The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-09-15

Aery like that of America, except in the
matter of cap.sheafs. Instead of three
or four top. sheafs just one is plsced. II
is turned heads down and spread so as
20 cover the entire stack. The heads of
Russian wheat are long and slender and
the grain small and red. 1t would DO
graded at Duluth or Chicago as No. 9.
The straw is rank and slender, and the
yield little more prolific than in Amer
lea. II is harvested and sown in the
same month, August. When the wheat ia
sufficiently matured il is hauled on long,
slender, one-horse Wagons to the wind
mill on the farm and thrashed.
Hauling wheat to the thrasher is d leis-
usely and lazy work, and is never done
till the plowman wants the ground it oc-
cupies. The wind mill which furqsuues
the fail power for the thrashing is the
same found throughout Holland and Ger
many.
II Is DoUBLE-saMED,
the same as the one Don Quixote set out
to conquer. These mills are. ve;y COM
mon around Wausau, in POLAND, and are
used for every conceivable work, the wo-
men even grinding their coffee, churning
and washing with them. The slightest
breeze sets them going, as their faces are
turned against the wind SO as to catch its
full force. This appears, however, to be
the only labor saving institution found
in Russia.
l asks d a landlord Why hs did not in
troduce tns modern i'm mplements on his
farms, and was Informed that labor was
too cheap; besides, it was found advan
taseous TO give many people work in
the country as possible, because if they
go to the towns or cities they become
troublesome! Il will not be till the serfs
leave the farms that Russia will have
modern Improvements; and not till then
will she compete to any great extent with
the United States in supplying the wheat
markets of Europe.
Although ignorant, and kept away from
general communication, the peasents in
Russia are becoming greatly dissatistiee
with the way they are treated by the
government and the land owners They
take the recently issued edict on the sub
ject of education to cover their case more
especially than that of any other class.
The ministry of public education has but
recently declared that it will stop the last
avenue possible 10 the education OF the
poorer classes.
1T WILL NOT PERMIT THEM
to enter even the private universities, and
has closed the doors of the public ones
by circular to the curators of the school
astic circuits, announcing that the gym
nasium and pro gymnasia will hence
forth refuse to receive as pupils, the
children of domestic servants, cooks
washer women, small shop-keepors and
Others of like condition, whose childred
with the exception perhaps OF those gifd
ed with extraordinary capacity, should
not be raised from the circle in which
they belong and thereby led, as long ex
perience has shown, TO dsspise their
parents, to become discontented with
their lot and irritated against the inevi
table inequalities of existing social con
ditious.
The reason that this extraordinary
| proclamation has been issued, is the
growth of nihilism. This the officials
| reely and frankly admit. They say thai
as soon as the child of a peasant gets
into school and begins to read and think
he or she becomes a nihilist, and goes
into the community whence the pupi
came, and spreads the infection. So TIM
last channel to intelligence is to o
clos d. The edict was issued at the III
stance of the nobility and is also intend
t 4 to check the immigration FROM tn
farms to the cities.