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Year: 1879

What a Practical Man Has to Say o., the
H,sb1ect.


To the Editor of the Globe.


BELLE PLANE, Mimi, March II, 1872
Wheat culture and seed wheat is the great
question in this State and the Northwest. ]
have read with care all the articles of the
scientists, remarks and suggestions of the
Farmers club, and all others indirectly in
terested in wheat growing, that they may
make money out of it, and have compared
it all with the faithful experiments of my
own for the past twenty years, and if you
will give me space will present my conclu-
sions on the matter.


First-Experiments with wheat grown in
1873. have tried wheat, the weights as fol-
lows to the bushel, So lbs, Sc lbs, 81 lbs and
81 lbs, in good prepared soil, an equal num-
bsr of grains of each weight, and in equal
space, all in partitions of same box, the same
degree of heat and moisture. At two weeks
and few days, in breadth of leaf, height of
stalk and time of terminating and growing,
there is no discernable difference to the
naked eye. regret did not keep the ex-
perimental box: I only tried it for my own
personal benefit and guide in seeding for the
next crop. For twenty years I have sown
wheat grown on the same soil, but have
blast, blowing out all tight kernels and SOW
ing only the heaviest, and invariably with
good results and improvement of wheat.
This is the old Dunkard rule.


Second-I believe if we have dry, windy
spring, or long, wet, cold one, the No.
and will lack the vitality to stand the test
as wheat is ordinarily cultivated, and give q
vigorous growth. But if the spring should
be genial as last, either variety would be
good, but would only recommend the heavy
and solid wheat for safety.


Third experience e-Wet or dry, cold or
warm, when the ground becomes hard or
caked after sowing the wheat, and after it is
up, roll ittwith heavy roller, and again after
the first rolling of the ground becomes dry
or caked. no matter if the wheat is up six to
ten inches. Now roll until the wheat is up
three Or four inches. Numerous experiments
with the roller have proved better than har-
rowing, though have often received good
results from narrowing; but all things con-
sidered. the rolling ia best. The rolling pro-
cess pulverlzes the ground and gives the
wheat q chance to breathe, and thet is all the
wheat plants want-the breath of heaven
and room; for nothing is SO poisonous to q
wheat root as another wheat root. / have
never sown over five pecks to the acre, and
if that seed will not give a crop, then the
land should be used for something else and
renovated. --------z
IF farmers will SOW the heaviest wheat pre-
pared as aforesaid, and roll as aforesaid, the
results will be favorable. In this connection,
will say the ground must be we'll pulverized
and friable. One more remark and I am
! done. It is this: We're all the labor of the
State put Oh one-fourth of the area of
ground and the manures confined to the
same space, there would in the next decade
be added double the quantity of grain in
the State. three times the population and
quadruple the wealth.


F. J. wH1r1oox.
Year: 1879

Never sent articles for publication
without giving the editor thy name
for thy name oftentimes secures
publication to worthless articles.


Thou shouldst not rap at the dool
OF printing office for he that an.
swerth the rap sneereth in his
sleeve and loseth time.


Never do thou loaf about, moi
knock down type, or the boys will
love thee as they do the shade trees
when thou leavest.


Thou shou!ist never read the copy
on the printers cases or on the
sharp aud booked contaiuer thereof
or ho may knock thee down.


Never inquire Of the editor for
news, for behold it is his business
to give it to thee at the appointed
time without asking for it.
1t is not right that thou shouldst
ask him who is the author Of ar
ticle, for it lie his duty 10 keep
such things unto himself.
When thou dost enter his Office,
take heed unto thyself that thou
dost not look at what concerns thee
not, for that is not meet in the sigh,
Of good breeding.


Never examine thou the proof
sheet, for it is not ready TO meet
thine eye that thou mayst under.
stand.


