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SECURE BEST RESULTS Lettuce Ranks High in Commer cial Horticulture. Size of Seed Has Not Been Qlven Careful Study Until Recently— "Heading Up** Capabilities Ar« of Much Importance. (By M CUMMINGS) Lettuce is a standard vegetable crop. largely grown in farm gardens and ranking high in commercial horti culture as a forcing crop; hence its inclusion tn these seed sorting experi ments. Although a seed bed crop, it la often grown in places where space la expensive, where intensive culture prevails, and where crop uniformity and even maturity are of prime im portance. On this account growers now carefully consider both seed and varietal choice. In some hothouse districts ouly certain varieties are deemed suitable for greenhouse cul ture; and a few progressive growers select only the locally-grown seed now recognized as strains of commercial varieties. Although many methods of seed selection have been adopted, the Influence of seed size has not been given careful study until more or less recently. Since lettuce is seldom sold by weight, a comparison of the value of different-sixed seeds on this basts is of little account Uniformity of ma turing and relative "heading-up” capabilities are of more Importance. The formation of good, firm heads, making possible the growth of white, crisp, and hlghly-edlble center leaves. ONIONS RAISED FROM SEED Industry la Profitable If Proper Meth ide Are Used—Difficult to Keep Clean of Weeds. Seed onions are of better flavor and keep longer and are more profit able to grow than sets, though some fail to grow them in the home garden because they are more difficult to keep clean of weeds. The best way to raise onions from seed Is by sowing the seed tn a bed or cold frame early In the season and transplanting later to the row where they are to grow. A small section of the hotbed will grow 1,000 plants until they are the size of quills, or they can be crowded. By that time the ground will be warm and all seed will have germinated so that the plants may be set in clean ground that has been worked over to kill all the young weeds. If one lacks for room fa the hot bed the seed may be sown in a shel tered place, an old brush heap, ash bed or some place where the soil Is good. If there is room to sow the seeds In drills six inches apart they may be worked some to keep them growing before they are transplanted. When you are ready to transplant them, wet the ground and pull the plants and then cut off about half the top and slightly tip the roots. Set the plants from two to three inches apart fa the row and fa rows of 15 Inches apart. If very dry use water when transplanting and every one will live. If the soil has been well manured with stable manure or poultry drop pings and worked over several times before the onions are transplanted to the rows 'here will be but few weeds to contend with and the plants will not be checked fa growth Onions should be pulled and placed to dry fa the shade when the tops be gin to turn yellow and drop over, which is usually in August. ESSENTIAL FEATURE OF SOW Besides Belonging to Prolific Family, Animal Should Have Well- Developed Nipple«. Head Lettuce of Quality. is characteristic of a good quality of lettuce. That good "heading-up" characteristics are related to the size of the seed has been found by ex tensive and careful experiments car ried on for several seasons. As to the results of these experiments, several points are worthy of note in summar izing. Marked differences in favor of large seed appear in the seedling stage, a point of little value in itself were it not for the fact that an early advantage influences later growth, Large seeds start the plants off jet ter; and great leaf surface area in early life is of permanent benefit. Moreover, heavier plants, better heads, and greater uniformity at edible ma turity are usually secured. In every Instance and at almost every stage of growth it could be seen that the plants grown from large seed were much snore uniform in stature and in time and manner of heading. Plants grown from small seed were very variable in size and quality—some very good, a few mediocre, and many very poor. Some headed early, but most of them were tardy in forming the heart and in firming the head. It seems reasonable to conclude that a large sized seeder Is a factor in producing head lettuce of good quality and earliness of maturity. In the writer's judgment the lack of plant uniformity commonly observed in commercial lettuce culture Is quite apt to be due to the use of seed which Is variable in size and consequently, variable In value. (By J. G. FULLER.) Although she need not be pure- bred, the sow as well as the boar. should have marked characteristics of the chosen breed. By carefully select ing young sows from the most typical and largest litters and properly devel oping them, a splendid herd of females can be developed in a few years’ time. To avoid any possibility of mistake, the choicest sow pigs from the best sows should be marked while they are still nursing their dams. They should not be penned or yarded with those which are being fattened for market, but. If possible, should be given free dom and exercise fa the open, where a growing ration of green feeds, etc.. A cement hog wallow should be lo cated In a shady spot and contain eight or ten Inches of water. Crude oil or coal tar dip poured on the water will keep swine free from lice and their skin In good condition. niâ lot toy MADirjVAN VOD5T > U ILLUSTRATION?