‘R? RURAL NEW-YORKER 
969 
umbrella in the crowd, and six people 
tried to get under it. Oh. how it did 
rain! It made me think of the time I 
went to the Sunday school picnic in an 
open grove, and just such a shower started 
in. Part of the crowd got into the 
wagons: the rest of us crowded under 
trees, where we were soaked from head 
to foot. I Shall never forget the minis¬ 
ter’s wife. Her hair was down and 
streaming with water, her bonnet was re¬ 
duced to wood pulp, and her clothes hung 
to her like the feathers on a wet hen. 
And yet she held up her head and started 
singing a hymn. What would you con¬ 
sider most appropriate at such a time? 
"There shall he showers of blessings, 
Precious revival again. 
Over the hills and the valleys 
Sound of abundance of rain !" 
Very appropriate, certainly, and every¬ 
one joined in and forgot his ducking. I 
suppose 1 might have started that same 
song, though I doubt if many of those 
drenched pilgrims knew it. They had to 
make a train at four o’clock, and. like 
good soldiers, they did not intend to stand 
there and be slaughtered. So all at once 
they started out into the rain in a wild 
rush for the house, half a mile away. Few 
of them knew just where it was, but they 
ran in an easterly direction. Rain! Just 
as they started the Jersey weather man 
did his best, or worst, and let out a reg¬ 
ular flood. (Jreat rivers ran down the 
hills. You could hardly see your way 
through the falling water. And after 
five minutes of this deluge the sun came 
out smiling as bright as on a May morn¬ 
ing. Well, they all made the farmhouse 
after many thrilling adventures. The 
women were, as wet as mermaids, while the 
men left great, tracks of drip as they 
walked along. Yet that was the greatest 
"bunch of sports” 1 ever saw. Why. you 
couldn't wash the sweetness of good na¬ 
ture out of them. They took it as a 
joke—a legitimate part of the game. Next 
year they might be lost on the desert 
without water. Let’s soak in all we can 
now. so as to be ready for it! That was 
the spirit they showed. Half a dozen of 
them stayed over a train and dried their 
clothes: the others went right off in their 
wet garments, as dry in spirit as they 
were wet in body. And then we all re¬ 
membered that we never did get a chance 
to see how those pruned trees have grown. 
It i.s a wonderful thing to be able to take 
tilings, wet or dry, just as they come— 
all as part of the game. it. w. c. 
Shall We Grow Rye? 
A press bulletin front the Ohio State 
Experiment Station contains a short note 
by I.. E. Thatcher, assistant agronomist, 
against the plan of growing rye: 
"It is difficult," he says to keep wheat- 
fields clean when rye is grown in the 
neighborhood, and even a small percent¬ 
age of rye in wheat lowers its milling 
quality and price,” 
In a 150-mile tour north and west from 
Wooster, Mr. Thatcher inspected 133 
fields of wheat, 40 of which showed a 
mixture of rve varying from 5 to 35 per 
cent. More bushels of the hardier and 
better varieties of wheat, such us Gladden 
and Trumbull, than of rye, may be grown 
on most soils of the State. The market 
price of clean wheat is one-third to one- 
italf higher than that of rye, and its 
feeding value equally as good. The 10- 
year average acreage of rye grown in 
Ohio is less than 30,000; that of wheat, 
more than 2,000.000 acres. In view of 
these facts, especially the disparity in 
value and yield, the agronomist suggests 
that it may be wise to abandon the grow¬ 
ing of rye in many localities. 
Very likely that is sound advice In 
most wheat growing sections, but there 
are other places where rye is more Valu¬ 
able than wheat. In our own locality 
rye straw sells for more than hay, while 
the grain, mixed with corn and ground, 
makes a good feed. As part or the whole 
of a cover crop, few plants are better 
than rye. It will grow anywhere, and, 
under the roughest conditions, and it 
makes a great crop for plowing under. It 
will give a fair crop where wheat would 
fail. We like it better than wheat as a 
nurse Crop for seeding, and it is superior 
for bedding or for covering strawberries. 
There i.s no use denying the statement 
that rye is a nuisance when mixed with 
wheat or other small grains, yet there are 
some places where it will pay to grow 
rye instead of wheat as a small grain. 
State Fair Dates 
Connecticut—Hartford. September 4-S. 
Indiana Indianapolis. September 4-9. 
Michigan Detroit. September 1-10. 
Minnesota Mainline. September 2-9. 
New England. Worcester, September 
2-G. 
West Virginia Wheeling, September 
4-9. 
Kentucky—Louisville. September 11-16. 
New York—Syracuse. September 11-16. I 
Vermont—White River Junction, Sep¬ 
tember 12-15. 
Illinois—Springfield, September 16-23. 
New Jor.se\ Trenton. September 25-30. 
Kansas 4 lutehinson, September 10-22. 
Ohio—Columbus, September 2S-Octo- 
ber 2. 
Virginia —Richmond, October 2-10. 
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