Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1909 — Nothin’ Doin’ on the Farm These Hot Days. [ARTICLE]

Nothin’ Doin’ on the Farm These Hot Days.

Now doth the busy farmer arise before the dawn, and call the hired men and boys before he gets his breeches on. And as they gallop to the barn and throw the horses feed, he shines around the stove and fires her up full speed. And when the last flap-jack is down they start up on the run, and then old Fan and Charlie hike down the rows of corn. Oh, these are Jolly days out on the farm; there’s not a blamed thing doing from sun up all day long. Not much except to plow, make hay, yank weeds, and fight the

festive tater bug and cut the wheat and fix the fence and hoe and tug. Ard tear your pants and scratch you.* neck and teach the calves to drink and ring the pigs and milk the cows and think and think. And cut the hedge and lick the mules and dodge the rain so wet; and watch your life blood obb away in very drop or sweat.