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"e 'at dil- W pram. than Luge. trop- he she prime In -r. _ _ 1 Scotch Wizard Who Can Care LifelongCrlpples in i ‘ "".] . a Few Moments. F V . i London Weekly Despatch. . (I or " too ne, It on A Hunchback that Was. Half an hour ago that boy surrendered himself into the bonesetter's hands. A hunchback. Now look at him and. IU. “-1: didn't hurt me a bit; not one bit. He just got hold of my leg, gu'e it a pull. then pushed it right back. and it was all over. Of course, 1 walk just a bit lame still. as you Bee, but it feels, oh '. so much easier. I nm to bathe the joint every morning with cold wat~ or and wall: as much as possible. Eh, he's a clever run. he is.” In half an hour Ihe cane out radiant, tho bandages all gone, declaring that the little ones had been cured. Another case was that of u young wo- mm. who readily related to me her or 7-~-r1v-n(-e.i upstairs. She came from limb-(,1. she said. For years she had mum suffering from hip disease. one leg ham: shorter that the other. Doctors she had tried. Without relief. and at Int her friends advised her to go to Bltut. tvre. thos mother brought her two infants both helpless little mites, swathed " mont from head to foot with bandages, and surgical appliances. They were sub bring from hip and spine disease. A: sho onrefnlly made her wny nmong the crowd. other women turned aside in pry. and then waited anxiously while trho sought the "doetor." -- :Thon yo can go." says Rae. and the boy walks out blinking and astonished into the breezy street. with never a. limp in the whole carnage of him. And so it goes on hour after hour ttm til the sun climbs lazily to bed over the distant hills. and the evening mists come up and the chill of a June evening in Scotland creeps into your bones. ul heard a snap," replied the lad, with a grin. - - _ - "Get Trey and Walk." When he had finished he turned to her and waid quietly. "Now get up and walk." Sh.» looked up at his rugged face with turoraiul ineredulity. "I ean't." she re- pliml sadly. "Get up. my Inna. and walk out." repeated the "Born Doctor," where- at she obeyed him. and to her own intin, ite astonishment walked out of the cot. tage completely cured. - A white-fared lad from Oldham is on the couch biting his lips. Rae is work. ing at his leg. The boy’s hip is out of joint. Presently there is a sharp click. "Did ye feel anything?" says Rae, paus- ing from his toil. Here is one instance among many of hi: mix-M. A young iady of good par- entage had lain ill for many weary months with a painful spinal disorder. All the best doctors in Glasgow had tried their powers upon her, but she grew no better. As n last hope she went to Rack little cottnee. Re laid her fiat ur‘nn his homo-made operating table. and with fingers and thumb worked hard along her spine. for his treatment. "T'tl tak" nnething but my ain sma' fee." replied Rae. and m amount of persuasive eloquence would on: him to take more. But the Black- burn gontleman had his revenge. He wont home and preached the marvels of Rao among the cotton operatives of Lam-ashiro. and hence the recent rush n" feeble folk to the little cottage It w 1ntyre. Rae's methods are simple. homely and un:.:)'. He has no drugs. no oint. manta and no surgical machinery. He is his own dispensary. At broken bones. twiuorl rhemnatie fingers and toes, and all muscular ailments he is little short of n magician. quack met? orthelm I Rae ding ttte, and h w re work next. Bet, out of the and happy The "Bo for his tr but my ar no amount get him to The Despair of Doctors. .. (nu-e within the village, his name is, as it Were, written on the very walls. The little place is full of pilgrims, most- ly from Laneashire and Yorkshire, bring- in: with them almost every description of deformity cases that have battled the doctors for years. In their simple-heart. ed faith these leases and lads crowd round the "douor's" door, patiently wait- in,g their turn. Excursions from all parts bring pa- tients. No sooner is one batch of ex- cutsiouists polished off than another is crowding round the house. Each comer is treated with scrupulous fairness. his Mine is entered. and he is given a little numbered ticket. Excursionists from afar are given preference, and most of them manage to see the doctor before their return tickets expire. The Hires are extraordinary. Rae's sudden fame rose in this way: A little time bark a gentleman from Blaekburn,, whose own doctor proved unuvailing, was recommended to go to Rae. He re- plied that it sounded verv much like a quad: medicine advertisement, but