-d_ 1 i ■ HMM M■RMB■■HI■■■IMIHMBNM in the mood great She to “It’ll be protest. keen interest. FARMING. a move INTENSIVE was enjoy PITH AND POINT. ) ! self-indulgence, seemed be the imaginary said. to the ‘‘lt for us,” he regardless I’m and what it would the do, glad of cost for only thing to one us It In When Coupled, with Economy Think well and well.— will do you feel I dearest her. there. we’re to more and so near Sure Lead Happiness to to Chicago Democrat. said, than time “We’ll see,” she briefly. heartened to-day any up Prosperity. True Census of Man—“ head Who ;■ is the -■t forget won’t much think started. We “There’s to since your so over we this family?” Hen Peck Peck —“Mrs. you.” it’s good of John, I tell Blest with the best countries first. But kindness, of to you can one is, the off.”—Baltimore cook’s day and on “Don’t John, so.” pshaw!” said globe, it “Oh, the surrounded by plan on American. REST. OF DREAM A in breath. called him it!” said Hester, schools, She would have after speak of ing nations, fitted with dairy a The A PLOW ATTACHMENT. have mother for to of three boys pleasant small him if she could have “It’s been agricultural colleges, traveling dairies and clung to us says so and the day. hour hurry the Oh. the best strawberries his you!” to farmers’ institutes months and face and brought and the look he to weeks went And the years way preserve seen on as roll! is that swiftly the journey place take to them high shelf in doors, literature like and It Little Make All one’s —all the weariness of it, the to ft Coat Bat to It, and cast out up on a necessary a was very its prey! that Oh. the lives are dark closet, door.—Chicago then lock the went anticipation again. The tflvo out to Who of forest the best methods patience and the brave of Have Tried It Are More leaves men a on meet tired looks Oh, the we Daily News. the barn together. farming, blest with good soil and Than Satisfied. of the loneliness to along the a As street, come. we pass the wife of sought the travail little Bearing witness The of the blessings to back Biggins—“Ketcham these In just few minutes he insulted I water, claims not to eyes are was pure a soul' A last spring, while been good,” Hester's. “You have lightly of. Intensive farming, side. him." Wiggins—“ year ago be thought her so give him we at Did you dreamed dream: Listen! I have a plowing “so piece of sod for whisper, good she said, almost in said, rather anxiously, Biggins—“Well, coupled with is the “Hester,” he satisfaction?” were a corn, we true a any economy, just has brought of comfort it And a me had difficulty dust in getting the plow awful and This the to in! to take you’d think the need of the farmer of to-day. would letting “what to two if had greatest gleam. us you say so seen you 'tls surely, alas, and minded right. We plowing with Tho' 1 know, a wouldn’t have them heat! I he land rule is under cultivation people in for little rest? pounded me." —Town Topics. run Too much were way a as a come dream. three horses, and if it take it has been but set to much for myself, individual farmer give They’ve opped just little by the the we to st so The Storm.—The violently. wagon a heavens wept the land enough, the jointer would makes cough vallej'. bad for him. It cut Somewhere, in sheltered and work She childish it justice. Fewer from here. a so face of acres more seems a After that the way nature and still, Peace enfolded, calm frightens much into the land. We always and too that it takes less help, best results, thing, and he looks if the gives me. worse, looked Her face as fright. as young was a Lies comely little village a been thought of have going buying three-horse Sometimes when in the had much for him— less machinery, be world been got too some a we enough train. In ditch freight to crops can the hill. shadow of In the a just seemed clevis like of neighbors slowly the horses have with sickly-looking. What ground earlier, harvested less loss, thin and he’s some our Whitened shines each little cottage. so fact, ditched several such trains so were emerald dust has almost had, did the the but like price Like pearl in set. and when not to to results. in?” securing best a do bringing them thereby to it.—Detroit pay creep, by Journal. say you with fragrance And the air is sweet him, I have choke dealers asked for them. So began seemed to the it's needed for family “O John, how when Raise everything we we, so can music?” “Do like rag-time mignonette. Of and sweet you peas frantic! All these think of other plan. felt if I should to it is?” Raising good big hard and stock. keep to go some as a garden up as cultured “Yes,” highly answered the the loves linger And sunlight to the I been Our fitted with long clevis days that have plow is worn,” and'happiness of “He sick and adds the health looks real on way a to we repeated always reluctantly. “But I young woman, each humble sanded floor. On reach Colorado. have been longing to that fits in notches in casting brought length of the her husband; and that the family and on so a purse. called insist that it shall be On each tiny latticed window, couldn’t felt if I wait, the the That is I end of beam. have to knew would. good the farm the he it Keep as regulate Loves within each door; as steal response many cows to ‘syncopation’ as before I give it my approval.”