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Show A FABM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. om TO Hlati A bo at fal- toll YlcliU nonafUortleolRiro, Yltlcaltara aad ' Flortcaltara. tlTatlaa of ut tba Yarlatlaa of Straw br rrla. From Farmers Review: It seems to me now, after twenty years of experience, that there is nothing more important to the strawberry grower than choice of variety. In the raising of grain, or vegetables or fruit of auy kind, much depends on the proper selection of varieties, but in strawberry culture almost everything depends on It With a pretty general knowledge of the well tested varieties now grown, gained both by obseivation and reading, I do not hesitate to say emphatically that for this latitude and for a number of degrees north and south of the latitude of Chicago, the one great berry, worth more than all the others together. Is the Warheld. Speaking of strawberry culture in. the past 1 think it is true that there have been just three gieat berries, each of which had ita day and gave way to the next, and these aie the Wilson, the Crescent, and the Warfield. Growers who raised the Wilson in its day and who at the proper time substituted the Crescent; and then after the Warfield was well introduced planted It and gave up the Crescent, have done the bes. for themselves and for their customers that could be done, I think most practical growers will agree with me when I speak of the which expense and disappointment have attended our efforts to secure the best varieties. What a time indeei we have had with the highly praised newcomers, the liidweils, Munchesters, Jewels, Lady Rusks, Cbas. Downeys, Big Hobs, ML Vernons, Bubachs, Jessies, larker Earles, and a host of othos whose names 1 will not mention. all introduced with a great Sourish a lul often having some good qualities out as practical, business berries. Utterly worthless. It seems strange to me that so many writers and even experiment stations speak of some good point in very many of these varieties, without adding that In the summing up they have no value at all. I know that some growers will protest against my Judgment of some of these berries, but 1 believe the best: conclusions of practical men are In line with my own. Some would probably defend the Bubach and Haverland, which are of good sixe and productive, but I never ate one of the first without regretting it, and the second 1 would cot permit my pickers to gather, so Wretchedly- - soft and tasteless It is. Parker Earle Is solid and productive, but of bad color and unreliable. Beder Wood is productive and baa been high--- ly praised, but I have always felt guilty ' for picking It at all, ao soft aad Insipid and colorless it la and I am glad to see In bur latest station reports that It. is not recommended aa it was. Doubtless some of the new berries will prove to have value, and some, like the Marshall, are certain to Jte of use for fancy market, but 1 repeat In conclusion that for the climate I have mentioned, for real value both to producer and consumer, there Is no well-testberry which Is worthy of comparison with Warfield. In my view the most important problem for practical growers now Is to find the best and most reliable fertilizer for the Warfield. ed 8. W. GIBBON. Anaone the Window Plants. From the Farmers' Review: At most this season of the year plants In the window will begin to make strong, vigorous growth, If properly fed. As soon as they begin to grow, but not before, give them lib" t: eral applications of some good fertiliser. Many persona whose plants are not growing satisfactorily think to give them a start by feeding them rich food. This Is all wrong. The plants are not in condition to make use of such food Until they begin to grow. It injures them if given when they cannot assimilate It Therefore, wait and keep close watch of them, and when sighs of growth are Been, begin to feed them. Give weak applications at first, increasing the the growth of the plant ln-- " supply as creases. The proper time to train plants la when they are growing. If a branch ebow8 a tendency to outgrow other branches, thus making the plant nip off the end of it at once. Keep it from making more growth until the other branches have had a chance to catch np with it, thus giving the plant proper balance on all sides 'Moat persons neglect their plants in this respect, beause, they say, It seems such a pity to Interfere with them, when they are growing so Growth is not all we aim aL welL We want symmetrical plants,' and such plants we can not we them unless train proper have give Ing. Very few plants can be trusted to train themselves. Whatever training they n get should be given while of de- -' they are-I- The old saying that It is velopment hard work to teach an old dog new , tricks applies here. When a plant baa itself : been allowed to grow to suit untirit "has reached It prime,- - it la too ' late to do very much for It Take It N In hand, then, while growing, and t make It understand that. lt must come i