Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-04

eeiysbls fresh vegetable and fruit. TINS
theory has been exploded VITA a load
and reyerbsratlng report.
Farmers eat less cream than the pale
and seductoEy but scholarly green
goods dealer, and tns poor people Of the
busy nlarts Ot IaoS have more fresh
vegetables. except when they are Ia the
country On their regular Fresh Air Fund
vacation, than the farmer does. Farm
sEs a. class nave to grow their crops
Tor market, and they are IN luck II
they can market them IL they cannot
market them, q course they can eat
them, bat not otherwise.
OF course IA these calculations We do
not consider the agricultural freak
known Is ths fore handed farmer. bur
rather the rank and file-the mass, as il
were-of those VINO are seeking 10 wiring
from 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 have a billiard table and
orchestrion IN the barn. so that our boys
can DO happy at home and not seek 70
become roues and debauchees. They
also ask Is why we do not get pair Of
bright red mules and raise flock Of
nice red mules for the busy mart.
Most every one feels free 70 advise
the farmer. and every little while some
man who has aInassed eighty-fOur dol
lars IN trade comes out on the farm
with case Of ginger ale, and also one OF
hay fever. bringing with him, too, a lit
tie red covered book on how 10 amuse
the soil 50 that il viii laugh in the au-
tumn with abundance.
Anon he Will De seen trying TO hive a
large mortgage by means of a green
mosquito net. but with III 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 mp the stubs of costly cigars in
front Of the Authors club by means of
a gold headed cane with brad in the
end says 10 himself at night: ''VOilG!
lie matters not. Tray beyenti If | fail
at this the clover scented fields are
awaiting me. Negotiam est pegotiam! l
may at least buy cow and >aise virus
for vaccinating purposes on the farm"
Even the sore eyed beggar who haunts
the busy marts says over and over again
beneath his awe inspiring breath: Il
am not at the bottom yet. | still live in
town. Ii fail mentally may still be
a farmer"
But Is there no way by which we as
farmers may at least get a percentage of
the vegetables that grow on the face of
the earth? How | pity the people"
says Mr.. I. 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 affordsl 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
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 a
large family in vegetables and produce
some to sell. | 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, | will buy
billiard table and At 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 ear
her you can have your vegetables ready
in the spring the more 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 il 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
garden can possess.
Fried pork and lardy pies give rs the
American complexion" and heavy or
hot bread helps to bring out its beauties
1t is no disgrace 10 be peasant, but 1t
il a 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