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SYNOPSIS.
Cowboys of the Flying Heart ranch are
heartbroken over the I-ish of their much-
prized phonograph by the defeat of their
champion In a foot-race with the cook of
the Centipede ranch. A house party Is
on at the Plying Heart J. Walllngford
Speed, cheer leader at Yale, and Culv
Induce Covington, her lover, to win back
the phonograph. Helen declares that If
Covington won't run. Speed will. The
cowboys are hilarious over the prospect.
Speed and his valet, Larry lllass. trainer
at Yale, arrive. Helen Blake asks Speed,
who has posed to her as an athlete to
race against the Centipede man The
cowboys Join In the appeal to Wally. and
fearing that Helen will And him out. he
consents. He insist, however, that he
Khali be entered as an unknown, figuring
that Covington will arrive In time to take
his place. Fresno, glee club singer from
Stanford university and in love with
Helen, tries to discredit Speed with the
ladies and the cowboys Speed and Glass
put in the time they are supposed to l*
training playing cards In a secluded spot.
The cowboys tell Glass It Is up to him to
see that Spend wins the race. NVIIlle. the
gunman, declares the trainer will go back
east packed In Ice. if Speed fails. A tele-
gram comes from Covington saying he Is
In Jail at Omah.-i for ten days. Glass In
a panl<* forces to hepMn training In
earnest The cowboys force Speed to cat
In the training quarters and prepare him
a diet of very rare meat. Miss Blake
bakes a cake for Speed and Is offended
when Larry refuses to allow him to eat
It. Covington arrives on crutches, lie
says he broke his toe In Omaha. Mrs
Heap, engaged to Covington and In love
with Jack Chapln. exposes Speed to
Helen, because Speed had failed to pre-
vent Covington from Joining the party.
Speed decides to cripple himself, but
Skinner, the Centipede runner, appears
with a proposition to throw the race.
CHAPTER XV.—Continued.
"Say, what Ib all this full about?
I don't want to be smuggled any-
where, thank you!"
"I may not be able to square my
men," Chapin reiterated. "It may have
gone too far."
"Square! Square! Why should you
do any squaring? I'm not going to
run away." Miss'Blake clasped her
hands and breathed a sigh. "I've got
to stay here and run a foot-race to-
morrow."
"Don't be a fool, Wally!" Coving-
ton added his voice to the others.
Speed whirled angrily. "I don't
need your advice—convict!" The
champion hobbled instantly out of
range. "I know what I'm doing. I'm
going to run to-morrow, and I stand a
good chance to win."
Mr. Fresno, if he had been a girl,
■would have been said to have giggled.
"All right. Dearie! I'll bet you live
hundred dollars—" as there emerged
from the darkness, whence they had
approached unseen, Stover, and be-
hind him the other men.
"Evenin'! What's all the excite-
ment?" greeted the leader, softly.
The master of the ranch stepped
forward
"See here, Bill, I'm sorry, but I
won't stand for this foot-race."
"Why not?" queried the foreman
"I just won't, that's all. You'll have
to call it off."
"I'm sorry, too."
"You refuse?" . The owner spoke
ominously.
"You bet he does!" Willie pushed
himself forward. "This foot-race is
ordained, and it comes off on time I
make bold to inquire if you're t&lkln'
for our runner?"
"Gentlemen, I can only say to you
that for myself I want to run!" de-
clared Speed.
"Then you'll run."
"I refuse to allow It," Chapin de-
clared, and instantly there was an
angry murmur; but before it could
take definite shape, Speed spoke up
with equal decisiveness.
"You can't refuse to let me run,
Jack. There are reasons"—he searched
Miss Blake's countenance—"why I
must run—and win. And win I shall!"
Turning, he stalked away into the
darkness, and* there followed him a
shout of approbation from the ranch
men.
Jack Chapin threw up his hands.
"I've done my best."
"The man's mad!" cried Covington,
but Fresno was nearer the truth.
"Nothing of the sort." he remarked,
and struck a match; "he's bluffing!"
As for Helen Blake, she shook her
fair head and smiled into th6 night.
