Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-29

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Delaware that during a storm vas
struck by lightning, its feathers all
taken off from 1t thereby and yet
lives.
How many OF you as you live in
a section of a country get acquainted
with the life around you, the differ.
ent types of humans, the animals, the
birds, the weeds and grasses, the
crCis raised, etc. Well, We happen
to be one who does to some extent
From boyhood we have known the
crops, the different weeds, grasses,
etc.. the birds and animals.
When we came here we watched
for birds that we knew, the brown
thrush, the robin, the meadow lark,
the black bird the men, the canary
the black bird, the wren, the canary,
the swallow, etc, then we saw a vel,
low breasted bird, with black tail
and drab back that we did not know.
We have never taken steps to know,
The wife's mother while here told of
seeing an oriGle. That was our
stranger. We had noted n dark blue
blockbird like the cat bird OF Iowa
but had not heard the cry until this
year-it's the rat bird. Here we found
the thunder pumper, the hawk, the
crow, etc, but no turkey buzzard, no
butcher bird. We have not seen he
martcn- Here we saw for the first
time the pelican. Bob White Is hero
but moi in numbers such as in south
ern Iowa. The dainty little humming
bird Te'ge never seen here either.
Once we saw in Fred BorWn's grove a
genuine southern red bird, a beauty
of a fellow, Yes, and the bobollnk is
here but are very few in southern
Iowa. Felix, we'd miss our f%eathered
friends, ] believe, if all were to go.
/ know tae writer would.
The following we clipped from the
DEBORAH Qa) Republican. A while
ago we heard quite a bit about the
Ford going up on high. Well, here's
a case where the REQ, the Maxwell,
ETC., did come going up: "A week
or SO ago DR.. Conrad with his
steamer, climbed the court house
steps. Lei! Morrison heard of it. and,
having t~ga+aence in his REQ, turned
his machine last Thursday and went
up the steps and the walk nearly to
the court house itself, turned around
and came back without accident. Ole
Simonson, seeing the trick, followed
Dell with his old Maxwell and also
turned the trick very neatly. What
these bubble machines will do next is
something we cannot tell. Those Of
this county who know the court house
will fully understand what a difficult
matter it Is. II u grandfathers had
been told that 1t could be done, some.
thing that the best team of horses
could not do, they would have thought
we were all fit for the crazy house
The following which is clipped from
a farm paper might interest some
body. Having had, on a small scale.
some experience this year with white
sweet clover, we will say that If this
yellow variety does produce a finer, 8
more leafy hay, and is as good other
ways AZ the white type it is ahead
we believe. Our white clover was
very coarse. talky hay and we cut
1t early, too; about as 0 as would
do. The only yellow sweet clover we
have eve e and the only plants
OF the which we know is a little patch
OF the west side Of Mr.. L, G. Tracy's
hog pasture. near the southwest cor.
ner. out lii the road, We noticed Ii
this zee and gathered some of 1t. II
appeared as this Illinois farmer states
to be much finer stems tlan ourwhite
Note also what this man states of the
seed crop. II don't believe farmers
appreciate the value Of yellow sweet
clover as compared to the white va
rieties. There is a good deal the
same difference that there lis between
Medium red clover and Mammoth
red clover. Yellow sweet clover does
not grow quite as tall as the white,
nor does 1T produce as much hay, but
the leaves and branches grow thicker
on each stalk are more slender, pro
duce more foliage and the hay is Of
Amer quality than Of the white.
yellow sweet clover will produce
seed than the white, since the
seed natures quite uniformly. Con
sequentIy most Of the seed can be
saved when cut and threshed. White
sweet clover blossoms and natures
Its seed during several months, so
that only part of the seed can be
saved Where IT Is to be used for
hog pastures the yellow variety has
the added advantage that its foliage
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