Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — Deficient in Orthography. [ARTICLE]

Deficient in Orthography.

Jersey School Commissioner—This new teacher ain’t fit for the business. Citizen—What’s the matter with him ? Jersey School Commissioner—He can’t spell wuth a cent. Citizen—Can’t spell? Jersey School Commissioner—No, sir. He told my darter to-day that “skeeters” is spelled with an “m.”— New York Tivies.

Implements for cultivation and tillage, kept in the best running condition, are not .only easier for the team, and for the'"man who drives it, but they perform the intended v labor in a more perfect manner. Cultivators and horse hoes, with teeth kept sharp and bright, are guided with greater accuracy, cut nearer to the rows, kill all weeds in their track, and give handsomer and more thrifty crops. Plows for slicing and inverting the earth, with sharp edges, freely through the soil, do better work, and at less expense, than hard-running and clogging shares; and harrows for the thorough pulverization of the soil and the complete intermixture of fertilizers, so important to gT&in and other finer crops, should be chosen for their uerfect and' efficient performance of th©*work. Somebody claims that with all its buzzing a horsefly only travels about three miles a day. A hornqt can easily make a mile, a minute if wp get him m ‘ d “ ough - &