The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-08
Let the Boys Try Experiment.

| Many are the exhortations 20 farmers
boys to stick to the farm, and many are
the suggestions offered for making farm
life pleasant to them. Among these ART
tie following:
1. 70 get good papers and periodical
for the family to read, amongst which
should certainly be one or mere of the
best agricultural papers.
2. To encourage pleasant social inter
course with respectable neighbors' fam
lilies by mutual visits.
3. To make home beautiful outside by
flowers and fruits and porctes covered
with ivy, roses, honeysuckles or wister'
las, and to adorn the house within with
such pictures and ornaments d mean.
will afford.
If the above trailing vines are not
readily procured, there are several that
grow wild which could be had almost
anywhere.
All these are excellent means of max
ing home attractive, but it is necessary
also to make the business OF farming
attractive, and this can best be done by
making it interesting and profitable.
There is 70 business in which knowledge
and experience and calculation are more
necessary than in the cultivation of the
soil and the rearing of stock; and every
soil needs to be studied to ascertain its
adaptations for different kinds of crops.
and the treatment, by fertilizers or 9TH
erwise, of which it stands in need. If
the boys on a farm become interested in
reading agricultural papers and making
some of the experiments suggested by
them, or such as their own ingenuity
may devise, they will soon be in love
with farming. OF course, some of the
experiments will prove failures, but
even these will be instructive, whilst
Others will lead to success aud profit.
Above all they will present the stimulus
necessary for the active and enterprising
mind of youth, and prevent that con-
sciousness of dull, aimless drudgery
which sickens SO many youths with the
from. Fathers, encourage your sons to
read aud make experiments. and take an
interest in their efforts.
The mind must be exercised As we'll as
the body; and brains are as necessary
for good farming az muscles. Let the
lads begin to raise their own stock, and
give them the opportunity of trying ex-
periments with different kinds of crops
and different methods of cultivation, and
let each enter for a prize something or
other of his own raising at every agri-
cultural exhibition that is held in the
All this will cause them to
their calling and make them
become intelligent or perhaps even en-
thusiastic farmers.
Nor should girls be neglected. The
flower garden. the vines and the poultry
should be their domain, in addition to
the housekeeping department and the
larry. Let them also experiment Sc As
% get up the finest flock of hens in the
,eighborhood by steadily selling the
poorer layers and setting the eggs of the
,est layers. Let them also purchase a |
en- cent paper of each of the following
;inds of seeds from JAMES Wick, Roches-
er, or any other reliable florist 1--WE
aention his name because we have found
is seeds to be reliable), namely: choice
ansey, phlox Drummondi, China asters,
lima pinks, verbenas and any other
ind they choose. These all come in
ndless variety, and the pleasure lies in
the plants as they bloom, pull
lg out any worthless ones and saving
eed of the best. A small supply of the
est melon, cucumber, squash and
umpkin seed should be got from which
D supply important additions for the
able. 4 bed of mignonette should also
e sowed to afford sweet-scented flowers
D mix with those of beautiful colors in
he boquet, which SHOULD be renewed for
re dinner and tea table daily Or every
econd day. The making up of this bo-
net. with judicious mixture of differ
Mt colored flowers and green leaves
ould also be an excellent lesson in taste
nd ingenuity.
In word, make farm life as beautiful
nd attractive tor all the members of the
Irm as circumstances will permit, and
0 not, by undertaking too much, suffer
avish labor to crowd out all the COM
rts of life.-N Y. Witness.