Year: 1859

Advice to Farmers: t# .iE


Jacob Strawn Is said to be the f1ost ex:
tensivc and successful farmer in Illinois;
though not doing so much as formerly
He gives the following advice to farmers:


"When you wake UP, do not roll over;
but roll out 1t will give you time to ditch
all your sloughs, and break them up, and
harrow them, and SOW them with timothy:
and small portion Of red clover with it.
One bushel Of clover to ten Of timothy IL
sufficient Make your fence high, tight and
strong, so that it will keep yotr cattle ahd
pigs out. If you have brush, make your
fence secure, and be sure to keep pigs and
hogs from the cattle; for if the corn is clean
they will eat it much better than if it is not.
Study your interest closely, and do not
spend onc-twentieth part Of your time in
electing Presidents, Senators, or small OH.
GERS, and talking Of hard times while spend
ing your time in town, sitting on the store
boxes, and whiting all the soft wood up,
instead of leaving it to kindle fires with, SO
that they can get to business. ..,,y-.v,.


"Be sure to get your hands to bed carly.
and they will have to rise carly by the force
of circumstances Pay a hand--if he is q
poor hand all you promise him il he is
good hand, pay little more; it will encour-
age him to do a little better When i was
younger, and employed great many hands
Il have employed over two hundred day.,
made it universal rule, all the time, to
pay good hands more than promised them:
thought it brought me more interest than
any money that ever handled. Extra pay
is appreciated by good young man much
A sA0<1,y
selves, for the laboring men are the hope
and sinew Of the world, and ought to be
well treated. All our wealth and fiitS
clothes come by hard labor Our best girls,
if they would 60 to bed three hours earlier
than their usual time, and get up two hours
sooner, which would give them one hour
more to sleep than they now have, and when
they get up, help prepare the breakfast,
wash the dishes, and sling the pots around.
not 80 as to overstrain themselves, they
would be much more healthy, more hand
some and get better husbands: 5 ''..'
Il am satisfied that getting up early, in.
dustry and regular habits are the best med
icine ever prescribed for health. Look at
our general land surveyors, when first run.
ming off the land in til, West, wading in
water from the shoc-,nouth to the waist, at
night making calculations, keeping their
minds employed, were all well and hearty;
while the hands employed in carrying tho
chain, when they had nothing to do, laid
down and died like rotten sheep. When
did you ever know Of General in the ar:
my who was man, but who was at hi.
post when duty called for it, not in good
health? Look at our neighbors in the
spring, about the time that their corn
should be planted They get In q hurry;
getting harness, ,plows, and almost everything
belonging to their business, bustling around,
going to mill, getting a part of a load Of
wood at time, and not enough to haul a
full load alta time-they are so extremely
hurried to get their corn planted s7as'a


IF they would keep at work all the seq
son, they would s,arve the lawyers and
whip the doctors. When it comes rainy.
bad weather, so you cannot plow, cut and
split your wood. Make your rakes when it
rains hard, clean your stables or fix some
thing indoors that you might have to stop
| the poy To fix in GOOD weather. - sa.szr