Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-23
aaricllltnral.
What Don't KNOW of Farming.
NOT By HORACE GREEDY.

pals of water and what other stuff ear
be got down them just before driving oil
the scales. If the buyer has ever invest
ed much money on Change hewill know
what "watered stock" means.
In holding the pillow, ! always prefer
to hold it in the house, seated in a rock
ing chair, with my family clustered
around me.
In planting hay, | always plant the
longest / can find, as short hay bends a
persons back too much in cutting it.
In the matter of wheat, always raise
it by the barrel, at u mill not far away,
as it saves buying seed, blowing, grading
and threshing. | generally raise it on a
note.
In travelling through the country, I
have often noticed the farmers do not
sufficiently regard the health of their
animals My barn is arranged on a pan
of my own. 1t is open on all sides; so
that no creature may have to stand out
in the storm because | am asleep or
away. This also saves lumber. All
around the barn are benches on which
any of the animals can sit down when
tired of standing, or when waiting for
something or other to turn up. The
sheriff says that my cattle always sell
when my neighbours don't and he thinks
it i all owing to my economy and l do
not doubt it.
In subso;ling piece Of ground, l al
ways "plant" mortgage on it the win
ter previous. Il raises the biggest kind
Of a crop, especially when you let the
interest 60 behind. hardly ever knew
such sowing that didn't turn out full
as we'll as the holder expected.
In raising hogs / think, that many
farmers are too slick for their interest.
Now suppose | want to raise hog, l 90
at it in scientific way. A good many
farmers must raise their hogs with the
first club that comes handy, but this has
tendency to make the animal discour-
aged and discontented.
| have my own ideasupon traing horses.
If eYerI get hold Of horse inclined to
run away, | always borrow buggy of
some Of my neighbors, put him to it,
turn into a lot, and let him run. He
generally gets sick Of the fun by the time
that the buggy is gone, but if he don't,
bitch him to one of the wheels that may
be left and keep him travelling. The
owner of the buggy always expresses as
constituent at my system, but the evil
dence Of its success is there before him
and he cannot dispute the pieces.
Ii ever | get hold Of kicking COW,
always let Mrs. Quad sit down first to
milk, and | take my station beside her
to see what foot the animal kicks with.
and how hard she hits My wife has
remarkable clear memory, and after COM
ing to, she can generally give me any
little particulars which failed to note
owing to distance. | then get the COW
into the stable, draw her up with a wind
lass, until she is just evenly balanced
Then | get a bag and fill il with bricks,
hang it within easy kicking distance,
and then stand of for developments
Every time she comes down she hits the
bricks, and when she goes up | have an
other thing to apply to her il front, and
after she has gone through with this os-
clllation two or three times, she never
Kick any more, at least until she looks
around for bricks.
TIGHT BARNs.---A subscriber thinks
our barns may be made too tight. That
depends upon how they are constructed
in other respects. If they are furnished
with ventilators at the top that are east