The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-12


 turbing his wife At last he sent for her maid. The woman said she had knocked several times without rcceiv- ing an answer. Standish ran up stairs, knocked loudly, and after a moment burst open the door.
 Stella lay asleep on the sofa asleep, yes, forever. She had kept her VOW to Leo in a way that he, poor lad, had never dreamed of l-London World.
 COUNTS AND DISCOUNTS. Common Sense in the rv-Day occupa-
 tons of the Farm.
 When farmers arc persistently urged to do this or that, and the advice fails to take, it might be well to look the matter over and see whether the ad- visers or the advisees are most at fault For instance, deep blowing Qike root growing) is ''fad'' brought over from cool, damp, clayey England, and run for great deal more than our farmers believe it to be worth. The influence of theoretical talk supon unpractically trained men, even of great intelligence, was strongly shown in n notable failure on a clay farm in Rhode Island, where wonders were to be wrought by deep blowing and understanding. The oc- cupant was all right as to the latter, but bitterly disappointed in the results of the former. He might have known better" I have heard it remarked many times. Possibly; but he never could know so we'll as after trial of it; and since that most of the theorists have stopped talking of deep blowing The truth is. the nature of the crops most raised in America, and the character of the most of our arabic soils, require only moderate depth of tillage-one that will keep the roots of the crop ih tho warm upper stratum of earth, within reach of the manure, the air, the sun and the light and the fleeting rains Of our American summers. The average American farmer is no great reader-it were better otherwise-but he is not wanting in observation or common sense He finds that it is possible to get maximum crops of corn and cotton with very shallow blowing, if other conditions are all right. He finds that little deeper blowing is enough for small grains and potatoes. But, more than all, he has found with the average American teams and blows, the average capital of the American farmer, and the shortness of time (in the North) for getting land ready for the crop, that deep blowing, however, theoretically good, is gen. erally impracticable. Yet it may be that we shall, in time, somewhat in crease the average depth of our fur rows.
 Take another illustration: No one more than l has emphasized the wickedness of wasting liquid manure. l have preached it long enough and hard enough to make not few prac- tical converts; yet some of these have gone back on the theory and given up the practice, 'because it didn't pay. !" The truth has been that it did not pay as well as was hoped for under the conditions as they commonly exist. But the conditions can be changed, and will be, with the increase of knowledge and capital. Director Col Her, of the New York Experiment Sta ton, proposes to make this matter a leading subject of experiment; and believe his persistence and his prac- tical turn of mind will enable him to teach us all the best way to save the liquid evacuations of our animals, and to mako their use profitable. My own experience favors the use of abundant absorbent material in cemented eel lar, and the incorporation the liquid with these absorbents by the use of swine. But, unquestionably, the query will arise on many large cattle farms: "Whence are all these absorb ents to come?n and Twill we have time to handle and apply all this extra material?" and Will not the cost ex- ceed the value?" l have sometimes thought the cheapest way, after all, would be to run the urine into tanks, evaporate it, the same as maple sugar is made. during the winter, have the dry result analysed, and the necessary addition of other fine fertilizing ma- terial made, to assure complete and well-balanced fertilizer, which can be cheaply transported and applied. In this way the heavy hauling is evaded. no wild seeds sown, and fine fertiliz- CT that can be drilled in with the seed is supplied. But perhaps this would not pay. Any way, we must save all the manure, liquid and solid, and use it to it's fullest advantage if we want farming to pay as it should. N. Y.