Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-16
agricultural.
A Humorous View of o Farmers
ppropTEn ny MARK TWAIN.

Ex.Constable Quinn desired the club
to inform him how to make hogs root.
DIR. Slow has been practical farmer
for the last six weeks, and in all his vari-
ed agricultural experience, no such ar
ticle as hog'sroot has ever come under
his notice. What was its Was it edi-
blef was it useful in any way, or was it,
as he more than suspected, another hum
bug devised by sharpers to defraud US
practical farmers? He knew not wheth-
er it was propagated by seeds or by cut
tings, but he would advise Mr.. Quinn to
be shy of hog'sroot, especially if it was
new tangled or high priced tuber.
Mr.. Moker, the agricultural writer ex-
planned the anatomy of the hog'sprobos-
els. 1t is designed for subterranean for
aging, by process vulgarly called root
ing, to which Mr.. Quinn's inquiry pro-
badly referred. Being delicate or
gan it is liable to injury. He would
recommend that Mr.. Quinn wipe his hogs
nose. If he finds it red, he may be sure
it is tender and needs protection by a
metallic shield. Some resort to the strate-
gle device of inserting wire ring in
the hogs nose, in his effort to remove
which he naturally thrusts his snout in
to the soil, and thus roots unwittingly.
That was playing it rather low on the
hog, and the metallic shield was prefer
BILE on the score Of fair dealing and phil
anthropy.
Mr.. Greeley exhibited pumpkin of
his own raising. As it embodied his soli-
tary and browning success, after several
years of discouraging failure in pump
kin culture, the club surrounded it with
uncovered heads and mingled emotions
of surprise, admiration and envy. 1t
was superb fruit, and when Mr.. G.'s
hat was placed on it, to illustrate its size
and symmetry, the hat and pumpkin SEEM
ed SO perfectly adapted to each other,
and together produced an effect SO start
ling, that several enthusiastic members
swore that they would have known who
raised that pumpkin if they had seen it
anywhere. 1t is to be photographed by
Quincy, and next years Tribune sub
scribers will receive copies.
The pumpkin was the fattering pro-
duct of one bushel of seed planted on
the farm in Champagne. Soon after
blossoming the vine manifested an incli-
nation to wither. 1t was thereupon
transplanted to large flower pot and
removed to the town residence of its
founder. For some time it dropped and
pinned, and they set up nights with it, ex-
pecting every moment would be its last,
but every moment turned out not to be
its last, and with careful nursing it fin.
ally rallied and came up to maturity, as
cherished and tough pumpkin as ever
grew.
DIR. Sixhammers suggested that the
result of Mr.. Greeley's indomitablt
struggle with this pumpkin, showed how
every city family could provide itsel
with pumpkin-pie. He hoped to SCI
the day when every window sill in every
city, would be adorned with fructifyins
pumpkin pots, and every workman
cottage EMPOWERED in pumpin vines.
How LITTLE LAND WILL KEEP 4
Cow.-On the LIST day Of June last
commenced cutting clover for one co,
confined in a yard inclosed by higl
tight board fence, with stable attache,
in which she has been fed. She had n
feed but freshly cut clover from the Is
Of June to the 10Th Of October, and a
taken from one-fourth of an acre
ground. She has averaged eightee
quarts Of strained milk per day, frol
which my wife has made eight pounds I
butter per week, during the four and
half months. The COW is five years !,
and cross of the Ayrshire and Durhal
She has given more milk, more butte
and of better quality, than she has ev,
done on pasture. On one-eighth of a
acre have raised $50 bushels of sugs
beets and carrots, which with the tw
tons of hay will keep her handsome
the balance of the year. The labor
cutting clover for the COW is less tbs
driving her three-fourths of mile
pasture; besides, the manure saved
quite an item. In the dairy district
the usual estimate is four acres to Il
COW, on the hay and pasture systel
whereas by soiling and raising roots Fl
Fights of an acre is found to be sufficiel
/ will state further, what believe fro
nearly thirty years experience in farl
ing, that there is no crop 50 valuat
for soiling as clover, no crop so mai
pounds of which, and Of equal value I
milk and butter, can be produced fro
IA acre Of ground. Sweet corn il go
crop for late feeding, where clover "
not grow, but not profitable for win1