Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-03-15

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through a leather hinge with the back
of an axe, and nobody but farmer
would try to do that. Following up
this clue discovered that he had MIXED
on h boots and then knew must be
right The man who m;lks before day
light, in dark barn, when the Their
mOmeter is down to - degrees below
| and who hits his boot and misses his
,, pail, by reason of the cold and the I'M
certain light and the prud shness Of the
COW. is marked man. He cannot con-
ceal the fact that he is farmer unless
he removes that badge. So I started
out on that theory and remarked that
this would pass for pretty hard win
ter on stock.
The thought was not original with
me for | have heard it expressed by
others either in this country or Europe.
He said it would
My cattle have gone through now
full of hay sence October and eleven ton
of brand. Hay don seem to have the
goodness to it tibet it he'd last year, and
with their new process grjss mills they
| jerk all the juice out q brand, SO YOU
might as well feed COWS with excelsior
and upholster your horses with hemlock
bark as to buy brand
-" ell, why do you run SO much
stock? Why don't you try diversified
farming, and rotation of crops?'
''Well, prob'ly you got that idee in
| the pa ers. A man that earns big
wages writing Farm HINTS for agricul-
| tural papers can make more money
| with soft lead pencil and two or three
! season-cracked idees like that'n can
| carrying Of EN- out on the farm. We
used to have feller in the drug store
| in our town that wrote such good pieces
| for the Rural \crmOnter and made up
such II good condition powder out of
his own head that two years ago we
asked him TO write nCssay for the
annual meeting Of the ucEwheat Trust,
and to use his own Judgment about
choice of subject. And what do You
s'pose he had selected for ncssay that
took the whole forenoon to read?"
What subject, you mean?"
Yes"
"Give it up
"WelI, he'd wrote out that whole
blamed intellectual wad on the subject
of The Inhumanity of De-horning
Hydraulic Rams How's that?"
That's pretty fair
"Well, farmin' is like runnin' paper
IN regards to some things. Every teller
in the world will take and turn in and
tell you how to do it even if he don't
know blame thing about it There
amt man in the ntcd States to day
that don't secretly think he could run
airy one if his other business busted on
him, whether he knows the difference
between cw mich COW and horse
hayrake or not. We had one of these
embroidered night-shirt farmers come
from town better three years ago.
Been toilet soap man and done well,
and so he came out and bought farm
that had nothing TO it but fancy house
and barn, 4 lot of meddrr in the front
yard and a southern aspect The farm
was no good You couldn't raise
disturbance on it. Well, what does he
do? Goes and gifts passle of slim
tailed yeller cows from New Jersey
I and aims to handl cream and diversi-
fed farming. Last year tie cuss sent
load OF cream over and tired To sell it
at the new crcmatory while the funeral
and hollerCoSt was goin' on. may be
a sort Of chump myself, but | read
my paper and don't get left like that"
What are the prospects for farmers
| in your State?'
We'll, they are pore Never was so
| pore in fact. sence I've ben there.
Folks wonder why boys leave the farm
My boys left so as to get protected,
they said, and 30 they went into a
clothing store. one of EN-. and one
went into hardware and one is talking
protection in the legislature this winter.
They said that far min was gittin' to be
| like tishin and huntin', we'll ough
| for a man that has means and leisure,
but they couldn't make a Twin at it,
they said. Another boy is in drug
store and the man that hired him says
| he is royal Teller
Kind of Il castor royal Teller, said.
with shrek of laughter.
He waited until had laughed all /
wanted to and then he sad:
never drank Ticker IN any FORM I've
worked from ten to eighteen hours
| day, been economical in cloze and never
went to show more'n dozen times
in my life IA sed family and learned
| upwards OF two hundred calves to drink