MARCH 15, 1916 



249 



A. I. Root 



OUR HOMES 



Editor 



The voice of one crying in the wilderness. — John 

 1:23. 



And their works do follow them. — Rev. 14:13. 



A sad task lies before me. T. B. Terry, 

 whose name has been before our readers 

 more or less for 40 years, is no more. From 

 the Ohio Farmer I clip as follows: 



T. B. TERRY DEAD. 



T. B. Terry, well-known agricultural writer and 

 lecturer, died at his home, Hudson, O., Jan. 1, aged 

 7 '5. Mr. Terry had been in ill health for some 

 years ; in fact, about 20 years ago the doctors gave 

 him only a year or so to live. Then he began a 

 persistent system of dieting, exercise, bathing, and 

 ))ure-air treatment, which was successful until his 

 last illness began about eight weeks ago. He had 

 Kved for 45 years on the farm where he died. He 

 went to Hudson in 1860, and entered the creamery 

 1 usiness. Later he devoted his time entirely to 

 farming, writing, and lecturing, receiving his first 

 Ohio institute appointment in 1880, from secretary 

 W. I. Chamberlain. Years ago he was a well-known 

 writer for The Ohio Farmer. Of late years he has 

 confined his writing entirely to one paper, and has 

 specialized on health topics. His last book was en- 

 titled, "How to Keep Well and Live Long." He is 

 survived by his wife and four children. 



And again from the Practical Farmer as 

 below : 



It is with great sorrow that we announce to our 

 readers the death on New Year's Day of our good 

 friend, and theirs, Mr. T. B. Terry. For over twen- 

 ty-five years Mr. Terry has contributed regularly to 

 this paper, and " Terry's Talks " have been eagerly 

 read by nearly every reader of The Practical Farm- 

 er. During his connection with this paper Mr. 

 Terry has written on a broad range of subjects, 

 covering every phase of agriculture, and in addi- 

 tion has contibuted a most valuable series of health 

 talks thru which a great many of our readers have 

 profited in renewed good health. 



Mr. Terry's death resulted from the recurrence 

 of a malady which afflicted him twenty years ago, 

 at which time his doctors told him that he could not 

 recover, and expected his death in a very short time. 

 In this emergency Mr. Terry exerted his indomita- 

 ble will and courage ; he studied his own case care- 

 fully, and thru a strict system of dieting, exercise, 

 bathing, etc., he restored himself to perfect health. 

 It was the knowledge and experience thus gained 

 which Mr. Terry put into his health articles which 

 have done so much good to readers of this paper. 

 It was only when the weakening effect of advancing 

 years joined hands with his old malady that he 

 succumbed. 



A host of our readers will join us in mourning 

 for this wise and kindly gentleman whose highest 

 aim always was to aid others and give them the 

 benefit of the experience which he himself had gained 

 thru years of toil and a valiant fight against ill 

 health. 



From a kind letter from Mrs. T. B. Terry, 

 dated January 1, I learn that, since his 

 sickness of about two years ago, he had 

 often complained of a sore spot in his bow- 

 els, and remarked he feared it might give 

 him trouble some tiiiio. Not long- before he 

 was taken sick he i)ainte(l the roof to that 

 " covered barnyard." Altho he worked at 



it only three or four hours a day he always 

 complained, when he came in, of feeling 

 badly. The good wife tried to have him get 

 help, but he wanted it done " just right." 

 A little later, Avhile the wife was away he 

 carried several boxes of apples into the 

 cellar. This proved " the last straw." Mrs. 

 T. thinks if he had not insisted on painting 

 that roof and earrjdng those apples himself 

 he might have been enjoying fair health 

 today. 



Let me pause a little right here. Wliile 

 there is danger that some of us may get in 

 a hurry to think we are " too old to be of 

 any use," there are doubtless many who, 

 like our dejiarted friend, shorten their stay 

 here by unimportant matters. One of the 

 firm of the great nursery of Storrs & Harri- 

 son lost his life by lifting on a barrel of 

 water that was to be used for irrigation. 

 He had means enough to buy a whole pond 

 or lake of water, and have it put where he 

 wanted it. 



Two most able physicians and two train- 

 ed nurses Avere employed for Mr. Terry, but 

 to no avail. His trouble was kidney disease 

 and inflammation of the bladder. 



I first met Mr. Terry at a farmers' insti- 

 tute in Medina toward 50 years ago. He 

 gave a talk on potatoes. It so impressed me 

 I insisted on i^utting it into book form. His 

 great theme was big crops of clover, all 

 plowed undei", as " green manuring " for 

 the crop to folloAv. Later on he astonished 

 the world with strawberries, grown by turn- 

 ing under clover and nothing else in the 

 way of a fertilizer; and this brought out 

 the book " The A B C of Strawberry Grow- 

 ing;" and, still later, other farm books. 

 Soon after the farmers' institutes found 

 out, as I did, that, no matter what Terry 

 " talked about," it was always interesting 

 to an audience. It was not only the farm- 

 er himself he was glad to help, but his in- 

 stitute talk on " The wife's share " brought 

 crowds of Avomen out to his lectures. While 

 I was aAvay doAvn in Missouri on one of my 

 Avheel rides I ran across him lecturing to 

 croAvds of farmers, with the wives and 

 children also in attendance. As Medina is 

 only about 30 miles fi'om Terry's home I 

 Avent over often to get pointers, and very 

 soon I too was surprising the world with 

 potatoes and straAvberries grown by plow- 

 ing under the biggest growth of cloA^er I 

 could produce. 



Terry's heallh failed; and the doctors 

 told him, if I am right, he liad but a few 

 weeks to live. He Avent clear to NeAV York 



