Connecticut western news., 1873-01-31
Farmer Crumple's Cr0akingS.

"This cold weather shrivsls fellow
 "Yes, Tim, it does but does it shrivel you up more than it does your stock ? Why don't you keep them iR the stable such day as this p said l to Tim Brown, one morning about Il o'clock. His cattle were standing about his barn-yard, without the shelter of even good board fence, and the wind whistled across the half-down rail fence about the yard, and the snow cut a mans face like knives, as he faced the wind.
 ooh, cattle won't be as healthy to stand in the stable all day.; they want to get out and stretch their legs it does them good"
 "So it does you, Tim; but after you have stretched your legs in the morn ing, notice you don't stand out beside the barn all day, when you can snuggle down beside good fre."
 I mention this for the sake of saying that there are too many men who forget that brutes can suffer, and who do not seem to know that the little, almost costless, comfort that they can give them is not only appreciated but paid for-that it is naturally economy to give this comfort.
 Of course I've crooked about this be- fore, but I couldn't help recurring to it again, reminded of it by the frost on the window panes, and the thankful consciousness that everything is snug in the Crumple barn. Somehow it makes me feel happier and more con- tented. Then I thought I would
 TALK ABOUT TIM BROWN.
 He Is a representative farmer-that is to say representative of certain class He is one of those farmers who require a ten-acre lot to turn a common farm wagon around on (if he has team hitched to it), and yet will butter 8 whole season on two-acre field. He has about as much comprehension of the possibilities of farming and a farm life as hen has of a problem in Euclid. He turns his cattle out into the cold at a certain time of day, because he was always used to doing so it's habit :; and what has once been adopted must no ."short-cuts " in his life, He will make hills to his potatoes as big as a bushel basket, and do it all with hoe. He plants his corn, year after year, on the same piece of intervale. He waits till the foliage is killed by frost before he cuts up the stalks and as soon as the fodder is thus destroyed, hurrah boys! he goes into it, and with great care sets it up in stocks and binds it. He never gratis an apple tree, but grows what he calls " cider-apples," which he rarely gathers until after the first snow, and then picks them up with mittens on his hands and hauls them off, half or quite frozen, to the cider-mill, four or five miles away. He never has more wood cut, winter or summer, than will last the family one day. He goes into the woods, cuts down the most con- venient. tree he can find regardless of the fact that it may be too valuable to cut, rolls one end of it on to bob-sled, and hauls it to the door, then he com mences at the butt, and chops and splits it up as the family requires it. and sometimes it is required when neither he nor anyone else is by, when the kitchen fire must be fed by "pick- ing up chips" So it goes. And this is all preliminary to
 PEEP INSIDE THE HOUSE.
 Five boys-great big, burly, bolster eus fellows, full of the vitality which belongs to their class-are there i, three girls, kind-hearted, active, fun-loving, and with the affectation which only accompanies conscious ig- norance! All these with mild, spiritless care-worn mother upon whom all make the most exacting demands. And there is not paper taken among them! The boys whittle, trap, hunt, skate, go to school when they please, play cards, and range all over town at will. The girls help their mother some, read sick ly novels, go to dances, spelling schools, parties, sleigh-rides, &c.,, and are con- stantly wishing for and devoting them selves to some excitement that will re- heve them of the monotony of home which is not one of comfort, culture, refinement and pleasure. Its tasks are onerous. There is little or no love-light in it; none of the delicate courtesies and attentions which brothers should bestow upon sisters and sisters recip- rocate no music, reading, sympathy really no home atmosphere! And yet some people think it strange that
 FARMERS CHILDREN DO NOT STAY AT HOME.
 This is just what I am coming to-. This is the kind of education too many young men and women receive on our farms. This is the way they are taught to love farm life. This is the material of which too many farmers (so called) are made. This is the sweet pastoral life of which poets sing. This is the road many farmers take to reach the usurer, and in direct line beyond him are mortgage foreclosures and "change o1 base. This is what drives hundreds o1 Eastern men into Western pioneer life
 Of course it is all right such should be driven hence. It is blessing tc the neighborhoed whence they remove But it is & very sad thing, Sir!-very sad! For out of just such management or mismanagementi Is born misery, sui fering, vice! This is propagated iron generation to generation! The inheri tance, unfortunately, too often clings tt the inheritors. There is missionary work for every intelligent farmer to d. in such families. No good farmer cal afford to have such neighbors! He car better afford to spend $1OO each year il providing them with the best papers magazines, and books he can bette afford to spend time stimulating tn, pride of such boys and themselves tt take an interest in improved agricul ture, and in teaching them method that will be profitable to them he cal better afford to encourage his ow1 daughters to cultivate the friendship O such girls, with view to lifting then out of such an aimless life into one O. purpose, refinement, and self-respect
 The truth is, fellow-farmers, it is thil neighborhood association, this disinter ested (apparently) interest in our neigh bors' affairs, that is one of the best anc wisest investments we can make, if Vt would enhance the value of our owr property and give to ourselves and ou1 neighbors the stability and security which are essential in all well-orderecc society. We haven't any right to mind our own business in such matters be-