"You are all wrong," she said. "I
know!"
CHAPTER XVI,
p r II HE day of the race dawned
® bright and fair, without a
cloud to mar its splendor.
As the golden morning
wore on, a gradual excite-
ment became apparent
among the cowboys, in-
creasing as the hours
passed, and as they pre-
pared with Joy to invade their rival's
territory; nevertheless, the vigilant
watch upon their champion did not
relax.
It was some time after midnight
that Lawrence Glass had been the
cause of a wild alarm that brought
the denizens of the ranch out in night
apparel. Jack Chapin, awakened by a
cry for help, had found him in the
tomr'I of Carara and Cloudy, who had
been doing night duty In accordance
with Stover's orders. What with the
trainer's loud complaints, the excited
words of his captors, and the confu-
sion resulting when the bunk-house
emptied itself of men half clad, It had
taken the ranch-owner some time to
discover that Glass had been Bur-
prised in the act of escaping. It
seemed that the sentries, seeing a fig-
ure skulking past the white adobe
walls of the house, had called upon It
to halt. There had been a dash for
liberty, then a furious struggle before
the intruder's Identity became clear,
and but for Chapin's prompt urrival
upon the scene violence would Inev-
itably have resulted.
"I tell you. I'm walkln' in my sleep,"
declared Glass for the twentieth time.
"Caramba! You try for get away,"
stormed the Mexican. "Fig!"
"Not a bit like it! I've been a son-
nambulisl ever since I'm a baby."
"Why didn't you answer when we
called?" Cloudy demanded.
"How can I talk when I'm sound
asleep?"
"If you couldn't hear us call, why
did you run?"
"Now have a little sense, pal. A
sleep-walker don't know what he's
doln'.M
"Since there's no harm done, you'd
better all go back to bed," ('hapin ad-
vised. "Mr. Glass has the liberty of
the ranch, boys, night or day, asleep
or awake."
"Looks to me like he was tryin' to
elope Borne." Stover balanced upon
one bare foot, and undertook to re-
move a sand-burr from the other. In
the darkness he seemed supernatural-
ly tall, so that Glass hastened to
strengthen his story.
"I was walkln' in my sleep as nice
as you please when those rummies
lep' on me. Say! You know that's
dangerous; you can kill a guy wakin'
him up so sudden."
"There's easier ways than that,"
spoke Willie from the gloom.
"It's a yap trick Just the same. I
was in the middle of a swell dream,
too."
"Come, come, Stover, get your boys
back to bed! We'll have the whole
ranch up with this noise."
Chapin himself led Glass around
the house, while that gentleman made
no offer to explain the dream which
had prompted him to pack Ills suit-
case before letting himself out of the
training-quarters. Once Bafely back
in the gymnasium, he sat up till
Must Run—and Win. And Win I
Shall!"
(lawn, a prey to frightful visions
which the comfortable morning light
did not serve to dissipate.
Wally Speed slept serenely through
the whole disturbance, and was great-
ly amused at the story when be
awoke. He was sorely tempted to
make known his agreement with
Skinner, and put an end to his train-
er's agony of mind; but he recalled
Skinner's caution, and reflected that
the slightest indiscretion might pre-
cipitate a tragedy. For the first time
since the beginning of the adventure
he was perfectly at ease, and the phe-
nomenon added to his trainer's dis-
may.
Others beside Lawrence Glass were
apprehensive. Culver Covington, for
instance, was plainly upset, while
Roberta Keap pleaded headache and
had her breakfast served in her room.
It was shortly afterward that she
appeared in the gymnasium doorway,
and cried, in an accusing voice:
"Well, Mr. Speed?"
"Yes, quite well."
"You traitor!"
"You modern Borgia! Didn't you
go and tell Helen everything?"
"Didn't you promise to stop Cul-
ver?"
"I did. I had him thrown In Jail
at Omaha. What more could I do?"
You did try? Honestly?" Mrs.
Keap allowed her indignation to abate
slightly. "If I had known that, I
wouldn't have fold Helen. I'm sorry
you didn't explain. I was angry-
furious. And I was frightened so!"
