624 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



his employer. Mj trade, when not a farmer, is that of a 

 stone mason. It has been my delight to honor one of mj 

 fellow masons. He was poor. I could honor liim, notwith- ' 

 standing. He hadn't the nicest sense of honesty, yet I 

 would honor him ; for, although he would sometimes make 

 a bigger bill for time than he ought, he would put a lot of 

 honest work into a wall, where no one but he and I ever 

 saw it. He would put all his nerve, and he was full of 

 energy ; all his strength, and he was very muscular ; and 

 all he knew, and none knew better than he how to make a 

 good wall, into a day's work. He was just a good model 

 of a hired man. 



Fourthly. Tlie hired man must be obedient and strictly 



trustworthy. How important is this in the care of teams and 



other domestic animals. I once hired a ten or twelve years old 



boy, for three dollars a month, for eight months. He could 



tell me any time where I could find every tool on tlie farm. 



He could always tell me where my cap and mittens were ; 



that was worth a good deal to me. li he told me the gates 



were shut and the bars all up, cattle fed, and chores all 



done, I took his word for it, for whatever he said was true. 



He afterwards went to work for the man who let his hired 



men eat their dimier without asking them how much work 



they had done that forenoon, and stayed there four years. 



His employer said of him : " The cattle all like Francis." 



Fifthly. It is very desirable that our hired help should 

 be intelligent and skillful workers. The opinion too gen- 

 erally prevails that almost any numhead will do for a farm 

 laborer. 1 am glad so much has been, and is being said 

 and written about brain work upon the farm. Who doubts 



