Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-20
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there are papers devoted specially
to these things. We cannot pretend
to cover all the ground.
Puck, the funny paper, refers 10
some of the religious and country
writers, who have a long column OF
advice as to what farmers should do at
this season of the year, and descriptions
of new kinds Of vegetables, whic II some
scotsman has to sell and makes 1t an
object for an editor to puff. Puck has
regular cast-iron, patent reversible llstoi
these things.
Preparing the Soil.
The proprietors of the REGISTER be-
lieve in West Virginia, in her capabiii-
ties and her future, and for this reason,
among Others, they conduct an agricul-
tural column, and in that column they
desire brought out the best ideas, in re-
gard to agriculture. While 1t cannot
be expected to take the place OF such
papers as the Country Gentleman. the
ohio Farmer, american Agricutturist, or
Breeders, Gazette, yet We hope to have 1t
read with as much interest. And we
expect farmers to become so much inter-
ested in agricultural matters and Farm
Talk, that they will not stop at what we
have to say, but subscribe for Other'pa-
pers, until they have taken ALT the above
named papers or others eQuslly as good.
Good Bread.
This every housewife aims to have,
and when YOU sit down to her table
she is almost sure to have something
to say about her bread not rising well;
-four not good, or something
One great trouble is in getting the
proper degree of heat for raising the
bread. Sometimes too hot, again too
cold. She puts it on the mantle OF a
winter night, and somebody lays a BOOK
on it, or maybe knocks 1t OIL, or II gets
too warm, and gets out of the vessel
and runs all over everything, or she puts
it on chair OF on the floor and the cat
lies on it.
Inventions are continually being made
far the benefit of the men, while the
women have to go on in the same Old
methods, and when anything comes
forward to benefit them we feel COM
PEELED to make mention of it. We refer
10 the new bread raiser being introduced
this winter among the farmers wives of
this section, who all speak well of it. 1t
is the invention of Mr. l.. b. Morgan, OF
West Liberty. The arrangement Is
very simple. The bread is put in tin
box i'm which uniform heat is kept by
a heated iron, and when the bread Is
baked the box serves as safe i'll which
to keep the bread. We hope Mr.. Morgan,
will excuse this mention of his home
convenience. Simple as 1t Is we are not
used to such things.
County Fair.
IT'S bad sign to see the agricultural
fair grounds of a county, i'll such State
rs this, sold out and shut up. That is
what they are talking about in MOnOn-
gala; but don't do it.
We clip the above from the columns
Ofthe DAILY REGISTER and desire to
make it text upon which to say some
thingin regard to what may be termed
"COuntryFairS''w which are lamentably on
the decline, compared with the increase
of wealth, and Improvement among the
agricultural classes. Who does not
know that the country" exhibits at the
recent Fair held over on Wheeling
Island by the West Virginia Fair and
Exposition AssOciatlOndid,nO equalSome
of the old cattle shows held ut West
Liberty, in this county, thirty or more
years ago. Why is this?
The fault lies with us as farmers in
a great measure. We need not talk of
the city and town absorbing every
thing. We claim to be the bone and
sinew of the country the bedrock on
which society is built. Instead Of the
city absorbing the fair, and ourselves
too, why do We not step forward and do
Fart, and be the prominent part OF
every fair that has the word "agricultur-
nj" attached to it? One reason is We
do not have the stock to show. How
many pure blOoded, and well bred horses
are there in the Panhandle, and adjoin-
ing counties" How many of sheep,
cattle, etc?
We take the same interest in fair,
that we 10 in Il circus; We crowd on the
trains running into the city, or drive
the family in on the "Spring wagon
The girls come in, for we do not know
what. The boys come in to have Il
good time, drinking beer, and looking
ut the racing. We expect the 'city
folks" to get up fine display of goods
for us to look OF; the moving machine,
the reapers and plOw agents, and the
agricultural men generally, tO'-shOw Us
what they have got, while our cattle,
horses, and sheep, and all that should
90 To make up an agricultural fair are
waiting at home until the family arrives,
To be watered MIXED, and fed.
Well Bred Stock.
How little attention the greater pOr-
ton of our Ohio valley farmers pay to
the breeding of pure blood stock! AS we
have remarked elsewhere, how few pure
blood animals are there in this section.
Where is there a horse? How many
sheep can trace back pedigree? Who
has a properly bred bull? We venture
to say there are more well bred dogs
than sheep, and there are very few of
either. In fact if our dogs were all well
bred, instead of the mongrel ours they
are, there would be fewer sheep killed.
Why is this? Because farmers are so
penurious; and why are they so? Because
they have to be, to get along in the
world and get ahead. Other classes of
people can afford to be liberal and
make improvements in their business,
but the farmer has TO save and watch
every corner; this in fact becomes so
much of a habit, that the five cent
piece Immediately before him, prevents
him from seeing the dollar beyond.
There is nothing i'll which this is more
exemplified than in breeding from a
pure blOOded animal; for instance a bull
costing hundreds of dollars may be
worth thousands to the neighbOrlrood.
But one farmer cannot afford to pur-
chase such stock. There is too much
truth in this.
Forty Years Experience OF an Old Nurse