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OR, A A SAD LIFE STORY .
A cauee.
:,,iktl. iv,v)oaeler veee" eve theueet Cho v., -e3
To onler reeece a rather kneetient
i move:meet.
' "it hale `ne er',Osee—riene edeetever., It
woe en Meets infereece'."
, Ring dV0,11,-8 i01(20 LVeatil Ot E3U-Itle-
1 tiell.
"Well, at all event, I era very *keit
'that eta ie
hin turns upon him with, eomething
I orthe eepression of face worn ley Mrs.
Sarah Gamp on !teazels.: Mrs. Pita ex
-
I prees- her belief tbat it was not by Mrs
Harr"th
is at her servicee %voila be re:
1 quired. "Why shoUld you be glad of
that, Betsy? ' She is unbeRnown to you
except by hearine. Neihy, ehould you be
glad?",
As ilyng'i case is a More aggretveited
one than Mrs. Prigs, seeidg that Eliza-
beth Le Merchant is unbeknown. to him
even by hearinee se is the warmth, or
rather coldness, With which his friend
receive, his remark not inferior to that
,of "Sait•ey."
"I do not quite see how it affects you.
ti ..
Why are you glad?"
"Why am I glad ?" replies the younger
man, with a lightenino eye. "For the
same reason that 1 eten glad that Van-
dyke painted that pictere"—pointing) to
it ---"or that 5hakespeare wroteteAs You
Like It.' The world is the rieher by
them' alrirree." 'e ` ." d'ee' ' '''''''''''' ' • '' '-' '
But, to this poetic and flattering anal-
ogy, Jim's only ansteer is ,a surly
"11=01.1" ,
(To be continued).
ClIAPTEIR W.
In a ripe eivilleation such as ours
there are formulas provided to nieet the
requirements of every eregency that may
bossibly arise; but amongst them there
es not one which teaches us how to
greet a person come back from the dead,
because It is held impossible that uch a
contingency can occur. Perhaps this is
Athe .reason why Jim Burgoyne, usually
a, docile and obedieut member of the
e,ociety to which he belongs, now flies!
In the face of ell the precepts instilled
ettaineeleirn by ,I.hatesociety'e codeeeeeek
isight pi Elizabeth Le Marchant entering
The room, clad in a very neat toiler
town, leestead of the winding -sheet with
evhieh he had credited her, he at first
Stands tranefieed„ -,taring at her with a
-hardness of iatensity. which Is allowed to
tis in the case of Titian's "Bella," or
ellotticelles "Spring," but has never
been accounted permissible in the case
• ef 4 more living loveliness. Then, be-
fore he can control, or even question the
inigulse filet drives him, it has carried
him to her.
"Elizabeth !" he says, in that sort of
awed eerni-whisper with which• one
would salute a being plainly ,returned
from the other side, fearing that the full-
ness of a living voice might strike too
strongly on his disused elik--"Is itereally
Elizabeth?"
Had Burgoyne been quite sure, even
now,, of the fact; if he had his :wits well
about him, he would eertainly not have
• eddressed her by her Christian name.
But from the deed the small pomps and
• ceremonies of earth fall off. We think of
them by their nakednames—must we
'. not then appeal to them by the same
when they. reappear before us?
. The girl—for she does not, look much
mot.e—thus rudely and startlingly bom-
barded, drops her Baedeker out of her
slim gioved hand, and with a positive
jump at tee suddenness .of the address-,
}oohs back aPprehensively at her inter-
locutor. In her eyes is, at first, only the
coldly frightened expreesion of one dis-
courteously assailed by an insolent
stranger, but in a space of tune as
short as had served him to !tete the same
metamorphosis in the case of her par-
ents, he sees the look of half—three
quarters—whole recognition down in
-her eyes, followed— alas! there eine be
nomistake ,about it—by the same as-.
pirateon after flight. There is no reason
why she should notrecognize him again
'at oncelee has fallen a prey neither to
hair nor fat—the two main disguisere
and -disfigurers. of humanity. His face
is as smooth and his figure as spare as
when, ten years ago, he hael given the
-pretty' tomboy of sixteen lessons in,
jumping the Ha 1 Ha And as to her
identity, no shadow of doubt any longer
lingered in his mind.
