Smyrna times., 1895-01-16

who attempt to engage in it for a Iiv
] Ing or TO earn money. Farming n,
proxy or having an Overseer to carr
Uh' as Is more commonly known. ana
Vne owner living in town, walking the
SUL9eGs, smoking pipe or cigar. and
DoCh hands In his pockets or ATTENDING
promptly the sessions of the law men {
cIuo' mat seems to be in cOntinuone
m3!eeIlng, after each meal, breakfast
IIn1er or supper, that seems to he
neIG IN 'front.' of real estate Office
PiouOce dealers, or agricultural inn,
pienehC establishment, is in the iud0.
menC OF the writer and those who have
Saieu IT, out poor apology for real
farming and may be regarded as a
draAesnilC Tor something to do and not
uolng IL, or may be to keep up aDDear
@nces OF respectability of having an
occupation SO as not to be regarded nc
g6nCeel lOafer, or do nothing
ms Kind of farming is at best bnt
poor apology and many of those who
nave tried it have been Obliged To
aoandon 1t either with or without loss
to themselves.
tenant farming, of which there is
ehIlrely too much for the interest Of
the owner of the farm, is but a noor
business or investment of their money
IN farm to rent or as an investment
OF money. Far better would it. he to
loan money on farm mortgage at a
low rate of interest than TO 0wn tbo
farm, which must be rented To Soma
irresponsible or inexperienced tenant
OF winch there are entirely too many
AS class, but few, very few earn
more than poor living for tbemsaI,,a1 |
and family. Not that thew cannot Do
IL, but they do not do it and for ~ Wv
son III the beginning that thew rent a |
la' s III anu not having any money or = |
S 9i sum OF money TO pay for i'm
PieuentS, horses and cattle. generaII,
are 10 De found at Vendues Iookino, ~
opportunities to buy bargains in 1bat
Uuey need, on long credit ar etar,i,',s
WIN u capital of five or six bnndraG
uoiIars, when they should have t,yolaa
OF Iiiteen hundred, and running tbair
credit Tor whatever they tbinf tbaI
may need; but they are sure to bovaS
carriage and driving horse tbst :.
~, ',ePper' To CAD around the cnun-
co CO., "1''nu pichlcs, bay parties or
o.aI meetings While perhaps a col
l. ~ ~ "Oy - IeIt on the farm to |
u1 Tue WORK, or not as they like. and
%nen the renter, who has been from
q colle perhaps over night, returns and
| nnuS the work not properly done nv
MS cows not MIXED he dare not com.
pam Tor if he should his hired man
might say Il done de best I knowad
no" boss and you done be here r.
show me-" u
II man who can rent a farm makes
.ufe TO have living for himself and
ahliy, no matter whether the owner
gets MS share of the rent or not The
writer knows of an instance where the
owner OF two-hundred acre farm that
II one time he refused $4,000 Cor was
ehted to a tenant by his agent tbat
brought him in debt There
we're some repairs made to the roofs NJ
ne old outbuildings, and his share If
ne produce grown on the farm was
lot suthclent when sold to paw for the
epalrs and taxes on the farm az
curse 1t was not owing to the Dovertv :
i the soil that there was not mora
,rown on the farm, but it was OWING 70
ne neglect, inattention, and gadding
Oout the county Of the tenant And
II farming don't pay or that there
on money in farming" r. H. G. \