Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-04-08
What He Don't Know about Farming

In selling stock by i've weight, it is a
! good plan to feed each one about three
! pals of water and what other stuff can
| be got down them just before driving on
the scales. If the buyer has ever invested
much money on Change, he will know
| what "watered stock means.
| In holding the plow, always prefer to
/ hold it in the house, seated in a rocking
chair, with my family clustered around
me. As l hold the plow, my wife reads
aloud, the dear children gambol in the
hilarity of their juvenile friskiness, and
my gorge rises as | breathe the pure air
of heaven rushing in through the kitchen
window, and the singing of the birds
makes me feel a contempt for those shut
Pup in the dusty town.
In planting hay, l always elect the
| longest l can find, as short hay bends a
| persons back too much in cutting it,
| put the hay in with drill which bought
Tor the purpose, and get on and ride
around at my leisure, as hay is something
which will always come up, generally com.
ing up to $50 a ton before spring.
In the matter of wheat, | always raise
1t by the barrel, at mill not far away, as
it saves buying seed, plowing, sowing,
| grading, threshing. / thus also get rid
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| generally raise it on note.
In travelling around the country have
often noticed that farmers do not sufti-
ciently regard the health of their animals.
My barn is arranged on plan of my own.
1t is open on all sides, so that no creature
may have to stand out in storm because
| am asleep or away. This also saves
lumber. All around the barn are benches,
on which any animal can sit down when
tired Outstanding, or when waiting for some
thing or other To turn up. The sheriff says
my cattle always sell when my neighbors
don't, and he thinks it is all owing TO my
economy, and / do not doubt it.
In subsoiling piece of ground, I al
ways plant mortgage on it the win
ter previous. Some folks think that a
mortgage crop never turns up, but have
my own experience for saying that it
raises the biggest kind of crop, especial
ly where you let the interest get behind.
hardly ever knew such a sowing that
didn1t turn out full as we'll as the holder ex-
pected.
In raising hogs think that many farm
ers are altogether too slack for their
own interests. Now, suppose that want
to raise hog, go at it in a careful sci
entitic way. A good many farmers raise
their hogs with the first club that comes
handy, but this has a tendency to make
the animal discouraged and oiscontented.
l have my own ideas about training
horses. If | ever get hold of horse in.
clined to run away, l always borrow a
buggy of some of my neighbors, hitch
him to it, turn him into lot, and then
let him run. He generally gets sick of
the fun by, the time the buggy is gone,
but il he don't, hitch him to any Of the
wheels that may be left, and keep him
travelling. The owner of the buggy
always expresses establishment at my sys-
TEN, but the evidence of its success is
there before him, and he can't dispute the
pieces.
If ever get hold of kicking cow,
always let Mrs. Quad sit down first to
milk, and take nay station near by, to
see what foot the animal kicks with and
how hard she hits. My wife has re-
mar kably clear memory, and after coming
to, she can generally give me any little
particulars which failed to note owing
to distance. then get the COW into the
stable, draw her up with windlass, until
she is just evenly balanced. Then l get
bag and fill it with bricks, hang it within
easy kicking distance, and stand off for
developments. Every time she comes
down she hits the bricks, and when she
goes up, have another thing to apply to
her in front; and after she has gone
through with this oscillation two or three
times, she never kicks any more, at least
not until she looks around for bricks.-M
Quad, IN Detroit Free Press,