The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-02-26
LET Us ALL BE UP AND DoINGl"

LET Us ALL BE UP AND D0ING"
Note: The following interesting
account Is taken from the Farm and
Preside.
In the year iS,'s my husband and |
moved from Kentucky to Illinois
III the idea las wages were better
Here) Of earning enough money to
purchase a home. The idea and
less than i've dollars in cash were
about about all the stock in hand to
begin with. After renting a cheap
house in village we set 10 work at
anything to be found TO do. During
harvest time my husband went with
thresher gang and helped stack
straw. Occasionally he painted a
house, and during the winter months
he worked a. q section hand on the
railroad, while took in washing.
sewed carpet strings, and so forth.
We stayed there a little more than a
year and saved nothing. Of course,
but found a place 10 work on farm
at twenty five dollars per month,
with house. garden. orchard and COW
furnished.
A Good Broom and Two Brave
Hearts
The house was very poor one.
sometimes was obliged to sweep
the snow from my kitchen floor be
fore could get breakfast for the
hired men. We stayed in this crazy
structure for two years. then our
landlord had Il torn away and built
a good. comfortable house. We on
Is lived in II one year though. for
We had saved five hundred dollars
during those three years. We rent
ed one hundred aud sixty acres Of
land from the same man; this place
had very good buildings on IL, and
We had ~ pay seyenty-iive dollars
year privilege rent" This includ-
ed the house. garden. orchard. and
six or seven acres Of pasture land.
We sowed twenty acres to oats
aud the remainder in corn. which
was all cultivated and hauled TO the
elevator at our own expense. the
owner of the land getting one-half
the proceeds We paid for two
spans Of mules and one old horse,
and went in debt for two horses and
"A number of farming implements.
buying most Of them at sales and
getting twelve months time in
which to pay for them. However,
We got them all paid for and had
some money left in the bank the
second year. The third year we
again had good crops, So We decid-
cd Ia sell oui and at least make a
payment ON a home OF our own.
Eyes That Could See the Future.
We had saved, on an average. five
hundred dollars each year for three
years. After selling horses and farm
ing implements and drawing out
what we had in the bank, we had
iukwo thousand dollars.
wished to live in good com
munity, for we now had three boys
To educate, So we decided to move
back TO the land Of our birth. down
in old Kentucky. where the grass
is always blue" within two and
one-half miles Of the famous little
college town Of Berea.
We bought fifty acres of thin land
and badly rundown farm. We
had only enough money left to buy
"A little Jersey COW and nine hens
by going in debt for an old brood
mare we had seveniy-ilve dollar
mule colt 10 sell that fall.
The first thing my husband did
in the way Of improvements for our
new home was to break rock for
sixty days ON new turnpike run
ming past our farm. He did this with
out pay. for il raised the value OF
his farm.
We now have thoroughbred fowls,
aud some years I sell more than one
hundred dollars worth Of chickens.
Last year | started in TO raise tur-
keys with five White Holland tur-
key hens. sent to Ohio for a COB
bier TO mate with them so | could
be sure they were not inbred. In the
fall sold eighty-seven dollars
worth Of turkeys. This year kept
seven turkey hens, and il nothing
serious happens | can sell one hun
bred and fifiy dollars worth this
fall. We keep all the incest heifer
calves, and now have five fine Jer-