THE BLACK CORN-WEEVIL 



THE town of Flanders and the country around it 

 has always been known for its good people. Old 

 Uncle Jerry Miller was born and reared just one 

 mile east of town many, many years ago on his 

 father's farm, and he has lived and farmed on the 

 old place all his life. Uncle Jerry knows everybody 

 in town and every farmer in the country around it, 

 and all the people know him. It was he who said, 

 " There is no finer country than that around Flanders. 

 It is level and the soil does not wash away as it 

 does on the hillsides. I would not live in a hilly 

 country anyway, because it seems to me that people 

 must be wearing themselves out walking up the hills 

 and then down again. We have good churches, fine 

 schools, and first-class people. Everybody says so. 

 The people here have a lot of sense, too. Talk about 

 farming, our people have always known better than 

 to raise nothing but cotton and wear the land out. 

 Our farmers raise corn, oats, and hay ; and there is 

 not a home near or in Flanders that hasn't a family 

 garden. The farmers plow intelligently and they 

 are always ready to learn ; they are not the kind 

 who think they know it all." 



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