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December 3, 1886
The Willimantic Journal
Willimantic, Windham County, Connecticut
What is this article about?
Editorial advice from Rural New Yorker urging farmers to create winter work for reliable hired men, providing them homes to keep them from cities and foster their growth into useful citizens, while dismissing undesirable workers.
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Make Winter Work.
Can't you make work for the hired man this winter? Try it. Can't you make arrangements for feeding stock or cutting wood that will enable you to give the hired man a home, at least? The cities are filled every winter with farm hands who have no place to stay after November. Many of them would come here anyway, but there are some who would stay at the farm if they knew they could have a good home. These are the men you should help. Many a young man can be made into a useful citizen by a little encouragement, such as you can easily give. You have a home, with plenty to eat and drink and enough to wear. If you have a promising young man at work for you don't let him go tramping off to the city this winter—if a few words from you will keep him away. Exert yourself, make a little extra work for the sake of giving him a job. We make no plea for the many foul tongued rascals who are found on too many farms. Get rid of them by all means. They are worse than poison in your family. But if you have a man who is capable of appreciating a home, and who has good in him, keep him if you can. You have a chance to carry out a little practical benevolence that you will never regret.—Rural New Yorker.
Can't you make work for the hired man this winter? Try it. Can't you make arrangements for feeding stock or cutting wood that will enable you to give the hired man a home, at least? The cities are filled every winter with farm hands who have no place to stay after November. Many of them would come here anyway, but there are some who would stay at the farm if they knew they could have a good home. These are the men you should help. Many a young man can be made into a useful citizen by a little encouragement, such as you can easily give. You have a home, with plenty to eat and drink and enough to wear. If you have a promising young man at work for you don't let him go tramping off to the city this winter—if a few words from you will keep him away. Exert yourself, make a little extra work for the sake of giving him a job. We make no plea for the many foul tongued rascals who are found on too many farms. Get rid of them by all means. They are worse than poison in your family. But if you have a man who is capable of appreciating a home, and who has good in him, keep him if you can. You have a chance to carry out a little practical benevolence that you will never regret.—Rural New Yorker.
What sub-type of article is it?
Editorial Advice
Social Commentary
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Winter Employment
Hired Men
Farm Labor
Rural Advice
Practical Benevolence
Where did it happen?
On The Farm
Story Details
Location
On The Farm
Event Date
This Winter
Story Details
Farmers are encouraged to invent winter tasks like feeding stock or cutting wood to employ and house good hired men, preventing them from idling in cities and helping them become productive citizens, while avoiding keeping troublesome workers.