—Ohio might the We when the waiting depth (Fig. 1). to the air is tilled with music Hester. went fodder, And then,” said will feed principally “Go ask them, mean everything corn Journal. carry, on State ceaseless flow By the pleasant been hard, has him, and it the blacksmith and him make got to to will the little easier for hogs “If make it so keep we can a as many as use His “Well, Ambition. Minister O’er its heights and shallows rocky keep cheerful almost impossible, to Figures and Figure is 3. 2 2 winter them, I suppose.” by-products of dairy and ought to, so a corn, we below. Of the brook just down Johnnie, make what do to you propose hard, is always before him! That products with me,” coaxed John. hogs beets. Sell all “You very on sugar come be of yourself when to up you grow the delight their branches How trees so? When life is don’t think buy we’ll ask direct “Go hat, and your of the farm to get you consumer; your on man?” (thoughtfully)— Johnnie Tenderly interlace, to a else's, somebody all wrapped in to nothing and offer them together.” forcash discounts; up save O’er straw-thatched rooftree the quaint and “Well, have I don’t but I know sure, how feeling keep that from quality protesting laugh, for sale but goods of faultless She slight you one gave a should like been thinking lately that I that they knew, In and quiet place! suffer? if sweet And of clinging his and finish, thereby keeping nevertheless, but went, to course your dog-catcher."—Somerville be to ': n 'J' a 7 the people, and And women, men worse.” much it all that would make flock of and almost resting her face reputation. Raise good turkeys, so a arm, - Journal. Working faithfully for bread, thing How the if well and sometimes his shoulder. was ducks, chickens young poor Know geese, the dignity of labor. on Welcome Change.—“My dear,” began out! if It emptying her heart head. Where harsh greed lifts its country!” she said, half cared will good profit for not “What was as for show a a the “I’ve wife, extravagant young of the days grief and anxiety all the breath. “Dust, dust, dust, Invested. Keep all under her time and money They have and loving. time for life got talk several things I to want to rolling the in the covered everywhere! it and painted You breathe over and implements wagon, farm taste Time feel; time to to wagons yes, pray: about." relief,” “Ah! that’s you exclaimed a its bounds, Kings and each his Maker brown plains, had burst priests, blinded it!” of it and by under Keep one get and accounts your eyes cover. the husband. “What is?” Worships in simple way. this a itself listener. and out to must the travelers things They and purchases, buy sales pour were very near never 3 “To be assured that you’ve the Naught ambition. got they know high of The tired horses, with dejected, needed, and sale unless auction at now. an despair; But still less of dark things talk about. You want to you ATTACHMENT. HANDY PLOW know.” the excited wanted “I to and tobacco down-bent heads, snatching all leave whisky in their hearts above brood you terrors, poor no were generally discourse things you upon Fear of God has dwelling there. kind have piece %-iach iron rod, perhaps 20 little voice “how of wife what little they could. In the you Keep from rest alone. ran on, secrets your no need.”—Philadelphia Press. been it has with joint about been—what comfort to inches long, 5 covered and she the in business relations, a sat a Happy peasants! happy valley! wagon woman—such as man your less much tired end. This short me! Don’t how inches from the back Would that I might off'ring give hollow-cheeked, joys and large-eyed sharer of all should be the you see a FEAST OF THE POPPIES. •Of vain pride, and in such shelter coughed hasn’t flattened and has looks? And he he is two % part word advice from and such little slip of wife! near or often of man, a a sorrows; a Tranquilly safely live! and have cheered bolt the near! You holes in it to much, 7-16-inch to not The hot wind flapped the help the farm. good wife so to canvas save a may it. Dear dream nook! could I but find Ceremony Observed The Beautiful Annual The It has been strange—■ of the jointer. beam in front too. W. and dust W. swirls of the so all sent Live with us up, There, methinks, when spent, at day over cover, peace men. was •< the Church Near taking at day the all this journey—every loop put I could from life’s knowing a other end has to out their and us and pass two occupants scanty Hicock, in Farm Home. a possessions. With and calm content. sweet City of Mexico. and the a home, farther from trying