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--A ION WINNSBORO, S.C., OCTOBER 21,1899. 4 Comic Fate of a Backwoods Bluebeard. 1 Sam Tugins was preparing to tak un o himiself a wife. He bad takei to greasing his boots and wearin white shirts vn Sundays. What rea t:ou was there for douot after that? Sa-n Tiaggins had been ma:-rie-1 bs fore to some extent. He had, to pu it mi!dlyv, eunoye 1 a large and promis crious asso.tmeut of wives during hi time. Sam had leen married six iimes, ti be exact about ii, and he was not strictly speaking, an old man yet. Ai he fre:quentlv jecuarly remarked, bh %vas good to ontlive a half dozen mor, wives if be coutinues to have ordinar ily-good health. So, -beirg a widower for the sixti time, he wai prepa !ing to take unt< himself the seventh wire. It was no knowu vet who would have the boiuo of l:ecomin!g Mrs. Ta-ggina 'VII. Tug -ins, even, ras not decide.1 on tha point. One day he rode over to Beckett'! mill, and he au 1 Beckett in a litth friendly conve:satior fell to discuss ing this matter. "'m gcing to maarry." Taggim said. "That much is settled, and I'n goinz to marry right away, to ). I'r got to have a wife, for I need her, au iieed her bad. It's been three month since my last one died, and as a con seluentce :f having nobody to !oA after matters, everything about tht is going to w-iste and rulu.' ,fut find anybody that suits you?' Beeketfsssed. "Yes; I have had two wonen in miind," Tgins r-eplied. F~ithe would a very well, but the qsti, is, which would anu:L me I e.t" "ou caa't decide, eh?" "No,I can't. If I could I wouldn'i be fooling away all this time *ithoul a wife." "I can believe that, Taggins. But do you minI telling me what twc women yoa have in mind?" "Of course not. One of them is -the widow Smuart, an 1 the other it Miss Wo.To d. They are both likely womnen, Beckett, and I calkilate ethex of 'ent would make me a good wife." "Miss Woirord is h youngest and best looking, of the two," Becket in her favor," Taggins sai i, "out ] don't go a cent on looks. My opinio, is that beauty don't count for any' thing in a wife's f'avor. The beauti fulest woman ging ain't likely to de anv rmore work or b: ig in one mxore dollar than the lhon e lest old plug yot can scare up. What I want is a wom -an who wdl be he'pful-one that car - turn her hand to all kinds of work, and who ain't afraid to do it." "Then you rather lean toward thi widow?" "No, I can't say as I do. They'r both got their strong p' ints. Mis! Wofrd's strong p'int -is he:- age. Bein' young,she's likely to lis e longe: than the other. Thbat's a heap in he; favor, for I tell you this burying and marrying wives is expensive when i comes on a man so often. But on th< other hand the widow offeis advan tages. She's at good worker, she' economical, and she's tengh. For: woman of her age she's strong an< healthy, and after all she may rossibl; outlive the other." "Mavbe the womien t'hemse1ire would ~help you out," Beckett sug geste:l. "How?" Tuggins inquired. "You haven't asked either ef then a whether she would marry y'ou have yoi?" "Nc., "Then maybe one of themi won't'. Tuggins looked at Beckett in blan astonishment, t~s though he did nc know whether the man was crazy o~ - only joking. At last he said: "Have you got an idea, Beckett that either of them two womnen is natural born fool?" "No, I reckon not," Beckett re plied. "- Then where did you get hold . the idea that one of them might de cdine to marry me?" "Oh, I just thought one of the r - might. You know some women at rather queer about such things a marrying.' "It don't matter how gueer the a-e, I reckon if they ain't fools the won't throw away the chance of thei lives. Don't you be uneasy, Beeket about either of them women r'efasi: to marry me, for they'll not refus< iderin' all I've got to offer 'em.' ~tt smiled, for he wvell kne OOd 'Tuggins' wives ha~ hepast Mrs. Tuni elled to do tl d about tl been r d to do almost a man's work i1 raising of the crops. He remem -ed, too, that one calico dress ever; r, a pair of cheap, misfit shoes, an xpensi'e bcunet was about al d they got as -he result of thei s sat for some time