Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-26
TALK AND TOPICS ABOUT The FARM.
A Further word About FaIrs-Tbe
Tariff and Farm Notes Generally,

all being over. We had forgotten the
Greene county, Pa, Fair, one of the
best Of this section, which comes off
this week. The Greene county people
know how to enjoy Fair, and make
all the rest of US do the same who at
tend. We have never attended one of
the Waynesburg Fairs, aud have only
the word of other people; but we
were at Jacktown some years ago, and
were relieved of a $50 overcoat and
stoned out of town by the women for
racing horses in the street. Served us
right; we were boy then; but never
could forget the loss of the overcoat,
which has served to help US remember
the Fair, which was really good one.
Apropose of Fairs, weclip the follow
ing from the Monongahela Republican:
An occasional country jake is wander
ing about the town occasioned by the
existence of the Exposition.-Pittsb,rg
Leader.
The State Fair CLAIMS to have lost
about $1,000 this year by its alliance
with the Pittsburg Exposition.-Pits-
burg Gazette.
Perhaps if visitors from the country
districts were not denominated "Jakesn
and hay-Seed haw-bucks, and NOON
eyed yawps, and our girls pictured as
staring into every show window in
Open-mOuthed wonder; perhaps if the
Plttsburg press would treat the country
visitor with dccency he would not be so
occasional" Folks who live in the
country don't care to be insulted every
time they accept an invitation from the
Exposition managers to come and see
them.-Mon. Republican.
And we would remark to our friend
Chill Hazard of the Republican, that
is just the reason we do not attend the
Pittsburgh Exposition, we are only ap-
preeiated up there, because we as
country Jake" are supposed to have
some money to spend in buying some
Of the shoddy and gingerbread articles,
which are supposed to be the proper
things in which granger should invest
his hard earnings.
Now comes the season of the year
when the Farmers Club, Grange, or
Lyeeum should be looked up. Even
the New York Tribune thinks the adj
vantages of these associations are
wrong; it always excerpts the grange,
but says
The advantages of association in
g. f,lrn in
cultural societies Of wider scope, are
many and self-suggesting:
"a farmer announces in a meeting of
fifty that he has made valuable dis
coYery. Another announces that he
has been able to demonstrate that GER
tain method Is q failure. Those fifty
farmers are all benefittad by adopting
the right method and avoiding the
wrong one, but how much more gen.
eral would have been the benefits, if
these communications had been made
to some good paper, where the audience
might have been millions instead OF
fifty? We say millions, because val
liable item is copied into hundreds of
papers and may even cross the ocean
on its mission Of good"
Farmers are hard to set together as q
meeting or association. Quite a noise
was recently made in regard to Ma
tional Congress of Farmers, that was to
be held in st. Louis, with the following
result;
Il appears from the st. Louis Repub-
HeEya's report that there Were just thir-
teen persons present at the National
Farmers Congress" lately held in that
city.n .-
CARE OF HORSES.
Don't groom your horse while eating,
especially while eating his grain. Ii
YOU doubt the wisdom OF this sugges-
ton, try something similar on yourself.
While you are taking your bIeakIsst,
let some one shampoo your hair. You
will either stop eating, or stop the
shampOoing. 1t Is an unwise practice
to use either currycomb or brush Whlie
the horse is eating. Let him nave ms
food without being disturbed. Men 90
this foolish thing with the idea that IL
saves time. 1t might save time to drive
the horse to his daily task without TAX
ing food at all. The horse wants clean
food and drink. Nothing is clean where
a hen goes. Hens should be kept away
from horses, not only from foullng tner
food, but from communicating ice.
These parasites are difficult TO remove
from horses when once upon tnem-N'
Y Tribune, AgricIttttfrdt Cot'f'1an.
GRADING OF wooLACCoRDING TO BREED
OF SHEEP.
Microscopic examinations OF WOODS
made at the Ontario Experimental
Farm. Canada, result in showing the
following graduation of the hores OF
rvools as 10 fineness, the order named
Indicating the relative position OF eacn
kind: Pure Merino, pure Sontn9oWn,
Southdown grade, pure Oxforddown,
Shropshiredown grade Oxforddowh
Grade. Cotswold grade, Leicester grace,
5nrs ,eicestef, pure Cotswoid. f.
y CREAMERY VS.. PRIVATE DAIRY
Prairis FurH'er. !,
Tsonv reader has access to the reports
- ths 1airy product markets OF Boston
So rnsv notice that Western creamery
bU,ts-ythe butter from the ereameries
- yUiseonsfp, Iowa and Northern liil-
,.ois1is All the time better by seyerai
non,s a mound than the very best DAIRY
S1,tter 81 the East, even the great dairy
ra%;ons of Vermont or Orange county,
How this matter OF Western
b S has changed within the past
t Sus yearsI YES, the last ten years!
ne STent Syrsat reason Of this is that the
Tue Issriss are enabled to givea uniform
ensIitv Of product, while that Of the
19u r;Sr dairy is seldom uniform for
many p1 weeks or even days ;,, togssnstT To-
A few private aalr;s ~.
Unity - ;t Of large towns and cities, VINO