Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-07

a tendency to raise manual labor
to that system and dignity to
which it is entitled. All the skill
and ingenuity of a railroad man
agement is bestowed on n time
table because it is essential that
the time be apportioned to each
movement in a way that things
shall be done i'll the time when
they can be done to the best adj
vantage, and so as to accomplish
the most during the year. An
arrangement of the work on
farm is just as important in pro-
portion to it's magnitude as it is
in any other business. The tarmcr
who does not plan to do his work
in the time and manner i'll which
ii can be done most advaEta-
geouSly cannot succeed. He will
be wallowing in four feet of por-
Gus snow and slUsh to get green
wood to his sugar house instead
of easily getting it il time when
he could have moved round freely
and had dry wood at onc-halt
the cost and one fourth of the in
convenience. If he docs not do
any of his work i'll the most COM
Portable and advantageous time
it will fret, annoy and interrupt
him in time when he is doing
some other thing to advantage.
Time after time during the year
ii he is not systematic he will dis
cover with chagrin waste, decay,
breakage and destruction by
storms and exposure enough to
make the difference between pros
peritv and thrift and failure and
Mant. He comes to his planting
without having seen that his
tools and apparatus are i'll order
and is constantly interrupted III
his work by repairing and sup
plying means to do it. If he does
not study the different varieties
of his soil and properly assign
different productions to it he does
not make a greater mistake than
he would fin tapping his sugar
orchard he should tap all kinds
of trees, hemlock, spruce and all
If he does not seasonably see that
his teams, machines and tools are
ready for the, harvest he will lose
the most valuable time of hinSel
and workmen to do i'll confusion
discomfort and to great anC
disproportionate expense what
might have been done comfort
ably and cheaply. There is enough
of details in farming to constitute
if properly considered and attend
ed to the success of any farming
enterprise and if neglected it:
utter failure.
. He is much mistaken who i'm
AGNES that farming does not re
quire superior ability, keen saga
city and good judgment. In thu
business every faculty of the MAJ
should be alive, and especial,
should he be aroused by tn
awakening of spring. 1t require
various capacities and versatilit,
of brain, quick thought and read,
resources at every corner and Ii
every emergency. In a farmin!
enterprise is the last place for
: drone or an imbecile.
/ The labor OF. the farmer shOult
t be lightened by an interested
study and calculations for tn
| favorable adjustment of his I'M
: mediate surroundings and his re
: lations to the outside world, int
| which his farm products go am
from which his gains return. Hi
minds eye should quickly cate
| the varying markets, the lates
= improvements, the most econon
5 ic designs, and the reliability {
the men with whom he deals. II
e should be broad and narrow az
. cording to his varying conditions
S His dress should be neat an
!, coarse, corresponding with hi
: occupation, his cattle sleek an
! healthy, tame and conhding, hi
rows of corn straight, his fence
: tidy and substantial, his builc
: ings in perfect repair, his cream
: cry clean and wholesome, an
: above Ill his wood house an
), sugar orchard abundantly SUI
t piled with good dry wood. Hi
e fields should show forth til