The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-04-03
FROM BROOKE.


A ns.ss.t!e APPEL % Granger
-" and His Theory, &c.
BRITTANY, BRsoKE COUNTY,
w. Va, March Is '76
Editors OF the Register:
Changers; attention this way! Where
ID your knife? We zee that your orch.
ards would be little better By its gene
raj use, and little muscle judicIousiy adj
, minstered. If you desire fruit you must
keep your pruning hook in order, and
with t keep your orchards in trim. Tho
Grange will not do it for you. Good fruit
cannot be found upon trees where the
limbs are 50 thick that q bird cannot iy
through. This is the season to be ct It,
and don't fail to heed our warning.
Where is your brier scythef Have you
one? We would think not by the APP
pearance of your fence corners, while
briers and eldars are holding high carnl.
val mot only for twelve days, but for
years. for mastenhip. Not content with
the fence corners, they spread each year
farther and farther out into the fields, and
each time We break them up we have to
back out farther and farther from the
fence, and leave them complete masters
of the citadel Of king Brier, Leave them
alone. Don't for any consideration modest
them, for while you are clearing your
farm ofthese pests, you could buy another
farm. Then you will not have the time
to trife with them. Undoubtedly if YOU
desire to part with your farm at any time
they will help sell it more than any
other improvements yon could make. If
they will not grow of their own accord,
you might plant few hundred, and then
YOU need have no further trouble on
that score. Try it and report
Why did you not sow timothy or clover
on that field? They cost so much that 1
cannot afford it. Can you afford TO pay
taxes upon that land, and have it laying
thus, not paying you single dollar in
return? Would it not be better for you
to pay SIS for timothy and SIS for clover
seed and have good meadows and pas
lures, than have it as it is? Ponder over
these questions until you decide, and then
act as becomes a farmer and granger.
We are not perfect ourselves, and do not
think we ever shall be, but
while we are behind the mark,
we like to see others up TO il.
We are Jealous of no man because he
keeps his farm in a better condition than
we do ours. We know he did it by hard
knocks, and We feel disposed to honor
him. Now, Changers, "up md at EN-"
until a stranger riding along the road
can point out every farm whose owner is
a Granger, and every one whose owner
is Granger, and every one whose
owner believes the Granger to be hum
bug.
We, as a nation, are being more cor
rupt every day of our existence. Why
so? In a great measure because the
farmers are not permitted to occupy po-
sitions of trust st Washington and our
State Capitals, as was the case years gone
BY We are indebted to the Farmers
Friend for the figures We shall make use
of to prove our point. The Declaration
of Independence was signed BY lS farm.
ers, 16 lawyers, II merchants, doctors,
2 clergymen, school teacher, printer,
carpenter, lronmaker, shoemaker, each. |
By reference to the above it will be |
found that no class had majority, but
when We come down the scale oftime 10
the Forty-third Congress, we find things
altered. There were 246 lawyers |
in both Houses, and only q farm
ers. thus giving the lawyers a
ruling majority. This in measure &C
counts for our corruption. Give US good
Democratic farmers in proportion to our
numbers, and then look out for reforms.
Since sheep are the general theme,
do not think it would be wrong for me
to saw few words about them. I'D. S.
asks where he can get Spanish Merinos
and what they will cost him. They can
be procured from almost any person in
this county, such as they are. Only few
have the thoroughbred, ant doubt not
but that many that claim to have them
are mistaken. If you desire the best
grade of Spanish Merinos, thihk yoa
had better go to Vermont. Good ones
can be found in Hancock, Brooke and |
Ohio counties, at a cost Of from $50 to |
$500 each, and others at far less price. |
Vermont sheep, understand, cost more.
but am not prepared at present to say
positive. vet think that first class ones
can be bought for 800 each, and rams
from $500 to 1000 each. They cost
money, bu. it pays, in our opinion. We
only wish We had the stamps to purchase
them.
Brother ID. s." would not your
method of sowing timothy leave the
ground very rough? We think so.
Would no, our severe winters kill the
Young timothy if sown by itself, as you
propose? If not killed BY the winter
frosts, would not the weeds choke 1t out
hn nnsriinr summer JACK kOE.