Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-04-05

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the general racket and sowed our clover seed
! LIST week of March; it soon sprout ted and came
up and now we are among the anxious ones
who ask, "do you think it is klled?" Per-
haps may be fortunate to an extent. am
not only a believer. but follower of winter
top dressing wheat: of my 20 acres sown,
since September IL, haye top dressed fully
| 10 acres, and this is the way did it. kept
six horses stabbed at night, stalls well bedded
with wheat straw. also four cows. Three
times week the manure is hauled directly
to the wheat field and scattered very thinly
and evenly over the field. also select a
suitable lime to drive on the field, and haul
] likewise all the wet straw that accumulates
| around the straw stacks. In this l haye
hopes of my young clover pulling through.
Does top dressing pay? l have practiced 1t
for fifteen years. and know 1t is just the thing;
besides, one handling of the manure is a
great saying OF time and expense
! Perhaps one half of the wheat crop Of our
county has been held by our farmers for bet
ter prices, now it is finding its way to u so
cent market. Corn also was cribbed for II
better market than IS cents last November,
now it is going in at 33 cents.
| Hogs have been and really are yet more
renumcratIve at the present market AT gross)
than any stock we handle.
Sheep raising is one of our industries, but
the low price Of wool and mutton has had
much to do with decreasing The visible sup
ply. Having but hundred acres to do u
general mixed farming business on, |. last
fall sold my flock but 6 ewes and 10 lambs,
kept Delalnc ewes and 4 Shropshircdowns
These bred to pure Shropshircdowns The
The four Shropshire ewes have eight rs fine
| handsome lambs as eye would delight to look
upon. regard them with one eye on the
pending Wilson bill I sm,'c and think that's
the only way to beat free tratle-douhlc the
product, and um thinking We must apply
it To wheat raising al present prices get more
bushels Oft the same number of acres.
Horses are almost us low priced mot quite)
as reports of sales in your county and the
I'tCt IS CNViSuI CNCi WHY W. hA'S "VSlA"uS
the market raised too many for the demand;
now the question for intelligent consideration
is, what next? 1t certainly won't do to stop
entirely raising wheat and horses and sheep
because prices are so low, hut raise less and
better ones, and in time we will adjust our
selves to the times and prices.
Our General CoXey, Of Madison o., and
his army Of the common veal have started
on what they conceive the sure way out of
hard times" but to our minds it is only a
farcical wild goose tramp. BY the way,
have before me in the Cincinnati CONNER
cidl Guzette Il time table of his marches and
camps until he reaches Washington May LIST
| see he is timed to camp at Williamsport,
Nd, April 10Th. Well, if he puts his pickets
along the canal towards the acqucduct where
the old canal boat lay at anchor in II dry bed
Just after Antietam in 1882, when the writer,
with Bill Freeze, J. II. Cover, W. A. Lynn,
and half II dozen other equally as good frl
lows of old Co ID, 9Th Md dll picket duty
one lovely night in early October, he will
not needs face South to look for the enemy,
but IN my humble Judgment, picket his own
followers who Will, by that time have enough
of 1t to crawl into said boat and play the
stow away.
had in mind for the boys Of the old 9th
Md quite treat to relate, but | have kept
it SO long it is as stale rs the tariff.
By inylation met the 10th OHIO Vol. in
II reunion last fall qullea, good sprink ing of
the old Regiment was thcre--Gen. Kcifer,
Col Bnkley, Adjt Van Meter,CaDt. Smith,
and Gen. Fry. The reunion was held in u
beautiful grove carpelcd with blue grass
the morning hour was devoted to roll CALL
registering and handshakng, then dinner
1t was simply grand, prepared by the ladies
of Clark CO. Afer dinner short speeches.
Gen. kefrr was Chairman. was introduced
to him rs Il 9th Md. boy. wish you had
heard his speech. Fully Is minutes of the 30
he spoke was eulogizing our giment.
covered my face from sheer embarrassment.
He told nothing but the truth, but did not
want to hear it all at once in public. He
said IN substance "You Ohio people have no
idca what hot booded fellows those South
erners we've. This was loyal Southern
Regiment. The men were rs rule, small
in stature but the blavest and most daring
Regiment that ever went Into action. They
would give Il shout, raise a yell, and OFT at
double quick when drpluyel rs sklrmishers,
face any danger, charge any battery, and
plant their flag where danger and death WAS
the lhickcst. Twas the flag of the 9th Nd,
that was first planted on the rebel rsmparts
the morning of April End, 1865 when Peters
burg fell" and that's the kind Of handling we
got mot ,afry) then he said II now have the
honor of presenting you one of those boys
one of that Regiment" He called me up--l
had to 60. l did my best. l did the boys
no harm | told the citizens our peculiar
relation to the South, but Gen. Keller had
told them of our loyalty to our country.
| told them more of the good
qualities of Gen. Keifcr and his noble ll0lh
than they knew and finished by saying if it
had not been for the 10th Ohio ano the 9th
Md. the armies would still be fighting around
Richmond.
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