deepl: in thought; then he aros, tt, guess I'll L, arry the younu bance it." course of time he reache< ord's home, and when h llooed" a time or two 8h, the door. s Wofford," he said, "I com<1 11 von that I have decide. t< -on. When will it suit you fo; t-.h the squire over to Inarr Woyord looked at Tuggius ii ishment. For a moment I t'o surprised to speak. Finally ever, she said: 'What do yo'i mean, sir, by comins re to i :suit me?' "Insult vou' Why, I'm in earnest I'm sure going to marry you. Jus name the day, will you?" "Yes, I will. I'll name a day i thousand years after the end of thb wo:ld. Nowyou get out of this, yo! baldheaded o'd ape, before I sic thi 3 dogs on you." Tuggins turned and rode away. He was greatly puzzled at the way Miss Wofford bad received his announce nent. "I thought she was a sensib'e wom an," he musel, "6ut she showed veakuesq somewhere when she th:ow: away a chance like that." He went direct to the widow Smart's, and to her made the same announce ment that he had made zo Miss Wof ford. She received it graciously, and with a smile and a smirk, blushingly named the day for the wedding. She was very shy and dexure and her manner was all honey and suiga-. In time, the wedding day arrived, and Tuggius t5ok Squire Beeson with him over to the residence of the widow Smart, where in short orde:- the wed ding ceremouy was perfo:-med. It was a month la'er when, one day, Tuggin i rode over to Peekett's mill. He and Eeckelt. as was their wont, fell into a neighborly conversation. At last Beckett made hold to speak of that which had been in his mind from the moment Tuggins bad ridden tip. Ie said: "Tuggins someth ing has gone wrong with you." "How do you know?" Tuggins a.Sked. "i can see it. in your looks and a. lis".-YowL.:snot theann you have -een, Tuggins, not near the man. You have at sa de'ected appearance, and you imprwa.sme with the idea that you have been having lots of trouble." "Beckett, you 'are right I have been having troabt ,2 .:..>f it,too. I am over my ear s' troubll'now. "Wha' is matter?" Becke "Everything is the matter," Tag. gins answered. "But the chief thing that is the matter is that I am a fool, athat I have played the foolilittle tebiggest of anybody in thik part of the country." "But wvhat have von done?'; "I have gone and made thejmistake of marrying one wife too magy." "Hasn't the widow tun out to be as good a wife as you ey . ed?" or'Areua old Harry," 'Tuggins snapped, "and I'm n:> longe: boss in my own house. In fact. I don't da-'e call anything my own. not even my soul." "Can't you break her to your will?" "Break'no hin.;! I've tried that once, arnd I ain't going to be fool enough to try it again. Do you see these knots on my head? Well, they co~ne of trying to break her to my will. She wore a chair out on me. She wont work,and she spends money Ilike wvater. Oh, I've got that old critter onm my hands for life, and l'Il never see another minute of peace." Beckett offered a little consoling language, but he did not mean a word of i. Hewa :' the opinion thai Tuggins had at last gct just what he deserved, and was getting his account squared in his own coin.--Boston 'Globe. F. Hookinson Smith lectured out in 1Keokuk the other day, and nowth people of t be favored city, and of th~ whole state of Iowa, for' that matter, are wonyinig over the question whbeth er Mr. Smith has or has not a "dress suit." rhey know that o 1 the even ing of the lecture he wore a gray tray eling suit that bagged at the knees, but he explainel ti: s by saying tha his trunk had gone astray, and ther he told a charming story about g~uu once to see Hamret Beecher Stone discovering on his return thait he hai tworn no neekt'e, and then sendling her by mail the scarf he should have worn if he had not forgotten it. The explanation and the story wouk have been zeceived wi:hont questiol by the Keokukians had it not been foi thie fact that in Mr'. Smith's audienci was a young lady with a memory fThis inconvenient person declare that she heard Mi'. Smith in Chicag a year ago, and she avers that he the' aappearedI in the same traveling si eand told precisely the samne story ~ sprecisely the same words. Henc Iowa doubts. Elmnira knows thae -Sith has or at least has had, d cress snit. "--Elmira Ga:ette. No Engi4'h i'ape: in lni. What p~ubli opm'Jion amoruts toi Russia may be gathered from the me cent census of that empire. whid ashows that in a pop~ulatioJ of 129.0', d000 themre at e only 743 newspapers. o one to every 170,000 people. Cf thes -589 are in Russian. G.9 in Polish, 41i IGerman, nine in French, live in At me menian and two in Hebrew. No Fg lh paper antpears in the list. ELECTRICITY ON FARMS. r FUTURE PLOWING AND HARVESTING WILL BE DONE BY IT. r Great and Iadical Ar- the Chang-!s in .-thod ; Cominm for !he Tiller of the Soil-Electrocuition Applied to Weedi. An Electrwc Tree Destroyer lite Latest. The model farm of tomorrow and of the future must avail itself of the most economical systems of plant propagation. and the ge.;maguetifere muntst play an-i important part in its workings. Beneath the rich soil in gardens where the delicate vegetables aregrowin. networks of invisible wires are laid-, collecting and distributing the atmospheric c!eet: icity to all the plants. m In the forcing-h- uses si-iilar ar raugements are -nade for stiniulatiug the winter vegetables and flowers for the iarket, while overhead 1:owerful are ligits make the night as brilliant as day and help to mature the plant growths in half the regular time je quired by nature. In the fields of wheat ant oin the inore powerful cirreuts from a storage house work i out simi'ar remlts, lessening the sea son of growth and dcubling the yield per acre. Excessive droaght and the danger from late and early frosts a e thus partly avoided on the electric farm, while, if necessary, two crops can be raised in one season where formerly only one could be grown. The electric power that the fartrer has at hi; command enables him to regulate the growth of h's plan's to suit the season or the markets. One portion of the garde i can be forced, wh'Ie the other half is kept back sev e al weeks. The-e is no bmit to the use of the new in is.l)!e -ower which he gathers from the at nosplhe -e around him or gene-Rates fro n the wasted forces of the neighbori g stream o! water. This ieads t:, the examination of the source of the 'new power that propels the machinerv on the farm. A small stream of water that for ue-l flowed aeross the farm in an irregular conr:e, fertilizing the lower meadows and irrigaci-mg the upland districts, has been wi.lened and deep ened near its source, forming a la-ge storage reservoi-. This arlificialgad has been dammed at its lonrez end, and as the water itnbles over the open wate:- gates it turns several tur. bine wheels. These wh!els do not move the ma ehinery of a flour mill but constantly.. manufacture electr icity for : e on the. farm. By means of the huge storage reservoir the wo. k of making electri city can go on tbrongi the dryest season, for the water power never gives out and the electric power is always ready to do its work. From this storage house the motive power is conk uc The forcing houses for winter plants are connected wit'h the power houses by overbiald- ires similar to those which disfigure the city streets for trolley line-. The great barn and living house are lighted by elee tr~c lights that get their source of energy in the same place. Movable ables radiate from the samne storage houses to every p'ari of the fields and to those ele~tric motors are attached for p'erforminug the various labors assigned to themn by the inventive genius of man. The electria machinery wo:ked by! the motors i< full of interest. Here~ are huge ploiws that turn over six fur rows of fresh seil at on e, hayrac-ks and reapers which perform their dui ties autoumatically, electrie weed kil lers and fertilizers. corn huskers and shellers. bay choppers and gigantic threshing and fanning mills. Elee vehicles rish aicss -thte extensive fields with loads of grain, hay or* vege tables, moving their broad tires with *ont didiculty ove: the r ough and unl even surface, and behind the plows and arrows the anitonatic seede s fol low in close succession, dr opping the corn, wheat or other seed at