Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-05-11

little bit of a fellow" ont West not
even strong for his size but forever peg
ging away" IS celebrated by an Illinois cor
respondent of The Examiner as accom-
plishing more than hundreds of men of
normal physique, simply as a result of pa
tient continuance, doing the right thing at
the right time, never planning more than he
is well able to perform. His forty acres re-
turn larger profit than many neighbor get-
from four times as much land of equal fer
tility
He began life, the saying is. by work
ing out by the month. and though not being
very strong. was obliged to accept rather
small wages; but by faithfulness and econ
omy he has gradually worked his way up to
the ownership of nice little farm. pleas
ant home, and complete independence He
is alway cheerful and smiling, whether the
season be wet or dry, hot or cold, favorable
or uufavorabe, and he is regarded by his
neighbors as a real clever little fellow who
knows thing OF two about farming that is
worth knowing. He is accommodating
wealth slowly but steadily and surely, and
when his strength is expended he will have
plenty to keep him and his faithful wife in
ease and comfort to the end of their dav.
He has peculiarities of management easily
imitable in whole or in part in thousands of
cases. We quote them as direct or sugges-
tive value:
He lives three miles from a fair sized
town. and never drives ont without taking
something to sell Some of his neighbors
raise great quantities Of grain and feed large
numbers of cattle, hogs, and sheep. and hen
they sell off lot the receipts run up into the
hundreds bnt these sales are comparatively
few and far between, while their expenses
are heavy and constant, ard these seemingly
large sums barely suffice to meet them. Ny
little friend sells only little at q time
but he is always selling. He sells butter,
eggs, poultry, fruits of different kinds,
potatoes, turnips, tomatoes, eabbsges,
and several other vegetables, and
he always gets the top market prices for
them. His butter packages are clean. cool-
appearing and attractive. His eggs are in
egg cases, and knoTn to be fresh; his poul-
try is fat. his fruit and vegetables clean and
assorted, so that all of size are together
and the buyer can tell by glance what he
can give for anything he has / have known
him TO have fifty heads of cabbage to sell
but he would take only twenty-three Of
| them along because that was all there were
of size. The others were taken at another
time. He hold. that poor lot invariably
Injuries the sale of good one if offered at
the same time. He never sells mixed lots
of anything.
He ha. his own packages for everything,
and his name his plainly stenciled on each.
with request for it. return. His tomato
boxes hold good halfpeck each, and when
/ filled with ripe, eveu-sized tomato,, are very
attractive He never peidles his produce
about town, because if takes too much valu-
! able time. Only one breed of hens is found
/ on his place. and each bird is beauty. He
sells eggs for Matching. cocks and trios, and
make. quite a sum from this source each
YEAR He keeps a single breed of pigs.
/ and a. they are known to be pure, he
meets With ready sale for most Of
them for breeding purposes. He
also has few pure-bred sheep, and sells all
| of the increase for breeders. He keeps only