The Pulaskian., 1920-06-10


 and was only thinking of a trip to Little Rock to replace these mules, which are worth about $1,60O Not so with the boys They rushed out to see what had happened and ran back with the information that the shed rooms had blown away, but that the mules were standing with their heads out of the holes without a Escratch on one of them. That made him feel better and he bounced out of bed at once feeling fine.
 He has already cut his first alfalfa. Had four acres which yielded six tons. Alfalfa is now selling at $44 a ton, so his one cutting is worth on the market $66 an acre. As he has three more cuttings ahead alfalfa looks like a paying crop to me, when a man can have as good luck as he has had in saving this cutting.
 Readers of the Pulaskian will re. member that about the first of last December I wrote of one acre of Evandeavor heavy fruite cotton he had which turned out. about two bales and is about the best cotton ever raised in Arkansas. He has twenty acres of it this year, and it is the best cotton I have seen, with as many as nine leaves and forms on some. He also has ten acres of. big boil cotton and had just commenced planting 20 acres of June corn. He has five acres of oats also He has ithirty-five acres more land to clear He has not yet torn away the old bed on which his cotton was planted. which accounts for it doing so well.
 Never Too Old For "Peaches."
 That day l. took dinner with MT Ike Johnson's family. Miss Annabelle asked me if I liked peaches. I answered offhand that I did, for I supposed she meant canned peaches. Of course 1 know there are peaches and peaches. Miss Annabelle is her self one of the most charming speci- mems of the most desirable kind. She me, T will get you few" and soon retRrned with some of the loveliest Mayflowers and one Sneed peach fresh from the trees. They were fine, but were about the last of the crop. Mrs. Johnson, though, had already canned a number of jars of them. Then she asked me if I liked cherries, and when I answered did she started to the tree to gather me few. As the tree was in the yard I went with her. They were of the Early Richmond variety and were very fine. They were also about gone.
 R. H. McNair, where I spent Tues day night, has a farm in the edge of the bottom. Mrs. MeNair has some of the finest sweet peas in her gar den, also most beautiful roses in her yard Their Himalaya berries and grapes are exceptionally fine. This is an old place. During the civil war a cannon ball from the Yankees cannon came through the gable end of the house. It was fired at the retreating Confederates. A cypress tree standing on Bayou Meto at the steel bridge has a hole in it. When he tore down the house to make barn of it he found the ball buried in the earth under the floor. He replaced the plank in the barn, where it still can be seen. At the forks of the road are the graves of several soldiers killed dur ing this fight.
 Mrs J. M Merritt had small toma- toes in her garden about one inch in diameter.
 A Lazy Mans Garden.
 My wild strawberries. are nearly all gone. The only thing l have to brag on is my cucumbers and squash. They are doing fine. Especially one hill, which has cucumbers nearly two inces long. l had an old rotten stump in my back yard which l cut down and used for stovewood and fertilizer made wall of rock around it and filled it up with rich rotten dirt from my woodpile and kept it well watered.
 R. D. Boyd. at Wolf Ridge, on the Centennial pike, R. F. D. No. ?, Jack sonville, has about fifty head of black face sheep, which he will offer for sale in July. If you want sheep, now is your time. Walter Mckenzie of Ebenezer, R. F. D. 2, Cabot, also has few for sale. J. M. Merritt, R. F. D.