The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-30
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agricultural Notes from City Farms-How to Raise
Treilis squash-several Urban Gardeners Caught
Violating the Speed Ordinance with the EARLY
Morning Wheelharrow.
M HILE Uncle Maltby E. Wheeler of the Irving
NV Avenue Improvement association wheel
ing load Of black earth down hill to his
garden yesterday, the wheelbarrow got start with
him SO that he could not check it in time and he
pinched by Policeman James X Conroy for violat-
ing the speed limit for vehicles.
at 1875 Irving avenue S, MIS- George A1pee aeeeetea
the odor of the bone ferzer the wind, then blowing
towards the house, and accused her husband of smok
ing cigarets. quarrel ensued and Mrs Albee has
gone back to mama. u. .-.@.EF
Charles Odlum made a mistake in using fertilizer
on his garden last week and spaded in some bags Of
Portland cement. When he went out the next morning
the garden as hard asphalt street and the
three little Jones girls roller skating it, He
fears that seed will grow thru unless it has blasting
powder with it, +
While G. P. Wilson was laying sod around flower
bed in his steenth ward garden Saturday last, Mrs
Wilson put her head out Of the window and said:
it on he ne n stea it on the
Uncle Paul Johnson veteran Of the civil war;
who overheard this, that medical aid
q had to be summoned.
Jason L. Baker of Mount Pleasant had two acres
rain but It bounced upon and totally uprooted by
an enraged English sparrow whose nest in the gutter
ff his house Baker had torn down the night before
lie will repant this week and set watch.
d Dispatches from Pierre telling Of the high winds
and dust storms state that John Carson's farmhouse
was bombarded by potatoes during the dust storm
and every pane Of glass the southeast side broken
out. The high winds after denuding field recently
planted potatoes, lifted the tubers themselves and
hurled them violently thru the air.
George Franks city cow had been in the stable at
his Western avenue home all winter When she
let out this last week and the fresh grass her tail
took the form of the inverted letter and she tried
to turn handspring. One horn was driven in
inch and half and it is feared that she is otherwise
sprained.
AL J. Smiths lilac bush had twin lilacs this spring.
n a of vern,,iion, S. D.,
publican Will Chamberlain has rhapsody on 'Farm
Life in Dakota from the rising of the hired at
early candle light to the glorious breakfast prepared
by Tina, the fairy of the farm. The story goes
thing like this:
All around the little farm wandered,
1884, When was young;
Then many happy days I squandered,
Many the songs sung.
Candle light in upstairs bedroom. The hired
man aG9y ynnin as d f Mo the Ian
Gradually, by one, the family follows the lead
of the farm traimaker, and slight confusion
from certain quarter gives notice that Tina, the
girl of the So per week and few afternoons and even
slowly and wearily, pausing Perehance, to glance
bevvichng reflection in the mirror of her dresser
reflection which many a court lady queen might
envy with good taste and reason. Thru her neatly
screened window she sees the light in the cowshed
window and flush of secret happiness mantles her
clear brow as she reverts mentally to maiden
fancies in which mustached young farmworker is a
centerpiece. Almost before the story be jotted
In thought, Tina is gathering the lids of the range
down stairs. Ere long thru the drifts that
cheerful resonant, snappy murmur of coffee grinding.
There's grander music flowing
Before the footights glare,
From old Kentuck Is plantations
To Rhine~taught anthems rare,
Than this SOFT morning cadence
Of jerky, wordess rhyme,
But I slyy love the ronde
Of coffee grinding time.
Follow in mind eye the fitting figure of Tina
making ready the farm Observation-Disclosures ham
eggs and steaming Coffee 1t is handsome picture she
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