The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-22
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN I.
The Farmer.
From the Rural New Yorker.

The Farmer.
From the Rural New Yorker
When farmer can so manage his
farm as to make s'both ends Of the year
meet. even it be with the most rigid
economy, he should be contented with
his lot. If we take a survey of the
business men of our villages and cit
les, we find that only three or four in
q hundred realize a competence for old
age. Then inaging the ,mhappiness of
those who, sooner or later, fail to sup
port themselves and families respecta-
bly-and cares and anxieties that con-
stantly produce pangs|and tortures that
no farmer ever felt. These men may
apparently lead pleasant lives, as the
outside world cannot witness the emo
tons of man who daily strains every
financial nerve to meet his notes fall
ing due at the bank. The time be-
tween one and three o'clock every day,
in the city of New York, brings more
anxiety to the business men than all
farmers of the United States realize in
a lifetime.
No, farmers. your lot is not a hard
one. Your food may be plain and the
cuts of your coats may not be as fash
ionahle us those of the merchants of
the day; but when you lie upon your
: pillows your repose is sound and
sweet. The horrors Of protested notes
seldom keep you awake at night and
in the morning as you go around to
feed your iocls and view your crops
that have visibl ygrown while you were
in the arms of Morpheus, you may take
> more real enjoyment Of life in one
hour than many city merchants and
manufacturers do in Il year. Our adj
vice therefore, is, be not discouraged.
The times may now be hard but you
are promised ::seed-time and harvest"
10 the end and. with hard labor and ju-
: licious management, you come out in
he end victorious.
The Common House Fly.
Professor Packard in summing up
he life history of the common house
y, says:
''If in its winged condition it is one
~ the most disagreeable features of
he dog days, and people wonder why
les were ever made at all, it should
E remembered that flies have an in.
lncy as maggots, and the loathsome
fe they then lead clenses and purifes
e August air and lowers the' DEATH
= tie of our cities and towns. Thus
lille stables and piggeries are tolerat-
by the city and town authorities,
eyoung of the house fly and the flesh
d blow flies, with their thousand
les, are doing something toward pu-
wing the pestilentlal air and avert
= ! the summer brood Of cholera. dys-
Jerry, diphtheria, typhus and typhoid
recs, which descend like harpies up
the devoted cities. 1t may be re-
'(led as an axiom that where flies
st abound, there filth, death. dealing
baneful is most abundant, and filth
Eases such as we have named most
congregate.
The life Of the house fly may be
nned up as follows: 1t lives one
in the egg state; from five days to
eek as maggot,; from five to seven
5 in the pupa state--in all from ten
ourteen days in the month OF Au-
t--beforo the winged, adult period.
often asked how long lived fly
Most of the flies which are born
August live for g month or six
KS, and die at the coming Of frost,
er of cold or from the attacks Of
told plants. A few, probably win
>ver and thus MAINTAIN the exist
tof this useful species, to which
lized man owes more than he can
lily estimate, and with which he
dispense only when the health of
s and towns is looked after with
1reater vigilance and intelligence
is likely, perhaps, to be the case
tveral centuries to come.
Apple Dumpliugs.
boiled dumplings, make paste
'pound of beef suet, chopped as
lis possible, to two hounds of 81 f.