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

emit medicines play into each others
hands on the farm, and the boy who
ought 10 be young giant at twenty is
a pallid, scranny and unhappy old man.
Many a farmer boy has TO go into
town for n watermelons, his apples
and his strat berries. He may be able
to get a taste OF them on the Fourth of
July, and that has 10 do. for on other
days he has 10 work SO hard that IN the
evening he is too tired 10 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 unwholesome food and
cook il 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 or pain killer? Should we prop
erly nourish our children or feed them
with patent medicines
1t is true that we have many, very
many foes 10 meet-unfavorable weather
from without and insects from within
bat 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 70 other vegeta-
bles. Many preventives have been pat
ented and introduced among farmers, and
most of them are of no 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 will call Trootie-
Amos E. Troohe. 81 was working one
summer for Troohe," 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
a 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
be wanted right smart to sell one TO
Troo1e, but Troofe felt too pore 10 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 if Troo-
ie would furnish the lumber he would
build the gum for dollar and give Troo-
fle the directions, SOS that he could OPP
crate it and not get stung.
after dinner the man took and turned
in and made up the bee gum with what
we could hope him, understand, and
Troohe give him his dollar and the man
lit his pipe and got in his Vaughn. Then
Troofie says, regarding them directions,
Mister, you mustn't forgit that fore
you go, fer nuthin posters me like a bee
sting, and / regard 'en as the piZenest
thing in the whole world All right,
says the Teller, and SO Troohe calls me
and Gale to come there. SOS that if he
was away when the bees swarmed we
could tend TO EN- without gittin stung.
The Teller took two or three draws
at his pipe, and then he says, kind of
slow and thoughtful, like a 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 whip and startin off down
the road, the best way to get shet of a
bee sting is to not go nigh where they
air"
Among the enemies to plant life are
the ant, which never could see the use
of except for the sluggard TO resort to.
The ant. or formicd. Is small red or