Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-04

am not db bHe uOttOm YET. otiii i'O
in town. II fail mentally l may still
be farmer"
But is there no way in which we as
farmers may at least get percentage
of the vegetables that grow on the face
OF the earth? "How l pity the peo-
ple," says Mr.. T. 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 l pity
the sad eyed housewife with the daily
question on her. what shall cook for
breakfast, 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 1t 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 1t is with
all other truck. An acre will keep a
large family in vegetables and produce
some to sell. l could not sell any this
wear; but next year, if can raise few
extra vegetables and sell them at what
they have cost me this year, l will buy
q billiard table and fit up dive in the
barn so tina. the boys will not yearn to
leave the farm.
| notice that we should take more
care to have our vegetables early. The
earlier you can have your vegetables
ready in the spring the more notice
thew will attract. surmised this my
self this season, but my cold frame was
shade too cold, presume. AT least
when my vegetables were ready for the
market they created no. excitement.
Again I erred in selecting the site for
my garden. 1 chose 1t because 1t had
a good view Of Mount Pisgah, and in do
ing so forgot to choose place that was
arabic. Arablity is one OF the most
charming qualities garden can pos
Sess.
Fried Pork and lardy pies give us the
american complexion" and heavy or
hot bread helps to bring out its beau
ties. 1t is no disgrace to be peasant,
but 1t is disgrace to endow our chill
dren with the pork habit and the pork
complexion in land where the sun and
soil and rain invite US TO grow ana eat
other things.
Salt pork over and over and over
again drives the farmer lad to steal APP
piles in youth and in maturer years TO
run for Congress. Rancid bacon, i'm
pure lard and heavy hot bread genera
ton after generation produce the dys-
peptlcs and disturbers OF q nation-the
Sockless Simpsons and the Witless
Watsons OF their time.
According to statistics taken In Hi
nois In 1883, only II per cent, OF the
farmers had straw berry patches. Pork
and patent medicines play into each
others hands on the farm, and the boy
who ought TO be young giant at
twenty is pallld, scranny and unhappy
old man.
Many farmer boy has gone into town
for his watermelons, his apples and his
strawberries. He may be able to get q
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 unwholesome 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 asparagus or pain killer? Should
we properly nouriSh our children or
feed them with patent medicines?
1t is true that we have many, very
MANY foes to meet-unfavorable wealth
er from without and insects from with
in-but these are to be met with phil
osophy and other chemicals. Eternal
vigilance is the price Of the watermelon,
and the same rule may be applied to
other vegetables. Many preventives
have been patented and introduced
among farmers, and most Of them are
OF no avail. Yet gardening has made
much advancement, as has also agricul-
ture generally, stock raising and bee
culture.
Some years ago, In Georgia, there lived
q farmer whom we will call Troofe-
Amos e. Troohe. 81 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. 81 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 a passle OF bees, and
he wanted right smart to sell one to
Troohe, but Troole 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 al
lowed that hit would suit him TO stop
for dinner and feed his horse, and then
II Troofle would furnish the lumber he
would build the gum for dollar and
give Troofe the directions, SOS that he
could operate 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
Troofle give him his dollar and the man
liz his pipe and got in his Vaughn. Then
Troofle says, regarding them directions,
mister, you mustn't forgit that fore
you 60, fer nothing posters me Ike a
bee sting, and 1 regard 'em as the pizen-
est thing in the whole world All
right says the Teller, and so Troofe
calls me and Gale to come there, SOS
that IL be was away when the bees
swarmed we could tend to 'em without
gittin stung.
s.Tha Teller took two or three draws