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reached the yard. There was a newspaper 
In the valise which, when Mr. Morrison 
tried to take up the egg, adhered to the shell. 
The actor tore the paper away and dis¬ 
covered that a line of print had left a mark 
on the egg. It was upside down, of course, 
but curiously enough it read : * It seems 
to be a habit.’ ” 
Wyandotte-Leghorn Cross.— I have a 
pullet (Wyandotte-White-Leghorn cross), 
hatched the middle of February, that began 
laying June 30, and has continued her con¬ 
tribution regularly since. She is white, like 
the Leghorns, but h»s the rose-comb and 
shape of the Wyandottes. What is The 
Rural’s opinion of the cross producing 
this pullet ? Was the hen Wyandotte and 
the cock White Leghorn, or vice versa ? I 
would like to breed for the same cross 
again, if I were sure of the order by 
which such a result was reached. I breed 
thoroughbred fowls of several kinds, but 
have found the crossed-breeds very fine in 
appearance and quite profitable. A. s. B. 
R. N.-Y.—Our guess would be that the 
cock was Wyandotte. We have had quite 
a little experience in cross breeding poultry 
and have observed several things that seem 
to be true In almost every case. The cock 
gives to the chick his peculiarity of shape 
of body, comb, neck and head. Color is 
most frequently given by the parent be¬ 
longing to the bird with the best established 
characteristics. In our experience the white 
color of the Leghorn hen is almost always 
sure to be found in some of the chickens 
even when crossed with dark-colored cocks. 
Chicks from a Leghorn cock invariably, 
with us at least, have the characteristic 
Leghorn comb. Our experience would in¬ 
dicate that it would be tetter to use a Wy¬ 
andotte cock rather than a Leghorn. We 
like cross-bred fowls, but have not yet de¬ 
termined whether it is profitable to use them 
for breeding purposes. 
GEORGIA NOTES. 
I am a Virginian, having come to Georgia 
from Richmond, in 1871, for a warmer cli¬ 
mate, and I have never regretted the change 
so far as climate, business or health is 
concerned. I have no land for sale, except 
some city property, and therefore have no 
ax to grind. This is a wonderful country 
as to its possibilities in the way of produc¬ 
tion and development, and in less than 10 
years will be still more wonderful, and 
within 20 years there will be such a flow of 
immigrants from the North and North¬ 
west that all will wonder. The one draw¬ 
back is that ourselves and our careless 
laborers are good enough for cotton or corn, 
but worthless for aught else unless one 
stands over them all the time. Noth¬ 
ing makes one of them so mad as to ride 
on an Acme harrow and see how much 
good work he is doing. To walk, making 
the one mule drag a brush over the ground 
delights him. When a sufficiency of white 
labor intelligent enough to use improved 
implements, has come to us to take the 
place of the black, then we will have the 
happiest, most prosperous and desirable 
country on earth. This is no fancy picture, 
drawn by partiality, for its reality can be 
shown by abundant facts. There is no 
fruit, vegetable or flower that cannot be 
produced here by planting it at a season 
suited to its growth, and the majority are 
produced in a perfection known no where 
else. I feel sorry for the North and North¬ 
west in winter, and equally sorry for them 
in summer, when I read the accounts of a 
temperature of 100 to 107 degrees, with ac¬ 
companying sunstrokes—things unknown 
here—while our greatest heat for three days 
was 95 degrees, tempered with breezes and 
cool nights, the mercury now being 78 
degrees. _ A. W. s. 
WHY I AM A FARMER. 
Farming was one of the earliest occupa¬ 
tions of man, and no doubt will be one of 
the latest. As long as he has a desire to 
eat he probably will find use for farm pro¬ 
ducts and will regard them as necessaries. 
None of the inventions of man can interfere 
with farming in such a way as to put vege¬ 
tables and meat products among the un¬ 
necessaries. While other kinds of business 
may become unprofitable or extinct, farm¬ 
ing will hold its own, and although it may 
seem sometimes as if farming was being 
overdone,there need be no great fear that the 
farmers will not be a necessity. Many now 
leave the farm because it is not profitable, 
and that is all the better for those who 
stick to the plow, for it leaves less compe¬ 
tition, while all the time those people are 
consuming the products of agriculture. 
