The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-14

plant cultivation, the people are rails
ing oats and turnips from seed gath
cred on the cold plains of Finland.
Sumatra tobacco is grown in Connec-
ticut, Siberian cherries and peaches
in the cold Northeast, delicate nuts
and fruits in California and Japanese
crops are growing in the South. When
rust threatened the grain fields of the
West, the Government found a rust
proof wheat in Russia and rust-proof
oats in Sweden. In Egypt seed wheat
was found which will mature on the
semi-arid Western plains. Tea is
growing successfully in North Caro-
lima. The government experts search
ing through the fields of foreign ma
tons, paralleling conditions in our
wide stretches of latitude and longti-
tude, are furnishing us with various
seed which will mature crops, on their
proper soil here, in a temperature
adapted to their growth. We are only
beginning to half realize what is go
ing on in the domain of agriculture, in
this great country of ours, and the
magnitude of the work of the gov
eminent is doing for us. Not only is it
doing a great work in the lines above
indicated, but it fights the enemies OF
the farmer with rigorous energy.
1t fights the gypsy moth in New Eng
land, the San Jose scale wherever it
appears. 1t echoes the pleadings of the
Audubon societies to save the birds,
and it helps, it cheers, it encourages
us in our work. It scatterS the results
of its work with liberal hand and it
pamphlets fall like snow flakes around
country homes. The interest in coun-
try life which it infuses permeates
all ranks. and the merchant, the pro-
fessional man, the machinist, all class
es whose occupation keep them aloft
from the sweets of rural life, have no
sweeter dreams than of a return to
the old home, in whose empowering
shade they were born.
When the first modest rural mail
wagon rolled along the country road,
bringing the daily mail to the farm
house, the thoughtful student of the
signs of the times. saw in the near flu
ture a great agricultural awakening.
He knew that the fathers and mothers
the sons and daughters, would catch
the inspiration of the best thought of
the age Thoughts which would
sweep across the broad acres of the
outlying farms, thoughts which in
their serene beauty, and breath, would
develop brain, while pure air and
healthy exercise would develop mus
Gle. Progress in agriculture is going
forward by leaps and bounds, calling
to its aid science which points with
unerring certainty to sure results, de-
yeIoping a taste which manifests itself
in the architectural beauty of SO many
country homes.
The farmer quickened by the best
thoughts of our best thinkers, watch |
ing with interest the result OF each |
DAYS well-developed effort; the far
mer who keeps abreast of the times
soon becomes a literally educated
educated in that great uni
versity, whose ceiling shimmers in
sunshine, or glitters with stars, with
it's carpet of green interspersed with
flowers in spring; with rolling bill
lows of grain in summer; in autumn
decorated with tasseled plumes of
rustling corn, fanked with fruits
whose tints have been caught from
he crimson of morning sunrise and
he scarlet and gold, the pearl and
bronze of our unequalled autumnal
sunsets. and in winter, stern winter
.uler of the invested year, with pro-
Getting carpets of spotless snow, and
,nhmeral vet first water diamonds,
md glinting frost particles, which
We see in the sunbeams.
Let no farmers son or daughter,
or a moment forget in this new age of
that the sweetest, dear
st place on this earth is the dear old
country home. Let roses Chamber at
will over the porches, and morning
-lory Irvine upon the trellis and sweet
lowers swing their censor bells
long the pathways of we'll kept lawns
Is the years roll past, and the devel-
pment of agricultural science grows
pace. we shall all find, that the
earest spot on earth is the coun-
ry home.