Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1910-01-21
A LAWYER TRIES TO FARM.

OF .H'u encouragement from readino
B5e t1e humorous adventures of iudge
m HenTy A. Shute of New Ham,
m SHIRE, collected in the book ertitld5
n Farming it" (Houghton. Miaiin
q 20. Boston, 81 20 metz He
L nlgnt have called it Being Farm
ca; for in this wonderful collection
Il OF mlsaGventures we don't recall
one based on ANYTHING but a blum
der Evidently Judge Shute was
our Tor a lawyer. If his book is
useful, It will hardly be in temnt-
ing many back to the soil, prepared (
loi hard work, without which no 1
success IS worth the name.
! he IS able to blame the rural ev-
cursloE on the doctor; it is not an
solutely an example Of original de-
pTavity He began with pigs and !
OF course he bought the wrong xios
he mad kept pigeons once ard he :
knew that HUNTS were an excel
lent breed; so when he began 70 Z
study pigs and learned that there {
were also Runts among ehem he Il
decided that they were mis- tyne a
he therefore boEght Runts, at an J'
outrageous figure. When he
awoke to the true nature of the q
runt pig, he FASTENED 70 make al
surTeptltious exchange for more y
thrifty animals, and the venture o
might have ended in success but in
Tor the Intervention of the local g
Board of Health. 50
Then follows the poultry exner- eA
ence, and it is hard to imagine 1ol
hat this was in danger of success the
t any time. The only poultry that
vas successful was a big tom tur- on
ey and this lordly bird throve 60
'ell that he almost drove out the he
'mlly. What happened to the Ia
I'm after he gave the author tbe rlgl
reat Marathon chase we are not :
formed, butthis chapter ends in nav
advertisement that NAV attract .
her turkey growers. 1t reads: "
" Does any one wish to buy an Tepl
ult male turkey? Weighs tbirtv 5
unds5 IS direct defendant Of
hrst turkey seen by the the Pill
IN Fathers when they mooref
-lr bark on the wild New Eng Wal,
ID shore. 1t may be the original MINI
:. ~ say turkeys are pie,
heir antiquity, but a genuine
adiverius turkey, with Sheraton
$ HePPlewhite upholstery. and N .'
ppendaIe varnisI, Of undoubted 80 - a. =
lqu1ty and undisputed ancestry - 80 "
ht to bring a good price. ~ 20 :
-e should have added: As -.
ch dog better than a mastiF' 4 1S'u,
the turkey wasn't in it when lS ''c
e Shute bought the COW. He
SIS did the work himself with
previous instruction. That is
gay he MIXED the COW. The 'o'endI
Phisticated farmer, who does OF FAie'
,nOw how hard it is to milk q suffered
may be interested a maF
lours dragged slowly bv. but got a o
he COW ate on. l made bur ana we
.alculation on the back of a ulcers
le' and fouGd I had given her ChaPpe
'-three cents worth of food osiote II
ne supply i'll front of her was store
running short. But five "
k came before she beloved
new supply, and I grasped nave
ght new pail, 6urned up nv equipine
Tor milking stool, took off ~ ehoni
Ter garments, my collar cuffs TOT that a
cktie, hung them on various indebted
ions of her anatomy. sat forward &
and began TO mill IT, fore the 4
1eeze l made sent a kissing Will be at
stream into one shoe. The usual bust
INJECTED with the Da1,,, Ir 1-l4.3t
d and hzzled a fine SPRAY 9.
me. The third did NOT %
LIE, because she side-step- The doe
" from me SO suddenly that open for N
le my grip and found N.Y. Bridge, N.
all tours with my head in erfully saw,
pail. | arose and apost. ditiOn," he
her protanely, then sat most yello
d resumed practice. This coated jenna,
t the pail twice before she growing we
'ouud IN my direction and trouble pull
e, heels up. / arose, smote spite Of doct
al thumps with the bucket medicine-E
tied an entirely new cuss I regained Il
nit the occasion. am well and
l began, again taking the liver and kiC
to sit as far from her RENE. soc at
alton as possible. This
licked me. 1t is astonish- Reason VII
far forward a COW can Some % .
her hind foot. retaliat- their sons h.,
-rop kick in her stomach. pretsrrino ,o,,
1ded like a bass drum il WITH ~. =,
another pass at me with boV On tbo .
~ J I ~ saw Il coming, good weather,
- !, 80 - nIi 70 the As son, and perr
~ ~. NC sus was held weather and n
t,1 - OiOseu inc nrst The time wheI