Thou shouldst not delude thyself
with the thought that thou has
saved a few cents when thou has
secured desd-hesd copy of his pa
per, for whilst the printer may suile
snd cay it's all right he'll never for
get thy mesnness.
Year: 1879

One OF the sure tests OF good
breeding is thoughtful regard TO
tho convenience Of others 10 a crowd
An illbrod lpan or woman win stop


in q church aisle TO talk 10 q neigh


Dor, at the close OF the service, with.
out stepping aside to allow those
who are behind TO pass on nnbin-
dered. Aud the Same fault will be
shown in blocking tke passage- way
Of railroad car, while gathering up
baggage from the seat on arriving
at a station or 10 standing 10 the
door way Of public hall or place
Of business or in taking more than


ones share in streetscar, or nc q
street crossing, or 10 an exhibition


hall, or at q ticket Office. A person


Of true refinement and OF really good
breeding will have others in mind
while with others. The average
refinement | n any crowd or gather
ing Of people is plainly marked by


the ease With which all get along
together. Twenty persons Of good
breeding can fiud comfortable sit-
ting or standing room in a car, or
hall, or street, and be good naturod


all the time, when ten ill>bred per-
sons would bo jostling each other
ill-naturedly. Aud this is more than
matter Of good breeding. 1t ins
wolves a regard for the rights as
we'll rs the comfort OF others. II
is selfishness which makes one will


ing to block passage~way for one s
own convenience, when others want
to move on. 1t is dishonesty which
leads ono TO take moro than his OF
her share OF time or space, while
others are waiting for their turn, or
are waiting their place. Whoever
would be couuted well. bred or re-
fined ought to have this truth al
ways in mind 30 ought oil those
who would DO, aud do right. Chill


dren ought to be trained TO proper
course in this regard. They and
their parents ought to learn to keer
out Of other peoples way, whom
other people are entitled to the way
Year: 1879

there will be no courts? Rcfnsc the needed
supplies for maintaining the Legislative branch
of the Government are you confident there
will be no Congress- Way, sir. you are as inn
potent to overthrow the Government by star
walton as you were to annihilate Il by the
sword. You may distress, but you cannot dc.
stroy. LApplause For, let me tell you, whom
that time comes the same loyal people from
the same loyal States who took their lives In
their hands and went forth TO do battle
for the life of the Republic, enduring the
weary march, tho protracted siege, the
smoking hell of battle, and the more
horrible hell Of Southern prison-pens, until
from the dark waves of rebellion they bore
upon broken arm aud laceratcd breast the
bleeding form of the Republic. and planted
her feet upon the immutable rock Of constitu.
tional government and civil liberty say
from the same States thirty millions of people,
animated by the same patriotism will when you
attempt to starve this Republic, fly to her side
side at the first cry of distress, and there they
will stand in ccaseless vigil, not with sword,
but with sustenance not with the implements
of war, but with uBmeasured wealth; not
with shotted cannon, but with unlocked cOf-
fers; not with bandages but with bounty and,
bending over her PROSTATE form, will they sue
cor and sustain her, ministerng to her ncces-
stiles, until, In the fullness Of time, they can
wrench from her throat the cowardly hands
that clutch II aud then, thrilled with Il new


life, will she spring 10 her feet, and the very
altar you buildcd for her immolatiOn shall be-
come throne upon which she shall stand ia
tue majesty of her power resceptered and re-
crowned, Goddess Of nations. Long continued
applause
Year: 1879

THE JAPANESE NATION AS A POWER.


No country on the globe has made more
rapid strides in advanced civilization than
japan. Indeed, her strides have already
brought her 10 point where she chafes
under the restraints imposed upon her by
the treaties she has made with foreign pow
ers, without proper appreciation or esti-
mate of her rapid prospective advance
ment and increasing needs. Her customs
dues under imports and her port and har-
bor fees are regulated by convention, which,
when taken in connection with the extra
Jurisdictions conceded to foreigners under
treaties formed when civilization first began
to dawn upon her territory, very naturally
brings to the subjects of the Milado more
or less of humiliation. The whole world,
under her rapid advancement, is fast adj
mitting Japan as an equal. Her ministers
are now found in all the capitals of the Old
and New World, with diplomatic relations
that place her on n basis with the most
favored nations Of the earth.


