The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-03-05
and raspberries when the same can Re

,rownjust rs cheap as grain.
There is no reason why every farmers
garden should not be large enough to
have place in it for flowers. venture
10 say the women will care for them
unless perchance there are few Of the
go-easy kind who have abundance of
leisure and are perfectly willing while
their husband works in the garden to
hang on the garden gate while the fire
goes ont or the bread runs over the pan.
Its said that all women and few men
love flowers, and they will grow better
under the tenderly care OF women's
hands.
There has been great Improvement
in this country in the culture OF house
plants. Twenty-Five years ago there
was not one house in twenty where you
could find house plants.
Children love to work in the garden,
more especially when they have one
they call their own. With most gardens
they are not allowed to work and play
among the plants and vegetables. Give
them place to call their own. I can
find near many farm houses spot, and
is usually the back part OF the yard or
near the house at least, where you will
find an accumulation of worn.out stoves,
stove pipes, tins and tinware. rotten
gate posts, knotty chunks that won't
split, broken barrels, broken crockery,
hoops, hoop skirts and barrel hoops,
leaky tubs, iron kettles, ash heaps, old
clothes, boots and shoes, besides a great
many other interesting relics. Give the
children this waste place after thorough
cleaning where they can dig, plant and
weed. No game of politics or business
later in life will ever be SO important to
the man as the interest the boys will
find in cultivating this little garden.
Here they will learn the art of observing
the growth and variety of vegetables
and plants. Not only will it be useful
to them but will help to keep the little
ones happy about you. 1t will deepen
their love for home and add something
to their memory in years to come when
they have passed away from your sight
and gone out into the busy world to do
and think for themselves. If I'VE expect
the boys to stick to the farm and the
girls to grow up to make good wives and
mothers we should give them all the
advantages within our means and that
farm life affords us. Josh Billings
never uttered truer saying than when
he said, train up child in the way he
should go and be sure to 60 that way
yourself.
In conclusion better methods OF farm
ing means better methods of gardening
While we are making advancement
along the line of farm work, raising grain
. stock and poultry we, may make some
, improvement in the garden work. NJ
farmer can afford to dispense with hi
| garden but should cultivate it well, cul
tivaie taste and relish for q vegetable
and fruit diet. Eat less pork and more
brain and nerve food. The times with III
as Americans demand it. We are fas
becoming nervous and excitable peo
pie. The appetites of our young people
crave stimulant. How the boys all owe
our land love the tobacco weed /; how
they fill the air surrounding them will
, the fumes of that which makes then
, diseased and repulsive, and when the.
! grow up into manhood will crave some
thing stronger. Give them fruits ant
, vegetables, something to contract thi
growing influence and let the older pee
, pie swing clear of wine and tobacc
, smoke before and after meals. Buy les
of the tropical fruits and canned goods
Cultivate taste for home adornments
/ Use economy and industry more alon
, with the times and then we may hop
to be successful when the move come
that rolls on to fortune.