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sect whirr— all caused by a harsh, cut
ting crash at some near distance.
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A Political Vendetta
WELDON J. COBB
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C H A P T E R X X I I . — iContlnued.)
The clerk roused up as Hope appro«ofc-
ed his desk. H e stared strangely, curl*
oualy at the disordered visitor.
“ I have come here twenty miles on a
hurried order,” summarised Hope.
«
He took a folded bit o f paper from
hi* pocket.
"D o you know W arren?
Warren, of
the Vulcan On.?” he added, inquiringly.
“ W hy— yes,” admitted the clerk, stand
ing up and rubbing his eyes.
“ I)o you know his handwriting, also?*’
“ I think I do.”
“ There's a specimen o f it.”
“ Yes. ’ tis,” slowly and wooderingly
nodded the clerk, as he perused a scrawl
ordering “ the delivery to bearer” o f a
certain satchel in a certain closet in the,
house. “ Queer, to send for bis satchel
that’s been here so lon g! I ’ll get it for
you, though.”
“ Be speedy, then, and— careful.”
“ Kh !”
“ It might hold some o f his goods—
see?”
“ O h ! dynamite?
Yea, but he knows
enough to have it protected,” confident
ly retortM the clerk.
Gideon sank into a chair, pretty well
exhausted. H e felt a trifle grewsome as,
bearing a dust-covered satchel, the clerk
reappeared. His hand shook as he took
it. Strange thrills ran through his be
ing. A thousand death* lurked in the lit
tle innocent looking leather receptacle,
he well knew.
He breathed more freely as he again
reached the outer air. W ith the thought
fulness o f a true man he took the middle
o f the road, alooe anxious for the nonce
in getting the explosive far and quickly
from the proximity o f human beings.
eluded haunt where his pursuit by E lite ’s
allies had begun.
Apparently the animal had made fre
quent journeys between the two places,
and instead o f returning home, had come
hither, with Hope a -helpless
burden
across the saddle.
The truth, the fortune o f this climax
burst over the man’s soul with ardor. Not
only had he escaped his enemies, but he
had found C la ire !
Instantly weakness his injuries, his
confusion, were forgotten, obliterated. T o
that glorious (gee
marvelingly looking
down at him he raised his glance, full of
fervor and love.
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“ Claire— Miss T rem a in e!" he breathed,
and slipped from the saddle. As he did
so, unheeded the satchel o f dynamite
dropped from his shoulder to his feet.
But Hope noticed it not. fo r the moment
absorbed in contemplation o f the begin
ning and the end o f all the present mo
tives o f his life.
“ It is you ! It is y o u !” slowly, dubi
ously murmured Claire, an eager light in
her beautiful eyes, her pale face working
with intense emotion.
“ And you— a prisoner!” cried Hope,
rousing up.
“ Yes. for a long time. Since the night
I was taken away to marry the man you
bade me obey.”
“ W ho is in this house now?”
“ I, alone.” explained Claire. “ A wom
an has been in charge, but ahe went away
last evening, leaving me securely locked
in. She w ill soon return.”
“ Why did you not try to escape------ ”
began Hope.
“ Because they have' led me to believe
you desired that I remain here.”
“ W a it !”
Gideon Hope flashed from the spot.
Soon he was at the front door.
W ith
a great billet o f wood he dashed it from
place. Up a stairway he made advance,
and before his irresistible assaults door
after door gave way.
Pale, excited, apprehensive, the fair
captive was brought out into the garden.
“ Listen.” spoke Hope, all thought and
action ; “ You are trembling, weak, ex
cited. There is much to do. and no time
fo r immediate explanations. Let me lift
you to the saddle. Ride to the nearest
town, and aw ait my coming.”
“ But you?” faltered Claire, and there
waa no mistaking the tender light that
shone from her anxious eyes upon the
man she bad learned to obey so implicitly
and love so devotedly.
“ I will remain here for a time. I have
something to do*’ answered Hope seri
ously.
There was the dynamite to dispose of.
And then, too, he had resolved , to con
front Claire’s ja iler when she returned,
and force from her lips a confession that
would enable him to intelligently proceed
about a raid upon the inmates o f that
other isolated house which harbored the
Kanes and their infamous associates.
