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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1908)
Select Brood Sowa. Many put olT selecting the brood sows which they need for breeding next year untl. late In the fall or right at breed lug time. When this is done we are apt to take the best-looking indivldu nls, losing sight of many of the essen tials cf n real good breeder. I believe In keeping over ah the old sows which have proved in! mothers and whose tdgs are thrifty. Not all sows which bring big litters ire desirable breeders, tarn use sr.me littrs lack stamina and never become thrifty. Cut these sows out. no matter if they do bring ten to twelve pigs. Then cut out the cross. Ill-tempered sows, and the chicken eat ers. Save every old sow that Is really n g.-od mother. Many of these old sows wuekle down to almost skin and bones, but in doing that they have given their litters a mighty good start, and good feed will fetch them up in condition quickly. The selection of the young sows 1 n much hnrdpr problem. I nev er pM; for "htinor-hnlln " They sel dui!: moke satisfactory breeders, and after a few mmiths they are bound to lose In condition. Take the rather conise, thrifty ones, coming from big litters and from mothers which you In tend to keep. L. C. B., In the Indiana Former. Corn and Pea (or Silo. The corn Is most easily handled by rutting with a corn binder and using a silage cutter of a sufficient capacity to avoid the necessity of cutting bands. When corn Is fully tasseled It contains less than one-fourth as much dry mat ter as when the ears arg fully glazed. From this time to maturity the Increase Is but slight. Records of the cost of ilo filling were kept by the Illinois experiment station on ten different farms and the cost was found to range from 40 to 70 cents a ton, the average being fifl cents n ton. That silage should keep weH the corn should not be cut until most of the ker nels are glazed and hard. If too ripe the silage will not settle well and the air will not lie sufficiently excluded to prevent spoiling. Cornseems to be the best single crop for the silo, and by combining it with cow peas or soy beans the feeding value Is greater ton for ton than of corn alone. Of 373 comparisons made between silage and non-silage milk, 00 per cent were in favor of the silage milk, 20 per cent were In favor of non-silage and 11 per ?nt Indicated no preference. j Delrahle Poultry Honae. One of the best arrangements for fiesta which can be opened without en hens' nests on the outside. , U-rlng the remaining house Is shown In the picture. The nests open directly into the laying shed and a tight lid will keep them perfectly dry In all kinds of weather. Farm Standards Higher. One thing thnt will cut considerable lee In the labor question: The man -who has been studying the books and good farm papers, and kept up with the procession In new ways of doing things will find that he has a better grip on his Job than the man who hns not Many a man has kept his posl- tion because he has taken an Interest In his work nnd hns learned how to farm according to modern methods when other men could huve been hired In his place for one-third less wages. There Is no doubt thnt the standard of farm labor Is getting Into a higher notch every year, and we have got to bustle and learn about things by read' lng books, good farm papers and at tending the Institutes. Get the hunger or rending, boys. Cnre for Sheep Killer. An Ohio fanner, after suspecting the flogs of all his neighbors of killing his sheep, Anally discovered that the mur derer was his own prize collie. As the animal Is very valuable the farmer did not kill him, but subjected him to punishment which he believes has thoroughly cured him of his killing propensities, EVery morning the dog is placed In a tread mill which oper ates the farm churn, washing machine and other utilities, with a sheep pelt hung directly In front of him, and he Is compelled to work all day long In tola IZ7S position. So keen Is the dog's grlel over this punishment that be bowls and cries when be is placed In the treadmill, and It Is necessary to confine him carefully to prevent his running away. One day he was set to worW and the sheep pelt was omitted. The dog was so overjoyed that he showed every manifestation of pleasure and worked vigorously all day, but on the next day when he went to work and found his nose rubbing the pelt K grief was uncontrollable. Coat ot Feeding. From experience of feeders at the experiment stations the pig Increases with greatest profit until 6 or 7 months old, when It has reached the maximum. After that the gains require a larger amount of grain to produce a given amount of pork, nnd