^ RAY WALTERS co*r< -air »r r* A») îuvw * >r SYNOPSIS. 1« Comt« d« Sabron. captain of French cavalry, take« to hla quarters to rats« l>y haixl a mothsrlcsa Irish terrier pup. and names It Fltchoun«. H« dines with the Marquis« d'EsclIgnac and meets mg « Julia Redmond, American helrvss. who sings for him an English ballad that lingers In hla memory. CHAPTER III—Continued. It would have been simple to have explained to the colonel, but Sabron. reticent and reserved, did not choose to do so. lie made a very insufficient excuse, and the colonel, as well as the marquise, thought III of him He learned later, with chagrin, that his friends were gone from the Midi. Rooted to the spot himself by hie du ties, he could not follow them. Mean while Pltchoune thrived, grew, cheered tile, loneliness, jumped over a stick, learned a trick or two from Brunet and a groat many fascinating wiles and wavs, no doubt Inherited from hie mother He had a sense of humor truly Irish, a power of devotion that we dealgnats as "canine,* no doubt be cause no nismber of th« human race has «ver deserved IL That evening the Marquise d Escll gnac read aloud to her niece the news that the Count de Sabron was not com ing to dinner. He was "absolutely des olated" and had no words to express hts regret aud disappointment. The pleasure of dining with them both, a pleasure to which he had looked for ward tor a fortnight, must be re nounced because he was obliged to sit up with a very sick friend, as there CHAPTER V, was no one else to take hts place, fa expressing his undying devotion and Ths Golden Autumn. his renewed excuses he put bls homage Sabron longed for a change with au at their feet and kissed their bands. tumn, when the falling leaves made Th« Marquise d'EsclIgnac, wearing the roads golden roundabout the Cha another very beautiful dress, looked up teau d'EsclIgnac He thought he at her nlec«. who was playing at the would like to go away. He rode bls piano. hors« one day up to the property of "A very poor excuse, my dear Julia, the hard hearted unforgiving lady and. and a very late one.’* finding the gate open, rode through "It sounds true, however. I believe the grounds up to the terrace Seeing him, don't you. ma tante?" no one. he sat fa his saddle looking "I do not," said the marquise em over the golden country to the Rhone phatically. "A Frenchman of good and the castle of the good King Rene, education Is not supposed to refuse a where the autumn mists were like ban dinner Invitation an hour before he Is ners floating from towers expected. Nothing but a case of life I There was a solitary beauty around and death would excuse It.” the lovely place that spoke to the young officer with a sweet melancholy "He says a 'very sick friend.' *’ "Nonsense.” exclaimed tho marquise He fancied that Miss Redmond must Miss Redmond played a few bars of often have looked out from one of the ,tho tune Sabron had hummed and windows, and he wondered which one. which more than once had soothed Tho terrace was deserted und leaves Pitchoune, and which, did she know, from the vines strewed It with red and Sabron was actually humming at that golden specters Pltchoune raced after moment them, for the wind started them flying, "I am rather disappointed." said the and he rolled his tawny little body young girl, "but if we find it Is a mat over and over fa the rustling leaves ter of life and death, ma tante, we Then a rabbit, which before the ar rival of Sabron had been sitting com will forgive him?" The Marquise d'EsclIgnac had fn- fortably on th« terrace stones, scut vlted the Count de Sabron because she tled away like mad. and Pltchoune, had been asked to do so by his colo somewhat hindered by his limp, tore nel, who was an old and valued friend after It She had other plans for her niece. The deserted chateau, the fact that “I feel, my dear." she answered her there was nothing fa his military life now, "quite sate in promising that if It beyond the routine to Interest him is a question of life and death we shall now In Tarascon, made Sabron eagerly forgive him. I shall Bee his colonel look forward to a change, and be waited for letters from the minister of tomorrow and ask him pointblank " Miss Redmond ros« from the piano war which would send him to a now and came over to her aunt, for dinner post. had been announced. The following day after his visit to “Well, what do you think,’* she the chateau he took a walk. Pltchoune slipped her hand in her aunt's arm, at bls heals, and stood aside fa the "really, what do you think could be highroad to let a yellow motor pass him, but the yellow motor at that mo- the reason?’ “Please don't ask me.” exclaimed the Marquise d’EsclIgnac impatient ly. "The reasons for young men's ca prices are sometimes just as well not inquired Into." If Sabron, smoking In his bachelor quarters, lonely and disappointed, watching with an extraordinary fideli ty by his "sick friend,” could have seen the two ladies at their grand soli tary dinner, his unfilled place between them, he might have felt the picture charming enough to have added to his collection. are available. The sow should not be as compactly built as the boar and may be somewhat finer in conforma tion and bone. When in fair flesh at maturity, the most typical sows of the lard type weigh 350 to 450 pounds. A good breeder and mother cannot be picked with certainty until she has been tried out. Besides having the CHAPTER IV. proper conformation and belonging to a prolific family, the ideal sow should The Dog Pays. have ten to twelve well-developed Pltchoune repaid what was given FEEDING ROOTS TO CATTLE nipples. The essential feature of the him. sow is that Bhe regularly produces H« did not think that by getting English Stockmen Feed Enormous large, strong litters of pigs and moth well, reserving the right for the rest Quantities of Turnips and Beets— ers them well. of his life to a distinguished limp fa Best Methods of Feeding. his right leg, that he had done all that was expected of him. He developed SELECTION OF POTATO SEED Turnips and beets are grown and an ecstatic devotion to the captain, fed in enormous quantities by English stockmen and farmers. They do not One of Most Important Factors for impossible for any human heart ade quately to return. He followed Sab Success in Industry—No Waste have silage because of climatic condi ron like a shadow and when he could of Plant Food. tions unfavorable to corn. American not follow him, took his place on a farmers who use roots to some extent One of the essential and most lm- chair in the window, there to sit, his can wisely profit by English experience portant factors for success fa the po sharp profile against the light, bls in feeding them. An authority advises that they tato industry is the selection of per pointed ears forward, watching for the should always be cut or pulped, and fect seed stock from the hill, in much uniform he knew and admired extrav agantly. never fed whole to cattle. When fed the same way as seed corn Is selected Pitchoune was a thoroughbred, and whole there is greater danger of chok in the field from the best individual every muscle and fiber showed it, ing. especially with the last piece, and stalks. There is no other way to get true every hair and point asserted it, and also greater loss or waste by tram breed characteristics in potatoes ex he loved as only thoroughbreds can. pling under foot. You may say what you like about mTn- The best method of feeding is to cut cept by selecting seed from the per grel attachments, the thoroughbred In or pulp the roots and mix them with fect hill, and seed should be saved all cases reserves bls brilliancy for cut hay, straw or chaff, allowing the only from hills producing a first-class crises. pile to heat for a few hours before marketable potato In the growing of Sabron, who had only seen Miss feeding. This has the merit of w.-rm- which there is no waste of plant food. No manufacturer in this day of Redmond twice and thought about her Ing up the roots, which are generally countless times, never quit« forgave a cold feed, and of making low-grade economy could stand the loss entailed his friend for the Illness that kept him roughage more palatable. Cattle fed by methods of manufacture under from tho chateau. There was In Sab- tn this manner through the winter which he was compelled to cull out ron's mind, much as he loved Plt come out fa much better condition and throw in the scrap pile 20 per choune, the feeling that if he bad gone cent of his product as waste, and no than If given the same amount of feed one can expect the highest success in that night . . . uncut and not mixed. There was never another Invitation! potato culture who adopts methods re “Voyons, mon cher," his colonel sulting fa a loss of 20 to 60 per cent Eggs Develop Mold. had said to him kindly the next time Eggs develop mold If kept fa a too of his crop fa culls and unmarketable he met him, "what stupidity have you damp cellar. The mold penetrates potatoes. But this Is what the potato growers of the United States are. been guilty of at th« Chateau d’EsclI the porous shell and makes the eggs gnac ?’ taste stale. They keep better, how many of them, doing today. Poor Sabron blushed and shrugged ever, fa a cool, moist air that prevents his shoulders. Possibilities of Pork. a too rapid evaporation within the "I assure you,” said the colonel, The possibilities of expanding the shell. "that I did you harm there without production of pork are so great that knowing It. Madame d'EsclIgnac, who we shall never see a scarcity of this Rejuvenating Rhubarb. is a very clever woman, asked me with When rhubarb grows rank and spin product. Interest and sympathy, who your "very dling ft needs rejuvenating. Dig it up, sick friend' could ba. As no one was Waste Is Important Factor. cut the clumps into smaller parts, very sick according to my knowledge The element of waste Is one of the plant them in deep trenches and fill in I teld her so. She seemed