clevis in. Figure doubletree 8 That they resembles scanty, away were very hands carried And by true gently VENTILATE THE WELL. homesickness— the inches choke down U. This is about long 9 to indeed, Hester could help seeing not 3 To the graveyard the steep, on of Among the beautiful short, with gratitude customs and—” off She broke tire. It has and made of long in There sacred quiet the briefest glance. A dry, could I in wagon untempting Mexico, which, hoped, will Will it is be the Water Blissfully forever sleep. in her to Unless This Is Done shining and in it; inches of tears %-inoh holes 3 four wife lunch the taking eyes. was —Beatrice Clayton, Philadelphia Public in “Feast is the that of and Injurious Hester Stagnant just time for to edge Soon Become There never end is brought to pass away, the Some from basket. of the self-pity was an open a Ledger. of the Poppies.” It the Health. in hers and little brown hand to take the casting comes on notches in the fit the that had darkened Hester’s face all to on Thursday following Easter day, hence the it close, when two This is the plow beam. put the morning faded of it, and men came out press over on was plank frame The ilustration shows called “Jueves de Amapolas.” is a or back. and bolt big clevis the plow the replaced by nobler look. a on a purer, | small holes covering the well, with celebration “Poppy Thursday.” The shoulders stooping The with the THE PRAIRIE COUNTRY each side of it, outside IN Is “You ask them, John,” she said, put man on on ’ The ventilation. is bored all sides for service, the New York Times, either cheek and the flush went says do on the clevis. If the bolts of big softly. up on .‘w confined few churches, the favorite to with the little very close to the it, tight against rattail fit like you,” woman “They'll it better from not use a up City of Mexico the * Bertha Gsrneaux Woods. By one bright, near three-cornered file and make ,<• whispered her husband. eager eyes. or being Our Lady of Carmel, in the town ’most “Well, little it fit. are you wife in the big woman, The face of the little San the of Angel, few miles in away a ready?” said, patting her shoulder. he the backwards between Fig. Slip 3 brightened visibly her at wagon approach. valley. haven’t “You’ve had fine rest, and bolt second and third bolts to a »£From the Youth's Companion, by Permission.] In the churchyard last day the you?” coughed sharply he He on clevis in Put plow beam. as the “You be tired out,” Hester began. must your devout Indians, who had brought spoke, she smiled him brightly were but at ready. When and the loop, up without preamble. “We IT want are you dry, stifling day the you was a on of their Poppies with oak treasures. know much that he might how not depth the the of change want for to the house little to to you prairie. The south wind blowing come up a leaves, in wreaths and bunches, decorated his. it racked her chest than big U, being bolted the plow, the to more and have dinner with Won’t rest to with hot, irritating persistency us. across of the the walls and facades “You'd bonnet, better get of the notches plow clevis, out you?” on your comes the plains raised clouds of dust that quaint old building in which converts C--J I little “it’s woman,” he said; time it neighbors it. One of we with pleased smile breaking the A saw a our almost hid . the view from the over woman made before the first colonists were we’re going. I don’t know how and, after it, days after few were got face seemed almost fade to out we the window of the sod house. She young at had arrived in New England. There thank and wife. Mr. Gilbert, to round, plow got holding you your the little worried line between the one our one could only faintly the burnished see poppy-laden booths, and Indian were for all you’ve done for but fall another Last made his plow. us, for dark An answering gleam stole golden of the prickly eyes. cups pear or folk, and people men women, young it.” feel it, sir, feel We his plow. all neighbor we we put the face her side, but at one on the deep crimson of the pincushion over worn and babies, ground sat the with on VENTILATOR, WELL PLATFORM AND “It wasn’t anything all!” John at is little. While and like it, the cost they both protested faintly. They we breaking blossoms the •cactus monotony their brilliant spread around wares protested. “It done has good to the best plank should claim plows holes of each be covered do us not couldn't give much trouble; it are our of the brown stretch of land. The so them. In each the yard of corner here.” have throw made, do like to by piece of wire mesh netting, not you would be right. not a or ones we as hills the flower-decked ■creamy altar on yucca were pretty to was a Hester and the little wife weni they shown keep animals and them before out. at to out young “You right along! ‘ said John, are worn away a, — dimmed with the dust of the plains.