EVERY FARMER SHOULD HAVE A GARDEN.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 33, 30 July 1892, Page 2

EVERY FARMER SHOULD HAVE A GARDEN.

It is one of the curiosities of agricultural life in the colonies that there is no place where yoa are less likely to see vegetables and fruit on the dinner table than at a farm house. Of coarse there are notable exceptions to this rale, but the average colonial farmer does not appear to be aware of his opportunities to live well in,, this respect, and thus strangely neglects a most valuable source of domestic comfort and, health, not to speak of the possible profit where good communication with a town market exists. As an American contemporary truly states, farmers of all classes should enjoy the luxuries of a garden, bnt the majority of them do not grow enough fruit, and vegetables for a table supply, and in some districts they actually buy from the cities. They cannot buy as well as they can produce There is quite a difference between fresh vegetables from the garden and those that have become stale and bruised in the process of marketing and carrying for long distances. The farmer who is i satisfied to sit dow» to his table with mutton or pork and potato©! as an every-day diet simply denies himself the enjoyments which his calling allows him. As the busy season of spring sets in, the farmers are usually too engrossed to give their attention to so small a matter as a garden, but we can assure them, that, insignificant as a garden'

may seem, it contains more that «dds to their enjoyment of life on the farm than anything else produced upon it. The gardenless farmer knows nothing of delicacies. He satisfies himself with ' very little, and compels his family to do j the same, yet is surprised when his U children seek occupations in iLhe city, where they find more enjoyment and live on a variety of food. The farmer has an-advantage d*er his city brother for enjoying iaxnries. The strawberry, and many other varieties of fruit, may be placed upon his table daily if he will have them, but he overlooks those things that are within his province, and allows others to enjoy what he should have in abnndance. Farmers/, dp) notv overlook the garden. Devote a spaceto the garden even if some other crop mast be sacrificed.