The Men Who Make Farming Pay.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3102, 12 January 1889, Page 2

The Men Who Make Farming Pay.

Upon the question of men who' have had no previous experience in farming,making a success of the', cultivation of small tracts, it is only necessary to point to hundreds of instances in the. State to prove "the fallacy of the" assertion that such a thing is not possible. Take two coming here from the cast—one an<9 old farmer, the other a niau : who cannot run a straight furrow to save his life. The farmer has to get rid of all his preconceived notions about farming, and finds that he has about as much to unlearn about the proper methods of cultivating tho soil in California. He is continually follow- \ ing his easternideas, not taking heed . -! of what he sees about him, and then . ia constantly doing the wrong thing' at the wrong time. On the other hand, tha newcomer without experience in farming has everything to learn. He naturally goes to his neighbours who have been here the longest for information,, imd, having no early education to forget, he achieves success in a very short time.. The most successful raisin and orange-growers in . the colony settlement of California to-day are exteachers, ex-creditors, and ex-every-thing except eastern farmers.. They have put their brains to work on the' problem of successful fruit-growing, just as they would upon any business and it is an insult to i human .intelligence to say :that any t man with average mental capacity cannot learn the "trade"of cultivating twenty aores just as quiokly ; as he can any other business. So . no one need be. deterred from trying ■! the twenty-acre experiment .either, because forsooth he was .not born of brought up on a farm. ?By-parity of reasoning a man; should not embark', say, in a railroad. bushiesa; unleaa he , were bom in a car, and by the eide of the track. of ordinary intelligence - can the details in a year -or two sufficiently to'form one more member of the constantly increasing Ualifornian ' army which is demonstrating that "- twenty acres of land, well ..tilled, will support a family in comfort and even luxury*—Cultivator, ,

3 An American "'Claimant." t A ca3o witli a story in it is on trial 3 in Pulaski, New I'ork, and the correa-'" j pondent of tbe New York Tinies tells 1 it thus : r Mollie Schroeppel, in 1851, was a c handsome and accomplished young ■ woman, Among her admirers waß t George 0, Pennell, a son of Dr 1 Richard Pennell, of Brooklyn, The ! girl and yonng Pennell were first cousins. The young fellow ' was . accustomed to spend part of-his 1 summers at the Schroeppel farm, and ( he and Mollie fell in love with' each [ other, In 1851 Mollie paid a visit to i Dr Pennell's house in Brooklyn. . George was attending Columbia Col- , lege at the titno, but found a few leisure hours to devote to Mollie.' i Finally, Dr Pennell thought he dis- ; covered signs of foolishness in' his i son, and sternly forbade him to look ■ for a wife in. Mollie; The advice was apparently lost on tho young man, for . on May 10, 1852, the young couple were married by the. Rev* J.B, WJ Wood, then pastor of the Sands streetS Methodist Church, Mr Wood is still' alive, He deposed to having kept a memorandum of marriages performed by him. The memorandum of the marriijjo is to to the effect that" he is a Columbia College student, she a vieitor at his father's house, both in blooming health, and there was no reason to defer the marriage." The youthful pair secured lodging in Houstonstreet under tho name of Crosby. On Juno 21,1852, Mrs Pennell gave birth to a male child,. Dr Pennell' learned of the miirriage, and, calling at the Houston-street hoine; t6ok the' child from its mother ahufUve it in' ohnrge of a family named Mod, who lived in Fnlton-street, He told the mother and his son that their offspring was dead. The young mother goesto her old, homo, and keeps her.. secret, She wrote her,story and placed it in a sealed envelopo directed to her mother. The latter, in 1860, upon reading the letter, determines to look for her daughters child who she thinks may not have died, Dr Pennell had placed the child with the Fulton family, and named it Robert Fulton Crosby, He soon afterwards put it in charge of Raphael Reozand his wifi, : who lived on'tho outskirts of Brooklyn, He ordered-that he should ; be written to-giving his address—if he failed to pay eight dollars a month for the child's care, • Benz, who is now a'very old man, states that the child, who was secured by Mrs Anna Schroeppel was the. child given to him by Dr Pennell, A number of other witnesses tell a similar^.•story, and this child they identify as the man who now calls himself Robert Fulton Crosby Pennell, Mollie Scbroeppel's husbapd did pot follow her example of celibacy, fle married a young lady of Newark, N. J,, where ho. was rector of a fashionable church, Ho afterwards became rector of /Trinity Church, New.York. Ha died ' ; several yeara ago at ! Dea^wo'6d/p,T, ! , ' : . and; the story told by the claimant's '.. counsel is. that the Rev M Pehnel} : practioally;reiired from active 'church;-. J work as soon.'as ho heard of the claim; ■: set MbllitJ tijisjiroepers niofcher belieVed th eVJ;. cla f tii'&nt j " to ibe Jiei' ; daughlerjs-: fcbii the'riß'Snotany,dduo,t; ; !; Sliebrpuglit old home,' aiid when/she died she left him her daughters pro« •