Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-09-30
Old Churches in London.

old Churches In London.
 Of the thirty-fYe churches built by Sir Christopher Wren in London near. ly one-half have disappeared.
 Thin Seeding of Grain.
 Less grain per acre is sown in this country than by English farmers, with whom three to three and one-half bushels of oats are often deemed nee essary, says American Cultivator. Eng fish summers are nearly always moist, and as farm land is generally rich it needs this thick seeding to make the plants crowd each other from the start and thus prevent too luxuriant growth Here such a seeding on land of mod crate fertility might not produce any thing but the straw of grain without any heads. We once drilled some oats in a field and found at the end of the row that a wider balk was made than the single width of the drill passing across the rows at each end would coy- CT. We were only sowing with the drill two bushels Of seed per acre, so we thought, not to leave any balks, to drill twice across each end. But the second drill width, though it made a good appearance, early dried up and amounted to nothing about the time the oats should head out.
 If clean, sound, plump oats can be had, bushel and half drilled in with some phosphate is better than great CT quantity. There is no crop, not even wheat, to which commercial phosphate is so well adapted as the oat. With this light seeding of oats. which should always be drilled early, we gave the oats light narrowing just after the yorng shoots began to come up. This broke down the ridges be- tween the rows, and entirely covered the leaves that first put forth. But 1t gave great stimulus to root growth, and in few days two or three or may be more shoots would be put forth by the root for every leaf that was destroyed. The narrowing also loosened the surface soil, so that any crust formed by rains will be broken. The new leaves will start up so quick ly and so plentifully that no more crust will form on the surface through the season. Such grain always COW CTS the ground at harvest with bet ter crop than can be got from two to two and one-half bushels of seed sown per acre, but not narrowed after the grain comes up.
 The grain grown from such light seeding is nearly always plump and full, and is worth more for seed than grain grown in the usual way. On rich land with fair season we nave grown 90 to 100 bushels of oats from so light a seeding as one and one-hall bushels per acre. Nor need this be sur prising as a single oat grain has been known to produce six to seven stems bearing a head well filled with oats If is plain that as usually sown much of +he seed oats fail to produce any thing Oats are often threshed while EtiIl damn from the field, and 1T such oats are put in close bins the vitality of their germ is quickly destroyed py heating. To make sure or gettlhs sou"u seed oats they should not be thresheo until winter. and never be allowed to heat in even the least degree. Eyery such seed put into the ground Wln not only grow, but it can be made to produce hundred fold, though 1nis Ia hard to secure under ordinary crop conditions All our grains are douDt- less for our climate sown more tnlcAly than M is necessary. More attention to the quality of seed and it's ability to germinate would pay farmers peetei' ,, Grain that either will not grow, or tna' makes such feeble growth that neisn- 1s, horing grain dwarfs it, is about tno n,ns+ axnensiye manure a farmer can uss ~ Yet this is what many farmers ara doing with large part or the seou @ grain that they put into the SOIL "ness s q s's,n s,mnIv rots and furnishes plant fooO for the seed that could germlnate'