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Show NEWS FROM THE COUNTRYSIDE Good Field of Corn Frank William's big corn field on the project east of the Atkin farm is worth going far to see. The shoots are advanced far 'enough to insure maturity before frost, which is the bane of early fall in this valley. Cuts Lucerne Joe Jackson is about the first to open the season of first cutting of lucerne at his Rocky Ford ranch. His strawberry patch also looks most tempting. Road Crew Near Town The Beaver County highway crew has been camped on the canal this week about seven miles east of town, giving the impression of a little settlement. settle-ment. Albert Stoney, Dewey Hurst, Thad Baldwin, and others from Beaver Beav-er on the works, have been in Milford Mil-ford for movies, a shave, and as they say, to keep in touch with things metropolitan and to less the night lonliness of camp life. Grows Seed Polatoes Ed Schroeder, at the Palmer ranch, has wilh him now Jack Taylor, in the potato industry, who seems to have a most sane handling in the j judicious plans Mr. Schroeder has j outlined. A shrewd feature is his ex-j ex-j nrc'iation of selling his crop for certi-I certi-I find seed, instead of putting it in bulk on the general market. Stock Hunts Feed Ro'.'nrdWs of right and might, and ordinance withal, unfenced stretches of land all over the county are dotted ! wilh hands of horses and herds of j rattle, making the most of the young Russian thistle, known as the "tumble J weed" at its older growth. The ab-I ab-I solute shortotre of hay . necessitates the sl-ut'ing of eyes and comment on 1 the .itimtSo!. tl-e prW of what hay is lefr h..in,r prohibitive. The new yi-'M of a' !.! in this section is most j p--d ; Tic. lin-.'-rvpv, and the beautiful oxpn.-ses raw already being cnt on s.-ui' raiv'.es will soon have the herds i of live tfck munching their own. |