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SEPT S 
THE 1RUBAL fJ£W-Y©BKER. 
for iljt Jiovmg, 
BIDDY O’LAFERTY’S VIEW OF 
FARM LIFE. 
“Tell it again.” Little Johnny is asingin 1 . 
I don’t tell it again, but 1 atn jist a dyin’ ter 
tell yer wanst, about the folks I live wid. 
I kape a radin’ and a radin uf yer paper 
ivery wake, and so much is sed about 
farrumers’ woives a worikin and a worikiu 
themselves to dith, and I don’t understand. 
1 haven’t been long in Amenky, and 1 don’t 
know how farrumers’ families git along in 
igineral. 
I was born in auld Ireland. Win I cumed 
over here in Ameriky 1 lived wid me first 
•cousin Katy McFarland, and win she died, I 
■wint ter the Intilligince office ter get me a 
place. 1 sot in the office along soide of an Amer¬ 
ican gurel, who was tricked up like a foine lady. 
The very first mornin' I wint there I noticed 
two swale purty lookin’ young ladies a coinin’ 
along wid the man. The looks of the purty lad¬ 
ies diun’t answer ter the descraption of country 
gurels as some of yes gives in yer paper. I 
thought they were city ladies, they looked so 
giniaie oike. Not a bit of notice did they 
take of the gurel diessed up so foine, along 
soide of me, but they as-ked me my name, 
ana’ endid up wid ingagin’ me to worik in 
their katchen on their father’s farrum iu New 
Jarsey. 
The smart gurel along soide of me sticked 
up her nose, and sed 1 wad be ated up wid 
intrskathers, and that I coulden’t live down 
there, at all at all. I tault her if them purty 
ladies wid their white, tinder lookin’ skanes, 
were not ated, sure au’ me own tough hoide, 
could stband it, and I wint off wid ’em in the 
cars. The cars stbopped at a small village, 
ana as foine a young gintlenian as iver ye 
seed was theie to mate us wid an illigint 
horrus and carriage. We were soon a ridin’ 
behiut the horrus, that wiut like the wind. 
1 belt ou wid both hands, for I was a little 
bit start at firiust, but they young ladies set 
so still and graceful loike and kept a smilin’ 
and a noudin’ to paple they met, so I let go 
me clutch a little and fancied I rode very 
aisy too. Win we drove foruinst the house, 
which I thought looked very foine and grand,it 
had so many piazzies and threes around it, a 
nice dacent lookin’ gintlemau came out to mate 
eru. That was their father. “Ah,” ■■Bed he, 
'• Yes have been successful.” A plump little 
body of a woman was on the piazzy. That 
was the mither. A purty gurel, about sax- 
teen, w id a apurn on, paped out the katchen 
and sed, “ Oh, 1 am so glad.” Little Johnny 
I diden’tsee at all, coz he was gone a fishiu. 
The house is furnished wid ivery thing noice 
from garret to cellar, no paper curtains nor 
sich laxius' as that, llligaut curtains, vaces, 
and paclures iu the parlor, a carpet that looks 
loike welvet, and beautiful rugs, and a peau- 
ny, which the young folks plays ou so splen¬ 
did ivery day. 
The young giutleman, as met us at the 
train is the auldest son. He is studyin’ to be 
a Veterinary Surgeon, whativer that is; I 
axed Miss Emily how to spell it. Little did she 
know what 1 was a ritin’ though. He is an 
illigant gintlemau, but he can shoe a horse as 
slick as a whastle. Emily, the auldest daugh¬ 
ter, is soon to marry the young pracher. 
Aunie, the nixt daughter, is kapin’ company 
wid a handsome young farrumer. They look 
iver so gay a canterin’ up the road some avemns 
a horrus back ridin’. She wid her purty little 
pony which she bought wid the money she 
arnt raisin’ chickens iu her recuperator, or 
seme tich name. Lonny, the nixt, is away 
to the boidin’ school, txceptin’ in the summer 
time. Next is little Johnny, the pet. * 
The hired boy does the milkin’: Lonny, win 
she is at home, tends to the milik, and makes 
the butter. Annie tends to the poultry, of 
which she has a foine lot, and they lays stacks 
of eggs. Ivery Friday afternoon is the 
wimmen’s prayer meetin’, which the little 
mither gives ivery body a chance to go to, as 
they plaze, barren they don.’t want to. I 
giuerly set upon the back porch and read the 
Ruhal. This summer win the house was full 
of company, Emily ses, ses she, *ye needen’t do 
the washiu’ this wuke, Biddy, I will git a 
colored woman ter do it for ye,’ and she did. 
Its a purty dacent sort of a colored woman 
she got, that moinds her own business, and 
lets me know I must moind mine, and not go 
Halin’ wid the wash. 
Alter the family gets done their males, I 
lixes elane plates, puts on some warrum 
vatles, which is always good and plenty of it, 
then me and the hired man and the hired boy 
ales ours. Wen the colored woman is here 
on wash days, the same toime that I am faxin’ 
the family table, 1 lax a noice little table in 
the katchen, for her to ate by herself. It 
makes a little more worik, but 1 would mther 
do any way, or any how, than ate with a 
nager. 
