Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-27

and never putting any money in, you
will have to stop some time"
Mr.. Whitsitt has seen land increase
in value from SLIPS to $500 per acre. |
He said: 81 thought that when land
got to be $3.50 per acre l would sell
out, but l didn't and now when 1t is
$500, 1 am no nearer ready to sell
than then. They ask me why I do
not move to the city and live I am
not going to town; any man at my age
would be foolish to leave a place
where he had been so long. It is the
only home l know; when 1 wake up
in the morning / can look out on the
cattle and horses and chickens and
all the familiar scenes of a lifetime,
and have something to interest me-
But the old fellows in town, when they
get up in the morning it is perhaps
to look out on somebody's back yard
or maybe a lot of old tin cans and
with nothing to do that provides ade-
quate exercise to keep them in health.
l tell you that the place for an old
man who has always been a farmer is
on his farm"
Mr.. Whitsitt has four sons and a
daughter, all of them married. One
son is doctor, one an architect and
two reside on the farm where they
grew up. The father generously pro-
vided another house for one of them,
while he and the other, with the
mother, occupy what has been long
the family home, it having been en-
larged and rebuilt for the comfort of
both. He remarked in speaking of
the success of his SONS and daughter:
My children have all turned out well,
but the credit does not all belong to
me; they had an awful good mother"
Speaking of farming as an occupation
he said: 1T is the only occupation that
know of that man can always take
his son into partnership with him; in
that he can begin as soon as he Is
large enough to pick up chips"
Dave Mowrey, barber in Lincoln,
is also a poultry man of no mean pre-
tensions. On an area of five city lots
he has established plant with colony
houses, etc, necessary for his busi-
ness, the sales from which amounted
to over 500 last year. Mr.. Mowrey
began eight years ago with an old hen
and setting of eggs and gradually
worked his way into 1t, as he ex-
pressed it. 81 never put a dollar into
1t except as | got it out" He now
raises 200 chicks per year, selling both
eggs and breeding stock, his speciality
being White Wyandottes He consid-
ers the selection and mating the great
feature OF the business. All his breed
ing stock are trap nested and tested:
last year he sold IL pullets that pro-
duced 2,019 eggs in IL months. Dur
ing the season he sells eggs from go
hens, and later pullets and cockerels.
He has sold cockerels as high as $40
each. His birds were on exhibition at
the Logan county poultry show, where
he won large share of the premiums.
as he has at every show.
George A Weber resides five miles
southeast of Lincoln, where he has a
4O0acre farm. Mr.. Weber has told
of some of his methods which are
worth repeating. The usual crop on
his farm is $50 acres OF corn, 1876
acres OF oats, some wheat and clover
and there are maintained so acres of
blue grass pasture. Last year eight
acres of blue grass were plowed UP and
planted in corn, which made an esti-
1
mated yield of 80 bushels to the acre.
He keeps herd of IL or ia Shorthorn
COWS and raises the calves and ma
lures them He also keeps the
best OF the heifers and sells the old