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CHAPTER XIX.—(Continued.)
“You should not hit a man when he
1s down,” he said, reproachfully.
“I don’t think you will be long
down,” returned Blount with an en
couraging nod that somehow made
Denzil’s heart beat high, though he did
not dare to take the words in their
under meaning. “And now I must be
off. No, thank you, my dear—I can
not stay to dinner; I have so many
things to attend to before seven. But
tell Sir George I will look him up
again in the morning. And give my
love to the girls; and tell Mildred that
I know, and she knows, there is but
one man in the world can ever make
i her happy.”
■ He looked kindly at Denzil as he
* spoke, but the latter would not accept
the insinuation conveyed in his words.
Mrs. Younge, however, noticed both
i the glance and the significant tone, and
a light broke in upon her.
When Lady Caroline had followed
Dick Blount out of the room she went
over and knelt down by her son.
“Denzil,” she said, lovingly, “I know
it all now. But am I never to speak
of it?”
And he answered as he kissed her:
“Do not let us ever mention it again
—there’s a darling mother.”
But all that night Mrs. Younge
gazed at the girl and wondered, pon
dering many things and blaming, wom
an-like, yet feeling in her heart the
while that the choice her son had
made was indeed a perfect one.
After this Denzil made rapid strides
toward recovery, growing stronger,
gayer and more like the Denzil they
had known in the first days of their
acquaintance than he had been for
some time before his illness. He could
now walk from room to room and take
long drives, though Stubber still In
sisted on some hours in the day being
spent on the sofa. Miss Trevanion
Denzil saw daily, though seldom alone
•—and who shall say how much this
conducted toward the renewing of his
IL strength?
It wanted but a fortnight of Charlie's
wedding day, and Denzil, who was feel
ing a little tired, and was anxious to
^ attain perfect health before the event
came off—having promised to attend
in the character of “best man”—was
lying on the lounge in the library
when Mildred came in.
“I did not know you were in from
your drive,” she said. There was less
constraint between them now than
there had ever been. “Did you enjoy
it?”
“Very much indeed.”
“So you ought,” she said. “Could
there be a more beautiful day?” She
threw up the low window as she spoke
and leaned out. “The air reminds me
of summer, and the flowers are becom
ing quite plentiful, instead of being
sought longingly one by one.”
“Yes,” returned Denzil, vaguely,
thinking all the time what an exquisite
picture she made, framed in by the
window and its wreaths of hanging
ivy.
“By the bye, did you like the bunch
I gathered for you this m lrning? See
—there they are over there.”
“Were they for me?” asked Denzil,
looking pleased. “I did not flatter my
self that they were.”
"Well, yes, I think they were chiefly
meant for you,” returned Mildred,
carelessly. “Invalids are supposed to
get every choice thing going—are they
not?—though indeed you can scarcely
come under that head now.”
She threw down the window again,
and came back toward the center of
the room.
"Mildred,” said Denzil suddenly—he
had risen on her first entering, and
stood leaning against the chimney
piece—“there is something connected
with my illness, a dream it must have
been, that, whenever I see you, preys
*■ upon my mind. May I tell it to you?
The vivid impression it made might
perhaps leave me if I did.”
“Of course you may,” answered Mil
dred, growing a shade paler.
“Come over here then and sit down;
I can not speak to you so far away.”
She approached the hearth rug and
stood there.
“I will warm my hands while you
tell me,” she said, determined that,
i should it prove to be what she half-,
» dreaded to hear, he should not see her
face during the recital.
“Well, then,” he began, “I thought
that, as I lay in bed one evening, the
door opened, and you came into the
room, and, walking softly over to my
bedside, stood there very sorrowfully
looking down upon me. We were
alone, I think”—passing his hand in a
puzzled manner over his forehead, as
though endeavoring vainly to recollect
something—“at least I can remember
no one else but us two, and it seemed
to me that presently you began to cry
and stooped over me, whispering some
thing, I forget what, and I took your
hands like this”—suiting the action
to the word—“and then some figures
came toward us, but I waved them
back, holding you tightly all the time;
and”—here he paused, his eyes fixed
earnestly upon the opposite wall, as
though there he saw reacting all that
was struggling for clearness in his
brain—“and I asked you to do some
thing for me then—something that
would aid my recovery more than all
the doctor’s stuff—and you-”
“No, no, I did not!” cried Mildred,
vehemently, unable longer to restrain
her fear of his next words, and trying
passionately to withdraw her hands.
