The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-12-19

many oWners Of COWS do not make them
houses-thinking the COWS know best. |
will tell you one reason why there is too
much penny wisdom and pound iool:Sh-
meas among farmers. They think they
know we'll enough how 10 do everything
connected with their life and work, and
by no means can they DO induced 10 sub.
scribe for an agricultural paper. Have
they not been brought up on the farm, and
were not their fathers farmers before
themP "Yolt farm papers are too sx-
psnSive and too extravaganL'
IKNow OF A FARMER
who was originally city man, but who
has now been farming for the last twenty.
Ave ysars, and has done we'll. He will
not subscribe to an agricultural journal,
but this last summer he has lost enough
money to pay for nearly hundred yeaFP
subscription. l do not mean 10 say shat
no could have saved all that by taking
paper devoted to farm pursuits, but he
might have Lost much lesS than he did,
and, in addition 10 that, there Is q real
fund Of delight in such paper 10 the
C0u1tTy Gentleman,
FARMING A La MODE.
Now, Messrs. Editors, / am altogether
a tyro 10 this business, and that may
detrGct Il good deal from any advice 1
may give; but ! do know how much
l am indebted 10 books and papers, and
have been led TO do things alter the most
approved styles, from blowing early In
the spring to gathering the crops in the
fall, always satisfied that l knew the
right principles, 30 far as ordinary
knowledge goes, even II | did not follow
them out faithfully.
l have word 10 say to the city folks.
When announced my intention 10 20 10
the country and 10 adopt farming az vo-
cation the notion was ridiculed by many
Of my iriends-all city people Of course.
/ would be back before year was out,
they said. Another would give me two
years; another said that farming was very
stagnating TO the mind. This was the
way they talked 10 me. There were how
ever some exceptions, and the greatest
contrast was in the case Of a young man,
one Of the most intelligent ever knew.
He said that was doing the sensible
thing to strike out for myself on a farm,
that he himself was 30 fond oil the country
that he might be said TO be prejudiced in
favor Of it, As for society, ii was for
the most part humbug; that he prefer.
red the society Of an honest oak tree and
Il running stream OF water, and a clear
view, than to be eternally mixed up with
the promiscuous crowd Of a city and for.
ever stared in the face by black brick
walls.
IFHEHAD LIVED IN WHEELING
he might have added, and bcgrimed 9th
unlimited sui perpttuaHy. think it is no
smAll matter 10 be free from dirt. In a
clean place one can take pains and de-
light in having things niCe-(to use a
ladies' wOrd) about the house. Even
here We have trouble enough with
coal SCOT Of our own without the addition
Of our peighborS as is the case in town.
LITTLE MORE AND THEN HAVE FINISHED
There are objections to country liiesure
enough and many Of them, and there are
pleasures in city life in abundance, but
all cannot live in the city, and | do not
like to hear people talk Of an honest,
manly and heAlthiul lie as II it was some.
thing to be avoided. To me it seems that
the foundation OF all the objections urged
by 80 many to country life, Is the want Of
amusements, as II thcse were the aim and
end Of all life. feel very sorry for any
one who is so totally void Of any quality
in himself that the greatest dreadh he has
is 10 be left alone. They must ever have
somebody or something to divert them. /
always thought the greatest happiness was
to have few friends and to know them we'll.
And even then it ia not necessary 10 be
with them continually. In this advanced
aye there are abundant means to com.
municate frequently, even at great dis
lance, with friends. Country lie must
be very secluded, indeed, when one can.
not zee friends in few hours after leav.
ing home. And let people fuse hospital.
ity one to another" then they need not be
lonely even on farm. II man takes
inIerest in any mode Of life he will never
be lonely lut il he is dissatisfied, then
pity him.
These are some Of the reasons why
dislike to hear city people-the half Of
them dyspeptics,-objeCt so much to cOun.
try life. 1 am sure nearly every farmer
lives better than they do.
IMIGHT HAVE SAID MUCH MORE,
but you editors always dread long con.
tributlons. The crops were tolerable in
this neighborhood. Corn averaged from
40 to go bushels an acre, the year being
considered untavorAble. The potato crop
was very good, both in quality and guam.
tity. Some farmers had apples, and
others none at all. None OF them, how.
however, were able to save their apples.
They rotted before they were barreled.
Ono farmer gathered some forty barrels
and put them in the barn, and in few
weeka he had only about six barrels left,
showing how extensively they decayed.
As far as l can learn nobody hereabouts
has Jared any better.
Yours with perfect satisfaction with
country life, URBs IN BuRE.