Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-07-28

MI
UNCLE slLAs HEARD a
FROM ONCE MORE.
Goes Down 10 Post ot1ce and Takes
Part In Warm Discussion.
When coined down to the post
office I'VE call Dan Whitaker's store
the post office" yet tho low these
here new tangled free delivery routes
has put Dan out Of commission a.
postmaster fer several years. Well,
anyway as l was sayin', when I
coined down to the post Office my
supply of smokin' tobacco havin' run
kind o. low-I found Jack Wise. Zeke
Dusty, and Ezriah Bumblepack al
ready there and goin' it full speed
with mufilers off. Ezriah was a sit
tin on soap box gnawin' at a smok-
ed herring with his front tooth-that
is, not a herrin' with front tooth,
but, mean Ezriah with his front
tooth was gnawin' on a herring.
Ezriah is always a eatin' on some
thin and low it's because, havin'
only one tooth to do the work, he has
to spend more time at it. ..
Zeke was a sittin' In his old place
on the -four sacks. You see, that's
his reserved seat by common consent
cause, bein' the feed mill man, his
clothes is all mealy anyway and he
wont be a gettin' hail Columbia from
his wife feer bringin' lot of dust
into the house, like the rest of us
would, I recken, if we coined home
with the stern end of our candal COW
ering all decorated up with Supreme.
And Jack? Well he held the mid
die of the stage. His arms was a
fannin' the air like wind mill and
his voice was keyed up to about high
&c.
jest naturally didn't want to dis
turb the session till I'd kind O. got a
line on the subject under considera.
ton. So slipped quietly in back OF
the stove and sat down long side OF
the prune box.
cts big nuisance" Wise was say
in, this whole bloomin' better farm
in propagander."
Now "propagander" is a mighty big
word fer Jack Wise to use, but we're
all of us gettin' so we can handle some
pretty heavy rhetoric down at Dams
I'm gettin' sick and tired Of all these
here farmers institutes, short cours
es, agricultural schools, county agent!
and farmers clubs and all this tall
about silos, and blooded stock, priz'
corn and consolidated schools and al
falfa and good roads and clover an,
hogs and fancy poultry and sech til
you can't rest. It's all big organ
lied graft, that's ALL" says he, lies
gives lot of professors and hot al
artists a soft snap fiddlin' round tn
kentry while us farmers has got t.
pay fer the fiddlin'. I've run farm
in Minnesota now nigh onto 40 year
land, l reckon, l know about as nue.
ity professors put to gether. Some Q
'em never seed pitchfork."
well, If you know so durn niue
about how to make farmin' pay VIII
don't you ever pay fer them seed oat
you bought from me two years ago?
piped Ezriah and started to chew O
the other end of the herring.
But Wise didn't hear and kept RICH
on. Look at them agercultur
schools. Farmers send their. boy
le down there and they jest get thel
Iyoung heads full of lot of theory an
foolishness that jest means a big e.
g pense. They think that all they nee
ii to do accordin' to this here new metl
e. cd of farmin' is to sit on the iron
# porch and read government bulletin
:. while the their bank account grow
70 so fast they can't count the money
- Now, look a here" says old Da
Whitaker as he pealed bug out tn
:, summer sausage and throwed it int
the stove never takes out tn
much work. Besides the stove come
=, in handy as waste basket, spittoo1
match striker and one thing another
40 1.-THE trouble with you farmers
~ you're too fraid of up-to-date method
u in farmin'. If you knew how to far1
- right you'd be getting rich stead c
bowling and kickin' agin everything
e We don't figure out things ahead. An
y even If you could you wouldn't be abb
y to get out of the rut We have been i
le fer 20 years. I've been merchan
y most my life but I've observed a thin
le or two about farmin' too"
IL Well sir; Ezriah's mouth jest stol
* ped dead, and he looked over at m
~ and grinned. sort of shifted positio
Il myself and pulled out my jack knit
5: and began to white on a pine sticl
III But didn't say nothin'. Dams tali1
u bout up-to-date methods was prett
humorous alright, seeing as how h
D. himself keeps his accounts on bits G
le wrappin' paper and paper bags hun
le up on nail, and as how he keep
u his COLLEGES on top Of the molasse
u barrel.
Il But Wise wasn't to be headed of
He kept right on with the spark sc
jest right for smooth runnin'. can
now they's even gone so far as t
Of teach agriculture and what them call
le manual training and domestick sign
N and sech truck in the public school!
IF Why it's ridiculous. That's what
le is. Now I haint sayin' nothin' gin
le girl learnin' to cook a good mea
r. That rather meals to one AZ a goo