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FARM as ORCHARD Notes and Instructions from Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, of Oregon and Washington. Specialty Suitable to Pacific Coast Conditions ------- -J I’srs and Care of the Loganberry. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis The more the loganberry is studied the more wonderful its quali ties appear. Possibly its greatest single asset is its remarkable keeping qualities. Who ever heard of a can of spoiled loganberries? Of course the careless and unsanitary handling given all fruit by some people would spoil anything, but if such treatment has resulted in producing bad cans or bottles of loganberries .the case has not been reported. Dried loganberries likewise have been on the market in limited quanti ties for several years and no loss from spoiled berries has been reported here, either by the dealers or consumers. It •'1 am very enthusiastic over the possibilities of the loganberry juice; more enthusiastic now than 1 have ever been before. The results of our experiments with four or five of the products are results that we are proud of. Recently we made up some of this preserved juice for drinking, carbon ated it and gave it out to a number of our friends to sample and test. Almost invariably they told us it was the best temperance beverage they had ever taste«!. It hail a wonderful color, a delightful aroma and a very pleasant flavor. In all these qualities it is su perior to grape juice.” A strong association of loganberry growers has recently been formed, and a serious attempt will be made to Handling Loganberry Crop. is not only very resistant to the action of germs of decay, but appears not to be inviting to the common by-products pests. Jams, preserves and jellies of most fruits are generally expected to dis play good keeping qualities, so that a great deal is expected of the logan berry in these forms. Nor has this expectation ever been disappointed, so far as reports show. Unlike the fruits that have to be heavily sugared and greatly concentrated by boiling, these loganberry products keep with a mini mum of both. Hence the natural and distinctive loganberry flavors are pre served, offering the much-to-be-desired “something” different to discriminat ing tastes. escape the pitfalls and hidden dangers that have attended the launching of the other great fruit industries of the Northwest. “No slump” sums up the ambition of these growers and Profes sor Lewis for the progress of this in dustry. The association expects to accom plish this result largely by establishing rigid standards of products which all growers must adhere to in order to obtain the other advantages of the association. Every box of berries, every can, every package of dried fruit and every bottle of juice that goes out of the state is to be of first quality. The fine preserving qualities makes this ambitious program a little easier of accomplishment with the loganberry Training the loganberry Vines. “ Most wonderful of all this berry’s than with any other berry, so that fine qualities is the self-preserving growers fully expect to see the policy strictly enforced. All inferior goods quality as shown in bottled juices. The severe test of commercial fit will be kept at home and used on the ness has been given all the foregoing farm or else made into suitable by products with the single exception of products. Another means of managing the loganberry juices, and they have met the test in a most satisfactory manner. rapidly growing industry is a bureau In addition to the commercial tests, of statistics. The acreage and produc the far more critical test of the labor tion of each year's crop will be ascer atory has been applied to the products, tained as nearly as may be, and pro including the juices, by the horticul vision made for marketing just what tural department of the Agricultural is grown. Extensive advertising will college. These tests have established be carried on in order to widen the beyond question the fact that the market and cooperate with the agen- berry has very unusual preservative ies that handle the crops. While the area of growing logan qualities. Concerning these qualities Professor Lewis, who conducted the berries on an extensive commercial scale has been somewhat limited to tests, says: “The loganberry has come to stay, certain districts of the state, and and in it I believe that Oregon has one doubtless always will be, these areas Experiments are of its greatest horticultural assets. are extending. There are but few states that can grow being'carried on in several new dis good loganberries, and the demand for tricts, some of which, it is hoped, will this berry is going to be tremendous. show the necessary conditions for a