Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-09-01

large tears tonight which came just
in time to help us out. This rain also
will finish making a crop of our late
corn. Comrade Mcconnell took sew
eral dozens Of our brooms north with
him to sell in Illinois and | am sure he
will have no trouble in selling them;
for they are a superior broom. As the
price is now made to suit the purse of
anyone, we should get our cooperative
brooms on the cooperative market.
We are now making three grades Oh
brooms, and all of them contain moth
ing but pure broom straw. These
brooms can be shipped by freight, ex-
press, or parcel post. How many can
you use? George Thomas continues
10 make peanut butter and has an out
side market for lots of it; we man
age to get away with it here three
times a day, too. Dad Lloyd has a
steady job picking COW peas at the or
chard; the intention is to save the
peas for the stock and pillow the vines
and leaves under for plant food. Word
has Just arrived that we will soon
have two more farmers with us in
very short time. One comes from Ne
braska and one from PENN a. Well,
farmers we need as badly as anything
we can name, and we hope they speed
UP their arrival to assist in harvesting
the crops this fall and getting ready
for next years planting. AS rule,
we get more tradesmen in the Colony
than farmers; and, as farming and
the raising of all kinds of food stuff
is the base of our operations, we are
glad to see such men headed this way.
And, by the way, did you ever realize
lust how much man should know to
be a real farmer; well, if you have
never thought of it, just sit down and
figure it out and see if you don't come
TO the conclusion that it takes broad
er, smarter, and better educated man
than any other occupation you can
think of. We know that it takes a
long time to 2et inexperienced hands
to learn to even drive team, let alone
preparing the soil, learning the differ
ent kinds of soil, to plant to take care
of different crops and then harvest
and save them. The psychological
meeting was welI-attended and sever
al useful plans and suggestions for our
future were discussed.
Friday, Aug. 70. - The rain last
night has supplied us with sufficient
moisture to last for some time to come,
and it makes the gardeners smile!
They can now continue their fall plant
ing and add greatly to our table ne
cessities. There is no food so good,
wholesome, and necessary as fresh gar
den vegetables. They furnish the min
eral salts necessary for our physical
up-building and health, and our chill
dren have learned the value of this
kind of food and prefer it to any 9th
er. Proper food and proper eating are
eccssaly to a good body and health.
Loberg and N. Alexander have opened
up the latest kiln of brick, and it is a
dandy. One corner of the kiln had
some of the brick too closely laid and
did not burn we'll, but the rest of it is
in excellent shape. The bricks are
being hauled out and piled up between
the two big sheds, where they can be
displayel and sold, and they are near
to the spot where our store and mer-
camille building will be built. We have
another kiln of brick made and ready
to place and burn, as soon as this kiln
is emptied. We need help on this job,
as we'll as masons to erect our build
ings, and we hope that those who come
to help us to do this work will have
no other motive than that of helping
to create the new cooperative COM
monwealth. The material for crates
is being run out at the planning mill to-
day while the saw mill crew is I'M
loading the new machinery that arriv-
ed yesterday. Comrade Gaddis roll
ed up his sleeves and began work and
as he helped to load this machinery
over in Texas, we just put him 10 help
ing to unload it, and to-day the job
was finished. Sydney Merrel is busy
hauling material from the planning mill
to the crate factory and wood for the
big boiler. Word just reached this
office that gasoline wood-saw was
on its way from Kansas; this machine
will be used to saw up the big logs
for making wood for the brick kiln,
one man can run it and it will saw Is
cords of wood a day That will be
another labor-saving machine for us.
1t takes lots of hard work to saw TWEEN