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Awl 14,41 not many mouths tee*, al7 kind
mow, 1.1 enured for am o largo assortment
of the letost, and most popular novel,
'rho anthem wove chiefly ladies, and ono
noda rra,* osieupled In ehowing how
tool how little Illi4nwtood a thtng
ie the inert of a woman, and how little
unwortlif a being le man to be lame -tett
will 1170 1111ro ef it; how coarse and gross
are /Oa lastee, how undteble a.nd waver.
Ing in iete position ho dLJ1ea nY tau
name of low.
The beche contaluing these prIneiplee
lett* had a great Belo, and have run
0/rough annoy eclitione, and after read -
lug thole 1 was moved, perhaps in o sprit
of proleed., to chronicle faithfully my own
eitle•reencee an n lover, admitting, first,
astudttely that I nuty not bo accepted no
Ro ordinaiy typo of Mall, on account of
iny ueueual eapithility-% vary unfaebion•
able owe in thio end of the century --for
making an litter tool of myself there any
affections are consumed,
I have never written before, and have
nothing, brit the memory of any export
onto eo reililo nee -an experienoe burned
80 fleOply i1110,i117 Mind that I shall have
diiiiinley ht speaking of et without
bieterie.m. What 1 want to show Is this:
genie men. as well ae 1,4010011, ooeaelonellY
have heartsand are none the happier or
tho bettor treated for it. It is the old
store. 1 eur.perice -in .dealing with the other
eex, one must bo the exeoutionor, or tho
vletlen. All 1 maintain le, elute the world.
old etanio is not alwaye one-sided in re•
suit; the /ewe 10 not always to the swift,
or tho battle to the strong.
The roinanoo of any life, eteth as it vrae,
began pet oto yeare ago. Ito starting -
point V. NS the accidental meeting in the
pare vie h jo foolish youth, a fellow obib.
man, vil . frittered hit dile away at after•
noon iteolablee, and thought himself pop-
ultir bo-eueo he was laughed at by halt
tho well-Oreeeed mom and W0111011 in Lon-
don.
Por the life of nue I never could remem-
ber the below% name, but wo all called
Win "fkAlare," an amount of .the tremend-
ously biteli clues Ito won, and nel "Collate"
I shall speak of him now.
"1 conirrehtlate you. Hervey," Callan
began. 'Vu are 111 luck, Retard about
your pit -lure bettor bought by the some-
thing or ether lineeelet Int- the nation.
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Let me see, what will the nation do with
it? Ent it J11 a 101160E10, don't thee'? Or
is it in the iteademy collard? . Never mind;
it's 41 great honor, of couree. I wish I hall
gone in foe painting. But you look fag.
trod. Want a change, en? I've disiereered
the jolliest little place you ever enev. No
rellwaY, five ;otos
from„, aellw.bove• „nond motet, as soon 01 I arrived. Aron had a
a. mile fnt rothe WM. ritom
oo on a an- way Of making room for mo neer Aledge's I did not forget him. benIn
t v steps
emu can live like a fighting -cook 01 e (11(10. Not only were we entwine, or ree at once in the direction of hie oluOio, and
tllhtlling a day, enot oover soe a soul,1,7-0
- +Ler step -cousins, for there 11010(1 ito real re. 08 I walked I thought about my Couein
visitorae-rne 10001 for any--ttny you con t lotionship between us, but it wee ono of Madge,
seo the French (emote I do ao love to thou clearly understood and eettled Clearly I was bound to her, and liked
family mennigoment.s that we were to
make a matolt of it•eame day. My uncle
ond Lady Careheeter certainly wished it.
00 did the refit of •Ona bamily but when
Madge RTUB of age, three Yeeun befow,
she had rosolutely refused. to lot the
marriage take place lentil she had what
she called "a few yowls' liberty'. to soe
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on her own account,
ree
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mg.
"Meetly," I wild; "and play at being
011 antiet. But nly eintination is a elate
eferet..
'Never mind," she returned, culling ra•
diantle .iutia SOY r1.140", them/el 001101ii01.19
that her threet hall been toe obarply
'MANI. "X dare say von ,,hall ace the re-
,.ult ot your visit on the lino tit Burling -
ten House next eyeing."
