Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-03-15

been done trying to drive fence nail
through 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 his boots and then l knew l must be
right The man who milks before day
light, in a 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 prudishness of the
COW is n marked man. He cannot con-
ceal tine fact that he is a farmer unless
he removes that badge. So | started
out on that theory and remarked that
this would pass for n pretty hard win
! ter on stocn
The thought was not original with
me for / have heard it expressed bv
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 thet it he'd last year, and
with their new pro cess grss mills they
jerk all toe juice out o brand. so Won
might as we'll feed COWS with excelsior
and uphoster our 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. 4 man that earns big
wages writing Farm Hints for agricul-
tural papers can make more money
with n soft lead pencil and two or three
season-cracked idees like that'n | can
carrying of 'em out ON the farm We
used to have a feller in the drug store
in our town that wrote such good pieces
for the Rural Nermonter and made up
such good condition powder ont of
his own head that two years ago we
asked him TO write nessay for the
annual meeting of the uckwheat Trust,
and TO use his own Judgment about
choice of subject. And what do you
s'pose he had selected for nessay that
took the whole forenoon to read?"
What subject, you meang"
Eyes.
"Give it up
'.Well, 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 feller
in the world will take and turn in and
tell you how to do it, even if he don't
know a blame thing about it There
amt man in the nited States TO day
that don't secretly think he could run
airy one if his other business busted Oh
him, whether he knows the difference
between new mich COW and horse
hayrake or not. We had one of these
embroidered night-shirt farmers come
from town better'n three years ago.
Been a toilet soap man and done well,
and so he came out and bought u farm
that had nothing to il but fancy house
and barn, lot of medder in the front
yard and southern aspect. The farm
was no good You couldn't raise a
disturbance on it. Well, what does he
doP Goes and gifts a passle of slim
tailed. yeller cows from New Jersey
and aims TO handl cream and diversi-
fled farming. Last year the cuss sent
a load of cream over and tried to sell it
at the new crematory while the funeral
and hollercost was goin' on. may be-
a sort of chump myself, but 1 read
my paper and don't get left like that"
what are the prospects for farmers
in your statep