Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-06
Thrift Makes Wealth.
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But" demonstrated the New Utrecht
farmer, when the Dakota agriculturist had
| finished his description of enormous farms:
big crops and corresponding profits, shut
you only have a few weeks of farming
weather; what do you do through the fall.
winter and spring? During all that time
| your investment is lying idle.'
Stranger" rstorted the Dakota man
with look of commiseration, stranger,
was you ever located in that neck O. the
woods?"
The New Utrecht man admitted for the
sake cf the argument that he had never
been in ''them parts to speak Of"
"Have we ever been anywhere to see
| farm1n' except down on your own bean
| patch?" demanded the Dakota man fol-
lowing up his advantage.
The New Utrecht man conceded that he
hadn't been about "as much as some"
"Well, I'll put you on to the way in
which we make money all the year round.
WHY. sir, last winter l sold the snow on
stock! It's true sir. And worse than that.
it was a finer quality of snow than any
body ever raised in that section before"
Didn't it all fall at the same timer
asked the New Utrecht man, incredulously.
you bet it did," replied the Dakota
man. "But the rest of 'en didn't see any
money IN snow, and they just neglected
the finest crop of snow that ever fell in
that part of the country"
The New Utrecht man looked around in
mystifed way.
''You don't mean to say that you have to
cultivate snow up in that part of the coun-
try?" he exclaimed.
'sYou don't exactly cultivate it,but you've
got to weed it and give it water, haven't
your" and he regarded the New Utrecht
man with glance of undisguised disgust.
''You don't suppose you can get any better
crop of anything, unles you pay some at
tention to it, do you?"
''What do you do in the spring?' in
quired the New Utrecht man, ignoring the
last question.
1--WE do business, SIR" retorted the Da-
kota man, loftily. "You may think it
strange that men should do business at any
season of the year,but we do more business
in the spring than we do in century. Last
spring, sir, sold enough mud off my farm
to pay for all my seed wheat and leave me
margin for six or seven hundred head of
stock beside. tell you. we farm out in
our region" and the Dakota man stretched
himself out and gazed benignly on the New
Utrecht mar.
Must be great country" murmu1ed
the latter. s'Do you have just as good luck
in the fall as you appear to have the bal
ance of the year,"
Stranger" responded the Dakota man,
rising deliberately and shaking himself
from head to foot; stranger, the. fall has
always been my big harvest time. Then
is really when make my money. I was
in hopes you wouldn't allude to it. strang-
er, be cause hate to give it away. But
you have acted so like perfect gentleman
that don't mind letting you in. Last fall
stole over 600 head of horses. Think of
that for a one season job. Stole EN-, sold
'sm and got the cash."
II thought they hung men for steal
ing horses in that country" said the New
Utrecht man, backing away from his new
with disfavor plainly plant
ed on his face.
''They used to-" replied the Dakota man,
with a sigh for the good old times, "and
when they did that you could get some
kind of price for horses. But now every
thing is way down, and you have to take
what you can get"
Isn't there any punishment for stealing
horses now?" persisted the New Utrecht
man, who was trying to account to himself
for the Dakota man being alive.
Punishment! Well, you betr' snorted
the man from Dakota. Punishment, well,
should smile. Punishment! Why, stran-
ger, just on toward the latter end of last
fall sold enough tar and feathers that 1
had accumulated to build white marble
mansion and take this little trip East.
Punishment! Well, 1 should remark to
utter. But, stranger, we make even the
punishment pay up in our quarter section
of Gods territory. Let's liquor"