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Mr. and Mrs. George Haight and family were New Year guests of Mr, and Mrs. Edwin Haight at Grand Gorge.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gockel, son Francis, and granddaughter* Don-na Saxon, were New Year's eve guests of Mrs. Ruth Tompkins at Gilboa.

Miss Anna Van Dyke is ill. Misses Helen and'Irene Gorsch

returned to South Nyack after spending the holiday season with Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Gorsch. The Gorsch family talked with their mother, Mrs. Charles Gorsch, who is wintering in St. Peters-burg, Fla., by phone the day after Christmas.

Miss Grace S. Preston, who teaches at Springfield, Mass spent Christmas vacation on i special tour to St. Petersburg, Fla.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gockel en-tertained at Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cortese of Oneonta, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gockel and family of Grand Gorge and An-drew J. Brewer of Roxbury.

Douglas L. White has returhed home from Tucson, Ariz., where he has finished a course in avia-tion at a school there. Mrs. White of Homer Folks hospital, Oneonta, spent Christmas with her parents, Mr; and Mrs. Carlos Ames, and New Year's with Mr. White's par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry L. White.

Robert V. Delaney spent New Year day with''with relatives in Kingston.

Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Lock-wood Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Adel-bert Liockwood Jr. spent New Year with Mrs. Lockwood Sr/s sister, Mrs. Nellie RakCj at One-onta.

Mrs. Douglas K. Griffin and sons, Thomas and Robert, of Pompton Plains, N. J., returned Sunday after spending the Christ-mas week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J.' Gellner. Mr. Griffin spent Christmas and New Year weekend here also.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W . Peterson and little sons. Jay "and Stephen, of Patuxtent, Md., were guests last week of Mr. and. Mrs. Ken-dall Haight. They brought home Mrs. Peterson's mother, Mrs. J. M. Snyder of Jefferson, who had spent the past six weeks at the Peterson home. Mr. Peterson is in the Navy and had a short fur-lough.

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Baker

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Popp's Corny ^olumn By WILL COPP

Sawdust Ftwrming

A salesman came along to farmer's place. The farmer was busy milking and motioned the young man to sit by on a con venient milkstool. When the farmer had finished milking, he shoved back from the cow, tipped up the pail, drank deep and long, then poured the rest of the milk on the ground. Turning to the salesman he said, "Milkin's done supper over-and dishes washed. Now, what do you want?"

I might say Christmas is over. New Year's out of the way, now it's a good time to tjiink of farm-ing.

But you sayi "Impossible. Look at the snow on the ground."

'Yes, yes, yes. Old Lady Nature is a pretty good farmer herself. But she likes company at doing her work. You help her and she'll help you. For instance, any time now is a good time to get after that old orchard, not only trim out the trees, but clean out the hedge around it, and burn all brush trash, dead weeds, etc. Pests like the unfarmed farm. They thrive on rot, mossy old boards lying around, stone piles to breed in, anything and everything that maltes a hideout. Then, from there, they move over to the bud-ding fruit trees, and you know the sad story in the fall.

'But what's this got to do with sawdust farming?" you ask.

Merely, it's another phase of fall and early winter farming.

On my stony acres I have eleven hundred strawberry plants set out They are sung and warm this bit ter winter day. For, last Novem ber I covered them lightly with sawdust. «The acid in the dust kills weeds. And once a field of strawberries is weedy, you're licked. It keeps an even tempera ture around the plants all winter Hence no thawing and heaving and the plants don't die out.

In the spring it draws the sun and being light, it does hot have to be raked off and the plants

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liam L. Baker spent Monday in Albany.

Mr. and Mrs. John Del Guidice of Patersori, N. J., have purchased the Mondore farm in More Settle-ment and have taken possession They spend weekends there and are planning to spend the summer. William Kniffin stays there as caretaker. ^ '

Mr. and Mrs. Kendeill Haight and daughter, Frances, were New Year guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Loucks Jr. at Jefferson.

Miss Jessica Cleveland' of Bos-ton, Mass., spent Friday to Sun-day of Christmas week with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas.

