St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-16
FARMERS CAN FIGURE

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Several Very Beneficial Results.
Special to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, MIMI, June 2s.-This
afternoon another gentle rain storm Wis
tied this section of our country. and it
was welcome visitor, as the soil was
getting quite dry again, although moth
ing in the line of vegetation suffered for
the lack of moisture. Everything
seemed to grow and look as healthy as
ever, still all the people met seemed to
think little rain would be beneficial
for the growing crops at present. The
pastures were not in good grow
ing condition. which might interfere
with the dairy business just started.
and without so firm a foothold
as was deemed necessary for the very
best results, although highly encour-,,
aging to all who are interested in the
creamery located here At present
some of the farmers are waking up to-
their own interests, and have really
begun to experiment on the results of
feeding for milk and cream. learned
a dav or so ago that one farmer figured
out what his cream made into butter
and sold Melted him per inch. The
CreSton creamery pays II cents per
inch, but this farmer found that, made
into butter, it melted him 121a cents per
inch.
There is an interesting experiment
being tried this present month of June
to ascertain what can be done with
cows as butter producers at the high
rate of feeding sometimes very urgently
advocated by some men that are re-
ferred to as fancy farmers without any
practical experience at all. II the
Farmers really wake up to the possibili-
ties of a real live farmer, this section OF
Minnesota can be made not only pros
porous, but almost another garden Of
Eden on this earth, for it has many nat
ural advantages for making a grand
display of beautiful scenery, and only
it blossom out into land of delight, as
well as land of wealthy and apprecia-
tive.farmers. They are the only ones to
do this, and raise themselves above the
mere plodders of the soil, that are so
often spoken of as nothing but a farm
err" in tone that has sound of being
low down in tie scale of humanity,
while in real truth there should
be nothing low, or ignorant,
or poverty-struck about any
farmers house, or grounds, or
anything degrading about him, or the
business he is engaged in, or in his
farming operation. He is his own mas
ter, and can do as he will with his own
surroundings without consulting other
people at all. And he Gun do a great
deal of fixing up" without money out
lay, which will add to the money value
of his farm as well as the respect of all
that pass by and look at the changed
appearance of his surroundings.
1t is not his avOcatlOn that SO often
from others about farming being low as
an occupation, as it is the neglected ap-
pearance of ali of his surroundings.
When the farmers prosper all the cOun-
try feels the thrill and the wheels OF
commerce have merry hum that is
heard far and wide, and joyful sound
pervades the whole world of other oc-
equations. The one cannot survive
without the other, the farmer must
keep the world of living people fed and
clothed as much as it is possible for him
to accomplish by his daily toll, which
should always be done amidst all the
neatness and beauty he can accomplish
at hours of leisure or moments Snatched
from odd times when there, is little else
to do, or nothing imperative demanding
those few odd moments "caught on the
fly"
Such moments will make themselves
felt and will show to all that pass the
place, and it is not time thrown away,
for no time is wasted that improves the
habitations of each and every family
that owns home of their own. When
once this work begins to show the eff
feet of masters hand in such improve
ments of little consequence at first, there
will not be much time lost by any
farmer that has an eye for appearance
who will give up the contest for i'm
proving every spare moment, and every
corner of his farm will show his care
for his own, and this is what every
householder can do, and should do. to
have the whole land thing of beauty
and a land that will tell of
the higher, intellectual quality OF
the people who dwell in such
homes, and avoid such surroundings.
Money can accomplish much in the way
of ornamenting the homes of the people,
but when each owner of his own home
applies his own hands to this labor he
will find that he can save his money and
still have a beautiful home with the
money in his pocket. If he does not
care for flowers he can have grass
plat in town or large lawn on his farm
in front of the house, and trees from the
woods for shading the whole house and
lawn without any cost as to the money
expended on the place, and this is work
that all the family can engage in, and
be the better for it, too.
MRS. MARTHA CRANDALL.