nev- ortheless he went. Rue diagnosed his symptoms in a min- ute. and his long muscular fingers were w re working at him feverishly in the next. Before long the patient walked out of the modest little cottage cured and happy. The “Barn Doetor" was offered £100I Follow the procession. Slowly it winds its sickly way along to the little cot- tage oi William Rae, the miraculous, blmllew surgeon, whose fame is now running hot foot from John o' Groat's to Land's End. Rae’s street is a crip- plea' parade ground. He is the sergeant- iz:~tructor. His curriculum consists of one subject only-health. He estate limm it where it never reigned before. How: That is his secret. He bas treated 2m nipples in four days. and he earns £300 every twenty-four hours. And he the! to be a conic. What a sight'. It is a procession of cripples. One that Zola would have gazed or. with wonder. There is a dragging of unless limbs, the tap of ironshod crutches, the foul tsmell of lint; PAIN in capitals on a hundred faces: emntv gunman AS MIRACLE wanna; Passing in by the open door, I found the tiny passage lined with patients waiting their turn. The front parlor was full of them; they stood in two rows on the narrow staircase, and as I entered the waiting-room, two little boys were tying up their crutches in a bun.dle so as to carry them sway the easier. “Has he cured you t" I naked. "Sure, I'm cured, meetster," iped one of them. "Eh, but he’l . wonder, mael- ter; just look gt whet he’s done for me." chimed in the other, as he wall-zed proud- "It didn't hurt me a bit," she said, "not one bit. He just got hold of my leg, gave it a pull, then pushed it right back and it was all over. Of course, I walk just a. bit lame still, as you Bee, but it feels, oh! so much easier, I am to bathe the joint every morning with cold water and walk as much as I can. Eh, but hefs , clever man, he in? _ _ l A Visit to the Doctor. Whatever sceptical men in America, busing their opinions on the cabled re- ports, may think of William Rae, the Scottish bonesetter, whose exploits are the talk of the United Kingdom, no one can visit the little village of Blantyre, in which he has temporarily established his surgery. without obtaining abundant evi- dence that the man is really possessed of a wonderful gift. I found the little place full of pilgrims, mostly from Lan- cashire and Yorkshire, aftlieted with every variety of deformity, many of which have baffled the doctors for years. No need was there to ask where Rae lived. I simply followed the throng un- til I came to where a crowd stood around the gate of an humble cottag which has already become famous throughout England as the Scottish Lourdes. Some of the pilgrims limped painfully on crutches. Others wore club-soled boots and irons. Gray" headed men and women and little child- ren in arms were among them. While I stood there, taking in the scene, n young woman, with tears of gladness trickling down her cheeks, came out of the house, and in response to - in. quiries, related her experience. For years she had been 'Sutter" hom hip disease, one leg being shorter than the other. Doctors she had tried without relief, and at last her friends advised her to no to Blantyre. - 7 "illaid. man. the bluid. Where that's wrong a' the rest's wrong. An' then, apairt frae that. ye hae careless mibhers lettin' their children fall, ye hae old stamlin' injuries that hue never been lookit to. A've had cases here that ha' been wrung for thirty wars. an' then have done something fur them." "How, then, do you explain all these diioniea?” "No, not every case. Those aw can du nothing for aw leave alune, but waist time something can be done." ' "Doctors. Yes, it's always doctors. What du they know about these things, eh? What du they know? Tell me, Nothin'. Listen to these boys and "irls as they come in. What (In their fai- thors tell met-hip disease, bone disease, pshaw! That's the doctors fur ye. Did ye ever see a diseased bone in a living man? I never did. Ye can see it when hes dead. I cannn ." that right. na. nu. Ye cunna pit together a leg that's been cut oft, but ye can tak' the thing in the beginning," Rae’s Philosophy. "Do you then guarantee to effect a cure in every case?” asked an inter. newer. Rae is a typical Soot. square and rug- ged of countenance, with a. shaven upper lip and shaggy full beard. He seareely looks his sixty-three years. For thirty years he worked as a collier in Lark. hall pits. A comrade got injured, and in attending to nim Mr. Rae suuidonly dis- covered his wonderful healing skill as a bone-setter. laboriously but strenu- ously