Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-03-09
BILL NYE ON HIS TRAVELS.
HE MEETS A HARD FIsTED FAROI
ER on A RAILWAY TRAIN.


aihOurcd with n Bucolic Life
Some Of IT'S Drawbacks-Thc
Man who Makes Money Whiting
"Farm iiints'- Remarks about
the Tariff.
On board western train the
other day, l held in my bosom for
over seventy-livc miles tho elbow
OF Il large mi.l whose name | do
not know. He was not IL railf2atl
hoy or / would have resented it.
He WAS bnilt wide and he couldn't
help it, SO iorgave him.
He had IL large, gentle, kindly
eye, and when he desired to spit he
went to the car door, opened it and
decorated the entire outside of the
train, ioi getting that our speed
would help to give scope to his re
marks.
Naturally rs he sat there by my
side. hulding on tightly to his tick
ct and evidently afraid that the
conductor would forget to come and
get it, | began to figure out in my
mind what might he his BUSINESS.
lie had pounded one thumb so that
the nail was black where the blood
had settled under it. This might
lnppcn to 1t shoemaker, IL carpcn.
ter, Il blacksmith or most any one
else. So it didn't help mo out
much, though it looked to me as
though it might have been done hy
trying to drive Il fence nail through
il leather hinge with the back OF an
axe, and nobody but a farmer
would try To do that. Following ND
the clew, ! discovered that he had
MIXED on his boots and then |
knew was right The man who
milks before daylight in II dark
barn, when the thermometer is
down TO 2S degrees below, and who
hits his boot and misses the bail
ny reason oil the cold and he I'M
certain light and the prutishnrss
ct The COW, is IL marked man. He
cannot conceal the Fact that he is n
farmer unless he removes Tia; [
badge. SO | STARTED out on that
theory and remarked that his world
pass for Il pretty hard winter on
stock.
The thought was not original
with me. for have heard ii cx
pressed by others either in This
country or Europe. lie said it
would
MS cattle has gone through =
mo"lnl . hay srnce October and
eleven Ton q bran. Hay dom,
seem to have The goodness 10 il
tibet ii he'd last year, and with
their new pro cess gi.isS mills they
jerk all the juice ont ~ brand, SOS
yoG might as we'll feed cows with
excelsior and npfoIs;or your horses
"Itn hemiock bark as to buy bran. >
wei, why do YOU run so much
to stock Why don't sou try diver
Siiied farming and rotation of
crops ~
"Well, prohly You got that idce
III the papers a man that earns
biS wages writing Farm Hints for
agricultural papers can make more
money with soft lead pencil and
two or three seasoned. cracked iecs
Ike that N can carrying of 'cm
ont on the farm. We used to hnve
Il Teller in the drug stces in our
town WHAT wrote such good pieces
for the Rural Verlnontcr and made
mp such IA good condition powder
out OF his own head that two Years
ago we asked him to write a ncssav
for the annual meeting of the
Buckwheat Trust, and to Use his
own Judgment about choice of sub.
lect. And what do you S'pose he
selected for ii neSsay that took the
whole forenoon to read 7"
'What subject, you mean ~
Eyes"
"Give it up"
"Well, he'd wrote out that whole
blamed intellectual wad ON the sub.
lect Of The Inllumanity of Dehorn
ing Hydraulic Rams IIow's tiaty,
That's pretty fair
"Well, farmin' is like runnin' n
paper in regards to some things.