The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-08-31
Waldo County Crop Reports.

homelike and give children proper lik-
ing for the old farm, was good common
sense. Farms are farmed very success
fully-upon paper. Homes are furnished
with all modern improvements, every
thing to tighten and brighten labor, very
economically, upon paper; children are
given liberal education, provided with
the best literature and filled with abiding
love tor rocks, trees, fields and the moss
covered bucket, very easily-upon paper.
But it seems to me TO reduce this eloquent
paper farming into something practical,
and make it fit into and help the condi-
tons of our everyday life, it is necessary
to mix it very thoroughly with common
sense. The methods of farmer of large
means in some Western States, though
bringing him success, might mean utter
ruin to farmer of small means in the
Pine Tree State. The specuations in Ger
tain directions, OF experiments along some
special line of farming, might bring sue
cess to those who have peculiar fitness for
that work, but would bring defeat and
disaster to those who only think they have
that fitness. AS matter of fact, there
are many farm homes where there are a
less number of rooms than there are mem
bers in the family; where the cleanliness
OF the house is its only attraction: where
the little dresses, pants and the Sunday
shoes are needed more than books and
papers, and where their musical educa-
zion is something like that of the pastor
who said he only knew two tunes, God
Save the Weasel" and Pop Goes the
Queen. Good common sense does not
say, buy large farm, build a fine stand of
buildings, and run in debt for it, Com
mon sense always says, live within your
means. DO not do this or that because
your neighbor does, but cultivate on your
land lust those crops suited to that kind
OF soil; cultivate we'll. Good common
sense always says, make your home just
as attractive as your means will allow.
Make your kitchen just as pleasant and
convenient as your means will permit.
No true housewife will ask for more. Put
just as many books and papers IN your
home as YOU can afford, only be sure
their tone is good and pure, Make your
home so pleasant by the small courtesies
OF lite, the good will and the love always
in exchange there. that the children can't
help loving the old home. Bring the
children into direct interest with farm
life by giving them possession RESPONSE
bility and profit, be it ever SO small.
Finally, common sense always says. live
one day at a time, live that day well, and
have faith il God and persevere. ,,racie
Bowen.
WALDO STATION. At the first of the
season it was so dry that almost everyone
IL this vicinity feared the harvesting
would be small. In some cases it is SO.
The hay. for example, was much less in
bulk this year than last, but it is of much
better quality, especially to those who got
it into the barn while the good weather
lasted. Cucumber planting seems spec
ialty among many of our farmers, some of
them planting as many as three acres.
They are picked from to i l , inches
long and sent TO market for pickles. We
had one acre last year and found it quite
profitable and have got another acre this
year. Dairying is another of our protta-
BE branches. l think if the COWS and
the cream are carefully taken care of. it
offers better inducements than any branch
OF farming II this vicinity. l have often
asked myself what there was on the farm
to hold the young people, and the only
reply was "Give them something of their
own 10 work for and receive the benefits y
1t seems to Inc if the boys could have
dock Of geese. ducks or chickens to take
care OF, aud when large enough dress off
anG send to market, and then receive the
results to do with as they please, they
would soon want something else that had
more profit, and would soon use it for i'm
provement on the farm, They want
money let them get it off from the farm.
Miss Ethel 0. Staples.
BROOKS. | think there is nothing that
viii pay on the farm as poultry, but to
make It most profitable we must raise our
grain and vegetables to feed them. and at
the same time we will be making better
grass land, and making large pro it on
ON eggs and poultry We should have
eggs less than ii cents, and now get II
cents. To made the farm work pleasant
We should not make our boys and girls
slaves u the work. Try To make it pleas
ant for them: it can be made so. Let them
try the way they think it should be done,
if it will be no great loss to us. But if we
should have boy that does not take to
farming, don't make him farm If he has
his mind on any one thing that he would
rather do, let him do it. I think to be
good farmer man should love farming, in
all its branches. We should furnish our
children with good reading, but l don't
think as some DO that it should all be like
Pilgrim Progress. I think that little
good, moral, light literature will not hurt
them, Mrs. Abbe L. Ham.
EAST SEARSMoNT | think that early
gardening pays as we'll as any branch of
farming. Butter making is paying bust
ness, but | would not advise any farmer
with the work of farm to undertake to
keep more than six good cows All far
mels should have market for butter be-
fore carrying it to market. The way we
always do with our boys is to let him have
something OF his own; not a colt, as most
boys want, but COW and pair of steers,
or some sheep, anything he wants. Then
when planting time comes he is all ready
TO help plant something TO raise for the
steers, and to hay, for he thinks he must
get some hay to feed his stock The pro-
ceeds he takes to clothe himself 1t teaches
him to manage and look out for himself.
He is only IA years old. Mrs. Eleanora
Mariner.
WALDO STATION. The strawberry crop
has paid well. 1t was good yield, and
prices have been better than usual. From
10 to II cents per quart has been received
by most growers. Selling cream and eggs
pays the general farmer better than any
thing else, and the outlook is ali right for
these branches. j. g. Harding.
MORRILL,. Farmers in this section are
stocked up to the full capacity of last
year abundant nay crop. This year our
hay crop is about 80 per cent What
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