How He Did It

Somc twenty yeare sinoe, my father bought u iani) wbich was "worked to cleath,' as tho neigbbora said. Well we found out how il had been worked, whenwoput a heavy team and new plow to work, and the virgin soil was turned np six inches below the four hiches worked to dsath. Our neighbora propheBÍetl a failure, and whn our crops vieti and exceeded their own, ibey were full of Burmisingfl as to the wonderful strengere who were so successful in reoewing such killed soil. "What rnanure .iirl yon pui on tb at fieldf'1 a neiíjhbor asked my Inther one moming, aa they were looking at the deep, green waving corn, growing so rnnkly Ibereio. "i'lowed deep! plowed doepl" anBworad be, 'tbere is nothmg litce plowing deep thorouglily pulverizing the hoil, to bring crops iu all kinds of weatber." Tbat field had been used as a moadow, somc filteen years, prodneing half; :i ton of hny to tbfl acre. We broke it op deep, píántéd on year, sowed oats the next vvith clover and timolhy, and the third, out two toni to the acr. Another field "bas been n'sed for oftta the same length of timo. Wo prodijced but poor oats, as so muoh deep, new soil was turned up, never having been exposed to the weather, a hard and almost impenetrable crusf. having been formed at the deptb of three or four inches, whore the plow had ecraped lor years. As snon as poesible wo grassed it, and had exc.-llont rneadows where othera thonglit notbing but a bad weed, called devilsgut, could gruw.- [(Jones. Ohio Farmer. 13T Surgeons are vvaggish fellows ; tbey live by running sawa on thcir patients.