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Make Spring Serve For Recreation TooMcGregor. Ia., Oct. 15.—Special: If you firf* the lucky owner of one of Cod’s best gifts to a farmer—a spring—make a sporting and recreation proposition of It as well as a farm utility, says Henry Palas, a Clayton county farmer.Springs on most farms run into watering tanks, where they provide stock the purest, coolest water in the world in the summer time, and water not too cold in winter. The Palas sprint: serves in these usual ways, but before if pets into action alt;* a stock watering utility, forms a pretty little lak* and a trout pond.The spring breaks out in a ravine | near the home. Several hundred jyards below a dam extends aroos« the ravine, holding back the spring waters and forming a lake. Beyond the lower end of the lake are the stock watering tanks* These till from a pipe in the dam, which serves as the lake outlet.Trout do well in the lake and trout fry is now and then enoyed nv the family. Meantime the little lake beautifies the home environment and cives the farm its distinctive name, Pond Valley Stock Farm.The Palas home is one of the fin'1 new modern residences which ar° rapidly taking the place of the frame houses minus all modern conveniences typical of past years. While Mr. Palas has been busy building barns, stable, silos and his fine home for his wife and nine children, he has been just as active in supplant-j ing the little white school house of his boyhood davs with a splendid up-to date consolidated school on a par with its modernness with the farm improvements. He is now president of the board of education t the new school, the Luana Consoli dated school, the only consolidate 1 vchool in Clayton county.
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Wed, Oct 15, 1924
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