The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-08-24
FRENCH FARMS AND EARMERS.
what . vveiI.knowa Gentleman Saw while
Going Tram ParIs To Geneva.

miles every inch OF land is cultivated. Tho
abrupt side hills are in grape vines and the
flnt land in grain. Here VIC see the phcnom.
enon OF double crops-a crop OF grain md
veget abcs growing under n crop OF trees. Tho
Normandy poplar trees are from an inch t,
three feet in diameter. They arc planted
thicky but give no shade. They arc trimmed
within six feet Of the tons. The boughs. which
arc cut OIL every year. make laggots enough to
warm France We often see men and women
grading wheat or hocing beets in the
midst OF wood giving no shade. When
you look across the country the tail.
boughloss trunks look like black streaks
painted against tho sky. They. make the
ys s prs SHry oua sane black waS, s Sa
whore they want fences, trim them to the tops.
sh"hs ann then srms SnIped W Ts
years the black walnut ,reos on mans farm
you'd BE- wTr n m"rI t tn y, ms ,nfm Mod
ia worth rs much us CORN in Kansas by tie
pound. SO when Tho Kansas man burns corn.
who burns fnGnot-. The French farmer would
never think Of burning, wood 10 l.eat his house
does NOT know enough to buy, coal or Kerosene
negro in tho South. lie has no home comforts;
poverty and igroranc" arc his companions.
inch Of soil is cultivated Ii riding from Iars
to Dion, $50 miles. We counted only thirty
ssrs MS T from o"s o "ss ac rns sons
farms have half an nero. and somo have IA
S Msny Ty n 5 I rs I ron,
long. There nru M fences between them.
When asked u French farmer how his farm
happened. like AL the rest. to be so long and
r ~ Il has been divided up o. ofton. When
Iio always divides it nngthAse. SO as to give
each one . lon; strip. The l1nu strips are
h
ways. These strirs always run north and
S'h sG ,nn. Is your a sGtS the
oo My i@thsrs Hm Was sp feet vide and and
half. Now my farm is 100 feet wide and 3MD
feet long. II is4ui,s y large farm. There arc
may W,o farms nmG smaller q 4%n mins'
See, over there he said. pointing to what
seemed to I've "a gigantic piece IF striped carwt.
n STRIP Of po Of z, feet vide Then comes
40 feet Of "nts tlon ~ feet Of carrots go teot 81
5 ieet Of onions 5 feet Of cabhaEes. and The rest
II II T., mowsrf rens' cnrrants gooseberries. and
feat wide and 1000 feet long" asked: Tor tho
narrow strip seemed like u mans dooryard in
Support my family.2' he exclaimed. why.
the fnrm Is too large for u.s. | rent part "I it
But your house" said. where is that"
every morning to work and 20 IN ut night,
| Does yomr wife always work in the Held ?"
bareioo;cG mud b m. hrai9i Woman. at least
six feet e. around the waist. she gan do mo,o
sss ST fe S wdss M SS snS II
WIZ n2t? TheH hay" nothing 10 DO Mt home h"ln"
Irish. or German farmer has nothing to do at
| homa They do not keep house like the
wives Of american farmers. They lave no
| stables. They live in the same building with
their hors ,s,. hens, and Wigs. They never wash
| live ike brutrs The handsome farm house Of!
by itself surrounded by trees aud Gardons,
and are really no better or than were tho slaves
| oi tho south before thr war French farmers
as"s s,u"lsI bou, i, ,w" ', m.s brs
villhse, may hnvo been built tlr"N hundred
years ago. IN" roofs ara moss covered tho
houses ara dirty anI remind ono of u county
poor housn III New England.
There's arc miu"ns of farms In France
taInlmG from q QUARTER Of IN aero to four acres.
thh TINT an aero and hall is about all tho
nns v "I,on hu nnn ~ ~ans The rem, for l"nh
about slOO an acre; or il III crap" vines. SOON
This is Why Fr y co. is IN. gur,len. Ia Eng.
there arn 7,nO0.Ooj landowners. Tho French
man on his two nrres. with hi. barefooteh vito
cutting grim with sickle by his side. is harry
nnd coiteniru. because he knows no better.
SuSn mI II, If M"Hh ay" an AmsrSnn
tho coararst food and tho washinEs Of ,ho
E i, skins after tho wine is made. Y"s he i;
|
weaith of 3n.nOD. 0on poor degraded. barelontcd
peasants makes, France rich. Tho Ignorance
Jaw ncwsr"por in Fr" "HH f"rm village THns.
Ihnr wants, arc no more than tn" wants Of ~
about tho Sane ~ IT, t. eis his hors" lie viii
| cat coarse bread and wine Tor breakfast; soru
nr ,n and Wns for dlnr"r Hnn nerh"ns bread
solce or to" is Th Negroes Of III. 1 s", " To
Ike kings rompared ion French fnrnor. Still.
tho frcnchman is satisfied because no knows
| no better.
When asked Fronch farmer who was cul
tivnlng his farm ESQ by ,5O0l il he saved any
money h" said:
/, on. No, much. 60 to all tho fitcs. ] laid
ny 900 francs 'smno' las, year. put 1t in tho
r IML9i !; AZ !" asked of tho landlord -,
(dyarnna I'M ,n M sMS,nG9 bank The
To- oM' francs, and glvos them 3'u per cont. Tor
y" s@GT IN Of rs" ssy 1nSs
k sa" tho IH%,. EI1r rEraHG1 farmers
III" rso" r I" hn .'f' Th II" r rannrG . ops
ra ars. s.. "' p.r in "mn'r" r"to |. bid in
Napoleon Ill. to come and establish an eXpen-
siye cour, ngnin.
tha, republic TO The emprs.
are ss ssk Of H War W most Of al Mont
ih.y vii! whnt US 10 hsh, Va want 'i /" s,ny ii
nome o. our lnrun. lrnrhmrn DO not like 10
Vii coa IT n i'r u T"n ~ % " r. r T,g
M n,. .n"nn :. - "torn houses ana public build
iouni Paris very dun. Trade there Is
sta.hnt. Iho poop" there ARE dissatisfied.
i,wonld not be surprised to hear ANY day that
mo Republic wrs dead and another empire de-
clnred, Al that /, wnu,in. IT, thr right man
with old Bourbon blood H. ninl and u few Gen.
ern,s In thu army. pIon Macon. Amrns alll
~ thr ir."lncal ritiu, lsp tine r"lullic-Iut
Paris lr France.
The crops In England and France nrr good
eForywhcr". VAN tho exception III hops N
hrht Wheat IN France i, splendid. Tho lrlds
9In 80 small thut they ara rrapins II with =
sickle. man and his wife and three children
can renr with the sick," aud bind nbOut as
Wuch wheat aS one man eau r"hp and bind n
america. In America ia. wife Is attending -
her household duties aud the children are at
| field. ''"''' " w '''
Indian corn Is raised all over the southern
nal, ~ Franco. Th.y plant ono stalk in a Nil
and and he no" I, by hand; The weeds ara ali hoei