The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 27, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 November 1928 — Page 7

The Red Road [ A Romance of Braddock’s Defeat | By HUGH Pendexter Illustrations by Irwin Myers Copyright by Hugh PendexUC. WNU Service

CHAPTER IX—Continued Os one thing I was positive, and I 'hold to that opinion today: General Braddock was convinced that whatever he won must be achieved by his personal efforts. I did talk with Mr Shirley, the commander’s secretary, who said he would make a verbal report of what i had learned while tn Duquesne. Whether he ever did sub mit the Information I brought. I can not say. but 1 believe that he did he cause of his fear that the campaign was beihg mismanaged. I can easily -imagine Braddock listening to my Im portant information and giving It only a passing consideration, or else tgnor ing it entirely. That night the army camped at Rush creek, where Scarouady once had a village. We were now within three easy marches of Duquesne, even though the army moved sluggishly; and I could not perceive any reason why we should not attain our objective. After all. I told Gifet and Gromit, sickness and death was ever the price paid when a targe body of men, more or less st ran gers toitheir environment, pass through a virgin country. I took it for granted that on every level battlefield of Eu rope sickness stalked every army. Cromit had not much to say because of the bias furnished by hjs dream. Gist spoke guardedly and said that while some phases of the cam paign were not to his liking still we ought to take the fort now we were committed to the Turtle creek course While we were talking Sir John St Clair and several officers came along and St; (’lair called out to us: "You men must know this country. You will come along with us to reconnoiter.” We fell in behind them and were soon descending the steep bank that is a characteristic of the country's streams. Nor was the opposite bank any more inviting. St. Glair studied the bank thoughtfully fpr a minute and then said to his officers: “This is very bad. The army has tost heart because of rough travel. 11 the country beyond is as bad as this it will about finish any spirit that’s left.' “It will be Impossible to take the artiliei-y and wagons any farther than this bank. Sir John, unless we spend much time preparing both banks." said one of the engineers. “That is very plain," muttered St. 'Clair. “And that’s the devil of it.” “If you can get your guns and > wagons across, 1 can soon take you to a ridge that leads to Duquesne,” spoke up Gist “Once you are on thQ ridge, you won’t have much trouble; and you’ll find the country open and noi fitted for ambuscades, or surprise attacks." As he was serving as guide to General Braddock and was well known in colonial affairs, his words were listened to. St. Clair suggested be try to find a more favorable crossing. He told them there was not much choice as the banks continued much the same, tout he did lead them to where the ap proach to the creek, was less difficult, and pointed out a thinly timbered elevation as being the ridge The chief engineering problem was to cross the creek and ascend the opposite bank. One young lieutenant said If he could have the use of a hundred soldiers, he could ease the wagons and guns down one slope and haul them up the other by means of the long cables carried by the army. Another, who had charge of the axmen, guaranteed readily to make run ways of logs and thereby greatly expedite the passage of the guns and wagon-train. Gist called on me to repeat what J already had told Mr. Shirley. 1 stated if the army would cross the creek and strike straight for Duquesne it could not be attacked with any degree of success even if the Indians could be induced to attack at all. 1 quoted Captain Beaujeu to that effect. As they did not cut me short I added, for good measure, that there would be great danger at both crossings of the Monongahela and that it would be practically impossible to avoid an ambuscade, that Beaujeu already had planned to plant an ambush along the river road. Sir John seemed to be strongly im pressed by my statements, much more so than he would have been had I made a similar talk at Alexandria, or Will’s creek. When we returned to the camp, we fully believed the morrow’s march would remove us from ail fear of a masked attack. The conversation among the officers all pointed to this wise maneuver, and our spirits greatly improved. After Sir John had talked with Braddock, Gist was sent for. Cromit and 1 left Round Paw holding a pow wow with the few Delawares while we went to find the Dinwold girl. Wagoner Morgan was one of the first teamsters to arrive, despite the sad condition of his horses. He, in formed us that our little friend was sharing a kettle with two soldiers’ wives. We soon located her. She bad made tier sex known to the women but still wore her masculine garb, which was very sensible of her. I took het aside for a little talk and at once ob served she was in a sober mood. In fact, she seemed to be more downcast than when we were fighting for our lives in the Frazier cabin. I endeavored to cheer her up. and pointed out how thankful we should be for out deliverance from Pontiac’s savages. “That was the frying-pan,” she sighed. "1 tell you I feel bad luck mister They’ll jump on us when we pass through the thick woods. Thqtn soldiers don’t know any more about Injuns than as if they was so many cows." ~ “You shouldn’t say such things. You H take the heart out of the men If i|i., hpxr you.”