he sPt himself to study antomy: the result " now apparent in some myr terious fashion. C.arg Another woman with tears in her (we: tells how Rae "has conjured m Jamie's hump away," and another am? another and another-all have some miracle to pour into sympathetic and wondering a half pears old he has been through Immy hospitals, and lots of surgeons have tried in vain to put him straight. Bat half an hour with or. Rae has made him a changed lad, and the doctor saysnhe'll be all right in a month or two. "He. has sullered cruel, has my lad," said a mother. "For two whole years he was lying on his back, quite helpless. A curved spine and a humped back are his troubles. From the time he was six and A Girl's Delight. A young woman with a dislocated hip went in. She had no use in her leg, and was wearing some patent springs. Soon afterwards she rushed out with the springs in her hands, and in her delight and excitement jumpeu over the garden fence and rejoined her friends. 7 - 7 "Now iouruon is cured," said the ma- gician to the lad's father. "It only de- pend~1 upon nature to do the rest," And to-day young Johnson's withered legs are beginning to "live." and he is the happiest youth in Blantyre. Johnson went to Rae, who examined him carefully, and gave him hope oi sub- sequent recovery, The boy has been sent to the cottage four times. At the last visit Rae discovered the secret of the trouble, and brought both hip bones into their: proper position. V _ _ A l One of Rae's most startling successes may be found n the case of a seventeen- year-old boy named Johnson. the son of a. turner of Low Blantyre. He has been a cripple all his life, with withered, help- loss legs. He drags lnmself painfully along on a, pair of crutches. Glasgow surgeons have told him that treatment is no good. "You were born so," they say, "and so you will remain all the rest of Your We." 'Suddenly he placed his hand over the hump, and pulled me sharp on to his breast. I felt something give way, and I was straight." "He made me take otf my things, and with his finger and thumb began, as it seemed to me, to catch hold one at a. time every bone in my spine. Some- timgs they cracked, and a rib moved. ton _to hit experiepces ', ;it.ai1 t der his Slip: nerves ty " pipe tL his ha, rugged F much q Scots. intellig : Shrewd shim: , One leg was fairly straight, but the other bent inward, so that he rolled rather than walked. m had been that wav for "nigh on 60 yen-s,” he said. The form miner passed his hand carefully over the leg that we: all awry, only to eonilrm the Judgment he had in. dicated to me by a signiheant glance "Ye may poot him in level boots noo," he said to the mother, and before she realized what was happening her laddie was walking about the room delightedly waving the Patten-weighted boot in the an. When he had finished his pipe he said: "Aw must begin wark again, n00; there's lots waiting for me." but he acceded to my request to be allowed to remain and see how he operated. The first case was a, little chan with a six- inch patten fixed on to one boot. His mother brought him in and told the old storv that the doctor must have heard hundreds of times before. He hardly seemed to listen to it. though his face lighted up, for the case was a good one. "I was saying juist noo," he observed to me after having carefully examined the youngster”: thigh, "that the doe. tors know nothing nboot these things. Here's an instance. They ca' this hip disease an' do nothing to cure it. It's joist a dislocated hip; that's what ie is. Juist watch what PII do with it." Big Way. Suddenly seizing the limb he gave it a jerk, there was a sharp crack, a sharper "Owl" from the boy, and the doctor seated himself in his chair again and__relit his Inte: _ - _ - A .. giving his services gratuitously at first, but as experience rendered him more ex- pert, so numerous became his patients. that he found he would either have to relinquish his work at the eolliery or ‘abandon the practice of bloodless sur- gery. He decided to stick to the lat. 