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-CHAPTER .XI.
'At last/' says Ker. Ile comes 'up
to bor and holds out his arm, "This
is the ninth."
"Is it?", says she, innoCently
enough.- Though, to tell the truth,
She has been quaking over the fact
during the past eve minutes,
"Yoe hate polkas, I think you
said," contleues Ker. "So do I.
,. We shall therefore have a chance of
a nice long tete-a,tote in here!"
He leads hes, relentless fashion,
into the conservatory close at hand,
and up to the farthest end, where,
behind some flowering shrubs, two
vaeant seats can bo seen. He does
not sit down, however, or ask her
td do so either. Ho stands looking
at her somewha t remorsolessey,
"So!" saYs, he, after a minete.
Anti then : Now what have you got
• to say for yourself?"
• Here they bath laugh, Hilary, it
must be confessed, rather shame-.
facedly. -
• '`Oh! know -I know," says she,
with a divine 1,eltish, "what you aro
'• thinking. And it is tree! I am a
flaucl-a swindle. ' She covers her
face with her hands, still laughing,
and preseetly looks at him through
her fingers. 'Tut you mustn't say
It.,
"Thinking is good enough for .me,"
• says Ken with a shrug. He takes
her hands from her face and brings
them down.. "What on earth made
You do it?" asks he.
"I don't know. It was a whim -
a prank. It came into my head,.
and so I had to do it."
"Do you always do everything that
comes into your head?"
• "Not always. But----" She breaks
off. "After all
do know 'why I
did it. You," with charming au-
dacity, "made m.o."-
"I made, you?"
-"Yes: You, You ! If yeti heel not
given me that florin, I should: never
have knewn that.I looked like a real
housemaid."
"Oh! male! That's very unfair,"
'says he, colorieg. "I didn't even
look at you."
"More shame for yeti," 'demurely.
"However, that won't get you out of
it! If you hadn't time to me me
when I was giving you a glass of
water, you had, at all events, plenty
of opportunities of seeing me when
wee giving you your luncheon."
"That was far too confusing a
scene to admit of calm judgement.
Bow could one fairly class a, girl
who was called six or 'seven different
names in the space of thirty minu-
tes?''
"Alt! that was too bad of Jim.
But even if that opportunity failed
you, another was given. I," with a
glance. at him, "gave it! You must
have seen me trilen—"
v.ehe pauses.
"When you told nee on the avenue
that it glass of water given by Yon
wasn't worth two shillings."
"Ye,st You remember, then?"
"Who could forget such a libel?"
"You think it was worth „le?"
"Certainly I do."
"Well, then, I'll take back that
florin," 'says slie, holding out her
hand.
:Re lays it in her pretty palm,
holdieg the palm es he does so.
"I don't see any hole in it," says
lie, "and yet you promised' to make
one in it, and hang it round your
neck. am afraid,' Ittegliing, "eou
aro faithless."
"Did I promise that?"
"Beyond all doubt. I can see you
as you said it." •
"Ali! then you did see tie that
time?" She casts a little, quick
• glance at him from under her long
lashes, and • tolls herself that she
has him at a disadvaatege at last.
"rm. glad .of that. One • doesn't
like to be entirely overlooked, even
viten one is a housemaid."
"And such a housemaid!" returns
lie. If she had thought to over-
whelm hint •with reproach, she finds.
herself mistaken. He is calmnesa it -
Reif. He is evidently bent on noth-
ing but the pa,yment of the florin
and pretty compliments. This en-
rages her. "Still you promised,
you know," continues no, to put e
hole in it, and hang tt round your
neck -forever! Don't you remember
that?'),
leMy memory is a Mere rag,"
eays Henry, "1 lied it impossible to
keep it together. It isn't of tho
least use to me, yet people iesist on
saying that I ought to cultivate
•
•
"You don't remember, thee?"
• "I'm not eure-I bave a, mere
glimmering. Was it that day when
you told mo to • try and be a goad
girl?"
"When was that?" asks lie, color-
ing, however.
"Alt!" triumphantly, ''Whose
memory . is defective now?" She
stands back, sinning at him in her
pretty, irresistible way, yet with it
toucli of 'disclaiii, delving him, as it
ever°, with: her soft armory of eyes
and lips.. "On the avenue again.
