Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1875 — Small Fruits In the Country. [ARTICLE]

Small Fruits In the Country.

We are not so uncharitable as to suppose that those who seek the country for rest and recreation in summer fail to find an abundance of good, wholesome food of a substantial kind; but the choice delicacies in the way of fresh fruits and vegetables such as city people prize most are generally lacking just when and where they should be cheapest and most abundant. The cause of this is the too common neglect of what may be called a “ fruit garden,” where the small fruits are cultivated as a specialty, and distinct from those generally grown in orchards. The residents of our cities, who see trains of cars arriving every morning loaded with strawberries, raspberries and similar fruits during their special season, might, with. good reason, imagine that every farmer’s table was well supplied with these delicacies, the surplus only going to market; but a brief visit to the rural districts will quickly dispel these illusory views of country life, for we may safely assert that not 5 per cent, of those _who own and cultivate gardens and farms raise small fruits enough for the use of their families. If we visit the districts from which our markets are supplied with these fruits, fine plantations may be found yielding abundantly the choicest kinds; while in the immediate neighborhood there will be scores of families who never taste anything of this kind better than the hedges and roads offer, and that is merely through negligence, and not for the want of means of procuring the plants, or facilities for cultivating them. It is very evident that we- have as a people paid far too little attention to fruit gardens, however much has been done in the way of orcharding. Small fruits for home use would be a great blessing to country people, and help the housewife out of many a puzzling dilemma in trying to think of something for “ tea” during the hottest weather in summer. The wild pastures and woods may give a partial supply, such as it is, but it costs more time and labor to gather wild berries than it does to produce the very best varieties in the garden. Besides this, no one locality produces all the various species, and it is folly to offer as an excuse for not planting the different kinds of berries that “ they grow wild in our woods,” as many farmers have done, and doubtless will do again when urged to plant the choice sorts.

There was a time not many years ago when the cost of plants of the best varieties might be urged as an excuse by those who had not an abundance of means, but that day is past, and the very best sorts can be had at very cheap rates, varying from a cent each for strawberry plants up to ten for the very choicest currants and raspberries.— ls. T. Sun. To Lead all Competitors is the aim of the proprietors of the Wilson shuttle sewing machine. It is founded on the very best principles known to sewing-machine science, and improvements, in advance of all other sewing-machines, are being adopted constantly. The Wilson is rapidly gaining the preference of all parties that are acquainted with sewing-machines, and it has already taken the front rank among the first-class machines of this country; and its price, owing to its being manufactured where labor and material are much cheaper than in Eastern cities, 'is fifteen dollars less than all other first-class machines. Machines will be delivered at any railroad station in this county, free of transportation charges, if ordered through the company’s branch house, 197 State street, Chicago. They send an elegant catalogue and chromo circular free on application. The company want a few more good agents. It Is a fact which cannot he doubted that ever since Geo. P. Rowell & Co., the New York advertising agents, commenced business in the advertising agency line they have continued to systematize and the business to expand, until at the present time every newspaper knows the firm as well as it does its own office, and the leviathans of advertising literature look upon their facilities for expediting and economizing work as the sheetanchor of their success. —Davenport (Iowa) Democrat.

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