The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-14

The following correspondence received
during the past week is b reby answered
in a brief but succinct manner.
Mrs. R. Hyphen Skinner-McPhelim OF
the Windymear Flats, New York, con-
templates spending the summer at Staten
Island, and asks to know if the island has
a society for the prevention Of cruelty to
animals.
1t has, Mrs. Skinner-McPhelim it has
1t IS n Of the most pungent and Vocifer-
Gus societies for the prevention of good
that we have, according to reports. Agents
of the organization make it very hot for
people who own animals, f | am correctly
informed in the mat er, and | advise you,
if you hope to spend the heated tie m on
Staten Island, to leave your carriage
horses and other heir-loOms at the fiat,
where they will not be disturbed. Own
ers here have been stopped on the street,
arrested and fined, IN fact, for not shoe
ing their horses, while as a matter of fact
they were too poor to even shoe their
children. Misguided philanthropy is as
injurious to the public welfare as the live
rat caught, keroSened and ignited by a
farmer in Northern Vermont last season.
He drove away all the other rats, also the
farmer and his family, by burning down
the whole ranch. In his nice warm little
room at the poor house this summer the
farmer says to his wife, as he inserts an
other little tidbit of muSh and molasses
among his whiskers: 1.-The over jealous
and i'll guided ass is sometimes as danger
u to mankind as the level-headed
rogue"
The Society for tie Prevention of
Tr,,o1+r 70 A piroole orrocE. 4 n Iona ry;Iouy
on the highway for tying together the
hind limbs of a female hog, or swinette,
which was being transported from one
point to another. Those who have handled
hogs know that it is absolutely necessary
to tie their legs if they are conveyed by
wagon, or they will jump out. The So
ciety removed the cords, whereupon the
hogine leapt out of the wagon and broke
her leg. Prevention people not only
sometimes do not frequently know how
to handle hogs, but also they do not know
how to prevent cruelty. [ could name
some more of the instances reported, but
these will suffice to show you that the
society is fourishing, several of the agents
doing a very thrifty business who have
always failed at everything else in life.
y X X
The following note comes from a Trojan
who has suffered otherwise:
Mr.. BILL NYE: Kindly give US your
experiences at an opinion of a c~lambacke,
one of the most ridiculous of the United
States. Very respectfully,
ONE WHO WAS THOROUGHLY AT
ONE OF THEM.
Clsmbakes are not always unsuccessful.
Even if they are unsuccessful from yOur
own point of view they might not be from
the standpoint of the man who prepares
them. l was M of a small party of plain
American citizens who bought out a clam
kiln and collie works last season at Long
Branch. l had peer accustomed to life
among the lowly in years past, having
been born of poor but extremely brainy
parents. l had also lived in the wild and
woolly West, where CLANS and other speci-
mems of insect life are regarded with dis
trust. There you can buy, or could at the
time l lived there, a hind t of elk for
$3.50, harg it in your wood-shed and
feed a good sized family on it for a week.
So l said to a friend or two: Here is a
natural product of the soil, the cheapest
and commonest of Gods impervious
fauna, the low browed and weak-minded
clam. We will get some one to bake
some for us, then we will eat a water
melon and play that we are amenable to
no law, but that we are free and unfet-
tered, and as careless of human life as a
Steam-hunting Company or a young ply
sician." We ordered no wine, but just
CLANS and watermelon.
Another party from New York also
ordered a clsmbake at the same time, so
that the same kiln dried all the CLANS.
In baking CLANS you heat a lot of stones
in a hot fire, throw them in a hole along
with your CLAIMS, green corn, ground feed,
&C., &c. You then cover up the mass,
and go away fishing or pitching horse
shoes until you smell something. That is
the CLAIMS. You then borrow a six tine
pitchfork, such as is used by our best
livery stable people, and fork u your
CLAIMS and green corn, serving hot. Guests
will wait on themselves. After the CLANS
are served you load a large shotgun with
hot fence nails and collect the bill.
1 ate the left lobe of three UNDERGONE
Waterbury CLANS, an ear of hot seed corn
and a slice of soured and pessimistic water
melon. Ny bill was $23-that is exclu-
sive of nurses and medical attendance.
| do not care for clans anyway. /
cannot com up with a clam. I some
times feel that l would like to, but I can
not. Neither can my boots.
/ was quite i'll after l ate these CLANS,
having thrown away the most ~digestible
part, viz: the shell, and foolishly eaten
the clam. On the steamer coming home
many people who had been greatly dis
appointed all day in the matter enjoyment
came up on Geek, watched my gyrations
a few moments, and went home peaceful
and ~conteuted. At the wharf, some of
those who had been down to Manhattan
Beach to see Pains " Siege of Vera Cruz, !"
and were bitterly disappointed, came to
where I was gnawing an old anchor and
moaning with an inward pain, and after
seeing me suffering, went home stating
that they had more than got their money
back.
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