UWIOW Katab. July, 1897.
OAZETTC Katsb. lec. 1862.
Consolidated Feb., 1899.
COEVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OEEGOK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1902.
VOIi. III. KO. 29.
! A STUDIN SCARLET If
BY A. CONAN DOYLE. ;
WWW W V V V V V "Sk" "J."
PART II Chapter VI Continued
"He gazed at me with bleared
drunken eyes for a moment, and then
I saw a horror spring up in them and
convulse his whole features, which
; snowed me that he knew me.
' ' I had always known that ven
geance would be sweet, but had never
hoped for the contentment of soul
which now possessed me.
"'You dog! I Bald, 'I have hunted.
you from Salt Lake City to St. Pet
ersburg, and you have always escaped
me. Now at last your wanderings
have come to an end, for either you
or I shall never see tomorrow's sun
rise.'
"He shrank still further away as
I spoke, and I could see on his face
that he thought I was mad. So I was
. for the time. The pulses in my tern
pies beat like sledgehammers, and
believe I would have had a fit of some
sort if the blood had not gushed from
my nose and relieved me,
"He staggered back with a livid face,
and I saw the perspiration-break out
upon his brow, while his teeth chat
tered. At the sight, I leaned my back
against the door and laughed loud and
long,
" 'What do you think of Lucy Fer-
rier now?' I cried, locking the door
and shaking the key in his face. 'Pun
ishment has been slow in coming, but
it has overtaken you at last.'
"I saw his coward lips tremble as
spoke. He would have begged for his
life, but he knew well that it was use
less,
'"Would you murder me?' he stam
mered
" 'There Is no murder,' I answered
'Who talks of murdering a mad dog?
What mercy had you upon my poor
darling when you dragged her from
her slaughtered father and bore her
away to your accursed and shameless
harem?'
" 'It was not I who killed her father,'
he cried,
" 'But it was you who broke her in
nocent heart,' I shrieked, thrusting
the box before him. 'Let the high God
judge between us. Choose and eat
There is death in one and life in the
other. I shall take what you leave,
Let us see if there is justice upon the
earth, or if we are ruled by chance.'
"He cowered away with wild cries
and prayers for mercy, but I drew my
knife and held it to his throat until he
had obeyed me,
"Then I swanowed the other, and
we stood facing each other in silence
. for a minute or more, waiting to see
which was to live and which was to
die.
"Shall I ever forget the look which
came over his face when the first
warning pangs told him that the pois
on was in his system? I laughed as
I saw it, and held Lucy's marriage
ring In front of his eyes,
"It was but for a moment, for the
action of the alkaloid is rapid. A
spasm of pain contorted his features;
he threw his hands out in front of
him, staggered and then, with a
hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the
floor.
"I turned him over with my foot
and placed my hand upon his heart.
There was no movement. He was
dead !
"The blood had been streaming
from my nose, but I had taken no no
tice of it. I don't know what it was
that put it into my head to write up
on the wall with it.
"Perhaps it was some mischievous
idea of putting the police upon a
wrong track, for I felt light hearted
and cheerful. I remembered a Ger
man being found in New York with
'rache' written up above him, and it
was argued at the time in the news
papers that the secret societies must
have done it.
"I guessed that what puzzled the
New Yorkers would puzzle the Lon
doners, so I dipped my finger in my
own blood and printed it on a conven
ient place on the wall.
"Then I walked down to my cab
and found that there was nobody
abdht, and that the night was still
very wild. I had driven some dis
tance, when I put my nand into the
pocket in which I usually kept Lucy'i
ring, and found that it was not there.
"I was thunderstruck at this, for it
was the only memento that I had f
her. Thinking that I might have
dropped it when I stooped over Dreb-
ber's body, I drove back, and leaving
my cab in a side street, I went boldly
up to the house for I was ready to
dare anything rather than lose the
ring.
"When J arrived there I walked
right into the arms of a police officer
who was coming: out, and only man
aged to disarm his suspicions by pro
tending to be hopelessly drunk.
"That was how Enoch Drebber came
to his end. All I had to do then was
to do as much for Stangerson, and so
pay off John Ferrier's debt.
