1 PIONEERS . ' enienmnmmnnnsap- , "A. : : fr. AS LONG w the free land last ed, tola country bad the makings of a jeffersonlan democracy. If yon didn't like working for somebody else and saying, "SlrV you didn't have . to. Too could walk ont on the whole system heroically, and become one of a new American landed gentry at government expense. is- & .ft-;V With the natjon OUlng np, the de mand for earth-room Increasing, and land of every description advancing in price, yon conld farm at a paper loss for thirty years or longer and retire with a competence. The op portunity existed and beckoned un til as recently as 1919. ' ..v: Enormous expanses of America are still hardly , more than :: fifty years settled. ... We have still In, the United States, alive and kicking, : hondreds of thousands of actual pi oneersmen and women who went Into the wilderness or out on to the plains, and who, pretty much with j their own bare hands, - made themselves' a home. ' They had, by and large, a harsh ' time "of r'tti and they (Ike to talk, about It nowi ? , They-t may stretch things a little, ' bnt most of It la true. Here aild there, as they tell their stories, yon may detect a note of triumphant confusion. That Is natural A good many xf these peo- pie went pioneering to get away from Just such things as have now. In large measure, overtaken them. They wanted to be absolutely In dependent To that end they found themselves going moreand more often to bankers with their hats In their hands. Tbey wanted to raise their chil dren safely away from sin and glit ter. A son has turned atheist, at the state university; a daughter brought up in the church, is in Bol lywood. They wanted peace and quiet An express highway cuts through their property now, and they have two cars and a radio., . They are getting pretty thorough ly civilised, and they dont quite like It A cycle of pioneering does not end until acquiescence Is com plete. f Over the Alleghsnles. West from Toledo- In prairie Ohio the barns are Gothic and good to see,'- They at beautiful In the same ' way that cathedrals are beautiful, for they follow the same design; Framed from' the side, with the roof vaulted, no "part of the structure ' appear upheld by. the part below. The whole building Is thrust from the earth to the iky with a strong triumphant lift "'' . In Fulton county, Ohio, such barns are aide-framed,' and they' are 'all big. Take them right through the county, they will be half as large again .as the barns yon will find anywhere else in Ohio, or probably anywhere else fn the United States. ' For; this reason: In1 Fulton, county 'the barn customarily Includes" the : barnyard. Some thrtyv years ago a farmer. Arnold Waldeck', one of the pioneer residents of this county, got It Into bis head that, even If it would make your barn -more than ' twice as large, your barnyard ought to be covered, It ought to have a roof over It and sides, and good : tight storage, space above; In other words, the barnyard ought to be built right In a part of the barn, v ' Almost' all the barns In Fnlfon county. and many In neighboring counties, are hullt that way today. The idea combines beautifully with side-framing. ' The state college of agriculture urges the spread of such barns throughout - the state. The college engineers Issue free plans for what they call the Fulton Coun ty, or the Covered Yard, sometimes -ore the Waldeck barn; and they tell yon that somewhere In Fulton coun ty the original Waldeck barn is still standing. - ' "As good as new,; pretty near," says Arnold Waldeck, himself. "About the only .difference la that 'F. A. Fleming Is painted on the gable, Instead of 'Arnold' Waldeck, 1897.' . "Ninety-seven, that's when I put it up." i , s- . '? He' la an old man now. "Born in 1 that would put hint well past eighty.- A tall old man In a stiff white collar, comfortably large; and heavy black suit which bangs on him loosely. Too much of a man, even now. to scale with this neat small-town bungalow, his ' present home. He still stands all of six feet above ground, and bates chairs, "I get tired sitting down." ; So he stands with a stoop. He has pale eyes, a white' beard trimmed to the line of hia Jaw, and a bold fore head, wide and high. Hia big hands hang heavily at his sides. ,- He continues: '1 have lived here in the village for thirteen years. I am too old now to take, an, active part In fanning. But I was sixty four before I sold -out and retired. I wouldn't sell until 1 could get the right sort of buyer. .The man I sold to, Mr! Fleming, think as I did, that a balf-bushel of weeds In a ten-acre Held Is plenty, and not one of them weeds ought ever be al lowed to go to seeA . "1 bought that farm, eighty acres. In 78. Half of it was in timber. The other half waa mostly stumps. I cleared the half that stood In trees, and built the erst part of my barn from my own timber, v ' -' '' "1 built It forty by sixty. That made talk. People said rd never fill it A good many 200-acre places had smaller barns than that in those days.' "-'.. 