“1 ain’t a tool even if 1 come from a family of witches,” site angrily retorted. “I’m talking to you, not to the soldiers.” Then with instant repentance: "1 didn’t go for to speak 'to you like this, mister. But these women here are scared. And yet all they talk about is the silks and tine clothes they'll have when we march Into Duquesne You’ll come and talk again with me tomorrer. mister? You’ve done so much for me.” “I’ll talk with you. I’ve done nothing. You’re hitching the cart ahead of the horse. If not for you. I never could have left the Duquesne stockade.” “1 tell you it was the Injun who done all “After you bad told him of my dan sser and had planned for us to scale the water-gate and tin i you waiting with a canoe. I’ll see you tomorrow, and the next day; and on the third day I’ll see that you get some of the fine cloth —if the French don’t burn everything before leaving the fort.” “1 feel bad luck, but I’ll hope for the best.” she muttered. “And don’t go into danger, mister.” The last was so incongruous after what we had been through together, and in view of the part 1 must play as scout, that I laughed and even she smiled, albeit a bit wistfully. She gave me her small hand and eyed me with strange steadiness; then disconcerted me by gravely saying: “There ain’t no shroud around you yet. I’m thinking you’ll live through it.’ Cromit came up in time to bear the last and anxiously Inquired: “What about me. missy?’’ His moutb was smiling, but his eyes were uneasy. She hesitated, then told him: “Anyone you come to grips with will die.” With this she abruptly left us and busied herself at the fire. We went to where the rangers were camping and looked for Colonel Wash ington. but he had not yet reported to Braddock. I did meet Captain Busby. however. He had lost much of his stoutness and was as lean and hard as a hound. “Webster Brond. by all that’s quainthe cried on recognizing me. And this time he was eager to clasp my hand. “I’ve looked for you all along this cursed march and through all the cursed days we’ve crawled and fiddled away the time. Lord! but I’m glad the Alexandria folks can’t see what a rough-looking lot we are. Where have you been and what do you think we’ll do next?” 1 explained, and he declared my Duquesne trip displayed “damned” rare sportsmanship. 1 told him the worst of the campaign was over and that we would be free from Indian attacks after we had crossed the creek and taken to the ridge “A fight would be welcome,” he testily replied. “It’s this d—d crawling along, likea worm on a leaf, that takes the gimp out of the men. If you’d stayed with us from the time we quit Will’s creek, you’d understand how trifles can eat the heart out ot a man. Wood-ticks annoy more people than tigers do. Really, we officers of the Virginians have given up our luggage animals until we scarcely have anything left except what we have on I hope there’ll be some clean linen at Duquesne. If there isn’t. I’ll never forgive the French. I suppose the folks back home are thinking tonight that we’re already tn Duquesne.” There was no "back home” for me. no folks to learn how I had fared; and I had nothing to say. He ran on: “I’ve sent word to Josephine by every express, but probably she hasn't received one out of five of my let ters. 1 told her 1 hadn’t seen vou. So you don’t expect we’ll be attacked by the red devils on our way to the fort?” “Not If we follow the ridge road Yes. if we follow the river road.” “Then I’m glad it’s the ridge. Remember, Web, how we used to play at fighting Indians and always planned to run into an ambuscade and make a very narrow escape? Lord, that seems a million years ago. We didn’t want

