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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1922)
IN FATTENING TURKEY INCREASE SLOWLY EXTRA AMOUNT OF FEED « white heap o f bones remntned. fo r many and terrible (tail been the agents ox work upon them. The clothes, how- ever, particularly the ra>at, were prac tically Intact. Gripping himself, I>an thrust his fingers Into Its pockets, then Into the pockets of tho shirt and trous ers. A ll paper that would In any way serve to Identify the murdered man, or tell v hat his purpose had been PHASES OF POULTRY RAISING In Journeying down the trull the night o f the murder had been removed. Only Poultryman Can Rive Himself Tim * and Money by Applying to Gov one explanation presented Itself. ernment for Information. Cranston had come before him and searched the body himself. Dan looked about fo r tracks, and he ( P r * p t r « d by th * U alted S ts'sa D e p «r tm «a t o f A *r ic u ltu r « ) w as onslderably surprised to find the 1‘oultry raisers, whether engaging blurred, Indistinct Imprint o f a shoe In the business on a large scale or other than hts own. H e hadn't the owning only a small flock, will find It least hope that the tracks themselves to their interest to get in touch with would offer a clue to a detective. the United States Department o f A gri They were too dim fo r that. The sur culture when In doubt about the best prising fact was that since the mur methods to follow. der had been committed Immediately Visitors in Washington wishing to before the fall rains, the water had consult the department's poultry sjie- C H A P T E R IV.— Continued. springs o f motive that few men can not completely washed then, out. The cU IU U are lnvlteU to cu„ at thelr o f. only Possibility remaining was that fi(.e „ „ j ulso t# vlalt thelr see clearly enough within themselves „ . „ „ . „ i , ___ ___ Rut the terrible fangs were never to recognize. Even the first day. when Cranston had returned to the body mental farm. The work in poultry lo know her white flesh. Some one he lay burning from Ills wounds, he after the week's rainfall. The track feeding and breeding la conducted by anil come between. There was no worked out his own explanation In re had b«*en dimmed by the lighter rains the animal husbandry division and Wall-Fattened Turkeys Alwaye Command the Highest Prices. that had fallen since. He thance to shoot: Whlsperfoot anil the gard to the murder mystery. (P r e p a r e d bv t h « U n lt t d S t a t e « D e p a r tm e n t Rut yet It was entirely to be ex- up three times a duy during the week rtrl were too near together for that, hadn’t the slightest doubt but that o f A gricu ltu re.) before marketing. By the latter feed ftut one course rem ained; and there Cranston hnd killed Hildreth to pre pect«*d that the examination o f the Once upon a time every farm fam ing Is meant that they are fed until was not even time to count the coat. vent his testimony from reaching the body would be an afterthought on | ily had Its (lock o f turkeys, which sup they leave the fond and walk away. In this most terrible moment o f Pun courts below. O f course, any other Cranston's part. Possibly at first hla plied plenty of birds fo r the home Some turkey raisers feed wheat and only thought was to kill and, follow - j railing's life, there was not even an member o f the arson ring o f hillmen table and some for the tables o f those oats during the first o f the fattening lug the prompting that has sent so ' listunt’s hesitation, l ie did not know might have been the m urderer; yet who lived In the towns. Turkey rais season, gradually changing to corn as many murderers to the gallows, he Hint W hlsperfoot was wounded. He Dan was Inclined to believe that Cran- ing In recent years, howeser, has de the weather becomes cooler. Tlie ma had afterw ard returned to the scene »aw the beast creeping forward In the sten. the leader o f the gang, usually creased. one o f the main reasons for jority, however, begin feetllng heavily o f the crim e to destroy any clues he Weird dancing tight o f the fallen lan- preferred to do such dangerous work this decline being that as the popula on com ab«>ut November 1; and, since Sern. and he only knew Hint his flesh, as this