Japan has people who, under her spirit
of progress, have attained status in educa-
tion which compares fayOrably with those
of any of the countries with which she
holds diplomatic relation, Her laws have
been remodelled. Her railways traverse
her territory in various directions, and her
lines of internal communication are rapidly
advancing She is building navy of
powerful ships, either by her own artizans
or those Of other countries whose services
are rewarded from her own treasury. Her
Ministers are studying commercial inter
national law, so that they begin to take
part in international conferences, and con-
tend for the consular rights Of their Em-
pire with an intelligence and power that
are truly surprising. Her diplomats are
beginning to demand restitution of her
rights that were conceded in her earlier
history, and are urging that demand with
remarkable ability and power Indeed, she
has kept such uniform good faith in re-
deeming all her honorable obligations with
Year: 1879

We, as Republicans and as citizens of the
great Republic, do not want to have an
army at the polls, but if we are to choose
between the army or the nation in the in
terest of peace and in the defense of the
weak if we are to choose between this and
the ex-pro-slavery bnnditti why, give us the
army. or the two evils this is far the least.


If our Democratic friends think that we
are so much in love with the army and men
in Uniform as to want TO see a squad oil
them standing around every voting place in
the land they are mistaken. We do not desire
to see any such thing. We like it no better
now than we did in Kansasin 1856. Then we
contended against the use of the army Mt
the polls, and shall ever contend against it {;
we contend against it now. But so long as
our friends insist upon the presence of the
banditti there, and in controlling elections
with all sorts of guerrilla actions, as free
men we see no harm in having the reg
ular army of the nation act as q police force
in securing justice at the voting places. We
dcprccate this, but it has been forced upor
us. The choice is simply between two
eyls-between the army (which by thc
way, has been and always is in such thing
conservative rather than RADICAL and tht
Southern banditti and Democratic roughs
The lesser of the two evils is by far til,
army. Still, in good time we hope to pre-
vail upon our brethren to see this thing rs
we see it, and that at no far distant day
they will renOunce and denounce the ban
ditt element among them as most dan
gerous thing to encourage in the body poll
tic. A regular army, with uniform an,
muskets and bayonets, is a bad idea, and


precedent that 40 good citizen likes to sex
established, but a bandtti, with promiscu
ous uniforms and arms, is far worse and on
less to be encouraged.
Year: 1879

IT is now pssposed at the South that Con-
gress pass law prohibiting any steamboat
taking more than fifteen negroes as passen-
gers at trip. The suggestion seems to be
in order that the better way TO correct the
pending evils would be to see that existing
laws for the protection OF citizens of all
classes in the South are faithfully enforced
Year: 1879

when he was soon taught by The keen and
polished fencing of Senator ANTHONY, who
had .intrenched himself with copy of Sem
otor BEcK's speech, that discretion would
have been the better part Of vNlcr, and he
soon disarmed Senator HILLS assault by
reading from that document passages which
betrayed the weakness of the position of his
adversary, and literally drove him from the
field in discontinue. A small amount of
truth and candor are very effective against
hypocrisy sophstry, and insinccrity, and
there is where Senator ANTHONY has all the
advantage of his adversaries.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats insist that their candi-
date next year must he man who can
carry New York. GRANT didn't carry il in
'GS and did carry it in ~; there's where we
Republicans have got the Opposition on the
hip. C., we've got man who can carry
New York or not, just as the occasion may
require. And he is not the only man of
the kind in our camp, at that.
Year: 1879

THE tilt between Mcssrs. BLACKBURN and
FRYE on Saturday was an exhibition Of
bull-dozing on the door of Congress; but
this frequent descent from the chair to pick
a quarrel with members does not pan out
"welr' for the Kentuckian. He virtually
admits that he has delrauded public history
by publishing to the country what he did
not say in his speech, and is now engaged
in diverting public attention from that lit
tie fraud by quarreling with his fellow
members over what he really did say And
this is digniicd craftsmanship in the forum.
Pshaw!
Year: 1879

THE fears recently expressed that Judge
KELLEY would follow Ben BUTLER's foot
steps and wander through the byways Of
Greenbackism into the Democratic camp
are now set at rest. He may do little ir-
regular guerilla business on the neutral
ground between the lines once in while :;
but when the drums beat to colors he comes
back 10 camp like an old veteran.
Year: 1879