She broke down suddenly. "What
shall I do about them? I can see
what they want to say, and yet I
daren't let either speak a word."
"Mrs. Keap, are you sure Culvw
loveB you?"
"Horribly! And ha suspects the
truth. I saw him change the moment
he found me here." Roberta began
to weep; two limpid tears stole down
her cheeks, she groped for a chair,
and Wally hastened to her assistance.
Ab he supported her, she gave way
completely and bowed her head upon
his shoulder.
It was in perfect keeping with the
luck of things that Miss Blake should
enter at the moment. She had come
with Jack and his sister to inquire
regarding the fitness of her champion
and to nerve him for the contest, and
stood aghast. Chapin stepped for-
ward with a look of suspicion, inquir-
ing:
"What's going on here?"
Miss Blake spoke brightly, tinkling
lc«* in her voice.
"There's no necessity for an expla-
nation is there? It seems time for
congratulations."
"Oh, see here now! Mrs. Keap's
really engaged to Culver, you know."
"Culver!"
"Culver!"
Both the young ranchman and his
sister stared at the chaperon with
growing horror, while she undertook
to explain; but the blow had fallen
so swiftly that her words were Inco-
herent, and in the midst of them her
hostess turned and fled from the
room.
"Now don't begin to aviate until
you understand the truth," Speed con-
tinued. "While she's engaged to that
broken-toed serpent, Bhe doesn't love
him, do you see?" He smiled
"I do not see!"
"It was simply a habit Mrs. Keap
had got into—I should say It was an
impulsive engagement that she has
repented of."
"No doubt she was repenting when
we interrupted you." said Miss Blake,
bitterly.
Then Chapin added, helplessly:
"But Culver Is engaged to my sister
Jean!"
"Jean!" Mrs. Keap exposed her
tragic face. "Then—he deceived me!
Oh—h! What wretches men are!"
The widow commenced to sob.
Outside came Miss Chapin's voice:
"So here you are, Mr. Covington!"
And the next moment she reappeared,
dragging the crippled champion be-
hind her Thrusting him toward Ro-
berta, she pouted: "There, Mrs. Keap!
I give him back to you."
"Perhaps you'd better go on with
your explanations," Chapin suggested,
coldly, to Speed.
"How can I when you won't listen
to me? Hear ye! Hear ye! Culver
was engaged to marry Mrs. Keap, but
she discovered what a reprobate he
Is—"
There was indistinguishable dissent
of some sort from Mr. Covington.
"—and she learned to detest him!"
Mrs. Keap likewise dissented in ac-
cents muffled.
"Well, she would have learned to
detest him in a short time, because
she's in love with Jack Chapin; so
she came to old Doctor Speed in her
troubles, and he promised to fix it all
up. Now I guess you four can do the
rest of the explaining. If you ever
get in trouble, come to the match-
making kid. I'll square it."
They were four happy yo«ig people,
I and they lost no ti ne in escaping
elsewhere. When they had gone,
their benefactor Baid to Miss Blake:
"Wouldn't you like to make that a
triple wedding? We might get club
rates."
For answer Miss Blake hurried to
the door and was gone.
I Over at the Centipede there was a
great activity and yet a certain idle-
ness also, aa if it had been a holiday.
The men hung about in groups listen-
I ing to the peripatetic phonograph. A
dozen or more outsiders had ridden
over from the post-office to witness
the contest. Out by the corral, which
stood close to the first break of the
| foothills, Skinner was superintending
I the laying out of a course, selecting
a stretch of level ground worn smooth
and hard by the tread of countless
hoofs.
"Makes a pretty good track, eh?"
he said to Gallagher. "I wonder how
fast this feller is? Ever heard?"
