A MAN WTH GRIT.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12468, 18 February 1909, Page 4

A MAN WTH GRIT.

... There. \is / rat-.leastjjonei; farmer;, in I Eiveriria,,- whor ; has -solved ■ the, labour ; problem for himself (says, the "Syd- . ney Morning ..Herald."). In the last , dry season -he had 325 acres of land I under -\Vheat, and lii cropping :- and • harvesting; he did not employ a Bin- ; gle hand...' .His only assistant was a son, a lad of about 14 years of age. ' Unfortunately for his grit in facing , an uphill task, he had but ft poor ; harvest to gather in. After his - seod had been provided lor, he had i little or nothing left for himself, and > his splendidly courageous industrial ; effort was practically barren of "re- ■ suit. But the man who cheerfully undertakes the task of cultivating * over 300 acres of land without help 3 is not likely to be deterred by even '= such a discouraging experience as J ihis. In the following ' year — still I wM Jlo assistance but that of the \ boy— he tilled and harvested 425 r seres, which yielded an- average of s ! 20 ! bushels per acre. He thus gare iiered a harvest of 8500 bushels, and" 0 Roared pyer- £IOOO, after; paying all ®', charges incidental to the'" marketing ;oi-;his grain, provided for seed, and j Vther expenses. . .