The violence and shock of his attack
have made her crimson, have =idled
ter -cheeks with those long -withered
damasks in the Moat .garden, with
whieh they used to vie in bloopty vivid-
• nese.' 13utt even yet,' he does not treat
her ghee as if she were really and veri-
tabiy livieg; he has tiote.yet, got back
his conventional manners.
"I thought you were dead," he says,
his voice not .even yet raised. to its or-
dinary 'key, some vague Me still sub-
duing it.
It must be a trick of his excited
Imagination that makes it eeem to him
as if she said under her breath, "So I
r .
elue before he has time to do more than
distrbst the testimony of his ears, Mrs,
Le Maechant strikes in 'quickly—
"eVe cannot help what Mr. Burgoyne
theatre," says she, with a constrained
laugh; "but you are not dead, are you,
El' .abeth? We are 'neither of us dead;
on t , rary,weetre very much alive.
Who can help. being alive, in this Ileavenly. place? And you? When did you
tome? What hotel are: you at? Have
you been here long? Do erou make a
long stay ?"
• 'She pours out hee questionth such
torrent -force and rapidity, as gives ie
her auditor the conviction that it is her
• aim to have a monopoly Of' them.
After one look of unbounded aston-
lehment at his *companion's onslaught,
Byng has withdrawn to a discreet die-
tande.
"You never mentioned her when I met
yOu in Oxford," says Burgoyne, dive -
greeting . her trivial and conventional
questions, and turning his eyes away
with difficulty from his old playfellow.
Mrs. Le Merchant laughs again, still
constrainedly.
"Probably you -never asked after her."
"I' was ttiraid," ho says, solemnly;
.."afler ten years one is afraid; • and as
you did not mention lier-eyeu know you
mentioned Alt the others—I thought you
had lost her P1 •
A sort of slight shiver pieties -Over the
vveman's frame.
"No, thank God ! No 1"
During the ' foregoing little dialogne
oheut herself,q.lizabetit has stood with
her eyes on the ground; but at 1110 end
of it she lifte them to 8mile lovingly at
'tier mother. They are very pretty eyes
rein. but surely they seem to haveeeried
tr,nod, deal, and now that the hurrying,
leoed hag left her cheek -again, Bur-
p:Osne` seeCI that ehe Reece more nienie
lee' etre than he bad imagined at the
firet glace.- lie lute not heard her voice
t;he hag r4 1 spoken, unless that first
*hake]) s-eo much 111()M linely tu
to the freak 4 hie men heated faneyee
could e,ound epeech. Ile must !Isar
Ler eonee. Do they keep an cello re the
ether ae hoaginee that he
riee eleade from it lying lineerinely
*erase her ewe?
"De
you eeee iinQ1,0104,-,a1 new?"
be esl.s abreefi.ly. lehe gals senehtii„,
and dgain thnugh wile a wealer red
Wavo, her rather thin cheeh growe
tinged. '
"Did I ,ever climb theni?" she says,
witti a bewildered look, and spealeng in
a somewhat. tremulous voice. "Yese—
slewlye as with an effort of memory --
"I believe I did,e.
"You ,Iteeve forgotten all about it,"
cries Jim, in an aceent of absurdly dis-
proportioned disappointment, "Have
eau forgotten the kangaroo, too? have,
you forgotten everyining?"
Perhaps. she is putting her memory to
tri
eeetiere-strainercer, he heel ,.done-ihie,•in
the ease of her mother's name on the
occasion .of 4heir Oxford meeting.' At all
events, she leaves the question un-
answered, and the elder \Oman again
hurries to her help ,against this persis-
tent claimant of reminiscences.
"You must not expect us all to have
such memories as you have," she says,
with a touch of friendliness in her look.
"I must own that I too had quite for-
gotten the kangaroo; and so I fear had
Robert, untiI you reminded us of it in
Mesopotarnia.."
"Ilow Is Isfr, Le Merchant?" inquires
Jim, thus reminded to put his tardy
'qeery—"is he with 'you?"
