The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-02-26

than through the direct supply of nitrate
of soda.
Country Gentleman.
WilkersOn's Journal.
We've been havin' an uncommon
easy time of it past Januarv-so far as
the weather goes. There's many an
old nag that could have cropped his
livin' on the pastur's without a days
fodderin' since November came in; and
there are folks that have turned 'em out
to get it; and turned out their Young
cattle with EN-. But it don't pay in
the end. That old fog they bite off is
just what the grass needs, in an easy
goin' winter like this, to keep the grass
roots warm and put it in good condition
to make big shoot next May. Inever
want that man for tenant that turns
out his Young stock on the grassland
arter November comes n-no matter
what the weather is. They're the
worst sort o. skinhints.
But, bless We, there ant no tenants
to be had such as we used to count on
in old times: there was WappIes now.
my brother-in-law, he used to rent a
farm o Square Hibbels-cart a good
lot O stuff into the barnvard, keep the
fences straight, pick up the dead wood,
take the stones OF the new-secded land
in spring, beat up the dung round the
stack-yards 1--WE used to feed more at
stacks in them days, put lights int the
windows when his boys knocked 'em
out (Which they did pretty lively,) kept
his sheep off the new clover, and paid
up one third his rent when he sold his
wool in July, and another third when
he closed up his butter account in No
vember and t'other third when he got
settlement on his pork along in January.
Wapples didn't pay very heavy rent
to be sure, but twas a tidy one, and
Square Hibbel got his money regular
Well, | don't hear O. such men want
in to rent farms nowadays, here to the
Bastard. You put a notice in the
paper of a farm to rent (and | tried it
t'other spring, when thought O. maxim
trip with Jerushy out West and you
get lot O. scalawags applyn', red
round the eyes, and shaky, that |
wouldn't trust to follow up flock O.
smart cows, and that ant in the way
of stickin' to any one thing long-unless
it is whiskey and horsetradin'.
There's another lot of Old country
folks that put in show; but the trouble
with most of these is, they've been ede-
Gated by workin' long spell for these
city farmers, that furnish all the new
patents, and put three men to do boys
job; they've got their heads turned with
kinks, and want to start off with a lot
of machinery that would set up small
paper-mill; they want big bellied purse
at the back of 'em. Now, I've nothing
to say ag'in greenbacks; you grease a
barn-yard or a corn-feld with enough
of EN-, and you're tolabe sure of gettin'
crops; but then if you an'int the groce1's
boys the same way, you're tol'able sure
O gettin' crops all growed If man
is goin' to spend a FORUM in gettin' his
farm ready to grind out crops before he
can get one O. this sort O. tenants, he'd
better stick by little longer, and 90 to
grindin' 'em out himself
I'm little afeard that your smart
Yankee here to the East ard has got
over CROWN up along with his land
If he gets fore-handed, he builds big
house with about six rooms he never
goes into, and puts his darters to PLAINLY
playin'. In Il general way, that settles
the farmin'. Chance if he don't fall
into horse tradin' or go to the legislator.
Wapples now, when he got some
money ahead, he went to buyin' steers
and putin 'em up, and fatten' on EN-,
and made good penny turnin' 'em off
in the spring when they was so heavy
it was hard work for 'em to waldic
through the dung that was about three
feet deep all through the barn yard
He wasn't afraid to buy meal, and he
got pay in beef and manure He didn't
put no two story-front on to his house,
of no sort o. use to him, but he run an
ell kitchen out, and q milk-room, and
made EN- both as tidy and slick as any
you could scare up in the West, and
his darters didn't get over lookin' arter
the milk, and was quite set up with the
tip-top way things was arranged, and
they got notice in the proceedin's Of
some society, and they had posey-bed
under the windows O. the milk room,
that it was worth while goin' to see
along in May, when the p'inys was in
blow.
Nancy couldn't play the panny as
good as some I've heerd but she was a
stout, strappin' girl-not frettin' about
her "narves everlastingly, as the shet-
up girls do about the country; and she
married smart cattle dealer over in
CRANKY, and he's gone to York since,
where its chance if some o'your folks
ha'n't met him round amongst the drov-
ers. He's smart fellow, and woth
twenty thousand dollars to-day, I've
heerd, which ant one bit unlikely; he
cut his eye-teeth afore he went to York;
and Nancy, she who's Miss Bremmil
now-Wapples's wife says dresses
as well as any O. the York folks; and
if she's got to goin' to theatres, she
didn't learn that at Wappleses. But
she's strappin' woman, and likely
one.
You couldn't get Wapples to pnt a
price on his farm-no way you could
fix it. He knows what's what-Wap.
pies does.
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