Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-09-08
ACHAPTER ON FARMING.

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i'm the case, Adamswas the first farmer.
have given this subject a large pile OF
thought, but | cannOp find any reliable
person MILO wants TO give bonds that he
can name II man who tried To- earn a dol
lar by farming before Adam struck in.
l consider that Adam, forgot his
other name. started i'm OH his career I'M
der very favorable auspices. Adam had
his garden all planted and the things up
before he rented it, -All her had no
was TO just 60 right i'm anu occupy. ~ -.
He had no competition. He could put
any price he pleased on his garden truck,
and not lie awake nights and worry be-
cause somebody might unlerseil him. He
could charge twenty-five cents Il box for
Strawberries. aud if his customers didn't
] Ike it he could tip his hat over his ear
and Intimate that ii they didn't like his
berries nj that price they could refresh
their stomachs ON dried apples.
He had to take no ones advice rs to
how he should plant his stuff. or when
he should hoe it. If he wanted to plant
his dried pumpkins in the same hill with
his baked beans. he did not have to read
through AN agricultural paper to- see
what nome editor who never saw farm
had 70 say about it. His postoffice box
was not filled with circulars advertising
fertilizers ndpatent dressings Tor rails
ing salad and mixed pickles.
All. Adam, ii youiwere here now. and
had TO take all the adviece that the farm
er OF to-day does, you would wish, your
self back in the Garden of Eden putting
In your winter ryel FTs = sfsl tf
Then. Adam had a splendid wife. tits
not Every man that c;Ill get such a
woman. | know there is a good deal of
fault found with Eve. but she certainly
was tn best wOm:in in the world when
Adam married iIef. and I shall stand up
for her rs long rs have legs. Eve didn't
have any great amount OF clothes. She
didn't worry herself what she should
Wear to church, % have To run and fix
herself UP when She had callers.
take it that Eden farm was run on
the military plan. At any rate Adam
had commissary Connected with the
faIm, for We rend that the serpent WAS
sutler than any beast of the field. and the
account shows that he gotta mOrtsase OH
the farm, and force. Osed OH Adam before
he had taker off his first crop. Suffers
have changed but little since the creation.
But the farmers of to-day are different
creatures. They are really the only use
full class of people we have. We're it not
for the farmer, you AMI would 90 To
bed hungry before Saturday night; but
If were put under hydraulic cotton
press and all the falming qualities
squeezed out OF me, there WOULD not be
enough to raise one grain of mustard
seed, j would sooner bs, cut up lnto
railroad spikes and driven into oak ties
than farmit. so little do 1 love the pur-
suit. Ii it were left to me 10 earn my liv-
ing BY farIning,,I don't think 1 could
raise sausage enough to keep me from
starving. x .,..,.ts -,
honor the farmer, as do the truth
fulness of George Washington. but
should have lied the old man right out
of his bouts about that cherry tree. If
had been George. freely confess that
do not like farming any better than do
castor oil. There is more hard. work to
the acre in farming than i'm any occupa-
ton 4 know of, tive except the dentist.
There is a heap OF ehar,l work to the
acher i'm that business, though the work
is chiefly to the acher rather than to the
Dentist" 81 sesfs la,,ci.fi "1f'ie - rs.
The farmer has an Unborn idea that the
sun will not rise unless he gets up and
personally superintends the job. When
was small boy was told by my good
mother that the sun rose every morning
and always believed her. / never got
up TO see, for always felt as if it would
look as If doubted her word. ~ 81 .sa
After, the farmer is up he must cut up
some green wood for his wife to build the
fire with. A farmers wife who had
Ii MI l.
would consider that She had good
grounds for divorce. While the break
fast is being cooked the fai1ner HES to
the bern to take care of and feed his cat
tie. Anybody who has ever taken hold
of a pirchfOrk handle when the Their.
mometer was below zero, never will out
live the remembrance OF it. There: may
be things colder, butt never touched
them. 1 took hold OF white oak pitch.
fork handle over. twenty years ago and
haveueyer had the full use OF ss my ham
since. -. - , SD +. i
After completing the chamber work IL
the barn., the next thing Is 10 water the
stock Watering stock OIL Wall stree
andswatering it on a farm are Two diner
ent things. Pumping up water through
leaky pump, when it seems as II tns
first drop came from the center or tnt
earth, is more cheerful to read OF than e
90. ferhaps It IS n6t'a pump, put al
Icy well-pole that you are called upon Il
embrace. and, as it slips through your
fingers, and the cold drops OF watel
splash up your shirt sleeve, you begin &C
wonder whether this really is l&e brigh,
world that you always thoughtit was
and whether you will be called upon Il
draw water FROM deep we'll with an icy
pole In the other land beyond. the skies
1t is during the winter that the farmer
throws aside the drudgery and hard work
of the farm, and engages i'm the sport oil
cutting and hauling out cordwood. Next
tomaking tatting, there is scarcely any
labor more easily done than breaking oul
wood road through snow three fee,
deep, and then chopping down trees
splitting and cutting them into cord
wood, and then hauling load of it fif
teen miles to market, and then stand il
the street all day, and finally sell it 70
five dollars cord, and take your pay il
something you don's want. When
think OF this easy way of earning dol