"I knew that he was staying at Hal
liday's private hotel, and I hung
about all day but he never came out,
I fancy that he suspected something
when Drebber failed to put in an ap
pearance. "He was cunning, was Stangerson,
and always on his guard. It he
thought he could keep me off by stay
ing in doors he was very much mis
taken. I soon found out which was
the window of his bedroom, and early
next morning I took advantage of
some ladders which were lying in the
lane behind the hotel, and so made
my way into his room in the gray of
the dawn.
"I woke him up and told him that
the hour had come when he was to
answer for the life he uad taken so
long before. I described Drebber's
death to him, and I gave him the
Bame choice of the poisoned pills.
Instead Of grasping at the chance
of safety which that offered him, he
sprang from his bed and flew at my
throat. In self-defense I stabbed him
to the heart. It would have been the
same in any case, for Providence
would never have allowed his guilty
hand to pick out anything but uie
poison.
i
V V V V VW V V vvwwvw
"l have little more to say, and it
as well, for I am about done up,
went on cabbing it for a day or so,
intending to keep at it until I couli
save enough to take me " back to
America.
"I was standing in the -yard when
ragged youngster asked if there was
a cabby there called Jefferson Hope,
and said that his cab was wanted by
a gentleman at 221B Baker street.
"I went round, suspecting no harm,
and the next thing I knew, this youn
man here had the bracelets on my
wrists, and as neatly shackled as ever
I was in my life.
"That's the whole of my story, gen
tlemen. You may consider me to be
a murderer, but I hold that I am just
as much an officer of justice as you
are,
So thrilling had. the man's narra
tive been, and his manner was bo im
pressive, that we had sat silent and
absorbed
"There is only one point on which
I should like a little more informa
tion," Sherlock Holmes said at last.
"Who was your accomplice who came
for the ring which I advertised?"
The prisoner Winked at my friend
jocosely.
"I can tell my own secrets," he
said, "but I don't get other people in
to trouble. I saw your advertisement,
and I thought it might be a plant, or
it mignt be the ring I wanted. My
friend volunteered to go and Bee.
think you'll own he did it smartly,
Not a doubt of that," said Holmes,
heartily. .
Now, gentlemen," he inspector re
marked, gravely, "the forms of the
law must be complied with. On
Thursday the prisoner will be brought
before the magistrates, and your at
tendance will be required. Until then
I will be responsible for him."
CHAPTER VII.
We had all been warned to appear
before the magistrates upon the
Thursday; but when the Thursday
came mere was no occasion for our
testimony.
A higher judge had taken the mat
ter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had
been summoned before a tribunal
where strict justice would be meted
out to him.
On the very night after his capture
the -aneurism burst, and he was found
in the morning stretched upon the
floor of the cell, -with a-placid smile
upon his face, as though Ae, had been
able in his dying momfcais to look
back upon a useful life, and on work
wen done.
"Gregson and Les trade will be Wild
about his death," Holmes remarked,
as we chatted it over next morning.
"Where will their grand advertise
ment be now?"
"I don't see that they had very
much to do with his capture," I an
swered. wnat you do in this world is a
matter of no consequence," returned
my companion, bitterly. "The ques
tion is, what can you make people
believe that you have done? Never
mind," he continued, more brightly,
after a pause, "I would not have
missed the investigation for anything.
There has been no better case with
in my recollection. Simple as it was,
there were several most instructive
points -about it."
"I have already explained to you
that what is out of the common 1b us
ually a guide rather than a hindrance.
In solving a problem of this sort, the
grand thing is to be able to reason
backward. That is a very useful ac
complishment and a very easy one,
but people do not practice it- much.
Ir. the every day affairs of life it is
more useful to reason forward, and
so the other comes to be neglected,
There are fifty who" can reason syn
thetically for one who can reason an
alytically."