"Among ether eeepeetable and popular
anvitorri isq."
"Now you ere being bitter lit your own
expenr. Your work is fur obove 0
1110117.
"13111 I 6171.1 071170710 in a Regret, whieb,
le your oplttlotj ia the 0110 11114 01113'
itt-
lo talent. Good.hy until thio oven -
lee,"
"Oorl-by, and don't bo late for dinnor.7
'Pheu she leaned for alt instant toward
me, ewe ithispered very lightly, for Lady
t.(tt'lthClt,E't' wars ratter deaf:
1.0..1•••.•••••••••
gob away from the Prenot unmet oit 0 clear
day. Run down in an hour and a half,
tool you min point Tipping big landecalne
all day without any natives ;to bother
you, There aren't any notives-beeisles,
they're boo stupid. So 701100 an A.R.A.
new! Fellow told 1100 the other dear it
mane, 'Another Ruined Art,lete no you
paieting chaps never do any .good when
yeti begin to stick letters after your
111=10. Never mind; they can't take it
away, and you're aura to be an ILA., if
you lin long enough, Then yon ean ooll
any etuff. Not that you wane the money.
Luolry dog! Rolling in wealth, and en-
gaged to mi hoirose. Whotes it coming
off?"
Oollats had run himself out, and he
stopped Go lake breth, not to wait for an
answer. X handed him my pookerbboolt and
pencil.
"Write down the address of that place
3"au spoke of," I 'said. And Oollare, taken
by surprise 1)010010 110 WELS -wound up again,
wroto it doom;
"Vie Rose and (hewn iXetal, Lythinge,
Mont.".
"Ws an inn, not a hotel, really, you
know," he explained; "but they think
is fluor beeitues 01 hoe five lettere
in it and inn has only three. Jolly old
sanded floor, you know. I sit there and
d ask
drink beer .nnthe fanners about the
crops, That sort of thing rests a num
at tho end of the season.'
X burnt out laughing, and he laraghed
also; without knowing why. The picture
conjured up before any mind% eye of Col-
lets, Immaculately cheesed, iraverturably
hobnobbing with the aone of, agrioultnee,
and asking .them, in his loud, elipshod
English, irrelevant questions about the
crops, etrack me ae being irresistibly
huraoroas. Still, "out of the mouths et
babes" worde of eviedron have been known
to tome, and 1 mentally reeolyod 110 run
down to Lythinge within the next twenty-
four honn.
The fo.ot was, 1 waa tIted, and wanted
to thiuk. The Loudon season 'wee in full
swing, and, being well off and soccessful,
I hail so many keen& and acqUaintsencee
that I sometimes sighed for my own so.
oiety. Above all, I longed for the sea.
I Van born at gee, on a voyloge to In-
dia, whither my another and father were
travelling to join my father's regiment.
My mother's people bad been in the navy
for generations -an anoeetor fell by Nel-
eon% side -and a living greatellude of
mine W/10 a distinguished admiral, I had
the see in my blood, and, as they would
not make a sailor of me, I beceme a paint-
er of the CHI and ships. I believe 11 eue-
ended became I loved it, I had a bit of
1 a yaoht, and kept a deaf old Balt and
his grandson always within call about
the coast, and I got More pleasure out
of that boat than the emartest reoeption
or hall could give me.
Attar getting 2.18 of Oollars, I made my
way along the Row, nodding to acquaint.
anon, while X lookell ou1 for old Lady
Carchester% carriage. Everybody °ailed
Madge% mother "Old. Lady Centimeter,"
although eho could not really have been
1210¢0 than ftyo-and.afty; but she wao se
small, and wizened, mid painted, and had
(something so vritohlike and uncanny about
her that she might have been a hundred.
She was the daughter and sole heiress of
"Jackson's candlee," or, to nut it another
NVE'' Madge% maternal grandfather had
boon o tallow millionaire from the north
of England, and .lila money had helped to
build the parliamentary fume and tenure
a peerage for the eon of Ilene eminent
lawyer, John Lorimer. created Baron
Lorimar, whose eon, Marige'e father, had
been buried In a brandoiew family vault
nine yottre ageunder the style and title
et First lame of Reneging.