Farming is an honest business. There is 
no doubt that the farmer comes nearer to 
earning his bread by the sweat of his brow 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
491 
than perhaps any other workman. What 
he gets he digs out of the soil, and has few 
opportunities to get something for nothing. 
Asa rule, he does not even get the chance 
to put the price on the little or much he 
has to sell; but sells his produce for what¬ 
ever he can get in the market. Farming is 
a healthful occupation. We find very few 
people on farms who are sickly or in any 
way diseased as a result of being on a farm. 
Regular habits, wholesome and fresh food 
and lots of pure air have lots to do with 
one’s health. To be sure many have worn 
themselves out6n the farm more on account 
of greed or unwise management than being 
on the farm. Farming is educational in its 
character. Take the man who had good 
training or who was well managed; does 
not he wake up every morning at four 
o’clock, just as he was brought up ? And 
does he not do most things systematically 
or otherwise owing to the kind of training 
he had in his early life ? 
One point, or perhaps two, which I wish 
to mention while noticing the educational 
value of farming is the forming of regular 
habits. The farmer soon finds by experi¬ 
ence, if not otherwise, that he must sow 
and reap at the proper times or great loss 
will follow. He notices that those farmers 
who do certain things at the right time, are 
always successful, while those who work in 
a haphazard sort of way are generally head 
over heels in work and very liable to be fail¬ 
ures as farmers. 
Another thought in connection with the 
educational value of farming is that it 
tends to develop the mind. No farmer can 
long continue the business without doing 
considerable thinking, if he is successful. 
He must plan and read and study his busi¬ 
ness, especially in these days when compe¬ 
tition is so great all along the line. He 
is more intimately associated with Nature 
than any other workman. He must know 
something of the character of his soils and 
the requirements of the different crops, as 
well as the nature, uses and requirements 
of the different kinds of stock which he 
may wish to produce on his farm. In short, 
the better he is educated in his business, 
the more successful he will be, although he 
may not find out that a farmer needs edu¬ 
cation. 
Farming is a pleasant occupation. Many 
will say this is not a fact, but I make the 
assertion from the standpoint of one who 
is farming for himself, and not from the 
standpoint of the hired hand, who ordi¬ 
narily has no higher aim than to put in the 
time and get his pay. Such men ought not 
to be called farmers, they simply manipu¬ 
late the machinery and the boss does the 
farming. Will you tell me there is no 
pleasure in sowing or harvesting the crops 
of grain and com, all your own, or in giv¬ 
ing feed to the stock which grow so nicely 
and which will be sold to buy good things 
or build a house, etc. ? No, the laborer 
may see no pleasure in this vocation but 
the farmer will. 
Farming is profitable. This I think I 
have already proven in several ways. But 
this word “ profit ” always seems to mean 
a little more, and we are inclined to think 
about money when we see or hear this 
word. In these times of very low prices 
many are prone to cry that it does not pay. 
Certainly, it does not pay some who are on 
farms, and it never will pay them. They 
are as rich as drones ever get; they do not 
think it necessary for a farmer to be edu¬ 
cated, even in farm topics. A man who 
cannot read will make as good a farmer as 
one who can, and so on. The people say it 
does not pay to farm, and, of course, that 
settles the matter. Notice some good 
farmer who is not afraid to learn something 
about his business and how to conduct it, 
and very likely he will tell you it pays. 
Then farming is an old business and will 
not be discontinued as long as man exists. 
Farming is an honest business, and also a 
healthful occupation. Farming has great 
educational value; training men to good 
and regular habits. It is a pleasant occupa¬ 
tion and probably as profitable as any other 
honest business. And lastly a man’s early 
environments and training, together with 
his natural qualifications, may fit him for 
the farm more nearly than for any other 
calling. These are some of the reasons “why 
I am a farmer.” Boyd Baldwin. 
Ellisville, 111. 
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