Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-01
OVER ON OYSTER BAY.

and dogs by the score.
OVER ON OYSTER BAY.
Crisp Comment on Current Topics by OuI
Own Correspondent.
You seem to like to hear from Oys.
ter Bay, now and then, but your paper
is so full of good things 1 often hesitate
to write fearing my poor communica.
ton may crowd out something more
interesting. But the waste. basket hav.
ing no horrors for me, l will send you
the latest, and if news print il, if moth.
ing better is on hand.
Those meighbors Of ours: Mr.. Nor.
row has been digging his potatoes and
some of them almost tipped the scales
at five pounds and any number reached
three or four pounds. Mr.. Weddall,
on the brow OF the west bill, on land
that people in this country call grav-
ely" raised fine hubbard squashes,
and tomatoes that weighed from one
to four pounds, and on the same kind
Of land Mr.. Cation raised potatoes that
weighed two pounds. Mr.. Kuzler lives
on what has been called Iron Noun.
tain and good for nothing, raised the
largest fruit, with no extra care, of any
that l have seen. His orchard OF
apples, pears, prunes and plums are all
fine. w. J. Countryman is building q
nice cottage on his new ranch on Oys.
ter Bay and will have a very pretty
and slightly home. They will be with
in calling distance OF neighbors, which
is a rare thing in this part of the
country. Not many are so pleasantly
situated as be is going to be. They
hope to partake Of their Christmas
dinner in their new home.
/ should think our business men
aud others would have pride enough
in the looks OF the country roads to
burn their old truck and not hire ex-
pressmen to take it just out OF the
city limits and adorn the highway
with their old boxes, bottles, mattresses,
tin cans and refuse of all kinds. We
are getting good roads and are proud
of them, but much of the pleasure of q
drive over them is spoiled by the ter
rible condition of the landscape Dor
dering the roadway.
We read q great deal OF the good the
birds do Us. l know they eat . great
many insects but that does not make
me enjoy seeing those robins eating
my Strawberries and cherries. I had
rather fight the worms than so many
birds, but it is the game law that is
hunting the farmer at present. A
person who has wondered why his
clover seed did not grow and has
scolded the seed man ought to watch
for quail. He would be surprised at
the amount of the surface scratched
over by . flock OF quail in q shor.
time; and they do not object to wheat
as change, either, if the field is away
from the house. An extra heavy seed
ing does little good. And still these
pests OF the farmer are protected by
law, not on account OF the good they
do, but that few hunters living in
town can have . plenty for their game
bag. II this keeps on, there can be no
crops raised. IL this whole country to
be q game reservef If 80, why try to
induce newcomers here. Let them
stay where it is so thickly settled that
tho game has disappeared. It is too
hard work to dig stumps, pillow and
SOW to have the grain taken even be.
fore it has chance to sprout, by
creatures fattening for the hunter.
The farmer has no time to hunt, even
enough to protect his own fields. He
must get some more land ready for the
next brood OF quail. We sowed a
quarter acre OF turnips last July with.
in 200 feet of the house, and the Sec
ond morning after there was over SO
quail picking and scratching up the
seed. II you could shoot them, on
your own land when they were dam
aging your crops without paying for
the privilege, there would DO q little
more reason in the law.
Another case of wife.beating, but
this time it is . Jap that's in trouble.
A woman that will allow her husband
to pound and kick her about does her
husband an injustice a. we'll as her
self. From the time the first blow is
given and received, their self.respect is
lost; the man degenerates into q brute,
the woman into slave. There is no
excuse for any woman occupying such
q position. No one is anxious to in
terfere in family rows, unless brute
force is used; then few men or women
in these United States of ours would
not do all in their power to assist q
woman 10 escape from such humilia.
ton. II the first blow was met with q
whitening look OF scorn and flatiron,
l do not believe it would be repeated
that is if the implement were we'll
aimed.
gathered, labeled and sent to
Washington Bureau OF Plant Industry
over 20 kinds OF clover and grasses.
One kind of grass l could not name,
but have since been startled BY the
fact that
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
is growing all about the neighLorhood.
| had rather call it beard. grass, for
common, hadn't your Vetches have
been found good and cheap feed for
chickens. They like the green vines
and the matured seed. which is pro.
duced in great abundance at the sec.
ond cutting. But, as the seed shells
easily they have to be gathered when