The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-11-27
From our Agricultural Correspondent.
Smart Men as Farmers.

How often in the North one meets with
chin, colorless, cadaverous looking object who
asks every conceivable question but cannot
satisfactorily answer one himself. This indi-
vidual, if farmer, has q supreme contempt
for all creation except himself; positively no
other person Whatever knows anything worth
knowing. Some way or other, although he
gives his hired men no quarter from carly
dawn till sun-dewn and leads them himself,
although he sits at table with them seeing there
is no waste, and although pork is eaten because
it goes farther than fresh meat, the receipts
from the farm do not exceed the expenditure.
There are many of kin to this widely re-
nsunced parsonage who thinks it necessary to
salvation to say always "come along boys" and
who firmly believes every man will surely go
to perdition if he tells his "hands" to ego and
do" his bidding. tits interesting to notice how
the sons and daughters of such men hate farm
ing, and if they cannot enter into any other
pursuit how they will run away from home
But often there will be no sons or daughters to
leave home, for these leading men expect the
indoor management to accord with the style
outside, and in many instances the wife has to
milk, attend to the garden, feed the pigs and
as matter of course do the washing for the
workmen, because they will come for trife
less when that is dene. Then there is the dairy
and churning, the cooking and the sewing, go
that as poultry too come under her charge it is
No wonder SO few children are raised or in
many instances ever born, for where the wife
is of the same turn as the husband she is smart
enough to know how to avoid being plagued
with brats. What disgrace to country which
is welcoming people from every part of the
globe to know there are se-called doctors whe
get living by procuring abortion and in sew
eral cases it has been proved married people,
even from pious New England, write to them
for vile drugs to rid themselves of the cost of
raising children. One sample, named Davis,
ventured across into Canada where he lies in
prison awaiting his well merited doom.
These smart farmers are not responsible for
all the evils of this kind, but they help indi-
rectly to increase the prevalence of these un-
natural and fendish crimes. l have been in
many parts of different States where these
smart men don't know how to raise calf ex-
cept by giving it new milk, who sacrifice
the heifer calves from the very best mich cows
and who let the butcher take the best eve lambs
from the flock every year. Many of them be-
lieve that turnips or other food which gives
milk bad favor if given just after milking
will de no harm to the taste as they have not
sense enough to think that the milk for the
next milking continues being made from the
food in the stomach every hour from the time
the last was MIXED. saw one of them 60 to
cure the hollow horn, for from some symptoms
the neighbor complained of it in his cow. 1t was
at once decided to be hollow horn or tail evil,
but On visiting the animal he found her to be
polled one, or as Marylanders term it buffalo
COW. "Well, darn nae if it is not the tail evil
instead of the hollow horn," says he, but on
looking behind, the COW had no tail, it having
been pulled off four years before by being
caught in an iron fence, the astonished man
and some other believer in such ailments, left
for home without saying good evening. You
will see such men rubbing salt iAto meat, be-
ing toe ignorant to know that salt will pene-
trate without.