regala': intervals in the freshly-turned fur rows. Eve:ything is per-or.ned by machinery, gni led by disciplined bands and propelled by the new mo tive power that has caused all the rcvol ution. There a: e t wo general types of these ete:t: ic plowvs which will serve to i lustrate the gene:-al priueiple of 1-eerat ion in each class. The first tcye is propelled. by a tixed motor. The field se~ected for plowing is d vided into sections of exactly the sa ne -width of the cable use ifor pu.lling the plows. A heav-y, powerini eleeiric moto: on wheels is stationied on each sidle of the field, and a -strong cable conuneets ther. This cable winds andl and unwinds upon a spool as the ma chinery is set in motion. To this cable the plow, which is capable of turning from thi ec to six furrows o soil at once, is firmly attached. W~he i the electric mo-tor on the sidle of the field is sat in motion it winds up the cable and dr-ags the pl!ow toward it, and wheni it reaches that side of the field it turns around and the reverse action of the othe: motor repeats the -operation. The second type of electric plow is run by a movable motor attached to the plow itself. The cable is fixed to tan anchor on the opposite side of the field and the eleettie motor follows Ithis cable, d. agging the heavy plow twith it. Even the weeding i4 acco~n a plished by electiiecity. The force that stimalates plant growth and gives mo tive power to all the mxachine:-y (-an also kill and destroy. Llectrorution a is ap~plied to the weeds just as siu - - cessfuilly as t) pri.soners inl on: jails. I The delicate current of electricity may - give life a:zd vigor to 1:lant lit e. but r a T owverful curr ent de:cos c .em y e ger-m of life, ani nal or vegetable. In D the s -ring of the year the new weed destroyec goes over the field and an nihilates weeds. insects and larvi. a the Tiile mores al ng ar-eries o: many wire brushes dr-agi oW ie earth and kills everything th'a',cOmes in contact with i'. A ield &ergrown with rank weeds can thu be co-a raratively cleared in-, a 'it arkabli short time of ever.y-N i 01 th.. Death is just as sure wd s~dden as if each plant received, a lghtniing stroke from the summei clou.s. The weeder goes over the field after a storm, so that the wet :dk: will act as more perfect conductors There comes from Buda-Pesth ie frat elec tric tree destroyer. .Thefai er who bAs extensive woodlands to clkar finds science ready to help- him% In this re spect. The tree destr'oy chines were invented to fell- nt trees in the fores:s of ; cz r9. com ratively simple ,. their con struction, but veritable giants in their. op erations. A sm.all tofr carried on a moraist'e'ruck is di-awn np-to the wloe product of the foret andle cuTed to it by chains a. eei- ps. The automatic saw chiets next pt in yosition, and i hen gthie -electjg; current is turned on it- ats it. .'V rapidly into the -huge trumtnd 4 ead severs it in two: 'Wildtle maeii is being ad'usted to ntl rretie first one is easily pulledo6er by ror-es and sawed up by a hu- P operatef by another'motor. To comptete the pic ntathemodel farm the ownershould 'a fromn part of the extensive es ate to anothef in his automatic victoria, or upon, a motor bicycle. , Where electricity cin be obtained- so cheaply thousands bf the newest iurentions can be intio duced without difEcult In his spa: c.ous living -.Alt ers his:ife nO longer stews over obstfia'e wooI or cool fires;-she. Fimply turns on th0 electric cu-rent wh viceded withouy fuss or worry.. elecriL fans turnei by the power that c ier dinners and lights-her home , e the atmn phere of the' mids do det lightful and ief longer any tri one s te:nper converts th e latest an a. Even the ed up from electricity and su Nrefreshing strea as New Eng anc e. BRITISH -CAMPAJ PLANS. How an EngUsh Rag.n os When it .