Des Arc citizen., 1859-02-18
But one way to Farm.

Y Hon. J. R. Williams of Michigan, in his agricultural address al the New York State Fair at Syracuse, related the follow ing anecdote
 {" Imet man last year, who exultingly declared that their was butone way 10 hoe. but one way to blow, but one way to har- vest, and books and schools were there fore futile If there is but one way to farm it, that IS a very poor way, which af- lords an average crop of less than eleven bushels of wheat per acre over such q country as we possess This same friend called my attention to Pennsylvania German, who could hardly read and write and had a great contempt for pa- pers and books on farming, but was the best farmer ill his neighborhood. l told him thatI thought this basket would not hold water, and that this model farmer owed everything to the spirit Of improve ment abroad His blow was Troy blow, instead of the old shaky implement. with straight handles tipped with cow horns, which he used when a boy. His imple- ments were mostly light, graceful, elastic ones, of recent patterns. His fruits were budded and grafted from such as, his neighbors had imported from the best nurseries. Whatever superior cattle, or sheep, or swine he had, were obtained from heighbors at no extra cost. The nails he shingled his house with cost but one third as much as those which his fath- CT used. When he got up in the morn ing, he lighted his fire in second with q | friction match, instead of tagging ten minutes with flint and steel and finder box and he complacently composed him self to sleep at night under sheeting that cost eight cents per yard, as good as that which cost fifty cents when he was child, The story is told of Plato, that having described man to be a biped without feathers, Diogenes, the cynic, laid pluck ed rooster before him and exclaimed ( Behold Plato's man. If our model farmer was deprived of all the benefits he had derived from that progress which he | ldepised, if he was stripped of all borrowed iplumes, he would be as innocent ol feath- CTS as Plato's man.
 A PERFECT SHOWER or AcEs.l see a mighty funny poker game once on the Massasip goin up from New Or leans.
 Thar war four old coast Frenchmen, all sugar planters, just sold their crap, and got their pockets full of rocks. They went t strong, tell ye. They'd got their backs and tails up. Captain Whisky had got d powerful grip on 'em, and if they war'nta bumpin't 1t, 'hark from the tomb!
 At last they went to the bar to stretch thar legs and wood up; and while they were gone, I see mischlevous lookin chap changin' thar papers.
 "Keep shady,' sez he, winkin' to us that war standin' round the table, "and you'll see the old boy rize directly
 Back comes the chaps, the keerds were dealt round, and l sec thar eyes snap 1 pin; but all a tryin' to look powerful solemn.
 A "blind" war bet, and up spoke the next hand
 q see ze blind and bets bettair.' q see zat an go fife dollar"
 "Twenty bettair sah you-ha, hal'
 "Sacray toenails! von hundred bettaIr gan you.''
 Oh, gngerl such a shellin' as thar war to be shea and when the dimes run dry, they drawed draft on New Orleans, and gave notes till they'd bet all they were worth, and when the hand was called, every man Jack saps four white aces and dove for the pile, and such yellin,' and cursin', and sacrain' as thar war when they diskivered how they'd been sold! | The deck on the table war all aces, and as 1t were half deck pokerthey were play in, every man got five aces, and thinkin' another ace had crawled into the pack somehow, they all ketched one and kept lthe others
 l One run for his pistols, another pulls out his knife, and ifthey'd only diskiyered who served 'em out thar'd been a mighty slim chance for him; but they went on SC that the captain had to interfere, and shut 'em up.
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