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Show learned at Gkriund plac. of Sims kldina FARM AND GARDEN. But there was more to tell. When Sim d.Siovered him with Alice Thorpe, MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURALIST. just three years before this, he was telling the girl that he had become eng iged to her cousin Ethel, and was Some 11 lot About Cultivabegging her to plead his case with the tion of the boll mud Tlell Thereof father and mother of his betrothed. Horticulture, Viticulture and FloriSince the day you left, Sim, I've culture been a changed man, and a drop ot liquor hadn't passed my lips. But it is not t! nnseif, hut of Alice I would Do Soli. Really Lefh ? HOUGH the opinspeak. She was ever true to you, and ions of farmers though she thinks you dead.she is still have true to jour nieinoiy, and tonight by undergone material change on the fi.--e in the old home, where she this point durng gave you her love, she is weeping for decade the past a dead one who thought her false." tin re is still i.aih The storm continued the next day, DUscum option us to hut in all tl.it wild land no cabin held two happier hearts than those of the the conditions under which this loss hrothrs uunied under the eaves cf the avalanche far up the Sierra Blanmay occur and die ca. degree to which it r Shortly after this Sim Belden sold may be prevented. The porous cluuac-teout his c'aim and accompanied his of most soils is doubtless chiefly brother to the east. They took Pe- responsible for the fact that within the dro with them and sent him to the In- memory of farmers still in active busidian school at Carlisle, where he be- ness the belief was general that a came a teacher. very material loss ot soluble plant food was inevitable from most soils Every new year he visits his guardian and his wife, and the children of whenever the supply furnished was much in excess of the immediate needs both brothers love him. His knowlof the crop to be grown thereon. If edge of English is perfect, and he fully comprehends the story told him by soils really leach, the lost or leached Sim Belden in the mountain shack that material of course escapes In the Water draining through the soil. CareNew Year's eve. ful and systematic study of drainage waters, both by the use of the lj THE VESTAL AT THE CATE. and the tile drain Curing the past few years shows first that the When today with vestal grace actual loss of nutriment in drainage She stood before your dwelling place, waters is far less fiequent than was Did jou take her by the hand. supposed, and second the character of Bid her welcome to the land. the waters gives definite knowledge With the cordial love and greeting of the kind of nutriment carried away under That we owe a friend at meeting? by them and the conditions That which the loss takes place. Fair and sweet to look upon the danger of loss is greatly exaggerWas this lily maid at dawn, ated Is well demonstrated by my own With hpr dark locks flowing down, personal experience. For two entire And her saffron hood and gown growing seasons a fertile sandy loam Set about with starry border. showed absolutely no loss of plant food at a depth of three feet, that is, not Symbol of her priestly order. a trace of either phosphoric acid, niAnd we owe to her, I hold, trogen or potash reached three feet As Whether she be kind or cold. deep in the percolating waters. most plants send their roots to greatWhether she being rue or myrrh er depths than this it is evident that When we lift our gates to her. Well and duly to receive her. there was not only no loss from the Lest our sad complaining grieve her. soil, but that all tire nutrimeut applied, or within three feet of the surWhat she brings us, heaven sent. The Important face, was accessible. Take your gift and b content. question now is: Under what conditions does leaching occur and how can loss Though it he not what you sought, And your prayers seem set at naught, from this source be prevented? it is He knows best, who ruled the giving, now accepted that nitrogen is the only one of the three food essentials which What we need for holy living. is susceptible to leaching to such an Do not vex her with dismay extent as to render its loss of mateAt the pang3 of yesterday, rial consequence, and this loss is exNor disturb her heart in vain clusively of nitric acid. This, however, is the last and final form of nitrogen With the