Now, this was a case in which you
were given the result and had to find
everything else for yourself. Now,
let me endeavor to show you the dif
ferent steps in my reasoning. To be
gin at the beginning. I approached
the house, as you know, on foot, and
with my mind entirely free from all
impressions. I naturally begun by
examining the roadway, and there, as
have already explained to you, I
saw clearly the marks of a cab, which.
ascertained by inquiry, must have
been made there during the night. I
satisfied myself that it was a cab and
not a private carriage by the narrow
gauge of the wheels. . The ordinary
London growler is considerably less
wide than a gentleman s brougham.
That was the first point gained. I
then walked slowly down the garden
path, which happened to he. composed
of a clay soil, peculiarly 'suitable for
taking impressions. No doubt it ap
peared to you to be a mere trampled
lire of slush, but to my trained eyes
every mark upon its surface had a
meaning.
I saw the heavy footmarks of the
constables, but I saw also the tracks
of the two men who had first passed
through the garden. It was easy to
tell that they had been before the
others, because in places their marks
had been entirely obliterated' by the
others coming upon the top of them.
On entering the house this last in
ference was confirmed. My well-boot
ed man lay before me. The tall one,
then, had done the murder, if murder
there was.
There was no wound upon the
dead man's person, but the agitated
expression upon his face assured me
that he had foreseen his fate before
it came upon him. Men who die from
heart disease or any sudden natural
cause never by any 'chance exhibit
agitation upon their features.
"Having sniffed the dead man's lips,
detected a slightly sour smell, and
came td the conclusion that he had
had poison forced upon him. Again
argued that it had been forced upon
him. from the hatred and fear ex
pressed upon his face.
By the method of exclusion I ar
rived at this result, for no other hy
pothesis would meet the facta. Do
not imagine that it was a very unheard-of
idea. The forcible adminis
tration of poison is by no -means a
new thing in criminal annals. ; The
cases of Dolsky, in Odessa, and of
Leturier, in Montpelier, will occur at
once to any tbxicologist.
"And now came the great question
as to the reason why. Robbery had
not been the object of the murder, for
nothing was taken. Was it politics,
then, or was it a woman? -
"It must have been a private wrong,
and not a political one, which called
for such a methodical revenge. When
the inscription was discovered upon
the wall I was more , inclined -than
ever to my opinion. - -
"The thing was too evidently a
blind. When the ring was found,
however, it settled the question.
Clearly the murderer has used it ro
remind his victim of some dead or ab
sent woman. : - - " -
"I had already come to the conclu
sion, since there were no signs of a
struggle, that the blood which covered
the floor had burst from the murder's
nose in his excitement. -
"I could perceive that the track of
blood coincided .with the track of his
feet.' It is seldom that any man, un
less he is very full-blooded, breaks
out in this way through emotion, so I
hazarded the opinion that the criminal
was probably a .robust and ruddy
faced man. - Events proved that I
judged correctly. '-
Having left the house. I proceeded
to do what Gregson had neglected. 1
telegraphed to the head of the Police
at Cleveland, limiting my ..inquiry to
the circumstances connected with- the
marriage jf Enoch Drebber. The answer-was
.conclusive.
It told me that Drebber had an-
plied fop the protection of the law
against an old rival in love, named
Jefferson Hope, and that this same
Hope was at present in Europe. I
knew now that I held the clew to the
mystery in my hand, and all that re
mained was to secure the murderer.
I had already determined in my
own mind that the man who - had
walked into the house with Drebber
was none other than the man who had
driven the cab. '
"The marks in the road showed me
that the horse had wandered on in a
way which would have been impossi
ble had there been any one in" charge
of it. -
"Where, then, could the driver be.
unless he were inside the house?
Again, it is absurd to suppose that
any sane man would carry out a de
liberate crime under the very eyes, as
it were, of a third person, who was
sure to betray him. .-.
Lastly, supposing one man wished
to dog another through, London, what
better means could be adopted than
turn cab driver? All these considera
tions led me to the irresistible conclu
sion that Jefferson Hope was to De
found among the jarveys of the me
tropolis. -' j
If he had been" one there was no
reason to' believe that he had ceased
to be. On the contrary. from his
point of view, any sudden change
would be likely to draw attention to
himself.
