Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1886 — Too Much Hard Work. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Hard Work.

If anybody doubts that farmers have to work hard to get ahead, let him look at the number of broken-down, dyspeptic farmers’ wives, barely turned of forty, that you see at State and county fairs. The farmer cannot hide his land or his stock—it is inevitably taxed; and it is a smart, industrious, sober, energetic farmer that can make Iris farm pay 6 per cent, in New England. Hundreds of sturdy farmers in Vermont make less than this oft' their farms; and too many of them are tortured to death by the effort to pay for a farm they have bought, with a mortgage attached. If it be true that the farming class contributes largely to the insane, it is not because they are brooders over the little, mean, local woes of life; it is because, as a class, they work very hard, both men and women; because they have to carry more anxieties and troubles, with less time for relaxation, than the city worker of the same grade ol intelligence.— Popular Science News.