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When she took hold of things the place was dreadfully mortgaged, and she's paid off every dollar; but, for chance, stock-markets aren't in it with farming. Isn't that a pretty old desk? I could sell lots of this furniture for them and get big money for it, but I don't dare say so. They never talk money here.
Farming was the only occupation at which Grant could hope to make a living, but he soon found that he did not know enough about this to make a success of it, and gradually fell back on his youthful experience as a teamster, hauling wood to the city where he sold it to the railroad or to anyone that would buy.
We estimate we have driven twelve miles; started from the school at 7 A.M. The first three or four miles over a beautiful farming country; then we began climbing the foothills, up, up, up, four miles, reaching first snow at three o'clock." True to promise, the mountaineer's team met us on the way to Meacham, but not till we had reached the snow.
But what sort of farming are we to expect from such corporations as we find in the city of Rome? What skill or capital have a brotherhood of lazy monks, to enable them to cultivate their lands? What enterprise or interest have a sisterhood of nuns to farm their property? They know they shall have their lifetime of it, and that is all they care for.
If, however, the shoemaker was tired of his group, and could be spared, he took his hoe and rake, and went into some group in the Farming Series for a change of occupation; the hours he spent there were put to his credit on the book of the group in which he labored in that series.
There had been exploration, however, to the westward, in the State of Sonora, and in 1896, a tract of 110,000 acres was acquired on the Babispe River. There was established Colonia Oaxaca. The land was mainly valuable for grazing, but some good farming land was along the river.
He thinks he could take an interest in farming. There are ten weeks before he need go back to Cambridge, sufficient time for the experiment. Will you take him as a pupil?" St. Leonard grasped his head between his hands and held it firmly. "If I consent," he said, "I must insist on being honest" I saw the woefulness again in Janie's eyes. "I think," I said, "it is my turn to be honest.
I had a mind to see something of this world, and I ran away from home before I was twelve. Rustled for myself ever since." "Ran away?" Johnny looked hopeful. "What for?" "Couldn't make it go with my old man, and didn't take to farming. There were plenty of boys at home. I wasn't missed." Thea wriggled down in the hot sand and rested her chin on her arm.
"In the bailiff's cottage on the Longmere estate, which will come to Jimmy some day. Jimmy is going to take an interest in farming. So long as it isn't his own farm, his mother thinks that won't hurt." Josephine laughed softly. "A bright old lady, his mother, I should think." "Well, she has had the good sense to realise at last that I am the only person likely to keep Jimmy out of mischief.
They're afraid of 'em.... I'd like to sell every acre I've got here and buy land miles and miles of it that hasn't been farmed before. I'd show them what farming is if you bring brains to it." "I see. You could do that." "Could I? The land's entailed. I can't sell it away from my son. And he'll never do anything with it." "Aren't there other things you could have done?"
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