The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-22

the acre. and il was thought iittie less
| taan miraculous. This year my nearest
neighbor harvested a field averaging forty
bushels per acre. What makes this great
difference? Ig is the improvement in
| seed. sowing and reaping. The self-binder
| does not waste five bushels to the acre as
was the case in the old way of handling
wheat"
Farmer Worth $4,000
Titus sudduth OF Sangamon county, Hi
nois, has this to say:
Central Illinois is an exceedingly fine
agricultural country If wise national
measures could prevail. we would have
very prosperous people. | was brought
here child from Mt Sterling, Ky. started
in life poor boy, and by dint of persever-
ance. have been enabled 10 accumulate
property. worth even al present depression
in prices $500, 600 but do not know of any
others who have equalled it. There are but
few mortgages, not one in ten, on the
farms of this section. F'irst-class men
have no trouble to get all the money they
need, at per cent, without any security
whatever. Second-rate names borrow at
Z per cent. on security. There is plenty
of money or nearly so. for all practica
purposes. l have given no security for
bank funds in the last thirty-fve years
and have always got all the funds
needed"
Ezra f. Stephens, born in Maine and
! college-bre went 10 Crete, Neb., in 1871
with $1,000 10 hip him start in life. In 81
he had not very much more. In between
however, he had rated himself and been
rated by others, high up in the thousands
This is mis- story in detail story so whcl-
I ly American as to make it epic: Taught
school while looking for land. Took up pre-
| emption also. Bought 40 acres b. * NJ
| land, near Crete-$S per acre-rough land.
supposed to be all right for orchSrding
Spent $4,000 on ii, in planting and improv-
! ing it, (Mortgage, II per cent took it, 10
| che collapse last May).
"'' p Subsoiled 1877 acres for B. &
| NJ. r. r., and planted next spring, on
| contract 100000 trees, in wind-breaks on
! north side of track. Cultivated that con-
tract tnree years. cultivated wheat and
| corn TO open and fit land for nursery and
orchard "A, 70, Is. n grasshoppers, ale
! my nursery stock-fed out all the money
| [ had and all my friends were willing TO
| lend the grass hopDers Owed $500
| more than 1 was worth; by "
| had paid off debts and accumulate $50,-
! $50. Began in SO planting tree claims
| set 100000 trees on contract and cleared
! $4,000. Ran nursery. farm and orchard
| put $4,000 in stock farm in northwestern
| part OF state. Weathered SO at such heavy
! loss. and sacrifices in meeting obliga-
| lions. the dry winter and spring of "a
| finished me. Banks wanted their money
| and losses were heavy in realizing. Had
| SSOO00 of properly ana $4,000 of deb.
owe now $4,000 to $4,000 more
! than am worth; expect 10 dig out about
| 1902
From the Lone Star state.
Texans are all loyal to the Lone Star
State. Il came here thirty-eight years
ago, with TWO dollars and half" writes
r. +. Butler. Have raised family of
eight children, and now own home worth
5000. aud have paid out over $4,000 on
homes for my children ] can name hun
dreds who have done as well or better
1t is somewhat an achievement for a
man who came out of the Confederate
ranks with only a ragged gray uniform 10
own 1900 rich acres and raise on them
two thousand-odd bales of cotton. Thai
is the experience of B. w. Martson, Bed
ford La after the surrender" he
| writes u began on my brothers place
here. cutting cord wood fora living. Next
year, borrowed a thousand dollars on my
good name, and went to planting cotton,
| working harder than any free niger in
the county. Made little money. bought
a small stock of goods, mixed merchan-
dising with farming
James II. Camp, also an eX-ConfederaJe,
| lives in Georgia on a 500-acre farm bought
''by hard work and economy. l have new
er bought for my own use one pound of
bacon, one bushel of corn or sack of flour.
! l found out early that anything which
could be raised on a farm was much cheap
er raised than bought. The negro is
the best laborer in the world, easily con-
troled reasona BILE never will strike I'M
less led by turbulent whites. Thank God
! Georgia has but little of the foreign ele-
ment. l hope it may never have it,
Victor j. Speor, Braintree, VT. has prov
! cd by works the faith he thus states.
Have always commended that the man
| with brains would find a WaN to succeed
on the farm Mr.. Speor inherited some
! 100 acres along with a debt of $1,000. Il
came to him in 1875. Since then he has
| mid The % b. snenf 50 500 for addilional