Show FARM PAIt 1 NOTES By Rube I IThe The growing season season is now practically practically practically over though at this writing there has been no frost Temperature Tempera Tempera- ture dropped to within two wo points of freezing Sunday morning Most everybody Is trying to ripen tomatoes toma toes which are late owing to th the backward spring Then there are cucumbers squash and beans and sweet corn that are not yet out of danger Of Ot course to try to raise cantaloupes and melons in the river bottoms is a waste of time Wheat Is ripe and fast going into the stack Very fe few farmers ass are getting but two two crops of hay leavIng leaving leaving leav leav- ing a good pasture Hay shows no signs of damage by the weevil re reported reported reported ported by an expert a year ago Potatoes are a fair crop thrifty tops and no blight would b be thankful it if Jack Frost keeps his hands off oft a fortnight yet About ten times im as many grasshoppers grasshoppers grasshoppers grass grass- hoppers as last season Our only hope lies in the birds of or which we have thousands Some say the cedar bird bird who is fond of wheat does not eat grasshoppers But an examination of ones one's craw might prove the contrary Henry Remund is running one of I our several binders hinders on the Straw Strawberry Strawberry Strawberry berry while the Mott boys will soon follow up with a thrasher Then should come plowing and seeding to fall wheat It is reported that some heartless middleman speculator has beer around and bought up all the honey in the Uintah basin and as a J. J consequence the price has jumped up III per cent regardless of an unusually large yield Our advise advises advise's s 's s use sugar as a substitute Meantime Meantime Meantime Mean Mean- time the tho matter should be reported to Hoover or his assistants The mosquitoes are still with us usand and ond will now slow stay till cold weather Our road has been gone over with the grader and is' is now in fine shape Judge Smith estimates that 2500 cars have passed over oyer the Strawberry route this season He Ho also informs us that the past season has been exceptionally favor favorable able for crop from the point of precipitation precipitation pre pre- April May and July received re re- received received several times more than the average while June and August were shy of their normal amounts This time last year we were still Inthe in inthe inthe the longest dry spell ever witnessed since the advent of the white man manthe manthe manthe the dr dry period being of days duration Run n the water through your stuff stutt which you do not wish frosted during durIns during dur dur- ing Ins dangerous night A smoke smoke- smudge or a bonfire started at atI 4 I a a. a m. m will also help Small patches of garden may bo ho protected by hay or burlap |