hint of coming pain; For a fell, impending sorrow find the only one actually taken up by the crop. All other forms or sources May be Gods best gift tomorrow. of nitrogen must he decomposed and Ola Moore nitric acid be formed before assimibegin. These other forms ETHELS NEW YEARS CALLER. lation can all Including fertilizing foims or sources of nitrogen except the niAll day long Ethel wished and wishof which nitrate of soda is the ed that she was a grown-u- p lady like trates,one of commercial only importance to Sister Grace, so that she could have the farmer, are under no normal Boil a New Years caller. But the long, bright day went by condition acceptable to the leaching and not a call did she have. property. It therefore follows that rp-toI- ' or of a man either, forthe matter that. Now, Pedro, I aint In the habit of slightest comprehension of the secret that had been confided to him. of Sim Belden was about to speak again, but he changed from his purpose by a rush, a roar, and a crash that filled the air and shook the earth as if the mountain was tumbling into St. Luis park. A snowslide! Thank God theres no one on the trail between here and Garland tonight! Sim Belden sat up and looked at the Indian boy, whose lean face and black eyes were filled with an expression of intent anxiety. What is It. Pedro? What do you hear, man? Speak out! For reply Pedro bounded to his feet, and pointing in the direction of the trail he shouted: White man! White man! In an instant Sim had the door open. The whirling snow clouds limited his giving myself away. Im one of the kind that keeps his trouble to himself, but theres something bout New Years that makes one confidential like. Si, senor, said Pedro, as he extended his lithe form toward the warming fire. Sim Belden turned over on his breast, and resting his bearded chin on his upturned palms, looked at the dancing flames and continued: There was never a man loved his brother as I loved my brother Jack. Two years youngern me, and handsome as a picture no wonder Alice But it Thorpe shook me for him. wasnt fair. Thats why I kicked. When our raft went to pieces on the Susquehanna years and years ago, it was Jack that, not caring for himself, dove under the logs and fished me out. But often and often, as Ive sat by this fire as Im doing now, I wished hed have let me drown. Its no use to save a life and curse it. Jack was always wild, and when father died and left all the property to me except $5 for him, I put my arm about him and said: Never mind, Jack. Ill divvy fair. So long as Ive got a dollar 50 cents of it is yours. Then he kissed me like when we were boys, and there were tears on my cheek that did not come from my eyes. The giants voice became hoarse, and while he was clearing his throat Pedro gave utterance to his first English word. Damn! Yes, Pedro, thats just how 1 often feel. You see I cant blame him for falling in love with her, for heaven never made a prettier woman; hut it was the deceit on both sides. You understand? Si, senor. Curious enough, it was just three years ago this very New Year's eve when I discovered them in the ha'l of her house talking in loving whispers and with his arm about her. My God! I felt like striking the two dead, but I bit my lip till the blood came; then I galloped hack home, where my aunt was the housekeeper, for mother was people of St. Luis that park New Year's eve looking to the east SfV, saw under the tow, ering white crests of the Sierra Blanca a high smoke pillar rising with the sky, and it brought joy to their hearts, for it it did now, as them that storm, great every Belden was still alive, still able grub- - under the foot of the ever- threatening avalanches for the fortune he had left the world to win. Sim Belden was a tall, handsome giant of 30, who had come from no one knew where. The few who knew him thought he was unsocial, and those with whom he traded at Garland believed that he had hit upon a rich find under the snow line, and that he would make it hot for the man who tried to be his neighbor. Sim Belden had been mining alone In the Sierra Blanca, hut during the past twelve months he had a companion, a young Ute lad named Pedro, whom he had found dying and abandoned over on the headwateis of the Del Norte. When Sim Belden, without any process of law, became Pedros guardian, that youths knowledge of English was confined to the one word, damn. His acquaintance with Spanish was