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Show I with surface water. A dandy granary, built on a cute scheme, i making it just right to get grain from. And once more I repeat, small acreage and lots of money. If not, ruin, though it may take years to spell it. For this 120 acres it takes Anderson's money. May he do well, build it into a producer, and hand to the boys his skill of getting there. I thank Mr. Anderson and family fam-ily for such a pleasant visit, and cannot conclude without mentioning men-tioning little Fern Cornelius, the eighteen months old grandchild. This remarkably pretty little girl won first prize in Riverside, Cal., at the age of fifteen months, in a better baby contest, and I am sure the judges saw well, too. Frank Beckwith. ! and he set to with a vigor and ; determination to clean the place i of them. He did. What I have I ridden over this year does not compare with this farm for free-ness free-ness from weeds. Some of the grain has been in, too, for the fifth crop, so that no one need rise in the back seat and bawl me out with "New land is always al-ways clean, Mister; wait until it's beeicropped a time or two." I walked out into the alfalfa, 25 acres, two years old and as pretty a crop as ever lay outdoors. out-doors. No weevil as yet, even a little above knee high, and a beauty-crop. , Now I want to dwell for a minute min-ute or two on the land itself: There is a streak of land running from the southwest to the northeast north-east through that section of the project that is Al; it is dark colored, col-ored, not gumbo, a little loose, not too much alkali, though a little, and classed by everybody as choice land. Schwartz, Anderson, An-derson, Leutheauser, Seams these good people are on that belt, and some others. Results are coming to them. Ask any of them. I talked with Schwartz this a. m., as I am writing this up, and he joins in what I say, I'll bet Schwartz likes the country, coun-try, is doing well, and looks to coming out nicely. So, the land quality known, we can pass to man and methods. Anderson believes in fitting his land. He spends money and labor fitting and preparing the land for crop. He has farmed in Illinois and Nebraska, and did well both places. He has sold farms and also done well. He has gathered experience in his sixty seven years, and likewise coin of the realm, for Anderson is well to do and prosperous. The farm is for th boys, an independence in-dependence they couldn't get ' slinging ink or shoving a pencil for others, and an income for them in keeping. Like the Van ' Evera Brothers at Abraham, ' here is a farm large enough for full ambition, and an opportunity opportun-ity to make a stake. Under the father's tutelage I believe the farm will make good, and the boys see it, which means they'll plug. Now Anderson believes in that deep mulch, got1 only from discing, disc-ing, and done lots of ti.nes. He . claims it will prevent crusting , and baking. It proves so with , him. Why not others try it out? He believes in short water runs; , easy irrigation, all covered, and saving on water. He hears with a deaf ear much of the rant that is being talked and steadily plugs at his own ends, makes his land, gets crops, and boosts. Why it was fine to listen to all the good men he knew, who ' were good farmers, who had nice crops, whose trees were pretty, whose farms showed they i savvied, and where prosperity ! was in the habit of hanging . around. He spoke of the excellent excel-lent sugar beet crop Schiffer Bros, have; and I jotted down the names of Elmer Golden, J. i B. and Earl F. Seams, Chelson, Tingleaf, Cary, Roy Jones and i Sampley, all ' good beet crops. And Charlie Ashby's; and Abb-' Abb-' ott's trees; and Hillyard's house; and in fact, he has ,an eye out : to all good things, and laid them by handy but the bad features, : the discouraging things, he tuck-: tuck-: ed away into dimly lighted pig-. pig-. eon holes of memory, as unhandy unhan-dy as possible, with the hope that forgetfulness would spin a web of oblivion over their resting rest-ing places. Leastwise, that's the impression I got, and I'm thankful for it it corrected too much of the other. I noted the nice house and the furnishings. But I was sick and could only eat eleven helpings of chicken nothing near my usual self. Too bad. And following the advice of my physician 1 stopped on the third platter of ice cream. Well, aint belts a nuisance anyway? Anderson has a nice basement under the house, and no trouble The Anderson Farm I spent Sunday at the farm oi Louis Anderson on the North Tract, just west of Sugarville. I am right good and glad tc have my vision corrected. I had been seeing things blue for a long time, and listening to howls, until I was nicely in tune to both. 1 But Mr. Anderson is so keenly alive to the other side, and sc full of it, that it is catching, and it serves as a fine corrective. St I'll pass it along. Mr. Anderson has 120 acres oi land, a very fine quality of black soil, which he works by discing (not plowing) into a deep mulch, and thereby keeps it from baking into cracks and crusting. He says that's the secret, got it from a Government Year Book, 1 tried it out in practice, and will hereafter farm that way entirely. entire-ly. He fits his land, even foi grain, like a seed bed. Disced the land now growing wheat, that I went through, four times, seven inches deep, and for this year, the stand is good. The neads are much better than the average, and the stand above the common lot. And not one single weed: He had rented the place before, and has only been here himself since last fall, coming to find the place run with weeds, ditches chick, the field badly weeded, |