The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-12-03
Why a Boy Hates Farming.

Why q BOY Hales Farming
don't think he does, Farmer Brown
There are very few boys who do not like
to work on q farm, but as you have asked
me the question, l will tell yon the true
experiences Of @ few farmers boys, aud
the reasons they gave for leaving home.
You know that boys, especially large
boys, tell their teachers many things that
their father never hear. First, there was
Ned. His father had q nice farm, and
money enough to carry it on we'll aud no
mortgage or anything | know Ned
liked farming and mar!ietip-, was foad Of
animals and a good judge of them. He
went ouce to Brighton alone and bought
q fne yoke of oxeu for reasonable
price, snd when he was working for his
father the barn and everything he
touched was as neat as q new pin. He
liked to go away once i'll awhile, and his
father was kind about letting him 60,
but if, before he went, he asked his father
for fifteen cents to get his hair cut, his
father would say, II never saw such a
boy It's money, all the time. I can
cut your hair just as we'll as barber" ("
When he needed new clothes, his father
would recommend his own cest-of gar
ments; but Ned's mother would get new
for MIN and so give him some cheer on
his ~ay.
He asked his father one day when he
WAS more than nineteen if he wouldn't
pay him some wages, go he could have
money of his own, adding that he would
give some of it to his mother every month
to put in bank for him. His father said {:
"No! You have enough, sight more than
you earn now with your vietuals and
clothes" Ned went sadly up stairs and
commenced to pack his trunk, but mis-
mother prevailed upon him to try it
longer for her sake, and as through her
indulgence he did have all he needed,
he staid on another year. Then he made
up his mind to go West, and his mother
induced him to 60 to Denver, where they
had friends. His father wrote to them
not to let Ned suffer, and if he was ever
in want, for them to supply his needs
and they should be repaid but in order
that Ned might learn to depend on him
self, they we're never to let him know
that his father would do one thing for
him. His father hired boy fifteen years
old that winter for six dollars per month
and ma .he next summer for thirty
dollars. The boy was lazy, dirty, and
saucy, and the man had spells of getting
drunk and going around falling up stairs
and down stairs, and they did no more
than Ned had done. In the meantime
poor Ned was having hard times in Den
yer, sometimes having work and some
times not, and his father had to send his
friends some money for board, and more
to get him home, to please his wife, TO
whom be never denied anything.
So Ned worked some months longer
for nothing, as before, except coed
home that he had learned how to prize.
He then had q chance in bootshop,
where he earned good wages that he
saved, and is now married and doing
we'll.
There was David. His father was
hsrdworkiug man, but very just and
methodical. He paid his boys like other
hired men, and expected them to do just
as much. Alfred could do it, but David,
you know, is consumptive, after his
mothers folks, and be couldn't keep up.
He is very sensitive, too, and his father,
in his dry, sarcastic way, wonld taunt
him with "having two stomachs to eat
and none to work." and say, "You're
fine farmer, amt ye7 If you had that
piece alone to hoe, you'd get it done
about September, guess" SO David
rightly concluded, l think, that be was
better fitted for less lsboricus work and
vet if he could have labored on the farm
as his strength would allow, his health
would have been better, and his useful
life would have had some added yesrs in
which to bless tie world.
Willie was never allowed holiday,
not even Fourth of July, for "then we
must NOW round the yard" and what is
:. boys life worth to him without his
Fourth of July?
Charles was fond of books, and his
father thought all time wasted that he
spent in reading them, and schooling in
the winter was enough for any boy" So
you iud him to day Librarian for l.
Library, having long ago left the farm to
enter a book store in the city.
Farmers boys want some time, as they
would have if they worked in shops;
they want some mobey as if they did not
work at home; they want some appreci.
alton Of what they do, and something to
encourage them.
Admit him to your plans, tell him the
reasons of things; make him compan
ion and son, aud he will prove to be
better than hired men, and will not "hate
farming."- Our Grange Homes.
London.
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