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Show , THE JOURNAL Page 6 APRIL FARM TOPICS SPORT LIGHT Reds, Cubs Will Wage Cellar Fight By GRANTLAND RICE tells you. "I've got back aU the SOME YEARS AGO when the Louis Browns were supweight I lost and my arm last to the be trouble Is all gone." sinking for, posed time-- out It would be a big thing for the beyond the tow rope Luke Sewell took them over and Reds if this tall workman could s won a pennant. It only regain of what he was a war year, had three years ago. He is only V I but after all the 27 with many big years ahead. ? Browns were still I the Browns. The Red Roundup the Now In Lou Klein will add strength to wake of Ducky the Infield and Ron Northey should Waltero, a great help the outfield. Sewell also has the high ballplayer, hopes from Harry Perkowski, same Luke Sewthe tall from Syracuse. ell has the Job For a while It began to look to of as if the Reds were trying to Grantland Rice lift attempting Cincinnati's footbuild up an Reds out of the quicksands. No ball squad. They first picked one expects Luke Sewell to lift Ted Kluszewskl from Bo M C- the 1950 Reds Into any pennant, but if he can keep them out of last place, he deserves at least one cheer. The Reds are now linked near .the bottom with the Cubs and Pirates: In a desperate struggle last fall they beat the Cubs by a single game to escape eighth place. "The general opinion seems to be that the Reds will have another rrpHAT MAN," Janice thought as she brought her roadster hard fight for the cellar with the It to a halt, "has possibilities. Cubs," Luke Sewell tells you. here." lives he be that "That could happen and there is cant He stood just inside the picket also a good chance that we can be six feet of tall leaness. Fair fence better than that. For example, the just suppose a young fellow by the hair. Blue eyesof Bespeaking wore He youth. name of Ewell Blackwell begins easy arrogance cotton and blue denim a shirt blue winning again. That not only could happen I think it will happen. So jeans. does Blackwell who looks better "Youre not Janice Burdon?" he than he has looked In some years. said. And then at her expression: You can see what a difference a "Heavens, you arel Why couldni winner would make to our Aunt Bertha have warned me?" club. We had an "Is Aunt Bertha your aunt, too?" winner Ken in "My real aunt. You only call her Raffensberger last year and we drew some pretty fair auntie because shes a close friend of your mother. pitching from Herman Wehmeier Black-weand a few others. But if That makes us 1.11111119 H) not cousins," he well the will it lift goes again morale of our entire club." qD Fiction added with frank relief. So we turned to the human two-third- left-hand- er All-Amerle- an 20-ga- 18-ga- ll MUUn's Indiana team ball a foot-- . star and then grabbed More 'Green Pastures' Predictc For U.S. in Next Fifty Years Prospects are evident that Americas farmlands will grow' greener In the second half of the 20th. cen- - ifj unexpectedly yesterday and announced he was here for two weeks. Hes a dear boy. Youll like him. The next day Janice accompanied Phil up to the north pasture and watched him prune apple trees. "I thought this was your vacation," she said after awhile. "It is," he told her. "I like working on my vacations out doors." He pointed away over the fields. "Some day Id like to see all those fields set out to apple trees." Two days ago she wouldnt have believed him. She was city born and city bred." To her a farm had always symbolized hard work and a poor living, bugs and snakes and hot days in the sun, long lonely evenings. Even the thought of a ng r . ' c Bit Sirs p ;trin C r Scenes like this will be more common throughout rural America as farmers turn to grass as a real crop. Here a field forage harvester, one of the newer developments in mechanized farming, chops and blows grass into a truck keeping pace with the tractor. August Bruynell, proprietor the Forest Hill poultry fui1 North Weare, N. II., hiH handy device to carry feedir eggs when he works in his Ir laying house which hoo? 1,925 New Hampshire bred her Cultivator Needed In Control of Weeds that it prevents erosion, builds up Chemical sprays are not the soil, improves the land for to replace the cultivator crops that are to follow and pro- ready weeds, according to vides greater profit through more controlling J. C. Willard, agronomist Id economical feed. college of agriculture at Ohio Because they can now grow more versity. ' grass with less work, farmers are "No chemicals so far aval more and more acres in for use in crops will kill planting green pastures. They are using weeds," Dr. Willard said. "H more grass as. rotation and cover use chemicals without cultival crops and tests have proved to to remove the weeds left them that grass in rotation with spraying, it will be only a corn and cotton vastly increases time before we have fields are as weedy as before, but yields. The making of hay and grass si- weeds will be different and of lage is the basis of grassland farm- harder to kill." j Introduction of new chemfc: ing. ' This is a true product of the 20th century. Experiments started every year makes spraying K about 25 years