| Show the farmers wife husband without it Is needful there be good housewife within Is as needful as ha he 13 TOSSES however judiciously and economically the plans for the operations of the farm may be laid if a man and his wife do not harmonize most completely in prosecuting their labors he had better at once dispose of his farm and lay by the avails of it for decrepitude and old age and workout work out by days work the housewife and her operations are the great regulator of the operations of the farm there is too much truth in the old maxim for fiction that if a man would succeed well in his livelihood he must ask his wife A very great fault amon among C many farmers is they do rot consult their wives in relation to matters with reference to which it is highly pro proper p er they should have a word or iwato say we ve commiserate the man who bears the reproach of a hen ben henpecked pecked decked husband and when we see a wife ruling and engineering indoors in doors and out of doors we e think that it if she had a husband far superior to herself she would be a woman of sterling worth it cannot be denied that wives have often made to their husbands some most capital suggestions in reference to the operations of the farm and it must be acknowledged that many women are far more capable of planning n ing judiciously and carrying on more economically no the operations of the farm than their husbands but if a wife superintends super intends and executes in the best manner the indoor in door operations nothing more should be required of her I 1 know that very many men consider it a little beneath them to consult their wives with reference to any of their plans an and d they will never suffer wives to know if they can P prevent r ev ent i it anything p about their income or expenditures p e d 1 tures tur es 1 or their thel r debit or credit but it is ametter a matter of doubt vv whether bether there ever was an instance in which a man roan habitually abitu ally aily consulted his wife when as a consequence it proved detriment alor a disparagement to him bin in any respect there can be no impropriety in the practice of some men of allowing the housewife to know exactly all about the income and expenditures tures the debit and ard credit of the farm and if these wise ones mho who congratulate themselves that they have a most perfect knowledge 1 I of the best manner of performing effo amin th the e operations of the farm would confer a little more with their wives ivines their wisdom would be greatly increased introduction to dodds todds young farmers bl manual anual |
