Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-08
CHAT

This chat will probably be about the
last I shall write during this visit 70
Florida: a pleasant visit. and one ! shall
cherish until I am able TO come again.
Today. March -. the corn Is beauti-
full. the beans are in fun bloom and we
are planted extensively and some are
boasting Of their blooms. further south
they are being marketed
A man said last year he beat the record
with his carly corn. He stepped off 70
steps square and planted Country Gentle
men on IT. He sold $50 worth OF II and
had a lot TO harden
j. " Edmondson had about One-third
OF an acre in strawberries and sold 800
quarts. The culls he gave TO the pick
ers He also sold nearly 1900 plants
The little patch" cleared about 5000
The berries are month late this year,
consequently there will not be as large
a crop. They are gathered three times
a week. and every time ! wonder where
so many came from IL takes trained
fingers 10 work among berries; they must
be Just SO ripe, and no ripper" or they
will not keep. can pick pretty well
for an amateur. but an expert can pick
about Is quarts an hour Two and one
half cents per quart is paid the pickeTs,
and there is one boy here who comes
up every other day and makes his IS
cents in the afternoon They are picked
I'm the afternoon. are emptied. basketful
at a time. and the overripe and imper-
feet ones taken out. the good ones care
fully put hack. the basket given slight
Jar or Jolt to settle them and then they
are topped That consists of a solid
layer put on top. well fitted i'm to keep
them firm Then. early next morning
they are delivered TO the grocer. who
handles them. This variety is the Lady
Thompson. a delicious berry for home
and a close market. but il will not bear
shipment
Now / am going to tell the chicken
eranks what my sister does for the
hawks: She feeds nux vomica to her
little chickens. That drug viii not hurt
person unless the dose is tremendous.
but a hesping teaspOOnful in a pint
meal and fed once every other day 10
dozen little chickens win make way with
the hawk that eats one OF those chick
ems
I heard a woman say that when she
moved TO Florida the hammock was so
fun OF hawks that she had to resort TO
an active campaign or have no chickens.
She did not have any nux vomica. but
che did have strychnine. so she put a
Piece as big as a pin head in a pinch of
lard and Amounted the top of every lit
tie chickens head. She soon almost
cleared her side OF the hammock OF
hawks and had the pleasure OF knowing
that some four-footed beasts got caught
with the same bate
The chicken cranks here tell me that
rhey scald their nests with sal soda I'm
the boiling water and have better results
than with carbolic acid. With meat as
high as IL is and no prospects of its
dropping. IL behooves the home maker
TO have an eve on her chickens and gath
er M the eggs There is nothing like
cooking after the sO-called little things
about place
used 10 hear by mother say of neigh
bor: she can throw more out of the
Nindow than her husband can send
through the door" AMI when l see the
waste that goes on in some homes L
wonder how the husband has the heart
70 continue to try 20 IIOvide- II should
be the aim OF every woman TO deserve
these lines as a description OF herself:
"Her little feet fare through the every
Ways
OF toll and traffic. her small hand is set
TO the long task-work Of the every-days;
In binding heat or when the winds are
with chilly rain and snow. Alto and
At MON and eve. her willing footsteps
so.
Beneath her tread the path of duty lies
Thorny and stony oft. Above her head
The seen and unseen glory Of GODS
skies
His night-His day. AS flowers their fra
GRANGE shed,
so breathes the fragrance OF her soul
abroad
To all the world. and back again. TO
God"
Faithfully yours.
LIZZIE q. THOMAS