Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Scrub Stock. [ARTICLE]

Scrub Stock.

One of the chief causes of the poverty of some farmers is the use of scrub stock. Nothing is so sure to keep a farmer poor as to make good crops and feed his surplus to scrub stock. An English farmer would abandon his farm altogether if he was compelled to use such stock as is kept on many farms in this country. There is no reason for the keeping of scrubs, as males from pure bred herds or flocks can be procured at a very nominal cost compared with the advantages gained. The lAte Justice Lamar had a most remarkable memory. He could repeat word for word the speeches of great orators which he had read and passages from authors unknown to others than students like himself.