Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-10-16

comes aong-new fashioned harrers and culti-
waters, hay-cuttcrs and sch things, and now
yer goin' 70 throw way hunderd dollars on a
mower for that ar little farm Of yourn?"
"Perhaps some of my neighbors may want to
hire II once in while"
aye needn't make any calculations of that sort
on me; | wouldn't have one of the foolish
things on my farm"
"Did you ever see oneg"
"Nol nor don't want tu--they'rc only jest got
up by them crafty fellers that only wants tu git
their livin' by their wit, and git sich foolish
folks az you are tu buy their good-for-nothin'
Inventions
you've been laughing at my foolishness, as
you call 1t, but somehow, | have managed to
raise more corn, more oats, more wheat, and
more hay, too, than you have, with less than
half the labor you have bestowed on yours"
"Wal, | know my crops have been purity light
for year or two past but it's OWN to the sea-
sons-one was dry and the next was wet These
things are above our control, ye know"
1--WE can't control the season, to be sure, but
these foolish notions OF mine that you've been
laughing at, have enabled me TO raise good crops
IN wet or dry seasons either"
"iou may make your farm du so, but taint
the mater OF my land"
ut isn't owing to the nature of the land, as
much as It is to the nature OF the cultivation
When pegan upon my present system OF cut
uVauon, there wasn't any difference between my
farm and yours, only in size As you say.
dont think there is much danger OF your using
a mower on your farm, till you have got the sur
face little smoother, and freer Of rocks and
stones than 1t is now,
Nv al my farm is jest as mater made it, and
amt TO blame ior that, and my father was good
farmer and he never heern OF slch thing as a
cultivater, nor never dreamed OF sich thing as
moweri ana oleeve ITS all nonsence tryn.
else. haint got smuch money by mes l use
to have. These ere bad seasons has spilled my
crops, and one thing or mother has took of a
good deal OF my loose change 'spect I've
got sutiin Ike hity dollars, and | spose If |
don't let we have the money, ven git 1t some
where else, so is goods let ye have it's any
body
YES, shall get IT somewhere. But, Mr..
Richards, why don't you take better care of
your apple-trees, and not let them die off SOP
/ "Ale let them die You talk as if you had
power to control Providence. | 'spect trees
must die as well as folks. These ere hard win
ters Kills every thing, and the apple trees 'mong
the rest
Winter Kill an apple tree? Why an apple
tree is as hardy as an oak tree. The fact is,
MIR. Richards, If you had spent dollar or two
year for good agricultural paper, and taken
ten minutes day, or even two minutes, you
would have found out what allied your apple
! trees, ano could have saved them healthy and
sound. You won't have twenty bushels of good
sound fruit in your orchard this season"
NO, they bloomed well, and the fruit sot
harnsome, but, somehow, the fruits all fell off.
Wal, but what spect 1t ails. the trees, If faint
the winter kills 'em!
"Why, just come here, and I'll show you if
you II just poke away the grass you'll see around
this tree, close down to the ground what 1t is. v
81 don't see nothin' but the chankins the
worms has made in the rotten wood"
An, that's the very mischief The borers
have bored your trees into honeycomb, and the
trees have died in consequence Of it, and no
wonder at it. See here. while take this sprout
and strip eff the leaves! I'll show you how to
dispose OF the fellow that made this hole. There,
You see by the end of the stick, that that has
put stop to thrt fellows operations
""ail. now, that beats oil, yum who'd a
ANYBODY tha taxes hs those foSllsh a
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