The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-27

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est from John Repp, of the Peach Ridge
nurseries, Glassboro, as follows: 81 have
$500 Duchess pear trees, 200 IS years old.
500 10 years old, 800 years old aud 1900
3 years old; Bar slett, eco trees, - years
| old; leo Lawrence, Is years old; Kieefer,
| Seckei, Sheldon and Howells, Is years old.
| put all my pears in cold storage. This
year have 1000 baskets Bartletts, 1000
Duchess, 400 Lawrence, 10G Kieefer. First
class fruit can be grown only by thinning.
which do in June. | plant my standards
20 feet apart each way, Duchess Is feet.
In the orchard am now planting, | intend
e. plant 400 each of Bartlett and Law
renee. | sell my Bartletts in Oct, am
selling Duchess row. will sell Lawrence
after Christmas, Kieefer after that. | ma
nure my bearing orchard in June. Cut
my trees back every year for two reasons:
the fruit is easier gathered, and does not
blow off so badly by storms.
Franklin Dye, at the close of Mr.. Craig's
remarks, said that he had made no prepar-
alton for his address, therefore that his
thoughts would be very random, as the
programme announced. The other day
heard his old pastor say: Every man
writes bis own eulegy in the life he lives"
Character, friends. is the thing we want
hhNA ttsosS NV ~ 1880 49,
selves morally, intellectually.
Called our attention to the crop of child
rem that is growing up by our fresides,
and that the correct cultivation of this
crop should receive the greatest care and
attentions: that the failure of the wheat,
oats or corn crop was as nothing COM
pared With the failure in this. To be sue
cessful every farmer must " his home
and feel that he owns a part of this coun-
try. A few words in line With Mrs.
Brown, relative to the Agricultural Col
lege at New Brunswick. Now they are
widening and deepening the course of the
college to bring forth practical results.
We nave not found it a successful method
to expect the farmers SON to come to us.
But carry the lectures to the farmers, as
has been and is being practically done.
| Suggests that all young men who can, at
tend the forty or sixty lectures that are to
be delivered this winter at the college at
New Brunswick. Spoke of the State
Board of Agriculture as not being simply
a figure-head, but that they are doing some
practical york. Read resolution which
had been presented by the president and
secretary Burroughs and Dye of the
State Board of Agriculture, to the State
Board Of Education, whereby the latter
body is now putting lecturers into the
Teachers Institutes to lecture on these
subjects. Prof. voorhees, faving already
been called before several institutes. We
need the colleges for the children, the lee
lures for the older folks. Spoke in ref
erence to the abandoned farms in New
England. Questioned the cause of this,
saying: eve must not expect our sous to
remain farmers if there is always a spirit
of discomfort expressed at results. We can
breed children to like the farm OIL we can
breed them to run away from the farm.
Education is two-fold: the theory taught
in schools and the application by the wis
dom of the performer. We must put
theory and practice together If we expect
satisfactory results. Giving the incident
of a young lady botanist, who, when a
plant was placed before her for explana-
ton, said she did not study botany in that
way. Who have been the most successful
men in all ~ages-they who have been the
most intelligent, claiming that America
stands to the forefront in this respect now.
Farmers are much at fault at the condition
of the public schools-farmers who are
trustees but never visit the schools. He
was a teacher himself once and knows how
these visits lend encouragement, and is it
any wonder the teachers do not take more
interest? When the government was es-
tabli shed in this country it was a farmers
government. The first Continental con
gress was largely composed of armers.
We want our place in legislative balls as
in the past. Suggestions don't market
crops. Let some one be employed that
they may keep on the alert and keep farm
ers posted as to the condition and prices of
different crops. The ACCESSIBILITY of fur
nishipg smaller towns withsweet potatoes,
etc, instead of shipping alto Philadelphia
and New York where the market is giut-
ted. Postal facilities have got to be in-
crea sed for the farmer. Free mail delivery
10 the rural districts-we are going to have
that. or the golden age of farmers when
the COWS will be MIXED by electricity, etc.
Political matters: We want to make this
matter OF government q study. God has
given you a power in government; study
to use that power intelligeutly. Trespass
laws of the state. Gave an instance OF TIVE
persons in the form of men from Newark,
who walked from that city out along the
railroad to a cherry orchard. The owner
and his son attempted to have them move
on, but the roughs soon gave them to I'M
derstand they would not 60 until tn y
we're ready, and to emphasize their pr.o
ane replies, hurled pieces Of brick, with