American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-01

= DO hate for you and Florence to
miss any Of the school. said Mrs
Powell
"I'd forgotten TO tell you. mother.
said her son. that school will he ont
Ia April Wen miss only "A week or
two They bad 10 cut the session short
because they've run out OF money 10
pay the teachers"
We'll. that's moi 50 bad" Mrs. Pow
ell reflected Although you miss
school. just the same. it really cans
be helped"
The next day being Friday. Sam
went down 10 the stable after school
hours and hauled the first load Of ma
nure home 50 az to be in readiness To
drive 20 the farm next morning with
his companions. who were 10 be on
hand ut the appointed hour
Early Saturday mQrning the boys
Fred. Joe aud Andrew were on hand
at the appointed hour. Sam soon had
the horse hltched to the loaded wagon
and the four boys rolled away over the
gravelly road 10 the farm
In an hours time they had reached
their destination. aud the horse was
Embarrassed and turned loose to Craze
In the field Sam found the farm In q
worse condition than he had expected
and he had expected 1t to be bad Bri
ers and bushes and tall grass grew
thick along the rail- fence all around
the deld Here aud there next to the
ground rails had rotted and allowed
hogs to come In or go out at will The
last tenants hadn't taken ans trouble
to mend these gaps, and the hogs that
ran outside had destroyed a part OF
the crops for two or three years
"Myi There's certainly some work
to do here" Sam remarked
whats to dor Fred Martin asked
For the first thing" Sam replied
this fence row Is 10 clean out. and
then III have 10 cut some poles to put
In the place OF those rotten rails"
Let me and Joe cut the poles" said
Fred while o and Andrew clean
out the fence row Where's the AK
u how long must the poles be2''
go ahead. Fred. you and joe" broke
IN Andrew, smiling I'VE know Won
don't like the looks Of these hriers ana
bushes, but Wen not Kick
"lOu'l lind the AK IN the wagon.
said Sam 'und you can cut the poles
ihe Same length as the fence rails. /
think they're about ten feet long"
When Fred and Joe had gone down
In fhn NlAAIa 2ufu Iw.trft l-4-.
hook and a sharp g%rubbing hoe with
which 20 begin work on the tangled
mass along the fence.
My he exclaimed. but that's 90
ing 10 be "A woolly job, Those BOYS
had ma eye to business. Andrew. when
hey took the %chopping. II does seem
IKE there ought ~ be some easier and
quicker way Of doing II than this"
"llow long do you think Il VIII mke
lsf asked Andrew
Wen. ala think az FIRST" replied
Snm that it wouldn't take long But
ioW since I've had a second look al
g. I thiuk wc won't more than get
siartcd good today
$50 Vc could burn lt out FIRST. sug
se~lUd ANDREW. ut wouldn't be nearl,
so bad
"No, but we'd burn up the fence"
Couldn't we follow along with wa
ter and pat out the rails when they
caught dreT"
Good for you. andrew sam ex
claimed That's the very idea The
Gre will burn mp nearly an the bushes
ANA Tie ana hiu all the bon weeyils
ana other Insects that are wlnterlng In
there at the same time. That's why
fence rows ought not 10 grow up like
TINS Insects live Ia there In winter
lnd come ont 10 work on the crops In
summer"
Wen, lets get the water aud start
our dre. I'm anxious To see how II
works. said Andrew
81 have two barrels up at the house
sam explained Wen unload the
wagon aud 60 mp and haul them down
fun of water
The horse waS harnpssed again. the
manure scattered aud the boys were
soon back with two barrels Of water
and ~ bucket The fire was started
and allowed 10 burn only IN one direc
tion TIE way the wind carried II
sam followed close behind with the
bucket and. poured water on the rails
that NOW and then took dre. Andrew
lrovr the wagon alongside and redlled
INC bucket from the barrels FOR sam
once the ire had got well started IL
burned rapidly aud in a very short
wh 10 &c had gone entirely around the
heid Nothing remained OF the matted
tangle except a few charred bushes
1nd coarse hriers Taking the brier
hoob and tho clubbing hoe. sam and
Andrew had Those all down in less than
lu hour
Well tnat Jobs done sum eNclaim
ri whom thcy mad finished. and %
wasn't half rs narl MS q Thought IL
was going 90 De-
"lf we hadn't u-lrcd out % new WA,
to DO H. though &c would have boon
hard nnnrrk 4l0F AnI..t.