The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-05-16

sometimes, by saying he don care Tor
garden truck, and that mostly settles
| it, but it plunges her into the deepest
anxiety ami extra work to contlive
something that he does care for.
What she likes. and what would be
convenient TO cook and hcalthful to
eat, do not enter into her consideration.
1t is what he likes that she wants TO
provide. | hope the dear young wife
will do some thinking on her own ac-
count, and cater to the best interests
of all the family, rather than to the
distorted appetite of the head OF the
house. II he doesn't like vegetables
and fruits it is her business to make
him like them. She should learn how
to cook them arpetiz;nglv and let them
be prominent in every dinner. The
same with fruits. Half the indiges-
tions and ob-dcarm mes are owing to
improper food.
When the spring comes natural
appetite demands greens Of some sort.
Half tue beauty of spring is in the
fresh food it brings. Asparagus is an
important early garden sauce. lfyou
have no asparagus bed: lose no time in
getting one. 1t will take two years,
az least, to get one into good using
order. Asparagus is thing that not
all know how to raise, and it is eX-
pensive to buy l know a young
farmer who planted three beds of it
before he had a yield. The trouble
was he planted the roots too shallow
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 fertilizc the
trenches and not plant too deep at first.
Two inches would he deep enough to
plant, and. rs they begin to grow, fill
up little at time until the trenches
are full and bed level. The Young
man neglected to get proper lnstruc-
ton when he first planted, but he was
determined to conquer, and did-all
honor to him. 1t is best to ask the
nurseI lyman 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 he dug and nearly
filled with manare and covered with
soil; then, if you have good plants,
you will soon have an immense yield
for years, without replanting, ola crop
that will serve you a better purpose
than the doctors drugs.
Although am believer in vege-
tables as a diet. l am not vegetarian.
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
tlat we eat. Pork is popular, how
ever, and the amount consumed in this
country is surprising. There are for
tunes in it. Philip D. Armour, the
late Chicago multi millionaire pork
merchant, said: "It looks as if packed
everything but the last breath of a
hog, but the boys who get out all there
is in that last breath will have bigger
business than mine" 1t is not worth
while to say, don't cat pork. There
would he no hope of getting the public
ear, and VIC might better do as the
man called his dog out from under the
bed, and he wouldn't come: "Well,
then, stay there" said he, "for | will
be minded Although we have Scrip
ture 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 1--WE have to take thcm)
in things We like. We are willing
enough to let fishes without fins and
scales alone; also eagles, vultures,
ravens, owls, hawks, pelicans, storks,
rats, mice. ferrets, lzlrds, snails, moles,
and other animals the Good Book con-
demHs because we have no appetite for
them; but the smell and the taste of
pork, obtained, 50 Charles Lamb wrote,
by the accidental burning down of a
shanty in which a pig lived with its
owners and got roasted thereby, and it
was so pleasant to taste and oderiferous
that more houses had to be burned that
more roast pig might he obtained, and
so the appetite grew and spread till it
! has reached a sze that can not be
curbed. We must live or die 10y 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 neighhor once
seeing the Head of Our House setting
out tomatoes and cabbages in the mid
die 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
. month before he had, he didn't say
much-the Head did the warbling then
"Thcm that laughs last laughs best.
-M,y Sidney, IL Furm J,urnM to'
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