“ I w ill do as you say,” assented Clairs,
and moved toward the grazing horse.
“ But— w ait,” interrupted Hope again.
H e had brought her from the house with
out any Brad covering or wraps. Now
he explained and left her side momentar
ily. .
H e was not gone two minutes, and re
turning with the articles he had gone for,
he cleared the staircase four steps at m
time, as a shriek from the outside warned
him o f some peril or alarm on the part
o f Claire.
When he came around to the side o f the
house the horse had stampeded into an
adjoining field.
Upon the green sward
where Hope had left her was Claire, in a
dead faint.
N o other person was in view. W hat
had happened? Quickly Hope lifted her
bead in hia arms, and murmured his anx
iety and solicitude into her white, pulse
less face.
Thus several minutes went by, until at
length her eyes opened. She shrieked.
“ Where is he?” she cried, with a fright
ened start.
“ Whom?” inquired H ops quickly.
“ That m an!”
“ You mean?------ "
“ Kane.”
“ H e was h ere!” exclaimed Hope, in
absolute amazement.
“ Y e s !” she panted, looking a boat her,
ail in a tremble.
“ W hen?”
“ W hile yon were gone.”
She dung to
him hysterically. “ Oh, M r. H o p e !” she
cried, “ protect me from him if he comes
again------”
“ Do not fear for that,” assured Hope.
“ T o o are certain it was Kane?”
Flutteringly Claire related a singular
story. Hope had no sooner gone into the
house than Kane had appeared.
W ild
faced, his garments disordered, s broken
chain dangling from one wrist, he had
burst upon her appalled view.
H e bad sprung to her side, seised her
arm, in harried accents announced that
riie must at once accompany him in flight.
I t was his desire— Gideon Hope’s com
mand.
She bad struggled. H e sought to drag
her from the spot. Something he caught
from her incoherent words, that she dis
believed and disregarded him, that Hope
was even now in the house, that the
horse, the satchel, he had brought hither.
“ I called for help,” narrated Claire.
“ Suddenly Kane'a eyea flared
with
a
strange, eager light. H e sprang toward
the satchel, saying:
T h is is
Hope’s?
Then it contains the m oney! I f you will
not go with me, at lesat I have the fo r
tune.’ Then I fainted away.’
“ The dolt— the victim 1 That satchel
contains------”
Hops was interrupted. A flying horse
woman came up the road. I t was Elite.
“ You h ere!” she cried, facing Hope,
“ and you free 7” »be shouted at Claire.
C H A P T E R X X IV .
“ H as he been here?" she demanded.
T h is had happened: T h e hon e that
“ Your husband 7 aaid Hope.
had safely boras Gideon Hope to this
“ Yea— what Is th a t!”
leed nation belonged, aa ha
What, Indsed! A strange breath, as
to the stables o f the a
a t nature gasping, a flutter o f the leaves
C H A PTE R X X III.
A t the edge o f the silent town Gideon
Hope paused. What should he do with
the dynamite to insure its harmlessneas,
now that he had it?— that was the ques
tion.
H e recalled the explicit directions that
Warren had given him: T o sink it in
some unfrequented water course, and be
remembered he had crossed a bridge above
a winding little stretm, about a mile from
the town.
Tow ard it Hope bent his. course. He
had proceeded a distance when a doll
sound grew into momentarily augmenta
tive resonance and distinctness.
Klappetty klop— klappetty klop— klap-
petty klop!
* In the soft moonlight be observed ap
proaching tw o horsemen.
A n instant
suspicion assailed him. Suppose they were
allies of the mismated pair at the isolat
ed house, scouring the country for him?
“ I ’ll take no chances,” he decided quiet
ly— “ at least until the dynamite is dis
posed of.”
Ho he drew aside into some bushes
fringing the road. I t was well that be
did so. As the men passed him he was
positive he hud seen them in the garden
a t the private asylum— hired appendages
o f that nefarious institution.
As they rounded a curve in the road
out o f view. Gideon resumed his way.
About five minutes later, as he was
nearing the bridge, almost noiselessly a
man mounted on a horse emerged from
the thickets and nearly run him down.
H e brought his animal to a sharp halt
— he stared hard at Hope. Piece by piece
he seemed inspecting his clothing as if
identifying him from description.
