The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-03-25

- with team ana QlSca coming Ihlo tl'
garden TO prepare for school garden
where he and Benton have been con
Quoting their experiment in drainage
, AS | passed up the road running ives
Of the hotel. met Pete Kemp with Z
big load Of wood drawn by his SD
mule team, going to the boiler. As
passed the new garden where Messen.
ger and Patton soon expect to live,
saw Messenger and Solomone working
lin the expected-to-be tomato patch
and it looks fine, too. Farther along
the road | met Siemens and Vernon
bringing in load of logs with one Of
the Fordsons, and as reached the
new farm cabin, Daniel was seen pre-
lparing the noon-day meal for the fel-
lows who are clearing land. In the
field just north Of the Ford ranch are
part Of the stumps pulled. Here | saw
Fired Anderson dislodging more stumps
and Waters is just finishing the job of
narrowing the whole piece of plowed
ground. Out west of the Ford place
the fellows have pulled all the stumps
from about so acres. Here the chil-
dren from the school had been at work
picking up pine knots, sticks, roots and
such material. They piled them in
| piles and the wood wagons will take
them to the boilers for fuel. The
youngsters were finished with their job
when | arrived. but Lindsey was pIow-
ing, using the other Fordson on the
job, while Ed Merrill, Jones, Tackett,
Krug, and Phillips were filling the holes
and getting the land ready for plow-
ing. Here we will plant sweet pota-
toes, peanuts and sorghum. Also
Jones, Waters. and Daniel have stack
ed out a patch for watermelons, which
they expect to grow as big as cook
stoves! Having missed the other kids,
| went to the swimming pool; there
| found the bunch. 1t is strange how
we kids know how to find each other.
Here we ate dinner, swan, and had
good time. At the dairy Comrade Rowe
Green, Baldwin and Mrs. Baldwin were
busy as usual. Earl has his hands full
looking after the new pig families. One
old mother hog played real hogs
part aand presented family of -
dandy red pigs for Rowe to look af-
ter. West of the hog ranch was Dad
Lloyd, Buhre and c. Anderson also
clearing land and they have large
acreage cleared and partly pIowed.
Here the hog feed will be raised and
pastures built up. Comrade Smock.
with team is also on this job. II
renamed hid until dancing school
time, and, after the dance crawled
home without single cross word from
the bosses. Well, I'm safe until Mon
day, As Ole, LoutrelI and | will take
a big trip tomorrow
**&*
Sunday. March 19. : What is the
use of telling what happened here to-
day9 LoutreIl, Ole and | drove nearly
35O miles into the southern part of the
State, looking at boilers and electric
plants. Yes, we were all day and all
night doing the job, and | haven't been
able to arouse myself enough to get the
real Sunday at the Colony, SO I>wiIl
answer some questions asked by a |
comrade in North Dakota. will try
to answer all your questions in way
that others might understand, too. So
here goes. We have about ESQ to 300
people here now and all those who have
not been here one year are on proba-
ton. 1t is a nice thing to say that so
Tar no one has been put out of the
Colony at the end of the probation
period. Ut course, there are people
who come and go. But | can safely
say that their only reason for going |
is always personal, and thru no fault
IN the ideals of the Colony. Those who
go and wish to withdraw from the Col
0ny before their first year is up are
given land for their money if they wish
IT, or they receive stock in the COLONY.
company. Very few people who stay !
here year ever leave. and if they do, |
they always long to get back AGAR,
4 person who thru their inability in co.
operate with US, is never given his
money back. Why should they9 When
they come here it is to either help us
% build a cooperative. commonwealth
Or to destroy it. The first doesn't
want his money back and the latter
doesn't deserve it. But the main rea-E
son that we could never succeed BY Of;
tering a premium on cutters. We trvl
never TO let troubIe-maker get into
our Colony, and we never take Their
money if we know they are such. Iron
,fa :. Al Il ~