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Saturday, September 9, 1916 - (5) 1077 SOLVING THE LANDLORD AND TEN ANT: PROBLEM Prize-winning Letters From Progressive Farmer Readers HOW A TENANT SUCCEEDED' ' general rule of 7thc average .landlord.. A JHOUGHTFGL TENANT'S AP- then the tenant can :raise legumes l : - : V ' ' Then my yes ivere opened, and-I - PEAL TO LANDLORDS and other feeds which will enable " v ' .fc, x' - n saw at once why landlords' generally , , him. to raise more and better stock l.-,.4 Tn Years Ago With One .v : r . ' ' - . -t. . . T . cstarled ten icars vyhu vub . cn . . tponfc crv nnrt- un-. Good Health and -a Good - T - . it . -j.. auj Provide (1) Lonir Leases. Y2V Divide Wife-Now Owns, $00 .Acres-First -,j t ; . . fi ' Farm Into Fields, 6) Furnf.h CIov- er gave her a stove and; enough turn iture to.turnisn one rooia.. -Three days "after, I 'married I rent- which in; turn wilL enrich and;'.im prove the land. . . K . , .-"j- ' .'. T if7A -AirAiMr form nft miif: - w. ' r MVU .AW .a V A A I A A A A A A. A A V ' , A V t A A. A A V. A V. A. A A AA. A A A A A A A M L Ll.k . ...., ....,.....-., . -. . u.. n u . x ... t . - Prize i-euer - - ; i;- , -eluded it was .no use tokick up a fussv'.:," TiTJ- d H h6w- can .more. advantage ' T MARRIED -when. J was twenty-; . aboutr it it would ;dd no good; fcut ln bve ed for Next-rSecond ;e0usly worked if it is divided-into at. 1 four years old.- At.Hhe aiitie-the-,- next year we" would, adopt a diff eferit"-' rize. Leer. ' : . ; least four fields. A spirit of consider-;''- only thing :I; had' wa's if: horse" 'my-method.- ' - - ' pfeNANCV is ; often' "an ' evil. "Ten- ate cooperation between landlord'and fthPr nHU KlVCii tii-. -v, ,-. .... A.mXj. ,,ai,hh,u i. jf , .iijr .- -aiiv. y. uwu ytai iu veal lo - lllC v uiv, siuh -uu- i lanaiora l: iouncL tnat an oi my, cot- vgreatest evil.,- Long-term leases is! proviaing aneans ior using. -tne lana ton' was gone,-;and;,nearly'all of my" the first ;s,tep? toward the purchase of -to, the best advantage will, go far to- t corn, and that I was about as poor as "land "oh; : long-time payments : the ward helping each of them ..to share a . r '. . . ..... -T WU -wVl At. kT "Cfoftd. Rllf T .ixtoS Anil urno4-iti!n flta 1 1 A alr itl tJlA $0(1 mnrA fiPf VA!1 r ttl . 3 r4 ITAi j a one-horse tarm irom a ricn man -.'-" wbu, .u. " i. , ,ii.i. unuv,iouijj ux kiiv. muu uug - - " .v v, -v.ie)W ho lived at my county seat a city young arid vigorous; with a full de-.'. desired end; . - Southern farm can be made to pro- 1 wf bout 5000 inhaDitah'ts. '"fMy'Iand termination to succeed, . and'-L made ; 'I cannot see' how1 a person can rent . duce. If thereby the, tenant-can save' lord agreed to let me have the farm -a ,vow to overcome all" obstacles 1 land for. one year at a time and ever enough to buy a place of his own, he for 1000 pounds of lint cotton, and he in sPite of landlords and supply mer--'get a start. -1 : rented'; a: one-horse will be much better off and the com- h would buy from nie all - the' butter, chants, if my,' health would only hold farjri for one, year and got possession munity . benefited also. The - .South eees and vegetables, he needed, and.- . ' ' ' , " ' " January 1. 1 sowed some. oats as soon will never enjoy the prosperity and Promised to let it go on the rent.-j J " . Fpnately, I had .a good wheat , as possible; Some of - them were progressiveness of the Nth - and . gave him a rent' note, to the amount - aoa crop comirfg oh. and a half- .never cut; the others just about paid West until its people own the;land of 1000 pounds, lint cottony andthe grown .heifer calf, and my, wife' had a for the seed. I merely demonstrated they work, and the. man who. owns a?- next week I moved out on '.the farm, splendid winter garden,, with an in- the . oft-repeated t statement in The lar&e number of farms- which he Mv mothervahd- my wife's mother crea'se of .twenty -fourmore hens. .. Progressive Farmer that one cannot - rents-finds a. more profitable, invest- had given us between them a good . , . The next year T got-me a note' book .grow oats successfully unless they ment in manufacturing and ' commer- a ok nsnnH twn" meters a"a jottea down everything I sold are sowed in the-tall.