Williamson finds he was right in cutting a little green. He finds five days in the shock is sufficient to cure them well enough for stacking. So do not allow them to stay in the shock awaiting a threshing machine unless the machine is in sight. STAG!! The pea won't stand rain like wheat. Cover the top of your stack thoroughly with straw, hay or canvas, tying it down solid with weights. A rain might come, a windstorm might come. The pea is too valuable, and God knows the boys in France need 'em, our cattle need the straw, so save 'em all.
He's hauling the Peas on slips or runners made from common 12-inch lumber. No nails or rails or sides—just a drag. With a rig like this one man can do the work of two, besides it prevents the pea from shelling. He's building the stack or stacks adjacent to any barn that he cannot fill with hay, so that the threshing machine will blow the straw into the barn. This method will save lots of hard work, and the straw is valuable indeed. He may be wrong, but he's doing it. Think it over, anyway.
WILLIAMSON.
A few days later he was arrested on a drunkness charge on the complaint of his wife. The next day, Mrs. Fisher asked to be put in a cell to keep her safe from her husband. Added to this, Fisher claims, a friend, wife refused to wear her wedding ring and wouldn't let him buy furniture for their new home. 