Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-12
CHAPTER vi.
eepyr,sh.. 1915, by Am.r.e.n pr... Association.

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VANS we'll fertilixed, well cult
waited acre of Irish potatoes sur
prised the neighbors with the
- amount It produced. Two hum
dred bushels were what he harvested
from tho patch, and, selling them at
60 cents per bushel, he had $40 to
show for the first crop. It was only
the list Of June. SO he Immediately pre-
pared the land and planted the acre
again in June corn.
After that the work came thick and
fast. The cane was ready to be cut.
He moved It, let It cure and stacked
away two tons Of fine hay in the barn.
He could have gathered another crop
Of cane II he had let It remain, but the
pumpkin yams must be planted. 50
he prepared and bedded the ground.
and one cloudy day just before a rain
he pulled the potato slips from the bed
where he had grown them and planted
this acre also with second crop.
The cotton then had to be pl0wed.
and when that was finished the four
acre cornfeld, in which he was also
growing . nourishing crop Of pump
kins, was calling for him.
The peach and plum crops were very
short this year, owing to late frost.
but the Powell orchard never suffered
in this respect. The old trees had a
bumper crop. Prices being good, after
Mrs. Powell had preserved what she
wanted, Sam sold $40 worth Of plums
and $40 worth Of peaches, making a
total of $3.50 income from the fruit,
not to mention the preservings for fam
lily use.
Early in the winter. before the fam
lily moved, Sam had made arrange
ments with q breeder Of fine strain
Of Plymouth Rock chickens to get ten
sittings Of eggs. For these he was
to pay $50 sitting. Mrs. Powell
already owned mixed breed dock Of
fifty hens, but Sans plan, with which
his mother heartily agreed, was to re-
place the mongrel stock with the thor
oughbreds. The first Of these sittings
were Matched while It was yet cold,
and before summer came on, with its
excessive heat and insect pests. the
whole ten had been Brought or and
more than 100 thrifty young Plymouth
Rocks were running about the farm.
The ample range and shade and the
rye sown IN the orchard made the In
come from poultry almost clear pr0dt.
Chickens require little feed wheR, they
can get green stun and insects. Be
sides the Plymouth Rocks Mrs. Powell
raised SIX dozen common breed fryers.
which she sold at S. per dozen, or $1s.
From the Thoroughbred flock, after se-
iecting seventy pullets and i've roost-
ers to keep, she sold the culls for SIS,
ROSTERS at 81 and pullets at 80 cents.
The exg market was very low during
he summer months, but even at a few
cents . dozen so worth were sold this
year and tho family had all they could
consume at home. Finally, In the fall,
the old flock Of common chickens was
sold, bringing Is cents each or $3.50
ID all. Surplus milk and. butter from
the two cows brought $50 for the year.
But this wasn't all. The acre Of
watermeSona, cantaloupes and vegeta-
bles contxtibuted ii share. Sans wa
: ltEIUStOABU W0E0@ q 1VAA1S WAAlO V0AASSyS
with black seed ana blood red meat,
sweet q sugar. These melons always
brought something above the regular
market price. In all the young farmer
sold so worth Of melons and vegeta-
bles.
The June corn made fair crop. Sam
sold the roasting ears 1t one cent each.
These brought him $50. Then he cut
and cured tho stalks for feed. The
ground being once more cleared, he.
plowed, narrowed and planted it in
turnfpA
Sam found that 4, little farm OF fif-
teen acres can keep tw0or three people
very busy, especially when the farm Is
made to hump itself, growing one crop
right SITTER another. Hardly a day
passed that he OF his sister didn't have
to drive to, town toasell something.
Whenever It could be arranged Sam al
ways let Florence 60; for then he could
be hufryin9 the heavy work forward.
September came ana: Florence enter
ed the htgh school, but Sam, badly as
he wanted to begin, found It impossi-
BILE to do 20 until after Christmas.
However. he began studying 1T night,
and for III tie hard WORK he did he
manaeed % keen pretty close up with
his classes.