St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-04-16
ROBUST VACCINATIONS.
SOME VERY ABLE STORIES ALLEGED TO
HAVE BEEN TOLD IN NEVADA.

"A.
Yesterday afternoon, when the
lawyers in Justice Carey's court
were waiting for the verdict in n
petty larceny case, Attorney Solder
berg related an incident Of his early
childhood In Minnesota, illustrative
of the peculiar custums in vogue in
that State:
81 knew An old farmer there who
owned ten acres of timber land
where millions of pigeons came each
year to roost. They devastated the
wheat fields, and the old coon used
TO catch the birds in nets and thrash
them out on the burn foer. Each
bird had three ounces of wheat in
his crop, and it was bad year for
Old Thompson when he couldn't
ship 100e lalsllels Of wheat to mar
ket at 81 60 bushel, and it ranked
| A No. when it reached the Chicago
elevator. If there had been q few
millions more of pigeons he woul'l
have come pretty near getting a
corner on the Minnesota wheat
crop"
II know a planter Down in Ala
hama" said kittre.l, "who WIS fully
rs sharp as that. He trained an
alligator to work up and down the
river and catch the little picaninnies
that played along the bank. The
alligator would take the little kids
in his jaws and swim back to the
plantation. i MS ii ds..i day that
he couldn't cerfsl tire. or four.
The plante, raised EN- carefully,
and when they got big sold 'em i'll
New Orleans at prices ranging from
$1,000 to $lO,d00 apiece. He was
rullisg in wealth when Lincoln's
emancipation proclamation was is
sued, and after that the alligator
never did any more work. The man
now can barely keep body and soul
together in Washington. e,.rking ill
one of the government bureaus at
5000 n year"
Judge Cary erineed tile greatest
interest i'll their weird tales, and
edged up to the groap.
These are curious yarns, gentle
men, but heiieve them AL. I had
dog once back in Nebraska that I
kent to l,erd lumber
beg pardon. judge, did you say
the dog herded lumber2'
Eyes. sir, cottonwood boards.
We always kept dog there to bring
the lumber ia at night"
Everybody now paid closest at
tention as they knew the boss was
ut work.
1T was this way. Cottonwood
boards warp like thunder in the
sun. A board ~euld begin to hump
its back up about nine in the morn
ing, and ia half III hour it would
turn over By eleven it would warp
the other way with the heat, and
make another flop. Each time it
moved it turned a couple of feet,
always following the sun toward
the west. The first summer | lived
in Brownsville over 10000 feet of
lumber skipped out to the hills the
day before I he'd advertised q house
raisia.' I went to the county seat
to attend lawsuit, and when I got
back there wasn't stick of timber
left. It had strayed a~ay into the
uplands. An ordinary board would
climb b two mile hill during q hot
week, and when it struck the tim
Der it would keep wormin' in and
out among tine trees like a garter
snake. Every farmer in the State
had to keep shepherd dogs 20 follow
his lumber around the country. keep
it together, and show where 1t was
in the morning. We didn't need
any fumes there of lumber. We
sawed it east of the place we wanted
to use it, and let it walp itself to its
destination; with men and dogs to
head it off at the tight time, we
nsver lost a stick. Well, here comes
the jury" continued the judge.
The witnesses lied, SO | guess they
will disagree. carson City Ap-
peal.