Yo•u egeollect, surely! At the sense
tinie".you told me my hands were too
and yen entreated me to bear
in mind that Diana was it good mis-
tress, and you begged me to -to" -
she looks down denturely--"eo desist
from my fell designs on( -poor old
jim.'
leer regards her with mixed feel-
ings. Perhaps auger is the strong-
est of them, yet there is a touch of
.fascination about her that makes
litselS felt, ,and keeps him beside
her.
"And yet, you call your memory a
mere ettgeL says lie with decided sar-
casm.
"Sometimes, sometimes!" airily. '
"When you don't want to remem-
ber, I presume?
"Not always. There," pausing
and looking dawn, "is one thing I
would rather not remember, and yet
I do."
And that?"
"Was something you said."
"I can quite, believe it. You have
already reminded inc of several
things I have said, that certainly
under the circumstances you might
havo managed to forget."
There is distinct reproach in, his
tone.
"It was none af those. It was
worse, far worse. You said it at
luncheon." --
"To apologize would be worse than
folly," says Ker. "1 feel already
that I have sinned heyoud rodemp-
ition, and yet I confess to a base
anxiety to know iny worst crime.
"Well," resentfully, "I think you
needn't have told Diane. that you
knew you 11701.11.d end it impossible to
like me."
"Look here," says Ker indignant-
ly. "I don't care what I said. To
be takenat it disadvantage like
that, and. then be brought to book
afterward, -anything more .unfair
than that—"
"It is you who Were unfair. You
had never seen me, or thought you
hadn't, and yet you. had macle up
your mind to dislike me."
."1 dort'tbe let e I made up my •
mind to anything, 1 thought Of t
nothing but that confounded will
that placed us both in so false a
position. Why should I dislike you?"
"Why, indeed!" She pulls a little
fragrant branch off the Maul) near-
est to ben "Well -don't you'?" saes.
she. See does not look at him.
At this instant a Iiget'high laugh'
resounds through the conservatory.
It is co.mine.toivard them. It is a
laugh onceheard never to be fur -
gotten. It is ono of Mrs, Dyson -
Moore's "properties." e
She has teamed the corner new, ac-
companied by a long -logged young
man with evidently (and this is a
sad reflection) more years than
brains. Because the years are few.
"Ohl you here!" says she to Ker.
"In this ceizy corner! 1 miglit have
known it!"
Something in her tone is offensive
to leilary. She draws, a, little aside,
and plays carefully with a bit of
foliage close to her.
"Yur intuitive instincts are so
serene., that o.t course you would," meet pormaeoetly ebove e Watere,
says BQZ 10flhIt»g pleatiently, but all were vain, until oxo clay a
"Such a seeludecl *WOW" goon au daring efiVentUrer throe a horSe-sboe
from 0, beat on to tee topmost peals
Q f the , 'neeMow efountabse, jUS6 as
xtviitsoy.es7ore disappearing, beneath the
Then, at last, was the bane ra-
Moee& The Emerall isle began
"Your cousin! Ali, true!" She forthwith 'to rise ag,ain front the ocean
tures to Ker. npaneyi eour Malian 'depths into which it had just sunk,
a, cousin down hero." Aaid it has been, dry land -more or
"Not in tlie least more eenzarkalelo less -over since,
than finding a cousindown there!"
says he, always quite pleasantly.
"Don't you think the dence is go-
ing well -is quite a success'?" sayS
Mrs. Dyson -Moore, gayly. ''Such
crush', One doesn't expect it in the
wilds. As a rule country 'dances go
all to smash. But this one is an
exception,. You enjoiying youreelf?"
"What a questionl ' says Ker.
It is a meet ordinary answer, yeb
unfortunately it bears two interprcs-
tations-aue for each of the women
1" olly in her little clieleneteek
'Miee Burroughs, have you got the
monopoly of It?'",
"For the monlesiti" says •killerr,
calmly. "My cousin and, 1 are rest-
ing for the moment."'
Such is the story as told by t
folk-lortelevirag peasantry of the wes be
but many authorities ori Irish lege
dary lore insist that the real ream
of the alweys'devout Irishman's b
lief in the beeeticent powers of Uemblem in question lies in the fa
of the horse and tho as having be
in the stable where Christ was bot
aad hence being ever More blessed axflaln
USX') MA.NURE.
