The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-25

TABOR IN preparing the land. 1t is not
good practice to plant wheat, or any other
crop, on freshly plowed land. In this con-
dition the soil is loose and ''pufy" and adj
mits of free circulation of air, which
dries the soil very rapidly and many seeds
die in the sprou5. After the land is.
broken it should have time to settle and
a seed bed made with a disk harrow"
"When to plant. The experiment indi-
cate that the best time to plant is from
the middle Of October tc the middle of
November. The best yields at the station
have been -.om wheat sown frcrn/ the
middle to the last of October. The usual
, amount of seed sown per acre is four
pecks, but five pecks will probably be
better"
The. suggestion is made that the "run-
ming out" of varieties of seeds is due to
the failure to select the best seed of your
own raising, each year, and to poor prep
aration CT the soil rather than to natural
causes.
There is probably no enc variety of
wheat or other grain, that is best for
all sections of the state. In each locality
some varieties are little adapted to soil
and climatic condition. than others" The
land should be we'll enriched sy the fer
tilizer best adapted to it.
Since the wheat ripens early in June,
the planter of wheat understands best
what to plant on his own place after cut
ting, the wheat of.
1t has lately leaked out that on May
IS, when Halley's comet appeared, a band
of 40 religious fanatics GAZING themselves
the Select Followers" living in the noun
tains of Oklahoma, were on the point of
sacrificing, by Staying with knife, a
beautiful 16-year-old girl who appeared
willing to submit to pouring out her young
warm blood to appease their deity to save.
the world from destruction by the comet.
lie sheriff Of the county with six deputies
appeared upon the scene just as the knife
was raised to stab the girls heart, scat
tered the gang, but caught the leader and
'hog tied" him. The girl had tainted
at the instant, but the sheriff took her
and the leader with him to the Jail IS
miles away. The girl was restored to her
parents and the leader, lehman by name,.
is to be Investigated by the officials.
A man named Isaac Morris. of Mem
'phis, Tenn, in a fit of bad temper was
cruely Jogging his wife, sick and weak
ened by cancers with a cat-o-nine tails,
when his young daughter Lille, rushed
into the room, seized pistol from draw
er and shot her father down. It was the
first time she ever had gun in her
hand and it distracted her to find that
!, she had fatally wounded him while not
! really intending to kill him, but only
to brighten him from his cruelty. Morris
was taken to the hospital, the girl nursed
him tenderly and in sorrow begged his
forgiveness, which he granted, and re-
pented sorely himself of his cruelty, and
died in three or four days. She was re-
leased till court, without bail. The SYM
patty of the city was with her.
Ii will be quite saving Of winter feed
if rye or barley be sown in September for
stock IN ground not otherwise il use then,
and will not be plswed over tiE tsle fol-
lowing March. We have lsa.acd that
sewing this grain in Sepssass E ensures
it ready fer pasturing by Ck-izsraas. One
acre Of this forage will icng ways more
than winter one COW, the land to be fair
" good. From two to three pecks seed
tc an acre is sufficient. Somebody just
Istrv It and see.
Tie post Office inspector, Mr.. B. H.
Reynolds, interviewed our post masters
books last Saturday and found every
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