Gideon stood his ground.
Soon he
started to move on.
C lick !
“ I want y o n !” spoke the horseman,
and he now held a revolver in his hand.
H e ran his horse fairly upon Hope,
leaned over, and aimed a blow at him
with the weapon. Gideon dodged. Then
be grappled with the form leaning toward
him. He felt a stinging pain in one shoul
der— the firearm bad exploded.
Bnt in wrath and strength he clang to
the fellow, dragged him from the stirrupa,
and giving him a mighty fling, sent his
head cracking across a mass o f bowlder».
The satchel he had carried strapped
across one shoulder.
A s the man lay
senseless. Hope started again for the riv
er. He staggered. The horse, well train
ed, had not moved away. As he began
to experience a strange diaaineae, Hope
palled himself into the saddle, hurried by
shouts around the bend in the road.
The two horsemen in advance had prob
ably heard the shout, and were harrying
back.
"U p — o n !” feebly ordered Gideon, but
In sheer weakness be almost fell across
the horse’s neck.
Then there seemed a lapse o f abeer in
sensibility.
Again his brain slightly
cleared, and he waa conscious o f being
borne at a plodding gait along a wildwood
bridle path.
The steed must have taken a course out
o f range of the regular road and the pur
suing horsemen. Day was breaking. Gid
eon knew that the ballet wound in his
■boulder was accountable for the great
weakness that made him even forgetful
o f the fateful burden o f dynamite that
be still carried.
H e lapsed into renewed unconsciousness
— again revived.
I t was broad daylight now.. The horse
was browsing in a sort o f garden. Near
by was a bouse. Hope straightened up
in the saddle, tried to rally his confused
faculties.
n e lifted his eyes toward the building.
A ll its windows were closely shuttered
bnt one. T h at waa on the second floor,
a ad barred.
There his glance waa riveted. W aa It
delirium, fancy? F or the roseate dawn
illumined a figure, wonder eyed, casing
4ew a at him.
C la ire!
Is Proving Good Poraps C rop for tho
Milk Cow.
Upon the topmost branch o f a lofty ela
a robin had built her ofat.
Ae day broke, she faced the aua, and
began, first, her faint, tw ittering note,
then a slow, low trill, and finally her
ful? burst o f glorious song.
A man dashing through the brush, hat-
leas, pale, yet eager, bearing a satnhel in
his hand, looked up and echoed the exult
ant note, and laughed gayly, triumphant
ly.
It waa Percy Kane. H e had escaped,
had been forced to abandon the thought
o f taking Claire away with him, but had
he not in the satchel the other half of
the severed bank notes? Y e a ! his folly
led him to believe.
H e was rich, and
the money was the main thing, after all.
As he hoped, planned, anticipated a
new future in some new field, thus equip
ped with a princely fortune, he grow half
wild with reckless delight.
He waved the satchel caressingly, he
plunged on. Soon he came to a break in
the landscape. F a ir valleys, a radiant,
fertile expanse, spread out— the world lay
all before h im !
“ The final hour!’ he exulted— “ and I
am the v ic to r !”
Yes, the hour had come— but not of
victory, o f doom, instead— the hour of
ripening dynam ite! Retribution and total
extinguishment!
H e knew no riiock or pain— simply a
flashing dissolution. The 'dynamite had
exploded, and he was blotted out.
One last act o f justice the woman,
Elita, performed ere with her unfortu
nate father, ahe disappeared from the
scene o f her recent endeavors, never to
be seen there again. She gave to Gideon
Hope some secret papers o f her dead hus
band, proving^ his connection with the
murder o f Everett Hope, and the base
swindles
that
had
been
perpetrated
against A lbert Tremaine, thus insuring a
return o f a portion o f his loat fortune.
Warren, o f the Vulcan Co., was re
leased from the asylum. Hope saw to it
that Kane’s accomplices were punished.
Fate had been more powerful in bring
ing about the unmasking and destruction
o f the guilty than his own fondly cher
ished plana, but the recompense was of
justice, and he was content.
T o his country, to bis political aspira
tions, he bade a final adieu.
