The Pulaskian., 1920-08-26

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 When MT. Farmer got the deed to his land he had just eighteen hundred dollars left and he tried to hire his land cleared and put in cultivation, but with very poor success. Just then he got into trouble with the railroad and lost his job. He could have gotten another station or have gotten reinstated, but after discuss ing the matter with his wife he de-
 eided he would let jobs go and try working for himself. For eight years he had been working for the railway company night and day but did not realize what slave he was until he went to work on his island and then he saw. He was simply as tonished that he could have been such
 slave as he was doing that eight years. During that time or the most of it his wife had been his assistant and 1t made 1t that much harder on him for he was in the habit of re- lieving her to let her attend to house. hold affairs.
 We'll he managed to get about thirtyseven acres of the land in cul- tivation, which is only about one half of the tillable land on the is. land In clearing the land he sold $lo3 of cottonwood timber and has lot of mulberry posts which he will haul to the railroad as he goes after the lumber to build his house. Alto gether he expects to sell about $500 of timber off the island besides de- suoying a large amount in clearing the land.
 His first trouble of course was get ting to the land.. He had to build a
 ferry boat and put a cable across.
 When that was done he was only ready for more trouble and trouble
 all the time for it is a great big l job to ferry the boat across. It takes him, his wife and his boy and about
 a half hour of time, for the river is wide here.
 Then when it was too late Mir. Boyle decided he wanted to buy the
 land. Upon invistigaion he found that he stood chance to get about one half of it, or all that was in sec ton B 50 he bought that from the
 Iron Mountain railway and the rail road company is sueing for posses sion of 1t. Mr. Boyle appears to
 understand that no one is to blame
 but himself and treats MT. Farmer
 and family as nice as a man could
 treat others. Mir. Farmer Is permit
 ting him to remain on the island and
 make a crop until the courts decide
 the matter.
 While Mir. Boyle lost out in this deal one of his boys learned some thing by it and went to the main land and by the same methods gained possession of a good slice of , the High Moss farm Other owners of riparian rights would do well to have their river fronts surveyed and find out whether they own all land they think they do or not else some one hungry for land may jump a
 part of their farm.
 Of course one of his greatest troub- les was to get labor. One man with a team set in with him to make crop, but quit before the land was ready for the plow. He then got two boys
 with their mother and the wife of one, who stayed with him until they
 had twenty acres of cotton planted
 and six hood when they quit. He begged them not to quit telling them that they certainly could make some good money bystaying with the job, but they quit any way. The cotton is now the finest in the county and that means more than a bale to the acre. The boys are working around at day labor while the prospects are now good that their share of this crop 3 will be worth anywhere from three : to five thousand dollars. When he 7 saw one was going anyway he tried ) to get the other one to stay. Any | fool can now see what he Is missing. [ Mir. Farmer thought he would have , to throw the cotton out and let 1t go, for he already had in all he could cultivate and 1t was impossible to i. hire any help, but his wife said we 7 can all turn in and finish hoeing this cotton in a week and after 1t is hood you can plow it yourself. So he took , her advice and she and the children l helped and they made good on the job. Mir. Farmer says that he was as much astonished at his children's : willingness to work and the way they