Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1899 — The Farm Beats the Mortgage. [ARTICLE]

The Farm Beats the Mortgage.

There is a story from Buffalo County going the rounds that illustrates the resources of a Nebraska farm: A farmer up there from Missouri got discouraged because he didn’t get rich the first year, and, as there was a mortgage of S7OO on his farm, was about ready to jump the whole business, but determined to make one more effort and sowed eighty acres in wheat. It happened to be a poor year for wheat and the stand was not very good. Concluding that it wasn’t worth harvesting he pulled up his stakes and- moseyed back to Missouri, leaving the farm to fight the mortgage all by itself. The farm was equal to the occasion. The wheat ripened, fell down and deposited the seed in the soil again. Next spring the wheat began to grow lustily. Some of the neighbors were honest enough to write about it down to the fugitive in Missouri, and he got interested enough to come back and take a look. Then he stopped and harvested his voluntary crop. He sold it for enough to pay off the mortgage and the rest of his debts and had a tidy little surplus over, with which he moved his family back and now declares there is no State like Nebraska. —Lincoln (Neb.) Journal.