The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-21

I had that 'iob' to look after. Uncle Jack hauled manure that fall and the place was improved. The next spring We got orr an early garden. We got toma- toes in market early enough to get $l.2o a basket for our first ones If we hadn't have done this we would have been very much embarrassed financially later on. We had about four acres of as fine truck as there was in the county. We put old Charley to a good delivery wagon and he sailed forth toward East Lake and town
 any place we could find to give 1t away About the middle of the season the bot tom dropped out of everything. Truck men could be seen hauling back load after load or giving 1t away or throwing it away,. Just think of beans selling at 10 and 15 cents a basket the basket cost 3 cents) tomatoes at 15 cents you could scarcely give radishes away, turnips bringing 10 and 20 cents dozen punches, eggplants they turned up their noses at, ard So on down the line. Jefferson coun- ty don't need any more truck growers. They need more diversihcation. just like the rest of the state: more hogs, cattle, and raise more feed
 must acknowledge right here we rever tried cotton. Buy @ man working in the city and farming" should confine himself to acreage" and not "planta- tion."
 Well. Uncle Jack and I made little money. bus look at the experience we had. The wife didn't want me to go into NtrucE. but I knew 1t all. About the time the above bottom dropped out. she said:
 Well. Glenn. what did I tell you about
 trucking? If you had wired in that ground we could now have another 1000 Leghorns and delivering eggs and chick ems to the express office. with pay in ad- vance for all you shipped. But no. you bod fA t.Itc ArA snit f1 wagon next year," Goodnight on that trucking business. I was cured. I was
 burned so black from working in the field during spare hours until you had to
 look twice to tell me from Uncle Jack although I was somewhat younger. But that salary was going on.
 Stuck to Chickens
 Well. we settled down with the chick ems after that. The next year we raised about POGO. gathered eggs by the bushel. shipped eggs, chicks, pens, trios and sold many on the place. They were now paying handsomely. You remember back away in this article I spoke of @ good mother-in-law having proffered a loan.
 Well. when you borrow. even from your lnother-in-law. you should try and pay up. With little revenue coming in from the chickens. the grape arbor (which was now paying about s75 a year), good gar den always at hand. plenty of broilers to eat, plenty of game round about, we at last reached the stage where we could actually save some of that salary We cleared all incumbrances. the place was
 well fenced. fruit trees bearing. grapes trained up on new arbor a good well of freestone water. a new brooder house for young chicks 14x50 with a glass front chicken runs, eight fat hogs-in fact, we had a typical country place. This puts us up to the last year. We raised about 5000 White Leghorns. our fruit trees all had about a bushel each of fruit. We
 picked 190 baskets of grapes. and all are well and happy. Our little boy, Marshall, who is only 8 years old. now wears 12-year-old suit of clothes. He ran wild and grew up with the mocking birds. the fish in the creek short distance away and wore at least two feet off the old swinnin' hole where hc slid in and out of the clear water.
 The place is now increasing in value every year. Property mas trebled all about us in these six or seven years, we
 have a good chert road leading by the place now and. everything looks bright Are we sorry we tried the combination :? No. But if you decide any time to try
 the scheme of working in the city
 with regular salary ana a good ''job,'
 don't venture unless you have the back
 bone ard grit to stick 1t out. You will
 have to go shabby occasionally, notes must be met, feed to buy. and experience to gain. But let me add a word of warn
 ing: If you have wife with the same
 nclinations you have. all right and good
 If she throws up both hands and says
 what about electric lights? What about a
 bath? What about a phone? Does the groceryman deliver out there? Why, we will not have any neignoors, and I can't attend my club meetings-right then and there you stick to that regular 'job" If you don't there'll be trouble on that aarna It takes a team to win.
 Am I sorry I tried it? Again I say no. Mrs Moses is content with our ups and down and loves nature. If she hadn't been. this article would never have ap- prared. Good luck to all who have the bug"