The Sunday Oregonian., August 01, 1920, SECTION THREE, Page 8, Image 50

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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 1, 1920
SOUR DOCK TENACIOUS AND
HARD WEED TO ERADICATE
Alias Red Sorrel, Sour Grass and Other Locally Applied Names Is
Native of Asia and Comes to This Country Through Europe. .
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BY HELEN M. GILKEY,
Assistant Professor of Botany. Oreion
Agricultural College.
IN our dealings with plants we ar
bitrarily name them good or bad
according to their usefulness or
want of It. We may find in a given
family members which have long
since proved their worth, while cer
tain of their nearest' relatives may be
scornfully designated as "weeds."
The family to which sour dock be
longs contains buckwheat and rhu
barb, whose characters are unques
tioned, while various cousins less
honorably known are blindweed.
smartweed. knotweed and the docks.
Sour dock, alias red sorrel, alias
sour gratis, alias many other locally
applied names is. like the larger-number
of our weed pests, a native of
Asia which has come to this country
by way of Europe. It is known
throughout the continent except- in
the far north, even ascending the
mountains to an altitude of 6000 feet
or more. It spreads not only by seeds
but also by creeping underground
stems which enable It to live season
after season and give it the advan
tage of a very early start in the
spring. In the Willamette valley,
even the leaves and stems often do not
die during the winter but remain
green and are ready for work with
the first favorable weather condi
tions.' This tenacity of life in sour
dock is also demonstrated in its abil-i
lty to grow on thin light soil where
other plants cannot exist, and upon
these characteristics depends its suc
cess as a weed.
Tonus; Plants Slender.
Sour dock grows from five to six
inches to a foot and a half in height.
The young plants are slender, but as
they become older and well estab
lished, form rather close tufts of
leaves and stems, the latter somewhat
woody at the base. The blade of the
leaf is halberd-shaped with promi
nently spreading ear-like bases. At
the place of leaf attachment, a deli
cate tissue-like sheath encircles the
stem, and the bases of the sheath
and the leaf are - often reddish In
color. Both leaves and stems become
red with age.
The flowers are imperfect, two
plants being necessary to supply both
stamens and pistils. The staminate
plants are the more conspicuous, for
the flowers are larger than the pis
tillate and the stamens are somewhat
Bhowy. Kach staminate flower has
six small reddish petal-like parts
surrounding six red stamens. The
what similar, but instead of stamens
there is a three-angled seed-case
bearing near the apex three fringed
yellow stigmas whose duty is to
catch from the air the pollen grains
which have been discharged from the
stamens. Exceedingly large quanti
ties of pollen are produced since the
two types of flowers are so w'dely
separated and wind must be depended
upon as a medium for distribution of
tl.e grains. The flowers of both kinds
are borne in clusters on long, branch
ing stems, and are so numerous that
a field of these plants is very strik
ing in its solid rusty-red color. The
seed cases, each of which contains a
single seed, are first red and later
brownish in color. In spite of appar
ent difficulties in the way of obtain
ing fertilization, results are obtained,
for enormous numbers of seeds are
often produced by a. single plant.
Acid Taste la I. Iked.
The quality which gives this weed
most of its ' best known common
names is the possession by the leaves,
stems, and young rootstocks of po
tassium binoxalate. It is this which
produces the pleasant acid " taste
which is appreciated particularly by
children, and also this which is said
to make the plant poisonous to stock,
though the quantity of acid is so
small that no very serious' results are
reported.
Regarding eradication, we have the
following note from Mr. Nevius:
"Sour dock is a very common impur
ity of clover and alfalfa seed, but
the seeds are triangular in shape and
can easily be identified. In seeding,
care should always be taken that only
clean 6eed is used.
"The dock can be controlled by the
prevention of seed formation. In or
der completely to eradicate the
plant, it is necessary to destroy the
long perennial taproot and the under
ground stems. In small patches, deep
and frequent cutting with the hoe or
spud are necessary. The frequent
cuttings tend to prevent the manu
facture of food by the leaves, and this
starves the underground parts, caus
ing them to become exhausted gradu
ally and finally to die.
"In wet soft soil the roots can often
be pried or pulled completely out.
