San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-03-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
BEST WAY TO SECURE PERMA-
NENr FARM HANDS.
IL and Asher for Pigs Tho Model
Sheep 80 A Kerosene Emulsion
Scrub stock-Farm Notes and
Household Helps.


Ierin lnent Farm Hands the Best.
Most farmers have to employ help
and in a majority of cases they board
and probably lodge them. The char
acter OF help one has affects the de-
gree Of his success to a great extent
and cheap" hands are always dear
ones. The relation between a farmer
and his help should be of somewhat
permanent nature to get the best re-
suits as everyone has or should have.
methods that he has found to be best
on his farm. and it is both pleasant
and profitable to employ those who
have learned them.
believe permanency is best secured
by employing married men. writes
Alva Agee in the Practical Farmer
furnishing the tenant houses near Gy.
and then treating them we'll When
an Industrious man is provided with a
house and plenty of work at fair
wages, he soon learns to feel that the
house is his home, and he takes an
interest in everything belonging to
the farm. He should be provided
with fair sized garden and pasture
for COW. These things are needed
to enable him to live cheaply and en-
Joy some OF the comforts of farm life
1t is to these latter things ard the
use OF team in working garden and
drawing wood and coal that many
people object l am not running a
farm FOR my health or through philan-
thropic motives and l prefer this
tenant system rs d matter of business.
In the first place the rental of the
house and hire Of the pasture ia cot
given to him. a charge is made suf-
ticiently large to cover the bare cost
probably half the amount an outsider
would be required to pay.
The team is given him and gener-
ally no time is deducted when working
his little crop but seem to get back
all give md more, too He knows
am interested in his welfare and so
he Is in mine, and neither of US are
losers by the interest We take. If a
man IS paid for ten hours work and
no moro and That ten hours is re-
CURED every day 10 the minute. it is
unfair to expect any service outside of /
hose hours Such an arrangement
may do in some kinds of work, but it
does no. suit on a farm.
If the weather has delayed work,
Dr. If a change OF weather threatens
oss the hauling of an extra load. or
he finishing of job by a half an
hour extra work, may save or make
several dollars. but an employer does
lot like to make extra demand upon
unwilling hands. II they know that
lie is always ready TO help them.
make their wages 20 as far US possible
~ the many little ways any man can
erve his neighbor there is never any
occasion TO ask to push The work
when it presses. They are interested
I'd the work goes whether the
Employer is present or absent
! do not believe in loose and unbusi
lesslike contracts and tn agreement
S to wages and duties should be well
Understood, but it pays no employer
o be too exacting If farm work is
ressed during a week OF growing
feather in the summer and the
eeded cultivation can be finished by
or ) p. m Saturday or even nooG.
ot a cent is lost by paying the weeks
rages and giving the men chance
D work thir gardens or to rest instead
finding eome extra chores to do
nat can wait without 10 5.
Some men would abuse any privil-
ges but they need not be employed
5 regular hands. There are plenty
men who want steady employment
nd are fa'r-minded, and when they
I'D that their employer would not ]
nder any circum tances, treat them
liairly or try to get extra work out {
them for nothing, but is truly in 5
rested in their welfare, they will try
make their work pay him and {
ateh to prevent any unnecessary
astes and losses