quotations about farming
Scott knows strawberry farming isn't playing. It's hard work, planting, picking, cutting, cleaning. There are the years of fighting insects, years Mother Nature sends late frosts or too much rain, the years of prices going down so low he can barely afford the plastic mulch he spreads on the field. But, it's not all about work. There's euphoria, too, he thinks, as he offers the lady a berry to taste. Juice trickles down her chin and they both laugh. "Sweet," she says.
BEV MARSHALL
"2:00 P.M.", Louisiana in Words
A gentleman farmer never dirties himself with the soil or soils himself with the dirt.
EVAN ESAR
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But I do say emphatically that successful farming isn't altogether a matter of training, not by a long shot. You can't expect to take any kind of a man and make a soldier out of him merely by teaching him the manual of arms. You can't expect to take a mass of all sorts of human raw material, put it through a theological seminary and so make it all up into successful preachers. By the same token a man isn't necessarily marked for success in farming just because he can't be stumped by any question you put to him in the classroom. I'm willing to wager today in your school there are men teaching you the theory--successful teachers too--who couldn't grow forty bushels of corn to the acre on my best field if the job were given to them. Some of them couldn't drive a straight furrow across a ten-acre patch with any amount of practice. It isn't in them. There are other men, men who don't know a syllable of the theory of it and who couldn't at the start tell the difference between a breaking plow and a double shovel, who are able to go out on the ground, square themselves round, pick up the knack and work wonders.
WILLIAM R. LIGHTON
"From Father to Son: What Does It Take to Make a Farmer?", The Country Gentleman, July 11, 1914