The Coconino sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1891, 1891-07-18
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
a FARMERS SOUND ADVICE TO
HIS BRETHREN.
Have WORK to Do Every Day In the
Year-Pulverize the soil-7'"~
Work Horse-The Milking
Stool md Hints.
Opportunity In Farming.


The great factor Of success In any
branch OF business Ia constant employ
ment. II is ndfe profitable to wear
oNt machinery in lucrative employ.
ment than to leave it stand idle and
rust out. Whom you make survey
Of the farms and the owners in To-
cality, and SEQ the amount OF work
Waiting to be done, and then notice
the number of days idled away by
their owners, it is no great wonder
that men are finding farming poor pay.
You don't find a thriving merchant
sitting out in the field of q farmer
whiting stump and complaining TO
his neighbor Of dull times and re-
Stunning this occupation me next day,
and week, and month, until the farmer
Has made that field yield him a hand
some profit. On the other hand you
will find every seeticr and locality has
Its population of farmers who make it
their business TO put in just as many
days at the village store as they posi-.
bly, can, and many Of these FARMERS
complain of scarcity IL money, while
they leave hundreds OF dollars beneath
the surface Of their fields every year.
1t is truly astonishing how little in
terest many farmers manifest in their
own prosperity. Good farms we'll fenced
and out OF debt are left to many but
daily loafing ut the village store while
the busy merchant thrives soon finds
tho farm run down, the fence rows
brushy, and owners hopelessly
swamped with debts, The thfifty
merchant or banker Who stays at his
business every day becomes the landlord
and the once "well-fxed farmer" be-
comes the tenant / have seen men
with two or three grown boys iiTihg
on farms from so " 1dG acres have no
employment half the time. Their
boys work by the day, and the father
whites store boxes and smokes cigars,
when they could all be making Money
at home.
Although living Oh d small farm,
says 4 farmer writing to the National
Stockman and Farmer, | find that |
could keep from two to three hands
busy all the time could I
get them, and seme seasons We could
employ n dozen with profit. Summer
and winter l never saw the day when
! had nothing to do, and the more
get done the more | have TO do the
next Season. My wife says we hire
the whole community in summer TO
have something to hire them to work
at in winter And II Il virtually so.
And not many days go by without we
have helP. But every year has shown
us some profit; and success has only
been attained through close application
OF head and hands, and fair arrange
ment Of the hired work done.
In making money on the farm don't
go by spurts like wet weather spring,
but hustle along all the year. Have
something Of many varieties to dis
pose OF. Have everything done at the
proper time, When once you have a,
crop raised secure it in the best posi-
BILE manner, no matter what the ex-
pense. If your good wife cannot get
through with her work, hire enough
help so she can. Don't sit around and
wait for better times, but get to work
and better the times, and when better
times come you will find yourself far
ahead of your grumbling neighbor,
who has lost his money by not grasp
ing opportunities that were as fair as
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