The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-11-22
A Poetical Essay,


to tho best method of drying Fl dairy cows,
and also to fattcn Ihom. Also, how best to
renovate exhausted lnud. Among other
matters. somo mention was mado in refer
ence to swine. One of tho mombors being
requested to writo an essay on tho above.
the following was road at tho next meeting
II YOU wish TO know how q COW must be fed,
To make her grow fat, would say,
Give her sixty-pound cabbage head,
About throe times per day.
| If that don't do, tako good corn mcal,
Say six or eight quarts for mess;
| Ifsho devours this feed with relish and greed
Give her time, and she'll fatten I guess.
| scarcely know how you can dry off COW
That gives milk pretty freely each day
| do think, indeoh.you must shorten her feed
That is, go and beg all her hay.
Then sho'l either go dry. or else sho will die
Otherwise I'm mistaken. that's so;
That we oft infllct pain in our zeal to get gain
Experience hath taught us TO know.
To rcnovatc land, either loan. clay or sand
| That no longer will pay YOU to till,
Such ticId Id enclose, and give il ropose
That is, ! would lot il lie still.
Still, if you can procure some good rich
manure,
Say about ten loads to the rood,
Spread it even all round so il cover the
ground,
On my land I've known it do good.
To pillow, harrow and toll, on a poor, wastod
soil,
Expecting large crop of clover
A mans faith must Ge strong to mako il
grow long
Without covering it with manure all over
1t was told to the Jows that they must moi
| abuse
Their land. by cropping IL year after year
But to give their land rest, if they wished
to bo blcst
With Il full crop of corn in the car.
But somo cannot stop, they raise crop after
crop,
Til their land is exhausted indeed
AS u matter of course, it you have u free
horse.
1t would kill him to drive without fcod.
Then cart on your muck, and all kinds Of
truck,
If YOU would be men who are thriving :
Go ahead with your tOIling, keep digging
and soiling,
Don't waste all your timo in contriving
But still if you'I look in some farming book.
Perhaps you'll got better instruction,
But Ivo felt, am sure, that tho poverty of
the poor
Is what Solomon calls his destruction.
'Tis asked nowadays, tho kind of pigs bost
to raise,
That will profit tho most on lko foed
We all ought to know that good koop max es
them grow,
Yet think there's choice in tho breed
Tho abort breed, I'll engage, will grow fat at
any age,
But pig OF long goar, long logs, sn0ut and
oar,
On u race courso Is hard TO be boat.
l had n pig of each sort, one long, tho Other
short,
shut thom both up in one stall.
Tnen At uight.n9 aud morn, fed thom milk
moai and corn,
And thus l kopt on through the fall.
Some of you may suppose if in length pig
IT'S the best recommend 10 can boast,
But this long pig of mno proved prolitless
swine,
Being worth to mo less than it cost.
Tho long pig half crazy, while the short pig
grow lazy,
So that ho would scarce movo around:
When ke got Mp to cat and stood on his foet,
Lake Patrck's toad, he set down.
So now I've confessed tho short pig paid tho
bost,
Counting what it did cat through tho fall,
Ii grew finshy aud fat, quito speedy at that,
While the other grew long, slim and tall.
You may deem it misfortune that you ask
Mr.. NJ.
To tell you what to do on farm;
IT you'll all do just So. just tell all YOU know,
don: think it will do any harm.
If Ive left yon in the dark, do not make
the remark,
Because | might leave and 90 homo;
1t you'll excuse me this time for writing in
rhyme,
Ill DO silent for oil tlmo to come.