Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-03-12
CONTINUED from Iast week

hHutd H. TINT , dA, huu HoW We uoHH
after some poles"
"Aw. get outr' the two choppers
scoffed. Don't tell us you've cleared
out that streak OF briers. Why. a rab-
bit couldn't get through It,"
NO" admitted Sam. I'VE didn't clear
quite all of 1t ourselves. IL what we
didn't the fire did"
"Oh. you burned It out. did your
sure, we put the Gre to it. and the
rats and rabbits had to hunt a new
country"
WELL" Joe Watson remarked. W
have got the poles for you-abont forty
OF them"
Forty. My. but you must have been
working" Sam congratulated. Forty
will be enough to mend the fence. ]
think"
When 1t came to mending the fence
sam had real reason TO be glad that
his comrades had come With him. By
himself be would have been forced to
tear down a panel OF fence wherever
a rotten rail was TO be replaced. With
help. though. 1t was the work of only
d minute TO pry up the corners and put
IN a new pole.
BY noon the fence had been mended
all round and the boys retired to a
grove Of walnut trees near the branch
to eat their lunches. 'That's Job No.
2 done." said Sam when they were
seated. land goodness knows how long
it would have taken me to do 1t II you
boys hadn't come along"
well. IL wasn't very hard work." re
piled Fred Martin; ''just enough *
ercise in It { o give US a good appe
tite. II you don't believe 1t just watch
what We do TO this bacon and corn
bread and these onions"
MY. but they taste good" snid An
drew. With his mouth full. IFS
strange. but | couldn't eat these AZ
home. and now there's not going 10 br
enough OF It for me-"
The boys all laughed and Snid thar
they were thinking the snme thing.
Sam wouldn't hear TO his cnlimS
working in the afternoon. He Thought
that they had already done enough. 80
they stayed to gather waInnts and ex
plore the creek. while Sam weni off 10
haul ashes and scatter them IN the
acre that was to be his prize patch OF
corn.
Miles Pagan happened to pass along
while Sam was at work and leaned
over the fence to watch him for a
minute.
whats that you're putin on the
land. Sam?" he asked. after he had
watched the boy for some time.
"Ashes." Sam replied. and went on
shoveling.
"Ashes?" Mr.. Pagan questioned. do
you think It'll do any good?"
''Of course do" Sam answered.
"Most anything would do this land
good But didn't you know. Mr.. Fa-
gan. that ashes are q fine fertilizer?"
No. | didn't he said. '.and | don't
yet"
well. they are. anyhow" Sam as
sured him. Two things that crops
have 10 have are potash and phospboric
acid. You know thai ashes contain
potash. and they also contain some
phosphoric acid. a government bull
ietin that borrowed says there are
about eight pounds OF potash and one
third as much pl%iosphoric acid In every
hundred pounds OF COCO ashes."
well. | didn ! know they WAS good
for anything. said Pagan. except to
get I've from 10 make soap"
Sam wasn't promo aud didn't think
that he knew So much more han 9TH
ers. but be liked TO ~ OF nelp when
ever he could.
why don't you send to the depart
ment of agriculture. Mr.. Fagan." he
asked. land get some of the bulletins
1t publishesf We pay for that work.
and why not make use OF 1t? They
experiment n learn a whole lot OF
things that we ought TO know. I've
written for several of the bulletins"
u don't wan anything to do with
such f~oolishness," said Pagan. what
do they know about farmin'Y'
They know a lot" Sam replied,
land they're learning more every day.
Its their business to experiment and
lind out things. You might waste two
or three years experimenting to find
out something hat you could learn in
five minutes by reading a government
bulletin"
Miles Pagan merely grunted in reply.
II wish you'd let Bob join the Boys
Corn club" Sam continued There's
a chance for MIN to win a big prize.
and. besides. it'll teach him how to
grow corn"
Guess | can learn my boy how to
grow corn bout as well as anybody"
said Miles. But Bob and that agent
have been a-pesterin' me to death bout
it. and ] told Bob yesterday that he
could jine II he'd use some o. that
stumpy land over there"
I'm glad OF that" said Sam. and
stopped suddenly. From the lower
edge of the field came a boom that was
like the report OF a small cannon