, 1875-07-17

1 sole Iheir best clothes IN iueffectua eEUrts at
climbing the CREASED pole the races that have seemed
to cause very wide spread conviction. even among
the unedueated in turfusage that all Judges not
men OF Judgment, of the right nervous organiza
ton for holding the typical scales N equpoise have
all been very goo1 in their way vet they have not
exhausted the volubty Of our people and there Is
stul an unexhausted subject that seems likely, for
some tiie TO come, 10 continue agtAte the minds
! OF portion OF our 4" COW county Constituents" 1
allnde 70 that visionary scheme OF noted steyriser
! known
THE No-FENCE Law.
And, IN excuse for any apparent lameness in my
logic IN discussing this subject Will premise, for
myself, that, like the father Of the measure, not
| granger, though was born and raised farmer
spent the first years of my life in the dairy business
vas spanked for biting " after cut my first teeth,
and afterwards, before q" cut my eye-teeth " and
! jumped that line Of business, have for "squeez-
! ing" too hard, been kicked over into unutterable
depths Of farmers god, - and, with bespattered
oountenance and trophies dripping from every fin
gers end, have arisen from the involuntary recne
to which the refractory brndle had treated me- and
/ armed with fence stake pursued the fleeing form
( of the ,stonishe,i and frightened COW round and
round the corral and fences, out into pastures
fair and large with all the vlor of conquerng hero
H
preston of ecuntenance sans breath sans COW sans
milk ebon-y ed professor Of the belief that had
Job been thus tired he would at least have oughtaS
thought tie Dutchmans 10y when he whipped him
! some more"
These qualifications claim, entitle ne TO the
right of assertion that 70 all thinking minds the
question of nO-fence a matter Of Volicy, shOuh
present but logical view, and that is opposition
TO Its adoption by the people Of this county. 1t is
first claimed, in support Of the measure, that the
passage OF such law will tend to settle up the unoc
| cupied lands of our county, by
POOR FARMERS,
who will be enabled, by its adoption to raise grain
without tie expense of fencing, and that this fenc-
ing business is the great bar that prevents the occu-
pancy and cultivation of all the lands IN coanty
Negatively, it does not 10 enter the minds Of
the advocates OF this peculiar measure that it Is
wEIL-To-Do FARMERS
that we need instead of "pCor ones, to deveiopour
resources. Here must not be understood as ooa-
demning the sin of being poOr.l Neither does the
equilibrium of their mental apparatuses seem TO be
disturbed by the provident thought OF the forces that
must be employed in breaking up and cultivating
these lands, that the inner man" of these poor
farmers " is mortal We and must be supplied with
the Rceals of the kline and the IubrCatng substance
! OF the swine. But 10 depart from modern granger
phrases, and resort 10 plain, good, Od-fashioned
farmer language these poor farmers must have horses
and and pigs, and the experience of ages has
demonstrated that these very necessary anI useful
animals Will not even live, much less work, give
milk grow fat without food and that to be healthy,
that oil must consist of the variety suited TO the
| seasons. In summer they must lave pasture and
the brief expert Of the farmer in this county has
bunch-,ass lands the grass dies out and weeds ow
instead Then, in order to lave pasture Tor stock,
after The pas age OF this Io-Ience law, The inner
must first fence, an , after the fist year two,
must also plOw and sow these pastures TO proiure
fool for IL ctrta My not really intended by these
"no-tencers" deprive hIIn of these Necessary ad-
june his vocation, and 1t not beng expected that
: he could find time TO
Farm AID HERD
at the same time and being " TOor, 1t could not be
expected thai lie could afford to hire It done Nei-
ther would it be practicable TO herd because of
sity tie stock must lie herded at nconvenient dis
tances from the far'ns to insure the f!s against in
vason But, cptiIg tie birding plan: IN driving
stock home from the dry ranges to water which
would lie necessary for they do drink well cat
it could not be expected that they could be educated
70 follow beaten Fats instead or being true to AMI
nal nature stepping aside and taking an OCCASION
al mouthful of gTeen grain, they passed the gram
fields not TO eat it. 10 indulge IN their woAted
disposition TO run through and tramp down. Then,
of course with these Inconvenience IN view, If the
farmer keeps any stock around him, If his Sraine!ds
are not fenced in, h pasture must be And If not
convenient to water nearly all of the unoccupied
lands in this county not the stock must be daily
waterel from wells turned from one field to another,
driven outside TO the water courses. All Of tins
kind OF work VIII occupy time, and, as " time Is
money. ." even though the number OF stock kept II
smail-only sufficient TO supply family dena nds-tle
question is whether in counting this time and the
loss from beng deprived Of selling the butter product
of the cows saying uothi of their increase aud that
of hogs and horses it Is not more expensive 10 fence
pastures in orlr these benefits than it Is 10
! fence grain fields, To 1t Is plain that, Tor tie
/ poor farmer,
FENCING THE GRAIN FIFLDs
is the most economical and, in every way the mos.
/ convenient. It is que apparent, too, that the
/ conscientious advocates Of this nofence measGre-
/ and don't doubt that there few suGh-are SIM
ply mistaken phanthropists-" 1t can be seen
how rich may buy up large tracts of lands and
mouopolize the grain growing Business by this modus
opsrandi but the poor mans advantage is certainly
ON the side of fencing the farms ami pasturing his
stock during The grain-growing in the lanes
and on the commons, where they roam unat-
tended and as now ut the foJts of the mountains,
in tb thick settled districts obtain food sufficient
10 do them until the gram and they turned
into the stuhbe fields where they oh iOoi enough
10 supply them the remainder OF the season. until
winter feeling time. But, aside from his question
OF convenience and economy 10 the poor farmers,
whom IL Is utmatgd viii me hither al er the afop
tim Of this system, comes the almPortant
sUBJECT OF TAXATION
TO those already here who have titles TO their lands
One of the very first effects Of Do-fence law would
be the driving out of the county of all surplus stock
And from this source comes very large proportion
of our revenue am told that the total land vaua-
ton of the county this year only amounts to $751; s75,
land the farmers complaining about the onerous
taxes assessed thereonl while the personal property
valuation, full two-thirds of which is on cattle,
horses and sheep is sl56S, ,225. In reoompense for
this loss we are promised large influx Of poor farm
ers, [whom doubt very much will be cajo ed into
coming hither uVun such limsey induoements.l who
| of course, must take bomesteads and can only be
taxed for years to come, upon Their improvements,
which cannot reach the valuation Of the land itself
nor OF the stock driven OF the county Then the
burden Of taxation must upon those already
here who have titles TO their lands and upon the in
hahtants of the towns and villages for with an IN
creased population It must be expected that there
will be a corresponding
increase IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURES.
Certainly, it cannot be hoped that there viii be
decrease. Then comes the final climax-capping ar
guments in favor Of this scheme of the greater pro
duet Of grain This proposition Is easily disposed Of
by the question, If the farmer raises more grain and
is compelled to sell it all to buy his meat, butter,
wool and other necessaries from distant sources of
/ supply wherein does the benefit consist 10 him
There are interests, be sure, that would be sub
served by this greater production OF gram II the
nofence Jaw insured such an end but It Is the opin
ion of your correspondent that they viii be more GER
tainly ensured the present fence system, and the
population AMI productions OF our county more Ger
| tain to increase by ntaining It
Yours MAN ABOUT ToSS.
The ~ bonanza for All
IuyaIids, by nervous debility, desirous Of again