The Osceola times., 1875-11-20

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do most to increase the comfort and rem
der country life desirable, are not of the
most costly character, and are within
the reach of every enterprising farmer.
Costly ornaments may he left to those
who have the means TO lavish on them.
But every country mansion should be
surrounded by shade trees to protect it,
or rather its inmates, from the cold
blasts of winter, as well as the intense
heat of summer. The trees are within
the reach of all, at trihing expense,
and IN many eases with no expense
save the planting, and yet how many
dwellings remain for years without a
single tree to shield them. The road
ways, too, could be lined with trees,
with little or no disadvantage to the adj
joining lands, and with great advantage
to the passer-by, including the owners,
and as, in most towns, cattle and all an.
imals are properly excluded from a
vagabond life in the highways, these
shade and ornamental trees NAV he
planted outside of the fences with
safety.
If the Patrons of this country would
take hold Of this important subject
once in earnest, how easily they could
line the highways of the whole country
with beautiful ornamental trees, and
tax themselves but lightly in time or in
money.
Does any one dodbt the desirablity
of such Improvement? Let such n
one drive along public road where
even one farmer has by forethought
and little enterprise, years before
such visit, planted such trees, and con-
trast his impressions with those
awakened by a look at his own barren
highways, and then Judge. The fact is,
such investments cost comparatively
little, and never fail TO pay largely.
No one can pass such a property
without half wishing that he owned it,
and If he is ready and able to purchase,
he is willing to pay well for such i'm
provement. So it is with the more
substantial comforts of country life.
They are within the reach of all, and
cost comparatively little. All that
is needed is forethought and little
well-timed labor. OF such comforts
are the small fruits, which many
farmers never see in their own
dwellings. Grapevines are as easily
cultivated as corn. Strawberries,
raspberries, and blackberries should
occupy few rods on every farm.
Most of the drudgery, monotony
and deprivation of farm life, result
from stupidity. 1t is commonly
thought by those who live along for
years on corn meal and potatoes, that
these luxuries are too costly for poor
farmers. This is all nonsense. No
class of people in the world can secure
them so easily and so certainly. CITY
people know little of these luxuries in
their perfection, as they rarely get them
fresh from the fields; and if the farmer
would only use his opportunities, his
family will seldom complain of their
situation.
HOW TO MODIFY OUR INSTRUCTION
When we speak of planting peas in
November and December, our sugges-
tions are good for our latitude, but we
expect readers in south Florida, or in
northern Virginia, and even in the
more distant parts of our own State, to
make the necessary allowances for
difference in climate. Our dates must
be considered movable, and NAV be
carried backward or forward, accord
ingly as the readers latitude may he
north or south of ours. From five
days to week for each degree of lati-
tude may he taken as a general rule in
measuring climatic differences, but to
this there will he many exceptions,
depending upon the distance from the
ocean, altitude, the physical conforma-
ton of the country, and the character
of the soil. In the same latitude, too,
the time for performing many horticul-
tural operations will vary considerably
with the varying seasons. The reader
is always supposed to have brains and
to Use them, otherwise books and mag
azines will be of little use. .-Ruh Car.
olmian for Nopember.
A VICIOUS CIRCLE IN FARMING.
A correspondent of the Southern
Plantation is reminded of the anecdote
which the Professor of political econ
omy, in the University of Virginia,
used TO tell:
A Pennsylvania one day hearing a
Virginia gentlemen boasting of the
large crop of corn he expected TO make
on farm, remarked, Colonel, you
must make great deal of corn to sell.
"No, sir, | never sell corn. What we
don't eat | give to my hogs" "Oh! |
beg pardon, you're dealer in bacon.
"No, sir, don't sell bacon, | give it
to my negroes" And pray, Colonel,
what do you do with your negroes?"
"What do | do with them? Why, sir,
they make my corn" This is the
circle, only smaller one, which most
OF our farmers pursue. They make
cotton TO buy meat, mules, etc, and
they buy meat, mules, etc, to make
cotton; and when the cotton is not
sufficient for this purpose, they buy on
credit, and mortgage their mules land