Show MR MR ALBERT ALBERT ALBERT- LEUTHAEUSER By y Frank k Beckwith c wl 1 With th my feet a stowed under mem mein hosts host's s table his with a stem stein of Budweiser r right Whit handy pu puffing Ing Inga a on n my long long a stemmed mine Germar er an pIpe a and ad in Ing on n a pre pretzel zel between times how we Germans German did Gab Gab Gab-festl fest With Albert anc and me and me and the good ad wife Hel Margo ond and then I n Helen M Martha th and me with the hale hearty and hungry hungry hungry hun hun- gry the way those strawberries and that cake disappeared well 1 we well it was like feeding corn into the hopper of a grinder r. r And as Ife J I fe fed Yx I he But I 1 talk k too much or write writ too much or both h. h Any way the good wife was onto my failing For Mrs Leuthaeuser enjoined a s. special cond conditIOn tion on me that whatever I 1 wrote about the Leuthaeuser Leuthaeuser Leuthaeuser Leut Leut- haeuser Farm I should hould say that Albert and not she ohe said ald it I even went further For gather gather- ng the group b by the organ I 1 51 gb irby edin in rendering e g that beautiful old id melody Theres There s a land that beats this all to mash annish and as the he home chorus swelled welled and the sen sen- time If rose a in 10 volume until filled the air even I as saw that St. St Libory Libory Lib Lib- ory Nebraska was wait the finest finet place lace in 10 this great big country and that in comparison the G k d I Ithe as Flat looked like ke 30 the he mor morning after So as surely its as ever I expect to eat another pIece of 01 that cake with real yes ye a half lOch Inch thick jc I Ill I'll I I obey conditions Imposed d on me e but when speak speak- m of Alber Albert I am free to slide slid back into the old rut ut So here hen roel Joes oes Albert bought m in the fall of 1909 well saw saw It was waa ad- ad rot not to cOle coule here until the spring of 1912 raised 1700 has bushels of wheat oats and that year m in 1913 raised 2400 bushels of wheat and oats oat and thIS year hasWell has hes- Well who hasn't t heard of Leuthaeuser s crop If theres there's theresa s a prospective purchaser who wh been hasn't been spun past that Ill I'll eat my hat And the land that the new new comer comer IS shown be beIt beit It either north or south is just like Leuthaeuser's same soil sad and and- The salesman is io always Interco with ith Ill 11 take this thi J f forty orty Leuthaeuser Farm has las Bold more mom land for the Delta Company than all the salesmen put iUt together and we all acknowledge acknowledge ledge edge it As I was waa saying aying he has in in this year one on of the finest hoest stands of fall all wheat on the project 55 65 acres acre 30 80 to barley 20 to oats cats 10 to 50 acres of alfalfa inthe inthe in m the barley and wits oats this its Ita first year and coming 20 acres more goes roes into alfalfa and rye in the theatter latter atter part of July and 40 acres 10 n the wheat stubble after I head head- ng nir the stubble to stand And his hlo is the model farm that that's a always always al al- ways shown with pride Alberts Alberto goal at is alfalfa but butt not 0 t too long at ti the a crop For alfalfa puts into the soil od what a doesn doesn't I t make for heading out gram grain so plow under the stand standa after a few years and rotate the crops crap to grains grams and then come carne comeback back ack again agam 10 to Keep a third or so of the land all the time in 10 this way plowed under for use ue to another crop so 0 u that ever every thIrd year or so the entire land has been spelled off and the grain rids the land of the surplus nitrogen And as th the hurn humus us in 10 this country IS on the top thinnest surface soil sod begin plowing shallow at first and deeper and deeper as aa the land ISmore is ismore more cultIvated and the humus extends farther further down and when it is down then plow deep And if the farmer farmei can an afford to lose the use of his ground for one year plant alfalfa alone with no nurse nume crop using standing stubble stubble stubble stub stub- ble only i r shade hade and then as you are waterlOg watering one crop only give ve the alfalfa water when alfalfa at al- falfa needs I it it not a kind md of f make shift of watering waterlOg grain grair and nd getting a stand of alfalfa alfalla th thrown in m. And make improvements from dividends off the farm not from Irom capital Oh It takes us Germans German to see thirl Albert line has a tight hog fence around ares acres posts set et a rod apar apart and the corner pots posts set setin in 10 concrete stayed with wires and iron pipe A fence fene that is is a fence not t a discarded woodpile stood on end The soil on his land is the very best black loam lown from a foot and a half to two feet deep with a loose Iowa sandy andy sub sOIl condItIOns Jut just ideal He runs the water from fron 40 to 56 50 rods and condemns the longer longerI run I nosed wound around Alberts Albert's place all of last Sunday and saw Lome wine some things that I 1 will speak peak abou about to taking king the blame on my self file Delta Delle Com Company must cut cutout out the tIe fox tail tad on its ditch banks and do it well and nd thoroughly tvr too tile weed is altogether too much In evidence for mils miles Utah ihen ltd its ditches cleaning claiming not only on the side but set aa well wellin in 10 the bottom A a inner was wasat at work al alongside of Alberto