H e had love now to live for— love that
had never faltered, though well nigh sac
rificed— and, away from the scenes where
its first inception had been harah and
painful, and might prove haunting, he
and Claire sought mutual forgetfulness
o f the past and unalloyed joy for the
future.
(T h e End.)
TEACHING BY MOVING PICTURES.
S ir s le a l
O p e r a t io n »
and
N ervou s
D is e a s e s B e f o r e t h e C a m e r a .
One o f the new uses to which mov
Ing pictures are put Is teaching, and
at least one bouse dealing In flints pub
lishes a list o f some hundreds intended
tor classroom use, says the New York
Sun.
Most peculiar o f all are the pictures
o f operations Intended fo r display In
hospitals and medical college«. In fact.
It la explicitly stated that medical and
surgical films are restricted to exhibi
tion before such institutions and can
not be leased except under strict guar
antees that their use w ill be so limited.
Perhaps, however, the general public
would not care to alt through a vaude
ville show and at the end as the house
was darkened read in letters o f light
upon the screen: “ Rem oval o f a m yx
omatous tumor o f the thigh.” or “ E x tir
pation o f
a bilateral exopthalmle
goitre.”
The catalogue, which describes these
films ami which promises many more
than are contained in the issue for this
year, describes them in great detail.
One series consists o f half a dozen oper
ations all o f the same general nature,
the “ Extirpation of encapsuled tumor*,”
and In all more than one-fifth o f a mile
o f film Is needed.
Surgery Is not alone In being thus
Illustrated. Medicine has Its pictures,
more particularly to Illustrate the dis
eases In which there is a characteristic
walk. Various forms o f paralysis
where the diagnosis is dependent on the
gait are shown in detail. The pictures
o f such a disease as paralysis agltxns
show the characteristic rigidity o f the
body when the sufferer is walking and
o f the face muscles when talking.
An unusual series illustrates the e f
fect o f beri beri on the natives o f
Borneo.
Moving pictures also have their use
In solving problems o f agriculture'aod
public health. The dealers In films an
nounce that by a process which they
describe as mlcro-klnematography they
can show the typhoid bacilli magnified
850 diameters In all stages o f growth
and movement. Sim ilarly the circula
tion o f blood In the web o f a frog’s foot
Is shown and the movement o f the
cblorophyl or green coloring bodies in
the leaf.
The possibility o f teaching geography
In this w ay Is easily understood and
the motion pictures camera has Invaded
most parts o f the civilized world. Even
the religious field Is not neglected and
the attention o f Sunday schools and
missionary societies Is called to such
subjects as “ open air Bible class In
India,” conducted by native evangelists
or “ outcasts o f In d ia ; Procession of
men, women and children who have
embraced the Christian religion.”
Zoology offers a list o f subjects that
ought to charm any child Into forget
ting that he Is learning. The subjects
range from polar bear fishing to camels
crossing the desert. Very many o f these
pictures have been made In the famous
wild animal park o f Carl Hagenheck
near Hamburg.
O f the microscopic picture some #00
feet is devoted to the one subject a t
“ life In a w ater butt,” with a cheerful
collection o f views o f such creatures as
megatherium bacilli and param ecin *
og a «w arm o f water fleas.
A L F A L F A FOR O R E G O N .
By Ja
i Drydsn. Orason Agricultural Collassi
Corvallis.
There is a great deal of milk in the
ground that waa not spilled and cried
over, but it iff there nevertheless.
At
certain seaaona o f the year the Thous
W e e «.
and-Headed kale pulls ths milk out o f
It haa been found by Government mother earth and the cow pulls it put
experts that the polaonoua action o f the of the kale and puts it in the bucket.
loco weed la due to barium. Investiga There is a period, however, during the
tions have been In progress fo r the past summer when the cows go hungry and
A t t s s l th s I n s t í l a t e » .
few years to determine the cause o f the milk languishes in the ground be
Th e farmera’ institute season la at this condition o f range stock, which
cause there ia no green thing to pull it
hand. Now, Mr. Farmer, these meet has come to be known aa "locoed.” The
out and coax the cow to fill the milk
ings are fo r you. They are held for the reason the weed Is so poisonous In some
bucket.