One of the city cousins was a visitin’ of ’em 
this summer, a clerk in a large dhry-goods 
store. He acted so grand and kept a braggin’ 
about the city, it purty nearly killed Lonny to 
kape from laughin’ right out at him. Some- 
toimes she would riu out in the katchen and 
jist double up and have her laugh out, he was 
sich a fool. Wan day he was out a ridin’ wid 
the brother. Lonny ses, ses she, “ Mither, 
what do you think cousin said ? He picked up 
Shakespere lying on the table, looked at it, 
laid it down and said he ‘wished there would 
come another poet, he was tired of seeim 
Shakespere around.’ Mamma,” sed Emily, 
“doesn’t he know an 3 r thing but dhry-goods ? 
He uses slang and simply murders the English 
language.” ‘‘He hasn’t hed the advantages 
that you hev hed,” sed the little mither. Thin 
she tault about win she was a city gurel, and 
married their father, a young farrumer, how 
happy she was, and how, win the childers was 
born, they agreed to lay aside the profits of 
their salt medders to edieate ’em. By the way, 
they squaze the salt in bundhels, in a thing 
they call a priss, thin they shap the bundhels 
off Somers. 
She toult ’em as how she sent ’em to the best 
schools the country afforded, and that they 
hed hed a chance, but that the poor city 
clerk’s father hid taken him out of school 
quite young and put him in a store. So if he 
did make blunders they musteu’t laugh at him, 
but trate him roight. But the young man 
stayed and strutted around, until his tin day 
tacket run out, then he wint home. 
BIDDY O’LAFEKTY. 
iimai topics. 
ARE AGRICULTURAL PAPERS A BEN¬ 
EFIT TO FARMERS ? 
Farming a trade to be learned on the farm. 
Some good farmers who do not take agri¬ 
cultural papers. A good agricultural paper 
keeps the farmer well informed in regard 
to new methods and new machinery , keeps 
him in love with his own occupation , en¬ 
larges the powers of his mind by giving 
them healthy nutriment and exercise , keeps 
him from becoming engrossed with politics 
and spurs up the sluggish to do their work 
on time. 
The question is not whether reading agri 
cultural papers gives pleasure to the farmer— 
a good novel might do that. It is not whether 
they afford material for thought and create a 
thirst for knowledge and intellectual improve¬ 
ment—all newspapers do that. The question 
is whether the agricultural paper is a benefit 
to the farmer in a pecuniary point of view; 
whether it pays him in dollars and cents. 
Farming is a trade, as much so as the carpen¬ 
ter’s or the machinist’s trade, and it can only 
be learned effectually by long, patient prac¬ 
tice on the farm. 
The machinist cannot learn his trade from 
books and papers, but is obliged to serve an 
apprenticeship of several years in the shop 
before he becomes expert. Books and papers 
relating to his trade may be a pleasure to him, 
but are not a necessity. A man can become 
au excellent mechanic or farmer without 
knowing bow to read at all. 
There is no question that there are farmers 
who understand and practice the best methods 
of agriculture, keep their farms iu a high 
state of cultivation, maintain the fertility of 
the soil, raise good stock and the largest crops 
their land is capable of prod ucing, and do 
not read any agricultural papers or have 
much if any knowledge of books. 
About 30 ye are ago the writer traveled 
many times through a large section of coun¬ 
try, where the farming, with but few excep¬ 
tions, was excellent. There was clean culti¬ 
vation, good fences and farm buildings, es¬ 
pecially barns, and, in good seasons, heavy 
crops. Many of these farmers had money to 
lend if they could be satisfied as to the secu¬ 
rity. There could be no doubt about their 
being successful farmers in a pecuniary point 
of view, but they took no agricultural papers, 
and not one in 10 took any paper at all. They 
knew how to raise good crops and good 
stock, and how to make money at it and there 
their knowledge ended. 
You say they could become an easy prey to 
• the Bohemian oat swindler or patent rigbt 
speculators. Not at all! They seemed to be 
more incredulous and suspicious of strangers 
than the farmers of New England or New 
York. It is true they were behind the times 
in legard to new inventions and modern 
improvements. Labor-saving machinery, 
mowers, reapers, wheel-ra.ies, horse-forks, 
sewing machines as well as improved small 
implements and conveniences of husbandry 
were but slowly and cautiously adopted. They 
clung with great tenacity to their heavy, 
high, cumbersome, uncouth wagons, long after 
better, lighter, cheaper and stronger wagons 
of the same capacity were used in other parts 
of the country. These people were living 
witnesses to the fact that men with sound 
minds may become good farmers without ag¬ 
ricultural papers and books, but they did not 
prove that such farmers can obtain all the en¬ 
joyments from life of which human beings are 
capable, and all the happiness which their 
Creator intended for them. 
With good health, it is a pleasure to eat, to 
sleep, to work and to play, or amuse ourselves, 
but these are pleasures we have in common 
with the brute creation, these are not the 
highest enjoyments of life. Our keenest de¬ 
lights are derived from the cultivation of the 
intellectual faculties, and their proper exercise 
and employment. Without education, and 
without books and papers, a person may be 
come a good practical farmer by the force of 
habit, and do his work as perfectly as a ma¬ 
chine, but he theieby becomes a mere ma¬ 
chine, or beast of burden, with no more 
bodily comfort or intellectual enjoyment than 
his horse. 
