The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, December 30, 1939, CITY EDITION, Page SEVEN, Image 7
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VAN GADGET ISN’T u' DEFEATED YET - I’LL GET MY NEW HYDROCAR COMPLETED IN 1 TIME FOR THE , BIG RACE IF /Am VT K,LLS My V;: I’LL APPEAL TO THE } GOVERNMENT FOR FINANCIAL AID - I’LL , PROVE THAT / ACCELERATION IS MERELY A MATTER S??. OF SUSTAINED rfSfg: l EQUILIBRIUMy'S^ f SURE * SURE - 3 MAYBE I fl CAN GET i ■ MY SISTER. ?\ LALA £ THERE IT L IS - IT’LL GO \ 300 MILES AN \ HOUR ON WATER V V ^ ALONE1 / I GAZOBBL.ING grasshoppers! I is THAT an _ r A AUTOMOBILE f J T" vAi r l I r-mi ^ggjjSg>^^^^^ranll<^ay^«AiJ|ce^Syndicate^Inc^j S’MATTER POP— How Do Drummer* Do It? __By C. M. PAYNE AT 'wA5^' ~th4at "Pi e.e e f h> Ju&T "Plavet>< P OM MV ,Ik< 5-rituMeMT.' J CAw't THikiK Nov it; ' f —■— umt Bell Syndicate.—WNU ServlceJ MESCAL IKE b, s. l. huntley That’s One of the Rules jMVi House JFS"” 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 DOWN ! I've tried that but IT WAS TOO expensive! The Bell Syndicate. Inc.—WNU Service -RAN ALL THE- BATTERIES j. IN THE- HOUSE DOWN ! /-'n Cheerful News MOLLANQ mT STRIKES MINE,76 MISSING 0EL6IUM STEAMER 60ES DOWN, HO SU^'VORS ' MORWEOIAN 8OAT HITS MIME,65 MISSIM6 At PERIsH WEN DANISH cJOAT STRIKES MINE f 5HIX*S, (M 6£rriN0 "" I PEP UP ON FOREIGN NEU/5^ WO mWCTO^ strike sold vein IN A0ANP0NED MINE ON THE GO 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. _ Latest Model Stranger—Hew i .J is your I 'tie baby brother? Little Girl—Me s a tn:r year’s model. BUNDLE WRAPPER_By gluyas williams WW, BUS 1£us WIFE HE CRH fir UP <HE BUNDLE FOR MAIUH6 MORE St • CURELV THAN SHE CRN. CUTS OFF PIECE Of SfRlHfe _ BW U 6ffS S-CRIN6 NCA1W AND FIRMIN' AROUND BUNDLE AND FINDS ITS •fOO SHORN" ffi 8E6IHS AU OVER A6AIN With A IOWSER AlECE, HOIK fiHOER OR S1RW6 ARP i\li KNOl, 17tM6 F1H6ER FiRMlY Wfo KNOT in li;:f.mik6 finder, runpu l Cat 15 5» C 5iHtE6Mrf£. IN cs:>nK6FoiiE«/orsfitiN6 •WT- -5 v STAR* 0«R y.'lM FRECH Piece OF S<RiM6, AND SMOUfS FOR WIFE t: COME M.4.D HER F1H6ER OR ft. sirs tired of iKwfute awd uses TEETH. Ties KNOT AND PICKS l)P feiWDit To Test it. 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.