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E5 AGED COUPLE T0R AACES, and Bride Has Summers. L vaive on came ore, in a 1nCe i nele els les out Onl O n Hour,. & TH Summers. _ _ : :'% w g‘ffi M # Mo/’_ :L'E'\" A00ING : Ao do meilf @, Mwm% 4 P ‘cies, weighâ€" n Bby R‘." e made the onds,. which es aw bour. it horgeâ€" like a fMlash ND Barton., just the it whicb oas wej Â¥er . begas, and IP alter the en â€" passed. throughont. where the AtCd.. were n 10 was the at _ Giabriet a from the vave war 7 wholly room a nd ncer ch SW ttempt ‘sterly drivaen IY & 11 M« for SITHAM © of 24 It, jun.. srconcds +d was larrot t #:8 &n« dunes. Â¥yarda) © to roum L apeod s r races Tege No# W 1# m wa y sand ‘@ peoâ€" ice for redthse world, a Morsy Ne L PA 4408 the car n, they ‘ore de. / young alne â€" is rden of â€" walke . . sahe learted © most orning. Rate C was wet for Desha aw hat @ loung ie unti rihday t they t time ned on 88 Deg scourâ€" a deâ€" . and » stop en reâ€" %@ and awain sa m e talk agod €. but dever .9 Oc ‘Thre« o St pleaged with the Tablets as 1 think they saved my baby‘s life." Baby‘s Own Tablats are sold by all druggisty or will be sent by mail post rskl at 23 cauts a box by writâ€" lag direct to the Dr. Williams‘ Mediâ€" ce Co., Broockville, Out.. or Bchenâ€" ectady, N, Y i % all stomach and bowel troubles, simâ€" ple fevers, troubles while teething. «tec. They always do good, and can never do the slightest harm. For vory smail infants erush the Tablets to a powder. Mrs. P. J. Latham. Chatham, Ont., says: "My baby iook very sick. His tongue was coated. his breath offecsive and he could not retain food on his stomach. He also had diarrhoemw for four or fivre days and grew very thin and pale. . We yave him medicine, but nothing helpâ€" «1 him until we gave bhim Baby‘s frwn Tablets. After giving him tha first dose he began to improve and In three days he was quite well. He began to gain flesh and‘is gow a fat, healthy boy. i am more than Are Natwre‘s Cure for Children‘s Allments. Maurice Browne gravely cocked uis wat, pulled down his eaffs, buttoned up his coat, and requesting Edgar to carrty his bag, proceeded up the drive, with his hanads in his pockets, whistling. ‘Deuced lonely up here, isn‘t it *" sald Mr. Fussell to me. " No society, aothing but books, booksâ€"except for ene short fortnight in the year. Eh, Maude ?"* ~ His only books are woman‘s looks," and I wonder they didn‘t reach him the folly of bringing a pand of gay and dashing cavaliers to read them, too," said Edgnur. Fablan turned slowly roumd to me, with a look of extreme pain. and shook his head mourn{ully. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave," he murmured â€" sorrowfully, and then began to dance the Highâ€" iand fling, with his rug tartanw.se over his shoulder. Poor old sdgar I was quite relievred, ora entoring the drive, to meost my stalwart friend and his faithfui companion, both very merry over somes joke which had already mado Mrâ€" Lassell purple in the face. On sseing us they burst out laughing afresa. 1 guessed wlat the joke was "Eh? eh? what‘s this ? lan. sarxmundham was going to divorce his wife. The cusstion gave me a sreat shock, not so much on account ol the blow it deait at an old idol «till conventionaliy eathroued in my memory as the last love of my life, as becauso I know now much disâ€" tress such a roaport must cause to poor old Edgar ; 26,, _0 C202 _ nsogciuer Uuniortunale in the propagator of & new cult. I believe ie was, on the whole, londer‘ ol me tiasa Fabian was. My disasâ€" trows ugliness appealed to his dll-l taste for the beautiful, and haviag vnice, as a complete stranger, very, generously coms to wy aid in a difâ€" | ficulty, he felt ever atter the natâ€"| ural and kindly human liking for _ a | lellowâ€"creature who has given one | an opportunity of posing as the dopâ€" uty ef God. Thess two gentlemen.' with their stroag axd aggressive | upinions, formed the disturbing eleâ€" ment in our yearly meeting, and, each being alwaya at deadly reudl with somebody clge, might be reckâ€" paed on to keep the fun alive. Both talked to me, and me, alone, on our way to the bouse, with such aly hit»s at one another as