a litHe knew that tle more extensive. buenos dias meant good day; sabe, understand; si, senor, yes, sir, and But there is a landinero, money. guage of siens which all understand. Sim had just come up from Garland burdened with a great pack of eatables, and a proportionate amount of drinkables, for the traditions of his youth led him to believe that both were essential to a popular observance of the season. This evening in the cabin, after supper, Sim Beldnn was umis tally talkative, and, forgetting or ignoring that Pedros comprehension of English was limited, he rattled on like one thinking aloud and wishing for no comment on what he said. Its keen no end of a fine day, Pedro Ju.--t like the New Year ev es we WHITE MtS! WHITE MAN! used to have back in tne Alieghames I saul nothing- to her, but I dead. toa But was like I you. boy when to one notes two Jack, leaving it, and Im much wrote night well ray for afraid tomorrow w ill be a regular old, him all the propeity, and the other to Alice Thorpe, telling her I'd discovhowling Ncwt Year's day. e and asking her to "Seeing that the white man hesitated ered she was fal Pedro looked wocdcringly up and said, marry my brother. Then I started for the west, and the life before me was Si, senor. canon depths on a Sim Belden lit his pipe and throwing gloomy as the h'mself cn a cinnamon bearskin before cloudy midnight. At first I felt like changing my the fire, looked at Pedro for a few minutes and then went on, Of course, name; but, as Id never brought disgrace on it, I let it stand. What matPedro, you wasnt ever in love? Pedro said, Si, senor," and scratched ters a name to a man, whos left the world behind forever? his head like one perplexed. Theres the story, Prdro. That's No, Pedro, you dont savey, and I hope jou never will. If you should why Im hfre, and you're the first and ever be took that way, commit suicide the last human being that'll ever hear But, then, of it from my lips. Savey? unless youre dead sure. ne one is ever dead sure of a woman. Si, senor, said Pedro, without the ZrXytJK "Xtyi yy y" single After slipper she went slowly up into the paror and looked discontentedly out of the window. Right under the gaslight she saw a He took up first glo&sy black cat. one paw and then the other out of the flaky snow and looked this way and that before starting on his journey once more. Then he ran along the sidewalk in front of Ethel's home and jumped quickly up the steps. It's my caller!" exclaimed Ethel, It truly is! breathlessly. She opened the door and in walked pussj, over the fur rug, into the parlor and sat down in front of the fire. In a second Ethel was beside him, hugging and petting him. Pussy seemed to like it and curled himself tup contentedly in Ethels lap. He ptnral very loud for a few minutes and theiji went to slep. It's tny New Years caller! exHe came his own plained Ethel. seif, mamma, and Im going to keep him forever! Pussy has never made any objection to that plan and so Ethel sMl has her calier, and she says her New Year's A HAPPY NEW YEAR, DEAR SIM! vision to the path of light before the open door, but above the roaring of the storm he heard the cry: Help! For God's sake, help! Stay hre and keep the door open! That is what Sim Belden shouted as he buttoned up his fur ccat and leaped trail. down the snow-pile- d Pedro had no conception of the ordinary measure of time, but it seemed d to him that at least a day had since the white man had disappeared. At length his heart was gladdened as he saw him breasting through the snow and hearing another white man in his arms. Sim Belden staggered into the cabin, and laid his burden on the fur covered floor, and the instant he saw the face of the unconscious man he dropped on his knees, took the hi ad in his arms and cried out as he kissed the face so like his own. "Jack! Jack! O God, its Jack! Do you hear me? Lookup! Here's Sim! Herns Sim, asking you on his knees to forgive him! Sim and Pedro stripped off the wet clothes, rubbel the whre Brin till the glow of life came back, and pi iced him in a hunk and wrapped him in furs. By the time a steam pum h was ready Jack Be'.den rubbed his eyes and Then fiom ILe looked about h'm. bunk two white arms were extended, EXCLAIMED ITS MY CALLER! and he sobbed El EEL. After years of seeking Ive found call was Urn very htst one, for it has you, Sim' more is sacred than lasted ncaily a whole jear. There nothing MUtJORY