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Home Made Living.‘•Hello, John.”‘‘Howdy, Amos.”\ou have brought some more pork to town.”“Yes L killed eleven today that aggregated 2300 pounds.“day, John can you make any money teed 1 ng hogs here?”“Well, 1 think X can. If I hadn’t raised hogs tnis year 1 would have Deeu in the hole.”“Wtiai can you make, clear, on teediug hogs?”VYeti, now, 1 have it all ligured out lor you, and the cotton too. i raised and lattened 18 head this year; tuey made 4000 pounds, 1 sold part and will keep part. 1 got o cents, it is ail worth $202.50. 1 raised and fattenedthem on 285 bushels of corn, worth $75, and cleared $127.50. 1 raised Inuales oi cotton, sold it at au average ot 4j cents, it brought me $337.00. X paid $ltilt;j to have it picked and ginned, $(K) lor a hand to help me work it, and taking out the rent, which is mo5. i have left $1,}, for my work in making and hauling oil the crop, my black, smith bill, chewing and smoking as wen as other articles i bought, ilow many liali pints do you think i oouiu get out oi that? Now, this is a jair count, Amos, lor i haven't added in any thing but what 1 paid out of cotton money. Suppose i had been buying my provisions, a.- some do. And my cloohiug would still have been short. I telf you the people oi this country will go further down yet il they bang to cotton, and don’t try tolive at home.”John Garvin is a well-to-do farmeron the weii known Salt creek. He lurnishes Montague with all the uieathe can spare uuu is about the onlyman whu brings meat to this town, lie never has any trouble in sellingi ail he brings, ii more people wouldraise plenty oi meat, they neednottear its spoiling.—Montague Sequel.
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Decatur Wise County Messenger
Decatur, Texas, US
Fri, Apr 15, 1898
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