Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1869 — Agricultural and Domestic. [ARTICLE]

Agricultural and Domestic.

impoutanw «* U&u ing a workshop upon hisppeiTvafin&gE be b«*y. and tfjWrtauity is giy&fora wit employment „S fefeW Mt ■n'i°'i k ?,W dpott.«, h<frne, they will seek .idtsemofiabroad, wdrich usually result profkahW A » farmer gives Hi* experience and upon th* matter in the subjoined sensible talk: flow many farmers do we wnhu-that have not the ingebuiWjr w £ Zafcuiw other Mitill farm implement. ‘ Were ■bey brought up on a farm? .A***. Well, then, why is it ? Uiflme may say they are of that SfKs>rtumite class. of mortals not gifted with their shore of ingenuity. This is a gHe»t mistake. If you will take jfli# trouble to inquire of what they ajient their iXiineat wlicn young, they will farming. Was their aformer» Yes, the best may .fib?. Well what did he eraptoy himself arid Bovs at rainy 4u < e? ■tthßJthd hg;\vljei|ikmu'work, we geheridly spent, pig- time at the village, m tlie stores and tavern. Yen? know the boys want rest •ometimes/’ Very true, but is no. other- enjoyment for ys -than at the tavern and btyfwUßwl tlie hither had a wuadfshop, with a selected lot 47 fools, would not those boys have had some job for a rainy dayysuchasa little cart, sleigh, wagon, or boat to make or repair? There pre very few boys who tfo tioUhave such things to make. Thus by having a small workshop, boys soon acquire a tastelo little* ‘playthings of th rJ v 'Vnen older, the knowledge great senice so Ininnkitig ail d repairing implements on the farm. But theHWrbfabiM wWuh they TjiefP unsure time at the village, which is the ruin of many a promising boy, for where do we find a village now, in which there is not one or.two taverns, where the temptalim&ppfcarS tbW strong, judging the numbers we genejrthMtod in them getting to drink ? learn to homes attractive for therToys and themselves? A few good books, one or more good agricultural papers, and last, big. not least, a ivorksbop—(W Farintr.