Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-08-29

requirement. OF the constitution anC
pass an apportionment act.
Two short prayers at the house, two
short prayers at the grave was all oi
the service at the funeral of Judge
j. S. Black, at York, Pa, a most ap
propriate service, for so able, and
distinguished son of this great
Commonwealth.
The Philadelphia Record says
From present appearances the As
semblymen at Harrisburg
Will neither apportion the State;
Nor adjourn
Nor resign.
1t begins to look as if the ten dol
lars day were the main object in
prolonging the session.
The people of Pennsylvania will
not be long tumbling to this ten-dol-
lar day racket.
In 1852 the populace of Paris
shouted after the unpo pular Deputies
In the streets:
There go the 7iOenty fUe Francs ?"
Under the weight of this odious
reproach the French Assembly finally
winked out.
Victor Hugo bitterly complained
of the injustice of this cry: "There
go the Twenty five Francs" But the
populace of Paris were right. While
the Deputies talked and talked, and
punctually drew their daily pay, their
enemies acted.
If the members of the Pennsylvan-
ian Legislature will neither pass the
apportionments, nor adjourn, nor re-
sign, the people are right in assum-
ing that the ten dollars day consti-
tute the sole consideration in pro
tracing the extra session.
An Ohio man writing for an agri-
cultural paper on the subject, of a
corn and wheat rotation, says, in con-
versation with a noted wheat grow
er of Wayne County, in this State
a county that has record of over
one million of bushels in one year
reference was made to the articles in
your paper in relation to a profitable
crop in rotation between corn and
wheat, and his advice was ''to SOW
wheat for the connecting crop be
tween corn and wheat; then clover
one year, and the following Spring
plow for corn" He thought it must
be very poor land indeed that would
not bear three crops, one of corn and
two of wheat, assisted by what fer
tility the farm would afford-and not
constantly grow better. His plan
gave him one hundred bushels Of
ears OF corn per acre and from TWEEN
ty four to twenty seven bushels oi
wheat per acre as an average-this
season exeepted-and he consider
ed that profitable farming. Oats he
was obliged to raise to some extent
Us a grain for his plow horse; but
one year with another, he did moi
think they paid as a market crop
His system is to plant an early ripen
ing corn that can be cut up before
September 10th. He cultivates his
corn so thoroughly that the weeds
get no start, and so late that the sol
does not get hard enough to require
plowing before sowing. The corn il
so cut that fourteen rows go into {
line of shocks, and every other row
of shocks when cut are tipped ovel
on boat sled and drawn from the
field. The hoes of the drill are 81
adjusted that the one that woulC
come in the hills or rows of corn butt
is removed, and by little painstakine
the rows could be so correctly follow
ed that perfect seeding was done
The next season he plowed as sool
after reaping as possible, and drag
ged very thoroughly as the plowine
continued, so as to prevent baking
Of the soil, and again Just befor'
drilling. If he had manure he top
dressed the thinnest places, and thel
in the Spring he seeded to Glove
very heavy, and as rule obtained ;
good catch. Clover, in his opinion
is greatly damaged by allowing stool
to run upon it the first season. H,
would never allow stock of any kint
upon it until the following May
when it can stand all assaults from
the grazing of the hogs and cattle
His notion is that wheat always pay
better than oats, and that he get
this first crop of wheat with far les
labor than he could the crop of oats
with its attendant Spring plowine
and drilling; and he is then relieved
of this extra work, and he is insteat
thus enabled to be improving nj
farm, or preparing for the corn
With him 25 bushels of wheat is tn
equivalent of about so bushels o
oats-a crop he never could obtain
By this system his farm operation
are brought down to two specia
crops, corn and wheat, and the poss
bilities of failure in the oat cro]
avoided. As he expressed it, g
poor crop of wheat is as proftabl
as good crop of oats" How fa
this plan could be made not on
ly applicable, but profitable to tn
general farmers of this country
would be interesting to know. 1t j
matter that might be successful il
the main, and to many solve the ques
ton, What crop shall follow corn ?
An exchange writes, when the las
panic swept over this country, leav
ing in the wake of its remorseles
march shattered confidence, genel
al stagnation of business, property
and in many cases dependence, pri
vation and crime, everybody was full
of good resolutions, and promises o
retrenchment and economy wer
loud and frequent. For year o
two the promises were kept and pee
pie not only lived within their mean
but saved little. Next they begal
TO weaken and one hundred cent