Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-14
MODERN CINCIN AYUS|
Corporal Manning Has Concluded
to Become a Horny Fisted
Son of Toll.
HE WILL RAISE TOBACCO
And Writes the New Mexican a Philosophic-
al Platitude Upon the Beauties of Ken
lucky Farming-H Horace Greeley
Won't Be In It.

cdleu llolleSly anu lIutilLullleSS, yes
terday informed me that any one who
desired could, by close management
and a judicious expenditure of elbow
grease, amass from $500 to $1,000 per
annum in Kentucky.
He stated that a man with a culti-
vator loaded with tobacco seed and
primed with gall, could rent land on the
installment plan, and in a few years ac-
cumulate enough money to purchase a
plantation and hire a hand to shuck
the crops.
Nc original capital is necessary. AS
that is about the size of my pile, the
life of a horny handed son of toll" nat
urally appeals to me. If a partnership
which l effected with the young nan
proves unsatisfactory, / intend to trade
my army record and blue .overcoat for
a foot of Kentucky LAND and farm it on
my own recognizance.
| rode to town with him and had a
good opportunity to study his peculiari-
ties and customs. While he is somewhat
llSN vi oalAl Z NiiI IL
ference between a tea ball and a COM
| plete arithmetic, he is doubtless con-
scientious. The devious paths of the
wicked world have been trod but little
by his tender feet, but l judged him to
be a good business manager. If a
dime ever passed through his hands, I'll
bet dollars to doughnuts that it scorche-
| ed through on a '9S model tandem. He
can doubtless make money. If he spends
any, he will forthwith don sackcloth
and ashes and mourn his loss. He con-
fided to me that he had never witnessed
the ballet or spent a night on the
streets of Cairo. Nor had he ever rev.
eled in the delights of a table d hote
dinner and pousse cafe, but he said that
he would see EN- mex year if they had
'em at the circus, by gum!'
The frowsy horse that he drove looked
like a bundle of elk antlers covered with
al army blanket, and the old spring
wagon that we rode in was probably
called a spring wagon because it was
manufactured in the spring of 40.
But that didn't matter. He earned
his bread by the sweat of his brow and
was contented and happy. He was evil
IDENTIFY a fair type of the northern home
seeker, for he had resigned a position
on the rocky fields of New Hampshire
with the avowed purpose of building a
home over the blue grass and meath
the green skies Of this sunny southern
cline.
Here was a man with no further am
bition than half an existence crowned
with 500 pesos per year. / asked hin
why he didn't run a country newspaper
and get rich, but the idea didn't appea.
to him. His reply: Il druther be poor
but honest" indicated hat he is a suf-
ferer from populistic tendencies.
When l informed him that l once
compiled an agricultural column for the
New Mexican, he warmed up on the
subject of tobacco raising and gave me
all the pointers necessary for the sue,
cessful manipulation of a mammoth to.
bacco combine.
Ere we parted, we made a "dicker' tt
work his ground on shares next year
He will do most of the work and | vii
superintend and share.
In consideration of the agreement,
have contracted to stock a portion of hi:
range with varieties of western agricul
tural products which are a novelty II
the east, and will prove good sellers.
1t is my intention to furnish enough
chill con carne and hot tamale seeds t.
plant a 10-acre tract; and a sufficien
number of northern spy cactus slips ant
confederate sage brush ,tubers to suppl,
the Lexington residents with gardel
sass.
A good portion of my time will b
spent in the field and garden next sea
son. l do not, by any means, intend t
be a drone. Each morning befor
breakfast, / will hoe and weed and thu
be assured that each row will yiel'
bountifully. l expect to dig abou 81
corn-cob pipes to the hill next fall. Dur
ing the day I may be found in the fiel
picking sweet caporal cigarettes fror
their trailing vines. When the sun i
slowly sinking in the west, I will tax
my sombrero in hand and shoe the fes
tive grasshoppers from the plug Tobacco
plants. This routine will occupy tn
entire day and leave the evenings IL
the study of almanacs. In farming,
great deal depends on planting in tn
I right time of the moon. The man WI
! plants a post hole in the wrong time {
I the moon need not expect it to grow
cyclone cellar that season. If he doe
, he is almost certain to be disappointet
An almanac is a sort of time card Il
the moon, and there is no trouble abol
running a farm on scheduled time,
J, the almanac is consulted. When we g.
ready to husk our Battle Axe and she
!, our Dukes Mixture, l will write yo
, again Of tobacco raising in Kentucky.
, If the war lasts, we will endeavor
|, receive an army contract. This Will Ell
r able us to delve into the more scientif
DfancneS OIL Agriculture, dHu We va
then erect a few hot beds for the cult
: walton of homeless army hard tao
. French fried potatoes and gutta perch
: beef steaks.
We have arranged to build a paten
application, non-adjustable and n
versible peanut incubator late in tt
fall, and we expect to have a. fine brot
of young peanuts ready for the holida
trade. If diversified h~usbandry ar
scheming count for anything, we W
make an unqualified success Of OF
I farm.
- It is possible that we may find Il
N breeding of Arizona live stock a profits
n BILE venture. The only objection that