V ol. LXV. No. 2965. 
THE SUCCESS OF A PIONEER . 
BUILDING A HOME IN OREGON. 
The Best Crop on the Farm. 
On the first day of August, 1871, I with 
my family, wife and boy, arrived in 
Salem, Oregon. On the second day after 
getting here I bought five acres of land 
on Salem Prairie, two miles east of 
Willamette University, and moved on 
the place at once. It was bare prairie, not 
a building or a tree on the place. I 
bought 1,000 feet of rough lumber the day 
I bought the land, and it was delivered 
about four o’clock in the afternoon, and 
before dark I had the floor down and a 
part of two side walls up, so we slept in 
our own house that night. Two years 
after I bought 15 acres, again in a couple 
of years three acres, and 16 after 15 
acres, the farm now consisting of 38 
acres. I have gardened a part of it, 
raised strawberries, blackberries, apples, 
chestnuts, hay, grain and potatoes. I saw 
in a short time that there was a lack of 
plants, cabbage, tomato and other garden 
plants in the market, and I commenced 
raising them and supplying the demand, 
which has kept growing. I kept cows a 
few years, and made butter and sold it. 
I finally turned my attention to raising 
garden under' glass, and I have stopped 
all other kinds of work and put my whole 
stress on this kind of gardening. 
I have not kept a strict account of re¬ 
ceipts since commencing here but nearly 
enough so that I know we have received 
between $50,000 and $60,000 in gold and 
silver, beside having all the vegetables, 
eggs, milk and butter we have wanted 
and a home to live in. We have been 
building a home. To make the surround¬ 
ings pretty and attractive we have 
brought trees of different kinds from all 
over the country within 100 miles, and 
have set them about the yard. Beside our 
fruit and nut trees we have the maple, 
spruce, pine, hemlock, cedar, fir, both 
White and Red, and poplar. Some of 
them are wind-breaks, others a screen be¬ 
tween the house and barn, others set 
about the yard without much order. The 
place attracts the attention of all who 
pass. We have comfortable buildings for 
our purpose, barn large enough for all 
that can be raised on the place and room 
for the stock, a two-story house above 
the basement of 22 rooms, including three 
closets; 9,960 square feet under glass for 
raising our garden. 
From 1871 to 1S85 we had added to 
our family eight children. One died 
when young, so we have now living eight 
children, fwo boys and six girls. We 
taught them at home until they were old 
enough to enter the academy, then they 
entered the academy of the Willamette 
University, and since 1879 we hdve paid 
50 years tuition in that institution for 
our own children, beside helping to pay 
for some others. Five of the children 
have A. B. degrees from this University, 
one A. B. degree from California Uni¬ 
versity, one A. B., B. D. from Boston 
University, and the two boys degrees from 
Harvard. One of the girls went through 
the academy, then married. We started in 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 24, 1906. 
SHARING HIS LUNCH. FIRST PRIZE PICTURE. Fig. 367. 
J3ARNVAR1) FRIENDS. THIRD PRIZE PICTURE- Fig. 369. 
WEEKLY, il.00 PER YEAR. 
with the idea that the children when they 
were born to us were in the kingdom of 
Christ, and it has been our life work to 
keep them there, and no one of them has 
been out of the kingdom from the day of 
birth till now, and now all are earnest 
active Christian workers. Four arc 
married, and they married Christian men 
and women. To accomplish this we have 
chosen their associates until they were 
old enough to choose rightly for them¬ 
selves. We have trained them in the 
Christian life, not only teaching them 
Christian principles, but living Christian 
lives before them. Instead of accumulat¬ 
ing money and giving each one a few 
thousands when they were ready to begin 
life for themselves, we have given each 
a working capital in the education and 
Christian training they have received 
that is beyond money value. What is 
the success we have attained? To some 
the monev we have made in the business 
we have had is success. Such success is 
of but little value if that is all. Others 
say, and we are reminded of it often, 
educating the children and starting them 
out in life so well equipped is success. 
This is all right so far as it goes, but is 
this all there is in life? Success in the 
highest sense is being in harmony with 
God, being in such relations to Him that 
one has communion and fellowship with 
the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 
Living and working in partnership with 
the Almighty, this is success. 
It looks to me that this kind of success 
can be best reached out on a farm where 
there is plenty of work for every child, 
and a child must have something to do. 
I believe in child labor. Give the child 
something to do and then see that he does 
it. The great need of the world is 
Christian homes in its highest sense, and 
these homes located on farms all over the 
country. There is not a greater work in 
this world than the raising and training 
a family of children, apd when they are 
trained and kept in the kingdom of Christ 
then, and not till then, are they fitted to 
be good loyal citizens of the kingdom of 
this world. dexter field. 
THE POTTED STRAWBERRY. 
All About Its Growth. 
Part I. 
In 1868, when I was a small boy spend¬ 
ing my time loitering on the farm, it oc¬ 
curred to me that I must have some 
diversion from the regular routine of 
farm life. About this time I heard of a 
neighbor who had a large bed of straw¬ 
berries, and without consent of parents 
I engaged to pick berries for him, for 
which I was to receive no pay until the 
end of the berry season. It was then I 
first saw a bed of strawberries. Thev 
were the famous Wilson variety, and but a 
few years after they were first introduced. 
This wonderful strawberry was the topic 
of conversation, large and sour, but very 
firm; nothing like it in this respect has 
since appeared. When we finished our 
contract I was more than surprised to find 
1 stood highest among the many pickers. 
I had picked more than i,ioo baskets, for 