purpose o f bringing you and your neigh sections and not In others Is that on
Western Oregbn ia one o f the beet
bors together to discuss the fundamen
some soils It contains no barium. The dairy sections of the union. W ith mild
tal principles and facta concerning your
Bureau o f Plant Industry, in a recent open winters in which kale flourishes
great business. State speakers w ill be
bulletin, says that It is possible to kill and furnishes green succulent food, the’
on hand to Instruct and lead tbs dis
out the weeds I f the pastures art- dairy business thrives all ths year
cussions, but you must be there to get
fenced, aa the weeds grow in patch >s. around with the exception o f a short
any benefit from the meetings. It Is
During
There Is no feasible way o f ridding period during the summer.
your duty to yourself and your neigh
this period the land is out o f commis
rauges o f the weeds, however.
bors to attend and take part In the
I t was found that locoed cattle can sion, the cows barely subsist on ths
farmera’ Institute when It la held In
In most cases be cured by a course o f pasture fields and there ia no profit to
your county or township. Do not go
the farther. Forty-cent butter and a
treatment
with
strychnine, while
in a critical mood, but go with a desire
scarcity of good frpsh milk ia the evi
locoed horses can generally be cured by
to learn more about farm ing and If you
dence of a lack o f green food.
have some problem that Is w orrying a course o f treatment with Fow ler’a
W hat is needed in the valley ia a for
solutions.
The
anlmala
under
treat
you. tell about It aDd may be someone
age crop that w ill utilise the aoil and
can help yon o u t Perhaps your experi ment must not be allowed to eat the furnish green food and pasture during
ences w ill be o f direct value to some loco weed and should be given only the dry season. W ill a lfa lfa fill tha
other man who la having a hard time. nutrloua food, but aa fa r aa possible bill? I f alfalfa could be raised exten
Th e fanners’ Institutes were estab food with laxative properties. T o thla sively and succeaafully it would change
lished fo r the same purpose as our ag end magnesium sulphate was adminis the face of nature and add immensely
ricultural colleges and experiment sta tered to correct the constipation, which to the value o f the farms in the W il
tions ; fo r the purpose o f furthering the Is almost universal among locoed ani lamette valley. It would increase the
cause o f agricultural education;
o f mals. I t should be noted, too, that dairy products and the poultry pro
helping the man on the farm better un magnesium sulphate may serve to aon^ ducts ; it would cheapen the production
o f pork and beef and mutton.
derstand his business and thereby make extent as an antidote to the poison.
A lfa lfa has been grown for two
greater success. Th e State speakers
thousands years in the Mediterranean
are all thoroughly practical men and
D lv p la s F o w ls (o s M o o .
region. It has been grown successful
women who have had experience In
T o treat a number o f fow ls lndlvlh
what they talk about and are w illing oally w ith louse powder Is a tedious, ly in arid parts o f America for half a
to give help and Information whenever unpleasant task. An easier and equally century. A gentleman traveling over
what was then regarded as a land unfit
they can. But the success o f any farm successful plan Is to dip the fow ls In
for settlement in Western Nebraska by
ers’ Institute meeting w ill depend upon a reliable brand o f sheep dip.
reason o f ita aridity discovered a thrif
the farm ers themselves whether they
Hold the fow ls by the legs, beads ty green alfalfa plant growing where
w ill attend and take part In the pro down, w ith one band supporting their
no other green thing could be found for
grams. Enthusiasm Is generally mark heads. L et the solution cover every miles around. That waa a demonstra
ed by numbers and when an enthusi part o f the body from the toes up, ex tion that satisfied the gentleman and
astic body o f men get together, there cept the head and eyes o f the hen. Re he purchased a large tract o f land for
Is sure to be some good come o f i t
serve this part until last, as tbs bens a trifle. On the same land he has since
fa rm e r’s Guide.
gasp and struggle when their heads go fed fifty thousand sheep in one season
under, ^iull the fow ls to and fro sev on alfalfa. A lfa lfa goes down into the
T k s S o -C a lle d “ A l a s k a ” W h e a l .
eral times In the tub, which Insures the depths of the soil- for moisture and
Th e Bureau o f Plant Industry has
solution percolating through the feath through wireless communication with
prepared the follow ing statement In
ers and reaching all sections o f the the atmosphere brings down from above
anticipation o f Inquiries concerning
food which fdeds the plant and enriches
body.
