The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-15
THROUGH NEBRASKA
vermonters Find Winter Wheat and Aft
alta, Latter Already Harvested.

on school grounds. Here in the Yves
they are large compared with the Eas
There are four autos and IA people in on
camp, all bound for the coast. We ha
the heaviest rains last night any OF u
remember to have seen. Thunder show
ers continuous for about six hours. w
four family have cot beds, SO we wer
above the water line, but Dix family ha
to climb into their car to keep from float
ing away, or Mt least to prevent bein
soaked from beneath. We are all strand
ed here for the day and perhaps Longer
They call this mud here gumbo mud.
car could not get 10 rods on this roa
this morning. 1t appears we have bee
going too fast and have caught up wit
the rains, which have for the past tw
weeks been about one or two days ahea'
of us. 1t seems that this storm has beef
passing west INSTEAD of its usual course
east. They say they have not had sucl
soaking for five years. We have strucl
what is naturally dry country.
One car that is camping with us il
from Pennsylvania and one from Con
necticut. We are on the Omaha, Lincoln
and Denver route.
| We had to make many detours yester
day on account of flooded streams Wher
we crossed the Mississippi at Clinton il
was only. about three-fourths of mile
wide When we crossed the Missouri al
Omaha, that was about mile wide
When we crossed the Platte, which OF
course is only branch of the other
streams, it was two miles wide generally
The first 100 miles of Nebraska we
passed through contained some of the
best farming lands seen, with nice COM
modous farm buildings. The first crop
Of hay, mostly alfalfa, has generally been
harvested. A good deal OF the alfalfa is
stacked in the fields. Yesterday we saw
a different method of stacking. Two
horses were hitched to long rake, one
to each end They dragged it to the
stacker and onto the long prongs The
horses kept going along, one on each
side of the stack, and the horses, pulling,
raised the prongs and threw the hay to
the top of the stack.
We stopped about one hour yesterday
at the Nebraska Agricultural college at
Lincoln, N. B. We looked over the dairy
and butter making departments. If Bry-
an has got home, we did not see him.
understand he has resigned as secretary
of state. | hope so, for the good of the
country. He is best fitted for the lecture
field.
There is one thing, among many 9TH
ers, that puzzles us here IN the West.
Where we camp, we buy milk at the
nearest house. We ask the women the
name of the town or township where
they live. Not one in 10 can tell the
name of the town or township las it is
called here in the Vest, but they will
all tell the name of the county. The
men will tell the name of the township.
but always speak the name of the county
at the same time. County comes first in
all matters here. The schools are in
charge of three directors in each town
ship.
The first our party ever saw of listed
corn is here in the West. Listing corn is
blowing furrow with two mould pillow
from eight inches to foot deep and
planting corn at the bottom of the fur
row. They say it is going out of prac-
sice here now, as it is of doubtful benefit. |
q o'clock. We are still here at our
,amping place, as the roads are unfit for
.ravel.
FRIDAY, June H. All four autos got
'eady at 1880 and we started again on
,ur trip. Our acquaintance OF a few |
lays in the other autos put on their |
,hains before they started, but we, hav
ng travelled nearly 1000 miles without, |
thought we did not need them, but be-
ore we had gone II miles we found we
we're mistaken and were not well ac-
luainted with gumbo mud. However, We
oon got acquainted, for we had to put
IN our chains in the mud in rut foot
eep and run with our chains all day, and
re now stopping with the family of a
ousin OF ours at Juniata, Neb, where
We shall stop and rest up until Monday
norning. We are not tired, though and
re all of us in good health, and we all
ay we have not felt better for years and
think we have actually gained in
reight. They insist on our going into
he house to sleep, but we have pitched
ur tents and had much rather sleep in
hem, although il looks like rain.
The towns we came through to-day
'ere small, except Hastings, which is n
vely town with over 400 inhabitants,
nth paved streets. This is the first
avs travelling in which we have passed
Trough one-half dozen or more places
18th paved streets. We stopped at Hast
lgs about two hours, filled our tanks
18th l5-cent gasoline and Dix aud went
D a barber shop and got shaved and are
rying to look like civilized beings. We
OF lot of advice there as to what route
'e should take west of here. Advice
ere in the West Is cheap. and we
,uldnt possibly follow all the advice
wen us even at Hastings. There seems
, be a clique in every large place that
ather around tourists and try 10 get
lem to take certain roads west. AZ
hicsgo and Omaha, while stopping in
le streets. crowds would gather around
80 dense ~ TO obstruet both street
ID sidewalk and We had TO be moved on
= the police. The police and people
i've always been respectful 10 u.s.
Since We left Vermont. and = short
stance before, the highways outside the
sveled track were mostly covered with
growth Of sweet clover. bot to-day we ,
We seen very little. Our old-fashioned a
gweed takes IL place. On the route y
! have Travelled to-day, wheat has been .,
p orop-winter pheat-miles and miles
Il. with scarcely any other crop.
We are stopping with the widow and
n Of Wallace Camp. VIM 80 years ago
med and run rake factory a Brook
ID pond village. Hs sold Out and came