THINGS I HAVE SEEN.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 398, 16 August 1861, Page 4

THINGS I HAVE SEEN.

I have seen a farmer wade up to his knees, winter after winter, through manure in going to his stable; when for years his garden has been unproductive for the want of the article so much in his way in the yard.

I have seen a farmer pass fifty times by a hole in his fence, and never stop to right it, always putting it off till another day, until the greater part of his crop was destroyed.

I have seen a farmer put up his stockfodder in so careless a manner that the first wind would blow down the slacks ; in whicli condition they would remain until the fodder was so spoiled that his halfstarved rattle would refuse to eat it, and he would wonder why his cattle were so much poorer than his neighbors'.

1 have seen a farmer who took great care of his fodder, but in feeding it to his cattle

would let in the hogs, or not separate them from the cattle, and beforeJhey could masticate half their allowance, the remainder was rooted about and so filthy that they must be more than half-starved to eat it. He, too, is one of the wondering class. I have seen a farmer feed his horses in a hollow tree with both ends open, and a hole in the middle. * Oh,' says he,«the pigs will get what falls out.' Yet strange to tell, he never could account for his horses always being so poor. 1 wonder. I have seen a farmer who seldom went where his boys where ploughing, and when be did it was the same thing, for they would ic-^rely skim the earth, cut and cover, and •vvonder.'

I have seen a farmer (and he a good rough carpenter), who had not a door to his stables; he would stop the entrance with rails laid crosswise, leaving a hole at the bottom to creep in and out when feeding. The labor lost in course of the year in pulling down nnd putting up this abominable substitute, applied to the making of doors, would have furnished him for a lifetime. He is always * wondering' how some folks have time to do such things.

I have seen a farmer richer than his neighbors, and, to their great detriment, lose as much time in borrowing and returning the various implements husbandry as would pay ior them in two years, if time so spent had been profitably employed.— Franklin Examiner.