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Show SELECTED. Wliat I don't Knoiv about Farming. NrT EV HORACE (iBEEI.EV. In celling stock by lire wui.qht, it is a good plan to feed each one about tbree pails of water and what other stuS can be got down 'em just before driving on the scales. If the buyer has ever invested much money on change he will know what "watered stock'' means. In holding the plow I always prefer to hold it in the house, seated in a rocking chair, with my family clustered around me. In planting hay, I always plant the longest I can hud, as short hay bends a person's back too much in cutting it. In the matter of wheat, I always raise it by the barrel, at a mill not far away, as it sares buying seed, plowing, sowing, cradling and threshing. 1 generally raise it on a note. In traveling through the country, I have often noticed that farmers do not sutlicicntly regard the health of their ani'nals. My barn w arranged on a plan uf my own. It is open on all sides, so that no creature may have to stand out in a storm because I am asleep or away. This also saves lumber. lum-ber. All around the barn are benches on which any animal can sit down when tired of standing, or when waiting wait-ing lor something or the other to turn up. The sheriff says my cattle always sell when my neighbors' don't, and he thinks it is all owing to my economy, and I do not doubt it. In subsoiling a piece of ground, 1 always ''plant'' a mortgage on it in the winter previous. It raises the biggest kind of crop, especially when you let the interest go behind. I hardly ever knew ueh a sowing that didn't turn out full as well as the holder expected. In raising hogs, I think that many farmers are altogether too slack for their interests. Now suppose that I want to rai.-e a heg, I go at it in a careful, care-ful, scientific way. A good many I'armers raise their hogs with the first club that comes in their way, but this has a tendency to make the animal discouraged dis-couraged and discontented. I have my own ideas about training horses. If ever I get hold of a horse inclined to run away, I always borrow a buggy of some of my neighbors, neigh-bors, put him to it, turn him into a lot and let him run. He generally gets sick of the fun by the time the buggy is gone; but if he don't, hitch him to any of the wheels that may be left, and keep him traveling. The owner of the buggy always expresses astonishment as-tonishment at my system, but the evidence of its success is there before him, and he cannot dispute the pieces. If ever I get hold of a kicking cow, I always let .Mrs. Quaid sit down first to milk, and I take my station by her to see what foot the animal kicks- with, and how hard she hits. My wife has a remarkably clear memory, and after coming to she can generally give me any little particulars which I failed to note, owing to distance. I then get the cow into the stable, drag her up with a windlass, until she is erenly balanced. Then I get a bag and fill it with bricks, and when she goes up I have another thing to apply to her in front : and alter she has gone through ith this oscillation two or three times, she never kicks any more, at least not until she looks aronud for bricks. |