HINDRANCES TO SUCCESSFUL FARMING. 105 



CA'crything ; casting her bread upon the waters, trusting that 

 after many days it should return to her ; and it is the duty 

 and shoukl be the joy of that husband to see that she is not 

 disappointed. 



But how many have early started out to taste the antici- 

 pated happiness of the life of a farmer's Avife, only to find it, 

 as in after years they ate, but as the "dead sea's fruit of 

 ashes." 



IIoAV much the farmer, absorbed in his severe out-door 

 avocation, is apt to forgot the trials and hardships and lone- 

 liness of her whom ho has taken to love, to chcri.-.!i, and to 

 make his equal and his partner in everything. 



Must it stand as an everlasting reproach to u.% tint the 

 life of a New En^rland farmor's wife is one of hard, uncora- 

 panioned endurance, which originated that harsh old coup- 

 let, — 



"]\Ian's work is from suii to sun, 

 But woman's work is never done " ? 



Every former should regard with practical, compassionate 

 assistance, the labors of an ambitious, uncomplaining wife 

 in the kitchen, at the laundry and the dairy ; bearing, as she 

 does, the superadded cares of maternity and the endurance 

 of the unnumbered and unmentioned sufferings incident to 

 her sex. The man Avho, not selfishly perhaps, luit thought- 

 lessly, has alloAved his wife, earnest and anxious to promote 

 his interests and comfort, to gradually take upon herself one 

 after another of the heavy, constantly acciunulating burdens 

 in a former's family, till they have l)roken her strength and 

 crushed out the vitality of her spirit by a premature old age, 

 Avill find too late, alas, for his own comfort and peace of 

 mind, if he have any sensibility left, that he has brought 

 upon himself the greatest and most irreparable of all the 

 hindrances to successful farming. 



Mr. Phillips. How are our young men to get farms 

 without mortgaging them, under our present social .sy.stem? 

 Mr. Griknell. I don't know. 

 Mr. Phillips. Is there any remedy? 

 Mr. Grinnell. I only attempted to delineate some of 



