Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-11-13
JOHN wALTON'> FARM.

Hadn't you better subscribe Tor ltF
81 tell YOU. no. | haven't the money
to spare And if | had | haven't got
the time to waste over newspapers, Salo
Eben Slayer, with some emphasis
But you will gain much information
from il in the course of year, sir, pur-
sued John Walton.
81 tell you don 'twant it'
This was spoken So fatty and buntIy
that Walton SAID no more, but folded up
the prospectus of periodical which he
had with MIN, and then turned away.
Ebpn Sawyer and Ben Grummett were
two old farmers-that is, old at the bust
ness, though they had only reached the
middle age of hfe-anl after their young
neighbor had gone they expressed their
opinions concerning him.
Hell never make farmer, SAID
SAWYER, with 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
Grummett. II tell you, Eoen, the man
that thinks to make Il Twin on farm IN
this section has got to work for 1t.
At this juncture Sam Bancroft come
along. He was another old native of the
district.
1--WE was just talkin' about young
Walton, said Sawyer. -,
He's rippin' his barn floor up, " said
Bancroft.
"Rippin' the floor up!' repeated. Grum-
mt. "Why the whole floor was put down
new only three years ago.
The tie-up floor, / mean pursued
Bancroft. Hes got a carpenter up from
the village; and his two hired men are
helpin'." =.
"Whew! [ guess he'll make a farmer
And so they all guessed-with a resely'-
ton. In short, there WIS something rldlc-
ulous in the thought of a mans thinking
to be farmer and a student al the same
time.
John Walton was young man, and
though he had been born in the nelghbor-
hood, vet much Of his life had been spent
in other sections of the country. His
parents having both died, John had mar
RED, and now turned his thoughts to max
ing living out of the old homestead.
Ben Grummet bad curiosity to see
what was going on in WaItons barn, so
be dropped in tuere. He found that the
whole or the floor where tie cattle stood,
had been torn up, and that they were dug
cling a WIDE deep trench the whole length
of the tie up.
"What on earth is all this for2" asked
Ben.
why" returned Walton, who was
busy in experimenting the work, and al
so in working himself. 81 am having a
place fixed here for making manure, !
mean to fill this trench up with good
/ 1 ln IiI,,,p. NIL I1,
have therefore been lost, think, 10y prop
er management, can get full double the
quantity of manure which others have
got on this place
"no ye?' said Grummet, sarCastClllY.
Yes, resumed the young man. 1T
is q fact that the liquid mannres, could
they be saved, would fully equal the solids,
both in bu k and value, and when combin
ed with the well rotted muck, and some
other articles which taken up and re
tain all the more volatile parts feel sure
that they will afford more fertilzing
powers and properties than the solid man
ures can.
"You dontsay SO! Where dye larn
all tha'?'
Parity from reading and partly from
observation, " answered John, smiling az
his good neishbor's open sarcasm.
- don't 5 pose it costs anything to 10
all this?"
"Oh, YES. it will cost me considerable
before get through.
"Yass; | should rayther calkilate it
would
II swami" Ben Grummet cried, a. be
met Sawyer shortly afterwards. John
'lton Ies lla., hIIalu'lh' ne Jss
s a. y d. rlR" Oe'i' crazy ID " man ''''