The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11
WILL 1T DO IT7
AranmOre says Wheat VIII Not Turn to
Cheat.


Cheat.
DEAR HOWARD FBIENDs-In the language
of Detective" "That little boy has come
fishing on a log again. Just see how
slick he'll tumble off the log into the w.
b. for not minding his mama when she
told him 10 STAY at home and dig taters.
The average Detective" don't mean H.
L. C. Detectives" are good deal like
the average tadpole. We never know
what to think OF them till their tails drop
off.
All winter has been delightful here in
-restern Illinois, only little too dry, but
March steps in with January rations OF
snow and ice, and lots of it too. Tie
farmer says to XIII oil insects, and / wish
they had indicted the festive potato bug too.
The snow, The beaut full snow" 1 don't
like it bit | love my cousins, though
and, OF course, Pll have to love the snow.
They SAY it will save the wheat from run
ming away with the cheat.
do you believe that do ctrine?"
II did once" but I've backslided and
think it C mistaken idea that wheat will
gested this subject for the II. l.. G.. You
will soon see that my ideas are not very
clear upon the subject, but Pm willing to
give them. 1t is a mOoted question. The
pros and cons seem 10 be about equally
divided. l don't believe any ones theory
has been accepted as conclusive on either
side, and, perhaps, never will be; yet
every one has theory of his own, which
l. A IL i. i
Once / heard knot of farmers warmly
discussing the matter, when in stepped
new arrival. On being asked if he be
lieved wheat would turn to cheat he said:
Yes, sir; I've seen it do i" and the funny
part about IL was he got little wicked be-
| cause every body laughed.
don't believe wheat under any circum-
stancps goes to cheat. To believe so is to
reject bible teaching, and in the second it
reverses the order of nature. then We
would have to sew in doubt. II
would be little better the
blacksmith hammering piece of hot
iron. When asked what he was trying TO
make he said: II don't know yet, but
think from the way it is turning up it
| will be a lRdle."
There are many theories advanced to
prove that wheat will turn to cheat
founded upon careless observation with a
grain OF superstition to make it stick.
An old gentleman who had raised wheat
for forty years said to me one spring,
| If wheat was beat down with a
stick when it becomes about six
| inches tall it would surely turn
| to cheat. tried his plan effectually, fer
| il was the proper time TO do it. And it
was failure. No cheat at all. But the
wheat was not quite so tall as the other.
believe the old gentleman was sincere
in what he said. But it shows what care
less observations men make sometimes.
Some claim il wheat is sOwn thick enough
to form moss it will go to cheat. Ihave
tried it with clean wheat and the cheat
failed to appear. Some of the plants were
40 slender and the heads 30 short
that they had but two and three
grains perfect, though small. | kept a
sample OF this experiment tor some time,
but believers ia the cheat theory didn't
like TO look at il. Some say cheat will
turn to timothy, that I've never heard
what timothy hankered after. One sea-
son field was sown to wheat, one-half
being clover sward; the other had been
in wheat yearly for nine years and, OF
course, it had become well stocked with
cheat. The covered part of the
| field made an average of twenty-six
per acre, Willie lilo Otuti
made only about nine, counting the cheat,
which amounted TO one-third We never
see much cheat when we havea good crop
of wheat. l think cheat il always in the
| ground, like the seeds of weeds and grass,
ready to grow at the proper time, and as
wheat is a ranker growth under favorable
| circumstances it shades and prevents q
great amount OF cheat from maturing.
Happy Old Maid" No, it's not too
late TO welcome all old and true
| members of the FL. L. G. / see
you are giving receipts for cookipg;
l was in hopes you'd give one for making
! pumpkin pies. I'm great lover OF them
and IL there is any thing lacking TO make
them more palatable would like to know
| it.
! Hopeful Katew II was the old 'boss"
/ himself who drove that COW in the way of
/ the cars. II was his smartness that
caused the damage. Had it been the
cowboy I should have thought nothing
of it. "Brown-Eyed Sadiep The cous-
ms poster me half TO death some
times. I'm thankful you told me
to find sympathy in the dictionary.
'Nobody's Darling" / do not know
why few of the members do not like
some things you have said. But / hope
'you will not remain silent on that account
II / were in your place I'd stand firmly
and express my honest views. We can't