Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-07-01


gagged in the ancient and honorable
profession of farming are all
caught up with your farm work,
your first-cutting hay is in the
barn, you have your corn and soy
beans cultivated and free of weeds,
Tor are you going to have to spray
the corn to kill those weeds in the
row?) and you're spending your
afternoons out on the front porch
watching the wheat ripen. Or are
you like most of us, hurrying
frantically to get these jobs done
and out of the way before the
wheat does ripen (wheat harvesting
will obviously be early this year,.
Do you have the combine all ready
to go? If the canvas on the COM
bine is beginning to show signs OF
wear and needs to be mended, tell
your wife to sew up those tears
with dental floss. Maybe that
sounds far.fetched to you, but it
really works good. One summer
several years back, Bill told me to
sew our combine canvas and said
I'd have to use thread that wouldn't
wear out and break right away.
Well, dental floss was the only
thing happened to have, and does
it wear! 1t seems to be just the
thing. The eye of the heavy needle
you must use slips through the
canvas so easily.
Another task you might be look
ing forward to during wheat har-
vesting time is hauling your soy
beans to the elevator if you still
have them in the bin. Most farm
ers have been patiently waiting for
the price of soybeans to go up, |
heard on the radio this morning
that elevator men are expecting
this upswing during wheat harvest
time because most farmers will be
busy with their wheat, thus therell
be fewer soybeans on the market.
Maybe they just think that's going
to happen. / guess if we'd hauled
them directly to market when they
were combined last fall we'd have
got better price and wouldn't
have had all that work. / tell you,
things just don't get monotonous
in this business of farming, you've
almost got to be clairvoyant in
order to know what to do and
when to do it.
Tcday's Bit OF Nonsense
A story about the late genius,
Albert Einstein
Scientist Einstein attended a
party at the country estate of a
society matron. After dinner, he
Joined the hostess in a stroll thru
the garden. 1t was a clear, moonlit
night and the stars were twinkling
In all their glory.
n isn't Jupiter brilliant tonight"
exclaimed the matron, pointing to-
ward the sky.
That's not Jupiter, that's Venus"
Einstein corrected her.
"Oh doctor, how wonderful" she
replied. "You know their sex, too"
Helpful Hints for Harsssed
housewives Department -
II the men folk in your family
have been busy piling baled hay
these last few weeks, chances are
that those overalls are getting
pretty thin. If you ladies are nor.
NAL, you detest patching overalls
or at least don't look forward to
doing it. You probably all have
your own way of putting a patel
on, and it's presumptiouS of me to
try to tell you how, but this is how
! do it, and it really does save
time in the long run. In the first
place, use new material, a yard OF
heavy denim costs soc | believe
and it goes long way. You'll never
have to patch over a patch Sounds
confusing, doesn't it?) when the
knees of the 0veralls begin to get
pretty thin, cut the patch big
enough to cover the entire leg
from few inches below the
waist until below the knee, the
overalls themselves will wear lots
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