Clippings for letter of 8 Nov. 1889
Suggestions as to November.
Philadelphia [illegible]
Nov. 6
Correspondence on all subjects within the
name, post-office and state. Address [Agriculture]
THE President of the
Iowa Agricultural
College, com-
plains in the Ohio
Farmer that the agricul-
rural papers persistent-
ly advice farmers to
plant small fruits for
home use, but neglect
to give the more im-
portant counsel to pro-
vide a full and varied
supply of vegetables for his family.
This may be true, but it will generally
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*The cut in the initial shows a curious weed of the
Western plains. The common same: is the tumble
weed. The plant first has pale green leaves, some-
thing like the oak leaf in shape. It soon sends out
a great number of long slender stems in every di-
reaction, completely hiding the leaves. These stems
grow in a circular manner, so that the whole plant
when fully grown, has the form of a huge flattened
ball with a small root. It is sometimes found to be
three or four feet across it. When. nearly grown it
changes to a purplish color tinged with red. The
whole plant looks dew spangled. When cut and
dried it is of a pleasing purple. The small boys of
the West like to masquerade in it, as shown in the
cut.