He would probably, for a time at
least, continue to perform his duties.
There was no reason to suppose that
he was going under an assumed name.
why should he change his name in
country where no one "knew his
original one? I therefore organized
my street arab detective corps,"' and
sent them systematically to every
cab proprietor in London until they
ferreted out the man that I wanted.
"How well they succeeded and how
quickly I took advantage of it are still
fresh in your recollection. The mur
der of Stangerson was an incident
which was entirely unexpected, but
which could hardly in any case have
been prevented.
Through it, as you know, I came
into possession of the pills, the exist
ence of which I had already surmised.
You see, the whole thing is a chain of
logical sequences without a break or
flaw." ,
It is wonderful!" I cried. "Your
merits should be publicly recognized.
You should publish an account of the
case. 'If you wont, I will for you."
You may do what you like, doctor "
he answered. "See here!" he con
tinued, handing a paper over to me;
look at this!"
It was the Echo for the day, and the
paragraph to which he pointed was
devoted to the case in question.
"The public," it said, " have lost a
sensational treat through the sudden
death of the man Hope, who was sus
pected of the murder of Mr. Enoch
Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stanger
son. The details of the case will prob
ably never be known now, though we
are informed upon food authority
that the crime was the result of an
old-standing and romantic feud, in
which love and Mormonism bore a
part. v .. .
"It seems that both the victims be
longed, in their younger days, to the
Latter-Day Saints, and Hope, the de
ceased prisoner, hails also from Salt
Lake City. If the case had had no
other effect, it at least brings out in
the most striking manner the effic
iency of our detective force, and will
serve as a lesson to all foreigners
that they will do wisely to settle their
feuds at home, and not to carry them
on to British soil.
It is an open secret that the' credit
of this smart capture belongs entirely
to the well-known Scotland Yard of
ficials, Messrs. Lestrade and Gregson.
The man was apprehended, it appears,
in the rooms of a certain Mr. Sher
lock Holmes, who has himself, as an
amateur, shown some talent in the
detective line, and who, with such In
structors, may hope in time to attain
some degree of their skill.
It is expected that a testimonial of
some sort will be presented to the
two officers as a fitting recognition of
their services."
"Didn't I tell you so when we start
ed?" cried Sherlock Holmes, with a
laugh. "That's the result of all our
Study in Scarlet to get them a testi
monial!"
Never mind," I answered; "I have
all the facts in my journal, and tho
public shall know them. In the mean
time you must make yourself con
tented by the consciousness of suc
cess, like the Roman miser
'Populus me sibilat, at mlhi plaudo
Ipse domi sinul ac nummos con
templar in area."
THE END.
What the Fairiea Did.
Stargleam and Moonbeam were very
hnRv ovpr their work when RncrmvrtlfiL
tho Rmwoi. finrMw in r,t nt
them and said- I know what I would
do if I were yon two fairies." -: V" .j"
What would. yoa do?" inquired both
fairies together. ---. : . -""
"Well, I would just go with - Bog-
myrtle, and have a game, of hide-and-seek
" among the flowers," 1 said - the
Brownie. - 11 ,
"Oh, dear! oh, dear!" sighed Star-
gleam, "it would be .nice if we could !"'
But lt'sno use we can't," said
Moonbeam, "for we have got all these
pocket handkerchiefs to wash and iron
before we can do as we like. ' Oh, dear!
oh, dear!" .. . - -
"That -difficulty can soon be over
come," said Bogmyrtle, "If yon will
take my, hd vice.- There is a little girl
called Kathleen atthe house over there,
and she is havinga washing-day, and
washing all her dollies' clothes so if
von were to take" those Docket handker-
yon were to taae tnose pocKet nanaKer-
chiefs and put them into her basket
when she isn't looking, she will be sure
BOGMYBTLE, TEE BBOVNIE, STOOD BE-
FOBI THEM,'
to wash them, too, for she is enjoying
herself ever so much -and won't mind a
few extra things to wash, I'm sure."
The fairies thought Bogmyrtle's sug-
gestlon a capital one, and acted upon it I
4 at once, and very soon they were having
such fun among the flowers.
