Mower County transcript., 1905-12-13
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN.

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1t beats all how much can be got off
of a small piece Of land if it's we'll car
ed for. I verify believe that if most of
the farmers who are on quarters and
halves and hirin' a lot of expensive
help and .runnin' big machinery bills
could ONLY be satisfied to get down to
an eighty apiece and then do all their
own work and not hire and not hav
such big outcome, they'd make Just
as much profit and would hav bigger
bunch of happiness and smaller
bunch OF worry. I'd like to liv to see
a good house and family on every
eighty of land in Mower county. l tell
you then we'd hav nayborhoods that
would equal the towns and with rural
mail and telephones and plenty of
children in schools we could hav ideal
rural life and no drawbacks. This
runnin' large farms and handlin' lots
of stuff and money and payin' out
most of it for expense amt what ap-
peals to Farmer Ben's good judgement.
Spose man had concentrated crops
and raised valuable stuff 10y takin' bet
ter care and put all the receipts into
his own pocket at the end of the year,
it would be about the proper caper.
We don't begin to farm it like they do
in Holland and Maine.
A woman club down at esMOines
has got out new motto for its propa.
cation and they've engrossed upon
their hammer the sentiment equality
rather than Quantity; fewer but better
babies" The chairWoman hkens child
rem to booded stock and declares that if
people were as careful in rearin' and
developin' their, progeny as some Of the
stock raisers with their prize cattle
there would be speedy upliftin' of the
human race. Most of this is pretty
good stuff but the trouble is to put the
brakes on in the right place. If we
could 60 into the dirty slums Of the
great cities where children are bled'
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on fewer but better babies it would be
big uplift, but when lot Of club wo-
, men who don't average half a young
one to family talk about fewer babies
it simply means no babies at ALL I.al
wus stuck to the proposition that there
are too few babies in the families of the
Well-to- dc where good care and adVan-
tages and culture could be given to. 'em,
and l amt sayin' but that there are
too many babies in lots of low down
families where crime and degradation
and iniquity breed side by side, but club
women that don't Kav children are put
tin up nifty poor motto when they
CRY for fewer babies in their set and
station.
A St. Paul woman chased her huS-
band out of the house with revolver
at one O'Clock Thursday mocnin' be-
cause he kicked because she didn't hav
hot supper for him when he came
home after midnight. The man was
glad to escape behind the woodshed un-
til the woman of the house got her
bearin's agen. l reckon that the Wo-
man want fur off from the right of
the case tho don't know the law of it.
There's lots more men that ought to be
fetched to time with short turn for
comm home and groWlin' unjustly and
outrageously because victuals don't
suit 'em. / tell you its nifty little
praise and appreciation lots of these
hard workin' wives get from their hus-
bands that they slave and toll for. The
men that spend their dollars in the
saloons and their dimes in providin'
for their families and then growl and
kick ought to- be hit hard. They hav
the easy end Of it every time. If they
would only be at home more of their
time and help and encourage, things
would run lots smoother, and if the
men would divide evener with the wife
and home in furnishin' money for all
around support there wouldn't be any
cause Tor Klckln, at all. . +.
The married woman that amt salts
fed with her own husband but allows
attentions from other men and runs
after 'em is just breedin' a scab on her
nose as sure as fate and this is true of
married man that is payin' attention
to other women than his own wife. It
does beat all how these things are al
lowed and carried on in some quarters,
tt ought to make man or women hide
their heads in a, straw pile so folks
wouldn't see their guilty shame. I
never could see what there was smart
in such criss cross inidelity either.
Ibet if a man would try the same soft
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