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NEWTON, CATAWBA COUNTY, N. C, FKIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1890.
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FORAGE GRASS FOR UR LANDS
American Farmer.
TNCE the matter of the im-
proyement of our grasses has
rejentlv been called to the at
tention of the readers of The Farm
er, the same matter is also discussed
in other agricultural journals, aud
we have met farmers who have given
the subject practical tests, and now
purpose to note down a few addi
tional remarks upon the subject.
"We write now for the hill s. ction
of the Middle States, where sandy
soils are the exception, and there is
generally no particular difficulty in
the way of obtaining a stand of clo
ver and timothy. While these
grasses are excellent in their place,
and are not to be superceded, they
do not entirely fill the for the
entire season, and sv""vnea,ie wants
of that part of our Ps uigr where
dairy farming is the . g indus
try. '"".iff v
There are natural grasses in most
of this country that come in, as we
say, to fill any vacancy in the rota
tion and fill all the bare spots where
the sown seed has missed or died
out from any cause. The timothy is
with the wheat and the clover the
following spring, and it frequently is
the case that one or both are partial
failures from some unavoidable
cause. But where both "lake" well
and the clover makes a luxuriant
growth among the wheat stubble,
it makes a good pasture for a time
that fall, ani is the chief ingredient
in the following hay crop. But we
know by experience that the clover
is not a permanent grass, and the
next season it may be quite thin and
the timothy the principal growth for
hay. Where this is a good crop it
may cut tons to the acre, as much
or more than the cjover did the year
before. After this is cut at harvest
time, a::d especially if the crop has
been a good one, the surface is left
bare of herbage or shade, until a new
growth starts from the timothy
roots, and Jiis is generally slow, and
especially so if the season be dry
and hot. It here that there is a loss
to every farmer, but specially to
the one who has a herd of cows to
provide with pasturage during the
season, and if there has been drouth
this is the time it is most needed.
This and several other considera
tions point to the desirability of add
hig other grasses to the list, that will
grow at different seasons and fill any
vacancies where the others may
miss.
The catalogues of our seedmen
are now giving us lists of these
grasses with the prices of seed and
quantity per acre. In this latter re
port their figures may in doubt be
takeu with a liberal allowance, as
their object is to sell seed. From
our own experiet ce their whole list
might be cut down one-half and
still produce very satisfactory re
sults. From five t bix quarts is all
we have been accustomed to use of
clover (red clover); the catalogues
say onethird of a bushel or over ten
pounds With a corresponding les
sening in the price and allwill find it
to their profit to sow more grass
seed and not wait for white clover,
green grass, fox tail, sweet scented
rural grass, and a host of others, an
nuals and perennials, to come in and
fill the space. At the present valu3
of farm produce, it is useless to ad
vise an expense of four dollars per
acre for seed alone, though if the
crop is doubled it will pay it back in
the first cutting. The kind of
grass seed to be used with clover
ani timothy will vary with the na
ture of the soil and the purpose to
which the sod is to be applied. If
hay is the chief object, other grasses
must be added that will arrive at
maturity at or near the same time,
Our red clover on good rich land is
a rank grower, but not strong
enough to sustain its own weight of
stalk. It is not its nature to stand
erect as does the timothy. It is a
leguminous plant and nearly allied
to the vetches and peas. When it
outgrowB timothy (as it generally
does the first season), it becomes
mat nn tne ground like pea vines
and smothers itself so as to lose
some of its value and party rot on
the ground. Any course growing
grass with stiff stem such as we up
pose the Johnscn grass to be, would
support it in an erect position and
add greatly to its value. But un
fortunate this Johnson grass is an
annual, a species of sorghum, and it
has not been grown north of Mary
jana. ji it win grow when sown
among cloyer in the spring, with a
slight scratching of the soil that
will not injure the latter: it may be
tried. Orchard grass is a valuable
addition to our pastures and as hay,
but cannot benefit the clover in the
way that we have suggested.
le fescus are very valuable for
pasture, are largely used in England,
and are being introduced more in
this country. They are short and
d nse iu growth, the sheep fescue
especially, fine as hair, and for that
reason not available as hay, as it
would be difficult to cut with our
mowers. This is one of the supple
mentary grasses that is most valus
able to come in among the stubble
of the timothy and furnishes, on
good land, an abundance of pastur
age until late in the season.
