Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — Flinty Coats for Plants. [ARTICLE]

Flinty Coats for Plants.

If two pieces of sugar cane are rubbed together in the dark they will make a tiny light This comes from the fact that every reed or cane or leaf of grass has a hard, flinty outside skin, which helps them to straight up and also keeps the tender inside from being eaten up by many of the Insects. There Is this to the everlasting credit of the farmer's wife: She Is kept so busy that she doesn’t dress her boy tn long curls after he has put on Business men are bothered so much demn them all. without Inveetlgathnfc Between two evils some firdf tatnjk' no choice; they embrace them bo/k