Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — PLOWING. [ARTICLE]

PLOWING.

By Walt Mason.

I watch the farmer plow; he’s busy at it now ; he deftly tools his .-pan of mules, ami whacks them with a bough. One minute be says. “Geel" Next minute, “Haw’’’ says he: the mules, they haw. and strain and dra w upon the double-1 ree. The plow point strikes a stone; the farmer heaves a groan: and then his'nibs surveys his ribs, to find the broken bone. Then, finding he is whole, he takes a D'-foot pole, and prods the mules, and says. “You fools, such tricks I will not thole!'’ The plowshare does not sconr. and he, tor half an hour, suspends the rules and lams the mules with wondrous vim and power. To turn the furrow o'er it is the oldest chore: man's tilled the earth since Adam's birth, and will forevermore. And ever, as he walks, he pick.-' up clods and rucks, in West and East, to pel- his beast, his horse or mule or ox.