The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-06-07
JOHN WALTON'S FARM.
Hadn't you better subscribe for it

tell you, no. haven't the money
TO spare. And if / had, | haven't got
the time to waste over newspapers, said
Eben Sawyer, with some emphasis.
But you will gain much information
| from it IN the course of year, sir, pur-
sued John Walton.
| tell you l don't want it
This was spoken so fatty and bluntly
that Walton said no more, but folded
up the prospectus of periodical which
he had with him and turned away.
Eben Sawyer and Ben. Grummet
were two old farmers-that is, old at
the business, though they had only
reached the middle age of life-and
after their young neighbor had gone
they expressed their opinions concern
ing him.
He'll never make a farmer, said
Sawyer, with a shake of his head. He
| spends too much time over those papers
and books of his. He's leetle mite
above farmin', IN my opinion.
Those are my sentiments, responded
Grummet. l tell you, EDen, the man
that thinks to make livin' on a farm
in this section has got to work for it.
At this juncture Sam Bancroft came
along. He was anouher old native of
the distric'.
We was just talkin' about young
Walton, said Sawyer.
He's rippin his barn floor up, said
Bancroft.
Rippin' the floor up! repeated
Grummet. Why, the whole floor was
put down new only three years ago.
The tie-up floor, mean, pursued
Bancroft. He's got carpenter up
from the village and his two hired
men are holpin'.
Whew | guess he'1l make farmer !!
y d ST. they all guessed-with res
ervltlon. In short there was something
highly ridiculous in the thought Of
a man thinking to be a farmer and a
student at the same time.
John Walton was young man, and
though he had been born in the neigh
borhood, yet much of his life had been
spent in other sections of the country.
His parents having both died, John had
married, and now turned his thoughts
to making living out of the old home
stead.
Ben. Grummet had curiosity to see
what was going on in Walton's barn, so
he dropped in there. He found that
the whole OF the floor, where the cattle
stood, had been torn up, and that they
were digging wide, deep trench the
whole length OF the tie-up.
What on airth is all this for? asked
Ben.
Why, retorted Walton, who was busy
supcrintendlng the work and also IN
working himself, | am having a place
| fixed here for making manure. | mean
to fill this trench up with good muck
and thus save the liquids which have
heretofore been lost. | think, by proper
management, | can get double the
quantity Of manure which others have
got on this place.
DO YEP said Grummet, sarcashcally
Yes, resumed the young man. 1t is
TACT that The liquid manureS, could
they be saved, would fully equal the
solids both in bulk and value, and when
combined with well rotted muck, and
some other articles which shall take up
| dEu fS.dlil dil tilC ulplC FOidtliE pans,
feel sure that they will afford more fer
tillzing powers and properties than the
solid manures can.
Yau don't say so ! Where dye learn
all that?
Partly from reading and partly from
observation, answered John, smiling al
his good nelghbor's sarcasm.
don't suppose it costs anything tc
do all this?
Oh yes; it will COS: me considerable
before l get through.
Yaas; | shonid ralthcr c'kllate i
would.
swan Ben Grummet cried, as he
met SAWYER sisItl, afterwards. OH
Wtltnn's r. s'iar hift'utIn. HIS jeS
about as nigh h b,in' Cr"zY as maj
can ne.
EA?-cr w, B.uP
O-I don't mean, rallly upset, like
folks VINO r. sent 20 tie insane asy
INN. 9at he's cot lis mead full of al
sorts OF nunsensr
But what in naturr's he goin' to do
Why-he's goin' to save the liquids
as he calls EMO An he's goin' to pu