The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-07-05
The Requisites Absolutely
Necessary.
KNOWS HOW AND WHEN TO WORK,
Six Hours Per Day Work Means a Six
Hour Crop at the End Of
the Year.

| EDS. JOURNAL "A g00Q farmer
always makes good crops. He never
tails you just can't down him. 1t
is true that adverse seasons may
diminish the yield and some times
1.-the quality OF his crops; neverthe-
less he makes a good crop every
year though some times a better.
He uses every possible expedient in
preparing, fertilizing and cultivating
his farm to counteract adverse forces
and if his crop is not quite so good
as it might have been under more
favorable circumstances perhaps his
laad has gained enough by it's re-
served yigor to make up the deficit
in the succeeding crop. Now if a
good farmer never fails it might be
profitable to investigate the charac-
teriStics of good farmer. And
first let US observe that good farm
er is not always good man in a
moral point of view, neither is bad
farmer always a bad man. But q
good farmer is one who knows how
to work and when to work. A man
that knows how to work, knows what
kind of a tool to work with.
| have seen farmers commence
preparing their land with little old
plows that had been worn out the
proceeding crop, and thus drag over
the land with a little surface scratch.
ing, and then plant their seed in
land that had not been broken, and
mheH Those. -ploEa would get too
short to scratch any more, get ne w
plows in the latter part of spring
when the crops needed shallow cul-
tivation and almost tear the very
life out of the growing crops. A
good farmer not only knows bow to
work, but he also knows when to
work. The old adage is true in the
farming department as we'll as every
other, "we must strike while the
iron is hot" Here space will not
allow details. For one of the most
important characteristics OF the good
farmer is yet untouched, which is
industry. 1t has been said that the
best cure for hard times is to cheat
the doctor by being temperate; the
lawyer by keeping out of debt; and
poverty by being industrious. Lazi-
ness is conducive to sickness, litiga-
ton, poverty and want.
Laziness disqualifes a man tor
business in any department of lite.
Some farmers seem to adopt the
eight hour system and then cut off
an hour at each end and the result
is they have a six hour crop at the
end of the year, and one hale of that
goes for guano, the other halt for
grub, and the other half, if there is
another half, for old debts; and nov
If you are good in figures you can
tell how he and his old creditors
stand. The successful farmer finds
it necessary to adopt the twelve
hour system, portion of the year at
least, and this he does cheerfully
and he gathers twelve hour crop
at the end of the year.
Show ne farmer, a lawyer, a
doctor, a merchant, an editor, a
school teacher, that has made a suc>
cess IN his vocation and | will show
you an industrious man-and vice
versa.
And now mark what | say Next
tall good farmers will gather in good
crops and meet all demands, while
his neighbor who has not been in
dustrious and persevering, With a
long face and short crop, will beg
longer indulgence of his creditors
upon the plea that the cold weather
killed his crop and then the dry
weather sailed it away, and finally,
behold the wet weather came along
and caused it to rot.
OLD FARMER.