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Show HALF-MINUTE INTERVIEWS: Dr. Broaddus: "There is but verv little sickness for this time of the vear; this is entirely too healthful a country to keep me busy all the time.and I might decide de-cide to go to farming in this lovely love-ly valley yet. Mrs. Broaddus is becoming very much interested in farming'since taking up a claim west of Hinckley and requested that I call and get a copy of the "Hints to the Husbandman." Jeff Clark: "Thompson, Prit-chett Prit-chett and myself have made an agreement betwixt ourselves and shook hands on it that we will all three take in the expositions together, to-gether, after harvest. ' If I had not been convinced that this valley val-ley was alright, - I wouldn't have returned here. Hush, Barben! Busenbark will publish that dope you're about to tell and all your neighbors will be striking you for a loan." R. A. Nelson: "I cut 120 tons of hay off my 40 acres of alfalfa in three cuttings and raised 124i bushels of seed off two acres that . I let go to seed, which I sold for $157.50; just think what I would have made had the entire forty been left for seed. I propose to get 12 good dairy cows, will cut sufficient hay the first cutting to feed them a year, and make a try for a seed crop every year hereafter." H. E. Beck: "These fine sun-shiney sun-shiney days brings the thought that spring-time is near at hand and I'm glad of it.as I have that hankering desire to get busy in the field sowing grain and watching watch-ing it grow. I will put in 20acres of spring wheat, a patch of sugar beets and some more lucern. I'm expecting the arrival of two older old-er sons shortly, who will buy a farm and locate here. One of my boys gave me $500 for a Christmas Christ-mas present." Isaac Jacob: "I have 2000 bu. of wheat in the bin and expect to get $1.50 a bushel for it; sold a quantity when the price was at a low ebb and at that time realized I was making' a mistake. I believe be-lieve Delta will take a boom after harvest, the place is bound to grow, but the business district will.be located on either Broadway Broad-way or the postoffice street when real town-builders with money, take hold here. Clark Street will never in my opinion, be the logical logi-cal business street." Chas. A. McClain: "I rode out over thisbuntry six years ago and could see nothing but brush, today there are 7,000 acres sown to Turkey Red winter wheat and about 5,000 acres to alfalfa, this surely spells prosperity for the Delta settlers. For a new country coun-try it has been developed remark- ably fast, a g'reat deal faster than any other project I know about. Hardships and dissatisfaction are things of the past, the farmers here will have easy sailing from now on many will make $2,000 or more off their wheat crop alone this year." |