- But a One- a enterprises. Mv landlord stood for-me atthe sup-; ahd bought, and I want to tell you : year tenant cannotsow-in the fall, so ply store for my supplies,"and I went . to work. . '. - That year my' wife, and Iworked harder than we had ever worked be- fore. She looked after the cow, the chickens and theflowers a'rfd .vegeta- y ble garden, while I looked; after the farm. At the end of the year I had ' supplied my landlord -with all the -butter, eggs, and vegetables that he needed. Besides-: that, t had v made . seven bale's of cotton which my wite and I had gathered'ourselveTs, and 200 bushels of corn and enough" fodder for the horset I planted ;no oats or wheat, on account of 'the -year being well advanced before I took posses sion of the farmu ' ' ' There was a ginnery near my place where my'- cotton was - ginned.- - My -landlord demanded the -first bale of. cotton I had ginned, and-1 1 turned 'it over to him. In fact, I trusted him so absolutely and-confidently that I turned all the seven bales over to - . . s - 4 . .' ' him, thinking that-he would trea't me every, farmer ought,.tpr know what . a V he- cannot- raise oafs. i: Neither caiv he rigiii. Aias i i very soon iounu out v . mm. .i. vvi,n .vukuu. TWO. WA;YS TO RENT . f-M AOM' Brown . is gointd move agin and (so also is Brother Ben! It , I seems they're never, satisfied,; but always are content to slide to" move about ifrom place to place a sore spot to the human race. They never work for better schools, they always farm with broken. tools; they scratch the land an Wake It pore an cuss their luck W rip an roar an' dance - about an' talk4 like sin n' then they go an move . agin. They never rent for more'n a year it seems as if they kinder fear they'll meet up with some, ' fancy 'gent who'll make, 'em rich-or President! 'S'-S W--' r ': ' Now : Brother John's a different sort you never hear him rare and snort. . He's always gentle as. a Tamjr-al ways serene an' cool an' ca'm. When be rents land heroes it right he 'says he never lives to 'fight therefore he. makes a contract strong, one broad an' deep an' good anV long -7 one - that will Jhold as tight as glue an'- keep both parties straight and true. This saves him -trouble very day; it shows exactly -what's to pay. ,1 Vlieve that Brother John U right an' when I reach my home tonight, I'm goin' to write a few things down some things ' I know are good an' sound an' when my landlord comes agin, I'll spring these principles on him! H. " ' : ... . r : 1 . t ! .V.. . L know one man who is -doing-a most commendable thing in clearing, - fencing and improving his '. woodland 7 and then giving, a tenant -two -years freerent, for cultivating .the land andv ' an. option to purchase at the end of ,the:two years at a reasonable price. I ,V .have known men to contract for land .' which would take, them fifteen years. ; to. pay put, yet they have made good. ',It was long, uphill work, yet today : . they are some of the wealthy farm owning and farm-working "nen of their communities -i - Less moving and, more improving : will' make better tenants and even-, tually make the tenant the land own-' 'er,- ; - J. M; OWEN: ' -' -Tifton, Ga:, R. F. D. 1. 1 ,i Y' " ' ' 1 1 ' ' ' i" " ' '' : . "English Laws Protecting Landlord and Tenant , THE present laws in England and r Scotland, differing in details but identical in principle, say to the ten; ant: . You must not sell straw or . mangels or turnips, but must feed a 1 . . j 1 - t i . i . . - .irr-11 Tn ncr roriirn rr r n a linn 1 n PAtriA time I went to "him tondue i the 19th of the following"Qc- cross fences? or cultivated pastures.' ;?fm the manurial value of the grain Beine- vniiniy and tober, and instead f ot. going,. to , nim- mereiore a tenant cannot raise nogs riv V1 hnttpr. ee-p-s. cniCK- or catne ana turn inem into a neia ;uu unuvt uuv, how my landlord dealt with his ten pf debt.. I had given my landlord a , There is hardly one rented tarm in .cu.j iiviuck.A; ,you sen gram, ants. At Christmas fcr a settlement frtr.1i.v. T t,j aj j that vpar with mv lw"au udu mauc rctoru or . " ...... ..f;.y ,. ... . , v - - , . -,rA.eof U, Tf ,. k..AA.. price of the butter, eggs and vege- ens -and . vegetables, 1 peddled them , until an or tne tarm crops are jreaay X:o"""" tables I had turned over to mVlahd-ou lord. I had left the entire transact-7 Jot them. ; In this way I managed to a tenant, eitner.must raise-tne poor- - .a ion with him. . At th was bringing on an average $40 per bale, and, when :T;Wf landlord for thr nt cald This second year proved to be a A tenant does' not get possession in that I owed him a bale and a half of Sod crop year, and I made ten bales time to prepare"" the ground and sow cotton, stating- that he had never cotton, 50 bushels ot corn, iuu any cover , crop to be plowed under i i. ' . - ."