The Pulaskian., 1921-12-15

to make her home with them. She IS still there and her name is Marie. If she could have had her way with her parents, though, She would have left with me to make her home on the Pea Ridge Pinery Homestead.
 Her brother Lindsey is about six years old and is engaged in the trap ping industry. He has already saved up five dollars of rabbit money.
 The next day I took dinner with Amos Morehart, noted strawberry grower of the Mablevale country. He has raised large family of nine chil- dren on a ten-acre farm, all near grown, with son and daughter mar ried and settled down. Lately he has added to his farm by buying adjoin- ing land, and now owns forty-three acres. He has also during the past year built him a nice and tasty look ing new house. His son has also bought nearby farm, where he is following in the footsteps of his father in raising strawberries.
 Before getting to MT. Merchants I had to abandon my car to see Mrs. Lewis, one of the Pulaskian subscrib- CTS. That was on account of some more work being done on the road from MT. Merchants past his brother Ora's, to the Saline county line. l am here to tell you that that man Mover is giving me and Lizzie more trouble than any other man in the county. l did not get half a mile from Mir. Morehart's on my way to Cuilford and the Chico road until I ran upon some more trouble of the same kind, but more of it. I man. aged, however, to get through after two very pretty girls offered to help push us out of the mud.
 
 Another Use for the Time Honored
 Razor Strap.
 I. got to MT. Merchants before 12 o'clock, and sold him and his mar ried son each nice bill of fruit trees. Mir. Merchant had prophesicd rain before l o'clock, so l went out and covered up my car, and sure enough it did rain before one. MT. Merchant tells the weather by his razor strap. That was not very sur prising to me, as Henry Lea of Brushy Island, tells the weather by the bear feet which he has nailed to the wall of his house. Before it rains these bear feet go to sweating and twelve hours before 1t rains MT. Morehart's razor strap gets rough and thickens up. MT. Merchant says if you will examine your razor strap and find it thin and smooth, 1t will not rain inside of twelve hours, but if it is rough and thick 1t will rain inside of twelve hours.
 Mir. Merchant having had twenty years experience in raising strawber- ries, where he is living, is probably as we'll qualified as any man to fur nish information about this industry So I have gotten his opinion about it. Of course, when 1t comes to his opinion about the taste of strawber- ries, you and may not agree with him, but when 1t comes to raising and marketing them, 1t will pay the new beginner to listen to his advice.
 For eating out of hand and family use the Mitchell is the best berry, with the finest flavor, but 1t has been abah- doned for shipping purposes because it is too soft.
 The Candy Is equally as good and more fancy berry It is shipped ex- tensively, being later berry than any of the others.
 Lady Thompson comes next for home use, but Is not a good shipper.
 St. Louis is about as good, but is paler. It is shipped, but is really not good shipper.
 The Ozark is a good early shipper.
 Excelsior is the earliest known, is a good shipper and popular with the shippers. Mir. Merchant has them in bloom now.
 Klondyke is mid-season berry.
 The Aroma follows the Klondyke, and is nearly as late as the Candy.
 These last four, including the Candy, are the most generally raised berries for shipping purposes.
 February and the first of March is the best time to set out berries. He lets them bear at once. One year he sets them out late in March and in thirty-five days had sold enough to pay for the plants. besides canning a