Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-11-22
Farm Life.

1t is a common complaint that the
farm and farm life are not appreciated
by our people. We long for the more
elegant pursuits, or the ways and fash
ions OF the town. But the farmer has
the most sane and natural occupation
and ought to find life sweeter, if less
highly seasoned, than any other. He
alone, strictly speaking, has home.
How can man take root and thrive
without land? He writes his history
upon his field. How many ties, how
many resources he has; his friendships
with his cattle, his team his dog, his
trees, the satisfaction in his growing
crops, in his improved fields; his init
macy with nature, with bird and beast,
and with the quickening elemental
forces; his corporations with the cloud,
the sun, the seasons, heat, wind, rain
and frost. Nothing will take the vari-
Gus social distempers which the city
and artificial life breed out of man
like farming like direct and loving con-
tact with the soil 1t draws out the
poison. 1t humbles him, teaches him
patience and reverence, and restores the
proper tone to his system.
Cling to the farm, make much of it,
put yourself into it, bestow your heart
and your brain upon it, so that it shall
SAVIOR of you and radiate your virtue af-
ter your days work is one.-John Bur-
roughs, IN Novembcr .Scribner.
PREpRAE FOR WINTER-If the fol-
lowing directions are observed it will be
money in the farmers pockets:
1st See that the hogs are we'll pro-
tected from the storms and cold nights.
Once out of condition and breeding will
be series of disasters, light or heavy
in proportion to the amount of derange-
ment.
End. Separate the young pigs and
brood sows from the fattening hogs, if
it has not been done prior to this. Fed
heavily on new corn, the brood sows are
not in the best condition to perform
their work and young pigs become sour
Wy and runty. Separation is one Of the
primary conditians of health Cat least
for the fattening hogs). Yearlings
should be separated from two-year Odds,
pigs from hogs, etc
Sd. Feed each department for the
purpose demanded. the pigs for growth,
the sows for successful breeding and
the porkers for fat
4th. Refuse to sell grain, but feed it
to the hogs; use common sense and in
dustry. The forlorn charge against
hard times must be led by the pork
brigaee, and It is able to break the cen
ter. provided it is supported by a good
commissariat- Western Stool; Journal.
Here is nugget from one of Blaine's
Iowa speeches, which every greenback-
er and every farmer of whatever party,
should stow away where he can think
it over at leisure:
What would Iowa gain by paper
money? You are mostly farmers, and
you have never sold bushel of corn or
a barrel of pork in your life excepting
on gold basis. Nor is there man in
Iowa who has. Let me repeat that
There is not man here that ever sold
a bushel of grain or barrel of meat in
this State except on gold basis. You
can't sell it any othet way You can't
make trade in bread stuffs or meat
tomorrow in Des Moines or Chicago
without knowing beforehand the prices
and state of the market at Mark Lane
and Liverpool. If you have got pro-
duce rates they are rated by the prices
which are in Russia and other nations,
and | undertake to say that to-day the
manufactured articles in the east for
which the pork and the -four are ex-
changed have dropped more heavily
than pork and -four themselves, and
undertake to say in reference to cotton
goods and wooden goods, that you new
er saw time in Iowa when barrel of
-four would buy as many of them