The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-08

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and left it so clean that next year
they planted corn as did most of their
neigh bors, without blowing and rails
ed big crop. We well remember
how we sOwed oats on the wheat
ground from which the hOppers had
swept beautiful crop the fall before,
and how the oats and little hOppers
came up together and how glad we
were that they had not inherited the
appetite so prominent in their parents
aud of the new hope each little bud
ding indication of wings gave us un-
ill one day they rose on the Kansas
| breeze and we bade them a glad good
| bye. Talking about grass hOppers q
friend at my elbow says: Il came
here just then from Iowa and bought
out one of your fellows who was so
blue about the prospects and the
things flew right over there where /
came from and ate him out again"
But as We were saying Osborne stuck
to the farm, married Grace Valentine,
who was one of our most faithful pu-
pills at Union 20 years ago, and they
have lived on rented land and can
not only make living, but lay up
some when he can rent land on fair
terms. He and others who have had
experience agree that the grain rent
plan is most satisfactory and most
equitable. He with his brother has
run a thresher for years, but think
fax at 45c don't pay while he has
sold wheat as low as 60c and made a
profit.
G.. F. MARTIN
We found busy enrIcning his farm
of 240 acres OF prairie land, bought
but five years ago. He WIS q Micni-
gan man QUO for many years has gar
dened at ST. Joe anu Kansas CITY. He
likes farming anu considers il more
profitable. More than half of his large
Iarm has been broken out anu One-h half
OF that ne has seeded to- timothy and
clover for meadow, and has both tame
and prairie hay. Keeps no help except
in haying. HIs pillow keeps about %
head of steers feeding generously till
three or four years OLD but does not
mean to fatten TOR market, and about
three times as many hogs as cattle and
feed them some besides the waste, bed
them we'll in the sheds and don't fail
to put all the manure you can thus
make onto the fields. Mrs Martin has
lived in the city but greatly enjoys her
rural home and pleasant frienOs, the
good school for her boys and imprOv-
ed health. Her beautiful house
plants anu other adOrnments gave
evidence of their content. This ends
the first trip in December and having
good roads and days almost balmy,
we see the farmers still pushing their
fail blowing. As we turn towards
l. 2 10 NH
does nearly every one in our travels
like the REGISTER, but the answer
comes that for twenty-seven years we
have liked it ourselves.
JOSEPH KELLEY
Was found at home on our next
trip, located on his farm of 50 acres,
where he has tarmed for thirte en
years, and he ana his little family
have home supplied by their own
labOrs. Joe don't take the REGISTER
for political reasons. Having served
together on the jury, we know his
bent of mind so we'll that we venture
that he likes to look il over to see the
news, which he knows is there.
r.. j. KELLEY
Lives on the farm formerly occupied
by his father, now deceased. He has
until this season been on the other
side politically, but says he knows
what he is doing. He belongs to the
Methodist church and they and the
Friends are having a revival meeting
at the Friends church. He has rent
ed land for eight years; has no sons
large enough to help much, and has
been hindered one year by sickness,
but has in that time farmed and
handled stock and cleared eighteen
hundred dollars. This experience
made us seriously question the state
ment that "capital controls labor"
And we have found where the great
est successes were reported the rust
ling had finally to be credited with
most of it.
WILLIAM PALMER
And son John occupy a well i'm
proved 240 acre farm where twenty
four years ago they began on the
prairie. AS age came OH the father
sold out to his son who manages the
farm, each family having large and
convenient house and all work for a
common interest. They have hand
led cattle and horses but hogs are
the crop for profit. And they speak
in gratifying way Of the certainty
of the happiness and content and
opportunities of making others happy
that a farm life in Kansas affords. A
well cared for orchard of 6O0 trees
bears bOuntifully of the finest apples
we have ever seen in our ramOles,
which the generous growers insisted
on stuffing into our capaciOus pockets.
John added that they considered the
ten acres in orchard the most profit
able acres of the farm.
JOHN 2. DICKEY.
Now past 40 years old, but hale
and active man whom we knew in
Indiana, came here in 81 and settled
on Martin creek and now lives on 100
that he homesteaded, and where as a
christian, citizen and soldier he
has pursued an even life and enjoys
the respect and honor of every man,
woman or child, We verify believe,
that knows him. His home is a
roomy stone edifice, but his large
barn with cribs and sheds for every