DEANE. the tears of honest, strong men. Pedro looked on in wonder, and, Ill the IJoildaifl. though he could cot underhand what was sud, he realized that one had come 'Tis ii.il y when returns coroe ia. who was nearer to his guardian's heart And ym have done your part. than himself, but he felt no pangs of To find th it the majority Gave jou the maible heart. jealousy. After a time Jack Belden felt strong Tis chilly when you woo a girl He looked at h.s enough to sit up. To have a ri cal w in, was and it that after wateh, seeing And get invited finally midnight, he readied out Ms hand to To si e her marry him. his brother and said: A harpy New Year, dear Kim! Anl But, ah, the coldest thing of a'fi still holding his brothers hand. Jack In tins chill month, no doubt. told the story of his three years' search Is to be told at 5 a. m. and how only that afternoon he had Tne fires are all out! pa-se- etng cf two-third- turfy s loam, one-thi- rd well decayed manure and a fin sprinkling of bone dust. Mix well and use the compost rough. In potting 11 the pots or pans to within three inches of the top, then set fn the bulbs, keeping them a few inches apart, and then fill to within half an inch of the top. Water thoroughly and place in a cool, dark cellar to make root, watering when necessary. Corn Hat Georgia Press Bulletin 35: The station has just finished shredding the corn stalks from five acres of corn. The crop was very much injured by the extreme heat and drouth, and the jltdd of grain was cut off at least 3a per cenL The corn was cut down jmt above the smtaoe of the ground August 33 and immediately shocked, placing about 150 stalks in each shock, and tying the top of each slide k with twine. No rain fell on the shocks and the ears were husked out October 3, and the stalks immediately run through the shredding machine, being appaiently peifectly dry. The yield of the five acres was as follows: 155 bu Shelled corn Shredded stalks, or stover. . .1 1, 0U0 lbs This represents a jlild per acre ot 31 bushels of shelled corn and 2.S00 pounds of dry corn hay, which ia believed to b very nearly equal in feeding value to good Timothy hay. In the above total yield of com hay is l,3u0 lbs of the stalks, which are almost universally saved and utilized by Georgia farmers. But there is also included in the 2,800 lbs of corn hay about 1,300 lbs of the stalks, wrhlch aro usually permitted to remain on the as food. This ground and 1.300 pounds represents the food loss for every 21 bushels of shelled corn. The corn crop of Georgia, for convenience, may be stated at 31,000,000 bushels, sometimes less, often more. Ther at 1,300 pounds of corn hay, heretofore not saved, for every 31 bushels of corn, the total loss in the state would he 1.300 11)8x1,000,000 equals 1,300,000- 000 pounds, or C'O.OoO tons of rorn hay, a very good food, and worth at least $10 a ton, or a total of $0,500,-00or about enough to pay for all the commercial fertilizers used In Georgia in one year. This may he consldi red a remarkable statement, and it will no doubt surprise many a farmer who has not thought about it, and who has (perhaps) imagined that he has been very saving and economical. 0, Hog- Killing, The farmers of Maine have circumvented the beef trust, says Iowa State Register. They have organized 1,000 fresh pork and fresh beef clubs in that state, each club composed of ten members. Instead of buying their flesh meats from the trust and paying tribute to it they provide themselves with such seasonable delicacies. The ten farmers belonging to a club arrange for a succession of butcheries. That is, a hog is killed every so many days during tile winter season dud the fresh pork is divided into ten parts, eaih family getting one part. This dots not include the hams and other portions of animal which are salted or pickled these forms of manures or fertilizers the for future use. The arrangement may be used in any quantity and at amounts to a meat shop. of time desired without danger any lose and farmers The nothing they get loss from leaching. In using stable tune. The Maine manure the important practical fact ts fresh pork all the that the manure once Incorporated idea may spread to other states. It Is with the soil becomes fixed beyond the something of an outrage that our hogs he sent to Chicago to be butchpossibility of loss, since nitric acid should formation is so slow as to never ex- ered and then sent hack