It is the prevailing opinion of
chemists as well as pzeictical meal
that where it is practieeble it is
ha best -to. apply manure and Urine to
t. tsoil .in the freelteet possible eon -
le_ deem fertilizing toeetituerits
e of well -rotted er
meste, -as already
es explained, age more, quieley available
to plan" ts and tile manure iteell 10
lesS bulky and easier to distribute.
ee On the other .hand, fresh manure
et' mixed with the soil neatly "under -
'et goes a fermentation which not oely
inerciases the availability of its (evn
fertilizing conetituente, but also as-
sists ire rendering soluble the }tither -
to insoluble fertilizing eonstiteents
of- tho son. In leen, oven with spec-
ial precautions to prevent iteluelees
fermentation 'under the feet of the
animals and in the heap, the great-
er lateen is likely to be gotten frcm
manure applied in the fresh condi-
tionh
Te form in whecli manure should
be •applied, says W. In fleitll, Is de-
termined largely by -the soil on.
which at as to be used. If Improve-
ment of the mechanical condition is
the main objeot sought, the 1st re-
sults will be obtained by applying
the fresh manure to the heavy clay
soils and -rottedmum° to tho
„e light soils. 11, however, the prompt
t action of the fertilizing constetueets
of the manure is desired, light soils,
ea in it favorable season, are likely to
- utilize COarS0 inaeure to bettor ad-
vantage than heavy soils. Docent -
o position. takes place slowly in heavy
✓ soils and the constituents of the
- fresh manure become available very
s slowly. In the light soils, on the
s other hand, unless the season is dry,
the conditions aro suck that the
d /manure 'decomposes readily, and the
✓ :fertilizing constituents are probably
- rendered • available as fast as the
e Plant needs them. There is also
h considerable danger on. this classof
e teens that some of the soluble con-
stituents will be carried away in the
, IN ENG -LAND,
listening. To Hilary- it seems , a,' up to within comparatively recent
conlprornise, sho mn.d fledninodmice, horse -shoes were extensively -
look at hint, but he feels as if lie used almost everywhere as anti -witch
had parried the question with it view charms; and the .custom is not evon
to pleasing this detestable little yet an extinet one. No witch, it
Folly -this silly little Mrs. Dyson- used to ho said, could enter a build-
Meoro. ing °ter tee door Of which. a horse -
To the "silly natio woman," it shoe -or, better • still, three horse -
seems in her vaeity a direct deckle- ehoes-had been affixed, :prongs down-
ation that he is not enjoying him- envie,
self at all! -That he could not pos- 'rho origin of this particular belief
sibly do so, being separated for the is Idea able to the old legend .el St.
Dunstan. This versatile English ec-
eleslastic was it skilled farrier, and
one day while at work In his forgo
the Evil One entered la disguise and
requested Dunstan to shoe his "siege
hoof." • Tele Saint, although he a
once recognized his malign custotnet
acceded, but caused bine so much pa
during the operation that Satan be
ged lean to desist. This Dunsta
did, but only after he had, made th
Evil One promise that neither he, to
any of the lesser evil spirits, his sor
vents, would ever molest the =mete
dniispalayleidei.ise whore a, horse -shoo wa
In Thuringia horse -shoes are use
for it lite purpose, and a sicalla
legend is told to amount for the cus
tom, but the fastidiousness of tiles
forest -bred folk is not content wit
an ordinary shoe. In order to serv
as a talisman it nittet be speciall
forged on St. John's Eve by a youn
bachelor of wholesome life and un
blemished character.
The tenacit3r of some of tlic cus-
toms that cling round the horse -shoo
is no less remarkable than their na-
ture and their origin,
For more than five hundred, years
the inhabitants of ITorse-shoe Corner,
Lancaster, nailed a. new shoe every
seen years on it certain spot ia the
MIDDLE OF TETE STREET.
In Pliny's time horse -shoes were
lased in the Camottnie. to secure the
moment from her!
She turns away, looking'back •
cat
Ker as she goes and smiling coquet-
tishly.
"Tlie next is .oers. Don't forget,"
says she, as she moves away,
(To be Continued.)
THE HEY HORSE SHOE
SUPERSTITION OF THE DIF-
FERENT MATIONS.
