B .A TW
could have reached the house, we nered. You're the best man we've goi
heard, coming toward ua, the footsteps on a chase. Don't hesitate to shoot
Come along, the rest of you!"
of a man running.
The three of ua shrank back Into
Together we rushed up the path
the shadows, tensely alert for what Ashton ahead and my chief and I Jusl
ever this unexpected development behind him. Hut. with all our haste
might meun. Hut as the approaching we ascended the steps and crossed th«
figure emerged Into the zone of light wooden veranda silently. The from
cut by the great gas lamps of our au door was not even latched. It swung EARLY HATCHING
tomobile, we saw that It was Mallory hack with a light push, and we were
DOMESTIC BULL
BEST FOR EGGS
himself, Mallory hurrying toward us Inside.
By
MOST DANGEROUS
In an agony of haste, beckoning fran
“ I ’ll go to the kitchen," Ashton
YORKE DAVIS
tically, his eyes blazing with excite said, “ and cover the back stairs, and
For several years the department
For correcting over-acidity, nor-
A big game hunter on returning
ment.
work up from tliere. You two, be of poultry husbandry at the New Jer
malizing digestion and quickly
We sprang forward to meet him
tween you, see that he doesn’t gel sey agricultural experiment station from Africa said that the most dan
“ He's there 1” he gasped. “ Wilkins, down the front stairs, aud search the has been hatching part of Its Leg- gerous animal In the world was not
relieving belching,gas,sourness,
hlmselfl He's tip In the study I There's rooms on each floor before you go any horn chicks about mid-February. This : the
, '8er;
" e f“ r™n
heartburn, nausea and other di
a light, and the blinds are down; hut higher.”
was done, first, as an experiment and
domestic bull. An Eastern farm
gestive disorders. Safe. Pleasant.
I saw Ida shadow on the blind."
Both of us nodded comprehending- in later years because It paid to do so , Journal for many months has been
As we drew nearer the gate, our iy, and he darted away. 1 stayed in
1
editorially
mentioning
fatal
experl-
N o r m o /ix « » Di g et t ion a n d ,
It was found that February hatch
W N U 8 s rv > <
pace slackened cautiously. Ashton was the hall, while the doctor searched ing of Leghorns for the following ences of farmers with bulls and In
Su.eetene the B reath
Copy r I f ht. i»S<
a little In advance of the rest of us, the downstairs rooms which made up early fall egg production lengthens nearly every Issue the name of some
and was the first to peer around the the front of the house.
the season o f Incubation by beginning farme: Is recorded who has lost his
O T A W A W W A W .W A W
mass of shrubbery, which screened the
In a minute or two my chief re It earlier, thus making better use of life through placing too much trust In
house from the view of the street, ex joined me In the hall.
CHAPTER X— Continued
“ He’s not Incubation and brooder equipment. It the herd sire.
cept at the one point where the gate here,” Ashton whispered. “ Come, let’s
There are few neighborhoods In
—18—
also makes use of more eggs for incu
B ell - an
Anri when we looked at her, even In made an opening. I saw him stop and go upstairs. We'll draw this floor next. bation purposes, which Is conceded to which one or more farmers have not
Hot water
been killed by bulls in the last 20
the dimly lighted luterlor of the atlffcn, and heard him catch hlg breath Just as we did the other. You, be better practice for poultrymen.
Sure Relief
years, and many hearing scars of at
limousine, her appearance wag differ with a gasp.
Phelps, guard the head of the front
The early hatched Leghorn cock
"That’s him,“ he wtyspered. “ We’ve stairs. I'll guard the back and the
tacks
which
through
some
miracle
did
ent, trro The difference wag as subtle
erels, most o f which are surplus, Sfe
not result In death, says a w riter In
ag It was unmistakable. What we saw got him.”
doctor can search the rooms."
ready for sale as broilers In early
The
next
moment
I
saw
It,
too—the
wag another—radically new pergonal
Carefully as he searched, we drew A pril when prices are at their best. the Michigan Farmer. It Is the gentle
silhouette upon the blind of a figure blank again.
ity. It wag ag If the partition wall!