This tends to eliminate the weed
without further work, and in such
soil this is the most practical method
to use.
"When the dock covers large areas,
plow just before flowering time. If
the plants are cut when the seeds are
nearly -ripe and allowed to remain
on the ground, a larg number are
able to mature seed and there is dan
ger of the seed infesting the soil with
few selected ones which I can whole
that way for winter salads. Toma
toes cooked up well in an open kettle
w-ill keep perfectly canned from it,
if all the cold-pack directions be fol
lowed, for the sterilization of cans,
tips, rubbers and all utensils used in
the process.
Be Careful How Von Can.
Let me give you a little more advice
than is found in the "cold pack" book
lets. First, as to the boiler. If you
use the family wash boiler, as almost
everyone does. be very careful to
scrub it out carefully and repeatedly
before using it, so as to get every
particle of the flavor of suds out of
It. as the water in it Is liable to boil
into your cans and spoil the flavor
of your vegetables.
For the same reason do not. as
often recommended, use wooden slats
to hold up your cans from the bot
tom of the boiler. I have . had the
color and flavor boll out of these
pieces of wood and ruin the flavor of
my vegetables. Years ago I bought
wire racks one for each can. You
can get only 9 or 10 of them in an
ordinary boiler at once, so there is
no need to buy a dozen. These wire
racks were very inexpensive then,
but even if they cost quite a little
now they will last' a lifetime or
longer If care is taken of them and
are well worth buying. They have
a wire handle which comes well up
to the top of the boiler so It Vs very
easy to handle cans with them.
The vitally important thing about
canning is that you thoroughly steri
lize the caVs, tops and all utensils
used in water that is rapidly boiling
not just hot. New tops should be
used for vegetables each year, but the
Best of the old ones may do for fruits.
Rubbers should always be bought
new each year. They should not be
boiled like the tops, but only dipped
in boiling water a moment, as boiling
for some time injures them.
Follow each step of the cold pack
method exactly as directed and you
will have no trouble In keeping any
of the excess vegetables you have
from your garden so that you can
use them at any time in the winter.
Continuing our discussion of the
summer cultivation of vegetable we
have considered all the vegetables we
raise. In alphabetical order, down to
peppers so will begin with them to
day. The Summer Care of Peppers.
The general culture of peppers is
the same as that of eggplant and the
plants need as much heat to produce
their fruit, so everything that shades
them from the sun should be removed
They need a well-tilled rich soil.
Guano or hen dung is particularly
good for them. It should be hoed
into the soil when the plants are
about 6 lnchas high and will wonder
fully Increase the yield and improve
the quality of the fruit.
Peppers are used at all stages of
meir growtn. trom the young green
peppers to the bright scarlet, fully
matured ones This reminds me that
I once heard a beautifully dressed,
most intelligent looking lady ask a
lecturer on war gardening where she
coma get seed of "beautiful bright
red peppers." She said all the pepper
she raised were the green kind and
sne wanted them red. I have her in
mind when I repeat the woU-Wnnnn
details of gardening that 99 out of a
hundred of you know so well. It Is
Just as hard for a city woman, who
has never known anything about
vegetables except as she purchased
them at the market to know these
common things, as it is for the coun
try woman, who is totally unused
to city life, to be "up" on all the
usages of "good" society. Each one
can afford a little charity for the
mistakes of the other.
To return to peppers. They are used
at various stages of their growth in
different ways. The small round
green ones are cleaned and stuffed
with mixed chopped vegetables (most
ly cabbage) and picketed, when they
are called mangoes. The larger green
ones, are cleaned inside and stuffed
with chopped meats, etc., and baked
as "stuffed peppers." The green and
ripe ones both are sliced in salads,
where they are a jrreat addition.
They may be canned also for winter
salads.
The little firey red ones are strung
on a cord, like beads and dried over
the stove or they may be dried like
other vegetables. They are very fine
for seasoning in winter.
If we learn to use peppers more
commonly we will find them a wel-'
come addition to the menu and raid
ing them in our own home gardens
we can afford all we want.
- Potatoes In Summer.
Our early potatoes are now ripe
and we found it made a big differ
ence in our grocery bill when we be
gan to use them and felt we could
have all we wanted without stopping
to think that they were 10 to 15 cents
per pound, or 5 to 8 cents for an average-sized
potato more than we pay
for oranges.
