The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
A FARMERS SOUND ADVICE TO
 HIS BRETHREN.
Havs Work to Do Every Day In the Year--fulverixe the Soil-The Work Horse-The Milking
 Stool and Hints.
Opportunity In Farming.

The great factor of success in any branch of business is constant employ ment. It is more profitable to wear out machinery in lucrative employ ment than to leave it stand idle and rust out. When you make a survey of the farms and the owners in To- cality, and see 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 thriving merchant sitting out in the field of farmer whittling stump and complaining to his neighbor of dull times, and re- suming this occupation the 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 section and locality has it's population of farmers who make it their business to put in just as many days at the village store as they possi- bly, can, and many of these farmers complain of scarcity of money, while they leave hundreds of dollars beneath the surface of their fields every year.
 It 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 at the village store while the busy merchant thrives soon finds the farm run down, the fence rows brushy. and owners hopelessly swamped with debts. The thrifty merchant or banker who stays at his business every day becomes the landlord and the once ''well-tiNed farmer' be- comes the tenant. 1 have seen men with two or three grown boys living on farms from so to 100 acres have no employment half the time. Their boys work by the day, and the father whittles store boxes and smokes cigars, when they could all be making money at home
 Although living on small farm, says a farmer writing to the National Stockman and Farmer l find that l could keep from two to three hands busy all the time could l get them, and some seasons we could employ dozen with profit Summer and winter 1 never saw the day when l had nothing to do, and the more get done the more I 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 it is virtually so, And not many days go by without we have help. But every year has shown Us some proht; 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 ot. Have everything done at the proper time. When once you have a crop raised secure it in the best possi- ble manner. no matter what the OK pense. Ii 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 Nnny-