The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-17
CITY PEOPLE ON A FARM.
HlPFT LLEB OF a MECHANIC WHO
Lost HIS JOB

II Prosperous Now and He and His Family
Look Upon the Work % Fun-Has Plenty
10 Eat and something 10 Sell and IsnN
Worried About Employment-His Crops.
READING, Sept 1a-Anothcr year has been
added 70 the experience Of the city mechanic Out
Of lob who moves into the country 70 begin farm
ing ON a small scala whom TIE SUN has
already told something. Said he:
-oh, yes, wo still live have gained twenty
pounds, wo'vc another little boy. woro all a. hearty
as bucks; We haven't turned Q gray hair, and
think wo're slightly better of than We were last
year OF course l amt kicking against the
low prices OF wheat because amt wheat farmsr.
buy my bread from a baker wagon and get u
Just as cheap as city people did raise q patch
Of rye, because like the old style Of rye bread.
I'm raising chickens now, paying attention 70
'om. and I'm getting eggs TO sell They're doing
good all the year We have another COW, making
three now. I'm q boss mixer I think nothing
Of taking in IS q week for butter and eggs. The
work Is light and like it You sec I'm my own
boss, all tho way through: don't need TO rush
through life, and wonder whether I'm going 10 DO
laid of, out OF job next week or month. just
finished putting away ono hundred bushels Of
potatoes I'm not going 10 sell yet They're
nice, too nice to give away for So cents bushcL
III have sixty bushels 10 sell, al least You sea.
I've only got ten good acres, but you may be sure
make every square foot count My sweet apple
trees hang full No. did not sell an apple Ne
and my wife and the girls had lots Of fun In the
afternoon under the shade, pairing and slicing
apples. You Sec dried them In the sun and
i have market for them, at = good figure A
man who attends market will take all
got We boiled seventy five pots OF apple-butter.
Our family will need about twenty for tho winter
and spring. and will sell the others at about
seventy-hve cents pot They're big pots. and
the butter rs hne. o. moi no cinnamon or sassafras
flavor. It's Just pure apples and cider
Il raised about thirty-fivo bushels Of white
onions, enough TO buy all our winter clothes.
have about 176 heads Of nice cabbage. have
plenty Of corn to.faten our four nico hogs Noxt
month I'll cut down barrel OF sour kraut Up
In tho stable loft a rye straw bed 10 whore III
have about forty bushels Of apples for winter
stored oh. no. we can't half cat all We raised.
Well have lots Of pork. vegetables. fruits, and
things to sell.
Il got clean out Of debt this summer. keep
well. and once in while only. am compelled
70 hire q little help for the work. have plenty
OF hay. and enough oats and corn for the stock.
have nifty dollar horse, which use for work
and 70 drive 70 the store and to town when want
TO 60 But keep away from the towns and
tayerns. l Just finished cutting a half acre Of
seeding tobacco. II did we'll but II takes work
70 keep down the worms. No, the worms don't
come out of the ground A north hy denoa,t,
the nits on the leayee The worms prov y,nddIv.
hang the tobacco in the shed loft tobacco
buyer gets around In December. don't need
TO 70 hunting . buyer. No. I ajnt m.ds NV
winter cider vet It's too early. will Law lin
two barrels and preserve Il with salyctio acid.
II keeps sweet and pleasant, and In not intoxi-
eating. Nothing better for health Every night
In the winter ga, an annie befor, roinr "a b.d.
I'm up every morning at &. In summer A a don,A
rain. and I'm feeling all right We peneY,Itv
ret 10 bed by 0 O'Clock. sleep eirht hour, on
an average.
For breakfast rive mo bread and s,ood hut.,v
with thin rioe Of cold b.oon , howl ID ,ood co.a
and plnntv ~ creen, and I'm h.,nx IN co,,..
start off with fruit but cat that ont in IN. Ear
den thrive best on boiled dinner. We r,a
fresb meat from tho butcbe, wagon tina, 49,.
three times a week. OF course /, take. MONEY
10 keen I'M Yen.irs worried tvsntv-,b,.. A.,