The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-13
Bright Side Of Farm Life.

Alta recent meeting of the Fayette
county farmers institute, says the
Uniontown .'Genius Of Liberty
Daniel II. Pershing, one of the most
successful farmers in the county, read
an able and instructive essay on "The
Bright side of Farm Life" We give
a synopsis OF this essay: Life i what
we make il. In reviewing the year
Just closing the farmer has lots to be-
thankful for While hundreds and
thousands of unemployed have vainly
sought work the farmer has been con-
stantly employed. Mlltitudes of
artisans. mechanics and miners have
gone hungry to bed, and this cannot be
said of our farmers. Some complain
that they are making no money, but
money or no money, the farmer who Is
industrious always has something 10
eat, while many in other occupations,
at times have neither bread nor money.
Never let anything which grows go to
waste. For example, three years ago
there was great apple crop and the
farmers had more apples than they
knew what to do with. | made all my
crop, 2D10 bushels, and some of my
neighbors' apples, into cider, and kept
30 or % barrels of the cider for vinegar.
From the vinegar | have made so a
barrel, and then did not have sufficient
II supply the demand, and thus j
realized 81 bushcl on apples. Raising
fruit pays much better than raising
wheat, and hundred dollars an acre
cln be realized from the orchard. Ii
will require much care, but the pleasure
and comfort, as well as profit, will
amply repay. Our home market far
exceeds the demand for small fruit~.
BY Use of fruit have not paid doctors
| bill in my life time on account of my
own sickness. That is one of the ways
TO make money.
The outlook for higher prices for
wheat is not good, bat | am satisfied
that can realizc dollar a bIshei
from wheat by feeding it to poultry.
Improved farm implements have 80
lightened the labor of the farmer that
he can say, as did Robinson Crusoe,
II am monarch Of ali 1 survey" OF
the exports this year, including the
products OF the mine, forest, fisheries,
| manufactures and miscellaneous com
modities, the farm has furnished S;i2S,
01O,O01 while the total has been but
| Ss59,0JJ,OJ0. Or in other words, the
farms produced over - per cent, in
cash value of the export products OF the
| United States.
The prudent farmer will keep him
self informed a. to the condition Oi
the coming crops, and in order To dc
80, he must take agricultural and hor-
ticultural papers. Some farmers say
they are too poor 10 take periodicals,
and they are likely to remain poor
Owing to close competition and i'm
proved methods, it is only the wide
tNdht, sitttNSf pipSiN'0iNN A'i'
that can expect to make money. In
vention has added at least 10 years tC
my ability to do farm labor. | simply
do about all of my work riding. |
ride when ! NOW, plow, harrow, sow
reap, plow corn, potatoes, work straw
berries, raspberries, fruit trees ar grape
vines.
The day has come when the occu-
patton of farming is the lightest, easiest
cleanest, pleasantest and most healthy
of ali occupations. The farmer can bt
independent when others are out o.
work. The position of farmer is :
high one, noble one, and | would
advise my fellow farmers to go on
Cease not to plow and sow, reap anC
NOW, until the archangel shall stant
with one foot upon the sea and the
other upon the lard and say ''Tim'
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