"No, he is not very fond of being
abroad; it is not"--smiling—"'dear
abroad' to him, but I think he will very
likely come out to Florence to fetch us."
"You are going to, Florence?" cries
the young man eagerly. "So am 1! oh,
hurrah! then we shall often meet."
But the totich of friendliness, edbose
Advent he had hailed so joyfully, has
vanished out of Mrs. Le Marceant's
voice, oe, at least, Is overlaid with a
speeies of stiffness, as she.answersdis-
tantly, "we do not intend to go out at
all in Florence --f mean Ante" society."
"But I am not society," replies he;
chilled, yet resolute. "1 wish"—glant-
ing rather • wistfully from one to the
other—"that I could give you a little of
my ,memory. If I could, you would see
that, after being so infinitely good to me
at the Moat, you cannbt expect me to
meet you as totel strangers now." ,
In the sense of ill -usage' that fills his
breast the fact of how almost entirety
°libelous he had been of the persons be-
fore him, during the greeter part of the
long interval that had peed them, has
—such is human nature—quite slipped•
hiseeecolleetion. It is brought back to
him in Some degree with a twinge by
Mrs. Le 'Marchant saying in a relenting
tone, andwith an ,accent of remorse,.
"and' you have remembered us all these
years,"
He cannot, upon reflection, conscien-
tiously eeye that, he' has; but is yet disin-
genioue enough ea allow speaking
silenceto imply acquiesceece.
"And you are on your way to Flo-
ret*, too ?" continues .she, mistaking
the cause of his dumbness; the tide of
compunction evidently - setting more
strongly towards him, in' her womanly
heart, at the thought of the entire want
of interest she has manifested in thecase
,of one whose long faithfulness to her
and her family had deserved a beeter
treetineet.
"Yes."
His , face clouds so perceptibly as he
pronounces this monosyllable; that his
interlocutor inquires, with a growing
'kindness—
"Not on any unpleasant errand, I
hope?"
He laughs:" the uneasy laugh of an
.Apglo-Saxon obliged to tell, or at all
events tellinge softie intintate detail
about himself.
"I am going to see my young woman
—the girl I am engaged to."
"Well, that is a pleasant errand,
surely ?" (smiling).
"Cost scion I" replies Jim, gloomily.
"I have a: piece of ill -news to tell her
then, teith a half -shy effort to escape into
generalities, "which way do you think
that ill -news reads best—on paper or
viva voce?"
She shivers a little.
"I de not know. I do not like it either
Then, taking out her watch, with the
evident, determination to be surprised at
the lateness of the hour, she cries, "It
is actually a quarter to two 1 Are not
you famis.bed, Elizabeth? I am 1"
There le such apparent and imminent
departure in her eye that I3urgoyne feels
that there is .,no time to be lost: ,
"Have you decided upon your Itotel,in
Florenee?" he asks precipitately.
"We have decided against thecaall,"
le her anatver. "We have taken a little
apartment—a peor little entreeol; 'but
it is such a poor little one, that Pshould
be ashamed to sic 'any of my friends to
come and see inc there."
She accompanies the last,' words, as if
to take the sting out of them, with as
sweet and friendly a ,smile as any,he
remembers In the Devonshire days. 'But
the sting is not taken out all the same;
it lingers, pricking and burning, still,
after both the tall, thin,- Meek figure,
and the slim, little grey •one have disap-
peared. .
The moment that this is the ease,
Byng rejoins his friend, a curiosity and
alert interest in his young eyes, which
hie ceinpanion feels no desire to grate-
fy. Ile is unable, however, td maintoin
the entire eilenee be had intended upon
the subject, since Ilyng, after waiting
for what, to hie impatience, appeers
more than decent interval, is constrained
to remark -S.
j'ilid I hear you tefl that lady, vlien
firet you epoke to her, that She wan
dead ?"
"I thought she was."
"Had you heard it?"
5
"bide you eee it in the paper,e74
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DEQUESTS MADE TO PETS.
.6...4.
