The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-02-08
OLD TIME FARMERS.
lawyers Note the Difference That
Has Come In Farm Life.

Has Come In Farm Life.
They have law offices in the Splitter.
Both came from one of the progressive
counties of northwestern Ohio. Both
We're reared on the farm, and both make
frequent trips to see the homefolks down
in the country.
Say Charley" said Will as he seated
himself in the formers office and helped
himself to a cigar out of Charley's box,
1--WE been down on the farm for cou-
pie of days, and | want to say that, al
though we pride ourselves here in To-
ledo of being progressive and up to date,
the farmers down in our old county can
give us pointers that would make us
seem like mossbacks'
"What have you struck now, WHIP
"You know what slow work cornhusk-
ing used to be. We would husk away all
fall and far into the winter, and then
often some of the corn would stand in
the field until spring. Mighty slow, tire
some work, and you know how our fin
gers would wear out and how busy we
used to keep the womer making finger
stalls
well. don't they do the same thing
now?"
mot on your life! They have ma
chine cornhuskers that husk from 200
to 400 bushels day. Run 'em as they
do thrashing machines. Some call 'em
man eaters because they occasionally
chew off a hand or an arm, but the av-
erage farmer can husk his whole crop of
corn in week and have it high and dry
in the crib
That isn't all either The machine
cuts or shredS the fodder and makes it
most excellent feed for stock. Cattle
and horses eat it all but the hard ends,
and, you see, mighty little goes to waste.
The farmers feed this shredded fodder
and sell their hay, and they're making
money out of it too.
"Some of them bale the shr. fod-
der. as they do hay, and sell it for So
ton. and as the fodder will run two tons
to the acre there you have $40 an acre for
fodder alone, and they can get that
price right at their barns.
Some of these farmers are mighty
foxy. One of our neighb RS has rigged
up fodder shredder and feed cutter
by his barn, and he doesn't use horse
power to run them, either He bitches
'em on To n big windmill and when .
good stiff wind blows he lets it shred
his fodder and cut his feed for his stock.
lie is now experimenting with buzz
saw and expects to have that windmill
saw his wood"
Farm work is not as hard now as
when we were boys" said Charley.
Should say not. Now the farmers
ride while planting and plowing corn,
ride while moving grass, ride while har-
vesting wheat; have hay loader which
they hitch to the back of n wagon and
which loads the hay, and the hay fork
unloadS it; ride while they cut corn and
tie it into bundles. In fact, they do al
most everything by machinery and have
plenty of time to see their hogs, horses.
cattle and sheep grow into money. They
have their mail delivered daily, many Of
them have telephones in their houses
and, all in all, they are living right NJ
home"
And then Will and Charley wondered
II they did not make chumps OF them
selves when they left the farm. g.s.s-
America prouuces ~ per cent OF IN.
the ihdian corn raised in the world.
Most of this crop is produced in Kan
saS, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois and
Iowa, with Ohio, Indiana and Wiscon-
SIN as contributors. This territory con-
stltutes the great corn belt, possessing
Tor all time an almost absolute monon-
oily in the production of one of the
worlds greatest cereal crops. Where
corn grows there will be produced meat
loods, and where meat is cheaply pro.
duced there must and will be wealth.
Altogether there We're two tons of tea
raised in this country the past year
Ihls tea was raised in the south. was
Oh very choice quality and brought q
nigh price. There would be a future
Tor this crop in this country provided
that cheap labor could be secured r.