they should be fattened and disposed of. One bushel of corn made thirteen and one-third pounds of pork at C months old, at 7 months old one bushel made 13.2 pounds, and at 8 months old one bushel made 12.0 pounds. While there are varying conditions that have their Influence upon the amount of gain made, It Is a general principle that after 0 or 7 months the amount of gain from a bushel of corn Ih on a decreasing scale, and It hns been-demonstrated again and again thnt the first hundred pounds costs less than the second, and the third less than the fourth hundred, aud that to produce the fourth hundred too often costs double as much as the second hun dred. Steel Frame for Rami, The picture shows a new style ot frame for barns. It Is made entirely BAB.V FIIAK1E OF STEEL. of steel. Heavy planks are bolted on to the frames, onto which are nailed the roof and siding as In ordinary bams. Elementa Xeceaaary to Plant Life. One acre of soil of medium fertility, taken to depth of 0 Inches, would weigh about 3,000,000 pounds, and contain nitrogen, 200 pounds; potash, 0,000 pounds. There Is enough nitrogen to provide for ten crops of corn, sixty bushels to the acre, while the phos phoric acid and potash would last much longer. There are fourteen ele ments necessary to plant life, and of these carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxy gen, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine, sill con, calcium. Iron, magnesium, potas sium and sodium are derived from the soil, though several are also In part derived from the air. The Beat Egffi. There Is a constantly growing de mand for eggs that are both uniform in size nnd color. Such eggs, while not demanded, are generally the first se lected and, all other things being even, they will sell more readily. About the only way one can Judge of eggs offhnnd Is by their appearance, and If all are uniform In color and size they will be more likely to command a better price. Take a Nap At Noon. It's a good plan to stretch out on the lounge or the grass at noon and take a imp. If it is only five or fifteen min utes It will count big In the day's work. Let your neighbor rush out to the field If he chooses; you will beat him on the season's work by taking care of your strength. Notea from the Dairy, Bad cream will never make good butter. Cream left on the milk too long will get bitter and rancid. As a rule churning Is put off too long In the winter time In the perfect creamery the animal heat nnd odor are got rid of as soon as possible. The sooner milk Is set In a cool place ready for the crenm to rise the more crenm there will be. Not only the flavor, but the keeping quality of butter Is Injured by keep ing the crenm until Its gets very sour. Use only snlt thnt Is fine In quality and grain for butter. If the salt Is not well mixed through the butter It will crystallize on the out side and probably make the butter streaked. Milk pans and pnlls are all the better for a good sun bath In a sweet, airy place after having been washed, scald ed and dried. The cream pot should have its con tests stirred every day at least, and every time any cream Is added. This Insures an even ripening and better quality of butter. aT" -T-1 nrhe L The V V Tale By ' Wilj, Levington C Coprriiht. W16. br Will Copyright. 1937. or J. B. Lifpimcott CHAPTER IX. (Continued.) "I confess I cannot understand you. dear," she said. "What consideration is due a gentleman who is rendered speech less by the accusation of a newspaper'; What depth is there to his feeling for your welfare when he rushes away blind ly and remains throughout tlie day, while you are here at the foot of a bursting vol cano, as he pointed out. You will find that I am right, Lara. Mr. Constable is not even a worthy accomplice to the tal ented Stembridge. He is without speech or valor. What remains when a man is neither brain nor brute?" Her voice had not been raised, and Mrs. Stanshury left the library before Lara formed an an swer. The torturing hours crawled by. The gray afternoon turned to dusk, and the dusk to night. The north was reddened by Pelee's firelit cone, which the thick vapor dimmed and blurred. The rumblings were constant. Lara was suffering to fight out her battle alone. She asked no more than this. A thousand times she paced across her room ; scores of visits she made to Constable's window, strainim; her eyes northward, along the road through the day and darkness, to the end' of all things the mountain ! Uncle Joey came to plead with her, but she begged him to go away. Her brain was a livid track of flying, futile agonies. In the evening the intermittent rumblings gave way to a growling, constant and in cessant. It was as if a steady