Show 1 Bill Dm Jones' Jones Luck By Dy N. N B. B Dresser Bill Bm Jones Jones' farm Carm Is next t to mine w wn Wit bought four years ago He's Hes ben luck has Bill DUl since ho he moved mo hero from Idaho I work as hard as lucky Bill BUl but things dont don't come my wa way And If U luck doesn't change for me Im I'm going to move away The first year Bill Bm got In his grain three weeks ahead of mine mino Wo We Irrigated both our farms In June the crops looked fine Then came the tho pesky weeds tumble-weeds but Bill he ho dont don't complain He lie cuts before the weeds got big the tho weeds take most m my grain That fall Bill sowed alfalfa and wheat and got a splendid yield I was too late and sowed towed in spring the rust took half hal my field Bills Bill's field of alfalfa is as good as you will wilt see And though Ive I've tried to raise the stuff it wont won't come up UI for me mo I 1 think they stuck me mo for In my land laud there is to much alkali Or something's wrong for crops wont won't come como no matter maLler how I try Ive I've trouble getting geLting water too Bill Dill says to much I use lise But when Ive I've paid for water I 1 am going to have my dues Bill DUl is expensive in his tastes he lie bought some pure bred sows sews And then invested quite quito a bit in two young Holstein cows Last spring he ho sold a bunch of pigs just when the price was high His Ills cows and hens good profits pay lay but darned If I see why For I have pigs and cows and hens hens hens- I bought them thEn all quite cheap cheal Bills Bill's sows raise litters twice my size my cows scarce pay their keep keel My ly hens liens lay fino just in tho the spring when eggs are worth a song Dills Bills start to la lay late in iii the fall and lay all winter long Dill Bill takes tales advice from this man Welch and bulletins ho lie reads J I dont don't believe this college stuff is what the farmer needs Ive I've been a farmer forty Corty years 1 I know It from A to Z The rhe good old way my father farmed is good enough for me mo Then see sec our frightful roads why aint they fixed Id I'd like to know I pay my poll tax every year ear what have I got to show Sill dill like a fool spent two vo da days s 's with scraper team and plow To ro fix the road along his farm its good I will allow iud then drags it when whon it rains he hc s says ys it dent doul take lake long md that a little work will wilt keep the roads hero smooth and strong Ic Ie says my poll tax lax will not do much to plow or scrape or grade Jut hit lIt darned if Ill I'll work on the road unless Im I'm Cull fully paid laid Jut lut tho the farmer gets gels it in the neck at every turn he ho makes he trusts gouge him on the wy he lie buys bus the buyer the tho profit takes lie ho farmers farmer's Union Bill Dill has bas joined hes he's boosting for It strong ie thinks each farmer ought to join and help hell the move along Ie says the farmers If they will wilt can bust the trusts sky nigh Jan an fix the price o of what they sell and what they have to buy Jut I 1 think farmers ne er can cooperate cooperate cooperate co co- co- co operate as they should 10 o I wont won't join the Union I think it itis itis itis is no good ts ta just a scheme to get some cash and anti give some man a job jobo o 0 work the farmer Canner for Cor a while and get a chance to rob The rhe farmers are suspicious and never will wilt unite if they got a Union Jn itt a cur r they'll start to night f I was lucky like Bill Bm Jones Joncs in Millard I might stay I Jut lut everything i Is wrong down dOYn h here re I think Ill I'll move away Dway f I can sell my farm n next t fall Call I 1 believe that I will go goi io 0 i where a man has has' be better ter luck perhaps in Idaho |