A year later hie disoonsolate miuntese
descended in rank a etep or two to become
the wife of my uncle, Baron Carohester,
and Madge and flrot became acquainted.
My uuole Catrolieeter waa the head of our
houme. I was his favorite uopliew, and
after my parentsdeath hes home was
mine. 7. know it, line grieve& hien always
that, I, the eon or his beet -loved brother,
ant not heir to the 111 la and what la left
of the family estates. My Hoole Oreville'e
two bon, who come before me, aro not
etrong phyeloally or mentally, but there
they aro. They are welcome to the
although Madge, for ono, who *thinks a
lot of titles, grudges it to them,
but Madge must epeak for herself, and
in order to tell my tale PO0001'1Y. 1114110.
try and make you underetand her, and
gee her aa X did on this paa•tioular after.
noon, bending forrectre, itt her cerriage
and showing her line white teeth in a
delightful lough es alio listened to what
Charlie Brooltton--evlao 1 oonesidered ono
of .the meet amusing men about tawn, but
whban X pexteonally
relating to her aoreee the railinge of elm
Row.
Madge f10,11' me before she oboe° to no-
tice ane; at lease X divined that from tho
extra interest she began .to tette in
lirookton% convoreation. She knew X did
not like the man, and eho always took
a malieious pleasure in being speolally
gracious to mon X dkl not ltkn. Mon now,
when X look bee*, 1 041.11110b pretend to
Imolenvtand Madge% ;Motives. That she
ltad a motive for almost everything she
did I have vory lettle doubb, excepb on
ocetteione when her feelings carried her
away. But elm did not allow ' that to
happen -very often.
She was foor-an.cl.tevoney, and consider-
ed ono of the most fasoinating women in
London -an odd seriesel cootradietiOna,
daring in inmeoli, but irreproachable in
eololuet, a coquette to her tinsel. -tips, end
vet 10times b11.111Lly sttoo#r01 fax too cyni-
cal in her viowe, and yob believing with
the most, etholeesouled loyalty in ;None to
whom her inleb was givait. 1 cannot laY
plaint to underetmlOing Madge, and it
would take reams of poper to reeord 11107
varied impreeeMea of aloe changing, oom•
plex tilt LIMN
AO to her appear:thee, .sthe wee oousidered
a gre1100014',t1100014',b
, et I mimosa that hall
alto boon plain Miee Lorimer, without any.
aneeleY, elte Would have been esteemed
merely a pretty, intereating-tooltieg girl.
Item skin was very °leer and 'tale, but .ehe
powdered 00 thlekly that, everybody said
alto volved, also, which ,was al calumny.
She hut .an abundance of pretty brown
hair, but elte patronized game deteeteble
Plen1t haireiroseme who fritzed and trial.
feel , and ,3011111101 .nettl tt1011'.'tll it, until I
'30041 never sure *1 the color it 'tvould be
from one season to itnother; 11, etraighb,
finely modeled .neen, with .something al -
meet {I 16(100111 and insolent about the
oierve at the tip of fti dark eYeltrewe,
with t/hat crook in the middle which Owe.
oguomists tell tut means wit; rather 41
large mouth, 'wall obopod, but u little
hard when olosodt 11 prettily eurved (11)11
end throat, and dainty little ente. S11011
were Madge's. claims to boatity added to
to eltaecee flguee not 'tell enough' for grace,
said a nice, soft heed., vietieually ebrong
'for a gild, Her .Voloo was altogether
theenthig; it put yeti at, your ottoe, 01,!t'
chilled your blo40 by Its freezing• nuel •
tine at ite owners Will, einkthero w04 h
tomb, of tho ololll ou wheel ellik,s0906
no 'after S, had 01110110111hands With' )ttut.
Louise, tlici muntmillorldooking bia
iAay who sat by Madge's side, and in
Vclioec oharn, ,hawklike teatime then
larked liesle, 00 any, trams of lute dean.,
topes tweed/wee
Melee Alrookton left the carriage al.