A good agricultural paper, keeps the farmer 
well informed in regard to farm improve¬ 
ments, new methods, new discoveries and 
new machinery. 
It puts him in direct intercourse and friend¬ 
ly relations with alargenumber of intelligent 
men engaged in the same occupation, and 
having the same iuterists, thoughts and feel¬ 
ings as himself. It places him in the great 
assembly of the best farmere, experimenters, 
and thinkers in the world. It gives him a seat, 
and a voice, in the great Agricultural Con 
gress, where questions of the highest interest 
to him are intelligently discussed and deter¬ 
mined. But, bast of all, it keeps him in love 
with his own occupation, keeps his mind on 
it, makes him take a proper pride in raising 
good crops, good stock, in having good fences 
and iarm buildings, and good orchards and 
gardens. It enlarges the powers of his mind 
by giving them abundant nourishment and 
healthy exercise. It brings him a grand in¬ 
tellectual feast with great regularity, and at 
a small cost. It keeps him from becoming 
wholly engrossed with party politics or neigh¬ 
borhood controversies, by constantly present¬ 
ing subjects of greater interest and value for 
his contemplation. 
“ I know how to farm better tnan 1 prac¬ 
tice” said a candid farmer when solicited to 
subscribe for a farm journal. That man did 
not know it, but he needed the puper for that 
very reason, to keep him roused up to his 
duty and do his work on time. As the sluggish 
race horse needs the whip and spur to get out 
his greatest speed, so most farmers need the 
seasonable hints, the timely reminders, and 
the intellectual lash which the agricultural 
journal is constantly nourishing over their 
heads. 
Farmers as a class, and in proportion to 
their numbers, do not provide themselves with 
reading matter relating to their special voca¬ 
tions like professional men and tnose iu other 
callings. The lawyer takes the law journal.the 
doctor a medical review, the preacher his 
church organ, the merchant a commercial 
MT. HOPE NURSERIES 
ls*o ROCHESTER, N. Y. 1888 
We offer for FALL PLANTING the largest, 
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udin 
Standard and Dwarf. 
___he beat old and new sorts, in* 
eluding the fine new grape ** Mills.” 
SMALL FRUITS. All the best, embracing the 
new Gooseberry “Industry.” 
PJJNAMErtTAL TREES AND SHRUBS. 
ROSES of every class, the finest in cultivation. 
Catalogues sent to all regular customers, Free. 
To others: No. 1, Fruits, 10c.; No. 2, Ornamental 
Trees, etc., illustrated, 16c.; No. 3, Strawberries; 
No. 4, Wholesale; No. 6, Roses, free. 
ELLWANCER BARRY. 
ENSILAGE 
AND 
CUTTERS, 
Mora mm 
substantial 
Kasier to oper¬ 
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liable to acci¬ 
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other entters. 
Our treatise on F.nsilage and Catalogue sent Free. 
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LION CUTTER. 
THE BSST 
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Also GALE’S CYL¬ 
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besides, the old and 
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FLEDCUTTEF 
For full description 
semi for Illustrated 
Circulars and Price 
List. Address 
The BELCHER «fc TAYLOR Agricultural 
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PURINTON’S STEAM GENERATOR 
Stands at the Head for Cooking and Hteam- 
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Heating Milk or Water In Dairys, small Cheese Facto 
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Dallas Center, Iowa, 
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DOUBLE 
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$6 7 5 ^ 
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All kinds cheaper than 
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Catalogue. Address 
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1 SO Main Street, 
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Wi build Automatic Engines from 2 to 200 H. P 
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A Larve Lot of 2,3 and 4-H. Engii.es 
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IOO Doses One Dollar 
On Tuesday three acres of the mammoth wheat 
grown by the Frazier brothers, at Bustleton, was 
threshed, which yielded 121% bushels, this being 
40% bushels per acre, which is undoubtedly the 
heaviest yield of wheat that has been grown in 
that part of Burlington county for a number of 
years. The fertilizer used was Baugh’s 825 Animal 
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Strong, Simple, and Dura- 
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sent on trial, and if not satisfac¬ 
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at wholesale. Write for Circulars. 
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1 Q2 Acre Farm. 01250j 117 Acres, good build¬ 
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AND 
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FRANK’S AMERICAN WONDER MACHINE. 
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First-class Butter (the verv gilt-edged) 
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he remaining milk retains all its 
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Finest lee Cream In 4 minutes. Clear 
profit. SO to 100 per cent. Prices 
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Frank’s Lightning Cook Stove. 
The Marvelous Cooking Machine, 
containing whole kitchen outfit 
and fuel (to prepare dinners for 5 
persons) cooks with the same per- 
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In the free air. instorm and rain 
as iu the parlor or sick room. Weighs 5 pnunds— 
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Send for Circular. Agents wanted. 
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Patentees anil Sole Manufactim is, 
3lt> K. 32tl St. New York. 
