Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-02-03
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ssr-.
A Railroad Conversation Concerns
Inn Various Kinds of wheat,

Burlington Hawkeye, 54ss
1.-THE wheat crop never looked better
remarked the asd passenger, gpzing Gut OF
the window.
4, "where is there any wheat ?" asked the
fat passenger.
II don't know. was the calm reply
II don't really know tlIat there is any
wheat In Wysudptte County. hut every
body always talks about the wheat boxing
finely at this time of the year, and know
that 1t must be- the proper thing - soy
"That is wheat ia the field on 0ur Right!
said the man on the wood hfx
"That green stuff ?" echoed ~ the
other passengers, rushiuR 10 the window
Yea he replied cha. brigh', dark,
green stuff"
why" they chornsed again, IN iiaap-
pointed tones, ''it Iaoks like grass
81 thought wheat was yellow, said the
passenger with the sandy goates; don't
they always talk about this yellow fields
and the golden grain ~
That's when it's ripe, )" exclaimed sac
man on the wood box.
"Wbeat yellow when his ripCf' ia
ereduiously cried the sad passenger Il
guess you're thinking of corn mea! Bow
could they make white bread out Of yellow
wheat?"
"The1s are two kinds Of wheat, aren',
there ?" asked the tall, thin passenger
"Yes," said the man on the wood box,
'spring and winter"
How do they diffef2n
"well," the man on the wood box said.
''spring heat is planted in tho spring and
winter wheat is planted in the winter"
81 have heard farmers talk of fsl
wheat" the fat passenger said.
eyes" the man on the wood box
assented And then, in answer to their
look of inquiry, he added, at is planted
in the fall" -.5--
~ thought" the passenger With the
sandy goatee remarked, that spring wheal
was planted in the tall and and harvested
in the spring"
The man on the wood box said, Yes,
he believed, come to think Of 1t, that was
the way of it."
Sand winter wheat, then, the sad pas
senger,suggested, sis planted in the spring
and harvested in the wipter?'
The man on the wood box shifted
uuessily in his seat, and looked nerynuslS
up and down the Car.
"Well, yes" he said, he guessed it was
that way.
s'Then fall wheat ?" asked the fat pas
senger, earnestly.
And the men on the wood box bit Of
the end of a match, took of his hat and
looked into it, and finally said he believed
it wasn't planted until next fall.
"Then you get three crops of wheat, =
said the sad passenger, of the same field
in one year"
The man on the wood boz sali Eyes, =
but so family that he had to repeat il
twice before they could ali hear him.
(which is the best wheat r asked the
tall, thin passenger.
''For bread ?"
''Yes, for bread"
The man on the wood box opened biz
mouth to reply, when he caught the ey,
of a woman who talks bass hxcd upon bin
with strange, intense expression. ii
got off his perch, walked down the aisle I,
the disused aud abandoned water tauk
looked around for the loue shot tin cup
drew some hypothetical water into it Gu
of the empty tauk, took a long driak 0
nothing out of it, and as he came back t
his seat the subdued croek of the woma'
who talks bass, and the compnse
countenances of the other passengers, con
WINGED him that they had baen iaug in
about something. But he didn't seem /
care what it was about, for he didn't ash
and presently he drew his hat dogn eve
his eye and dissembled sleep.