- come Our Lady Carmel, and of these the to into the tiny bedroom together. The Ohio Farmer. insects. Put netting inside W. E. Cochrell, in the wire with kindly authority. “We want you, In the small, sitting-room, Indians lovingly brought of square more wind had stopped its maddening the box.—Farm and Home. song don't make fuss about it. We’ll so any although the windows their fragile offeringa. There seemed tightly HAY. were HANDLING CLOVER outside, and the air clear again was take the horses into let ’em barn; my be of thousands of poppies, shut, coating lay the furniture to scores a gray on from its burden of dust. FACTS FOR FARMERS. The furniture feed and good try bucket of my a red, my pink and white. and mantel, of the ones, on row rosegeraniums of Farmins and of tbe Arta La Oas would, have It to be dusted for the third well water.” and the little of heliotrope In the church wreath of the pot was a But Understood by One That la time day. that but the thought brought Keep the off meadows. stock the The off two went together, Hester in the window. Hester Gilbert’s men flowers. In the dome the same over Very Few. scowl her to forehead The no Buy and sell for whenever now. cash and the little possible. wife beating their lips tightly and altar and boys, and when compressed were men were little traveler pinned the rusty on back the sod house. A look to the first “Gloria in Excelsis” there way of the sad look in her notes hay is of the clover The curing of was a eyes. one hat. black and turned hold to out both Many impoverish themselves people of cheer ami comfort be in to cloud of seemed out fairylike That south wind blotting out and the of farming, rang a was arts reason so hands impulsively Hester. to ‘*Thank buying bargains. its brown walls “How good it pink and and white red petals floated from her view than flowerdotted now. the is depreciate its value farmers more many again,” she said; and then, in you a will in house!” deficiency of irrigation to rest said the A insures from dome and choir gallery. It seem a landscape. seemed dim realized It the have to was because they never whisper: “Colorado is wonderful a little wife, with happy sigh. abundant irritation. like exquisite of beauty, snowstorm a all remembrance of the days of feeding long a obtained from be good results to place, isn’t it? Haven’t heard you and the effect enchanting. “Wouldn’t like The is lie down It questionable work to to perfect weather, When prairie the was Immediately you well-cured clover hay. economy a about the people get cured there way rich coloring of the walls and altar little while till dinner is the soil is ready?” when it said w’et. seemed Eden, and and it strength is mowed down after clover an — just —people bad off George, as as or gold red, blue, and white—took Hester. “Come right into Good roads necessity with fresh, on “dry,” hope large the and then to wilt my room, will begin to are a any grew worse? You feel it'll do him good, sure added richness through just the and feel that home.” at as seen bracing air. of enterprising agricultural you are termed. The it is curing community. process don’t you?” as cloud. The showers protecting A kindliness had poppy were repeated than requires time Some in with heavy, sprung clover up more one came .a She searched Hester’s face if to as intervals through the at in her heart for this little service. creature conveniently give and stopped farmers It is good plan the to step moment can a go over weary a read her some on fate there. It hard to was with the appealing “You must in the mowed down fences eyes. If it is and that they the threshold to look at the drooping it. at morning see the once are meet girlish eyes. At the close of the bell? service the be hot and uncomfortable! There’s it cured so will thoroughly in good be repair. figure. Then he approached her with it so “I've been farther west than never began and ring, to procession cold in water that pitcher, and I’ll a and if it day, awkward tenderness, be taken in the laying his toilroughened Wouldn’t blue-grass permanent same this myself,” she said, “but can a everyone marched from the church. A bring No, it isn’t crossbearer you it some warm. day later in the must hand her shoulder. a is cut remain be good thing river it’s pasturage on wonderful climate in Colorado a on says a first, with the altar boys, bit of trouble. Then just came must the night end absorb you “What’s the Hester?” he out matter, bottom lands, subject annual over for people with to trouble with their overflow? carried candles who twined with dinner.” poppies. rest until the mistake is This is where ■ said, softly. dew. lungs. I’m glad you're going there, so deacon and A sub-deacon with Unpleasant thoughts far should after it is made. Clover cut were There smothered weariness in away and when he’s Shade well about the house and strong, trees was a grown are the priest walked under of a canopy Hester prepared the simple dinner, spread allowed lie be as to the but her