The union Democrat., 1870-02-26
Farmer s,iii ir the Field.

Mn. EDIroR III you are not aireedy tired
| of"Fences and live Stock will offer lit
tie further on the subject. and will begin BY
saving we will consider the hog out of the
contest. | am satisfied large majority of
the people ere opposed 10 his running at large.
sa he mus, he restrained. We will ioreso the
pleasure Of his society, and allow him to he
| c0lopized in the tules, or some other on. of
tAe way place where he can root and wallow
TO his hearts content. without disturbing
any one. But cattle. both neat ard other
wise | shall always contend for. The aues-
tion is not shall cattle be allowed to run at
| large they are at large; they have been at
large ever stree this has been county. they
will continue at large. | remarked in nv
former article did not think one fourth of
the county was fenced. This time I will put
it at one tenth if am wrong let the Survey
or correct me. The question then is. shall
we fence one tenth or nine tenths. (for we
mnst do either one or the other.) If we de-
eide on the latter it will make large enclos-
ure.
| was told before I received the parer that
W. i. c. hal an answer to Farmers Opin-
! ion, SO / took it up and read it but didn t
see the answer. re-read it, still didn't see it.
then sent il to a man whose brow projects
several inches further than mine. he returned
it endorsed in large letters. Pointed" Of
course | had discovered sundry cuts. stabs,
digs and wipes. but no answer. There are q
few points in his article. by your permission
will reply to. lie says ''we have had our
sleeves rolled up fifteen years and yet our
fences will not turn breachy cattle" j do
not wonder at this, and if he keeps them rolled
up fifteen more it will still be the same, for
we sometimes hear of cows taking flying leaps
as "the cow jumped over the moon.n Now
! sir, it never was intended to fence against
! brcachy cattle, but to fence to prevent cattle
! from becoming brcachv. and to restrain those
| that are so. All this talk about fencing
against breaehy cattle has nothing to do with
the question. If he will show me some of
those stock owners who have their stock
'fenced in' and do not appropriate any part
of the common, | will engage to show him q
halfdozen white black birds. Again, "The
shooting of men : cattle ia not more reprehen-
sible than the mean practice of driving them
to your doors" | will do him the honor tG
say | know he does not mean this. for every
one has the privilege of driving his cattle to
your very door, providing it is on the COM
mon, and cannot conceive of anything more
reprehensible than the shooting of them. ur,-
less you shoot to kill, it is positively tendish:
it is on par with shooting the owner. Again
81 think good head of cabbage as great n
luxury as butter and milk" can tell him
he will never be able to indulge in that lux
ury, of his own raising, unless he has the
aforesaid vegetable enclosed by good fence
The gentleman being desirous of " bringing
out some of the latent talent that lies ensconed
in some of those rIral nooks," ard thinks he
would be much benefited by good essay on
farming. The idea is good one. This en-
sconing business shall exist no longer, talent
must be unearthed. the essay shall be forth
coming. But it will take time. as intend
TO consult great many authors on the sub
ject, and leave no book unturned to make it
success. In the meantime / would recon-
mend him to study Robinson Crusoe's efforts
in farming. and as it is admitted one portion
of mankind can be benefited by the mistakes
Of the other, to also consult Nathaniel Haw-
thorn, where he tells us his associates spent
the whole month of June in inverting a field
of beans that came out of the ground or the
end of a stem, to let them rip rather than rip
item out for such seeming incongruity. After
much thought and deliberntion | have con-
cluded to divide my essay into fourteen heads
or parts, each one to be prefaced by an ap-
propriate maxim, or wise saying. from such
authors as | may have at hand. While am
upon this business will give you specimen
brick. The first motto is taken from Poor
Richard, to wit: .Piow deep while sluggards
sleep and you will have grain to sell and
keep" This intend to amplify in the fol-
lowing manner, showing why, when, where
and how to plOw, and as this is intended to
benefit those in the Hornboo,; as much as the
more advanced class, what to piow with. As
the farmer wife, whose experience of rural
life was limited, when the hired man reported
to her that he had broken the pl0w, wished
to know if he could not substitute the cart.
shall show that blowing cannot be successful
ly accomplished with a cart. And now
happy thought strikes me. If after the ESSAY
is completed and referred it should be thought
to be all 0. X. may try and induce some of
my friends In Sacramento to offer premium
for the best essay on Agriculture and step
right up and cora! the funds. Sdbe2
You will please excuse this depression, /
couldn't helm it. was filled with il, it must
come out. l will now ge: back to the subject.
The article vou were requested to publish,
from tho Call, in it l venture to say there is
not one line that refers to this county in the
least. We do not have to go to New England
or France to learn the wants of Tuolumne
county. and in discussing this question do
not intend to step one inch outside the county
limits. We do not wish to know the wants
of other counties but to attend strictly to our
own. Every farmer that l:now, has more
or less cattle of bis own at large. and needs
good fence, as much TO protect his crops from
their depredatinns as from his neighbours cat
tie. will say right here, and l wish those
restrainers t0 make n note Of it, | shall be
glad to see every poor man in every village
and out of it. have one COW, and as MANY
more as suits his convenience, and his cow to
have the privilege of roaming abroad on the
unmolested. and not have some dem
on with glarSng eyehalls and distended nos
trils pursuing her, ready to strike her to the
earth with whatever is within his reach. I'll
would be a happy day for Tuolumne if her
sons owned cattle enough to consume tie feed
that grows within her limits, aud not have it
90 to enrich other counties as it now does.
without beneftting her one iota. This leads
me to the subject of taxation, hut it would be
out OF place to attempt to discuss it here, but
will say. those people who own stock and
have them out of the county when the Assessor