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Adding Humus (Vegotabls Matter)
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Hoard's Dairyman.
Ed. Hoard’s Dairyman—'Yo^r kind
letter at hand, requesting me to write
a short article on vegetable matter.
I scarcely know where to begin. If
1 would go to preaohing the gospel
I would get to talking vegetable
matter before they could take up a
collection.
On my farm there is not a month
but something comes up in front of
me that backe up my theory of de
cayod vegetable matter, humus, and
physical condition of the Boil. The
fall of; 1899 we hauled our potato
tops from the patch to a poor spot
in one of our grass fields and spread
them over it. They laid there till
the field went to corn, last spring,
and when we were husking the corn
through that spot my man said, “do
you notice the large ears of corn
where we hauled the potato tops?”
The same fall I plojvod down a
large crop of cowhorn turnips and
crimson clover in cornstalks; the
field went to oats the spring of
1900, sown broadcaf-t and without
fertilizer for the firs* time,and I had
a good crop of.oats in an exceeding
ly dry season. Then the field went
to wheat the fall of 1900, find one of
my neighbors, looking at the Wheat
the first of June, said, “that is the
result of plowing down turnipB.”
We cut the wheat in July, mowed
the clover and made hay the middle
of September, and tjp-day it is the
finest field of clover,. I think, I ever
saw, and this on land that eight
years ago would not produce the
seed. I think I will have it photo
graphed. There is no other cause
for this excopt plowing down vege
table matter, and, Mr. Hoard, I be
lieve if I can get the physical condi
tion of my soil the way I want it, I
can raise red clover just as easily
find as large as my grandfather used
to do,
I have chaugod the color of my
soil with vegetable matter. I should
have stated at the beginning of this
avtiole that my farm had been work
ed until they could not raise any
thing on it; then it was thrown away
aud abandoned, and a man could
not be found that would farm it.
The color of the soil was a light yel
low, and where I have used vegeta
ble matter it has changed it to a
dark brown.
T know it is warmer in cold weath
er, cooler in warm weather, and I
noticed in the dry season of 1900
that it held more moisture in dry
weather, aud th s wet season I no
ticed it was dryer and did not get
as muddy as land void of vegetable
matter.
This is queer talk. Warmer in
cold weather, cooler in warm weath
er, more wet in dry weatner, and
dryer in wot weather, but I mean
overy word of it.
I have beon plowing do\pv orim-
son clover, cowhorn turnips and
dwarf Essex rape, at a cost of from
(55 cents to $1.00 per acre. .This
year I sowed seven different kinds
of seeds in my corn as a catch crop.
It was a very wet season, too*-wet
for many crops, and some of them
did not coine up to my expectations.
The cowhorn turnips and rape are
the best and not a failure by any
means. I would rather have a legu
minous plant, bqt the clovers will
not give me the growth in five or
six months that I get from the cow
horn turnips and rape.
I select these two plants because
they have long roots and get to the
Bubsoil Boon after sown, and aot as
pumps to bring up the potash and
phosphoric acid that I cannot get
from there any other way.
The decaying of the vegetable
matter in the soil, in addition to the
plant food brought there by it, un
locks or releases some that the Al
mighty locked up. The men before
me worked out the humus and veg
etable matter from the soil, until it
was all gone, and the plant food was
unavailable, and they shook the dust
off their feet and turned their backs
on the old farm and said it was
worn out, and would not produce
any more.-
How true it is that “God moves
in a mysterious way his wonders to
perform,” If He did not we would
use up everything in the soil and
then try to pull down the very skies
and use them.
I am making some tests with clay
and loam soils now, anfl hope to get
them done before I go to New Jer
sey to attend institutes/Nov. 11th.
I am watching the drying out of the
soils, taking into consideration the
amount of humus in them, and when
through I am go in sc to measure
weigh, and then wash out tha de
cayed vegetable .matter and humus
and see what is left.
I expect I am making this article
too long, but I am a crank along
this l ; ne. My boys wink at each
other when I go around feeling my
soil, like the miller feels the flour.
I send you a photo of a field of
cowhorn turnips and crimson clovfer,
costing me about 80 cents per acre.
You can use iifit you see fit.
N. S. Seeds,
Huntington Go., Pa.
Lost Love’s Balm Per Pound.
Now York World.
