Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-11-18
What I don't know Of Farming.
NOT BY HORACE GREELEY.

In selling stock by live weight,
it is good plan to feed each one
about three pals of water and what
other stuff can be got down 'em just
before driving on the scales. If
the driver has ever invested much
money on Change he will know
what 'watered stock means.
In holding the pillow, | always pre-
fer to hold it in the house, seated in
a rocking chair, with my family
clustered around me.
In planting hay, I always plant
the longest can find, as short hay
bends a persons back too much in
cutting it.
In the matter of wheat, l always
raise it in the barrel, at mill not
far away, as it saves buying seed,
blowing, sowing, grading, and
threshing. l generally raise it on
a note.
In travelling through the country,
| have often noticed that farmers do
not sufficiently regard the health of
their animals. My barn is arrang-
ed on a plan of my own. 1t is open
on all sides; so that no creature may
have to stand out in a storm be-
cause | am asleep or away. This
also saves lumber. All around the
barn are benches on which any ami
NAL can sit down when tired of
standing, or when waiting for some
thing or other to turn up. The
Sheriff says my cattle always sell
when my neighbors' don't, and he
thinks it is owing to my economy,
and | do not doubt it.
In subsoiling piece Of ground,
/ always plant mortgage on it in
the winter previous. 1t raises the
biggest kind Of crop, especially
when you let the interest go behind.
| hardly ever knew such Il sowing
that didn't turn out full as well as
the holder expected.
In raising hogs, think that many
farmers are altogether too slack for
their interests. Now, suppose that
| want to raise a hog, l go at it in a
careful, scientific way. "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 discomfort
ed.
l have my own ideas about train
ing horses. If ever l get hold of a
horse inclined to run away, | al
ways borrow a buggy of some of my
ncighbors, put him in, turn him in
to lot, and let him run. He gen
orally gets sick of the fun by the
time the buggy is gone, but if he
don't, hitch him to any of the
wheels that may be left, and keep
him travelling. The owner of the
buggy always expresses astonish-
ment at my system, but the evil
dence of it's success is there before
him and he cannot dispute the
pieces.
If | 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 a remarka-
bly, clear memory, and after coming
to she can generally give me any
little particulars which l failed to
note, owing to distance. | then get
the COW into the stable, drag her up
with windlass, until she is just
evenly balanced. Then | get a bag
and fill it with bricks, hang it with
in easy kicking distance, and stand
off 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, at least
not until she looks around for
bricks.