The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-07-06

to our youth. Eagerly we grasped
his nand and giving him our fathers
name, expected prompt recognition!
The old gentleman studied awhile
and finally said he thought there
used to be such a man some where
abouts. Then we knew to our sorrow
that time had wrought unexpected
havoc, when our fathers name was
fading from the memory of those he
had Known in his early manhood.
We met. our relatives, old school
mates and boyhood friends. They
knew us not, nor did we know them.
Occasionally we we've recognized
where we least expected IT. Our old
associates were pas and mas and
usually grandpas arc grandmas,
The old farms were cut up and
occupied by the children and grand
children of the owners we hnew.
The great forests of the mighty oak,
hickory, sugar, beech and ash that
our boyhood knew, are gone.
Scarcely a stump remains to mark
the place where they once stood.
The old worm fence has given way
to the wire and hedge of the west.
Distances seem shorter, the creeks
are smaller, the hills are hatteued
and even the rocks seem less.
The old farm on which we spent
our boyhood is still there, but how
changed The old log house has
long since given place to modern
firm house while large bank barn
occupies the place of the old one
we knew. The big apple trees in
whose shade we sported and among
whose boughs we climbed are al
gone. A new orchard that replaced
the old after we left, is fast drop,
ping into decay. The old well
with Its windlass which used to fur,
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borho cd, is now disgraced by an
old wood pump long out of use.
In fact, after rambling over the old
farm and searching every nook, we
falld to find a single thing that
looked familiar. Time and i'm
provement have changed everything,
even to the soil.
Those old fields that have been
farmed for hundred years produce
better crops under the careful hus-
bandry that prevails in that country
now than they did forty years ago.
EARNED every year for hundred
years and yet increasing in fertility
is the rec ord of that old settled
country. The old yellow clay
knobs, by careful manurlng and
scientific cultivation, are made to
produce almost like garden spot.
And now for lesson: We be
lieve it would pay every farmer in
this country to lay off a week in
crop time and go back east to some
old settled community and study
farm methods. Here in this part Of
of Kansas where nature has done
so much for us in soil and climate
we do not raise the average crop
that they do in these old clay fields
of southern Ohio. We raise bigger
crops some years when everything
is just favorable, but in series. of
years we do not average up. We
raise bigger crops some years when
everything is just favorable, but in
series Of years We do not average
up. We try to do too much and
half do it. We do not use up to-
date and approved methods in
planting and cultivating corn. We
expect dry weather the latter
part of the season, yet do not
prepare for it by putting our corn.
ground in shape to resist the dry
ing winds and draw moisture from
below.
The Ohio farmers had a dry May
as did we. They kept right on at
work in their corn, however. They
use many narrow shovels on their