Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — Poultry Raisin Mortgages. [ARTICLE]

Poultry Raisin Mortgages.

A Maine woman tells how she lifted a SSOO mortgage from her home by gardening and poultry raising. She had common chickens, and sold eggs and market poultry. She had five SIOO notes to meet, paying off one note each year with interest. At the end of live years she had her home cleared and money In the hank. Besides she had made various improvements djuring this time, schooled and clothed her children, paid taxes and insurance, etc. She said she made up her mind to succeed, and she did, although her friends advised her at the start to “let her home go for what she could get for it,” as she would never he able to pay off “that big mortgage.” This is hut one of many instance where fowls have proved themselves mortgage lifters. Of course this woman had the advantage of a garden; besides, she did sewing and other work. But it goes to show that poultry culture, rightly understood and followed, is a great help in replenishing one’s purse in time of need. What this woman did can be done by anybody who has the will.