"They seem to think he's a whirlin'
ball of fire, but that don't worry you
none, does It?" Gallagher bent his
lead-blue eyes upon the cook, who
shrugged carelessly, and Gallagher
smiled; he was forced to admit that
his man did not appear to be one eas-
ily frightened. Skinner's face was
hard, his lips thin, his Jaw was not
that of a weakling. He had dressed
early, then wrapped a horse-blanket
about his shoulders, and now, casting
this aside, sprinted down the dirt
track for a few yards to test the foot-
ing, while Gallagher watched him with
satisfaction—a thing of steel and
wire, as tough, as agile, and as spir-
ited as a range-raised cow-pony. He
was unshaven, his running-trunks
were cut from a pair of overalls, held
up at the waist by a section of win-
dow-cord, and his chest was scantily
covered by an undershirt from which
the sleeves had been pulled. But
when he returned to pick up his blan-
yet Gallagher noted approvingly that
he was not even breathing heavily.
With a knowledge confined mainly to
live-stock, the foreman inquired:
"How's your lalgs? 1 like to see
'em hairy, that-a-way; it's a sign of
stren'th. I bet this college boy is as
pink as a maiden's palm! He don't
look to me like he could run."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
foods for children
Directions for the Bodily Needs of
the Small Members of the House-
hold—-Pure Milk the One Great
Thing to Be Desired.
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
! Simple bills of fare, helpful recipes,
and practical directions for the prep-
aration of foods for children between
three and six years of age are con-
tained in Farmers' Bulletin 717, "Food
may be used in mills stews. Well*
boiled fish is good for variety. Eggs
j must not be overcooked or they are
| likely to cause indigestion. The best
EXPERTS GIVE ADVICE ON QUES- way to cook eggs is to poach or coddle
TIONS OF IMPORTANCE. | them. Scrambled eggs may be served
I occasionally, provided care is taken
I not to scorch the fat or to overcook
the eggs.
Fat Is an important part of the food
of children. There is more than an
ounce of fat (at least two and a half
level tablespoonful8) in a quart of
whole milk. If the healthy child is given
a quart of milk, has butter on his bread,
and meat or an egg once a day, he gets
enough fat, and that which he received
is in wholesome form. It is well,
therefore, not to give such fatty foods
as pastry, fried meats and vegetables,
. ,, . . . _ i and doughnuts or rich cakes. If the
for Young Children. Issued by the chll(1 t9 C((n8tlpated the occa8ional us6
United States Department of Agrlcul- . . .. .
ture.
The author has carefully avoided
tthe use of all technical dietary terms
or systems of grouping and has so
classified foods that any mother can
meet the following definition of a
satisfactory diet for a little child:
"A little child three to six years of
age, who is carefully fed in accord-
of cream or salad oil is desirable, for
fat in abundance is laxative.
Bacon or salt pork, cut very thin and
carefully cooked, may be given occa-
sionally. It is very important not ta
burn the fat.
Vegetables and fruits are grouped
together because they are similar in
that both supply Iron, lime, and other
mineral matters, and also mild acids
ance with his bodily needs (as these | ^egetables are an Important but often
are now understood) receives every- a neglected part of the chlurs d(et
i day at least one food from each of the
following groups:
1. Milk and dishes made chiefly of
milk (most important of the group as
! regards children's diet); meat, fish,
i poultry, eggs, and meat substitutes.
| 2. Bread and other cereal foods.
I 3. Butter and other wholesome fats.
4. Vegetables and fuits.
6. Simple sweets."
The relation of food to the condition
! of the bowels is also an important
matter. Grains, particularly those con-
taining the outer or branny layers or
coats, are laxative; so, too, are such
mildly acid fruits as apples, oranges
and grapefruit. So far, therefore, as
the important matter of preventing
I constipation is concerned, coarse
grains and mildly acid fruits serve
the same purpose. When fruits are
i to be obtained in abundance, the kind
; of cereal served is not of great im-
portance. When they are not, the
i coarser cereals should be used.
The basis of a child's diet should
be clean, whole milk—at least a quart
a day. Such milk, in addition to water
contains about half a cupful of the
very best food substances—butterfat,
I milk, sugar, lime and other materials
| needed by the child to make muscle,
! bones, and teefh. In addition, milk
contains a substance thought to pro-
j mote growth by helping the body make
I good use of other foods. Where good
j whole milk is not obtainable, clean,
j fresh skim milk supplies these sub-
stances with the exception of the but-
terfat, and is, of course, preferable to
dirty or questionable whole milk.