‘‘Yes, you did!” exclaimed Denzil,
excitedly; “I know it now. It was not
fancy—how could I ever think it was?
—it was reality. Oh, Mildred, you
kissed me.”
“How dare you?” cried Miss Trevan
ion, bursting into tears. "You know I
did not; it is untrue—a fevered dream
—anything but the truth.”
‘‘Do you say that?” ho said, releas
ing her. “Of course, then, it was mere
imagination. Forgive me; I should not
have said it, but the remembrance of
it haunts me night and day. This
room, too, fosters all memories. Here
for the first time I told you. how I loved
you; and here, too, you refused me,
letting me see how wild and unfounded
had been my hope that you also loved
me in return. Do you remember?”
“Yes, yes, I remember,” Mildred
answered, faintly, turning her face
away.
“Over there"—pointing to a distant
couch—“we met again, after weeks of
separation and oblivion—since you say
that past thought of mine was but a
dream—and I felt when you entered
the room how undying a thing is love.
You see this place is fraught with pain
to me, and yet I like it. I like to sit
here and think, and picture to myself
those old scenes again, only giving
them a kindlier ending."
“Do you still care to recall them?”
she asked In a low, broken voice.
“I shall always care to recall any
thing connected with you,” he answer
ed, simply; then—"Did I ever thank
you, Mildred, for coming to my assist
ance on that last hunting day? I think
not. I have no recollection of all that
occurred, but they told me how good
to me you were.”
“It was the very commonest .human
ity,” she said.
“Of course that was all. You would
have done the same for anyone. I
know that. Still I am grateful to you.”
Then suddenly, “Why did you break
off with Lyndon?”
“You have asked me that question
before,” she said.
"I know I have, and I know also how
rude a question it is to ask; and still I
cannot help wishing to learn the an
swer. Will you tell me?”
She hesitated and then said, slewly:
“He discovered, or fancied, that I
did not care sufficiently for him; and
he was too honorable to marry a wom
an who did not accept him willingly
of her own accord.”
“When did he make that discovery?”
“We ended our engagement the even
ing of your accident,” she answered,
evasively, and with evident reluctance.
“Mildred, if I thought,” he began,
passionately, trying to read her face,
“if I dared to believe what your words
appear to imply I might be mad
enough again to say to you words that
have ever fallen coldly on your ear. 1
would again confess how fondly I love
you—how faithfully during all these
wretched months I have clung to the
sweet memories of you that ever linger
in my heart.”
sne snrunK away a mue ana covered
her face with her hands.
“Do you still turn from me, Mildred?
Am I distressing you? Darling, I will
say no more. It Is indeed for the last
time in all my life that I have now
spoken. Forgive me. Mildred; I am
less than a man to pain you in this
way; but, oh, my dearest, do not
shrink from me, whatever you do; do
not let me think I have taught you to
hate me by my persistence. See, I am
going, and for the future do not be
afraid that I shall ever again allude to
this subject.” He drew near her and
gently kissed her hair. “Good-by,” he
said, once more, and then, slowly al
most feebly, walked down the room
toward the door.
Miss Trevanion stood gazing after
him, her blue eyes large and bright
with fear; she had an intense longing
to say she knew not what. Oh, for
words to express ail that was in her
heart!
Her hands were closely clasped to
gether; her lips, pale and still, refused
to move. It was the last time—he had
said so; if she let him go now it was
a parting that must be forever; , and
yet she could not speak. Her love, her
life was going, and she could not utter
the word that would recall him. Al
ready he had turned the handle of the
door; the last moment had indeed come
—would he not turn?
“Denzil!" she cried, desperately,
breaking down by one passionate effort
the barrier that had stood so long be
tween them, and held out her hands to
him.
“My love!” he said, turning. And
then in another moment she was in his
arms and all the world was forgotten.
(The End.)
A Good Cook.
To be a good cook means the know
ledge of all fruits, herbs, balms and
spices, and of all that is healing and
sweet in the fields and groves, and
savory in meats. It means careful
ness, inventiveness, watchfulness, wil
lingness and readiness of appliance. It
means the economy of our great
grandmothers and the science of mod
ern chemists. It means much tast
ing and no wasting. It means English
thoroughness, French art, and Ara
bian hospitality. It means, in fine,
that you are to be perfectly and al
ways ladies (loafglvers), and are to
see that everybody has something
nice to eat.—Ruskin.
PRODUCER AND USER.
THEY ARE INTERDEPENDENT
UPON EACH OTHER.
