When the plants are well established they will be improved by severe harrowing every spring, a sharp harrow being used until the field looks as if it were plowed.
Lucerne has been tried by a few cultivators in the West, but by more in the East, with great success, and it has this peculiar excellence, that, thanks to its very long roots, it withstands our severest droughts; indeed our hottest and dryest summers are those which it seems to delight in.
FAMILY GOVERNMENT.
“William! stop that noise, I say—won’t you stop! Stop, I Tell you, or I’ll slap your mouth.”
William bawls a little louder.
“William, I tell you! ain’t you going to stop? Stop I say! If you don’t stop I’ll whip you, sure.”
William goes up a fifth, and beats time with his heels.
“I never saw such a child!—he’s got temper enough for a whole town; I’m sure he didn’t get it from me. Why don’t you be still! Whist. Wh-i-st. Come, come, be still, won’t you? Stop, stop, STOP, I say! Don’t you see this—don’t you see this stick? See here now,” (cuts the air with the stick).
William, more furious, kicks very manfully at his mother—grows redder in the face, lets out the last note, and begins to reel, and shake, and twist, in a most spiteful manner.