boy, as he watched this process of butter-making and 

 remembered how his back and arms ached when pur- 

 suing the methods taught by his father, voted this the 

 greatest invention of the age, and that the man who 

 invented that churn ought to have cold watermelon 

 the rest of his days. Another feature of these days is 

 the horse trading, and in some counties it is known 

 as " Jockey Day," and every one who has a horse he 

 desires to sell or trade will bring him in and put him 

 in a yard known as ''Jockey Yard," and it is not un- 

 common to see several hundred horses of all kinds and 

 descriptions in one of these yards, and before night 

 they will generally be disposed of. If any are left 

 after the buyers and traders are through, an auctioneer 

 is brought in and the balance are sold under the 

 hammer. When night comes, every one who has 

 ** swapped " horses thinks he has made a small fortune 

 by his cleverness in outwitting the man at the other 

 end of the trade ; but I imagine they generally come 

 out about the same as the two men of whom a story 

 is told, who went into the woods in the fall of the year 

 to chop wood ; one of them had a watch and the other 

 a fiddle. The first evening after they arrived they 

 traded even, and each thought he had made several 

 dollars by the transaction ; and as this business seemed 

 to be much easier and more lucrative than chopping 

 wood, they did nothing all winter but trade the watch 

 and fiddle back and forth ; and when spring came each 

 claimed to have made a good winter's work, each 

 having the same property he had when winter began 

 and not a dollar had passed between them. In the 

 spring months stallions owned in the county, and 

 frequently those of an outside county, are brought to- 

 gether on these days for the inspection of farmers and 



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