How the Practical Operation of tha
Protective Principle Meeta the Re
quirement of Legtelatlon for the Great
eet Good of the Greatest Number.
J. D. Wilson of Randolph, Mo., re
cently addressed the following to the
editor of the American Economist:
Conceding that the tariff on wool
makes the grower money, who pays it
in the end, the man who wears the
woolt or who? Seems to me that legis
lation should be for the greatest good
to the greatest number. In other words,
don't more people wear wool than
grow it?”
Answer: Questions of this sort the
Free Traders have been asking for
many, many years, always answering
them to their own complete satisfac
tion. In their way of looking at it
protection benefits the few at the ex
pense of the many. Our western friend
has got it all figured out in the same
way. Pity it is that his talents should
be wasted away out in "Darkest Mlz
ioury!” He should have been a col
lege professor. But we shall take him
as he is and endeavor to solve his
conundrum.
Conceding, as he says—and this is an
important concession—that the tariff
on wool makes money for the wool
grower, who pays it.? Principally the
foreign wool grower, who is compelled
to accept a lower price for his product
in order to sell it in the United States
after the duty has been added. Possib
ly the man who wears clothing made
of wool pays some of the tariff, but not
much. Clothing is little or no higher
in price than it was in days of non
protected wool under the Wilson tariff
law. If a suit of clothes could be
bought a trifle cheaper, then the wage
earner and the farmer were none the
better off on that account, because
neither the wage earner nor the farm
er had nearly so much money to buy
clothes with as they have now. If you
could buy an overcoat for a dollar and
didn’t have the dollar to pay for it,
you woudn’t be anything like so wen
off as though overcoats were selling
at $10 apiece and you had $16 in your
pocket with which to buy.
But the pivotal thought—the great
Free Trade conception—of our Mis
souri friend is to be found in his con
cluding proposition that
‘‘Legislation should be for the great
est good of the greatest number. In
other words, don’t more people wear
wool than grow it?”
iviusi assureuiy legisiuuuu auuuiu >'*
for the greatest good of the greatest
number. Most assuredly more
wear wool than grow It. Right
here Is the strength of protec
tion and weakness of Free Trade. Not
only does protection call for legisla
tion that involves the greatest good
to the greatest number; it legislates
for the greatest good of the whole
number. There is today in this coun
try no individual—not one—who is
not in some way distinctly the gainer
by the policy of protection. Even the
importer or the American agent for
foreign merchandise is the beneficiary
of a state of prosperity "which has in
creased the demand and likewise the
purchasing power of the most liberal
body of purchasers and consumers the
world has ever known. The use in the
United States of foreign made articles
of art, luxury and fashion was never so
great as now, lyhile the production and
consumption of domestic articles of all
sorts (that is to say, the gross volume
of internal trade) and the sales to for
eigners of articles of domestic produc
tion are so much greater than ever be
fore that for the first time in its his
tory the United States has become the
leading nation of the world alike In
domestic and foreign trade, and, in
stead of being in debt to the money
centers of Europe, is now a creditor
nation. The economic policy that has
brought all this to pass may surely
be considered as productive of the
greatest good to the greatest number.
But our Missouri friend needs some
light on the question, "Don’t more peo
ple wear wool than grow it?" As we
have said, this question must be an
swered in the affirmative. So do more
people eat wheat and corn and beef
and mutton and pork than raise those
articles. A thousand times more peo
ple use nails than those who make
nails. So with every article of use
and consumption. The users and con
sumers outnumber the producers many
times over. Protection takes account
of this condition and by diversifying
production alike in the factory and on
the farm calls into being a tremendous
army whose needs and requirements
are mutual and interdependent. It in
sures to the American farmer a profit
able market for his wool by insuring
a steady demand on the part of per
sons who wear but do not grow wool,
and by taking care that the cheaper
wools of foreign countries shall not
come in and break down the price of
home grown wools. Otherwise the
American wool grower would have to
go out of business, as so many thous
ands did when wool was deprived of
protection in the Free Trade tariff law
of 1894-1897. Is it not a wise tariff pol
icy that diversifies industry in agricul
ture and enables the farmer to profit
ably produce articles which he could
not otherwise produce except at a loss,
and that by creating and furnishing
employment for a vast aggregate of
busy and well paid wage earners in
sures to the farmer a near by, close-to
ht>me demand at profitable prices for
his products?
