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Making One Grain of Wheat
Produce 30,000 in a Year
G REAT interest is takeii in
Prance just now in a new
method by which the yield of
crops per acre is enormously in
creased. in one test case the in
crease ■ of wheat has been three
times above that grown in similar
soil in the same neighborhood.
The remarkable value of the
method is indicated by the state
ment that it has made twenty grains
of wheat produce 700,000 in one
year.
The method consists in preparing
seed-beds in widely spaced lines on
very mellow land; then at the end
of two months dividing the tufts
springing from each grain, replant
ing each of these rooted shoots thus
detached, and finally in hoeing and
earthing up these new plants many
times in such manner as to provoke
at all the point! brought into inti
mate contact with the earth the
growth of numerous adventitious
shoots, each of which bears an ear.
The system is not really new, but
a very ancient one, used immerno-
rially by the Chinese, and to it is
due the enormous yield of their
fields, which have been treated like
gardens.
While our farmers throw broad
cast handfuls of grain on the har
rowed earth, offering rich pasturage
to pillaging birds and rodents, the
Chinaman, after furrowing the earth
with his wooden plowshare, without
turning it, crumbles each lump in
his hands till it is like fine powder.
This done, at planting time he walks
slowly down each furrow, carrying
a grain drill which is a marvel of
ingenious simplicity.
Picture to yourself two pointed
plowshares about • twenty inches
apart and connected by a transverse
bar supporting a hopper filled with
grain, from which issue two slender
bamboo tubes designed to conduct
the grains so that each will drop in
the wake of one of the shares The
diameter of each tube is just great
enough to allow the passage of one
grain at a time without letting it
drop until it receives the impulse of
a slight shock given by means of
the handles which complete the ap
paratus.
The sower pushes the drill in front
of him, inclining it now to the right
and now to the left, in such it 'way
that each inclination causes ■ the
issue of a single seed, which is In
stantly pressed under by the track
of one foot or the other. Each 'grain
is thus planted at a distance of six
teen to twenty inches from its neigh
bors in every direction.
At the end of a few weeks germi
nation begins. When the yipung
plant is ten or twelve inches in
height there are a score of stalks
about its stem, each provided with a
fringe of rootlets. The farmeP'cov-
ers each w ith loose earth byr ;nteans
of careful hoeyig, thus raising,the
level of the furrow. Each, stalk
again proliferates, and the’rb are
soon fifteen to twenty new stiilks
around its stem, which detach them
selves. All are the indirect issue of
p single grain, which proves there
fore to have been the parent pi W
to 400 stalks, each bearing at)
Transferring this method ' 'lif'
perimental fields and perfecting
it has been found possible to so;
rate from the stem each of the pi\;
itive stalklets with its own roo
transplant it, and then treat in l! ■
same wav each of the new
thus formed. ir
An Algerian French farmer,.'U
Bourdiol-llumbert, has been plan’
fug wheat and oats in the same-field?
for five years, without the applica
tion of manure. He make- hifi,,fur
rows thirty-six inches apart .and
plants the seeds therein at* a dis
tance of twenty inches frorii"‘^ach
other. Then he harrows the'kdlrth
constantly, stirring the solid de
stroying its parasites and keeping it
pulverized. For five years, without
fertilizing, without distribution'' of
crops, and without rotation, he has
harvested an average yield of.1,80(1
pounds of oats per acre and of
wheat, while his neighbor's yield
was a scant 850 pounds of oats and
500 of wheat. juf
Mile. Dorgere, the Mo*t Beautiful
Blonde in Paris Who Says That
Manuel Can Never Be Happy
with One Wife.
What’s Going
to Happen to Manuel?
By Mile. DORGERE,
The Most Beautiful Blonde in Paris.
The Four Phases of the Honeymoon as Seen by the Beautiful Mile. Dorgere. The First Quarter—
I Msnuel Embraces. The Second—Manuel’s Interest Wanes. The Third—The Princess Objects.
