Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-02-24
Listen and see if it was you

jures them. It is much better to send a boy
UP and let him shake the tree"
Nov, what do you think of that ?-for /
really suppose you wrote it,"
"Think oft? Why, I think it is good. |
think it is sense. l have no doubt that every
year millions and millions of bushels of tur-
nips are spoiled in this township alone by
being pulled in an unripe condition, when,
if they had sent Il boy up to shake the tree
"Shake your grandmother! Turnips do
not grow on t%rees!"
ooh, they don't, don't they? Well, who
said they did? The language was intended
to be figurative-wholly figurative. Any
body that knows anything will certainly
know that meant the boy should shake the
vine.''
Then this old person got up and tore his
paper all into small shreds, and stamped on
them, and broke several things with his
cane, and said [ did non know as much as a
COW; and then he went out and banged the
door after him. and. in short, acted in such
a way that | fancied he was displeased about
something. But not knowing what the
trouble was, [ could not be of any help to
him.
Pretty soon after this a long, cadaverous
creature, with lanky locks hanging down to
his shoulders, and a weeks growth of stub
BILE b~ristling from the hills and valleys of his
face, darted within the door, and halted,
motionless, with finger on lip, and head and
body bent in listening attitude. No sound
was heard. Still he listened. No sound.
Then he turned the key in the door. and
came deliberately tiptoing toward me till he
was within long reaching distance of me,
when lie stopped, and after scanning my
face with intense interest for awhile, drew
a folded copy of our paper from his bosom,
and said:
"There, You wrote that. Read it to me
quick. Relieve me. [ suffer."
Tread as follows, and as the sentences fell
from my lips, | could see the relief come. !
could see the drawn muscles relax, and the
anxiety go out Of the face, ahd rest and
peace steal over the features like the merci.
ful moonlight over a desolate landscape:
"The gualso is a fine bird, but great care
is necessary in rearing it. 1T should not be
imported earlier than June or later than
September. In the winter it should be
kept in a warm place where it can hatch ouI
its young.
cit is evident that we are to have a back
ward season for grain. Therefore it will be
well for the farmer to begin setting ont his
cornstalks and planting his buckWheat cakes
in July instead of August.
Concerning the pumpkin.-This berry
is a favorite with the natives of New En-
gland, who prefer it to the %gooseberry fol
the making fruit-cake, and who likewise
give it the preference over the raspberry
for feeding COWS, as being more filling ant
fully as satisfying. The pumpkin is tn
only esculent Of the orange family that will
thrive in the North, except the gourd AMI
one or two varieties of the squash. But tn,
custom of planting it in the front yard will
the %shrubbery is fast going out Of vogue, fol
it is now generally conceded that the pump
kin as a shade tree is a failure.
Snow, as the warm weather approaches
and the gamblers begin to spawn -'
! The excited stranger sprang toward me t
, shake hands, and said
: "There, there-that will do. I know
am all right now, because you have read i
G just as | did, word for word. But, stranger
: when l first read it this morning, l said t
myself, | never, never believed it before
Notwithstanding my friends kept me unde