OUTLOOK FOR FLAX AND LINEN
Last year there gfere 2,300,000 acres
given over to the rising of flax in the
three states of North find South Dako
ta and Minnesota; and It Is reported i
that this year’s sowing will show an
Increase of 200,000 acres over the fig
ures for last year. The flax industry is
one more to be added to the list of In
dustries which owe their establishment
in this country directly to our protec
tective tariff policy. It. along with the
silk industry, the tin plate Industry,
the steel Industry, and a host of others
In their turn, has been belittled and'
sneered at by the free traders and the
protection given to It has been opposed
with violence. It Is In a fair way now,
however, toward attaining such pro
portions that these followers of Cob
den will be obliged. In order to retain
any reputation, even a somewhat
shaky one, for truthfulness, to drop
their cry of “bogus Industry,” so far
as flax-ratslng Is concerned; and the
time is not very far distant when the
United States will be able to entirely
supply its people with linen of home
manufacture, as well as with native
woolens and cottons and silks.
HIS ATTITUDE.
Prmtdant McKinley Not In Sympathy
with Free-Tradc Innovation*.
There is good reason to believe that
the well-informed Washington corre
spondent of the Philadelphia Press
speaks with knowledge and authority
when he asserts that President McKin
ley Is opposed alike to tariff revision
and to the Kasson plan of reducing
tariff rates by special trade treaties.
The president, it is said, deprecates the
opening up of the tariff question as
disturbing and Injurious to business
interests, and the Babcock folly of
slaughtering the minor concerns by re
moving all protective duties from for
eign products competing with the pro
ducts of the steel trust will receive no
encouragement from the administra
tion.
With equal positiveness It is affirmed
that President McKinley has not
only exerted no pressure for the ratifi
cation of the French reciprocity treaty,
but, on the contrary, has been in full
sympathy with the protectionist op
position to that ill-advised and mis
chievous instrument. According to the
Press correspondent the president
did not examine the French treaty be
fore submitting It to the senate for ap
proval, and hence was not aware that
Commissioner Kasson bad agreed upon
a draft distinctly designed to benefit
certain industries by withdrawing
needed protection from other indus
tries.
With equal reason it may be taken
for granted that the president had not
investigated the scope and operation
of the proposed Argentina treaty,
which provided for a reduction of 20
per cent from the duties on wool pro
vided for in the Dingley tariff law.
Undoubtedly the president is in
favor of reciprocal trade arrangements
that shall enlarge the foreign demand
for American products, but It is real
and not bogus reciprocity that he fa
vors—the reciprocity authorized by the
Republican national platform of 1900,
in “what we do not ourselves pro
duce.” Those who Imagine that Presi
dent McKinley is today anything less
than the sound and consistent protec
tionist that he always was are nursing
a vain delusion. The president is a
friend of American labor and industry.
Make no mistake about that!
They Never Reflect.
Philadelphia Record managers and
other free traders, whose main politi
cal policy Is, “Anything to deprive
American wage earners of em
ployment and wages and enrich foreign
monopoly by giving them our home
market while we pay the taxes,” are
still battling for a return to the robber
Wilson tariff which swindled, accord
ing to Samuel Gompers, two and one
half millions breadwinners out of their
jobs. Do these enemies of the com
mon people ever reflect that the Ruler
of nations is also the God of the poor,
and that His justice is merely delayed?
HE WILL NOT SUCCEED.
Reciprocity the Wrong Way*
Let us have no tampering in the way
of reciprocating treaties that do recip
rocating the wrong way. To be sure
such treaties carefully constructed as
sist American industries but they do
so, as the patterns rejected show, at
the expense of certain other American
industries. This, then, is not reciproc
ity, but simply nothing more or less
than the English tariff Idea of fair
trade.—Racine (Wis.) Journal.
What Dom He Want?
Babcock, of Wisconsin, continues to
remark that the Republicans of the
West are in favor of a reduction of
'duties on articles which can be pro
duced here more cheaply than else
where, and his listeners continue to
wonder whether he wants the Rpubli
can party to be a party of tariff re
form.—Syracuse Post-Standard.
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Some rp-to-nate Hints About Caltlfa*
tlon of tb« Soli and Yields Thereof—
Horticulture^ Viticulture and Vlortoul
tlNt
Manuring Wheat.
In a recent bulletin on the manuring
of soil. Prof. John Fields of the Okla
homa Experiment Station says:
In seasons when there Is an abund
ant summer rainfall, manure plowed
under will decay and settle down. On
the other hand, In dry seasons, and
especially If the soil Is not well culti
vated soon after plowing, manure
which is plowed under will keep the
soil open and make it dry out easily.
