The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-03-06
The Old WAY and Na,r VEor

"Im sick o. this life - said TuSor
Lee, as he flung his hat across the kitch.
en-.
by so my SOM"
"lve been wanting ever since was a
dozen years of age to raise plums, pears.
cherries, as farmer Wingate does. but
father says it will take so much time i
wont pay; and the long aud short of it
Is, won't stay at home IN have place
OF my own and make it what | wish"
"Ah, ha. son, look for sums higher"
Not a shade or fruit tree grows upon
this farm, but it is dig, dig, with none of
the luNuries to tighten the burden. I'm
determined to be farmer, not one like
father who must follow the track Of his
parent, and set aside the ornamental for
reality; | like little spice with nv food
whether it be physical or mcntal.'
"Hush, hush, son."
II have hushcd these twenty years,
now must speak [ made father an Of.
ter to-day that If he would let me carry
on the farm as wished for one year. |
would give him my labor and all improve
ments.'
''WeH."
"He considered it very foolish, said
he would allow re half the income if |
would carry it on rs he wished"
II have bought that ten acre lot of
Mr. Hanson, and another spring it will
not present the same appearance it does
at present"
"Foolish boy."
Tudor was smart, active and of true
rural turn; and to this end he wished to
cultivate, but he met obstacles at every
turn. Home he could not beautifv, 50
ne purchased the rocky field Of neighbor
Hanson. At times he thought as his
mother, but, faint hearts never achieved
victory, so he perservered Early in the
spring he cleared it of rocks and beneath
found as rich a soil as ever laid in the
sunlight, Neighbor Hanson said had he
known it, he should have asked another
hundred, but however, | am willing to
encourage rural taste, SO prosperity to
you"
After clearing it of rocks, he rlowed,
narrowed, and sent to Mr.. Goodale for
twenty apple trees, ten pear trees and as
many cherry and plums. He transplan-
ted them carefully and tended them with
care. On the south side he arranged
spacious hot bed whore he produced veg
etables much before his neighbors and
thereby obtained price much in ad-
vance OF them. The remainder of his
field was for other vegetables for winter
use. At the end of FIVE years his ten
acre lot yielded him six hundred dollars;
he placed this beside his other earnings
and built him nice cottage and married
neighbor Hanson's daughter Lizzie. In
seven years he sold one thousand dollars
worth from his "ten acre lot" while his
father logged along in the same old track
of ancient times, and with rising early
and tolling late, he just made his earn
lngs meet his expenses. But he began
to preceive he was behind the age that
his son was little before him in the point
of farming.
dts pleasant, ma, after hard days
toll, to sit down an eat one of Tudor
nice Bartlett Pears"
"fes it is; my teeth are poor but |
could eat them if had no teeth at all,
and those cherries and piums, surely they
are blessed | wish We had let him have
his own way ten years ago"
$50 do | /; our farm would sell for trip
pie what it will now if it had the improve
ment of his ten acre lot"
81 suppose he asks as much for it as
you do FOR this farm"
"Wingate told me to-day it was worth
ten thousand dollars"
"Ten thousand dollars"
"Yes.'
"Yes.'
"You missed it once, husband, but it
is not too late to improve some now; it
may benefit our posterity'
"les but | hate to yield to this new
tangled notion after have said SO much
against it."
'Ia, well, if we see an error its no
disgrace to acknowledge it"
"W II, John, write to Mr. Goodalc to