The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-18


adverse vegetable growth they should
be changed to good pasture occasion
ally and then returned to rustic for a
few days.
By this means they will consume
every green thing and keep in fair
order at the same time.
Sheep are rustlers, cleaners, scaven-
! gers and quarterly dividend payers, for
they give us each year wool, lamb,
mutton and very high grade of soil
fertilizer.
The sheep has made a good score
and one that the chest dairy COW" will
find it hard to beat.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY ON THE FARM.
Farmers as a class are chronic
grumblers, often with good cause. but
frequently without. They compliant
that they do not get fair reward for
their labor and that they require to
pinch and deny themselves in order TO
make both ends meet, all OF which is
true, but it is quite as true that the
farmers wife and daughters do quite
as much pinching and saving and get
no credit for it. Writing on this sub
ject, contemporary says: You hear
a great deal about the pinching and
hard work of the farmer, but if you
go to his house you will often find that
it is his wife and daughters who have
pinched and saved and skimped
enough to buy the new organ or the
new carpet, and who have paid for
the pictures of father and mother that
hang on the wall. A farmers wife
says little about it, but with her but
ter money and egg money she often
accomplishes as much as her COM
planning husband.
TARIFF ON FARM IMPLEMENTS.
The New York World has for some
time been investigating the effect ol
our protective tariff policy on the
farmer, and has exposed the frauds
daily practiced on the unprotected
agriculturists of this country.
The World now publishes letter
from c. B. Fargher, of York, Pa, the
eminent agricultural implement
maker, III which he says: "The fact is
that our protective laws are a mon
strous swindle upon the agricultural
community. AS a manufacturer [ am
inclined to say nothing upon the sub
iect, for the reason it was natural to
suppose if any body was benefited it
was the manufacturing class to which
| belong. But, as l have explained in
the Record article, the farmer is being
destroyed. We are killing the goose
for the golden egg and l honestly be-
lieve now, that it is the interest OF the
manufacturers themselves to elimi-
nate the protective feature from our
tariff laws.
Certainly our manufactures are
sold much lower abroad, we could on
lv need protection to get better prices
from our customers at home. We do
manufacture and sell in Canada, South
America and Europe many agricultur.
al implements and machines, and
could we have free raw material and
the commercial advantages which free
trade would give us, America would
become the great manufacturing EN-
porium OF the world, and the farmer
of course would share the prosperity
since he would have less to pay for
everything and get better prices for all
he sold. Go on with your good work
When the farmer begins to think and
rise I'D against this swindle, it is
doomed"
After such evidence, is it not amaz
ing that there should be found Re-
publican farmer on the whole contin
emit?
PURE LARD.
| There are hundreds of families il
towns and cities that would like tC
have pure lard, but they can't get it
They send to the store and purchase
a pail of "pure leaf lard for famil.
use," and it is so guaranteed by the
manufacturer, and in cooking it scents
the house with the odor of burnt cot
ton seed and swine offal. 1t is beauti
fully white and firm in the hotties
weather-but it stinketh. That thu
fact about it. Those who can ap
preciate a good thing should buy lar'
from some honest farmer; or buy thu
fat from a butcher and render 1T a
home and note the difference.
, At first all the food will be greasy
for remember it only takes half a
much pure lard as of the MANUFACTURED
article, and it is cheaper at 10 cent
than the best Fairbanks at lO cents
and then you don't have to hold you
nose while frying Saratoga chips, ant
when you rupture a hot biscuit, TIN
, aroma is an appetizer. Take pur
country lard, two parts, and nice cleai
beef fat, one part, melt together ant
have better than pure lard" Tr..
this. reader, and you will be recon
ciled to the compound lard bill, if no
to the compound lard.-Texas Farm
and Ranch.
OUR LEGISLATORS.
Most loan associations employ law
vers to put out their money on tn
farmers lands. Thu Sc lawyers receiv
, large fees loaning money to the farm