stream of heavy vehicles was pounding over a wood en bridge. There was a pang in each phase of the monster, since the man had gone up into that red roar. It was near ly midnight when the girl in the upper oom heard a step upon the veranda. "Uncle Joey," she called at the plant er's door, "make haste; there is some body below !" The moments of waiting assailed the very roots of her reason. The voice that she heard at last was Breen's. "I beg that you'll forgive me, Mr. Wall, for arousing you at this hour, but it is necessary for me to have a few words with Miss Stanshury." "Sir," the planter replied, "anything which concerns yourself is of no moment to Miss Stanshury. If your message is from Mr. Constable, you may tell him o come himself or Bend a native." "I dislike to appear insistent, Mr, Wall," Breen replied, without irritation 'but I cannot count my errand aceom plished until I have heard from Miss Stansbury. If she should refuse to see Tie " "I am coming down, Mr. Breen," Lara called over the baluster. "Uncle Joey show Mr. Breen to a seat. I'll be there "n a moment." She turned to re-enter her room for a garment. Her mother's figure barred the open doorway. CHAPTER X. Constable had been physically unhurt in his thirty years, and the exertions of the past four days had worn little more than the polish from his vitality. In stead of relaxing in the crisis of the news paper revelation, his body righted under the whip of pride, and he strode down into the city as one who has slipped a burden. He had been beaten in a battle with a woman. Blucher had come to Mrs. Stansbury's aid at the last moment, in the shape of newspapers from the north. From Lara, however, and not the mother, had come the most crippling blow of all. It was Lara who had handed him the newspaper. She did not wait, nor ask. Around this item, Constable built i gloom-structure of hnronial proportions, His attitude toward Breen was very simple, lie would not betray his guest for all the newspapers and police in Christendom. Having waived Breen's offer to detail the particulars of his past during the first night of acquaintance. Const hide certainly could not reproach the other-for misrepresenting himself. It was ten-thirty in the morning when he sent a message out to Captain Negley, countermanding sailing orders, and enclos ing a cheerful note to Crusoe, containing a draft for the stipulated amount. At the bank he also left a second sum for Fath er Damien, and procured considerable cur rent paper for his own uses. His mind moved in a light, irresponsible fashion Itvwas as if he were obsessed at quick intervals, one after another, by mad kings who dared anything, and whom no one dared refuse. II is brain kept the great sorrow in the background, and occupied itself with striking artifices. While aware thnt in losing Miss Stanshury and the privilege of protecting her, the meaning and direction of his life was gone, still Constable did not yet sense the fullness of the visitation. His was not a wound to heal by first intention ; and in bad hurts pain assumes command leisurely and in order. He plunged into a crowd In the market place, and .began to talk to the natives whimsically, but to the purpose of start ing them toward Fort de France, adding that Father Damien would care for them generously there. "I do not say that this is the last day of iMint Pierre," he ex claimed in French, "but I declare to you that if ever a planet looked as if she were about to spring a leak. Mother Earth has f.he symptoms localized In Pelee I" Constable's eyes had fixed upon a car riage passing along the edge of the cr6wd. Now he moved toward It quick .. . -1 A nited epulchre of vJ VeXee OMFORT Leriniton Comfort Compact. All rlihtt rasa-red ly and seized the bridle. Despite the pro testations of the driver, he led the vehicle into the good view of all. His face was red with the heat and ashine with laugh ter and perspiration. Alarm and merri ment mingled in the native throng. All eyes followed the towering figure of the American, now bowed before the swinging door of the carriage and M. Mondet. 