The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-05-31


good seed. and proper cultivation after the seed
is planted. All this means the difference between
25 bushels of corn to the acre and IS bushels. the
difference between a half bale Of cotton and
bale. the difference between ton OF hay and
two tons.
LIFE on THE FARM AND IN THE CITY.
The lack OF success ia farming is generally lack
Of knowledge Of knowing how to properly utilize
the agencies of nature. Labor is necessary. but
this IS not all. Hard the farm life Is under
average conditions it is no harder than the work
of the average mans life in the city business
man IN the city now and then accumulates more
money than any farmer can possibly do, but he
usually pays greater price for it. in anxiety,
worry. and loss of health, which he does not re-
cover by travel and vacation The average clerk,
mechanic or Iaborer of the city, as rule has less
money ut the end Of the year, than has the aver
age farmer. As a rule nearly all farmers make
living and the proportion OF farmers in poor
houses jails and penitentiaries is 50 small that
the column devoted TO it in statistical tables in
comparison with city occupations is often blank.
Tt Is occasionally said that the life of a farmer
is narrow. that he has no opportunity to grow
and do something for the world. The freedom
of the fields, the orchards and the gardens. and
a chance to see the sky, free from columns Of
smoke. is his. The average city man spends his
time hurrying in the morning from his fiat or
rented house to the Office or store or shop. along
crowded streets. and back home at night for a
dinner Of cold storage chicken if he has the price
with vegetables perhaps little wilted or stale
with age In all truth there is not the opportu-
nifty for progress in the life OF the average city
resident as has the farmer on his own property,
working it like master
If farmers treated their work as the business
man and manufacturer find it necessary to han
die theirs drudgery would be a minus quantity.
and the boys and girls of the farm would not be
lured to risk the unknown Of the city which
seems to be so bright promise. The boy on the
farm which his father does not properly tin may
be made to prosper by the boy if he profits by his
fathers failures, making them stepping stones to
success. The value of one dollar earned on the
farm is worth three dollars earned If the city.
where money Is spent for many things not nee
essary to real comfort but demand because Of
the rivalry in the strained and artificial exac-
tons Of society.
IN THE HALL OF FAME.
looked over a list of names already selected,
and of names proposed. for the American Hail of
Fame in New York, and saw the names of educa-
tors inventors. preachers, architects scientists.
mechanics. musicians, doctors, soldiers, sailors
and lawyers. all of them distinguished for work
wherein the world has been helped. Few Of them
er boys and while they had achieved distinction
in other walks. they attributed their success to
the sturdy foundation gained on the farm. and
many of them. in their declining years returned
to the farm to lengthen and enjoy their declin-
ing years in the open. in the freedom and the in
dependence of the country. l saw the name Of
Eli Whitney poor boy, who. when a school
teacher in Georgia. invented the cotton gin.
whose first machine could clean as much cotton
in one day as man could clean by hand in a
month. I there the name of Asa Gray, whose
youthful days were spent grinding bark for his
fathers tannery, but whose maturer years were
spent in the study OF plants and trees. and the
knowledge he gave to the world Of the laws and
habits of vegetation has placed his name high on
the scroll Of American ImmOrtals.
MANY THINGS TO STUDY. ON THE FARM.
There are countless things to find out and con-
slider and practice in connection with the proper
management of the farm. The farmer should
know something Of the composition of the soil.
of plants and OF animal bodies, know something
Of the object of feeding. of what makes bone and
flesh and fat. Horses. cattle, sheep and hogs are
common to farm life. If speed is desired in a
horse proper framework is necessary. and
good muscular and nervous organization In
the COW, where milk and butter are the objects
the feedstuffs adapted to producing them are re-
qured. In sheep, wool and flesh and in hogs
quick and uniform growth, with flesh and fat.
The capacity of the digestive organs in these
different animals greatly varies, The stomach
of the horse viii holh about 20 quarts while that
of a COW win hold over $50 quarts. A sleeps
stomach of average size viii hold 10 quarts more
than that of horse. Therefore. the horse and
hog do better on concentrated food, grain, etc,
while the COW and sheep require quantity in the
form of roughage
A knowledge Of the anatomy and physiology
of live stock in connection with the value and
composition of food stuffs would enable feeders
to get results not possible under hit and miss
guess work. There are thirty or more distinct and
pronounced differences between a COW and a
horse, not only in their physical structures but
in their habits The horse has one stomach and
the COW has four. The COW lies down fore part
first and rises on her hind legs first. With the
horse this is reversed. and so on through an en-
tertaining list of differences. In plant and ami
NAL life there is a great variety, Who among my
hearers can name all the trees of the woods Of
this region and particularze concerning the laws
of their growth. their habits and their usesP Who
can name the flowers. the cultivated plants and
the different kinds of domestic birds and ami
mals9 These things and a thousand others pre-
sent on every side most interesting studies of the
kind that increases in interest the deeper one
gets into them. No fiction rivals the facts of ma
ture trust my friends here may not consider
the illustrations used are commonplace. it Is the
commonplace things which make up the sum to-
tai of all things. It was Lincoln who said God
loved the common people. for the reason that He
made more of that kind than any other. drop
of water is important inasmuch as il tells Us
what the ocean is, A friend of mine George H
Maxwell says: A seed a thimblefuI of soil
drop of water-each is insignificant in itseIf-yet
potentialities are developed, when the three are
brought together under the manipulation OF a
trained intelligence. which may transform the
face Of a continent"
NO LIMITATION TO OPPORTUNITY
Let no one say there is no opportunity that
the lack of money stands in the way Nearly all
the great discoveries have been made by men
and women without money. Their zeal to do
things overthrow and mastered all obstacles and
difficulties. Charles Darwin thought earth worns
made as boys generally think to bait fish hooks
with-had a part in the economy OF creation and
he spent months in studying them. The result
was a book in which he tells the story of their
usefulness in preparing the soil for plant life. Sir
John Lubbock governor OF the Bank of England.
the worlds greatest financial institution, took
time TO study the habits OF ants. and his book Is
one Of the great ones of natural history l wish
everyone in my hearing had a copy Of Lubbock's
Pleasures Of Life. a little book now printed in
most languages Of Europe. and SO frequently in
this country that think any book seller can fur
nish it at about the cost of a couple Of good CT
gars.
Besides the utility of plant and animal there is
history with each. history fascinating fe-
ton from the pen of Poe. or Sinlms, or Page. or
Harris. Take the plant so familiar in the South.
the wool-bearing shrub known as cotton, but Ia
beled gossypum by botanists. This singular class
of plants is widely distributed throughout the
warm regions of the world a most conspicuous