Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-05-11
Farm andFle|d.
The O Farmer.
BY JOHN J. GILL.

The Poor Farmer.
The poor farmer is generally found
on a poor farm. His buildings need
repair, his fences are down, his gates
open and his stock hungry and weak.
Often his wife is hatless and his
children shoeless. If he owns his
farm there is a mortgage on it. If
he is a tenant he is behind in his
rent. What advice should be given
to such a one? What could be said
except either leave that farm and
hire out to some one that will pay |
you good wages and see that you
earn them, or mend your ways, get
up earlier, attend to your stock and
family, work later and initiate your
successful neighbor. Commence
with the garden; manure and work
it thoroughly and you will soon have
enough to eat and something to sell.
Set out good standard fruits and it
will not be long until your market
able products increase. Strawberries
planted in the spring and kept free
of weeds pay handsomely the second
season $50 do raspberries and black
berries, and these can be successful
ly cultivated on WORKOUT land well
MANFRED. Do not undertake too
much. Don't get into a rush and
plant too much corn. If you do you
will get discouraged and verify the
words of Solomon: II passed by
the vineyard of the sluggard and it
was covered with weeds" Don't
hire too much help; if you do you
will probably pass some idle time.
If you can't make manure enough or
have not means to purchase fertiliz-
ers try ploughing in green crops.
You can grow and turn under sew
eral every spring and summer and
your soil will be greatly improved
thereby. Economic in everything,
sell whatever is not absolutely nee
essary to the livelihood of your fam
lily and at the end of the year there
will be something to pay the inter-
est of the mortgage or the rent of
the farm. 1t is better for the poor
farmer to read such advice of the
above than receive it from a friend
and therefore it is inserted here.
Impaired direct and personally it
tends to evaporation and ennity.
Such advice has often been given to
poor farmers orally without causing
them to mend their ways. They
went on from year to year in their
old style. The weight of the mort
gage discouraged them. They lost
hope of liquidating it and came to
feel that if they improved their land
someone else would get the benefit
OF it. And when that occurred, like
the renter, they had no higher ambi-
ton than to exact all they could
from the soil with as little labor as
possible. They rather destroyed
than kept in repair until mortgages
were forced to foreclose in self-de-
fence. All this while they attribut-
ed their want of success to other
causes than the true ones, to options,
tariffs, trusts, &C., and generally
wanted government to issue more
greenbacks and help them along.
In short, they lose their independ-
ence and look for support outside
their own efforts. The result was
that most of them were forced to
give up farming and move into
town. There they sought office and
failing to get it accepted any posi-
ton that was offered them.
TRANSMITTING.
1t is quite common to wait for
what is called a suitable season for
setting out plants. This is suppos-
ed to occur after a rain aud usually
the harder it pours the better the
season is thought to be. Now while
it is very proper to transplant be-
fore a rain it is always injurious and
often fatal to plants to set them out
in clayey soils after that has taken
place and the ground is still wet.
In sandy soils the practice may not
be as ruinous as in clayey ones
where the soil, when wet, becomes
lumpy and hard when it is firmed
about the roots of plants and pre-
vents their rapid extension. Most
gardeners prefer to transplant when
the soil is dry and not extremely
hot-of evenings before the dew be-
gins to fall is the best time. The
next day or two they should be pro-
tected from the direct rays of the
sun. If it is very dry a little water
at night-fall will not hurt them if
some of the dry soil is drawn up over
it. When plants are grown in hot
or other warm places they ought TO
be hardened by exposure before they
are set out in the early spring. If
the soil is dry about them it ought
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