The Greeley tribune., 1906-03-29
4 GIINT STG4R BEET.
O'Shannasy RasieS NarFei
through Accident.


"Thot shtory av Cinderella gnin' tn
tha ball in punhln,' said OShan-
nasy, "aint wan circumstance [ phwat
lappen'd out me way in COLORADO WIZ
shugar bates. Now ye moinu, shusar
bates sometimes grows big, an tn
bigger We grows thin tn more money
We are shure { get from tn facthry.
But, me farm down by tn Gunneson
mad all tn ither farms in tn Sthate
nate Z dith S far as size av shugar
bates was consarned. Why. don't ye
knaw thot tn wather av thot river
is richer'n sthrong likid manyure. an
whin | uses ut for arygatin' me farm,
somehow ither | do be afther strap
pin down me plants, they grows so
quick.
But, twas lasht year thot somethin
remarkable happen'd on me farm way
off in wan corner. Why. don't ye
kuaw somehow ither a shugar bate
sade got mixed wild tn soil an crowd
so quick wild tn rich arygatin' Gun
nison wather thot didn't get tn
chance t. sthrap it down. fis. sir,
an whin it got so big l says t meself
says I. III let er so clane throo t
Chinay: I'm goin t see jist how
DlS III DluOIulu pdle MIL Sio~. AL
would ye behave il, whin tn tonne
came t gather in tn crap, tho l
hated t do it, it took nearly me lasht
cint buyin' foive hundred pounds av
dinimite t blow thot bloomin' thing
outer II groun. An thin twas a
sight t see. Twas sphlit into big
PAGES. an naybur Smith was SO good
as t bring over his saw mill an we
- ;pii iip oy,' hxy
next mornin' had cut up that bate
into thirty-foot slabs. Now, l only
owned five tames and naybur Smith
had three, so We had t go t me ither
naburs until we had thirty-three double
good shugar bate planks. I can tell
We we was tn gran sight whin we
drew up t tn factry at Rocky Ford.
We'll, whin tn factry people wint
ahead an made tn shugar from thot
bate they found it phwat We call .
"Shugar Countent" as high as forty.
foive per cint. Ye knaw Ordinary bates
are good whin thay give twenty per-
cint shugar and the Agricultural De-
partment calls the coeffycient of pur-
ity in thot shugar was somethin' gran.
Faith, didn't tn facthry people com.
plain afterwards thot their customers
found fault wild tn shugar made from
tn bate (they made two car loads from
it I belave) because twas so swate-
twas SO swats thot half a tayspoon
would swaten quart av coffee.
-Yis. sir, an tn factry people didn't
want tn poolp. afther thay had taken
tn shugar out av it rottinin' in tn
buildin' an bein' as thay didn't have
tn room t sthore 1t outside. thay
paid me foive dollars tn load t haul it
away. which same did Now, phwat
did I do but take tn stuff back Z
me farm an put it N me twilve silos
Thin I scoors tn country an buys
up 2013 head av cattle, wild TIL money
gets from tn facthry people, an fat
tens thin up on TIL poolp. Thin
ships thin back t Chicago, afther I'd
fatten'd thin, an gets two toims
as much as l pays for thin.
mot countin' tn money l gets for
tn bate an th' cattle, l tell We
made money tn next spring furnish
in arygatin' wather t. me nayburs
from TIL rizevoor I made out av TIL
hold TIL bate made in tn groun'.
tell ye arygatin' is a success in Col
orado. This year I be goin' to plant
more bates.
Come aroun' some time an I'll
tell We how I onct lived in wather-
melon growed on me farm. 'Tis a
foine sthory."