Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-22
GOOD { 1 ! | Lost
Uncle Henry Surely Had Marvel
GUS Fertilizer.
Unfortunately, After II Had Demon
strated It's Amazing Effect on Grow
Ing Corn He Could Not Remem-
Der the ingredients.

Friday dandelions were In bloom at
York. Pa. Saturday they were covered
by six inches OF sriow.'-Boston Globe.
Once more. we have TO thank the
Boston Globe for jogging u memory, |
says the Lewiston Journal. How 1t all
comes back to us. Uncle Henry on
mothers side was a farmer-inyentor.
fHesrigged up all sorts of farm machin-
cry which wouldn't operate anywhere
except on paper, or in Uncle Henrys
head. He was also a great hand to ex-
pertinent with fertilizers, and while he
! : always on the tr9ck of a fertilizer
That was going to produce a double
crop Of something o. other his expert
Inrnents usually resulted in reducing his
crops materially, and the rest of the
family had to- do some pretty tall thus-
Ting to catchteven.
One fall Uncle Henry produced a
fertilizer that he was sure would revo-
lutionize the farming industry, and II
smell could have turned the trick 1t
would. have, too. His fertilizer had a
bouquet that, when the wind was right,
depopllated the country for a mile
away from the house. The rest of the
family went away to visit till the smell
Fthinned out some or overcame Uncle
Henry. There used to be a lot OF
,skunks in our neighborheod, but they
all moved away that fall. A German
butcher who manufactured limburger
cheese on the side offered Uncle Henry
$1,000 for the secret Of that smell, in
tending to manufacture a cheese that
would make him q millionaire when he
got it on the market. But Uncle Hen
~ wouldn't sell. He said it was his
duty to invent a fertilizer that would
double crops and he was going to stick
to it till he did, if he never had a cen
He had plenty of scent, however.
When the family finally received word
that a person might live in the house
If he didn't breathe too deep nor too
often they came back. Uncle Henry
had become discouraged and buried his
sample Of the new fertilizer in the
front yard. That night he fed the
hens in about the same place, and
when he threw out their corn they
wouldn't go within ten feet of the
place where the fertilizer was buried.
That night it came Oh to snow, and it
showed hard for ten hours. After it
stopped Uncle Henry's two youngest
children, John and Hilda. put on their
outdoor clothes and built a snow man
right over the spot where the fertilizer
was buried. Then they. built a big
snow house and played in it till night.
The next morning when Uncle Henry
went out to do the chores he was
amazed to see, about six feet up In the
air, the snow man and the snow house,
apparently supported by thick green
sticks with leaves upon them. He got
over his surprise and investigated. He
found that the green sticks were lusty
c,oorr1nlstalks which had taken root and,
nourished by his fertilizer, had sprung
uip III two days to their present height
Of feet, and produced some Of the
finest fodder corn we ever saw. Un-
fortunately, Uncle Henry could never
remember what he had put into that
fertilizer, and, OF. course, his sample
was gone, SO he never got any pecuni-
ary benefit from 1t.
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