'ter and in a rough way, by means of such books as he could get hold of. he studied anatomy, but in the school of ex- perience he has gained nearly all his training. For doctors generally, he has a great contempt, which is not unnat- ural. seeing how many come to him for relief, and often obtain it, too, whom doctors have failed to benefit and pro- nounced incurable. Contempt for Doctors. "Doetorst." he exclaimed scronfully, "what du they know about these things? Moist of the puir people that come to me have had doctors cnoo fool- ing with 'em an' no guid they have done 'em. They juist tak their money an' label their trouble with wrong names an’ maybe, after a lot of experi- menting, tell 'em they Can't be cured. I've had lots o' such cases that juist needed some bones being set straight to mak' all richt. There's doctors for yet." MR. WILLIAM RAE, "IE BLOODLESS SURGEON or BIANIYRE. An old man next entered the room. "Na, na," he answered, shaking his head. "not in every case. Thom aw can du nothing for nw leave alone. but maist times something can be done if they're na too old." A Colliery Lad. Rae was born at Larkhll, thon a sparsely populated village some fifteen miles from Glasgow. and when a lad be- gan to earn his living by working in a colliery. He rose to be pit-head fore. man at Larkhill. but before he was out of his teens, yielding, as he says, to “something that told me aw had it in "Here an' in ma head," he said with a touch of pride, "lies the power the Lord ha' given me---a natural gift for under- standing what's wrung an' panting it rieht." "Do you guarantee a cure in every can?" Rising to his full height - he meas- ures a good six feet, though somewhat stoop-shoulder-ed - he stretched forth his sinewy arms, supple wrists and strong hands. a. diameter oi sordeiiiiilir-,f,raGi- TG clear purpose. "Secret.'" he exclaimed, scornfully, "there's na secret about it; it's juist pooting the bones back in the places where they belong." l Slipping into the little bedroom which mes him as a surgery, I found the doe. tor rented in an armchair, smoking a his” and enjoyin§ a brief respite from . hard work. all, strong-framed and rugged of feature, he is in appearance much the name as thousands of other Scots. Yet there is something Striking“ intelligent in his homely face. Shrewdness, good humor and kindliness shine from the grey eyes beneath the bushy brows silvered with the passage of years, for he is now well over 60. The firm mouth and chin, the latter par- tially hidden in a short beard, indicate "What is the secret of your treat- ment?" I asked him after greetings had bee extehtTg91. ly new" the room, with his crutches un der his arm. , he bisgan to practice bonesetti11g, No Setret. itTititrtcitt:t:.i. §§\‘\ a The food given, the prisoners is in proportion to their conduct and indus. try, the prisoners who do not conduct themselves a they should receiving a. cake of rice, which must lust for seven days, while in the cue of the orderly prisoners the same mite lute only four days. The prisoners who conduct them. selves properly receive also 3 little horse meat with potato or pee um with their nteals.-Putot Opinion. - The summer months are a bad time for babies, and an anxious time for mothers. Fermentation and decompo- sition in the stomach and bowels are the cause of the many summer com- plaints of babies and young children. This is the reason why the hot weather months are more fatal to little ones than any other season. Baby's Own Tab. lets should always be found in every home, where there are young children. and their prompt use during hot weather may save a precious little life. The tablets cure constipation, diarrhoea and stomach troubles, and are guaranteed to contain no opiate or harmful drug. Mrs. Walter Rollins, Sissons, Bridge, N. S., says: "Before using Baby’s Own Tab- lets my little one cried almost continu- ously with stomach troubles. I can truthfully say I never had any medicine act so promptly and give such satisfac- tion as the tablets. I do not think you make any claim for them which their use will not substantiate.” The tablets can be had from any medicine dealer, or by mail from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Price 25 cents a In a Japanese Prison. That which is especially striking at first sight in a Japanese prison is that there is no difference between the pri- son and the hut of the free peasant, the Japanese declaring that if the prison were elevated to the level of a modern penitentiary it would be too attractive and would increase crime. Upon approaching the prison, in place of high and forbidding walls, you see a large country house with a series of out- buildings, the prison itself being com- plete-1i open, although formerly It Itch- igoi t ere was a corridor separated from the building by a paper we i, where the any“ tlepy . .. . His son, however, wrote to the man who had offered the f10,000 fee that his father had made it a rule not to guarantee a cure until he had seen the patient. came, for worn out by his labors of the past month. and fearful of a. breakdown in health, he quietly left Blantyre on Friday evening for a rest in one of the Lannrkshire_ holiday resorts. "Having heard of your wonderful powers, I beg to ask if you can treat me. I would like my left leg straighten. ed. If you can do this successfully I am prepared to pay you the sum of £10.