Provision For the Comfoet. of Favorite
Animals. '
The French farmer who died recently
leaving behind him the follow* will
written on a shirt cuff, "I hereby appoint
as my sole heir my red horse, and 11
wish him to ,become the property of my
nephew Jules," is not by any means the
only testator who has preferred ti, lega-
tee on four feet to one of his own fleet)
and blood.,
Of a similr mind was the testator
whose I will ran thus: "I leave to my
monkey—my dear, amusing Jackoo--
the esuri of $50, to be enjoyed by him
during his life; eet is to be expended
solely in his keel::: A 1 leave to my. faith-
ful dog Shock, and to my beloved cat
Tib, $25 apiece as yearly pension. In
the event of the death of one of the
aforesaid legatees, .the sum due to him
shall pass to the aforesaid ,surviVors,
and on the death of one of theSe two, to
the last, -be he who he may, .After the
decease el' all parties, the sum left
them shall belong to my daughter
0—'—,. to whom I show this prefetence
above all my children because she has
a large •family and finds a difficulty in
filling . their . mouths and , educating
them.' ' *
There was more than a spice of malice
in the last testament of a Frenchmen
who had . quarreled with his next-of-
kin—some coilIl • s—and gave them good
cause to renaber his displeasure by
leaving his ntire estate, a substantial
rr,
one, to a youthful thrtpise which beetled
brought Ierne.from Mauritius, at whose
death only the money was to go on to.
his obnoxious relatives. As the tortoise
was good for at least a century, the re-
version would probablyhave been dear
at a franc. Nat long ago, too, a Mr.
Sibley left his fortune 'to his cat :and
parrot to the exclusion of .his relatives,
to whom, however, the money was to
go on the death of hispete.,
• .
*was that of a testator of Ohio who, atter
leaving minute instructions for the
building of an infirmary' for cats, pro-
ceeded' to direct that a certain sum
should be devoted to the purchase ol `an
accordion, "witiph shall be played in the
auditorium of the eats' infirmaryfor-
ever and ever, in order that the cats may
have the privilege -of always hearing and
enjoying ,the instrument which is .the
nearest approach ' be their natural
voices." ' . • I
How far posthumous Solicitude for
iiets can go is proved by the following
clause from the will of Mlle. Jeanne
Felix, a famous musician of her day:
'I pray Mlle. Bluteau, my sister, and
Mme. Cologne,' my niece, to take ,care
of my cats. Whilst' these two live they
shall have .1:flirty eous a month, that
they may be well fed, They must have,
twice a day, meat soup of the‘quality
usually served on table; but they must
be given it separately, each having his
own saucer. The bread lutist not be
crumbled in 1, e soup, but tut up into
pieces about the size of hazel 'nuts, or
they cannot eat it. When boiled beef is
put into the, pot with the sotikeThbread,
some thin sliees of raw meat must be
put in as wele and the whole stewed
till it is fit for eating. When only one
cat lives, half the 4money will suffice.
Nicola Pigeon shall take care of the cats
and cherish them. -Mme. Calogn may
go and 80e. them." „
. .
Among the Many curious and ember -
massing bequests to the late Queen Vic-
toria were several of pet animals whose
Owner, Neighed to provide them Willa a
distinguished asylum. Thus, One testa-
tor left to Her Majesty three goldfish,
accompanied by his entire fortime; and
that there might bo no mistakes as to
-thLe identity ef the fish, they are thus
'described In the will : 'One is bigger
than the other two, and these, later
could be easily recognized, wee being
fat, the Other thin. If the fish on quer-
tereday, when visited by my solicitor
at Osborne, which I suggest as a euit-
able residence for them, are found 10
Answer this description, the money is to -
be paid forthwith." •
Even less desirable than the goldfish
weee sixty snakes which another toe
loyal Subject bequeathed to the Queen.
"I bave alWays loved Betakes," ran the
will of Otis eccentrie gentleman, "and
my only grief is that I cannot train
th recognize me. Perhaps your
sty may 'be more fortunate."