The output will doubtless be increased large and profitable industry. very greatly and I firmly believe the J. W. Cook has just paid in London time will come when we shall ship out of Oregon ten million dollars worth of $4000, a sum covering debts from ' which he was freed in the bankruptcy this fruit yearly. “It is a splendid berry to work up ! court 19 years ago. The payment was into by-products by drying, canning not the result of a windfall, but repre and manufacturing into juices. These sented many years’ savings. products will, I believe, be unsurpassed The Italian ministry of education by any berry grown. It also serves as a basis for a long list of products, val will spend $15,000,0000 for new public uable in confections, ice cream and school buildings in the next four years. generality trade. At the Minnesota school of agricul “We have conducted numerous ex ture a course of sewing for men is to periments during the past year in be included’in the curriculum. drying, canning and juice-making with There are only 20*persons in^France this berry, and hope to be able soon to give out the information we have with a yearly income of more than $1,000,000. gathered in handling this crop. Lucky. Too Much for Him. There was only a thin partition be tween the parlor and the taproom of the suburban hostelry, so that I could not help hearing what was perhaps a confidence about a certain Bill’s terri ble condition the previous day. “Well, to cut the long story short,” aaid the voice, which was husky, prob ably with emotion, “I had to set *im on a doorstep and leave ’im there. ’E must ’a fell asleep and ’is ’at dropped on to t’ footpath, an’—would yer be lieve it?—when 'e^woke up there was 11 pence in it!” A Methodist bishop tells of a con versation he once had with a Wyoming man touching certain difficulties of the latter’s religious tenets. “Bishop,” said this naive westerner, “I do not refuse to believe the story of the ark. I can accept the ark’s great size, its odd shape and the vast number of animals it contained, but when I am asked to believe that the children of Israel carried this unwield- ly thing for 40 years in the wilderness I must confess that my faith breaks down.”—Harpers’ Monthly. A ROMANCE OF STRENUOUS AFFECTION ? ex _ Sc SYNOPSIS. Cowboy» of the Flying Heart ranch are heart broken oxer the lose of their much- prised phonograph by the defeat of their champivn in a r of tha Centipede ranch. A houar party la on at the Flying Heart. J. WauingftH^l Hpved. cheer leader at Vale, anil Culver Covington. Inter-collegiate champion run ner. are expected. Helen IHako. Hpred’s ■ auggrata to Jean ('I inIn. »la ter of the owner of the ranch, that ahe Induce Covington, her lover, to win ba< k the phonograph H«den declares that If Covington won't run. Speed a III. The cowboys are hilarious over the prospect. Speed and hla valet, iutrry QI ans . trains at Yale, arrive. Helen lllake ask« BpevU. who haa posed to her aa an athlete, to race againat the Centipede man. The cowboys Join In the appeal to Wally, and fearing that Helen will find him out. he consents. He Insist. however, that he ahall I ’ curing that Covington will arrive In time to take his place. Fresno. g!«e club singer from Stanford university and In love with Helen, trie» to discredit Stpeed with the ladle» and the cowtaije 8pee<| and <)lae« put In the time thev are »..;••• l to be training playing « aids in a ar* iuded Spot, The cowboys tell Gias« It Is unto him to tee that Fpeed win« t’ * W1IW*. the gunman. d*-cUrra the trainer will go back east packed In Ice» If 8p««d falls. A tele- rrram com«» from Covington aaytac ha 1» n jail at Omaha f«»r tm day» Glass In a p in for-.-» S; . d ' • ’•«¿in training tn earnest The cowN'vs fore* f*p« to eat In the training quarters and prepare him a diet of very rare meat. Miss Blake bakes a cake for 8j>eed and Is offended when larry refuse» to allow him to eat It Covington arrives on crutches. He Bays he broke his toe In Omaha. Mr» Reap, engaged to Covington and In love with Jack Chapin, exposes 8 peed to Helen, because Speed had failed to pre vent Covington from joining the party. Bp*ed decides to cripple himself, but Skinner, tha Centipede runner, appears with a proposition to throw the race. CHAPTER XV.—Continued. "Say, what is all thia fuss about? I don’t want to be smuggled any where. thank you!” ”1 may not be able to square my men," Chapin reiterated. "It may have gone too far." "Square! Square! Why «hould you do any squaring? I'm not going to run away.” Miss Blake clasped her hand* and breathed a sigh. "I've got to stay here and run a foot race to morrow.” “Don't be a fool, Wally!" Coving ton added his voice to the others. Speed whirled angrily. "I don’t need your advice—convict!" The champion hobbled Instantly out of range. "I know what I'm doing. I’m' going to run to-morrow, and I stand a good chance to win.” Mr. Fresno. if he had been a girl, would have been said to have giggled "All right. D.