11ns, dear friends," Constable resum ed, as one would produce a rabbit from a silk hat "this, you all perceive, is your little editor of Les Colonies. Is he not bright and clean and pretty? He is very fond of American humor. See how the little editor laughs !" The Frenchman was really afraid. His smile was yellowish-gray and of sickly contour. His article relative to the Amer ican appealed to him now, entirely strip ped of the humor with which it was fraught yesterday, as he composed it in the Inner of inner offices. This demon of crackling French nnd restless hands would stop at nothing. M. Mondet pic tured himself being picked up for dead presently. As the blow did not fall in stantaneously, he amended the picture with the sorry thought Hint he was to be played with before being dispatched. "lhis is the little man who tells you thnt Saint Pierre is in no danger who scoffs at those who have already gone," Constable informed his hearers, now hold ing up the Frenchman's nrm, as a referee upraises the whip of a winning fighter, "He says there is no more peril from Felee than from an old man shaking ashes out of hm pipe. Yesterday I proposed to wager my ship against M. Mondet's rolled top desk that he was wrong, but there was a difficulty in the way. Do you not see, dear friends, that if I won the wager. I should not be able to distinguish be tween M. Mondet's rolled-top desk nnd M. Mondet's cigarette case in the ruins of Saint Pierre? You would not think thnt such a small white person could contain so much poison." There hnd been a steady growling from the mountnin. "Ah !" Constable suddenly exclaimed, "Pelee speaks again ! Ugh, get in there !" Constable's irritation against the entire tribe of editorial opinion breeders must have found an instant vent at last. M Mondet was chucked like a large soft bundle into the sent of his carriage and the door slammed forcibly, corking the viais of his wrath. In any of the red blooded zones, a stranger who performed such nntics nt the expense of a portly and respected citizen would have eneoun tered a quietus quick and blasting, but the people of Martinique nre not swift to anger nor forward at reprisals. "Come !" Constable yelled, in a voice which jerked up his hearers. "Who has use for my offer? Who goes to Fort do France?" A few came forward, perhaps a dozen in all, out of the fifty or sixty who had listened. Half in anger, half in admira tion, which he did not seek to understand, he ran his eye a lust time over the dusty, haggard, stilled crowd which he had fuiled to move. From their eyes, sullen, startled and pitiful, he glanced beyond to the place where old Vulcan lay, muttering his ag onies. The sight completed the circuit of rending voltage, made him think of Lara. With furious zeal he grappled the work at hand, forced his wuy out of the crowd, crossed the Roxelnue and hurried 'toward the Hotel des Palms. His physical en ergy was imperious, but the numbness of his scalp was a pregnant warning ngainst the perils of heat. The city was silent enough to act like a vast sounding board. Voices reached him from far behind, from the harbor front to the left, from shut shops and houses everywhere. At the hotel, after much difliculty, he procured guides nnd a small outfit for the journey to the summit of the mountain. It was nfter mid-day when the party rode into Morne Rouge. The ash-hung valley was behind, and Constable drank deeply of the clean east wind from the Atlantic. There was a rush of bitterness, too, be cause Lara wos not sharing the priceless volumes of sun-lit vitality. All the im petus of his mad enterprise was needed now to turn the point of bereavement, nnd force it into the background nguin. The party pushed through Ajoupa Rouil lion to the gorge of the Fnlaise, the north ward bank of which marked the chosen trail to the summit. And now they moved upward In the midst of the old glory of Martinique. The' brisk Trndes blowing evenly in the heights wiped the enstern slope of the mountain clear of stone-dust nnd whipped the blast of sulphur down into the valley toward the shore. Green lakes of cane filled the valleys behind, nnd groves of cocoa-palms, so distant and so orderly that they looked like- a city garden Bet with hen and chickens. , Northward, through the rifts, glistened the sea, steel-blue and cool. Before them arose the huge, green-clnd mass of the mountain, its corona dim with smoke and lashed by storm. Down in the southwest lay the ghastly pall, the hidden, tortured city, tranced under the cobra-bend of the monster and already laved In Its poison. The trail became very steep at two thousand feet, and this fact, together with the back-thresh of the summit disturb ance, forced Constable to abandon the animals. It transpired that four of the even natives felt It their duty, at this point, t stay behind with the nnrtes. A little later, when the growling from the prone upturned face of the great beast suddenly arose to a roar that twisted the flesh and outraged the senses of man, the American looked back and found that only one native was faltering behind, in stead of three. Fascination for the dying Thing took hold of him now, and drew him on. Con stable was conscious of no fear for his life, but of a fixed terror lest he should prove physically unable to go oa to the end. He found himself