Mower County transcript., 1907-03-06
FARMER J R Ben l|'|II
Col, ,uJlMN.

like that. 1t'lOOks richly refresnln ~
these days when the big millionalres
play the grab game until they drop into
the grave. Most of these chaps that
are immensely rich are like the fat hogs
who alwus grab and reach after every
offs in sight. They are never, never
satisfied. This Chicago chap is like
Farmer Ben. Icould be diggin' down
on the old farm yet if I'd taken the
notion but 1 quit when the proper time
came and now can sit down and en-
ioy q quiet, honest competence. MY
garden and COW and hens keep us n most.
ly in grub and I've got chores enuf to
keep me from dyspepsy and melan'
cholia and our share from the farm al d
my pension pays our tax and givs va q
little surplus for w0rkin' capital. !
tell you if you could only accept 1t,
Farmer Ben's lot is ideal, with no
worry for debt or big accumulatin',
with no grapbin' all the time for more,
and with leisure to read and enjoy life
That Chicago fellow has the right lead
Speakin' of the old farm, it does beat
all how they're gettin' up machinery to
help out the scarcity of farm help. l
was down to the old farm while ago
and watched one of these new tangled
manure spreaders and I'll be whipped
if | don't believe it's the proper thing.
Were gettln' where we've got to DO
more like we used to down in old JEFF
ferson county. We can't be alwus tax
in off the land and never putin on.
1t beats all how much of the finest
kind of corn fed manure is allowed to
90 to waste on most farms. It's just
treated as a nuisance and got rid OF the
easiest way possible. l can see how
we've got from now on to save every
bit of fertilizin' and Civ it back to
Mother Earth. It's big mistake to
pile up manure for years to rot until
It's strength and goodness has all
leached out. It's the fresh juicy article
that has the pneumonia in it for plant
life. One of the boys was tellin' me
that George butcher; the Cow King,
was showin' up town the other day two
sets of corn off the same field and same
cultivation and seed with one of 'em
like Illinois corn off of.land where he'd
put on liquid manure and the other
just ordinary off the rest of the
field. .s.,..... -...-.-
Yes, Jim Tawney is maxim a record
with big 4. He's got the name OF
bein' the watchdog of the treasury and
the way he watches it and the good it
does don't seem to show big in the aw-
fullest pilin' up of expenditures and ap-
preparations that the world ever heerd
on. Over billion dollars this half
session just closin' up is the estimate
and for the whole session to be doubled
and made a two billion. Just think of
the awful pilin' up Of expense by this
congress and talk about a record. But
SO long as the salary grab went thru
and the trusts are satisfied and the
tariff is untouched and the food adul-
terers and lumber trusts and the child
labor abusers and all the rest Of the
lobbyists are taken care of. lots Of the
congressman don't seem to care what
the people at home think. They'll find
out later. The people get tired after q
while of congressman who grow away
from their constituents and forget
their needs except when election time
is near. When they spot 'em they'll
hav to get. +. z5.. .5 s@..#s
Speakin' of Tawney, there's q inter-
estin' rumor persistin' in spreadin' that
he's made up his mind not to try for
congressman agenl after the way he got
knocked up at the last election with :
awful reduction Of his majority and
his losin' his own county. It looks like
he didn't seem to care much about
what he did in congress any more or
what he did to please his constits at
home. / heard up to Austin the other
day that the gang that he's countin' on
to help him in future had gone back on
him after gettin' all they could out Of
him and gettin' him il good line for
cussin' by the people and noWi its talked