FARMER AND PLANTER.
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
few Farmers Seem to TliinU Tlieir
Boys \ecd Special Training' to
liecome Farmers.
It is a fact recog'nized by all that
the doctor, the lawyer, or anyone fol
lowing a professional or a mercantile
pursuit, must have some special train
ing in order that he may attain suc
cess in his chosen work. The most
ignorant farmer would not think of
undertaking to make a doctor or law
yer out of liis son without first send
ing him to some reputable college
where young men are trained for
such professions. Yet it seems that
.very few ever think of a boy need
ing any special training in order to
become a farmer. Anybody can farm,
so it is thought. If a boy can plow,
use the cultivator, or do the ordinary
work about a farm he is regarded as
very well fitted for making a success
ful farmer. The farm is often re
garded as the place for such persons
as have not attained sufficient educa
tion to follow some other pursuit in
Hfe. The children are told, in many
instances, at our public schools that
they should be diligent in pursuing
their studies, in order that they may
prepare themselves for some higher
calling in life than manual labor.
They are thus taught to regard man
ual labor as only fit for persons who
can support themselves in no other
way. They are thus led to think that
it does not require trained thought to
be successful in farming. Nothing but
hard work and plenty of it is consid
ered requisite. The boy who gets
this idea in his head is inclined to
think there is no honor in making a
success of something which only re
quires hard manual labor. He must
choose some of the professions where
it requires hard mental work and
where there is some honor in being
successful, so the farmer boy is off to
the city in many instances to swell
the number of the unsuccessful in
life. The boy then often undertakes
to drown the memory of his disap
pointment in dissipation and riotous
living and is rushed on toward a dis
sipated life and often a drunkard’s
grave. When it is generally recog
nized and understood that farming is
a business which requires trained
thought as well as manual labor, and
the successful farmer is recognized as
he should be, there will not be such a
tendency toward the city among our
farm 1>o3S. It is true that the farmer
could make a tolerably good living
without much thought or education
during the early settlement of the
country, while the land was all new
and no attention needed to be paid,
to the fertility of the soil. As it is
to-dav, however, we must pay the pen
alty for the ignorance of our fore
fathers, by having a soil robbed of
its natural fertility, to cultivate. It is
a case of the sins of our forefathers
being visited upon us, although inno
cently committed bjr them.—Agricul
tural Epitomist.
SYSTEM IS WHAT IS NEEDED.
The E««ential Hlquisite to Itrlng the
Attractive Side of Fnriuing;
To the Front.
Farmers as a class worry too much,
do too much hard work, and this
blunts the sensibilities, destroys their
sense of pleasure and renders them
in appearance, if not in reality, lan
guid, stupid, and in a word dreadfully
rustic. They should do less hard la
bor, much of wpich is profitless
'drudgery. Often far more is under
taken than can be W'ell done, conse
quently they work too early and too
late. They often could and should
be modified by a little forethought
and management. System is what is
needed. Farmers should have a cer
tain time to begin and stop work.
They should put in more mind, should
theorize as well as practice, and let
both go together. Farming should
not be, as it were, an incubus resting
on the mind, and rightly pursued it
will not be; for it is healthy, it is
moral, it is respectable, and In the
long run it is profitable. Only let the
farmer think well, labor judiciously,
keep out of debt, careful lookout to
outlays and incomes, keep good stock
and the best machinery, and no place
will afford him more solid content
ment and pleasure than the trusty' old
farm. Indeed, the farm is the best
place to begin life, and the best place
to end it; a truth well known and
appreciated, hence, so many in the
cities and professional life covet rural
homes.
Another essential in rendering
farm life attractive is to take care
of and promote the health. No place
affords so great a variety of exercises
for promoting health as the farm;
but too often these are overlooked,
and the beneficent results they would
have afForded are lost to those w'ho,
perhaps, were longing for them.
Among other things cleanliness is too
often neglected, bathing omitted, eat
ing is done hurriedly and irregular,
the family sleep in ill-ventilated apart
ments, and often needlessly expose
themselves to cold. Since the greater
number of human diseases arise from
colds or intemperance, both of eat
in" and drinking', it is necessary for
good health to bathe frequently,
breathe pure air, and eat and drink
with moderation and deliberation.