Milk, however, contains very little
iron and therefore spinach and other
green vegetables and egg yolks, which
are rich in iron, combine well with
milk.
The child should drink the milk with
the chill taken off, or should consume
his full quart a day with cereals and
in milk toast, cocoa, milk soups and
stews, in coreal puddings, egg-and-
milk puddings, custards, junkets, or
simple ice creams. Milk stews may
bo made with vegetables or fish, or
to vary the diet these can be combined
with cream sauce and served on milk
toast. Tho bulletin therefore gives a
large number of recipes for the prep-
aration of various milk dishes which
will help children consume the re-
quisite amount of milk without grow-
ing tired of this valuable food. Those
for milk soups will be found particu-
larly useful, as they give the mother
an easy means of preparing many veg-
etables which aro essentials in tho
child's diet.
Well-baked bread and thoroughly-
cooked breakfast cereals are both
good for children, and with milk
should make up a large part of the
diet. Bread and cereal mushes are,
to a certain extent, interchangeable,
but neither can take t'ie place of milk,
moat, eggs, fruits and vegetables. An
ordinary slice of brea-1 is equal in food
value to about half a cupful of boiled
or steamed cereal and about a cupful
of flaked or puffed cereal. Different
kinds of bread may be used for va-
riety.
The yeast-raised bread given to
young children should be at least a
day old, or should be toasted or twice
baked. Hot breads are likely to be
swallowed in large pieces, and are
therefore not desirable. Hot breads
which are almost all crust, like thin
tea biscuits or crisp rolls, are best of
the hot varieties.
Under the heading "Meat, Fish, Poul-
try, Eggs and Meat Substitutes," the
author states: "In some families chil-
iren do not get enough meat and eggs;
in others they get too much. A good
general rule commonly followed is to
They should be served at least once
a day, as they help to keep the bowels
in good condition. Fruits are impor
tant for their flavoring, for their lax
ative effects and doubtless for othei
reasons, and should be served in some
form at least once a day. Fruit Juicei
and the pulp of cooked fruit, baked
apples and pears, and stewed prunes
are the safest. The child should nol
be allowed to eat the skins unless the>
have been made very tender by cook
mg.
Sugar is a desirable part of the diet
provided it is given in simple sweets
and not allowed to take the place ol
other foods and spoil the child's ap-
petite. Simple sweets are such things
as lump sugar, maple sugar, sirups,
honey, and plain candy, and those
foods in which sugar is combined in
simple forms with fruit Juices (in lem
onade, water ice, Jelly, etc.), with floui
or starch, as in plain cakes (cup cake,
sponge cake, cookies), and with fruit
as in Jams, marmalades, and simllai
thtngs.
Kitchen Measurements.
One kitchen cupful equals one-hall
pint, or two gills.
Four kitchen cupfuls equal one quart
Two cupfuls of granulated sugai
equal one pound.
Two and one-half cupfuls of pow-
dered sugar equal one pound.
One heaping tablespoonful of sugai
equals one ounce.
One heaping tableepoonful of buttei
equals two ounces or one-quarter cup-
ful.
One cupful of butter equals one-hall
pound.
Four cupfuls of flour (one heaping
quart) equal one pound.
Eight round tablespoonfuls of dry
material equal one cupful.
Sixteen tablespoonfuls of liquid
equal one cupful.
give a child, two years old or over, an
Cinnamon Rice Pudding.
Buy four ounces or so of the reo
cinnamon drops, or perhaps two
ounces would do for a large, creamy
rice pudding, or for half a dozen ol
individual size. Allow twelve or eight-
een drops to each cupful of milk used,
and also to each cupful of milk al-
low one well-washed tablespoonful ol
rice and about a tablespoonful of
sugar. If it is to be served with a
sweet sauce do not add any sugar.
Put into buttered baking dish oi
dishes or into the glass baking molds,
and bake from one hour and a half to
two hours in a moderate oven, stir*
ring in the top every half hour or
even oftener. A meringue may be
added and across this strewn some
pink sugar or some of the cinnamon
drops ground up in a mortar.