The seed then goes into a dry soil,
germinates poorly giving a thin stand,
and starts off the wheat In a weakened
couditlon.
This makes the manuring of land
sown continuously to wheat difficult,
and in such cases, it would appear that
a top-dressing, well worked into the
surface of the soil, would be the best
and safest practice.
Attempts to follow Kafir corn or
sorghum with wheat have very often
resulted in failure. "Kafir corn ruins
the land” is an expression frequently
heard in conversation with farmers.
When the matter Is studied, it is found
that, after all, it is largely a question
of the supply of moisture in the soil.
Kafir corn grows a large mass of for
age and uses the soil moisture up until
the time of wheat seeding, and the
wheat goes into a soil without suffi
cient moisture for the germination of
the seeds and the growth of the plants.
Early plowing of land for wheat
does little but prepare the soil so that
it will take in water and keep it
Working the soil, keeping the surface
loose, helps out a dry season by hold
ing the water in the soil. Cultivation
at the proper times as much to be pre
ferred to manuring when there is no
opportunity for the soil to fill with
moisture before a crop is to be planted.
The effect of a given crop on the
moisture content of the soil has more
to do with the yield of the next crop
than does the amount of plant-food
removed from the soil.
Cultivation and manuring—as much
as possible of each—and study and
knowledge of the true effect of differ
ent crops on available soil moisture
are essential to a profitable and im
proving system of farming. The day of
crop failures, worn out farms, and
purchase of fertilizers should be put
off by the use of things at hand that
cost only energy, time, and labor to
utilize and possess.
Marketing Small Fruit*.
Berry growers should soon purchase
their supply of berry boxes and bask
ets In which they expect to market
their fruit the coming season, says a
communication from the Oklahoma
Experiment Station. The tub or large
bucket and quart cup are the packages
that have been in most common use
in the berry market in Oklahoma, but
are giving away to neat woouen quart
boxes and crates. The cost of the
boxes and crates is very small and it
greatly improves the appearance of the
fruit. The berries should be put in
the baskets Just as they are gathered.
This prevents the necessity of further
handling, crushing and soiling the
fruit. It can then be delivered in bet
ter condition and is worth more in
dollars and cents to the consumer.
Berries that are placed In small bask
ets as fast us they are gathered will
keep fresh much longer and will sell
for a higher price than the berries that
were of the same quality when gath
ered but have been handled in bulk.
The increase in price of the berries
will much more than pay for the boxes
and crates. The ease with which crated
berries can be sold is often of great
importance especially in a full market.
The claim Is often made that fruit is
so cheap that it will not pay for the
boxes. This is sometimes true but the
difference in price of the crated and
uncrated berries is often the difference
between a profit and a loss in favor
of the crated fruit. There are several
kinds of boxes and crates used for
small fruits any of which answers the
purpose very well. A quart package is
the most common size used for berries.
These boxes are made of wood or
paste-board and are always given with
the fruit. The crates are made of
wooden slats and usually hold 35 quart,
boxes. These can be used during the
entire season when the berries are sold
in the home market, but if shipped new
boxes can be bought cheaper than the
old ones can be returned. The pack
ages should be clean and bright and
the packing done in good form. It is
often the package and packing that
sell the fruit as much as the merits of
the fruit itself.
Fruit In Missouri.
A report Just issued by the Missouri
State Horticultural Society states that
the strawberry crop in the southern
part of that state is being cut short by
dry weather; that raspberry vines are
badly injured by anthracnose and that
the crop will be light; that growers
are having trouble in some parts of
the state with canker worm and in
others with the leaf roller, in still
others with the dropping of the apple
and peach and with the peach leaf
curl, but that good crops of the tree
fruits last named are promised never
theless. Averages for the northwest
ern division of the state, embracing
nineteen counties, are as follows:
Apples 75, pears 70, peaches 90, plums
90, cherries 95, strawberries 95, rasp
berries 65, blackberries 80 and grapes
85.
The averages for the twenty-five
counties embraced in the northeast di
vision are given as follows: Apples
80, pears 75, peaches 90, plums, 85,
cherries 65, strawberries 70, raspber
ries 60, blackberries 75, grapes 85.
In the southeast division (32 coun
ties) the following averages were ob
tained: Apples 85, pears 60, peaches
and plums 95, cherries 85, strawber
ries 90, raspberries 70, blackberries 90,
grapes 90.
