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By ASA PATRICK
Copyright, 1915, by American Press
Association
“I know that what you say is true,
$Mr. Burns,” Sam declared. ‘I don’t
know very much about farming yet,
but I'm going to learn. 1 want yeu to
give me a list of books to read and
study on the subject.”
“Well, the first thing for you to do,”
suggested the agent, ‘is to send to the
state and national departments of ag-
riculture for all the bulletins about the
crops you are going to grow. You will
be surprised at the number of them
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are the addresses and the names of
some books for you to get.”
must be going. Bill Googe is to be in
town today, and I’ want to see him
about the plowing. Goodby until Mon-
day. I'll see you at the meeting.”
... “Thank you.” said Sam, “and now 1
_ CHAPTER IL. .
AM found Bill Googe sitting on
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3 ; a box whittling. -
“Hello, Bill!” said Sam. “Bot |
working these days?” i
“No; you bet I ain’t,” answered Bill
*f git enough ¢’ that durin’ crop time.”
“Well, what do you find around
bere?” asked Sam. “I never come to
town except on business.”
“Wor one thing,” Bill replied. “I'm
here tryin’ to make some kind of ar-
rangements for supplies this year.
Didn't make enough to quite settle up
with old Jim Anderson, and he’s cut
off. Lots o’ times, though, us fel-
le come to town to git together and
talk over our troubles. Misery loves
comp’ny, you know, Sam. And some-
times we chip in and send off for a
gallon of Old Crow. When a man gits
a few swigs o' that under his belt,
Sam, he jes’ forgits all about bein’ so
doggone poor and ornery.”
“Yes,” said Sam, “and be makes a
fool of himself and wastes his money.
and after it’s over with he feels worse
and is poorer than he was before.”
Bill Googe was a peculiar kind of
fellow. He was almost always in a
good humor, and you could hardly say
anything to make him mad. But he
didn’t like to work. According to Bill,
it was always too wet or too dry. He
spent most of his time fishing and
hunting, and he was a fine companion
to have along on such a trip. He could
tell you more funny stories than you
could possibly remember. In the local-
ity where he lived there was rarely
any lack of rain, but Bill would often
sit down on a log and picture in glow-
ing colors what he'd do if he was
“fixed to irrigate.”
Fi ‘nad at one time owned the farm
on which he now lived. But he got
the fever “to go west.” At last he
found a man to buy him out. and he
departed for the land where a man
could live without working. He ee
about a year and came
ork” and went on the farm he had
left as a renter. \
AL uring the sunny days when the
grass and weeds were flourishing and
choking out the crops not. a glimpse
could you catch of Bill in the field, but
you could hear the deep mouthed bay
of his hound, Trailer, and the sullen
boom of his muzzle loader off in the
woods along the creek.
Bill chuckled at Sam’s remark.
«But let that go.” Sam continued. “1
didn’t come down here to preach.
What I want to know is this: Will yon
plow my field for me some time soon?”
“What!” exclaimed Bill. “You ain’t
thinkin’ of gein' back on that clay pile.
air ye?” y
“Yes: that’s what I'm going to do.
“Well. you're crazier than 1 thought
you was Wish 1 was away from out
there: you
How do 3
goin
un think you're goin
) that farm?”
wouldn't ketch me
have the stumps out.
“I'm going to make it off the land,
of course.” 5d
“Don’t you git no sich fool idea into
your head.” Bill exclaimed with con.
viction. = “Why. boy. that lsnd won't
sprout peas.”
“It's going to do it anyway,” replied
Sam. “And. more’n that. it's going to
grow em after they're sprouted. And,
besides that, it’s going to raise some of
the finest corn and cotton in this
county.” ;
“You'll never do it,” Bill asserted.
“F know that land. You can’t raise a
disturbance on it.”
“Look here, Bill.” said Sam, *“you’ve
been nn the farm a long time, and I
guess you've learned some things about
the business, but one thing Is certain,
you don’t know how to farm, and the
proof of it is that you don’t raise good
Crops.”
“Ain’t nobody goin’ to raise good
crops when it's too dry or too wet.
You got to have things right.”
“No; that’s not the trouble. Good
crops can be raised with the seasons
just as they are. And I don’t know
much about farming, but I'm going to
show you how to do the trick better
than it’s been done in the neighbor-
’
“Where'd you learn so much, I'd like
to know?” Bill inquired in an amused
tene.
“I learned it from books and from
men that know how to farm.”
