Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1871-07-20
The Josh Billings Paper.
WHAT | kNo ABoUT PHARMTN.

little. Mi buzzum friend Horace
Greeley, haz rit book with the abuy
name. and altho | haven't had time to
peroose it, yet | don't hesitate to pro-
nounce it bully.
Pharmin (now daze) is pretty much
all theory, and therefore its aston sh-
ing that man kan live in New York
and be good chancery lawyer, and
also kno all about pharmin.
"A pharm (now daze) ov one hun
dred akers will produse more buck
wheat and pumklns, run on theory
than 1t would sixty years ago, run on
manure and hard knoks.
There is nothing like book farming
and the time will eventually come
when man wont hav to hav only one
of''Josh Billings Farmers Allmanax :"
To run pharm. or u kamp meeting
with
Even now it amt unkommon, tcw
Sc three or four hired rnen, on pharm,
with three or four spans Of oxen, all
standing still, while the boss goes into
the library, and reads himself for the
day ; ploughlng
IL was running pharm nov dazr)
] suppose | would rather hav 81 BUSH
els ov sum new breed ov poiatoke IA
ed on theory, than tew hay - bushels
got III the mean, beknightcd anl an
derhand way ov our late lamcntcd
grand parents
Pharnlu, after all, i good deal
like the tavern blzzness runv bo1y
thinks they kan keep hotel, (uow
dazc). and emmy holy thinks they k4a
pharm it tnow daze,l ant he,J kia.
but tins Is the way that poor hotels
cum tew be 80 plenty, AMI this j. Ike
"isr what makes pharmtn such easy
and profitable biZzlucs,.
just take the theory out Of pharmtn.
and there amt nothin len, but hard
work, and al. fired little krup,.
When | see 50 mltch pAo.>~ rushing
INTO theory pharmIu. ~ there : (uow
dazr.) AMI - mcnnv ON them rushing
ont aItn. ttAiuk o. tAat remarkable
piece o. ,kriptuy, which remarks, "ucu-
ny are called but few are chosen.
onst took Il pharm On shares mi-
self, and run her on some theories.
and the thing figured up tins way,
Gun all the work, phuruI-Aci all Tho
seed and manure. had tic aInc Y mont,
out ov II, for mi share ov the profits
and the other phellow paid the take,
on the pharn tor his share
By mutual konsent | aunt tAc pL..r.u
at the end oy the Year.
nat | know about pharmln amt
with Dragging about, ami feel il my
duty to state, for the benefit Of ny
et5ebb1i"fii t5 bay i've ,hst ae thsY eyer expekt me
mustn't start me in the theoretical
pharmin employ.
If IL man really is anxious tcw make
mummy on pharm, the les, theory lie
lays IN the better, anl hr must ID
pretty much all the work hi,,clt, and
support his FANNY on what he kant
sell, and 20 ragged cAuN all tAe time
tew hunt bees
| kno Of menny farmers vino are 10
afflicted with superstition that they
wont plant single bean only la the
last quarter ~ the moon, ami Mo
Others so pregnant with science that
they wont set gate post until they
have hal the ground anallzel bv sam
professor Of anatomy tew see If Tie +.
earth haz got the right kind of insrc- .
dlence for post holes.
This is what call running science
into the ground.
The fact ov 1t IL that theories of all
kinds work we'll except i'll praktis,:
they are too often designed u do Tie /.
work of praktiss.
They aint no theory III brca'. ing a
mule only tew 90 at him with j c.up .
IN your hand and sum blood ii your .
eye, and break him, just rs ou would .
spit log,
What | kno about pharmin aiu't .
"uth much emmy how, but uu.lcrtD * /
to brake kicking heiter once. I
read treatlss on the subjekt ann
phollowed the direck kshuns c.u4, ana
got knokt el.dwaze in about , luiut,
then set down aud thought the tung
over.
| maie up my mind that the pnelow
who wrote the treatiss was mare IN tine
treatiss bizziuc,s than hc was ia tut
hicking heller trade
| com TO the konklushun that what
he knu ebout milking kikin. helfrr- ho
had learnt bi leauin over i barn,aItl \
fence and writing the thing up
got up from my rchtk ,hnn,
strengthened, and went for tnat urIt-
cr.
will draw vail over tue language
| used. and the things did, but went
in TO win and won
That heifer never bekutn a cow.
luis IS one way to brake u klckinu \
nelfer. after man has studyed all the 4
books in kreasllun on the subject. ana 4
tried them on, ne will fall back onto I
my plan, and make up his mind. a. | /
did. that kicking heIfer is with more
Tor beef than she Is for theoretic mix. /
hove worked on "A pharm Just lun. |.
ehnH III kno that thare IL no PRAYERS -
good Tor poor land as manure and no
theory Kan beet IL hours each IA (-u,,-
daze eNcepie't,.. oi honest labur applied |
To the sile.
| am an old p..sioned pheilow, and /
hartlly hate mos M things. bekau>e | I
liav bih beet by them 50 often
never knu pharm that wa w,fk- |
Ell pretty mutch by theory. buf wn,t |
was to sell or tew let in few yeer.. and |
| never knu pharIn that waz workrd |
D, manure and muskle, on the good Old !
ignorant way OF our ancestors, bat wh,,i |
waz handed down from father 10 ,ou.
and always waz noted for raising Draw
ny-armed boys and buxom la.ses. and
tust rate potatoes.
What kno about pharmin, is nothing
but experience, aud experience now
daze aint wuth kuss. 4
had rather hav a good lookin theory
tcw ketch flats with, than the exneri.
cIice even OF Methusler