The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-07-29
FARMER AND PLANTER,
DOES FARMING PAY?
A Few Words on the Subject by Georgia
Farmer.

as it does, seven successful practical
farmers and two experimental ones,
whose richly-fertilized acres make their
owners boast of the finest watermelons
and greatest yield of cotton at a cost,
as their less fortunate neighbors sus-
pect, commensurate with the possibili-
ties OF their private resources, we un-
hesitatingly reply that farming, con-
Quoted by farmers, produces as salts
factory returns for time, labor and cap
ital invested as any other vocation, with
equally, if not more, compensating ad-
vantage in the way of health, independ-
ence and home enjoyments.
But prompted by the dolorous cries
and lugubrious appearance OF some fol-
lowers of this calling, we have en-
deavored to learn the causes operating
to neutralize the benefits which should
accrue to the farmers of the present
day, with their advantages OF the Won
derful scientific discoveries, which now
enable agriculture to justly lay claim
to recognition as SCIENCE, extracting
as it does from nature the forces that
will WOO from exacting hut reciprocal
ing mother earth the generous rewards
for assiduous attention to her; and we
fancy that we are able to exonerate
that ancient dame from the unjust ac-
cusation of ingratitude, by produc-
ing the real delinquents, whom
we have not found in the ranks
of the exclusive and systematic til
lers of the soil, the followers of the
plow, sewers of seed and harvesters OF
crops, but in the host of amateurs,
horseback farmers, and those who sit
around home one day overseeing their
wife and children tending CROP" and
the next day drive a load Of wood to
the adjoining city, returning with the
proceeds in a demijohn; or that class
who endeavor to combine the straight
burrows Of their plow-shares with the
intricate and devious windings of the
expedient politician.
To such farmers success will prove a
coy maiden and will ultimately jilt
such followers, reserving her favors for
those genuine devotees who lay their
fruits of faithful industry upon the
| shrine of Ceres, whose reward will be
seen in teeming barns, ideal homes and
| financial ease.
| For the continuance of this prosper
Gus condition, we would advise their
union with life partners, whose practi-
cal education has fitted them, by thrift
and economy, to transmit to posterity
unmortgaged lands and examples
worthy of emulation.
Here we would whisper into the ears
of our college graduates that no situa'
ton in life offers greater opportunities
for the application of their knowledge
and it's elaboration than is found in the
daily duties of farmers wife. In per-
suance of the study of ornithology
| you will have an opportunity
of extending your investigations
and acquiring knowledge OF
the relative merits of the various
| competitors for public favor found in
the poultry yard, and may realize
agreeable diversion and attain remu.
nerative distinction by becoming prize
winner in this popular industry.
To your theoretical knoledge of zoolo
gy you can cultivate practical ac
quaintance with those indispensable
contributors to home necessities and
luxuries, the dairy suppliers, that eve,
generously respond to kind treatment
and regular attention; while the culi
nary department will afford you mex
haustible opportunities for expert.
mentation and application of the prin
ciples of chemistry.
In frequent alterations from the sys.
tematic touch of the Square Grand,
to the rollicking movements of the
frolicksome churn, you will experience
physical exhileration, an antidote tr
dyspepsia and profitable substitute for
gymnastics.
In the choice of such life, adding tc
it the uncompressed waist, the easy low.
hee]ed shoes, and natural complexions
of our rural grandmothers, we will
guarantee health, rosy cheeks, supple
ness of body and elasticity of mind that
will make you generals of matrimonial
forces instead of leaders of s'forlor1
hopes"
Try it girls and communicate the re-
suit to, Janet C. McInnes, in Southern
| Cultivator.