The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-08-29
ABOUT CHILEAN FARMS.
THE FARMS OF THE COUNTRY
BELONG TO THE RICH.
Methods OF Agrieuitare la the Rich strip
Of Earth Bctwixt the Andes and
the south Paciflc-A Pcon's
scant Meal


SO to see how things are going. and
bringing his family for few weeks in
summer time. But there is an admin
istrador da hacienda n sub admins
traitor" several oyerseers, and more
than 100 poems. Farming is carried
on in this country much as 1t was in
Europe In feudal times, or as in Ireland
to-day, each estate having its retainers
who are provided with tenements, for
which they pay by stipulated num-
Der Of days labor every year.
AS there is hardly any middle class
in Chile-Only the rich and the poor.
the landlord and the tenant--the
haciendas are generally very large,
and are owned by nabobs who seldom
visit them. Each has its big rambling
casa, wherein the administrators and
their families reside, n chapel, COM
missary depot, granaries, storo-houscs,
wine vaults. and a number of little
cottages. surrounded by garden patches,
where the poems live. The latter are
paid for their labor, generally not in
money, but in orders on the supply
store where. ut prices optional with
the administrator, food, clothing,
chicha and rum are sold. Tenants are
usually given small credits at these
stores. and are forever in debt to their
landlords. AS the law prohibits their
leaving the service of q man to whom
they owe money, they are thus kept in
perpetual slavery.
When the men assemble in the
morning ut the tap OF the sunrise-bell
an overseer writes each ones name in
a convenient place; and when the
days work is faithfully done puts a
mark beside his name. At the end of
the week the marks are counted, and
each man receives his pay according
to the score. As rule haciendados
and poems get along well enough to-
gether, and the servant will fight for
the master to the last drop of blood in
his body AS in the old world cen
turtles ago, feudal wars are kept up
between estates through so many gen.
erations that the original provocation
is entirely forgotten. and sanguinary
conflicts are constantly occurring. for
the poem OF the Capulets is always
more than will to cut the throat OF a
servant of the Montagues.
As on other haciendas Senior Fen
reiros' tenants begin work at n m,
having previously eaten a desayuno Of
bread and coffee. Then each goes eff
to that part OF the estate which is -
be the scene OF his days labor, CARR
ing with him cows horn of watsr
and small bag of meal. These are
his ration's for the midday breakfast,
and not another mouthful will he get
fortselve long hours until he returns 10
dine at p. m. The meal is of roasted
wheat ground on the small hand-ni;l,
with which every hacienda is provided
We saw the men at their sunset-Gin-
ner and more contented and
healthy-looking lot could hardly be
imagined crowded around table OF
rough boards without any cloth upon
it. The repast consisted entirely OF
beans end peas stewed together. but
the administrator informed me 1ith
pride that all of the laborers on this
model farm are treated to meat snd
We went out into the wheat-fieldg or
a cart, topped by = very high and mar
row hay-rick made of cane poles lasbed
together with thongs, drawn by
bullocks, writes Fannie b. Ward III tho
Philadelphia Record. The cart was
driven to a place where the cut shsaves
were thickest the cattle were aiken
from the tongue and tied to waeel
and the work OF gathering commenced
Each man seized bundle and carried
it to the cart until all the n,s1r-by
sheaves were loaded. 1t did not occur
to anybody to make the bulloci.s re-
move the cart to another part Of the
field; the bundles were still labos iously
carried to the same place. however tao
distance heightened ind the nonn-tifye
Eeat increased and Precipitation strea;n-
ed down each swarthy face.
. When the enormous load was COM
plete 1t was hauled to the threshing
yard. where the wheat was carelessly
dumped in heaps without the trouble
OF stacking it-fcr here it rarely rains
during the summer months-so there
is little danger of the grain spelling.
Meanwhile threshing was going on,
slowly but surely. A spot OF hard
ground had been swept and upon it
were pitched a few bundles; then
horses were driven over and over them,
until the wheat was shelled from the
straw. The straw was then removed.
the wheat raked to the center, and
more bundles thrown down. When a
considerable quantity OF shelled wheas
was collected windmill was intro
duced to blow away the chaff.
BY dint OF diligent questioning l
CLEANED the following facts relative to
farming in Chile. Nowhere is agri-
culture more profitable. because labor
is cheap, prices high and crops GER
tain. 1t costs less than 81 to raise
three bushels OF wheat and it sells for
about $1.25 per bushel. What little
can be grown this year. since the la,
borers have mostly rushel off to the
war, will bring a much higher price
in market Wheat and barley. how
ever are about the only profitable
crops, there being no foreign demand
for anything else. / inquired Of the
gentlemanly administrator II all his
Larvests were gathered in with reap
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