The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-30
the sanitary conditions of the home,

rural conditions and recommends
tons based on long experience In
farm work and farm life. He has
worked for all kinds OF farmers,
good and bad, he says, and he has
always had his eyes open to detect
the causes of their success or failure.
He has drawn his own conclusions
and sets them forth in downright,
straightforward fashion. Educa-
ton pays in farming. he says. The
farmer who plans out his work and
carries it through in systematic,
\husiness-like manner, just as the
city man does, will be able to shorten
the hours of labor. 80 many
farmers measure everything on the
farm from the standpoint Of muscle, -
he continues. land are extreme In
some things and slack in others.
decided several years ago that life
is too short to work for Peter Tum-
bledown farmers"
Now. Mr.. President" he writes,
you can take this for what 1t is
worth. / have not giy you haAf
OF my experience" I country
life commission has writ him that
his suggestions are SO . eful that
they hope he will SEND more.
Compel the farmer t. oe a bust
aess man." he says-"Go into the
homes of some OF the farmers and
the so-called farmers and ascertain
how they live, and learn Of their
methods of doing the business IN
which they are engaged. And you
will be surprised what variety
you will find. Ascertain what they
read, and what stress they put on
the literature that comes into their
homes Git any comes) bearing on
the business they are engaged in.
See what per cent study their bust
ness.
Give me the educated farmer as
boss and the educated farmland as
hand. When l come in contact
with hand or farmer that studies
his business l find his advancing,
md it is pleasure to work for such
men.
The majority OF the farmers are
isht-hour men, that is, eight hours
in the forenoon and eight in the
afternoon. Eight or ten hours on
he farm cannot we'll be adopted In
all cases, but 1t needed not b. from
fourteen to sixteen hours. II the
family arise every morning at
o'clock and the wife and daug ~ers
attend to the household duties, and
the farmhands and sons attend to
| the chores and go to the field at Z
O'Clock and work until II or 11:o0
and go to the field again at l and
keep at it until 6 O'Clock, and 20
to the house and eat the supper, and
then do the evening chores, they
have done farm days work. Reg
ular hours for work, and regular
hours for meals, and regular hours
for sleep, and regular hours for
rest and recreation. with plenty OF
standard papers and books, includ-
ing the best agricultural papers and
books, and full faith in God, and
good grub Is wanted.
"The family should rise at
O'Clock on Sunday morning as we'll
as on week days, and do the neces-
sary Sunday morning chores, and
then go to church and show the bust
ness man in the city that Sunday on
the farm does not consist in chang
Ing the stock from one field to an
other, or sailing 1t, unloading
load OF hay that was brought in on
Saturday evening.
Coming to the meals at the hour
makes 1t easy on the wife so she
can arrange her house, cid duties
in order, as can also the husband his
farm work.
Men OF worth and standing in
the shop and city tell me that If
order and system we're I'D on the
farm they would go back the farm.
If the farmer wants to l his sons
and daughters on the ia; he must
not lengthen the hours '>r a days
work at both ends. Linz the hours
OF work on the farm to twelve or
thirteen with pay for overtime, and
freedom to the hired man on Sun
day."
The country life COM ;=sion well
comes letters like this. ,cause as
Professor l.. H. Bale, chairman
OF the commission, recer''y pointeu
out, one of the objects Of the In
vestigations of the commission will
be to obtain, as fully as possible
the opinions Of both farmers and OF
their hands concerning the question
of farm labor and the condition OF
hired help. 1t is likely that when
the country life commission reaches
Indiana in the tour of the country
which it will make early next month
it will endeavor to get into per-
sonal touch with this letter writer
Southern Hills Mining News.
Hiram l.. Burch is we'll satisfied
with the showing made in his recent
work on his mining ground near
Mystic. He has been sinking a shaft
on porphyry which at the surface
showed strong naturalization. His
object in sinking was to get a sufti.
cient face to obtain ar average OF
the gold values containei and his re.
cent assays have gone rs high as So
and $40 in gold to the ton.
He intends to continue bis develop.
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