1906. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
129 
A HOME IN THE COUNTRY . 
From Western Canada. —I would like to 
tell you how I made over $3,000 worth of 
produce on my small farm of eight acres. I 
have worked hard over .10 years, am now 64 
years of age. I do not agree with Hope 
Farm in all things; one.-thing, I do not like 
to sell too much hay and grain off the farm, 
hut like plenty of stock to feed. My present 
stock today (January 26), is three horses, 
three cows, 140 hens, six ducks, six turkeys, 
100 hogs. My wife is not allowed to do any¬ 
thing out of doors except in the flower gar¬ 
den. I like to see her there, as she does en¬ 
joy keeping it clean. E. m. 
Winnipeg. 
He Has Hopes. —I have enclosed the 
amount of my subscription for the coming 
year, for I don't intend to be without it as 
long as I can rake up the dollar. I suppose 
you think I am a farmer; well, I wish to the 
good Lord I was, but I think l know a little 
something about it, for I was raised on a 
farm in the good old Pine Tree State. When 
I was 18 years old 1 came to Pennsylvania 
and here I have been ever since, railroading. 
I have been a locomotive engineer for over 
10 years, and even if I have not been on a 
farm in all that time, 1 have had a great 
deal to do with “hogs," both two legs and 
eight drivers, and if I have good luck and 
my life is spared, I am in hopes of “farming 
it' again, and quit boring holes in the fog 
nights on the hurricane deck of one of our 
modern battleships. l. t. 
Beats Ur. Osx.er. —I too, am “a farmer 
from town"; and can well appreciate your 
statement, that one should read between the 
lines of Mr. Johnson’s story. An unconquer¬ 
able passion for the soil, and the hope of 
sometime devoting all my energies to it, is 
all that made ray last years as a city me¬ 
chanic endurable. And then, this senseless 
decree, that a man is useless at 40 or 50, 
made itself felt to such a painful degree that 
t resolved to get out and away before I 
should he really too old to undertake the vo¬ 
cation of my choice. So, at 57, after 40 years 
of almost uninterrupted work as a mechanic, 
and with an infirmity that would make young¬ 
er men think twice before lifting a crate of 
potatoes, I have succeeded in making the 
proverbial “two blades” to grow. My efforts 
of one short year have been so well re¬ 
warded that a former owner of my rundown 
little farm, has told me that he never saw so 
much stuff growing on it. Of course my 
friends earnestly protested. Even m.v family 
prophesied dire results from so foolhardy a 
venture. But now, the whole crowd is on 
m.v side. And with excellent health and a 
determination to profit by my past failures 
and the experience of others, the “man with 
the hoe" has no fear of I)r. Osier's guillo¬ 
tine. l. G. 
A Fight for a Home. —I am glad to see 
so many people trying to get homes. It is a 
serious thing for a hardworking man with a 
family to have no place to go that he can 
call home. I sometimes think there never 
was a better time than in the last few years 
for a person to get a home. So many people 
get good wages, and nearly everything we buy 
is low. One of, or the one thing that keeps so 
many from getting enough ahead to start a 
home is that they do not consult their needs 
so much as their wants. 1 began 18 years 
ago to get a home. My wages then were 
$1.25 per day. We had saved $50. We 
bought a cheap lot. managed somehow to get 
a frame up. sided and roofed, lathed one 
room, moved in to save rent : lathed the other 
three room during the Slimmer. That Fall 
we had two rooms plastered : the next year 
lathed and plastered the other rooms. I 
don't like to tell that we had lots of sick¬ 
ness; that I had a catarrh felon in my head, 
and that before it was entirely well I had 
a chance to work if I would take 25 cents 
a day. Twenty-five cents a day is just one 
quarter of a dollar better than nothing. 
There were three in the family, and we could 
just about live on that for a few weeks at 
least, until the factory started. It is suffi¬ 
cient to say “we got there just the same.” 
