Richland beacon., 1888-01-07
THE SWEAT OF Ills BROW.
= Ioung Jcrscyman Tells How lie
Became independents.
From the n. Y. HCrsld.l


whats truce"
"Why that within ten miles OF the
CITY of New York man without any
capital, very little credit, and not much
trimming. can earn very comfortable
living off of three acres of land. You
don't believe it. Well, walk a mile or
two with me and I'll convince you"
The above conversation took place be-
tween a HeraH reporter and a respecta-
BILE, wideawake New Jersey farmer re-
Gently. An hour later the farmer and
reporter were seated i'll a neat little
kitchen. which formed part of one
story house, not far distant from Pas
sale. n. j., and were interviewing n |
strapping Young fellow as to the amount |
of profit which his little strip of ground
had Welded him during the past year.
Nothing 10th, the young man, whose
name is Henry Zaabel, gave graphic
history of his labors and his ultimate
success. >,
"When I came here four years ago,
said Mr.. Zaabel, as he seated himself at
nm open window, from which one could
catch glimpse of the distant Orange
Mountains, III found out that the three
l determined to buy them. But how:
That was the question. L hadn't cent
in the world and had no security on
which to borrow money. However, !
went to the owner, lady, and she told
me that | could have the land with the
house and barn, for 81 LOO, and that, II
/ would pay little down, the remain
der could remain on mortgage. L eX-
planned nv position to her, and within
n few DAYS 1 got the land and moved
into the house with my wife and child.
"Mv intention was to raise lettuce
md such stuff for the New York winter
market, and of course / had to buy
sashes and seed and manure. But how
WAS to get them all. Well, man
who knew me from childhood lent me
800 and / bought few sashes, and
gradually 1 got seed and manure and in
few months / was gradually Mt work.
Little by little L scraped some money
| together and bought n horse for 500
and good COW and couple ofpigs and
| material for q new roof on the house and
| barn.
$50 the time passed until at last 1
found myself the owner OF three hun
dred sashes and of three well fertilized,
productive acres. True, there is still
some mortgage on the land, but L can
| paw it off with little difficulty. L have
Il nice, dry house, large barn and sta
BILE, and the consciousness that no one
else but myself gets all the profit that
is to be made ont of my work.
Thinking that Mr.. Xaabel might he
| Il, l. -, e., cI, tlt
would prove interesting to the readers
of the Herold, the reporter asked him to
specify the exact amount OF profit which
he had made out of his three acres dur
ing the past year. Mr.. Zaabel, in re-
ply, took well-thumbed account book
out of drawer, and after he had added
the various lines of figures, announced
that since the 22d day of May, 1887, his
profits amounted to over 81 900.
"My Lima BEANS" he explained
'fetched $500; my tomatoes, $50; my
peas, 800; my Strawberries, $50, and my
radishes, egg plants, cucumbers ant
other vegetables between $2OOand $500
"Besides that / have received $25:
out of what have raised with my 3O(
sashes since January last. l raised two
crops of salad, and the first crop, which
was sold in February, brought me 1872
and the second crop brought me S12O.
Between now and Christmas IS tn
, dullest time of the year for mo and
don't expect to make more than 500.
: "The figures which l have given yol
T represent my profits. From my COW
pigs and other sources / earn NOR
t money; but that offsets my expenses
. My COW, for example, brought me $40
4 this year, and my pork always bring
me nice sum of money. My expense
+ for the past year have amounted to 81
x for seed, S75 for manure, $40 for eXtr
help and 800 for the horses feed.
q NAV mention that l raise some of tn
s horses feed myself on land which
G hire"
\ Being asked if he intended to confer
G himself with his present holding, he re
e piled that he would like to have large
y farm, but that what his heart was set O
e at present was to increase the numbt
r of his sashes to five hundred, and ult
mately to build greenhouse in whic
IS he could raise salad for winter use.
IS "My three hundred sashes cost n
n $1.8O each," he remarked, "and not
le year passes that I don't make q doll,
y clear profit out of each of them. N
ID bad, is it!'
10 Mr.. Zaabee said that he did almo
all the work on the farm himself, an
e that it was his custom to take his veg
te tables to New York three times q Wet
e. in summer and once n week in winte
ye Being asked what each trip cost hir
k. he hesitated so long that his wife,
er comely, well-built young woman, car
r, to his rescue and reminded him that
ex was the amount set aside for such OcC
Q. siOns.
10 Sleeping, as it were, in the bosom
of this quiet valley, the farm seems G
#, tremely isolated and remote. Yet, as t
he above figures show, its owner kno'
lie that the great city of New York is with
an hours drive, that people living
Nv New York must have vegetables in wi
en- ter and are willing TO pay good pr
til for them, and he has utilized this know
n edge in such way that, after Fl
lis Years labor, he finds himself perfect
es free and independent and able to ca
ed a handsome income in pleasant a
an congenial manner. What pleases h
H. most, however, is the fact that he is,
m. all senses of the word. his own m
I'LL ter.
his
lily
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