The Green Forest tribune., 1908-05-22
Letter From Canada.
Dog Pound. Alts., May

DOS l Ouhd, <AiVest, Atlpy AO.
 Editor Green Forest Tribune:- :-En- closed find Canadian postal note for $1.50 the value of which you will re- turn to me in Tribunes.
 can say some good things for Canada and some that are not so good. We have had as nice winter as 1 ever saw. Stock of all kinds has lived out on the range.
 We haven't had very much snow since last summer. People are now about through seeding and crops are looking promising. I have put in 35 acres of oats and will SOW 20 acres of wheat in July. People are breaking sod now. am going to break sod all summer, and it breaks my heart to think of it. It takes five horses to pull a t4-inch blow. l can break two acres a day.
 We have water in this country that compares favorably with the sparkling Ozarks streams. The country is very healthful. There hasn't been but one death since we came here over two years ago. A neighbours baby died a short time ago and we could not find a grave yard; we started one at the church house.
 The ground only froze about two feet deep the past winter. have been here twenty-six months and it has showed every month but one since l have been here, that was in July. We wash our faces in warm water the year round, and hump up in the corner be- hind the cook stove every morning while Alice gets breakfast. It con- menced showing here the 10th of last September and showed 10 days straight. We had just begun to cut grain and it laid it flat, but it fell one way and we cut it one way and took it Up very well.
 People work cattle here, put harness on them and bits in their mouths, use check lines and buckle a strop over their neck to put the neck yoke in. One of my neighbors, has 3 horses, COWS, 3 steers, bulls and one break ing blow.
 We have Q nice school house in our district. cost S1400. We have church and Sunday School every Sunday. The Ladies Aid society recently bought nice organ for the church.
 We are having all the fish we can eat now. The Dog Pound creek is about like Callen branch. It is full of fine fish. We snare them here. They use a moose of small copper wire. This is used instead of hook to grab. The loop once oyer fishes head you jerk and the loop closes up and lands him in good shape. Try this the next time you go to Yocum or Long creek fishing, and jerk about the time the moose passes the gills. The fish will run forward and you are liable to catch too far back.
 Well, I have stayed away from Arkansas a long time this time, don't you think? If any one was to tell me would stay away two years longer would tell him he is liar and that the truth is not in him.
 Everything is high as cats back here. A good team of horses will cost you $500. Any old horse will bring $i00; milk COWS from $50 to $40; hogs $ cents; mowers SEQ; binders S200, good set of harness $50; Bain wagons $115; flour $3.50 cwt.; butter 35 cents; eggs % cents; chickens 50 cents; potatoes 50 cents.
 J. T. Capps and his son Charles have bought a well drill and are doing a good business. They can make from $15 to S25 day at Si.00 per foot.
 now imagine that I see you feeling for the waste basket so I will chop off right here with best wishes for the Tribune.
 R. F. KIRKHAM.