The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-09-18
farmers that Jackson leads tho army, and
The Cumberland Valley ~ their destina-

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tion d ...,f .-,si s,4 s.tinas.t sgv
| All manner of rumprs arsain, circpla
ton here with gregard 70 s1great battle
having been fonghi, / can oplY say, with
certainty, that no, intelligence Of this
chsracler has been received by telegraph
or otherwise.al a0 BEL soa,1i liao OF,
Report Of the Partners Club Of SlabsiiIe.
We select a few items NOm q report or
a PRACTICAL sFarmsrs' Club Which We End
in The Raral lNeaO Yorker }! I'd 45a,rsr .
, JUNE 80, 1892. The SIabviIle Far.
mers' Club met s6cordihg 10 adjotrunsni;
Mr. Slinkhorna in the Chair. o 'n4fi 30
! The CHAmMKN The question which
; has been adopted for discussion this sfter,
! noon was not such a one as he thought
ought TO occupy the attention Of this club.
, 1t was Of al,oe ether toolitsle CONSEQUENCE
TO take up their valuable time. " He nhuat
} say If he had been 10 have stated ii, be
should have put It in au affirmative propo.
sition at once, instead Of making It inter.
rogatory; and he believed ths, Sll iptelli.
gent farmers had long since come 20 the
same conclusion that he had. The qucs
} ton was, I" Is MT manure a humbugs"
and he should call on neighbor Skimi.t to
opeE the discussion. isa' u OIL ~ /
, Mr.. SKrMITT. Had rather some other
person had been selected. for the subject
was not one that he thought mutb of.
H owcver, lie would give his experience,
which the Club might take for what II
was worth The farm which he now oc.
cupied he had taken from the wilderness.
! When the laDd was first cleared up, and
; for few years after, he had been good
: deal bothered by the rankness of the crops
His wheat had been so heavy that it gave
} him grea, deal of trouble to harvest it.
and Ills corn crops we're often SO large
. that he found IL impossible TO secure them
before winter set in. Latterly, he had
! not been troubled in that way: He found
no trouble now in gathering his crops in
good season. s.i la altft-9
The Chairman would like 10 know il
f Mr. Skimitt had used any manure on his
: land. t0 'E4 "'rf r. sI
Mr.. SK1MrrT-The bauling out Of ma.
nure. Spring and Fall, lad always seemed
a great waste of time, and he had there
fore never wasted his time and strength
in that hind of business. aan sEt
Mr.. BoKEFAEM. Will the gentleman
tell US how be gets rid of his manure2
! Mr. SKIMITT. the manure gets
so troublesome that can't stand it any
( longer, Imove my barn |! l have already
moved it three times, and shall move it
: again, unless some man will be fool
, enough to come and draw it away. And
s he would state a fact now, lest it should
n slip his mind. which he thought conclu'
r sively proved manure to te nuisance
His barn had formerly stood on the oppo.
! cite side of the road, and in front Of his
house; and the weeds had grown so large
on the manure piles, and had looked SO
3 bad, that his wife would give him no
peace till he moved them down. The
fact WAS that all his experience had con :.
. vinced him that manure was nuisance
D regular bumbug. He had been COM
PEELED to move Lis barn three times on
: account Of its accumulation, and each
8 time had had to put new sills 10 it. as the
: others had been rotted out by the manure.
: And lie had heard so much catterwauling
from his wife and daughters, about the
2. disgusting appearance of the weeds and
. bushes that bad grown upon the old piles.
t that he had become tired and Disguised at
= the very name Of manure. .s~,
!; Mr.. VAN Sk1NLAND had seen o good
deal of vexation and trouble OIL this ma
nurs subject He fully agreed with, the
gentleman who had just taken his seat.
! When he was boy, and lived with, bis
father on the Mohawk Flats, the only way
> they had TO dispose Of their manure was
I 10 draw it down. to the river inJtne win
= ter, and dump il on the ice, and let it go
down stream in the spring. They could
" not move their barns p they had. no
. place except they went up hill with them.
;. When he came on TO his present farm he
! regreelted there vas no river, but,he had
= thrown the manure down bank into a
u :, little brook that run past his barn. But
, be had not got rid Of the nuisance; It was
worse than to have left it in his yard and
10 moved his barn. The brook ran through
>, fiat lot Of 1about ten acres. below his
= barn, and he used to have good grass,
y often as much as tun to the acre. and i!
- was easily cut and 60. in.. But lately be
= had great deal of trouble with tha! lot.
!" Even this year be had become more dis.
-. gus.ed than, ever, for + his gfsss had
y grown so stout aad thick that be could
y = not get o machine through it, and. had
y been compelled to now it with soythe,
4 and he had almost given up trying to gel
q :. done hsying. For his part, he. agreed
:" :, with other gentlemen in saying it was q
!: most consumnats humbug. nslfspmoa
After Sotie fnrthef. discussion II Was
10 resolved that, in the opinion Of o naiori
~ of members Of the Slabvllle Far
). mers' Club, in its brosdest and MOST com
8. prshe psivs sense, manure is q humbug
rs and that where II wilt coat more to move
At the barn than the manure. it. is advisable
,. 10 move the manure, and not otherwise
IA NFMany Of our devoted women, who
a have struggled ard suffered fot !he coun'
; try, deserve more for their services than .
d mere recognition, and for whose cases nc
ADEQUATE provision has been made. Many
/, z: Loon;fol,a ~ a "a tt,A; - oat.