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THE YELLOW SHEETS 
Vol.2,No.8 ‘January-February, 1947.—~—«30c for 12 Issues 
L. D. Cole, Grannis, Ark., Editor 
LARGER YELLOW SHEETS liberal comfort! She ‘wrote me that she 
We have now reached the point lives pus wy Hat al a, and sb a 
of slightly enlarging The Yellow month: an og fo _ e weré™-able ‘ie 
Sheets. The price from now on, will Id I; or ribee ¢ eo, she 
be 30c for 12 issues, but all present [* O'S “1V© ne Shae er, who eas 
subscribers will be carried at the HAs taxes’ ‘and re- 
ine that 91 Dr a month 
ig comfortable Tv s’for,an old4woman, 
able to tend a sma rdeny ] keep Ralf / 
a dozen hens and a milk “goat: Half an 
acre, well fenced, is ample ground’ ai 
such living. 


former price, for the full time for 
which they have paid, some of them 
for ten years. | hope, with the help 
of my readers to further enlarge the 
paper, and make it a monthly issue. 
bei Ds: COLE: 
With our long season and com- 
Though frost came unusually early,/panion and succession planting, only a 
in mid-October, the autumn of 1946/fraction as much garden space is need- 
has proven mild, killing frost Spon ed as in the North. 
in mid-November. Today, second wee ; : 
of December, I found Wandering Jew My friend and neighbor, Mrs. Ham- 
still thriving in a sheltered spot. Our 
winter is due to begin shortly after 
Christmas. I came to Arkansas in 1894/° She tried to get the ground prepared 
in January, or as soon thereafter as 
and since then have seen snow at bis 
Christmas a very few times. Winter is|P ossible. She bought- Onion plants, 
due to last until the middle of Febru- they being first year and hence better 
Serle tae Terres ayateeeed ie ected ae keepers than sets, and planted them 
of weather is normal—the crazier, the Meet Bice ane bed, about 40 in. 
Serpe pean tinh wide. In late May, 2 rows of fall Cab- 
SPs rien: WeoRtu tore EO CRS ae bage were set lengthwise of the bed, 
Petr anrus mis Oe MECTOISE reat little nearer the center than the edges 
can be planted in late January. Always ae ee plants ied va the rows. 
better if the ground can be prepared d Fa aE pulled when ripe 
then. Our long gardening season is one|“2@ He, -abbage ad the bed until a 
‘of the factors which makes Western good rain in August, when Irish Pota- 
Arkansas such a favored section for|'°&® ae C. aries in three rows, be- 
old people, with very little to invest, a eae “s 4. age,iand between them 
and fixed incomes, so small that they sik : i, iD The Potatoes were 
mean destitution in a big northern city. o ad, ug in December, or more dirt 
Hurdie to vohahold clade: picoreate oe piled on the bed, and dug 
intelligence and. feeble health, asking\** “2nted. 
her on how little an old woman of|_ Irish Potatoes were planted in mid- 
good character could live in one of our/February in an uneven number of 
bial ails hill villages. I knew that/jrows, and dug when ripe. Mexican 
‘she has neither rent nor taxes to pay,|June Corn and Cow Peas were at once 
lives above actual destitution, but not|planted in same rows except the ‘mid- 
by, managed to secure an _ unusual 
amount of food from a given space. 