Chocolate Cream Pie.
Here is a chocolate cream pie which
everybody likes and it has the merit
of being cheap. Into your double boil-
er put one pint of hot water. Blend
together one and one-half cupfuls of
sugar, four tablespoonfuls of flour, two
of cocoa, butter size of small egg, a
pinch of salt and stir into the water.
Cook until thick. Cover a deep pie
plate with rich pastry and set another
plate inside and bake a nice brown,
fill with cocoa mixture, cover with
whipped cream and sprinkle with
chopped nuts.
Succotash.
Take the amount of kidney beans
desired and soak overnight. In the
morning place on stove and add fat
salt pork, cut Into rather small pieces,
to taste. Salt. Let simmer until beans
are soft. Do not have too much wa-
ter. The beauty of it is to cook slow-
ly. Just before serving add one can
corn and heat it through. Serve hot.
Succotash is also made from lima
Some prefer
egg every other day and about the
same amount (two ounces) of meat,
tish, or poultry on the intervening ! beans with corn added,
ilays. Where meat is omitted, care it that way.
must be taken to see that other suit-
able foods take its place—preferably
kn extra amount of milk and eggs.'
Pried meats should not be given to
a child, because they are likely to be
J overcooked and tough and also be-
! :ause the fat may
Carrot Stew.
Here is a carrot stew that was sent
into the column some years ago by
W. D., and I will copy it for you, as 1
think it is delicious: Cut the car-
scorched and ! rots in small pieces and cover with
hus changed in composition. Scorched milk enough to stew them. Add salt
importance of pruning fruit trees
Elberta Peach Trees Pruned to Produce Open, Spreading Tops.
(By L. C. CORBETT.)
The practical grower of trees and
shrubs is frequently taken to task by
the would-be tree protector because
he cuts out branches which are nei-
ther broken nor dead, but are in a
healthy, flourishing condition. The ar-
gument used by this critic is that in
mature it is not necessary to cut out
oranches and otherwise mutilate
trees; that, in order to allow the plant
to assume its natural and normal form,
no pruning should be done and that
the use of the knife is detrimental
to the best interests of the tree, and
should therefore be discouraged. The
practical grower, however, knows too
well the results which follow from
this laissez faire method of handling
trees in orchards, parks, and other
ornamental plantations.
Under natural conditions plants
grow thickly; one crowds upon the
other, and in that way all superfluous
Individuals as well as branches are
crowded out. Under artificial condi-
tions there is no such force at work
Plants are placed at distances which
prevent this natural pruning. The in-
creased amount of food available to
plants under artificial conditions fre-
quently excites growth, so that the
distance between the different whorls
of branches, which naturally develop
from near the end of the growth of
each season, becomes great, thus giv-
ing th>3 plant an open form and the
appearance of having been built by
stories. By a Judicious use of the
pruning knife the gardener shortens
this annual growth, thus reducing the
distance between the branches formed
In successive years, with the result
that the tree has a more compact and
symmetrical form and therefore is
better suited to serve the purpose of
an orchard or ornamental tree.
With such plants as the peach,
which bears its fruit upon the growth
of the previous year, pruning Is of
great importance, as the grower can
reduce the crop in proportion to the
capacity of the tree. Successful fruit
growers thoroughly understand the
importance of gauging the quality of
fruit allowed to be borne by a tree
to the capacity of the tree, the ability
of the tree in this respect being meas-
ured by the rate of growth, the variety,
and the soil and climatic conditions
to which it is subjected.
Pruning is of prime Importance also
In controlling the action of some of
During the early years of the
growth of both of these plants care
should be exercised to secure a proper
distribution of the limbs which are to
form the framework branches of the
tree, particularly with the Japan
plums and the sweet cherries, as both
these species have the unfortunate
habit of dividing Into two shoots of
nearly euqal size with a close angle
between, which always forms a weak
Joint. Trees not carefully pruned to
overcome this bad habit are liable to
severe injury from splitting when
heavily loaded with fruit.