Bill Googe slapped his thigh and
laughed merrily
“Gee, but that’s a good one!” he said.
“I wish Miles Fagan could hear that.”
“He'll hear me say it, all right,” Sam
replied. “But I'm not going to argue
with you fellows. I'm going to prove
it. And, now. what about that plow-
ing? You didn’t tell me whether you'd
do it.”
“Sure I'll do it. 1 ain’t got nothin’
else to do.”
“I thought maybe you'd want to-do
your own plowing.”
“No. I never fool with that till
spring. 1 believe in lettin’ the land
rest. Sometimes I don’t plow it at all
—Jes’ streak it off and plant it.”
“Well, I want this land plowed deep,
and when I say deep I mean deep.
How much will you charge to do the
work that way?”
“Let me see.
fleld plowed?”
“Yes. all of it.”
“Well, that stumpy acre will be pret-
ty knotty.”
“Don’t figure on that.
You want the whole
I'm going to
I heard father
say that a man couldn't be religious
and cultivate a stumpy field. I believe
he was pretty near right. A fellow’s
going to blow them out for me with
dynamite.”
“Blow ’em out with dynamite! By
Jacks, 1 didn’t think there was no way
to git up a stump except to break your
back and grub it up. Would $20 be
too much for that work, Sam?’
“No. I'm willing to pay that. I'll
let you know as soon as I've got the
land ready for you to go to work.
What'll you take for the manure
your lot?” :
“Oh, you won’t find much there, I
reckon. You can have it if you'll haul
it off.”
~Afl right. T'Il be after it.”
Sam left Bill Googe and went down
to see the owner of a livery stable.
“Want to hire somebody to haul that
manure off 7’ asked Sam, pointing to a
large pile that had been raked up at
the back of the stable.
“Well, don’t know exactly,” said the
man, figuring to drive a bargain. “If
you'll do it reasonable I might make a
deal with you. How much a load will
you haul it for?”
“I’m going to school,” Sam told him,
“and don’t have any time except aft-
ernoons after school, but if you'll let
me do the work along as 1 have time,
I'l haul it for 25 cents a load.”
“Well, I'l just take you on that,
bud. I've been paying 50 cents and it’s
too much. 1 don’t care when you haul
it, just so as you keep the most of it
out of the way.”
“All right.” said Sam. “I'll be after
a load tomorrow afternoon and anoth-
er next Monday.”
Sam Powell hurried home, delighted
with his arrangements. He greased
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“That land is mighty poor,” he said,
“but I'm going to make it grow some-
thing. [I'll get 25 cents » load for haul
ing manure from a - lable downtown.
and I'm going to put every load of it
ou ou: farur I'll reli you ow I'm go
fng to matage it IF go down and
load up ovne evening and drive home
with it; then the next evening I'll hau!
it to the farm. That'll be three loads
a week from town, and on Saturdays
I'll maul manure from Bill Googe’s or
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“Yes,” Sam agreed, “Wwe saved a lot
of work there by using our minds a
little. It doesn’t pay to work without
thinking, and I'm going to mix a little
of it with my work from now on. Let's
drive down after a load of poles and
see bow the choppers are getting
along”
“Hello, there!” yelled Fred Martin
when he saw Sam and his companion
driving up “You haven’t deserted
that job, have you?”
GASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
ashes from the gin.”
“l didn’t know ashes were good for
land.” said Mrs. Powell L
“Wood ashes are fine.” Sam explain-
ed. “They burn wood at the gin and
there’s a little mountain of ashes there.
Mr. Burton, the owner, gave them to
me. Some of these days it won't be so
easy to get fertilizer for nothing. They
don’t know what it’s worth now.”
“Oh, I'm so anxious to get out to the
old home again!” exciaimed Florence.
“When do you think we’ll move, Sam?”
“1 expect it will be in March or the
1st of April,” was the reply.
“1 do hate for you and Florence to
miss any of the school,” said Mrs.
Powell.
“rd forgotten to tell you, mother,”
said her son, “that school will be out
in April. We'll miss only a week or
two. They had to cut the session short
because they've run out of money to
pay the teachers.” '
“Well, that's not so bad,” Mrs. Pow-
ell reflected. “Although you miss
school, just the same, it really can’t
be helped.”
The next day being Friday, Sam
went down to the stable after school
hours and hauled the first load of ma
nure home so as to be in readiness to
drive to the farm next morning with
his companions, who were to be on
hand at the appointed hour.
