Show V New Jerseys Ioy FrnerV Elmer MIxner of Bcebe Run near Shl loh N 7 is 12 years old > and the pro mletor of a largo and flourishing farm of forty acres There he raises prize Jerseys Jer-seys gathers the fruit from a fine apple poach and pear orchard and looks after a wellstocked barnyard and dairy > One of young Mlxncrs cows has just carried off a 1000 prize that was tried for who were veteran fanners by many 1 obliged to yield the palm to the boy com petitor Elmers farm was stiirlod wllli ono I thoroughbred Jersey cow and her calf Mr Mixner Tineo years ago this spring presented his son with the valuable Jersey and told blip he could bank the proceeds he tecclvcd from her milk and put the calf up for sale If he wished Young I iMlxper soon stalled an extensive milk route and as pa > mont was prompt It was not many weeks before the bank account ac-count was opened and the capital soon reached three flgiirufi The calf brought a good round sum but before aho was sold Elmer had bought a number of chickens and was holllii ergs 1il r he drove home two cows and a hull which ho had bought from a Shiloh farina far-ina I and so the farm was started Adjoining his homo was a number of acres of rich muodoxv lard which only needed cultivation to bo 1 made to yieM l rich harvests Mr Mlxncr sold his sQn these forty acres on easy terms The boy had a now barn built on the best approved hygienic plans and he advertised = ad-vertised for farm hands of experience Then he tool in the lay of the land and soon had the rations Holds marked out He supei Intended the hoeing and plough lug and planting and he worked with a will In the I Held or barn rising with the film and going to bod 1 a Ural but happy lad when the chlckena wont to loost That was In May 1IHI and in June the residents + of Beebe Run and Shiloh worn buying onions and giving orders for radIshes rad-ishes to the young farmer Next canto In July his pias orders for which exceeded the supply Jn J August he gathered t corn I lima beans and tomatoes all of which found a read sale On the acres wore several groves of fruit I trees which had boon neglected As soon us L bought the farm 1 secured a man to prune and graft those been tho young farmer remarked when showing his visitor over the place f know that the now Trees l T had Just planted would not hear fruit for sevcml years and i wanted to get my apples and poaches ii market that year I llnd a ready market for butter erl sand s-and milk and 1 cannot supply the demand for green stuff Fruit in plentiful In Becbo so I am going to send my peaches and micas to the Philadelphia markets Tho apples wo two ourselves on the farm with the exception 1 of about four barrels which 1 sell to a neighbor Last summer was a very 1 profitable I one Almost all tho stock proved healthy and the milk route became PO extensive that I had lo engage two boys regularly to help me 1e I get up at 01 1 oclock all the year round and hustle out with tho milk wagons and In winter limo are back for breakfast at S at the latent and that gives ua plenty of Lima to be In school by 0 Last spring I planted asparagus and to strawberries In addition to my other cropH These 1 also tent largely to Philadelphia Phila-delphia although thoy would have fount a ready sale In Shiloh Iast J Thanksgiving and Christmas t T made a pile of monoy on my turkeys and rhlokens Every one said to mo Oh dont trv < II o raise turkeys they will rent you nv o iror r and tlno thon thev will I wi lin t + is tt I hnl di I rldcd to trI I I II tr-I It p < I + t i iii 1 111 e fat In the most satisfactory manner Whether last year happened to be an especially es-pecially good year for turkeys or nOl I do not know but anyhow f cleared 7J on to double the my first flock and Im going number next year My chickens are fine Many of them have carried off prizes for breed and size l I have 100 pure white ones most of thorn show chickens Ve are now getting ready for bus > times on tho farms J want to plant over twice the quantity of every vegetable this year and that means a lot of work Planting Is a cinch though compared with harvesting and haying Thats whun a fellows hack aches mid he has to keep I his mind on tho coining1 dollars else hes off to the cool fish pond and the farm I suffers |