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attle Show Some Past Few WeeksBoone News-Republican» the farm going to pay forIJ«ij •. 1**4^fertilizer and poison spray. So II “ | had to move, but there was noyear after year and was no long- place left for me to go. By thisor making a living for the family.! time the whole country had beenown•eksthetoR -■tateThefeeder joins in this early competition he will merely bid up thefeeder cattle price.850eed-heir fall, am-ittlelay*.I ^1 a ve eed-the ider|tish. runs; tish. 1 reek timeket. imix- | than |eek. Ithe! re-attle*ablyvery d of'king ts torice*iver-vearSOILConservationNOTESan i(Ernie Behn)A few days age I happened to read a few paragraphs written by Joe D. Nichols, a doctor from Atlantic, Texas, who also happens to be chairman of the Board of the Atlanta National Bank. Being a banker and also a doctor, he ha* inusual view of soil conser-vation. not only from a financial point of view, but from a“health” viewpoint. Let me quote Dr. Nichols: ,“My great great grandfather lived in South Carolina. He had 2.000 acres of very rich land. He was a successful farmer, lie made a lot ot money growing cotton and tobacco. He built a bighou e, raised and educated aj large family. But when his son-.'.fK 3*.were grown they found the land j was no longer making good crops and the farm was no longer mak-So my grandfather moved to Alabama, He got together acres of very rich land down onHorse (’reek in Maringo County,; about 40 miles from Selma, Alabama. and here he did the very I same thing that his father and 1 grandfather had done. He had a I large family. My father was the baby in a family of twelve. My grandfather even built a little town. They called the little set* I tlement, Nicholsville. He own-1 ed a sawmill, a grist mill, thegeneral . tore and one of his daughter was the postmistress. By the time my father was grown, what do you suppose nad hap-pened^ You guessed it. The farm was worn out and he had move. He moved to Ashley Counsettled and most of the land ex- , ploited. So I decided to study2000 | medicineThen he goes on to tell how' poor land makes poor health. This puts him on a very controversial subject. If there is room in this column next week, perhaps some of these remarks can be includedAmaqua BeaverettesThe Amaqua-Beaver-ettes metat the home of Sarah Lunt on June 15 with Saiah Lunt giving a demonstration on making a one-bowl method cake and Jean Kruse gave a demonstration on baking a conventional butter to ! cake. Matters of discussion were sending clothes to Woodward andty, Arkansas, dowm in the Missis-! helping in the cost of a girls sippi delta. He bought a rich farm and the same old thing startedhealth examination Talks demonstrations followingandt h e11 over again He built a big meeting were: Colleen Wenger-houe in towm where we also hada1—How' to make a powdered sugar cneral store But by the time 1 frosting. Cynthia Peters—How to as grown, all the profits from make confectioner’s frosting.Just/it!forand■ederutishrs in tract goodanduth-will:1 thewill,-belting money.father tookSo my great grand the advice of Hoii aceGreeley and he “went west ”. Hemoved to Tennessee where he found a large fertile farm, lie did exactly the same thing that his father had done. He was a man, 8 ft. 6 in. and weighed 35D pounds. He was very industrious, worked hard, made a lot of money, built a big house, raised and educated a big family. When his sons were grown they found the farm had been literally minedNo sir — you Just can't buy a BETTER six-foot Combine than the time testedOLIVER MODEL 15
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Boone News Republican
Boone, Iowa, US
Tue, Jul 06, 1954
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