The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-09

right of way of railways and the liza
bility of common carriers for loss OF
memory and impaired vitality among !
mules, caused directly or indirectly by |
injuries received ut the hands Of such |
common carriers"
shall speak with considerable aban- |
don regarding railways. 1 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 may he confidently looked forward |
to if Mr.. Boyd should send same as re-
quested in my esteemed favor of late |
date.
In speaking to the farmers of the
United States l feel some freedom and
some sympathetic interest, for by birth |
and natural selection / am farmer,
having passed my earlier years on a
farm, and now in my declining days.
"when the frost is on the punkin and the
folders in the shock" ain again en-
couraging the horny growth which be
tokens manual toll in the field. Litera-
ture with me has been merely fad, an
incident, as it were. Farming has been
my joy, my life, my boon, my outing,
my vacation, my dream and my reh-
gion. While l have flown to the pen in
my hours of detection and when cast
down, my life work has been to cross
the sheep sorrel with the horse chestnut,
and thus produce d clotheshOrse that
would give general satisfaction.
It Is therefore with no newly awak-
ened intelligence that approach agri-
cultural questions, but with the Cour-
age and vigor of an S-pound and 6-ounce
brain that has thought rapidly upon
these subjects while other brains were
seeking good society, where they could
avoid thought. 1t is not n newborn
thought, with a Timber neck and long
clothes, that / introduce to your notice
today, but mature and well seasoned
Judgment upon these matters which so
closely interest the farming millions OF
America. We a9 farmers ara 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 up in the middle of the road and ex-
claim bitterly, "Where was att"
The question before US is, Why do
farmers eat canned vcgetablesT
One reason, Iopine, is that they ''come
from the store" But is that a cogent
reason2 Should we eat an inferior arti-
Gle of food at high price in order to be
metropolitan and assume 6n air of reck-
less gayety and ground feed which so III
becomes us?
Another reason that we eat canned
vegetables, opine again, Is that we
have been trying to live down an erro-
neous impression noticeable for many
years among the gay and goddess but
well clad residents Of the city. For
centuries it was generally believed by
those who dwelt in town that farmers
ate large quantities of cream, and that
their gardens were full of every con-
ceivable fresh vegetable and fruit. This
theory has been exploded with a loud
and reverberating report.
Farmers eat less cream than the pale
and seductory but scholarly green
goods dealer, and the poor people of the
| busy marts of trade have more fresh
vegetables, except when they are in the
| country on their regular Fresh Air Fund
vacation, than the farmer does. Farm
ers as a class have to grow their crops
| for market, and they are in luck If
they can market them. If they cannot
market 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 file-the mass, as it
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 wearet, 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 do we not entertain them more!
Why don't we have a billiard table and
orchestrion in the barn, so that our boys
can be happy at home and not seek to
become roates and debauohees? They
also ask US why we do not get pair OF
bright red mules and raise a flock Of
nice red mules for the busy mart.
Most every one feels free to advise
the farmer, and every little while some
man who has amassed 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, lit
tie red covered book on how TO anuse
the soil so that it will laugh in the au-
tumn with abundance.
Anon he will be seen trying to hive
large mortgage by means of green
| mosquito net, but with i'll 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
G gold headed cane with brad in the
end says to himself at night: "VoilU
1t matters not. Tray GeyeIlt If fail
at this the clover scented fields are
awaiting me. NegOtidBl est 'tcgOttdm! L
may at least buy COW and raise 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. l still live in
town. If fail mentally may still be
farmer"
But is there no way by which we as
farmers may at least get Il percentage of
the vegetables that grow on the face of
the earth? Chow 1 pity the people"
says Mr.. T. Greiner. f'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 support
We may not be able to have Neapoh-
tan ice cream at every meal on the farm
but we may raise vegetables. have
tAis season grown the palmer vegetables
with great SUCCESS, and though some Of
| them have cost more than could wish
hope to reduce the ezlssnse BY AAothes