...Norway which I thought needed reform more than this. It constantly reminded me of putting the corn in one end of the bag and a stone in the other to balance it upon the horse's back. By the time we found ourselves comfortably seated on the upper...

...could just as well as not. Accordingly, that sort of enterprise which suggested the putting ot the grain in one end of the bag and a stone in the other to balance it. was devotedly adhered to and worshiped, and the result of all was that farming became...

...themselves. We teach in this way simply because it is the traditional method — like the man who carried his grain in one end of the bag and a stone in the other to balance it, because h'is father and grandfather had done it, and what was good enough for them was...

...reduce its charges. On the face of it this is the Irishman's plan of loading his mare by putting meal in one end of the bag and a stone in the other. It balances things after a fashion, if the two are of equal weight, but it is hard on the mare. In...

...amount of useless material. It is like the old, old story of sending a boy to mill with a half-bushel of grain in one end of the bag and a stone in the other ; he carries twice as much weight as is necessary. Then we say : " Do not be strictly vegetarians,...

...men have cut their crops with a sickle and threshed it with a flail, and carried it to the mill with grain in one end of the bag and a stone in the other. The same thing can be done again; but who would hazard his reputation for common sense by advising...

...mill laid across the horse's back, half in each end of the sack. Some have been heard of who put the grain in one end of the bag and a stone in the other to make it balance. Most all light carrying was done on horseback, as wagons and carriages had not...

...his former denomination behind. He wrote proudly about those who refuse to go to mill with the grist in one end of the bag and a stone in the other, merely because their "fathers did." [Others] seem to think that their theological food has all been...

...farmer's son was ordered to carry a bushel of corn to the mill on horseback, and the method was to put the grain in one end of the bag and a stone in the other, that would give nearly an even weight on both sides of the horse, thereby ensuring the rider of its...

...let us not disown him, for had it not been for such as him, we would still have gone to mill with the grain in one end of the bag, and a stone in the other, to balance it. I presume I am a little selfish in treating this subject, being an inventor myself,...