"I wonder how' all these rose leaves
got among my dollies' clothes," exclaim
ed Kathleen. 1 am sure I didn't put
them, there myself i" and she ' picked
them out, and threw them away, little
dreaming that' they were "the fairies'
JKCketJWwerIefg
So when. Stargleam, and Moonbeam
came, hoping to find them washed and
ironed, they were not there, of course:
and as they knew that the Queen would I
be very angry when she heard . what I
had happened, they were obliged to go
In search of new ones. But the roses
were nearly over, so they had to prom
ise to give the rose bushes who sold the
rose-leaf pocket handkerchiefs ever so
many dewdrops as payment, and they
both determined not to take Bogmyr
tle's advice any : more, but when they
had any work to do Jto stick to it until
It was finished, and. play ifterward.
Tommx's Surprise.
One nicht after Tommy was ready
for bed and had on his clean, white
niffhtirown. he climbed up in mamma's
lap and asked for Just one story more.
Mamma drew her chair up by the grate
and held Tommy close in her arms,
and he reached out his two little bare
feet to theflre. The big coals shone
out and made the room warm and
light, and Tommy was very fcappy, and
waited as still ai a mouse for the
story to begin.
"A very long, long time ago," said
mamma, "there was a beautiful, grove
of big, big trees. Their tops reached
no higher than any trees you ever saw.
and their branches reached out farth-
er. Every day they drank in the sun-
shine and grew bigger and bigger.
Everything all around them was very !
brteht and pretty. .
"But one day the wind beean to
blow, and the rain came down more m7 mena naa meant . 'Not strong.' I
and more, till the lakes and rivers strongly enjoined him to reserve his
spread over everywhere and covered English henceforth for use In the val-
the trees all up; and It kept thundering leys." , - -
and lightning, and the ground shook so Cricket-Fighting.
hard that some mountains were shaken The Chinese are Inveterate gamblers,
all to pieces and great big stones sent and never lose an opportunity to bet,
flying into the air. no matter how trivial the cause may
"The grove of big trees had all been be. One of their great institutions is
blown down, and a great mountain of- crlcket-flghting, the crickets being
dirt was heaped up over them. How caught, fed and trained as carefully
do you suppose the trees felt? They as is a blooded horse. There is a fixed
were jammed in tight, and squeezed diet for them, part of their food con
hard -Tinder the big mountain, and it slating of honey, and boiled chestnuts,
was dark, very dark in there. And I if they get sick, they are fed with mos
suppose they thought, 'We can never quttoes. Prior to fighting, their weight
work any more; we will never see the js ascertained and duly recorded, there
sunshine again.' ' being a fixed regulation as to their
"And there the trees stood tob years Bize ana weight. On the door of the
and years and years oh, a great deal house In which the fight is to take
longer than any one who lives upon place Fec0rd of each cricket is past
this earth can remember. But one day, e(j nPf and the owner of the winner gets
way down in the ground under the 10 p. cent of all bets. The crick
mountain, came a great crashing, turn- et plt a jow tnb placed on the table,
bling, rumbling, grumbling noise, and and, after weIghingr ThemiWtBifs
next there was a big hole in the moun- are put ta It and tickled with straws
tain that reached clear down to where nH, fh Pnsh each other with loud
the trees were, and the sun could shine
in on them once more!
"But If you had looked in there for
ue trees juu never cuuiu nave louna
them, for they had all been broken up
and lammed tisrht together and turned
black and hard till they looked more
like a big black rock. And when the
men who made the hole saw the shin-
ing stuff, they said:
"Here It is, here It Is!"
"And the black, shining stuff said:
"What's that? what's that? Oh,
light! It's daylight! My! Who ever
thought we'd see daylight again? Why,
we've been shut in here years : and
years and years! We want to get out
and look around.'
"But when it went to move It was
very hard and stiff, not atNill as it
was when It was tall -greeff trees and
waved In the wind. - ' r
"Then the men took their big Iron
tools and began breaking ' It up into
pieces.-': They loaded it Into little carts
and drew it oat Into the bright sun
shine. The black, smiling stuff looked
at the men and said: .V '
" 'See those 'trees growing, there on
the mountain! .They look like bushes.