To title euggestionof courts, I agreed.
I loved my art, anw
d anted to make
0=10 name for neyeelt, and it was not as How He Rose to the Top in the
though Kedge eared for me. In my work
no other .women oo well. For PfEli yenta
we had mon each other almogt deity, and,
although I diel not for a meinent flatter
myself that she loved nue ohs was fond
of 1116 in her way, and ,had not. the laaeb
objection to marry nie-at 007110 time.
(To be continubd.)
;14
COLONEL. GOETlIALS.
she took a very real interest, and often
helped 4110 greatly to, her euggestion,.
Neither ehe uor I saw that anything eves
to be vaned by. tying onreelves up at,
Engin eerie g Profession.
The soldier and administrative
ewentyone and twentythree.011 was no1. Military man have been bred for
as though we could '01 000 oath other three generations in George Wash-
ington Goethals, the successful en-
gineer who has just about com-
pleted his big job of digging the
Panama, Canal. He is claimed now
by many cities and States, but he is
a Brooklyn boy, and although his
ancestry is Swiss, and of the mili-
tary Swiss it that, his grandfather
was a surgeon in the French army
and was with Napoleon at Auster-
every day. My studio w116 0l.Poo to nor
uucle'a place, and Madge and I could be
together whenever we pleased. Some-
times it eeemed to me that the had about
her capabilities for a really ardent at-
tachment, should the right man come in
her way, and I confess I now and then
eecretly hoped ho would do ewe I was
very fond of Madge, but her biting, sax -
cootie remarks 00 bon hurt me, and her
views of life, and espeeially of woman's
proper ehare In it, were dktquieting in
1.110 extreme, Then, too, she flirted ee
much that, watching her, 1 oftou rejoiced
that I was not, iu love with her, OA SO
many other men were. It was not that
she waq unkind or cruel. Bh.o was, on the
coneraey, too kind, and eho enceurnged
all bar ;adealrene to make fools of them.
eelvea, eo that she was always surround-
ed by a little court of half-aecepted,
reeeeted worshippers, 1Y910 waited ebout.
E10 she herself expreeeed it, in ease I
should "drop out of the running."
That was her way of putting it, and,
of 0011TBOr it was .absurd. Yet I often felt
stood in the way of a brilliant, match
00r her, and sometimes I used to L00430
her about it.
"You 'won't marry me," I used to 8117,
"yet you let me keep other fellows off. Is
that Totusonable?"
But eho had ;Owned o11 me with sudden
temper.
"X Bat like this to planet) myself," she
said. "Suppose I like to be a girl -bulled,
or, or, in other words, an old maid? I
presume X may please myself? It is not
as if you were in love .a.nel wanted to mar-
ry Goma otte else."
"Il Good heavens, nol"
"You an not in love, are you Adrian?"
she had suddenly naked me very earneet•
ly,•laying• her finger-tipe on any shoulders
and gazing up into my foes°.
"Not a Bette bit," 1 had answered, with
perfect truth, and the had pushed me
from her a little impatiently, rend chang-
ed ;the isubjecG by bureting into extrava-
gant peuiees e the .beauties and grates
of her last favorite aotor.
This had happened on the occasion of
our leen meeting, two Jaye before. To•
day she greeted me, as I said with a lit-
tle offended air. •
"Why didn't you come to Jonah yester-
day?" she asked 'Merely. "The president
(same, and we expected Yoll. I1 would do
you good to meet him like that, and Den-
vil, the new an critic on tho Daily Poet,
was there, too. It wae very obtipid of
you: not to come. react were you doing?"
"X was 'sketching, and X couldn't leave
my work."
"Poor, deter thing! Toiling for your
daily bread or perhaps for a little 'scrap
of butter to„put on it, eh? And, by the
waytalking of poverty stricken artiste
euoh as yent-have you heard of Nicholas
Wray lately?"
"No. Have you?"
"Yee."
Her expreesion changed 'suddenly, and
her dark eon grew pitiful end moist.
"Adrian,' she said, in a very low voice,
1"1,Tinou nirnostkall.ndbh.,inin icilibaantdonee and help
he ie nearly
starvingl"
"Who 1014 700 Go?"
