, 1879-07-05

Hoss . Kansas Boy Succeeded Cader Ea-
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Hoss q Kansas Boy Succeeded Csdcr En-
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, A correspondent of the New York Tn
, bune, lost on the plains of Kansas, can,
across live boy, who yielded To the fol
lowing interview as he politely guided
him upon his journey. The boy says
We all came here two years ago las
spring, and father immediately entered .
claim under the Homestead law for l6(
, acres of land-and it's first rate land
too, can tell you none better any
where about here. Well, father said hs
wanted to encourage me in being indus
trious, but he went to work worry differ
emily from some men know in encour
aging me- Now there is Mr.. A, whc
lives on the quArter-section adjoining
ours, and he has two sons, John and
Henry. John is little older than |, anG
Henry a year younger. Well, the way
he encourages his boys is by having then
up at daylight in the morning, and Ike p
ing them on keen jump all day long,
He hardly allows them time to cat their
meals Why, last summer they worked
till nine O'Clock every evening, and didn',
find an hour all summer in which they
could 90 a-hsning, or even in swimming.
Then TO pay them, the old man gives
them their board and his own xorn-out
clothes, with occasionally pair of boots,
or something of the kind, thrown in.
That is the way he teaches them to be
industrious. But fathers pan is entirely
different. He gave me four acres of land
which he had broken (this Was two years
ago last spring., aud l was to do just what
pleased with it, and he was to furnish
me seed, or means to obtain seed all
that he required of me was that l should
attend to the garden, do the chores at the
barn, and go to school in the winter
The first year | planted corn, and from
my four acres | raised 120 bushels, which
l sold for thirty cents bushel.
The next spring my father let me have
the use of his team, and l ploughed my
four acres, and planted one and half
acres in castor beans, one half acre put
out in strawberry plants, one acre in
| sorghum, two rods in onions, and the
remainder of the acre in sunhowers-
Father laughed when l told him my
plans, but he said it was my own land,
and could do as liked with it, / told
him wanted to experiment on different
crops, SO as 10 see which was the most
profitable Well, my castor beans were
I a good deal of trouble had to watch
| them SO closely not to loose them when
they cracked open 1t was necessary to
pick them immediately as fast as they
ripened but my little sister, seven years
old, could attend to them about as well
as |, and she did this faithfully on my
promising her So when l sold my crops
in the fall. raised twenty-five bushels
OF. beans off my one and a half acres,
which | sold for 81 % bushel so, after
paying my sister So | realized for them
| S22 30. Father had raised considerable
sorghum, and he had all the arrangements
for boiling, pressing, DC. We worked
together in preparing our sorghum, and
| had from my one acre two barrels OF
good sorghum m6lasses, which l sold at
30 CENTS a gallon, thus making SD for my
sorghum crop. My sunh5wers which
were the laughing-stoc of SO many,
brought me enough to pay me for my
trouble. l had planted and cultivated
them very much as if they were Corn.
The flowers We're splendid, many Of them
measuring three feet SIX inches In cir
oumference, the stalks being from ten to
twelve feet long and three inches in di-
ameter, / planted them principally for
the stalks, which sold at the next town
for fuel. | had ten cords off of that part
of an acre, and | realized SIS from the
sale of them, l gave the seeds to father
for his poultry. He thinks they are
better than corn. Those who bought the
stalks say they burn readily, and make a
very hot fire. Last spring | planted
nothing but sorghum and onions, as they
had brought me the most the year pre-
vious, and have done better than either
years before. My onions were the most
profitable crop of all, as | made Sl2 of
of my two rods. So last fall had, after
disposinS of my crops, 81 80 in cash,
nearly doubts what l made the year be-
fore. l spent $50 of this on my ward
robe, SO at Christmas, bought three
more calves at $40 head, and he'd Sl1 90
left for sundries. My onions didn
do quite so well as the year before. SO
this year have made $500 off Of py four
acres. can assure you l am beginning
to feel very much encouraged IN being
industrious / have just bought twenty
more calves. had to pay Sl2 per head
for these but they are beauties, | can
tell you. If they do well, they ousht
certainly be worth in year s.om now
$3.50. l was offered $50 to-day for my
other lot. l have no trouble iI finding
market for my produce, for What /
cannot sell here l ship ON the railroad !,
and as they carry at reasonable rates
often prefer shipping, as l get a better
price in the larger towns. L shipped
nearly all of my strawberries this year.
| Twas fifteen years old last August, and
am worth to-day $780, To be sure, my
father has favored me in every way, fur
nisLing me with seed, feed for my stock,
alIoging NE tho use Of his team and
farming implements, etc. But now can
ag,rd to be more Independent, and hope
hefore long to help him, instead of his
helring me. Father Is making money,
too This is a fine wheat country, and
he has put most of his land into wheat
We have had fine seasons so far for our
crops, and next year we may have grass
hammers. or drouth, or some drawback ;
but We have enough ahead now to stand
one or two improbable seasons, 50 we
don't worry. 1 intend to invest every
year in stock, as have found 1t far more
profitable than anything else. But don't
Won think that father method OF encour-
a,ing one to be industrious is far better
than Mr.. Ash Mr.. A. Is Just as we'll
able to do this for his boys as my father
/ is to do it for me, only they are Of a dt'
ferent disposition, You see NOW, mere ,
is your road; you keep straight ahesa ui
Won come to a red barn, when you turn
to the left, and two miles further on you
reach your friends house, white frame,
9TH ,orcb in front. Good morning.