to your terms. Plants are tractable .things. They will do as yon tell them to If they see yon "mean business. well-shape- d, - EBKNJ E. BEX FORD. Tk V.Ib. of VmIs Weeds have a value. The writer loace heard Professor Bailey say that I the weed Is the friend of the farmer; MWIMfMt AnMrla, hung, were flashing with malignant There Is probably no disease so little fire, a all the slumbering devil was understood by farmers as that which roused within him. -la technically known as asoturta, UnThe whole crew saw thla, and I per3 ceived that Marc Hlslop made as at- der that name we mean. ths disease of tempt to rise up and spring overboard the horse which comes on Invariably to my auecor; but aa ait their after aa Idle spell of several days or hopes of even only one dey In th barn and Tristan reaching da Cunha depended Or. entirely upon his skill and knowledge when In tbe aggravated tom causes of navigation, he was seized by Warparalysis and death. Th horse that Chute ren, and others, roughly thrust has been ao managed goes out to work 3 down in the stern sheets and forcibly or a trip os the road and never felt better In hi life, hut" suddenly after held there, JAMBS GRANT. 1 saw now that the fear and selfish- - he has gone a few miles or even blocks r he commences to lag and If driven farnebs of the rest prevailed over all that Lamborune and Cariton could ther, begin to' sweat, and soon goes Hislop. all this into expense and utter bewiCHAPTER XXXII. (Continued.) urge; for, amid a storm of contending lame, usually In a hind leg, and un1 looked keenly and cautiously about lderment I perceived the oars less stopped at once when this stage longues, dipping vesShe was a large, square-rigge- d me on every side, but saw only the in the water again and again and ha been reached he w Ul Inevitably go on slender and countless stems of the tall sel a Chip onnlng close-haule- d like silver blades in the moondown paralised. The lameness la alCashing (to use a man-o-wbananas, whose broad leaves, as they the port-tac- k as they were feathered; and the ways characterized by one or other of light canspread under or over each other, inter- phrase), and s Uh nearly all her longbqat, with all my companions, shot Jh following symptoms: knuckling of rupted the rays of the sun, and formed vas set. from the creek into the bay and bore the btnd fetlock joints, or great rigidreef ataut off was ths She a shade that was pleasing and gloomy. four miles away to seaward about two in the ity of the muscles of ths hip from of the bay, and was Now, when about to cross what at the entran-morning, leaving me on tbe beach stifle to "hip bone. There is also eviseemed a hole or hollow In the jun- bearing dlreetiy toward 1L Her canalone marooned with the fiendish dence of indigestion for the hors tenmoonIn vas tbe gle, by stepping from the strong glimmers! like snow Cubano. passes wind frequently from the reo-tudril of one creeper to another, a naked shine, and wt could see the red lights Had not Antonio held me fast and and also manure which usually arm and great human hand came up of her cabin windows flash at times menaced me with his au offensive odor. I would pistol whiteness from amid the mass of leaves! upon the seasstern, and the have sprang into tbe water, and, unAs a rule the urine It retained as I was seixed by the right foot, and of her long lush deck, as she careened deterred by the sharks that were forthe horse Is afraid to aquat even when In an instant found myself dragged before the breeze. ever gliding stealthily about tba bay, yet able to atand, and the urine when down through the foliage and interYet bow ai it, we all asked, that would have swam after the boat; for, seen 1 always twisted plants down down I knew there was net a breath of wind with desperate yffjhe color of . ptrong though the fortune of those coffee or even blood colored from th not where; and before 1 bad time or us? who were there, I would rather have matter of tbe blood having breath to cry or resist, I lay prostrate Perhaps she brings it with her, shared It than live on the Island of coloring been forced Into the bladder by way on my back In a hole a lair under suggested Hlilop. Alphonso with such a companion. of the highly congested kidneys. When . And how it tame to pass that she the matted Jungle with a man above HU fierce, mocking laugh grated this most characteristic symptom is . outme, his knees planted on my breast, appeared right in the offing and in harshly my ear. but I heeded him observed there can be no question as his strong hands upon my bare throat, side tbe bay all at once? asked Tom not, and continued to gaze after the to ths nature of the disease or that it and his fierce wild eyes glaring like Lambourne- boat and the lessening forms of those Is not "spinal meningitis as It is so She must "have rounded the high who had abandoned those of a hyena into mine. me, not without a often erroneously called. Water Hemlock. Then, how terrible were my emotions bluff while we were all palavering, fond and desperate