The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-11
The Making of a sorapbook.

Particularly desirable for the farmer.
Several correspondents have written us
of late that they had been keeping scrap
books and several others have stated that
they intended to begin at once to keep
one.
1t is something we can heartily com
mend, for we see no reason why a scrap
book should not be the same pleasure to
others that it is to this writer 1t would
take a good deal more to buy our two or
three scrapDooks than it would to get the
best twenty books in our library. The
bulk of our suggestions, TO be sure, are
made TO farmers, but it is in order for
every lawyer, doctor and preacher to
keep a scrapbook as well as for farmer.
Our Young farmers should begin at once
to keep such a book, clipping from their
several agricultural papers, bulletins
of the experimental stations the various
articles that strike them as being prac-
teal and likely in all probability of
being valua BILE to them some day. If he
starts out to keep only one book it should
be divided into several sections and the
various articles classified and indexed
under their respective heads. The pa
pers contain a great many valuable
recipes for the various diseases OF stock
and the best varieties of fruits, grasses,
grains, etc. A farmer cannot remember
these things, and even if he preserves the
paper it is bulky, and it is difficult to find
such items as he would like to refer to
some times. There is great deal in the
papers, to be sure, that is not worth pre-
serving; in fact hardly worth the reading
in the first instance. The farmer who
once makes start and keeps a scrap
book for six months is quite sure to go on
with it. He will keep a cigar box or
other receptacle in which he will deposit
/ his clippings from week to week and then
some rainy day or when perhaps he
may be hors du combat from a
spraiped ankle or other slight infrmity
he will frcShen up the paste-pOt and pro
coed to paste his scraps in their apprO-
pirate place in the book. He will vary
the monOtony of the bare text with oc-
CasiOnal pictures Of some famous cow, or
horse o. sheep, of improved implements
bhat strike his fancy, and which he will
possess himself of a little la ter on, ssVvhen
money is a little more plentiful
Our catalogues and rural papers CON
tain many pretty scenes of rural life that
II is pleasure to preserve and look over
afterwards. Scenes combining fields and
forests. coy farm cottages back from the
highway, attractive barnyards, etc.
Not fancy pictures, but pictures true to
Scenes from the 'old plantation life' are
still to be met with, and these always go
into the scrap book. Oh, mol my young
farmer friend, the making of scrap book
Is not childs play; still | would teach my
children at a very early day
how improving to the mind, how full of
pleasure to the after life is such a book.
There will be very many things in it that
can be found in no other book. 1t may be
that there are many things of personal
character that will be of exceeding inter
est years afterwards. So many pages
will be set apart for matter of this char
acter
CHEAP FORM OF SCRAP BOOK.
While there are books specially pre-
pared for the reception of scraps and very
desirable when one can afford one of
Inen, still there are great many who
would rather avoid the expense
Nearly all our scrap books are made out
OF agricultural reports such as nearly
every farmer gets from his representative
IN congress. We would not advise any
farmer to mutilate the only one that
ne mas, for they are valua-
BILE and worthy of being preserved,
but it is fact that many do
not value these reports and many of them
accumulate at the post office and can be
mad for the asking. These reports are
very substantially bound in cloth and
contain from five to eight hundred pages.
WIN sharp knife and thin, narrow
board or with scissOrs) cut out every
oIner two leaves, leaving a margin of one
men at least, and on the remaining ones
paste YOUR clips, passing them so as to
Noe completely the printed matter. The
plank pages in front and back can be left
igI use as an index, or, if preferred, a few
Dl"uA pages of linen or other good paper
InaJ can be written on with a pen with
ouI DlQrring, can be pasted in the front
OF back. A well made scrapbook will
toSseSs complete index. So much for
The scrapbook.
Does it strike you at all that it might
We quite valuable thing to makel With
no no intention to fatter the publisher or
,ls c4let editor we know of no single pa
FER mat would furnish a general scrap
1 TooE 40 oil superior quality than the MORN