Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-04

FARMER GETTING ADVICE.
I shall speak with considerable aban-
don regarding railways. l shall cry
aloud and spare not. Yesterday wrote
to Mr.. Boyd, of the Pennsylvania road,
for TRANSPORTATION for self and wife TO
and from the encampment, and good
| time NAV be confidently looked forward
to if Mr.. Boyd should send same as re-
onested in my esteemed favor OF late
! date.
In speaking to the farmers OF the
| United States feel some freedom and
some sympathetic interest, for by olrth
and natural selection l am farmer,
having passed my earlier years on
farm. and now in my declining days,
"when the frost is on the punkin and
| the folders in the shock" l am again
! encouraging the horny growth which be-
tokens manual toll in the field. Lttera-
ture with me has been merely fad, an
incident. as it were. Farming has been
my Joy, my life, my boon, my outing,
nv vacation, my dream and my reli-
gion. While l have flown to the pen
in nv hours OF detection and when
cast down, my life work has been TO
cross the sheep sorrel with the horse
| chestnut, and TINS produce clothes
| horse that would give general satlsfac-
| tion.
1t Is therefore with no newly awak-
ened intelligence that l approach agrl-
cultural questions, but with the cour-
age and vlgor of an s-pound and 6-ounee
brain that has thought rapidly upon
these subjects while other brains were
seeking good society, where they could
avoid thought. 1t is not newborn
thought, with q timber neck and long
clothes, that Introduce to your notice
to-day, bnt mature and well seasoned
Judgment upon these matters which so
closely interest the farming millions or
America. We as farmers are like the
horse-patient and intelligent, but yet
with a power which if used in our own
interests would easily jolt the spine OF
the professional man and cause him TO
sit M in the middle OF the road and ex-
claim bitterly, "Where was l at?"
The question before us Is, why do
farmers eat canned vegetables|
One reason, l opine, Is that they
"come from the store" But is that
cogent reason? Should we eat an infe-
rior article of food at d high price in
order TO be metropolitan and assume an
air of reckless gayety and ground feed
which so Ill becomes US?
Another reason that we eat canned
vegetables. 1 opine again, is that we
have been trying to live down an erro-
nnTiOn ahla for manV
wears among the gay and goddess but
we'll clad residents Of the city. For cen
tnries 1t was generally believed by those
who live in town that farmers ate large
Quantities of cream, and that their gar
| dens were full of every conceivable
fresh vegetable and fruit. This theory
has been exploded with loud and re-
verberating report.
Farmers eat less cream than the pale
and seductory but scholarly green goods
! dealer. and the poor people OF the pussy
marts of trade have more fresh veget-
ables. except when they are In the coun-
try or their regular Fresh AIR tuno va
c.tion. than the farmer does. Farmers
os a class have TO grow their. crops for
market, and they are in luck II they
can market them. If they cannot mar
Ixet them. of course they can eat them,
! but not otherwise.
OF course in these calculations we do
not consider the agricultural freak
| Known as the fore handed farmer, but
rather the rank and fle-the mass, as II
were-of those who are seeking TO
wiring from a reluctant and buggy soil
bread for the eater, seed for the sower,
wool for the wearer, meat for the meater
and soup for the souper.
we farmers are often asked: Why
! don't YOU keep our boys on the farm?
! WHY don't we entertain them more!
! WIN don't we have billiard table and
orcbestrion in the barn, so that our boys
can he happy at home and not seek TO
bacome r01ies and debauchees? They
aIso ask Us why we do not get pair OF
hricht red mules and raise nock OF
| oice red mules for the busy mart.
Nost every one feels free TO advise the
fo-r,er ard every little while some man
who has amassed eighty-four collars IN
! trade comes out on the farm with a case
~ ginger ale, and also one OF nay ieVer'
bringing with him, too, little reu Gov
ered hook on how to amuse the soil so
that II will laugh in the autumn with
abundance.
Anon he will be seen trying to hive
l.rga mortgage by means OF green
mosquito net, but with i'll success. The
farmar obtains more such advice and
o~.mnla than most anybody else. Those
80 fear that they may not succeed as
r. n In town still know that they
c.n succeed on the farm IL the worst
oo ou IN the worst. Even the man who
hicks ND the stubs of costly cigars In
t.ont If the Authors club by means OF
: col odd headed cane with a brad In the
end saws to himself at night: "poitd!
r. matters not. Tray beysnti II fail
=. this the clover scented nelds are
awaiting me. NegOtidm est ne0o'tdm!