Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-02-05
FARMING THAT DOES NOT PAY.

That farm does not pay "heIe
there is no system about work,
where matters are always in more
or less conf, sion and things are be-
midland the season round. NO
buSiness can prosper that is based
On shifting, haphazard methods.
Every month of the year has its
nroper work, and every effort
sbonld be made to have the work
on the farm done within its proper
limits. 1t is not difficult to do WORK
well if 1t is done Systematically
But it is not only very hard, but
very annoying and discOuraglng TO
work without definite plans and
aims. 1t is a good time to begin
now at the opening of a new year
10 nut method into work and al
range plans as far as possible ioi
the coming season.
Farming does not pay where the
tavern, the corner grocery, or the
nost.ofiice has a larger share Of the
time and attention of the farmer
than his meadows and grain fields
No crops worth having are planted
or harvested in the rendezvous OF
the village idler and gossip'monse'
Il does not pay to talk politics OF
discuss the latest arrival in town
when the corn and potatoes neeu
hoe,ng. the fences repairing, the
fallow clearing and preparing ana
y hundred other things are wan
TING TO be done. No man can sue
ceed on a farm or anywhere else
who takes greater delight in telrng
what he can do than in actual 40
inc The farmers business is on
his farm and not on the shady SIDE
Of a tavern porch or hanging over
q road fence interviewing passers
BY. Neither is it his business to
race up and down the country at
tending caucuses, or going to ven
dues to buy up worthless trash De-
cause it is cheap. Such business
does not pay even where the lar
mer's place is filed with hired beip'
4 careless. shiftless, idle farmer
can seldom get a hired man to stay
with him who is any better than
himself. A live, energetic, ana
really valuable man will not work
long for such an employer, while
the lazy and worthless are only TOO
clad TO remain with such an easy
master. That farm does not pay
where there is too much depend
s,ce on hired help, no matter how
efficient such help may be-
That farm is not profitable where
An intelligent and progressive splr-
IRIS not manifested in its manage
ment. While it is neither necessa-
~ nor advisable to adopt all the
latest methods in farming, or any
Of the agricultural vagaries Of tho
day, it will not do to be "Oehind
the times" No industry has made
greater progress in the past few
years in the way ofimproved moth
DDS than farming. Every year wit
nesses some marked improvement
in agricultural tools and machin-
cry. in breeds Of cattle and other
stock, in ways of raising and har-
vesting crops, in new varieties Oh
grain and vegetables, and in many
other things that are Of prime I'M
portance in agriculture 1t pays to
aeopt a conservative course IN
these matters, and keep abreast OF
the times so far as that means TO
take advantage of all those i'm
provements that use and expert
ment have shown to be Of real val
Ne.
That farm does not pay any bet
ter in the end where there is too
much work than where there is too
little. On the whole, no doubt the
idler and the spendthrift get more
enjoyment out of life than the mis-
or and the slave. Nothing Is lost
but much gained in the long run
by so commingling work and recre-
alton as to make both conduce to
health and happiness. 1t does not
pay to be niggardly and grasplng'
20 labor only for things that perish
with the using, and neglect those
matters that concern the welfare OF
the higher and noble part. 1t does
not pay to neglect the family, the
home and the church in the eager
desire 10 heap up riches.