himself. I f It were true, some might have left ami to search the j tion o f the country Increased farming body fo r any evidence against the turkeys are not accustomed to such lo t hers, must resist Its rending tal- where on that tree-«dad ridge clues became more Intensive and the area heavy feeding, scours often result, es arson ring. ins. Nothing else mattered. No oth- would be left. Moreover, It was wholly suitable fo r turkey raising was re pecially If new corn Is used. New Pan's next thought was to follow tr consideration could «tune between. possible that the written testimony duced. Turkeys require plenty of com enn be fed safely If the turkeys along the trail and find Cranston's 1 It was the test; and Hun's Instincts lllldr«>(h must have gathered had nev range In order to thrive. are gradually accustomed to It by prompted coolly and well. He leaped er been found or d«*stroyed. Dan ambush. O f course It would be In the I Many farmers, however, still «w i feeding lightly ut first and more lieav- with nit his strength. The cougar didn't want the aid o f the courts to direction o f the settlement from the J spier turkeys a profitable side line on lly afterward. body, as the bullet had entered from ! lounded Into his arms, not upon the find these clues. He wanted to work the farm, and about the first of Oc Lose Flesh When Penned. prone body of the girl. And she open- out the case himself. It resolved It the front. H e found It hnrd to believe 1 tober t>eg1n to consider how to put Confining turkeys during the fatten that Hildreth had fallen In the exact M her eyes to hear a curious thrash- self Into a simple matter o f v«‘ng«*ance: more fl«*sh on thelr turkey flock. log season to prevent thelr using ss tig In the pine needles, a strange grim Dan had his debt to pay. and he want spot where the body lay. Men Jour- | Feeding Turkey Flock. much energy In ranging has been tried neylng at night keep to the trail, and | la ttle that, as the lantern flushed out, ed to bring Cranston to ruin by hts During the summer ami early fall to some extent, but with very little the white h«>ap Itself was fully forty was hidden In the darkness. own hand alone. turkeys can find an abundance of suoc«‘ss, say poultry specialists o f thr An<l that battle, in the fur reaches Farm Where Uncle W hile It wns true that he took ra feet bock from the trail In the thick- j Experimental feed on the average farm. Grasshop United States Department o f Agricul * f the Divide, passed Into a legend. It Sam W ork* Out Problems for the ther more than the «-usual Interest ets. Perhaps Cranston had dragged It per* and other Insects, weeds and ture. Those confined to a pen eat was the tale o f how lain Falling, his that most citizens feel in the destruc there to hide It from the sight o f any Benefit of American Poultry Ra.eert. grass seeds, green vegetation, berries heartily for two or thr«>e days, but gun knocked from his hands as he tion o f the forest by wanton fire, and one who might pass along the lonely nnd grain picked up In the fields all after this they lose thelr appetite trail again; and it was a remote pos that relating to diseases by the path jie t the cougar's Irap, with his own had an actual sense o f duty to do all go to make up the turkey’s dally ra and liegln to lose fiesh rapidly. On m aided arms kept the life-giving that he could to stop the activities o f sibility that Whlsperfoot, coming In ological division o f the bureau o f unl- tion. When this natural feed Is plen allowing them free range again, they )rra th from the animal's lungs and the arson ring his motives, strippc> the night, had tugged It Into the thick tnnl industry. tiful. very little need he added until pick up rapidly and nre soon eating Many bulletins are available dealing tlll«*d him In the pine ne«*dles. Claw and bare, were really not utilitarian. ets fo r dreadful purpnsra o f his own. fattening time except for the purpose ns heartily as ever. The better meth with various phases o f poultry raising, and fang and the frenzy o f death He had no particular Interest In H il I.lkely the shot jvns fired when H il o f bringing the turkeys every night od Is to nllow them free range, as It any o f which may he hnd frae upon dreth was In an open