Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1902-05-22
TRUE BOY AND RED HIFIER.
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Two remarkable kinds OF corn and an
extra variety OF pumpkins we're grown
At Hicks Chapel last summer. Dir. True !
how. better known as Red Heifer grew
a large crop of one-row corn and pump
kins on Lick Skillet river. Down where
the doodle bugs chew tobacco and the
owls drink wine and True Boy plays the
addle on a mammoth pumpkin vine.
True boy gathered enough corn TO NIL
his large crib, space too valuable to
mention, barn. smokehouse, all the
hoves and barrels and dug huge cell
lar under the house and filled IL 10
utmost capacity, yet the corn gathered
from the field could not be missed He
then flooded the Whitwell market still
II was not more than one third gather
ed. He told his nelghbors that his
corn was practically ineXhaustable and
tn haul away as much as they liked and
thew would turn the stock in on rent
and have fine pasture They gladly ac-
cented the extraordinarily liberal offer,
and hauled out enough to fill all their
cribs barns and waste houses. The
next he and they turned in for pasture,
as there was no demand for corn. True
Row fattened 500 yoke of oxen and 1000
| head OF stock hogs for domestic use.
| Had to build new smoke house. 10
| he in il after the slaughter Of stock re-
minded us of the Armour Packing Go.
! Two miles down the river from where
this crop grew is the city of Caro-, a
town of s, 600 inhabitants. 1t has can
ming factory. At this factory he got
ready sale for 1000 barge loads OF pun
kins. Perhaps those punkins were the
largest ever known, weighing all the
way from 1000 to 1000 lbs. We're load
ed bv means of handspikes and unload
ed with block and tackle.
Last fall my old sow and pigs strayed
from home. and | searched diligently
for them, and also made inquiry but
could hear nothing of them. One
morning this spring just at daybreak
necped out at the door and saw some
ching that supposed to be herd o
elenhants. Wife and children all go
nm TO see them. After a close look the.
Informed me that it was not elephant
Int nv old SOW and shoats. said
.'Sureiv not" "Yes," they all exclaim
ed. "for they are all in good mark.
which is two good Topped ears on tn
sides of their head. They had bee
Iost all winter in one OF those larg
nunkins that Mr.. Red Heifer grew an
have lust recently gnawed out
once claimed them and said no more,
A. A. Holland grew the new eighty
row corn on high upland. The field wa
wonderful to see for dry summer. Ii
gathered 1t and stored it and in the pr
9ress of time there appeared in th
News an ad stating that he had 1t L
sale and that it was the stuff. sa
the ad and called up Mr.. II. who to-
me that the Hicks Chapel correspon
r, ent had lust been there and that he hi
snapped his entire crop to Red hetfe
and that that he had even swept I'll
crib so as to get all of it, but he CUES
ed could get some from him. 1u
wanted one peck to mix with my o
> standard one hundFed-rpw variety
run my stock up, but it made him n
because / asked him for itand be is NJ
saving that ! get the corn. lie saw
would become very popular and he
eided to plant the entire lot on Iii
Skillet river. He knew it would
wonders there and the demand for
will be great and If be can grow or
there and then put in few ads 1t W
N 20 like hot cakes. He is telling tt
al tale so people won't bother him for
7 corn until he can grow a crop.
or Mr., True Boy has on hand laI
a. supply OF the World-renowned puni
N seed which have been called by b
IN Red Heffer's Fayorite.
~. He is sending out free samples. Be
" for package. large catalogue
scribing more fully his pnnkin seed
eighty-row corn is being stereotyl
now and will appear about Christm
1t will be free on application. BE 8
to get the genuine seed. None genn
M without the signature of Red Heffer.
To Dofetchit recently passed thror
ed with circulars stating that Red lie
, | would pass through on certain day
prt a stated hour and that those who mis-
seeing his nose would miss the sigh
a life time. When the time came ab
500 men, women and children static
themselves at a long curve in the
near the school house. The men eli
4 ed trees and the women and children
NAMED on the ground.
- looked in the distance and saw
coming. He was making about as N