48 The Life Worth Living 



disease that no veterinary surgeon ever saw 

 or heard of struck us, and carried off $500 

 worth of farm horses in two weeks. 



I had never believed the wild stories about 

 the modern negro farm labourer in the South 

 till I tried it. In three years I've hired over 

 one hundred negro farm hands and dis- 

 charged all save three of them, who are first- 

 class men. I tried patiently to teach one 

 I kept six months to do a few simple neces- 

 sary things with modern farm machinery. 

 At the end of six months he broke three 

 mowers in one day on a beautiful level piece 

 of clover. 



I discharged him, and that night lost 

 twenty dollars' worth of harness out of my 

 barn. 



Large groups of my African neighbours 

 keep horses, dogs and children and yet are 

 opposed to a strenuous life of systematic and 

 constant labour. 



I'm now spending cheerfully $500 on 



