News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-03-17

well" Joe Watson remarked. 1--WE
have got the poles for yon-abouS forty
VI them"
Forty. My, but yon must have been
working" Sam congratulated. Forty
will be enough TO mend the fence,
think"
When 1t came to mendiDg the fence
Sam had real reason 10 be glad tina
his comrades had come With him. by
himself he would have been forced TO
tear down panel OF fence wherever
rotten rail was 10 be replaced With
help. though. II was the work Of only
minute to pry up the corners and put
in new pole
BY noon the fence had been mended
all round and the boys retired TO Il
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 bow long
it would have taken me to do II If yon
boys hadn't come along
well. it wasn't very hard work" re-
piled Fred Martin; lust enough ex-
ercise in it TO give us a good appe'
tite. If you don't believe 1t just watch
what we do 10 this bacon and corn
bread and these onions "
My hut they taste good" said An
drew. with his mouth full. ITS
strange but | couldn't eat these at
home. and now there's not going to be
enough of il for me ="
The boys all laughed and said that
they were thinking the same thing
Sam wouldn't hear TO his chums
working in the afternoon. He thought
that they had already done enough. so
they stayed to gather walnnts and eX'
plore the creek. while Sam went off to
haul ashes and scatter them on the
corn
Miles Pagan happened to pass along
while Sam was at work and leaned
over the fence to watch him for
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'l do any goodT'
"Ot course | do" Sam answered.
Most anything would do this land
good But didn't you know. Mr. Fa-
gan, that ashes are fine fertilizerT"
mo. l didn't" be said. land don't
yet
We'll. they are, anyhow" Sam as
sured him. 1.-TWO things that crops
have to have are potash and phosphoric
acid. You know that ashes contain
potash, and they also contain some
phosphoric acid. A government bull
letin that borrowed says there are
about eight pounds of potash and one
third as much phosphoric acid in every
hundred pounds Of good ashes"
well. didn't know they was good
for anything" said Pagan, Except to
get I've from to make soap"
Sam wasn't proud and didn't think
that ne knew so much more than 9TH
ers. but be liked to be of help when.
ever he could
why don't you send to the depart
ment Of agriculture, Mr.. Pagan" he
asked. and get some OF the bulletins
ii publishesi We pay for that work,
and why not make use OF it? They
experiment and learn whole lot OF
things that we ought to know. I've
written for several of the bulletins"
81 don't want anything to do with
such foolishness," said Pagan. What
do they know about tarmin =
They know a lot" Sam replied.
land they're learning more every day.
It's their business to experiment and
find out things. You might waste two
or three years experimenting to find
out something that you could learn in
five minutes by reading ii government
bulletin"
Miles Pagan merely grunted in reply.
81 wish you'd let Bob join the Boys
Corn club" Sam continued There's
Il chance for him to win a big prize,
and. besides. it'll teach MIN 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, ana ! told Bob yesterday that he
ronld jine If 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 boom that was
like the report of a small cannon.
We'll. there goes some OF my
stumps," remarked the young farmer.
Guess I'll go down and watch a few
Of 'em jump out of the ground l
want to see how it's done"
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