But one fact more I will venture to assert—that the same work will produce the means of subsistence for more people here then in New England, of which the following is a proof:—I hired men to till about five acres of land in corn, the whole expense of plowing, planting, hoeing, harvesting and board, did not exceed $15, and I had considerably more than 200 bushels, which were worth at the lowest calculations $50 when it was dry and cribbed, or $40 at the heap. I let 12 acres to a very lazy kind of fellow, who from the best observation I could make, did not expend more than twenty days work on it of this own. His wife did assist him in planting it, sometimes set up the corn after the plough, and pulled a few of the large weeds out of the hills; but there never was a hoe in the field after the planting. This brought in to harvest, which is.... [Illustration: The Pioneer Home as it appeared in October, 1898. The couple shown in the yard are Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Elva Brunk and the man holding the team of horses is Andrew Beltz. This picture was borrowed from Mrs. Cora Brunk of Springboro, Ohio, who once lived in the stone house.] CARILLON PARK DAYTON, OHIO One of a series of Carillon Park booklets. Price ten cents. AS 107 H1WW PRINTED IN U.S.A. Transcriber’s Notes —Silently corrected a few typos. —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.