churn to the washing-machine, ant
one girl can wash and churn at the
same time, while another can he devo
ting her attention to something else
equally necessary. And with the sam,
end III view, | have attached the cradle
:, for the twins to the sewing machine, 81
, that my wife, who does most Of the sew
Ing for the family, can save the eXtr;
I work Of one Of the girls tending the era
q die, which would be pretty much all tit
time. Domestic economy is one of NJ,
+ most iar0rite studies, and without 1t n
farmer can get along successfully. Ii
! cold weather, if one Of my girl, mus
+ have Il beau and fire in the front room
. ! place Il kettle Of apple butter on tn
n parlor stove, 50 that she can stir the ap
i pie butter and do her couring at tn
{, same time. regret that several kei
:. ties have not turned out this winter;
don't know why. When our relative
n come out from town to visit Us, it is
q kind of relief to me to yet them to a,sis
!. me at something about the farm, - i
4 seems TO shorten my own work, an,
4 they generally work as long as they re
: main bat urgent business at home to-
f often shortens their stay. Ion kno,
+, that it generally takes one man to run
r clovcr-hulcr, and one to run the fan
/. ning-mill. Now, | philosophical, an,
l. found out that if | placed the two ma
chimes close together, and one of ill.,
boys between them with the left han,
on one crank and the right hand ON tn
other, both Of them would go, aud 50
do not have to hire an extra hand
! Many farmer would never think 0
this, simple rs it is ; and it was with
e great deal Of hard study that even | ar
rived at it, and had nothing but
common school education either.
t have shown our Iris the effica " o
knitting while they are going to tow
in the wagon, and by this plan, 50 far
@ our family are all pretty well supplied
4 with socks for the winter, and no tim,
lost
For my own part, | canno. see VIII,
farming does not pay by my plan.
make ii Il rule, also, to come away ron
town with more money than leave in
it, which again is in my favor; and
while some farmers take the worst of
their produce to market and toolishIy
eat the best, | would never do it, for
argue that town people want something
good as well as anybody else, and Will
pay for it. We have, so far, managed
to live OH what We knew other eoplc
wouldn't pay for.