Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-02-08
Papers Read at the Farmers Institute
L. g. cLurE.

PaperS Read at the Farmers institute.
L. G. CLUTE.
Am l satisfied with my chosen voca-
ti)a in life?
Most emphatIcally l say, yes.
Why am satisfied?
First. Because there is satisfaction
in living the fres independent life of
the farmer. There is supreme salts
faction in being your own bose. Yon
can go to bed and get up whom you
p.esse. Cote work and quit when you
please and no one 10 fault you II you
are few minutes i.te az In tho case
with the man working on regular
salary. We have triad this and know
from experience. There is q satisfac-
tion in sowing the seed, watching it
grow, tending the corn, gathering and
feeding 1t out to the steers and pigs
and in sseing them grow into fine
specimens OF beef as,:i pork, and then
If prices are good 1t IS supreme salts
faction to ship them to market and re-
ceive the returns of the we'll earned
dollars. 1t is also satisfactory to the
farmer to plant small trees and see
them grow to be huge trees of the
forest during our short lives here on
earth. Your wrifer has apple trees
planted from seed 45 years ago that are
over two feet in diameter, and white
pines over two feet in diameter that
will make line saw logs of valuable
lumber, planted by his own hands from
little seedlings gathered in the woods
only few inches high when set in nut
sury rows where they were grown until
large enough To transplant in rows
around the farm, and who would not
Ray, there was sails action in watching.
these tine trees groW and also to eat the
fruits of his own trees aud vines. all
these things help 10 en6ear one to bis
homo on the farm rs well as help to
beautify the landscape and add value
to our commonwealth. can assure.
you it was satisfaction to US after all
our neighbors in an early day in the
lifties told US we could not raise apples
and fruit in this country to be able to
show them in y Jew years trees loaded
with fine fruit, and then another salts
faction In being the first man to ship
hundred barrels OF apples of his own
growing out of Delaware county.
1t is also very satisfactory to the
practical farmer to be able 10 SO mate
his stock as to improve any defects in
them, to watch this improvement and
know that he has accomplished his de-
sire. 1t is also the same with grains,
vegetables, fruits and flowers. Not
satisfied with the crab apples, choke
cherries and wild berries of nature he
goes to work to improve them until to-
day from the sour apple of nature we
have apples 1t for the taste of the
Queen. And plums, cherries aud ber-
ries OF all varieties that are really good
enough for man or woman either and
all these are surely thing to make a
man satisfied with his calling. Another
satisfaction to US has been in being
able to 60 out in the orchard or garden,
and especially 10 the strawberry patch
and gather the fruit and vegetables
fresh from trees and vines instead of
having to buy stale stuff from the
grocers as the man in town is many
times compelled to do or go without
them. We also find great satisfaction,
comfort and profit in watching and
caring for the busy bees, in fact there
Is no work 1 ever did on tho farm so
pleasing and satisfactory as to work
with the bees. love to see them hus-
tie in and out their hives gathering
honey during good honey flow. We
also love to carry in the honey, case
after case, until we have it piled up by
the tons. And then above all there ia
satisfaction in taking in the cash after
sales for you come nearer getting
something for nothing than In any
thing we ever worked at. There is al.
80 great satisfaction in knowing you
have the best of everything If you only
work to get 1t. We have derived a
great deal Of satisfaction from taking
the products of our farm and produced
by our own labor to the great fairs of
our own state, AMI also Of those adjoin-
ing as well as all the great expositions
of the world held in the United States
and comparing OF in placing them in
competition with those from othel
stotes snd countries as well as our OWL
state. And we are well satisfied with
the result.we have attended every lows
State Fair since 1862. Forty two state
fairs without missing one, and in al
that time our cash premiums have rur
from 300 to over 500 dollars per wear
We were awarded medal at Philadel
phia on our farm products. We re
y ceived 81 premiums of Let degree O
merit at the great Worlds fair at New
Orleans. We also received over &c
awards and medals at Chicago, and a
Omaha we received thirty-one medals
and at St Louis we received on tn
products of our Delaware County farm
,, more Grand prizes than was given an,
three states as we'll as gold medals OIL
graiO, grass seeds and grasses, and sill