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Show M J "A JUICY BIT" j 1'rof. 1'iniik II. Arnold nt ono tlmo 1i j '"rcta editorials for this paper. Tho ( professor was known on nitwi occa i slons to charastiUo striking para j J graphs as "a i'llcy bit " Wo have Just road a "Juicy bit" from tho pen of Professor Arnold In tho Farm and I Real Estuto Journal on, Well Direct- 'I d Leisure. It is well written and -:; : , Is a good lesson to all salarlod peo- IJj pie. Wo fool llko Saying to nil such I ( "go thou and do llkowlso." l Tho profossor's articlo fpllows: W, My purchaso two yonra ago qt a m -i ' ten ncro tract of land Just outsldo of m, i) I tho town whoro I wbb teaching work W i ' ed a wondorful cliongo In my Hfo. sB Apart from my monetary exultation f(i over tho promotion lo virility that the M I first ownerc'ilp of land glvos a man OS A ' mi exultation far greater than that JKr H . f.'U at tho acquisition of nny other Z U JstfKL '"' of propei ty there came to mo oa I worked on my land sober, serious ser-ious joys that I had nover beforo dreamed of. Tho first was that of increased nm-our nm-our propro and Belt reliance. Until then I had been a man on n salary llko so many others. Now I becamo n tax payer. I had a definite corner of tho world In which to abldo, It I so desired, and I had tho basis for an Increase to my lncomo which would depend mainly on my own lnl tiatlvo. I bad a chance to get free from tho scrvllo ,dependonco on art employer which Is more or less felt by overy salaried man and Is far from bolng tho noblest clement In his character. My land cost mo ?80 an ncro. That was cheap considering Its nearness lo town nnd the fnct that good farm land was bringing from $1G0 to ?200. My purchaso prlco wns low because tho soil was in pockets and crossed hero nnd thoro by ridges of looao stono. No ono had over seen any agricultural possibilities In that cor. ner though tho proceeding owner had cleared four ncres and I planted it to alfalfa. "Apples will do better thoro than anything else, though It Is not ideal boII for an orchard" was tho general opinion of agricultural acquaintances whom 1 consulted and t have Immediately began to resolve thai I would turn my Btony ncres Into In-to a vnlunblo applo orchard. Tho first year I had four, acres plowed and planted to Gauo apple trees and ns I hired tho work done I soon learned that the eyo of tho mnster must bo over supervising, or ills hand must be at work, If ho wants a. thing well done. My treo holes wero not dug deep enough and the trees wero not pruned as thoy should bavo been, had I been able to bo on hand alt tho time. From then on I resolved to devoto my spare tlmo to work on my land. No moro tennis or golf for mo. In the enre of my ucres I had plenty of moro profitable nnd fully enjoyablo exerclso always waiting for mo. My 300 trees were In constant need of attention. Every month I wont over them with tho grubbing boo nnd then, too, there wns tho nover ending job of getting tho looso stones picked up. Good poultry men say It Isn't bo much special spe-cial breeds that make poultry profitable prof-itable ns It is tho amount of love and caro that fowls receive. Tho same rule applies to anything that grows, whether trees or fowls. I had n rocky piece of land hut my trees all got n good start for I watched over them llko a parent and could een lzunlizo In my dreams tho special form of each Individual treo. And ns I worked among my trees the thought, that carao most often of-ten Into my mind was flits: "How foolish I have beon to spend so much of tho leisure of my ySth and mid-dlo mid-dlo ago In seeking, 'exerclso in outdoor out-door games. Here Is a healthy exercise ex-ercise that Is moro fun to mo' than tiny gnmo, for I know that It Is to bring mo money returns In Increased vnluo of my lnnd nnd as for oxorclso It bents golf. It takes moro forco to swing a grubbing hoo than a driver and tho movement may bo made Just as firm, effective and gracoful as any motion of the body Involved In nny game." And as I would pick up tho largo rocks botwoen the trocs and carry thorn to their respectable plh's I would throw back shoulders and poising one in each hand think of Rodin's statues. It was a propostev-oub propostev-oub but pleasunt thought. 1 havo had my land now long enough to got or to scent results. havo six ncres of healthy, woll prim-od prim-od trees nnd four ncres of alfalfa. Tho land would easily bring $200 an n..ro nnd has thus moro than doubled dou-bled In value and tho growth of tho trees ncqulros an added valuo each year. I havo somo rock piles that I Intend to convert into a bungalow In a yoar or two. And best of all, I havo learned that onb of tho so-crots so-crots of ncqutrlng property Is to innko ptofltablo uso of tho leisure tlmo. Tennis would nover havo civ en mo tho material nnd mental Bat-(tactions Bat-(tactions that I havo found In my orchurd nnd I nm now looking fur-ward fur-ward to tho day whon my avocation may outstrip my vocation. Jeering friends, who ouco naked mo why I did not buy somo soil with my rocks uro beginning to survey respectfully my shapely trees and my neat piles of potential stones, but of tho Inner satisfaction that I foel, "Lord what do they understand." Tho profltablo employment of leisure lei-sure Is a secrot that overy man mu3l work out for tilmself and ono fbnt only tho thrifty ambitious fully understand un-derstand and will acquire by experience. experi-ence. ' |