When Manuel’s Like the Moon. The Fourth—See Msnuel Leaving His Princess to Pursue a
N-w and Strange “Comet.”
M ANUEL has no talent for matrimony.
He is not cut out for the life monog
amous. Manuel is even more than
other males, polygamous. To him there is
not only safety, but. happiness, in numbers.
How, then, can he he happy with one wife,
and she of the temperament phlegmatic?
The woman who could hold Manuel, who
could keep him both lover and husband is a
blonde. Manuel being young, ardent and a
brunette—-a true Latin—can be held only by
a, true blonde. She must be all fire, her tem
perament more intense, more ardent, than
Manuel’s. Always sne must never let Man
uel be sure of her. She must keep him al
ways what the English call anxious. Never
must he feel that he has sounded every
depth. Manuel is optimistic. He is also
’thoroughly masculine; he must, always feel
that there are fresh worlds ahead for him
to conquer.
Manuel has a quick, hot temper, if he
throws a fat cushion at his valet when his
morning coffee is cold, she must not cajole
Manuel, but throw a plate at him.
Manuel likes to read his morning paper
uninterrupted. The woman who will keep
him lover well as husband will tempt him
with kisses, with aroh coquetry, to drop his
paper. Never will she let him read it—never
will she show temper when he begins to
read it.
Having no subtlety, he must be handled
with great subtleness. Has the good
Princess Augustine finesse. But no!
It is not the great things that will send
Manuel back to Paris, to London—only the
little happenings of daily life.
The woman to keep Manuel should be
petite, slender, have the svelte, sleek grace
of a tiger cat, with its cleverness, too.
The woman who would hold Manuel will
love him as he loves her—-will love him with
the fierceness of the predatory male, the
primitive man—not with the maternal calm
ness mixed with the p&le passion of the
hausfrau.
Manuel itas the haj>it of throwing his
dressing brushes at anyone who disagrees
with him politically before breakfast. Is the
good Princess of Hobenzollern able to meet
this situation when it rises?
She will see that he. has his morning cof
fee served hot with three lumps of sugar, but
she will not play the siren, and it is only the
siren woman who will keep Manuel always
as lover.
E X-KING 'MANUEL, of Portugal, con
tinues to find life just one sad
trouble after another. He is always
jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
Even now that he has turned to his one
last resort—matrimony—he finds no way
out. In fact, it looks as though this last
way would lead him more deeply into
trouble than ever.
There is an old saying that when a man
marries his troubles begin, but Manuel’s
began long before matrimony became dan
gerously imminent. There are times when
it looks as though Manuel invited rather
than avoided trouble.
And in deciding to marry the Princess
Augustine Victoria of Hohenzollern, a con
nection of the Kaiser, Manuel is certainly
running toward, rather than from, trouble.
It will greet him as he enters his fiancee’s
village on the Danube, and it will follow
him all through his married life.
Manuel’s present troubles and tribula
tions come from his social experiences at
the European courts. There is no getting
away from the fact that Manuel has been
a King; that he has royal blood in his
veins; that he has royal characteristics.
When first sent into exile he was so over
come with the magnitude of his tragedy
that he gave no thought to the mere
pinpricks of his life.
But as time passed these pinpricks de
veloped into stabs’ and he began to suffer
keenly. He found that in losing his king
ship he bad lost the right to be kowtowed
to. He found that the man in the street
was as ready to crowd him off the side
walk as though he were an every-day citi
zen; that women no longer walked back
ward from his presence, but tripped out
gaily, treading on his once-royal toes if he
got in their way. This was all very for
givable if the ladies were fair and frail, but
when stout, ugly dowagers pushed him
aside to make room for their pet dogs it
was a sadly different thing.
Manuel was offered, as we all know, a
home in England, and an allowance was
arranged for him. He was very happy
with this arrangement because he did not
have to stay in England; , e could stay in
Paris, so he thought.
In the midst of a wonderful Parisian
shoved him away from the palace door
with bts spear.
He has. however, one privilege at Buck
ingham Palace—he is allowed precedence
before any peer of the realm, but it is
given him as a courtesy, not as a right.
