The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-07
AcCLIMATING A PLOW.

u ACCLJMATING A PLOW.
Il A farmer who lives within two miles
of lola, and who has as good farm as
there is in the county, recently con~
planned to US Of the hard times, and how
hard it was to get along in Kansas. We
looked around and saw machinery that
cost not less than four hundred dollars
standing where it was left last fall, COW
cred with mud and rust and with no
protection from the weather. We re-
marked that we thought it was hard
times. Here is something from Rev. H.
w. Beecher on the subject:
"The other day we were riding past q
large farm, and were much gratifed At
device of the owner for the preservation of
his tools. A good pillow, apparently new
in the spring, had been left in one corner
of the field, standing in the furrow, just
where, four months before. the boy had
finished his stint. Probable the timber
needed seasoning-it was 9certainly get.
tingit. Perhaps it was lett out for accli-
nation. May be the farmer left it there
to save time, in the hurry of the spring
work. in dragging it from the shed. Per.
haps he covered the share to keep it from
the elements, and save it from rusting.
Or, again, perhaps he is troubled with
neighbors that borrow, and had left it
where it would be convenient for them.
He might at least have built little
shed over it. Can any one tell what a
farmer leaves pillow out a whole season
for? 1t is barely possible that he was an
Irishman, and had planted for spring
crop Of plows.
After we got to sleep that night, We
dreamed dream. We went iuto that
mans barn; boards were kicked off parti-
tions were half broken down, racks bro
ken, floor foot deep with manure, hay
trampled under foot and wasted, grain
squandered. Tho wagon had not been
hauled under the shed though it was
raining. The harness was scattered
about-hames in one place, the breeding
in another-the lines we're used for halters
We went to the house. A shed stood
HARDLY, in which family wagon was
kept TO: wife and daughters togo to town
in. The hens had appropriated it as
roost, and, however plain it was once, it
was ornamented now, inside and out.
We peeped into the smoke-house, but
of all the fxings that we ever saw!
A Chinese museum is nothing to it.
Onions, soap-grease, squashes, hogs
bristles, soap, old iron, kettles, broken
spinning wheel, a chur9, a grindstone,
bacon, hams, washing-tubs, barrel of
salt, bones with the meat half cut off,
scraps Of leather, dirty bags, a chest of
Indian meal, old boots, smoked sausages.
the ashes and brands that remained since
the last ''smoke," stumps of brooms, halfa
barrel of rotten apples, together with rats,
bacon bugs, earwigs, sowbugs and other
vermin which collect in damp dirt. We
started for the house; the window near
the door had twelve lights, two of wood.
two of hats, four of paper, one of bunch
Of rags, one of pillow, and the rest of
glass. Under it stood several cooking
pots. As we were meditating whether to
enter. such a squall arose from quarrel
ling man and woman, that we awoke-and
10! it was dream. So that the man
who left his pillow out all the season may
live in the neatest house in the country,
for all we know; only, was it not strange
that we should have dreamed all this
from just seeing a pillow left out in