Home adornment is another feature
in rendering farm life attractive.
Nothing is lost that goes to make a
home beautiful or pleasant. There
should be indoor entertainments for
the faimily, papers, pictures, music,
and every member of the family
should be encouraged in their prac
tice and use. Then let neatness, com
fort, order.shrubbery and flowers har
monize without, so that home will be
a sanctuary so happy and pleasant
that the entire household will love to
stay there. There would be less de
sertions of the old homesteads if such
care was taken to make them attrac
tive and agreeable.—Cor. Epitomist.
FEEDING FOR RESULTS.
Live Stock Should l>e Fed in Harm,
ony With the Hermits
Desired.
There was at no remote date a gen»
eral belief that cows should be fed
rations in harmony with the end
sought, i. e., cows for butter making
should be fed a different class of foods
than if milk for cheese was wanted,
and if for city milk, then thin slop
was the demand, so as to produce
large flows of thin milk. All this, un
der the light of repeated and pains
taking investigation has been greatly
modified, and now the great mass of
opinion is, that a well-nourished cow,
on any ration, does not undergo any
modification or appreciation of the
quality of her milk; simply varies the
quantity. The great mass of testi
mony is also to the effect that the
good butter cow is as good for cheese.
The great mass of cows in this coun
try have their measure of value as
butter or cheese cows, measured by
the fat contents of the milk, and so
far as any investigation has gone,
there has never been change enough
in its character to warrant the asser
tion that there are any foods that will
influence it commercially.
The thing to seek out is the individ
uality of the cow and feed her to the
full capacity of production. Cows do
not consume, digest food, or give milk
in proportion to their size, and it is in
finding out what these cows will do
as separate members of the herd that
is of importance. One thing is need
ful, and that is a variety of feeds.
Not that there should be abrupt
changes, but just enough change in
the compositions to give spice to the
ration. Change around the grains to
some extent. There will be no change
in the character of the milk, but pos
sibly there will be an increase. These
slight changes in the direction of a
greater quantity of milk are more
from the fact that the appetite of
the cow is pleased, digestion is made
a little better and the contentment
more market. It is a great thing to
watch the cows and mark the different
changes that can be made in the care
and feeding, and its effect upon the
milk flow.—L. E. Kerr, in Epitomist.
HERE AND THERE,
—The poultry business is not one
for the man who has failed at every
thing else he has undertaken. Many
of this class rush in only to add an
other failure to the list.
—The care of the government’s
forest reserves, aggregating some
thing over twenty million acres, has
been virtually confided to the bureau
of forestry. They were formerly
cared for by the land office.
—The value of barley as a feed for
liorses has been thoroughly tested.
Horses and mules at hard work soon
tired of it and finally refused to eat
it at all. Oats was then substituted
for barley and eaten greedily.
—Hog raisers, who have fat hogs,
are in clover if the hogs are not. Good
fat ones have recently brought seven
cents per pound, live weight. The
joke is on those who eased up on the
hog business on account of the high
price of corn.
—Pure-bred poultry of to-day lay
more eggs, attain greater size and
young stock matures faster and are
better table fowls than the common
mixed stock, to say nothing of the
beauty to the eye of a fine stock of
pure-bred fowls.
—If the sod in the orchard is too
tough, and it is not desirable to plow
it, turn the pigs in and give them free
range. They will always find some
thing to root for, and the result will
be that they will break up the sod
and benefit the trees.
—The export cattle trade of the
United States for the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 1901, was the greatest, in
point of the number of cattle export
ed, of any year in history. The total
to all countries amounted to 459,218
head; valued at $37,500,980.
—General farming would be more
profitable if farmers would grow
more live stock. The most perfect
system is that wherein instead of sell
ing the crops to others to be fed to
animals at a profit to the breeder, the
farmer becomes the feeder himself
and reaps a double profit.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
It is probable that Pittsburg’ will
have a syrstem of elevated roads in the
near future.
