The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-08-19

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'y hns rit o. buok with ilr above
name. and alh' I dout hesitate u
pononneo u bully
lharmtn Wow dIyl b. rrcly
mch aIi theory. and therefore Il
amt astonishing that man can
live In New York and bc q good
ehauccry awycrnudalsoknow about
/ pharmm.
A pharm Oow dazc) ov ono han
drcd akcr will prcdrco more buck.
wheat and pumpkins, run on theory
than It would sixty years ago, run
on manure and hard kaoks.
There is nothing like book arn
ing, and the time will eventually
come when n man won't have to
have only one of "Josh Billings Far
mors' AlmanaX" to run a plarm
or kampmcceting with.
Even know it amt upkown tow
sec three or four hired men on a.
pbarm; all standiug stiIl while the
boss goes into the library aud reads
himself tor the days ploughing.
II was running a pharm, (now
daSc) | suppose | would rather hav
thirty.six bushels ov sum new breed
of fpotatozo RACED on theory than
tow havo eighty four bushels got in
tho mcaa, bcnightod and underhand
way ov our late lameIrtod grand.
parents.
Pharming, after all, is q good deal
like the tavern buzalness, emmy body
thinks they can keep a hotel, (now
daze) and emmy body thinks. they kan
but this is the way that poor hotels
como to be so plenty, and this is
likowize what makes pharmin such
easy and profitable hizzincss.
Just lake the theory out Of phar-
min, and there amt nothing left, but
hard work and all fired lite krops.
When ! sec so much pholks rush
ing into theory pharmin, az there is
(now dazc), and so menny ov them
rushing out again, think of that re-
markablo piece ov skriptur, which
remarks, "menny are called but few
are chosen"
lwonst took a pharm, on shares
misclf, and run her in some tbeorys
and the thing figured up this way, ]
dun all tho work, phurl,ishod all the
seed and manure, had the ague for
6 months out OF ~, for mi share Of
the profits, aud the other ''phcllow
paid the taxes on the farm for his
share.
BY mutual consent quit the
pharm at the ond OF the year.
What i know about pharming aint
worth braggin about, and i feel it
mi dooty tew state, fer the bonciii.
ov mi kreditors, that if they expekt
inc to pay five cents on the dollar,
they mustn't start lne in the thoorct-
ikal pharming employ.
If a man really IL anxious tow
make money on phaln, the less
theory he lays in the better, and he
must do pretty much all the work
hissolf and support his family on
what he kant sell, and 80 ragged
enough all the time to hunt bees.
| know of many ,pharlners who
arc 80 afflicted with superstition they
wont plant a single bean only
in tho last quarter Of the moon, and !
know others SO pregnant with science
that they wont set a gate post until
they have had the ground analiscd
bi sum psolessor Of anatomy tcw.
see If the earth haz got tho right
kind of ingredicncc for post holes.
This IL what oail running science
INTO tho grouHd.
The. fact ov il IL, that theories Of
all Kinds work well except in prak-
tiss /; they arc tew often designed
to do the work Of praLtiss.
They aint no theory in breaking q
mule only to 90 at him with q klub
in your hand, and some blood in your
]. and brake, just as you would split
a log.
What know about pharmin aint
wnth much emmy how, but under
took to break kicking hiefer once.
read a treatiss on the suLjektl
and phollowcd the dirckshuns cluss,
and got knocked cndwise III about
5minutes. 5
Ithen sat down and thought the
thing over.
! made up mi mind that the phel-
low who wrote the treatiss was more
in The treaties bizincss than he was
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