Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-09-14

nave resulted IN increasing tile price
Of these commodities somewhat, one
has the satisfaction Of knowing when
he buys them that he is getting what
he pays for. Besides this should be
taken into account the fact that paints
mixed with good oil are far more dura.
BILE than those adulterated.
It Is interesting to note the efforts
Of both corn and potatoes just now to
recuperate from the effects Of long
continued drought and reproduce them
selves. Stalks of corn with lower
leaves fred are putting out new silks
and pathetic tassels, while potato
vines that it did not seem possible
could survive have been feathered out
at their tips with new green shoots.
It is q far cry from the Chinese
wheatfield Of two or three acres, hand
planted and hand hoed, to the 1000
acre grain ranch in the Dakotas and
Montana, where thirty acres day are
plowed with a gas or steam tractor
hooked on to eight or ten plows and
where all subsequent operations, in
Guiding disking, seeding, reaping and
thrashing, are done by the same power
and on a like scale.
In certain districts of England the
guinea pig is being put to a very prac-
teal use as an exterminator of weeds
on private lawns and golf grounds.
The area to be cleared is surrounded
with low wire fencing and the little
fellows turned in. They attack the
dandelion, plantain and daisy in the
order named, and. while they keep the
grass nibbled close, they do not kill it.
Here would seem to be cheap sub
stitute for a lawn mower and elbow
grease.
The secret Of digging out from an
Indebtedness incurred in the purchase
of a farm, If secret there be, consists
in a complete concentration Of both
energy and funds on the one object in
view. This means that the farmer
who would quit paying interest at the
earliest possible moment should not
get balled up with a steam thrashing
outfit or attempt to handle an auto
mobile agency. Either one is enough
to dissipate the energies Of the best
man that ever lived.
The kind of green goods. shell game
blue sky real estate propositions that
folks are getting caught on most every
day leads to the very trite observation
that a person should have graduated
from diapers and nursing bottle be-
fore undertaking an investment of
thousands of dollars in new country.
the only knowledge Of which has been
obtained through the alluring descrip-
tons Of real estate agents. This kind
of sucker seems to be thicker than
spatter and is born and caught every
day.
The evolutionary theory of animal
which holds that the
wren harks back to the same ancestor
as the eagle. a mouse the same as a
seems strangely negatived in
the steriity of the hybrid crosses of
even species that are closely allied
e. &, the jack and mare, the buffalo
and domestic COW, the Canada and
tame goose. The offspring of these
unions are barren, but why the most
evOlutiOnists cannot tell
Nature has put up her finger and said.
Thus far shalt thou go, but no far
Their"
The tremendous force of lightning
bolt is shown in many instances which
are of common occurrence. Perhaps
in no way is this power more effective
ly shown than when Il bolt skaters Il
large tree. This happened a short time
ago during a storm which passed over
the section in which the writer lives
The lightning struck huge cotton
wood tree and knocked 1t to splinters
One of these, more than four feet long
and rs big as ones wrist. was hurled
a distance Of twelve rods from the
front of one farm home across the
road ana into the yard or q ne1gnDor.
The beneficial effects coming from
|utting in extensive intercounty drain
lge systems in Il number Of sections of
Minnesota and Iowa are now fairly
apparent. Country that previously
would grow practically nothing in wet
seasons but wild hay are this year
covered with bumper crops of corn or
)lve produced paying crops Of wheat.
PATS or fax. This condition has been
fastened by two dry seasons, but in
seasons Of norma! rainfall the improve
nent in the condition OF the soil as a
'esult Of proper drainage will be very
noticeable. Il has taken n whole lot
II persuasion and some litigation to
.et a few farmers to look at this drain
lgc proposition in the right light, but