hope that they cause of the disease Is supposed This Is called also American water on recognizing in the light that fell said Probart, would return for me. Every moment I to The be an overloading of th system Nothing more was said for a time, expected to see her hemlock, wild hemlock, spotted hem- through The mass of foliage above, as about; but not with nitrogenous matters which, were trellis now but whether It was the effect of Imag- eh hell steadily onput lock. spotted parsley, snakeweed, through a till hull and sail th horse of or an and beard as overstrained ination eyesight and crew were blended Into on working, would be used up beaver poison, musquash root, musk- overspread with hair, little in th formation of sweat, vim, , and know not, she seemed to melt a it dark spot, which ere rat weed, cow bane, spotted cowbane, whiskers were all matted into a mass long could scarceths dark and ferocious t&ce of An- were in ths brightness of tbe moonrepair of waste of tissue, but during be dUeerned on the moonlit mornchildren's bane, death of man. ly Idleness Is unused and so stored up ia ao Indistinct that we ing sea. drowned shine . It is a smooth erect perennial, 3 to tonio, whom I believed to ofbe the the line of the horizon the blood and" overloaded liver - and sea could eer and bottom the t lying: Her course was trimmed northeast, 8 feet high, with a rigid hollow stem, next it her and the horse goes out to Antonio el Cubanl! topsails; through for where they d numerous branches, the isle of kidneys WhenIdle an work In a low voice, seemed as 11 her hull, her spars and Tristan da Cunha supposed the blood cirafter said Sllenzlo! he. of a cluster leaves, white flowers, and lay,. She had caught culation la at once spell wer edged with bright prisIn and tbe increased like ear; the blss a my of serpent rigging a breeze spindle-shape- d and, before four o'clock In roots, which vary In effete matters which it contains are but the injunction was unnecessary, matic hues. the the last 3 are morning, of her to from and vestige inches, length It Is Impossible for me to describe had disappeared. for so completely was I taken by surpumped into the circulatory system and very characteristic of the plant It so utterly at his mercy, and so the blank astonishment, or rather the prise by the small veins carried Into th Still I did not entirely despair! grows commonly in swamps and damp destitute alike of breath or weapon Intense consternation, of our men on Ths Idea of swimming to one of the muscles "where they act as poisons and soils throughout the Atlantic states of this vessel, which adjacent was Impossible. tbe resistance that disappearance Jsjes occurred to me; but the clog and paralyse the parts. westward to Louisiana, Iowa and Minthat I was almost stran- was the objsct of so many hopes and straits between were full of foaming - The moment that the first symptoms Perceiving much less nesota; commonly northwishes. he relaxed his fierce grasp a litbreakers and sharks; the rocks, more- (of the disease are observed the hors westward through Nebraska to the gled but still Some tlmt elapsed before tbe poor over, were Inaccessible, and tbe sharply pricktle, kept wherever lahould go no farther than the nearest Rocky Mountains and In New Mexico. ing fcotnt of his knife at my throat, fellows rallied sufficiently to speak on 1 might go Antonio could easily follow. 'barn and should there remain until as a hint to remain quiet. the. eubject; and meanwhile, there The sun was now beyond the he has entirely recovered which will It would be impossible for me to de- flashed upot my memory some strange sea, tnd.ihe shadowsetting he la about three days it the attack is of a great mounscribe the emotluns of my soul dur- and weird eld Celtic tales, which a tain was falling eastward over the Is- not severe. On reaching the barn the Highland boy at Eton was wont to land as we began to descend from the harness should be removed and th . ing this time, which seemed an eternity to me! Utter fear was one, for I tell us, of ships which In the days of bluff where I had lingered so long by first thing to do It a drug store la Osslan traversed the tt?ephllls and the one jt the yarrow and though t tha fellow iad. something winding tracks nearby la to give a physic ball, cornsalt lochs of "MorvetfeVith' eqSai something truly demon one ousce-ot- , freshly pulver- thade- thrWgV'iW gorse W "t about him; that he could neither be clllty. .lead Barbadoes aloes, one drachm of goata. drowned nor destroyed; and I lay still ""It ti a ship or rather the reprefluid extract of Belladonna leaves and .. As It was alike daBgerous and unIn that dark, hollow, panting in his sentation of a veritable ship which comfortable to sleep under the dews two drachms of pulverized ginger root, fierce clutch without a thought of recannot be tar off the Island, and Is that descended after sunset, for two at one dose. In the usual way, Th sistance. making A for It at this moment, said nights after the departure of th boat Affected musclea