The United States supreme court has
issued an order assigning Hawaii to
the Ninth California circuit.
Vitellius, the glutton, who for a
short time ruled the Roman empire,
had a waist measure of 62 inches.
The original word translated apoth
ecary in the Bible is believed by some
authorities to be better translated by
perfumer.
The Orinoco is only 1,600 miles in
length, but is much larger than might
be supposed, owing to the heavy rains
of the tropics.
Bach’s B minor mass was lately
given at Helsingfors, Finland, and the
enthusiasm was so great that it was
repeated three times. Paris is said
by some critics to have the best per
formances of this great German mas
ter.
A Japanese firm has leased an old
brewery in West Berkeley, Cal., and
proposes to manufacture liquors for
the Japanese residents of this country.
Japanese beverages made here can be
sold at a price much lower than the cost
of the imported liquors at San Fran
cisco.
When an Arabian horse finds itself
wounded and perceives that it will not
be able to bear its rider much longer,
it quickly retires from the conflict, car
rying its master to a place of safety
while it has still sufficient strength.
But if the rider is wounded and falls to
the ground, the faithful animal re
mains beside him. unmindful of dan
ger, neighing until assistance is
brought.
Hr. O. L. Fassig, in the Monthly
Weather Review, shows, as the result
of an investigation of records, extend
ing from 1817 to the present time, that
neither exceptionally warm nor ex
ceptionally cold summers have any
more relation to the succeeding win
ter temperatures than normal sum
mers have, and that, broadly speak
ing, there is no regular alternation,
or period, in atmospheric tempera
tures. The investigation was under
taken with a view of testing the sound
ness of such popular beliefs as that an
extremely hot summer precedes a cold
winter.
A UNIQUE RAILROAD.
Ia In Maryland nnd Is Twenty Miles
Lons—Conductor Ia Also
General Manager,
A railroad owned by one man is
Marj'land’s latest contribution to the
chapter of unique things. This road is
20 miles long and runs from Brandy
wine to Mechanicsville, in the southern
part of the state, says Golden Days.
Its corporate name is the Washington
& Potomac Railroad company. The
single train which runs each way daily
is made up of the engine, one freight
car, and one combination baggage
and passenger car. The sched
ule is liberal, and no hurry is manifest
ed in train movements. The conductor
of the train, who also acts as baggage
master upon occasion, is general man
ager of the road. He issues orders as
general manager and obeys them as
conductor. When, as conductor, he
thinks the schedule should be changed,
he notifies the general manager (him
self), who, if he thinks it advisable,
makes up a new schedule and issues
running orders accordingly to the con
ductor (also himself), and the latter
obeys. There are no ticket agents
along the route, and the conductor
collects fares as on a street railway,
punching a hole for each fare in a
slip of cardboard. Then he goes into
the baggage car, sees that the trunks
are properly delivered, and looks after
express and mail packages. Although
the road cannot boast the accommo
dations of trunk lines, it is really a
great convenience to the county
through which it passes. It has been
kept going almost entirely through
the efforts of the young manager-con
ductor, who is hard working, untiring
and popular. He has been busy im
proving the roadbed recently.
Cnba’s Dormant Wealth.
Gov. Gen. Wood of Cuba says that
Puerto Principe is a good cattle coun
try. There is also much fine timber
standing in its southern part, and
much entirely undeveloped wealth *in
the way of copper and iron ores. As
phalt is another source of riches in
this province. Much of this asphalt
is so fine that it is used not for pav
ing but for the manufacture of var
nishes. The asphalt has not yet been
tried for paving, but will be in Ha
vana. Tremendous deposits of as
phalt, indeed, exist in many parts of
the island, and there are probably
many which have not been discov
ered. There are parts of Cuba, small
as the island is, which have not even
been prospected.
Cftnae of Many Failure*.
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and fine physique, who started in life
with good prospects, has failed to at
tain great success because of little
idiosyncrasies, peculiarities of speech
or manner; things not in themselves
vicious or wrong, but which render
him disagreeable or Unacceptable to
those who have dealings with him.—
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