Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-01-05

more fruit or vegetables than is needed
for the immediate use of the family.
'The plain, unpretentiOus cottage,
with thrift and cleanliness displayed in
every nook, and corner where walls,
mantels and brackets are ornamented i'll
a thousand simple and beautiful ways,
where food for the mind is as bountiful
ly supplied as food for the body. where
peace reigns and love rules, there is
found the happy home.
"In conclusion, let each of US strive to
make our homes spot that will linger
in the memory of our children while life
lasts, a home so pure and beautiful that
for the love of it man would even dare
TO die, and the recollection of 1t will re
strain the footsteps of our wayward
wandering ones from life OF sin and
shame-a home that will shelter US
when our forms are bent, and our brows
are fllrrowed with the labors and cares
of life-a home where we can find re-
pose wnen our eyes have grown dim
and our head has become frosted with
the passing years; where We can set un-
der our vine and fig tree until the flick
ering lamp of life burns low, and with
our children and our children's children
gathered about us, await the summons
to enter the portals of that better home,
of which our hone upon earth is but
shadow and type"
The choir sang "America, after
which, owing to the crowded state of
the room and the confusion consequent
OIL looking for seats, the chair appointed
J. 3. Hoge, Marshall Thompson and
John b. McMechan ushers during the
Institute, and the meeting then adjourn
ed until :l5 p. III.
Afternoon Spssitsn.
The Institute was called to order
promptly at I:l5 p. m, when Hon. John
Patton was introduced by the chairman,
and delivered an address on the subject
of How to Make and Maintain Good
Roads," and said that the finest roads he
had ever seen, were in the famous Blue
Grass regions of Kentucky, and went on
to demonstrate the close relationship
between good roads and prosperity and
intelligence. He cited an example of
where steam threShelS we've operated
within fifty miles of where "a thresher |
and cleaner combined were totally un
known, and not even believed in, be
cause they had never been seen. He
claimed that enough money had been ex-
pended on our bad roads to have COIL
verted all into good macadanliZed pixies,
and declared that the supervisor system
of maintaining public roads in this State,
is failure. The speaker related, from |.
his own experience, the cheapneSs OF
making macademiZed roads. He was in
favor of putting our roads in charge of
road masters-men who are qualified for
the work-and he thought, by so doing,
in the course uf time, our roads could
all be made into pixies.
The next question Oh the program was,
shall we Adopt Hedge Fences in Fast
ern Ohior" and motion to defer this
topic until another time, being almost
unanimously lost, showed what an III
tereSt our farmers took ih the matter.
The discussion was opened by Hon. Jas.
b. Jamison, of Cadiz, who took a posi-
tion against the hedge fence, and SAID
that in his opinion good locust posts
and oak boards WAS the solution of the
whole matter" and was the cheapest
fence, especially in the counties of Bel
mont, Harrison and Jefferson, where
there was plenty of this kind of timber.
The hedge fence occupies too much land
and destroys the fertility of the soil, re-
Quiring width of one rod of land and
too much attention to keep it in order.
Hedge fences. in many parts of the
country, are not trimmed, and allowed
TO grow up and become unsightly. The
speaker called attention to the fact that
none of the railroads used the hedge
fence, as an argument against its cheap
ness. He asked Prof n. 5. Townshend,
of the Ohio University, to assist him in
his argument, but on taking the stand,
Mr.. TOwnshend opposed his position, land
asserted that the cost of putting out a
hedge fence was only 12b cents a rod,
and claimed that the ground occupied
was only One-half rod wide, and that
the hedge ience was one of beauty and
In planting hedge +
fence he always dug a trench on each
side, beyond which the soil was never
Influenced by the plants. Great care
should be taken in trimming, and not a
weed should be allowed to grow among .
the young plants. The lateral branches
were allowed to grow, trimming to a ,
point at the top. Ii
Vice President John G. JamiSon was !
here called to the chair. and made few
complimentary to the farmers
and Institute, after which he called for {
David Brown, Esq, who continued the {
of the hedge fence question. {
and remarking that he was rather on |
both sides of the question, agreeing par l
TALLY with Mr.. Jamison, and in some
things with Prof. Townshend. He said
the most important thing was to proper
ly trim the hedge, and to trim it twice
year, and advised his hearers never to
begin hedge until they were ready.
He agreed with Prof Tewnshend as to
the cheapness of the hedge fence, and
that they should be trimmed wide at the
bottom and pointed at the top. The
wire fence than any other kind of fence,
and claimed that it would be the fence I
of the future. He preferred the plain
wire rather than the barbed wire.
After the singing of the solo and cho-
rus entitled Sowing the Seed" by the
choir, the chair introduced Hon. J. T.
Updegraff. member of Congress from
this district, who was received with
great applause. His subject was, "The
American Farmer as Citizen" and he
discussed it in an able and entertaining
manner. We will not give synopsis
of his address, at this time, but will
print it entire next week, as space will
not permit in this issue.
After Mr.. Updegraff' address, the
choir sang the quartette and chorus, en-
titled, ave Won't Leave the Farm and
then Prof. n. S. Townshend was intro |
duced, and delivered lecture on the
Diseases and Treatment of Farm Ami
mails" He first illustrated his subject !
by describing his treatment of a diseas-
ed buggy. He divided the diseases of
animals into five classes ses-Intiammation,