St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-05-19

ION. you burned Il ont. did your
Sure. we put the fire to it. and thu
rats and rabbits had to hunt a new
country"
WELL" Joe Watson remarked, wv,
have got the poles for you-about forty
OF them"
Forty! My. but you must have beer
working" Sam congratulated. Forty
will be enough to mend the fence.
think"
When 1t came to mending the fence
Sam had real reason to be glad thai
his comrades had come with him. By
himself he would have been forced t.
tear down a panel OF fence wherever
a rotten rail was to be replaced With
help. though. it was the work of only
minute TO pry up the corners and put
in a new pole.
By noon the fence had been mended
all round and the boys retired to a
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 how long
it would have taken me to do it If you
boys hadn't come along"
well. it wasn't very hard work." re-
piled Fred Martin: lust enough ex-
ercise in ii to give US q good appe
tite. If 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 | 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. so
they stayed to gather walnuts and ex
pIore the creek. while Sam went off to
haul ashes and scatter them on the
acre that was to be his prize patch of
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 be had
watched the boy for some time.
Ashes" Sam replied. and went OH
shoveling.
"AshesT' Mr.. Pagan questioned. 'sDo
you think lt'n do any goOdT' 8e
''Of course do" Sam answered.
Most anything would do this land
good But didn't you know. Mr. Fla.
gan, that ashes are fine fertilizer2''
mo. didn't" be said, land l. 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. 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 be knew so much more than 9TH
ers. 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.
and why not make use OF ttf They
experiment and learn a 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 farmin'T
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 End
out something that you could learn in
five minutes by reading a government
bulletin"
Miles Pagan merely grnnted in reply.
II wish you'd let Bob join the Boys
Corn club" Sam continued There's
a chance for MIN to win a big prize,
and. besides. it'll teach him how to
grow corn
Guess I 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 he
could jfne 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 a boom that was
ike the report of a small cannon
We'll. there goes some of my
stumps." remarked the young farmer
Guess ri go down and watch a few
Df EN- jump ont OF the ground
want to see how it's done"
Continued next week.