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GOLD H ILL NEWS, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON GREEN CLOAK CHAPTER 1 B y YO R K E D A V IS FARM CK MAKING FIGHT ON POORLY FED COWS there would be no difficulty on that NOT PROFITABLE BONE MEAL WILL POULTRY VERMIN score; he would present his refer Doctor McAlister ha» often told me SUPPLY MINERAL ences In a day or two. As e matter Slllk yields of many poorly fed cow» that I take life seriously hvcaum I Many broods of rhb-ks die, or are of fact, he never did, but ss he paid could he Increased as much us 50 per aih ] a check for a ■ in young. That may or may not be with fi hand Several experiment stations have a quarter's rent In udvsnce. end as he badly Injured, each year from the at cent through Improved feeding, says the reason, but I am convinced Hint I siniill steamer trunk, both well-worn signed an Indeterminate lease of a tack of lice and mites, or other para- Dr. W. B. Nevens, assistant chief In reported recently on the value of know the reason why he lake» It ao and both unmarked with any Initial. house which the agent never expected •Iteo—hen hatched chicks suffering dairy cattle feeding at the college ot steamed bone meal for catUe. The light benrteilly, Il la not becuuae he He went straight to the real estate Michigan station found that simple to get off tils hands, McCloskey didn't more frequently than the artificially 1» old, but because he has already won •dfice of one James McCloskey and like to press the mutter. He used brooded ones. Also, hens, Infested with agriculture. University of Illinois. In mixtures containing bone meal two a few cases the yield has been nearly said lie wanted to rent a house. from life all the reward he want*. In parts and salt one part were more furniture that he found in the house, lice, will not lay as many eggs, nor doubled, he said. Ids own department of science—ap “ McCloskey took him house-hunting, satisfactory for dairy cows than the and never brought In uny pffects of his produce as many pounds of flesh, as “ When the milk yield of a cow or s plied psychology—be Inis achieved and, much to that gentleman's sur ow'n, beyond uhat came with him on those kept free from these parasites. complex mineral mixtures containing herd Is Increased through better feed Effective methods of eradicating “ bout ns high a place ns It Is possible prise, the only place In town that took tlie first day, In Ills hand bag and his Ing, the profits climb much more rap various salts such as sulphur, copper for a man to reach. In this Held Ids Morgan's fancy wus a large, dlluplduted little trunk. He never got any letters chicken lice have been taken up fully Idly than the cost of the extra feed. as, epsom sa lt* glnubers salts, etc. reputation does not have to lower Its old house In one of Its remoter quar from out of town, and apparently In a recently revised circular by the The Montana Experiment station In facL many uonpaylng herds have colors to any other In the world; and te r* The old place was In a stale of never sent off any. Wliut his business poultry department at the University been put on a profitable basis simply reports that cattle suffering from a I f In bis periods of relaxation he considerable dlsrepulr, und It con w u* If he hud any, no one ever of Wisconsin. There are several species mineral deficiency w ill eat large chooses to be frivolous, no oue cun tained a lot of rattle-trap furniture of lice, hut all can he eradicated by the through more liberal feeding of a ra amounts of bone meal the first week knew." tion better aclted to milk production. which Hie owner had never moved afford frivo lity any better than he. “ You say that nothing on the first same general method of treatment, ac "Investigations by Hie college of ag or two and then gradually decrease suppose thnf the very Idea of frivolity away. McCloskey had confessed that or on the second floor had been dis cording to the authors, J. O. Halpin, riculture, University of Illinois, have the amounL Some ranchers reported used In connection with Prof. Itonald he had never expected to find u tenant turhed. That would dispose of the J. 11. Hayes, arid O. N. Johnson, of the shown that cows producing 10,000 a consumption of a pound a day per university poultry department. “ On McAlister's name would make moat for IL The question of repairs didn’t cow for the first two or three weeks. theory of robbery." people laugh becuuae of the grotesque seem to luteresl Mr. Morgan much, a young chicks, the lice are usually pounds (1,100 