Middletown transcript., 1905-12-30
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

1 iof tifc piouACtiuI " 'isii n eA,s-.s - SS
lcows.
s'It takes money 70 make the mare co.
Isays the old proverb, but a good mothe
| COW makes the money come with her mill
flow.
\ New York has adopted an amendmen
to the state constitution authorizing al
expenditure Of $50, ,8OO, 200 ON road i'm
provenent throughout the state.
4 American farms support, in round
Plumbers according to The agricultural de
h AIartment statistics two hundred million
bearing apple trees, which produce now
an average of one hundred and seventy
six million bushels.
An Indiana farmer has shown a thing
or two about the utility of the auto. Hi
gasoline engine broke down and left him
in the lurch for power for some OF the
most necessary daily duties of carrying
on the place. 1t did not take him long
to make good' with his auto, which he
Ihrnessed to his corn shelter, and to
pump which supplies the barn, etc. That
teaches that the auto is not luxury any
more, but necessity. His ordinary en-.
CINE would not do his running to town.
The South is entering upon her third
"fat" year. Five more like the two just
passed will place the South in posi-
tion to Withstand long siege of ''lean"
years, although there are no reasons for
apprehension. But III these fat years
should we not make provision for neces-
stiles to great progress and enlightenment
More and better teachers, and opportuni-
ty to every child to learn to read and
write-insist upon these things now, and
in the future the south will gather more
in the "fat' years and lose less in the
clean" years.
Some OF the farmers in the central west
are getting square deal'' from an un-
expected quarter. In the summer when
all other people are given low rates for
excursions everywhere, the farmers are
too lbusy to take advantage of the cheap
fares. In winter, their lay-off season,
when they have the time to go, the rail-
roads have returned to full tariffs and
thus tine farmers gets the worst of it at
both ends. One of the lines leading out
of Chicago proposes to remedy this by
giving week end excursion rates during
tile winter months available for trips
limited to from five to fifteen days.
While, of course, all people can come in
on this, it is established for the especial
benefit of farmers. The other roads are
kicking on this innovation but will event.
ually have to knock under or lose all of
this winters business.
The irate farmer who orders the city
sportsman off "his lands" is always in.
comprehensive to the man with the gun
His stories of damage to his cattle are al
ways unbelieyed, but there seems to be
some reason for the rural objection to city
gunners. ITO know how widespread the
cattle shooting habit isl says DIR. HI. g.
Pinkerton, a government meat inspector,
zone should take up position beside an
inspector at packing house and note
how many cattle are flayed, revealing a
charge OF bird shot in their bodies. Some
are peppered on one side only and others
on both sides. don't know whether
the cases are all accidental or whether
the hunters shoot the cattle full of bird
shot Just for fun; but mighty few, either
native or range cattle, reach the packing
houses without carrying souvenirs of some
glorious hunting trip"
The Way to Live
The farmer, il he only knew it, is little
nearer the kingdom OF heaven than any,
one Oh earth. He is certain of three
meals day and is the only man who can
fence himself in and live in spite of all the
rest of mankind. A few cattle, sheep and
fowl provide him with food and clothing,
while his fields yield him fine flour and
a source of revenue. So generous are
these provisions and SO common, that
hardly one farmer in ten makes an ac-
count of them although the ordinary
business man think he has done well
when he reaches the end of the year and
find he has little more than made ends
meet. No one is SO independent as the
farmer; he doesn't have to truckle
if he is insulted he can resent the insult
without fear of losing trade and there is
no earthly reason, with the improved
farm machinery, he now has in use why
should he not have an eight hour day
and such leisure for reading and study as
would soon make him one OF the best in
formed men in any calling. Why
shouldn't the farmer be all this and
more? Surely he has the possibilities. >
Better Hang to the Farm
It's strange how many cases there are
in this country OF old people turning the
farm over to support his parents or father
or mother, as the case may be, for the
rest OF their lives, and soon as the deed is
signed commence at the old people and
make life as miserable as possible and in
the end kick them out of the house.
Only last week case happened where
the father had turned the farm, worth
probably SIC, 900, to the son. The father
no doubt wanted little to say how
things shouId be conducted and every
thing was not pleasant Now the son has
the father examined as to his sanity, try
ing to get rid OF him, and have the county
and the state take care OF him. He has
probably had enough TO content with to
make nybody crazy, but the doctors pro-
nounced him sane. It's indeed a sad, sad
case. When father and mother work
over half of their lives to make home
and clear up farm and when they get SO
they ougnt to take life easy, their children
keep at them until they turn the farm
over, and then trouble commences. The