The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24

an acre that surrounds my house and
took look at the situation.
The whole lawn needed rolling.
A lot OF the soil was receding and
needed reseeding.
Several crimson ramblers needed
Itrellising
The grape vines were unpruned.
L An elm tree that I've been keeping
close cut and round topped was arm
ed with limbs ten feet I'm every direc-
ton and had TO be cut back.
The corecopsis bed needed clean
ing on.
A whole row of rosa rugosa needed
dividing up and resetting to make
closer hedge.
Some OF the Ivy about a stone wall
was lying down and needed TO be
fastened In the direction IL should be
headed
The litter about the roots of all the
rhododendron ought TO have been TAX
en- away weeks ago before the first
symptoms OF spring warmth was no
ticeable.
The dead dogwood In the place
where We never can make a dogwood
grow-but always keep trying-should
have been pulled up.
The remains OF the Christmas tree
hadn't even been disposed Of
The old Lombardy poplar that died
last summer and was replaced with a
Norway maple still lay on the terrace
and should have been taken away
weeks and months ago.
Lettuce should have been sowed in
the cold frames.
started in pots.
A lot OF dead wood on the big trees
next 10 the street should be cut out.
The wistaria vine that had climbed
all around an eavespout last summer
and threatened TO divorce the spout
entirely from the house-wasnt IL
this spring that ! was going TO fix that
positively?
The clematis had used up all it's
trellis last summer and stood straight
up in the air blossoming for dear life
till, looping over with its weight OF
white and fragrant bloom. 1t bowed its
head in supplication for more wire
worlds TO conquer.
With all those thing to do. was
talking about getting a farm!
Why, there's nobody in the world
with so little land that the little he
has cannot enslave him and keep him
from having time for anything else
For a lot. TO conscientious man
is like a wife. No matter how insig
nificant or unworthy either is, II (o'
she) can claim every bit OF mans
time and attention, can form an out
let. and a provocation for all its anxi
cites. can use up all his money anC
still need improving. And, in the
language OF the late p Henry, Il
this be treason, | never said It,"
So shall not buy farm this year
| shall not rotate crops as intended
yet awhile. | shall not buy some her
ponies this fall and raise baby Shet
lands next spring, raise corn next yea
fatten hogs right there on the place
and sell them. shall not SOW alfalf;
in a few fields the second year ant
/ sow clover in some others, and raise
enough potatoes for ourselves anC
maybe some to sell-you can Away
sell potatoes. And you've no ide'
how much money there is in onions
Oh, you know the line Of talk! An
chickens-anybody can make none
out of the chicken business-a grea
deal more out of ii than In II II h
carries any side line and isn't nal
ural-born hen-granny
Thus doth the human being grow
insane and become enthusiastic an,
incoherent and everything like tina
in the gentle springtime.
But II man has piece OF groun'
, as much as ten feet square IL can ot
cupy every spare moment he has an
thus can save him from that form
: OF insanity that leads many a mai
to buy q farm when he has neither tn
time nor the ability TO run it.-Chi
cago News