The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-03-01
Make Homes of Your Farms.


Set out few more trees in your or.
chard this year Select some good win
ter apples, couple of trees of early
apples and some of the best variety oil
fall apples. ANY nurseryman win send
you catalogue of his trees and prices
and you can select such as your judg-
ment and your purse will admit of, but
in any case do not fail to plant out each
spring a few more young trees. By this
means only can the orchard be kept in
perpetual bearing, and as it descends
from family to family the kinds of fruit
grown will be greatly improved by
grating .and setting out choice kinds,
until not trace of the inferior apples
of the original orchard viii be left.
The farm should be made an enjoya-
BILE home and not a place OF confne-
ment, deprivation, hard labor and dis
content. Make a delightful home of
the farm and lay out plans with your
children to constantly increase its at
fractions. Enlarge your orchards.
Raise pears, peaches, plums, cherries,
currants, raSpberries, blackberries, and
ounces as well as apples. Build dry
ing and pressing room and teach your
boys and girls to dry fruit in a drying
room, preserve fruit and can fruit and
let them share in the money which
arises from the process. And when you
pay them the money do not advise them
to buy a pig or sheep with it as many
thOughtless farmers do, nor to lay it up,
but tell them to subscribe to some good
papers and magazines, not trashy stuff,
but worthy publications, and then es-
tablish a reading circle in the family,
where each in their turn shall read
aloud to the others of an evening.
Buy good furniture for your houses
instead of buying fancy guns or dogs,
or loaning your money or increasing
the amount of your land. Make the
home comfortable and attractive and
rest assured the children will regard it
as the dearest spot on earth, and they
will never wish to leave it.
Maintain a good garden, remember
ing that if the garden is well cared for,
and its product properly used, it will
pay better than any other part of the
farm of its dimensions. Children love
good things to eat, and remember for
lifetime the wonderful pies and pastry,
the prodigious dumplings, the splendid
garden vegetables, the magnificent ap-
pies and other fruits of the old farm
home.
Farmers ofMissouri need special lee
turing upon this head. Too many of
them utterly neglect to make good
homes of their farms. They fence in a
bit of land, build log house and pole
stable. They plant out 10 to 20 acres
of corn, and that is their farm. They
have few sun-fshy looking pigs run
ming wild in the woods, COW that
comes up TO be MIXED about once q
week, nag hardly worth the price Of
a halter, half dozen barehesded, bare
footed children and a wife that tolls
hard and patiently during the corn
planting and corn-plowing season.
Such is their home. They make their
crop of corn and then take it easy the
balance Of the year. Were they really
determined to do better than this they
would lose no time in idleness. They
would add field after field to their farm,
until wheat, hay, oats, fruit,
vegetables, etc., ETC., would be
added to their corr. Their cows
would have good enclosed pastures
where they could be found when wanted
at milking-time, and then their tables
would be supplied with cream, milk,
butter. cheese and curds tn; year
around, instead of the everlasting corn
bread and bacon diet that now prevails
so extensively in Missouri.
The pole stable would disappear, and
the big barn would take its place. The
Lighthouse would become thing of the
past, and the spacious family mansion
would loom up. There would be poul-
try and bees and fish, and all manner
of excellent fruits and vegetables.
There would be a flower garden, too,
and every room in the dear old house
would be just brilliant with bouquets
and redolent with their heavenly per-
fume.
Make beautiful and attractive homes
of your farms, and you will be blessed.
st. Louis Republican.