HOW TO MAKE GOOD FARMERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 235, 4 October 1880, Page 4

HOW TO MAKE GOOD FARMERS.

' Our native youth (says'a correspondent of the Sydney Toivn and Country Journal), and those who are responsible for forming their habits and training them to be useful members of the community jiwill do well to consider whether the following questions; altered so as to suit the circumstances of the colony; can 'be satisfactorily answered, and if not, if it could be managed to have them so in the near future. Ist. Did you ever finish feeding all the stock on the farm on which you ! work, and not go to the house to sit by the fire, and let your employer or father finish the feeding. If so, how often? 2nd. Did you ever in your recollection carry a bucket of swill to the hogs without a special request to do so ? If so how often ? 3rd. Did you ever nail on a plank or a paling which had come loose, or lay up a rail which had fallen off a fence without a sepecial order to do so from your father or employer ? If you ever did, do you remember -how often ? 4th. Do you remember how often you ever closed all the gates and all the stable doors, after you had done £ ccc j_ ing? stb. Did you never leave the crib or granary door open and m consequence thereof have feed and grain wasted and stock foundered ? 6th. Do you always keep the harness in their proper places, and did you ever oil them without the assistance of your father or employer ?. . . . . 7th. Do you know whether or not you ever chopped enough of stove wood at one time, to~ : m'SKe -fire enough to cook arilentire nieal, and 'then carry it to the kitchen, without a special order to do so ? Bfcb. How often have you assisted in feeding all the stock on the farm on Saturday evenings, and Sunday, during any one year in yotir v recollection.