The weekly standard., 1869-09-08
How , Roy Boue1r A FARM.-seyera

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sense and a fair English education, not hay-
ing profitable employment at his fathers
home in Kentucky, sought for employment
among his enterprising neighbors a few
miles distant; and although wages were low
in those days of silver currency, he saved
from his first years wages $50. He was
then seventeen years old, healthy, lively
looking, aspiring, and ambitious to become
useful, noble, and perhaps great. He had
already learned that money loaned at high
rates of interest was oppressive to the bor-
rover, and reacted on the loaner and in the
falling of prices Of nearly all articles in the
commercial world: that men sought justif-
cation for their bankruptcy and delinqucn-
cy in the fact that they had paid large rates
Of interest. Feeling, therefore, that a lber-
ality, as well as justice, was necessary to
every mans dealing with his fellow men, he
loaned his $50 to an exemplary, enterprising
and prosperous trading man in his neighbor-
hood, at the lowest rate of interest known
In business in that State, viz, six per cent.
pei annum. He worked another year, clothed
himself in neat Kentucky jeans and other
cheap but neat articles Of apparel, and went
to country school three months in the
winter of that year, and learned the rudi-
ments of Latin, and something of the higher
branches OF mathematics, working for a
prosperous and liberal farmer evenings and
mornings to pay his boarding; and at the
end of the second year, or when he was
eighteen years of age, he had saved 500
more. His character for integrity and in
dustry began to be better known in the
neighborhecd and his services were sought
for
He worked on farm and rode as collec-
tor for trading men and the sheriff of his
county and at the end of his nineteenth
year had saved S11O more With the inter
est accumulated on his other two years
wages, he had now $500; was comfortably
clothed, and had good business education,
which he improved from one winter to an
other, till he became scholar, both literal
" and scientifically His influence and use
fulness increasing, he had at the age of 90,
$3.50 At twenty-one had $3.50, and was
well known for his activity of life, as a
young man of intelligence, virtue and use
fulness, as well as a young man of very at
tractive manners and ways.
| He moved to a Western State, where land
was cheap, and entered one hundred and
sixty acres by land warrant, which he pur-
chased with $3.50 of his money He made
good selection Of land in good region
of country; he used portion of the balance
of his money in improving his land, buying
| little stock, and few implements for farm
ing, and the second year he raised small
crop. Having gone to his new neighbor-
hood with some $3.50 in money, and used it
cautiously, he by degrees gained the name
of responsible citizen and good paymas-
ter, and his influence rose gradually from his
appearance among his new and scattering
neighbors. Year after year he raised a crop,
continued to read the best newspapers, pc
riodicals and books, which still further I'M
| proved his mind, till sheep, cattle and other
stock grew up in hocks around him, more
land adjoining him being purchased from
time to time, till now he finds himself, when
scarcely at the middle of life, gentleman
farmer of wealth, surrounded by comfort
| and many luXuries, esteemed by neighborS
both far and near, and would receive the
suffrage of those who knew him to any Of
fee for which he might be nominated, ire
spective of party politics, 50 firm is their
confidence in both his ability and integrity.
st. Louis Journal Of AgricuNRre.
How TO KEEP Cow IN THE CITY OR
VLLAGE.-All agree that really good, fresh
milk, from healthy and properly fed COWS, is
the best possible food for children and
youth. But ho~, ask our city friends, shall
We get it? This question has been asked
many times; we would say, keep your own
COW.
This is, perhaps, not so difficult and ex-
pensive matter as you may imagine; even
\ L.
! first. She requires less room than one
would suppose; and she will almost inva-
riably pay her keeping and profit in milk.
If not short OF storage room, procure
small load of loose hay, as brought to mark
ct on wagons; the quality can be better
seen than when compressed into bales. If
cramped for room, get few bundles of
baled hay. A straw or hay cutter of mod
crate size, costing from three to six dollars
will be requisite. Straw or corn stalks will
answer very well as an occasional substitute
alternating with hay.
Procure at feed store few bags each
of ground feed (corn and oats ground to-
gether) and as much shorts (wheat bran,)
and you have what is really necessary. 1t
is advantageous to give little green food,
such as turnips or potatoes, occasionally.
Saw barrel in two, for a couple of boxes,
one to mix and the other to feed in. Cut
quantity of hay and mix about half
bushel of it with three quarts of the ground
feed, and as much of the shorts, ,..wetting it
until the meal adheres to the hay. In very
cold weather it is better to heat the water
little. Feed ''mess " OF this kind and
amount to the COW in the morning, and as
much more at evening, and fodder with
dry, uncut hay at noon.
Give as much pure soft water to the ami
NAL, twice day, as she will drink. 1t often
happens that quantity of turnips, carrots,
parsnips, cabbages or beets are left on the
hands of vegetable dealers, which can be
cheaply purchased. They form a valuable
addition to the mess" cut and mixed
with It,
1t is also better for the animal to have an
an occasional change of diet Carrots, es-
pecially, are very good for stock of all kinds,
and may be fed to milch cows without af-
fecting the milk unfavorably, which turnips
will sometimes do, when fed in large guam
titles. When turnips are fed they should
be given at, or just after milking, as there
is then less danger of their giving an un-
pleasant taste to the next milking.
4 COW provided for as above, with her
apartments Kept clean, and neat, ana well
ventilated, will furnish large supply OF
nice, rich, healthtul milk, to say nothing OF
the cream Tor the coffee. AND unless you
give an enormous rent for the small space
OF ground she must occupy as stable room,
she will much more than pay her way
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