- 000. I would give you f100 before start- ing." Extraordinary Tender Made to an Eng- lish Surgeon. There arrived at the house of William Rae, the Blantyre collier surgeon, on Saturday morning a letter bearing a London post mark. It contained, says the London Express, an extraordinary offer. The letter ran as follows: So great have been the demands on his skill that the railway has run special excursion trains to accommodate those who sought relief from him. In a single day ho has treated as many as 200. The train by which I returned to Glasgow was filled with people who were loudly proclaiming their admiration of him. One Scotsman, after pitching the crutches that he no longer needed out of the window, declared his conviction that William Rae was a. greater man than Bobbie Barns. "Look at, that, noo,"" exclaimed Rae. angrily, after the lad had pulled up his shirt and exposed his back. "he would In have a humpit back it his folks had brought him to me when he was a balm. No man in the world need ha' a humpit back if it's taken in hand early enoo." ‘7’ .ic- "'u' 1"" ‘t” -- -. -.- r"“"" "Na, ua,' 'asid Rae, with a wave of bis hand, "ye can poot that back an' gang awa_hame, my mon," q sVouuTiiiGiit"iiGeen, whose ap- pearance plainly proclaimed curvature of ting-wipe, Tattlie nextpatitnt, - _ "Ye've been‘ower lung, non,” ha aid, returning to his chair. "Ye should ha' haed this seen to when ye were a bairn." The disappointed sufferer slowly milled on his socks and boots and then as slowly gut his hand in his pocket. - when the man entered the room that his case was , hopeless pne. __ _ . - Rae was not at home when the offer OFFERS E 10,000 FOR CURE. BABY'S DANGER. dred, a.nd talk about his poverty. If you ask him for a subscription he will not give half a crown where a florin will serve the purpose; but if he sees cause he will give you a five-pound note. I rather think the wealthiest man in the city to-day does not keep a carriage; end the when tho does not keep a. domestic servant will give, a thousand poumh to the church. He gives and withholde_in perfectly 399d tty'th. The Aberdonian takes a pride both in himself and in his city, and he does well. For its wealth and popuhtion there is not a better administered city it the three kingdoms. Its tramway system. for instance, is a generation ahead of the system in Birmingham. Within the last twenty years vast improvements have been effected in the city. Ner. mus people are crying out that we are on the verge of bankruptcy, but the. sale is not just yet. The true blue Ab- ordonian is an exaggerated Scot; what- ever is characteristic of the Scot is a feature of the Aberdonian in an added degree. Be hates displey. If he has five hundred a. year he will live on one hun- dayii'! " days."' “Sixty days, Beylie, sixty dayst', the culprit gasped, his breath taken away. "Ayl" the Bailie answered, cheer- fully, "sixty days; that’s my leemit. ye ken, T--." So for sixty days T----- was placed where the wicked cease frirm troubling; and bed it not been for the statutory "leemit" it might have been for six years. The Bailie did not see the humor of the retort-nor did T--. by the way-had been brought before Bailie s'---. for some scandalous mis. demeanor. The offender, whose ways brought him tr. plenty of money, thought of an alternative fine to any sentence of imprisonment, and snapped his fin- gers at the entire proceedings. But the Bailie had views of his own, and having heard the evidence, as well as taken notes of the effrontery of the criminal, he g.ayedlte laconic sentence: "Sixty One may be a magistrate of Aberdeen and a. man of considerable simplicity in well. One worthy Bailie, now no more, but not able in his day for his good- heartedness and simple vanity, used to regale his clerks with the remark, as he contemplated his phenomenal rise in the civic world: "Man, I have a most trv. mendous fine head on met." Along with his shrewdness he sometimes packs away a fund of unconscious humor, The mind: “Leena." A notorious character, a pest to the .touTran impytation from the south. _What the Khedive made of this reply I have no means of knowing. I an) afraid any ordinary English-Egyptian dietion. ary would fail to give the desired light. S'till " was a characteristic lecture, the production of a man with eyes in his head, and that head properly screwed on; it