should be well fomentNow 1 heard my name shouted re, Hlslop, emphatically. was compelled to share the wigwam ed With hot water and then rubbed "How far do you think she Is, air? peatedly. with Antonio, but did ao with dread with a liniment composed of soap lin'Rodney Mr. Rodney Dick Rodasked Hugh Ehute, mocking! and loathing, and kept aa tar away iment four ounces, aqua ammonia on ney where are you? "Perhaps twenty mllesperhaps a from him as possible. , ounoe, turpentine two ounce and waIt was Tom Lambourne and others, hundred It Is Impossible to say. ter to make one pint. Injections of wer which Hle full of dreams, oaths, my companions, who bad now attained, So thoroughly were our companions " soapy warm water may also be given and cries of frequently the commit of the rock, and were scan Vy th recent spectral appear- - ejaculations per rectum by meant ot a large ayring EV apartcloa! Et espectro! on came some over raMet and la the push&nce, whi(ja bey Jungle, scrambling aa of old; and M steep to me be- or a three foot length of one-ha- lt Inch him . the character of stems 'dreadful' of the bananas, way with lng between the came aa impossibility I resolved to rubber boat ttUi vus a tvaseL V'v-- -i searching for me, rather than tor the Antonio el Cubano, that they at once leave him to his own devices. Certain, one loCUus four hohrs drachm ot o. commenced with alacrity the preparafirst objeet of such mystery. the Island waa large enough for us poush may he given dissolved la a ly ' to sea. for tions My disappearance alarmed them. half pint of water sod given aa putting both. r "Can he hare gone adrift over the drench or In drinking water, until four It may be that somewhat of the probecome so had he Moreover sparing bluff, I beard Tom .Lambourne say, fessional restlessness of - tailors con of hU ten charges of powder that he doses have been given. "or Is he only having a game with us firmed their resolution.To prevent "a recurrence of th Via 11 WaUr keylock (OMa would not fire a single shot at either sWwtag They were already tired of their soby hiding himself? trouble the horse should be fed upon alias tf aptatdlaahapad net aad bra Martha f , since boar. wild or have I bird or goat "Oh, yes! that 1 It, "replied ProftiS raktf Mml bran maahes when idle tor oats are heraitrasiai alia journ on the Island, and. Inspired by believed that he saved them with th aad area aastioeafaaaAaalarfad tie bart, the carpenter; "he cant have The desira of reaching Tristan da Cunth most likely to cause th disease -to himself of th resolution defending nd should therefore he avoided. In gone aloft into one of these bananas, ha, which la Inhabited by about eighty to ever arreet This is one of the most poisonous for returned If HUlop are as clear of branches as a families of Portuguese, English and last. they addition always give exercise dally in benative plants In the United States, now, being lord and master par topmast; so let us sheer off to mulattos, among whom Hlslop as- him; and all kinds of weather.' . ing rapidly fatal to both man and ani- the mate, and Mr. Rodney .will soon sured them they might linger long of the whole Island, and of me, too, mals. The roots are especially dam come down after us. he exhibited a new phase of character. enough before they were taken off by Mix lag MUg to procure food, became too gerous, because the taste, being aro'Well, my lads, there are neither a passing ship quite as long as If they He forced me tolasy At a recent dairymen's convention la" find it for him, unmatic and to some people suggestive wild men nor wild beasts and here, said remained on the Isle of Alphonso and threats of shooting me. Thus for Illinois th question of th mixing of of horseradish, parsnips, artichokes or Lambourne! so we shall return back where for subsistence they would be der two weet cicely, la apt to lead children to to Master days after the departure of tbe silage was considered. Hlslop, who is hanging In forced to work as day laborers in the Q. How do you mix your silage T , eat them when they are found forced the wind half-wa- y boat, being totally incapable of catchdown, and then be tavannaa Bnd on tbe highways. W. fleet J, Kennedy. Some do It by takand of on the alone, goats out of the soil by washing, freezing off to the hut. 