The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-06-20

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n much gratitied at
the devices adopted for storing farm
tools and machinery. a good pillow, APP
parently nearly new, had been left in
one corner of the field standing in the
furrow, just where, last fall, the pillow
man had finished his stint. Probably
the timber needed scasonimg-it was GER
tainly getting it; or, maybe, il was left
there for acclimaton. Perhaps the
farmer left it there to save time in the
hurry of spring work in dragging it from
the shed. Perhaps he covered the share
to keep it from the elements and save it
from rusting; or, again, perhaps he is
troubled with neighbors that borrow, and
left it where it would be convenient for
them. He might at least have built q
shed over it
Over in an adjoining field was reaper
and binder just where the Job was fin
ished last fall in gathering the wheat
crop; in fact a few bundles of straw
the hogs had taken the whcat-were
thrown over the concern, and the hogs
had coy nest among the gearing and
on the bundle table, and in their zeal to
get the warmest place had worn all the
dirt and rust off in many places, and the
constant friction of their bristles made
the machine take a high polish in places
Approaching the house, We passed
through the barn yard, and if this man
does not act soon it will be grave queS-
ton which he can easier move, the farm
buildings or the manure heaps. Passing
to the house the same order prevailed
though we managed to get something to
eat, aud paid sevcnty-fVe cents apiece
for some bread and milk and greasy
doughnut or two.
After returning TO the train, we were
tired, and ordered our berth prepared
and were soon asleep and dreaming. We
again visited that mans barn: boards
We're kicked off, partitions were half
broken down, racks broken, floor 4 foot
deep with manurc-thcrc was no room
to throw it outlay trampcd under foot
and wasted, grain SquandCred, The
wagon had not been hauled under the
shed, though ii was raining. The har
ness was scattered abuut-hameS in one
place, the brceching in another. The
lines were used for halterS. We again
went into the house. \ shed stood near
by in which a family wagon was kept for
the women TO go to town in. The hens
had appropriated it as a roost, and, how
ever plain it once was, il was OrnamCntcd
now inside and out. Ut should be borne
in mind that hen manure does not imiure
growing melons, SquaSheS, cueumDer>,
etc. This farmer bought these things in
town.. We pecpcd into the smoke
house, but of all the tiXingS ever seen
this place beat them. A Chinese mu-
scum cannot compare with it. Onions,
soap-grease, dccaying pumpkins, hogs
bristles soap, old iron, rags, bones, kct-
ties, a broken spinnng-w wheel, a churn, 4
grind-stonc, bacon, hams, washtubs, u
barrel Of salt, bones with the meat half
cut off. scraps of leather, dirty bags. a
sack of corn meal, old boots, smoked
sausa geS, the ashes and brands that re
manned since the last smoking, sttimps of
brooms, half a barrel Of rotten apples
together with rats, bugs, carwigs, sow
bugs, and all the vermin usually found
in damp dirt.
Two gentlemen told us the next morn
ing that we did not dream half what
they saw when they went 10 the house
in the back way. The window near the
door had twelve lights. two wood, TWO OF
hats, four of paper, one of bunch of
rags, one pillow, and the rest Of glass,
more or less broken and patched. Under
this window stood several cooking pots.
and several that were not used for cook
ing. and as they We're debating whether
to enter or not. such a squall arose from
4 quarrcling man and woman that they
feared violence if they entered,
Two of MS entered the front way and
escaped the circus and museum heard
and seen by our friends. Amazing
change. front door, Il piano, pictures,
l. 4,
pally old junk, slop barrels and quarrcls.
Oh, what contrasts can our most vivid
imagination picture. But what els" can
one or could one expect from 4 person
who stored his implements and ma
chinery out of doors and spent most of
his time at the grocery or saloon talking
of hard times and the down-troddcn
agricuituralist.
My friends, the foregoing is no fancy
sketch, and its counterpart can Ee
found in nearly every farming commu-
nifty. Then the question is raised why
the boys will not stay upon the farm,
but seek the glare, glitter, and achieve
mentS of town or city life? This class
Of farmers have no money to pay for or
time to read the agricultural paper. but
will eagerly subscribe for some political
blathcrskitcS thrice told tales, and can
always be relied upon to have bottle OF
whisky in the haymow or in hollow
log. These things ought not so to be:
this is what brings the high, the noble,
the exalted pursuit of agriculture into
diSrepute, and causes many Of their
neighbors to hang their heads in very
shame. Such farmers as these are in
variably lodging their creditor and
waving protest: their notes are seen
everywhere, and finally they make lig
sale, pay all their debts. but the
Sheriff is the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., FiCttI
and StoclBlGll.