The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-02-15
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The thaw here was accompanied
by so little rain that streams were
not out of banks.
Growers have succeeded in gettinv
nearly all the tobacco to market and
satisfactory prices gotten by all.
There has rarely or never been so
bio per cent. Of corn in the field at
this date. Many farmers have been
10th to advance wages at all propor
tionately with the two. three four
five hundred per cent. higher market
rates for their products, and took
what has proved losing chance of
cheaper help. The oldest farmer new
er knew more unpropitious year for
maturity of corn. The early freezes
have DESTROYED vitality of the grain
as never before and the prudent will
not defer selection of his seed ears
and test of vitality Of everv ear be-
rcre planting The old standard of =
sound cob and heavy ear will entail
disappointment and loss as never be-
fore. Test everv ear. Write Exueri
ment Station at Lexington for in
| structions if puzzled to devise plan.
We grangers are too lax in seeking
aid of our scientists, nroiiting by
their demonstrations. The farmer,
the hygienst, the sanitarian are the
great Human Trinity, the greatest
benefactors. Farnrne deserves to be
out at the top of the list Of scienti-
fic benefactors. Best seeds are of
paramount importance, indisnens-
able. Every accessory to agriculture
NAV be the best--soil, weather and
culture-but lacking good seeds
good crops are impossible. Indeed
WHY don't we select and save oil farm,
end garden seeds? Big seed men who
advertise in exaggerated catalogs.
| contract with growers at round rates
and if we knew specimens from which
our packets were derived, we would
decline them as a gift.
| Didn't YOU say something about
dog law? Such has long been one of
our obsessions. The magnetism at
Frankfort is malignant The job of
lawmaking, even at half the present
per diem is plum of such palatah'"
luciness land perduisites) p tast'
makes Little divers of nearlv all
Put the dog is such factor. Where
is land lord without q dog or
pack of 'cm? Anv legislation rcstric-
tive of dogs is hazardous. Dogs. as
dogs. are a nuisance, curse to Ken
tuckv. Exterminate them and their
cousin, the fox. A lamb or a hen is
worth more that a pack of current
ours. Conserve food by killing the
dogs.
A housewife had assembled and
hacked Is pounds of choice, AOc but
ter to be shipped to 4 citv friend
Dogs left the carton, in which il wa
backed, but nary greasy spot was
there of that five and twenty. JUS
what she soliloquized any housekeep
er knows.
Between here and Hustonvillc
were two near tragedies which make
! the flesh creep at every mention
Four of our bows stopped on grade
approach to bridge at Hustonville r.
null a coon driver and auto out of
the ditch. When thew reentered their
car and started it skidded off abut-
ment. turned turtle on bank below
smithering top and bed of machine
without scratch on a passenger or
CINE which pulled the righted wreck
in the hospital. A mile north is =
bridge in cruve of almost a ripht
angle along bluff. \ driver with
two passengers negotiated that curve
at such speed he manifestly lost
nerve or he came confused, losing
control and crashed into a tree on
hank of bluff. wrecking his FLYER with
little more than worst scare of their
lives to the men. The escape seems
simply miraculous.
| Dan Rife is a sparkling eight-year
old of our north suburb, known by
manv of you, from many angles,
prodigy. Dan is 80 per cent. human,
awaking distressed by spasmodic
Group he flung the bed covers off
with elem me out o. here, | gotta
pray" His Improvement was attri-
buted to his prayer-in efficacy of
which his faith is implicit-Wen ask
ed if he prayed during later attack
he nonchalantly answered: mo, ]
wasn't bad enough"
| Mysterious burning of fine barn
months ago. involving loss of a team
of mules, much provender and ma
chinery was disclosed by betrayal of
one of the thieves who stood guard
while his companion stole the chick
ems. Matches were used instead of
| flash light and the fire carelessly
started and inextinguishable fire.
They fled beyond glare and watched
the destruction. The confession was
meant an accusation in resentment,
supposedly without realization of in
formers equal quilt.
The labor problem of the nation is
alarmingly acute and intensified by
enlstments and draft. Never as now
the vast army of Migrants should be
driven into ranks of producers. If
the Alverson vagrant law, which was
praised at passage doesn't meet pres
ent exigencies amend and enforce.
Dogs, Migrants and rats invite i'm
mediate determination. And while
our censors are conserving print pa
per by prescribing pages of daily is
sues, let them convert our cheapest
and best into an octave daily with