Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-23
Those SauSages.

We don't know who wrote the follow
ing, but we lowe him one" for laugh:
a funny story is told of friend of
ours-one who, sick and tired of the care
and hustle of a city life, has retired into
the country, and gone to farming" as
the saying is. His land, albeit we'll sit
uated, and commanding sundry fine
prospects, is not SO particularly fertile
as some we have seen-requiring scien-
tific culture and a liberal system Of ma
nuring 10 induce an abundant yield
So far by way of explanation.
Once upon a time friend. being
on short visit to New Orleans, was at
tending an auction sale down town, aud
as it so happened, they were selling
damaged sausages at the time. There
were some eight or ten barrels of them,
and they were Just going at fifty cents
IA barrel" when the auctioneer with all
apparent seriousness, remarked that they
were worth more than that to manure
land with Here was an idea. Sixty
two and-a half cents-third and last
call--goner' retorted the auctioneer.
Cash takes them at sixty two and a halt
cents per barrel.
To have them shipped to his country
seat was the immediate work of our
friend, and as it was then planting time,
and the sausages, to use common
phrase, s'were getting no better very
fast, to have them safe under the ground
and out Of the way was the next move
ment. He was about to plant a field of
several acres of corn-the soil of the
piny woods species-so here was just
the spot for this new experiment in az
riculture, this new wrinkle in the sci
enee Of geoponies. One ''link" of sau-
sage being deemed amply sufficient, that
amount was placed in each hill, accom-
panied by the usual number Of kernels
4 f corn and an occasional pumpkin seed,
nd all were nicely covered over in the
sual style. Now, after promising that
/ everal days have occurred since the
orn was planted, the sequel of the story
hall be told in dialogue between our
lend and one of his neighbors-
| NEIGHBoR-"Well, friend, have you
lanted your corn?''
FRIEND-"Yes, several days since.
| Ms it up yet?' e
F-"Up! yes, and gone; the most of
IT.
4 N-sHow is that?" q
F-"Well, you see, 1 bought lot of
snaged sausages the other day, in New
.reans; a smooth tongue Of an auction
er saying they would make excellent
manure, if nothing else. | brought the
lot over; commenced planting my corn
i once, as it was time; planted sausage
10 each hill, and -"
\ N-"Well, and what?'
F-"And felt satisfied that I had
made a good job of it. Some days af-
erward [ went out to the field to see
bow the corn was coming on, and a
oretty piece of business have made of
rying agricultural experiments"
N-''Why, what was the matter?"
F-"Matter! the first thing 1 saw, be-
ore reaching the field, was the greatest
OF of dogs digging and scratching all
yer it! There was my dogs, and your
ogs, and all the neishbors dogs, beside
bout three hundred strange dogs
ever set my eyes on before, and every
me was hard at it, mining" after the
buried sausages! Somehow or other,
he rascally whelps had scented out the
business, and they had dug up every
hill by this time. Ii | could set every
dog Of them on that auctioneer Id be
satisfied.