was breezy as his own moun- tains, original and reflecting the lee, turer to the finger tips. These, however. are the expressions of the character of a past age; and if to. day the grey fathers who made the city could quit St. Nicholas Churchyard for an afternoon and stroll along Union street they would engrave 3"Ichabod" over the portal of the new Town House. for the old order has changed, giving place to the new. Aberdeen is in a tran- sition stage; its population is changing. and its character with it. There has been a large influx of citizens from the south. Once. upon a time it was the Alerdoniana' boast that a Jew could not live in their midst: now that boast no longer holds good, for both the Jew and the Italian ice-cream vendor are then- and have came to stay. Even yet it is no easy thing to get foothold in Aber- deem but there was a time when it was almost an impossibility. A Chnnish City. Not so long ago the city was a sort of private family affair; and to-day the horn Aberdonian knows that Union street is pre-eminently his, that his forelroars made the city, and he regards with a half-contemptuous indulgence the uit - lander-like myself-who has collie to share his privileges. He is fond of keep- ing his civic good things within the fam- _ ily still-etnolumvnts, 'lignitiva, or what- ever may be going. It is no easy task for one not an Aberdonian to rise to the rank of Dean of Guild or F'horemastvr; yet in recent years a Diindonian arrived at the distinction of Lord Provost. Jie." however, had to wait a term for his yi-; fice. and the one reason the man in the) street gave for eountenancing the delay; was his not being an Abcrdonian The) family tie is recognized to the full even in filling the University chairs. A man may be a. donkey. but if he is one of the proper hue eeclesiastically and political- ly these are the essentials; fitness for " _ fice is a purely secondary affair. _ Consequently the magistrates have been men of strongly marked character. mostly merchants, successful batters and blaektsmiths, rarely of professional or academic note; but they have had their training in that most strenuous of universities-Aberdeen business life. Their speeches accordingly are not such as flatter the ear, but they are to the purpose. I have heard an Aberdeen bailie open a lecture on his tour to Egypt after the following fashion: "Leddies and gen- tlemen,--Whcn I was on a tower I never kept a dairy," and when his au- dience laughed he insisted: "It is quite true; but when I am on a tower I never keep a dairy." He gave a graphic narrative of an interview with the Khe- dive. for an Aberdeen Bailie is as good as the best. "When he asked me about the staple industry of Aberdeen I an- swered him in one word: ‘ABERDEEN AWA'. (By " imported Aberdonian.) Like so 18uut.v more of my fellow-cili- zens I am neither by birth nor breeding an Aberdottitut, but am at best only a Proselyte of the Gate; and I regard with a feeling akin to envy those "Israelites indeed," the Abordonians born and bred who with every indication of atisfac- tion can say "Tak' awa' Aberdeen an' twal' mile toon' aboot, an' far are ye?" It is the ettRracteristie note of an oner- getic, able 'people, full of tself-reliance and of self-assurance. The motto of tho city University is in keeping l "They say; What say they? Let them way." They heed not what others may think. and any of them; they are a law unto themselves. to""'""'"'"------.-.- Iolds in erfectly good tum Getting any the Diftitatitr. yin ago the Town Council FX “Fush I " "rriiJtiolt we s.vrppiihue"with people from whom in real life we should flee "_tropt tttplagyty . . . ' . , Tiiiii JitGhl'hilrtt1 and phiegmatie in the desire of those who are constituted exactly the Inverse, - -- _ _ _ _ Theaworld must be full of people who {re fairly uncomfortable with a drsire total! some person or persons why they think of them. -- iG grandmummns weren't so wrong when 'they assured us "undsome is u lundsome does." . - a. How true it is that we find what VI In} lqoking for: _ - ., __ Rather trbeurd, isn’t it, the way aver- Me people Chung. their tune about . perfon ony said potion ispieaf . fl When a man is impolite to n woman one “my: takes it for granted he is u very near relative. Just because . girl has her photo- graph as an angel it is not really cer- tain that her temper in angelic. In name instances we can't be too pleased that things are not what they seem. .. Much of the veise that to feel poetic il be poetic. . No wonder thus-e who value their ppt'" of mind refrain from gi1ing qdyice. . When a man goes to guessing I mgnjs age you {hing he 's inkynswd It’s infinite of time to read love shor- ies until the age of discretion has been reached. U", :\u, u»... a..