gallons) of milk, or Where cattle do not readily take to "The whole appearance of the bouse more, annually used only 42 pounds (uitch or two In the roof end new unfitness of It; and the people who found on top of the head and are hard the bone meal one part of salt la and Its condition would contradict the know bltn only ns a gaunt, gray old lights of glass In the broken windows to see; a lumpy feeling, detected by of digestible matter for each 100 mixed with two parts of bone meal. theory of any ordinary robbery," the pounds of milk, while cows yielding bachelor, with a rugged, homely, dee|e comprising all he asked for. A t the Texas station, hone meal doctor said. "No one would break Into rubbing the top of the chick's head Is only half that amount did so at a feed 'When McCloskey asked him what ly lined Scotch face and a big rough a fairly sure Indication that lice are was found to be much more satisfac thut dilapidated old structure for such cost of one-third more for each 100 family he had and when lie expected voice, would be right to laugh. present," they say. tory than mineral phosphate for cur a purpose, unless he hud knowledge of Hut I am more an adopted son of them to arrive, Mr. Morgan answered These poultry specialists outline pounds of milk. Some cows were ing depraved appetite and preventing some secret und unusual sort of treas found which gave only 3,000 pounds his than a mere assistant, and after that he hud no family and Intended to ure there. Hut to my mind, the man four general ways of attacking lice. (350 gallons) or less a year. These loin disease. Cows getting bone meal spending the dally number of hours In live alone. He did. In fact, live alone, ner of killing disposes even of thut One Is by a liberal application of In cows required one and two-thlrds as and salt made better gain In weight Ids laboratory, watching him work Ids without even the service of a house alternative. The house Is situated In sect powder, at least three times dur much feed for each unit quantity of In summer, reared stronger calves miracle* I see his great mind relax, keeper, for a number of months, but a lonely spo* remote from all other ing the hatch, und Is the only practical milk as the highest producing cow* aDd had a lower death loss. ' Bone and find that he Is Just a boy, more of finally engaged a respectable old wom chewing was shown to be an evidence habitation. If a robber hud found method known for sitting hens. an, who lived In straightened clrcuiu- a boy than ever I was In my life. The other three treatments are d if The greater tlie production, the great of mineral deficiency In the diet and himself In a position where he wus er the efficiency with which feed Is Ito likes the dally papers—the yel obliged to kill, he could have risked a ferent ways of applying sodium fluor used for milk, for the amounts of feed Is more common on the range in dry lower they are, the better; and he pistol shot, und he couldn't have gar- ide, an effective louse destroyer. It needed to maintain the animal remain years. devours a perfectly Incredible number C. H. Eckles of the Minnesota sta roted his victim without taking him may he applied by Hie "pinch meth •bout constant Some of the best o f detective stories, good and bud. unawares. No, I believe It to be a od,” In dusting hens. Another way is cows use two-thlrds of their feed for tion found a peculiar type of emacia Ills delight over a good one Is almost case of murder, pure and s im p le - the use of sodium fluoride grease, milk, while the poorest may use only tion caused by mineral deficiency in pathetic. certain parts of Minnesota. These murder committed for Its own suke made by adding, gradually, equal one-third or les* Ho when I rend the headlines In the emaciated cattle would eat bone, mid not the by-product of some other parts by weight of the powder to a “ The ability of the cows to produce morning papers that day, I knew per result And these cases, you know, gallon of water, a pound of powder milk Is a matter deserving as much wood, dirt, or leather and w ill some fectly well that when work was over being enough for about 300 hen* times swallow stones In an attempt are ruther rure—" und we met at our special little table “ A little care and attention. In attention as the feed. Improved to get mineral matter. The Joints "Here cornea Mr. Ashton now, air," feeding, however, may bring immedi In a corner of the brilliant dining snld Wilkins from where he stood not keeping the flock clean, w ill prevent ate p ro fit* while raising better cows