Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-04-26
Farmers Wives.


The reading of essays by ladies is one
of the exercises which give life and
interest to the meetings of the Spring
field (Vt.) Farmers Club. From one
of the essays by Mrs. Daniel Rice, pub
lished in the Vermont Farmer, we copy
the following paragraphs: "a l@t4 2tta
"Did you ever think of the amount
of thought requisite to plan three meals
o day for three hundred and sixty-five
days in succession? Toprepare enough
and not too much, and for those living
at distance from the village, to re-
member that the stock of flour, sugar,
coffee, tea, etc, ETC., is replenished in
due time? DO you ever think of the
multitude of her cares and duties?
Shemustrise early to prepare breakfast
or oversee il. Perhaps there are child
rem to wash, dress, and feed. or to get
ready for school with their dinners.
There is baking, busting, sweeping,
making beds, lunch for the men, may
be-dinner and supper to be made ready
at the proper time-the washing, starch
ing, folding and ironing of clothes-the
care of milk, including the making of
butter and cheese-and the inevitable
washing Of dishes.
sin autumn there is the additional
work of picking, preserving, canning
of fruit, drying apples, boiling cider,
making apple-sauce, with the still more
unpleasant task which falls to her lot
at butchering time. Then there is hay
ing, har, esting, strengthening, ETC.,
when more help is needed, bringing an
increase of her labors. Twice a year
comes house-cleaning. BY the way, of
all the foe housekeeper has to contend
with, dirt is the greatest. She may
gain q complete victory and think to
repose upon her laurels after her semi
annual engagements-but IL is only
temporary. The enemy soon returns
and even daily skirmishing does not
keep it at bay.
"There is mending too. Sewing ma
chimes are great blessings, but they
can't set i'm a patch, or darn the stock
ings. ] do not mention these things
by way of complaining of woman's lot
in general, or asking for her any rights
which she does not possess. i don't
know as there is any remedy in the
present state of the world. 1t seems to
be one of the evils of life which must
be borne as we bear other ills--but what
do ask Is due appreciation of the
important part that woman acts, and a
concession that her labor, mental and
physical, are as great, all things consid-
cred, as those of the other sex. Wo-
men are not so childish that a little
sympathy now and then or acknowl-
edgement of their efforts and sacrifices
makes them imagine their case worse
than it is. tell you, men and hus-
bands, 1T doeth good like medicine,
and many a poor, crushed, broken
down wife and mother is dying for
wantof it,
EvERGREENs.-Som of the farmers
in the west are engaged in setting out
double or triple row of evergreens as
a screen for protection from the SHOWS
and winds of winter. 1t as about as
good as stone wall, and the advanta-
ges to our prairie farmers would be in
valuable. In time most of our farms
will be adorned with these trees. Ev-
ergreens two years old can be obtained
for from fifteen to thirty dollars per
thousand., White pines have been
known togrow four and half feet per
year i'm Illinois, and it is as safe to
transplant as the cottonwood, where
the ground has been properly prepared.
Norway and Scotch pines are hardy
varieties too.
How Nor TO FEED SHEEP.-B., of
Genesee, ILL.,, writes ofan Eastern mer-
chant, who came west to make his for
tune in sheep raising. He picked up
quite flock i'm December-culls, of
course. His manner of feeding corn
was to take small basket of corn
husks, or 60 into, the field with the
sheep, scatter his corn little, then
trudge back for another basketful.-
The result was but few sheep got
anything at all. and by spring he had
more pelts than sheep. The moral is
plain.
SMALL SAvINGs.--The parings of a
bushel of juicy apples are said to yield
a quart of cider by the aid of hand
press. The honey that wastes its sweet
ness on the air around an acre of buck
wheat in blossom, can be saved to the
amount of fifteen pounds per day, ac-
eording to the estimate of German
investigator. Rags can be saved to the
value of $50 600, 900, as shown by the
paper statistics of this country alone.
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A noted sheep raiser In Middlebury,
Vermont, has sold twelve ewes for
81 900 a piece; another sold lamb for
$1,000 This town is the shire town of
Addison county, known all over the
West as, the greatest county in the
country for sheep. Single animals
have been sold there as high as 5000
aud $1,000.