'Denvil meld .something whieh mail* me
suspect it. go X 'wrote Nitholea Wray a
note waking him to hutch with tie, aa
wanted to talk to him about moking an
outline sketch of my father from hie por-
traite. 1 eont it by hand, and got a ver-
bal answer, /thanking me, but saying he
could not, undertake any work at preeent.
I'm euro there's something very wrens'
with .him."
But hero the thin, high voice of Madge's
Mother chimed in:
"If Nicholue Wray ie ill, he has .drunk
himeolf into it. X have no pationue with
dirty, drunken, moneyberrowing 'Bo-
hemians. It% the fashion to cell his
daube. ()lever, but I've .seen better work
done with a bit of chalk on the pave-
ment."
Lady Canheater seldom spoke, but when
eho did air her views they were usually
old-fashioned and emphatic, Nicholas
Wray had been a fellow student of mine
in Paris ire -mike. Hie work VMS 0111011Y
black and white, dashing, brilliant maxi -
matins and "impreesions " and its duch
could not commend itaelf klitelitee mo-
ther, who in art rated "finish" above all
other qualidee. Madge, on hor part, be -
Moved. that Wray had it future, and Madge
was generally eight. She anode a homy
little moue at axe, unseen to Lady Coe-
cheeter, but aim 'was W1110 011.00(411 to drop
the eubject 01 Nicholas Wray, eveo by the
way, cheriehed oo profound an admiration
for her thee, now and then I wondered
whether he had euneeded it; making eome
alight impression 'mien Iter apparently uto
assailable heart.
'You'll dine with uti, of rerteso?" 8110
said. "Otherwise, 100 may be late; and
11 elon't want to mien that duet in the first
00h. 0111 ' Arai I 'want 7011 10 go with ane
to Hurlingliam toonorrow, and—.
"tho-morrow," 1 said, "I am going out,
of town."
' She raised her oyeetrowe,
"ola of town I Why?"
"Basseise X am idek of It."
Madge flushed angrily,
"Oomplianontftry to us, isn't 11, manta?
I am sure wo have done our beet—"
"Don'b bo silly, Madge. Yon know how
I hate a London season. And haven't, I
been good, doing everything cud going
overrwheror Now X want to be out of it
for a few holus—" • •
"Where .eve yea going? Mamie, 'there's
Lady Wroxforil bowing to you. What it
frightful hall .A.111 her oomplezio'n isn't
11111110 1111 to tette with it, ono bit You
groat artietes, Adrian, and
and all that, ought te take advantage of
your social position .to go about giving
hints 14 people how to paine properte-
their f00011, X artoan. There's Mies St. Al.
bye Just gone by, with ereentooloted
eerateeetote clearly mortaSjor 111 toist
dor to corn-ilower-blut . And ridY
Marclintortb is ankle up cerise with a stiettx
rose costume, A few el -entail -Hwy lessons
in .bite aril of making -up would coma as a
hoon and IV bleablg 10 so many women,
and prochent us, who know ,apple.groon
from purple, from having our oyes set en
edge. Well, Adrian, what was 11 ,you wore
Baying about, golng wan And whitliik
ora You lmma?" ,
the pale of eivilleatti•on toe 41.
Oned89 two 1 Want to terteot the Rote,
arid the Operrt, Arta Xturlingliam, and
tarty Itrarelnuott's Sultite-up,
"Aed e ?"
"Not 3,011 01 toilese, bet Myself, my
otiffly•oollated, ?reek -coated self."
"And Orly at bolt* alt Ogee?"
dOlOnel Gee/ hats.
le4alginroWitt:iclid...ttin.$41411*A4084.1
year Willi appointed chairman and
chief engineer of the lethmien re-
nal Commie:41011. lie received his
tommiiieion as 0 colonel in 1e09.
Colonel Goethale merriest Miss
Peodnien, of New Bedford, Mass.,
in 1884. They have taie sons, one
of whom reeently was graduated
hear the head of his elitee at West
Point and now is serving in the
canal zone, under his father, as 0
second lieutenant of engineers.