These early broilers help to offset bull which usually becomes enraged
2 5 $ AND 7 5 $ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE
which had separated the personality In cap and ulster, bending studiously
"A ll right,” Ashton whispered. “ He’s lower prices which usually must be and attacks Its owner. A farmer who
of the stupidly respectable chamber forward over the desk, In the chair In still In the study, then. I t ’s qqeer we accepted fo r the same type of broil works around a docile bull for ninny
“ O V R L IN D Y ” Col. L i n d b e r g h ’« T le a u tifu l
maid from that of the untamed savage which Henry Morgan had sat when he don’t hear him, though."
ers that are hatched In April and are months may become careless and for- Q e lo -I’h o to w ith H is to r ic a l B io g r a p h y , 11x14
of the South seas were breaking met his death.
"Do you think he can have got out not ready for the market until June get the tremendous power of that an! In. 35 c e n ts e a c h d e liv e re d . O ne d o ll a r v a lu e .
S u ita b le f o r f r a m in g . W . K o e h le r. 160 P a r k
"Yes," 1 heard my chief say In a by one of the windows?" 1 questioned.
down; as If these two widely sundered
or thereabouts. In view of these ad mal which with the powerful head ami R ow , N ew Y o rk . A g e n ts w a n te d . S p e c ia l p rice«.
persons were merging Into one. Nell tier piercing whisper; “ yes, we’ve got Idin
“ Not with Mallory on the lookout vantages It Is believed that poultry- shoulders can easily crush a man In
Jane Perkin* nor Eunenna could have —unless, unless, In gome wuy, he's outside. I told him to shoot, and he men should make money on their Feb spite of every effort to fight back.
Uttered the word "murder" In Just tliut counted on making us think we had would. Come along! b'ollow me.”
A few months ngo we visited a
ruary-hatched surplus of Leghorn
him—when we hadn’t.”
accent of half apprehended horror.
The study door was dosed, hut we cockerels.
prominent Holstein breeder who en
“ Why do you think that?" Ashton could see the light shining out from
We were nearing our Journey's end.
tered the box stall of bis herd bull
The February-hatched pullets grow
Our road lay alongside the railroad demanded under hlg breulli.
with the animal on a stout metal staff
under It. Ashton flung open the door.
“ I t ’s—It's u little too obvious,” said Hut from that silent room there never almost to laying maturity before hot The bull charged the owner hut by
line, ami already we could see the one
Act quickly in a cold. I t may lead to
weather sets In, or nre nt least be
light In the Oak Ithlge station window. the doctor In uneasy hesitation. “ Why sume a sound.
placing the staff in the corner of the
grippe or flu. Break up a cold within,
yond the stage In which hot weather
There was no time to grapple with the should he court discovery In that way?
We waited a moment. Then, breath materially affects them. They are stall he was able to keep the animal
twenty-four hours. HILL’S will do itfr
new problem.
lessly and cautiously, we entered.
Combines the four great require
braced away until help arrived. It
usually
renily
to
lay
In
August
and
ments. Stops the cold in a
j
Then the chauffeur spoke to us
The room was empty.
lay well during that month, Septem proved the value of keeping the bull
day, checks the fever,
~
through the little speuking tube which
For a moment we stared blankly ber, and part of October anyway. on a staff when led.
opens the bowels, tones the
H l'r S
connected the chauffeur's seut with the
At the Michigan state college nnd
entire system. Get red box to- e * « « .
Into each other's faces. Then a grim, Eggs are worth money In that summer
day at any druggist, 30c,
OXOpS
Interior of the limousine:
full-mouthed laugh from the doctor period, and ns the older hens nre on farms where bulls have metal nnd
HILL’S
Cold»
“ There's a house on fire, up ahead
shattered the strained silence. He falling off In egg production at that concrete staffs nnd exercise yards
CsKSfl^^roroid^-^nniDe^^
there."
there are few fatalities. Hut herd
clutched Ashton's arm and pointed.
time
the
pullet
production
helps
mate
We all looked, and Instnntly saw a
bulls In pastures nnd ordinary barn
"Look I Look there!"
rially to balance the Income on the
sudden lurid light, which was piling
yards
are a constant menace. This
P A R K E R ’S
poultry
plant.