triumphant well with well-rotted manure mixed most Important factors fa determining and I saw at once that I had put you profits fa hog feeding. ffrllh good loam. fa the wrong." Stood Aside to Let a Motor Paes Him. ment drew up to the side of the road while the chauffeur got out to adjust some portion of the mechanism. Some one leaned from tho yellow motor win dow and Sabron came forward to speak to the Marquise d'EsclIgnac and another lady by her side. "How do you do, Monsieur? Do you remember us?” I Had he ever forgotten them?) He regretted so very much not having been able to dine with them In the spring. "And your sick friend?" asked Madame d'EsclIgnac keenly, "did he recover?” "Yes,” said Sabron. and Miss Red mond, who leaned forward, smiled at him and extended her pretty hand. Sabron opened the motor door. • "What .a darling dog!" Miss Red- mond cried. "What a bewitching face he has! He's an Irish terrier, isn't he?" Sabron called Pltchoune, who di verted bis attention from the chauf feur to come and be hauled up by the collar and presented. Sabron shook off his reticence. "I^t me make a confession,*’ he said with a courteous bow. "This Is my ‘very sick friend.' Pltchoune was at the point of death the night of your dinner and I was just leaving the hous« when I realized that the help- less little chap could not weather th« breeze without in«. Ila had been run ov«r by a bicycle and be needed some vary apodal car«.'* Mias Redmond'« hand was oa rib choune's head between his polntud «ara. She looked sympathetic. Rhe looked amused Rhe stulled "It was a quest ion of life and death,* wasn't It?" she said eagerly to Habron. "Really. It was just that." answered th« young officer, not knowing how significant th« words were to the two ladles Then Madam« d lOeellgnac knew that ah« was beaten and that ah« owed something and was ready to pay. Th« chauffeur got upon bls seat and ah« asked suavely: "Won't you let us taka you horn«. Monsieur Sabron?" He thanked them He was walking and had not finished his exercise "At all events," she pursued, "now that your excuso ia no longer a good one. you will com« this week to din ner. will you not?" lie would, of course, end watched the yellow motor drive away In the autumn sunlight, wishing rather l«aa for the order from the minister of war to change his quarters than be had before. CHAPTER VI Ordered Away. He had received his letter from th« minister of war 14ke many things we wish for. set our hopes upon, when they come we find that we do not want them at any price. The order was un- welcome, Habron was to go to Al- tiers Winter is never very ugly around Tarascon Like a lovely bunch of fruit In the brightest corner of a happy vineyard, the Midi Is sheltered from the rude experiences that th« seasons know farther north. Nevertheless, rains aud winds, seaborn and vig- orous, had swept fa and upon the llt- tie town, Th« mistral ca me whte- tllng and Sabron. from his window, looked down on his little garden from which summer had entirely flown Plt choune. by his side, looked down us well, but his expression, different from his master s, was ecstatic, for he saw sliding along the brick wall, a cat with which he was on the most excited terms His body tense, his ears for ward, he gave a sharp series of barks and little soft growls, while his master tapped the window-pane to th« tune of Miss Redmond's song Although Sabron had heard It several times, he did not know th« words or that they were of a semi religious, ex tremely sentimental character which would have been difficult to translate into French He did not know Lb a) they ran something ilk« this: fOUR APPETITE Your digestion, your gen eral health will all be greatly benefited by tho timely use of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It is compounded from abso lutely pure ingredientsand those best known as real aids to the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. It exerts a general tonic effect and elps Nature promote health and strength in the entire digestive sys tem. Try a bottle today but be sure you get HOSTETTER’S Stomach Bitters ♦ Diseases Handed Down. Noah and th« other patriarchs didn't have nearly as many different kinds of diseases to face, because they hadn't enough ancestors to hand them down a variety. Consequently their constitutions were not constantly be ing weakened as are ours today For example, there Is no refsronc« fa wry ancient literatures to a cold fa th« bead. Th« Greeks and Romans seem to hav« been th« first peoples to suffer from it I)r. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regu late and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar coated, tiny granules, easy to take. Do not grijie. Paper Covers a Protection. Undeniably, paper covers ar« of some aid fa preserving ttw fresh ap pearance of books, but neither th« ap pearance nor the feeling of a covered book Is ugrecable. Still, for those who have no objection to them, covers are a good thing Nothing Is better than ordinary brown paper, except In aomo unusual cases, as. tor example, th« cook book, which, as every good house keeper knows, should bo covered with oilcloth. HOW TO STOP DANDRUFF AND LOSS OF HAIR Here la a simple. Inexpensive treat ment that will almost always atop dandruff and scalp Itching, and keep the hair thick, live and lustrous: At night, spread the hair apart and cub a God k»«-p you sate, my leve. All through the night, little reelnol ointment Into th«» scalp R«st ctosa In hie encircling arma gently, with the tip of the finger. Re Uatll th« light. peat thia until the whole scalp has been treated. Next morning shampoo And there was mors of IL He only thoroughly with resltiol soap and hot knew that there was a pathos In th« water. V *k tho creamy reslnol lather tune which spoke to bls wsrtn heart; well fa(,x'K* scalp. Rinse with grad which caressed and captivated him ually < ♦(>!:lit water, tile last water ).,- and which mad« him long deeply for a Ing cold. *'1 slnol ointment and rcalnol happiness he thought It most unlikely Boap are sold by all druggist«.—Adv. ho would ever know. Depressing. There had been many pictures added No matter how young a man may to his collection: Miss Redmond at be fa hla sympathies, he can't help dinner, Miss Julia Redtnond he knew feeling more or leas depressed, ss bo her first name now—before the piano; gets along to between forty and fifty, Miss Redmond In a smart coat, walk when lie walks down a fashionable ing with him down the alley, whil« residence street and sees some of th« Pltchoune chased flying leaves and ap samples of the future fatherhood and paritions of rabbits hither and thither, motherhood of th« race.—Columbus The Count de Habron had always (Ohio) Journal. dreaded just what happened to him. Successful Entertaining. He had fallon fa love with a wutnsn On« of the most successful means beyond his reach, for he had no for- tune whatsoever, nothing hut his cap of entertaining a man Is let him brag tain's pay and his hard soldier's life, «n hltnsvlf —Atchison Globe. a wanderer's life and one which ho hesitated to ask a woman to sbaro. In spite of the fact that Madame d'EsclIgnac wan agreeable to li Im, she was not cordial, and he understood that she did not consider him a parti for her niece. Other guests, as well as he, had shared her hospitality. He had been jealous of them, though he could not help seeing Miss Redmond's Though Sick and Suffering; At preference for himself, Not that hs Last Found Help in Lydia wanted to help It. He recalled that she had really sung to him, decidedly E. Pinkham’s Vegeta walked by his side when there had ble Compound. been mor« than tho quartette, and he felt, fa short, her sympathy. Richmond, Pa. — “ When I started "Pltchoun«,” he said to hla compan taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable ion, "we are better off In Algiers, mon Compound I was fa a vleux. The desert Is the place for us. dreadfully rundown We shall get rid of fancies there and state of health, do some hard fighting one way or an had internal trou other.” bles, and was so ex (TO BE CONTINUED ) tremely nervous and prostrated that if I Worth While Quotation. had given in to my The pleasure that we take In beauti feeiings I would ful nature Is essentially capricious It have been fa bed. comes sometimes when we lenst look As it was I had for It. and sometimes, when we expect hardly strength at It moat certainly. It leaves us to gape times to be on my joylessly for days together. We may feet and what I did do was by a great have passed a place a thousand limes effort. I could not sleep at night and and one, and on the thousand and sec of course felt very bad in the morning, ond It will be transfigured, and stand and had a steady headache. forth fa a certain splendor of reality “After taking the second belli« 1 no from the dull circle of surroundings, ticed that the headache was not so bad, so that we aee It "with a child's first I rested better, and my nerve« were pleasure," as Wordsworth saw the daf stronger. I continued its use until it fodils by the lakeside.—Robert Louis made a new woman of me, and now I Stevenson. can hardly realize that I am able to do so much ns I do. Whenever I know any Bure to Get What He Wanted, woman fa need of a good medicine I The doctor told him he needed car- highly praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg bohydrates, protelds, and above all, etable Compound.” — Mrs. F rank something nitrogenous The doctor C lark , 3146 N. Tulip St, Richmond,Pa. mentioned a long list of foods for Women Have Been Telling Women him to eat He staggered out and for forty years how Lydia E. Pinkham*« wabbled into a restaurant. Vegetable Compound has restored their "How about beefsteak f he asked health when sufTering with female Illa. the waiter. “Ia that nitrogenousT" This accounts for the enormous demand The waiter dldn t know for it from coast to coast. If you are "Are fried potatoes rich fa carbohy troubled with any ailment peculiar fa drates or not?'* women why don't you try Lydia E. Tho waiter couldn't say, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound? It "Well, I'll fix It,” declared the poor will pay you to do so. Lydia E. Pfak- man fa despair. "Bring m« a large baia Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. plat« of hash." WOMAN WOULD NOT GIVE UP