Farming for Boys Author:Edmund Morris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. All Farming is A Job. Stopping A Great Leak. Giving Hoys A Chance. A Lecture In The I!arn. Working One's Way Up. '"TONY KING was partic... more »ularly struck with the improve- - ment in the coffee-mill, for his knuckles had received a lull share of the general skinning; and when the job was done, turning to the old man, he said, " O, Uncle Benny, won't you teach me to do such things before you do all the odd jobs about the farm ?" " Never fear that all the odd jobs about any farm, and especially such a one as this, are going to be done in a hurry," he replied, laying his hand gently on Tony's head. " If the owner of a farm, I don't care how small it may be, would only take time to go over his premises, to examine his fences, his gates, his barn-yard, his stables, his fig-pen, his fields, his ditches, his wagons, his harness, his tcols, indeed, whatever he owns, he would find more odd jobs to be done than he has any idea of. Why, my boy, all farming is made up of odd jobs. When Mr. Spangler gets through with planting potatoes, don't he say, 'Well, that job's done.' Did n't I hear you say yesterday, when you had hauled out the last load of manure from the barn-yard, it was pretty wet and muddy at the bottom, you remember, ' There 'sa cliity job done!' And so it is, Tony, with everything about a farm,it is all jobbing ; and as long as one continues to farm, so long will there be jobs to do. The great point is to finish each one up exactly at the time when it jught to be done." " But that was not what I meant, Uncle Benny," said Tony. " I meant such jobs as you do with your tools." " Well," replied the old man, " it is pretty much the same .hing there. A farmer going out to hunt up such jobs as rou speak of will find directly, that, if he has no tool-ches...« less