Show 1 N MARY y y I 1 SUCCEEDS I 1 ON I 1 I 1 MAIN STREET SM ET 0 0 0 0 by LAURA MILLER A y 0 by laura miller KEEPING THE KIDS ON THE FARM out near Chicka shaw okla therell a little lettla station and ana by this time hiob p ob ably a post office called lyle nearby are three lyle children on the acre farm who show no enthus tm for learning leaming to become white collared city folks biks the story runs like alko this there boia tennessee farm boy who did things just like dad and stayed just as poor as dad was there was a girl an orphan who grow grew up being waited on in tier her sisters home then the girls father asked her to join him on a texas ranch it was 21 miles from town she laughs in retrospect and I 1 had to cook or starve and keep a nice house or live lire in filth by and by the boy and girl became mr and mrs bob lyle and tried farming fanning on a bis scale in oklahoma but we liked to work our fool selves to death recalls bob and alno ine months of the year I 1 was kept busy feeding 20 farm fann hands and baling the hay bay crop says hla his wife and when the bottom dropped out of the tiny hay market aud and the war took all our labor we decided wed wad let the hogs bogs do the baling and save me ma the cooking I 1 at one time they made a record shipment of 28 cars filled with 2250 head bead of bogs they brought and the lyles felt proud until they happened on it a sale of pure bred hogs hogi where 60 50 head sold for more than then and there the lyles discarded all faith in old fashioned methods they substituted highbred high bred pigs and treated them with the consideration side rution due to breeding that succeeding financially to Is evidenced by the fact act that three sales last year netted 7 oOOO mrs lyle Is the business manager of the firm carrying all correspondence keeping the books working up pedigrees pedigreed grees which for human folks had always fascinated her and doing some clever advertising atthe at the fabra where lyle pigs are carrying oft off prizes theres a funny booklet always for distribution trib ution it ta Is called pig tales and the long braids of f hair on four girls spell out leave aitto it to lyle 11 in side are scraps of mr air lyles humorous philosophy turned into sales ar arguments and tho the little lyles each one had a pure bred pig sold him or lier her on interest at the end of the year they sold enough pork on the hoot hoof to pay off their notes and start them in a business that at the end af five years their mother estlin estimates ates should give each the equivalent of pigs worth 75 each achl I 1 I 1 |