Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-11-26
LABOR LOST ON THIS FARM
crops Are Raised and Harvest.
Never to Be Used OF
Sold.

The death not long aso Of Isaac S,s.
CERT. an aged resident Of lanes.
county, Pa, brought to light ono If tL
most remarkable eases of unnccesss-,
thrift and saving on record.
isaac Sweigert, with his two sis,.-
| Rad Tor half a century or more bao,
gagged in raising large ana nroti3ai.
crops from the fertile sixty acres WI
lhey Jointly possessed. bat. stroprs
| say, none. or very few, Of the f9r-,
pp i. was ever sold. says Farm m.
II cost the family but little to rr,
anu aiteE Glsposing of 50 much of n SEA,
son crops rs would bring Them in ~
necessary money to buy their proy;siS...
ana clothing, the rest of the barve.-
would be laid aside as carefully AZ
miser puts by his hoard Of gold.
lie family is descended from thrjfrv
German stock. Isaac Sweigerts parent.
were among the first who turned yir.i,.
forests OF that section Of PennsyIvani.
INTO productive farm land. The industr,
ana the savings of the parents were Al
parently transmitted by heredity to t5>
sons and daughters, who t0iled for vpsr.
early and late in the sowing, cuItiya
ton and reaping of their crops, but vii,
Jailed, through neglect or Indifference. L.
iealiZe the commercial value of their
labor.
No outside help was ever hired at +b.
farm, the arduous work of sowing ana
Ieaplng being performed by the odd trio.
Tor the two sisters Joined with thpi.
brother and turned to every form ri
labor in the fields. The brother and 81.
tiers allowed but little sunshine to bright
en- their lives. They rarely visited any
ot their neighbors and We're seldom seen
at any of the public gatherings. Tho
change %
simple lives was when the brother
brought wife TO the old homestead. and
the prattle of child later lent a new
and strange atmosphere to their cheer
less home.
The family lived almost exclusively Oh
the products of the farm, and were sci
dom seen making any purchases AT the
country stores. AS years passed, the
brother and sisters We're reputed to have
accumulated considerable wealth. but
continued their hard toll and economical
methods of living. Instead of disposin~
OF Their crops as formerly, they began
stacking their grain at different points Oh
the farm, where it was allowed to rot by
years of exposure to the elements
visitors to the premises will find about
Seventy-hVe of these stacks scattered all
over the farm, between fifteen and TWEEN
~ being located near the house. The
loss from this source aggregates thou
sands of dollars. OF late the brothers
and sisters were content with threshing
and cleaning only enough of their crops
Tor immediate wants, storing the surplus
of grain each year in different rooms of
their house. The house now contains
great quantities of grain, especially the
lower story, where its great weight has
caused sagging of the floor, and the valu-
able product finds lis way through cracks
to the cellar beneath. The storing of this
grain has proved Il rich treat to count
less hordes of rats and mice, which thrive
and grow fat on it,
An examination of the numerous
stacks of grain showed that the once
valuable product is worthless either as
food or bedding for the stock. The loss
represented in these rotted stacks, in
Guiding the immense quantities of grain
stored in the house, and which is stated
to have also become unfit for use, would.
it IS said, be sufficient for the purchase
of one of the largest farms in Lancaster
county.-New York Daily News.