. Country life reader . heir renewal of life,—this is thecommonest dehght of the race, the most satisfactorything a man can do. The man who has planted a gardenfeels that he has done something for the good of the world. Charles Dudley Warner. THE SOWER And great multitudes were gathered together untoJesus, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the wholemultitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables,saying, Behold a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side,and the fowls came and devoured them up. Some fell upon stony places, w
. Country life reader . heir renewal of life,—this is thecommonest dehght of the race, the most satisfactorything a man can do. The man who has planted a gardenfeels that he has done something for the good of the world. Charles Dudley Warner. THE SOWER And great multitudes were gathered together untoJesus, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the wholemultitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables,saying, Behold a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side,and the fowls came and devoured them up. Some fell upon stony places, where they had not muchearth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they hadno deepness of earth: And w^hen the sun was up, they were scorched; andbecause they had no root, they withered away: And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung upand choked them: But others fell into good ground, and brought forthfruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirty-fold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. The .m. 123 THE SPRING VALLEY CORN CLUB (Concluded) When the Corn Club met at the school-house, Mr. Brooks,a young farmer who had taken a course in the agriculturalcollege, was asked to take charge of the meeting. Hedecided that after our last two meetings it was time forus to have another talk about the growing of corn, and sohe chose for his subject: How to Know Good Seed-Corn. Mr. Brooks was a practical man, who believed in doingthings instead of talking about them, and as soon asthe meeting was called to order he brought in a largebasket filled with ears of corn. Out of this pile he se-lected three ears, which he held up, one by one, and after-ward passed around so that we might examine first ear which he showed us, was not fully developed,and neither the tip nor the butt of the ear was properlyfilled out. The next ear was better, but the kernels didnot run in straight lines and there were wide gaps betweensome of the rows. Some of the kernels, too, we
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