their wit or their malics could suggest. Faâ€" ‘ bian rared about the effects of deâ€" wcending sun on heather and pineâ€" |â€" rovered hills, Maurics Browne beâ€" || moaned the stonay poverty ol the ) cottages, amd â€" opized tiat con-' stant interâ€"marriages between | the inhabitaits had rednced the || scanty population to idiots. ‘Then ,‘ Fabian told me how many inauiries | had been mad> about me by old ’ acquaintances, who still hoped I would some day raturn from the | wilds, and Maurics instantly temâ€" rered my satisfaction by asking me P # I had heard tiat the Earl of saxmundhaim was going to divorce 7 his wife. The cusstion gave me a / , sreat shock, not so much on account P of the blow it deait at an old idol { still conventionaliy enthroued in My | , ‘memory as the last love of my life, | ! P ipiiAierevindeinds tssn Airiecr in dcr k d ambition was rathor to scandalize than to convince. He was tall, thin, aud unhealthyâ€"looking, with a pallia face and pinkâ€"rimmet eyes, and an appearanco altogetiier unfortunate sive little harangue with such voluâ€" bility that not even an irishman could get in a word edgeways, Fabâ€" ian allowed himscelf to be enticed on to the platform, and began â€" asking yuestions about myselif with childlike alfection. Maurice Browne followed, somewhat refreshed by ithis torrent of almwe, sinco the aim of his literary BABYV‘S OWN TABLETsS And, having poured out this quartette had to ribald gaioty my explanation given a poor SQIC l Fab persuaâ€" what I could, versive orders | round me. j hard work. all W At this point a diversion was creâ€" ated by a fleeting view _ caught through the door by Fablan, of Janet carrying dishes away to the kitchen. He heaved a s‘wh nfo ralinf and ~L am â€" satisfied," entering precipitately And the rest â€"folic seruple. _ _The more they saw that I was getâ€" :ting really pained by their chafl the worse it became, until Fabian stalkâ€" Iing gravely up to Ferguson, who stood on the doorstep, pointed tragâ€" ically in the direction of nowhere in particular, and said in a sepulchral voice : * You are a Scotciunan, so am L 1 have been pained by stories of orgies, debaucheries, â€" and general goings on in this _ neighborhood. Tell _ ime, " on your ward _ as a& _ fellowâ€"countrymen, â€" can _ these gentlemen. and myself, as church wardens and Sunday school teachâ€" ers, enter _ this house withonut loss of respect ?" : "I dinna. ken aboot the selfâ€" respect, gentlemen; but if you don‘t come in ye‘ll stand the loss of a vyerra good dinner," answored Ferguson, with a welcoming twinkle in his eyes. But Fabian was flinty. Turning toâ€" wards the rest, with his expiriug Romeo expression, he wailed : * Oh, gentlemen, he is adding insult to inâ€" jury ; he is loading with abuse the bereaved husband of â€" this lady to whom he has given shelter for the wintepr !"~ * Which winter ? How much winâ€" te_x:‘?" asked the others. * You know who it is," I said, half aside to Fabian, hoping to turn him at least into an ally. "It‘s poor little Mrs. Elimer, the wife of that drunken painter." lady and her daughter shelter for the winter in an unused cottage only provoked another explosion. It was understood that at these bacheâ€" lor meetings all rules of social deâ€" corum should be _ serupulously vioâ€" lated. so there was nothing for it but to join in the mirth with the best grace 1 could. y rest â€"followed â€" without said Fablan, > But, though 1 laughed too, L didn‘t | see auy fun in it at all; for the reâ€" | membrance that the time would come | when this little blossom of ,vouth. and | happiness and all things {resh, and | sweet would be plucked from â€" the hillside, was not in the least amusâ€" Ing to me. And when this young artâ€" ist proceeded to devote his mornings toâ€" making sketches of "the child," I" thought his attentions would be much better bestowed on a grownâ€" up person. _ But as Mrs. Ellmer saw nothing to censure in all this Lcould not â€"interfere. It spoilt my yearly holiday for me, though, in an unacâ€" countable fashion; and when at the end of a fortnight my guests went away, no regrets thiaut I felt at their. departure were so keen as my ridiâ€" culous