The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-08-19
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What kno about pharmin IL kussid little.
Nj buzzom friend, Horace Greeley, hes nit 9
book with the abuv name, and altho heveni
Had time to peroose it, yet don't hesitate to
pronounce it bully
Pharmin NOV daze) 10 pretty much all the.
ory, and therefore it amt astonishing that q
man kan live in New York and be good chan.
Gerry lawyer and also kno about pharmin.
Apharm now daxe) of one hundred skers will
produce more buckwheat and pumkins, run on
theory, than it would sixty years ago, run on
manure and hard knocks.
There is nothing like book larnin, and the
time will eventually come when a man won't
hav TO hav only one of "Josh Billings Farmers
AlmanaX to run a pharm or D kamp meetin
with.
Even now 1t amt unkomm on tew see three
or four hired men on a pharm, with three or
four spans Of exens, all standing still, while the
boss goes into the library and reads himself for
the days blowing.
If i was running a pharm now daze) sup.
pose would rather have thirty.six bushels of
some new breed of potatoes, raised on theory,
than to have eighty.four bushels got in the
mean, benighted and underhand way of our la.
mented grandparents
Pharmin, after all, is q good deal like the
tavern bizness; enaybody thinks they can keep
can pharm it (now daze) and they kan, but this
is the way that poor hotels KUN to be so plenty,
and this is likewise what makes pharmin such
eazy and profitable bizness.
Just take the theory out of pharmin and there
Amt nothing left but hard work and all fired
lite krops.
When see so much folks rushing into theory
pharmin rs there is (now daze) and so menny of
them rushing out again, think of that remark.
,,~s~n oc ls-I H.
are kalled, but few are chosen"
Ionst took pharm ON shares, miself, and
run her on some theorys, and things figured up
this way: dun all the work, phurnished all
the seed and manure, had the ague months out
ov II, for mi share of the profits, and the other
fellow paid the taxes on the pharm for his
share.
By mutual consent quit the pharm at the
end of the year.
What know about pharmin amt with brag.
gin about, and feel it my duty for the benefit
tow pay five cents on a dollar, they mustn't start
me in the theoretical pharmin employ.
1t man really is anxious tew make munney
on pharm, the less theory he lays in the bet
ter, ana he must do pretty much all the work
hisself and support his family on what he kant
sell, and 90 ragged enuff all the time tew hunt
bees.
kno ov menny planners who are 60 afaikted
with superstition that they won't plant a single
bean only in the last quarter ov the moon, and i
kno Others so pregnant with science that they
wont set gate.post until they have had the
ground analised bi sum professor of anatomy
tew see If the earth has got the right kind Of
lngrediance for post-holes.
This is what i call running science into the
ground.
The fact OF it il, that theories of all kind
work well except in praktiss; they are too often
designed to do the work ov praktiss.
They amt no theory in brakin a mule only
few go at him with klub in your hand and
sum blood in yure eye, and brake him. Just as
you would split log.
What know about pharmin amt with much
ennyhow, but i undertook to brake kicking
helfer once.
read n treatiss on the subiekt aud pholowed
the directions cluss, and got kuokt endwaze in
B minutes.
then sat down and thought tie thing
over
made up my mind that the phellow who
wrote the treatiss was more in the trestiss big.
ness than he was in the hiking heifer trade
cum 20 the kOnklusiOn that what he knu
about milking hiking heifers he had learnt BY
!eanin over a barr.yard fence and writing the
thing up.
got up from my reaekshuns strengthened
ana went Tor that heller.
will draw a vail over the language used,
ana the things did, hut went in to win, and
won!
That heifer never bekum COW.
This is one way to brake a hiking hefer, and
after man has atudyed all the books in kres-
shun on the subject, and tried them on, he will
fall back upon mi plan and make up his mind
as did, that kicking heifer is with more for
beef than she is for theoretic milk.
have worked on pharm just. long enuf
tew kno that there IL no prayers 80 good for
Poor land as manure, and no theory kan beat
I? hours each day, Sundaz excepted, of honest
labor applied to the sile
am an old.phasioned phellow, and hartily
nate most nu things, bekause hav bin beat by
them 10 often.
never nu pharm that waz worked pretty
much 81 theory, but what waz for sale or to let
In q few years, and i never knu phxrm that
waz worked 81 manure aud muscle, IN the good
old ignorant way ov our ancestors, but what
waz handed down from father to son, and al.
ways waz noted for raising brawny.armed boys
and 6uxom lasses, and fust-rate potatoes.
What know about phsrmin is nothing but
experience, and experience now daze amt with
. kuss.
had rather have q good-lookine theory to
ketch flats with than the experience even Az
Methusler, Wv
Exr.''ence is q good thing to lay down an :,
0ae with, but you kant do dizziness with il (aovd
daze) it mt hot eauh.
Give me red.hot humbug, and kan make
most ov the experience in this world sshs med
ov itself
A Sad Little story.
very curious incident, illustrative of tn.
power which can be exercised over the amin,