Our early potatoes are best left In
the ground and dug as used. If you
want to dig them all now. ' however,
to make room for some other crop,
you must give them some protection,
as they do not keep as well as late
potatoes. Put them In a cool, dry,
shady shed if you can, and cover them
with straw or some loose covering
like burlap. If exposed to the sun.
or even, to light, or to strong winds
they get green and have a bad flavor
3e very careful to keep them cov
ered. Our main crop of late potatoes were
wonderfully benefited by the heavy
rains we had last month. These rains
came just at the right time just as
the potatoes were in blossom. This is
the time that potatoes are "setting"
on the roots and a heavy watering at
this time is of great benefit. After
this time potatoes should not be wa
tered at all, as it starts them to grow
ing suddenly and causes the knobs
and malformations we often see on
the tubers, instead of their develop
ing the smoothly-rounded oval pota
toes which we want to raise.
Potatoes should be hoed often, es
pecially after every rain, so that the
soil over them should always be loose
and broken and never allowed to crust
or "bake," and all weeds killed. But
do not hill up potatoes in Oregon as
you used .to do in the east. Hilling
up is practiced , where you want to
give the sun more chance to peat
and dry out the roots by letting it
shine down all around them. But here
we want just the opposite. We want
to keep the roots cool and moist so.
keen the surface of the ground per
fectly level, with frequent shallow
cultivation.
If any insects appear to menace
their growth get after them at once
with the methods already given, i ne
garden spray calendar which I gave
you June 13 should be very useful to
you now with all your vegeiaDies.
Pumpkin and Squash.
Summer sauash should be ready
for eatiner soon now. If you have
more than you need for table use it is
good canned and will then be ready
for use at any time In "pumpKin pies
as well as its usual use as a vegetable.
It is best to gather and use sum
mer squash when it is so young and
tender that' seeds and skin can also
be eaten when cooked. At this stage
of their errowth they can be boiled or
steamed or cut in slices and fried like
eererjlant.
Winter varieties will not be ready
to harvest until late In the fall. When
there, is dancer of their not matur
ing all their fruit the vines should
be pruned as melons are. Confine
each plant to about three runners and
cut off the ends of these.
If the vines threaten to take up too
much room in your garden they can
be trained up on some support or to
run down a vacant space between
rows, but be careful not to step on
them if you do this.
They should be cultivated often
enough during the summer to keep
out weeds, and. keep the soil loose in
a dust mulch, but be careful not to
dig into their shallow roots when hoe
Insr them.
A perforated keg or pail sunk in
the ground near each hill and filled
with water often as described lor cu
cumbers is very beneficial. They
grow better when they drink often
but remember that they drink at the
end of their' roots, and that the leaves
of all plants are their lungs where
they exhale water instead of absorb
ing it.
We gave the control of their insect
enemies in the spray calendar, but no
spray can reach the squash borer.
have just read In the Country Gentle
man of an Interesting method of cir
cumventing these insects. It is rec
ommended that squash or pumpKin
vines be layered that is, laid out on
the ground and covered at the place
of their joint- or leaf growth with
MEDFORD MISS OF 3 YEARS PLAYS LEADING ROLE IN MIDGET
CEREMONY.
form of the pistillate flower is some- the pest the following season.'
CKatsWMliome Gardeners
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EAR FRIENDS In order to have
a full variety of vegetables for
use the year around we store
them for this purpose in different
ways. From the earliest times savage
tribes have cached various roots for
out-of-season use. and. following the
ea-me general idea, we gather and
tore our root crops In the fall. We
have learned to raise many kinds of
roots and we have learned to store
them so that conditions of light, air,
heat and moisture are just right for
each kind, but the general idea of
storing roots is the same now as that
of the earliest antiquity. 1
Also the drying of meats and fruits
was practiced before the records of
men begin, and dried vegetables and
fruits form no small part of our win
ter's store at the present time. Meth
ods of drying have changed very lit
tle during the last 2000 years.