TIE "Jobbers' and Bummers' Own" pays
the editor Of THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
the compliment to say that 'he is a none
"genarian whatever that means our lcxi-
cogriphal research does not cxplain-'whom
"nobody would be justified in whipping"
The inference is that the author Of that par
agaph or some Of his friends had contem-
plated doing that thing, and if so, they
have undoubtedly come TO wise and dis
Greet conclusion; for had they attempted
such a performance they might have come
to practical knowledge of the fact that it
was not justified" by wholesome discretion
Though the sleulliing remark does not smack
much of chivNlry it betrays the fact that
the doltwho wrote it has studied the axiom
that there are times when discretion is the
"better part of valor," and that this is prob
ably one of those times,
Year: 1879

self-olected champion of the rights
of man, who has SO often expressed
his willingness to offer up his life
and die martyr to the cause, was
overcome by the thought of a ride
on the oak horse, and as all who
heard him are aware, forebore any
but q complimentary mention of
the Sheriff. In addition to this he
wrote out a denial Of the language
attributed to him, which the Sher-
iff keeps in his possession. The
threats of ride on the rail were
not idle ones, forrthe timber was in
readiness, and so were the men
who proposed to apply it.
Year: 1879

Not even the COW. should receive
gentler handling than the sheep. Kind
ness is always well repaid by any of
our domestic animals, but the sheen
being so shy an animal, it REQUIRES
special exhibition of kindness. 1tsbould
be so handled and treated as it will
never become frightened at the az
proach of a person. Their treatment
should be such as that they will actual
" learn to entertain an affection foI
their keeper, and if they do, they will
naturally be tame and docile A flock
of wild sheep is about the most IN
profitable investment that afarmer can
make. They are continually getting
themselves into some trouble, and ,saus-
ing great annoyance, if not loss, to
their owner.


We have seen some flockmen Jump
into flock and pull and haul the sh eep
by the wool until the animals were not
only half frightened to death, but guf-
fered great injury otherwise. A 81 leep
should never be caught or lifted by the
wool. Some one has said that if ny
one doubts the improperly of hftin g q
sheep by the wool, Just let him per nit
himself 10 be lifted by the hair, and it
is a good suggestion. When sheep are
thus caught or lifted, the skin in so me
instances is actually torn from the
flesh, and if the injury is not to that
extent it cannot but affect the flesh to
some degree.


A sheep should be lifted by placing
the arms around the body and near the
forelegs. This is the easiest way to do.
especially with large sheep. To catch
the animal, the hands should be thrown
about the neck, or else the sheep should
be caught by the hind leg Immediately
above the hook. This latter may DO
done with the hand or the crook, and
when this way is adopted the utmost
gentleness should be observed, and the
sheep gently drawn back until the other
hand can reach the neck. 1t is scarce
ly necessary to remind the keeper that
when the crook is used upon a sheep
which is closely surrounded by other
sheep, that great care must be exer-
cised lest the other sheep Jump against
the one caught or against the crook, in
which case severe damage may bedona
-ReSterT1 Rural.
Year: 1879

cattle will pull it up by the roots, which is


true, If they are crowded to it; but they


will not do it as long as there is better feed


and BY the time they have killed this bY


close feeding, am Of the opinion there
| viii not be much left. There are MANY
pastures in which, if they are not fed for a
year or two, or not fed till the grass is
seeded, the June grass would crowd this
| out. l haYe known such to be the case.
On wild and uneultivated land, whether
covered by forest or the wild grasses Of
the prairie, the vegetation decays where it
grows and the soil becomes rich. But
when man comes to cultivate the land, raise
crops and remove them from the ground
where grown, the productiTeness of the
soil diminishes, unless kept up by the addi-
tiCn Of fertilizers. Grazing is no exception
to this, though when properly conducted
1t IS the least exhaustive Of any kind Of hus-
bandry.


The dairy or stock farmer needs to save
and apply all the manure he can make, and
then he would not have all he would like,
especially if his farm is some run down,
The grain farmer, to supply the same de-
iciency resorts to the growing of green
crops which he plOws in to fertilize his
soil. The corn raiser of the West plows
under the stalks of the previous crop. The
wheat raiser plows under clover, etc. Now
it is admitted by some Of our scientific
men that crop Of clover deeaying on the
surface where grown, enriches the soil as
much as if the same were plowed under.