place on the Could not matter nt all. dreth's case. He remembered him sim to roost and to keep them from stray keeps them In good, healthy condition, Thus Falling established before nil ply as one o f Cranston's disreputable tra il; and Dan searched fo r the am application to the division o f publi ing from home. For this purpose one nnd they are always eager to be fed. men his right to the name he bore. gang, a poacher and a fire hug him bush with this conclusion In mind. He cations, United States Department of feed o f grain every n'gbt Just before wnlke«l back, looking fo r a thicket | Agriculture. In addition to the regu Nuts o f various kinds are n natural And thus he paid one of his debts— self. When nil Is said and «lone, It lar bulletins there nre a number pre roosting time Is sufficient. from which such a spot woubl he vis fattening fe«‘d picked up by the tur life for a life, as the code o f the forest remained really a personal Issue be- ible. Sonudhlng over fifty yards down pared especially fo r boys’ and girls1 Fattening for Market. keys on the range. O f these b«*eoh- bus always decreed—and In the tire be found It; and he knew It by the clubs and for persons beginning tlie In fattening turkeys for the market nuts, chestnuts. j«e<-ans, and acorns are o f danger nnd pain his metal was empty brass rifle cartridge that lay poultry business without much knowl an exr*'llent plan Is to begin about Oc those most commonly found by them. tried ami proven. edge o f Its requirements. A list of half burled In the wet leaves. tober 1 to feed night and morning, Many turkey growers In Texas depend fa d in g only so much nt a time that solely upon acorns for fattening thelr The shell was o f the same caliber these may be had upt>n application to BOOK THREE the birds go away a little hungry, nnd turkeys, nnd when the mast Is plenti | ns Cranston’s rifle. Dan's hand shook the same division. At the department's experiment gradually Increasing the quantity un ful the birds are marketed in fairly | ns he put It In his pocket. The Payment. Encouraged by this amazing find, farm at Reltsvllle, Md., various ra til they are given all they will oU'an good condition. ho turned up the trail toward H il tions are being fed to liens to study C H A P T E R I. dreth’s eabln. It might he possible. thelr effect. For example, In one e x DEEP PLOWING IS BIG NEED 1 he thought, that Hildreth had left periment tlie hen balances her own T h e T.ennox home. In the wilderness ! some o f his testimony— perhaps such I ration; In another fish meal Is Includ Soils Are Getting Poorer, Producing * f the t*in|>< 1 1 1 n Divide, looked rnllier | rudely scrawled letters as Cranston ' ed; In another no wheat or wheat Less Per Acre, Thereby Cut Ilk«’ an emergency hospital for the first hud written hint— In some forgotten prmlucts nre used; while cottnn-srad ting Farmer’s Income. f«'w days nfter Dan's tight with Whla- drawer In his hut. It was hut a short | meal replaces a part o f the beef scrap perfoot. Its old sounds of laughter walk fo r Dan's hardened legs, and he j In another. Comparisons are also made One of Most Injurious Pests Is of the effect o f the same rations on Deep plowing is the greatest nrad la d talk were almost entirely larking. made It before mblafternoon. ! hens o f the egg hr«>eds as compared on ninny fnmis. It Is a fact that soils Two Injured men anil n girl recovering the Fly Weevil. The search Itself was wholly with I with those o f the general-purpose nre getting poorer, producing less per from a nervous collapse do not tend out result. Rut because be liad time acre and less In Ihe aggregate year toward cheer. to think ns he climbed the ridge, be breeds. Only simple rations of widely ! available feeds are used. Rut the natural sturdiness o f all It la Prim arily Plague of Wheat and nfter year and less profit per yenr on cause ns he strode along benenth that Hens In considerable numbers are many farms. Many o f our soils nre thre«* quickly came to their aid. O f wintry sky he had n chance to con- Com and It Particularly Harmful being trap-nested, nnd matings made tlretl and sick ; like thelr owners they rollrs»> I.ennot had been severely In- I elder every detail o f the case, he was In Southern