Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-06-06

Prom the chic Cultivator.

went to skool MORN three winters-when
done chores Cor my board ut Deacon Snib's
Commenced with notbin', and have got {
snag home with conveniences. +, But you say
this il nothin', to you yes it is Kurnel, fol
you and your tarnal Culticator have upset
me. was snug, had things convenient and
was contented; but Tox, he wasn't 20 He
was determined to gitiarnin'. and Of he went
to skool. Last spring persuaded him to
come home and live with me. Oh, how re-
pent Il The first thing he did was to put
dollar in letter and send for the Ohio Cul-
tiratorl
.What on airth are you going to DO with
that ar paper ~ ut won't pillow, nor hoe,
nor make corn grow, nor nothing"
ayes it will tho. TIN do all you have
mentioned and morc--it will make this farm
yield 5000 morn it did last year without it.
Well. never slept a wink that night. l
had never seen the Cultirator-what could
it be? Guano? No, that couldn't be sent
by mail. How was it going to earn 5000 ?
Tow came from the Post Office one morning
with little green kivered pamphlet.
What's that ~ says /.
"The Ohio CultiUator," says he, very dig.
nifiedly. @' 9. .'s u.s.
"Oiio Cultiyafor! Thunder Is that
agoing to make $500 . year." !.
"Yes SIR - .....r +
Well, 'twasn't long before began to see
how it worked. My barn door was off the
hinges, but then, it had been for four years,
and twas handy enough to push it to one
side when went in and out of the barn.
The roof leaked, but twas dryer in. the barn
than out doors. .........-
I'd been gone about week when came
home. three carpenters were pounding for
life, shingling the roof, and forty load OF tim
Der and lumber lay in the yard. felt heart
sick. Kurnel. shaved them ar shingles
myself, that they ruthlessly stripped off, and
l half loved them. felt it was too bad!
"What upon airth!" says. AnU
'Nothin'," says Tow. "only the sOultisator
don't boot me as farmer Slip shod any more,
and the cattle are not going to waller in the
unprotected yard all winter. Next week we
are going to raise two sheds, one on each side
of 1.-THE yard." So ~
"Sheds Sheds! My father, nor grand
father never had no sheds in the world
Cattle was made to stand cold, that's what
they've got hair for. Thunder take your
Cultirator! That's the way it's going to
make 5000 a year, is it?" t1
But il didn't end here. All the manure
piles round the barn were hauled into the
meadows, and the yard graded up. And
then the bars! I always thought bars han
dy, and had pair where went to the, barn
but couldn't afford any more. In less
than no time the bars came out. The car
penter made six gates! just think of six
gates ! Going to sell EN- thought I; no,
three were for the yard, and the others for
the fields That's the way the Cultirator
is going to make 5000 year p' 3. .,-'
ayes" says Tom. I'm not going to hire
men to let down and put up fence, nor chase
cattle when they neglect to do 500
well, go to your ruin, says l, "it amt
the way I've had to scrub to get my money,
and little expected to have such a foolish
boy" -. ,.,,,
ar gates set me, before TON had prepared an
other scheme, as usual suggested by your
geen kivered paper One morning at break :
fast he asked me if didn't think the pillow
and harrow very lovingas they leaned against
the fence on the other side Of the road y
"What do you mean p says
"Do YOU consider it good economy" says,
he, ito winter the farming tools in the road '
"Of course I do" says /, "thcy'll he handy
/ in the spring, and il they are scattered over
the farm remember right where they all
are."
"rm not agoin' to winter them there"
"What are you goin' to do?" l asked in
surprise. r.1...
Build a tool house." said he.
"A what?" .y-s --.s .-- p, a.t.a.r.s
"A tool house, to put all our farmin' i'm
plements in, when through with them, so
that they will not lay out all winter in the
rain to rot, and break the first time l hitch
'em in the spring" 49, q ..LEf.g
"Well you won't" says I, half tipping
over the table. "who ever heard of a tool
house; one pillow is in the wheat field, and a
drag is over east, and they'll be there till
spring! well see! .gFtgl ..ras
Yes, we'll see," says he. Ess4
Next week up went the tool house at a cost
Of 800, and in all our old buds we're arrayed.
Next day Tom put all the old irons that lay
round and my old pillow into his wagon.
"What you goin' to do, Tom - says /.
"Sell these old irons' says he, ~ won't
have them lay round here in the way any
longer"
Now think lot of SIGH old things handy
to mend with. and let them lay round. and
the old pillow, to be sure was well worn, but
I'd used it so long it seemed like brother
| / OOuSnt IL IWeuty years uSO-tnSc suau ~
wooded twice-eot three new mould boards,
four landsides and don't know how many
pints, and couldn't part with it. At nigh,
Tom came home with fifty dollars worth OF
tools-two plows, new-fangled harrow. etc
What do you want of two plows p says I.
Zone for sod, and one for stubble," said
he coolly.5 ~ = & y IA y -
What fool! My father had the same old
plow with an iron pint, for all work, and
do believe it worked better than their new
double. 1eared consarns. "Why didn't you
wait till spring, Tom"
| ~ had the money, and believe in having
everything ready for next year, so that I can
begin work airly." ~ Q %HF'
One hundred dollars for tool house, fifty
for tools, that's the way the Cultirator makes
5000 year.
Now Toms got married. and his wife does
house work by the Ohio Cultirator. Not
only that, but writes for your internal paper
Wife s in huff. so am |. My old house s
got to hot for me. and am going to moye
out in the spring. and let them 60 to pot.
won't be responsible. But you. Kurnel. you
are the guilty one who came in the shape Of
that little green kivered paper, to overthrow
and drive me from my home, for can't mol
won't stay and see things turned upside