When we were trees we used to reach
ever 80 tch higher than they do. Oh,
""e everymuig is-xcept tne
uiiuui& xnai iooks just as It used
to. But we want to do some work
again.
"An ' .,
bousrht It TTo hrnrht . w i
it here on the cars for xa to burn In
our grate."
Then Tommy opened his eyes and
said: ' yf .- j - .
"Mamma, was it coal T : : -
And mamma said: -
"Yefc. And when turns red hot
it , is giving back the sunshine it
drank in so long, long ago, when it
was tall green trees." Youth's Com
panion. . ; .
Whistle Awa-r.
I Whistle away,- my merry boy,'
Wl? haJ?p7 face and heart ot Jy5 "
p y u to C? Btron
. , , t,a J.une when thulg8 wronv
Ani whi8tiing lightens it for you.
If e'er your task is hard to do.
Whether it be sowing the. seeds, : -Hoeing
the corn or pulling weeds.
Gathering fruit or raking hay, v "
Or driving cows, whistle away.
Whistle a tune if you cant simr.
And that should seem the next best thniff
That you can do; perhaps 'twill cheer
The hearts of some who chance to hear.
Better to whistle than to pout
And scold and fret, no one can doubt.
oo Keep a merry heart,' my- lad. - .
And thus make other people glad;
Do all the good you can each day.
And as you toil whistle away.
Toronto Truth.
Uncle Bob's Impoiiteaes.
' Uncle Bob How old is your dolL Nel
lie?, j
Nellie (aged fi) Why, Uncle Bob, I'm
surprised at you! :
Uncle Bob Why are yoa surprised,
dear? :
Nellie Because this Is" a lady doll,
and it's awfully rude of a man to ask a
lady's age.
The Dome tic Bervice Problem.'
"I wonder why it is," queried small
Tommy, "that-women are always' com
plaining about their hired girls
"Oh," replied his 6-year-old sister,
"they do it so other women will know
I they can afford to keep 'em." .
Tosamr Made a Dlattactloo.
Mamma You must not play with
those naughty boys, Tommy. They are
rough and rude.
Tommy All right, mamma. But you
don't mind if I fight them, do you?
Corker for Papa.
Papa Willie, don't you know it is
wrong to tell stories like that? I never
told stories when I was a little boy.
Willie When did you begin, papa?
' What He Meant.
Slight mistakes In speaking a for
eign language or in understanding it
when some one else speaks it are com
monly nothing more than amusing, but
a member of the Alpine Club mentions
following instance, which might
nav na serious results:
He was climbing one of the Alps
wltn a guide, who persisted in talking
bad English Instead of Indifferent
French. '
"J guide," he says, "had Just
crossed a snow bridge over a wide
crevasse, and turned to await me on
016 farther side. I asked him if it
was weak. He answered 'No strong.
"Naturally I attempted to walk
across It instead of crawling. I had
almo8t reached the other side when
010 bridge gave way, and, after a de-
Hrlous scramble to save myself, I sub-
sided helplessly into the crevasse.
- iiowever, i-aia not go far, and
w-en 1 natt crawled out, with snow
aown my iiecK ana np my arms and
m al my pocitets, 1 aiscovered that
chirrupa flght until one of them is
miri n fio-htino- ortobota
vahiable are often sold for large
Revised from Mother Goose.
There was an old magnate who lived
a stew
So wealthy that he didn't know what
to do.
He bought a few statues '
He dabbled in art
And soon he was back to his penniless
start. :
Baltimore American.
A Warm One.
Gerald It was a hot game.
Geraldine Naturally; it was .played
on a gridiron.
-J! i W
Rhadtnar the Stable.
Where It Is the custom to keep the
horses and cows In the stables at night.
- ana aiso ror a portion or tne day some
provision Should be made for shade as
weU aa tor keeping out flies. The; plan
shown In the illustration has the merit
of being simple as well as effectual.