11 another testator left £100 a year
ier ieMajnety on econdition that ehe
toot- under ier charge a favorite parrot
and poodle nd sent them. under the to-
me( of a n et0er of the Royal house -
WI , to Margate Inc a fortitight7s holi-
day every year:` while 0. tradesman not
'only )j"1uitth(d hie "eats to Queen Vie -
!oda, liu designed a house for their
eeception. r1 ton eveureee lie wrote,
A .-VERY BENIARICABLE WILL
the
Maj
St
to
"Mat euele ireeitiene If erected e2eee
yeer, efaSestedre reeidenee, would re-
enie ree Ineecese .ef 'neettarnall nolece;
ae 1wonlel euggeet that it he plaecie
Wirideee Pare, but net more titan
mile hem tile Melte°
Due perleles, the most reinarleible el
these hequeels to pete Wag that of a
Ilindia who reeentle left thirty rupee
month for the eupport of A. cobra,
through ,eeliose 'bite lie had been freed
Irene an uedesirable wife.
JAPAN TEA DRINKERS
YOU RIEAL,LY MUST TRY
EWISI LANDOWNEItS.
In Europe Wiley Hold 28 Thiesas Much
as They Did 40 Years Ago."
The anti -Jew .faction in Bussia de-
clares that even with .the present restrie-
eons thelews have managed to aequire
a large portion of land, for 'which the
following figures are quoted in the jew-
1.st magazine, the Menorah:
'Within the ,Pale the real estate of the
Jews advanced from 10,000 dessiatins in
1860 to 148,000 in 1870, 370,000 in 1880,
537,000 in 1800, and to 1,265,000 in 1000.
In the kingdom of Poland the There
held 16,000 dessiatins in 1800, 148,000 in
1810, 370,000 in 1880, 537,000 in 1890, and
1,265,000 In 1900.
"In European Russia outside the Pale
Jewish landholdings is said to have in-
eeetteed,:th.,3 thneee.inefertyrreeeaes in the
following proportion : In 100a, 3,000
dessiatins; in 1870, 18,000 dessiatins; in
1880, 06,000 deSsiatins; in 1890, 262,000
&olefins', and in 1900, 745,000 dessia-
tnis."
Aecording to these statistics the total
holdings of the Jews throughout the
Russian Empire, which only amounted
to 70,000 dessiatins in 1860, reached in
1900 the high figure of 2,381,057 'dessia-
tins, out of _which the Jews own as,,their
property 1445,000, dessiatins, while the
remaining 035,000 dessiatins are rented
by thein as tenants,
PUTTING HOGS ON COBN.
VVii,en starting the hogs on corn at
the beginning ,.of the fattening season
care should be taken not to give the bogs
too much corn and thus injure their
digestion and edestroy their appetites,
writes Mr. A. J. Legg. A sudden change
from grass and. bulky feeds to such a
concentrated feed as corn is likely to in-
jure the hogs and give them a backset
that they will not readily overcome.
A few years ago a lot of my shote,
running on clover and getting a. small
allowance of •corn, were put up for. fat-
tenieg, and I carelessly gave them too
much corn. As a result they would eat
only enough corn for a maintenanc.e
.ration for several weeks and never fully
overcame the bad start. I make it a
rule to _commence on a rather small
ration and Om up gradually until the
hogs are on full feed. •I feed an occa-
sional pumpkin or a few apples to the
fattening.hogs. This 1 think is. a great
advantage. •
DECIDED BEFOREHAND.
In Cochrane, Alabama, the affairs of
civil justice are administered by a judge,
who is also a' capable and enthusiastic
farmer. „ • - •
One cloudy- spring afternoon a Court'
was convened convened to try a 'peataliarly torte
-
oils and perplexing case. He listened
uneasily for a tirne,' with „growing un-
rest, every' now: and then _casting, - a
quick glance through the rnearest
Ile was observed at last to seize a
slip of paper, scribble a few, words,
place the document beneath a heavy
paper -weight, and reach' for his hat.
"Captain" he called cheerily, "excuse
,
me for interruptin' you, sub; loll go
right on wit -your argument, *which is
a good one. It's ankh goin' to rain this
evening, gentlemen, an' I got to set
out my potatoes right ,away. But you
go right on, -Catitaint When you and
the major -get through, .you'll find my
decision under this heeh paper -weight.
And the door eiosed upon the aston-
ished orator.
. °
FID WELL,
Griggs: "Doctors fees to -day are sheer
robbery."