“ Alaska” w h ea t:
the soil.
Keep each fow l In the solution not
A variety o f wheat under the name
Since 1891 the acreage o f a lfa lfa in
less than one full minute, and tw o min
Kansas has increased from 84,888 to
o f “ Alaska” Is being w idely advertised
utes Is often better. Dipping should be
615,000 in 1906. «- A recent bulletin
as capable o f yielding at the .rats o f
performed only on warm, clear days so from that state says o f a lfa lfa : “ The
200 bushels to the acre ‘under ordinary
the fow ls can afterw ards dry them steer feeders and mutton feeders of
soli conditions” and even better “ under
selves In the sun and w ill not catch Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska would
extra conditions.”
I t ,1s stated that
colds.— Agricultural Epttomlst
be lost without it.”
this variety waa found growing w ild In
A t the Kansas station it is stated:
Alaska, and claims o f the most ex
“ A gain of 800 pounds o f pork was
G r a ft a n « S to ck .
travagant nature are made fo r I t
In
The question o f the Influence o f the made from a ton o f alfalfa, and a little
consequence o f this notoriety the de
stock
on the gra ft and vice versa has less than that amount of gain waa
partment is receiving many requests for
been much discussed. Th e experiments made from an acre o f alfalfa pasture.”
seed.
Again, “ W e found that 100 pounds o f
This type o f wheet has been known recorded by M. L. Gulgnard In the
alfalfa hay saved 96 pounds o f eorn.”
for many years both In this country and Comptes Hendus were made with a
Figuring on the basis of these experi
in Europe. It has been tried at several view o f discovering whether there Is
ments it is stated that “ with green al
state experiment stations In the west any migration o f chemical substances fa lfa producing ten tona per acre (20,-
ern part o f the United States during from the one to the other. Plants rich 000 pounds) it would produce 2,000
the past fifteen years, but nowhere have In compounds o f hydrocynntc acid were pounds o f pork, which, at 4 cents per
the yields been high enough to merit chosen, as this Is easy to detect It was pound would be worth $80 per acre.”
attention. Th e wheat has been grown found that when s plant containing a
Director Burkett, ,of the Kansas sta
to a very limited extent on certain hydrocyanic glncoalde la grafted on one tion, says: “ By promoting the suc
heavy undralned soils In Francs fo r destitute o f I t or lnveroed, there Is no cessful production o f alfalfa tha sta
many years.
In such locations It la passage o f this substance from the one tion haa not only extended the domin
said to-yield rather better than ordin to the other. Th e general conclusion ion o f an imperial forage crop, but in
ary wheat, but as It Is one o f ths pocr- seems to be that gra ft ! ng la a sort o f so doing has discharged its own entire
est wheats known fo r making flour. It artificial symbiosis In which each spe expense, and in addition haa added mil
Is never grown where ordinary varieties cies retains its Individuality.
lions of dollars to the wealth o f the
state.”
■*f wheat w ill thrive.
A t the Ontario agricultural college
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U m i ■ Cart-All.
in ten y e a n 80 cuttings, yielding over
H o a t n s l e F e e d C o lte r .
A great many have bad an idea that
An old lawn mower can be arranged pasteurization was going to solve all 5 tons an acre, were made. An exper
iment showed this great soil enrich
to make a fa irly satisfactory straw or
o f the difficulties regarding our milk ing qualities. Wheat grown after al
feed cutter. One must rig up a hopper, supply, but after a clone study o f the
falfa yielded 61.6 bushels per acre and
matter we believe that It is often used after timothy sod 42.1 bushels. In the
aa a cure-all fo r milk and cream that two succeeding years the alfalfa sod
Is not fit for human consumption. It produced 80.2 bushels of barley and 24
has been proven that the pasteuriza bushels of corn, while the timothy sod
tion given In the usual commercial way produced 19.7 bushels barley and 17.9
kills only the lactic acid germs which bushels corn. The three crops on the
nature placed In the milk ks a pro alfalfa aod were worth about $90 while
tection, while the pathological germs those on the timothy sod were worth
which are the real menace to health are about $69.
