The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-13

go to hear them? Oh no, many of you
did not. You ''got even" with the
state like the man who 'got even" with
the railway company: he bought and
paid for lis ticket 5Ht diaR't e-0 and
avea&ed himself on tie c0mbany. We
pay the Price, in taxes, and-doaf go.
Permit me to be little more hcLtfuilV
sarcastic some of you choose 10 get
your farming information second and
third handed. You scott at scientific
ideas advanced IN the agricultural press,
at farmers institutes and by the state
experiment stations, but when the
thinking and enterprising farmer adopts
and succeeds with these same ideas for
about five or ten years and another gets
the idea finally from farmer number
one, then some of you, reluctantly
give in" and also adopt those ideas.
Some Garrett county farmers 50h0 c0HLd
H0tn07O be induced to do 7CiH0ntG Sii0,
scoffed, and, derided and scorned the
silage idea and had once firmly, made
up their minds their CRITTERS" should
never eat ''sllo' and they would, today
have only remote, long distance,
vague, indefinite idea as to form and
use of the silo-if the rest of US had
not read and heard and talked silos and
silage and put into practice the now
familiar idea. The silo Pioneers were
few and far between in the county,
except near Grantsville among the
PENNSYLVANIA German farmers, in which
vicinity were, for some years probably
more silos than in the other sections of
the county put together, And the writer
is gratified to add that that grand view
point, Allegheny Heights, enables one
to see a panorama of valley farms,
commodious, we'll built barns, supple
mented in so many cases with the use
full silo, and above all the honey
residences that one is reminded of some
of Pennsylvania well built well farmed
valleys. and is really edited by the
peaceful scene that feasts the eye. And
the same is true of other valleys and
coves in reach of the eye from the state
road. | distinctly remember when a
near neighbor got the first self binder
that was ever used in the community.
One of the merchants of the nearby
town with oracular assurance and sage
and seer-like mien solemnly and en-
phatically prophesied faiure-but he
came and saw the new tangled contri-
vance work-and-he fgHrahuely and
literally cleft the field" before the
elated and triumphant owner and opera
tor could interview the wise o. mer-
chant.
| am told certain farmer on the
state road does not believe in slos-he
has large farm, principally cleared
land. am told he has big barn too,
but he doesn't have live stock enough
for more than one third of his barn
capacity. Why is this, when he is too
far from markets to sell farm products
in crude and bulky and understanding
form such as hay and straw? | don't
know, but it seems to me a practical
progressive farmer could take that
farm, build a silo, farm accordingly,
keep twice as many sheep and then
some more; at least four times as
many cattle, and not Jeed tie c0lCS on
Styap.
Last, but not least, the saddest sight
that met my gaze upon which | shall
take the liberty to comment is that
unused meeting house, by the side of
the state road Its door stands ajar-
not to permit Sunday school and preach
ing service attendants to pass in and
out, in regular and appointed and fire.
quent attendance but it stands open-to
neglect 1t stands open to admit decay
and decline. And does the same con-
dition apply to the community, spiritual
ly, or do the people assemble elsewhere
to hold their public devotions? Was it
a mistake to build the church-were its
members too few in numbers did they
forget the Messianic assurance Where
two or three are gathered together in
My name, there am | IN the midst of
them? Did petty jealousies and rivalry
for supremacy bring about luke warm
ness and Indifference and the neglect
and non-attendance? Did some of
its former members give evidence of
being, as a certain friend once char
acterized littleness and meanness as
being 1922 short in calibre?" am writ
ing this in ignorance as to 50ho ever at
tended services at any time in the neg
lected church, but its mute appeals
touch my heart. Let that abandoned
church-story which goes forth from
other sections, never find basis in truth
among the hills, the dells. the coves,
the valleys and plateaus of Garrett.
for its rock bound Businesses should
continually remind US of
THE Rock of Ages, cleft for me-"
SoJoURNER.
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