Cover the opening with fine wire net
ting, placing it so that it will not inter
fere with the management of the glass
window from the inside. Then make
a frame with light strips of lumber, of
the form shown, and cover it with can
vas, or with a strip of unbleached mus
linr bracing it at either corner as
shown. This device Is readily made
and' will add greatly to the comfort
of - the animals in the . stable. The
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A STABLE PROTECTION.
same arrangement could be applied to
the window spaces of the poultry house
and in such a position it would not be
necessary to use the fine wire screen
for the wire netting of ordinary mesh
would keep out intruders.-.
. Illinois Apple Orchards.
Emerson Babcock gives Green's
Fruit Grower Information In regard to
orcharding in Illinois as follows: " An
apple orchard syndicate In Clay and
Richland Counties has sold the apples
of its orchards, .which aggregate three
hundred and twenty acres,-for $11,500.
This fruit is from young orchards just
coming' into bearing.' ' There are .one
hundred and twenty acres planted with
3,300 Jonathan apple trees. '"Jonathan
is ihighly prized for Its hardiness, pro
ductiveness and the fine quality of its
fruit. . The best apple orchards of Illi
nois are on the southern border, em
bracing seventy-five thousand acres of
apple orchards, mostly planted during
the past ten or twelve years.. This is
the first general crop from, these orch
ards. One thousand acres of apple
orchards may be seen near Flora, 111.,
and the trees there are heavily laden
with fine fruit this season. Ben Da
vis is the variety-.most largely grown.
The problem now-is to get enough la
borers to harvest the fruit from such a
vast acreage of apple orchards, and to
secure apple barf els for such big orch
ards. ; Three hundred and Hhirty car
loads of empty -apple barrels have re
cently been shipped into this locality,
and nine large evaporators have been
built near Flora, witih a capacity for
each of one hundred and fifty bush
els of fruit per day. A cold storage
house, with a capacity of 45,000 bar
rels of apples, has been built at Flora
this year.
Prr Brushlni Frnit.
The fruit -brusher is a comparative
newcomer except In California. The
necessity of clean, polished oranges
and the expense of brushing by hand
brought it into being there. . Now,
brushing, which - has already been a
habit with some packers, is becoming
more necessary on account of the wide
spread of white fly and other insects
causing smut. It is not only expensive,
but difficult, to get at short notice the
number of men necessary to hand
brush a car of oranges. With a brush
er, It. Is claimed, one man can do the
work of several. Florida Agricultur
ist. -
e Economical Pork Prod action.
Economical pork production Is based
largely on the selection of good breed
ing stock from year to year. This
must' be combined with intelligent
feeding. The most common error is
that of neglecting little pigs at time
of weaning. Pigs stunted at this time
of life never make profitable pork. One
should handle his hogs so as to have
them ready for market at from six to
eight months, weighing at this time
from 200 to 225 pounds. In spite of
the fact that corn is frequently de
nounced as a hog food, it cannot be
denied that it is the best and cheapest
food that is available on Western
farms. Green feed, such as rape, clo
ver and alfalfa, are not sufficiently
used as foods for growing hogs.. These
foods not only supply nutrients that
are highly important, but they serve
A raUIT BBU82IEB.
to gtre variety to the ration, a factor
that Is very important and one Jhat is
frequently, overlooked. . As one writer
puts it, squealing 'hogs are not profit-'
able hogs. Iowa Homestead. "
.K-,:.-:;i i- K 1
Value of Small Frelts. ,
Not all farmers seem to know the
value of small fruits- to a family when
grown Jn their own gardens. You com
mence with strawberries; they continue
about a month.. You pick perhaps from
six to twelve quarts a day. You have
thenr on the table, If you please,1 at
breakfast, dinner and teai and : you
want little else except bread and but
ter. In one way or another the family
consumes about eight quarts a day,
and while they last no medicines .for
bodily ailments' ire required, as a quart
of strawberries 'daily will generally dis
pel all ordinary diseases not perman
ently in the system.. : After strawber
ries come raspberries, and they last
about three, weeks. Then we have
blackberries, the cultivated . varieties.
