A Floral Detective Of Long Ago
Id early times the Dutch farmers of the up river farms of New York had an ingenious way of recovering pocket knives that might have been dropped er tuislaid while plowing or gardeuing was going on. Cutlery was not as cheap then and abundant as in these days ; so the farmers took the thrifty precantion of keeping two or three sunflower seeds in their knife handles. Then if the knives feil upon broken gronnd and eould not be readily found, the owners wonld wait nntil the seeds spronted, and an isolated snnflower stalk or blossom in field c patch would signalize the possibility o a missing article's being at its root. True, the owner did not always realize the result of the scheme, because a passing boy who nnderstood the token often
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Ann Arbor Argus
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