Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-25
FARMERS ROLLING in WEALTE
Examples of How Richardson County
Land Pays Dividends.
RETIRE AT AGE OF FORTY
Horses Bought sixteen Years Ago
Sell To-day for Higher P-tce=
Than when YOunE-FOrtunes
in Colts.

M N. Davis, not long ago, hauled off a
buggy that was not his own and last week
brought some of his wife's chickens to
town and sold them, the amount being
nearly $50. Joe Nedrow sold some of his
wife's chickens this week and then had
about $S5 extra to carry around in his
pockets Mr.. Nedrow tries to Justify him
self by saying the chickens were eating
more corn than they were worth. Mrs.
Anil Moritz sold big lot Of chickens not
long ago and then Mr.. Moritz announced a
public sale with the statement that he had
rented his farm and was going to live In
town.-Stella Press.
The above item, true in itself, was re-
Gently published as a joke in the Stella
Press. The next week Mr.. Moritz had a
farm sale and then he gave the editor Of
The Press, for publication, a statement as
to why he can retire from the farm. He is
only 20 years old, and during sixteen years
OF married life has made $4,000 at farm
ing, beginning as renter, In the state
ment he says that at his sale, one mare
owned sixteen years and costing $50, sold
for $55. She had raised mule colts, which
Mr.. Moritz sold at different times and re-
ceived $3.50 for them. Another mare
owned eight years, costing $50, and rals-
ing colts, which sold for a6Sl.50 at the sale
brought sal 4OAs bought eight years ago
for S55 brought $780, she had raised colts
selling for $SA During the time Mr.. Nor
itz owned these animals the sale of their
colts amounted to s2,14S The first team OF
mules was sold eight years ago. The total
amount of this public farm sale was 81, SSS
Prosperity in Richardson.
The following items tell their own story
Of the success and prosperity of the Rich
ardson county farmer:
James B. Standerford of Humboldt last
week sold at st. Joseph a carlot of hogs
(sixty-eight head averaging 265 pounds at
$3.50 per hundred. On the date of the sale
the price was the highest ever paid on the
st. Joseph market This price was cents
higher than Kansas City's top price and
20 cents better than the highest price at
South Omaha for the same date, which
shows Standerford knows how to raise and
feed hogs Just about a month earlier Mr.
Standerford sold a carlot OF hogs. OF his
own feeding. also, in St. Joseph for $S42h
The hogs averaged 3O6 pounds and up to
that date brought the highest price ever
paid at st. Joseph consequently within a
month he attained two top record-break-
ing prices.
The 1st of September Isaac w. Harris of
Stella topped the Kansas City market with
three cars of hogs which sold at S815. Mr.
Harris came here from Illinois nearly forty
years ago and bought unimproved land for
farm home at IS an acre. Following the
panic Of 1878 he offered hogs for sale at
$3.50 per hundred. but could find no buyer
After keeping the hogs awhile he sold them
at $275 which is his lowest selling price
as hog stockman. Mr.. Harris is today
one Of the rich men of Nebraska. He is
an officer and stockholder in several banks
heavy stockholder in the Humboldt brick
plant and president Of the Richardson
County Farmers Mutual Insurance COM
pany, yet he has worked as hard as any
farm hand at all kinds of farm labor The
family are now occupying their town resi-
deEce in Stella. At a women's club meeting
the last week Mrs. Harris stated that last
summer she raised and canned her own
tomatoes for winter, after the remark had
just been made that farm renters wife,
young, strong healthy woman, had just
been seen buying at the local grocery store
canned tomatoes. canned beans, butter,
bread and potatoes.
Richardson County Cattle.
In the fall Kansas City press dispatches
heralded the report that $500 cattle, long
expected had arrived. These cattle were
a Richardson county product and were
raised on the Harbaugh ranch at Dawson.
They were fifty head of white faces averag-
ing 1,4a pounds and were sold TO Armour
& Co, not for $500, but for $40. Soon after
ward Harbaughs herd beat even the above,
for he sold carlot of fifteen head for
1900 per hundred. which was the highest
priced load OF cattle ever sold at any OF
the great markets OF the country. These
fifteen head were a mixed bunch OF Angus,
Shorthorns and Herefords and averaged
but, as those Of the Harbaugh cattle first
mentioned, were selected by their owner
from a herd OF 220 head he was feeding.
The third lot from this bunch sold at $50
and the remaining lot five head, at $500.
The Harbaugh cattle were started to fatten
on snapped corn and alfalfa and finished
on ground corn.
II is not uncommon for Richardson
county farmers to top the stock markets
In the midwest cities, but there is some
thing Of uAusual and particular interest in
the cases here cited.
J. II. Morehead OF Falls City is also a
late topper OF the Kansas City market with
three carlots Of fat cattle. Last spring he
paid tS.7b for the steers and he took a top
price at tS3. He feeds corn and hay ana
runs hogs with the cattle In the spring
he bought l25 light shoats at sass. and his
book accounts show they brought him t2.OOO