| Show SOW iff GOOD CROPS 11 ILL BE THIS bear birst let us state plainly the tarm farm ers erk attitude about publication of his bodd crop and fix alx lx it firmly in mind dont says he publish anything sit S it my good crop it only brings ai a gher assessment on the land and when I 1 kick I 1 in told I 1 can afford to pay it it was even published that I 1 got a good crop or if he is owing the creditor gets the paper and says now old tite wadd who has been long be hind can amble up to the counter and plunk down a good sized pay ment I 1 expect it and just then old J tite tits wadd whose true name la Is tightly pressed Is fingering fig gering on a new bus a trip to cal a pole line tor for power to hia his diggings and a new frock tor for betty ann honey dimples hosie shoes tor for brick and a collidge for or aleck and tor for him to have to stop and dig up some pl plunk ies tor for skinned and cheatem his predatory wolves thirsting for a ib lb of swag Is expecting too much of john and besides if we publish delta this fall will have a million and a quarter cash crop from seed the state bored of equalization will say oh no you don t mister county commissioners you 11 leave that levy right up at the top rung eggs where we put it so the farmer doesn doean t want it published he sab s and says tru ly I 1 care it if it stimulates real estate sales my farm isn t tor for sale and all it does is to bring in a pest of life insurance salesmen high pressure binks selling blue moons thicker than the plague of mormon crickets ou ve reao rea about no sir lay oft off that stuff it would have been a good country it if some editor badent churned up the cities with a lot of blat and roped in suck ers to the tune of 93 acres when we all knew we had water tor for only sixty kayo the editor took the count at that one two body blow and rip to the jaw jai and in his incoherence babiles babi led there s a peach of a prospect for a million and a quarter seed crop with nitre grain on the north tract than for years and years blight is showing in some first crops to draw down the yield second crops spotted as usual but up to last year tarm farm ers varied as to opinions some are hurt and see nothing but ruin oth era ers with good prospects and seeing things optimistically in all ohp balanced chop man riding the moon over his neighbor who gambled it all on seed experts satisfied with the outlook seed houses pleased mer chants feeling business will be nor mal and stocking accordingly then the editor came to and said I 1 hope to heaven this doesn doean t bring a scourge of pests in here selling this enthat I 1 hope old pound 0 flesh doesn doean t exact all the contract stipulated that poor old john tite ly prest can stick his nose in cal but gol darn old IN ARREARS on his subscription account it that oil old skinflint Ekin flint don t come across now that hes he s got it III publish his name tor for a good crop to all four winds ot of leaden 1 caien oo 00 0 o mister farmer it if you had a good crop come in here with two tiny little dollars out of that dandy 34 14 30 alfalfa seed crop or gol darn your balky old hide well we 11 slip a 9 irr under your tail tall that 11 n 11 1 lo 10 e you hump so just pay up and bink ink the eye and for all pa pad d L ip p alser ibers well keep mum tor for ar ai ther year on what you really did lid ge e NA e are ace ned vied of not being w 11 ing to write up good crops which we answer by saying no V ate e wont unless the farmer wants us to we wont nary a word about a good showing unless the man we write it about is willing and permits us |