over tones, seemed deaf you’ll be coming back this never desirable, and elm and hard maple ears to way silk, the pallium and custodia being trying make it to attractive I rain. falling dews ths ground in as morning anything us.” that to but the as or the best varieties for the see are among held before the of the priest. eyes possible. She would get out of morning the clover hay in wind's piercing voice. Half some The as delight, of that possible mow future unconsciously purpose. string A long of people carrying poppies her wedding china—why not? John and let it the dew ia she drew little in cure from the wife’s gone aa “If scon a he Recent experiments in feeding away was sheep young eyes. and other flowers and lighted would enjoy it, and it might make rake it toward then evening, until bis hand. a only does!” up she said. “Oh, if he only the Montana experiment at station candles followed. All knelt the at bright in spot the day for the In the doodles. into and make it “It’s everything,” she said, does!” “everything! show that alsike better to four altars and the go to “Tantum gave pray, strangers. She picked bunch hay loosely spread ths even I mernlng a over Why did There hearty here, hand-clasps results than either red clover we ever come were Ego” intoned exchanged by the priest. Bells or was of astragalus, making centerpiece it of hour again, and in ground the a such wretchedness this?” few minutes an later. Jo Then the alfalfa. a as and pealed music from trumpets and the white, furry leaves. A sprig hauled of cured, then it is is perfectly “prairie He did another schooner," with not attempt its freight of caress, other instruments One advantage with clover is that out, many rang wild geranium laid at each should plate. Clover hay ths not was into barn. with his anxious human love and blue and anxieties, except rolled slowly eyes, while through it all fell fairy it be with of small more can grown a crop There cheery faces around the in it will keep be stacked, not wet were her face turned The from two left behind them, aa in the away. was clouds from away the church roof and the grain, without special preparation of table, and Hester’s less bright not will spoil it. weather, dampness was little sod house hidden in stood her hands. long even the at window—till walls of yard. the church soil, and small —Midland at cost. than the others. Prairie Farmer. —J. G. Jacot, in E. the H*» slipped something back into dark his wagon was seen, a train and Farmer. Every loaded car was The gaunt stranger sat little blot, above the a sharp horizon. more pocket. With Hester did the not with visitors the lovely village, to and see motion. Them. Want Farmeri Th« Root and his Subaeilinar for erect face, after Cropa. this now, quick, impulsive even movement Hester’s It only Indian a all gather handful of was to an arrowhead were eager a the banks what savings Postal Subsoiling for frequently brief are root rest, seemed less sharply outlined. crops hand stole into her husband’s. he that had found half buried the “shower of blessings” take to for. We believe they crying people largely, for the that the The human kindness ar® well pays reason warm, “How good are!” she as said, in the soil, almost and had unearthed, thinking you home. introduced in the office post be ground is in shape that permits the outward put comfort had can wrought a as solemnly. “And while I have it would make addition pretty funds you. for this and a The unique beautiful order department. the well the develop without resistance the change, and money in aa was roots to as made it what do I about some other way things? her cabinet curiosities. to of care She annual provided was ceremony are is the The government addition in all directions. In easier to remember in Whose larger most Did think I would really tired that she you east would not Rosas «o go Santa Carmen Landa de San now by care depend for the people to of the have that protecting they root tap roots one and sure would crops care without you? Why, John, were, I for couldn't it; other time, he thought. Juan. some afraid We not for downward strike for stil moisture and be when rolling money. are the brown upon bear it, from you!” over Her all quivering; away it nerves were was would Uncle Money always of Sam. additional nourishment. prairie. Experiments, Bit by bit their story Far off in the big of little The Traces the lieaata. came always when the south wagon wind blew. a woman so when ready and be short be not in the arid and semi-nrid out. The told how he had been even man with her the sat chfek side in Malay a round wilds pressed the On “Hester,” he began again, every gently, and asked for. It must must have regions, shown advantage and builder carpenter in come we great Iowa; what against shabby beasts—which coat-sleeve, of the here a live “I’ve and been the traces thinking a for several days and representatives ask senators in subsoiling for happy little such home