| Show I 1 i K I 1 from the new tork toik i or k tribune t A lacking glass for fa farmers M e rs t charity coverett cov ereth a multitude of sins but bat not even charity stretched to its utmost limits can blind us to the shameful condition of most american farmers such untidiness untidy ness and ignorance ignorance of true economy as may be seen all over this columbian paradise finds scarcely a parallel in europe though oppressed with a huge burden of taxation ground into the deist by superior castes an and wanting in the natural brightness of our own people the farmers of europe show more neatness about their dwellings and far better management in bright elc exceptions to ve ble met with within in all our states and diesl territories there are hundreds of farms well tilled and thousands of barns well filled filled and many and many a farmers home about which every is tidily tand and tastefully kept boutwe but we speak of the national evil as a whole and point to the exceptions as bright examples for imitation kindhearted kind eind hearted apologists may urge that our oun country is is young that we have a sparse population od ori an immense area of land and that the principles principle sr of rural taste have llave never yet been established but while there is weight in in all these arguments there is only the more reason why we should set about an improvement ment at once perhaps as good a way to aid this laudable work is to hold up a lookingglass lookin for farmers to see their shortcoming shortcomings s reflected therein sensible men are generally willing to try and correct bad habits I 1 when clearly pointed out and even if they cannot do all they would they accomplish something here is something from the country gentleman which may interest farmers of such a turn of mind the editor saw in a recent journey through the rural districts 1 houses with broken windows sometimes with old hats or rags thrust in to keep out the weather but usually with free ventilation 2 houses with unfinished chimneys and with brick and mortar lying laid on the roof 3 houses with loose clapboards some of which have been knocked ot off and others hanging by a single nail 4 door yards rooted up by pigs the latter havi g free access for the convenience of ready read y feeding ed with h kitchen slops 5 do door or yards grown up with burdocks murdocks bur docks and whistles thistles es with a few scattered half dead fruit trees surrounded with suckers 6 door yards with scattered boardson boards wood old barrels and boxes and slop puddles 7 broken back barns that is with the roof deeply bent doan do in the middle shing shingles liles idles pa partly arty off boards occasionally off the sides es J or of hanging harm ming ling at one end by nails 8 barns with the doors os off the hinges and propped with rails 9 barns with large piles of manure against the sideboards and wagons harrows and plows scattered about the yard 10 orchards with dead limbs broken brohen branches ei and abundance of suckers and coarse weeds about the foot of the trunks n and plentifully invested with thistles whistles es mulleins and burdocks murdocks bur docks the fences often half down with i ma many ny scattered rails in every variety of position 12 19 fences lined and nearly hid with tall nettles and elder bushes 13 board fences with posts set very shallow and leaning at various a angles of inclination sometimes propped with stakes boards occasion occasionally occasionally all ail y knocked ot off or hanging 0 at one end 14 pastures in thin or partly cut woods or in newly cleared land with many decaying piles of brush and a luxuriant growth of this ties ironweed iron weed and poke 15 1 pastures innumerably filled with a dense growth of ambrosia or ragweed rag weed 16 wet pastures poached while wet with the feet of cattle into rough knobs and grown up with coarse grass and smart weed 17 cornfields corn fields with a dense undergrowth of weed weeds sand and potato fields with a dense den se overgrowth of the sam cam 18 plowed fields with wet patches orun or un plowed portions the latter variously covered with coarse grass weeds and bushes 19 cows running at large in the streets dropping their tb e ir manure in ibe the most inconvenient inco riven places and thrusting their heads through poor fences inton into neighbors cabbages afi age s a and nd cornfields 20 attempts at hedging made by carelessly and irregularly setting out plants 1 jr unprepared ground never cutting and allowing the line to become covered with wite weeds and grass these results lil will always take place when the owners forget that the price of neatness and success is eternal vigilance and that the original curse of thorns and thistles whistles es is intended to be converted to a blessing by inducing industry enterprise and the cultivation of the vigorous virtues we are glad to say that very many farms were nearly free fr in these blemishes often not more than one or two to be seen at a time and we are informed that they are rapidly decreasing and disappear disappearing ij before the intelligence and spirit of enterprise agricultural societies and periodicals have haie done so much to foster cashmere casimere re goats IL W scott of kentucky ky informs the ohio Cultivator that G W O ogden oden den of fayette county has a flocia of eighty dash cashmere goats grades and full bloods male maie and female lie ile was astonished t to 0 see how rapidly the short haired scrub is transformed into the fine wool bearing I 1 cashmere fajr fo r or fi fiva five v e crosses appearing to make them in all equal to purebred purebred animals from imported stock idock 10 |
