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last spring, and I think it must be owing, in part, to the 

 two tuns of cotton seed meal used by my cattle last win 

 ter. It would have made a great difference in the looks 

 of my farm, if I had begun to use this article ten years 

 ago. But we must all live to learn. 



Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 

 Hookertown^ Sept., 1860. 



45. TIM BUNKER ON THE FARMERS 

 CLUB. 



HOW TO GET HIGH BY FARMING. 



[Perhaps it might be more modest to omit the following letter from 

 the Squire, but it contains some good hints. And here allow us to 

 remark, that these letters, which have been continued so long, and 

 we expect will be continued hereafter, are none of them got up in 

 our office, as some have supposed, but they are veritable letters, sent 

 to us from Connecticut. We are happy to know, that the plain, 

 homespun truths here told have been of great value to thousands 

 who have read them, not only in this journal, but in many others, in 

 to which they have been copied. ED.] 



ME. EDITOR : I have not had much to say lately about 

 our farmers club, that our minister, Mr. Spooner, and a 

 few of us started in Hookertown, a few years ago. Well, 

 you see, at first the thing didn t take very well. It look 

 ed kind of bookish, and men accustomed to the plow han 

 dle didn t exactly like to come to the school-house, where 

 we generally hold our meetings in the winter, to learn 

 farming. Some of them called it Mr. Spooner s school, 

 and some Tim Bunker s pew. Jake Frink, who has never 

 forgiven me for buying that horse-pond lot, and draining 

 it, called it the Horse-Pond Convention. In the summer 



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