The sun., 1899-10-22

$4,000 on homes for my children. | can name
hundreds who have done as well or better
II In something Of an achievement Tor man
who came out Of The Confederate ranks with only
a ragged gray, uniform TO own ,oo9 rich acres s
ias Msrison. BSdtord. H% i sAfer The surrender"
he writes. Il began on my broshsIs place here ere
rowed u thousand dollars on my good name and
went to planting cotton, working harder than any
bought a small stock Of goods mixed mercban
dising with farming"
in Js%ss s@,ss A. on vs s snndrsd ssae ism SousS
by hard work and dec economy % have never r bought S
anything i which could be raised on a farm was
much cheaper raised than bought The
irolled, reasonable, never will strike unless led
by turbulent whites"
y .bS h. v hGs pO,sa BY
contcnded that the man with brains would find
q way to succeed on the farm" NJ sPoer
then he has paid the debt, spent 81, 500 for add
betserments er a doubled the farms production % Of
everything, and does not owe dollar, but is a
creditor tor several thousand. My income has
he writes Apples, boiled cider Jelly and vine
gar. Have also sold merino sheep for breeding
with the ranchmen Of Montana. Also
run cider mill and Jelly manufactOry in con
nec,ion with orchards This has been very pro
l. + .Noyes: born and bred in his own town.
Beaver Dam, Wis. knows all about adopting an
and stones, A renter had starved out. No
fences is worth naming, but % good house and harm.
I sss boS would not T1s, Tn
for that farm Only regret that he did not live
to see it done Little BY little we cleaned up fields
they are sixty and eighty acres in extent besides
pastures, Raise coach colts, short horns Shrop
Y ana pE
never run bills Make IL q rule to pay as we GO
II we needed things, borrowed money and bought
where we chose. Also made ii u rule to borrow
always in the same place. Always
paid the day debt was due. or arranged for il.
business to pay. instead Of waiting for dun
Farmers are to blame in great measure
for for the slight put on farm work. We also grum-
BILE too much at dry weather. for instance, in
stead Of remembering that il may Use prices.
David Wallace, a Canadian. after he had
felt STRINGS Of ambition for life in the States
So about 1885. he set up his household goods in
whss WAS wa; the then The territory Of Dakos Drought
was something miraculous az to yield, but did
not much more than pay, pretty heavy expenses.
to 1890. when a magnificent crop on 500 acres
put him ahead. although the high wages '''
o saSd made h OS get hHVaE
care Of. and thus the net profit was small" In
1891, he sowed but 800 acres TO wheat and planted
not be sold for enough to pay the freight The
grain yield was fine but cold and early fall set
the threshing for the most part over into next
summeI making the larger part Of it a total loss.
-, In 1892, 100 acres Of wheat gave fine profit.
The next harvest Of 45O acres encountered such
heavy weather, hail storms, frosts and ON il
did not pay expenses. To the lay mind that ap
pears to be all experience to warrant the least bit
Of calamity bowling. Mr.. Wallace Is another
sort Such is the experience Of nearly every
farmer here" he says yet do not think We
have any great reason to complain .
Ira vvh 10 I nth thora
is another country on the face Of Gods earth.
where farmers live with 80 little work. such
a reckless system Of farming. and worse than
waste OF both time and money. With few years
Of the industry Of our fathers practced forty years
ago; We may all be independent OF the loan agency
or the banks"
So the tale runs through scores Of mouths
Finance is evidently as vital among those who
live by the land as in Wall street itself In the
matter Of land values and fluctuations there are
notable differences Western lands, on the whole
II appears are rising. Eastern lands either sta
tionary or falling. middle west acres steady at
high price and lands down South stationary
or very slowly rising. Local causes however
determine values much moro than geographic.