The Republican journal., 1903-12-10

your loss, therefore accept no substitute.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
the bowels.
prices optional with the administrator,
food, clothing, chicha and rum arc sold.
Tenents are usually given small credit
at these stores, and are forever in debt
to their landlord. AS the law prohibits
their leaving the service of man to
whom they owe money, they are thus
kept in perpetual slavery. When the
men assemble in the morning at the
ringing of the sunrise bell, an overseer
writes each ones name in convenient
place; and when the days work is faith
fully done, he pnts mark beside the
name. At the end of the week the
marks are counted and each man re-
ceives his pay.according to the score.
AS a rule haciendedos and poems get
along well enough together, and the
servant will fight for his master to the
death, if need be. As in the Old World
between estates, through so many gen.
erationS that the original provocation
may be entirely forgotten, and sanguin-
airy conflicts are constantly occurring,
for the peon of the Capulets is always
more than willing to cut the throat of
a servant of the Montagues. As on
other haciendas, Senior Ferreiros' ten
ants begin work at six \. NJ, having
previously eaten deSayuno of bread
and coffee. Then each goes off to that
part of the estate which is to be the
scene of his days labor, carrying with
him a cows horn of water and small
bag of meal. These are his ratlons for
the mid day breakfast, and not another
mouthful will he get until he returns to
dine at p. NJ. The meal is of roasted
wheat, ground on small hand mill
with which every hacienda is provided.
We saw the men at their sunset dinner,
and more contented and healthy-loOk-
ing lot would be hard to fnd-crowded
around table of rough boards without
any cloth upon it. The repast con-
sisted entirely of beans and peas stewed
together; but the administrator in
formed me with pride that all the labor
ers on this model farm are treated to
meat and potatoes twice every week.
We went into the wheat field on a
cart, topped by very high and narrow
hay-rick made of cane poles dashed
together with thongs, drawn by bull
locks. The cart was driven to place
where the cut sheaves were thickest;
the cattle were taken from the tongue
and tied to wheel, and the work Of
gathering commenced. Each man seized
all the nearby sheaves were loaded.
1t did not occur to anybody to make the
builocks remove the cart to another
part of the field: the bundles were still
laboriously carried to the same place,
however the distance heightened and
the noontide heat increased
w uCu VIC lOdu was COul~
plete, it was hauled to the threshing
yard, where the wheat was carelessly
dumped in heaps, without the trouble
of stacking it. for it rarely rains
here during the summer months, so
there is little danger of the grain spoil
ing. Meanwhile threshing was going
on, slowly but surely. A spot of hard
ground had been swept, and upon it
were pitched few bundles; then a
span of horses was driven over and
over them until the wheat was shelled
from the straw. The straw was then
removed, the wheat raked to the cen
tire, and more bundles thrown down.
When a considerable quantity of shell
ed wheat was collected, a windmill
was introduced to blow away the chaff.
No wheat could be of better quality.
The plump, sound grains were fully a
quarter Of an inch long, and was told
that an average yield is twenty bushels
to the acre. The corn crop is smaller,
because the seasons are too Geld. Oats
return about sixty bushels to the acre,
but, unfortunately, there is no market
for them. Oranges, lemons, figs,
peaches, apples, pears, grapes, melons,
etc., are always sure crop, because,
though the summers of Chill are seldom
warm enough to make thin clothing
necessary, there is never frost enough
in winter to kill flowers. All kinds of
vegetables thrive remarkably, and
whenever a native farmer plants beets,
he ties knot in the end of each grow
ing plant to prevent it from running to
unreasonable bounds. The plows in
general use are primitive implements
a beam, with one long, stout handle ex-
tending far enough downward to at
tach a fiat piece of iron which has been