The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-01-31
Draining.

Draining.
There is no subject in which a
Mason county farmer is more inter
ested, than the subject of draining
his wet and Improbable lands. The
subject is comparatively new to this
county, but one ilS which all are
more, or less int ested. In New
England it has been done proftGbly
and successfully for three-quarters of
a century, and now it is rare to find
a piece of unproductive land Col.
Waring in scribner's Magazine aud
also in book which he has publish
ed, called attention to its Importance
several years ago. 1t was supposed
by most farmers in this county, that
the stiff clay lands were hard to
drain and would never repay the
cost of the experiment, but to-day
the reverse is known to be true, and
no lands in the county are easier to
drain, or more productive when
thoroughly dry. 1t is safe to esti-
mate that two, or three good crops
will pay back all the money that
may be expended upon them for
draining them thoroughly with tile
Tile are now made in the county and
are sold by Mr., James W. Smith,
near Point Pleasant, at such prices
that land owners can all afford to
use them.
The season for putting in tile is
now at hand, and let every farmer,
who has any wet land, try what he
can do in the way of this kind Of
improvement,
The good lands OF Mason county
are nearly all, after fashion, cult
waited, and every farmer should try
to increase the productivoness of his
farm. 1t is not the number of acres
cultivated, but the manner of cult
walton, which gives the greatest
amount of clear money at the end Of
the year.
The two leading papers of Wheel
ing-the Register and the Iatclligen'
cer-aro now engaged in IL most dis,
graceful newspaper quarrel. 1t not
only disgraccs the editors, but brings
reproach upon their papers, and up
on the State. The outside world
have nothing to do with their pri-
vate difficulties. Both Campbell
and Baker ought to be frowned at by
every decent community in which
their respective papers circulate.
For decency's sake gentlemen, quit
this newspaper quarrel, and if you
can't settle it, go out like honorable
men, and take a pop" at each other
at ten of fifteen PAGES.
Bishop White, at the request Of
the Standing Committee of the Dio,
cese of West Virginia, has changed
the time of the meeting of the next
Council of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, in the Diocese of West Vir,
ginia, from June 9TH to February 9th.
The special object being to elect a
Bishop of the Diocese in view of the
fact that the Rev. DR.. Eccleston, has
declined to accept the Office,
Democratic New Hampshire falls
into line and cries "fraud!' as loudly
as any of them,-Er,
And it chills the Radicals just as
the cry of "stop thief does the man
who has borrowed a pair of boots out
of a back window.
Stanley Matthews didn't got a vote
for Senator in the Ohio Legislature,
When his term expires the Republi'
cans will ignore him entirely, just
us they have done Eliza Pinkston.
Judge Charles Lowis,died at Clarks
burg on the 23d, inst, and was bur,
i'd the next day, Resolutions ofRc,
spoct were passedby the Marion Bar,
Judge LOWS used to reside in this
place,
THERE is great excitement among
the workingmon in California, and
serious outbreaks are feared, The
cause is said to be cheap labor among
the Chinese,
Our English cousins clustered a
good deal about war, but nothing has
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