States— Ruina to determine the possibilities o f differ are overworked, underfed, nnd under lured by the falling log, and many able to start out on a new tack when. Entire Crops. ent roetlnwls o f breeding In Increasing paid. The problem Is to get more from w«“eks would pass before be would be I Just before sunset, he returned to the or fixing egg production. Matings to the soil without greater expense. able to walk again, lie could sit up body. This new train o f thought hail ( P r « p a r « d by t h « U n lt « d St at e« Department fix certain types or characters de One way is to deepen the soil, let of A gri cu lt ur e. ) fo r short t>crlods, h ow ever; Imd the ns Its basis that Cranston's shot had sired In the flocks also are made. No The Insects are our most formid ting In air and moisture nnd permit partial use o f one arm ; and could pro | not been «Madly at once; lhat, wound birds are retalnwl In the flock which able rivals In the struggle for exist nature to make this sub-soil or under pel himself— a fter the first few weeks ed, H ildreth had him self crawled Into hnve a disqualification that would soil fertile. The roots o f plants ean- ence. —at a snail's pace through the rooms the thickets where W hlsperfoot hail bar them under the rules o f the Economic entomology does not deal n«>t penetrate de«*p enough umler the In a rude wheel chair that Kill's Ing«'- found him. And that meant that he American Standard o f Perfection. alone with Insects which attack fruits present conditions on many farms to Olllty hail contrived. The grent livid had to enlarge his search for such The resulta being obtained Indicate and growing crops. It must deni with get enough plant fond and sufficient »cratches that Dan Imre on his body documents ns Hildreth had < t u t I« m 1 to that It Is possible to combine utility Insects that affect grains and foods In moisture to yield a normal crop. What quickly began to h e a l; and before a Include nil the territory iietween the nnd standard breeding to n practical storage, that damage our clothing, that Is tlie remedy? Plow deeper. week was done he began to venture trail and the location o f the body. degree Any o f this Information Is kill our domestic animals ami, too, Deeper plowing should he done In forth on the hills again. Snowbird It was possibly a distance o f forty available for the persona requesting that carry disease to man himself, that the fall. Many soils should lie sub- had remained In bed for three days; Met. and getting down on his hands eat up our wooden buildings, and that solleil, others should he plowed draper then she had hopp«il out one bright and kn«*es, Dan looked fo r any break It, and the department Is «>ager to have It used widely. honeycomb our books and Implements. with ordinary breaking plows. What afternoon, swearing never to go hark A Strange, Grim Battle. In the shrubbery that would Indicate B o y»' and girls' poultry clubs have Into It again. Kvidently the crisp, fnll W e must light them all along the ever tlie method, (lie soil must be the path that the wounded Hildreth made deeper. Plow deeper. tween Dan and Cranston. And per- had taken. And It wns ten mlnut«*s a wide Influence In lnterastlng the line. • lr «if the mountains had been a nerve children In raising chickens, and In aonnl Issues arc frowned upon by law On* o f these Insect enemh's against l«>nl<* fo r them all. w«dl rewarded, ns fa r ns clearing up and society. Civilisation has toiled certain details o f the crime, n is teaching them ami thelr parents the which the bureau o f entomology has ERADICATION OF CORN SMUT O f course tber* had been medical been directing a fight. Is the nn- attention. A duel r ami a nurse had up from the darkness In a groat meas sens«»s hnd been trained and sharp best methods o f handling poultry for gouronls grain moth, populnrly known Fresh Manure Should Not Be Applied au>t«vre«l up the «lay a fter the accident; ure to g«’ t away from them. Rut hu ened by his months in the wilderness, the pro<1u«*tton o f eggs and meat. T lie department ts giving special at- In this eonntry as the fly weevil. It the physician hail set the horn's and man nature remains «listresslncly the and he was able to back track the and Rotation of Crops Should