Douglas Island news., 1917-02-16
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 FOR RENT From April 1 to No vcmber |. a good respectable bed. Owner Is a farmer and will have no use for it during the working season of seven months; besides he needs thc space thc bed occupies for chick cn iucubators. Win take a lantern as part payment Of rent. Address
 Farmer care Of Weekly Pumpkin Vine"
 When Che Stroller was iu the pro cess Of being reared advertising had not attained Co the prominence it has since reached and no such ad- ycrtiscmcut as the above was ever seen in print. but they would have been numerous had it been an ad- vcrtisiug age. But iu those days the
 farmers never thought of renting out their beds for Che season tn which they had no use for them. Otherwise. they were permitted Co remain un- occupied Co accumulate dust and mould until wanted in the late fall and after an crops were gathered. %
 Only those of thc Stroller's read CTS who were reared on farms will uIlv appreciate this article Others might as we'll stop right here and start family quarrel a game Of solitaire or uything else Go while o- way Che time. If they read on. they win conclude thc Stroller Is lying and that Is something he never does except on rare occasions At least he has not done much of it since he quit eating cloves and carawoy seed.
 But Co return Co the farmer and Che gay and gladsome springtime. when an Nature is supposed Co stand on her head in glee.
 An Che world town and city reared world -enyies the farmer and Che latter would swap jobs with the most meek and lowly Of them. He is ashamed of Che milk specks on his boots.
 From April until November an farmers adhere rigidly to the eight- hour system eight hours in the fore noon and eight hours iu the after noon. Between days they perform Che several dozen chores which are a part of farm lie and by che time they have been completed. Che "wav- ing grain" is again calling them Go Che fields. This is why most farm CTS. by the time the summer Is half over. look as though they were just up after a long spell of sickness. Also. many of them carry around with them an odor similar Go that which emanates from @ cheese fac tory. but that comes from having milk snorted all over them by re- fractory young calves which are be- ing taught che gentle art or drink ing from a bucket
 There were an kinds and varieties ol birds where the Stroller was reared on a farm but he never heard one of them sing until years after and when back Co the farm on visit. or course. they sang an the time but Che Stroller never heard them. No successful farmer ever hears bird sing. neither does he couple the lowing of cattle with roc nance. He is more apt Co say "The
 things are hungry"
 The argument that. for thc reason a farmer stays up all summer. he can sleep an winter. does not hold good. Else why do SO many farmers get up and sic around three or four hours on winter mornings waiting for daylight Co come? or course. there Is not much Co do when it does come. but the ufe-wrccking habit has been formed and there is no get- ting away from it
 But why some innocent reader may inquire. must the farmer work so hard?" II Innocent Reader had ever seen a farm hand eat. he would not ask such a question The farmer has Co hustle, otherwise Che farm hands employed by him would eat him out of everything he has Some body must feed them and the farm CT can do it cheaper than anyone else. He may not have any profit left when he goes Co bed in the fall but he has probably had his pay by being referred Co by some political candidate as "The bone and sinew ot our country" The farmer has been the goat" for candidates ever since he has been a farmer.
 Lately the Stroller received a bale of printed matter from a company that is promulgating a "Back-to-the- Farm. '. movement. He returned it and suggested that it be sent to some one Co whom the terms buckwheat. buck ague and buck niggcr are sym onymous-someono that can see ser mons In stones, books in the running brooks. tongues in trees and rythm