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Show ahead and wear it out. He can put it back if he will. The Ide boys have rented the Moench ranch of a hundred and twenty acres and are preparing it for wheat. Mr. Pate of Oasis, who bought Mr. Heston out, is also preparing prepar-ing ground for fall seeding. W. G. Dickerson of Los Angeles, Ange-les, came with W. H. Tomlin-son Tomlin-son to look over our valley. Hope he may be pleased and settle amongst us. South Tract Review Well, brother and sister correspondents, cor-respondents, I have met Mr. Davis, Dav-is, the publisher of the Chronicle, Chroni-cle, and he never scolded a bit. It was such a surprise and relief that I almost fainted; for knowing know-ing so well that I deserved a good sound drubbing and not getting it was almost more than I could bear. W. H. Tomlinson, of Illinois, who has spent the last eight months in Los Angeles, Cal., returned re-turned last Thursday to his ranch on the South Tract, and said he ''s better satisfied with Millard County than he ever was. We are very glad to learn that Mr. and Mrs. Leo Thurston, who contemplated moving out of our valley, have changed their minds and are going to stay with us. We need them and all the rest of our South Tract crowd. Mr. Vanwinkle, of Oklahoma, has completed a cozy residence on his ranch and returned to his home, leaving the handling of his business and ranch to the care of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Elmer who have moved into the place and are at home to their many friends. Joseph Russell, came down from Salt Lake last Thursday and packed up and shipped his household goods to the City by the Lake. He took his wife and two daughters, who have been making their home with Henry Botts, and they' are driving back to Salt Lake where they will make their future home. One would think the open season for killing bear was on when listening to the awfjl shooting going on down along the drainage ditch. They are sure doing business down there. The season for getting that great big deer with those great big horns is almost here. I wonder who. will be luckey enough to eat venison this season. seas-on. The good rains closely following follow-ing each other makes the South Tract smile to get her face washed. Our farmers are busy now putting put-ting in their fall wheat. If we stop to consider, -we find that we impoverish our soil to the extent of twenty cents per bushel. For every sixty pounds of wheat we sell we lose two pounds of plant good in the form of nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid. During Dur-ing the ten months ending April 30th, our nation exported fully seventy million dollars worth of plant food. Now the question is, will the farmer put the food back into the soil or will he go |