Nebraska advertiser., 1877-10-04
Pollock and Fair View.

Pollock and Fair View.
Editor Nebraska Advertiser.
/ am an unfortunate fellow in some
things. Several years ago I advised
certain man to do what he afterwards
had to do. and the then editor of THE
ADVERTISER went for me heavy. a
few years afterwards some fellow
wrote a scurrilous article about "Old
Settlers - I answered it, and Caffrey
gave me goss through his paper, and
the Governor of Nebraska pitched in
to me in an extremely long private
letter, so that l had two big guns fir
ing at me. Still later, Doc. Holiday
got after me, and for nine or ten weeks
| he Just bombarded me. wrote a let
\ ter to the Bee, and some Peruvian got
his back up, and just deluged me; and
afterwards Sam Gunnison" scOrched
me-yes, gave me three or four scorch-
ings.
l went to the Harvest Fest va at
Harmon's grove, and being called on
to address the multitude, did so
praised Nebraska's soil, climate and
healthfulness stated, among other
things, that malarial diseases. the
curse of fertile soils, was almost un-
known in Nebraska; compared the
present mode of farming With the
past; and said that did not want the
old times back again.
Well, there is a certain Mr. C,
who lives in a hollow almost sur
rounded with thickets of young tim
Der, is as mad as a wet hen, and goes
around saying that that id old PO-
lock says there is no ague in Nebras-
ka, and | have sha-a-a-ke every day.
Your correspondent Fair View"
gives me fits beca 1se l don't want the /
old times back again. In Illinois from
1910 to 1S4S, COWS sold from six to
eight dollars. Strawn, the cattle king, (
had standing offer of ten dollars for
good four year old steers, delivered at
his farm. Wheat sold from 25G SOC /
per bushel; corn from 106l5o per /
bushel, shelled pork from $l.5063.0O /
per 100 pounds, net; wagons from
SIO0@l25 each, and all other farming
implements much Eigher than they
are now. No, Fair View, 1 don't
want the old times back again.
Fair View must have a perfect hOr-
ror of farm machinery, for he writes
ANY machine shop, in any town,
selling on credit, is a greater curse to /
the community financially, than forty
dram shops could be-" Great men
will differ in opinion. wish Brown
vile had forty machine shops, and
nary dram shop.
Any person reading Fair View ar
ticle would suppose that Iadvised the
farmers to raise grain and sell that
alone, whereas I gave them no advice /.
on any subject. If l ever do advise /
tASA4it ~ " III DS ~ AcAtoS aAA LIC STUN I
they can, and not to run in debt for
anything.
If Fair View is a fair man, and .
practices as he breaches, he plOws his .
land with a bull-tOngue plow, with .
wooden moldboard harrows 1t with .
a woOden-toothe harrow, or brush {; .
cuts his grain with sickles, and .
threshes it with fails or tramps ii out .
with horses. His corn ground is
marked out one furrow at a time,
couple Of boys or girls drop the corn,
and three or four men or boys cover it
with hoes. In this way six or seven
persons will plant seven or eight acres
each day.
Mr.. Editor, you should get Fair
Views permission to let your readers
know who he is, and where he lives,
so that we can all visit his farm, and
see his Old fashioned plows, and har-
rows, and sickles, and fails, and all
the other farming tools of forty or IF
ty years ago. It will be as interesting
as a circus TO the young folks. 10 see
eight or ten men cutting wheat with
sickIes, or moving the grass with
scythes. 1t makes me shudder yet,
when I recollect that in haying time,
which lasted a month, 1 had TO turn
the grindstOne two or three hours
each day for men to grind their
scythes. No, Fair View, don't want
the Old times back again.
Fair View is not fair in one thing.
He attacks me by name, but conceals
his own name. This is a guerrilla
mode of warfare that no fair man will j
adopt.
The same copy of THE ADVERTISER
that had Fair Views growing letter
tells Us that the shipments of farm
produce from BrownviIle for one
growls ct me because told the people
that we all should be thankful to God
month amounted to 81. 800 Fair View
for the many blessings that we as a
people had received. Well, he may
growl, but 1 will return thanks and
feel grateful.
wonder how long il viii be before
some other big gun will shoot az NE.
Respectfully,
W. a. POLLOCK.
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