Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-18

HIGHLAND AND kAMPEskA.

We took a load of good potatoes
to the city of Watertown, Saturday
last. We were rather coldly received
no enthusiasm shown toward our
arrival i'll town with said spuds. We
had anticipated such a thing, yet,
nevertheless, it hurt, the GOODNESS.
We had been used to marked atten-
ton. The yea previous in the gen
tie springtime when We hauled in
some potatoes and when we said
beans all the populace set up and took
notice, but now, alas. a change has
taken place; the heart of the urbanite
no longer thrills at the words pota-
toes and beans. AS / say, n is CIV
en- a decidedly cold welcome when he
is accompanied by either potatoes or
beans. Still it becometh appropriate,
good business policy, genuine patriot
ism, etc, to raise potatoes and beans.
Mr.. Wing l(formerly Of Richland)
was a business visitor to Watertown
Saturday. He stated all wall and
farm work progressing in fine shape.
Nj. Wing is putting in a large crop
and in good shape, too. Also plans
Il 1O-acre patch OF potatoes this year,
lhtyt pay " III dS q Ivy
themselves, but also by the increase
in grain yields in two years follow
ing. Speaking of potatoes, Mr.. Wing
related to the writer that he always
uses STACKED lime in his potatoes,
scattering it through them as he places
them in bins. This treatment, said
Mr.. Wing, prevents rotting, stops any
rotting already started and in every
way helped to dry and preserve the
tubers. In no way, said he, does it
seem harmful or Objectionable at all.
We told Mr.. Wing that the use of lime
in potatoes reminded us of a little
article we read in System on the
Farm" Ga very worthy magazine, by
the way in which a gentleman de-
sclIbed his method of using salt in
soft and immature corr as he shoveled
it into a crib. Kept a great deal bet
Ter, he asserted. Try these sometime,
mister.
Just received a daily paper in which
it states that the public is opposed to
cially on the Fourth of July, and this
same paper prints cuts of the COVER
nOrs of two states who go or record
as utterly opposed to said fight. We
hope you all read their statements
and in your hearts eheered the men
and the splendid sentiment they ut
tered. We earnestly hope every gov
ernor will follow suit. decidedly. .un-
hesitatingly.
We are. firm in the belief that
thousands of worthless dogs ought to
be killed at this time to save food
and that any prize fight during the
war Tor several years a%fterward) is
absolutely out of order, unpatriotic
ey spent in, a like way. AS sure as
you live, reader, we, our country,
America, has tackled the biggest job
ever undertaken and we need to hus-
band every dollar, every pound of
food, every item of equipment, every
atom Of physical force. every parties
OF moral and spiritual vigor.
And talking about the paper, do you
know every American home at this
time should have come to it for it's
enlightenment, encouragement and in
sa;rati1n the Red Cross Magazine
aid Association Men. All! sir, the
work and the worth of it, genuine
hard-shelled, business, practical Worth
of it--that's what W. ment-of the
Red Cross and the Y. NJ. C. A., sir,
it's grand, it's magnificent. it's noble.
And, sir, it's helping most nightly
in making and keeping the American
army, u boys, the best, cleanest,
finest armed force of men the old
world has ever seen. God keep them
SO, How they loom up, sir, In COM
parison to the iowness, the deyiiish-
ness, the unmnnliness, the bestiality.
the inmuhanity, the crime, debauch-
cry and savagery of the army of III
foe. And happily, too, this also APP
plies to the rest of the men opposed
to the central powers.
We have in mind, Mr.. Editor. a tri-
butte, the best that we in our crowded
time are able to pencil, to a mother