Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-01-09
Feel the way my father did.

And I suffer from the cold.
Which are signs beyond debating
That / must be getting old.
And every fellow in the country used
to. have his scotch cap.
And his felt boots.
And his Knit scarf.
And his wristers.
If he didn't have a scotch cap it was
one likely with ear flaps tied under his
chin.
Those were the days of the chopping
bowl, the old dash ehurn, the shelves
of milk pans, soft soap and the
securing board for the steel Knives
er-er-the girls banged their hair.
and wore bustles.
/ note that the final estimate IF the
principal crops of the United States
by the department Of agriculture, or
represented in money. is ST., 600, 600
900. No small figure, well toward pay.
ing the war bill for the year.
All authorities agree that the need
of foodstuffs, garden and field, will be
greater in 1919 than in 1918.
1t is computed that to raise an acre
of wheat in the state OF Ohio costs
J the farmer $2.12. .rhe average yield
of the state being 16 bushels.
/ notice this tribute to- Prof. Han
sen of our agricultural college in an
article contributed to the Farmer and
Breeder Of Sioux City, Iowa, by a re-
preventative who recently visited the
great seed nursery and hog ranch of
the Quincy folks located at Yankton.
TT is just possible that the people
of South Dakota 10 not realize that
in Prof Hansen we have a man who
has done more for the farmers and
fruit growers of the northwest than
Luther Burbank.
Hansen is not an imitator of Bur.
bank; he is his equal in scientific
knowledge and his. superior in answer.
ing the needs of mankind.
Burbank has dealt with fancy
%trifles in d fancy climate where ma
ture is lavish with her semi-tropical
wealth of moisture, warmth and soil.
Hansen has met hard conditions
and won in the face OF discourage.
ments and setbacks. His problem has
! been to produce, to discover or to in.
vent plant forms that will prove
hardy and productive in a rigorus
climate. His place8in this is second tc
none in his profession"
The winner of the corn club cham.
pionhip, 1918, state of Iowa, grew
1871 bushels of crop on his acvre. The
ground was covered with barn yard
manure in the spring, was plowed q
inches deeper May LIST, was narrowed
four times before planted. was plowed
four times after planting.
IA flea and a fly were i'll with the flu
Said the flea to the fly
"Oh! what shall we do?o
Let us flee" said the fly,
Let us fly said the flea,
So they fluttered and flew
Up a flaw in the flu.-Ex.
Alexander Purcell called at the
farm in the cold Of Thursday hunting
hogs that We're for sale. He informed
me that the government had removed
the guarantee from the prices on hogs
Buyers were watching with interest
1.-The effeet4oil the market. Alexander
was out in the interests of Messrs
LIGHT and Cosgrove. The hogs. a car
load, were shipped from the burg
Friday OF Saturday.
! have forgotten to mention thai
Mr.. Chas. Cook, our agent, is now Ii
charge, for the time, of the depot al
Henry in the absence OF the other
agent from his office. Mrs. Cook is
taking care of the office at Kampes
ka.
Mr. Everett Wheelock, who is re
covering from an attack Of paralysis
is slowly getting better but it will b
sometime before he is around much.
n CSSANS0&AN q H so0S
piece of news when the death of lit
tie Lettabelle Purcell. infant daughte,
70 Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua PurcelD be
came known. Lettabelle died abou'
five o'clock Sunday morning. Shit
had been ailing for about a week. II
was not thought She was serious un
Ill the day preceding her death, and
the family felt no grave apprehen
sion of her condition until the lattel
part sof the day. The family doctor
! thought the little lady was suffering
from worms. All attempts in the az
ernoon to get a physician were futile
Upon the arrival Of the doctor Al
night he pronounced her in the las
stages q peritonitis and y thu
family no hopes Of daughter AMI
granddaughter. and at the hour stat
ed the little life ceased its suffering
and passed to the great beyond.
Her going strikes the wife Of III,
writer and himself somewhat particu
I1ariy because I~xettabeiIG and Geney$