Briggs: "Wouldn't it be better to call
them pillage?"
13UYING ori SELLING?
It told of the son of a horse -dealer,
a sharp lad, when once unexPectedly
called upon by his father to monhe a
horse and .exhibit its paces, the little
fellow whispered the question, in order
to regulate hew he should ride :--
"Are you buying or selling?"
•
a Cow gave
Butter
mankind would have to
invent milk. Milk Is Na-
ture's emulsion—butter
put In shape for diges-
tion.. Cod liver oil is exi.
trernely nourishing, but
it has to be emulsified
before we can digest it.
Scott's Ernulsioh
combines the best oil
with the Valuable hypo-
phoSphites so that it Is
easy to digest and does
far more good than the
oll alone could. That
makes SpOtt's Emulsion
the most strengthening,
nourishing fOOd medi-
eine in the World. „
$10nd ter tree eanatele.
86OTT HOWNE. OlusnIstet
.000, lend l!1.00. All drettstletie (
Torenten Ont.
CEYLON G MEN TEA. .
Sarno flavor as Japan, Only perfectly free from ad ulo
tera,tions of any kind. It is to the Japan toa drinker
what HESALAIDA0 Black is to the black tea drinker. °
Leatil packets only.
• 400i 1500 000 000 pee lb.
About the Farm -I
FJERTILIZERS FOR WINTER WHEAT.
eeThe fertilizer& 'Sititable Venter'
ltvhheea.t naturelvi!l edfep ethendalm
oasnt de ni ttel r eeloYmotin"
tuents. In some instances fareayard
manure wilt be superior to any other
form of fertilizer. In other instancez;
artificial fertilieers alone may be super -
tor, 'and in yet other instances the best
results will he obtained from applyinee
ibeortthilizlearrsTetard manure and Ornamental.
Farmyard menure will, usually give
the best results on lands more or less
sandy in character. These play pro-
duce an excellent sample ofewheat, but
unless stimulated by heavy manuring
do not produce extreorclinary
The proper manuring of such lands may
greatly inerea,se the crop,
as they gen-
erally grow straw strong . from theenough to
sustain the head. efanure
barnyard, on land which naturally
grows ample straw, is quite liable to
induce lodging, and this means reduced
yields. •
The mode of applying the manure will
vary with climate and character of land.
On, land with a heavy subsoil, tho best
results will follow from applying the
moque in the fresh form on fallow
land 'before it is plowed, On light land
and in a climate somewhat dry, the
same plan wilt hold good, but on light
land in a climate of considerable, rain.:
fall, it would probably be better to an --
ply the manure after the first plowing
and incorporate it not far from the sur-
face by the use of the cultivator. In any
event the manure should be in process
of decay in the soil so that, it can yield
food for the wheat from the first,
Some persons still practice redueing,
the manure by piling it and then apply-
ing it as . a dressing just before sowing
elm wheat. That is excellent for the
wheat, but eit is wasteful of plant food
in the manure, so much of the nitrogen
escapes during the process of fermenta-
tion.
COMMERCIAL FETITILIZERs.
The nature of -the fertilizer to apply
will depend On ninny conditions. So
many that it will, not be possible to
discuss this part, ef the subject in 0 way
at all comprehensive. These conditions
include plant food In the land, nature
of the soil, and the manner of prepar-
ing it. Usually the ingredient most
wanted'in soils, sufficiently supplied with
furnishing nitrogen, phosphoric. acid
soil, in so far as they are not, there wilt
bee.epenewntansesptlieem.:.aatateidr may
phosphoric acid.
manure is thateit is a complete fertilizer,
But in some localities potash also is
needed.. •
and potash, On the other hand, if ei
three ingredients are not needed in the
One of the fine features el farmyard
Usually be bet -
applied as acid phoephate in growing
winter wheat, as quick action is wanted.
On many soils 'good results fol)ow sow-
ing the fertilizer atthe same tirne 'as
wheat with a suitable drill. Such an
applicetion with some nitrogen is fairee-
able to good 'growth at the fleet, a result,
which is essential in the yrowing of any
crop that Is to -iooduce lerge yields.
