The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-30
THE CHANUTE
L | B R A r Y
A daily need is a book to read,
To make one wiser, better;
A useful book, a quiet nook,
q who could ask for better?


the city library, and, believing thati
they should become It's friends and.
patrons, they would reap substantial
benefits thereby, the Library Associa-
tion concluded 20 have series OF
short articles published in the city
papers, calling the attention OF far
mers and their families to the fact OF
the library here and some Of the bcne-
fits to be derived from a judicial
course of reading good books. In the
library are quite number of valuable
books for the farmers together with
the latest magazines, newspapers and
other current literature of the day.
Farmers. when IN town, are invited to
call at the library where they will al
ways be welcome and where all infor-'
nation pertaining to The library may
be obtained In this day and age it is
as necessary for the farmer as for the
merchant or professional man to have
a thorough knowledge of the business
in which he is engaged. The happy
go.lucky days of old, when one could
let his business run itself while he
went to town to talk politics and
Finance" at the corner grocery, are
gone forever. The population of the
country is becoming so large that life
is becoming more and more of strug
gle from the cradle to the grave, and
if one IS not thoroughly prepared by
a perfect knowledge of his business he
will soon be crowded out Of the pro-
cesson or trodden underfoot by his
better informed competitors.
: Itpays, and pays big, to know how,
when and where to do things, besides
the saving of money and time. and
time is often worth more than money.
Suppose the case of farmer: he
knows how to grow corn and wheat,
and raise cattle and hogs for market
and this has been his business for
wears. He visits his neighbor, whom
he designates as "book farmer, and
who has but lately come into the
neighborhood. The "book farmers"
r place is pretty badly run down and
} for several years the crops have been
very light. He tells his neighbor
/. that his land has been so badly man
0 aged that he intends to grub out the
old orchards and plant new one of
$ carefully selected apple, peach and
pears, principally, Also that he will
give considerable Of his attention to
> small fruit as he has learned that Cha
mute can handle all the fruit that can
be grown.
a The first man thinks to himself
"Well, l guess | can have an orchard
too. l have been in this country more
: years than he has months and If there
, is such money in fruit as he seems to
! think there is, why | want it. /
know can beat him in raising any
N thing on his worn out place" This
1 man, who was not what he sneeringly
n termed "b0ok farmer" soon let it be
Y known that he wanted to plaut big
! orchard, A fruit tree peddler soon
\ made him call and he sold him a
] large bill of trees The book farmer
N went TO the nursery when he had his
ground thoroughly prepared and there
h he very carefully selected just such
Y trees as he wanted and would take nc
other He used the same care 10
N planting as he did in purchasing and
he soon had very fine, thrifty young
1 orchard. The other farmer sci his
hired man and boy with team and
Flow to plant his trees.
In week or ten days the hired man
reported the job done, but the first
\ year proved that more than one half
of the trees were dead and at the eud
Of five years when the "took farmer
! began to market his fruit the other
farmer called again and was astonish-
ed to see how vigorous and thrifty his
neighbours young orchards looked.
why" he says, your trees are look
ing fne.n eyes" replied the other,
my orchards are doing well. | was
careful in selecting none but good
stock. These are, as you see, my sum
mer apples. have five varieties that
are now beginning to bear. My fail
and winter apple orchards are on the
north slope of the hill. This orchard
as you see, is on the east slope and my
peaches, plums and cherries on the
south slope and all are doing we'll"
"Well, said the other, II don't
know how to account for it, but more
of my trees have died each year and
. now have but few alive and they
are sickly looking and doing 20 good
Your orchards surprise me, they are
growing so well. l wish you would
come over tony place aud tell me, il
you can, what is the matter with my
trees" They went over To the other