The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1905-11-22

year-Old boy, ana whose wire is not
very strong, but tries to make
couple of hundred dollars year out
of her chickens? Help is so hard to
get i'm harvesting and when one needs
help. | don't want to go to town to
live. In this part of the country farms
are so high poor man cannot buy.
like to attend to cattle and hogs and
have fairly good luck with them.
The prOpOunder of this question
is in a similar position to that of
thousands of others who are puzzled
to know what to do. A few hundred
dollars have been by dint of hard
work accumulated, and they don't
know what to do with it, Right here
is the crisis which has either made
their future life one of success or one
of failure. Here is a man who has
been trained along lines of practical
farming. His faithful wife has by
her wifely economy and skill been
true helpmate to him, or she would not
be annually with her poultry adding
to the family income 5000. 1 feel
like putting a little extra stress on
that poultry business, as 1 am not
sure that after the expenses are taken
out and a division made of the pro-
auctions of the farm the wife has
not about as much to show to her
credit as the husband. There is 81 800
in the family bank. What is to be
done with it? | have known of several
men who, when they had accumulated
that sum, began to get "swelled
heads" Perhaps the husband began
turning his attention downward or,
worse yet, cityward.
His mind dwelt upon some fellow
he might have known who had in
vested in town lot and doubled
his money in one year, or who had
gone in some business and succeeded.
But he failed to think of the man who
laid out the $500 in a small house
| in the suburbs, where he had no
| chance for garden or chickens; where
| he had to labor daily in the shop rain
or shine. and after corporation taxes,
| water taxes, school taxes and the other
| taxes were paid the food for his
family provided and clothing furnished
he found nothing accommodating for the
old age that was creeping on, nothing
for the days to follow when he
would no longer be needed in the shop.
l might go further on this line, but
will stop here by saying: If you have
any thoughts of town or city life, ask
the good wife to put a cold water
compress on your head and lie down
and take a nap. Then get up and
begin to think of some location
where you can buy small farm, and
not have to run largely in debt for
ia small debt you can carry on a
good productive piece of land. Don't
purchase expensive buildings. They are
Il source of expense. Keep i'm mind
the adage, "a little farm well titled -
A smaller house, with a cheerful wife
in it, is what makes a home of hap
piness. Now listen to the wife a
little: ask her what she needs to care
for the chickens better, and you can
as rule furnish it at little expense
A man of gumptiOn, with a saw and
Il hammer and pile of cheap lumber.
and his wife to boss the job. can make
a comfortable chicken house at very
little expense.
| Don't neglect the small fruit bust
ness; Strawberries and raspberries. al
so blackberries, can be grown right
between the cherry, plum and pear
| trees when they are small: yes, and
some lima beans and early potatoes
But l will leave you to decide what
is best 1t is not for me to dictate
| to you.
| Now, | have practically told Won