The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-08-18


"Probably out of doors somewhere"
responded her husband. There's more
room out doors. Don't you know that
crops don't grow in winter, and then
Ihe cows can have the whole farm for
pasture~
"Thats so," said Mrs. Spoopendyke,
'I hadn't thought of that. Now we
want some chickens"
Gone chicken will be enough" said
Mr.. Spoopendyke. "Pm not going to
have a lot of those measly hens scratch.
ing up my meadows, and one will give
us all the eggs we want. Pm going to
lay my money out in farming imple-
ments, not in hens. You see we've got
to have a steam reaper and moving
machine"
"And steam hoe" suggested Mrs.
Spoopendyke. "And we ought to have
some geese"
eyes, we must have geese. I'll look
around for some white ones. I don't
like the gray ones. Now, / see by re-
ports that a cow ought TO be dry at least
six weeks before her time of calving.
You are careful not to give that COW
any water, you hear? Where can we
put the pig?"
81 don't know" replied Mrs. Spoop-
en2yke, biting her thumbs. "Can't we
put him in the orchard?"
eyes, and along in the spring we'd
find the orchard in him. That's an idea.
One year fruit and the next year pig, q,
turn ana turn about"
''But you can tic him up so he can't
bite the trees. You'll want to kill him
in the spring anyhow.
"That's so. We can tie him in the
orchard and keep the COW in the wood
she'd. That reminds me, must have
grindstone. What kind of trees will
we put in the orchard?
"Willow trees give the most shade. -
ventured Mrs. Spoopendyke.
"Thats it! howled MIR. Spoopendyke.
"you're ali agriculturist! All YOU
want is dry season and mortgage to
be a model farmer! If had your in.
telligence and yellow cover, I'd hire
out as an almanac! Don't YOU know
that willows don't give fruit? Pm
going to put in quince-trees and olives
There you can get your fruit and shado
together. Then, .arnn.1 in the corner
ot .hs @nce ri plant strawberr,
vines.
"That'll be NICE" chirrupped Mrs
Spoopendyke. "And when we kill the
pig III make some little oil-silk bags t..
put the sausage in"
"What bagsf" demanded MIR. Spoop-
endyke.
"Those oil.silk bags that always como
around sausages.
"Ol yes, those. They'd do any time
Say, think I'll get some sheen, tbe,.
during the long winter evenings WE
can shear them at our leisure.
Wont they hurt us? asked Mrs
Spoopendyke.
"Fll get some quiet ones without
horns,' replied Mr.. Spoopendyke, "or
else some that have horns ali curleo
around so they can't stick i'm us.
must find out how TO make honey, and
the first thing we want is q wind mill.
"Then we can always tell which way
the wind blows exclaimed Mrs. Spoon
endyke. "Get one with a man holding
a spy-glass to his eye. I saw"
"Who care dod gasted cent wha
you saw rayed Mr.. Spoopendyke
"Do you know what Il windmill Isl
Think it's got eyes all over like meas
ly old maid? Got notion that wind.
mill goes around with its skirts hoisted
up and a, dad gasted spy glass under ii.
viii l@s@r either w IHjlAiseIerYiS}dI %sash, san I !,
to. Understand what it is now?'
Certainly, DEAR rejoined Mrs
Spooyendyke, "but / thought YOU
meant something to put on the CHIMNEY
when it don't draw. Now where could
we keep a wind-mill!'
Chain it up behind the house, !,
th""jvro,i mfr. cpoopendyke. "Itl
have a CT liar on, and we can bring i
in nights or have kennel bnilt for it.
Got il now! Think you'd know a wind
mill if | asked one home to dinner?'
81 know what ii is now,' whimpered
Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Il's thing that
turns around
"That's it, snorted Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke, ut wallzes. You've struck The
idea; with what you know and what
you've got TO find ont. you only mead Q
good breeze and fight around th,
corner to be a whole flour-mill.'
81 see the report says You must Civ,
your hen chopped turnips once in .
while,' said Mrs. Spoopendyke, putting
her thumb on the paragraph.
"Either that or cabbages,' returned
her husband. ~ don't know whether
well have cabbagcs enough he con.
timed, musingly.
"fou might have less buckw heat j..
suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke. 81
should think though, that two acres
would he enough for one hen, and if il
isn't you can bny load now and then
from the neighbors.'
"Fll think that over replied Mr.
Spoopendyke. "IIere's one thing
don't understand. 1t says we should
test few seeds before planting 10
make sure they will germinate, but i,
don't say how TO do it,
May be 1t means to boil Them sup.
gested Mrs. Spoopcndyke, COR perha ps
you-n
"Oh, perhaps you think it means to
crack'e with an AK 10 see if they are
hord! l s'pose you've got an idea YOU
stick straws into em TO see if THEY'RE
done! Well you don't; You put acid
on EN-. III get some acid and drop
EN- in, and if it discolors EN- they're
all right, | think we ought to have
some weevil for the pig
81 don't know where you're going TO
plant it, said Mrs. Spoopendyke, 6nn.
less 1t will grow with buckwheat or
onions. 1ou can't pnt it in with the
cabbage because the pig and hen would
fight ''''
"Do you know what weeyil isY de-
manded Mr.. Spoopendyke, glaring at
his wife. "Got notion it's some Kind
OF weed for the pig TO smoke, haven't
you! Imagine it's gilt-edged note.
paper with monogram for him TO
write on, don't youY Well, it isn't a
swallow-tail coat or a plug hat for him
to go to church in neither You don't
plant weevil, Mrs. Spoopendyke, any
more than you do soap, or clothes-pins.
or stair rods. You buy il in barrels
and I'll order some
81 think we nnnhf To hn,.n .a.... L.