- Starts far The khaki and dCue ors were uukncwn-, f hand- - - thee Uni ed. .ttef er~ --.ith pparent thei that t -s will probably be ret iSer s e i tro0pics. long as trcops are se e he Tnited In adopting this materk the ex States goveinment futh advan wnple of England, V1 uniforms ages of the khaki an% daof ue rLe ee will be fn csse of war . obilized under Genera. Sr Freder ick V illiam Edward Fo, stier-Walker will all be clad in kha The reg ents are seat forwar the reytlar astenger steamers an ot c. tran-i ortA. This is done in ,ee gin with he p -o-.sions in1 the c-hi ter-s ca arious transy or a'.ion companies, ~hich, in view of a government sab idy, must be ready at any time to ove.t the passenger steaners into rmy transports. The regiments leave heir home quarters gay with colors, for the English irniforms a e b:-ig'it, ome of themn even gaudy, and if the estination is a plae where cloth may le woln with co.ni~rt the he'ne uni form is reta'ned, but if they go to a armer regioni the scarlet uniforms re soon exchanged for khaki and t'ie :igh boots or leggi:'gs for puttees. flags and stand irds, which were nce looked arron as essantial features n a militavy~ expedition, are takeni long, but are carefully put away be fore the~ t:oops go into action, and an English regiment which bad been seen n its scarlet unifo:m with blue or white facings would not b~e recognized in khaki. The men carry the Lee afetford iifle, and tbe complete b ;r .en. consisting of haversack, knap sack. rolled blanket and water bottle, reighs about fifty-six rounds. The cavalr-y awd artille~ y are armed with earl-ines, and some of the troo-ps still carry the old Ma:-tini riaes, but the men who are sent into active se vce are all anmeli with~ the Lee-3et-; fo:d c1:iece. The khaki uniforms wipe out a?l dif'erences as to stireriority or gaudli nss in dress, and the grades of the rim~nents can be see.1 on:y by the facngs. The royal regimen's hasve heir uniforms fazed with blue, the 1 ish with grecen and the &cot-h with yellow, while the regiments which do not c-o.ne under those heads wear the white fa-ings. (Give Young Men a Chanec. Farely is the merchant or mianufa: turer in this country heard to say: "I have made enongh tor my wa ts; I rm satsfied with wha: I bave; I wi I retire fr-om business"-so r-arely. in dee.l. that when a man does say it. more especially a man in the prime oi life, the greatest surprise is expressed. The busmness mend< today r-exin:l one of Lincoln's remark about olice oders, that "iewee and none re sign." As a ife, they keep on work ing up to the last gasp, in very many cases falling victi~ns to their love of work, of money or of hal it, and drop ping ont years earlier than would have been the cnise had they devoted their old age to the le.s ire they had earned but did not care to enjoy. This tendeucy toward the p~rolon gation of a business career beyond needed limits is a distinct disadvan tagi to the c-ountry and the commu niy. it pirents the younger e' e ment from having the chance it de seves, lessening~ the nlnberofv eies f0.- new blool and multi ,list of subordinates and e nry Goofi Ecnomst. 4FOR FARM AND GARDEN Cows Eating straw. Wheiever grain is grown largely an-1 its grain is stacked in the I an yard after threshing. cows b'a-e a great liking for rubbing themselves against the stack to rid themselves of the flies that torment them. .A fence should be built around the stcc'e to protect it from being pulled to pieces. Cows will eat considerable straw, picking at it, and they will uften eat enough of the chaff to lessen their fow of milk. This chaff ikes good winter feed if moistened and grain meal or bran is niiserl with it. Thus fed even the straw will not help dry T f , as it will if fed dry. Wint raln After 0ati. ~ The oat crip ira very dificult oue to get a grkf seeding with. The roots of oats splead munlr more wide'y than those of barley. and as the oat leaves are 'ow the plant takes much more the grain from the soil. Oats ae-tle latest of the small grains to .p.nd tiis e-tra time while their rot . are drawing moisture from the sol is veryhard on the seeding. If te land is plowed as scon as the oat ,rop is off, and is worked well on the Surface, a good seeding may be got if 0whiat or rye is sown in the fall. Tn -thy se'e-1 should be sown after t;e grain seeding, as the washing of 7oose soil over the seel wil be all the coering it will ieluire. Next spring di quarts of clover seed per acre will make a seeling that is much be t 3r han can be got on any land that is plowed for a spring cop. seei for Plantina. *d much depends upon the quality ofth3 seed that it pays to make ex triordinary eforts to secure the best of planting In thean the best IS the.eheapest; but the most -epensive is not always the best. Very often it is more a matter of getting the right seed for -the uight s >il an-1 p'aze. 