The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, November 11, 1908, Image 6
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INDIANA FARMHAND WRITES
ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE.
A HAPPY
HOME
Washington, Oct. 25—An
Indiana tarmhand has written
a letter to President Roosevelt
about the work which the
County Life Commission is car
rying on. The President has
turned the letter over the
Country Life Commission, and
the Commission has asked the
farmhand to write some more.
“I have been a farmhand
just long enough,” says the
President’s correspondent, “to
learn the cause of so many
sons and daughters and well-
meaning. reliable farmhands
leaving the beautiful farm and
country and going to the city.
A lack of order and system on
the farm, and too long hours
for a day is what is driving the
best minds from the farm to
the city and shop. What can
we expect ofa hand, or the
farmer’s wife and her prosperi
ty, in the way or intellectual
development when they get
out of their beds at 3:30 in tne
morning and work from that
time until 8 or 9 p. m ? And
no attention paid to the sani
tary conditions of the home,
and necessary conveniences on
the farm for doing the farm
work with the least lal>or and
time.”
This man has given the
Country Life Commission some
very interesting tiisthand in-
formation about rural condi
tions and recommendations
based on a long experience in
farm work and farm life. He|
has worked tor all kinds of
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farmers, good and bad. he
says, and he has always had
ey< s open to detect the causes
ot their success or failure.
He has drawn his own conclu
sions and sets them lorth in
down-right, straight-forward
tashion. education pays in
farming, he says. The farmer
who plans out his work and
carries it through in a system
atic,business like manner, just
as the citv man does, will be
able to shorten the hours of
dal>or. “So many farmers
measure everthing on the farm
from the standj>oint of muscle, M
he continues, “and are extreme
in some things and slack in
others. I decided several
years ago tltat life is too short
to work for Peter Tumbledown
farmers.”
“Now, Mr. President,” he
writes, “you can take this for
what it is worth. I have not
given you half of my experi
ence.” The Country Life
Commission has written him
that his suggestions are so
useful that they hope he will
send more.
..Compel the farmer to bp a
business man,” he says. Go
into the homes of some of the
farmers and the so-called
farmers and ascertain how they
live, and learn of their meth
ods of doing the business in
which they are engaged. And
you will be surprised what a
variety you will find. Ascer
tain what they read, and what
stress they put on the litera
ture that comes into ther homes
(if any comes) bearing on the
business they are engaged in.
See what percent, study their
business.
“Give me the educated
farmer as a boss, and the edu
cated farmhand as a hand.
When I come in cotact with a
hand or farmer that studies his
business I find him advancing,
and it is a pleasure to work
for such men.
“The majority of the farm
ers are eight-hbur men, that
is, eight hours in the forenoon
and eight in the afternoon.
Eight or ten hours on i the
farm cannot well be adapted
in all cases, but it need not be
from fourteen to sixteen hours.
If the family arise every morn
ing at 5 o’clock and the wife
and daughter attend to the
ousebokL duties, and the
U one where health abounds.
With impure blood there can
not be food health.
With a disordered LIVER there
cap not be food Mood.
MsPills
revivify the torpid LIVER and restore
Its natural action.
A healthy LIVER
Health means happiness.
Take no Substitute. All Dniffists.
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CURE FOR SORE HEAD.
Editor Rcralist—I am a *ub-
ecriber to the Rcralist and read
with iireat interest ererythine
on tlie subject of poultry. 1
have dabbled irf the poultry busi-
j new, w ith more or le/>s success,
all my life. Some things I have
learned by reading and some byi
experience and experimenting.
On.j ! hare learned by ex
penmenting is a t-ure remedy for
sorehead. My remedy is infall
ible dnd so simple and cheap
that everybody can use it. It is
simply “strong alum water.”
Of course, f don’t pretend to
jgi*e any scientific theory or
1 reason for the curative proper-
farmhands and sons attend to f> es °f clum. but I do know that
the chores and go to the field ** "dicure sorehead ail right,
at 7 o’clock and work until it an( l sometimes in two applica-
or 1 1 :30, and go to the field * 10ns.
again at 1 and keep at it until When I find a fowl with sore-
6 o’clock, and go to the house l ,ea( l 1 P u * ** i n u coop, because
and eat the supper and then » k should be seperated from the
do the evening rhor»*s, they we, l flock and because it is pasier
have done a farm day’s* work.) 1<J P>ck up aud doctor. 1 then
Regular hours for work, and | °ld teacup and put in a
regular hours for meals, and lump of alum the size of a bird’s
regular hours for sleep, and evg and just enough hot water
regular hours for rest and to disnfvp it, so it will be strong
recreation, with plenty of stan- as possible. I then make a lit
tle mop and apply the alum
water all over the affected par's.