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There is no one grass that has
done more to furnish sustenance to
cattle and help enrich our soils than
Kentucky blue grass, the Poa
pratense of the botanist, though
some have called it Poa compressa.
There are several varieties very
closely allied and similar in appear
ance and it is no wonder there is
sometimes a difference of opinion
and confusion of names. It is an
introduced species, though now so
generally disseminated as to be
though indigenous or native to this
county. It followed the first white
settlers to Ohio and Kentucky, and
was found growing near where they
had made their camps and fed their
teams with hay they carried with
them. From these spots and lines
of travel it spread in every direction
until it took possession. The Indians
attributed its introduction to the
white man, and another foreigner
no so valuable, the Plantian, they
called white man's foot, from it
growing wherever he had trod. If you
will examine the seed of both species
that are most common here,
when they are wet, you will find
they are very mucilaginous and will
adhere closely to any object they
touch, and are thus, no doubt,spread
literally by the foot. .
1 he seed of the Poa pratense is
very light (14 lbs. to the bushels),
and t'oes not ripen at a time with
any other grass that has been gen
erally grown for its seed, and thus
is not liable to be spread by admix
cure of seed. It comes iu, however,
in all rich soils adapted to it after a
few years, and by its perennial
stoloniferous root retains firm hold
of the soil. Thus it stays about
buildiusrs aud fence rows as well as
iu permanent pastures and is spread
by its seed from these by the wind
and the droprjing Gf cattle. It does
attaiu its maximum growth in any
spot soon enough to be available in
a farm rotation, and for this reason
as much as any other is seldom sown
as a farm crop, as we nave said, it
seeds itself and spread rapidly by its
roots in all soils congenial to it, and
where it is not found growing spon
taneously, there i3 good reason to
believe that it will not flourish when
sown. Manure is essential to it, and
a heavy top dressing of lime and
manures may be all that is needed to
bring it.
As a sup; lementary farm crop,
and for hay, there is nothing for the
sections where it succeeds well that
is of more agricultural value than
Hungarian Millet "Hrngaiian" it is
called for short. It is sown on corn
stubble after corn planting season,
and will yield thiee to four tons to
the acre in a little over three months
after sown, and is removed in time
to seed the land to wheat It is the
dwarf est one of the milletts, and for
that reason perhaps is the one most
relit hed by cattle that eat it up clean.
To be at its best, it is cut before the
seed has fairly hardened or soon
after it shoots in head. It has none
of the smell or ot .er characteristics
of hay when curing, does not became
dry enough to rattle as hay does be
fore putting in the barn; in fact is
best put in quite green and heats in
the mow as clover does. It is desir
able as a change of feed to alternate
with other hay, but from the time
when it is sown, it can be planted in
greater or less area as the probable
needs of farm stock require. The
hay crop is already nearly determin
ed and a shortage in clover can thus
be provided for. It is a gross feed
er, and of course will impoverish the
land to some extent, but not so much
as fodder corn. In harvesting the
crop from corn stubble ground, more
or less of the stalks and roots will be
picked up Dy the hoi se rake and
make it thus somewhat dirty and un
fit to put through a hay or fodder
cutter, but its feed qualities are not
impaired. We do not know that it
has been baled or sold in a city
market, but for home use it is worth
as much as clover hay, and more
tl.an timolhy.
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MANURES IN GARDENING.
Gardeners' Chronicle. London.
ANURE is not a mere inci
dent of gardening, an item
of small account, for upon
an edequate supply of this substance
depends whether the garden shall
be a success or a failure the manure
heap is indeed the pivot of success
ful horticulture.
The price of land, and its retail
value are now so great, that we can
no longer afford to follow the easy
slipsshod practice of our early his
tory, when a moderate crop gave
satisfactory returns for the small
amount of labor bestowed, the rental
value being of small account. Our
gardening of the nineteenth century,
to be successful, must take a more
intensive character, we must have
large and early crops or no profit ;
small crops and late do not pay
The soil we cultivate may be cap
able of producing moderate results
without much noticeable exhaustion,
but the soil that produces extraordi
nary crops must have unusual natu
ral fertility, or be handled with
uncommon skill, and sustained by
high feeding.
