Year: 1872

An intelligent correspondent of the
Utica Herald gives the following sketch
of successful farmer and his manner
of managing his hired help:


"Mr. John Smith, of Minden, Mont
gomery county, N. Y, is our best farm
er, and entirely prosperous-prosper
GUS in all years, Independent of the
season this on account of the thor ough
preparation and treatment of his land,
drainage, deep culture and sod. He de-
pends upon sod for manure, and the
manure proper that is made is applied
on his meadows, thus growing sod and
at the same time reaping the benefit of
the manure. In this way he has accu-
mulated fortune. But he extends his
system of care and treatment to every
thing. He is one of the few men who
are not afraid to keep hired help, even
in the present hard times, when so
much complaint is being made. He has
two or three hired men constantly en-
ployed besides himself and son. He
says the more help he can find use for
the more benefit and no one is more
careful in estimating the gains and
losses. He has good hands, trusty and
intelligent, and pays good wages; treats
them well. But he directs them this
is the main secret. Each one does the





right time, which in the main is little
in advance of the usual time, and he does
only work that is necessary and pays.
There is nothing done for nothing:
nothing that needs repeating, or work
thrown away. These men are machine
to use where needed, and they are kept
in order by proper treatment and en-
couragement, and yet they are a sort of
family together, all working for the COM
mon good. There is such a variety of
work that no one is ever idle; he will
not have a lazy man or mean man on
his premises, nor sloven. Thus the
whole work is carried on orderly and
successfully.


"By excluding unsuccessful work, he
encourages true labor. This should be
done by every farmer. Let it be under
stood that only good, intelligent work
commands employment, and there will
be an improvement at once, the real
shirkers will be crowded out, the non
profitable viii drop, from the lists. An
honest laborer will see that he earns his
wages. Employ him; employ only such.
You are safe then with profit" l--
Seeding Grasses.


Mr.. Chas. L. Flint, the well known
writer on grasses, advocates their seed
ing alone, and generally late in sum-
mer or fall, and asserts: l. That early
fall seeding without grain should be
adopted in practice in preference to
seeding in spring 2. That, as general
rule, it is poor economy to take any
grain crop either with or Immediately
preceding the seeding down to grass.
That the grass being the ultimate and
paying crop, it is bad practice to reduce
the land by the draft which grain crop
makes upon iSt 8. That wherever, from
| any local reason. it becomes desirable
to take crop of spring grain, it is more
economical to SOW the grain alone in the
| spring, and to plow up the stubble and
SOW the grass seed alone in the early
fall. 4. That in cases where it seems
desirable to SOW grass seed in spring, it
is better to SOW it. alone and let it take
its chances, without compelling it to
struggle for existence under the disad-
vantages of a grain or any other crop.
5. That in seeding down in August or
early in September, we are following
nature as to time, and that unless the
ground is already rich and in high con-
| dition, it is necessary to give the seed
the benefit of an application of manure
on or near the surface to which the seed
is applied. 6. That in the'selection of
seed for moving lots and hay, we should
choose varieties to mix that blossom al
or nearly at the came time, and not mix
very early and very late varieties to
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