The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-10-05

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fore sadsance In price In 1852 you could
buyy q woolen dress for $3.50. In 1911 q
silk, dress costs $500. bstands to reason,
therefore, that by making your sheep spawn
silk YOU will mike e5 81 times more profit
I was thunder-struck MT this, and could only
aammer. Howl The hoary y-headed frost ans,
swered; by grating, Of course Thoss e
sheep can spin'co coons like siikworms U
they only give their minds TO It and the
man who denies it is liar and Il horse thief
Little sheep that can spin and won't spin
must be made .osspin. The fact is, Went
worth YOU oyerSecd your sheep and they
never feel the spur ofnecessity Vary their
diet. give them no vegetable food, but give
them say a peck Of silkwOrms a day, mixed
with coloring matter, as cochineal, madder,
indigo or lamp-black, according to: the hue
Eof silk which you want to rear. Food makes
blood. blood makes life, and how can't uerino'
sheen produce wool without life :? What are:
worms but food? Sir; was convinced ofthe
correctness of the views held by this slovenly
scouudrel. went to Summit, and to sum
it up locked those devoted sheep up in q
barn, gave them two hundred pecks OF silk
worms which cost me $50 peck, land went
AWAY for drive with Charley Farwell, my
old friend, telling my farmer not to let the
sheen out on any account. Political matters
kent nv mind so occupied, for several days
thatI forgot all about the sheep, until yestetr-
day. when whatI had done flashed across
nv mind. mounted my horse and spurred
him like the wind to my farm, but / was too M
late, When got there, the cupboard Tas
bare IN be id, sir, if the sheep hadn't
[all died. and the worms had kept them
6empany, and I was s47, 600 OUT on the
transaction. HI Of. a lot the venerable
murderer knows about farming! Farm. the
devils grand mother pei.s. z55 rae
Here Mr.. Wentworth paused, overcome BY
his emotions, and it was some time ere nc
could proceed, in broken voice, as follows
aMisfortunes, d-n it, never come singy
BE had, 49, us2 ~
| - BL1aHTED MY MUTTON CROP, =; '
/ now he went for my unoffending root crops
II had q field Of potatoes-hog-eyed carly
Arussets; there were 900 acres Of them. pro
fEdueing 13O bushels to the acre, worth $la1'
lOOO. Said that pensive old horse.thlef tt
me: John, we do not give our growing crop
enough sunshine Sunshine and air will b'
! more effectnal and less expensive thar
4 manure Take my advi and dig up al
yolur potatoes and plant them with the top
down That's what we call top.dressing
Now. the potatoes being exposed TO tn
: beneficial influences Of the sun and Wln'
will fatten earlier than by the old way. be
sides YOU can gather them more easily tina,
if YOU had to dig them out of the ground a
} ways remembering to leave one potato IL
} each hill as nest egg Well, Sir, l followe.
his advice implicitly. Of course, the crop
ruined; but never mind"
.sThose were, indeed, unpleasant expt
. r;eppces, Mr.. Wentworth, but"
y aBut the half Of it has not been told, m
t dear sir. do no wish to inaict my grieN
r ances upon you.
: nduced me, under fraudulent pretences;
a buy steam plough, and the throttle-valye g
out of order, and although my plough hma
r told it to whoa, to gee, and to haw, the d
q thing ran, endson, through the conservator..
4 went in at the ay-window, ploughed fu
. row two feet deep through the aoora an