Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-04

~ ana sabsaAs had - hunt . new
.Wsil.. ~ wAtsos niaarksd. .'we
havs ct ~ poles Sor - about forty
q thsm."
1Toetyl Nv. bat you must have been
wosking." Sam congratulated. Forty
will BE- enough to mend the fence. I
think"
When Il came to msnding the fence
Sam had real reason to be glad that
bis comrades had come With him. BY
himself ho would have been forced to
tear down q panel Of fence wherever
. rotten rail was TO b replaced. With
help. though, It was the work Of only
minute to pry up the corners and put
IN now pole.
By noon tho fence had been mended
III round and the boys retired to
grove Of walnut trees near the branch
70 eat their lunches. That's job No.
2 DONE" said Sam when they were
seated. '.and goodness knows how long
It would have taken me to do It II you
boys hadn't come along"
''well IL wasn't very hard work. !" re-
piled Fred Martin: "just enough ex-
erciss in It to give ~ good Ape
lite. II you don't believe It just watch
what we do to this bacon and corn
bread and these onions"
my. but they taste good said An.
drew. with his mouth full. Its
strange. but l couldn't eat these at
home. and now there's not going to be
enough Of It 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. 80
they stayed to gather walnuts and ex-
plore the creek. while Sam went Oh to
haul ashes and scatter them on the
acre that was to be bis prize patch Of
corn.
Miles Pagan happened to pass along
while Sam was at work and leaned
over the fence to watch him for q
minute.
What's that you're putin on the
land. SamT he asked. after he had
watched the boy for some time:
"Ashes," Sam replied, and went ON
shoveling.
"AshesT' Nj. Pagan questioned. DO
you think It'll do any good?"
'tOf course do" Sam answered.
"Most anything would do this land
good. But didn't you know. Mr.. Fa-
gan. that ashes are fine fertilizer?"
mo. didn't be said. land don't
yet
well. they are. anyhow" Sam as
sured him. 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 phosph0ric acid in every
hundred pounds Of good ashes"
well, didn't know they was good
for anything said Pagan. except to
get lye from to make soap"
Sam wasn't proud and didn't think
that be knew so much more than 9TH
era. but he liked to be Of help when,
ever he could.
why don't you send to the depart
ment OF agriculture, Mr.. Pagan" he
asked. land get some of the bulletins
It publishes? We pay for that work.
aud Why not make use OF 1T They
experiment and learn whole lot OF
things that We ought to know. I've
written for several Of the bulletins"
Il don't want anything to do with
such foolishness." said Pagan. What
do they know about farmin'T'
''They know a lot" Sam replied,
-and they're learning more every day.
It's their business to experiment and
nnd ont things. You might waste two
OF three years experimenting to dnd
out something that you could learn in
I'VE minutes By reading government
bulletin.
Miles Pagan merely grunted in reply.
II wish you'd let Bob Join the Boys
Corn club" Sam continued. There's
chance for him to win 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 be
could jine IL 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
Ike the report Of small cannon.
"Well. there goes some Of my
stumps." remarked the young farmer.
Guess I'll 20 down and watch few
Of 'em jump ont Of the ground. l
want to see how it's DONE"
Ito Be Contirusd)
+ The Himalayas was the last OF the
high mountain ranges to be climbed.
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