Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-03-12
"FARMlN' DON'T pATl"

miles) saw "A mowing-machine, morse
rake, hay teader standing outdoors
protected BY the ''canopy OF heaven
They had thus stood exposed TO tn,
gentle dews, the baimy breezes, the soi'
showers aud the joyous sunshine since
used in July--and this was January
The owner has plenty OF room In which
10 store them, but it was less work to
leave them where last used than TO put
them under cover, and no doubt next
summer he will spend no end OF time
right In the busy sesson-running TO the
blacksmith for repairs.
III YOU should ask him III farming pau
he would answer, Farming pay: No.
just manage 10 scrspe along, get enough
TO eat aud few clothes TO wear. Have
been on this farm for twenty-five years,
aud amt worth red cent more than J
was then. No, sir, farmin' don't pay.
Reader, can YOU guess the reason whS
A half mile further on | saw u barn
with cracks half foot wide, shingles OF
the roof iu patches foot square, lot
OF old plows, harrows and wagons stor
ed out OF doors, aud back of the barn
TWENTY-FIVE or thirty hens going to roost
in an apple tree-this being the only hen
house on the farm. Not an egg do they
get from November until March, and no
wonder; for between frozen combs and
toes il is strange that they live, much
less Law. Ask the owner II farming
pays: he will answer: "a man had bet
ter be in the poor-house. He would have
better livin'. Look at them hens eatin'
their pesky heads of, but the old w"man
,ciH keep 'em. Don't get an egg all
winter; scratch up the garden every
summer, faster than | can plant It." The
garden was protected by single strand
OF barb wire. No, farmin' don't pay.
just beyond | saw man followed by
two dogs, one bird dog, and the other
a huge msstiff. He soon came TO fell
where some twelve or fifteen fine-look-
ing cows we're gathered near the barr
contentedly chewing their cuds and walt
ing 10 be driven home. The man lei
down the bars and turning 10 the mtstif'
said "Sick EN-. With bound he MA
among them. With a voice Ike fog
horn, hair bris,ling and tangs barred, ht
dashed at the frightened herd, who with
tails In air rushed for the opening.
crowded through, three or four AT =
time. one or two falling in heap. and
away they went up the road like The
wind. with the ''fog horn" voice ringing
out until "A bend in the road hid them
from view. How the writer wished that
a bear-not one of those woe-be-gou".
meek-looking fellows one sees leading a
greasy Italian by string. but reai
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foot long and teeth like meat-aNe-
would spring up out OF the ground ami
chase that man, until he had either run
him out of the state, or had eaten him.
boots and all. The loss would not have
been great--Only rhe value OF the boots
IL YOU ask him II farming pays, ten to
one he will say: mo; We keep doz"u
or fifteen COWS, have 10 buy so much
grain that il takes all the profit, anc
then they don't pan out as they ought To.
Feeding them a. we do, don't know
what Is the matter with them. Guess
will sell every mothers daughter oi
them. They don't pay. No, farming
does not pay nowadays" Reader, II l.
strange, isn't III
4 half mile further on the writer 50"
a fine large farmhouse, nicely painted
and blinded large barns and plenty oi
out buildings, all painted and in the hes,
of repair. All the tools aud farm m'-
chiuery under cover, the surrounding
fields smooth and under high state oi
4 large Wind mill supplied
plenty of water to house and barns. \
neat poultry house and pig pen, aud ~
but not least, wood-house near tn"
kitchen door filed with wood, dry and
neatly piled. The owner Is on the best
Of terms with his stock, and gives each
4 kind word aud gentle pat when he
comes uear them. Ask him IL farming
pays; he will reply IN modest way: 81
have been able To lay up little for
rainy day. besides putting the farm and
in fsir shape-buildipg neH
house. etc. les, think can say that
farming pays me. County Gentiemin