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Show Chatter Box Dear Suzy, Things have warmed up around here hotter thin a preacher at a revival. The alfalfa is growing so fast the dodder as to get on stilts to grab hold, but it will make it as the little dodders are causing great concern to many of the farmers. far-mers. Up Leamington way Spence Niel son is experimenting on weaving ropes of the many tendrils the plants put out and in case he makes it work figures he has a gold mine and will soon have the rope market cornered. Other farmers are experimenting with crops that will not be affected af-fected by dodder and are trying to get away from the problem. One farmer who has made stri-rte stri-rte in that direction is our local now able to just sit around and await the harvest, which would be magnificent .providing the teeth stooled out well when they came up. Al figures that the rate people are misplacing, losing down toilets, and generally raising hob with their boughten bicuspids he has has the makings of another fortune for-tune right there on the farm. He is going to fertilize some areas heavy so as to raise large sized sets of teeth, and others areas he is going to stunt so as to raise smaller sizes of teeth for women and children. Coloring is a problem as present with him but he figures fig-ures that a little enameling toy the customers can bring about the shade they desire. It looks so good to Al at present that he is casting an anxious eye about for retail outlets, and Doc Stains is looking about for a new location. Al has it all figured out that if he can break into the mail order catalog he is a made man as they will reach a large populace that is alwavs in need of teeth. miner, businessman and farmer, Al Willden. It seems that Al got the urge to own a farm and so went out and bought a great gob of land along with water and the various .accoutrements that make farming expensive. He looked the place over and decided that what it needed was plowing and a new crop of some kind planted. He was still figuring on what to plant when he started to plow and felt that he had a lot of time on his hands for thinking and would solve his problem while the plow took inroads into the soil. When he started to plow his new store teeth were not feeling comfortable in his mouth and so he removed them and put them in his shirt pocket, happy lor the relief it gave him and happy that he could then concentrate on his problem. - The plowing went well and he was making a furious furrow over the farm when night time came and it was time to go home to fireside and family. He felt In his t onrt fnimd that his teeth yurtb ii were misplaced. He looked in the tool box, under the cushion on the seat and in his lunch pail, but the teeth still eluded him. It was a saddened Al that went home that night, toothless and tired. His supper tasted like ashes In his mouth, and in the back of his mind lurked the dread of, new fittings and new teeth. Also there was that extra consideration, the money that Doc Stains would want for new molars. Morning brought a new Al out of bed. During the night his problem pro-blem had been solved on what to plant, and he figured that as his teeth were missing he had already al-ready planted his crop and was Lee Rogers is taking up the matter mat-ter of what to spray them with as they grow, but all are agreed that dodder will not be ia problem pro-blem because no one ever heard of dodder on teeth. In fact they are planning on making some of the plants extra strong so as to bite away the dodder and malefactors male-factors who are jealous of the success that is coming into the picture. It is also a field into which not 1 many will enter, as the initial cost of planting is so high, $125 to $200 a setting that it will discourage dis-courage all but the brave and strong, and those who wish to take a long chance. |