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Show HALF-MINUTE INTERVIEWS: Editor: Through a typographical typograph-ical error, we quoted Mr. Nelson as saving that he had cut 1244 bushels of seed off 2 acres, when it should have been 24 bushels. T.- Paine Franklin: "The Aired Brothers have just completed a fine flowing well at my place at a depth of 460 feet. This is the first flowing well for the Abraham Abra-ham district, and several veins of water were struck and passed up in order to get a flowing well above the surface. The flow is sufficiently large to provide the stock and plenty to spare. I am very proud of my well, and if I am so unfortunate (?) as to get a wife, she will not have to pump and tote the water for I will pipe the water into the house. ' ' C. A. Hire: "I sold 35 head of dandy fat hogs a few weeks ago, receiving $6.50 per cwt., and I made some pretty good money on them at that, but of course, feed is considerable higher now, and there is no chance for grain to become cheaper. I believe that hogs will sell at S or 9 cents before be-fore July 1st, but doubt the prediction pre-diction that the price will reach 10 to 12 cents. I have 50 head that I intend to sell about June 1st and if I get 9cts. for them I wiil come out with colors flying." George Meinhardt: "1 have found this country an exceptionally exception-ally good country for sugar beets hogs and alfalfa, superior to California Cal-ifornia in many respects. I had in 5 acres of sugar beets which yielded 25 tons an acre and I realized re-alized $118.75 to the acre on them actual cash; besides 65 head of hogs were turned in on the patch after the digging and have fed themselves and fattened without grain other than what they could get in the wheat stubble; these hogs are nearly fat enough to market right now and the cost to me has been practically nothing. It requires lots of hard work to raise beets, no snap whatever." H. F. Fredericks: "The fellow that says this country isn't a good place to farm, is off his base: I don't believe the possibilities of this valley can be excelled any where. I came in here 5 years ago and after making my initial payment on my farm, I had an . ..... extra shirt and a change of und- " " erclothing, had no horses or farm tools and have experienced an up hill pull from the beginning, under un-der these conditons I have been getting ahead little by little, my farm is fairly well improved and has nearly doubled in value. I was too busy "courting" last fall to get more than 15 acres sown to vvheat, but, well, my wife and I both like this place." Herman Munster: "A letter just received from my mother at Berlin, Germany, says that conditions con-ditions there are just the Bame as before the war commenced, that business in all lines was flourishing flourish-ing and times prosperous; the only noticable difference is the training of two million soldiera and the prisoners of war working in the factories and fieldB," My two brothers are in the thickest of the fray over there one is on a submarine, the other in the infantry; in-fantry; they write me that they 1 rather like their duties at the ' front and both seem confident " that their side will triumph over - the allied forces in the end. As I for myself, I'm glad I'm right here in the delta country, would just as soon farm as fight, and it seems to me that they got a hard ; old go of it before the finish." ; Chronicle readers are invited to r contribute to this column. Ex- -t press your ideas and opinions as I briefly as possible. |