Year: 1879

tiny. Beautiful she was still, for twenty
| summers had not yet passed over her head;
and beauty cannot leave those she has loved
SO early-the gift will linger till many
year OF suffering has passed over the heads
OF those upon whom she has bestowed tho
fairy talisman.


Annie read the note-a look of despair
stole over her face-her eyes cleaned wild
ly. She crushed the note in her hand, then
tore 1t into thousand pieces. For q mo-
ment she stood gazing out. A carriage
passed. She knew that Robert was in it
ann rs i FRfa Rsse and hope
She left the spot where she had been stand
ing, passed 'wly up the broad staircase to
her room, reached the bed, and concious-
ness left her. They found her there somo
hours after-but reason had left her. She
had sown the wind in her folly, she was
rcaping the whirlwind in her misery


Robert Dennyn and Flora Leslie werc
never married. The frantic words that fell
from poor Annie Morton's lips, during the
first moments of her hopeless insanity, dis.
closed Flora's treacherN and the engage
ment was broken.


Robert Dennyn went on his way, loved,
honorcd, respected by all but a lonely old
age was his portion. He had too kind and
good a heart to become nisanthrope; but
the flowers Of love in his heart were bruised
and crushed-they bloomed NO more for
him.


AN OLD FARMERS CULTURE OF CORN.


Editor Southern Caltiuator.-As you
request your patrons to give you the results
of experiments they make, beg leave to
give you mine. For the past three years
have entirely changed my manner of ap-
plying manure to corn, and have also
changed the implements with which I cul-
tivate my corn crop. So far as the prep.
aration and culture is concerned, I have
abandoned the shovel, twister and bull
tongue, and substituted therefor light
twohorse Avery plough. In stiff lands
l use two mules, in light land one, and
break the land from three to five inches
deep. l never break my land but once and
when broken use the rotary and smooth
ing harrow until the clods arc pulverised,
and the tussocks of grass and weeds are all
torn to pieces. The Importance of thor
oughly pulverizing is not appreciated by our





its wisdom upwards of hundred years
ago. then lay off my land with a small
straight shovel-shallow. The corn is
dropped in this furrow, width governed by
the strength of the land. 1t is then covered
with the rotary harrow. IF going over tho
land once with the harrow does not fill the
furrow made by the straight shovel I har-
row until the land is made level. When
the corn is dropped, there is applied about
so lbs (to the acre. of a commercial fertili-
zer, mixed with three times its bulk of
vegetable matter gathered in the field
When the corn has 3 or blades I GO
through it with the horse hoe or maltese
cultivator, two burrows to the row, which
cleans it thoroughly, and do not 60 more
than two inches deep. [ endeavor to run
through the corn after every rain, using
the same implement. When the corn is
knee or waist high, as convenience suits,
| apply the bulk of my manure, which is a
handful of acid phosphate, composted with
stable manure. This is the quantity I di-,
rect TO be applied, but my laborers find it,
moro convenient to put half a handful, as
they can then keep up with the plough
more easily. care little whether the ma
nure is covered or not, but do like to get
rain soon after. then plough with a
sweep and continue with tho sweep until
the crop is laid by.


| did not plant my corn last year until;
| was done planting cotton, and the season
was much more favorable to early than late
planting, yet all my neighbors' corn was
fired by drought, while mine remained
green. am now in my eightieth year,
have been planting forty-two years, yet I
never saw a field of better upland corn,
and all who saw it would say it was the best
field Of corn in the county.


When the manure is put on top Of the
ground, the first rain that falls carries all
the tertilizing matter into the ground,
where the roots are near the surface. The
roots run mostly two, three or four inches,
except in dry time, and if manure is put
five inches below the surface, the roots sell
dom find it.


From what see in your and other pa
pers, think labor here is about the same
as with you; but agriculturure in the
South can never rise, so long as the great
Juggornaut Of protection runs over its
harbors and crushes them, for the benefit