would become stiff and creak audibly room of The Meredith, I should he as the animals moved. This condi far away. " I'll have dinner served at much waste of feed and reduction of requires several years.” regaled with a thrilling and enthusi profits," these poultrytnen claim. tion was cured by bone meal feeding. once, air." astic account of the Oak Itldge murder. The average consumption of bone Both the doctor and I like Ashton, It was ensy Indeed to prefigure the meal was four pounds per cow per Overfeeding Is Common Separate Chicks Soon and he often dines wlHi us, even when whole scene. Similar ones had been month. y there Is no particular excuse, such as Error in Handling Calf In any section where there Is ah enacted so many times before. I didn't as Sex Is Determined wus offered by the Ouk Itldge mur altogether relish the prospect, for I "Overfeeding," says C. H. Eckles, falfa a shortage of phosphorus Is When chicks reach six weeks of der, for doing so. hate to see people smiling and nod ■Se, It's time for cockerels and pul chief of the dairy husbandry division more likely than a shortage of cal He is a burly, confident, quick-tem ding behind my old chief's back, peo of the Minnesota College of Agricul cium. Phosphorus can be supplied by lets to go their way separately. pered, generous-minded young chap ple who. Intellectually or soclully, or 'Both pullets and cockerels w ill ture. “ Is probably the most common bone meal, or linseed meal. Special of about thirty, and If lie keeps on us In nny other way, aren't (It to tie his grow better If they are In separate cause of lack of success In raising steamed bone meal Is prepared by the he tins begun, lie w ill some day ac shoes. He doesu't mind their smiles, quarters," poultrymen of the agricul calve* It Is a mistake to assume that various packing companies for feeding quire a reputation as oue of the and the light-hearted emptiness of tural college extension service at the because ihe cream has been removed cattle.—Charles I. Bray, Associate greatest prosecutors In the country. their lives has a mysterious sort of Ohio State university say. the calf needs more milk or that be Professor In Animal Husbandry, Colo He wns not In evening dress tonight, attraction for him. “ I f you have sufficient brooding cause the calf Is not doing well It Is rado Agricultural College. nnd he dropped Into his chair nt oui space,” the poultrymen at Columbus not getting enough m ilk and should And when I see him across our little table with the air of one who has put suggest, “ separate the cockerels from be allowed to gorge Itself. A good table, his twinkling gray eye» glowing In a trying day. with excitement. Ills long ungainly Hie pullets as soon as you can deter rule Is always to keep the calf a little Powdered Milk Produces "Confound these suburban trains," mine tlie sex. They should be sep hungry. Some provision must be arms and expressive hands working Good Results With Calf he said. “ I Just spent the better pait arated when they are six weeks old, made for making certain that each awuy In enthusiastic gesticulation, his Powdered skim milk and powdered of an hour In one coining In from Oak an J at most they should not he over animal gets Its share nnd no more. A big voice booming out the story of buttermilk are growing in favor H s lf an Hour Latsr Soma Paassrt-by Ridge." some sensational crime. I can't really eight to ten weeks of age. satisfactory plan la to tie the calves among dairymen as a means of rais Saw Him Striding Up'and Down His wonder that a good many people nod “ Ila !" cried the doctor, with an nlr “ Many of the cockerels w ill be large In small stanchions during the feed Rickety Old Veranda." •nd wink and giggle. of the most Intense satisfaction enough to be sold as broilers at that ing. Each calf then gets Its proper ing strong, healthy calves cheaply. "Then you're Just the man I want to time. The rest should be put by them amount and cannot Interfere with the The powders may be used If natural The thing I did wonder nt some skim milk is lacking or as a substitute see. Did you turn up anything at the selves und grown to broiler size as feeding of others. times was, that W ilk in * the obsequi stances not very far away, to come for part of the whole milk which afternoon session of the Inquest? Th- soon as possible. ous, omnipresent, Invaluable bend- every day and cook his meals und keep “ Under natural conditions, the calf would otherwise he used, according to his house In order. He let her In every account In the evening papers leaves