Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-24

farmer's department.
Farmers Gardens.

4 general thing farmers do not provide
themselves with good gardens at least, SO iar
as the writer has travelled he has seldom seen
atiat he would call L good garden Oh farms
The excuse for this neglect is generally the
same with all of thcm-they have no time to
attend to such small matters" And yet it
may safely he asserted that an acre Of ground
appropriated to Il good garden, will be more
profitable to the farmer than any othor ten
acres of the farm The interests of the farmer,
the comforts of lis family, the good condition
aud health Of whole household, require such
garden Oil every farm in the country. And 1t
should be a rardea, not mere excuse for one,
Il mere wcedy patch. 1t should be one so
managed and arranged that every vegetable Of
a Wholesome quality for human food should be
raised in it in perfection, and at the earliest
season. After a Winters diet on solid and
generally salted animal food the human consti-
tuition requires the detergng operations of free
vegetable and fruit diet; and, as general
rule, no one can dispense with it safely. Be
sides this, the natural appetite calls Tor 1T, ana
there are few pleasures that may be so safely
and esen benefcially indulgedin In the latter
part of Winter and early in Spring, measures
should be taken to secure e0rly vegetables CT
all kinds capable of very early cultIYatIon-
"Details will not he expected here there are
other books and papers appropriated to such
information but | cannot help saying, that
when | am at a farm house, at season when
early peas, beans cabbages, cucunbers, pota-
toes, green corn, lettuce, &c, are properly i'll
season. and find none of these luN'iricS on the
table, nothing but the blue teet, salt pork and
Leans or potatoes of Winter, | am free to say
do not envy the farmers life nor his family
their enjoyments These very people are fond
enough of such things when theyg othe city
and it is not therefore want Of taste. 1t Is
simply the fault of negligence. Why may not
every farmer in the State have every kind
of early vegetables on his table as early as any
gardener near the cities can raise them ? There
is not Il single reason why he should not, while
there Il great many why he should. The
gardeners have to incur very considerable
expense in procuring hot manure for their hot
beds, whilst the farmer has it in his barnyard
The gardener has everything to purchase, and
draw Il considerable distance, whilst the farmer
has nothing to buy The small quantity Of
lumber required is probably rotting on his
premises 1t would only be source of amuSe-
ment during Winter for him to construct the
frame Of hot bed, and prepare the manure
and bed for use Having done this, and got
his plants in a thrifty state he can, in a short
time, when the season arrives, get his garden
ground in order and make his plantations
And then he will have all these vegetable
Injuries as early as any of his town friends can
purchase them. 1t only requires a little in
dustry and attention to accomplish this, and as
said before, his enjoyment, his health, and even
his interest, as well as the comforts of his
family will be benefited by it,