On the floor, beside the swivel chair,
up the sky; saw It pierced the next
Is true also when feeding them and
H A IR B A L S A M
half
under
the
desk,
was
a
great
These
early
pullets
nre
likely
to
Removes
Dandruff StopsHairFalllag
moment by angry orange-colored
cleaning their stalls. Every moment
Restore* C olor and
cuped-ulster and a hat, a bundle of molt In late fall, nnd the rest they get
flames.
one’s
attention
Is
taken
from
the
nnl-
B e au ty to G ra y and Faded H air
bed clothes, a holster and a small p il during that process w ill render them
6Of. and fl.no a t D ruggists.
“ lie's set fire to the house!” the doc
mnl there Is danger of being knocked
Hlscox Chem. W ks. P atchogue, W. Y.
low.
useful ns breeders In Ihe following
tor cried; and added, Into the speak
down nnd trampled. Farming Is a FLO RESTO N SH A M PO O —Ideal for use in
“ There!" cried the doctor; “ there spring, their first spring ns adults.
ing tube, “ Put on all the speed you
hazardous business If carelessness connection w ith Parker’s H air Balsam. Make« the
lies the shadow of our good friend The department suggests that about
hair «oft and fluffy. fiO cents by mail or a t drug
can I We’ve no time to waste I”
prevails in looking after the bull.
gist«. lliscox Chemical Works, Patchogue, N. £ .
Wilkins, but It looks as If his sub one-quarter of the Leghorn flocks
The chauffeur obeyed, and within
might he February hatched. The rest
stance hnd escaped us."
two minutes we were at the scene of
H a v e B u rb a n k T o p »
Silage Without Tramping
"Hut the thing moved," I cried— can come along In mid April.
the tire. The cold air of the winter
Heard on the street:
‘‘the shadow did, ut any rate—moved
night was already resonant with the
Is
Favored
by
Wisconsin
“ Who's that girl over there near
and disappeared.”
shouts of the firemen and the excited
Changing Feed to Hens
Make silos higher end do away with thnt automobile with a red hat on?"
The doctor stooped and lifted up the
exclamations of the crowd of half-
the silage— maybe that's
“ I don’t see no automobile with a
empty sleeve of the big ulster. There
Lowers Egg Production tramping
dressed citizens who hail gathered to
what we w ill be doing in a few years. red hat on.”
was
a
string
tied
around
the
sleeve,
render what assistance they could, and
Many poultry keepers become dis
A few years ngo a silo at the Uni
a string that led up through an satisfied with the way their hens are
to enjoy the spectacle at the same
versity of Wisconsin farm was filled
Conversation Is the mind's Image
empty stove-pipe hole and out In the laying nml Immediately, without try
time.
witihout tramping, and the silage kepi
corridor. We went out to see what ing to figure out flic cause, decide to
Mallory hnd already swung the door
in such good shape that since then all
the other end of it was attached to, change to a different kind of feed.
open and was half way out of the car,
have been filled in that way. One or
and
found
that
It
was
made
fast
to
I hey may be getting a fa ir egg pro more sections of distributer pipe nre
when an exclamation from the doctor
a
hell
wire,
In
such
a
way
as
not,
stopped him.
duction hut think they can get a much used nnd a man nt the top distributes
probably, to interfere with the ringing better one, and therefore they change
“ Hold on !’• he cried. “ This Isn't the
the silage.
the feed.
house. The Morgan house Is two The Three of Us Shrank Back Into the o f the hell.
The silage settles more If not
We
gazed
at
the
thing
curiously
Shadows.
There Is only one time when It Is tramped, but more silage can be run
blocks further on down the street.
and,
for
the
moment,
without
compre
safe to mak! a change In feed, that Is, in ns soon ns It settles—a common
Drive on!" he shouted to the chauf- Why should he he sitting there with
hending. Then the doctor hit upon a
eur. “ We mustn't waste a minute!”
