Arizona republican., 1891-07-28
BLAINE'S FARMER.
THE STATESMAN HAS A TALK
 WITH ONE.
It Is Inferred That He is Inquiring Into
 Among the Sons of Foil.

| A Bar Harbor correspondent of the
 New York Press following the trail of
 one of Mir. Blaine's country rambles,
 came upon some farmers with whom
 he recuperating statesman had talked,
 and writes thus about the interview:
 At last big curly-headed farmer by
 the name of Mayo was found who had
 evidently held longer conversation
 with Mir Blaine than his neighbors
 and from him the following story was obtained
 ''I was busy you see" said Mir. Mayo,
 "when Mir. blaine cane along yand I didn't
 know he wanted to talk or I'd asked
 him up to the house. Blaine he set down therr on that rock and 1 stood
 here looking at him and grinning like a jessie cat. lie asked how the crops
 was, and if make good living at farm ing. told him that all did was farm and l lived, sol supposed lived at farm ing"
 But how much money do you make
 a year? ?" said he.
 Not much, sed I moneys skurce.
 We folks don't have money Then he asked agin where got my money, and l told him it was from lambs and po- tatoes, and butter and beef.
 "'How do you like the Mckinley bill?' said he. l told him that no Irishman by that name had any bill against me or anybody that knew, and if he was one of them tin peddlers he'd better keep away, for we had enough of them last year. Then he laughed real hard and picked few straw berries, which he was welcome to Pm sure, though they wasn't on my land.
 Can you live and bring up family of five on $250 year?' he asked pretty soon. I told him no, sir-ee sir; and no man can't do it here, nor nowhere else in place that is civilized, 1 don't care how pesky mean be is. He didn't grin bit then, but just picked straw berries and rubbed his foot sif it, ached.
 "HE ASKED ME A LOT MORE QUESTIONS. Here's one: How much could afford to raise bushel of potatoes for? 1 asked him if he meant just only one bushel, and he said yes, one or twenty five-just few. l told him it was worth dollar bushel to raise potatoes here any year, and last year was good year, because we could get $1.25 a bushel for every one we had to sell.
 But couldn't you grow a hundred or five hundred bushels cheaper p said he. told him could, but what was the use? The Blue Noses sent all of their bad, watery potatoes here and filled the market, so if we sold ten bushels a year from every farm we were do- ing well. You see the Blue Noses put in their crops early in the spring and come down here and hire out and take our jobs away from us, while the women and children stay at home and do the hoeing and take care of the crops. When it comes fall they go back home and take their money with them and live all winter on salt codfish and small I potatoes, while they send the big pota- toes down here and make the price SO cheap that we can't get good livng no how.
 Suppose you had a good market said Mir. Blaine, and could sell all the | potatoes you could raise right here at your door, for how much could you af- Iord to sell a thousand bushels?' That was sumner. l stopped and thought | ! minute while he laughed at me.
 THEN SAID 40 CENTS BUsHEL.' And could too, for l could rise 1000 oushel on five acres easy, and me and ny boy could do all the work and get 400 for it. Then the land would be in ,ood shape for grain and hay so I know
 could do it and make money.
 Mir. Blaine said that he wanted to To just that thing. He wanted to ix it so the farmers could ind a market for all they raised fight here to home. Then they would have enough to do, and by rais- ng good deal could afford to sell for ow price and still make more money han they do now by raising little and rusting to luck for market. He asked 1e how the idea hit me and I told i'm good, but he would have to keep he Blue Noses potatoes out of here efore he could do it. " That's what the Mckinley bill is ; oihg to do,' said he, as he walked away a , his carriage. Ireckon that fellow Me q finley is pretty level-headed Irish- ] 'an don't your" T From the above and several other ? milar talks with the farmers, it is in- a rred that Mir. Blaine is looking into s le details of the Mckinley bill, and b nding out how it operates among the rmers