Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-02-20

ne empty haymow oft rcfills.
The farm whereon is grown this pair,
Is doubly blest for from the air
They steal and store in mother earth,
The food that gives new plants their
birth.
Woodblne next cast out her line.
Sent Pugsley forth with theories fine
10 eradicate the plague in swine.
ltog cholora too, was talked about
And tuberculosis put to rout.
State and nation should unite.
And counties too should Join the fight,
10 stamp out these plaques with all
their might.
He said the owner of a herd of swine
Should also race to get in line,
And aid this host in armor clad.
To Slaughter all the hogs he had,
When ere diseases paid face
Should enter on his lands or place.
Hls Voice rang out both loud and shrill
The battle cry, "To kill, To Kill"
Rcsounded through the grand old hall
And was echoed back from wall to wall.
Though loudly called this valient
Knight.
No champion rose to brave the fight,
AS toward the funeral pyrc in endless
line
He drove the granting herd of swine.
Until at length two Knights with brok-
en- lance,
Arose to stay his fierce advance.
f,rixon and DeIIunt by name
/, Sprung forth to quench the funclal
flame;
Their nostrums forth, both rank and
vile,
They poured upon that burning pile.
And scrums by Bridgway forth they
flung,
As we'll rs remedies 10y Shoddy sung.
Nm hundred different drugs We're tried,
M hundred remedies applied.
| The hogs refused the proti'ercel draught
Some ieebly squealed IA graft A
grapt!"
1T seemed the hogs preferred the fire
Than to take their dose and then cx.
Up jumps that Knight, Sir Thomas
Worth.
And cried for shame, We men of noble
birth.
For thirty years your drugs piled.
For thirty wears Your hogs have died
Why then exhaust our patience. fair
and free,
In talking that which cannot be,
4 The old blue hen with fay G renown.
Was strutting forth from Beebeetown
! called her blue and vet It's true
| The feathers hue has naught to do
With any hen. nor wher, she lives.
NV met er needed adiectives.
Who writes IN verse is oft required
To insert words where least desired.
~ the Rhythmic l,ow nee Is onward race
Words must he coined to fin the space
4 SO oft when surplus words abound.
| They 'er merely used togracc the sound
might we'll have used some family
3 Tosin:roducc this bird of fame;
Such as Black Monorcas, plymouth
Rock.
Or amy name in any flock;
But in that case some dozen lines
Must needs be purgsd from out these
rhymes.
\ coin brings forth each line of nirtll
And a hundred makes dollars worth
The discourse made the ladies frown,
BY that high lord of Beebetown.
With guttera voice. a vissage stern,
He told how Biddy" ne'er coul 4 carr
\ living for herself and young
He hated all tie songs she sung;
But forty eggs a year she laid.
The average for the state, he said.
More eggs than this the hen supplied.
think perhaps the william lied
With scornfnl words and passion S hea
He counted all the grain she eat
His passion strong and stronger grew
.And through the air his arms flew.
AS the climax Of his theme approached
He told how all the eggs were poache,
: That he had placed with knowlelg,
rare
Within the incubator's care.
But twenty little chicks were found,
Nm hundred roasted eggs, unsound,
Was all he got for all his care
He smashed his brooder then and there
His dyspeptic stomach barred the eg,
Nor could it stand the chicken leg.
OF wishbones, thighs, backs and wings
l His tastes were far above such things
With one great burst OF passions swell
i lie consigned the feathered tribes to
WE'LL
l | III not recotd the word he said
1t might offend some pious head.
Now Spooner came with whitefacee
kline.
All marshalled fort in battle line;
His broad sword brand ished through
the air,
. Trade and commerce now demand
J, We till with care our high priced land
Impoverished fields and worn lands