'We must be rea-ly to adapt ourselves c new cniditious, and to do this it is often necessary to try plants that have heretofore been unknown to us. I that .aseihe best see I -mrst' core fromn new varieties of corn, wheat or ,egetabler. 'The cost of the seed i; a matter that deies-inany a farmer from getting the .b"St.: He reasons that his old, wo: A5 t tira .utlay for naeded seed would probab'y make a difference of manrdallars in the fall. It does not pay to plaut year after year tha -see-1 of run-out plants, which will continue to degenerate until they are little bet ter than weeds. , The trae princip!e is to bring new seed of some kind to the farm eve:y year, anl then the vitality of the crops will not degenera'e, and there will -e no greatiemand for au-', outlay of seeds any one year. It i:, just as important t-> keep up the qual ity of the seeds and plants throngh careful seleetlon and bieeding as it i; .roduce new blood in the lire eeder of stock won'd p . herd to run down w ithout trying _to sten the degeneracy by crossing tue nimals with new blooded animals. - Boston Cultivator. rure Wtater andl Plen'.v af Tt. The plan hero desc~ibe~l has given e more satisfaction a-nd reaml benett than the same amunt of money ex pended in any other line. So:ne 100 feet from my house on top of a high hill I drille.I a well thropgh boulder. and clay, and put in what is caleda drive well pump. 1 was fortunate mi striking a good streanr:of wate'. Over the well I erected a low .tow er anu t up a windmill. I then went abiut 30 feet down the incline of the hill and made a large excavation 18 feet in diameter and 1-2 feet deep. This I lined with a rough stone -wall 2 feet thick, laying the part next the ea:th in mortar and that rortion toward the cent e in ce:uent. The b-jtto~n was paved with cobblestones atud cement, and the sides we-e carefully cemente-l. The excavation was covere 1 with oak sleepers and three inch boards. The whole was c~ve:-ed with two feet of earth,with the exceptio-1 of a manhole in the cenir 2 feet square. The water is e:-nducted undergroundm from the pump to the resertoir, i.2 a 1 -t inch ilire. I then ii a 1 1-4 ich pipe fromn my b:ii dnup . to the bottomn of this re:-e -voi . keening it a' all points 4 feet uu.l.er thie s:trface o~ the gronna. Atthe lower endl of th~s main pipe 1 have three braineb pipes, each three-fourths of. an inch in diame:er. One goes to the cellar une:- the h-j ise; thea u' throngh the floor into a siak. One goes into the ho:se barn and the other to my pack in house. I also have a 60-foot hove and nozzle which can be attached at a moents notice, and as the reserroir is 60 feet above the hytdra it the prep sure is ve:-y good. The hose ca be Usel for washing carriagos, carpet's, rugs, windows, pnrches, horse3, etc., and spraying lawns, flowers or sh ub bery, and in case of fire water could be thrown into any room in the bo::se or on the oof of any of the far buildings. I have an Qverflow from the rese:-voir, so . that the can run continuously, and ast ervoir holds a'cft 500 water is always pure. fresh as when it cam Te hydirant ' the srfa never g My p ,1rillin turn on a small stream and let it ru night and day for the -enefit of th .tock in lots -or pastures, or for irrigs tion. I would most earnestly recom mend this system cf water works o dry and roling faris. a-id there a thousands of the:n that can be s plied by' this wonderfully La'a. system at a c:st of not to exceed $2 oi- $250.