Albert east t I line Iet lie let the g good work Mrk ork proceed pro pro- And the canal carat banks should hauld be well and stron strongly ly built to withstand bursting hursting and high enough not to n flood o for foi there them was a dandy mud It hole a aa from fron frona froma a canal anal just at north of 01 Skelton s so bad that although we w. were wen within a mile and three quarters quarter of a Albert Alberts s farm larm we had ad to turn turnback turnback turnback back Abts ane a do double le around and Tracy Tracys 1 Pritchetts h tand and K Kings n to to g rJ away from t the mud Nor or should hould the Company put a a. a check chek in 10 a canal to benefit a farm on or one side when by so doing it has I tendency to water water log log the opposite site man Now wIth this th said we will proceed AlbeA Albert keeps his weeds down by hard a d and thorough r work Shall hal hala I say any that all fa farmers should hould be compelled to clothe to-clothe do the same ame same Yes Ye for fora a neighbor by not fighting his own weeds will keep the he laid field of I the man an long along ad t well ii filled il d and ri its d Ing to have em am dumped and argi blown onto you Lot Let the hogs bogs the he mower and both han hands s always al at- ways be busy on the weeds Cultivate Cul Cul- the a weed e eGet eye and n then thou c I Ind t fG ha r. r b. b Get the habit Do it now o and nd Obey that to ri p pull ll llam am eRy Roy Jones has Leuthaeuser a under lease laws Roy come came from Morgan an U Utah hl and if ever I a man had W to WorK far lOr a liVing it Its It's 5 at Morgan BO soO that the momentum at the acquired habIt hab- hab it lit kind o a 0 carries cames over How he finds time t steep I ia Is the wonder of the neighbors But he left Morgan that's recommendation enough Morgan is io that d dead cad that all it needs need is I. a I shroud and then let the dry rot crumble I it and the wind blow low it away To Tomake Tomake Tomake make the name nae more truly appropriate ap ap- of its ita condition conditi n the spelling ling was changed to Morgue Jut But Roy left to get a start for far himself and he lie surely will He will pass the usual asual three or four years nip and tuck when everything seems sms to stand still and apparently no progress program is made and uc success is slow SO ao slow Seemingly but after that He Hell He'll 11 be on one of the men of the community With a fixed income in income in- in come mine and a dandy Just as m sure oure aa as c can be and he hes he's s coming into it n. n t I it it t l b the land coras coms int intal alfalfa and with the start he hes he's a got in 10 pI pigs pies and with cow b to raise the pigs needing extra care cam he hell he'll 11 make money I stamped a white collar collar collar col col- lar into the mud and went to growing thinking it well over heres here's your reason Albert was wait working out m in 94 for 3 a week I 1 was a month today Alberts Albert's s the owner of two farms fairma In 10 Nebraska Net Neb make and in Delta and I Im I'm m mAw Aw Aw shucks stop yo kidding And that's that s the way it is the pen pusher still pushes the pen while the farmer former gets on the Board of Directors and drives drive up to the bank In a chug chug-chug g wagon and is called Mister 11 Ill I'll have a farm l yet if the he kids tell will do what I am em They They're re dutiful and I Im I'm m hopeful Roy Boy now owns 32 head of broad brood sows pows 5 6 registered and 27 very best full blooded ed standard lacking bl possibly only the pape paper t to entitle them to r registry egIs try 25 head more seven even man months 5 old aid even a little lutle better bred bred as the boar how is 10 registered and then little fellows follows on which he can get registration papers for the majority head in all now all now who says he pal do doo ax isn isn't s t up and coming o As t the editor says Banker Beckwith on pigs And so he does At that Gab Gab Gab-fest fest Albert Albert Albert Al Al- bert and me e and It the a family ily and me a had I last t week the banker w was dom hiO is usual little stunt on the a pig pigs I Pl pic ic And nd Albert Albertis is s a con confirm e ad dyed h wool the in the wool pig man an traine trained to the a go game a ab b back in br An at it here and a starts Jon Junes Jones in the g good d war work too Men an after my myown myown myown own hearton heart Now Roy has blue the right idea nothing will go off that farm in 10 suits ack that can cn be fed everything every every- thing wIll be put on four our feet and command tie the very hIghest market for forn prop proper r sale sala of lam farm prOduct Hell He'll ship a part of at a am m car th thIs fall and alter after that Into to a good hog business he ne u I nave v cows and ana a separator o and win success in nice capital letters c With a good stand of alfalfa with division fences pens which are we coming this year and plenty of pigs with some In the Leuthaeuser Leut- Leut Leuthaeuser haeuser farm Under Jones Jones' management management man man- will be on the map big What I Ive I've ve seat said about Leuthaeuser's Leut- Leut haeuser's Jones for idea they api both oth ly h equally think fi y th the to same Albert likes hit the country Jones likes the country Albert sees pigs cows and alfalfa spells money in 10 the bank and Roy has hasa a V v a Germans J. J f st st. hang or will hang together Jones Jon is il Scotch Concluded on back page pass |