A t the Oregon Agricultural college
left in an alkaline Instead o f an arid
alfalfa
has been growing successfully
medium all ready to multiply when
WOBK1NO T i l l LAW N MOWES.
for several yean, and tests are being
other conditions' are favorable.
made by the agronomists with different
as shown In the sketch, and attach the
varieties to determine which w ill suit
B r r a k l a * a C olt.
mower to the lower end o f It so that
the conditions best in this state.
The
Every farm er’s boy should break a station men are glad at all times to
the straw or grain w ill just strike the
knives where the grass usually comes colt to ride and drive before be can answer questions in regard to its culti
Into the mower. A crank and a belt call bis education complete. It w ill be vation.
A few miles from Corvallis Mr. W .
arrangement makes It easy for one man an experience tbnt the boy w ill be
to feed and turn the the cutter. This proud o f and fvhlch will do him much H . Hamlin cut this year 200 tons o f al
Three things must be tsught fa lfa hay. It y ¡tided about 2 % tons
Is a good use fo r a lawn mower In the good.
Before
winter time when It Is not working every colt to make It useful. They are to the acre in two cuttings.
courage, obedience and good workman seeding to alfalfa the land had been
outdoors.— Farm and Home.
In fourteen years
ship. The first Is necessary to prevent “ cropped out.”
horses becoming frightened at animus) fourteen grain crops had been taken
K m | I » s M ilk S w e et.
things; the second Is required In order from the land, and Mr. Hamlin ex
In some o f the milk studies made at that it may be o f good service, and in plains that on richer land the yield ia
the New York Agricultural Experiment the third case the horse’s value depends much heavier.
He further explains
Station (G en eva ), It was observed that upon the neatness and consistency with that the oldest stand yields the best,
carbonic acid gas In the milk tended which It performs Its work.— Field and showing that it takes several years on
certain classes o f soil for the alfalfa to
to prevent ita souring.. This seemed Farm.
make a good growth.
w orthy o f further Investigation and a
It looks as though an alfalfa cam
series o f tests was conducted In which
G o o « F o a m W l r a S p IIe e r .
paign would be worth millions to this
the gas was combined with the milk
There are not many people who know state.
under varying pressures, using the
how to make a good neat wire splice.
ordinary soda w ater charges and seal
Q. What is meant b y “ 50 per cent,’ 1
ing the bottles to retain the gas and
“ 40 per cent,” and so on, dynamite?
exclude the air. W ith the higher
A. The percentage given refers to ths
pressures o f gas, souring o f the milk
amount o f nitroglycerin in the powder.
was delayed Indefinitely; as bottles
For instance, a 40-per cent dynamite it
charged under pressure o f 175 pounds
■oppoeed to contain 40 per cent o f nitro
glycerin and 60 par eent o f “ dope.” —
to the Inch remained sweet fo r five
F. S. Thomson, Washington Stats Col*
months. Th e milk thus treated makes
lege, Pullman
an agreeable drink, and It la believed
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In ths picture figure A shows ths first
that tbs process w ill be valuable fo r
A P ro p o s a l.
movement and figure B the ends after
preserving milk fo r use on sea going
they have finally been secured.
“Tea," he sakl, “I ’m In love."
vessels. In hospitals, and elsewhere.
“H u h !" ahe replied scornfully.
“I
Full details o f the tests are given In
wouldn’t cars to be you.”
, T a la # o f a Cow.
Bulletin No. 292 o f the station, which
“And I wouldn’t like yon to be. I ’d
A Denver dealer In dairy cow s piacM
may be obtained on application.
ths valuation o f an animal by fixing rather yon were mins.’’— Philadelphia
ths pries at ths rate o f f 12 a gallon of
F r a trie M a r a s f C era.
Aa thè reeult of soma ex peri menta milk given dally rich enough to ahow
Mrs. Hoyla— I ’ve found out w here
In fattentng cetile, It was ahown that S ft per cent o f f a t T o thla price he my husband spends his evenings. Mrs.
when pralrle bay waa fed wlth eorn adds or subtracts |i fo r every one- D oyle— W here? Mrs. Hoyla— A t home.
a Iona It gavs amali,
unaatlafactory fourth o f on# per cen t By this rule a Yon ass, I had to stay In m yself last
cow Is bought entirely on ber merita.
geins and vary little prode
n igh t— Harper’s Wsekly.
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