The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-06
FARMER ANDPLANTER.
WHAT TO DO IN HOT WEATHER.
mistake to Imagine that Hot
weather 10 Season for
Idlenoss.

"SoIu great many farmer
friends remark that there is nothing to
10 during the hot weather, SO we will
go nshing or squirrel hunting or do
something else that is nothing in the
emo. 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
mountaineering, threshing, haying
ana blowing, and then sowing in the
iai so 1T goes; always something to
do-if he will but do it. Here's the
ruo. 1t never gets too hot for a man
70 work in this country; it never gets
too cold here for a plucky farmer to
get In some telling ticks. Every tiller
OF the soil must needs be an enthu-
siast on the subject of farming; he
must like that particular vocation
more than he does any other; must
nave more interest in it than in any,
tning else. In short, he must be a
sort OF a maniac, crank" as the
mossbacks call an up-to-date farmer,
ana ought to be continually planning,
devising, experimenting and observ-
highways at work for his own in
terests. All the men 1 know of, this
type, have good bank accounts, and
many OF them started without a red
cent This simply shows what brains
Will do; muscle may not do SO much
1t can not. More brains, more fore
sight and better Judgment are needed
70 make our worn-out and neglected
farms bloom as a red rose They will
do 1T; It's in them. The farmer must
dig deep down and lift up the richness
OF the earth. 1t is 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 uetimes not |
SO often. and does his work, losing no |
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 to
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 will reap rich reward
In due season. Fence corners to cut;
weeds in the pastures should be cut
with the mower; a thousand and one
things to do. Do them. True it is
that the teams can't endure the ex-
IRENE heat while at work, but take it
easy and don't rush-simply keep on
doing 1t. This will count more in a
month than dozen swift gushes. BE
steady, cool and thoughtful Don't
overdo thing which were better nm
derdone if done at all.
The same thing we can do in cool.
pleasant weather can and ought to be
done in hot weather-work, hard work
and easy work are to be found at all
times on the farm. But it is not diff
cult to make hard work easy. In fact.
It is the way we do a thing that deter
mines the ease or difficulty with which
It is done. Be slick. Quinine is hard
70 take as powder, but put it in cap
'ules and it goes home at once, and
With ease. This is slick work. Don't
ct the work go rough; see to it that it +,
De done smoothly. II
No excuse on earth for being idle a |
Jingle day on the farm. Then why :
pend SO many days thus engaged? If j
Tou have big farm and are out of
lebt, you may be able to sit under the i
hade and watch the birds fly. But I
I your acres are burdened with a 5
mortgage, you had better get down to b
BUSINESS and get the kinks out of your I
Jack. A mortgage on farm hangs =
and is not easily cast Off a
Dewitt c. Wing, in Economist. q