The Pulaskian., 1921-12-15

TLASKI HEIGHTS, ARK.
 
 Leghorn chickens, which are abou the prettiest breed l have ever seen.
 Charles H. Arthur, who owns g portion of the old county poor farm has beat all records with apple trees from our nursery. have. only claimed for two varieties of our trees that they would bear under favorable conditions on the third year, but his experience. was that all bore the third year and most of them bore the sec ond year from the time they were set out. Three trees of a large yellowish green and mottled variety. bore one bushel this year While yet green he sold most of his apples for four dol lars a bushel. These trees were set out in 1918. He could have had plen- ty of apples, but as he did not know they would keep, he had disposed of all but one, which he gave me. It is one of the large yellow ones, and shows to be good keeper.
 spent Wednesday night with his brother, H. W. and mother. They are old friends of mine from across the river, where I was several times a welcome guest at their home. They treated me royalty and gave Lizzie a nice shelter, something she is not used to much, while rambling with me.
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 Dr. Lewis told me of an interest ing fact. He had an old apple tree which his father told him came up and branched out at the ground in two branches. He twisted them to- gether and they grew as one. Later storm blew it down and 1t split apart as smoothly as if it had been originally one body. l should have thought that the grain would have shown the twist and that it would have failed to split.
 
 MT. Arthur lives in a box house and the roof of it is covered with a large purple wisteria vine. It grows up from the ground through a crack and under the strip, and the body of it can neither be seen from the inside nor the outside of the house.
 This has been my week for seeing strange tree growths, so strange that one might be tempted to ask me what brand of moonshine I drank. The most novel of all these things 1 saw or heard of this week was running pear. It was fastened to the end of a small house. The trunk came up at the center of the wall and grew straight up for eighteen inches or more, and then branched out parallel with the ground to each corner of the building, where it turned and grew straight up like any we'll ordered tree should do. It bears a pear simi- lar to the Keiffer and does not suf- fer with the blight This home is near Little Pike.
 Judge Miles, attorney for the coun- ty in its case against the Southern Trust Co.,, informed me that he had compromised the suit for possession of the old County Poor Farm and the County Hospital farm. The county received all the gravel land on the tract, being five acres next to the spring. It is tract No. 8. The county has approved and accepted the deed, which has been recorded. This will be good news to the people, who have bought and paid for these tracts, and they will now get perfect title deeds to their lands.
 From the strange things I have seen and written about, all the regular readers of the Pulaskian will know that the Wandering Fairy guided inc on this trip and I merely mention the fact for the benefit of new readers, who are not familiar with Wanda. To those people who have doubted the existence of this beautiful little Fairy wish to call their attention to the news from London, England, which tells of photographs of fairies being made and exhibited to large crowds there, who can doubt no long CT for that reason.
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