Horse Shoe Saved. Ireland --Cos-
sacks Were Taught Iron
By It.
Ever since horse -shoes have been
horse -shoes they have been accounted
lucky emblems by all peoples, races,
and nations, tbat have been acquaint-
ed with their use. This much is cer-
tain. But why it should be so it is
hard to determine, since almost, ev-
erywhere it different reason is given
for cherishing the belief.
• The Cingalese, for instance, say
they nail- them tip over their doors as
a charm against evil spirits, because
of the close resemblance that exists
between its shape and the arched'
body of the sacred snake, Nagenclra,
one of their principal. deities.
Aga-. a Turkish Mohanimedan for
information on the subject, and he
will tell you that it is because they
are in form like to a crescent, the
sacred emblem. of Islam.
A Polish Jew will explain that . at.
the Passover, tee blood sprinkled up-
on the lintel and door -posts, in the
manner directed by their ritual, forms
the chief points of tin arch.. ITence,
obviously, *he value of arch -shaped
talismans, such as horse -shoes are.
The stolid and unimaginative Rus-
sian peasant, on the other hand,
maintains that the luck associated
with the horse-shoe is due chiefly to
the metal, irrespective of its shape,
=on being traditionally a charm shoe is preserved in a little goat -
wherewith to nullify the malevolent skin bag, together wite seven nails,
designs of evil spirits and goblins. and it is worn round the neck as a
In other words, according to his charm when out of doors, or suspend,
view of the matter, ,a horse-shoe is ed over the tont door while rest -
simply a mace of iron of graceful ing. When asked the reason for this,
shape and convenietet form, cemmon- they say that it is emblematic of
ly pierced witli seven nail -holes (a the new moon-atways intimately as -
g drainage if well -rotted manure is ap-
t, plied. For this reason such manure
should be applied to light soils
shortly . before it is likely to be
needed by tho prop. In general, it
may he said that for spring applica-
tion the more readily available rott-
ed manure is preferable to the fresh
UNROTTED MATERIAL.
ali clay soils it often happens that
manure produces no effect whatever
during the first ;year ma account of
slowness of decomposition, but since
the clay posesses very powerful ab-
sorptive properties the mantle° is
not lost. The fertilizing constit-
uents are retained in the soil and
are ;finally utilized by the crop. There
is therefore little or no danger on
this account in applying manure to
clay soils a laeg while in advance of
the planting of the crop. During
aFr seasons the manure may produce
little effect, but with a se:Indent
amount of moisture its action is
likely to be considerable. The appli-
cation to such soils ef large quanti-
ties of manure improves their physi-
cal coadition. , -
The behavior of calcareous soils
toward manure is very variable, de-
pending upon the compactness of the
sell. lei those which are sufficiently
porous decomposition goes on with
groat rapidity, and the soluble ferti-
lizing constituents formed may be ' partially carried away la the drain-
age Water before they can be taken
up by, the plants. For this reason,
as in case of light soils, the manure
should be applied before it is needed
bytiiie crZe
Manrerina?nats, notably those
mane by the Michigan and Wiscon-
sin stations in this country, have
shown, that barnyard manure is one
of the most :effective means of in. -
creasing the productiveness of swamp
or muck soils. This is thought tie
be due largely- to the increase of
available nitrogen brought about by :
the applicatien of the manure. el
The climate also Islay bave an 1 inn 't
portant bearing on this subject.' In 1
it warm, clamp climate it is a matter a
of comparative indifference Whether 11
the manure is fresh or well rotted I t
when it is applied, since eneer these !a
conditions decomposition an the soil
will be sufficiently rapid In a dry
season, however, it is well known
inmates of the dwellings from the
nisitations of nocturnal prowling spir-
its, exactly as they are to -clay.
Similitrily, the Scandina.vians make
uee of the enable= everywhere as a
bringer of good hog- "because," they,
Mee "it islebden's will."
Thi e points to an origin dating be-
fore thpir conversion to Obristia-nity,
1Vocien being„ el course, the all-pow-
erful deity of tho ancient Northern
peoples, corresponding With the Greek
Zeus and the Roman japiter.
