Mower County transcript., 1904-07-06
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN

FARMkR BINS CULUMN.
Did YOU ever sit in the shade and
watch the old cow chew her cud? It's
worth studyin'. I tell you she gets the
good Of what she takes lin, turnin' it
over and over and chewin it fine and
workin' the saliva into it so that when
itgoes down for good it is just thor
oughly masticated and predigested al
most. I recken that if lots of the
human hogs that gulp down their Wit
ties whole without stoppin' to chew
and work 'em over in proper and decent
shape would only go into the cud chew
in' business they would avoid lots of
the dispepsy and stomach troubles and
stinkin' breaths and indigestion that so
many run up against already. It's
agin natur to swaller down your vittles
whole. There's trouble brewin' when
you don't make the teeth and saliva
take their share of work and you dump
the whole job on the poor, abused stom-
ach and load it down twice too heavy
for what was intended. If dispeptics
would make a rule to count a hundred
while they was chewin' each mouthful
it.Would come the COW on their vittles
and I'm nifty certain that mammoth
Improvement woald ensue.
n O . Q
The lazy farmer that stands lookin'
over his fence to his corn field and
cusses and swears because it's so small
and amt gainin' fast can squirt tobacco
juice over the fence until frost comes
but it won't help his corn grow one
little bit. I tell you there's nothin'
that will make corn smile and stretch
and rustic like ticklin' the ground
round it necessarily with hoe and
plow. A good dirt bath every mornin'
or two is fetchin' my sweet corn in the
garden along so that it's hip high and
ready to tassle out and I'm in it with
ayhoe every mornin' while it's cool.
tt beats all how it stretches out and
grows, Hereit's only about eight weeks
since it was planted and it's so high
that my little grandchildren could easi-
", get lost in it. The right twist of
the hoe handle in garden is the secret
Of all thrivin' gardenin'. Keepin' the
ground stirred. is the best remedy for
dry weather that [ know of. I can
stave off pile of drought in this way
When l travel along the county roads
and see the big differ in corn fields it
locks like a good deal was OWN to. the
differ in workin' it. Tickle Nature
with hoe if you want to hav her
smile on you with prosperity and big
crops. It's the old,rule of work and
win.
| I amt denyin' that I'm an old fogy
but can't get that national convention
representation off my mind. 1 tell you
it amt right for the democratic south
to hav the same number in nominatin'
republican presidents as the solied
north. In the Chicago convention Mis-
sippi with 5, 753 votes for Mckinley in
1900 had twenty delegates in the con-
vention and Minnesota with 10000
votes for Mckinley in 1900 had only 22
votes in the convention. It's just let
tin out the job of namin' republican
candidates to those who meyer do any
thin towards electin' 'em at the polls.
It's exactly the same thing as packin'
the republican primaries in this state
with democrats who never intend to
support the candidates at the real elec-
tion that they help to nominate in the
primaries. When it comes to less than
800 republicans down in the rebel state
of Mississippi havin' the same vote and
power and say and standin' and pres
tige and influence as nearly 5000 Min.
nesota republicans I've got hard kick
comm. It amt righteous.
1 was readin' in my paper about the
death Of one of the big millionaires re-
Gently, and it said that this death was
keenly felt in Newport and New York
as arrangements had been made for an
extensive entertainment this summer
Of his daughter, who is comm back
from Europe to show her gowns for
few weeks. 1t is an awful pity and
shame that the old man had to die just
at this time and interfere with this pro-
gram and bring so much trouble and
disappointment into the family. 1t
amt that he was a. good father and
forked over the spondulix to support
all the extrayagance in the family and