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get so poor that they can't buy seed if they want to, because they 

 haven't the money. We have other neighbors, who, by close and 

 careful economy, by never spending a dollar for anything short of 

 dire necessities, have taken good care of their land, have invested 

 and loaned their money and have accumulated quite a sum. 



One old gentleman of this sort was remonstrated with by his 

 wife for not buying sufficient harness for his teams. He replied, 

 "By George, harness cost money. Let the men tie the old ones 

 up with binder twine." His team sometimes ran away because 

 the lines were not strong enough to hold them if they becama 

 frightened, yet I suppose he considered it economy to spend no 

 money for better equipment. 



Another man with a fine four-hundred acre farm owned but 

 one pitchfork, depending on borrowing from neighbors when he 

 needed more. He was afraid to hire anyone to husk corn or stack 

 hay for fear they wouldn't do the work right, or was too stingy 

 to part with his money. He thus allowed much of his farm to 

 grow up in brush, because afraid to rent to anyone. 



We often see the economical dairy farmer who thinks it a 

 waste of time to read or talk about his business, who refuses to 

 buy books or subscribe for papers devoted to his calling, and gets 

 along with a scrub bull and worse than scrub cows. This man 

 often gets back 39 cents for each dollar's worth of feed, and works 

 for nothing, boarding himself. He is the man the President has 

 been inquiring about, desiring to make his condition better. It can 

 be done by waking him up. He is no better nor no worse than 

 those people in the towns and cities who barely make a living. 



Now, we do not make money in any of the ways mentioned, 

 for we do not think them the best way. To acquire the greatest 

 results is our aim, and we do not hesitate to spend money to help 

 accomplish this. Our farm is five miles from town, the road is 

 quite hilly and sometimes gets very muddy. Ours is a great stock 

 feeding community, therefore but little of the feed raised near- 

 by is offered for sale. To save hauling, time and money, we try 

 as much as is possible, to grow all the feeds we need on our own 

 farm. Corn is perhaps the cheapest feed and is usually grown in 

 the quickest time. We have a brick and stone silo that cost $700. 

 Have a silage machine, a ten horse power steam engine and all the 

 accessories which have used up all our money. We paid $3.00 per 

 bushel for seed corn, having every ear tested for its germinating 

 qualities. We do about three times as much work in preparing 

 the land and at least two or three times as much cultivating as 



