Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-16
The Farm Hand Heard From.

1t is very seldom one picks up farm
paper without seeing an article giving
the farm hand q whack. That is right.
Keep on whacking. 1t makes him feel
better. He loves his employer 50 much
more than he reads these highly con-
centrated items, providing he gets time
to indulge in the luxury of reading
Give him TO understand the farm is the
proper place for farm hands; impress on
his mind that he should be very thank
tul that you are giving him 365 days
work in the year, and that his wages
are greater than your great-Ereat-
grandfather used to get. Feed him on
common everyday grub" Sell all your
butter and use grease for the table: it
will increase your bank account. Take
all of your eggs to the market; they are
not good for farm hands to eat-they
injure the digestion. Expenses must be
kept down, as you are thinking of buy
ing the adjoining half section and you
will need the money. Kill two or three
fat hogs i'll the fall and have hog three
times a day. Fat hog is the stuff to
hang to hired mans ribs.
Be sure to have an early rising hour
in the winter time for the hired mall
$50 A. NJ. at least. 1t will not be neccs-
sary for you to get up before breakfast;
about six is the time for that meal If
the farm nand cannot find enough work
to keep him employed before breakfast
he can cut and haul up a load of wood.
1t is good for him, makes him strong,
increases the appetite, and his love for
you is tcnfold stronger.
Find fault with everything he does,
whether right or wrong; it does him
good; ne will stay with you that much
longer Always go round with Il long
and sour face. Eat as fast as you can
at the table. If you talk to the farm
hand at all during meals tell him about
some article you have read relating to
the poor quality of farm hands at the
prcscht time. Take plenty of farm
papers SIN at least, one for every
week Day.
Make the farm hand do all tie hard
work. Use walking plrws, but il You
have Il riding pillow use that yourself:
walking is good for the hired mans
legs. Send him out to cultivate corn
ABOUT four in the morning with Il good
fast team, and keep him at it until
about thirty minutes after sun'lown.
Probably you will have twelve COWS for
him to milk. and other work to keep
him going two hours after he leaves the
field.
When a new hand comes give him all
tn. hard work you can find for tn" first
few days: that is the way to break in
tender muscles. The farm hand likes
this treatment and will probably stay
with you.
Put the farm hand in the hottest bed
room in summer and the coolest in Will
| ttl. iic sure to have Il hard bed; he
| likes it. 1t makes him tough. These
! things will help in keeping farm hands
from having you.
Ncighburs are going to ask ConGr, -
to rev Use the Chinese exclusion law.
That is the proper thing to do: We noel
Them w. could use the cntir" chin, :"
empire fiji the farms full, make things
cheaper and take the undergraduates on.
of the American farm hand. Lower
farm lroluctS. Corn is too high. wh"at
is way up. Farmers never mad. :nurr
money than they are making NOW. II
Won wish to take four loads of grain to
mark t for the same price you are get
ting for one now bring over the
Chinese The American farm hand
VITO s.,r'nS to be Il great problem for
some Of our writer's at the present time
W"uld in Il short time he changed I" tn.
iucompctCnCy of Chinese Labor
Breeders Gazette.