This uncommon skill is afforded
by the keen intelligence of the horti
culturist, and the high feeding is
obtained by the judicious use of ma
nure. OBJECT OF MANURES.
To manure the land is a very an
cient prastice. It was long suppos
ed that the food of such a variety of
plants, each with a different chemi
cal composition, as are found in the
mixed growth of gaiden, must nec
essarily be different almost as dif
ferent as the properties of the plants
themselves. But agricultural chem
ists have shown that the food of all
plants is very much alike ; though
certain classes of plants, owing to
their economic requirements, must
be supplied with specific substances
in greater abundance than others.
What is good for vegetables and
fruit is not always good for flowers,
and this results not from chemical
difference between the constituents
of the ashes of the vegetables, the
fruit, or the flowers, but from the
mode of growth of the various plants,
and the particular object we have in
view in their cultivation. It it not
so much the ques ion of the compo
sition of plants, as of the length of
time they may have for assimilating
food from the soil that is the impor
tant factor in a garden-
THE IDENTITY OF PLANT FOOD.
It has been said by Sir J. B. Lawes
that if we thoroughly understood
the action of the ordinary manures
of the farm, and their influence upon
our crops, we should be in a better
position to explain the effect of any
particular ingredient in the artificial
compounds sold in the market.
There are thirteen chemical ele
ments in various forms of combina
tion that are generally supposed to
be concerned in plant life. Some
are furnished by the free hand of
nature in t-uch quantity that the
horticulturist needs take no thought
about their artificial supply.
For instance, in the form ci car
bonic acid, carbon is contained in
the air in sufficient quanity to sup
ply any crop, since there are twenty-
eight tons of carbonic acid in the air
resting on every acre of the earth's
surface. Oxygen and hydrogen are
provided in inexhaustible quantiny,
and in just the right proportions in
the form of water. Une necessary
condition of plant life is moisture,
and in the presence of water the
chemical requirements of growth so
far as oxygen and hydrogen are con
cerned are fully met. The soil also
furnishes several of the other min
eral elements in sufficient amount.
But there are three constituents
potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen
which are aptly said by Professor
Kedzie to constitute the golden tri
pod of plant life ; these are not only
indispe sibld for all growth, but
their limited supply correspondingly
limits all the other conditions of
growth. In manurial value they
hold front rank, and upon their suffi
cient presence in the soil depends
successful cropping, both in vegeta
bles, fruits and flowers. With i
sufficient supply of these three in
gredients in our soils in active fcrm,
there is no limit to production, save
those imposed by the physical con
ditions of growth and season.
DEFINITION OF MANURE.
Manure is any substance added to
the soil to increase its fertilty by
changing its composition, or by af
fording an increased supply of plan
food.
A complete or perfect manure is
one that furnishes all the materials
necessary for successful plant
growth. The best example is to be
foundin farm-yard dung.
Animal excrements have been rec
ognized from earliest times as pow
erfully promoting vegetation, and in-
iasing fruitfulness. Dung was
the only manure known to the an
cients, this being next followed,
probably, by the use of chalk, marl
and lime.
On very poor soils it is necessary
to make a full return of all the ele
ments of plant food removed by the
crops but under tne nign manure
ing frequently practiced in garden
culture, the contributions to the soil
may be in excess of the removals,
and the land may be increasing in
fertility. In such caseB a very par
tial manuring will suffice, a mere
stimulant to encourage extraordinary
growth being all that is required.
EFFECTS OF MANTJBE ITPON THE SOL.
Before entering upon the action of
he several fertilizing ingredients
contained in manures, we mey men -Hon
a few facts respecting their be -havior
in the soil. Having already
stated that potash, phosphoric acid
and nitrogen are by far the most im
portant elements of plant food, we
will confine our remarks to those
substances. Theltwo former, phos
phoric acid and potash, are perfecly
soluble in water, but when added to
a soil they enter into combination
with it and thus become insoluble.