In " a western breach-of-promise
case, as the report comes, the pro
posed assessment on the defendant
is made specific instead of ad valo
rem. The plaintiff says she has lost
thirty pounds and means to make
the plaihtiff pay for every one of
them. So she sues for $10,000,000,
or about $388 a pound, which does
seem excessive.
If this case can be established as
a precedent, it will do much to sim
plify proceedings in other suits of
its kind. The ordinary breach-of-
promise litigation depends too much
on mere love letters, which may be
“trifles light as air,” and which in
any event carry no weight with cyn
ical jurymen. They promote the
gayei.y of tho world which reads the
papers, it is true, but that is not
pushing tho interests of the injured.
Under the practice possibly to be
introduced it will be advisable for
the fair party to a new courtship
carefully to register her weight at
the beginning of the wooing. Then,
in the event of a jilting aud conse
quent emaciation, the avoirdupois of
“before” and “after” may be pre
sented with proper affidavits. It
will bo strauge indeed if the scales
of justice do not readily measure
out that, which will balance the lost
plumpness.
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Alphabetical Abuse.
The prosecuting attorney in a law
suit had waxed especially indignant
at tho defendant, whom he charac
terized as an “abandoned, baneful,
cynical, diabolical, execrable, feloni
ous, greedy, hateful, irresponsible,
jaundioed, knavish, lazy, meddle
some, noxious, outrageous and prof
ligate rowdy.”
“The learned counsel on the other
side,” said the attorney for the de
fendant, when he rose to reply,
“should have put his adjectives into
a hat and shaken them up a little
boforo using. You must have no
ticed, gentlemen of the jury, that
they were in regular alphabetical or
der. This shows that he selected
them from a dictionary, beginning
with ‘a.’ He stopped at *p,’ but in
his manner of reproducing them he
has given us the ‘cue’ as to how he
got them.”
This turned the laugh against the
other lawyer, and he lost the. case.—
Exchange.
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The Manufacturers’ Record says
the migration of negroes to the cit
ies of the east and north is not
pleasing to the white people of
those sections. This movement c(.f
negroes to cities is noticeable in all
sections of the country, and it is
creating a new problem that is full
of exasperating features.
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The lady who had to leave the
donation party the other night be
fore it was over will. please call at
our drugstore and get. a bottle of
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. She
has indigestion or she would not
have been taken sick, and if she
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A Talented Sheep.
Colorado has a sheep that is not
only able to care for itself, but looks
after the welfare of cattle as well.
The animai is a product of Montana,
where it was raised by John W.
Springer, president of the National
Live Stock Association. It is now
a pensioner on his Douglas county
ranch. > ’
During the recent biting blizzard,
which cost Wyoming and Montana
stockmen thousands of head of cat
tle, this sheep went out just as the
fierce storm was brewing and round
ed up the cattle in places where they
could get shelter and food. With
intuition that anticipated the storm
warnings of the weather bureau, the
little creature began looking after
her flocks, and not a single animal
refused to follow her advice.
The result was that in this in
stance alone she saved for the presi
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sociation more than her weight in
gold would equal. Some of the
members of the association say that
during the blizzard of last spring
two of their number were lost and
that the sheep was sent out to di
rect them back to the ranch house.
Sho could tell by instinct in which
direction go, while the men were
compelled to listen and then search.
—Exchange.
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It is reported that Attorney Gen
eral Knox, in order to secure the
confirmation of his appointment was
compelled to promise that he would
bring suit against the great trusts
recently organized. The American
anti-trust league asserts that this
promise was made, and insists upon
its immediate fulfillment. The Min
neapolis Times tries to stir up Mr.
Knox to activity by suggesting that
few lawyers are so well aware as he
of the inward working of the great
trusts, aud that if ho will do his du
ty now he will not only atone for
the past, but win a high place on
tho list of repentant sinners.—The
Commoner.
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A. J. Snell wanted to attend a
party, but was afraid to do so on
account of pains in this stomach,
which lie feared would grow worse.
He says, “I was telling my troub
les to a lady friend, who said:
‘Chamberlain’s Colic,Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy will put you
in condition tor the party.’ I
bought a bottle and take pleasure
in stating that two doses cured
me and enabled me to have a good
time at the party.” Mr. Snell is
a resident,of Summer Hill, N. Y.
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