Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-03-10
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what He Don't Know About
Farming. Il

Late last fall, while / was prepars
ing a series ofarticles entitled "W hat
I Don't Know About Farming, !
wrote to Greeley asking advice SIS 10
how high vines ought to be hung to
keep the bugs off, and the next
thing I knew he had stolen my ideas
and contracted to furnish them to
the Tribune. However, as his arti-
cles are strictly confined to his own
paper, and that paper has so few
readers in this State, perhaps shall
90 on with my original plan. :.
In selling live stock by weight, 1t
is 8 good plan to feed each one about
three pals of water and what other
stuff can be got down them just be-
fore driving on the scales. If the
buyer has ever invested much money
on Change, he will know what wa
tered stock means.
In holding the plow, always pre-
fer to hold it in the house, seated in
q rocking chair, with my family clus-
tered around me. AS l hold the
plow, my wife reads aloud, the chill
dren gambol in the hilarity of their
juvenile friskiness, and my gorge
rises IS / breathe the pure air of
heaven rushing in through the
kitchen window, and the singing of
the birds makes me feel contempt
for those shut up in the dusty town.
In planting hay, always select
the longestf 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 thirty dollars ton before
spring. 7l
In the matter of wheat, l always
raise it by the barrel, at mill not
far away, as it saves buying seed,
Flowing, sowing, cradling and thresh-
ing. thus also get rid of the rava-
ges of the midge and all that. 1
generally raise it on note.
In travelling around the country I
have often noticed that farmers do
not sufficiently 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 of standing, or
when waiting for something or other
to turn up. The sheriff says my cat
tie always sell when my neighbours
won't, and he thinks that is owing
to my economy, and l do not doubt
it at all.
In subsoiling piece of ground, |
always "plant" mortgage on it the
winter previous. Some folks think
that mortgage crop never turns up,
but l have my own experience for
saying that it raises the biggest
kind of crop, especially when you
let the interest get behind. l hardly
ever knew such a sowing that didn't
turn out full as we'll as the owner ex-
pected it to.
In raising hogs I think that many
farmers are altogether too slack for
their own interests. Now suppose
that want to raise a hog, l go at it
in a careful, scientific manner. 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 discontented. |
I have my own ideas about train
ing horses. If l ever get hold of
horse inclined to run away, always
borrow buggy of some of my neigh |
bors, hitch him to it, turn him into a
lot, and then let him run. He gen
orally gets sick of the fun by the
time the buggy is gone, but if he
don't 1 hitch him to any of the wheels
that may be left, and keep h i'm tray
cling. The owner of the buggy al
ways expresses astonishment at my
system, but the evidence of its sue
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can't dispute the pieces.
If l ever get hold of kicking COW,
always let Mrs. Quad sit down first
70 milk, and I take my station near
by, to see what foot the animal kicks
with and how hard she hits. NY
wife has remarkably clear memory, |
and after coming to, she can gener
ally give me any little particulars
which 1 failed to note owing to dis
tance. l then get the COW into the
stable, and draw her up with wind.
lass, uutil she is just evenly bal
anced. Then 1 get bag and fill it
with bricks, hang if just within easy
kicking distance, and 1 stand off and
wait for developments. Every time
she comes down she hits the bricks. |
and when she goes up have anoth-
er 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, not at least
until she looks around for bricks.