Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-21
Doing Their Best for All

Dear Mrs. Thomas If you will allow
me little space / will come again to
have a chat with you and the House
hold. This is our second year on the
farm. We like it fine and are IN good
health except one of my children, who
is suffering from pellagra. Any one
that has been cured with the yellow
root please mention it in your next let
ter. for | wish to try 1t on my son II
if is a cure. The cold weather that
read about the first part of April gave
us frost down here in north Florida.
The frost did little damage to my gar
den. We had plenty of rain and 1t was
bad on my spring biddies. The cool
MORNINGS made them droop up and lost
a lot of them I feed buttermilk to my
hiddies every day. Florida is hard
place for me 10 raise blddies. The cool
mornings give them bowel trouble.
have forty-four hens and / am anxious
TO reach the hundred mark with hens
TWENTY-FIVE Of my hens are White Leg
horns. They are very fine to lay, but
certainly are hard to raise. l find that
crossing with Barred Rocks or Rhode
Island Reds makes them easier to raise
Ond thew do not care to ramble so bad
| have over 500 collard plants set out
and lots of cabbage plants, too about
400 tomato plants. Last year | was
sick and could not can any tomatoes
but | have my cans (quarO ready 70
use this year. We have seven acres
in Spanish peanuts, besides we planteo
Texas seeded ribbon cane for early syrup
and corn and peanuts together on sixty
acres. We have good range for stock;
have so head of hogs. We can raise
more hogs and cattle on the open range
than if we had them up in pastures ana
mems. Florida is beginning to raise live
stock on a larger scale to help win the
war I have a SOW and four pigs Iha'
is nv share of the hogs and / think
every, woman should own something in
dividualIy for a little pocket money
have my chickens and hogs for mine
7 can sell or do as | please without the
consent of the farmer. But know o.
some wives that don't have any Word
concerning anything to ne sofa tha' !"
raised on the place.
Can any one tell me how to break a
dog from eating eggs? ] have bull
dog hut she eats eggs. They are too
good for dogs. Our plums are ripe ana
peaches are doing fine. There is not
much cotton planting around here. Inc
boil weevils were too bad in our sec
ton. In Madison, Fla, peanut mill Is
going up, so we planted peanuts thlS
year instead of cotton.
MOtnerS ana IdIucLSs uCli ASNA1N
children in idleness nor let them tell
stories. for it leads to dishonesty. |
know advice is cheap. but it's distress
ing to see how many children are I'M
truthful. and the untruthful person will
bear Watching for | have heard liar
will steal On our girls and boys
shoulders of today the nations respon-
sibilities will rest in a few years
have been married twelve years
nd oldest
bow is eleven. He can pillow and we
are teaching him all we can about the
farm. for we know not how long this
dreadful war will last. Farm labor is
so scarce and it costs something TO start
to farming.
I sold my home in town for less than
l paid. so as to get the cash to start us
to farming and l am truly glad today
that we are located on q farm. buy
so many of the clothes and groceries
with eggs and chickens. In town I did
not have way TO make money to help
nv family All of my children have
saving banks and / give each one
hen They can sell or eat their eggs
or sell their biddies. All children like
money and In this way my children can
have their own pocket money. They are
eager to raise their brood Of chickens
Mrs Thomas. it makes me sad to read
of the cruel treatment the Japanese
mothers are subjected TO. To part with
ones own children and home and go
back to fathers and mothers must be
heart breaking.
My advice to all young married cou-
pies is to get off and keep house. to
yourself Your husbands people are not
always your best friends. I've tried this
from experience.
COUNTRY WOMAN.