Canning by cooking and sealing in
tin cans was invented only about 100
years ago and much later glass cans,
came into use, so that this method, so
generally used at present. Is compara
tively of very recent origin, being
new to our grandmothers. By the use
of glass cans and the "cold pack"
method we can now process any fruit
or vegetable so that it is kept In per
fect condition for winter or any out-of-season
use.
This is a wonderful Invention and
makes It possible. In connection with
our dried fruits and vegetables and
the vegetables that we store as they
come from the field, to have practic
ally all of our vegetables' for use all
the time the whole year around.
The home gardener who only raises
vecretables to supply his home table
with them fresh from the garden
loses half the benefit of raising a gar
den. Not so much in Oregon, where
our gardens keep green so long (in
deed where many vegetables stand
' out In the ground at all seasons) as in
other parts of our country. Yet even
In our peculiarly favored climate, it
is must desirable that the spring and
. summer vegetables be canned as they
are rratly for use.
You remember the famous reply of
the young woman at the world's fair
at Chicago to the Englishman who
asked what we did with so much
green corn "We eat what we can
and what we can't we can." That
should be the motto that animates
every home gardener at the present
time. Like busy bees we should now
be diligently storing up our- food for
winter. Never before has the neces
sity for doing this been so imperative,
for never before Jias food been so
scarce and prices so high as now.
Waste is just as criminal now as in
war time. Many of our people will
suffer for food this coming winter.
and even though it is not alwavs
pleasant and easy to do so. we should
never let any good vegetables or fruit
go to waste, but always can or dry It
ior iuture use.
In-a small garden do not wait to
process a whole Uo.ler full of cans of
one kind of vegetables, but get to
gether two or three cans each of dif
ferent kinds (canning good tops for
greens) and take each out of the
water in accordance to directions as
to the time required for boilinsr that
particular vegetable. A few cans of
late peas, a few of beans, a few of the
last young beets, and one of beet top
greens, will all process together just
as easily as a boiler full of cans of
corn or beans.
The dozen packages of new tops
you buy for your "Economy" glass
jars will have a little pamphlet giv
ing you full directions for "cold pack"
canning by fh latest Improved meth
ods, so I will nt repeat them here.
But I want to urge you to follow the
method exactly, not approximately.
Economy and Mason and other such
cans are all good standard cans, but
for canning vegetables which are
very hard to keep, like peas and corn,
the cans which have a glass top and
wire clamps to hold these In place are
the very best. These are the cans al
ways recommended by our colleges
and cooking experts as safest to use
for vegetables.
On the other hand there is no need
to make yourselves more work than
necessary and I never can tomatoes
i by the cold pack method, except a
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HUSBAND TO STAR PORTLAND
GIRL IN PICTURE DRAMAS
Corrine Barker Henley Is on Honeymoon in Europe; Success Attained
in "Shirley Kaye" with Elsie Ferguson and Other Plays.
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CORIXNE BARKER. HENLEY, FORMER PORTLAND GIRL, TO STAR AT
HEAD OF HER HUSBAND'S COMPANY.
N A . professional way ' Corlnne I company In Toronto, Canada, and
Riley Barker, formerly of Port
land, who recently married Hobart
Henley, motion picture producer, has
made rapid strides, both on the regu
lar stage and on the screen. She has
appeared in important roles with
Elsie Ferguson in "Shirley Kaye,"
with Florence Nash In "Remnant,"
In the Hattons" "The Squab Farm,"
with Julian Eltinge in "On With the
Dance," and with "Potash and Perl
mutter in Society."
In screen work. In which sh is
still engaged. Miss Barker has thus
rar appeared prominently in pic
tures produced by the Goldwyn com
pany, the Vitagraph. the Fox and
other leading concerns. Recently she
acted in "The Climbers" the role
originally played so wonderfully by
me late Clara ijloodgood.
That Miss Barker has been serious
n her work Is borne out by the fact
that shortly after her arrival in New
York five years ago she joined a stock
went through the grind of rehearsing
and playing twice daily a season of
repertoire. Another summer she
spent in the Keith stock company of
Portland. Me., acting principal roles
In no less than 14 plays. She gained
especial acclaim by her acting of the
role in "Tito Unchastened Woman,"
which Emily Stevens played in the
original New York production. That
she is already showing versatility Is
made clear from the fact that In "It
Pays to Advertise," she received
great praise for her playing -of the
part of the French adventuress, most
of whose lines were in French. Miss
Barker was married a fortnight ago
to Mr. Henley, following a romance
which began a year ago when she
was appearing in Los Angeles In a
picture produced by Mr. Henley,
Upon their return from Europe, where
they have gone on their honeymoon
Mrs. ieniey will be starred in a
series of pictures to be produced by
the new film , company of which Mr.