Ids Rliiidow on the blind, when he solution, which we afterward found to a radical one nnd this Is In the spring practice even where tramping is prac
when all chickens. If they amount to ticed.
Mallory sprang hnck to his sent, and knows that half the town hug been
be the true one.
anything at all, w ill lay eggs. A
once more the car lurched forward. roused tiy this fire?"
In view of these facts, why not
It was simple. “ Like all great
The doctor held the door with one
Ashton started forward Impatient Ideas," said he. “ The first thing W il change nt this time w ill not have the build the silo n little higher and save
hand and leaned far out, scanning the ly. "This Is no time for theories,” he
serious effects that n change during the extra labor of tramping?
kins did was to make fast a string be the fall, winter or summer w ill have. ! Besides, engineering experts say It
road ahead with eager eyes.
muttered.
tween the gate and the old-fashioned
In the first place, choose a good | takes less power to fill a high silo
“ Drive slow,” he cautioned the
Hut the doctor laid a detaining hand
hell pull In the front doorway. In that
chauffeur.
upon Ids arm. "No," he said, “th a t’s a way he assured himself of getting a feed, one that has been tried nnd has than a low one, strange as that may
Then he turned and spoke to us In vulld queatlon. I f there's no trick
given good results. Then stick to this seem.
warning when your detectives re leed. If something goes wrong, look
side the car. “ Eve an Idea that wo shout It. the man can’t get away. If
Along with this goes the fact that
turned
from
the
tire.
It
wouldn't
al
better not drive right up to the house. there Is a trick. It’s success w ill de
to the way In which this feed Is being a great many silage cutters are being
low
him
much
leeway,
hut
he
undoubt
There s no need of giving any more pend upou our doing the very thing
fed. Don't make uny radical change, run too fast. By reducing the speed
edly calculated that It would be however, ns birds nre very susceptible somewhat, a Inrger pulley can he pul
warning than necessary of the fact that
thnl you propose to do—rushing abend
enough. When this house was in Ils to any such changes at this stage ot on nnd smaller engines or tractors
we’re coming. Look out ahead here. without slopping to think."
prime this third floor room served, no their lives. Such changes are apt to used to run the cutters. Lower speed
Phelps. Isn't that white gate half way
"Listen a minute,” said Ashton, still
doubt, as quarters for a servant, and It cause a molt with a consequent drop makes the machinery last longer.
down the next block the gate to the In a whisper, but speaking with fierce
was natural that one of the hells
Morgan yard?”
Fly wheel cutters less than 11 Inches
Impatience. “ He must have set tire to should ring up here. The thought of In egg production.
I peered out over his shoulder. that other house himself. He cannot
In diameter nre not economical. Bet
the dummy hud probaldy occurred to
“ Yes. I couldn't mistake that,” snld I. have thought of a better scheme for
ter results come from n medium sized
him In advance, and It was a good Providing Winter Dust
Why do so many, many babies ,
“ flood," said the doctor.
“ Stop drawing my men off the Job. Once
machine at comparatively slower
thought. His chance of escaping your
day escape all the little fre tfu l s
here."
speed.
Wilkins saw them oat of the house, he
Bath Quite Important
two men, when they returned, would
und Infantile aliments that use
We four men clambered out of the knew he hnd nothing to fear. He
During one of the periods of dry,
be vastly greater i f they should rush
worry mothers through the day,
car, the girl still fast usleep, still lean could make his search nt leisure. And
Into the house with no other Idea clear weather, a supply of dry. fine New York College Gives
keep them up half the night?
ing back against the cushions In the now lie's found the things he wants,
than that an Intruder was sitting In grained soil should be stored In a
I f you don t know the answer,
corner, undisturbed by the confusion has found that map that he’s been
Plans
for
Ventilation
Henry Morgan's study, lenning over place where It w ill neither get wet nor
of our dismounting from the car.
Carefully conducted studies made I haven't discovered pure, harmless
dreaming about for years, lies not
freeze severely during the colder
Henry Morguli s desk.