For examplp, if a solution con
taining potash or phosphoric acid be
poured on a sufficiently large quanti
ty of fertile soil, the water which fil
ters through will be found, on test
ing, to be quite free from these in
gredients. This retentive power of
soils is of great practical importance
in plant growth, especially in the
restricted area of pot culture ; if it
were otherwise, the frequent water
ings rendered necessary when limit
ed quantities of soil are used would
soon wash away all the soluble min
eral salt of the soil, and the plants
would starve for lack of nourish
ment. It has been conclusively
proved, however, that if these ma
nuring mineral substances are ap
plied to soils, and for any reason the
plants do not take them up, they
remain there until thev are wanted.
It is far different with the third
element of piant food which his been
mentioned, namely, nitrogen. This
substance exists in soils in the form
of organic nitrogen, ammonia and
nitric acid. By the action of a mi
nute "bacterium,"present in ail soils,
the organic nitrogen and ammonia
are oxidized, and their nitrogen con
verted into nitric acid. This opera
tion only takes place in moist soils
sufficiently porous to admit air,
hence the immense advantage of
thorough drainage. It i-; further
necessary to successful nitrification
that some base, such as chalk or
lime, be present in the soil.
Of the three substances, then,
which constitute the principle food
of plants, two are fixed by the soil,
while one is liable to be washed
away. iNitric acid is said, by sir J.
B. Lawes, to be in a constant state
of movement in the land at one
time washed entirely from the sur
face by heavy rains, and rising
again as evaporation takes place un
der a hot sun and drying winds. As
dark colored soils absorb the great
est amount of beat from the sun's
rays, the presence of a certain
amount of humus derived from leaf
mold and other decaying vegetable
matters, is advantageous both to
warmth of soil, and to nitrification,
and a very small dressing of readily
available food to such soil in the
form of nitrate of soda, ammonium
salts, guano, rape-cake, or even liq
uid manure, will be found greatly to
promote fertility, and to increase the
stimulating power of the soil.
A SCRAP OF PAPER SAVES HER
LIFE.
It was just an ordinary scrap of
wrapping paper, but it saved her lite
She was in the last stage of con
sumption, tdd by physicians that
she was incurable and could live only
a short time ; she weighed lees than
seventy pounds. On a piece of
wrapping paper she read of Dr.
King's New Discovery, and got a
sample bottle ; it helped her, she
bought a large bottle, it helped her
more, bought another and grew bet
ter fast, continued its use and is
now strong, healthy, rosy, plump,
weighing 140 pounds. For fuller par
ticulars send stamp to W. H. Cole,
Druggist, Fort Smith Trial Bot
tles of this wonderful Discovery
Free at T. R. Abernethy & Co's
Drugstore.
"A stitch in time saves nine," and
if you take Hood's Sarsaparilla now
it may save months of future pos
sible sickness.
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Physicians recommend it.
All dealers keep it 81.00 per bottle. Genuine
has trade-mark and crossed red lines on wrapper
FARMERS' EDUCATION.
American Earmer,
tfREAT complaint is being made
Ij that farmers' boys are leaving
the farms, and seeking in the
villages, towns and cities to make a
living, and to better their condition.
They are constantly seeing those
from the country going to these
places and returning better dressed
and to all appearances living easier
and better. They tell of their high
er wages they get, but rarely of how
much their board, house rent and
clothes cost. That these things
have their effect is not to be disguis
ed. They see, too, unfledged boys
and ill developed women in the
schools as teachers, but do not know
that with vacations, dress and board
the year's end generally seeds them
with empty pockets, unless they
have parents, or friends, to whom
they can go without pay for board.
Perhaps this would in time cor
rect itself if the primary school,
either in its range of studies, or in
its adornments, led the pupils to
love country life. Most of these
children leave school at perhaps six
teen, jet how few know one grass
from another, or can distinguish one
variety of cabbage or peas by their
leaves or manner of growth. Take
horses and cows, the usual animals
with which boys and girls in the
country ought to be familiar; how
few of either know the best breeds,
those suited to their soils and needs.
