The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-07-28
Slack Farming.

1t Is = very common thing for our west
ern farmers 10 be guilty OF the unthrifty
practice OF leaving not only their plovs,
narrows wagons and lesser implements
out IN the open field to weather season"
but costly thrcshiug machines, reapers and
mowers, flaming mills, and horse rakes
are often abandoned where last used, for
the season, and left 10 weather the ele-
ments for q twelyemouth, until seed
time and harvest again require their use
One can hardly travel dozen miles in
the country ID any direction without seeing
30 many hundred dollar, worth OF asricul-
tuyal machines and implements Unprotected
IN the open fields going TO destruction at
a canting pace. We need hardly say to
any farmer that can cipher i'll simple ad
dition that this j, t per cent. per month
policy, and Will bring ruin as speedily
These reflections are suggested by hu-
morDus article in Beecners PAN talk
aJ9t FaUany, entitled, "Accllmating q
P.ow
The other day we were riding past q
large farm. and were much -rat.i!ed at &.
device Of the owner .ov the preservation of
his tools. ! good pillow. apparently new
j, the spring. had been .e;i ia one corner
Of the held. standing III the furrow Just
whore, four months before, the boy had
finished his stint Probably tins timber
needed s.Is3aagg--it Wa, certainly getting
il. Perhaps il was left out for acciimation
may De .Ae farmer run the share in the
ground - keep it from raSt.ay. He might
at least have built little shed over it
Can anv one tell what farmer leaves
llow out whole season for? After We
got 10 sleep that night we dreamed q
dream We went into that mans barn
boards We're knocked of, partitions were
broken down, racks half broken, floor a
foot deep with manure. hay tla,npled un-
dey foot and wasted, grain sguandrred-
The wagon had not ieeu hauled under the
shed though it was Eaiming The harness
was scattered alou; tile lines were used
for hal.rs. We weIIt into tire house. A
shed stood hard l. in which family
wagon was kept for wife and daugh tiers to
ride 10 town in The hens had appropria-
Ted it for roo.t, and however plain il va:
ga-s Il WAS o.ua!nented noc, inside and
out. We peeped into the smokehouse,
bgt Of all the "hXius We ever saw! A
Chinese Museum i nothing toit. Onions,
soap-Erea>e. s4uasEes, hog bristles, soap,
old iron kettles, q broneu spinning wheel,
a churu. a g!ind-stone, bacon, hams wash
Ing tubs, a barrel Of salt bones with the
meat half cut Oft scraps OF leather, dirty
bags, Il chest of Indian meal, old boots,
smoked sauSages, The brands and ashes
that remained since the lag. smoke.
stumps OF brooms, hall barrel of rotten
apples. together with rats. bacon bugs, ear
Wigs, sow bugs, and other'vermine that
crawled in damp dirt We started for the
house the window near th" door had
twelve lights two OF wood, two Of hats,
four OF paper, one Of a bunch of ras,, one
OF pillow, all the rest Of glass Under it
stood several cooking pots, and several that
were not for cooking. As We were medi-
tatng whether 10 enter, such a squalt
arose from a quarrelling man and woman,
that we awoke-aEd 10 il was 4 dream.
SO that the man that left his piow out
all the season may live in the ueatest
house in the country for all we know, only
was it not strange that we should have
dreamed all this from just seeing plow
left out in the tulrow?'