Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-09-02
FARMER AND PLANTER.
WHAT TO DO IN HOT WEATHER,



I have heard great many farmer
friends remark that there is nothing to
do during the hot weather, so we will
go fishing or squirrel hunting or do
something else that is nothing in the
end. This is mistake, pure and sim
pie, There's always something TO do
on the farm if the proprietor thereof
would attain success. No season of the
year should find the progressive farmer
idle. Winter should find him in the
woods, clearing, if he has any land to
clear, or attending to his feeding cat
tie, etc, while summer sees him in the
midst of numerous periods of hard
work-harvcsting, threshing, laying
and blowing, and then sowing in the
fall. SO it goes; always something to
do-if he will but do it. Heres the
rub. 1t never gets too hot for man
to work in this country; it never gets
too cold here for q plucky farmer to
get in some telling licks. Every tiller
of the soil must needs be an enthu-
sast on the subject of farming; he
must like that particular vocation
more than he does any other; must
have more interest in it than in any
thing else. In short, he must be u
sort of maniac, a "crank, as the
mossbacks call an up-to-datc farmer,
and ought to be continually planning,
devising, experimenting and obscrv-
ing-always at work for his own in
terests. All the men l know Of, this
type, have good tank accounts, and
many of them started without red
cent. This simply shows what brains
will do; muscle may not do so much
it can not. More brains, more fore
sight and better judgment are needed
to make our worn-out and neglected
farms bloom as red rose. They will
do it; Us in them. The farmer must
dig deep down and lift up the richness
of the earth. 1t 10 for him. Why not
get it?
Just now the war question is agitat-
ing the minds OF the people, all classes.
The successful farmer reads the news
once or twice week, so uetimcs not
bO Olltu, anu uOtS mo NOl ~ lOolbb hN
time with false war reports. l like
patriotism and patriotic people, but
farmer friends, we who are engaged in
the production OF crops have work tc
do which we must attend, though che
heavens take tumble" Every min
ute is valuable; put it in by doing
something on your farm. Every little
helps. Hot weather is here, and while
we who labor out in the sun will per
spire freely. we viii reap rich reward
In due season. Fence corners to cut
weeds in the pastures should be Gu
with the mower; a thousand and ont
things to do. Do them. True it u
that the teams can't endure the eX
treme heat while at work. but take i
easy and don't rush-simply keep oI
doing it. This will count more in
month than dozen swift gushes. B
steady, cool and thoughtful. Don
overdo thing which were better un
derdone if done at all.
The same thing we can do in cool
pleasant weather can and ought to b
| uODe III not uWtdlUeG-NOIh, HdIu NOIl
and easy work are 10 be found at al
times on the farm. But it is not diff
cult to make hard work easy. In fact
it is the way we do thing that deter
mines the ease or difficulty with whic
it is done. BE slick Quinine is har
to take as n powder, but put it in car
sules and it goes home at once, an
with ease. This is slick work. Don
let the work go rongh; see to it that
be done smoothly.
, No excuse on earth for being idle
single day on the farm. Then wh
/. spend so many days thus engaged?
c you have big farm and are out {
n debt, you may be able to sit under tn
n shade and watch the birds fly. Br
8 if your acres are burdened with
| mortgage, you had better get down
o business and get the kinks out of you
l back A mortgage on farm hang
d tenaciously and is not easily cast Off.
{ Dewitt c. Wing, in Economist.