waiter, contrived to preserve his re “ I f breeding cockerels are to be takes Its milk frequently and In small dairymen at the State College of Agri morning In time to get brenkrast, and off at noon." spectful mask of professional Imper saved, snve about twice as many nt quantities. When fed by hand, two culture at Ithaca, N. Y. she went away every night nbout turbability. Ashton Innghed. “ You'll not get s this time as w ill be needed, go as to feedings a day Is the general practice seven o'clock, after washing up the Good calves can be raised to six word out of me about that murder, allow for a second selection In the fall and special care must be taken not to I had a sneaking fondness for W il supper dishes. months of age on 76 pounds of sktm- until after the fish If you attempt to when they are mature. kins, bused upon the fa il that he at allow the calf to consume more milk milk powder, about 150 pounds of "There, you have, prnetlcally, the I shall cull on Wilkins here for help. least did not underrate Doctor Mc “ Select the quick maturing birds than It can digesL For the first two story of his life In Ouk Itldge, up to However," he added seriously, " I do which have bright eyes, broad back* weeks ten to twelve pounds a day la whole milk, 400 pounds alfalfa hay, Alister. Tonight, for Instance, It was two nights ago. Two nights ugo the want to talk about this case with you, deep bodies, nnd relatively short all that the largest calf should receive. and 400 pounds of grain. The skim W ilkins himself whom I saw conduct old woman got supper for him for the for I think It not unlikely Uiat you legs. These few selected breeders I f it can be done without too much milk should be mixed at the rate of ing him down the long Inne of tattle* one pound of powder to nine pounds Inst lime, and went home us usual may be aide to help us." to the corner of the room where we at may be allowed to run with the pul Inconvenience, the calf at this age of water, and the water should be about seven o'clock. Half an hour (TO B I C O N T IN U E D .) ways sii L le t* ” should be fpd three times rather than warm enough to make a liquid 90 to Inter some passers-by saw him striding "Tell our man what to bring ns, twice dally. up and down Ills rickety old veranda, 100 degrees Fahrenheit when fed, ac Curious O ld Custom W ilkins," he said, waving awuy the "As the calf grows older, twice-a- cording to a statement of Prof. C. H. smoking u pipe. Yesterday morning Find Capon Production menu which that Irreproachable func when his housekeeper knocked at the day feedings are sufficient and the Eckles of Minnesota, who has con o f L ite ra ry G iants tionary offered him. “ You know what Is Most Profitable milk may be Increased, hut at no time ducted experiments In feeding pow kitchen door, there wus no answer. Llpogrnmmntlc works, the product we want to eat. betfer than wo do." Capon producUon Is one of the most Is It nece*sary to feed more than six dered milk. Then she went around to the front of of the early Greek authors, are those Then he turned to n.e, "Well, have profitable enterprises, figures an teen or eighteen pounds daily. By the the house und rang the bell, also w ith With powdered buttermilk, 150 books In which one letter of the alpha you read ubout It?" out result. She walked back a little het Is omitted throughout the volume. nounced by J. C. Taylor, poultry ex time the calf needs more than this pounds whole milk, 65 pounds dried "The Oak Itldge murder?" I asked wily up the lawn and suw that one of Tryphlodoru* when w riting his Odys tension specialist of the Pennsyl amount, it w ill take the additional buttermilk, 460 pounds of grain, and smiling. "No, I ’ve waited to get the Hie windows In a sort of study he had feed necessary In the form of grata" about 450 pounds alfalfa hay were sey, had not an “ a" In his first book, vania State college, show. account of It from you." Starting with 101 Barred Plymouth on the third floor was open. aeeded to produce a calf of about as nor a “ b" In his second. In so doing "You really haven't read a word of "Well, It seems that she told vari lie wns but copying the Llpogrammutic Hook cockerels, a Lancaster county good condition at the same age, name It?" he asked. poultryman fed them 5,510 pounds of Number of Requisites of ly, six month* Iliad of Nestor. "Not a word. I know that Onk ous people nbout her fears that all scratch grain, 3,095 pounds of mash, was not well with her employer, hut Success in Dairying The powdered products are couven- Athenneus writes of an ode by