Next currants ripen, and they remain
until early grapes mature. f So, taking
the season through any family with
half an acre of land in a garden can
grow small fruits that make country
life delightful and at the same time
save hundreds of dollars In table sup-
nome ana u arm. v - -' ,
" In Place of a Silo. .. '
Not every farmer has a stlo or a
corn shredding machine. They cost
too much for the man who has but two
or three cows, a But he can pick the
ears from his corn stover anil have
the grain ground, and the cob, too, if
he so wishes, then have the stover
well cured In the field, and when he
takes It to. the barn, have it cut Into
pieces not more than a half Inch long
and shorter if possible. Then moisten
It with warm water if such Is conven
ient to the cow stables and cover It
up to steam for twenty-four hours at
least before feeding. Put bn. each
cow's ration as much and such grain'
as her condition calls for, and If she
does not do as well as she would on
ensilage she will do better than on dry
corn stover. If obliged to wet it with
cold water, it will be better for stand
ing forty-eight hours, to germinate a
little heat by fermentation. American
Cultivator.
A Handy Folder Stack.
How best to- stack corn fodder " tn
keep 'and be handiest In getting' at
wrien reeamg is often a question given
much thought by the farmer. Thia
method possesses manv adv&ntam
that will recommend It above others:
Set two posts twelve or, sixteen feet
apart where you wish, the stack to be.
Across from one to the other, four and
a naif or -five feet fwim- in--immnfl -
spike a'iT"byT'sb"'the' fodder
against this with the butts on the
ground ami the smaller ends coming
together at the top. - There should be
a space of two or three feet at the Yfot-.
torn. This will give the rat, dog and
cat. an opportunity to keep the stack
clear of miw Thla af-asb- urlll Yum
the rain and snow of winter, will keep
dry and bright and when used will
not be opened to the weather, na nn
stalks are - left exposed by removing
the top. Farm Journal.
Iowa Horse Bales. - ?
At the big sale of range horses at
Sioux City good prices were obtained.
The top .figure was $00.50, which was
paid for a load of good, heavy, blocky
geldings and mares of all colors. The
draft horses ranged from $50 to $60, -general
purpose horses from $35 to
$45.50, yearlings and 2-year-olds from
$12.50 to $26, aud sucking colts from $6
to $11. National Stockman.""
Prevention of Frnit Rot.
As a precaution against the fruit rot
of peaches all mummified fruits should
be gathered and destroyed in the win
ter or early spring, and at picking" sea
son no decayed fruit .should be allowed
to remain on the trees or on the ground
in the orchard, but it should be gath
ered and burned as soon as noticed.
""- Farm Notes.
Skimmilk for hogs and the big profit
in it is all' the talk now; ,
Xhlo Is a clover growing State. It Is
also" becoming"" an alfalfa growing
State.
The market fer coarse flax fiber ,is
almost unlimited, according to a West
ern grower. ' ' ' r.
A recent circular of the United States
Department of Agriculture defines the
laws regulating interstate shipment of
birds and game.
The agricultural building of the St.
Louis world's -fair is reported as plan
ned to cover twenty-two acres and the
palace of horticulture seven and a .
half acres. .
The attendant' who enters the stable
to milk a cow with a pipe in bis mouth
is not the proper man to perform that
duty. Milking' should be regarded as
the cleanest and most important work
on a dairy farm, as milk not only ab
sorbs odors, but Is also quickly af
fected by any foreign substance.
Hundreds of horses are ruined every
year because they are not given water -t
when they require It. There may be '
regular, times for watering, but rules
cannot safely be made to govern the
duty. On warm days, when the horses
perspire freely, they give off from
their bodies large quantities of moist
ure, and should be watered often even :
If allowed but a small quantity at a
time.
The young animal pays more than "
the adult because it grows and in
creases rapidly; the younger the ani
mal the lower the cost of 'production.
A pig farrowed in early spring and
marketed late In the fall will give a ;
much larger profit thn will one kept
through the winter. There is also a j
great demand, with better prices, for '
a small carcass, a weight not exceed
ing 150 pounds being preferred to an
animal that Is heavier.