The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-03

and on the surface level. A trench
six inches at least in depth should be
dug, and then plant strong roots two
years old, obtained of reliable nur-
seryman, being careful to fertilize the
trenches and not plant too deep at
first. Two inches would be deep
enough to plant, and, as they begin
to grow, fiji up little at time until
the trenches are full and bed level.
The young man neglected to get
proper instruction when he first plant
ed, but he was determined to con-
quer, and did-all honor to him. 1t
is best to ask the nurseryman about
planting everything you buy of him.
Rhubarb, or pie plant, is another
spring dish the farmer cannot afford
to do without. This, too, needs to
be planted in rich soil. Very deep
trenches should be dug and nearly
filed with manure and covered with
soil; then, if you have good plants,
you will soon have an immense yield
for years, without replanting, of a
crop that will serve you a better pur-
pose than the doctors drugs.
Although I am believer in vege-
tables as a diet, 1 am not vegeta-
rian. A moderate amount of meat,
eggs, puddings and made dishes are
good and beneficial. The hog is
probably the lowest down in value of
any animal that we eat. Pork is
popular, however, and the amount
consumed in this country is surpris-
ing. There are fortunes in it. Philip
D. Armour, the late Chicago multi
millionaire pork merchant, said: cit
looks as if I packed everything but
the last breath of hog, but the boys
who get out all there is in that last
breath will have a bigger business
than NINE" 1t is not worth while
to say, don't eat pork. There would
be no hope of getting the public ear,
and we might better do as the man
called his dog out from under tie
bed, and he wouldn't come: "Well,
then, stay there" said he, for 1
will be minded" Although we have
Scripture authority that the swine
that divide the hoof yet cheweth not
the cud is unclean, and everyone that
toucheth the carcass shall be unclean,
yet the eating goes on. How free
we are to judge for ourselves and
take consequences we have to take
them) in things we like. We are
willing enough to let fishes without
fins and scales alone; also eagles,
vultures, ravens, owls, hawks, peli-
cans, storks, rats, mice, ferrets, liz
ards, snails, moles, and other animals
the Good Book condemns because we
have no appetite for them ; but the
smell and the taste of pork, obtained,
so Charles Lamb wrote, by the acci-
dental burning down of shanty in
which a pig lived with its owners and
got roasted thereby, and it was so
pleasant to taste and odoriferous that
more houses had to be burned that
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and SO the appetite grew and spread
till it has reached a size that can not
be curbed. We must live or die by
pork, but let us eat beans with it.
Garden products will help to Offset
the effects of the unclean animal.
Plant your peas, beans, lettuce,
onions, beets, radishes, etc., early.
Early planting wins. A neighbor
once seeing the Head of Our House
setting out tomatoes and cabbages in
the middle of April, asked him if he
was going to sit up at nights with
them to keep them warm. When he
saw we were having these vegetables
in abundance a month before he had,
he didn't says much-the Head did
the warb1ing then.
"Them that laughs last laughs
best. "-1lazy Sidney in Fam Jour-
nal for Aprl.