News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-03-10

you, work for me for nothing"
.'Oh, don't worry" said Joe. "Well
get paid. Well take it out in water
melons"
81 didn't know that you liked to
work so well, said Sam. "You might
as well go out with me next Saturday.
We're not going to move until next
spring, but l must mend the fences
and get the ground in shape
"Sure, we'll CO." they all said.
"Where'll we find you and what time
shall we start?"
! "I'll be at home" Sam told them.
"Come about o'clock, and We'll drive
out in the spring wagon"
Before Saturday came round Sam
could not refrain from hunting up his
new friend, the government agent, to
tell him that he was going out on the
little farm for that year at least.
The agent, Mr.. Burns, was delighted
at the news
"Well," he said, I'm glad to hear
that Miles Pagan is, as they say,
! from Missouri. He must be shown.
I It's just a waste of breath to talk to
! him. He won't listen to anything. I
tried to get him to plant just one acre
and cultivate it according to our meth
! DDS. But he said he didn't have time
/ for any such foolishness. He'd been
j farming long enough, he said, to know
something about it.
| 81 tried to persuade him to allow his
son, Bob. to join the Boys Corn club
and plant an acre Of corn to be cult
waited under my direction, But he
wouldn't do that either, and, in fact, he
talked rather insultingly to me- OF
course if it was just himself that was
concerned l wouldn't bother any more
with him. A man like that doesn't
deserve much. But we can't afford to
resent such talk from anybody. Sam.
We just consider that it is because he
doesn't understand, and let it 60 Be
sides, it's the welfare Of the whole
country that we are looking after. We
want to make better farmers out OF the
boys. We want Bob Pagan to be a
more successful farmer than his IA
Their has heen, and you see we can't
do that without convincing his father
so that he will let us teach Bob.
"Now, your farm and Fagan's join,
don't they?"
eyes, SIR Sam replied; there's Just
a fence between his field and ours"
''Do you know what he is going to
plant next to your field?"
'Oh, yes. He always plants corn
there. Hasn't had anything else there
for five years"
''The very thing" exclaimed Mr.
Burns. Nov, | want you to come
down to the courthouse next Monday
morning. We are going to have
meeting Of the Boys Corn club then.
and l want you to join. You know,
there is 5000 to be given in prizes in
this coHnty. There is chance for
you to win about $3.50 on a contest acre
of corn"
'"That is whole lot of money" said
Sam, land l am going to try hard to
win the first prize, though my land is
pretty well run down."
you can fix that all right" Mr..
Burns assured him. "Of course you
may not get the whole field as we'll
fortified as it should be, but you can
get the acre for corn in good condition.
And | want you to lay off that acre
just across the fence from Fagan's.
Wei certainly show him something
this year about growing corn"
"That's the poorest land on the place."
said Sam.
$50 much the better" Mr.. Burns as
sured him. Pagan can't say then that
your crop is due to better land"
''Oh, no. he can't say that, for his
land is much richer than mine Mine
has been. neglected so long! I'll sure
have to go to work on it if I'm going to
make a good showing this year"
Eyes, that's right. Get it fortified |
and plowed deep as soon as you can.
This is January. 1t should have been |
plowed three months ago. How much |
land have yos?"
Twenty acres. but five of it are in |
pasture. I'm going to hire a man to
plow the field, as I have only one
morse.
'That would be BEST" said Mr.. |
Burns, "but you must keep an account |
Of all the work done on the contest |
acre, for you know it will have to be |
figured in on the cost of the corn"
''Tll do that" Sam agreed. "In fact, |
I'm going to keep books on everything |
--crops and stock too. l want to know !
when l make or lose"
You're on the right track" Mr..
Burns replied. TT is just as neces-
sary to keep books on the farm as it
is in any other business, for farming
is a business, Sam, and a good bust
ness. too, if you do it in a business
like way"
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