50 POPtTLAE ERRORS. 



impossible for any farmer to keep his grain en- 

 tirely free from the seeds of chess and other weeds. 

 Still, a few farmers do so, and by so doing have 

 proved that the origin of chess is found in the seed 

 planted, and not in the injury by winters and other 

 causes. In some parts of England since the real 

 character of chess has become better known this 

 weed has become nearly exterminated. 



Chess is believed by some to be the " tares " of 

 the Bible. It is very common in the wheat of Syria 

 and Palestine to-day. How much more reason- 

 able to suppose, with the ancient Hebrews, that if 

 one sows "good seed" he will reap a clean har- 

 vest, than to overlook the many ways in which the 

 seeds of weeds may enter, and to suppose that 

 because weeds appear in the crop they come from 

 the seed which is intentionally sown. 