annoyance on seeing _ that Fabian‘s farewell kiss to his little sweetheart left the child in tears. CcHAPTER X. With the departure of my summer visitors a gloom fell upon us all at Larkball. _ Mrs. Elimer missed her admirers and grew petulant ; Babiâ€" ole had discovered some new haunt, and was never to be found ; while I felt tho â€" wanderer‘s fever growing strong upon me again. Fabian Scott had cleared up the little mystery concerning the husband and father of my tenants. It appeared that Mr. Ellmer, _ while neglecting, and fllâ€" using his wife without rcruple when \flhe was under the same roof with him, was subject to strong fits of conjugal devotion when two or three months of bard work, away from him, gave him reason to think that she would be in possession of a few pounds of carefully gleaned savings, while he, her lawful and once adorâ€" ed husband, did not know where to turn for a glass of beer. During the winter before I found them in Aberdeen, some friends with whom both mother and child had taken refuge from his drunken fury, had had to pay him a heavy ransom for their kindness, besides exposing themselves to the inconvenience of having their house mobbed and their windows broken whenever the tenâ€" der husband and father, having exâ€" hausted the tribute paid to keep | . him in the public house, bethought | â€" himeelf in this new way of calling : attention to his wrongs. Fablan told me that a few weeks E back he had been accosted in the Strand by Mr. Elimer, who was _ 1 nad been congratulating myself upor the fact that though alt my visitors vied witii each otner in atâ€" tentiouns to Mr:â€". Ellmer, who had become, under the influence of this sudden rush of admirers, gayer and giddier than ever, they looked upon Babiole, as her â€" mother â€" had proâ€" phesied, merely as a littie girl and of no accouut But, on the morning relerred to, 1 came upon Fablan and the child together in my garden at the foot of the hill. He was fastenâ€" ing some roses in the front of her blue cotton frock, and when he had done so, and sicpped »back a few paces to admire the effcct, he claimed & kiss as a reward for his trouble. Site gave it him shyly, but simply. She was only a child, of course, and . his little sweetheart of six years ago; and the blush that rose in her cheeks when she caughi sight of me was no sign of sellâ€"consciousness, for her color came and went at the {faintest emotion of surprise or pleasure. As for Fabian, he drew her hand through his arm, and came skipping towards me like a stage peasant. "We‘re going to be married, Babiole and I, as soon as we‘ve saved up money enough," said he. And the child Jaughed, delighted with this extravagant pleasantry. T Tds en e e oi er, who was shot, declared himself delighted with the day‘s sport ; but on the following morning Fabian and Maunrice Browne seceded from the party and amused themselves, the former by sketching, the latter by learning by heart. by means of chats with ostlers and shopkeepers, the chronique scandaleuse of the neighâ€" borhood ; in the evening he trinmpliâ€" antly informed me that the orals of the lowest haunts in Paris were imâ€" maculate, compared to those of my simple Highland village. Iam afraid this startling revelation had less efâ€" fect upon me than a little incident which I witnessed next day. meant the glasses of t.hé“il'i.éhl beâ€" fore. However, everybody but the keepâ€" Or. who Was ghht Amnlauni Li..llre and gravely, but was so slow that for the most part the grouse were out of sight before he fired. Mr. Fuasâ€" sell did better, and attributed every failure to bring down his bird to his "dâ€"â€"d glasses," upon which Faâ€" bian hastened to ask himself if he :neant the glasses of the night beâ€" n+ Hho Guls o omm * + SHes" (OC â€" lief that the louder one Eoutfe& the â€"| better one mang. When at last. crimâ€" son and panting, but proud of himself, he sat dowr amid the astonished comments ‘of the company on the strength of the roo{f, Maurice Browne wailed forth in a cracked voice â€" a rolli¢king Irish song to the aoog_n- paniment of "Auld Robin. Gray:" Faâ€" bian followed with no roice at all, but no end of expression in a paâ€" | thetic _ love song â€" of his own composition, during > which â€" everyâ€" body went to look for some cigars he had in his overcoat pocket. I refused altogethâ€" er to perform, and nobody â€" pressed me; but T had my revenge. _ When Edgar, strung up to do or die, ‘asked Fabian to accompany him with "The Death of Nelson," and rose with the modest belief that he should astonish them with a very fine bass, the first note was a deepâ€"mouthed roar that broke down the last twig of our forbearance, and we all rose as one man and declared that we had had music enough. Poor Taâ€"ta, who had been turned out of the room at the beginning of the concert for emulatâ€" j ing the first singer by a prolonged howl, was let in again, and relief having been given to everybody‘s artistic yenrnings, we â€" ended the evening with smoke and peace. Next morning we were all early on the moors, where we distinguished ourselves in various ways. â€" Fabian, who worked himsel{ into a fearful state of excitement over the sport, | shot much and often, but brought home nothing at all, and thanked Heaven, when calmness returned with the evening hours, for keeping his fellowâ€"creatures out of range of his wild gun. Maurice Browne made a good mixed bag of a hedgeâ€"hog, a greeâ€" wit, and a keeper‘s leg, and then complained that shooting was monoâ€" tonous work. Edgar worked hard discounted by this tota) ignorance of the art of singing, his imperfect u,d- quaintance with both,.tie.tirye .@an the words of his songlk f;d-t-’fi.&,be- af + 4 Ak s yO# C . UPVC shot, declared himséit Mr.~G. H. McConnell, engineer in Fleury‘s _ foundry, Aurora, Ont., States: "I believe that Dr. Chase‘s Ointment is worth its weight in gold. For about thirty years I was troubled with eczema, and could noit obtain any cure, I was so unforâ€" The demand for Dr. Chase‘s Ointâ€" ment is enormous. It is during the warm weathor especially that there is such great suffering from cczema and similar skin diseases. That Dr. Chase‘s Ointment is a thorough cure for this torturing discase is proven in hundreds of cases similar to the following : A Chronic Case " Holding his lame old back with one hand, and reaching for his shovel, he declared : "I( I had a millyun dollars 1‘d add two feet to the handles of all these shovels.‘ " "The whistle summoned them to work, w_hen Jim gavte his opinion. * Mike removed his pipe from his mouth, sighed as he looked at his empty Uinner pail, and said : * ‘Well, well, now, would yez? I‘d buy me one of the big corner saloons with all the looking glasses, and i¥‘ry lime I took a drink I‘d see mesilf twentyâ€"lour times takin‘ it "‘Byes, do yez know what I‘d do if I had a miilyun dollars? Td buy mesilf a job as porther on a Puilâ€" man car, and spind the rest of me days in luxury. "One noon hour they were seated along the fence, eating dinner, when Pat said : "‘They had shovels with very short bandles, and the dirt had to be thrown higher the dseper they dug, so the longer they worked the more energy had to be expended. * When I hear poor chaps like us speuking ol millions I think of the story & three of my countrymen who were digging a sewer in Kensâ€" ington. ‘"Some think of a million as a cheque for that amount signed by George Uould and indorsed by Rusâ€" gell Sage. Others picture â€" great heaps of gold. * Now, how many of us here to nignt know what $1,0.:0,.000 realy means ? How many peopis in general know ? (Philadelphia Times.) Seated with some congenial cronies in & cool corner of a rool garden the other night was James Connor Roach, actor, paywright, wit and racontenr. They had been discussing wealth and what it meant to be a man of millions, when Roach said : "I beg your pardon, Mr. Maude, inâ€" deed I‘m very sorry," she began. "I didn‘t think you would be in so soon." (To be Continued.) o ces aus o on e en Et o 0 Babiole was so much startled by the voice that she reappeared involâ€" untarily, on her feet, this time, from behind the screen. to see what would happen. First, Taâ€" ta ran excitedly backwards and forâ€" wards between me and the other side of the table ; then slight gounds as of stealths créeping feet and â€" hands were followed by a fleeting