Nitrogen may be applied in the spring
to stimulate growth, and thus secure
the desired yields. This Method on. light
land, fairly well stocked with humus,
may boeppiniyfammn
adevelryeoffeoctrir
T
mod. crate
quantities and then supplement ti* ma-
' re with commercial fertilizers is
usually the most satisfactory way of
fertilizing lands so ae- to get -extraordi-
nary yield. The manure puts humus in
the soil' and furnishes a part of the fer-
tility, and the commercial fertilizer
may then beapplied, in a way that
brings tli+e needed equilibrium in WWI-
ty In the land. The action of comma ,
cial fertilizers is much more perfect in
the presence of a sufficieney of vegetable
niatter in the soil. When thus applied,
the waste of manure from levelling ia
reduced, Good results foRow preparingc
the land in certain areas, in a certain,
, 4
way, without fertilizers. The proeess
meantime, winsto be purely ,
mechanical one. It consists in summer
fallowing the land one year and grows
ing winter wheat on it the next. The
preparation consists in plowing oetee
thew liarretviageeftenwe'reaugh 'Id clean,'
the land and to retain in it enough ,of
moisture to start the wheat when it ie.
sown
-cietirtiatline f
aa
rl
le.
as of the nerthwesterz.
prairies, artiflcial •fertilizers have free
quently, been disappointing. The reat
sons are not fully known. 'Even ote
worn land the .mere supplying of the
land with humus and cleaning seems te
give it a new lease ot produeing power;
FAIIM NOTES.
Before you condemn your luck, ot
blame others for their ,shortcomings,
examine your own knowledge "and cone
-1-
elitism. 4
.
It is the seed that mostly exhausts the
Piot food from land. A grass crop
that is allowed to produce seed, takes
more from the soil in mineral matter,
than two crops cut for hay while the'
grass is young: ..
In recent years the Manufacture or
Portland cement has greatly increased,'
and a consequent rdduction in price hae
brouglit that article within the reach oe
every farmereso there is no longer anyt
excuse for a man to feed hogs on tine, I
ground. • .
Much harm can be done with highly)
concentrated feeding stuffs, People,
must use judgment In regulating the
quantity fed. Cottonseed meal has the
enorinous amount of 47 per cent. oil
protein. It can be given sefely only be
very small does and mixed with other
grains or meal. •
The most valuable thing the farmer or .
1
his wife has is health. Bank stock
'counts fot . nothing by the side of it.
Everything they can do to preserve'
1
their bodily vigor is "so much added to
the sum " total of life. Sound health
means happiness, comfort in • the' hous
and out-of-doeree-aed etears full of 'en
joymentye--
to -day. A Ntdry -great improve.:
Better Oeed is the universal need ot
farming j
mentenatel be made In the farmer'e yields
by eirefully grading the seed in a fan -I
ning Mill, saving only the largest,
heaviest and plumpest and the most
.mature kernels. This, however, is not
sufficient for the progressive farmer.
,IIe wants to use a more intensive me-
thod, and get a correspondingly better'
grade and higher yield of grain.
There are off days on the farm, just.
as there are everysvhere. Days when
everything seems to go wrong; but
sandwiched in between there are days
'that are as brightsand as sunshiny asdie
fairest June neorning. ,But, loneliness is
not here, kind friends of the city. That.
is only a fancy on your part, due to,
lack ,,of positiis
knowledge. Every doy
_ .. -
on the farm s crowded full of things le
employ -the mind. I can tell you of merp
and women thee have let the farm just
because it was too strenuous for them.'
They felt the need of quiet and a chance'
to think. So ,they sold out and went
away to the city to find rest. I .feel eer-
tain that they made a mistake, for they
did not knoW what they were doing ,
when they made the change.
,
BOLD INVADERS.
There were some phases of cointiry
lifewith which the little,,city girl had •
as yet only one day's acquaintonce,
but the rights.- of property -owners and
property -renters were firtiny fixed in het
mind.
"Mother 1" she called, in evident eif.
eitement, the morning after the family
had settled for the summer in Sunset
View Cottage, "mother I Just come hero
and look 1 There are somebody's "
wiping their feet, on our nice dear*,
grass 1"
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