-arle! 1’11 bet you five hundred dollars—” as there emerged from the darkness, whence they had approached unseen, Stover, and be hind him the other men. "Evenin’! What's all the excite ment?" greeted the leader, softly. The master of the ranch stepped forward. "See here, Bill, I'm sorry, but I won't stand for this foot-race.” "Why not?” queried the foreman. "1 just won’t, that's all. You'll have to call It off.” "I’m sorry, too.” “You refuse?" The owner spoke ominously. “You bet he does!” Willie pushed himself forward. "This foot-race Is ordained, and it comes off on time. I make bold to inquire if you’re talkin’ for our runner?" "Gentlemen, I can only say to you that for myself J want to run!" de clared Speed. "Then you’ll run." "I refuse to allow It,” Chapin de clared, and Instantly there was an angry murmur; but before It could take definite shape. Speed spoke up with equal decisiveness. "You can't refuse to let me run, Jack. There are reasons”—he searched Miss Blake's countenance—“why I must run—and win. And win I shall!” Turning, he stalked away Into the darkness, and there followed him a ihout of approbation from the ranch men. Jack Chapin threw up bls hands. "I’ve done my best.” "The man's mad!" cried Covington, but Fresno was nearer the truth. "Nothing of the sort,” he remarked, tnd struck a match; “he's bluffing!” As for Helen Blake, she shook her fair head and smiled into the night. "You are all wrong," she said. "I know!” CHAPTER XVI, HE day of the race dawned bright and fair, without a cloud to mar its splendor. As the golden morning wore on, a gradual excite ment became apparent among the cowboys, in creasing as the hours passed, and as they pre pared with joy to Invade their rival’s territory; nevertheless, the vigilant watch upon their champion did not relax. It was some time after midnight that I^awrence Glass had been the cause of a wild alarm that brought the denizens of the ranch out in night apparel. Jack Chapin, awakened by a ery for help, had found him in the hands of Carara and Cloudy, who had SUGGESTED BY THE PLAY BY IW-ACN AND BWL ARM3TWHG been doing night duty In accordance with Stover's orders. What with the trainer’s loud complaints, the excited words of his captors, and the confu sion resulting when the hunk house emptied itself of men half clad, it hud taken the ranch owner some time to discover that Glass had been sur prised In the act of escaping, it seemed that the sentries, seeing a fig ure skulking past the white adobe walls of the house, had culled upon It to halt. There had been a dash for liberty, then a furious struggle before the intruder's Identity became clear, and but for Chaplu's prompt arrival upon the scene violence would Inev itably have resulted. "I tell you. I'm walkin' In my sleep." declared Glass for the twentieth time. .“Caramba! You try for get away," stormed the Mexican. "Pig!" "Not a bit like It! I've been a son- nambullst ever since I'm a baby.” “Why didn't you answer when wo ca!l«-d?" Cloudy demanded. "How can I talk when I'm sound asleep?" “if you couldn't hear us call, why did you run?" * "Now have a little sense, pal. A sleep-walker don't know what he's doin'.” •'Since there's no harm done, you'd better all go back to bed." Chapin ad vised. "Mr Glass has the liberty of the ranch, boys, night or day, asleep or awake " “Looks to me like he was tryln’ to elope some." Stover balanced upon one bare foot, and undertook to re move a sand-burr from the other. In the darkness he seemed supernatural- ly tall, so that Glass hastened to strengthen his story. "I was walkin' In my sleep as nice as you please when those rummies lep* on me. Say! You know that's dangerous; you can kill a guy wakln' him up so sudden." “There's easier ways than that," spoke Willie from the gloom. "It's a yap trick just the same. 1 was In the middle of a swell dream, too." "Come, come, Stover, get your boys back to bed! We'll have the whole ranch up with this noise.” Chapin himself led Glass around the house, while that gentleman made no offer to explain the dream which had prompted him to »ack his suit case before letting himself out of the training-quarters. Once safely back In the gymnasium, he sat up till ! I shall I about Hum! I can MB what they want to say, and yet I daren't let either speak a word." "Mrs. Reap, are you sure Culver loves you?" "Horribly! And he suspects the truth. 