--A. H. Barnes in Neiw En .ud Homestead. Pear and Apple rl'git The very nature of the pear an apple blight renders its treatme' very difficalt. The germs ate s'I that they may l:e carried by i sects, by wind, and very easily b contact from the diseased ti ees to th tips and blossoms of others in , ' same orchard. It should be- stat here that the germ usually finds fre entrance through the growing tips an blossoms. Occasionally one wil! see . patch of (lead Lark surrounding a lit tle tuft of leaves on the main b anche ( r stem of the apple tree. It wa through these ieaves, probably b means of a drop of water, that th bacterium was able to effect an en trance into the c'rculatiou of the tre?. The disease ihanifestajtqa 4-ious wAy,. - nti ifier form is some times called "boly bliiht." It is ,a rather more severe type t han th which affects the twigs and young branches. In conside-ing iemedies t'ea first thing is to prevent its spread by les sening the amount of germ prod"uzing affected branches, nd twigs as soon as discovered should be c-t out and des'royed by burning. It is neco3sary in order to eradicate the diseas.- en tirely b cut twelve or fiFteen inches below he point at which the bark shows discolo:-ation. Care should. be taken in making this citting that the germs from the diseased yortion are not carried down by the knie and transplanted into the healthy woo:1 beLow. Another general rra tice which may Lave a-i imp rtant bearing ution the presence ( r absence of peir bigit is the character of the cultiva tion gi,n the orchard. If the trees are growing very vig -ously and are much affected by bight, it may be wise to see I down the orcha-d wYith clover and timothy in o- der to check the snueral-undant growth and enion-age the ri-;e ling of the wood. Briely, then, all affected branches should be c it out and burned. In the autunn it is wise -to get over the trees agaiii an 1 C It o'it tubs or branches which showtlat the bark has been iunre'd- ' - be covered with some miniml * paiat. Spraying with fungicides isi mpracti cable, he-ause it is inpossibe to kill the. rapi-ly- developing foliig con stautty c,,vered. -Jo Craig in Wal lace's FArme-. Pr -p iration of so-1 for Wheat. The better the soil is prepared for wLeat the better will be the c:-op. A great deal of wheat is sown upo, soil tha' is not half prepared, and it is a gregt mistake. It is arg.-ed by same that it would pay to cu-tivate whett, but that is not done i1 this country to any great xtent and but iLnperfectly, and probab'y n iver will be. -All that is done for the crop, as a rule, must in a r e theseel is put into the round; and thr-doie much ork put on the soil, in its pam tion, as is expended in the ce.itivation cultivate.l crops. The first step toward prepar-ation is lrainage, iil the laud is not naturally rained. Wheat w-1l not grow on e land. Yone of the standard crops will. It is a settledi fart that drain age will greatly inc:-eas e the yield of rops. If it would increase the yield unly:D3 per cent, it would pay to tIle. But it often increases it 50 re: cent. ad has sometimes increased the value ' the land many f old. In wet land the micro-organlisms cann zt wo:-k upon the humus, a-id heuce the nitrogen is locked up and unavailable. It has fr- inentiv been said, but will bear re peatinug, that whenever land will not take in every drop of wvater just wh-ere it falls, there is a necessity of drain age. The highest land on the farm may need drainage much mo: e than thelowest land. It may be so com pact that most of the wvater that fa'ls upon 't will run off, carrying with it the fertiity that is upo-1 the surface. If the soil is too wet it will heave in winter, and winter wheat will be inured. It is in such preparat:on of the soil that w a may ho;:e to increase the average yield of wheat from -t-he p-esnt ridiculously small quantity. In the prara ion of the seed bad the mist thioro igh work is rezui ed, After- plowing, the harrow, o:- what ever implement the cha'a -ter of the soil may require, should be freely used and the work of pulverization continue-1 until the soil is file and b ose. Then put on the roller, and soldi rain c~me, before dr lling or Isowing a-id crust the surface,h and roll again. somne wbe 1:low the lan-1 and I 1 or even months,w a~lv with ha verizationi Ihas twos Idowwa exten t i t a t S ci t Li a 0 C W 1* C bi fr tr w (1 Ia m I litei ouce ~oem "To