Amone the wild. Arabs of the cen-
tral birte deserts a cast horse-
nystie number), and therefore an al- soemted in the messelman mind with
or:settler suitable talisman to be af- devotiorial acts -ane the seem stars.
fixed to the door of eavelling or stable It as remarkable that the Tuscan
in conformity with a venerable cus- Peasant does very much the same
ton sanctioned thing, only lie substitutes seven glass
BY CENTURIES OF USAGE. betels for tbe ealls, and the bag, in-
stead of being merle from goat -skin,
In Italy, in the Middle Ages, it be- is of red cloth. Ho also associates
came customary to place a crescent- 11:e charm with the new moon; but
shaped hood or brass neon the heads is Profoundly unconscious of the fact
of the statutes of saints exposed in that fifteen centuries or so ago his
the open, as a protection from snow forefathers. were wont to adorn the
and rain. Bence arose the practice of head of Diana (the moon goddess)
similarly 'adorning images and paint- with a crescent and seven stars.
ings iu churches. Later on these me- And here, probably, we get very
tallic aureoles came to be regarded as near to the true origin of the belie
sacred 'emblems themselves, and as ab- in the luck of tho liorse-shoe, for it
soletelv essential to the well-being of nest not he forgotten that Diana, in
the saint or martyr represented. But her character of Hecate, or ruler of
pictmes and images of holy persons the Infernal Regions was supposed to
were many and cheap, and brass ha-
los wore rare and costly.
Consequently, the horse-shoe got to
ba pretty generally utilized as an eaS-
il3r available substitute, and to it the
devout Italians :transferred, in course
of tilee the superstitious reverence
which they had formerly bestowed up-
on ;the genuine halo.
hin the Caucasus the peasantry hal-
Isow the horeceslioe, beca-use, so they
ay, it was through one that their
ancestors first - learnt the use of iron.
Long- ageiteefeins the !eget-a-some of
the poor mountain folk found an iron
W
shoo that had been cast accidentally Who fusses, fumes, and fidgets about
Iran, a C'ossack chieftain's stallion. everything*
Never having seen such a thing lee- Whose highest aspiration has never
fore, they, after havingfirst, eaeey mare d above self.
brt":" ee her 'unite?'
y boiling it in water: Then they t
attempted to eat it, tried to soften it ,„ ,
Who is amiable to suitors and "hor-
Whose chief interests in life are
dress, and amusements.
Who lacks thrift, and has no idea
of the value of money.
:Who cannot bear to hear anyone
but herself praimd or aclmfred.
Who never thinks ,that her mother
Father
and Dau
Wore Great Sufferers From Kidney Disease
and Pains in the Back—Now
Unite in Praise of
AV
Dr. NObase's kidney.Liver Pills
lireside :over etchattments, and was
also the special guardian and protect-
ress of houses rind doors.-Pearsonts
Weekly.
DO NOT 141Altrar THE GIRL -
Who nags. -
Who is Io.zy:
Who is a flirt.
Who cannot control her temper.
Who is mat neat ane tidy in her
dress.
Who is deceitful, aad not true to
her friends.
°ester' it, and afterwards beat it
ith stones. While thus engaged, the
vil One, who had been tvatching
em, aseed them suddenly
Those who are best acquainted with
the merits of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver
Pills do not wonder at their int-
, .,.
Meese popularity as a family =cal-
cine.
In thousands of eases they have
cured where physicians and ordinary
medicines have failed. This is the
twit by which they have been proven.
Mere is a letter we have just re-
ceived from Price Edward Islend,
Miss Kate Doyle, lot 3, postoffice,
P, ID. 1, states -"About three years
ago my- father was seized with a se-
vere forttt of kidney discern, which
ettuerel lien much mitering, as well as
Mixioty lest the ailment shoUld be-
/ come thionic or prove fatal, We im-
mediately obtained Dr, Chalices Kid-
rey-Liver Pills and he began at Once
to iniproee under this treatment, the
Symptoms graduallY d iSoppearielget
until he became Oita well again.