“ What shall we do with her?” I In thinking about bis shadow nor the
by the New York Stnte College of Ag torla. I t is sweet to the taste,
“ Hut the notion of connecting the months. Nothing has been fonnd that rlculture during two months of each | sweet In the little stomach. Am
quired. " I suppose she's safe enough blind It falls on."
dummy with the bell wire, and bal quite takes the place of a dust bath of the past five winters show thnt the gentle Influence seems felt all th r
where she Is She'll hardly wake up
To me It seemed that the doctor's
ancing It so that the slightest pull for hens. Of course, we can rid them walls nnd ceilings of dairy stables, as the tiny system. Not even a dist
until you tell her to. w ill she?"
question had been fa irly answered,
would cause It to move toward the of lice by treatment with sodium well as the lofts of dairy barns can ful dose of castor oil does so r
“ No. The sleep Is hypnotic,” snld and I moved forward, ns Mallory and
the doctor. "She'll he safe enough here Ashton dbl. My chief hesitated un In light, and then disappear, must have flouride, blue ointment or a cotnmer be kept dry by proper ventilation. It good.
been the Inspiration of the moment." cial louse powder, but these do not re
So far ns that goes."
Fletcher's Castorla Is purely y
stant, then gave a nod of assent
has been found, also, that ventilation
"Well, he's gone." snld Ashton, “ and place the enjoyment thnt a hen gets
tnble, so you may give It freely
“ It comes down Io this." said Ash
can
be
accomplished
with
less
mate
I
Mallory pulled open the gate. We
he's prohnhly got the map, though tf In dusting herself In a box of dust or rial, less labor, and at less cost than I first sign of colic; or constipation
ton “ I f Wilkins Is In the house, we all followed through It.
Then 1
you know where you left It. you'd bet mixture of dust nnd ashes. And the
sha’n't want the girl. She'd he In the glanced up once more at the lighted
diarrhea. Or those many times v
ehnnee to dust herself Is particularly was formerly supposed, according to ! you Just don't know what i , the
ter look amt see."
way, for If lie's cornered, he'll make a window blind.
A.
M.
Goodman
at
the
New
York
State
I
I pulled open the drawer where we enjoyed during the winter months. College of Agriculture at Ithuca, N. Y ter. For real sickness, call the
»tiff light. Hut If he's been to the
“ Look!" I cried. “ He's gone!”
hnd placed It, and glanced inside, line Thoroughly dry, well-pulverized dlrl
house aud done his work and already
tine glance was all they needed.
Most dairy barns need only one ■ tor, always. A t other times, a
got away, and we’re too late for him. The silhouette of that figure had dis glance was enough. The map was stored in a dry building In boxes or good chimney or out-take flue; few of [ drops of Fletcher's Castorla.
barrels
or
even
tings
w
ill
add
greatly
gone.
as I fancy we are, then we'll have to appeared.
them need more than two. The con I The doctor often tells you to do
"He can't have gone very far." snld to the comfort nnd contentment of the structlon of the chimney le the great f that; nnd always says Fletch
u«e the girl again to track him.
Ashton turned to Mallory and spoke
flock
throughout
the
winter.
There's no other way."
Ashton; "that's a safe surmise; an^l
so fast that the words trod on each
est expense of the whole Installation Other preparations may be Just
as long as we've got that girl to track
"Then the thing to do," said the doc- other's heels.
The part of these chimneys that goes ■ ?ure. Just as free from dangei
him with, w e ll get him yet. Come,
tor, "Is to make • reconnaissance. If
Cut Down Profits
from the floor of the mow to the eaves 1 drugs, but why experiment? Besl
“ You stuy outside," he commanded
there's no use loitering here.”
he's already been here and searched “ He may try the windows If he's cor
Overcrowding and lack of sanlta of the barn must he built while the I the book on care nnd feeding of ba
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I
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C
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the house for what he wanted and
tlon In a poultry house w ill cut down mows nre empty. The upper part of that comes with Fletcher s Castor!
gone away, that fact w ill be eaally ap
the profits In a short time regardless the chimneys and. In fact, all the rest i worth its weight In gold!