(lot out of debt, sold, bought a much more 
desirable lot, built a larger house, got out of 
debt on that, then built another to rent. I 
know that thousands of people who do not 
own anything and are getting good wages, 
could get homes easier than 1 did. A mort¬ 
gage for a patch is all right if not larger 
than the garment. I never would go on 
anyone's note, and I would not. ask anybody 
to go on mine. You see, poor but independ¬ 
ent. There were no building and loan asso¬ 
ciations here then. During all these years 
we have had good clothes, gone to church, to 
the best entertainments at the opera, and 
often went out of town. “Where there's a 
will there's a way.” What we have done 
others can do. No one has ever heard me 
howl about hard times. In the first place, I 
never had time, and it would do no good if 1 
did. My dear fellow-laborers, you and your 
wives go into partnership, and see if you 
can get a home, too. Be honest with your 
employer’s time, for it is his, not yours; 
don't use tobacco, nor intoxicants, not even 
“soft drinks.” They do no good and they 
take the nickels. Take lots of good reading 
matter; then when you sit down let it be in 
your own chair, in your own house, on your 
own lot, and not on an empty store-box up¬ 
town. One of these days I’ll tell you how 
I do some things on this lot. i>. ii. B. 
Ohio. _ 
EXPRESS COMPANY NOTES. 
An Agent Talks. —You may note I am 
one of those “awful express agents” who 
smash the farmer’s setting of eggs and 
keep his tomato plants sitting round. And, 
by the way, let me whisper it to you softly, 
in 32 years in this office I have not found 
these farmers all to be angels. Oh, no. I 
keep B. I’. Hock chickens and like Tiie R. 
N.-Y for its many good things, even if it 
does “drub” us express fellows unmercifully. 
We have a B. I\ Rock breeder here, who has 
been shipping eggs and chickens for years, 
and I only remember of one complaint from 
him about damaged eggs. lie told me he 
threw a basket of his packing of eggs over 
20 feet, and it did not break an egg. lie 
knows how. l. p. m’c. 
Iowa. 
An Agent’s “Mistake.—A word about the 
express company. On going recently to the 
office for a package, as the agent seemed to 
be at a loss to find the place for me to re¬ 
ceipt for it, I said: ‘‘Your card was dated 
on the 16th.” “Oh, well,” ho replied, “the 
package came in the first of the month.” 
As they failed to find the record, I think 
it quite as likely it came the previous month. 
Fortunately for me the goods were not per¬ 
ishable. I live in another town from the 
office, but they knew my address well 
enough. suusciuber. 
Killing Blackberries.— If D. A. C., 
Mannsville, N. Y.. will let the blackberry 
grow till the middle of June, then cut and 
plow with a sharp share, and plant to pota¬ 
toes or fodder corn, cultivating thoroughly, 
he will not have to hoe much. I have killed 
several small patches that way without, hoe¬ 
ing any. E. B. w. 
Three Oaks, Mich. 
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wet or dry, 
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A THRIFTY GARDEN 
whether largo or small, needs proper tools for 
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Built especially for farmers’ 
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Has lever motion, extra heavy 
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Dept. F- 3 1 Cleveland, Ohio 
When Plow Hunting] 
choose from the celebrated Syracuse line 
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shown here has proved one of the most 
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in the gravelly, stony soils. If your dealer 
does not handle the Syracuse Chilled 
write us. _ We’ll send catalogue and see 
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Syracuse Chilled Plow Go., 
Syracuse. N. Y. 
An ideal mower, with 
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Runs smoothly, cuts a clean swath 
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The 
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Box 601 
Batavia, 
’ Y. 
I Also send for 77 -— 
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IT WILL PAY TO FIND OUT ABOUT 
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After all, it is only a question of a few dollars more to get a wagon that will last and give good 
service from five to ten years longer than a cheap wagon, and there is a 
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Take, for example, the" 
axle in our thimble-skein 
axle wagon. '-AH wagon 
makers now-a-days re-in¬ 
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It remained for the MILBURN to work 
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%-inch round which passes through the point 
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Under hydraulic pressure 
a 3-inch hind gear stood a 
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The axle did not break but 
the steel rod was stretched 
J4of an inch, permitting the 
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until the skeins struck the 
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