The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-03-02
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
NOVEL EXPERIENCES IN AGRICUL
TURE.
Thieving and Cow Trespassing.

the American AgricultUyisf, that agriculture is
the most healthiul, most useful and most noble
employment of man." | ventured forth on new
bought farm to establish my health, make myself
useful and to become noble as possible. This
was in the spring about one year ago.
AlthougbA aT not a first class agricuturlst,
can, by the sEE cation of the old adage, that "a
penny sarsssT n penny made" prove myself in
pbsfseggT" asst an equal to the best OF my neigh
Oh some of them got in larger crops
.led more fat cattle and raised more
a can prove by the little adage that my
.Ops and possessions are now relatively as large
rs theirs.
You are no~doubt aware that the propensity
which some colOred persons and others have for
appropriating what is not their own has been
largely exercised the past winter in our county,
and especially in the I'd and I'd districts In which
| reside. Consequently most of my neighbors have
been wonderfully relieved, while have been bur-
dened with the keeping of my products and max
ing PENNIES by the retention. | will name in part
some of the work of the Nocturnal Relief Associ-
alton. One man has had half of u large stack OF
hay hauled away by four-horse team at night.
Another large lot Of corn. Another had several
hogs killed in the pen twice and carried Off An
other had ditto once. Another had fine lot of
butchered hog meat and five or seven hogs carried
off entire Another had six cattle driven off from
his field. And to tell the number of persons who
have had their hen roosts robbed of chickens and
turkeys would fill column.
Now the time might have been when there were
more persons who remembered their Sunday school
HYMN of wanting to be angels and acting in n way
to get the wings, and in those good old days and
places granaries, barns pig pens, chicken houses
and dairies were never locked but having an in
tutive evidence that men were degenerating, in
our county at least, began my farming by early
applying bolts and locks, and more especially
little private, cheap, thief-catching arrangement
IL, L..,k Hnr ami
ty from the law and gospel breaker. l will not
say exactly what it is, because most people would
sooner be robbed than systematic themselves to
efficient little trihes. But am one who believes
in the little things. Geese saved Rome and some
thing less saves me or mine. My honest neigh
bors all know of my arrangement and likewise, it
is presumed, the members of the N. h. Asso., and
any nj ght the members of the latter would like to
be convinced of its efficacy l would be pleased to
see them. 1t will suffice to say that good double
| barrel breach-Oading gun comes in as the finale
of the arrangement in test cases.
| think it is disgrace to law that thieving has
been allowed the bold progress of the past winter,
and a sad reflection upon community bearing in
its midst such numbers of offenders, and decided
weakness on the part of the upright members that
they make no individual or combined efforts worth
speaking of to ferret out and break up the grow
| ing evil. / have heard of one highly respected
| citizen who was reported knowing thoroughly
well the parties that robbed him, but did not have
| them arrested. Now whatever such a mans rea-
sons are for not bringing his robbers to the bar of
| Justice, he certainly commits great breach of
duty to society by letting them pass unnoticed.-
1t must be remembered the arrest of n thief, like
| the hanging of murde: or, is not alone an indi-
vidua punishment for the offender in his particu-
| lar case, but warning of the power of the law to
others, and to see or hear of man dangling on
the brink of eternity from a ropes end, or thief
minus the booty, and everything else by which he
would enrich himself lying in cherries Jail, are
not matters calculated to inspire others to do the
same things and get in the same situations.
| have often heard among farmers that they
thought best not to proceed against certain class
of people lest they do them some private damage
of much more costly character, such as burning
hay stacks and barns. Now when man lives in
country protected by law and says such things,
| he either proves that he is too great a coward to
be called "A man, or that law is only a name-a
something to support lot of political tricksters
or that he is living in a worse than heather
country, where every man does what is wrong in
| his own eyes and his neighbors also. For myself
| would not hesitate, matter of principle, in
reverence for law and right, aside from pecuniary
considerations, to proceed in the most vigorous
manner to bring the guilty to their desserts. II
my granary robbed my hay stacks burned
and could not ferret out the perpetrators myself
| | would employ the best detectives to work up the
matter, and if they failed and l was burnt and
robbed out of everything | had, l would take it a:
national calamity that had befalen me and be
robbed out of an existence, or would rotten-e gg
every patriot [ heard singing "My country, It's o.
thee, sweet land of liberty"
Now, Messrs. Editors, want say on the COW.
trespassing business. Everybody knows that q
COW knows that stolen pastures sweet-that
she would sooner gnaw n sheep-eaten pasture that
did not belong to her owner than almost to reve
in clover blossoms up to her teats along side OF
her own barn-yard. This COW freak, like great
many man freaks is hard to be accounted for
she perhaps thinks, like humans, that variety is
the spice of life" Well, in consideration of this
stomach weakness on the part of cows and some
little cOncOmitans on the part of their owners, il
has, l understand it, become necessary to make
every owner of cows, and other cattle also, keep
up his fences sufficiently to keep them within his
own ground, no matter what his neighbor may dc
nor not do with his share of the division fence
Believing that editors are the oracles in law and
everything else, wrote you some time ago for in,
formation on this point and you generously gave
Il quarter of a column of the law on this point as
the above
Owing to the fence breaking force of flooded
stream, there were about ninety cows got in upon
me last year. Occasionally l got enough milk
from them to scare my coffee; but generally they
| browsed around on my eatables and We regiven tC
| the owners 10 uflNe nome ana HOCQ tnelf mix
| pals. For ninety times you see | a regular
Hayes in eniency but with the beginning of this
year, like the young man with smoking, / resolved
| the other way and have had some experience ac-
cordingly. Six of my neighbors' cows have come
prOmenading through my meadow and masticating
the sprouting grass as they came put them in
my yard and got pay for two and promise of pay
from the lawyer in the of the other four whose
milk-maid, rotund, middle aged offshOot of the
Emerald Isle, RECALLED my household with some OF
her choicest selections before they were given up
The owner of the other two acted in no less re-
| freshing manner and was accompanied by IL men,
Der of the religious sect called Dunkers, who was
| supposed to be resident authority in such mat
tiers and who warned me of the law L was break
ing myself in taking up the cattle and of the pos
sibilites of its being made too hot for me" by the
residents of the neighbOrhood if l continued in
| such practice. Now | want you some of your
correspondents to state if there is any law by
which man has to pasture his neighbours cattle
Of course one dercliction in taking up the cows
undone all the generosity l extended pro bono
| pnbIic0 last year, and now finding myself in the
midst of such ungrateful, hot headed law break
ing people, l intend to fight it out with ven
geance on the line all summer, give the devil his
due and the religious peacemaker the full benefit
of his incendiary language if occasion should re-
quire. We profess to be living in a country
| blessed with peace, but unless man wants to be
swindled out of house and home by idlers and ex-
tortiOnists, it seems, it were, as necessary to
carry his weapons to his field with his pillow did
our pioneer forefathers in the days of savages and
wild cats. Yours truly LAW AND ORDER.
| -0
49, good deal of interest, not to say feeling
has been produced in Winconsin by the presenta-
ton of bill prohibiting all religious exercises in
State educational institutions. Public meetings
have been held to protest against its passage.
rs" At the end of the year 1877 there were in
the United States so, 900 miles of railroad with an
invested capital of s., 800, 100000.
We request all mothers to stop using Lauda-
mum for their Babies, but use DR.. Bulls Baby
| Syrup, good medicine. 1t contains nothing in
| furious. % cents.