The Iola register., 1889-09-20
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ED. REGISTER. We took . little
run around over our neighborhood last
week and here is @hat we saw.
The first place visited we will call
Mr.. AS. We see corralled near the
barn two wagons, three cultivators.
two corn planters, one harrow, one
roller, two moving machines and one
hay rake. These implements or the
most of them stood there In the same
place all last year, Notwithstanding
Mr.. A. has q large barn and several
other good buildings. He prefers to
let these implements stay out and take
the weather a. 1t comes, rather than
house them, and In the mean time
he is paying interest on several hum
dred dollars of borrowed money, and
is anxious to sell out because he can't
make enough here in Kansas to meet
his bills aud keep even with the world
The second place we visit il Mr..
B's., who also has q good large barn
plenty of stock and lots of good land.
We find Mr.. B. very mad-cursing
and snorting because one of his very
best horses has just received a bad
cut on the wire fence and his favorite
COW has just suffered like punish
ment by having one of her teats sew.
cred from the udder. Mr.. B. invites
me to visit the spot and see how and
where the mischief was done. We
start around the orchard fence and
pass several piles OF loose barbed wire
lying here and there among the weeds
and at last reach the place where the
stock has been crippled. We find
here that two posts have rotted away,
and the remaining two which were all
that were in sight, leaning to the
west at an angle of forty.five degrees
with four wires attached and the top
one within eighteen inches of the
ground, and getting slick by She stock
continuously dragging over ie. Mr..
B. says he is the most ''unlucky man
il all the world.'' He has worked
hard all his days and has never accu-
mulated more than twenty thousand
dollars and is getting tired Of life un-
less he could have better luck with
his stock. We find here. toe the farm
implements scattered in all directions
and none of them protected from the
weather.
The next place that We visit Is Mr..
C.'s and by the way he is a poor man
and renter. He is at home and meets
US with a broad grin and Gle yer
hello. The old lady and kids are busy
pairing and drying apples. We inquire
after the health of the family and are
all complaining and assign as the
probable cause that the weeds and
hedges around the house are getting
60 high that the necessary amount of
air cannot get in to insure good health.
And when asked why they did
not cut down and destroy the weeds
aud hedge we are informed that they
did not expect 10 remain there another
year, and did not want to do 30 much
work for nothing. The truth is some
people would not want to breathe If
they thought some ono else would be
benefited by it.
We move OH to Mr.. DIS, and here
we find dozen or more cattle in the
cornfield, and the landlord away from
home, and the Mrs. of the house and
children all oIt with the rat.terrier
trying her best to drive the stock out,
and declaring their neighbors were
the meanest people in all the world
and only wanted to see what they had
eaten up. So we ride in aud assist the
good woman In clearing the field of
the stock, and we proceeded to fix up
the fence, which consisted of two
wires, one barbed and the other smooth
and hung on come small sticks cut
from the hedge and placed some 80
feet apart. and in many places we had
to part the grass to find the fence. We
ventured to remark that the fence was
not very good one while fixing it up;
and were snapingly informed by the
Mistress that it was good as other peo-
ple's fences. So without any thanks
for our assistance we moved on.
But before reaching our home. we
called on prospecting farmer indeed.
He occupies a neat cottage. sports a
large red barn In which his implements
are all safely stored, owns something
over 400 acres of land, does not owe a
dollar in the world aud made it all
farming in Kansas.
But we are back home now, and as
we cannot give favorable report of
things Immediately around US We will
close for the present.
T. F. KELLEY.
To be Continued.)