Since then we always keep these pills
Su tlia house for USI3 in the case of
Sicltness of this kind,
"For some time 1 suffered from
Pains in the small of the back and
accompanying ills, and though 1 was
treated by a doctor at coesiderablo
expenee, I could obtain no lasting
benefit Until I used Dr; Chaeas Ride
ney-Liver Pills, which seemed to be
exactly suited to nay ailment.. Father
and 1 aro greatly pleased with the lu
excellent medicine and ivieh to ,recom.- sy
mend it to others,"
Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, one he
pill a dose, 25 cents a box, at all lo
clealers, or Ecianitison, Bates & Com-
pany, Toronto. To proteat you ed
against inetations the portrait and re
signature of Dr, A. W, Chase, the on
famous receipt book author, are on tet
tieery bee 01 his remedies. sp
WHAT THItser waRm
Though startled, the men thought
It best to put on a bold front, so weds an outing, amesement, or a
replied that they wore ea:taking a change.
hammer to beat him (Ratan) witli. Who handl iatee sorren ts by snap -
"But" cried Satan, "you have uo ping at theta or criticising thein be -
sand." fore gueste.
So liis hearers then understood that Who dresees it the height of fashion
Med Was e,seential for the urea oesiron- When going out, but does not care
workers, and thus began the mann- how she looks at home,
teeter° in the Caucasus of iron lire Who always 00111e5 to the, breakfast: -
Oen -amts. table late arid cross, in tut old wrap -
Very different is the story by which per or ereesing-jacket, with het' hair
ihe :freshman seeks to account for In curl -papers, and who grumbles and
S liking for the same talismanic scolds at eVeretlineg and everybody,
mbol. Who puts everything she cast get oat
The naene "Irielann" os "Ireland," her bank, so that she alley Melte a
Will tell ',vote originated 05 fel- good appearance, while her mother
ws: is obliged to patch 0.1.3C1 do up foe
The whole island was once subrnerg- herself old cloaks, Omni, and bon -
in the sea, out of whiee it only eats.
Se once in seven years, and thon
13r for a very short theta Many A dollar saved is 11 donee earned,
eetamte had beoe made to- break the and it dollar not lonned is a dollar
ell end include the couretry to res eaited.
maeure before the litter has temente
at least partielly deecalnposed.
It uppears, therefore, that no fleede
rules' 'regarding the condition inf.
which enaeure should be usee Whiehl
will appey to All eaSes can be /04(11'
eloWn. Its matter winch eater-,
elly inuet he bat largely to the in -1
dividual judgment of Cm farmer,
based upon a careful study of the:
character of the eon and climate end
the
requirements of the crop to be
grove.
SPURRING TIlle SURFACE SOIL.
Preelent men, ira the light of the
mot recent knowledge we have of
soil conditione and performenees, do
not commit themselves bete saying
this or this is true of the soil, and
this is the law. They have come
to regard the fields they plow, till
and plant as great books with many
uncut folios,
lee Call peep in, and here and there
catch a word or it phrase, and make
what we think pretty intelligent
guesses, but be who says he has read
it• all and understands it, even to
the digesting of its laws, gives good
evidence of trespassing "where angels
fear to treati."
But we are sure that if we want -
to receive all the advantages from
tbe work of thee unseen friends of
the soil we must surround them with
condi-ewes at least not unfavorable
to them. We keow the fernier who
is exhausting the humus from his
soil so that hardness and compact-
ness result; so the water -holding ca-
pacity of the soil is reduced, the air
not admitted and conditions of
svernith destroyed is not encouraging
the development of nature'e means
of replealishment of plant toed he is
exhausting.
The better farnaer is he who never
loses sight of the importance of keep-
ing the mechanical condition of his
land up to the sta.ndard of good
crop production. I3efore we knew
there were such things in the world
as bacTeria,, the good farmer knew
the importance of keeping his land
in good "heart" of saving manure,
plowing in vegetable matter, grow-
ing clover and thoroughness of -en-
/ago.
The land that Is well filled witli
hennas is in the best condition for
absorbing moisture and holding it in
a state of capillarity.
THIS SOIL CONDITION
is also znost favorable to the ad-
misaion and occupation of air, and
consequently warmth as well; so
that, while we may. not say that
soil moisture is of first considera-
tion in the life of soil organisms, it
appears to be of such importance
that if we have made its condition
favorable we have clone the. hest al-
so in the way of supplying food,
warmth and air as needed,
Plants use moisture rather than
water, if we note the distinction.
Running water, or that which moves
rapidly, is a little 11SE to them. in
-their growth, svbile stamding water
is death to there. The kind that is
useful and indispensable to them is
that which is held in the soil by ad-
hesion, filling the spaces between the
soil particles and passing thence in-
to the structure of the plant. This
moisture is supplied to the growing
plant very much more from. the stor-
ed supply from which it arises • by
capillarity than from the current,
crop growing rainfall.
