The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-02
FROM BROOKE.
Farmers Should be FOIiticians-"D
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RFruASY RR0nEE Co w VA

BETHANY, BROOKE TO-, w. VA.
Editors of the Register.
The farmers have the plurality in w est
Virginia, and / might add, of the United
! States. Now, Mr. Editor, when the
farmers represent the larger class of the
country, and pay the greater part of the
taxes, 1 would like to. know why they
should not have the same majority in
our legislative halls. They feel the force
of unjust laws more than any other class
of men, yet they cannot get even one say
out ola hundred Let the farmers take
! il upon themselves, and see that they are
represented by men that have interests
at home to contend for, and we will have
fewer steahngs, and taxes will rapidly
diminish, and prosperity will once more
be ours. In those good old days when
we were In our infancy, the farmers held
the highest offices in the gift of the peo-
Pile; now they are not even allowed the
most petty county offices. We need
reform, and while l have conf
dence in the integrity Of the
Democratic party, L would have
much more confidence in them if they
would elevate the farmer and let him
have some power besides that of paying
taxes and driving the ox-cart. General
Price mt the nail on the head in his speech
published in the REGISTER not long since.
! Would that more farmers mad the heart
to advocate their rights! Now, fellow
farmers, let one and all attend the
primary meetings and send delegates TO
| the county conventions that are regpon-
| sible and worthy farmers, and let each
| county convention send farmers rs dele
gates TO our State conventions, and mark
nay words, that the Democratic party
will elect men that al the world will
D a;sc, and our enemies will be power
less. a. Iioa after life has departed from
its huge frame.
I'D. s." propounds some questions and
asks "oid farmers to answer. | am not
quite three score and ten, but for fear l
will never reach that age, | hasten to
give the opinion Of young farmer. To
begin with the first. | would answer that
the dark OF the August moon is deemed
the best time to kill grubs. We Of
Brooke consider that il is much better to
grub than hack little shrubs, as we are
then done with them, and fields look much
better to take everything clean than to
have dead bushes standing around. We
have not much more timber than what
we desire for use and consequently do
not deUden much, but when we do and
wish il TO decay we deaden it in the
north of June. 1t is our opinion that
our State is better adapted to the raising
of sheep than any other stock, and in
answer to 80 s." we would say that no
stock Of sheep will do as well in large
iocks as small ones, but if YOU have
them in large tiocks, we would say by all
means keep the Spanish Merino as they
DO better in large tocks than other
breeds Our adyice is not To have more
than ten or twelve acres in one field and
about fifty or sixty sheep in one flock. /
have seen two hundred sheep in one
flock and the half Of them were SO poor
they would not make shadow. This l.
not rs it should be. Ii you come to
Brooke we Will show YOU some fine sEee,.
Itwoujd De hard for West Virginia
to give advice concerning cattle rs not
one out of hundred Of US ever saw Il
thor0u gh bred cow We would like to see
some improvement in this line, but have
ceased to hope for a change, and we
run our fists in our pockets and never
once think of doing what we blame
others for not doing. Scrubby stock
costs more to keep than blooded and the
latter sells for more than the former.
Plant Your meadow in corn the first
year, Tor half It crop Of corn pays bet
than large crop of wheat or oats
yellow corn is the best as there is much
more nutriment in it then in either the
white or calico varieties. Plant good
seed and II your soil is fertile you will
not fail t. raise good crop. We of
Brooke would sow the ground next spring
in oa.s which leaves the ground inigood
condition for wheat in the fall. We sow
timothy after narrowing in the wheat in
the laii. and in the spring we SOW timp-
thy and clovcr mixed, and good mead
ow j. the result.
Mir Eit,r an fearful taat this is my
last rs my friends are searching tor me,
and when found you will have another
lynching affair to record. | am sorry,
for il has been my intention to enter the
field as lecturer this spring, but then II
do not escape the lvncherS | am glad
to know that Bessie Turner Is smashing
hearts upon the stage. JACK ROE.