The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-31

caused his return to occupy the plat.
form on farmers day Mr. Seeds Is
q farmer and farmer of experience
and the choice was well made when
tho committee selected Colonel Seeds
for the place His lecture of this
year wax entirely different from that
of his preceding one. His talk was
wholly To farmers and agrcultural-
ists and he ouly revealed the wonder
fully numerous Bob Seeds at intervals.
Improving the Farm.
"lf you will make the farm home"
stated the speaker. what 1t should be
the boys ana girls viii want to stay
there. The trouble Is about the time
the children are grown they want TO
get into the city where they can live
and enjoy the modern improvements
and advantages. have four boys
and two girls and I try to make of my
homo q club house and make II so at
traciive and delightful for them that
they want to stay there. You can't
have money unless you have fcrtilc
soil never saw a farmer who didn't
think that he had the most fertile
farm In the whole country. That Is
alright but try and keep II that way
Actual Experience.
Life Is funny proposition Eff
teen years ago / sold out a good busi-
ness in Tyrone city, Pa.. and went
down to the adjoining county. Hun
tingtou, and bought an old worn-otft
rundown and abandoned farm. Win.
dow0 wcr} nailed up, roofs letting I'm
the ram, gates going without hinges
Fences had Disappeared and there had
not been a farmer on. 1t for seven
years, because they could not find q
farmer who would farm it,
MY friends said thatfI was the
| biggest fool on earth, and thatI ought
to have a guardian angel appointed
Over mc and tho day we moved down
cn the farm MRS. Seeds cried. ,,ls
81 began to haul stable manure
| from Tyrpna City,rtw and one hiatt
miles away, and. / did not get man,
| acres covered until my lead pencil told
me that II was costing me $50 per acr
TO cover Il. | could not stand that
% as J live1 In the greatest lime -stone
| region in tho state. / thought / could
lime It. But ! did not get many acres
| covered until adicYoered that il was
! costing me SO 10 SIS per acre to limo
II, and as did not have a huge bank
| account or n rich father ih-law IA
lean mp against made up my mind
] could not stand Il: so about thai
time ! commenced burning midnight
oil studying that soil There are tw,
things ! have loved well enough t. sil
up till 12 O'Clock at night with and
burn midnight oil and the one was
Mrs. Seeds and the other was that old
| farmland | do not begrudge the
time ! spent with either of them
III I had not loved that cid farm
and sat up with 1t until ~ o'clock al
night, | never would have seen tho
boy1 take $50 per acre of It, or have
sold the soil al $3.50 pef bushel.
Plant Life Locked Up.
TAKE two young men; start then
| out in life. The one loves his busi
ness. the other docs not The one vii
burn midnight oils the other viii not
| The one is a success; the other is
| failure. ana there Is nothing down
at the bottom of II but love. So. IL
| burning this midnight oil found on
! that In the first foot of that old worn
| out farm there was enough of plan
| food TO last from one hundred to on,
thousand years; but 1t was locked nj
| and the plants could not get It. ais.
| found out that threo-fcurths of tn,
| air was nitrogen, that was costing m,