Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1916 — PROGRESSIVE FARMING. [ARTICLE]

PROGRESSIVE FARMING.

“Well, yes,” confessed honest Farmer Hornbeak, the while a grim grin wrinkled his weather-beaten complexion. “It’s a good ’eal o’ trouble, but the satisfaction I feel amply repays me for the extry work. Ye see, by degrees I’m sharpenin’ up the top of every stump on the place, and In the course o’ time I hope to have mattera so arranged that the hired man will find It fully as comfortable to stand up durin’ the day as to sot down.”