'is Vr1-': "Wen, by 1897 I had it filled, all right Fact of the matter, I need ed more storage space. , I began to make plana. ' I anticipated enlarg ing and also building a shed' around my barnyard to protect my cattle from the winter. .pj'.'v.'1 "I bad the lumber all cut when my brother George told me that he'd beard T. K Terry speak st Farmers' Institute about a barnyard covered all over and closed In. The Idea was to protect not only the cattle but also the manure. " "It seems that T. B, he was a famous farmer, and Institute speak er; he died back here only eight or nine years ago got the Idea from old Prof. Isaac P. Roberts of Cornell.' Roberts was building some sort of 4 covered barnyard there. I dldnt know Just what '-?.' ':-v;t ,' "But for what I wanted the best thlpg to do was Just to raise my new hay shed, close the sides- below, and run the stock under:' That was what I did. and that's the type of barn and yard yon see all over this county today. ' . "My brother George, the one who gave me the Idea, was the first .to follow my lead. He came over and saw what I had. , ' ; .?Tou've got the advantage of me,' he said; 'you're saving manure. Too can feed In winter .without going out in the cold,-, t can't thresh until the manure Is out of the yard, too can thresh any time and blow the straw right In above the cattle, where it will keep a lot better than In a stack.' Tes,' he says, "you've got the advantage of me.' And be built one. like it. - -,,....,-,.- : ' , "After, a bit along .comes my brother William, and he figures that it would be land Insurance and pay htm 10 per , cent on bis money to build one, too. ""One by one they began to go np all over the county, and you can see bow It is now.: If an Idea's practi cal, you can trust farmers to take up with It Tbey use any abort cut a group oi ii men i.ud talk aim. , 'What to help the tanner?' i of this county are forg er than the average lug i tow i "I yoin Is p me t i :. j.' iays said if I. was ; i '., I would farm, for there j f I' iroumpnt In farming for -1 i - y other vocation." -A ";. - .- In t Plains Country. ;,-v ' Everyi.o ; In that part of South Dakota calls htm "Uncle Dave." He came from Wisconsin as a lad of nineteen,, treklng by compass over trackless prairie. , He gave up car pentry, took up land and gradually became known as the moat painstak ing - and successful farmer there abouts. They called him "'The Po tato King of South Dakota," what ever that means. ' ' ' Uncle Dave Is seventy; a middle slsed, sinewy, leathery man, slightly bent but , tireless still, and sturdy. He speaks slowly,, mildly.: Farm re lief T, . He hardly knows. v So many smarter men have got all snarled up 'on the-, subject V-; : t I met him In a little town that looks as If it had- heeo set up for a western movie.;--; Except for the courthouse; that Is a fine stone building, with the data 1908 on its cornerstone, and the name rDave Saur" carved In bold letters at the top of a commemorative tablet in aide. He was chairman of the board of commissioners that got the build ing there, and so started this town of Haytl, less than 25 years ago., ."My brother named the town," he aays, "He was busy, out tying bay for the cookstove, and a postal Inspector ; came outxto see about getting a post office hare. 'Call it hay-tie,' said my brother, and the Inspector wrote It down, only with out the "e." A pretty good. name. It takes yon back, to the early days We burn coal now Instead of buf falo grass, but there waa a long time there, let me tell yon." that when the women were baking they'd send yon put to. tie bay. , It took them a 1 good while to, learn to like a coal fire for that - , i. "Well, I'm getting along in years: guess 111 be an old man yet K 1 live. I was born in 60, back In Wisconsin.-. .Three of my older brothers were in the Civil war. One was killed; they brought him home in a box..,- -. -.v , - ;-'.-' , - -' Vi'-?::r - "I came out here in "79 with an other fellow, In a prairie schooner. Watertown was the end, then, of the North Western, railroad. . We bead ed for there,; steering by compass; there weren't any roads to speak of. Tbey used tq build np big mounds of dirt on the hills, to guide on. ; "The other fellow I came with pushed on up into the Tim River country." I irtayed in Watertown, as a carpenter. I carpentered for five years, bnt the turpentine from the wood got me in the-lungs somehow, and the doctor .told . me to quit "So , I cams out here, and took out my first quarter-section; twenty five miles from town, with no near neighbors.' I got married the same year; I was twentyfour at the time. We dldnt need any license: South Dakota wasn't a state yet The cot ton woods I planted that year, there lit that tree claim across the road, they're sixty feet tall now. "The main trouble those " day wasn't In raising things; It was find ing somebody who wanted what you raised. The fellow .nearest us took some eggs Into Watertown to trade a): the store. They wanted to al low him six cents a dozen. Taln't enough, he said, to pay for the wear 'n tear on the ben!'