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THE SOUTHERN MERC17BT: DALLAS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1600.
THE PJIgM.
lOBCUBT VABM irOTBB.
Farming like other business requires
patience to succeed.
Fanners cannot be too careful in
their seed com.
This is the season of the year when
Ike good husbandman will prepare the
garden spot.
A well read man is a learned man.
AO (armen ought to be well read on
the subject of agriculture.
No farmer is* so learned that he
cannot be benefitted by reading papers
and books on agricultural subjects.
Ten acres of land well and judicious*
tf cultivated will bring a better return
th«n thirty acres poorly attended to.
In answer to a correspondent we
would state that fumigation with to-
bacco smoke will kill most insects, but
the scale bug will have to be scraped
•K
Every firmer can have fruits and
vegetables in abundance. One day in
ten given to the garden and orchard
will insure plenty of fruits and vegeta-
bles for thé family.
I
Almost any plant can be transp'ant-
ed if the proper care is observed in ta-
king the roots from the soil. Be care-
ful to wet the ground thoroughly be-
fore attempting to remove tender plants.
Especially does this apply to garden
plants.
The Farm Home.
The farmer and his interests are be-
ginning to attract the attentiou of the
farmer himself, and as he begins to
manifest an interest, the general pub-
lic begins to study the question and
for some years to come the relation of
the profits as related to the consumer
and manufacturer is likely to receive
large attention, and we believe fair
consideration for we have faith in the
general fairness of humanity when
their sense of right is appealey to.
But it is the farmer as we find him in
his home to-day that we have in mind,
and shall not consider what it might
or might not be under different sur-
roundings.
Histoiy shows that from the farm
f P home has been developed the leaders
of the world despite any seeming un-
faverable and adverse surroundings in
early years in their struggle of life. It
is perhaps true that to-day the ten-
dency is away from the farm and if it
was not from natural causes it would
be deplored and should be counter-
acted. But the natural drift is inev-
itable to some extent, for with the ad-
vent of so much machinery in all de-
partments of farm work, a less number
of workmen are required on the farm
and a greater number in the manu-
facturing towns. But while this is
true it is none the less desirable that
the mass of our people should be of
that class that have been reared in
farm homes and whatever tends to re-
tain them there is to be fostered, In
the rapid development of our manu-
facturing and other industries and the
greater profits resulting, has led many
to seek these fields of labor. Whether
these greater profits are the natural
results or whether it comes from favor-
able legislation as claimed on either
side we have not in mind at present.
But rather to look at some of the ways
that will help to retain the energetic
yotog men of ofir country in agricult-
ural pursuits.
In the agriculture of to-day there is
need and ample scope for the best
minds. In the sharp competition and
the struggle for supremacy in every
pursuit of life, agriculture and its kin-
dred pursuits come in for their share
and no one no matter how gifted need
think his life a narrow one who engag-
es therein or none need say that such
an one is "only a farmer." Natural
and acquired abilities can here find
full play and in the good time coming,
and that soon, he will stand abreast
with those of any other avocation, and
agriculture receive a grand impetus,
and remunemtion commensurate with
its importance.
We hear yet and have heard much
more in other years of making the
borne, the church and other places at-
tractive to the young that they might
be induced to remain within their walls
instead of seeking that which every
find craves elsewhere. While this is
a phase not to be overlooked and we
Hull speak of it again, yet it is not of
ftrst importance.
■
Tut right principle
has to be implanted and fostered and
not only self interest awakened but an
interest in the welfare of others.
So in the line of our first thought,
to retain the wide awake, energetic
young of both sexes in the farm home,
let there be given the same advant-
ages in preparation for life's work' as
though expecting to enter one of the
so-called learned professions.
To be successful on the farm to-day
it requires to be as "learned" as in
other callings. That success has been
attained everywhere despite the lack
of educational advantages is as true
here as elsewhere "but not more so.
But especially is it the case with the
problems to be encountered on the
farm to-day, in its varied interests and
In its contact and competition with
other lines of trade, that well educated
developed mind is needed for their
solving. Let the education be in the
line of and not away from the farm.
Somehow there is much in the way or
the surroundings in which education is
given that unfits many for any real
work in life and many of those who
have an education of the head only are
looking only for a soft place to take
hold with the hands. But perhaps
these are to be expected and most as-
suredly they will not su ceed on the
farm. With the right principles in-
stilled, self interest as well as thp bet-
torment of others as an impelling pow-
er, a wide field is opened for the ex-
ercise of their utmost energies. While
it is possibly true that the road to
wealth may not be through the farm,
yet that to fair competence with per-
haps a greater amount of enjoyment
by the way certainly is. As we look
at it there is no avocation so free from
perplexities, almost unavoidable in
many lines where business relations
are necessary with so many divers
characters. The farmer is compara-
tively free from all such entanglements.
He has almost complete control of his
time coming and going as it pleases
him, with but few demands upon him
by the general public. The plans for
him and his household can be laid
with but little reference or interferance
of others. So it has been truthfully
said that the farmer is the most inde-
pendent of all in his chosen calling.
And we have faith enough in human-
ity to believe that yet, despite the ad-
verse present surroundings, when
greed, selfishness and dishonesty of
corporations and individuals in other
lines have combined against him, his
demand now being so cleariy right that
equal justice to all men will yet rule
and the farmer Le glad the farm home
is yet his J. M. Rice in Rural
Home.
