The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-06-01

may assure you that any one of them
would be worth far more to you than
L propose to ask. Ask your wife
what she thinks. You have no idea
what vast amount of valuable infor-
nation you will find
Nancy Closely wanted paper /;
but her husband said,-
o, bother! 1 don't want it, I tell
we. I've got as much as l can do to
look arter my farm; and if Nancy
and the children want to read, they
can get tracts of the minister
Your neighbor, Deepwater, has
subscribed for two papers,, said the
agent. He will take pleasant, high
! toned literary paper for his family, and
paper devoted to Art, Science, and
A griculture for himself
'The more fool her cried Titus
Closely, contemptuousIy. John Deep
water can't afford it no morc'n l can.
My farms bigger an better'n his is
and [ tell We, flat an square, at l
ha'n't got no three dolllrs to throw
away for Il newspaper.
'But-Titus-
shut up, Nancy! 1 tell ye' 1 don't
want it,
And Nancy closed her lips; and
the agent went his way; aal Titus
Closely went forth to plow his ground
with the great old wooden plow which
his father, and his grandfather, had
used before him.
And time passed on. The newspa-
per agency was established at the vii
lage post-office; but Titus did not
patronizo it. He felt that he had a
principle at stake. He had SAID he
wouldn't he wouldn't But in
one thing he was consistent: He would
not allow his wife or children to boz
row papers of his neighbor Deepwater
if he knew it.
One evening Titus Closely and his
wife took tea, by invitation, with
neighbor Deepwater.
4 declare, Nancy said Titus, on
their way home, Prudence Deepwater
beats all creatian for cooking, don't
she? I'd no idee she was such hand
at it. l wonder where she got them
fresh Strawberries
She preserved them herself an
sWered Nancy.
.'O,-git eout Them wasn't pre-
sarved,-they were fresh as new
picked
1T is the way they were fixed, Tit
u.s.
tEh Can you do it p
Il could If had her paper
Her paper ?
Yes. She found the recipe in the
newspaper. And that's where she
learned how to do most all of her nice
cooking
Titus changed the subject of con-
versation
Autumn came, and the Agricultu-
raj Fair was held in an adjoining
town. Titus went over with a yoke
Of what he considered very fine oxen;
but he found, when the exhibition
came off, that he was very far behind
the times. New breeds, of which he
had known nothing, had been Intro
duced, and his own animals were not
deemed worthy of notice.
'Whew = whistled Titus, as he sat
in his kitchen, with crumpled report
of the Awarding Committees in his
hand. A friend had given him the
printed document. John Deepwater
has got the premium for sheep. By
hockey! Pll bet clip more wool'n he
| does next season.
Because you've got more sheep,
suggested Nancy. But wait and see.
The new breed which he has procured
is very valuable one
Bah Think what it cost him =
Fifty dollars for pair on 'em!
'And, added Nancy, 'he sold two
of his spring lambs to MIR. Thompson
for eighty dollars
Git eout!
Prudence told mo so. John Deep
water saw so many fiatteriug accounts
of those sheep in his paper that he
knew it would be safe to invest
Titus referred again to the Re-
port.
asHellol I'm blessed if Polly Dow
ncr hasn't got the first premium for
cheese-five dollarsP
Yes said Nancy. 'She was tell
ing Inc about her cheeses. She found
ont how make them in her paper.
I tell ye, Titus, it's good thing to
have 4 good newspaper. l wish
you'd
BAH DON'T talk to mel' And
Titus threw down the Report, and re-
tired from the kitchen in disgust.
The winter passed and the springs
work was done and the time for
sheep shearing came Titus Closely
i sheared one hundred and fifty sheep,
and obtained therefrom not quite six
hundred pounds cf wool, being less
than an average of four pounds to the
sheep.
John Heepwater sheared seventy
sheep, and obtained from them very
near five hundred pounds OF wool,
thus giving him yield of a trife
over eight pounds from each sheep.
Titus, didn't tell you that neigh
Dor Deepwater's sheep would prove
by far the most profitable? 1t costs
no more to keep one of his splendid
animals than it does to keep one of
ours. And then his lambs are heav-
ier and his mutton is
Stop yer glab, Nance! 1 know
what ye're pitchin' at Its one O.
them 'tarnal papers Let John Deep
water go it, if he wants to. I've got
more wooPn he has.
.And you wintered more than twice
as many sheep as he did,
'Shet up! will yer
Nancy was silent. But the end was
not yet.
Alter the haying had been done
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