The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-13

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for breakfast, boiled corn beef and pork
for dinner, and the same cold for SUP.
per, with only potatoes and cabbage in
the vegetable line, was q severe tax on
the stomach of even the most robust,
often led to dyspepsia and fevers. That
the Creator intended the diet Of man
to be mixed is manifest from his natur-
al love of such diet the adoption of
his teeth, stomach and other organs for
it, and the careful observation of the
skillful psychologist. The wild Indian
says, Buffalo meat is enough and good
enough for me-" but the average wild
Indian is far from being a healthy man.
AS race the Indians are subject to
disease and die young. The few old
stalwarts only exemplify DArwin's idea
of 1.-THE survival Of the fiitest." Besides
when the red man is brought within
the pale of civilization, where he can
get hold of fruits and vegetables, he
devours them with u gusto which con-
tradicts his talk about buffalo meat.
The truth is that, while the vegetarians
are cadaverous. looking set Of men
DR.. Graham himself being no exception
and the blood of the meat german
dizers are in an inflammatory state,
tending to violent passions as we'll as
violent fevers it is only the man who
tempers the stimulating influence of
meat with a liberal supply of fruits and
vegetables who is blessed with health
and the prospect of green old
age. The farmer who should feed his
COWS with cornmeal mainly would be
unwise if not insane; but he il no less
foolish when he confines himself and
family principally to a pot-luck diet, as
many are inclined to do.
The other excuse which farmers offer
for the neglect of their gardens, "the
putteriDg nature of the business" had
some foundation when the garden vas
little sixpcnny affair, inclosed with
picket fence, in which there was little
room for horsepower and more de-
mand for the spade than the plow.
The citizen and the villisger must con-
tent themselves with such contracted
gardens, but the farm mer has land enough
to make his garden as large as he pleas
es. and locate it where it can be culti-
waited with the same facility with which
he cultivates his patch of potatoes. The
notion that the kitchen garden must be
under the kitchen window, and snr-
rounded with picket fence to keep
the hens out, was long since exploded by
progressive farmers. Is is very con-
veniet to have the garden near the
kitchen, and so it would to have the
pig pen; but there is no more necessity
for the one than the other. Located in
the field, it can be cultivated by horse
power, and its site be changed from time
to time as the rotation of crops may re-
quire. The old-fashioned mode of cult
waiting flowers and ndvegetable together the
former on borders Of walks and the lat
ter in little parallelogram shaped beds,
made the labor of a garden four-fold
what it is under the horsepower plan
of long rows and no alleys. We spent
no little time in our youth in one of
these old-fashioned gardens, and as we
remember it, half the time was spent
in hoeing out the walks and trimming
up the borders. 1t was much work and
little pay, and We do not wonder that
farmers called it puttering work, and
were disgusted with it. Still, this old
style OF gardening is not altogether OBJ
solete. In closely settled villages there
must be some excuse for spade and
hoe garden, but the farmer with land
and horsepower in abundance should
garden on more econmlcal and salts.
factory plan. If he will only try this
field gardening, and see how easily and
cheaply asparagus. beets and cabages
and the whole alphabet of vegetables
are cultivated, we are confident that he
will raise score of bushels where. he
now raises one. and this with little, if
any, increase Of expense. Any surplus
of garden sauce will generally find \
ready market, and thus materially add
to the income of the farm. An acre
cultivated in vegetables after the man.
ner above indicated should yield q net
income equal to the interest of 81 600;
and we have known one to make better
returns than the interest at s per cent.
of $1,000.
One of the essentials to success in
gardening is good seed. 1t is very vexa-
tious to prepare land with care, ana to
find the plants to come up stunted and
feeble for the want of constitutional
vigor. The laws of heredity hold do
minion over the vegetable kingdom
with the same force as over the animal,
and thoroughbred seed are as essential
for good crop as pure -blooded bulls
are for good breed. 1t is not 90 easy
to distinguish pure seed as pure stock,
but there IS the same virtue IN one as
IN the other, ana the practiced eye
can easily dlscern the pure from the
-, u.
Those with less skill must De careful
to purchase OF reliable seed-growers
Fortunately all seed'dealers are not
cheats any more than are al mllkmen: