News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


! That farm does not pay where there is
no system about work. where matters are
| ALWAYS in more or less confusion and
| things are behindhand the season round.
No business can prosper that is based on
shifting, haphazard methods. Every
, month of the year has its proper work,
and every effort should be made to have
the work on the farm done within its
proper limits. It is not difficult to do
work well if it is done Systematically.
But it is not only very hard, but very an
moving and discouraging to work with
out definite plans and aims. 1t is good
time to begin now at the opening of the
! new year to put method into work and
arrange plans as far as possible for the
coming season.
Farming does not pay where the tav-
ern. the corner grocery, or the pOstothce
has a larger share of time and attention
of the farmer than his meadows and
grain fields. No crops worth having
are planted or harvested in the rendez-
vous of the village-idler and gossip
monger. Is does not pay to talk politics
or discuss the latest arrival in town when
the corn and potatoes need hoeing, tho
fences repairing, the fall W clearing and
preparing, and a hundred other things
are wanting to be done. No
man can succeed on a farm or
anywhere else who takes greater delight
in telling what he can do than in actual
doing. The farmers business is on his
farm and not on the shady side of a
tavern porch or hanging over a road
fence interviewing passers by. Neither
Is it his business to race up and down
the country attending caucusses, or go
ing to vendues to buy up worthless trash
because it is cheap. Such business does
not pay even where the farmers place is
filed with hired help. A Careless shift
less, Idle farmer can seldom get hired
man to stay with him who is any better
than himself A live, energetic, and
really valuable man will not work long
for such an employer, while the lazy and
worthless are only too glad to remain
with such an easy master. That farm
does noe pay where there is too much
dependence on hired help, no matter
how efficient such help may be.
That farm is not profitable where an
intelligent and progressive spirit is not
manifested in its management. While
it is neither necessary nor advis-
able to adopt all the latest
methods in farming, Or any of the agri-
cultural vagaries Of the day, it will not do
TO be ''behind the times" No industry
has made greater progress in the past few
years in the way Of improved methods
than farming. Every year witnesses some
marked Improvement in agricultural tools
and machinery, in breeds of cattle and
other stock, in ways of raising and har-
vesting crops, in new varieties of grain
and vegetables, and in many other things
that are of prime importance in agricul-
ture. 1t pays to adopt a conservative
course in these matters, and keep abreast
of the times so far as that means to take
advantage of all those improvements that
use and experiment have shown to be OF
real value.
That farm does not pay any better in
the end where there is too much work
than where there is too little. On the
whole. no doubt the idler and the spend
thrift get more enjoyment out Of life than
the miser and the slave. Nothing is lost
but much gained in the long run by so
commingling work and recreation as to
make both conduce to health and happi-
ness. 1t does not pay to be niggardly
and grasping, to labor only for things
that perish with the using, and neglect
those matters that concern the welfare of
the higher and nobler part. 1t does not
pay to neglect the family, the home and
the church in the eager desire to heap up
riches - Observer