Yet from their ignorance of these
points come failure and disgust. A
good mecchanic never wants for em
ployment at good wages. A farmer,
knowing his business, can succeed
where others fail.
Go into our school rooms is
there a single thin" to iudicate what
the children are being educated for ?
Is there in the school books, arith
metics, spellers, geographies, histo
ries or physiologies a hint that from
the soil these future farmers and
their future wives must live? No,
nothing at all. Yet a few chromos
put around the room of horses,cattle,
hogs and poultry would attract the
eye, and become object lessons never
forgotten. A half dozen cigar boxes
might hold specimens of the wheat,
corn aud oats of t he neighborhood,
while dried specimens of grasses
might be tied up in bundles and
hung aboye the chrotnos.
Again, in the arithmetics how lit
tle about all the farmer wishes
to know. Fractions by wholesale,
short cuts to addition, subtraction
and multiplic tion and division, dis
count, square and cube root, guag
mg and many others, but nothing
practical about how many yards or
feet in length and breadth it takes
to make an acre, how much consti
tutes a load of manure, and how
many loads of stable, cow, or hog
pen manure makes a ton ? Is there
in their chemistries even a table
showing the average strength of the
three kinds just mentioned ? Is it
intimated iu any which kind does
best on sands, clays, or loams, and
for what crops ?
Can we wonder then that when
the children do not find these things
in the school room, or in their books.
that they come to regard farming as
not respectable, an ignoble calling at
best, or their books would give more
of and about it ? Farmers, remem
ber children are but women and
men of smaller growth and their im
pressions no less lasting, if not so
strong.
N THE Maryland Legislature,
Senator Stake has introduced
the bill prepared by the com
mittee of the Maryland State Farm
ers' Association, for the establish
ment of a State Board of Agricul
ture, and also the tax bill which was
adopted by the same body two
years ago as embodying the princi
ples of correct taxation acceptable
and just to the farming community,
but, so far, the various local organi
zations of farmers do not appear to
be pushing these schemes with the
energy which should mark their con
duct if they believe them desirable
or necessary.
THE COTTON CROP.
"Wilmington Star
(THE cotton crop of the South bas
jlj!) nearly doubled since 1860, not
withstanding the four years of
war, the disorganizations of the la
bor system following emancipation!
and the disturbed condition that pre
vailed tlroughout the South during
the period of sn-ca led reconstruc
tion. The great increase has been
since then and since the Democratic
party has held the reins of govern
ment in these States and intelligent,
honest white men have made the
laws. The fact that a very large
proportion of this increased crop has
been raised by colored labor indicates
that the mass of colored laborers are
not sitting up of nights bemoaning
their sad fate and praying for a "free
ballot and a fair count," over which
black and white Republican politi
cians haye been and are still doing
so much discordant howling. The
fact is, the colored laborers of the
South, especially on the farms, have
been and are doing very well, both
ering themseles but little about pol
itics, and would do still better if let
alone by designing, seif-seeking po
litical bummers, who are endeavor
ing to use them. The politicians are
not interested in raising cotton half
as much as in raising a racket with
the hope of making something out
of it.
FIVE STRONG POINTS OF S.
s. S.
1st. It is entirely vegetable, con-
tains no mineral or poison of any
kind, and builds up the sjstem from
the first dose.
2nd. It cuces Cancer of the Skin.
No other remedy or treatment was
ever known to cure it.
3d. It cures hereditary Blood
Taint, even in the third and fourth
generations. No other remedy has
ever done it.
4th. It has never failed to eradi
cate Scrofula (or King's Evil) in all
its forms from the system.
5th. It cures contagious Blood
Poison in all its -stages by eliminat
ing the horrible virus from the sys
tem, thus giving relief from all the
consequences of this bane of the hu
man family.
"My blood had been so out of or
der during the summer of 1888 that
I virtually had bo health at all. I
had no appetite ; nothing I ate
agreed with me. I was feeble, puny
and always feeling bad, I had tried
various remedies without receiving
any benefit, until at length I com
menced on Swift's Specific (S. S. S.)
That medicine increased my weight
from 155 pounds to 177 pounds in a
few months, and made me as well
and healthy as any man now living,
S. S. S. is undoubtedly the greatest
blood purifier to-day on the Ameris
can continent. John Beixew,
No. 449 North State St., Chicago,
III."
