The Tiffin Weekly Tribune

It is none of our business, but we are going to make a few suggestions to our farmers about their spring work. We 'used to be a farmer,' and helped to clear up a beach deadening of one hundred acres, in old Milford, Ohio, and held the plow to break the same and put it in crop. And in the 'beginning of those days,' we thought most any one could be a farmer, even down to a common fool; but before we quit we found we were much mistaken about the kind of material both mental and physical, it took to make a successful farmer.

And here is the trouble with our farmer boys, and the reason why so many seek employment in our villages and towns—they think the business of farming is degrading; that it places them in the lower strata of society. This evil, this low estimate of the intelligence of the farming community is giving way, and farmers are taking that position in society which Nature intended they should occupy from the 'beginning.'

But we are wandering from the main subject. It is your 'spring work' we want to call your attention to this article.

Firstly—Haul the manure which has accumulated in your barn yards the past year, on the field you intend to sow to wheat this spring.

Secondly—Clean up your fence corners, and fix up your fences generally. We can always tell a good farmer by his fences; and a mere glance at them will 'tell,' plainer than human tongue, whether or not the proprietor is a whiskey sucker.

Thirdly—If your plows and harrows are scattered over the place, hunt them up, and put them under shelter, and never again leave them to the tender mercies of the elements. No successful farmer does business in that style—leaving his farming implements scattered over the farm.

Fourthly—Plow, and sow and plant early. And plow deep for all kinds of grain and harrow well and thoroughly. Roll your spring wheat. Also: roll your fall wheat.

Fifthly—After you have your sowing and planting done for the spring season, you then have a little 'breathing spell.' Use that time in fixing up things around the homestead. Take that old hat and trousers out of the window sash, and put in the glass that is needed there. Clear up the smoke house and spring house, and fix up your walks about your dwelling.

Sixthly—Set out native forest trees about your house, for shade. Plant shrubbery of all kinds, and fruit trees and vines.

Finally—If you want to live happy, and die happy, and meet us in a better world, where the wicked cease to trouble, where Copperheads never come, (we mean the two legged kind,) where the roses are always in bloom, and greenbacks at par, call up, and tell your neighbors to call, and subscribe for the Daily, Semi Weekly, or Weekly Hawk-Eye.