260 THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS. 



NO. 73. TIM BUNKER S RAID AMONG THE 

 PICKLE PATCHES. (Concluded) 



MR. EDITOR : I began to give you some account last 

 month about the way Noadiah Tubbs raised pickles up in 

 Westchester County. I wanted your readers to hear him 

 out, for when you get an old farmer to talking on a sub 

 ject that he feels at home in, he always has something to 

 say worth hearing. Daniel Webster learned something 

 about growing turnips from the farmers of Old England, 

 and a very plain boatman taught him in cod-fishing. 

 Diah s morals don t exactly square with my notions, but I 

 am willing to own that he knows more than I do about 

 raising pickles. So you may just imagine that he sits 

 there cocked up in his flag-bottomed chair in the corner, 

 squirting tobacco juice into the sanded spit-box and 

 &quot; pickle eddication &quot; into Tim Bunker. 



&quot; I wonder you don t cultivate your crop more ; what is 

 the reason ?&quot; 



&quot; Wai,&quot; said Diah, &quot; There s two or three reasons. You 

 see, you don t plow the ground till the weediest part of 

 the season is over, about July 1st. Then the cultivating 

 comes along the last of the month, nnd before it is time to 

 cultivate agin, the vines are in the way. And besides, I 

 allers sow turnips at the time of cultivating, to take the 

 ground when the vines have done bearing. And in this 

 way I often get a half crop of turnips and kill two birds 

 with one stone, if not more; for the turnips take the place 

 of weeds, don t tax the ground any more, and are a great 

 deal better for the cattle.&quot; 



&quot;I hadn t thought of that, I declare! When do you 

 begin to pick pickles ? &quot; 



&quot; It won t vary much from six weeks from the time of 

 phmtin.&quot; 



