Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-12-24
farmers department.
Farmer Williams Tool House.
, rARxER's sAxBLE AMONG HIS sEIGHBoRs.

One day, early this season, strolled over to
Neighbor Williams, for, as you already know,
like to be friendly to all, and we ale pref
ty social class over here | did not wait for
a rainy day" this time, as had a few i'm
portant topics about Summer crops, &c, to
talk with friend W. about But found him
too much occupied to chat any. He was in a
great hurry to begin his powing, for the
ground was in nice order. The horses and OK
en- were waiting to be harnessed, or yoked,
and such hurryng, scoldng time have sell
dom seen
g" Jm I say, where is the bolts and clevis Z"
don't know, sure boss. Not bit OF one
could | see at ALL" Well, go and look all
around, and under the place where the harrow
was, and see" The boss was tired of waiting,
and went too. In the meantime Tom came up
with" Masther, and there is three teeth out
of that same harrow Well, Tom, go and
get the axe and will dress out some at the
wood pile" After long hunt, Jim aud the
boss had found two cleviseS under the rubbish,
but not bolt. Now what must they do
Jim, go over to Neighbor Thomas and bor-
. couple Of bolts he has plenty, for ! saw
number in his tool box BY this time Tom
returned, with" Masther, and it was yerself
that left the axe mp in the woods, for couldn't
find it all" Here was dilemma for my easy
careless friend but as the harrow had stood
against the fence, exposed to weather all the
me. and in poor condition the teams must
wait for Tom to go half mile for the axe the
loss had forgotten to bring home jim came
back with the borrowed articles and begun to
harness his team but 10 one of the traces
had ripped, and jim had to take his shoe string
10 tie it up with, and the whiffle-trces were out
OF order Here commenced hunt for the
hammer to mend it, but, as was the case al
most invariably the one that used it last iust
laid ii doun in some out of the way place and
search had to be made every time it was
wanted But it will be too tedious to relate
all the mishaps of that busy day-how the pin
(wooden of course) of the oxbow was lost, and
the chain was found where they drew the last
logs out of the woods &c, &c After two
hours waiting, the teams finally moved off to
their allotted work, but the pIows were SO rus
ty from exposure that they would scarcely
turn the soil, and the harness was constantly
giving out. / could not see that there was
place for any tool on the farm,--for hoes, shov-
els, forks, rakes, harness and everything, was
lying about in the corners, or on the ground
as the case might de- The truth is Neghbor
Williams Tool House is as large as " oh out
Of doors"
The teams being out of the way, until some
thing should break, which | predicted soon
would be the case, Neghbor showed me a
whole lot of seeds he had recently purchased
He said he meant to try everything this year
that was new for he missed it last year in not
buying good stock of Chinese sugar-cane.-
And sure enough he had lot Of them There
were different kinds of corn, several of oats
some nuts resembling the grass nuts that grow
in South Carolina, which he called earth nl,
monds, the Japan pea, &c IL was very con
fdent all of them would tie aspecuat;on, even ii
he did not require the stump puer to eXtr
cate his DioscoreaS or Chinese vans, last Fall
But fear he will be unsuccessful, for he is
such man for new things, and loves so well
to attend at doings, especially agricultural Fairs
in the country. lie will pay but little attention
to them after they are planted He loves to
take prizes at the fairs, and many one he
got, too, as found by the books and cups he
exhibited to the view Of every one that enter
ed his house. He always took nice colt, calf
pig, or even hill of corn, and gave it all The
attention and labor he could to push it aheal
and neglect all the rest. Yet he was fa
more noted man in the county than his thrifty
pains-takirg,n eghhor Thomas
few days after this | met Thomas, and,
asked him if he was not disposed to go largely
into the raising of some of these new seeds, es
pecially the Sorghum, for sale, and his charac
teristic reply shall not soon forget 1t wa
this : " A wise man will never 60 to catcF
clans at high water" All, | thought, how
many do this very thing As soon as the We
ter gets high, how many rush blndv into spec
ulation, while the clans have previously beer
caught and sold. S.