The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-07-24
REMARKS ON THE SIDE.

Farmer Ben, in The Mower County
Transcript, tells the farmers that clover
is the best kind of weed to have crop
PIN up in every corner OF your yard and
farm and comm up spontaneously along
the road side. | heard Horace Greedy say
once that man had no business III
country where clover wouldn't grow. L
can diversity my land with clover crop
every five years and can keep it growing
better and more productive the longer 1t
is run. 1t amt every year you can get
ten bushel crop of seed but there am t
been a spring for the last thirty that L
amt scattered clover seed in with my
small grain. 1t beats all how the seed
will keep comm up in the cornfields
and all over. | never see white clover
come in so thick before. Where it all
seeded from passes my comprehension
but it is showin' up all over pastures
and meadows and lawns and roadside.
Red clover is the salvation of this coun-
try. 1t is rich fertilizer when turned
under green and heavy. 1t seems to
supply just the stuff the land and crops
need to revivify and rejuvenate 'em. L
never saw anybody that could alwus be
talin' out and never putin i'll new
supply. How long would your account in
Shaws bank hold out if you was alwus
drawin' on it and never depositln' any!
How much milk would be tallin' out of
the pail if you want stuffin' the old COW
all the time in the mouth? You can't
be all the time takin' off the old farm
and get big returns unless you are
-, ,,.,c iS n clover
hard and regularly and keep cattle and
sheep to change pastures with.
The Minneapolis Times says: "Chi-
cago reports forty death from Fourth
of July tetanus. What an awful howl
and what terrific quarantining there
would be if smallpox, cholera or yellow
fever had done that. The Fourth OF
July is the deadliest epidemic we have in
this country"
This from The Lakefield Herald is a
pretty good explanation of why farm
help is scarce: ''That want of farm
help is easily explained when we think
of the vast tracts of good lands which
have offered homes to farm laborers
and renters for a nominal sum and thus
take away farm labor only to double
the demand. Ibis is to be expected and
| it is certainly laudable ambition for a
man to seek home of his own. This
difficulty might easily be overcome, how
ever, were it not lamentable fact that
there is a prevalent idea among young
people that to make their mark in the
world they must enter city life"
There are women who will not stand
for any talk about what mother used to
do, as the following from The Minneapo-
lis Times shows: ga morning or two
ago Thomas Barker, a Chicago man, told
his wife that the coffee was not like
mother used to make In fact it was
vile, said Mr.. Barker. Thereupon Mrs.
Barker picked up a stove lid and shatter-
ed it over Mr. Barker's head, fracturing
his skull. The coffee is no good, eh 2
said Mrs. Barker. Not as bad as /
thought groaned her stricken half, and
then the ambulance backed up and away
he went to the hospital. Mrs. Barker is
locked up pending results OF the reouke.
This teaches us that the less man says
about the things his mother used to cook
the healthier he will be-"
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The Minneapolis Journal pays this tri-
butte to the dead pope: "The great pom
tiff has passed from death into life.
Through the gateway of pain, he passed
to the supcrnal. A passage; not DEATH
Hundreds Of millions of people bow rev.
erently under the passing shadow. 1t is
a shadow none may escape. The emperor
with his jeweled crown; the pontiff with
his jeweled tiara; the rich man in his
palace; the poor man IN his cottage
all must pass through the exit we call
death. To whom much is given, from
him much will be required. And it may
be said of the late pontiff that he SEEM
ed to realize fully his vast responsible
ties, and lived up to them to the best OF
his ability"