1 saw him change the moment he found me her««" Roberta began to weep, two limpid tears stole down her cheeks, she groped for a chair, and Wally hastened to her assistance. Aa ha supported her. she gave way completely and bowed her hea«l upon hla shoulder. It waa In perfect keeping with the luck of thluga that Mlsa lllake should enter at tha moment. She had coma with Jack anti hla alater to Inquire regarding the fltneaa of her champion and to nerve him for the contest, and arnod aghast. Chapin stepped for ward with a look of suspicion, luquir* Ing "What's going on here?” Mias Blake spoke brlgfitly. tinkling ice In her voice. “There's no necessity for an expla nation la there? It aectua time for congratulations." “Oh. see hero now I Mrs Roa p's really engaged to Culver, you know." "Culver!" "Culver!” Both the young ranchman and hla slater stared at the chaperon with growing horror, while ahe undertook to explain; but ths blow had fallen so swiftly that her words were Inco herent, and In the midst of them her hostess turned and fled from the room. "Now don't begin to aviate until you understand the truth." Speed con tinued "While she's engaged to that broken toed serpent, she doesn't love him, do you see?" He smiled. "I do not see!” "It was limply a habit Mrs. Reap had got Into—-! should say It waa an Impulsive engagement that she has repented of.” “No doubt she was r«p«nllug when we interrupted you,“ said Mias Blake, bitterly. Then Chapin added, helplessly: “But Culver la engaged to my sister Jean!” "Jean!" Mrs. Reap exposed her tragic face “Then—he deceived me! Oh—h! What wretches men are!" The widow commenced to sob. Outside came Mlsa Chapin's voice: "So here you are, Mr. Covington!" And the Qext moment she reappeared, draggiug the crippled champion be hind her Thrusting him toward Ro berta. she pouted “There, Mrs. Reap! I give him back to you.” "Perhaps you'd better go on with your explanations," Chapin suggested, coldly, to Speed. "How can 1 when you won't listen to me? Hear ye! Hear ye! Culvor was engaged to marry Mrs. Reap, but she discovered what a reprobate he is—” There waa Indistinguishable dissent of some sort from Mr. Covington. and she learned to detest him!” Mrs Reap likewise dissented tn ac cents muffled. “Well, ahe would have learned to detest him In a short time, because she's In love with Jack Chapin; so she came to old Doctor Speed in her troubles, and he promise«] to fix It al! up. Now 1 guess you four can do the rest of the explaining. If you ever get In trouble, come to the match making kid. I'll square It.” 1 bey were four happy young people, and th< y lost no time In escaping elsewhere. When they had gone, their benefactor aaid to Miss Blake: "Wouldn't you like to make that a triple wedding? We might get club rates.” For answer Miss Blake hurried to the door and was gone. • • • • • • Over at the Centipede there was a great activity and yet a certain Idle ness also, as If It had been a holiday. The men hung about In groups listen ing to the peripatetic phonograph. A dozen or more outsiders had ridden over from, the post-office to witness the contest. Out by the corral, which stood close to the first break of the foothills, Skinner was superintending the laying out of a course, selecting a stretch of level ground worn smooth and hard by the tread of countless hoofs. “Makes a pretty good track, eh?” he said to Gallagher. “I wonder how fast this feller is? Ever heard?" "They seem to think he’s a whirlin’ ball of fire, but that don't worry you none, does It?” Gallagher bent hla lead-blue eyes upon the cook, who shrugged carelessly, and Gallagher smiled; he was forced to admit that his man did not appear to be one eas ily frightened. Skinner’s face was hard, his lips thin, his jaw was not that of a weakling. He had dressed early, then wrapped a liorscblanket about hla shoulders, and now, casting this aside, sprinted down the dirt track for a few yards to test the foot ing. while Gallagher watched him with satisfaction—a thing of steel and wire, aa tough, aa agile, and as spir ited as a range-raised cow-pony. He was unshaven, hla running trunks were cut from a pair of overalls, held up at the waist by a section of win dow-cord, and his chest was scantily covered by an undershirt from which the sleeves had been pulled. But when he returned to pick up hie blan- yet Gallagher noted approvingly that he was not even breathing heavily. With a knowledge confined mainly to live-stock, the foreman Inquired: “How's your taiga? I like to sea 'em hairy, thata-way; it's a sign of stren’th. I bet this college boy Is aa pink aa a maiden’s palm! He don’t look to me like he could run." HEATER FOR WARMINQ A BEO Twe to Four Candì» Power Lamp Wllj Dive •ufflolsnt Hsat—Dangsr of Pira Illmlnatsd. As moat people are aware, It Is dan* gerous to use an Inc.audeacent lamp a« a bed warmer owing to the fact that a 'considerable amount of heat la given off by a comparatively small body— the lamp, writes Wilbur It. Himpaou In Popular