appariâ€" tion of a female figure on all fours between the table and the screen. "What are you. ruâ€"nâ€"u‘il;E;awuy for ? I ask?d_ very gently. . It was past six, and already dark, when I came buck and went into the study, attracted by sounds of a very elementary performance on the plano. But there was perfect silence a@ I entered and no human creature to be seen. Taâ€"ta, however, was hovâ€" ering about near the piano, now reâ€" placed in its original position in a corner against the wall. I suspected the identity of the musical ghost, and :mlelly seated mysel{ by the fireplace to, Taâ€"ta, and my books. This esâ€" trangement helped me to make u my mind to leave Larkhall for Italg before the winter came on, and a sharp frost in the last days of Ocâ€" tober sent me off to Aberdeen to make enquiries about imy proposed journey. I would iastall Mrs. Eilâ€" mer and her daughter at the Halil, if they cared to remauin, so that at any rate, they would be housed out of hbarm‘sâ€"that is, Mr. Elimer‘sâ€" way for the winter. Janet had particularly entreated me to be back early, as there had been ghostly noises of late in the region of the drawingâ€"room; and though her braw laddie, John, was ample protection against bodily inâ€" truders, yet, in the case of wraiths, though 1 only rented ‘the place, and therefore could have no family inâ€" fluence with the spirits of departed owners, 1 was likely, through my . superior social standing, to get a better hearing from the phantoms of gentlefolk than the staunchest manâ€"servant could hope to do. Between proud reminiscences of her husband and happy memories of her late flirtations with Mr. Fussell and Mr. Browne, Mrs. El mer was rather disposed to treat me and my modest friendship as of small account. So the worm turned at last, by which I mean that I spent my days deerâ€" stalking, grouseâ€"shooting,and salmonâ€"+ fishing, and my evenings with Toâ€" ‘"*poor husband,"" whom it was the fashion among us al; to consider as the "victim of art," ‘as if art had been a chronic disease. This fiction had gone on expanding and developâ€" ing until the illustrious artist, â€" to whom absence was so becoming, had eclipsed the entire Royal Academy, and had become to his wife a source of legitimate pride which, if touching by its naivete, was also wearisome by its excess. MOST DREADFUL OF SKIN DisEASES Already Mrs. Elimer had begun> to Allude with irritating frequency ~,to the talents and nobl> qualities of her .k:flng more tattered and dlnipat; than ever.â€" Thie gentiaman had s@rpevienced gregt concern at the tot&1® dflppenuncc of his wife, had. asked Fabian‘s advice as to the best means of finding. her, and had Jinâ€" ally let out. his‘conviction"‘ that she was "doing well for hersel{f," in a tomne of bitter. indignation. lK\r- lao _ had _ said nothing of hie meeting to Mrs. Elimer. being, both for ~her_â€"sake and for mine, anxions not to touch thosge strings of septiâ€" ment which, in the better kind ~ of women sound so readily for the most goodâ€"forâ€"nothing of husbinds. . for $1,000,000. of Eczema of 30 Years‘ Standing Cured by Dr Ointment,. Mr. Frank Duxbury, clerk in wW. Butchart‘s hardware store, Meaford, Ont., states: "I was troubled with eczema for four or five years, and tried a good many remedies without obtaining a cure. It was the worst "I was so bad thaft I would get up at night and scratch myself until flesh was raw and flaming. The torâ€" ture I endured is almost beyon@ deâ€" scription, and now I cannot eay anyâ€" thing too good for Dr. Chase‘s Ointâ€" ment, It has cured me, and I recomâ€" mend it because I know; there is noâ€" thing so good for itching skin." tunate as to have blood poison, and this developed in ecztema, the most dreadful of skin diseases. Avallable Plant KFood. The quantity of soluble food so addâ€" ed is insignificant compared with that already pregent in an insoluble state, but the increased ylelds reâ€" sulting fully demonstrate that a soil‘s productiveness should be measâ€" ured by the amounts of its plant food which are more or less availâ€" able, rather than by the amounts of to the soil. _ One of the chief funcâ€" tions of mechanical processes â€" for distributing