The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-09-12

ming and inscriptions adyenturers
to make tools of the laborers for
their own self-aggrandizement,-
Anaertcaa CuItjUator.
Have a Place for Everything
and Everything in its Place"
This adage is right and good, but
through the perversity of human ma
ture, it is one Of the most difficult
rules to carry out. The saying will
apply to more things than to the
tools and implements on farm, for
there should be proper place for
every animal before it is brought
home, as half the accidents and
casualties occur in consequence of
improper fences to keep them in
place, or unsuitable stables. There
is also much misfortune with stock
because the men who attend the
animals are ignorant, and worse
than that, are often absurdly given
to quackery. thus causing the deaths
of many animals which would live
but for the ridiculous remedies re-
sorted to, in treating various all
ments. e
It's perfectly sickening to hear
one of these pretended curers Of
imaginary diseases, debate on the
herbs he boiled or the drugs he OBJ
tanned; but these he keeps secret on
the plea that he bought the recipe
for them. Every slight ailment is
claimed by these worthless to be
horn-al or tail-ail in cows, and all
lameness in the feet or fore legs of
horses is CALLED sweenie, and when
the muscles of the shoulders show q
depression from the manner of
standing to rest the leg or foot, the
seat of disease is said to be there
and blistering, etc. take place.
Nine-tenths of the temporary lame
nesses and ailments attending horses
would pass by. if let alone and
day or two's rest given, without any
application or medicine; but the
ignorant teamster or opinionative
farmer must be doing something,
and harm is almost sure to result,
after rendering it necessary to call
in a veterinarian TO undo the evil
committed. These men are out Of
their proper places, yet many gen.
tIemen or education, who are clever
business men, are led by the plausi-
bility of these specious creatures to
trust the lives of valuable animals
to their care and treatment. and
even the death of one poor victim
after the other will not always suf-
fee to check the folly OF the one or
the trust of the other.
Have place for everything. Now,
suppose man buys sheep and hogs
while his fences are in such wretch
ed condition that the animals can
either creep under them or scramble
over or through them, be is certain
ly violating this rule, for he has no
proper place for them, he is once
more guilty of a breech of this old
adage, and worse still, the foxes
and other 'varmints'- will destroy
his fowls, and everything will go
wrong with them.
Demonstration is the thief of
time" is another old saying, and
surely procrastination is very bad
habit, and does such irreparable
mischief that any one giving way to
it can never succeed in any under
taking. There are farmers who will
put off the fixing of suitable place
for a SOW to have her young, till she
has had them where the litter have
died, but in some cases, in mild
weather, the SOW is better judge in
this matter than the owner; for if
she has sufficient range, and the sea.
son is warm. she is seldom at fault
in searching for snug and COM
forfoIDIo IT, l.