Henley is head.
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JOAN MAXINE DC LOSH AND MASTER DOLPH GIIIER, PRINCIPALS IN
TOM THUMB WEDDING.
The wee granddaughter of Sumpter S. Smith, manager of the Medford
Mail-Tribune and a prominent member of the republican state central
committee, played the leading role in a picturesque Tom Thumb wedding,
which was put on recently in Medford as a benefit for the First Christian
church. The tiny participant was Miss Joan Maxine De lxsh, and she was
an exquisite miniature bride. She wore a satin wedding gown and full
length veil and carried a bridal bouquet of diminutive proportions.
The young bridegroom was Dolph Guyer. aged 3. Little Miss De Losh
is the 3-year-old daughter of the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. A
hundred small children of Medford took part in the performance.
soil, at places about three feet apart.
New roots will start wherever the
joint is covered and the vine will go
on growing from them even though
the, parent plant is eaten up by the
bugs and It Is only the parent plant
that Is attacked.. The borer can be
traced by the presence of particles
of the stem lying around where he is
working. By using a thin-bladed
knife a longitudinal cut in the stem
may be made and the borer taken out
and killed.
Summer Salad Vegetables..
Late or fall radishes and Japanese
radishes should be planted this month
but will be described next week with
the August plantings.
Spinach. Swiss chard, corn salad and
endive can also all be planted soon
for fall growth, as will be explained
next week, but if you have some of
them now growing you may be helped
by some suggestions as to their sum
mer care.
In order that the leaves be crisp
and tender they should not be ex
posed to the hot. dry sunshine. It
Is better to use these salad plants in
Bprlng and early summer and then
raise a second crop for fall and win
ter use. but having, them to carry
through summer you must shade them
all you can and water them copiously,
giving good cultivation afterward.
As It is the leaf and stem growth
we want here and not the fruit de
velopment, we can use all the manure
or nitrogen in any form which we
can get to great advantage. Light
applications of nitrate ot soda are
very good.
Use the larger plants nrst ana lei
the smaller ones grow unless the
larger ones get too hard and tough
to be good Swiss chard is often
blanched by 'tying the leaves together
as they are growing, which makes
the inner leaves more tender, out
the outer leaves of this plant are
usually pulled off and eaten in suc
cession, letting the plant Keep on
growing. Two kinds of vegetables are
made of these leaves the white mid
rib is trimmed out and cooked and
served like asparagus, and the green
tender parts of the leaves are used
for cooked "greens."
The Summer Cultivation of Tomatoes.
Tomatoes need a warm, rich soil,
but must not have too much manure
or anv nitrogen fertilizer, as It
fruit we are trying to produce here
not leaves. Fertilising the soil for
tomato plants during some special
tests proved to be of great' value in
Missouri, where the yield of tomatoes
planted for canning had been small
four times as much fruit being pro
duced on the fertilized acreage. The
fruit also matured three or four
weeks earlier when correctly fertil
ized. ' Nitrate of soda alone and potash
alone showed little benefit to torr.a
toes, w-hile acid phosphate alone
showed a very marked increase In
fruit as . was to be expected, as the
effect of phosphorus is always to de
velop seed and produce good seed.
Phosphorus comes to us in two
forms 1) as bone meal or burned
bone. (2) as super-'phosphate. or acid
phosphate, which is made by treating
phosohorus rock with acid to. make
phosphoric acid available. The latter
is much the best and is used at the
rate of 500 to "1000 pounds to the
acre, or one or two pounds to each
square rod In the garden. It is ap
plied before setting the tomatoes or
later as they grow. Tomatoes snouia
be cultivated, like other plants, to
maintain a soil mulch, but not
hilled up.