Early Saturday morning the boys—
Fred, Joe and Andrew —were on hand
at the appointed hour. Sam soon had
the horse hitched to the loaded wagon.
“No,” the two replied in vnison, “of
eourse we haven't deserted it. We fin-
(To Be Continuea
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Timely Bulletin Issued by the State
Fire Marshal.
Do you know that the fire waste
throughout the country has reached
such an enormous proportion that it
is time you give more attention to
Fire Prevention—you are the ones
most benefitetd.
You bear the burdens of loss and
inconvenience. This waste is directly
attributable to the lack of interest
given the subject by the general pub-
lic. Why is this?
Don’t or won’t you realize that the
greater the fire waste the greater in-
crease there is in the cost of in-
surance and consequently you are
compelled to pay thig increase, which
is added to the cost of food, clothing,
rent and in fact everything you use,
no matter what it may be, us manu-
facturers and merchaa*s must of ne-
cessity add the extra expense to the
commodities they make or sell. There-
fore, it is useless to complain of in-
crease in the cost of living when you
yourself are at fault and respon=itle
to a great extent for this increase and
and the four boys rolled away over the you can by active, honest, thoughtful
gravelly. road to the farm. work along the line of fire preven-
In an hour's time they had reached | tion bring about a reduction in the
their destination. and the horse was ‘cost of insurance and cost of living. |
unharnessed and turned loose to graze | The fire waste of the country is at-
in the field. Sam found the farm in a | ¢racting more attention than ever
worse condition than he had expected before. Several states have shown 2
and he had expected it to be bad. Bri dispositi t : th inci)
ers and bushes and tall grass grew SP OR 10 recognize © Drincipie
thick along the rail fence all around | that the enormous destruction of
the field Here and there next to the property annually by fire is an econ-
ground rails had rotted and allowed |omic waste of the country’s resour-
hogs to come in or go out at will. The | ces with the result that they have a
last tenants hadn’t taken any trouble | decided sentiment in favor of estab-
to mend these gaps, and the hogs that | jiching special legislation which will
ran outside had destroyed a part of | yj egiipation positively shows that
the crops for two or three years. from seventy to eighty per cent. of all
“My! There's certainly some work x
to 40 here” Sam remarked. fires that occur are from preventable
“What's tc do?’ Fred Martin asked | causes and has created a general gen-
“For the first thing,” Sam replied |timent in favor of fire prevention
“this fence row Is to clean out, and | measures. You are directly interested
then I'll have to cut some poles to put | put have probably failed to recognize
In the place of those rotten rails.” the fact and we want you to help in,
“Let me and Joe cut the poles,” sald | yo great work for humanity and bet-
ter conditiong throughout the state.
One man or set of men can do but
Fred. "while vou and Andrew clean
out the fin eo row. ‘Where's the as,
and how io = must the poles be?’
book and u sbLarp grubbing boe with
which to begin work on the tangled
mass along the fence. ;
1 o'My,” be exclaimed. “but that's go
to be a woolly job! Those boys
had an eye to business, Andrew. when
they took the chopping. It does seem
ke there ought to be some easier and
quicker way of doing it than this.”
“ow Rg uv you think it will take
us?’ asked Andrew.
Well, I did think at first,” replied |
8am, “that it wouldn’t take long. But
now, since I’ve had a second look at|
it, I think we won't more than get
started good today.”
“If we could burn it out first,” sug-
gested Andrew, “it wouldn't be nearly
so bad.”
“No, but we’d burn up the fence.”
“Couldn’t we follow along with wa-
ter and put out the rails when they
folks in your immediate vicinity to-
Prevention? Won't you get the chil
dren interested?
removal with the owner or tenant of
accomplished and you can tike mere
work and well kent lawns gquggest
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a stricture but inves:cizaticn night
reveal the existence Hi accumulation
caught fire?” of rubbish or trash that might be the
“Good for you, Andrew!" Sam ex. |Deans of creating a disastrous fire.
claimed. “That's the very idea. The | These conditions exist in churches,
fire will burn up nearly all the bushes
and briers and kill all the boll weevils
and other insects that are wintering in
there at the same time. That’s why
fence rows ought not to grow up like
this. Insects live in there in winter
and come ouf to work on the crops in
summer.”
“Well, let's get the water and start
our fire. I'm anxious to see how it
works,” said Andrew.
“I have two barrels up at the house.”
Sam explained. “We'll unload the
wagon and go up and haul them down
full of water.”