Another thing that troubles Manuel is
that in London he cannot wear the dress
uniform of a ruling monarch; he has to
be content with that of a colonel; with the
exception of the skirt, he has to wear the
uniform as that worn by the little Princess
Mary! This is in itself a horrfble blow.
Having been treated so shabbily by the
various royalties of Europe, is it any won-
^ der that he chooses a German bride? The
Kaiser, to date, is the one monarch who
has not snubbed Manuel. He has use fbr
him. He has long had him in mind as the
husband of the Princess Augustine, and so
no snubs were permitted on the one visit
that Manuel made to Berlin.
He is to marry a very rich and important
princess, a member of a family that con
siders the Kaiser himself to be an upstart;
but will he find happiness in matrimony?
No, and neither will the princess.
What chance for happiness have they?
Manuel has no desire to marry. He is not
fitted to play the part of a husband. He
is young, impressionable; he is skilled at
playing the lover, hut knows nothing of
what being a husband means, and espe
cially the husband of a German princess.
Coerced by circumstances, driven des
perate by his troubles—social, financial,
personal—he will take the step that will
only lead him deeper into trouble!
At the very gate of his future home
trouble awaits Manuel. On the eve of his
wedding he will have to enter the village
riding astride a pole carried shoulder high
by several of her peasants; he will be car
ried around the’ fountain in the market
places a dozen times, and, while trying to
keep his balance, he will scatter cakes and
bonbons on both sides to the laughing vil
lagers.
But in his domestic life he will have
more troubles than in his public career,
for Manuel is not cut out for matrimony.
In looking into his future. Mile. Dorgere
says: ‘'This marriage will not mark the
end of Manuel’s troubles; only the be
ginning of new ones."
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visit, when his youthful spirits were re
covering from the shock of his Lisbon ex
periences, the men behind his allowance
sent him word that they were perfectly
wiling to support ,him, but that they did
not intend to support the habitues of the
Paris cafqg.
He began to go about socially, but
trouble still pursued him. Dowagers not
only pushed him aside as of yore, but even
the servants treated him with scant cour
tesy. Driven to desperation at the slights
he fancied royalty was responsible for, he
recently took a stand that leads England
to laugh. This haughty little ex-monarch,
living through the generosity of royalty,
sent word to his friends that in future he
was to be accorded all the privileges of a
reigning monarch.
This declaration meant that in the future
Manuel must not be invited as an ordinary
guest, but that he should he allowed to
invite himself. Also that a list of guests
that were to be invited to meet him should
be vised by him.
This might have been granted the fool
ish little ex-King, but he went further. At
the recent drawing room he was unlucky
enough to step on the train of a very un
pleasant old frump, a dowager Duchess
who has a serpent’s tongue.
The irate dowager turned and. pushing
the ex-King with her elbow, said, ‘Young
man. did they teach you no manners
where you came from?”
And one of the flunkies nearby ordered
him to stand against the wall and keep
out of the way of his betters.
This incident sent Manuel home in a
towering rage, and he again announced
that he should be accepted as a King or
not at all; that the occupants of a room
should rise when he entered; that he
should precede everyone else unless the
King and Queen were present; that men
should stand uncovered in his presence,
and that every pet dog, belonging to he
cared not.jtwho, should be kept out of his
sight.
But London laughed at him and con
tinues to treat him as an ordinary citizen.
The English court sets this fashion, and
during his recent visit at the Czar’s court
he was not even saluted by the Palace
Guards, and one big Cossack soldier
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NcwEsrTRQUBiKof Little
Ex-King Manuel.
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(Soon lb Be Married)
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Snubbed by Europe’s Courts, Has to
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Ride into His Fiancee’s Village on
a Pole, and the Most Beautiful
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“To the poor little Ex-King the
Blonde in Paris Draws a Most
Unflattering Horoscope of
flunky problem became enormoui.
They even made him follow be
hind common dukes.”
His Approaching Marriage