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Toil POIlt HEMSi -— it ■ i ■■■ **“1 • **~~ 1 * *****^^^Reed Hancock is plowing on hU homestead,J, W, Anderson is fencing his gar-den plot*The flglu against the prarfe dogs continues. 1. w. Aiuterson has a new way to do the work, A ball of cotton batting saturated In gasoline is thrown Into each burrow. After a few minutes in which the gas evaporates* a lighted match la dropped into the hole- The. ensuing explosion la enough for the} Inmates of the hole. C. H. Ollphant | la trying a way of his own. A pile of aage brush* over each burrow, is ig-| nlted and after it burns, the burrow, i$ qoytred with earth. Both the men report excellnt rsnlts,. ? iVFred Kuckroan has a truck and has already made several business trips In the county. 0-Reed Bailey reports that a good crcp of hay fg expected on his ranch this season.South Point residents have demonstrated that not only vegetables, grain , anti various food stuffs grow nicely on our soil in this section, but also very-exquisite flowers, Mrs, Blake has some very fine Iris of many hues, nil tn. full ■ bloom now. Mrs, Haegler has a beautiful! green hollyhock and also a clematis* both of which flourish in her garden.
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Monticello San Juan Record

Monticello, Utah, US

Thu, Jun 22, 1933

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