“After the cordwood has been removed, the slashing and burning of the rubbish and brush, leaving the ground free of everything except standing stumps, should not cost over $10.00 an acre. It is my own experience that it has not cost that much. Most of it I contracted at $7.50 an acre and on two different tracts the contractor made over $3 a day. The slashing should be burned in the fall whenever possible and a mixed pasture grass sown in the ashes before the heavy fall rains. No cultivation is necessary, as the light ashes make an ideal seed-bed and a heavy, rich pasture is assured the following season.”
PLAN No. 778. TAUGHT HIS WAY THROUGH COLLEGE
This young man was a school teacher, but became convinced that he would study law and wished to make it his profession. He had no money, was an excellent speaker, and enrolled in the university for one year to complete this course. At the end of the year his money was gone, and the next year he taught, and he continued in this way until he finished his university course.
While this is a hard method, every other year leaving the college and spending it teaching, yet he made his goal, and many a teacher can do the same.
PLAN No. 779. SOLD LAW BOOKS AND THUS PAID HIS UNIVERSITY EXPENSES
In every large university there is a good opportunity of purchasing books at a small price from the out-going classes, or the class at the end of each semester, and selling the books again to new students entering for the following semester.
This young man started to make his expenses in that manner. He bought books at a very small price and sold them at a very large price, and thus was able to build up a large book business at the university. He now has several rooms filled with books for incoming classes, and is in a position to give good advice as to the class of questions that may be asked from the various examinations in the different departments, as he keeps a carefully collected list of questions when the term starts. He has some of these typewritten and made into pamphlet form for sale. He also has a stenographer, who takes the lectures in the different classes so has them for sale to the students who are unable to take them down during their class work, or for those who have been inattentive.
PLAN No. 780. THE WAY HE MADE GOOD IN THE ASSESSOR’S OFFICE
It is generally conceded that one of the hardest offices to fill, is the office of county assessor.
No matter how hard you may try to please the public generally, on assessment of their property, you will find delegation after delegation appealing to you to make change in their assessment, and you will find many of your dear friends who really insist on being treated in a special manner and different than the rest of the other people, they want you to discriminate as to them.