The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1889-07-27
WHAT AIL18 FARMING?

Mr.. J. G. B. Erwin, Of Georgia, IN
dertakes to answer the question in the
Southern Cujtiaat0r. He saws there
are 100 many young men raised on the
farm who think four months work
and eight months idlencss ought TO
count them to be Industrious. We
have too many young men who work
only to make and gather the crops,
and are praised and patted on their
heads by parents, kintoiks, friends
and grandmas, and considered smart,
when father and the hired labor must
work all the year to make crops, make
manures and do other turns TO keep
up the farm, to make it produce an
other crop, whilst they idle two-thirds
or more time away.
Too much tafFy praise for such
workers, when in fact the farmer could
hire a good hand 10 do the work such
sons do for less money than it costs
him to clothe such a son, without
counting his board bill, wear and tear
of his buggies, keeping of stock, and
other expenses Incidental to idleness.
Too many farmers and their wives,
daughters and sons, who sleep toe
many hours in daylight and keep
awake too many hours at night. Too
many laggards on the farm, who get
to bed too late at night and out too
late of mornings. Too many young
men and women ready to tell father
and mother how to run business, but
not ready to take hold and run it
themselves.
Too many young and old men and
children who lie in bed of mornings
until the breakfast bell rings them up
for mealtime. Too many young men
and women who are above doing
drudge work, and look to their parents
to have it done. Too many OF all
ages on the farms who never try to
stop extravagances and waste, and are
not willing to work six out of seven
days i'll week.
That farmer and his family who
cannot find profitable employment IN
wet and dry weather six days in every
week, has mistaken his calling. OF
it may not be necessary that
be should do that much work (the
farmer needs spells of rest as well as
do other people,, yet if he wants to do
it the work is there waiting for him.
Then, when he works he ought to
work, and when he rests he ought to !
rest-this thing Of mixing the thing
together every day, year in and year
out, is a decidedly poor way of doing.
There is just as much, or more,
money to be made on farm outside
IF the time to make and gather crops
as there can be made out Of the crops,
if it is managed rightly. The men,
instead of baking their shins and
burning up shoes around fires in win
ter to keep warm could, by active
work, warm up their blood almost
every day in winter; and in summer,
in place of hunting dark spots to cool
in, the same process of energetic work
would produce a perspiration, which
would not only be as pleasant as shell
Ter from sun, but much more profta-
ole, and thus they would be obeying
-he command Of God, that Sin the
sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat
oread."
Down with our laggards and slug
CARDS. Take it in land, We alliances
and oranges, and show it up so vividly
hat the laggards and sluggards shall
De ashamed of the way they are con-
lucting their operations There should
De no drones socially, morally or men
ally, grated into our calling. Eter-
lal watchfulness is the price of our
liberty and the boon Of success in
Idleness and extravaganza,
sastefulness and intemperance are the
'urses of farm life.