Treatise on Blood and Skin disea
ses mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.
Atlanta, Ga.
EXTIRPATING CATTLE
DISEASES.
SECRETARY RUSK transmit
ted to Congress a report of the
operations of the Bureau of An
imal Industry for 1889. The report
says the measures for the eradication
of contagious pleuro-pheumonia
anions cattle have been continued
during the year without interrup
tion. The infected area and the
number of herds infected are con
stantly decreasing. No outbreaks
of pleuro-pneumonia have been dis
covered during the year west of the
Alleghanies, and no extensions of the
contagion haye occured in the Eas
tern States. In New York State,
Orange ancWew York counties have
been free from the diseases since
June; so that for five months only
Kings and Queens counties have
been affected. The dairymen in these
counties are unalterably opposed to
submission to the regulations. In
New Jersey operations have been
confined almost exclusively to Hud
son county. No, pleuo pneumonia
was found to exisit in Pennsylvania,
except in a lew nerds which passed
through the public stockyards at
Philadelphia and Chester. The con
tagion has been eradicated in Mary-
lane. From December 1, 1888, to
November 30, 1889, ?6,531 herds o:
caltle, containing 329,006 animals,
have been inspected. The total ex
penses of the work for the year have
been $323,505. The regulations
adopted by the Department, it is
beleived, will, if enforced, prevent
the spread of Texas fever, which has
prevailed to a considerable extent.
EUPEPSY.
This is what you ought to have,
in fact, you must have it, to fully
enjoy life. Thousands are search
ing for it daily, and mourting be
cause ihey find it not. Thousands
upon thousands of dollars are spent
annually by our people in the hope
that they may attain this boon.
And yet it may be had by alL We
guarantee that Electric Bitters, i
used according to directions and the
use persisted in, will bring you Good
Digestion and rouse the demon Dys
pepsia and install instead Eupepsy.
We recommend Electric Bitters for
Dysdepsia and all diseases of Liver,
Stomach and Kidneys. Sold at 50c.
and $1.00 per bottle by T. R. Aber
nethy & Co. Druggist's.
IS FARMING AN ART?
8
HE other day I heard a man in
quiring of a neighbor if Mr. M.
was a good carpenter, and I
heard him answer that M. was only
a wood-butcher. The thought
struck me that there is more farm
butchering than good farm.
Any unthinking man as he goe8
past a farm imagines that it is noth
ng to be a first-class farmer; that
about all you have to do is to own
the farm and it will run itself. But
do we find this the case ? It takes a
carpenter three years to learn his
trade, and an engineer has to serve in
various places, such as cleaning the
engine, brakeman, flagman and fire
man before he can get an engine of
his own to run. It takes a glass
blower four years, then one year as
a journeyman, before he completes
his trade. If it takes, as it does,
that lenght of time to be a mechanic,
then can farming be learned in all its
routine of business in a few months,
when to be a successful man on the
farm requires not only knowing how
to farm and plant, but also under
standing the care of stock ?
If you are a good farmer you must
now how to be a carpenter, mason,
plasterer and painter. Then you
must know how to sew harness and
make roads. You are obliged to be
a dairyman and to know how to
make gilt-edge butter, and you will
have to fully understand how to
dress a beef or hog and cut it up in
good shape for the market You
must learn how" to grow strawberries
and blackberries; you must under
stand how to set out celery and
bleach it; you must be thoroughly
posted on the wants of the orchards
and know how to graft as well as
prune. You must have at least a
common school director, assessor or
tax collector. You are required to
be posted on all topics of the day,
and, and last, but not least, you are
expected to be able to give the rea
son why you do or do not .".o work
on the farm.
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requirements in a few months, when
to be a successful mechanic will re
quire not less tnan three years;
Yet the successful farmer is require
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trades, as almost daily there is some
thing to mend or make about the
farm. There are a great many theo
ry farmers at present. But aie they
a success ? How often do we find
that theory and practice will not
work out together? The wide
awake farmers of today do not find
it an easy task to know all of the
improvements in modern machinery.