Nove that his big jolt is nearly
over he is being sought after by
many cities and corporal -ions. He
has been offered the position of
New York's Chief of Poliee, but is
not likely to take He will
either remain as Governor of the
Canal Zone or go north to build
iliTity.
Alaska railway in all proba-
bTRIALS OP A CLEIWYMAIN.
Some Laughable Incidents are Here
Recorded.
Do nob be a parson unless you
are blessed with a etrong sense of
humor and a thick hide, adyises an
English olerainan in Nelson's
Weekly. A parson's duty is to visit
his flock. If ho does not, great is
the grumbling. If he does, he is
snubbed, The snubs mix nicely with
the weloomes, to prevent you from
being puffed up. The following is
one of the neatest of them :
I was asked by a friend who had
been offered a living near me to go
and see the vicarage and church and
report. I did so, and the clerk
showed me round. As we neared
the end, he eurned to me, and said:
"130 you our new parson, sir, if
I ma,y make ,so bold 1" I assured
him that I was not. "I be main
glad to hear that, sir," he said,
with relief. "We've always had
good unit ea far 1"
In a scattered parish, I called up-
on an old couple about tea time.
"Would you like a cup of teal" the
housewife .asked. I confessed that
I should like it very much. The
dear old soul prepared one, and
kepb apologizing because she had
no jam or cake, I assured her that
it: did not matter in the least.
"Well, sir," she said, brightening,
"after all, ltisn't as if you was one
of them that feed high. Anyone
can see that!"
One more. A friend of mine had
got a job for amen who had been
for a long time out of work. I
guessed he WIGS getting pretty shab-
by, eo I looked up a stub,—we were
much of a size,—and took it round.
The man's wife took it, and I waited
in the room, ready to be overwhelm-
ed with thanks. She came back,
and`'1116yaidl
'usband thanks you kindly,
sir, but he don't hold wilEt parson's
clothes; but if you've got anything
litz. His own father, John Goe-
thals, wee born in Switzerland and
moved to Amsterdam in his early
boyhood. In 1848 he came to this
country, making his home in Brook-
lyn, where in 1868, tho present
Colonel GOethale was born.
The origin of the family name is
interesting. In good Dutch it is
the equivalent of the English
"sqff necked," and was conferred
on the first of the prosenb line, who
OMB one of the Crusaders, by an
early King of Pleaders. This man
was fighting ,side by aide with his
king when a foe struck him a
mighty blow. The sword was turn-
ed aside by the armor and the man
kept on fighting. A second blow
was sbruok, but tibia the man kept
on fighting before the eyes of his
king, until the battle Was won. Af-
ter the eonflict the king called the
warrior to his side and commended
him for his prowess.
"Sire," said the soldier, "I
break before I bend."
"Heneeforth," said the king,
"thy name is Goethals, the stiff
necked!' The name has "stuck,"
and for centuries the family motto
was "We break before we bond,"
Georgie Goeithals sbarted school
at the age of six at old Public
School No, 16, State and Powers
Street (now Third Avenue), Brook-
lyn. That was in 1884. He played
with the older boys around in the
lots which 'are now in the oentre
a great city. Nor ;was he a "star"
pupil. The tales told by his teaoh-
ers and associates hint tthat he ot-
ten was among those detained after
the regular hours. II; was there,
however, that the soldier blood of
his aneestors first showed itself, for
in the eloping years of the civil war
great bodies of soldiers were often
encamped in the vacant lots sur-
rounding the old schoolhouse, and
he recognized the call of destiny in
his earliest years.
It was in 1875 that the boy first
became fired with 'an ambibien to go
to the military aeaderny. At the
academy ho soon won a reputation
as a "digger," became ho was ae
his studies early and late, The ef-
fectivenees of this was shown when,
in 1880, he was graduated elo bth
up in his class that he was commas-
tolleU
ed a liepeond lien -tenant tbe
orpe, whioli is open only
to those students 'graduated with
!Alto highest marking*.