As is well known the water is
brought up through the soil by cap-
illary action. If the soil is occu-
pied by plant roots they use what
part of the moisture they may and
evaporate it from their leaves into
the atmosphere, but the roots do
not use all that comes up to theta.
and what they do not use is carried
to the surface and is absorbed by
tile atmosphere, tbe eerth's supply
being used without having added to
plant svealth in passing.
When the soil is left undisturbed
Tor any consiclerable time regular
water courses are established for the
.moisture in its passage to the at-
mosphere.
Them courses are dammed by stile
ring the surface and breaking tle
crust furies. This is one of the ma.
mrtant offices of Summer cultiva-
ion. T,his is conserving moisture,
chichi means not only stopping 6the
tmospberic loss of it, but by hold -
ng it in the growing crops' root
erritory to be at hand, abundantly
s needed.
t
OUR PUZZLED POET.
that excessive applications of undo -10E, Muscovite and little Jap,
composed nuteura. Manifest a ten- You've caught me in an awful trap!'
deney to "blarn out" the soil, and iFor nowadays, in public eye,
tbis teudeneye as has just been stat- l An eminence you occupy;
And fain would 1 in fluent verse
Your points of interest rehearse,
And thus bring shekels to my ken;
For poets live as other men.
Itt that they eat (when they have
Cash).
And pay rent, too (though this is
rash).
But woe is me, I cannot sing
Of you -no, not a single thing! -
Because -oh, very shame of sheinese-
I don't know how to say • yew.
.names!
ed, is mare marked m light soils
than en heavy_ In cold climates,
where the season is short and the
condition for rapid lermentation in
the soil unfavorable, the use of fee -
meted manure is preferable.
FRESH MANURE
has a forcing effect and tends to
produce stems and leaves at the ex-
pense of fruit and grain. 11 is
therefore better for early garden
truck, grasses, rind forage plants
than for ceareal or fruits. • •
Direct epplica.tion of fermenting
alaffare, OA is well known, seriously
injures the quality of tobacco, sug-
ar beets and Potatoes, although man-
gel-wurzels appear to profit hy large
aPPlieations. For theso reasons Iit
t is
TOO MANY WORDS,
A young mare who was :deeply ira
lore with a lair lady, who lived in
another town; decided that the only
bitece, pota.toes, and sugar beets to
fee thing for him to do was to offer his
acreisable th.o case of cereals,
use only well -rotted manure or to' ,tneeileigdraarche h
,te)afgS
es anoti lieoenae
t*it-tto
iintehe-
apply, the manure to the Previous Stage:
drop, or, where land is to be Plante "Will you tt;
artac3r me? Twenty -foie'
ed in the spring, to epply in the fall ; word enswer paid for."
and tallow to /decompose dining the An hour later be got his aeswera-
whaler. .Sir J. B. Lewes hate point -1 "You are extravagant. Vele Pay
ed out, howoyer, that wheat on lot twenty-three words too matiy?
light soil as benefited by direct ap-
plications of =mire, and tbat it is
only on heavy soils thet it is best
to apply it to the Preceding crop.
"Manifestly," as Storer remarks,
"Liao rankness at fresh dung and urine
mule be controlled awl utilized by
applying the manure in steall quan-
titiee encl eupplementing It vith
lertilizers of kinds teppropriate
to the crops that are to be grown."
What hes been said above regard-
ing the app1iat ion of fresh alb 11U ro
applies espeeially to illanure con-
letinieg Maly email aniountS of coarSe
Mideconipoeod litter, It is not gee.-
adVisable tit apple very toarse
1'
Vent catet spend Money end have it
too, but unless you spread it nobodywill think you've got it.
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ot and absolute cure /or eaoli
and every teem et Itching
ble being an a eretredireeellos
,the manufaetererri have attars ntoed it. Zoo to
tit:nonfat§ in tho deity press end ink .c,itt nolgr
bora what thoy tlank et it. Yon can use it at
ttcb).oar money bark if not tuml. 50511 ber, 1
all dealers or, lientestsee,BATVS St CO., TOr011t4(
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