In the early period of the growth
of both the Japan and American
plums, as well as the sweet cherry,
the annual growth will need more or
less severe cutting back, depending
upon soil and climatic conditions, in
order to maintain them within
Sour Cherry Tree, Good Form.
bounds. On general principles this
heading should be done Just before
growth starts In the spring.
The European plums (Prunus do-
mestica) do well when trained after
the general fashion of the peach. In
general, however, the main trunk of
the plum should be somewhat longer
than that of the peach, in order that
the work of Jarring for the curculio
may be facilitated if the orchard hap-
pens to be located where this opera-
tion is necessary.
The fruiting habits of the plum and
the cherry are more closely allied to
those of the apple and the pear than
to the peach, and for that reason the
shortening of the annual growth is of
less moment with these plants than
with the peach.
smudge pots will
protect the trees
Daily Thought.
Never does a man portray his own
character more vividly than In his
manner of portraying another.—Rich
ter.
tat is almost certain to be harmful to
Children.
Meat is best given as broiled chop
meat or in simple meat stews com-
bined with vegetables. Poultry may
be boiled and served with rice. When
roasted, only the tender portions
ihould be fed. Highly-seasoned stuffing
->r rich gravy should not be given to
t young child.
Dried and other fish, and oysters.
and pepper to taste, and a small piece
of butter.
The Newest Rolling Pin.
A recent invention in rolling pins is
made of glass, and may be used when
making biscuit and cookies, but it is
especially satisfactory when working
with pastry, as it is fitted with alum-
inum caps which can be removed foe
the Insertion of lea
6weet Cherry Tree, Properly Pruned.
our most dreaded plant diseases. Tho
study of pear-blight, for instance, has
shown that this disease is very gen-
erally communicated from plant to
plant by inseots, through the pollen,
as they pass from blossom to blossom,
or, later in the season, from shoot to
bhoot. It is also believed that the
! disease can be carried by the wind
and that infection can take place
while the vegetable processes are ac-
tive and the tissue at the ends of the
branches can easily be entered by
the germs of the disease.
The habit of the plum to bear early
and abundantly under favorable con-
ditions limits its annual growth to,
such an extent that after the bearing
age is attained little annual pruning
Is necessary other than to remove
dead or interfering limbs or to head
back an occasional strong shoot which
may appear from time to time in the
center of the crown. The plum, as
well as the cherry, has the annoying
habit of occasionally producing strong
shoots from adventitious buds along
the trunk of the tree or from near the
surface of the ground. A close watch
should be kept tor such interlopers
In order that thej* may be promptly
removed.
Devices Are Used in Variou?
Parts of Country—Oil Heat-
ers Are Most Economical.
Smudge pots will protect the fruit
trees in the spring. They are used in
many parts of the country. There
are 10 or more different kinds, with
varying capacities from one to six
gallons. With 50 one-gallon pots on
an acre, about 12H gallons of oil will
btf burned each hour. If the air is
still, the heated area will be five de-
grees above the air outside. The ini-
tial investment for a ten-acre orchard
will not be far from $500. The cost
of keeping up the fires will be about
$5 an acre each night.
Unless coal can be procured at a
very low price, the oil heaters are the
most economical.
One Ohio orchardist protected 15
acres of apple, pear and cherry trees
by using four-foot dry oak wood. With
three fires to the acre he kept the
temperature at 33 degrees inside the
orchard, while it was 26 degrees out-
side. He used a little less than one
cord of wood to each of the three fires
each night.
Packing Hatching Eggs.
In packing hatching eggs for ship-
ment use great care to pack them firm-
ly to avoid breakage. There are sev-
eral styles of packing boxes which are
cheap and serviceable. Lacking one of
these, line a splint market basket with
excelsior, wrap each egg with a hand*
ful of excelsior, cover them with an-
other layer of this material and then
sew on a cloth cover.
Results From Ducks.
Usually a flock'or twenty or twenty-
five ducks and four or five drakes give
better results in fertility than ona
drake and four or five ducks penned
together.
Keep Out the Rain.
See that roof, doors and windows
are sound and tight, so that rain can-
not beat In.
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