Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-04-12
WRITES FROM "OLD MISSOURI" /"
sam Aksr Grssts Old Friends Through tie Columns
OF the Censor

Upon the field a hue OF green
Succeeds the somber brown,
And tiny blades Of growing grass
Come peeping through the ground.
Upon their points at break OF day
The sparkling dew drop swings,
While from the naples topmost bough
The robin sweetly sings.
And he has been with us ever since
March 1st This has been the incest
March that | ever saw. Breaking sod
commenced about the 4th or 9TH and
the ground was in excellent condition
for breaking at that time. We made
our early garden March 3D., and 1t Is
looking fine now. Even our early pota-
toes are up. The weather has been nice
all through the month have missed only
one-half days work on account of
stor,is We have had several nice grow
ing showers the last two weeks and pas
lures are starting mp rapidly Stock
las been ont on the fields pasturing since
about the 10th of March | am feeding
hay at night but do not think that my
eighty.five head of stock eat ton of hay
in a week. We did not commence feed
ing until December 18th. This makes
us about three month of feeding at full
feed We had severe winter weather
from January 10th to February oath,
the coldest being thirty-two degrees be-
low zero on February 18th, which was
yery cold for this locality, But | know
of several lunches of cattle that winter
ed in the stalk fields without any shelter
whatever 1t has not been cold enough
to freeze the ground since March l'th
and then only enough to say that 1t
froze Aud now the elms and the soft
NAPLES and the lilacs are coming ont in
to leaf and if the nice weather contin-
ues, we will be planting corn by the 18th
to 18th. Our oat-seeding was about all
completed in the second week OF March
and today / saw alfalfa eight inches
high and plum trees in blossom. Soft
begins to look as though spring was
here in earnest
We had the pleasure of seeing in our
home this winter ten people from Niro-
qua and vicinity. This was a pleasure,
indeed, to meet old friends and acquaint-
ances After q lapse Of almost three
years to see old faces and talk over old
times is very pleasant to us Nearly
every one who comes here from old
Vernon, seems to like this section. So |
believe that we must a good country If
it pleases almost every one. 1t Is quite
generally the opinion in some OF the
states north of here that this is It a
healthy country. but this is mistake.
| do not believe there Is q more healthy
country anywhere. All of our people
have had the best OF health since coming
here and so it g with those who come
from Illinois ard Iowa.
Another mistake is that people in the
northern states are of the opinion that
this state is lawless, or that there is q
| lawIess element here There may bt
certain localities where this may be the
case bat in this section one could not
ask for more law abiding class Of peo
pie thar we have. likewise, we are
rubbing the political moss off of oul
backs, as you may nave noticed in las'
Novembers election and we expect t
grow in strength anil goodness as goot
northern republicans continue to come
! There is still room for more.
S. NJ AKER
LinEeus, No A pril 2nd.