Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-01-04
What Don't Know OF Farming--No
by Greeley.

In selling stock by I've wei BIT, it is
good plan TO feed each one about three
pals Of water, and what other stuff he
can get down EN- just before driving on
the scales. If the buyer has ever invest
ed much money on Change, he will
know what "watered stock" means.
In holding the ,iow, always prefer
to hold il in the house, seated in a rock
ing chair, with my family clustered
around me.
In planting hay, I always plant the
longest | can find, as short hay bends
persons back to- much in cutting it.
La the matter wheat, | always raise
it BY the barrel, at mill not far away,
as it saves buying seed, blowing, sowing,
grading. and threshing. generally
raise it on a note.
In travelling through the country, |
have often noticed that farmers do not
SUI e f..cisutIy regard tue neaIIn OF their an
imals. My balm is arranged on a plan
of my own. It is open on all sides, so
that no creature may have TO stand out
in n storm because | am asleep or away.
This also saves lumber. All around the
barn are benches on which any animal
can sit down when waiting for something
or other TO turn up. The sheriff says
my cattle always sell when my neighbour
don't, and be thinks it is all owing to my
economy, and | do not doubt it.
In subsoiling piece of ground, al
ways ''plant" n mortgage on it in the
winter previous. 1t raises the biggest
kind of crop, especially when yon let
the interest go behind. | hardly ever
knew such sowing that didn't turn out
full as well as the holder expected.
In raising hogs, l think that many
farmers are altogether too slack for their
interests. Now suppose that | want to
raise hog. | go about it in scientific
way. A good MANY farmers raise their
hogs with the first club that comes handy
bat this has a tendency to make the ani-
maI discouraged and Disconnected.
/ have my own ideas about training
horses. If ever | got hold of horse in
clined to run away. | always borrow n
buggy of some of my neighbors, put him
to it, turn him into a lot. and let him run.
He generally 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 aud 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.
If ever get hold of kicking COW, |
always let Mrs. QUAD sit down first 10
milk, and | take my situation by her to
see what foot the animal kicks With, and
bow hard she hits. Ny wife has a re.
markably clear memory, and after COM
ing to she can generally give me am little
particulars which 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
bag and fill it with bricks, hang it with
in easy kicking distance, and stand Oft
for developments. Every time she comes
down, she hits the bricks, and when she
goes up have another thing apply to
her in front, and after she has gone
through with this oscillation two or three
times she never kicks an y more, at least
not until she looks around for bricks.
A young lady writes from Council
Bluffs, Iowa, to the La Crosse Democrat,
for advice in an affair matrimonial. Her
lover is flirting with another. The DEM
ocrat sagely respond with a column edi-
toriaI, from which we take the follow
ing:s
We answer the following letter for the
reason that a great principle is involved
10 the matter spoken of--one of especial
interest in young men and young women
everywhere in she country. The woman
who loves one man does not firt with
another, or seek 70 show him those at
tentions which would bring him as
suitor at her feet. The man who loves
one woman viii not attempt to flirt with
or win the heart of another. Every
man has heart enough for some ona
woman, but not enough for two, for this
| is cont rary TO the great law which gov
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