(.. : . ,u..ui f a4. nA oc t..ot-Ai. nt r t i.:i:Ar ... i t. t nvPay Vcash for : most of my supplies,, est kind of piney wbods stock in the asdetermmed bye chemist. If the leraof about and at the end of the year Lonly, woods or fione at all excepting such landlord raises the rent onyou.be- . n I went to mv 'owed $40 for supplies, and my rent. - as are. hand-fed. ;u , cause of any fertility you have ad-, n i went io my rv . . , j ' J".,-. " . . v . . r . . ded. von can not onlv recover the val- ded, you. can not only recover the val ue ; of these unexhausted manures, . but you can sue him- for "disturb- , a.' i 'a . -L'l ; e : kept account of the actual amount ofushels.0 .oats; and 2 bushels, of; for fertilizer in the spring, so1 he oi butter, eggs and vegetables he had " wheat, besides a lot of potatoes, peas, , necessity plants corn, and cotton and curred iroueh the fsaSifie of ' bought from me, but he thought it and other truck.. I cleared that year buys; expensive commercial, fertiliz your. livestock b forced sale If vou ir.,.M . v . -Aa. ' 5AA ' ne. - ln tiff . ?tn .iriVsi inU . ttifltn ff.w ' Mrtf ac tin VUUI VC5WV,R Uy IOrtCU bale. II VOU "vuui amount "to aDOUt W, .anyway rw,0"u.mjlvlU4 6-"6 v , iw u.r.v(u.vm;6wnv .w. uu.., cannot aarep rennrt tn tKo Hnart- - he would ltt it D-n at tliat landlord's pocket it went into mine, sow velvet beans or cowpeas in his: "n"ot?FreeJ ?on- l? hf aepart- T c,iJ At.. v': T . ' Tac nict o-ttitio- A,it nf thP nlf. mt. ,nr Wliv ct-milr. V.P Kiiv cpoH nlant mcut v griCUllurc, , dllU iney. Will - ouau uuiiiing, out i was terriDiy ?;.r",-:. r - " , ".v'-" ."v " send a valuator or arbitrator who' is surpnsed, for I knew that the things I an,,. had given MrrirtiliAf:A .n ? The third year bought; an, extra difficulty only in order that another ta"" Ttn - C0Vntry : "v.v,i..vu v7rVi -v , -!..!. , . '. iarniine. ii vou are not satisnea witn $50. He told me at r the same time he tnat he had taken.up the.note I gave . year t0 the suoolv merchant, and that it. improve amounted to $360. - T wa tfrnndpr- farm ck, and detnanded He produced the bill, and the prices thaU kept on buyingland untH-now, tem, yet the picturenis, already too He ii.XWttW scu me ior corn and provisions J u lc" -iaA r ' - y R; au,uvYul66- i( ; f . -the- exoense flecessarv "arcordint? to were fearfulf lthoug decided to say : nothing; for .;I was ,the exception of S0;acres in woods v-should rent for several years if possi- bandTy'' in tenant Pmg down experience at; aTrapid lPT sliould ""l iil rate. -'V'v-Vv improved Cultivation. ,.. a erreater diversitv of rrnns fnr thir . .t. T- f,;.6 I soon left my landlord andwent ' So -youVcan see, I am-independent, land.s sake if for n0. other reason. uptown to SP,',innl.;K....i.i..- care-f ree--and haoov all because 1 T.,nWpre ct,rtM fnict. it r b &. fcV 4 WIia t 1 i . wwauiijr A - :-. ,-a A, a. ,;,! ."' -v : i ,vvv tion ot the land in permanent grass- w hen I asked him to let , nie "sec" my' would not stand for the old rut, and bean and COwpea seed to sow in the . es fd"r either meadow 6r oasture the bill he toll me that' my landlord, got put of it as fast.as I could And corn the first-year and thejl require: he had taVpn , t, Mt-'t. ... At! anV man ran pa? v do it if he has 11 ' !. .11 j.a? sv,oot me Dill. 1-lKe me mlx Liii. 1 vu iirii . i -. ' - uii aau a a l j l w a uiki i. . liiv.hi . 1111 nm-m mini i tm a v.. at Autt a mam mm r h . --7 w -? iiiiiiiiiiiuk 1 ii if i'iiii rs m iiriiiis4.iit-iii. ATX. JI different articles were purchased and n thehealth and strength. had paid cah for them; and that he"' " Madison, Ga. --acu nad added A the time price where they can be, grown and-save improvomenti, and the tenant' may . sufficient seed for- each, succeeding- nnt niw i.n Pvrnt.with tb rnn- 1 ii- year.,-If; the, landowner will furnish .sent 0f the landlord" Henry -Wal- ' - the fencincr material, most tenants' u V. c ueiween time; and cash prices: 1 don exactly: dismcener, motner," re- win build the fence necessary to di your teacher so, WI1- icrence between tim ?an rotK ,Vab : I don't exactly dlslll to himself v : 'A Ixr - PHed Willie, "but It's perfectly plain to me '"Keu, - which, he,saidr was the- why she neven got married Exchange. ' . S W . - - ' - ' ; vide the farmrintO Several fields 'and' r Skveybuf papel-siid get a binder.' it 'I'M s "4i, ?SI! '"!. k LI:!' m, m :3, :f ; 5' t ''Ci'l- i-
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