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Show SAY THAT PLUCK IS ; NECESSITYDN FARM Many Men and Women Tire of Life and Conditions in ! City Work. I EXPERIENCE IS GIVEN Former Urbanites Tell How They Make Success of Rural Existence, ! ' Can a man trained to the ways and j conditions of the city and totally -with- , out experience on the farm go out on ! : the land and make a good living for j himself and his family? I This question is causing a lot of worry wor-ry to men and women in Salt Lake and ! other cities throughout the nation. They j are tired of city life, city work and ! city conditions and waut to get back to j the soil, where they believe life worth lilving. But they are timid, just a Ht-; Ht-; tie nervous as to thb possible outcome of such a venture, and are giving the ' subject many hours of serious thought. The answer to the question, of course, depends upon the individual. Some ; ; have ventured and failed; others have 1 ventured and succeeded. Work aud ' pluck mean an affirmative answer; in-i in-i difference and lack of courage frequently frequent-ly furnish ample grounds for a negative reply. That success has crowned the efforts of those who went about the new life with a will is indicated in the following fol-lowing experiences gleaned from various vari-ous sources: Experience No. 1. I live on a thirty-six acre farm and make $1000 clear every year. I see nothing hard about handling cows and chickens. My four cows and fifty chickens bring in $280, besides the vegetables and fruit. When I lived in town I made $2.50 a day; I worked like a slave every day. ' "When Saturday came every dollar was called for. When the end of the year arrived I had not ; a dollar saved. On a farm I work lit- tie more than half of the time and put away clear $1000 a year. In town I could not clear anything. A letter from an Ogden man. Experience No. 2. Two years ago this month I quit a position paying me $110 per month and all my expenses paid. I did not like the idea of being dictated to, so came out on a farm, or rather piece of sage brush land. This month will cut fifty acres wheat, which will run over twenty bushels per acre: ten acres barley, about same. Just cut twelve acres rye for hay and will realize more out of this than my former position netted me. Here I work when I feel like it. No one can dictate what shall be done or when, consequently, am independent. This fall will have 115 acres under crop, which will put the farm on a good paying basis, unforeseen misfortune excepted of course. Why men worry their lives away making money for others is more than I can see, and the sooner they break away from the "pay check" gang the better off they will be. All that is needed is small capital, an inclination to do a little lit-tle hard work to get a start and the rost is easy. Yours very truly, G. A. HAAGEN, 7-22-16 Park Valley, Utah. Experience No. 3. I have had both experiences farming farm-ing and city life. I lived in the city very nearly all my life, and was a fireman fire-man on a railroad during the last ten years I was in the city. I was let out during a strike and went to the harvest fields of Minnesota with $100 in my pocket and began working on a farm. I worked two years and saved $500. I went into debt $700 to buy some land and today am worth $15,000, which my wife and I have made together out of the farm, and we never in all our city life enjoyed, living as well as we have in I the last ten years. A letter from a Blue Earth, Minn., man. Experience No. 4. I worked on a farm of my own for twenty-four years. By that time I was was all run down in health, and dis- couraged. so I moved to town. In ten years I had a house and lot paid for: gave $1200 to my children, and had paid for an automobile. I am feeling a Jot better than I did when I left the farm. Farmers must do their own work and expose themselves to so much bad weather that it wilf kill them in time unless they are very stout and robust fellows. A letter from a Shipshewana, Ind., man. Experience No. 5.' I have lived twenty-five years in cities, and this is my third time back to the farm, and if 1 have anything to say about it, this time I am going to stay. I had a good trade and made good wages in the city, but we couldn't save anything. "Whether we get less out of life than the city people get depends on the mental men-tal attitude. If a man is out of debt, getting along fairly well, and is satisfied with conditions in the country he gets more out of life than the city man gets. A letter from a Young, Ariz., man. . Experience No. 6. Nine years ago we were living in a city and I 'was making $75 a month. The conditions of work didn't agree with me and we moved out on the farm. The first year was hard; we missed that $75 check every month, but we had sense enough to pick out a sideline, and since then we have done much better in the country than in the city. We started a home canner outfit, with which we put up thousands of cans of tomatoes, snap beans, blackberries, strawberries, peaches, pears, apples, corn, etc., everv vear. P. C. H., North" Carolina. |