to ho eaten. It follows as the night does the day ceed the power of a crop to utilize. the consumer must pay for the that Nitrates, on the other hand, being both ways, or else the hog susceptible to leaching, should be ap- freight grower pays it, and there Is beside the plied only to meet the Immediate demands of the growing crop lest loss expense of handling tile hog and the from leaching follow. The finer the meat in Chicago. Various ways have soil particles in any given case the been suggested to get rid of such an greater the absorbing power and the Industrial loss and folly, hut the Maine less is the probability of loss. This way seems to he a solution as far as tlie fact explains the absorptive power of farmers themselves are concerned. much soils, rather than, as is commonly supposed, the presence of a high humus Iowa Fine Stock Hreotler. content in such sods. As already intiannual meeting The twenty-fourtmated phosphoric acid and potash are of tlie Iowa Fine Ptock Bieedeis will not capable of leaching through be held at West Liberty, Ia , Decemsoils under normal conditions. ber 8 and 9. A fine program has been This fact is due to the absorptive powand a meeting is exer of soils for these suhstancfs and prepared Some of large best known and the pected. their compounds. Hip important fact most suens-fu- l in Iowa are hiecdus in this connection is that the soli conon the program for papeis on the stituent exciting strongest force in down of stock raising and vaiious pha-t- s this direction is the silica, which comA good attendance should handling. a so of all soils. These poses large part the efforts made. We hope soils high in content of Mlb a, of which result Bota a of The Fanners' Resand is typical, are usually of coarse til t Iowa readers texture and are those usually consid- view will endeavor to help on the meeting by their pnvc nee. The seuetary ia ered as especially susieptiblp to loath-t V. M. McUadden of Liberty, to ing. It appears, however, that leach-in- g all should be adwhom inqunic3 of two of the three essentials of dressed Is food the actually plant prevented by Other Meetings. The Iowa Sliort-Ilor- n presence of sibca or sand. A very imBleeders and the re the-e suit of fai ta portant practical is that potash salts can ho applied so Iowa Sheep Breedei s and Wool Growhold tbur annual Association early as to overcome any possible evil ers effect from the presence of chlorine on meeting In cirinection with the geneial certain crops and jet no possible loss meeting of the Improved K ock BleedShun-llo- i 1 he n ers Association. from leaching follow. meets m the aftB receipts II. E. Slot kliridge. ernoon of 'lueiday, December 7, and will continue their meeting on the TIih Jonrjult forenoon of December 8. 'Ihe Sheep The speco s and varieties of Narciswill also meet sus jonouilla, are popularly known as Lieedeis s and Jonquils many points December 8. of similarity with the small flowered Carbonaceous Food. If inclined tc section of thatveiy extensive genus, iUsh bocuu-- e giving much says Vicks Mie iiue. Ahhoiudi tiny run down in Shu ild be given caroonuce-ou- s a great variety of colniiik, do not pie-anfood, like tom meal, to keep them ors, yet they are highly prizi d for tlnir Cf couiae, they will then charming, golden, fragrant flowers, in condition. which are fret !y produced. They are eat If s coaroe food, arid the co.it will be increased; but rows like a variety of perfectly hardy, and may he successfully grown by any one in either the food, and will digest more if tiny have flower border, green house or window it. Ex. garden. And as the bulbs edn be proA Bath, Me man, after 9,000 days cured at a veiy modeiHie piice, they of almont continuous suvice as a well deserve all that can be said ia milkman, has bidden his pitrons and their pra se. The bulbs tan bo plant- friends giod-hy- e through the columns ed any time from Peptembor to Decema of newspaper. is Ik bt to plant them ber, although as early as po slide. In potting let If the cattle are to he left out rt three or four bulbs, according to their minh in tne winter It is bt'S' to doois In a be four inch pot, and placed size, some suitable shelter from ths have are wanted, larger pots if large or pans, and more bulbs can be used. wind. In potting let the pots or pans be propMake war on weeds while th1 erly drained, and use a compost con- - ground is unfrozen. h agii-cultur- c- t -- ms-.-e- s |