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over till' Mitnmil i>t I'icialirn I>l;iii(l. iiml ciiiiif 

 <li)\vn on till- casU'rii side. X'cry somi I'liciul 

 Mmrli's itanliMi was lu'lorc mi-. While in the 

 woods. liowc\i"c. 1 was atlracifd by nurnlxTS of 

 poultry-lidiiscs that riMnimicd nn- of Stoddard's 

 '■ cjrii-i'atin." Tlicy were I'iirlit out in tlii'i-dsi'' 

 <»f till- pini' woods, cai'li lioiise ni-ally wliiic- 

 waslicd and jnsi lii<(' its nciiihlior, may lie :.'n 

 rods away. 'I'lic hens, mostly {..cfiliorns. wcic 

 briglit loi>l<in« aii<l licaitliy. and tlio cackliiif? 

 poinsron told of eirjis. even if it. was the last of 

 |)tH't>mhi'i'. The lloofs wci'r all raised a i-ouple 

 of feet fi'oni the tri'onnd. doiii)tless to avoid 

 dami)ness. and padioi'ks on the doors indieatcd 

 that things were not iiian;igt>d in a loose way. 

 As 1 neared the fence that dividi-d the wood 

 land from llie garden. I notieed tiie rain-water 

 ruiiniiifj in a series of silt-basins, and from 

 these a sei'iesof niulerdrains led down through 

 liis srardens to the hcaeh. Oh what, ei lei'N sreei- 

 <'d my evesi Thei-e are at least •.'."> or lid ditlerent 

 oulbiiildinsrs around his home. 1 passed throntrh 

 the gardiMi. through the apiary, and under a 

 broad low shed at the back of the honse. Here 1 

 stopped and looked abont. An eldei-Iy man ap- 

 proachi'd. and 1 told him I was A. I. Koot. \(>\\ 

 ought to hive seen us laugh aud-talk. Here is 

 friend Mart-li. just as I saw him. 



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Ill less time than I can tell it the whole ranch 

 was at my disposal. I began to take in great 

 lireaths of strength and enthusiasm all at the 

 same time. In the tirst place, foi' the first time 

 in my life I saw before me a .siircessful egg- 

 farm. Friend M. has raised eggs as a bnsinc^ss 

 for more than twenty years past. He runs incu- 

 bators, and hatches over 2000 chicks each year. 

 His SrjO laying hens are in about twenty differ- 

 ent houses. While all have unlimited rang(\ 

 they all go where they belong, to roost. They 

 are always fed in their houses, and the eggs are 

 laid. also, in nests made in the buildings. 

 They are now getting daily from 1.50 toriOO eggs: 

 and at 37'. J cts. per dozen they more than pay 

 all expenses. I went over, one by one. the dif- 



Icn III olistaclo u>iiall\ iiiei In keeping poultry 

 by the tiioiisand. I'ri nd .M.aiid Ins boys have 

 met each (haw l)ack. and rou«:ht through it. 

 Kats. disease, \erinin. w ild animals in tlie wooils, 

 etc.. are held In chi^ck only by ■'eternal vigi- 

 lance." It, is the same way with his wonderful 

 achieveineiils In markel-gaideiiing. (Jo over 

 his place and talk with liliii. and you can well 

 understand why he succeeds when everybody 

 else fails. 



l>ei me give you an iiicldciii characteristic of 

 the man: When lie look a noiion. about ten 

 years ago. to raise caiillllowcrseed hesoon toiiiid 

 lie musi, have water for irrigation. Hack in the 

 woods, on ihe hillside, he found a weak spring 

 of w aier. This spring w as near a line fence be- 

 twc(Mi himself and neighbor. As Ills means 

 well! then limited he niaile troughs of boards, 

 nailed together and supported sawlior.se lasliioii, 

 locally the water clear down to liis garden. 

 He succeeded, and began to make some money 

 witli his seeds. As more water was needed he 

 began opening up the spring until It came clear 

 up to the line fence. At this point his inuglibor 

 bi'gan looking on and linally demanded .'*:.'.").0() a 

 year for the water that came out under the 

 fence. Friend March refused to pay it, and tiu; 

 neighbor shut the water off, to bring him to 

 terms. Friend M. '■ looked the ground over." 

 and found a wet-looking place on iiis side of the 

 fence, a little further up. so he and his men 

 turned their ditch alongside of tlie fence up 

 toward this wet spot. They kept going into the 

 hill, until at the upperend they were 14 feet be- 

 low the surface. While the work was going on 

 he hajipened to be going up with his son, and 

 they noticed a great volume of water pouring 

 down the troughs. Supposing the men had 

 probably let it off where they had dammed it up 

 lie remarked: 



•• Al. 1 would give a thousand dollars for a 

 spring that would give us water likt^ that," and 

 .just at this moment the men came rushing down 

 to say they had struck a spring as big as a man's 

 arm. Here was all the water lie wanted on his 

 own land, and, behold, his neighbor's little 

 spring had suddenly become dry: for all the 

 water, so it transpired, came from tliis one big 

 vein. Now he could not only raise all the cauli- 

 llowerseed he wished, but he could raise cab- 

 bages, celery, strawberries, and any thing he 

 wished, on his whole 12 acres of uiiderdrained 

 and enriched market-garden ground. All the 

 underdiaining liere is done witii red cedar, and 

 this U-lool trench was soon bridged over clear 

 to the spring. A huge tank was then construct- 

 ed on the upiier side of his garden, where the 

 water is warmed up by the sun before putting 

 it on the plants. Our friend had no money to 

 buy iron pipes, ami his ground does not lie so he 

 can run the water in trenches, so he lay awake 

 nights, as bee-men often do, studying out his 

 apparatus for irrigation, and this is what he 

 did: 



He bought some heavy ducking, or sail cloth, 

 and made his own cloth hose. A wiiole piece is 

 iinrolleil, t'lit from end to end in three equal 

 strips. Each strip is rolled u[) and made into a 

 hose by double seaming on a sowing-machine. 

 Then h(^ put tliis cloth lio.se into a tub contain- 

 ing boiled linseed oil and tar, one gallon of tar 

 to live of oil. The sni[)lus oil is now iiressed 

 out by running the hose througn a common 

 clothes-wringer, and. when dry, there is oil 

 enough to hold the water, h'or connecting 

 these cloth tubes, a short tube of heavy tin is 

 pushed into the cloth tube, and tied with a stout 

 piece of twin(\ To prevent it from slipping 

 apart, a bead is turned near each end of the 

 short tin tube. He has about :.'000 feet of this 

 canvas hose, and it cost liini only about :i cts. 

 |)i'r foot. He has ii.sed some of it for five years, 