If you will watch your chickens
closely and uot neglac* them
when they first take it, their,
eyes ne^i npvf»r close. 1 always
dread that, moie than anything, I
for they are so hard to feed when '
they can’t see. I hail a large 1
flock of turkeys in »he fall of,
19b7 and about a dozen large
■orehea l before 1
begun using the!
If n\ n an fives for himself
•lone it must be because he has
found his earthly ideal
A low price ami a bargain are
tworalicallv dflfeient proposi
tions.
WV keep ’our eyes open,
try to avoid mistakes, see that
the material and work man-
ship of our garments are the
best, and that our store serv ice
is most attentive and polite,
but should anything fall short
of what you have a- right to
expect, don’t be backward
about your complaints.
W e are here to make things
right, according to our reputa
tion for fair dealing.
hall Suits, Overcoats, Hats
and Furnishings that will
interest the discriminating
dresser
y*‘;ir—the season for sorehead—
with such dread.
Mrh.Bkkry Stafford*
Smith’s Station, Fla., li. F.D.
Southern Uuralist.
dard papers and books, includ
ing the best agricultural pa
pers and books, and a full
faith in God and good grub is
wanted.
“The famik should cj rise at
5 o’clock on Sunday morning
as well as on week days, and
do the necessary Sunday
morning chores, and then gjo
to church and show the busi
ness man in the citv that Sun- i:«d>bler« had
day on the farm does not con- knew it. I
sist in changing the stock “Hum water immediately. 1
from one field to another, or couldn’t or wouldn’t keep them
salting it, or unloading a load in a coop like the chickens, and
of hay that wa*s brought in on '■"> you s *e it was a big job to get
Saturday evening. jit on them. Rut I put on the
“Coming to meals at meal eecondapplication on the second
hour makes it easy on the wile, day and that was sullicient. In
so she can arrange her house- ^ »hout three days the scabs began
hold duties in order, as can j ta fall oil like tish scales. Since j
also the husband his farm j learning this remedy, I don’t i
work. | look forward to the fall of the
Men of worth and standing
in the shop and city tell me
that if order and system were
used on the farm they would
go back to the farm. If the
farmer wants to keep his sons
and daughters on the farm lie
must not lengthen the hours
for a day’s work at both ends
Limit the hours ot work on
the farm to twelve or thirteen,
with pay tor overtime, and
freedom to the hired man on
Sunday.”
The Country Life Commis
sion welcomes letters like
this, because, as Prof. L. H.
Bailey, Chairman of the Com
mission, recently pointed out,
one of the objects of the inves
tigations of the Commission
will be to obtain, as fully as
possible, the opinions of both
farmers and of their hands
concerning the question of
farm labor and the condition
of hired help. It is likely that
when the Country Life Com
mission-reaches Indiana in the
tour of the country, which it
will make early next month,
it will endeavor to get into
personal touch with their letter
writer.—The Farmers’ Union
Sun.
BENTSCHNER & VISANKA,
S. E. Cor. King and Hasell sts
Charleston. S. C
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you do to relieve the pain? 8uch In
jnrlea are liable to occur in any family
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them. Chamberlain's Salve applied on
a soft cloth will relieve the pain almost
inatantly, and nnb-aa the injury a a
very eevere one, will cause the parte to
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by John MKIelit.
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MOSELLE MUSINGS
Moselle, Nov. 2; Special: —
It has been some-time since any
news from this interesting “little
town” has appeared in your pa
per.
Mr. Steadman and family
from Bamberg have moved here,
we all join in giving them a
hearty welcome.
Miss Virginia Vam and George
Stephens went to the fair at Col
umbia last week.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Herndon,
formerly of this place but now of
Alabama, spent a while with
Mrs. 8. A. Herndon.
Jerome Carter of Florence
Ala. visited his aunt, Mrs. C.
O’Quin, last week.
Miss Annie Rich will leave
Monday to open school. Miss
Annie Yarn is teaching school at
Sumter this term.
Miss Vena Breland, a popular
young lady of Ebrhardu, spent
last week with Miss Sula O'Quin.
Mrs. Ella Hiers, Jim Uiersand
Mrs. H. W. McGowan all attend
ed the fair last week, and report
a good time.
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Accidents will happen, but the best-
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