American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-01-22

ways when it comes to being industri-
Gus. Here it is almost the close Of
the year and still I am at work day
ana night, spreading seed right and
left so IT viii have an early start in
the spring. I'll tell you another
thing; lots of farmers are real glad
that their grain is growing so nicely
thls hne open winter, but ION the quiet)
the seed have spread is growing just
as nicely. There's nothing like an
early start, you know.
"Of course, l have many enemies
the same as you have. The other day
l picked up a newspaper while rolling
across a field Of fall seeded wheat and
saw three different items on one page
containing a roast for me That
highlander who wrote the stuff even
said that farmers should burn me up;
now, what do you think of that? The
dickens of it is that some Of the
ranchers have done that very thing
while a bunch Of US was hung up
against a wire fence; had they waited
a while longer our re-enfOrcements
would have broken the fence down and
by this time would have been rolling
somewhere across the mountains TO
the west Of Arbon valley to see how
things are over there. On the way
across the country we would have
fixed the fields all along the route.
for my tribe does not care a CONT
mental for anybody. Our business is
70 grow faster than the grain and show
that we are master; that is the idea
II one farmer works necessarily
and stays after US until late in the
day, that makes no difference at all:
Wen grow in some other fellows field
and when cumming time comes along
we will just begin to roll across the
hard-working farmers fields and
spread u seed. And we take bloom
ing good care not TO SOW it all in one
field. You can pick up one of the
members Of the tribe anywhere. even
after it has rolled along for miles and
miles, and still you will find plenty of
seed in it. AS long as the farmers
don't get together and 20 after us in
unison Wen have easy picking-seed
ing, l can This thing of trying to
stop US with a fence doesn't amount 10
a great deal, for when we get hung I'D
we just await endorsements and if
we can't break the fence down some
OF us always succeed in getting over
the top; then a breeze gives us a swift
kick and once we get a good start at
rolling it is hard TO stop US.
"Oh, yes; We have enemies. but it
takes united effort to get rid of US.
One mar over at a place called Crys-
tai had a laundering idea last fall.
though. We had covered his field so
thick with our growth that when he
came along one Sunday morning he
put up a harsh line of talk and came
near blistering us with the warmth OF
It; then he went home and came back
in a little while and ran an apparatus
across the field hat laid whole rows
of our tribe low. In a few DAYS he
came back again with a number al lit
tie sticks in his hand and he walked
from row TO row every time he came
TO a row he swiped one of these little
sticks cross some of his wearing ap-
parel and touched it to the row of fall
en- members of my tribe, and then a
flame shot up and devoured the whole
works. That surely was a warm expe-
rience for us and the sad part of the
tale is that the same farmer went over
some other fields and did the same
thing over and owe again.
Il saw a funny thing one time. I
call tell YOU; 1 saw a man take a pitch
fork on a nice quiet day and throw a
whole big bunch OF us away from a
fence, out into the middle of the road.
Pretty soon a fellow came along in a
buggy which ran by itself, without any
horses. and he got his wagon so badly
tangled up in our stuff that he had TO
stop. Good gracious. but that fellow
did use some awful words about US
and the man who forked us into he
middle of the road. Now. for a week
or We had been tangled up
against hat fence and every minute
We feared some fellow would come
along with n of them dinky little
sticks and put an end TO Us. While
We lay in the middle of the road a stiff
breeze suddenly came down the noun
tain and lifted the whole bunch Of US