PRACTICAL PAPERS—FARM LABOR. 
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months and get rested and, work enough harder in the summer 
to make it up.” Now what is the final result ? Both parties 
are the losers. Spring time comes again, and the farmer finds 
a multitude of things undone ; many things essential to the suc¬ 
cessful cultivation of the soil have been neglected. The laborer 
finds his money nearly all gone, and is not as well fitted for 
labor as he would have been had he kept right along with Mr. 
F. through the winter, at such terms as Mr. F. would have 
been willing, or could have afforded to pay under a system of 
farming hereafter described, thereby saving the money earned 
under the “ live and let live” wages agreed upon, and what 
he paid for board. All will agree that the longer one employs 
the same help the more he can afford to pay, as the employee so 
much better understands his way and manner of doing things. 
One of my neighbors gives two dollars extra, because the 
man worked for him last year. Some say, “how are we to 
get more help when we are so much troubled to get what we 
already have. I answer, under the steady employment system, 
I am trying to advocate, I calculate it will draw it from the 
cities and villages, where so many remairr idle through the 
winter. 
I think Chinese labor will soon be introduced through the 
country, il steady employment can be given them. Having 
lived among them in California for about six vears, I am to 
some extent prepared to give an opinion as to their usefulness 
as laborers. 
Most foreigners are looking forward to a home of their own 
Not so with the Chinese ; they want no land, but steady em¬ 
ployment. They are small in stature, but strong and enduring, 
having been reared to toil and scanty living. They like money, 
and will want what they earn. They are good workers, and 
do not aspire to be anything but servants. They do not origi¬ 
nate, but are great imitators. They surpass all other classes in 
doing just as they are told. One upon every farm, where more 
than one man is employed, would fill a place, and an important 
one, to the farmers wives, who find it so difficult to get kitchen 
help. “John Chinaman” can help, or can do the cooking; he 
