St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-08-03

man was, rot you might yust SO well
say. atarnfool, and be did nit him. =
/ Fritz has all Germans love of or
der, and he insists in planting every
thing in straight rows. BY way DIVA
riety he planted alternate rows Of diff
ferent vegetables. Thus there was in
| the first row a bed of peas, next once Of
Ionions, then row of radishes, and,
lastly, row of lettuce. This seemed
all very neat and systematic to the
amateur farmer. It also vaguely re-
/ minded him Of what he had been read
ing about the rotation Of crops, and,
as an experiment, at least, seemed well
worth trying, What would have been
the final result must always remain q
mystery, for the same day that the
lseeds were set an old henled her brood
| Of chickens into the garden, and, Sc
| lecting the one spot in which theseed
had been sown, proceeded to reduce
the mountain ranges to one common
level and to scatter the carefully plant
ed rows into one great and common
confusion Then the retired agricul-
turlst had his revenge.
Hah, hahl' he chuckled between
his false teeth, 9Th, ole hen knows
more about plantin, garden than that
stubborn Dutehman. She knows
tain't no way to plant radishes inrows,
so she scatters 'em around like they
ought to be-"
But Fritz was not yet conquered.
He carefully reconstructed his noun
tain ranges and set out his seeds for
the second time in carefully alternat-
ingrows. But when the seeds cameup
there was confusion worse confonnd-
| ed. The radishes scattered BY the old
hen appeared in all the mountain
ranges and struggled all over the foot
hills and valleys between. There wer
radishes and onions and lettucein the
same row, and the general effect wa
that of slightly mountainous coun
try after it had been subjected to
some severe convulsion of nature.
Fortunately for the peace OF the
rural community, the retired agricul-
turist was confined to his house with
rheumatic in his jints,' z and there
fore had no chance to gloat over the
discontinue Of Fritz, who manfully
set to work to pull out all the aspiring
vegetables which had struggled out
Of their proper rows.
There has been great excitement at
the amateur experimental farm over
the apparent failure of the 40 hens on
the place to lay the proper number of |
eggs. The complete Guide to Sue
cessful Husbandrya declares that "a
mature hen, provided with heproper
food and properly cared for, should
lay on an average two eggs in three
days This was too hard a problem
in arithmetical proportion for Fritz
to bother with, but when he got 23 |
eggs on one day and only eight ton the |
next he made up his mind that some
thing was certainly out Of gear. For |
some time he had dark suspicious of
the retired agriculturist, who, he de- |
clared, Nloogs like he suck eggs
That old party, however, had sug-
gestion of his own to make.
Best thing to make chickens lay
he said, "is tu feed 'e1n sour milk and
corn meal. Ef you hain't got % sour
milk, I got fresh COW I'll sell u rea-
sonable.s
Fritz laughed sarcastically st the |
suggestion, and the same evening He
got his revenge. It was ten o'clock
when he came IN from the barn. n
one hand he carried basket, and he
called joyfully to the amateur farmer:
Coon here ant see what Fritz
found. { watch me dat old gray hen
dis afternoon an I see her go IN by de
steps to de haymow. Den crawl me
in by dose steps an find medwodoz-
en- eggs Dot Gilman been foolish nit
his sour mick and corn meal out.
Chicago Tribune.
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