'Weve earned a stiff As for the Island of Diego Alvares, ing sack and Mwlng them end In no way disposed to encounter gunny ing or other causes in the early spring. glass of grog by this bout, being our Scotch mate, who seemed to know anyhow. wild to I end to bad tbe thus of boars, making a tub that will ont Cattle sometimes eat the tubers, and My emotions became almost suffocateverything, assured them that It pro- singly breakcarry the cut corn to all parts of the In marshes they are poisoned by drink- ing when I heard them turn away to duced only moss and sea grass, and climb the steep rock above tbe , alio. ers and steal tbe sea birds' eggs. ing water contaminated by the Juice descend and rejoin Hislop without me. that If cast there they would die of Mr. Kennedy. In th falling ot eat continued.! be (To of roots that have been crushed by beI saw and heard them pass and re- starvation. Moreover, without chart uage from the carrier into the silo ing trampled upon. No estimate can pass over us, tbe creepers of the jun- or compass, how could .they hope to the heaviest part go farthest nd th WOMEN. YOUNO OLD steer with certainty In any direction? be made of the amount of damage done gle yielding their weight. lightest parts--fal- l directly under th The leg and foot of one, named Hento live stock, but it Is very considerThey all might perish in detail by Boot of tUe Kvll la la Farealat ladal- - carrier. over that trouble by I got most dreadful aev-eral deaths In their open able. The human Victims average ry Warren, came down through the tbs gene. hanging a blanket up IS front of th green network of leaves and actually boat, gasping with unquenfthed thirst per annum. One of the saddest feature of presencurrier for the silage fo strike against, blaze of a tropical sun. He me. the touched under The prominent symptoms of the life la the condition of ennui and th leaves and stalks fall togetlier. t drew a long, gasping breath, and said much more; but tbey would listen t-day even the very young women Then all we have to do Is to spread 1L which in poisoning are colicky pains,' vomiting, the atrocious Cubano, believing I was to nothing save their own fears and settle soon after their school and Q. Can spoiled, silage he fed to unconsciousness, days are staggering, to impulses. restless about cry aloud, compressed my stock with profit? Times, the frightful convulsions ending in death. throat ao tightly Philadelphia young says finished,' was of th island; and weary withili muscular . I, too, Mr. Frasier. You might let them 18 or 19 they have been everywhere, despondency At hands, that a thousand lights seemed though- feeling all th Fertility la Petatoea, to flash before my eyes, and I must that follows a severer disappointment seen everything, possessed whatever pick it over, but they should not he Bulletin 57 of tbe Maine Experiment hare become senseless for some min- on the disappearance of the illusory their desires have prompted, and just slurred into" eating It The hogs Station giving some figures of the utes, as the next Incident that dwells ship, I in so way shared the wild and when ljfe should be most filled with might be given a chance to pick out chemical contents of a potato crop In my memory is seeing him sitting in wishes of the crew, beautiful promises they are hopelessly tbe corn. to these says: Assuming fairly a crouching attitude, with his elbows though assured that I would be com- stranded on the barren shores of Indiffigures Tbe ytate of Michigan has begun proference. The root of this evil is to ford represent potatoes as grown in Maine, on his knees: his. chin pelled to follow- their desperate secutions, in Jackson county, that , a crop of 200 bushels, weighing six resting in the hollow of his right hand, tunes, be found in paternal Indulgence. Th A Company iff remove . thirty-seve- n tons, would American father and mother' work state, against" Amour and with his knife his murderous Hlslop and I a till lingered; so w ot process butthe for Chicago telling pounds of nitrogen, sixteen pounds of Albacete cuchlllo clenched In his were told peremptorily that if we did hard, saving all they can, denying ter without' It aa such. The labeling neceson fifty-eigand oft h acid me one times come and luxuries board while not phosphoric at pounds whit teeth, surveyed they would themselves fact that the Chicago packer named Unof potash Jf the amounts and' pro- with a strange and aardonlc smile in shove off without us. 'Thus compelled, saries as well, that their daughter may In the manufacture ot process r black eyes, which glit- we stepped In most reluctantly and revel In that which they have never engaged portions of fertilizing elements re- his deeply-s- et butter la not, perhaps generally moved by a crop could be taken as a tered like those of a snake in the rays seated ourselves In tbe stem, and he taken the time or th means to enjoy. known. It was supposed that th Chiguide in preparing a field for that crop, of sunlight that straggled through the assumed the tiller. The oars wer run From her earliest Infancy the girl finds cago packer made butterlne aa a aide" the problem of supplying the proper woven roof of leave about us. through tbe rowlocks, and Lambourne that her lightest wish Is to be gratiIssue, mainly as a means of disposing amount and kind of plant food to tbe I heard no more the voices of my was about to shove off, when Probart. fied If it ia possible, regardless pt tbe ot their to th best adsoli would They wer gone. and I was who had the. how oar,- - tuddeuLy simplified- - To shipmates fact that what she desire may not he vantage. - The making over of rancid that n had left his hatchet becoming to her age or to her condi- butter, however. Is something of a demanure a field for a