The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-24
Agricultural Comment.

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marked the sad passenger, gazing out Of
the window.
"Where is any wheat :" asked the fat
passenger.
Il don't know was tine calm reply.
81 don't really know that there is any
wheat in Wyandott county, but every
body always talks about the wheat look
ing finely at this season OF the year, and
l know that it must be the proper thing
to say"
THAT is wheat in the field ON our
right, said the gentleman sitting on the
wood-box.
"That green stuffl" echoed all the
other passengers, rushing to the win
dow.
EYES," he replied, "that bright, dark
green stuff"
"Why," they chorused again i'll dis
appointed tones, sit looks like grass !"
IL thought wheat was yellow" said
the passenger with the sandy goatee !;
don't they always talk about the yellow
fields and golden grain9"
THAT'S when it's ripel" increduously
cried the sad passenger. 81 guess you're
thinking of corn meal. How could
they make white bread out of yellow
wheatT
''There are two kinds of wheat,
aren't there?" asked the tail, thin pas
senger.
eyes" said the man on the wood-box.
"Spring and Winter"
"How do they ditfer7"
"Well," the man on the wood-box
said, Spring wheat is planted in the
Spring, and Winter wheat is planted in
the Winter"
"Tve heard farmers talk of Fall
wheat" the fat passenger said
eyes" the man on the wood-box as
scented and then, IN answer to their in
quiries, he added, cit is planted in the
Fall"
81 thought" the passenger with the
sandy goatee remarked, "that Spring
wheat was planted in the Fall and har
vested in the SPRING.
The man on the woodbox said:
eyes, he believed, come to think of
it, that was the way of it."
"And Winter wheat, them" the sad
passenger suggested, sis planted in the
Spring, and harvested in the Win
teri"
The man on the wood box shifted UNI
easily In his seat and looked nervously
up and down the car.
"Well, yes" he said, 81 guess it's that
way"
"Then Fall wheat = asked the passen-
ger, earnestly.
And the man on the wood box bit off
the end Of match, took off his hat
and looked into it, and finally said that
he believed it wasn't planted until next
Fall
"Thcn you get three crops of wheat"
said the sad passenger, "off the same
field in one year,"
The man on the wood box said Eyes"
but so family that he had to repeat it
twice before they could hear him.
(Which is the best wheat p asked the
tall thin passenger
The man on the wood box was heard
by strange passenger 10 whisper to the
stovepipe that che wished he was dead,
but he rallied little and said
"For bread 2"
eyes, for bread"
The man on the wood box opened his
mouth to reply, when he caught the eye
of the woman who talks bass, fixed
upon him with a strange, internal ex-
preston. He got off his perch, walked
down the aisle to the disused and
abandoned water tank, looked around
for the long lost tin cup, drew some hy-
pothetical water into it out of the empty
tank, took long drink of nothing out
Of it, end as he came back to his seat
the subdued croak of the woman who
talks bass, and the composed counten-
ance of the other passengers convinced
him that they had been laughing about
something. But he didn't seem to care
what it was about, for be didn't ask, and
presently he drew his hat down over his
eyes and dissembled sleep.-Hawkeye.
The Syracuse Herald knows an editor
who has been married about two weeks.
who frankly admits that ''woman isn't