The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-07-03
THE FARMING WORLD.
EARM SUPREMACY.

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some Reasons why the Farm boy Gem
orally Comes Ont Al Rightssss ssssa.
wish to compare, says z writer In
the Country Gentleman, the city boy
with the farm boy. The average boy in
town is bright, keen and seif-asscrting-
He is fleet OF hand and eye He Is Of
ready answer His look takes an air OF
self-defense. graceful and eyasiae His
Is ss ttazperfSs kaea lafss q :
things gone, ready for things TO come.
Oh. the farm boy hardly know what
to say. know him too well. The CLINT
Of the wind is on his cheek. He has the
air OF one who could do chores, work and
obey. Nor is he dapper, nimble, flip
pant, impertinent, unplucky. While he
reflects upon the past his face Is toward
the future In starting then, the quick
perception Of the city youth is matched
against the tireless reflection OF the
country boy. Who makes the better
fight?
Mark how uneven the start Equipped
| for the city boy stand the primary, the
grammar and the hfgh-scIool. Within
his reach are public libraries, news
papers, museums and theaters. He may
visit churches, courts, political halls
and clubs. He may study the forms OF
banking, merchandising, manufacturing
and shipping. He is in touch with the
&C tive, progressive world, knowing men
OF eminence, whose daily walk points
out the pathway Of success.
The farm boy looks out from between
the pillow handles, detected by there-
pose and silence and loneliness of his
daily toll. Slim the chance for him to
acquire a lazy. temporizing, yielding,
uuacks view of life. The great blue sky,
whose beauty has never been told,
teaches him to reflect He acts in the
open field where the air and earth are
built into grain, and then into power
which pulls his pillow, and then into a
higher one which holds it's course to the
furrow, and to him these become the
fnger-boards TO still higher whose
| very mystery inclines his thought to
truth and honor-two things alone need
full to keep the boy Alright.
History gives strange reckoning for
these boys Over against one city boy
who reaches like places, ten country
boys go to Congress-; twelve 60 on the
bench; ten become governors Of States;
! ten come to tho head of great business
enterprises. Not single city-bred boy
has yet been elected President of this
Republic. This, to me, makes the farm
supreme. In legislation, either State
or federal it may strike blow for blow,
and one better. But the knowing OF
its might should makesit serene. In
deed. he who is conscious Of a just cause
and an adequate force, inclines to be
generous.
now wish to illustrate wherein
think good may be done the farm boy.
Three years ago had two companion
Transcendent crab, trees growing in the
clay which came from my we'll. They
were not SO thrifty as my other trees.
The leaves were light-colored and
small; the trunks marked with sum
scald. In July stimulated the one
further back with strong mulch. Its
leaves widened and darkened; it made
a magnificent growth. was proud OF
that tree. The next July it began to
blight; Lieut. away the dead limbs, but
the poison settled, and / pruned until
the trunk and tender branches were cut
to the ground The other tree bore fruit
last year
If, as school boy, had studied the
geography of Persia little less, and
appletrees little more, both trees
would have fruited last year. Indeed /
think farm boys ought to be taught
something of root-grafting, budding,
pruning and top-working-a little some
thing about kinds of trees and berries
which will stand the winters and then
bear fruit Many an orchard in the
country has plenty Of trees but little
fruit. 1t will pay to raise bed Of
Crescent Seedlings and Captain Jacks.
1t may pay to raise few others 1t will
not pay to raise still others. This
t knowledge is worth more to boy in a
State than the foul yarns of old-time
| Greece
The boy who can tell you something
about breeds Of fine stock, their relative
fairs and fat stock Shows; who can tell
wherein and why an Aberdeen Polled
/ Angus, differs from Galloway - Is
equipped better than he who can tell
I about the war elephants of Hannibal or
! the white camels OF Allah. In matters
of taste, too, that boy who loves tree
and lawn and garden and field, has
I in him that which is better than tropes
and semi-quavers. These things go to
the very core OF supremacy.
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