ago are just now get- of a specialists job, he pointed i to bewart ting widespread acceptance as cautioning farmers operator. farmers find that grass silage is the second only to grazing in a good Crow Not So Bad livestock program. dl no-h- it fly-by-nig- ht Although many farmers crows because they destroy cfc these birds also help the fart by eating many insect pests tists have estimated that crows eat 19 bushels of insects in season on the average farm. -- - FT going to be partners. This fall Ill sell what we have and next spring set out new trees. He picked up her hand. "Honey, lets make it a threesome. I know its a lot to ask," he added wistfully. "A city girl like you. Itll be dull. But eventually" "I could chip in my roadster," Who was the BOB ZUPPKE RED SOX PLAYER THAT SET A REC- GREAT FORMER COACH OF THE U OF ILLINOIS, WAS AN ARTIST ON THE GRIDIRON AND NOW IS THE SAME OFF. RETIRED, HE HAS GAINED ORD OF TWELVE STRAIGHT HITS BACK IN 1035? SNIOOIM ANld FAME FROM THE PAINTINGS THAT COME FROM HIS EASEL. Janice cried excitedly. "Its all I have, but it ought to bring $500. How many apple trees can you buy with $500, darling?" "Enough, said Phil, reading her eyes, "to keep from being lone some I guess." CRAYON SHARPENER SHARPEN CRAYON OR CHALK FOR SHOP USE BY USING A TWISTED PIECE OF TIN TACKEDTO THE WALL. A; w. 3 farm had made her shudder. She wondered about Phil. He Janice rescued eucalytus tree, height 6 feet 6 claimed to be a law firm member her suitcase from the rumble seat. on Inches, and discovered he was vacation. It occurred to her that "This is like one of those things carrying over 200 pounds of for a lawyer he was mighty skillful you read about," he grinned, takflesh. handling pruning clippers. And his Blackwell is the pitcher who ing it from her, He studied her knowledge of farming was pro"And I shows you the ball four times in with honest approval found. his delivery and then hides it four thought my vacation was going to of their be one of those dull, uninteresting TIIE SECOND DAY times. they knocked off As one hostile batter expressed things." went and for a swim. early Minutes later Janice faced her It "Facing him at bat is like havThe third day they played tenin the bed chamber ing a tall tree fall on you. The Aunt Bertha nis. The fourth Aunt Bertha ball's bn top of you before you over the front parlor. packed theqi a lunch and they know it. In addition to which the "Oh, Auntie, why didnt you drove to Mount Carter, climbed Seeding of Grass Fresno Rope has his full share of tell me he was going to be to its summit and watched a Grass should be seeded about Yi stuff, when right. In 1947, he won here? I didnt bring a thing. sunset while nibbling glorious nch deep in loam and clay soils; 16 games in a row with the Reds Not a thing, except my shorts, delicious sandwiches. Ya to 1 inch deep in .sandy soils. A and fanned 193 men. He also two cotton dresses and a bathOn second the Saturday following 'irm seedbed is desirable. game pitched in succession a ing suit." she with Phil. They was her arrival and eight innings of another spot"Who?" Aunt Bertha asked inMount climbed had Carter again, less affair. nocently. "Phil? Land sakes, dont had sat for moments silent long, "I feel great," Blackwell worry about him. He dropped in -- TO mx-rwatching the afterglow of a blood red sunset. By JOE Unexpectedly Phil said: "Well MAHONEY its .gone. And our vacation has gone. Tonight winds up the two weeks." "Theres always an end to nice NAIL ON things," she, told him evasively. SLANT "There doesnt have to be. Ever. Listen," he went on eagerly. "I gave yon the wrong impression about myself. Im not a successful lawyer. 1 IN IQ YEARS OF PRO HOCKEY, HAD 079 never should have tried to be STITCHES TAKEN, BROKE HIS BACK, HIP a lawyer. Thank heavens I AND COLLARBONE, HAD ALMOST EVERY realized the mistake before it TOOTH KNOCKED OUT, BROKE HIS NOSE was too late." 14 TIMES, HAD BOTH EYEBALLS SPLIT OPEN AND HIS LEFT EAR TORN OFF-LE"You mean youre not leaving? HANGING BY JUST A THREAD. Youre staying here?" He nodded. "Im going to try and raise apples. Auntie and I are solid-looki- Handy Device Merriman from Stanbackfleld. Kluszewskl ury. had a big year last season, Outstanding In farmings past 50 batting .309, but Merriman fell years and bound to play vital parts to .230, which needs some imn the years to come are the new provement this season. Importance of grass and the mechaAnyway young Merriman speaks nization of the farm. very highly of Stanfords 1950 footAccording to experts on the subball team which is already listenject, grass is soon to rank as a ing to Rose Bowl whispers. "It isnt an easy matter to dig prime contributor to the health and United States. Farmyourself out of a deep spot in the wealth of theturn to the use of grass second division but the Reds are ers who will a as In real itself, will find crop like several other teams trying to look ahead," continued Sewell. "Weve finished in seventh place two years running now and we hope to move up this year. Lloyd fords r By Harold NAIL TRICK TO KEEP WARPED BOARDS AND PLANS, DRIVE NAILED DOWN THE NA LS AT AN ANGLE AS SHOWN-THI- S ENABLESTHE NAILS TO WITHSf THE PULL EVERTED BY WARPED BOARDS W |