same, anil Pan’s ties fop *o pay his debt wounded man from the skeleton clenr tentb'n to Improving the quality o f Is primarily a pest o f wheat and corn depart is I. and the nurse remnint'il for Be Practiced. a w«vk, to woe the grlzzlt'd mountain was a distinctly human emotion. Some to the clearing on the trail whore he market eggs with n view to overcom In this country, hut affects all cereal »Trains. It Is particularly Injurious In eer s i II on the w ay o f convalesraneo. time a brood w ill live upon the earth had first fallen. Rut ns no clues pre ing losses estimated at many millions There are things to be done and These studies the Southern states, and does little thlnits not to be done to ramhnt suc Rut It was an anxious wait, and Len that ran get d e a r away from personal sented themselves, he started to turn o f dollars annually. cover the production o f eggs on the harm north o f «'entral New Jersey, ex cessfully the smut o f corn which has nox's car was kept constantly In readi vengeance— from that age-old code I home. cept to cereal* In storage. ness t«i speed her away In ease the o f the hilts that demands a blow damaged the big crop o f this year In H e walked twelve f«'et,' then turrit'll farm, and th«'lr handling from the farm to the country store. The p r o It Is second to the rice, or Mack, various parts o f the Northwest. •nows should start. At Inst she had for a blew and a life fo r a Ilf«'— but back. Out o f the corner o f his eye It (luctlon o f Infertile eggs, which are the time Is not yet. And after all, by weevil In Its capacity to damage left him In Snowbird's hands, and Rill sectne«! to him that lie had caught a Fresh manure should not he put on grain. Often entire crops of corn nnd ram ground; a mtatinn o f crops had driven her back to the settlements all th e standards o f men as men. not wheat are ruined. Wheat loses should he practiced. Spores germinate 1 1 1 his father's cn r. The ille was now a* n*n«l In hleallstle philosophies. «lead log beside the path that the fertile eggs. Is being advocated. through moth attack about 53 per cent best and multiply In fresh manure, east as t«* whtdlmr or ^ioiI Ban and linn’s ih‘t>t was entirely real. Ry the woundesl Hildreth hnd taken. For a o f weight. Corn loses from 12 to 24 says E. C. Stakman. plant disease spe the ramainder o f tl illy should i light helt1 high hy his ancestors, b«' moment he scan lieti In vain. Evident CURE COLD IN HEALTHY FOWL per rant. Rread made from affe-’ttHl cialist o f the University farm. St winter In the rnouritnln. The snow j coniti not turn his other che*'k. ly a yellow leaf ha I di'i'elmd him. grain Is worthless. The moth also eats Paul. clouds deepen*d vw . Ihe frost Jtl»t A* *<von ns be was able he 'vent Some other crop than ram Once more he retraced his steps, try Application of Three or Four Drops barley, oats. buckwheat, sorghum, should he planted on land »trowing wns ever hc.-iv l«C In lawns, and hack to the scene o f the murder. H«> ing to find the position irxtm which his of Coal Oil in N ostril» of Bird mllo. rice, beans, chit'kpens and raw- smntted ram this year. the road woul <1 Kill■ety remain o;>en 'Jldttt kn-ov- when the sn->w would eye had caught tin' glimpse o f white. I* Effective. peas. only a f«*\v dav romo to raver what evident** there Then h«' dived rtrnlght for the rotten < orn smut Is not poisonous, says Once im r r tlNo thr mlngly had 1 u;i*. If threatened every henr. Ev- end o f the Inc. A cold can !>e cured In a healthy | This Is mention«^! as an example o f Doctor Rfakrran; on the contrary, in avoidable insect pests which the Its early stages It Is edible for hu the D ivide ah to t ve*. Bert j cry win«! pn»mis«'«l It. The air was «TO nE C O NTIN U FT* ) fow l hy an appll<*at!on o f three or United States Department o f Agricul man beings. It may occur on any part •sorted his i *han» An< 1 raid, and no drop o f rain Cranston hnd f*Y ld**l four drops o f kerosene In the fo w l’s Valuable to Science. cabin and was w«»rk1Ing a t could fnll through It without crystal- nostrils. N ever get It In the eyes. | ture not «vnly tenches hut assists fann o f the ram plant above ground. It The n T lie telescope gives enlarged views Put enough permanganate o f potash | ers to