The dairy farmer grows or should grow,
the green crop Just where he wants the fer
tiliZers applied, and all he has to do is to
let it decay where grown; no need Of the
labor of plowing it in; 1t adds its fertility
Just where needed, to the surface. Espe-
eially should the aftermath Of the meadows
be left for this purpose, as well as for the
protection Of the grasses themselves This
will go far towards keeping up their pro-
ductiyeness and fertility especially if COM
menced before they are run down.


In the state of nature all lands except
deserts are shaded by vegetation during
summer and protected by the same dur
ing winter; the richer the soil the denser
the shade and greater the protection.
Now the closer We feed our pastures and
meadows all seasons of the year, exposing
the soil to the sun and wind, the more Of
desert-like appearance do the fields as
sumo.


When the grass crop, the crop upon
which the wealth and prosperity of this
county so largely depends, shall receive
the same care and attention in complying
with those conditions necessary for its best
growth that our advanced agriculture
gives to other crops, then will there be
better meadows, more productive pastures,
and less complaint about exhausted soils.
Year: 1879

different varieties OF wild berries grow
in abundance. From the thresher in
this immediate section we get the
statement Of 5000 bushels Of wheat
threshed last Fall, averaging, mostly
on sod land, 80 bushels to the acre
Timothy is natural crop in this coun-
try, and is raised with little or no ef-
fort on the part Of the former.
Year: 1879

Some years ago a miner was sent to
the Ayrshire District Asylum who, four
years before, had been struck to the
ground insensible by mass of falling
coal, which fractured his skull. He lay
unconscious for four days after the ac-
cident, then came gradually to himself,
and was able, in four weeks, to resume
his work in the pit. But his wife no
ticed steadily-increasing change for
the worse in his character and habits;
whereas he had formerly been cheerful,
sociable and good-natured, always kind
and afectionate to her and his children;
he now became irritable, moody, surly,
suspicious, stunning the company Of
his sfellow-workmen, and impatient with
her and the children. This bad state
increased; he was often excited, used
threats of violence to his wife and
others, finally became quite maniacal
attempted to kill them, had success
sion of epileptic fits, and was sent to the
asylum as a dangerous lunatic. There
he showed himself extremely suspicious
and surly, entertained a fixed delusion
that he was the victim of a conspiracy
on the part of his wife and others, and
displayed bitter and resentful feelings.
At the place where the skull had been
fractured there was well-marked de-
preston of bone, and the depressed
portion was eventually removed by the
trephine. From that time an improve
ment took place in his disposition, his
old self coming gradually back; he be-
came cheerful again, active and oblig-
ing, regained and displayed all his for
mer affection for his wife and children,
and was at last discharged recovered.
No palmer example could be wished to
show the direct connection of cause
and effect-the great deterioration of
moral character produced by the physi-
cal injury of the supreme ve-centers
of the brain; when the cause was taken
away the effect went also.-Dr. Maatds-
ley, IN Fortnightly Reuieao.
Year: 1879

When we are asked to give an ac-
count of the birth of storm, we are
reluctantly compelled to admit that our
storms are, almost without exception,
foundlings, and that, as the precise
conditions to which they owe their or
igin are, for the most part, shrouded in
uncertainty, warm discussions at times
arise as to the parish whence they have
set out on their wanderings. Dove
said long ago that storms were due to
the interference of the polar current or
the east wind with the equatorial cur
rent or west wind. He gave the winds
these names, because on his view the
east winds really consisted of air flow
ing from the North or South pole tow
ard the equator, which was modified in
the direction of its motion by its change
of latitude; while west winds we're really
due to air endeavoring to make its way
back to the pole from the equator,
whose course was in its turn modified
by its own moving from lower to higher
latitudes. To the conflict of these two
grand currents, east and west winds,
Dove attributed all our storms; but he
did not attempt to explain how the
currents came into collision. These
views, however correct on their cosmical
principles, have been superseded, of
late years at least, as regards the ex-
PLANTATION of our winds, by the modern
views of the relation between the wind
and the distribution of barometrical
pressure; but, unfortunately, we still
remain in comparative ignorance of the
ultimate causes to which the distribu-
ton of pressure, or the rise and fall OF
the barometer, are due.-PopaIlar Sci
e21ce MO7athlu.