The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-06-20
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FARMING.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FARMING.
Dolly Greeley hats in Bawstan.
The Greeley platform-let us have
Office.
The one term principle-"You lie,
you villain, you lie. III. G.
Shakespeare on the political situa-
tion-"Horace on Horace head accu-
mulate."
is not Horace Greeley a college
bred man p asks a correspondent.
No, sir he is Graham bread man.
'All the short,haired women and
long-haired men in the country will
support Greeley.'-JuRge Doyis.
A Keokuk Qowa) man has come
to grief from sporting white hat. 1t
was not a. Greeley able to his congre-
cation. ..... ...
If I'll. @. were to ask whether Dem
oeratic voters feel toward him angri-
ly, echo would probably answer,
Gang Greeley.'-N Y. World.
The New York Commercial thinks
that the Sword of Bunker Hill is
knocked all to smithereens by the
pruning -hook of Chappaqua.
Horace Greeley's Salt River cor
respondence OF the Tribune says that
the post-holes planted early last fall
will be ready to dig in two or three
weeks. -..... 49, ..... ..
Horace Greeley's opposition to a
tax on guano is on the ground that
American birds cannot compete with
the pauper labor of birds in debauch-
ed and priest-ridden Central Ameri-
ca
The Comanche Indians are unit
for Greeley. They are industriously
engaged in scalping the settlers, and
want President who believes in
Protection to American Industry
A Welsh paper at Scranton, Pa,
reviles the Chappaquan philosopher
pig-ironically in language like this ::
'Bip ginly il Greeley mltfn drumpl
tampl nypunt scrllg gp RrlItyl OF
gmshx drultzmt begply in writ
uemniz df gunnort.'
The 'Rogue's March has been
foisted upon the innocent public of
Davenport, Iowa, under the title of
the Greeley and Brown Polonaise.'
Walt Whitman is after old Chap
paqua and compares him to
The fowery May who from her green lap throws
A Dubuque reporter interviewed
Red Cloud and learned that he was
for Grant. Good Indian go for
Greelev,' said the reporter. ugh
replied the chief, Greeley too (bend-
ing a twig over his finger in halt
dozen ways much like him. point
ing to Eat Dirt, one of his venera-
bic companions.
'Greeley's clothes, like his princi-
pies, are worn without distinction of
color. Theodore JiHon.
In his Essay on Farming Mr..
Greeley says that the only way to
effectually destroy widows Weeds
which seem to thrive on some kinds
of soil, is for the husbandman to say,
wilt thou p They generally wilt.
In telling what he knows about
Goldfish balls, Horace says, Never
put over five potatoes in hill with
a Goldfish, If you would insure crop.
The pink-eye is the best potato to
use, as the eye OF the pink blends
readily with the eye of the fish, pro-
ducing an effect truly wonderful
While down in Texas, at an agri-
cultural fair last year, Mr.. Greeley
was invited to milk heifer he had
been much admiring. With the as.
sistance of six men, he is said to have
laid the animal on its back and at
tempted the milking operation with
a patent clothes pin. .'
A Greeley club was organized at
Sing Sing, the other day. One con-
vict, prominent in the meeting, said
he had always been a Democrat, and
during the war was a scopperhead,'
but now he indorses Horace Greeley
the man who knows so much about
farming. ..s. -....... ...r...a..
AS the following poem was recent
ly found pinned to tree on Greeley's
farm, it is supposed to have been
written by the old man. 1t certainly
has the Horatian jingle: vi. ....s7
San elephant sat in swallows nest,
... Drinking a cup OF tea; ..... ....F
And watching delicate hen that sang,
.... From the top oil a neighboring tree"
The following, said to be the latest
from the pen of Horace Greeley,
shows that the old gent does know
something about farming: ot hrag
sCHAPPAQUA, May 6.-SIR:-If any
body thought 1t worth while to cult
vaGe the Chicago Times, | should
say that he would need to subsoil
four feet deep and SOW greenbaeks,
drill them in carefully, mulch with
Government bonds, and top dress
with fractional currency. .. STD
p. s. II the growth shonld be too
rapid, spread on layer of Confed
crate scrip. Ill. e.
'In sowing fine cut tobacco, it is
not necessary to remove the tin foil.
Plug tobacco should not be knocked
off the trees with clubs. Wait till it
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