The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-18


would probably demand well-clear-
ed land within short distance of
city, good farm machinery. an auto
mobile and good pike. Added to
this, of course, they must have
foreman and several good hired
hands. With those inducements farm
life would be the merriest, the hap
piest and the greatest. But such is
not the lot of the boys in the
trenches.
Farming is the oldest of all pro-
LESSONS. 1t can be traced almost to
the beginning of man. The proper
work for farming Is. as we all know,
agriculture, derived from the Latin
words ager (field or land) and colo
Ito cultivate). However, our fore
fathers brought with them from Brit
ain the term farm, the derivation OF
which is uncertain. In Britain, then
and now, practically all farm lands
are owned by landlords and leased
for divers periods of time. The word
farm is used over there to signify
piece of this leased land, and from
that source we, in this country, get
our terms farm and farmer. But the
word does not only mean the leaser
of land, 1t signifies the owner also.
But now that VIC have the source Of
the name let us see what the average
farmer actually does.
He has the glorious privilege of
springing from the bed long before
the dawn of an approaching day. He
feeds his team while the dear wife,
who has such an easy time, cooks
breakfast. The poultry, the hogs
and other stock also demand atten-
ton. Before the last bite of maple
syrup soaked buck wheat cake is
we'll on its way the farmer is near
ing the barn. His team geared, he
departs for the field, and long before
the people of the towns and cities
are through with their daily protest
to the one who would dare disturb
their slumber, is causing the sod to
crack and groan with his labors and
Oliver chill. Or he may be spread
ing CONSERVATION among animate be-
ings in the meadow with the click of
his mower. No matter what the Ia
Dor on this particular day it's work,
work, work.
A hurried lunch and it's back to
the fields again. Some take half
hour for rest, but they are few in the
busy seasons. Provided there is no
moon, work ceases at dark. The
horses, put up, feeding, milking and
routine work over and the farmer
takes his second lamplight meal Of
the day. He has probably fifteen
minutes to read the paper and talk
with his family. 1t doesn't seem to
him that he is sound asleep until the
clock announces $3.50 a. m, and that
is the time most Ohio county farm
ers get up during the busy seasons.
There is no one for him to protest to,
except the guiding hand that assists
the earth around it's axis and causes
time to pass by. No time for him
to stretch and yawn. He must be up
and about, repeating the work of the
day before.
But you say he has nothing in
vested, no financial troubles to wor-
ry him. He hasn't 'ey? Well, he
has his farm, large or small. He has
his machinery, his cattle, his stock.
If his acreage is large he must en-
ploy men, besides doing good days
work himself, and his money doesn't
come by the week, nor the month,
but ordinarily once year. If he is
without capital he must pay interest
in the meantime for funds to run the
business. A steer lays down and
dies, and the farmer kisses good
night his years profit on cattle. Wa
ter, hail, fire and other elements APP
pear in excess and the farmer is
showed to the wall. The farmer has
his troubles, just as you and I.
Tis true there are assets to farm
life and among these the grandest.
it seems to us, is the great privilege
of living so close to mother nature.
To see and hear her little ENJOYS SO
cheerfully announcing the approach
of her great ball of fire. The farmer
who leans upon his pillow handles, sees
the dark eastern sky grow grey, then
lighter, then red. old sol In all its
glory show that glittering face; who
hears the wood pecker on a far off
snag sound reveille for all animal
and insect life to be astir; who real
ICES the full Significance and gran
deur of the hurried transformation
and dawn of bright day, is surely to