Drilling Wheat

The Dopartment of Agriculture has obtained, through ita correspondents, all the iuformation possible as to whether the present erop of wheat was drilled or sowed broadoast, and whioh is the preferable mannei of sowing. A summary of the returns shows that : 1. Fifty-two per cent. of the winter wheat, and thirty per cent. of the spring wheat, or about forty per cent. of the aggregato of both kinds, represent the proportion seeded witht drill. 2. Nine-tenths of the testimony given asserts the superiority of the drill for winter wheat. 3. An average increase of ono-tenth in the yield is assured by the use of the drilt 4. A large majority of observers declaro that in most soils in whioh injury resulting from frost is liable to occur, drilling prevenís or reduces the loss. 5. The majority assert that in certain clay soila with rolling surfaces some advantage accrues in surface-draining by use of the drill ; while in some heavy soils with flat surfaces the water freezing in the drill-furrow does positive injury. 6. The broadcast seeder predomínate in spring wheat regions, because better adapted than the drill to seoding in unplowed corn fields, on rough surfaces, and in weedy fields. 7. About one-sixth of tho seed wheat (or 5,000,000 bushels for the erop) might be saved by exclusive use of the drill. 8. The drill is used for seeding in connection with thorough culture, especially in winter wheat growing ; the broadcast seeder for imperfect culture and rough surfaces; and sowing by hand is the niethod adopted for small patches and firat effortg of impecunious pioneers. The King of Persia once ordered his vizier to make out a list of all the fools in his dominions. He did so, and put his Majesty's name at the head of them. The King asked him why, to which he inimediately answered, " Because you intrusted a lac of rupees to men you don't know to buy horses for you a thousand miles off, and who'll never come back." "Ay, but suppose they come back?" " Then I shall erase your name and insert theirs." When an enthusiastic editor describes a bride as bonny, and an envious compositor sets her up as bony, as was done at Jacksonville the other day, hope for a Beason bids the world farewell, and freedom shrieks as the compositor falls at his form, brained by the brother of the blooming bride. A gentleman was warmly eulogizing the constancy of an an absent husband in the presence of his loving wife : " Yes, yes," assented she, " he writes letters full of the agony of affection, but he never remits me any money." I can understand that," said the other " for I know his lov to be unremitting."