Electricity This heal Is coufinod and not allowed to radiate be cause thn bedclothes puck tightly around the lamp. More than once fires have been started from this cause. Hut 1 have found that no harm Is done If the lamp la Inclosed In a fruit jar as Lamp In a Olase Jar as a Bed Warmsr. shown In the sketch I solder an ordi nary lamp socket Into the motal lop of the jar and a two to four ceiidle- power lamp will give sufficl«-nl heat The else of the Jar prevents packing of the covers too closely around the lamp and permits radiation of the heat fas’, enough to keep the temperature down to a aafe polut. NOVEL USE OF ELECTRICITY English Railroads Sort Freight by Merely Pressing Button—May Cause Wide Reform. Hull, which has just secured its own telephone system, la to be the center of an experiment that may cause wide reform In the methode of handling freight on the English rail ways. The system practically moans tho sorting of goods tn warehouse by simply pressing a button Electrical machinery haa been Invented by a company with which Mr Marconi Io associated for dividing the warehouse Into a series of alphabetical sections. Traveling trays under electrical con trol distribute the gornle according to tho Index letter of their destination - II for Bradford, L for Liverpool, and so forth—tn a manner similar to that by which letters are sorted in tho post office. A French, an America.» and two English railway companl»-« are now negotiating for tho adoptku yf tho system. Teat Electric Blaetlng. Gold mining . ompanles of the Rand field. South Africa, have boon ex perimenting with electric blasting wlUi a view to reducing tho danger of miner's phthslsls, a disease ascribed to tho fine dust that results from blast ing By using electric systems th» firing can be done from the surface, and the air can bo cleared of the fine duel before the miners need to enter the mine. Berlin's street railway la to be elec trified at a cost of $6,000,000. • • • New York has morn telephones than London, Barta and Berlin to gether. o e • The richest and probably the larg est lron oro mine In the world, which la In Lapland, la being equipped with electrical machinery. ”1 Must Run—and Win. And Win I Sballi" dawn, a prey to frightful visions which the «omfortable morning light • » • did not serve to dissipate. The city of I*oa Angeles has Illum Wally Speed slept serenely through inated signa Indicating the names of the whole disturbance, and was great tho streets, which aro turned on and ly amused at the story when he off by clock work mechanism. awoke. He was sorely tempted to • • • make known his agreement with With a four horsepower engine, a Skinner, and put an end to his train motor driven plow Invented In Eng er's agony of mind; but he recalled land cuts a six Inch furrow at a speed Skinner's caution, and reflected that in excess of three miles an hour. the slightest indiscretion might pre • • • cipitate a tragedy. For the first time More than 2.000,000 American farm since the beginning of the adventure ers aro now using telephones In their he was perfectly at ease, and the phe homes, more than 100,000 having in nomenon added toe his trainer's dis stalled Instruments within a year. may. • • • Others beside Lawrence Glass were Two-thirds of the telephones used apprehensive. Culver Covington, for In tho world are In the United Blates, instance, was plainly upset, while ¡or a total of over 8,362,000. To oper Roberta Reap pleaded headache and ate them requires more than 18,000,- had her breakfast served In her room 000 miles of wire, It was shortly afterward that she ess appeared In the gymnasium doorway, An electric flatiron Invented by a and cried, in an accusing voices- Colorado man Is propelled by a motor "Well, Mr. Speed?” driven roller, an operator having only “Yes, quite well.” to guide It and control the current by “You traitor!” a switch in the handle. “You modern Borgia! Didn't you • • • • go and tell Helen everything?” Electric mechanism simitar to that "Didn’t you promise to stop Cul '.of automatic telephones has been In ver?” vented to enable a restaurant patron "I did. I had him thrown In jail I to order a meal by numbers from at Omaha. What more could I do?" an Indexed bill of fare. "You did try? Honestly?” Mrs. (TO BE CONTINUED.) ess Reap allowed her Indignation to abate At tho time of the last accurate re slightly. "If 1 had known that, I Daily Thought. wouldn’t have told Helen. I'm sorry Never does a man portray hla own port there were 375 public coast wire you didn't explain. I was angry— character more vividly than In his less stations In tho world, of which furious. And I was frightened sol" manner of portraying another.—Rich the United Blates had 143. Great Britain 43. and Canada 33. She broke down suddenly. "What ter.