The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-29

efforts at art and misrepresent things to
me regarding the business. They do it
in spirit of raillery-a sort of fence
raillery, presume-Dut think il is be-
cause they do not approve of my style of
farming and regard it as sort of reproof
to them for their lack of taste and artistic
sense.
Now, for instance, regard il as little
bit unneighborly to take hold of literary
man and ill him up with facts and Stats
tics that cannot be demonstrated.
hate to be fooled with in that way.
Why should man whom I have
treated with the utmost kindness ever
since came here to go to work and tell
me that here in North Carolina four crops
of lambs from the same set of parents was
and has been the regular thing. while on a
good year, .shen the mean average rain
fall can see its shadow on grounding day,
the yield runs up to five and six.
This sort of thing not only makes mo
feel unhappy and bitter towards my neigh
bors, but il has fostered a miserable spirit
in my breast and caused my relations with
my domestic animals to become strained.
At trst laid it to the weather. but finally
! began to regard my sheep with distrust.
l felt that they were neglecting their
duties and taking advantage of the fact
that am not an experienced farmer. So
| consulted Mr.. Vanderbilt, who has farm
ed 1t six weeks longer than / have. and
who therefore knows the ms and outs of
the business pretty well. He tells me that
one crop of lambs per year is all that they
get here under the most favorable circum-
stances.
Plum Levi also tells me that while tim
othy and clover often yield two or three
crops, he never harvests his lambs over
once year.
1t hurts the country to Inisrepresent
these things to strangers and capitalists
like myself-men who wish to build up
the country and add to its wealth Why
not be fair and truthful in the start and
thus invite the good the true and the
beautiful to come and settle among US?
Last year my plug tobacco was COM
plete failure. and an old resident of Sandy
Mush allowed that it was because / did
not plant the plug with the tin tag down
ward. | have since learned that one
should not plant the plug at all. 1t will
not reproduce itself, even If the tin tag
end be planted downward. Tobacco
grows from the seed and is made into
plugs afterward.
Why would it not be as we'll to tell a
stranger OF those things instead of allow
ing him to make a large huted ass of him
self with 4 Watteau back?
My well Is down now to porphyry rock
and schist with hematite stain in it.
NeighborS tell me that even if | do not
strike water it will make a good cool place
to keep vegetables in.
| learned yesterday that the former
owners of the place have each dug a dry
We'll 200 feet deep on this farm and then
sold 1t out ut a sacrifice. Can it be that
l am elected to contribute also 200 foot
root cellar? Oh, heavens! Oh, heavens
1t cannot, must not be.
Since the above was written have been
out all day on horseback hunting for more
dynamite among the neighbors. / bor-
rowed four large cartridges of a kind
hearted neighbor and carried them in my
coat-tail pocket aboard a fractions horse
twenty-nine miles over mountain road
When l got there the hair in the butter of
my sandwich had turned white
When l handed my cartridges over to
the we'll digger, after my days work in Sc
curing them. and heaved sigh of relief,
feeling sure that now the work could go
on, he took them and looked at them for
quite spell, and then he said. sort of slow
and eaE like:
'That's-hit. Now-if-we-had-so
hose -we-could-put-
Haven't you got any hose?" l asked in
loud parliamentary tones.
NO" he said. "I-hed-
terday = but Il -,ain't - got-a-one-
now"
So put in the following day getting
hose. This sort of thing makes my liter
airy work disconnected, and have always
wanted my posthumous work to be my
very best. God bless you," said a lady
friend of mine the other day. especially
for your posthumous work."
l am having the usual trouble peculiar
to domestic animals in the spring. I
bought donkey last year for the chill
dren. This year We had him clipped, as
he was getting most too woody and the
hens got to burrowing into mis- foliage
and hiding their nests, so we got a clip
pist to clip him. He is about so years of
age and never had his hair cut before.
We found good many things which the
neighbors had missed. They were in the
stubble after the clipping had been DONE
But he caught cold, for we clipped him
too early. One should not prune donkey
in March. 1t is risky. He is likely to get
pneumonia. Ever since that I've had to
cover up this donkey of nights, and two or
three times in the nitht must go and see
if he has kicked the covers off. He is
often feverish at night, and his feet are
hot and dry. Once they were, anyhow.
That was the only time felt of them.
l am going into the guinea hens this
summer. l bought eighteen before |
paused to ask myself what the guinea hen
is good for. Will any reader of this paper
who knows what the guinea hen is good