The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
What He Don't Know about Farming.

In selling stock by I'VE weight, it is
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 pillow, my wife reads
aloud, the Gear children gambOl in the
hilarity of their Juvenile freshness, and
my gorge rises as L 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
up in the dusty town.
In planting hay, | always elect the
longest | can find, as short hay bends a
| persons back too much in cutting it. |
put the hay in with drill which bought
for 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 ton before spring.
In the matter OF wheat, | always raise
it by the barrel, at mill not far away, as
1t saves buying seed, blowing, sowing
grading, threshing. | thus also get rid
of the ravages of the nudge and all that
| generally raise it on a note.
In travelling around the country have
often noticed that farmers do not sufh
GENTLY 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 ont in storm because
| am asleep or away. This also saves
lumber. All around thebarn are benches
OH which any animal can sit down whcI
tired Oh stanuing, or when waiting for some
thing or other 10 turn up. The sheriff say:
my cattle always sell when my ncighbOr'
don't, ami he thinks it is all owing to my
economy, and do not doubt it.
In subsoiling piece of ground, ! nj
ways plant mortgage on it the win
ter previous. Some folks think that
mortgage crop never turns up, but hav,
my own experience for saying that i
raises the biggest kind of a crop, especial
~ where you let the interest get behind
| hardly ever knew such sowing tina
didn't tarn out full as well as the holder eX
pectcd.
In raising hogs think that many farm
crs are altogether too slack for theI
own interests. Now, suppose that wan
to raise hog, | go at ii in careful, sci
cntific way. A good many farmers rails,
their hogs with the first club that comes
handy, but this has a tendency 10 make
the animal discouraged AMI Ciscontented
L have my own ideas about training
horses. ii | ever get hold OF horse in
clined to run away, | always borrow (,
buggy Of some of my neigbbors, hitcl
hun to II, turn MIN into a lot, and thcr
let him run. He generally gets sick q
the fun by the time the buggy is gone
but it he don't, hitch him 10 any of tht
wheels that may be LETT, and keep HIN
travelling The owner of the buggy
always expresses establishment ut my sys
TEN, but the evidence OF It's success i:
there before him. and he can't dispute The
pieces.
If | ever get hold of a kicking COW,
always let Mrs. Quad sit down first &c
milk, and take my station near by, tC
see what tOot the animal kicks with anC
now hard she hits. My wife has a re
markably clear memory, and after coming
to, she can generally give me any little
particulars hich failed to note owing
to distance. | linen get the cow into tn,
stable, draw Der up with a windlass, unit
she is just evenly balanced. Then | gc
a bag and ill it with bricks, hang i, within
easy kicking distance, and stand Off fol
developments. Every lime She comes
down shc hits the bricks, and when sh,
goes up, have another thing to apply t,
her III front; and after She has gone
through with this oscillation two or tire,
times, she never kicks any more, at loas
not uIiil she looks around for brickS.-M
Quad, in Detroit free Press.