Gardening.
At a meeting of farmers recently
held at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Mr. Jas.
Sloan gave a talk upon gardening.
Having been engaged in market gar-
dening since his boyhood, he is well
informed as to the best methods.
Coming down to the ordinary farmer's
garden, he advised setting off a piece
of land for this special purpose, a
piece bearing to the south or east, if
possible. He would have it well
fenced, and leave a sod border twenty-
five or thirty feet wide around the
fence. He would have his garden 400
feet long and about too feet wide.
The fence should ihclose double the
amount of land required for the gar-
den. One-half should be seeded while
the other half is in cultivation. This
makes cultivation easier by keeping
down weeds, and at the same time
adds to the fertility of the soil. He
would plow under a good coat of ma-
nure in the fall, and plow again in the
spring. Along the length of the gar-
den on one side he would lay off a
bed six feet wide for lettuce, radishes,
late cabbage, sage and other vege-
tables of this nature. About four feet
from this comes his row of asparagus,
all the way across the garden. Then
about eight feet from this comes a row
of raspberries, and eight feet further a
row of blackberries. . Between these
rows he would put a row of strawber-
ries. He plants a row of these every
year. After th$y have fruited he
plows them up and plants a new row.
In succeeding row* he has rhubarb,
red and white curraiits, peas, cabbage,
etc. .Peas should be planted at inter-
vals of about one week, anf) when the
first plantings are ripe they may be re-
moved, and celery planted in their
place. White turnip* will take the
place of the later «owing*. A row of,
lima bean mu«c have a yljutf aUo,
and should be planted with eye down.
There is very good reason for this lit-
tie precaction also. The stalk forces
the bean to the surface, and if the
bean hangs to one side it is liable to
break off before it reaches the surface,
in which case the bean never comes
up. Plant squashes between the corn
rows, and when the corn is ripe re-
move it and cultivate the squashes.—
Ex.
Farming in Foreign Land*.
The production and consumption of
milk in France amounts yearly to i,-
350,000,000 gallons, which is three
times in excess of the production of
wine. ^
The consumption of tobacco in
lingland has nearly doubled in the
last forty years, amounting at present
to nearly a pound and a half per head
of the population.
For many years India has been
growing tobacco only for domestic
use, but nuw an effort is being made
to induce its cultivation on a large
scale for commercial purposes.
American cattle have been shipped
in such large numbers to Liverpool of
late that many of them are delayed
landing on their arrival because of in-
sufficient accommodation.
New South Wales is troubled with
an over-supply of mutton, there being
now about 50,000,000 sheep in this
colony, of which 23,000,000 are ewes.
Breeders are hoping ior a revival of
the frozen meat trade, which collapsed
a year or two ago,
At the Newcast!e-on-Tyne police
court recently two men were arraigned
for shipping to Antwerp tow cars loaded
with horses in a shocking condition.
The best of these horses were to be
made into "beef" and the second-
class into "sausage."
Prof. Le Comte, of Chardonnet,
France, has succeeded in producing
artificial silk, which, in strength, beauty,
and usefulness, can scarcely be dis-
tinguished by the most expert handlers
of this material from the manufactures
of the silk-worm product—American
Agriculturist.
W* occasionally aend out sample copies
of Tb*Mmrovmv, 11)080 who reoelve them
will do ua a great lavor If they will kindly
diatribute them among their nelghbora and
at ttie aame time aend ua the aamea of all
who will aubacrlbe. Tub Mbhcukt la
only one dollar a year, and you can de-
duct the ooat of aendlng money for all who
aalc you to aend ua their aubseriptloas.
A Wonderful Ouro.
l.OOIBVILLK, Kv , l ee, 24, IMhti.
1 hereby certify that three bottlea of
Hunnioutt'a lltieumiitlo Cure cured my
wife perfectly well in lour week*' time, af-
ter being conboed to the liouio lor aix
month with * severe aiiack of muacular
rheuuiatlam. it i* certainly a nio i won-
derful cure.
z. t undkrwoou.
City Ticket Aiteut J. M. A 1. K, K.. a. W.
Cor. Third aud Malo Kireet*.
For «ale by drupgtat at #1 per bottle.
Hunnlcutt Medicine Co., Atlanta, tía..
Proprietor*.
State Bwlne Breeds ra' Keating.
The Texan 8wine Breeder ' aaaoolatlon
will bo'd a "Swine Breedera' Inatitnte" at
the Agricultural and Mechanic*! College,
College Station, February 2.' . 1800. Kvery
breeder, and «II other Imereated In the
••bog and hominy" qneatloa are Invited to
meet with ua. Tiie programme la one of
more than ordinary Interest to every pro-
greaatve citizen of Texaa. Noted apeakera
of experience will tell o facte and give ata-
tletlce that will Interem every Intelligent
listener.
Breeder of ««In*, proxreaalve farmer*
and e tuen* irenernlly iniereated are re.
(jueated to mee! with u Remember the
date, February 'Hi. the la*l Tuesday in the
mentb. O. Tirrbll, I'rea.
K. P. Holland. Heo'y.
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