tearing up a handkerchief and stuffing the shreds In his ears, to deaden the horrid vibrations. With the linen remaining, he filled his mouth, shutting his jaws together upon it. as the wheels of a wagon are blocked on an incline. The titanic disorder placated his own. He revelled in It, unconscious of passing time. He did not realize that he was alone, but knew well from the contour of the slope, learned intimately in past visits, that he was nearing the Lac des Palmists, which marked the summit level. Yet changes, violent changes, were every where evidenced. The shoulder of the mountain was smeared with a crust of ash and seamed with fresh scars. The crust was made by the dry whirling winds playing upon the paste formed of stone- dust and condensed steam. The clicking' whir, like the clap of wings, heard at intervals, accounted for the scars. Bombs of rock were being burled from the great tubes. That he was in the range of a raking volcano fire did not impress this ant clinging to the beard of a giant. Up, knees and hands, he crawled up over the throbbing chin, to the black pounded lip of the monster. Out of the old lake coiled the furious tower of stenm and rock-dust which mushroomed in high air, like the primal nebula? from which the worlds Were made. Pockets of gns exploded in the heights, rending the periphery as the veil of the temple was rent. Only this to see, but sounds not meant for the ears of man, sounds which seemed to saw his skull in twain the thundering engines of t he planet. The rocky rim of the lake was hot to his hands and knees, but he could not go back. A thought iu his brain held him there with thrilling hands the same thought which Hayden Breen evolved as he stood at the edge of the Brooklyn pier. It ii t it was only a play thing of mind the vagary of altitude and immensity. "Did ever a man clog a live volcano? Did ever suicidal genius con ceive of corrupting such majesty of force with his pygmy purpose?" The irreverent query righted the balances. There he lay, sprawled at the edge ot the universal mystery, nt the secret en trance to the chamber of . arth's dyna mos. The edge of the pit shook with the frightful work going on below, yet he was not slain. The torrent burst past and upward, clean as a missing bullet. The bombs of rock canted out from sheer weight and fell behind him. That which he compreehnded nlthough his eyes saw only the gray thundering cataclysm was never before imagined in the mind of man. The gray blackened. The roar dwin died, and his senses reeled. With a rush of saliva the linen dropped from his open mouth. Constable wns sure that there was a gaping cleft in his skull, for ha could feel the air blowing In and out, cold and colder. He tried to lift hns hands to cover the sensitive wound, but they groped in vain for his head. With the icy draughts of air, he seemed to hear, faintly, his name fulling upon the bared ganglion. "Peter! Peter Constable!" I lis strained his face toward the sound. The lower part of his body would not move. He wns uncoupled, like a beast whose spine is broken. "Peter! Oh, Peter Constable!" he heard again. (To be continued.) EiikIInIi Iliume JVuinea. House owners nre sometimes rather unfortunate In their selection of names for their abodes, nnd In suburbia bouso miming Is occasionally rather ludicrous. Thus "The Maples" bus never a ma ple nenr, "The Rosary" only exists in imagination, "Sunnyslde" Is the most depressing villa residence, and houses) named nfter the English lakes no mora suggest the lake district than Fleet street suggests the Hols de Boulogne. The Anglo-Saxon woril "hyrst," slg nlfylng u forest or wood, has become "hurst" In house naming, nnd "wood" nnd "holt" have the same meaning. All house names ending with these termi nations are pretty nnd not unsafe to choose. It Is curious to note that In Hastings nnd St. Leonards quite a number of houses have typically Saxon names, perhaps to commemorate the great Sax on tragedy of which the name Hastings Is reminiscent. Polea of the lOnrlh. The circle of the earth's dally rota tion upon Its axis being the greatest nt the equator, the consequent great ac tion there of the centrifugal force dur ing the period when the earth was a yielding mass produced u bulging out of the surface In the equatorial region, with a consequent flnttcning nt the poles. Thus we have an oblate sphe roid, with Oie length of the axis of the poles about twenty-six and a half miles less than the equatorial diameter. Lark lllicht Uunlltlra. Mrs. Ilix Mrs. June strikes me as being entirely too masculine for a woman. Mrs. Dlx Yes, Indeed. Why, every time she has nn ache or pnln she makes as much fuss about it as a man would. Smith's Weekly
