Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1907-09-05
HINTS ON FARMING.

pie whom | have met invariably
greet me: 'lIalloo, Farmer, it
looks like you'd be at work." II
also notice that there is still an.
other class who seem to think
that thefarms ought to be knock
ed into oblivion and the farmers
put in the penitentiary.
The First class above mention
ed must have the old, old idea of
farming, viz: That men, women
and children should arise at three
O'Clock in the morning and make
a lot of fuss and "todo" about
the bread and molasses and then
hurry away to the mountain top
with old-fashion hoes while t h e
stars yet shine, and in the mean
time hustle for a grounding for
dinner.
The idea Of these people is to
pay no attention to the house
hold; don't have any books, mu-
sical instruments, flowers vines
about the house, 40 the children
will be refined; don't waste any
ground about the house for a
yard, but let it 60 in with the
pasture. Be sure that nothing
grows about the house except
"yaller dogs" to mind tile neigh
bors away. Never read anything,
and yet claim to know every
thing. Mostespecially the women
should not learn anything about
the science of cooking. Don't
have many rooms to your hous-
es and no windows in them. DO
not 90 to the expense OF buying
any tools but depend on borrow
ing from your neighbors. fyou
do happen to buy a few, d n It
have any regular place to keep
them, so when you need them
they will all be lost, broke or Dor
Irowed-then you can curse the
women and children because they
are not at hand. Be sure aud al
ways come home mad, and blame
Everybody but yourself for your
crosses. See to it that the very
appearance of kindness, peace
and happiness don't enter your
door.
Curse and swear, and threaten
the children with thunder a n d
lightning, death and destruction
and never do anything you
knock one in the head with q
club for something that it could
not help. Don't have any barns
to shelter the stock; never have
any plans or purposes; n V el
use any judgement about any
thing; plant your crops too early
or too late, and when your crops
which are planted out OF season
get bitten by the frost tie a c h
your children that God is angry
with bis people, and that the :. all !,
} is filed with evil spirits and WITCH
90 That's the way to dOit, boys
! No wonder farming is LOOKED
down upon, and the farmer re
garded as an ignoramus. lo'
should not grumblei if yougathe
Ithorns from thistle seed sown
"What soever a man soeth tina
shall he also reap" What t h
/ farmer needs is to educate alon'
his line of business. He wants t.
e use his thinker as well as u
} muscles. We want to understan
] the order of nature; then we ca
J, step on the board of judgemen
and float into the sea- OF success
. The. farmer ought to live like
prince. He ought to read ana !, /,
form himself, and let the worl
know that there is nothing 'n.e
lectually degrading in plowln
:. the land, watching thecorn gro
or looking upon the green a. an
y sunny slopes. There is nothln
. . degrading in driving the c o W
v v across the daisy clad hills
o stacking the new mown hay {
$ harvesting a waving field ofgol
% q en- grain. ,,t
Z" Now a hint to the wise IL sui