Litchfield enquirer., 1863-11-19
WHOLE No. aooe

Rows steadilD and itI waters ths nlaers gar- deH:epdIorchara, epyl the ibdshss asddR with sesesI-ana she-trees- bend with ffuiss H6dsit F syatsrsIths oRAsfs siaesaf4 ana tile p6fp.s clusters hang from tAsi afbst lSf Cling to the standard 9o and it waters Ais aguors olive tree, and he rejoiees in hisswest sgs sar. .fat plisA and near by he bnids, hiss house. sand | slzitle paradise of iyesdure is around him. aqdstEa fruit iwithals His fields of wheat aud sbsrlbk, with their broad acres. need no irfiRAsionsDt sec you speak of good hay weathere, Onshsr- vests fear no showers. Whsp the goldan srGia hangs heavy on, the stalk, the .fsrmsr ,dslves his team a-6eld, and hitches- on, to the reaper. and the serried ranks fall before it's iroa tssfh. The sturdy laborers follow after. and hind itan bundles, and there it lies for weeks, GhtiI tbe Ethresher comes around and having having eos 'ks machine in piacey with his eight or ten lhofsss, or not subsequently with steam .povef, ,ahs eoh- mences his work z The teams are busy eAt,. | ing the grain to the machine. Two mea are feeding the -snme; three or four are tending and removing the bags, and sewing ub stbs mouths One unfortunate wight with hilsslf and horse, yelled, to save themselves from the dust, hauls away the straw, which is, ,yomitsd forth in clouds, with dust and chaf, from the machines mouth, And so we make short work with the harvest, Those white or brown masses which you See for weeks after this ia the fields, are the stacks of grain, which wait until the farmer hauls them away at his lsais- ure, to the mill, or embareadero, as we cali D sloop or steamboat landing, after the Spanish.
 This entire absence of rain during harvsat, obyiates the necessity of barnssf storihg grain in California. A few hay farms hare barns, but it more common to let the hay re. main in cocks in the field or in stacks. until 1t is convenient to bale it. Our hay, by the val is mostly made of volunteer growths of grain or oats, cut when the milk is in the kernel. Some of your readers may wonder, perhaps, how the grain crop will grow and whea with, out rain. They would wonder more. perhsps, if they saw, fields of corn standing tsn aud if tesn feet high, with the golden. sats siyaye peering through tie husks, and In full maturi- ty, without drop of rain but so ii is. .,
 But have spun out a very long letter tec the ESqbrRrR. And yet, as Hiram Basass was noted in the '" Well, what of it 2, I ,csn- not refrain from quoting one of Hiram jokes, which never yet Saw in print, but I have ssen many worse ones..il And, by the way, why cannot some of your Litchfeld idlets col. lect that jolly eoachman's witty sayings fo}.
 Harpsr's Monthly What fresh and tace flavor they would give to the ordinary scrap with which the Drawer is crammed, 90 d0ll, stale and unproftablei But to my stofJ. i'a
 was travelling with Hiram on some of thS stage routes from Htch6eld, q forget Nhjsh..il1 Hartford, though, suppose,) when passing . farm house, out ran q woman and hailed sdS, 'Driver,' said she, 'can Ego with you to BriG. tol?' 'Yes, na'an,' was the prompt resno1sS, Can you take my baggages' Barnes Ioskea ut a formidable pile among which loomsd up monstrous feather-bed bound up in blank et knotted at the corners. la Not this ticg4 not this tick, responded the ready Barnes sfot just beyond here, I'm engaged to-day, to take saw mill on board the stage, Hiram, I.hS, iieve is gone. and Parks, and Harris, and Bun nell. They were great men in my hDyiEh days. 4 i-HRi gl98 1f9 igdw sg.sVOccIpENe.