The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-09-23

Prof. Nye on Gardening.
The following arc extracts from an
address which | am now preparing
and hope to deliver before our encamp.
ment of farmers, TO be held at PhiIa.
delphia during the coming autumn
The subject selected for tho address is
faWhy DO Farmers Eat Canned Vego-
tablceY Later | shall also speak, II
urged to do so, on the subject OF aThe
appalling death rate of horned cattle
along the right Of way Of railways,and
thc liability of common carriers for
the loss Of memory and impaired VII
tality among mules, caused directly or
indirectly by injuries received at the
hands of such common carriers"
shall speak with considerable aban-
don regarding railways. / shall cry
aloud aud spare not. Yesterday
wrote to Mr.. Boyd, of the Pcnnsylva-
MIA road, for transportation for self
and wife to and from the encampment,
and q good time may be confidently
looked forward TO If Mr. Boyd should
send same as requested in my esteemed
favor of late date.
In speaking to the farmers of the
United States / feel some freedom and
some sympathetic interest tor by birth
aud natural selection l am a farmer,
having passed my earlier days on a
farm, and now In my declining days,
"when the frost is on the punkin and
the fodder . In the shock" am again
encouraging the horny growth which
bet0kens manual toll IN tho field. Lit
erature with me has been merely fad,
an incident, as II were. Farming has
been my JOY, my life, my boon,my out
ing, my vacation, my dream aud my
religion. While have flown TO the
pen in tho hours Of my detection aud
when cast down, my life work has
been to cross the sheep sorrel with the
horse chestnut, and thus produce
clotheshorse that would give general
satisfaction.
It is, therefore, with no newly awak-
ened Intelligence that approach agri-
cultural questions, but with tho cour-
nge aud vigor of an eight-pound and
six-ounce brain that has thought rap
idly upon these subjects while other
brains were seeking good society,
whore they could avoid thought. We,
as farmers, arc like the horse-paticnt
and intelligent, but yet with a power,
which, If used In our own interests,
would easily jolt the spine Of the pro-
fessional man and cause hIm to sit up
in the middle Of the road, and cxclainI
bitterly, aWhore was atT
The question before us is, @Why do
farmers eat canued vegetablesT
One reason, 1 opinc, Is that they
@como from the store" But Is that a
cogent reason? Should we cat an in
ferlor article Of food at a high price In
order to be metropolitan and assume
an air of reckless gaiety and ground
feed which so III becomes US
Another reason that we eat canned
vegetables, l opine again, Is that we
have been trying to live down an err
roncous impression noticeable for
many years among the gay and god
less but well clad residents Of the city.
For centuries It was generally believed
by those who dwelt In town that farm
ers ate large quantities Of cream, and
that their gardens were full OF every
conceivable fresh vegetable and fruit.
This theory has been exploded with a
loud and rcverberating report.
Farmers eat less cream than the pale
and seductive, but scholarly, green
goods dealer, and the poor people of
the busy marls Of trade have more
fresh vegetables, except when they are
in the country on their regular Fresh
Air Fund vacation, than the farmer
does. Farmers, as class, have to grow
their crops for market, and they are
In luck If they can market them. Ill
they cannot market them, Of course
they can eat them, but not otherwise
Ofconrso In these calculations we do
not consider the agricultural freak
known as the fore-handcd farmer, but
rather the rank and file-tho mass, as
IL were-of those who arc seeking to
wiring from a reluctant aud buggy soil
bread for the eater, seed for the SOW
er, wool for the wearer, meat for the
moater and soup for tho soupor.
Wc farmers arc often asked: Why
don't you keep your boys oa The farm2
Why do wo not entertain them more 7
Why don't We have billiard table aud
orchostrion In tho barn, 30 that orr
boys can be happy at homo and not
seek 10 hnnnmo rouoe and fehaurhnoso