Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-12-11
Missouri Valley Times,
R. C.. LAHMAN, Proprietor.
SANi'L HOLMES. City Editor.
Entered at the Postoffice at Missouri
Valley, Iowa, as second class matter.
HE SHOULD WORRY.

HE SHOULD WONKY.
The boy on the top Of the world is
the farmer. He cranks up his Ford
and goes to town for ten pounds of
sugar and ten records for the fono-
graph. His masters voice? He
hasn't any. The worst the outside
world can do to him is to profiteer on
sugar and coffee.
If he does not want his sugar, cot
lfee, and music records or pianola re-
cords in hurry he can telephone to
town for them and delivery boy will
crank up Ford tomorrow and bring
them out.
What are the city's troubles to him
Something interesting to read about
in the paper which the rural delivery
man leaves at his post box in the
morning.
| There is u wood pile with cover
ing of two inches of snow. 1t is un-
der a clump of white oaks which still
have foliage of dead leaves. Frost
is two or three inches in the ground
and the snow was brushed off patch
in the wintering parsnips so that a
few could be dug up for present use.
TIE Old Farmers almanack says that
p;sl5nips should be dug in the fall,
belittling the beneficcnce Of frost, but
we know better. They should stay and
be frozen and gain sugar as they lost
fiber.
i Mr.. Wilson asks extension of the
food control act. Sugar profiteers
ought to be hung and coffee is higher
than it should be, but there are sides
of bacon and some pork in the smoke
house, there is pork in pickle, and the
root house is full of potatoes and cab
bages and carrots in sand.
The cellar has swinging shelves
with jars of tomato butter, apple but
ter, damson plum preserves. green
gage in syrup, mustard pickles, to-
matoes canned whole, peaches from
our own trees, cherries, wild crab and
wild cherry jelly, currant and grape
jelly.
OF a bright winter morning, when
the sun warns the south windows
where the geraninums are, there is
cackling from the hen house. There
is plenty of fodder in the loft for the
cattle and there is plenty of cream for
the coffee, milk for the table, cheese
for the bread.
That red stubble on the hillside,
just showing above the snow, is where
we planted buckwheat. The syrup
you have with the cakes is what we
boiled last March from the naples ov-
er beyond the white oaks. The sau-
sage is what we made last fall at
butchcring. 1t is real pork sausage.
1t goes we'll with cakes.
Notice the chickadees and the
downies and the nuthatch at the suet
box. They feed all winter at those
boxes of suet.
4 We made our own cider. They
were selected apples. Some of it will
go into vinegar. No internal revenue
officer about? Some of it is getting
hard. Oyr hives furnished US great
deal of honey last year. You may
have some with your corn cakes. We
ground the corn ourselves. The stone
ground is the best.
From this window, with the log
burning in the fireplace back of you
you may see the purple thickening at
the horizon beyond the valley there
1t is favorite view at sunset of ar
evening. And you can see the violet
tints in the lact of the woods where
the land begins to slope away dowr
into the valley. They say there are
trout in the brook There used to be
quail around here and few prairie
chicken, but what we get mostly by
shooting is rabbit. We like fine fat
rabbit.
The papers are Kerry interesting
these days. Do you think they will
settle the coal strike? Do you think
that the stock yards will be closed TO,
lack of coal or by strike of meat
cutters Chicago Tribune.