it had Not been, and our why of her safe crops. heart secluded, from like that molestation, of I don’t know cry Hester’s. but was as ought to fix it as we - bill is formulated 1b seethat they to only the flying benefiteel, but to the a root untried congress are crops were their in now “What did pre-Adamite other things,” ancestors she are back as for some east way so you can go shall this effect. How long world Colorado, to the is of also benefited. The that potato Mecca for crop visible whispering, trunk, “while days—are tree I have awhile quite was on on than you, soon—sooner we nation advance be before will be in ft consumptives. subsoiling helps through The times of and our gaunt the path, and dear?” the yielding man beaten planned. game on You’ve had hard time of it a of all other nations such wife avoided drought, and thus the dread on check prevents word; the drinking to young places clay by the at a here. I out know how hard it’s been, He Graaprd It. these? —W. T. Mc- important acts they said, instead, the development “people of half-formed with Blackwood. as ing Here hurry stream, any says with the homesickness and all, and— ’’ An old tradition that recounts when and Clure, in Farm Home. of lung sort trouble.” tubers. mud of nine feet from the belt ground a “No,” she interrupted, “I William wait. the Conqueror landed for the can Hester’s dish of canned wild elephant has plums shows that rubbed his an We’ll together later, just first time English soil, Land Fertile. he Keep Grasa go To Advanfaces slipped of Drainage. as on we seemed, with to meet special favor back against the from itching rough bark of planned all along. supposed Drainage You and fell Grass lands is simply couldn’t his face. Divining to the carrying not recuperate, are by on manage the a He gaunt accepted and see! hairs the still man. tree; coarse pressing ure a John. Why, desirable, sod but how swift intuition and heavy is of the could that surplus moisture. Til* you?” his • followers away for offer third hardened saucerful sticking in the clay. There with a an “Oh, I’ll lands mowed get along might when such grazed drainage regard this the accumulation evil prevents or he are some way— as an omen, apologetic laugh, and sharp scratch repeated Hester long, at mentally a that’ll be food, and all right. with there is loss of plant the of and I’ve his been hands full stagnant in the soil thinking of water earth, and rose a schemed to intervals marks the passing regular of convey a generous supply soil I could unless deepens exclaimed: will become little of “This do the soil work of I take for the the roots, stock, spare poorer manure a possession the to canvas-covered rhinoceros. Here again is the pad wagon. a after all. You fertilizer applied. When thus know of England! is evil effects Brown I assisting would it prevent with to be or both grasp barely mark of tiger hour old; and “I don’t know when George has an a enjoyed glad buy what hands.” die it is indication during to I —San Francisco out periods drought. The soil could to of spare.” Argonaut. appears an grass pitted deer track of of all sizes and the anything so,” said the little wife. He plant food is becoming spoke that the is bravely, also renderd much while and Hester warmer, varieties surround the deeply punched "Everything is good! A And Valuable Orchid. oh, bow so The plan smiled faintly exhausted. best the brings of the air to him. to penetration In the oxygon up which the holes footsteps of elephant. William Rockefeller’s nice it feels be rested! are to Traveling and an new rare depth is keep stock off the field and of her heart vegetables and mineral she felt to the to she pursue sure orchid, wil be which is much easier valued now!” at SI,OOO, is so apply fertilizer, following with hastens would in the soil and chemical such matter consent to sacrifice. never a a between lindelyanum They back the went to sitting-room. a cross and a a Sena! ti heavy Application of in They the reaction. When field is tile would wait veneas. until they manure a candatum There John and talked only Hester cheerily of the are seven man’s feelings fall. plowed apt If the does not show be week drained it ■could take the A satisfactory long planned trip are more young grass can a or together, plants of this variety in prospective home in existence. Colorado, and It injured by the pin in girl's belt be effects from such earlier than to days places, treatment wet ten all. a not at But just or go took Mr. Rockefeller’s brought book out of views gardener of the five a his her efforts by plow than to field and enables the better the plant the which to to with the remove arm wind get making her crop corn a now, wonderful to the The get orchid flower years to gaunt scenery. man properly. waist. Chicago around her following spring. the first Jrom in of growth. start 4;iate her stages teeth together, she did not and his little wife bent them with over New*. Daily alw i " 1 ''