crop of potatoes, left alone and unarmed with this man nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash or devil as yet I knew not whfbh be near onr wigwam, and asked ms to tion of life. That ebe want it la aU parture for th meat packers, and It would have to be added In about toe waa; bat I knew that If he had the will get it, t that th parentsconalder, ao that when will probably not be long before w I jumped ashore, and was proceed- the time comes that such "gratification find th same factors at work In other proportions given above and in euf he had assuredly the power, to kill and leave me ia his lair, or to cast me, a ing along the beach for it, when sudficient quantity to supply the vine would have some significance eh is lines of dairy effort It seems likely of the denly-! wsa confronted by Antonio, make and sell pro-ceand tubers the land was expected- - to msntled liespr to the firms past enjoying It She ha nothing to Jhat hatter In that who from A thicket bad been watchwill be comMichigan I yield, A formula made np ' on this cliff whereupon he lurked. h and forward to, surfeited, ' look name ot to under sell the It basis would be very materially differing onr operation end departure. pelled should sh marry, her husband will CHAPTER XXXIII. His tawney skin for he was naked ent from any mixed, fertiliser on the "process butter. Not till recently haa to their the bar ennui greatest this find It might have been about the hour to the waist his ferocious aspect, his domestic happiness. A little mor th dairy and food department ot that market ani would contain the fertilisat on head-o- f mattedhalr-hla-coliieswe were and still state been able to distinguish process loitering ten, al elements In jf about ing the following lood, plain In early youth,-pla- la of A strength and atrocious character were frocks, simple pleasure up to th time butteF from fresh butter, but now a proportion!: Nitrogen, 6 parts; phos- the moonlit beach, when the cry Sail in sight! made every heart leap not without a due effect upon the way to distinguish them haa been disphoric add, 2 pans; and potash, ot her debut should be the rule, when covered. The dairy and food commisboat's crew at thla crisis. . , wildly and with hope. parts. new sensation will more sion ot Michigan has sot a good ex"Shove off shove off! I heard sev- the delight of "Twaa Tom Lambourne who' spoke, for the doing without ample to the neighboring states In th ' compensate than one voices eral - At the Missouri Experiment Station but every eye caught the ship at cry in the boat; ."her her pathway up vigor with- - which It Is following up marked haa which that Prof. Schweitzer measured the leaf and even those wbo bad been dosing comes that dog of a Cubano. " ! Violators of the state laws. hut . I struggled with Antonio; hut he to that time. , surface of a rigorous coruplut-e.- f avhis pistol erage development The total surface were awake and on. thelreachlfi mCfr laughed loudly,, and-dre- w "Nktur abhors a vacuum"! - thereKorea la just aBouFtS Size Of ths of the IS leave and sheath was found ment, stretching their Sands toward with fbe sir of one who would enforce to be 3.480 aejuaye Inches, or about 24 her with joy and 'eiultation, but the obedience; besides, his eyes, - which Island of Great BrlUln, being 400 mile for she fills some heads with sawdust. and from 120 to 209 miles wld. square feet,-- .aspect of the ship gradually chanted the tangled masses of his hair ever- long and no man should want to get rid of a 'arm because It la weedy. He himself had purchased a good farm at a low price, because It had all run to weeds and the former owner believed that they were ao numerous aa to greatly reduce the value of the land. But these same weeds had been keeping the fertility of the soil from leaching out, and had kept the ground In a condition where It would not bake, but would readily yield to the plow. He simply turned all the weeds under and got back the fertility they had taken from the ground. Then he planted to other crops and had a regained farm. Were it not for weeds, say after a clover crop, the nitrogen in the soil in readiness for plant use would disappear. As it ia, the weeds take it up and hold it tor subsequent crops. Th cultivation that is necessary to keep down weeds is not time and effort lost The benefit to the crop cultivated Is more than enough to pay for the outlay. The additional effect of conservation of moisture ia not to be forgotten. Weeds are also valuable for the work they do in keeping the land in the luw'itr of the many. Were there" no Weeds the cultivation of the land could be undertaken on an immense scale by men of wealth and a monopoly in land would be possible. It such a monopoly were attempted at this time, the cost of keeping the land clean would make It Impossible to keep it under controL fnDICK I RODNEY; I The Adventures of An Eton Boy... I BY ar rn -- b; vine-cover- ed finely-dissecte- . . vmitlst:S . -- k St - black-bearde- -- ht -- -- the-botto- m ss de-Sl- l L . 1 |