avoid. the Umpqua Rhh* o snow. The deer had all ha* bran found that com smut spores In the case o f the nngumots moth, are killed In the silo. the little stall tl 11 dnmter o f fire gone «rid the burrow ing people ha«l o f distant objects, the microscope In the drinking water to color a bright j which works damage to stored grain l«a*t, and went dow n to tl «ought their botes. The bees w«>rkral shows only what Is almost in contact pink. This Is g'wnl for throat Infera j In the federal hull'll ng of one o f the no more in th«* winter flower*. O f with Its lens, and by giving a moans tlons o f all kinds ami w ill usually , In regions where Its propagation among »trowing crops ts prevent«'-l by ESSENTIALS IN PIGEON COOP Reran -e he was till the t rvater forest 'fea tu res only little cities be'low. o f making Intermediate observations • the short season*, the department Is worse than use lOH.K ||n the fleep snows 1 the wolv<»* an«l the h e ir remain*«!— tho modifications o f the Baron ml«?ro writing farmers to fight the pest sya- i Fresh Air, Dryness. Sunlight and that w ere sur*» to ('»m e. <i»ne o f the the forme•r because the.r fear o f men telescope have proven a Mv-n to the Space Enough to Keep Birds Com tem stlrally by such measures as early ranch hands thint hit d drivi•n up with 1 would no t permit then to go down naturalist. With great depth o f focus GOOD ROOSTS FOR CHICKENS fortable Are Urged. threshing, proper storage, nnd fumi to tho Uviver hills, an l the latter be Itili rode away to th e ralle ys the last I a l.-i rge d ' v e • he *'; • gation. It teaches them to take ad- I Points to B » Con» dered A r« Ease of o f the live atoe th > that I bin his kn«>wleIge that when fiM-us type, fo r example, has a work The prime essential* In pigeon vantage o f the weakness o f the ln«ec; honses are fresh air. dryness, sun food hot*«im* srarra 1 e could always Cleaning and to Prevent Lurking Ing distance o f 10 to 18 Inch«'*. an-1 bad ridden to St. ONI bird a defense. M fighting Its further spread. I , ft r gne« magnlflis 1". to Mimi r In Ihe mi Places fo r Mites. - I d r . tiv* Aa | Nothing had been In >nrd light. and spare enough to keep the It la <vn!y hy ranstant and Intelll- j pigeon nto hibernation Hildreth, who u»«'d to llv the Instable rubber-tipped rod serves as j — - • ' 'V - comfortable The location gent effort that mankind ran over- I should have good w n > r drainage and -Id bachelor he tt itch prefers to keep !.. vox . «r to s • -t . instn:- - nt at the Good roe«ts are ***• 'kens tra il to the marsh and N ram* the ravages o f Insects o f every I ust as late hour* as b n e car -a » long and hla daughter wood- red why Th ere ■Wired height for studying such ob- what a good bed Is to humans. About air etreulatlon In order that the floor kind which attack almost «very auh and yards may he dry. while It should w ere also certain nfilclala who had j as the rating places In the berry thick Jevt* as Insects, p ants and rocks. i h alf the fow l's time Is spent on the stance on which he depends for his j The cougars ha-I — ■ | moots. The point» to he considered begun to be curlons. As yet. I»an ets remain open be situated fo r convenlenra In man llvel'hno^ and comfort In this effort, Chief AMrrvrrt. \ In putting In the mosts are ease o f hnd told no one o f the grim find he all gone down with the deer, the m i agement. A sonthem or southeast«>m the public should take advantage of exposure Is best. The general prln gratory birds bad departed, and even A large proportion <vf our troubles cleaning, spacing from the back wall had m ade on his return from hunting the service* rendered by expert* of the squirrels were In hiding. ia caused by too much hone In the and from the floor and smoothness o< And he would have found It an ex clples o f construction which apply to •he bureau o f entomology and by oth j The scene didn’t offer m u «i In the head and not enough In the back.— Co- lumber to prevent lurking place« fur trem ely difficult fact to explain. poultry butldtnfrs apply also to pigeon -rperts o f the department way o f clues. O f the b«xly Itself oulj houses. lumbus (S. C.J R ecord mites. . U a ll went, bark to thoae Inn». Jb ét \ . ''L f? f \ TERM INSECTS MOST FORMIDABLE RIVALS O o
