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THE FARM AND GARl fiN. 



@OI^I^BSPOHDENGB. 



When a man does not stand up for himself and 

 his vocation he need not think any one else will 

 stand up for him. I am one of those farmers 

 who read, especially wliat 1 can borrow or what 

 does not cost me anything, and I sometimes talk 

 hard about agricultural writers. It seems as 

 though they thojght that everybody had nice 

 smooth land to work. I never in my life read an 

 article that told how to work sucli land as I am 

 compelled to work to get a living. On my hard 

 cobble-stone land, I can liardly find gravel and 

 dirt enougli to cover corn and potatoes, and wlien 

 I take up a paper and reatl how many acres a 

 team can can plough in a day, and about clod- 

 crushers and levelers, I am provoked. Why my 

 friends of the pen, just come where I live and 

 make me a visit, and wliile you are here I will 

 give yon a treat. I will have John yoke up the 

 old mullies and we will go out and plough, and 

 all that you plough more than half an acre a day, 

 1 will agree to pay you haTidsomely for. If your 

 friends could look over the stone wall and see 

 your liead bob, bob, bob, they would think you 

 were running for office, and trying to make 

 friends with everybody so as to get their vote. 

 Somebody please give us wlio are pt-or in every 

 sense of the word, mind and farm, a piece in 

 your paper that will just hit us. 



J. J. R. 

 >{• Hannibal, N. T. 



Henry Hink, of Wood Park, Louisiana, asks 

 how to kill ants. Equal parts of white arsenic 

 and sugar, well mi.xed, will poison ants by the 

 tliousand, but is a dangerous poison. Weak 

 carbolic acid will drive tliem awav. 

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F. L. B., San Francisco, Cal.: 1. Does it in 

 any way injure eggs, i. e., as far as hatching them 

 is concerned, to be transported l)y rail to any dis- 

 tance whatever? 2. Wliich is the best food for 

 young cliicks ; soft food like corn meal and 

 soaked liread, etc., or hard food, as fine cracked 

 corn and cracked wlieat? Answer. — 1. If eggs 

 are jarred or shaken with any violence so as to 

 break or loosen the yolk, thev will not hatch. 

 Otherwise, rail transpoitation (5oes not injure the 

 hatcliing ot tlie eggs. 2. We liave found opini()n 

 widely differing on the subject. Our belief is 

 that if the leavings of soft food are cleared up, 

 and not allowed to ferment, it is tlie best. It is 

 liable to produce disease when spoiled by being 

 left in the rain and on the ground. 

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 Zlniriiitir/towii, Pa., Aiig. 18, 1884. 

 Editor Farm and Garden — 



Dear Sir: — A friend of mine has called my 

 attention to an article in the August number of 

 your magazine, the Farm and Gardkn, which 

 reflects severely on tile good name of my iionored 

 father I know that vou admitted the article 

 thoughtlessly, and with no intention of doing 

 an injustice to a good man. Moreover, I know- 

 that for those wlio knew my fatlier, no contra* 

 diction would be neeiled, but for tlie sake of his 

 good name among many otiiers who did not know 

 him, but yet feel an interest in the missionary 

 worlt of our church, it may be best that I should 

 ask you, in justice to the sainted dead, to juih- 

 lish the true aeeount of the story which yon 

 have associated wiili iiis name. 



I am told by high authority that this same 

 story lias been repeated and attached to the name 

 of nearly every missionary in the East. Now it 

 could n()t be true of «//, even if it were really 

 true of any one of them. A captain in the 

 United States Navy stateil at a public meeting, 

 at which my informant heard him, that hearing : 

 this story so often repeated, he had thought it 

 worth while to trace it to its source. He did so, 

 and located ir, in a town in Japan. My father 

 never lived in Japan, nor had a house built in 

 tliat country. So it will be seen how untrue and 

 unjust it is to as.sociate the story with one whose 

 integrity, self-sacrifice, and holiness, are wit- 

 nessed to by all who knew him. 



Thanking you for yonr cheerfully given per- 

 mission to make this correction, I am, 

 Very truly yours, 



Thomas Boone, 



Rector of OirUt Cliurch, Savannah, Qa. 



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