The Press., 1883-11-15

J Harper's Christmas of 1882, but that the December issue of Harpers Magazine, is- sued at the regular magazine price, will be Christmas Number taking the place of the mammoth publication of last year.
 The Christmas Number of Harper's Magazine promises to bring together the most remarkable gathering of authors and artists ever grouped under one (paper) roof. The former include, among others, George William Curtis, John G, Whittier, Miss Thackeray (Mrs, Ritohie), E. P. Roe, William Black, w. D. Howells, George H. Boughton, Austin Dobson, Charles Reade, Edward Everett Hale, and Charles Dudley Warner, while among the artists are D. A. Abbey, James o. Beard, George H. Boughton, F. s. Church, Frederic Dielman, Alfred Fredericks, A. B. Frost, w. Hamilton Gibson, Alfred Parsons, How ard Pyle, C. S. Reinhart, VII. Sheppard, and Jessie Curtis Shepherd There will also be illustrations from paintings by G. F. Watts, R. A., and from unpublished sketches by Thackeray, Frederick Walker, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The number will include four plate-paper pages Ill ad- dltion to the usual size of the Magazine. l The Christmas Oecember) Number, while planned to be the most notable issue of a magazine ever published, is, neverthe- less, intended to be but the forerunner of a remarkable series throughout 1S44. The new and novel serial, s'Nature's Social Story" by B. P, Roe, with illustrations by Gibson and Dielman, and William Blacks "Judithl Shakespeare, with illus trations by Abbey, are only examples, in the one field of serial fiction, of the scale on which the coming volumes are planned. l-Pu6Iisher's Weekly.
 als ~f Harpers will rejoice in new Christmas cover, designed by Frederic Dielman, in which the Dutch-American Santa Claus idea of Christmas is linked by the holly wreath to the English Christmas notion of waits and carols. While the American Christmas number will retain the "old, fa- miliar faces" of the ridiculous but dearly beloved little cherubs blowing their peren- nial bubbles, MT. Dielmans design will be utilized in 1t as qatasi title-page.
 FLOWING UNDER C1ovER-A New York state correspondent writes to the Country Gentleman "Plowing clover for wheat Is still largely practiced in this section, with the difference that now the top is mostly cut off and saved for hay, and only the roots, with what foliage cannot be moved, turned under. One fact about re- gently cut clover hay may not generally be known. It is that so long as the clo- yer is standing the soil will be as hard as brick and almost unplowable !; but if plowed within three or four days after the clover has been removed the soil will turn up with comparative ease. I have noticed two instances of this within the last month, and it is fact which have never before seen recorded. That the mass of clover foliage should dry the soil rapidly is not strange. The inexplicable part of it is that after this foliage has been removed, with out any rain, the soil should become fri able and comparatively moist. It may. be chat the process of drawing water from the subsoil, which with full foliage Is at once evaporated, goes on with little inter- ruption for a time after the foliage Is re- moved, The surface roots will thus be made very sappy, just as the sap exudes from the stumps of vigorous trees cut in spring after the flow of sap has begun. Probably the effect in helping the blowing by removing the summer foliage would not be the same with plants not having the long deep roots of clover. The exper- iments of Voelker have shown that clover makes the best preparation for wheat after the second crop is removed. The soil is then richer in fertilizing material than at any previous stage of clover growth. It is its beneficial effect on the subsoil that makes clover so good preparation for wheat. Other foliage plants, with roots near the surface, are of little value."
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