In 1801 he was promoted to the
grade of Captain and plaoed 10
&large e6k the impeovereent of the
Tennessee River, for the next four
years, He was the chief engineer
of the First Ataxy Corps 111 the
Spanish war of 1898 and became a
major in the Corps of lingineees
in 1900. In 1007 he became at lieu -
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LieeteseevevelleSessektereeeenees.
The Size of Tubers to Plant.
Prominent investigators are au,
thority for the statement arab large
seed pieces (either large outtings
or entire potatoes) afford an earlier
erop than very %Mall cuttinge, 10
matter etf much interest, to groweee
f early potatoes. However, some
growers report that uncut potatoes
germinate more slowly then large
euttings. Most of those who raise
potholes for the early market use
largo cubtings rather than whole po-
taeoes. In this conueetion it may bo
said that the seed -end half gives OD
earlier mop than the other half,
'Phis suggests the expediency of cut-
tiug a potato lengthwise, thus Be-
miring on each piece one or more of
the eyes 'which germinate first.
No definite rule can be given as to
the beet size of seed piece, for this
depends somewhat ou the distance
between the hills and on the ch.arac-
ter of the soil and season. Another
important factor is variety, some
varieties being able to produce a
orop almost as large from small
cutbings as from leage pieees.
A study of more than 100 expeei-
numbs testing the relative values of
large, medium and small uncut tu-
bers confirms the general rule that
an increase in the weight of seed
planted affords an increase in the
total crop. The size of seed pobatoes
selected becomes a matter of im-
portance when they are to be cut,
for the heavier the cutting, the
larger the total yield, and seed tu-
bers for cutting should be of such
size that their halves, quarters or
other divisions shall not be extreme-
17alnlielh
Wer or not to use uncut small
potatoes for seed is an imporeant
question on which farmers are divi-
ded. Some present the plausible
argument that the use of undersized
potatoes results in &genera/14.°n. If
this olaim is leased on the results of
experience it should determine
practice, but if the conclusion is
simply a generalization based on
the feet that large cuts usually give
best results the reasoning is defee-
tive and the question remains open.
Many hold that potatoes below mar.
ketable size, if shapely and suf-
ficiently mature, may be used with-
out serious deterioration and that
for econornie reasons their use is
desirable.
The result of a great many tests
have uniformly indicated that small
tubers uncut can be used for seed
purposes without detriment to the
succeeding crop. It may 'am be
urged, however, that the choice of
small seed year after year will re-
sult in degeneration. Although
the evidence seems fairly coaclusive
that small uncut seed potatoes may
'zometimes be used with profit, we
do not advise that small tubers be
selected from a crop which has been
grown from small potatoes.
Girard's investigations in France
justified the usual practioe of . the
most prominent agriculturists and
hortioulturists in carefully seleet-
bag seed potatoes. By selecting for
several generations average sized
tubers from the best hills he effect-
ed a great improvement in product-
iveness. To ascertain the best,
by digging eaoh is exceedingly la-
borious, but Girard found that the
beat hills in aie evenly manared field
containing only one variety were.
those in which the vines were most
vigorous. Selection was thus ren-
dered easy by means of stakes place
ed beside the luxuriant plauta.
American experiments indicate 000-
siderable advantage in selecting
seed tubers from the mostproduet-
ive Mils. Potatoes i
ofirregular
shape and injured Where' should al-
ways be rejected as unfit for plant-
, Mg.
Many potato geowers cut tubstra
into pieces containing one, two or
more eyes, laying greater ebress up-
on the number of eyes than the MO
of the cutting. Exteneive experi-
ments show that of the.two factors,
the weight is the more important.
livery piece should contain at leash
one eye, and it has been generally
profitable for it to be of such size e.e.
as to contain teveral eyes, bub whe-
.
ther it has one or enanee‘eyes it is
important, that the geed piece be
heavy enough to furnish abundant
nutrimene to the ehoots that spring
from it,
Impveve the Cattle.
The beet way for the dairy Man to
improve his herd is to replace hie
common cows with their dieugheere
by pure heed sires from advaneed
registered dams.
The high price; for some of the
beet dairy animals need net (11010110 -
ago dairymeu from improving their '
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blood, for the oirtaclee ean be over.
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his tempo: Ads it. again.