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

emit medicines play into each others
hands on the farm, and the boy who
ought to be young giant at twenty Is
a pallid, scranny and unhappy old man.
Many d farmer boy has to go into
town for his watermelons, his apples
and his Strawberries. He may be able
to get a 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 unwhClesome food and
cook it herself, then to do the other
work and become the mother of self
made and sockless statesmen besides.
Let us take these great truths to heart,
fellow farmers, and encourage the truck
patch, not for gain, but that our wives
and children may be well and happy.
Would YOU rather fill family with as
paragus OF pain killer? Should we prop
erly nourish our children or feed them
with patent medicines
It 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 vegeta-
bIes. Many preventives have been pat
ented and introduced among farmers, and
most Of them are of 10 avail. Yet gar
dening has made much advancement,
as has also agriculture generally, stock
raising and bee culture.
Some years ago, in Georgia, there lived
a farmer whom we viii coll Troofe-
Amos e. XIOOtie. II was WORKING one
summer for Troofle," said a neighbor Of
mine the other day while speaking OF
the rapid strides that agriculture had
made lately. Il was working there and
so was my brother Gale. One afternoon
q man comes along that was selling
these here paytent bee gums with sashes
to 'em that gifts shet OF good deal of the
trouble it is to hive passle of bees, and
he wanted right smart to sell one to
Troohe, but Troofle felt too pore to buy
paytent bee gums as 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 din
ner and feed his horse, and then II Iroo-
fle would furnish the lumber he would
build the gum for dollar and give Iroo-
he the directions, SOS that he could OPP
crate it and not get stung.
after dinner tn man took and turned
in and made up the bee gum with what
we could hope him, understand, and
Troof1e give him his dollar and the man
lit his pipe and got in his Vaughn. Then
Troofle says, regarding them directions,
Mister, you mustn't forgit that fore
you go, fer nuthin posters me like bee
sting, and regard 'eIn as the plzene6s
thing in tho whole world All right,
says the Teller, and so TrOOte calls me
and Gale to come there, SOS that If he
was away when the bees swarned we
could tend TO 'em without gittin stung.
Tho 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 lone
somelike, 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 the wlii.5 and startin off down
the road, the best way to set shet of
bee sting is to not so nigh whero they
air. -
Among the enemies to plant life are
the ant, which 1 never could see the use
of except for the sluggard to resort to.
The ant, or jcratica, is d small red or
black insect with a sharp acid taste, and
in Africa is eaten as a relish in place OF
pickles. Mr.. Stanley very truly says
that in equatorial Africa the natives
often use the larger ants on their blue
points instead Of lemon.
Boiling water is the best treatment fog
ants. The ant bores into the ground
and constructs a residence OF halls and
galleries. which if filled with hot water
may be robbed Of its homelike air.
Poisoned molasses are also used neAf
the ant hole with good effect, 30 that