.,' -.'V f "But land was cheap, too. I got my second- quarter-section for $000, And I ' don't remember any time when we didn't have plenty to eat" : As 'we went out to bis potato field; i told me bow, nearly twenty years ago, everybody said he was wasting bis time. :i He put In four teen acres of Early Ohlos. . Hall came and chopped them up. It looked like a dead loss, but they, came through: with 1,400 bushels that sold for a. dollar a buabel From - that time on. be cut wheat out of his farming plans and always, grew thirty to forty acres of potatoes f He went along this way, doing a good, thorough Job of farming, until 1920. S A; W. Thompklns was the government farm adviser or county agent in Hamlin county at the time, i He got Uncle Dave and one or two others Interested In the Idea of ..rais ing state certified seed . potatoes They : formed the . Hamlin County Certified Seed Potato Growers' association- the first of such assocfa tlons in South Dakota, the tenth in the United States. . They put up, at Haytl a' grading and . sorting station, all on credit , They paid off their $7,000 debt. In full at the end of the first year. They had netted,, on ihelr first year's, sule. eighty-four cent a busbel as compared to a lo cal market price, that year, of twen ty-seveo cents a bushel . -' ' V: "look," said Uncle Dave.' "Here my test plant 1 try out my. seer tubers and rogue out any plant thai show the least little sign of disease That's , a new. trick with : ine. ne this year. And looki last year. fellow told me that mixing corroslvt sublimate with bard water was bad Here, in these row Is where Tn trying seed treated with corroslv and rainwater ; , and here's wher Tm trying gome, seed treated wit' hot formaldehyde. - I'm- going t find out about that Just for my ow satisfaction a - fellow has got t keep looklo' ahead." , ,, , , " - , . . . . WNU enrlM -. E Is XlOUSMEV-.-fl V'Ol . ! j ; ST? J . 1 I .:V"-'V THATrTyJj r- , ; THE FEATHERHEADS " VPRY ATTRACTIVE, j tuC&V A?5 sSe lSo'kI THIMK 'SO, -i J IMPROVED V' MUCrf btlNSEfe ' 1-fHIMK I'LL fcte- J WHAT' I SHOULD SAY I UlJ?!?lT "oU ON'T. WANT- To , . BOBBER fTop I , , r:HAvfB VouRSELF COQKlMO- J FINNEY OF THE VMUT A WQISriT.' OI WOULDN'T FER A WADPKA ,' SPOT HOW OI YtOULD LOIKB T 56B A ; a, , - Mewww t" --'S ifcii. SMOKC CATCR5..CIT A COLP ROIDC 91' J h the Lives Cj FORCE V ;0 WMUT A ,A ft U Ale. THAT ' j " 1 ' sSS'T : r Not for Her Fire and Warmer Prince 1 1 Fourth av nurf i fourteenth su . That line was d the New loVk and I , Dy Kaowa I There are certain d.: Indicators, that show org in acid and tn alkam these are extensively us leal work where the kallnlty of solutions mu fully controlled.; Wild and Tame Tu m,. nmt. readllvrecoi ference between the oort.. turkeys and domestic fow outer band of the tall. WUa have chestnut bands, while t turkeys nave a wniieBim. . , V Utng Namerah for C- -In using numerals for df custom In the United States use the following order; Moi s, year. - In some foreign Cli nch as Great Britain, the o day, month and year is foll ' Wom' Blood Preferr 5 i Women blood : donors are ; f erred In ; hospitals In Oana i eause their, blood clots more than that of -men. . Thla Is con -ered a vital aspect In the trai j alon of blood, i, , v . ' :r- : i 1 1 ! r . .J- ' n" - Old Charcb Ru4 Rebuilt After serving as an Anglican place of worship in Leeds, England, f t 87 years, St PhlUp's church v.ns tors down and, the- materials to rebuild It at Mlddleton. - That Borrowed 0brHa - "Since he became a candidate f office,' said Hi Ho, the sage t l Chinatown, "my neighbor.' H. Eiit, extends bis band, but the utubrella I lent him 1 never in if '$jt-hy-' Some Glaas Toagk V-y! ' ' " . t? Some glass is tough.' In lenses cooled quickly the strains are con trolled and even when dropped on a concrete floor, do not break, 1 ' FUb Ignore Divers If a diver tn tropical seas permit blmself to. sway with the under water current the surrounding fih pay no attention to. nlm. ' , ,j- i .' ,i :' i' : " '.': ,' Fighting FLh of Slam. . i The fighting, fish of Slam, only about 8 inches long,; will attack any flsb on sight, Contests are held with these fish. ,.' - ' ' .. ' , ' Japan Strong for Charm The use of charms Is almost i versal in Japan. One even sees tL. in taxi cabs as a guard against ac cident. , ,, -. . - 1 i - -'"' -: Stamps Made in Washington . - All United. States postage stamps are made at the, bureau of engrav ing and printing, Washington. , . "Doctor, I want yon to look after my office, while I'm on my vacation." "But I've, Just graduated doctor. I've had no experience.", t That's all right, my boy. My prac tice Is strictly fashionable. Tell the men to play golf and ship the lady patients off to Enrope.'VLoraln (Ohio) Journal ;.,.' , 'll-; - Who Wants to Be VUUin? ' ""What's the difference between drama and A melodrama?" v i "Well, In , '; a drama the ' heroine merely throws a villain over,' - In a melodrama she throws him over a cliff." Stray Stories Magazine.: .', Political Economy "Did yon send your boy. Josh to college to learn political economy?" "Xe," answered Farmer Corntossel. "He got some great political ideas. But as for economy be gets deeper In debt every year;" " AND GJT YOUR FEE. .

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