Fun for the Whole Family
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POP— Pof> Thinks Bell Ringing Is Finger Exercise_ _ _By J. MILLAR WATT
“THEY SAY
CONTINUOUS BELL RINGING
IS ONE OF THE FINEST
EXERCISES FOR KEEPING
your weight
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but IT WAS TOO
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Silas—What’s that I hear, Hiram,
about your hired man falling off
the roof when he was shingling the
barn last week?
Hiram—Yeh. He fell into a bar
rel of turpentine.
Silas—Did it hurl him much?
Hiram—Don't know. They ain’t
caught him yet.
Papa Pays
Zeke—How long has your son Josh
been in college?
Hiram — About four cows, two
horses, 40 bales of hay, and a couple
of loads of pumpkins.
Double-Crossed
Boogy—They say a bachelor is a
man who has been crossed in love.
Woogy—Yes, and a married man
1 is one who has been double-crossed.
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Stranger—Hew i .J is your I 'tie
baby brother?
Little Girl—Me s a tn:r year’s
model.
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The Dell SrndtcAte Ine — WNU Service
PRECIOUS SOIL
She—So the very ground I’m
walking on is precious you think?
He—I know it is the owner
values it at a thousand dollars a
front foot
WITH RESERVATIONS
"Are you considering everything
seriously before you tie the knot
with Jack?"
"Oh, yes, this is only going to be
a slip knot."
DARK VIEW
"Why do you take such a dark
view of her lack of intelligence?"
"I found her trying to All in the
black spaces of a crossword puzzle.”
NOT ACCORDING TO HOYLE
"Did you hear him swear at his
wile?”
"I did—and that’s certainly not
according to Hoyle.
NO PLACE FOR THEM
"And you’ve no fear of second
story men visiting your home?”
"None whatever—it's a bunga
low.”
COMPENSATION
"The com cup was very Inferior
Indeed last year.”
"But Just notice the artistically
Improved labels they’re putting on
the bottles, my friend! ’’
Farm
Topics [|
POTATO VALUE
ONCE DOUBTED
U. S. Pioneers Were Slow
To Adopt Tubers.
By II. E. ESWINE
Frederick the Great, Louis XVI,
the luck of the Irish, and the in
genuity of the French all were need
ed to popularize that white sheep of
a black family, the potato, which
had to go to Europe and back before
it was accepted by our forefathers
who prided themselves on their abil
ity as pioneers.
Sir Walter Raleigh's claim of pur
veyor of potatoes to Queen Eliza
beth is subject to dispute, but there
is no argument about the original
distrust of most Europeans for a
plant that had as relatives the dead
ly nightshade and other dubious cou
sins. The Irish were hungry enough
to take a chance and the potato
flourished in their climate.
Frederick the Great found that
soldiers had to be fed and that farm
ers objected to requisitions of grain
if that left their cupboards bare.
Potatoes would feed the civilians
and release barley and rye for sol
diers' rations, so potatoes got a
"must” rating from the Prussian,
and Germans got an early start in
accepting orders gracefully.
The French were and are differ
ent. Parmentier, a Frenchman who
had eaten potatoes and liked them
in a German prison camp, arrived
home with a determination to popu
larize this food. Louis XVI could
see the advantage of having well
fed subjects and gave his royal sanc
tion to the scheme, but the subjects
were suspicious.
Parmentier knew his countrymen
and obtained a detail of soldiers to
stand guard every day around a plot
of potato plants. At night, the guard
was withdrawn and the neighbors
pilfered what they would not accept
as a gift In the days before potatoes
were guarded. The edibility of the
potatoes was readily established
and seed stocks were in demand.
There are several legends about
the return of potatoes to the United
States. One of them is that a group
of Scotch-Irish colonists on their
way to grow potatoes and flax in
New Hampshire stayed over winter
in Andover, Mass., and left with the
settlers there some withered tubers.
These were planted by the Pilgrim
progeny and flourished.
The resulting crop of seed balls
did not appear too appetizing but
various attempts were made to use
them as sauce or pie filling. New
England stomachs rebelled and
stayed rebellious until plowing sea
son the next spring turned up some
potatoes which had escaped freez
ing. Their escape from the ele
ments was accepted as an augury of
divine sanction for inclusion in a
! list of foods which was shorter than
j the blessings under which they Were
consumed.
Potatoes now are produced In
nearly every county in the United
| States but the national crop is only
a quarter of the yearly production
in Germany. Russia harvests more
than Germany, and France about
equals our crop. Alcohol made
from European potatoes may keep
planes in the air when an exhaust
ed gasoline supply would ground
these eyes and weapons of warring
nations.
Placing of Fertilizer
Important Farm Item
The correct placement of fertiliz
ers is of primary importance to
farmers. Experiments show that
fertilizers should be placed at about
the same depth or slightly below
the feeding roots, so as to permit
the latter to reach the plant-food
easily and tjulckly. The best results
with grain crops is obtained when
the drill has a fertilizer attach
ment which sows the fertilizer di
rectly with the grain at the same
depth. The planter for potatoes
should be designed to place the fer
tilizer in a narrow band two to four
inches away from each side of the
sets and on the same level or slight
ly below the sets.
For garden crops the fertilizer
should be placed in a narrow band
on each side and two to four inches
away from the plants, or when the
plants will come up in the row, and
about the depth of the feeding roots
(which means two to three inches).
Grain drills and potato planters with
suitable fertilizer attachments for
placing the fertilizer as described
above have been available for a
number of years, and there is now a
hand implement on the market for
fertilizing garden crops in the ap
proved “band-way.”
Shifts in Dairying
Ups and downs and geographical
shifts in dairy production are re
flected in statistics assembled re
cently by the bureau of agricultural
economics. From 1930 to 1933 there
was a definite upward swing in but
ter manufacture. For the next
three years the trend was as def
initely downward. Drouths of 1934
and 1936 were an important factor.
A year without much change fol
lowed and then a sharp rise between
the fall of 1937 and spring of 1939.