The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-27

WIN q Saec VI ginger ale, anu also one or
hay fever, bringing with him, too, a lit
tie red covered book on how to amuse
the soil so that it will laugh in the au-
tumn with abundance.
Anon he will be seen trying to hive d
large mortgage by means of n green
mosquito net, but with ill success. The
farmer obtains more such advice and
example than'most anybody else. Those
who fear 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
gold headed cane with brad in the
end says to himself at night: "Voila!
1t matters not. Tray bcycnu If fail
at this the clover scented fields are
awaiting me. Negotian, est a,egotiam! 1
may at least buy COW and raise virus
tor yaccinating purposes on the farm"
Even the sore eyed beggar who haunts
the busy marts says over and over again
beneath his awe inspiring breath: II
am not at tho bottom yet. / still live in
town. If fail mentally may still BIO
a farmer"
ONe Ao eAAOAO ilO way ny WHICH, we us
farmers may at least get percentage of
the vegetables that grow on the face of
the earth? How l pity the people,"
says Mr.. T. Greiner, "who from choice
or necessity are confirmed eaters of hog,
and the murderous monotony of whose
scrofulous diet is not broken or offset by
the gratifying changes which the home
garden affords! How pity the sad eyed
housewife with the daily question on
her mind, What shall cook for break
fast, for dinner, for SUPPER"
We may not be able to have Neapoli-
tan ice cream at every meal on the farm,
but we may raise vegetables. have
this season grown the palmer vegetables
with great success. and though some of
them have cost more than could wish
1 hope to reduce the expense by another
year, SO that will feel it less.
We should not give up too easily in
trying 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 q
large family in vegetables and produce
some to sell. l could not sell any this
year; but next year, if can raise few
extra vegetables and sell them at what
they have cost me this year, / wal buy
billiard table and fit up dive in tho
barn, so that the boys will not yearn to
leave the farm. s
notice that we should take more care
to have our vegetables early. The ear
her you Gun have your vegetables ready
in the spring the moro notice they will
attract. surmised this myself this sea-
son, but my cold frame was shade too
cold, presume. At least when my veg
etables were ready for the market they
created no excitement. Again erred
in selecting the site for my garden.
chose it because it had good view of
Mount Pisgah, and in doing so forgot to
choose place that was arabic Arabil-
ity is one of the most charming qualities
a garden can possess.
Fried pork and lardy pies give us the
American complexion" and heavy OF
hot bread helps to bring out its beauties.
1t is no disgrace to be a 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 ap-
pies in youth and in maturer years to
run for congress. Rancid bacon, impure
lard and heavy hot bread generation after
generation produce the dyspeptics and
disturbers of nation-the Sockless
Simpsons and the Witless Watsons of
their time.
According to statistics taken in Illinois
in 1888, only II per cent. of the farmers
had strawberry patches. Pork and pat
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