Show the old settler j continued from last week my aly bear san their trees and grapes and al most lost everything was planted in holes that lia biad d been shot biti poder po Nider so the subsoil was loosened loose n rhe tear up tip the subsoil etli with cl c isel plows and they work into it a variety of fertilizers chang ing in tho the nature of this clay soil boil in to a fAi formation nation which absorbs and I 1 holds moisture with surprising tenacity every farm hai its compost coin post heap where they collect almost everything that will mature in the heap or the bin to bon ben chit the soil economy is the watchword they save everything even the minutes they raise yellow clover rye beans flint corn and red wheat they have a whole string of drouth resia tent plants and vegetables which we have not yet tried to raise and would have to learn arcq pinol a k lea 01 them they have goats but few cows they have chickens and turkeys and pigs they have bees and buy no sugar but eat honey their persistent yellow clover is the life of their byes bees and their goats lookin looking down at thern them fron lythe air air their green terraces look like a pattern framed by the wind for their level ditches conform to the contour of the country like drifts of snow or sand those ter caces catch every drop of rain or snow the year around their farms are arc not big ten to fifty acres according to the needs of the family and the fertility of the soil with thesie people it is not a matter of getting rich but a matter of SLI subsisting there is one tiling thing they wont allow and that eliat is for a man to claim diore more than alian he can cu cultivate I 1 ti va te to advantage e arid and keep keel clein of weeds and if it it transpires that a mans farm is 15 sufficient to sustain another family the size of liis his he must divide it vitha a destitute family when this starving mob came to the country the old taylor G razing grazing law was tram plede lIede all to pieces under its mad feet no embargo embar bar 0 o was as going to res restrain irain men from takina land by virtue of their right to live and di dig it from the eattle to be continued next week ALBERT R LYMAN |