Pin Itldge Is one of our more remote and and OTO pounds of milk. The chick I f It were possible to lim it the num lenL sunltary, about one-half as ex less fashionable suburb* ami that you know what a town of that de dnr In which the latter purposely omit scription Is like. There aren't any ted Hie letter "*•• thereby leading us ens cost $120.23 nnd Inhor amounted ber of requisites of success In dairy pensive as whole milk, but they are there bus been a murder there within police. Most of the men In the place to surmise that this little hoax was to $13.60. With a total expense of ing to one, that one would he “ Know more expensive than natural skim the past forty-eight hour* Beyond commute to town on the early tra in * one of the literary fashions of the day. $300.14, the poultryman sold 1T6 of the your cow*” says Thomas XI. Olson, milk. Sklm-mllk powder remixed with Hint, my Ignorance la complete. ’ and with one thing and another, it A Perslnn poet once rend to the cele birds for $501.14, leaving a net profit Instructor in dairy husbandry at water Is skim milk, and' calves can’t "Youth I Youth I" cried tlie doctor was ten o’clock, or so, before the brated Jnmi one of his own compost of $150, or 85 cents a bird. South Dakota State College, Heavy tell the difference, the men at the col In mock dlsirtny. "W lint la It coming house wus forcibly broken open. When the capons were sold they feeding, or feeding a balanced ration lege say. tlons with the letter A lif consistently to? Fancy being under thirty and "The Investigators found nothing omitted throughout Jnmt, who did weighed T.T pounds each and they waiting all day for such a story as does not assure success, although It disturbed either on the first door or not care for the sonnet, sarcastically brought 43 cents a pound. Slips w ill Increase somewhat the produc Administering Salts to that, rather tliun read an account of It on the second, but In the old gentle mnde the following recommendation: weighed seven pounds each nnd sold tion of the dairy herd. Pure bred In bud English. Well, you shall have man's study, u finished-off room In the "You can do a better thing yet, take for 3T cents a pound. According to Ailing Farm Animals the atory now from the beginning— dairy cows do not guarantee success, nttlc, with a couple of dormer win away nil the letters from every word Ta.vlos, success in capon growing de I f the bowels of any sick animal W alt a bit, though. Wilkin»—” not even pure bred cows from high- dows, they found him dend In Ills pends upon keeping the percentage of producing ancestry. Expensive dairy are not moving freely, a dose of Ep The head-waiter looked up from n chair. He wus leunlng buck In a you have written.” Although the Greeks originated this slips low and disposing of the birds barns and equipment w ill probably som salts should be given at once In low-voiced discussion of Hie menu with queer, unnatural altitude, and when Ingenious llterury device, Its use wns on a good markeL the man who bad special eburge of our they looked more closely, they found make dairying more Interesting, and the shape of a drench. One pound of by no means exclusive with them table. "Yes, air." Increase somewhat the total produc Epsom salts dissolved In one quart thut tie had been strangled with a I-ope de Vega, the celebrated Spanish Swat the Rooster "Has Ashton come In yet?" tion, but It is not a requisite for suc of lukewarm water w ill usually bring catgut string from an old violin of dramatic poet of the Sixteenth cen "Not yet, sir, but be should be here his. An A string," he went on, with The rooster has now served his pur cess. Mnny great dairy cows have satisfactory results. For a large cow, before long. He's seldom Inter than rising voice and finger that gesticu tury, Gregorio I.etl, nnd at n much pose. A fter the hatching season a been developed and have produced hnlf again as much ns the dose men Inter day I.ord North of the court of fertile egg Is a liability Instead of an wonderful records In barns that would tioned may he given. In cases of thia, air." lated only about six Inches from my "Serve for three nt this table, then." none—"an A string that had been de James I all employed this lltornry de asset. The presence of a rooster In the not measure up to the standard so severe constipation a second dose vice and produced I.lpogrnmmutlc flock does not cause a lien to lay any far as up-to-date dnlry barns go. should be given 12 hours after the said the doctor, “ and when Ashton liberately removed from the fiddle and book*—Market for