The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-09-11
Edinburgh and Its CustOms---
How Harvesting and Haying
are Managed in scotland.

Especial correspondence for the Advertiser.
EDINBURGH. SCOTLAND.
August l. 1873
DEAR FRIESD:-I venture to in.
fict myself on you again, hoping that
you will bear patiently.
| am not as well pleased with Ed.
inburgh as | was with Glasgow. Oh
course it has more historical associa-
J tions to render it interesting 10 the
. traveller, and it has a much more pie
turesaue location, and more sights 0!
interest, but it is not SO orderly town
nor near SO well policed, and the peo-
pie do not seem. to me, 10 be as well
clothed or as well housed.-I mean
working people, Of COURSE. As 4
ground Of complaint against the pol
ice, what happened two night ago
might be mentioned. Two drunken
men got into brawl which they kept
up for nearly an hour, and police
man was mixed up with it for long
time without taking any effective
measures for stopping it. Of course
we have some things in America that
we are ashamed of, but | never saw a
policeman there stand by and watch
TWO men fight on public street. l
don't intend to give this as an exam
| pie of the ordinary conduct OF police
men, but the fact that such thing
could occur is proof that the regu-
latlons are not the best. Some of its
regulations, however. are admi.a-
bic Nearly all the public places of
interest are thrown open TO the peo-
pie, on certain DAYS. free. Hollywood
place. as much as is shown to visitors,
is open 10 the people every Saturday.
There they have the privilege of see
ing imaginary pictures of all the kings,
real and imaginary Of Scotland; be-
sides the apartments Of Mary Queen
Of Scots, in the condition in which
she left them. The National Art Gal
lery and the Antiquarian Museum are
open every Thursday and Saturday.
The Museum of Science and Art
wednesday, Friday and Saturday
OF course these opportunities are i'm
proved by many, and they are not
without great advantage. Wha
would | not have given last year foI
the privilege of taking geology
class or chemistry class into tn,
museum OF science and art:
have been very much amused a
much of the farming / have seen here
There is not near the effort made I.
make every stroke count two. say
some people harvesting yesterday
There were eighteen men and womc
working in the field, accomplishing
what think FIVE good men and
Marsh Hary ester would have done
and done as well. These machine
have no reels, they are simply NOV
er with platform attached, and
man with a rake slides the graf
backward off this platform. leaving
just as one of our dropper machine
leaves it. OF course if there is an
wind or the grain is in the least lodg
cd 1t can only be cut one way. til
field | saw stood up nicely, but ther
was little wind and they were bac
cutting it. The binders were scatter
ed along, working together, bindn.
and shocking both at once. Their
were fourteen Of them following twt
reapcrs cutting one way. | have II,
doubt but SIX men, or seven at mos;
would have done the work with us
But hay working is the stranges
thing. The other dav | saw eigh
persons working on one stack of hay
y man on the load took a forkfull Q
hay and handed it, on the fork. to ;
man on ladder part way up tht
stack: he pushed it on up to the tol
and there was man with FIVE wo.
men to stack il. They were about as
thick as they could stand. the obiec,
being to tramp it well. Up in the
Highlands ! saw twenty persons at
work IN one field stacking hay that
am sure two good men could have
stacked IA a dav, and / thought j:
they were extra men they might DO
it in half a dav, The process was
this: Two persons threw = sma.
cock OF hay on a kind OF crate. and
then picked ii up and carried il to
the stack. You must know that hav
is stacked twice here. 1t is first pat
up in small stacks Of about ton each.
and after 1t has stood some time is
restacked in large stacks and thatch
co. In putting up the small stacks
the hay Is usually carried together.
All this want Of invention which is
very manifest in Scotland farm work
and farm tools, results from the fact
that the men who are interested in
getting work done rapidly do not
work, and the working men are as
much pleased when the work lasts
well as when it is soon done, In opr
country, where every man works his
own land, every man becomes an
inventor, and it would be strange if
something did not come of it. 1t is
is not that Sco,chmen are dull, for
when they get to working their own
land 10 America no people are sharp
er III taking advantage of their work.
Ii is no doubt partly owing, too, 10
the fact that labor is still cheaper
here than with us. This, however.
S not as much the case as formerly.
nd the tendency is still upward. !
diners have forced their wages up to
2,3O and $500 day, and with that
before them, other laborers |
I'll Insist Oh an increase of wages.