The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04

science, philosophy, or ~pedantry, as
you choose to call it.
"Unbending pride is a great source
of wrath, and fury takes away the
use Of the Understandings
Poor old man! He is mad, and I
am sorry for him. I have been mad
myself, and [ know how it hurts. A
friend told me how he got mad once,
and kept getting madde and madden
for three days until he thought he
was going to die. It does kill some
folks, but I hope Prof. Massey will
escape that fate.
1t is q psychological fact that an
insane man thinks everybody insane
but himself Now, may not this APP
ply to the mad man as we'll? Prof.
Massey accuses me of getting mad
with Editor Poe for not publishing
my piece OF corn raising in 1908. He
says: But he got so mad over the
REFUSAL to print his stuff that he
stopped the paper" Nay, brother, as
Paul said to Festus, Il am not mad"
neither have [ been mad, but / did
stop h paper, and l refuse to take
n paper that is so narrow-minded as
to refuse to publish an article because
it lie not be-smear itself with full
some praise. n flatter the vanity OF
an egotistical old man. There is
where the shoe pinches, n as Berk-
ley says "By degrees the sense rows
callous, and loses that exquisite relish
Of trifles."
ANY one but a mad man could see
the raillery in my article on rabbit
foot farming, and the Progressive
Farmer ought to publish even now
my 1908 article and let the public see
the banter which Prof. Massey took
for insult.
Many years ago, when I was scien-
tlfic and had a temper, I used some
language, not especially adapted to
parlor conversation to a man who had
played me a scurvey trick. After ex-
haustlng my stock Of Billingsgate, and
handing out all the foreign ohi1,rea-
tory expressions I could think of. T
come down to a plain everyday cuss-
word n called him q ID scoundrel.
His only reply was, Doctor. rye
been called that before"
l never was SO completely whipped
IN my life, and I am only sorry that
nebo at some time, had no
called me what Prof. Massey init
mated was. Cor was he talking
about himself?) so I could give him
the same answer. If he was all1ding
to me in that quotation from CARLYLE,
l beg leave to inform him that / have
no patent on that empty title, and if
he chances to assume it again, I shall
rot bring suit against him for in
frlngement. In this country one ma
has as much right to be a fool as an
other. and Prof. Massey need not
think he is going to monopolize the
privilege, but when I do assume the
role of hoody-doody, or nincompoop.
[ shall initiate a more competent mas
ter. And when I make on
another mans method of farming,
shall leave out such words as "nroh-
ably and "evidently," which he uses
in reference t the cost of Mr.. Bats
cotton seed meal, and the fertility Of
my land.
Anent that t~wenty-inch blowing.
Prof. Massey says: Il would say to
MI. Herring, that there is no difficulty
in breaking land twenty inches deeD
where there is even a hard clay sub
soil, such as Mr.. Bats undoubtedly
had"
In reply / beg to hand him a round
robln, signed by the whole fraternity
OF rabbit-foOt farmers. anti-sub-soil-
efs. believers in the moon. cotton seed
meal, nitrate Of soda, and all other
fads except The Progressive Farmer.