New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-04-26
For Farmers Only.

0lO C1C1Co Ill SttSSA 1890
and that they in most cases fail OF thai
success IN life that they might have at
tanned had they been content to remain
on the farm and follow the business
to which their early training had adapted
them. In some cases these farmers child
rem have left pleasant homes to go to
others that were inferior, but in most cas-
es, we believe, parents have unwittingly
compelled their children to seek more
congenial companionship and homes.
If you want your children to remain
at home. make that home pleasant for
them. If they want to read, be sure
that they are supplied with good papers
and at least few books. If your daught-
ers want to raise flowers, give them a
deed to small patch of ground for a
flower bed. To any one who has travelled
over this or any other county to any ex-
tent, the fact is strongly apparent that
there is much difference between the
lives and homes of the farmers of one
neighborhood and those of another. II
has been our happy lot to visit with
farmers who had foot-scraper at theil
doorstep and we, following custom
that has been in vogue for several years
in some localities, left our mud with this
scraper instead Of piling it up on the
kitchen floor. One Of these little scrapers
costs but fifteen. cents and no farmer dare
say that he cannot afford one After
scraping our fleet we stepped onto the
porch land quite number of Brown
County farmers have nice porches which
are kept clean) and here we had oppor-
tunity to wipe our feet on nice mat or
rug made of corn husks, very often by
the woman of the house and at very
small expense. If there is any one
thing that contributes more to the cheer
fulness and comfort of home than an
other, that thing is carpet for the sitt-
ing room or the bed room. Now we do not
refer to Brussels or four-p Ingram
carpet; that would be an expensive and
almost needless luxury; but any farmers
wife who can not accumulate enough old
rags from cast-off garments, any wife
who cannot get together enough rags
with which to make nice serviceable
rag carpet for her home is sadly wanting
in her management of the domestic econ
omy of her household or else her selfish
husband takes her from her place and
requires of her to assist him IN the out
door work which he should do himself.
A woman's place is in the house and if
she is compelled to neglect her house
hold duties, be not surprised that the
children only become too anxious to get
away from the farm. If we were the
son of such farmer, when we had ar
rived at the age of majority, we would
rise in open rebellion and, like Absalom
of old, on one of our fathers horses we
would secretly take our departure at
night, even if we kew that our dis
hevelled locks would get us into trouble
and hang us in the tree near the cross
roads where the sign post reads ''To St.
Paul, forty miles,
There is nothing that increases the
price Of harm lands so much as good
farming and in a neighborhood where
the barns are large, the houses nicely
painted, the roads good and the people
contented there is where land is worth
from twenty-five to forty dollars pei
acre; and one poor, shiftless, weed grown
farm hurts that nejghborhood more than
all the trusts and combines of which so
much is said Good farmers do not live
very far from school houses and churches
and their success and capability is
gagged as much by their interest in these
public institutions as in their ability to
SOW and reap their harvests. A nice
grove of trees planted around the home
of a prairie farmer costs but little time
and labor and the setting aside of a
small tract of land for a garden and for
yard is conducive to the best interests
of farmers family. A farmer who is
too shortsighted to allow space for his
wife and daughters to cultivate flowers
and plants in is robblng them of sun.
shine and happiness, and. such farmer
would be too mean to allow stranger
to sleep in his forty-acre pasture anc
would use a public graveyard fora corn
field if he dared. A man who woul,
complain about the expense of nev
kitchen stove in place of the one that
rusty, broken and of no use except to fl
the house with smoke, such man woul
be too mean to wipe hog yard with.
The same men who complain mo.