The averages for the southwest di
vision which embraccu 38 counties are
as follows: Apples 90, pears 76,'
peaches 95, plums 90, cherries 75,
strawberries 80, raspberries 50, black
berries 95, grapes 85.
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Agricultural Notes.
Formaldehyd Is a colorless, pungent
gas obtainable from wood alcohol and
readily soluble in water. It may be
purchased at drug stores In liquid
form, that is, dissolved in water. Its
property of destroying the spores of
fungi was discovered by the German
scientist Loew, In 1888. It Is not pois
onous in moderate amounts, even when
taken Internally. In 1895 Prof. H. L.
Bolley, then of Indiana but now of the
North Dakota Experiment Station, be
gan making experiments with a solu
tion of formaldehyd for the prevention
of grain smuts, and potato scab. His
results were so satisfactory that the
formaldehyd treatment has come to be
regarded as the standard preventive
for these diseases.
...
Smooth brome-grass will withstand
extreme changes In the temperature
without injury. Its ability to produce
good pasture during long periods of
drought far exceeds that of any other
cultivated variety. In Canada where
It had been exposed to a temperature
of several degrees below sero and not
covered by snow it was entirely un
injured.
The yield of hay from smooth
brome-grass varies from one to four
and a half tons per acre according to
climatic conditions, method of seed
ing, and fertility of soil. The quality
of the hay Is excellent, fully equaling
that of timothy in palatablllty and
nutritive qualities.
...
In experiments with hairy vetch at
the Mississippi station the yield was
Increased 64.6 per cent by scattering
Inoculated soli in the drills with the
seed, and 84 per cent by soaking the
seed in water containing the tubercle
germs. The amount of nitrogen was
also considerably increased by inocu
lation. The Inoculated soil used was
obtained from a field bearing hairy
vetch which had an abundance of
nodules.
• • •
Have you tested the clover seed? It
pays to do so.
The origin of clover seed is of much
Importance, but receives little atten
tion from farmers, who buy their seed
without ever attempting to ascertain
Its place of origin. Yet scientists that
have looked into the matter believe
that, as a general rule, seed grown in
northern latitudes will produce
hardier plants than seed grown in the
South,
...
Maryland has made considerable ad
vancement In the study of the surface
soils of the state, and colored maps
them.
Horticultural Observation..1
Prof. E. S. Goff says: The Wiscon
sin oat crop of 1898 was estimated by
the United States Department of Ag
riculture at 64,000,000 bushels, valued
at 815,500,000. Allowing an average of
five per cent, which is probably n"
an excessive estimate, the smut tax
1898 in our state amounted to about
8775,000.
In plants like the apple, which are
widely dispersed by means of graftage,
there Is more or less departure from
the original type. The Newtown Pip
pin, which originated in Long Island,
baa varied in Virginia into the Albe
marle Pippin, a poorer keeper than the
original. In the Northwest it has va
ried into a form which has five ridges
at the apex, while in Australia it is so
different as to huve been renamed the
Five Crowned Pippin.
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All plants are made up of a succes
sion or colony of shoots, originating in
buds. These shoots show as much
tendency to vary as do seedlings. The
degree of variation is not usually as
great, since the latter unite the quali
ties of two parents, while the former
are the product of one parent. Never
theless, sudden and marked bud varia
tions are not uncommon. As a mat
ter of fact, many of our cultivated va
rieties have originated from bud
sports. The nectarine came from a
branch of the peach. A French horti
culturist gave, in 1865, a list of 151
commercial varieties which had origi
nated by bud variation, while Prof.
Bailey estimates that there are over
300 such sorts grown at present in our
own country.
Illinois Annual Corn Crop.
Illinois' annual corn crop, about
240.000. 000 bushels, is raised on nearly
8.000. 000 acres of land. It requires
about 1,000,000 bushels of seed corn
to plant the cornPflelds of this state.
If the character of the seed has any
considerable influence upon the crop
produced then the production and use
of the _best possible seed corn becomes
a matter of tremendous importance.—
Bulletin 63, University of Illinois.
According to J. D. Smith, state en
tomologist of New Jersey, who has
spent three months examining the
fruit industry of Germany, France,
Belgium, Holland and Hungary, Ger
many offers the most promising field
for American fruit. He thinks France
is unfavorable and says that Europe
has very little to teach U3 in the treat
ment of insect enemies, for the con
clusive reason that pests are less
troublesome there than in this coun
try.