Exchange. comes In, ask him to dine with us"; slipped In a noose around his neck, more eggs. Roosters are worth as No dnlry cow hns ever produced first. In giving a laxative be careful then, turning to me, "There are some while he sat there In his chair, and much at this time of the year ns at her maximum unless her feeder knew not to pour the liquid Into the ani points which the newspapers don’t drawn taut. What do you say to nny time later In the season. I f they her. Knowing her means more than mal’s lungs. One man should hold Train Speed Cuts Static the animal's head by a halter or by cover that he'll lie likely to know that, eh?" Static decreases and radio-station are kept through the summer there Is simply calling her by name and re grasping Its upper Jaw or nostril* about." npt to be some mortality, which means citing the names of her ancestor* It “ I don't see why they enll It mur strength Increases with and In propor while the other should administer the Ashton, I may say, wus a rising der," said I. "Why Isn't suicide the tlon to acceleration In the train's that It pays to dispose of the rooster means understanding her every need, solution through a strong, long-necked young assistant In the district at more likely explanation?" speed, experiments with a receiver after eggs are no longer desired for desire, and condition. For after a lt torney's office, and I w ill add that he „ "Oh, wise young Judge." he mocked. the dairy cow Is an Individual, and bottle, pouring It out on the tongue have shown, according to Popular hatching. gradually well bnck In the mouth worked nt the detection and prosecu “ For Just this reason, my boy; that as such possesses Individuality. Mechanics Magazine. A steel bridge tion of crime, con ninore; It was not the end of the string wasn't fastened — ■ 1 '» w I I,' , ■» Gather Eggs Often with no superstructure helped to In upon his salary that he lived nt The to anything. He couldn't have com crease Hie volume of the reception Self-Feeding Plan Regardless of whether eggs are In Feed for Profit Meredith. mitted suicide In that way, unless lie while one with a superátrlicture de Although the self-feeding plan Is fertile or not, they should he gnthered Our colleges nnd experiment sta The doctor leaned Ills elbows on the could reach around after he whs dead creased IL j' promptly nnd stored In a cool place. tions have shown conclusively that very satisfactory when hogs are being table and pointed a long finger at me. mid untie the knot behind the bnck of Egg quality Is (in Important Item. there Is no profit In underfeeding. fattened for market. It Is not nt ail "Now, In the first place, all we know Ills neck. No, It's murder, and I When egg grading becomes more gen This Is true because the bulk of a satisfactory for feeding brood sows or Build House for Comfort of Henry Morgan begins three yenrs should be Inclined to say a singularly eral It w ill be of still greater Impor ration that n cow receives Is for board, for growing pigs to be used In the Rambling rooms may be romantic ago." pure example of It." to look upon, hut (he romance caused tance. However, the candling of eggs or ns we cull It, “ maintenance.” What breeding herd. Brood sows receiving "Wna Henry Morgan the name of the "There’s 'no connection whatever h.v Inconvenience and lack of comfort Is enforced In most states nt the pres an animal consumes over and above their ration from a self-feedertwlll be man who was murdered?" I asked. with tils past?" I Inquired. "Didn't goon fade* Not only should a house ent time nnd this means that It pays maintenance is the part of the ration come entirely too fat for the'best re "Yes—yes, nt least It's the imine he McCloskey ask for any references at sults In raising pigs. Bigs tfrrowed lie big enough and not too big, bin to eliminate nil possible means of egg which gives us h profit. If we feed went by during the last t'iree years of the time Morgan rented Hie house?” by a very fat sow hnve not b^'n prop spoilage. Eliminating the rooster Is It» rooms need to be related to each only maintenance ration, we cannot Ills life, wh'TV lie spent el (Ink Itldge. erly nourished during the rS-lod of “ lie says he did on Hint first day, other so as to save steps nnd lessen one of the Important Items In this expect a profit. To produce the best Me got off Hie truln thero uee morning campaign. pregnancy and are apt to be freak or und Mr. Morgan ussured him that labor. result* then, we must feed both lib lend nt birth. >> 1 erally and economically. WWTJ Hervir«. Coprrlfht. 1*1«