The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-08-10

Her furnace was q very simple affair,
made of rocks and mortar with piece
of stove pipe for the chimney. 1t was
out in the yard under big tree where
she did all OF her work in the fresh
air. She had every convenience for
pairing and pitting the fruit and a gas
oline engine brought the needed water
to her hands.
Hers was Raney Gamer that cost
$1,000. Her cans were neatly Tabled
and she sold all in Seattle at good
prices, she said and / think it was
true. That beats our way of canning
over hot stoves in hot room, doesn't
it? Now friends, why can't we manage
this way and have al these convenience
es? felt like | had come from the
back woods where we didn't know any
thing when | was with these big heart
ed, bighanded progressive Western
people who are so far ahead of us.
Fifty years ago the Indians owned the
land and the buffalo and deer roamed
in freedom, where these homes, so
complete and SO convient now stand in
beauty. Let us learn from them of
better ways. They do not have the
variety of dishes and the hot breads
that we do. Another industry Impress
ed me which is greatly neglected here.
had 2,700 White Leghorn hens, kept
for their eggs. In a climate where
snow is many feet deep from Decem-
ber to March these hens are kept in
buildings heated with furnaces and
can only be let out for an hour or so
in midday, yet the proprietor, wom-
an, told me that she realized good
profit. Now in this country where
there should be dozens there is only
one poultry farm of much extent,
Prof. and Mrs. Spencer have a fine
poultry farm in Clinton. Their 500
Rhode Island Reds, in we'll arranged
yards, with home made brooders and
simple incubators is fine sight, well
worth a long ride to Clinton to enjoy.
When | see crates of poultry eggs
brought to hotels here from Tennessee
and elsewhere, | feel that this should
not be. What a fine industry for our
young people to make money.
In Western Canada, as our train
passed through hundreds of miles of
wheat fields, nothing but grand and
beautiful wheat, Just as far as the
eye could reach; at all the homes,
however humble, there were beds of
bright blooming annals and at the r.
r. station lovely beds of flowers, yet
their summers are short and all win
ter the earth is snow clad. How bare
many yards and r. r. stations looked
as | neared nome, here in this climate
where we can grow everything.
noticed in Oregon whose climate
is much the same as ours, the fine
hedges, not always of privet as we
have but of English holly, hydrangea
and roses. with quantities of ever
green, making fine back grounds for
blooming shrubs, lilies and Columbine.
Occasionally there was a hedge of tea
plants, which is hardy evergreen and
has lovely white blooms Send to
DR.. Shepard in Summerville, S. c.. for
quart of seed, costing 20 cents and
try this hedge. Get a catalogue from
Biltmore, n. c. for grand varieties of
shrubs. the prices are reasonable and
subscribe for Country Life in Ameri-
ca" and "The Garden Magazine. They
will give you fine ideas for making
the country home beautiful, both with
out and within
Sir Horace Plunkett, who has done
so much good work for the homes in
Ireland, has this to say in his new
book. The Rural Life Problem i'm the
United States" AT the present, coun-
try children are educated as if for the
purpose of driving them into towns
The country offers continued interest
to the mind which has been trained to
be thoughtful and observant, yet the
education given to country children
has been invented for them i'm town
and not onlv bears no relation to the
life they are to lead but actually at
tracts them to town life. The remedy
must be found in new sort of text
books and the best educational work
that the farmers union can Go is to
insist upon having text books in har-
mony with rural life put into country
schools" Miss Barron writes: