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

1t is a subsoil pillow that will go in
the ground twelve inches deep and
break it two inches at the bottom-if
you can get it pulled. l have it, and
it is as good a plaw as my 30-year-old
mule is a mule. II Prof. Massey will
come to Wilson bringing five of the
best mules he can find in Wake coun-
ty, break my and eight inches deep
with one and with two of the Others
| follow with a subsoiler twelve inches
deep, twice around the field lthree
| acres) without baking, | will buy the
mules and make him a present Of
them and the subsoll pillow. Failing
in this, he may hitch up the other
two in front, and if the four keep up
with the one-horse pillow until the
| field is broken and subsoil, / Will &C
knowledge that 1 am what he called
me.
Is there no difficulty in this kind
| of work? To me there is much. Does
il pay? Narry-a-cent.
When 1 was scientific and believed
in subsoiling, / determined to have
my garden soft and porus. SO | dug
one ditch beside the other three feet
deep, filling up one ditch with the dirt
OF the other until 1 went over the
whole garden. result? Hard as a
brick after the first big rain. My sub
soil pillow has not been used in TWEEN
~ years., out my olleI Is open " fIol.
Massey.
I found out long ago that the east
est way to make a man mad is to cor
rect him in a cherished errOr-tO
show him that he is wrong in what he
| believes true. A case in point Will
show the folly of correcting a person
who thinks he knows, even though he
is a good man.
In 1856 I was in a military hospital
- To- ;I - ~ ofn sow
ice was one old gentleman from CAL
%ifornia, acting as g / forget his
name, but he was quite a scholar and
much Of a gentleman. One day I
happened to De reading to him from
d medical book, when he corrected me
in my pronunciation Of a certain
word. Az it sometimes happens,
though rarely, I went to a school
where the teacher laugh the rules of
Latin accent. I learned, and ] have
never forgotten them. This particu-
lar word was an exception to the rule.
The old doctor was exceedingly polite,
and excused himself for making the
correction. I, like what Prof. Massey
called me, opened a dictionary where
the word was, n handed it to him.
He looked, and said, We'll, according
to this book o are right, but the
author made a mistake, for according
to Latin prosody and the rule govern
ing accentuation it shOuld be accented
on another syllable"
AS Kismet would have it, a Latin
grammar was or the table, and pick
ing this up, I opened it at the rule
and handed it to the old gentleman.
The only exception to that rule in the
whole Latin language was the word
he corrected me on.
Prof. Massey will never be as mad
when he reads this as that good old
doctor was when he foun he was
mistaken. He threw down the book,
language, dictionaries, rabbit feet,
both fore and aft, graveyard and SAM
hill; and sent a blue streak of fOrked
im~precations up toward the moon,
which left a smell of birthstone in the
room. I felt sorry for him, as l now
feel sorry for Prof. Massey. The Pro
lessor ought to ave read Mr.. Bats
statement about his cor crop before
borrowing the wrath Of an acrimOni-
Gus English-hating Scotchman to pour
on the head of a man who asked Mr.,
Bats only two questions, and that for
information.
keep the Walls Of your wrath corked.
Come to Wilson next summer and L
will show you some corn and give you
a rabbit foot, and show you my SIS
30-year-old mule, both deaf, dumb ana
blind of one eye. She's a daisy, but
she cant pull that subsoil pillow.
n. B. HERRING.