Life — April 3, 1890 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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SAMPLE PAG HOME S$ FROM LIFE'S ESTEEMED CONTEMPORARIES.—III. TEAD << HENHOUSE. A Journat For Country Gents. MLCPIIQ. HOBOKE: APRIL 1, 1890, No. 303,942. sSHOULD FARMERS MARRY? Many of our readers are young farmers, just starting out in life, and the question of whether | it is worth while to marry, is to them a very | serious one. In most parts of the United States it is almost impossible to secure good farm-help, and the young farmer will get more | work out of a wife than he could out of two | hired women. Therefore, as a general rule, we should advise young farmers to marry and for | the following reasons : It costs no more to feed a wife than it does a hired woman ; usually not so much, because if a hired woman does not like the food, or does not get enough to eat, she is very apt to leave. You have to pay a wife no wages. A new calico dress each year and an annual visit to the circus, or to the county fair, takes the place of wages. ‘A wife will take better care of your clothes and grease your boots properly. Of course, a wife will be more of a compan- jon than a hired woman, After she has fed the stock and chopped the wood for next day’s fires, | she may be tired enough to go to bed, but if you tell her to, she will read your HOMESTEAD AND Hennou! the sofa. If she dies it won't cost much to bury her, and it will be easy enough to get another. Eto you while you take a nap on FREE TRADE V8. PROTECTION. Ir has been charged that the HOMESTEAD AND HENHOUSE is paid by capitalists to ad- vocate the cause of Protection. This is not so. We believe that all wide-awake farmers know that Protection is a great deal better for them than Free Trade. If they have to pay twice as much for their sugar, coffee and agri- cultural implements, this enables millionaires and capitalists in the cities to pay two or three cents more per dozen for their egys. We are the friend of the farmer and also the friend of Protection, 2 2 HOPE FARMERS. THERE are many farmers in the Eastern States inclined to be easily discouraged, and to ac- cept too readily the statements of idle theorists who think there is no profit in land. For these faint-hearted tillers of the soil we mention the case of Mr. Robert Wakeful, who recently made over ten thousand dollars on less than an acre of, ground, and he did it between the first of Feb- tuary and the sixth’of March. Before he took the land nothing had been raised on it except the meanest kind of grass, and that was not worth the cutting. Mr, Wakeful did not even break the soil. He allowed the old grass to re- main, Those who care for further particulars, can get them by writing to Mr. Wakeful. Our belief is, that the situation of the land had much to do with its success, as it was a corner lot on Madison Avenue. FOR THE How to avoid bee stings. Keep far, far away from the bees. FEEDING swine on asparagus tips, and es- pecially when asparagus is out of season, is an excellent preventive for obesity. HANover. dam is Hanover’ | THE MAIDEN BLUSH TOMATO. Tus is a new variety of tomato, lately placed on the market by Messrs, Seedy Bros., whose ad- vertisement will be found in another column. It is named after Miss Lily Seedy, whose portrait we give, showing her surprise at the size of the luscious fruit, os A GROWING EVIL. To the Editor of the Homestaan ao Hexnouse : Tam a constant reader of the HomestRap AND. Mouse, and I trust you will allow me to pro- test, in your valuable columns, against a growing evil. Irefer to the cruel habit of spanking hens to make them lay. They lay no oftener for this Record ; 11:13% (seven furlongs.) w Horse, she by Clothes Horse, she by Horse-radish, with Tinker's dam, Continental dam, but not Wortha dam. performances are well-known to the sporting world. well’s Island Handicap in a canter, beating a large field and his owner's friends. HANOVER. Haxover is a handsome chest- {nut, forty-two years old the 34 Of last December. He stands twenty- six hands high and is equipped with a rotary pump and double compound- essure _fetlocks. is withers are un- wrung, and, as will be seen by 6 ur por- traits he 4 of ‘the trim’ and graceful build which invari- ably mark the thor- oughbred race- horse. His pedigree is perfect and he comes from high- priced stock, his first sire being the horse for which Richard IIT. offer- ed a kingdom, with notakers. On his father'sside, he isa distant relative of the horse which figured at the siege of Troy. His He is also connected by marriage Last year he won the Black- unmerited punishment, and it often is a source of deep mortification to the recipient. More than once I have seen the mother of a large family, ‘openly spanked in the presence of her offspring and the other habitues of the farm-yard. A well regulated diet will accomplish {ar more toward a good crop of eggs than any amount of corporal Punishment. The following regime, carefully ob- served, will produce wonderful results: i For breakfast—Devilled crabs, pine-apple ice- cream and cocoanut cakes. For funck Squab, earth worms and a dem taste of cafe noir. For dinner—Horss-radish, cayenne pepper and sweet aay they should drink nothing b it is important they should drink nothing but sauterne or Chateau Yquem. F.L.B. QUININE TREES. Farmers in Illinois are securing good results in quinine culture. Five-grain pills planted in March begin to sprout April rst, and the farmers in this section, besides realizing good profits, have ob- served that chilis and fever have completely dis- appeared from the neighborhood. comicbooks.com