Corn Planting A Big Task

HELLO FOLKS! — We got the corn in the ground. It took two weeks to do it which wasn't at all bad; considering that we had 300 acres to plant. We got 200 acres planted the first week. Then we had to plow about 80 acres before we could get the last of it in. I don't believe I have ever planted corn with the top soil in nicer condition.

The sub-soil is the biggest concern. It is about as dry as it was last year at this time. That means we will have to get more than the average amount of rainfall this summer to be assured of enough moisture to carry the crops through an extended dry period.

I DIDN'T let anything interfere with my planting of corn. Worked from daylight to dark and sometimes into the night in order to get in the hours. With the late start and 400 acres to cover this column went by the way.

I am shooting for higher yields and that can surely get expensive. Figured out the cost of the attempt. It runs to $77 an acre. That means that I will have to get at least a 75 bushel yield to break even. I have good land and under average conditions shouldn't have trouble getting such a yield. However both the banker and I are anxious about the cost of producing an acre of corn.

WOUDLN'T IT be nice if big girls fixed their hair as nice as little girls usually do?

One of my young daughters had been listening to us talk about out voice box along with something about losing one's voice. One day she asked her mother, "Mother, is someone cut off your head and the voice box fell out on the floor, could the floor talk?"

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EVER HEAR of the revised 23rd Psalm? Here it is.

"The Government is my shepherd; Therefore I need not work,
It alloweth me to lie down on a good job.
It leadeth me beside still factories. It destroyeth my initiative.
It leadeth me in the path of a parasite for politics' sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of laziness and deficit spending.
I will fear no evil for the government is with me.
It prepareth an economic utopia for me by appropriating the earnings of my grandchildren.
It fileth my head with false security. My misery runneth over.
Surely the government should care for me all the days of my life.
And I shall dwell in a fool's paradise forever."