The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-04

oook on how TO amuse the soil so that il
VIII laugh In the autumn with abundance
anon ne Will be seen trying to hive q
large mortgage by means of green
mosquito net, but with i'll success. The
iariner obtains more such advice and
example than most anybody else. Those
VINO Tear that they may not succeed as
ragpickers IN town still know that they
can succeed on the farm if the worst
comes TO the worst. Even the man who
picks up the stubs of costly cigars in
front of the Authors Club by means OF q
goid-headed cane with a brad in the end
says to himself at night: "Toilar 1t
matters not TrayJs.cnt, i'll fail at this
the ciover-scented fields are awaiting me.
Negotiam est negotidm' I may at least buy
COW and raise virus for vaccinating pur-
poses on the farm
Even the sore-eyed beggar who haun IS
the busy 'narts says over and over again
beneath his awe-inspiring breath: 81 am
not at the bottom yet. l still live in town,
Ii | fail mentally may still be farmer"
but IS there no way by which We as
farmers may at least get a percentage OF
the vegetables that We grow on the face of
the earth? How pity the people," saws
Mr.. i. Grelner, who from choice or ne
cessity are confirmed eaters of hog. and
the murderous monotony of whose scrof-
usous diet is not broken or offset by the
gratifying changes which the home gar
den affords! How l pity the sad-eyed
housewife with the daily question: on her
mind, What shall l cook for breakfast,
Tor dinner, for superb
We may not be able to have Neapolitan
Ice cream at every meal on the farm. but
We may raise vegetables. | have this sea-
son grown the palmer vegetables with
great success. and though some of them
have cost more than | could wish. hope
to reduce the expense by another year, so
that | will feel il less
We should not give up too easily in try
ing to raise vegetables. Canned corn is
better than nothing, but corn grown on
the place is far better. So it is with all
other truck. An acre will keep n large
family IN vegetables and produce some to
sell. could not sell any this year; but
next year, If can raise n few extra vegeta-
bies and sell them at what they have cost
me TINS year, | will buy a billiard table
and mt up dive in the barn, so that the
boys will not yearn to leave the farm.
notice that we should take more care
to have our vegetables early. The earlier
you can have your vegetables ready in the
spring the more notice they will attract
J surrnised this myself this season. but my
cold frame was a shade too cold, pre-
sumo. AT least when my vegetables were
ready for the market they created no ex-
citement. Again l erred in selecting the
site for my garden. | chose il because it
had good view of Mount Pisgah. and in
doing SO forgot to choose place that was
arabic. Arability is one of the most
charming qualities garden can possess.
Fried pork and lardy pies give US the
american complexion" and heavy or
hot bread helps to bring out its beauties.
1t Is no disgrace TO be peasant. but it
is disgrace to endow our children with
the pork habit and the pork complexion
in land where the sun and soil and rain
invite us TO grow and eat other things.
Salt pork over and over and over again
drives the farmer lad to steal apples in
youth and in maturer years TO run for
congress. Rancid bacon, impure lard and
heavy hot bread generation after genera
ton produce the dyspeptics aud disturbers
of nation-the Socktess Simpsons and
the Witless Watsons of their times.
According TO statistics taken in Illinois
in 1855 only II per cent. of the farmers had
strawberry patches. Pork and paten,
medicines play into each others hands on
the farm, and the boy who ought to be a
young giant at % is a pailid, scranny and
unhappy old man.
Many a farmer boy has to go into town
for his watermelops, bis apples and his
strawberries. He may be able TO get
taste of them on the Fourth of July, and
that has to do for on other days he has to
work so hard that in the evening he is too
tired to steal them.
A farmers horse will not do his work
unless he has the proper food and OF the
best quality, but many farmers wife is
required to eat UNIV holesome food and
cook it herself. then TO do the other work
and become the mother of seif-nade and
sockless statesmen besides.
Let US take these great truths TO heart,
feliow-farmers. and encourage the truck
patch, not for grain, but that our wives
and children may be well and happy.
t4ar co.. -.tI
agus or pain killer? Should We properly
nourish our children or feed them with
patent medicines?
1t is true that We have many, very many
foes to meet-unfavorable' weather from
without and insects from within-but
these are to be met with philosophy and
other chemicals. Eternal vigilance is the
price of the watermelon, and the same
rule may be applied to other vegetables.
Many representatives. have been patented
and introduced among farmers, and most
of them are of no avail. Yet gardening
has made much advancement, as has also
agriculture generally, stock raising and
bee culture.
Some years ago, in Georgia, there lived
farmer whom We will call Trooae-Amos
T.. Trootie. Il was working one summer
for Tro0ae," said neighbor of mine the
other day, while speaking of the rapid
strides that agriculture had made lately.
al was working there and was my
brother Gale. One afternoon man comes
along that was selling these here paytent
bee gums with sashes 10 'em that gifts shet
of good deal OF the trouble it is to hive a
passed. of bees and he wanted right smart
to sell one to Troohe, but Troo.le felt too
pore TO buy paytent bee gums rs times
was, for money matters was powerful
source then.
But the man he hung on and allowed
that hit would suit him to stop for dinner
and feed his horses, and then If Trooile
would furnish the lumber he would build
the gum for a dollar and give Troofie the
directions, SOS that he could operate il
and not get stung.
AFTER dinner the man took and turned
in and made up the bee gum with what
we could hope him, understand, and Trooiie
give hin. his dollar and the man lit his
pipe and got in his Vaughn. Then Trcotie
says, regarding Gem directions. Mister,
YOU mustn't forgit that Fore you 20, fer
nuthin posters me like n bee sting, and |
regard 'em as the pizenest thing in the
whole world All right SAYS the felier,
and so Trootle calls me and Gale 20 come
there, SOS that II he was away when the
bees swarmed We could tend To 'em with
out gittin stung.
THE Teller took two or three draws at
his pipe, and then he says, kind of slow
and thoughtful. like man that is far away
from home and sort of louesomeiike: You
have saw he says, how the gum is made
for the convenience of the bee. and with
regards to gettin' stung,' he says, kind of
touching up his stock with his whip and
s;arttn' OFF down the road, the best way
to get shet of bee sting IS not 10 go nigh
where they air.
Among the enemies to- plant life are the
ant, which could never see the use OF ex-