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parent, and. aa yon say. It's the first
of the quality of the stock. No matter of the system may be put In when the
thing to And out. Come, we've wasted
how gi-od the quality of your pullets loft Is full, he says.
G r e a t N o t A l l F r o m W o r l d ’s
P la c e s
time enough. The girl w ill be per
It w ill pay better to sell part of them
By building the upper part of the !
fectly sufe here "
rather than overcrowd the houses In out-take fine when the mows are fuil. |
Who
would
have
expected
that
Goli
"Hold on." snld Ashton.
"Why
Ing hnifalixed. because Its religious an attempt to keep them all over win no high climbing Is necessary and '
Should we all got We might defeat ath's antagonist would emerge from
life was demoralised. The church ter. Overcrowding pullets usually re practically no scaffolding Is needed,
the quiet pastures? “ Genius hatches
our purpose that way. Send Mallory
was asleep, and tlie devil was wide suits In slow growth nnd lack of but It should be remembered that part
He's worth all the rest ef ua put to her offspring In strange places.“ Very
awake I And forth from the humble weight In the flock and this means a of the out-take flues must be built tie j
gether at fences and locks, and that humble homes are the birthplaces of
rectory strode John Wesley, the ap high mortality rate and low egg pro fore hay Is put In the mows or while
sort of thing. He can find out In Ave mighty emancipations, once said the
pointed champion of the lx>rd, to en duct Ion.
Ihe mows are empty.
minutes whether that house has been late iHwtor Jowctt.
thuse, to purify, aud to sweeten the
Mitered or not, and he won't attract
There was a little farm at St. Ives,
life of the (teoplv
one twentieth part of the attention and tits farmer lived a quiet and un
Useful Cake Pans
On what qulel farm Is Ihe coming
Bam Space for Cow
that four of ua w ill."
senssttoaal life. Hut the affairs of
deliverer now latxrtug? Who knows?
For holding gravel, oyster shells
The cubic space allowance per cow
DR. STAFFORD S,
The doctor nodded.
— Exchange.
the nation I w h iiiv more and more
starch and charcoal, use tube caki Is not the most Important thing in a
Without nulling for any further confused and threatening Monarch!
(tans such as are sold at variety stores bam. I’roper ventilation Is of much
bidding. Mallory rushed off In the dark
cal p»wrr designed the people's llh
for
► i n,ore ,mP°rtance than the number of
R e v e a le d b y M icro tco p *
. baking
. angel
. . . food
. cakes.
u u Drive
.
ness. up the street toward the white ertles, and tyranny became rampant
It now is poawtbte to Identify any sharpened two-foot stake through th. cubic feet of air allowed n er
gale. The rest of us stood Just where
Knd out from the little farm atnxle
piece of timber however old. by shav center of the pan and Into the ground However. »«> to Min cnhlc
,C°7
we were, on the sidewalk twenty
• »liver Cromwell, the ordained of (••al.
mg off a slice of minute thickness and Then fill the pan and the fo w l, camo. space should he provided for . " a
paces or so from the automobile We
o emancipate his country
tip It over and bnt little In wasted n>w an(j in
. r each
studying It under the ml»rro«cope.
had uothlng to do bill wait for M»l
T h e re w as an nhaeure re c to ry at R p
The pan can he slipped off the s ta k . i ,
n g s ’yVem m S „ £ t m
lory'a return slid under such clrrum
Excavation of the ancient tl.»atet for cleaning and refilling I f you ar. The recommended c m w J £ tloll7 l
vortti T h e d o in g s in th e H ttie rec
at Corinth h?u» shown that t
stances time ss a rule drags heavllv
o ry w e ie lu s t th e q u i r t prN< t l« e s o f
irlxlng a tonic there 1« leea waste P nf outlet flues 1« w .
* 7 na Bre:’
i ',, ” 2 ™
,Bch« P*'
structures were gaily decorated w i.‘ It la riven In tb it w a j than b j mix
lin t long before we rxpectrd bis o
m p le hom es In •-»»«»»•
■ |»orts o f
lag
with
th
,
grain.
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