When forty years ago the sickle filled
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art to be a good reaper with the
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day to fully understand and know
how to risrht fix ud and keep in
shape a binder. It is no trouble to
a.
drive a machine if it goes itself, but
it is an art to nx it and make it go
when it stops. So it is with the
farmer; it is an art to know how to
make the farm pay today an art he
can can only have acquired by years
of careful study and close attention
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ABO TJT nUSBAXDS.
There is one thing that a young
woman who Has but recently gone
and gotten herself married should be
advised against: that is, any senti
mental effusiveness upon conjugal
happiness in the presence of women
who have been wed some time, says
a writer in the Atlanta Constitution.
No matter how happily mated these
dames may be they feel in duty
bound to snub any expression of
faith and contentment on the part of
the bride of a few weeks. They
like to tell little stories concerning
the fidelity of implicity trusted hus
bands, their fondness for night keys,
club suppers, cards, their peculiar
exactions, eccentricities and so forth.
I chanced the other day to drop in
upon a circle of these matrons when
a two weeks' bride called. The sub
ject of marriage was brought up,and
the bride ventured to assert that it
was not always a failure.
Then there was an excessive shrug
and a synical smile from her listen
ers, one of whom said :
"Ob, but you've only been married
a short while. It's all very pretty
now, if it would only last"
"Well," hopefully, "it has lasted
with my father and mother some
twenty odd years."
"It's an inheritance then. Why, I
wish I'd inherited a peculiarity jf
that kind from my parents."
I think American women are
more to be envied than any wives on
earth," said anothor. "I had a
riend who said she never knew what
happiness was until she married an
American. Her first husband was a
Spaniard, who loved her madly, and
her life was in danger from his jeal
ousy, ine second man was an
Englishman, so cold and selfish that
she'd rather have had him kill her
than live with him. The third was
an American, neither warm nor cold.
and he gave her as much money as
she wanted and let her do as she
pleased."
"Now,that's my idea of happinessl"
said a pretty young matron. "What
could a woman want more than a
plent of liberty and a plenty of
money ? What is the jealous love of
a Spaniard besides shekels and free
dom?" "I don't believe in jealous hus
bands," said a woman whose hus
band might have been so with some
cause. " ery jeaious men are apt to
be selfish. They value jou not for
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what you are. but for what you are
estimated to be by others. Such
men need a constant sumuiant to
to their hffections."
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"What sort of husbands do you
all believe in ?" exclaimed the newly
made matron desperately.
"For my part" replied a careful
matron with several daughters to
marry, I should prefer a widower,
well off and with no children, of
course. He should be about forty
years old, and must have been a de
voted husband to his first wife.
Such a man has lived over the vagar
ies of youth. He has sowed wild
oats, and anchored steadfastly his
ship of love until it was blown away
by the wind of eternity. He has
known life's greatest joys and deep
est sorrows. He knows how to ap
preciate profoundly the love of a
woman, and, having learned many
lessons in woman-nature, he will
neither be too exacting nor uncom
prehending of her little fancies and
foibles. But I'd rather have the first
love of a man, even if it was exacting
and even if we did not always un
derstand each other. I should want
to feel that I had been 'the first to
share his hart and life."
"I believe a widower of forty is
preferable to a bachelor of the same
age," said one who had reason to
know. "People talk of its being
better to be an old man's darling
than a young man's slave, but I be
lieve that the women who marry old
bachelors are the worst slaves on
earth. Then there are other objec
tions besides unreasoning selffish
ness to unmarried men from forty
on. Such individuals seldom strike
a happy man. They are either
prudes or roues. If the formr, they
are fixed in their prim, old-maidish
habits ; if the latter, they have a
past that will not bear investigation.
"People are always talking of the
horrow of marrying old maids, and
I can't see why there isn't more said
concerning the horror of marrying
old batchelors men whose senti
ment has generally soured, whos
tastes and habit3 have settled into
selfish narrow lives, who haTe lived
so long without the companionship
of women that they can't understand
or enjoy their natures when they get
married- Old bachelor husbands
are crusty, suspicious everything
that should cause the women who
have wed them to be pitied."