Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-09

Dttn Nilllt IT, Ill2 W UNIV a. ltiltt ntAtt
through a leather h noe with the back
of an axe, and nobody but a farmer
would try to DO that. Following up
this clue | discoverelth that he had MIXED
on his boots aud then | knew ! must be
right The MAJ who mllks before dav-
light, in a dark barn, when the Their
mometer j. down to 2> degrees below
and who hits his boot and misses his
pail, by reason of the cold and the un-
certain light and the prud shncSs of the
cow, is a marked man. He cannot con-
ceal the fact that he is "A farmer unless
he remove that badge. So | started
out on that theory and remarked that
this would pass for a pretty hard win
ter on stock.
The thought was not original with
me for | have heard il 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 ele, en- ton
of brand. Hay don { seem To have the
goodness to it tibet it he'd last year, and
with the + new pro cess gr.ss mills they
jerk all the Juice out o. brand. 50 YOU
might as well feed COWS with excelsior
and upholster Your horses with hemlock
bark as to buy brand"
"N ell, why do YOU run so much
stock? Why don You try diversified
farming, and rotation of crops?'
"Nell, prob'ly you got hat idee in
the pa ers. A man that earns big
wages writing Farm HINTS for agr.cul-
tural papers can make more money
with a soft lead pencil and two or three
season-crackcd idees like that'n | can
carrying of EN- 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 a good condition powder out OF
his W head that two years ago we
asked him TO write a neSSay for the
annual meeting of the uckwhcat Trust,
and to use his W Judgment about
choice of subject. Aud what do YOU
s'pose he had selected for a nessay that
took the whole forenoon to read?n
What subject, you mean?'
"Yes."
GIVE it up
"Wcll, he'd wrote out that whole
blamed intel ectaal wad on the subject
of 'lhe Inhumanity of D~e-horning
Hydraulic Rams How's that?'
That pretty mr..
"Nell. farmin' i, like runnin' a paper
in regards TO some Things. Every feller
in the world viii take and turn in and
tell you how to do it even if he don't
know a blame thing about il There
amt a man in the u ted States 10 dav
that don't secretly think he could run
airy one if his other business busted on
him, whether he knows the difference
between a new m lrh cow and a horse
hayrake Or not. We had one of these
embroidered night-shirt farmers come
from town bettern three Years ago.
Been a toilet soap man and done well.
and 50 he came ont and bought q farm
that had nothing TO il but a fancy house
and barn, a lot Of mcddrr in the front
yard and a southern aspect. The farm
was no good You couldn't raise n
disturbance on it. Well. what does he
doP Goes and gifts a passle of slim
tailed yeller cows from New 'crsev
and aims ~ handl cream and diversi-
fed farming. Last year q g cuss sent
a load of cream owe and tried to sell il
at the new crematory while the funeral
and hOllercost was gOin' on. / NAV be
a sort OF a chump myself. hut | read
my paper and don't get left like that"
What are the p o.pects for farmers
IN your stateP'