__ -- I " anyone who'll an it." Br averaging the result. ot these three grains. we find that the crop grown on the clover sod gave an increase over the crop grown on the grass sod by fully GO per cent. The reeultc of these experiments help us to appreciate the beneficial Influence on the aroit from growing clover. It also lndlcutel the suit- ability ot a properly cultivated clover cod no a. preparation tor winter wheat or tor spring grain: G. C. Creelman. President. In 1.99 a mixture of oats and bar. ley was sown on clover sod and also on grass sod. The results were very marked, as an average of 2,256 pounds of mixed grains per acre was Obtained trom the clover cod. and only 1.07. pounds of mixed grams per acre from the gran- nod. In another experiment, which was completed in 1900, in which win- ter wheat was shown on both clover and grass codar it was found that an average o t 3,194 pounds of wheat per acre was obtained from the clover sod, and only 2,300 pounds from the grass. sod. crops following the clover. and the gmsses. In 1902, barley was sown after each of tour varieties of clov- ers and three variance of grasses in tour different places in our ex- perimental grounds. The average re- sults of the four tests In pounds of barley per acre were as follows; Red clover. 1.516; lucerne, 1.450; ol- sike clover. 1.427; mammoth Red clover. IAN: meadow lescue grass. 1.06.; orchard grass. 1.015; and timothy. 916. It will therefore be seen that the red clover nod gave an increase over the timothy god of Gro pounds, or nearly 12 bushels per acre. , A wow is Liver quite happy with man who refuses to up: with but. Clem. Guelph. on three different oc- (mslons. In order to ascertain the comparative value ot clover and grass sod for crop production. We first grow clover: and grasses upon separate plots and removed the crops. after which the land was ploughed and other crops were sown. The resultl. therefore. show the in- ttueoee or the roots remaining in the soil upon the pro4aetivenetrs at I planned a sewer along a particular retract. but before committing them- eelrea to the propoaal thought it advin- able to get the goodwill of the propri- etors who would have to hear t e Ph" penae. More especially was this neces- nsry as one itttirrested was a manufac- turer of no little influence in the com- munity. pumcious. on occasion violent. and with a Tteahtthtry to match. A \deputation of three, among them a city doctor. was a pointed to wait on this gentleman. 'l‘lley came to the end of the street. but hesitated-W, should bell the cat’ The doctor. who had as much fight in him as any man need have, undertook to carry out the limi- ness single-handed. and the other two were thankful of the rllief. With much diplomacy he sought the tttrttutbrturtatG opinion regarding the "heme. and pre- sented the one so well that the tttanti, lecturer fell in heart and soul with the plan. "It ought to be done. it is nle sary. it mint and aha“ be done'." he ex- claimed. "Yes, the deputy returned. mtutioual.v. "but it will prove a very considerable burden to the proprietors" "TR....., '_s - .. . By Prof. C. A. Zavitz. Clover is one ot Ontario most val- uable farm crops. It in generally recognized by Ontario farmers to be a heavy Jrieluev of hay. which lur- nished a large amount of valuable food constituents. Its beneficial ef- fects upon the sod. however. do not seem to be so clearly understood. Scientists whohave made a careful study ot the tutiuenee at clover on the soil, tell u: that alter large crops have been removed from the land the soil u actually richer in nitrogen after growing clover than it was be- fore, owing to the large amount of nitrogen which the clover roots have obtained from the air. As a rule tarm. ere grow clover and tlmothy to- gether, and are, therefore. unable to unseertaJn the comparative influence ot ‘each of these crop. on the soil. We have conducted a serlel of ex- Perlments At the Agricultural Cot- Not Stu” With It. (New York Evening Sun.) "She has a very strong mind." "Yes, and she's so very WI.” "I never noticed her iriiteeotitr" "Oh, you, S_he__glye_u n.iri.tee of her all! entities in the Council. Tell h no obstacle in the way. and I his share with my own!" -- Friend. "True, let me see." the JipkTh' oppon- ent reflected: "my neighbor"---otid of the three deputies. and a Cotttteillor--- "u. f poor man. and he “my raise dim. 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