soil is to ‘hasten tho conversion of inert material into these more valuable compounds alâ€" ready relerred to. The principal obâ€" ject in applying manures and fertilâ€" isers is to add to this store of While these vast stores of plant food are truly preseat, but in a very small percentage of them is imâ€" mediately available to plants, othâ€" erwise soils might soon become exâ€" hausted by the leaching of the food constituents below the reach of roots, and by the sellish practices of farmers who wouald return nothing in soils of good average fertility he has found from 2,500 to 5,000 pounds of nitrogen, from 5,500 to 11.000 pounds of potash, and from 3,500 to 6,000 pounds of phosphoric acid. The ascertained amount of plant food eontained in an acre of soil taken to a depth of eight inches, a quantity that would _ weigh about _ 2,500,000 _ pounds, Profesâ€" sor Shutt estimates, from latboratical experiments, to be, in our rich soils, from 10,000 to 20,000 pounds of niâ€" trogen, from 15,000 to 25,000 pounds of potash, and from 5,000 to 10.000 poundfl of phospheric acid. Similarly , During the last thirteen years a great many Canadian soils, both virâ€" gin and cultivated, have been examâ€" ined in the laboratories of our Exâ€" perimental Farms. The soils thus exâ€" amined have been representative of large areas in every Province in the Dominion. Judged by the standards accepted by agricultural chemists many soils in Canada proved fully as Rich 4n Plant Food as the most fertile soile of any part of the world, particularly those soils in Manitoba and the Northwest Terâ€" ritories; and the analyses by Proâ€" Iessor Shutt have proved them equal to the renowned black soil of Russia. In all the other Provinrces there are, virgin soils of more than â€" average fertility, comparing most favorably with those of other countries. 1 in the older Provinces, but also in those western areas which are overâ€" laid by phenomenally fine soils. Â¥ These are facts that are of the utâ€" most importanee, and worthy _ of study by farmers in Canada, not ouly in the older Provineak hnt nlen in gen by this humus oxidation than is removed in the crop, and this toss is greatest in those soils which are righest in nitrogon. Experiments at the Minnesota, U. 8. aA., Experiment Btation showed that for every â€" 25 pounds ol nitrogen absorbed by the ecrop, grain following grain for a numâ€" er of years, 146. pounds of nitrogen were lost, due to oxidation of orga nic matter. K hl Regulates and Protects against extremes of soil temperaâ€" ture. Lt opens up and mellows heavy soils. It serves to materially diminâ€" ish the loss of fertilzng elements by drainage, and thus permanently imâ€" proves light soils in the best way. Thus it is evident that humus show.d be regarded as a soll component of a very high order. ns it 2e on in sammer, are liberated in forms available to growing crops, and from regent experiments and research by Prof. Shutt, chemist, of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, there is reason to believe that the mireral bumates furnish a large proportion of the potash, lime and so on, used by erops. Then humus serves to inâ€" crease the absorptive and retentive power of soils for moisture. It becomes necessary to purchase it in commerc‘ial {ertilizers. Humus furâ€" nishes the food upon which the soil micreâ€"organisms â€" live, and which by their life functions convert its organic nitrogen into nitrates. It possesses cons‘derable amounts of the mineral food constituents. These, in the further decomposition of the lmn‘:uc. a process continuailly going an in anmmaam allcarm c . 