Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01

ventures. The explanation is that he
bought ten cents worth OF beans for
planting and his crop consisted of
seven bushels, five OF which he sold for
a dollar a buahe1, donating, fnr he was
never selfish or grasping, two bushels
for family use. r-.i-e--.e@
The purchase of the farm was han
died in an, entirely businesslfke man
nef. No favons were given or asked
on either side. The eighty dollars was
the first payment, and mortgage at
the legal rate OF interest was given
for the remainder OF the purchase
price. The house was promptly rent
ed for i've dollars month, which took
care az the interest and taxes and left.
small sum over toward the payments
on the principal At this rate, the
farm would be nearly paid for by the
time he was twenty-one without a
single extra exertion on his part, and
hall the money he earned might be spent
for baseball bats, tickets to the moY-
ing picture shows, and other things
dear to the boyish heart; some of it
did go in these directions, for, be Il
understood, he is a real tive boy, some
I OF It, too, went in a donation to tho.
lstowIl hospital and to an orphanage, for
he is a publlc-spirited citizen as well
as good business man; however, our
hero OF the commonplace did not rest
| on his laurels, but looked around for
more opportunities.
AS before said, thetown was a sum-
mer resort overfowing with boarding
houses; it was also minus a system of
garbage collection, so the landlady of
the nearest boarding house was more
than willing to fall in with a proposi-
| ton to buy two pigs for Melvin to
keep on his fathers farm, mile
away, and to furnish the swill, which
he would haul away daily, to feed
them. The pigs cost $3.50 each, the
food costing nothing, and the net gain
to each partner that fall was $40,
but, as the boy philosoph remark
ed, it was as much trouble to care fOc
! two pigs as it was to care for a dozen,
| So the proprietress of small hotel
/ was next interested in the same propo-
sition, and the goat was replaced by a
young OK, the net profit that fall being
500 each; the business relations were
renewed the following spring and at
/ the time this is written fifteen hogs
i have been sold at net profit of 5000,
which has been equally divided be-
tween the two. There are fifteen
shoats, and four sows left which will
sprobably bring in ten dollars each. ).
1 Fall brings school and, consequent
/ ly, less time for farm work, but it also
brings apples One year he was given
!. the wind-falls from his fathers and
grandmother's orchards; these he
hauled TO cider MILL giving half the
cider to the owner of the MILL his own
share being some twenty-five gallons,
| part of which was sold and the rest
kept for vinegar, which was afterward
| sold for ten cents quart.
In addition to being a landed pro-
prfetor, Master Hatch has also steady
income, acquired solely by his own ex,
ertions, for he has a small sum of
/ money loaned at good interest, as well
/ as the steady rent of the house, and.
most hopeful sign, when the country s
needs are considered, it is evident that
the siren song Of the city will fall on
/ deaf ears in coming years, for the
! other day he said to his business ad-
| wiser, his mother, ST think it would be
a. good thing if were TO mortgage my
i land buy more, so can be Improving
it and be ready to make my living on
it when am twenty-one. ought tc
be able to get in good shape in the
next six years.
MARY CAROLINE FARMER. +.
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