The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15
ON NYE'S FARM--BILL FARMS
TO MAKE HIMSELF A BET
TER MAN.
A Coarse and Refractory Cow Gives Him
Trouble---Also, a Pair of Steers.

1t Is now the season of the year for
gathering in the fall crops. The yield
has not been up to what [ had looked
for on my own place.
Farming with me is not INDUCED in
for the coarse joy it yields or the
wealth which it pours into my Golfers.
I do it for the reason that | think 1t
makes me a better man.
also want my boys to learn to love
the farm. So I got them to put into
cropa small piece of ground and agreed
to pay them a highp price for their vege-
tables. Being a busy man, [ have not
paid much attention to the process OF
their farming, but [ have bought from
them $50 worth of truck which [ could
have gotten from the neighbOrs for
$31. so, and which my young agricul-
turists, I am told, did buy at even less
than that.
hate to see boys do that way to a
man who has always been regarded as
a firSt-class parent in every way.
YANKEE HATING COW.
My farm animals consist, among
other things, of a rather coarse but
well meaning COW, which we brought
here. She was born at the South, and
some of the best blood of this country
flows in her veins. Ideality is small,
out her ailimentiveness and inhabit-
~iveness are large. She has a vivaciOus
way with her that wins every one, but
she still retains a feeling of intense
hatred toward the people Of the North,
Though I had nothing to do with the
war, and did not favor it at the time,
this cow holds me responsible to a de-
gree for the results of the war, and l
have never been able to get en- rapport
with her.
1t is the same with a little mouse
cOlored ass, or burro, which | bought
for use on the farm and for ornamental
riding over the highly infamed roads
of North Carolina. Hisname is Juanita
pronounced Whaneeta. Whanceta,
in the language of Patrick Henry, is
dead sore on the war, and regards me
as having brought it on, whereas, l
did not 90 so, but, on the contrary,
did all | could hOnOrably to evade it.
| wrote to a paper in 1860, being at
that time at Winnipeg, that unless the
war was prevented in some way I
would stay where I was for q long
time.
But Juanita gets mad about the war
and brOods over it, and mOurns and
mourns and mourns, Juanita is also
childless, and that makes him feel the
war worse, [ think, than he otherwise
would.
Juanita was owned by a neighbOr Of
ours here, named Nettles. Mr.. Nettles
did not seem to want to part with
Juanita, but did finally, and last week,
when I offered to let him have the lit
tie pet he said, "No, the wound is
healed over now. Do not tear it open
afresh by compelling me to go all
through it again. I have learned to
l1NC llllOUU y IldIllUCt INV. ~ llOU ILI
my newly healed heart-strings any
more. Take him away or I will set the
dog on you" So I took Juanita home
again.
When we first let the children ride
on him he did not seem to brood 50
much over the war, but we noticed
that the children felt uneasy about
something, and pretty soon discov-
cred that little souvenirs of the late
were to be found in great numbers
all over him. So | had to disinfect
him and renovate him before we could
use him. But he regards himself yet
as my superior, I can see that. Though
poor and measly, with large bald places
on his person where he has rubbed
himself against an upright farm while
to forget the past and get rid of
the results of the war, [ can see that
he regards himself as unfortunate, but
refined.
Juanita regards me as q low, coarse
yankee, whose oats are reluctantly
taken in exchange for his refined social
influence. He does not have much
fun, and ever and anon he bursts forth
into a wall that shows how keenly he
suffers. He is the worst sample of
moth-eaten responsibility and unlaun-
dried hauteur that ever saw. He has
the pride of Lucifer and the personal
habits of Davies. He is most UnfOr-
tunately made up Of strange ]contradic-
tions and unhappy warning elements
which fill his breast with wild tumult.
"BRIN" AND "BOLLY.'