Mr. and Mrs. George Streeter of Halcott Center, Mrs. Ida Mayes of Halcottville and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wright of Clovesville were Christmas guests of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd George. Four generations were included in the Christmas assemblage: Mrs. Mayes being great-grandmother, and Mrs. Streeter grandmother to Mrs. George's little daughter, Evon.

Mr. and Mrs. Reed Mcintosh and daughter, Margaret, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whitney and daugh-ter, June, and Mr. and Mrs. Glen^ ford Brownell spent Christmas at the home of Madison Schwille in Stamford;

David Smith, student at Uni-versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Gilbert Smith, student at Cornell, have been spending Christmas vacation with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. Howard Smith. ,

Mr. and Mrs. James Fusscas and children, Diane, Anita and Peter, of Queens Village and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Stafford and daughter, Andrea, of Kelly Cor-ners were Christmas guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Lawrence. James Fusscas returned Sunday and his family are remaining for the week.

Farm, we Iia.ye been commissioned to sell their personal property : <

21 - HEAD OF CATTLE - 21 One-balf. are Holsteins, tHe rest Gaemseys. 15 cows, four

fresh and bred back to freshen next fall,, one fresh in November and not bred back, 10 are yet to freshen, several Of these are taose up. This lis a good dairy of cows. Nearly all have beten raised on the farm. Five first calf heifers pasture bred, one Holsteln herd sire, around 18 months old. If you are lookliig for replacements, you will find some srood cows in this berd.

, Team of good woiic horses, heavy harness.

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at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Thomson. Funeral services Were held Dec. 26 at the home conducted by her pastor, Rev. W . Wade MiUer. Her body was placed in the vault at Bovina cemetery to await burial in the spring at Worcester beside her husband, John Nichols, who, died March 4, 1947. Mrs. Nichols was born April 30, 1865. Besides the daughter mentioned one brother survives in Worcester. ^ Bovina Center Cor.

the blossoms will not form too early and be blasted by frosts Occasionally this might occur. Then, smudge pots.

As the green berries ripen, ly-ing on the sawdust, if a dashing rain comes, they are free of grit, The young runner plants catch easily in the dust, and as it is moist under it, even in the dry mid-summer, they quickly form Sturdy plants that are ready to set out in September and be well established before winter comes.

The slow decay of the sawdust gives the land fertilizing prop-erties.

But you say, "Sawdust is acid or sour. It sours the land and that is not good."

Strawberries, raspberries, huckleberries, all berries, like acid or sour land. Pine needles, swamp moss, leaves are acid and good for mulch. But, they blow away in patches, leaving a spotty field, with plants frozen out. Sawdust makes the even insulation. And that is what a mulch is.

But on my old place, it evident-ly ha<l never had any lime at all. So, with the sawdust, I mix a moderate amount of lime. I think the combination beneficial.

Had No Food Ghristmas ! Downsville, Jkn. 4. — There

might be a degree of kindness in the act if our restaurant proprie-tors would get together and one serve meals on holidays. There were a few workers in town over the holidays and at least one went without food on Christmas day bc^use he had no place to go, If you wonder about his landlady* she was also away for several days and knew nathing of the situation until later." ' 1 >

And, by the way, speaking of lime, I notice many stock piles of it here and there on farms, the bags torn open by the rain and wind and the lime washing and blowing away. Old Lady Nature doesn't like that kind of farming. Neither do the men of the Farm Bureau who help you to get lime free, except for the cost of trans-portation. I have some lime I haven't been able to get out on the land. As, I want to pick the stone off, first. As I had no out buildings on the place, its on the porch and protected. Better get some boards and tar paper and cover up that stock pile. Or, Why not—when there is .a moist, thawy time, so that the lime will sink in and stick to the snow until it can freeze fast—and not blow away— why not haul it out before spring and plow it in at the first spring plowing?

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And now is a good time to clean that chicken iiouse before the straw shavings, sawdust hay or whatever you use as -a floor cover, gets too damp and foul. I think a little lime on the floor, or ashes, before you put down the fresh mulch, would be a good thing. I sprinkle tar and kerosene oil. It acts as a disinfectant and lice don't like it.

And to make the granary rat proof, that job that's been hang^ ing fire for years—a mighty good time to do it* Also, mend grain bags or, get the wife to do it. And buy her a new fur coat to pay for the job.

Will Copp

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