There are three different things
that may be done to increase the
yield of tomatoes. These are (1) prun
ing the vines, (2) staking them up
or in some way raising the vin
from the ground, and (3) assisting
the blossoms to pollenize and so to
set and produce more rruit.
Pruning Tomto Vines.
Pruning tomato vines, especially
after the fall rains set-in or during
a season of earlier cold, wet weather,
is very beneficial If the large leaves
that shade the fruit too much are cu
away the sun has a better chance to
ripen it.
However, tomatoes do not need the
direct sunlight to ripen. Often the
finest fruit is produced in the
shadiest places. A commercial grower
i Know picks his fruit when it first
oegins to turn in color and wraps
it up in thick cloth in a warm place
to ripen. Me says the fruit ripens
much finer this way than when ex
posed to the sun. But the sunlight
makes the vines grow better and
produce more fruit.
The little extra leaves that come
out between the large leaves and the
stem are simply suckers that take
the strength of the plant without giv
ing any return. They should all be
pinched off and any- large growth of
leaves which seem to develop at the
expense or the fruit should likewise.
Pruning of the branches themselves
is practical where it is desired to tie
the plants up to a stake Instead of
letting them run over the ground as
they usually do. At least three main
branches should be left to tie up and
the remainder pinched off for this.
Supporting- Tomato Vines.
Staking is recommended especially
for very small gardens where space
has to be considered, as they can be
set quite near together when tied up
to stakes. It is also claimed that
earlier and more perfect fruit is pro
duced In this way. and where one Is
growing for market these two items
make a very great difference In th
price received for the product
Greenhouse tomatoes are always
grown In this way. The vines should
be tied loosely to the stake with soft
stripe of cloth that will not cut them
However, we who want an abun
dance of tomatoes to eat on our own
table and to can are not interested in
the perfect shape and size of our
fruit, or even in its extreme earll
ness as we are in having a great
plenty of it. This is especially so as
our local climate is not the best for
tomato culture and-we must encour
age production In every way here to
secure an abundant crop.
But it is an advantage in every
way to keep the vines up a little off
the ground. The sun and air can
reach the plants better and the fruit
is cleaner and surer not to rot In a
wet spell.
A trellis may be used of chlcKen
wire, etc., with the plants tied up
by cloth strings, or a low frame may !
be put around them, like barrel ,
staves, held up by legs driven in the I
ground. The most satisfying ones !
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ever used were of pieces of lath
nailed together square, flat side up.
lth legs under each corner. The
edge of the barrel staves may cut
the tender vines. These supports
should not be over a foot or so from
the ground, with the vines trained
over them. They can be put away
and used year after year.
We will consider pollenizingT toma
toes next week
Your garden neighbor,
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NAVAL CRUISE ARRANGED
Two Weeks Outing Planned Tot
Aberdeen Reservists.
ABERDEEN, Wash., July 31. (Spe
cial.) A two-weeks' practice cruise
will be given Aberdeen naval reser
vists in August. The cruise, for which
between 3 and 40 men ana eignt
officers will be taken, will cover
points between Portland and Seattle.
Vancouver the reservists will De
given a stopover to allow them to
participate in the Washington State
Elks' associaticn convention.
The cruise will -be made in a de
stroyer of the latest type, according
to Lieutenant H. M. Delanty of this
city Just returned from a conference
with naval reserve officers in Taco
ma. The following Grays Harbor men
have signed for the trip: Lieutenant
Delanty. Varde Stieglitz. Carl Morck.
E. R. Sturtevant. Edward Middleton,
Vincent Baer and Ensign Leedham
of Aberdeen, Charles Baker and Will
lam Hutchinson of Hoquiam.
home. While In France Mr. Mo
Cutcheon was vice-consul. Whlle la
Syria he was sent to Constantinople
and visited Smyrna, Athens and other
points or Importance."
CHEHALIS B0Y QUITS JOB
former Consulate Employe Re
tarns Home to Enter Business.
CHEHALIS. Wash., July 31. (Spe
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been abroad for the past four years,
has returned to his home at Adna,
where he Is haloing gather in a large
crop. Mr. McCutcheon has quit the
consular service and expects to en
gage In business. He was in France
for some time prior to the United
States entering the war, and later
was transferred to Beyrut. Syria,
where he left the service to return
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