The horse was harnessed again, the
manure scattered and the boys were
soon back with two barrels of water
and a bucket. The fire was started
and allowed to burn only in one direc
tion—the way the wind carried fit
8am followed close behind with the
bucket and poured water on the rails
that now and then took fire. Andrew
drove the wagon alongside and refilled
the bucket from the barrels for Sam.
Ouce the fire had got well started it
burned rapidly and in a very short
while it had gone entirely around the
field. Nothing remained of the matted
tangle except a few charred bushes
and coarse briers. Taking the brier |PeT F288 or any other accumulation
hook and the grubbing hoe, Sam and | Of useless articleg that may have
Andrew had these all down in less than ! been for years inviting some one to
stores, schoois and in many other
buildingg and is the result of careless-
ness and an invitation to the evil dis-
posed or children who are prone to
start fires when they find an opertu-
nity such as a rubbish pile pregents.
Knowledge in Fire Prevention
means the saving of life and property.
Doesn’t that appeal to you? If not
there must be something lacking.
What is it? You can do your part no
matter how little that may be, it
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work of Fire Prevention. Teach the
children the danger of handling
matches. Keep gagolene or kerosene
out of th hquse. Place one or more
fire extinguishers about the house
and barn and show those whom you
find to be careless, the danger; inter-
egt them in a clean, wasteless, trash-
less community. Do this and it will be
more effective in the prevention of
fires than all the: law that can be en-
actd by any legislature or ordinances
to that end. A tidy housekeeper is the
worgt enemy of fire waste. This is
conceded by insurance companies and
we gppeal to you to be of this clags
and help the fire department in its
work of Fire Prevention, which is for
you and your neighbor’s benefit. Will
you?
Health and
Atlas bore the weight of the heav-
“Go ahe- © I'red. youand Joe,” broke little, but if the sentiment for the sav- RT
in Andre. al “We know you, ing of life and property is spread, and | STOQP. SHOULDERS.
don’t liké 1" 1noks of these briers and. you can help do this, interest must | OT Dixon's Talks on
bushes. La. ‘eli not kick” . _)increase and a vast army fighting for Hygiene.
(Youll i...4 the ax in the wagon”! gafety, cleanliness and a reduction | :
fd San 1 von can cut the oleh of ire was will soon brin reguts | S18 Upon bis Bead snd hands, accord
fink they're ahout ten feet long.” that otherwise it would be impossible | g to a Greek myth, but those of
When Fred and Joe had gone down | tO obtain. Won't you help? Won't you mankind who carry the burden of life
in the woods Sam bronght a brier | talk to your neighbor and ask him to
too often let it rest upon their shoul-
ders. Stoop shouldered men and wo-
men by the thousands are to be
gether and take up the subject of Fire found among the followers of sedenta-
ry occupations. Nine out of ten when
the subject is. mentioned will square
Form a clean up brigade. Make the | away their shoulders and say, “I'm
children memberg and get them to re- | Setting a little careless about that.”
port all places where rubbish ur trash | Then they make a momentary resolve
are permitted to accumulate and | that they will brace up and overcome
when reported take up the matter of | the fault. That it is a fault and one
that has a distinct bearing upon
the property where such conditions | health there is no question.
exist; in this way great good can be |
No system of physical culture is
complete which does not include exer-
cises which teach erect carriage and
deep breathing. One of these is im-
possible* without the other. In this
lies the chief ill effect of stoop shoul-
ders.
To maintain good health we should
use our lungs to their normal capacity
at all times. The proper purification
of the blood through oxygenation re-
requires ample breathing. Drop your
shoulders forward and then try to
take a full breath; see how impossible
it is to do so in that position. Breath-
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tion of the lungs cannot be emptied
and instead of receiving a supply of
fresh air they will be filled with resai-
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To work, sit or walk day after after
day with the shoulders hunched for-
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lessened just so much and a corre-
sponding loss of vitality results.
Such a posture also permits the sag-
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placement of the abdominal organs
and leads to serious digestive distur-
bances. .
Do not resort to shoulder braces or
other mechanical means to correct
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makeshifts which do not remedy the
real trouble. Make the mental effort
necessary to keep the body erect. By
maintaining proper posture the mus-
cles can be strengthened and made to
do their work of holding the body up- |
| right.
When children exhibit a tendency |
to grow stoop shouldered parents and
chers should see to it that they are
en physical exercise to correct the
fault.
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