Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-01-26
DAILY DEMO- BAT
FARM AND HOME.

veck II. seed king Il X chester. y. y.
furolshes every customer with an envelope
slteady dir.1isdao him. with { sterat.-
ed ioT he emp. .ai psi4;ed b.aaS .e y
set for hs order :9r see :. |. i've wua.a
cnlt ~. hs scamp IN hss le.tsr- ruI ne
money inside :. 10 ssv fsr the j., hsn
be sol'l { sc;ou.uno lang -. as,
not g2ns hat a. dis yesi.
4 Kentucky farmer 5sc.Dmef.d, th.t
wool isefs pasture their sheep with cattle
As al etieclus preventive o: favag.s Is
dogs. lie has fo.iosed THIS practice Tor
many year. sud hss never lost strgie
member Of his Il 'ck, b. dogs OF wo ves,
While his neigh oOfs have been cons an,
sufferers. The sheep. when sttsc.rd by
dogs, run directly to the cattle for pr0tsc-
ton, an the Liter soon rid the He'd 81
their canine prosecutors.
What xith cholera ansng hogs and pou
try, aad the Texas aud other fsvers ansn2
our cattle. with sll the careful sdorts 81
farmers, the supply Of dssh fssd does not
increase. We do not notice any fatal dis
ease among sheep. Yet in OHIO they haze
been sold this VII t.: nv thousands 1t tive
cents a h,si, tie burr 10 slaughter them
and eiye the f-lis a"d taSow 10 tie SCI sr.
The Il 5 is f.dio hcg.. This seems like
down a.. snful foly srd s;ap lily, as
well as niokedness
The total number # legs packed n the
Cnitss! Sis,os II 1857 va. Al 60p. la
Cbivsgo a.ots there werc 1G9 OF The
tota e-iiinate tcr 1865 , 2iG 37-, Ia Chi
cage, G0O,0o0; a falling off in that city, Of
upwards Of 100 600, sud small failing oil
eli over the country. The CiucinIai Price
Current, in view OF these tx res, very justly
remarks. that the chief danger 10 tho hold
srs Of pork is in the extreme high prices
r. her than in Il . c,nssqusaes OF the sup
ply. Every farmer VITO hasa fat hog. or
poor one, ought TO SCI him now, and buy
his pork mex, summer. A IA, hog rev is
worth more than two barrels of isar. There
10 no reason Or sense in such h b prices fer |
pork, sithr fresh or cured.
WAY ms AMERICAN HlsEs FAxalso AND |
Lows TRAps think TO ons can read |
that splendid press poem. Gayo,'s Earth |
and Man. wherein he charac'sriz.s tn.
position and products eftne American con
tnsnts. without feeling that they ought to
be the fsc,l-produesrs Of the world. They
are the seat; he says, Of excessive vesta
BIZ, as the continents Of the eastern hsmis
I here ar. the noblsst a,imal development.
Let us, then, rather set ourselves to carry
cut the gran dssizu sf nature than to 20 |
against il. An tired of tho stones about
western farmers burning their corn. Let |
the dry gsods clerks be SCI 10 work on the |
and canals to bring it to the sea-
then. With butter at sixty cents,
aud bssfs,sak At forty cents = pound, aud
-four at eighteen do lars barrel, A. they
are in Boston st the present writing (Msy,
1860, il 10 absurd TO say that We are pre-
sxportatien toe. Masy and many . poor
family have given up butter, and sugar, and
Juicy meat, within these last eighty years
The Fact that . paper dollar 10 but two
thirds Of gold dollar cannot account for
provisions being TIVE Or three times their
former price Ne, the real trouble 10 that
The American hates farming and llvss ira
ding, partly because he is physically unie-
velopsd. AID therefore physically lazy;
partly because farming lazy and stupid.
any Of the stimulus CT human
eompanisnshiy 10 v hich mis- childhood At the
district school aoeustems him; partly |
a. that school he 80, no knswlsdx. q Or love |
Of nature, but only the trading idea.
insiiIled BY sx years Of d Ill in tie d,l.sr
and cent examples Of tho arithmetic; and |
last, though not least, because farming k liz
his wife. takes all the bloom, flesh, and |
vitality away from her Al forty Very |
often, even If she can afford one. she cannot
get a ssrvent; so that she is, in truth, next
to an Indian sqnsw, the greatest drudge sn |
the American continent