1 0 2 Department of Agriculiture, Ottawa, Aug. 21, 1902. Teo much importance carnnot pbe given to the value of humus in the growth of crops and in the mainteâ€" nanee _ ol fertility,. lt is the natural . storehouse â€" and keeper ol nitrogen in â€" the soil, _ an element which is the most exâ€" pensive of all plant foods when it ONTARIOS 110 ARCHIVES _ TORONTO simntut $ ult dnc i: oc c i B : in the way of relieving mu mankind. Many of the cou brings about are mors like n than anything ciso: 60 cents at all dealers, or Idmanson & Co., Toromto. Few people reslize the sul caused by eczema and other i skin diseases. This is an exam what Dr. Chase‘s Ointment is Ointment." the itching and soreness lieved, and now I believe t entirely cured. As a result speak too highly of Dr on my Taceo, and caused me a grxeat deal of misory nt times. As soon as I began using Dr. Chase‘s Ointment hss © OO s What we eali strength of character in ourselves we are apt to call stutbâ€" boruness in other people. of the clover crop has been proseâ€" cuted or the Central Experiments» Farm at Ottawa, under the direction of Dr. W. Saunders, experiments on the branch farms baving started some three years later, In most of those trials the elover has â€" beâ€"n sowr with grain, wheat or barleg in the spring, and this has alwaye resulted in a good stand of clove> before the close of the season, as it grows rapidly after the grain â€" is harvested. If the land is intended for grain the ploughing un iler 0o! the clover is done late in the autumn ; if‘a crop of potatoes or Indian core is to be grown the next season the clover is left till the following spring, in bronom oi uesc cu uy _ C A| 1] pea and frequently scattered in â€"| yast numbers over the roots of the | legume. When they are absent the clover, as regards its nitrogenous food, is in the ‘same category as other plaots. The nitrogen elaborâ€" | ated by these microbes is passed on to the host plant and it is there _ | built up into the usual nitrogenous compounds of the tissues of the | roots, stem and leaves. These facte | represent the most important discoâ€" ,l very in agricultural science of the nineteenth century. The chief . l Value of Green Manuring, | or the system of ploughing under a growing crop of clover, lies in the adâ€" dition of nitrogen otherwise unobâ€" | tainable. By the subsequent decay in the soil of the turnedâ€"under clover this nitrogen is set free, and conâ€" vyerted by nitrification into availâ€" able food for future crops or graim fruit trees, roots, and the like. The growth and harvesting of the nitroâ€" geo consumers leave the soil poorer w nitrogen ; the growth of clover and other legumes, even when the crop has been harvested and the roots only left, leaves the soil in« variably richer in that constituent. There are other advantages, though of lesser importance, accruing from this method. Humus in la rge amounts is formed in the soil from the orâ€" ganic matter of the clover. In adâ€" dition to the functions of manuring with clover there is the mechanical as well as the chemica} improvement of the soil, the addition of food maâ€" teriais, and the encouragement of microbic life within the soil. Then, } too, considerable amounts of potash, phosphoric acid, and lime are alp> #«orbed and built up into its tissunes during the growth of clover, These in part are obtained from depths of the soil not reached by the roots of other farm crope; therefore the tur nedâ€"under clover crops can be eonsidered as adding largely to the mineral supply of the superiicial soil layer. . The â€" feature speciall y worth» of note, though, in this conâ€" nection is that this mineral food vow offered as humates for the us@ ol succeeding crops is much more available than before the clover appropriated it; it has practically been _ already digested, and _ is. therefore, more easy ol assimilaâ€" tion. _ To these benefits must be added the good work that clover does as a "catch" crop, preventing the loss of soluble nitrates and _ other plant _ food ithrough the leaching action of fall rains . Kince the spring of 1892 sy sten:â€" atic investigatory work to deter.â€" The legumes, of which clover is a prominent member, have a source for their nitrogen other than and additional to that present in the soil. _ The careful researches of Hollâ€" fleg'el. Wilfarth, and other chemâ€" _TTIL PPE VY TNo CAIF4CLION DYy a method of analysis employing strong mineral acids. ‘This view cannot be unduly emphasised, for it explains in a large degree the value of the cloâ€" ver crop as a fertilizer. that shown by the extraction by t The Fertilizing Vaine now I believe that I Wls Wgh ty tnte t a result 1 cannot 60 cents a boex, . Chase‘s example cures i were reâ€" ted 45