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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1903)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 7 The farmers are preparing to sow fonr or five acres of oats and vegetables for late feed fortbecows. Last fall's sjwing of rye and vegetables is now ready lo begin feed ing. They will cause the cows to give a much larger quantity of milk. Thelateoats by the lake are looking flap, and the timothy sown on some of this land was well planted. This is the great fHt liny land in the world.' The clover is already showing the effects of the land plaster that was recently distributed. John Sorter thinks he is the "only peb b'e on the beach" sine he is driving Dr. 1'irce's three minute horses, and lubber tired buggy. Never mind, John, we will turu out more farmers able to do likewise. We have feveral boys that can pull the "ribbons" over a team in grand style. It is a cimmon thing to see the four horse carry-all start out for church in Salem with 15 or 20 girls and Mr. Potter or sme teacher as an escort, and one of the farm boys driving. It is easily mistaken for one of the ritrs from some big stable in the city, The new hack and eariage will be lini.-hed in a few days, then theie will be 8nie people wishing to take a ride. Dairy Department. The dairy boys have finished grubbing the piece of laud laid off for an athletic field past of the school house, and the farm boya have completed the fencing of it. To look at that piece of land and just think of the number of loots aud stumps dis posed of is a good illustration of what boys can accomplish if they work persistently. The cows are doing fine and giving a good supply of milk. The past two weeks of alternate sunshine and showers has given the grass a good start. Many boy asked why we sowed Hurt pla-ter on the clover meadow, what effect it bad and how it worked. This could be made a very lengthy subject but we will make it as brief as possible. The clover plant obtains its nourishment partly from the soil and from the atmos phere. It obtains all of its' potash and phosphoric acid from the soil, and it nitrogen from the air. Gypsum, or is commonly called plaster, is calcium sulphate, conapo-td of calcium, sulphur and oxygen. Land plaster itself is not considered hs a dtrct plant food. That i it does i,ot c n lain any nitrogen, phosphoric acid, nor potash, it is used upon soil for th pur pose of makit g available some of the plant food which is already in the soil. That is it unlocks the pota h which is in the soil aud makes it available for ihe clover plant. Clover is the beat h8y nmall farmer can raise because it serv s a double pur pohe ; it fuanishes hay besides building t.p the soil. Hoys who intend to baud le stock, either for beef or dairy put posts should make a study of how best to produce clover. H Story of Rome (A. sketch of Indian home life in Albska, by Charles New on, of the Ka.k tribe, Alaska, now in the third grade, clas A, of Chemawa school.) "My home is in Alaska, I live in a village caded Kaak, it is an Iidian town. Mr. Moon, the minister, his wife x d two wins, and a store keeper are all the white people in this little place. '1 he y areall C'hirstian people, even the children. In winter time we stay at home time months, because there is no work to do. The first of March -most of the people begin to go out hunting and in June they commence fishing. Some go to t he gold mines and do not come back homo until the next, winter. "This is the way my people get money. They do 'not have large farms like here in Oregon. Some of the Indians have large houses, but my home is small. My father wanted to live alone with his family. Indians like company, the tribes visit with t-ach other. Many years ago tftev would have one or two big houses and the tribes would live together. But my father said it was not right to have so many people live in one house. All my folks are christians, they never use tobacco or do any wrong thing.
