The Washington herald., 1911-07-09

his pennies as he goes along and a vaca-
ton is not among his luxuries. City
life is getting faster and faster in the
matter Of money. Many families live
beyond their. means on credit. Cash
buyers and prompt payers make up the
losses of the merchants in the small per
cent that is added to prices by the re-
tailers in their efforts to recoup them
selves for their experiences with the
deadbeats among their customers. Ex-
travagance operating indirectly is a tax,
therefore. on prudence and economy. The
saving man doesn't realize it, but he is
helping to pay the bills of his improvi-
dent neighbor."
What will the country do for beef
when all the pasture lands have been
put to the plow?'
'Oh, We shall have intensive farming.
and instead of one man owning 1000
steers, 5000 men will own two steers
apiece. Places that are now waste will
be turned into grazing land. Swamps
will be drained, fields of brush and rough
ground will be cleared and used. We
shall meet the case with ingenuity and
confidence when the critical time comes"
Apple Trees and White Pine.
Large numbers of persons are plant
ing apple orchards in different parts OF
the country. What are their chances for
success?"
Good. The chances are sound and
promising, but they will be neglected op
misused. There. will never be an over
supply of apples because only fraction
of the trees planted will ever amount tS
anything. Ten years is a long time to
wait for a crop. Many orchardists wiIf
grow weary of looking forward, and theiS
trees will receive less and less attention
as the seasons go round. A fruit tree can't
be put into the ground and brought Is
bearing without Intelligent and incessans
toll. Thus while a hundred trees may
be planted only an average of ten, per-
haps, taking the country as a whole,
will flourish and ultimately produce
profitable crop. ..
But I have in mind something more
hopeful than apples. Gov. Bachelor
went on to say. There is a splendid
return from white pine II one Is willing
to sow in his youth and walt for
harvest until middle life. lily father
had 100 acres OF pasture back in the
mountains on which he kept some
sheep. He once offered me the land for
a horse. 1 declined the offer. When
he died the land came into my posses
sion. In the meantime. 1t had come up
in white pine.
zone day an agent for the match
trust stopped at my Office. He asked
my price for the pine. now grown to
be trees up to a foot In diameter
Yankee fashion. said: I haven't seen
the land for fifteen years What Will
you give He offered me $500.
shook my head at venture and he
added $500 to his figure Then I went
to look the pine over. taking an expert
along to figure 1t into lumber. In the
end / received check on the spot for
$500. Such land can be bought for 50
an acre. II 1t is planted or If It comes
up in white pine it win be worth.
dare say, $40 or 800 an acre twenty-five
years from now.
II have 900 acres more coming along.
My sixteen-year-old son win cut the
crop after I am gone. II he keeps Il
he will have fortune unless a forest
fire burns Il down. Gov. Bass Is srows\
ing pine. spruce. and hemloek. As he
Is only thirty-eight years old he will
probably live to turn his trees into
ready money and obtain a tremendous
proht.
lcoryrisht, laii. b James q. NGroRA
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