Good Hhrd Sense in Old Bantu’s Comment

Natives of the jungles of Africa are likely t< be of a philosophical turn of mind, as is illustrated *iy the story of an old Bantu negro told by Dan Crawford, who spent most ot uis life as a missionary in the wilds of the Dark ontinent. “1 have lived so long in the long grass that t think like the blacks, and I never talk of Western civilization.” Crawtord told Seton Tompson, the naturalist and writer. “But just when I was- coming home and was thinking perhaps tenderly of old scehes and faces. I did one night swank a bit about civilizatioi to an old Bantu, who was sitting with me in my hut. I told him was gjint to my own country where they had ships that went under the water, ships that went on the water, and still more ships that flew over the water. 1 told him ,uat in English houses you ’> rn a tap and the watei flows, touched a button and the room was flooded with lightin fact I gave him c good glowing deLight The bureau of standards says that both light and heat are electromagnetic vibrations which carry energy as does any system of waves. Light is now made by many to include invis ible waves called ultra-violet and in fra-red. Strictly, light means luminous vibrptions, or visible waves. Radiant heat is simply the energj'aspect of any electromagnetic waves. Ln the strict sense light must be visible, but all tight contains vibrant energy which may be identified as heat.

any open ridge marching tn those days. Nothing but bloody fighting tn the shrubbery at the foot of the Carlyle gardens. And how we used to rescue fair maidens! How Joe would squeal, she was that nervous; and how cool and collected the Haze girls always were I Joe was more fun—she felt her part more. Web. our hearts were higher then than now. Time has made cowards of us—of me, anyway. And who would have believed that we would be here together like this on the shore of the d—d creek I Thank God that Joe Isn’t here to be rescued !“ “Amen to that!” ’And 1 wished and wished that the witch-girl was as safe as Josephine ot old Alexandria. He urged me to share mess with him and several Hhers from the home town, but I was uneasy and preferred' to take a piece of meat from the rangers' tire and to prowl deep in~The woods for fresh signs until the dark I ness drove me in. When the drums beat the tong . march on the morning of the seventh I I turned out to assist in getting the ' wagons across the creek. But what | was my amazement to learn that the course had been changed during the night’s council, and that St. Clair had finally decided it would be best for the army to swing clear of the rugged country entirely and to march direct for the Monongahela. This would necessitate crossing at ■ a point where the river bends* to the north, and after marching across the bend, to recross just below the mouth of Turtle creek. This shift in plans was due to the excellent fords and their gently sloping banks. There | would be no difficulty In crossing the guns and wagons. Destiny was taking the Din wold girl and me back to the Frazier cabin. I hunted up the Onondaga and found him freshly painted for war and softly reminding his oreuda that be was a man of the Wolf clan. After finishing his chanting he cried out to me: “Yo-hab! They say some very brave men will die before two more sleeps, white brother. They say it is not good for men to grow old until they find all meat tough.’’ “The French will die bravely if they fight." I agreed. “They say the French will not die alone, it will be a very strong tight.” “There will be no tight unless Beaujeu can drive his Indians into making a surprise attack.” “There will be a tight.” he gravely assured me. “Many axes will be covered with new paint (blood). They say the English from over the stinking water do not know how to fight.” “The Delawares have told you that. They talk like old women.” , “A wolf howled tn the night to tiie Wolf man.” he correcetd. “The talk of our nephews, the Lent-Lenapes. goes by Round Faw’s ears without entering. Let the witch-woman change herself into a bird and fly away ” “Let my red brother keep tiiat talk shut up in his bag.” I warned, secretly alarmed by his reference to the Dinwold girl. For should there be a fight with the fort Indians I feared she would refuse to hide in a wagon until it was over; and it did seem a cruel shame that after escaping from Frazier’s cabin she should run the risk of being hideously killed within gunshot of tL “Let her turn herself into a bird and fly back to the Susquehanna.” be called after me. 1 hastened on, eager to find the girl and persuade her to stay well back among the wagons. Even it we were ambushed and well-blooded she would be safe at the rear of the line. The savages could never break through even though they should punish the head*of the arnjy. She greeted me shyly and was strangely willing to do as I asked. I was surprised and pleased with her acquiescence; for I knew she had hut little thought for her own safety. There was. however, a small condition attached to her promise; and she expressed It thus. (TO BE CONTINUED.!

scription of all the alleged triumphs of civilization When ’ had catalogued a much a? I could remember I. stopped and waited sot the old negro to show his surprise. But he just; said: ’ “‘ls that all, Mr. Crawford?’ > “ ‘Yes, I think it is,’ I replied. , “Then very slowly and gravely the, »ld Bantu said: “ ‘Well, Mr. Crawford, to oe better off is not always to be better.’ ”—Detroit News. Famout Catacombs The catacombs of Paris are vast excavations extending undei the city of; Paris. f-‘ nserly subterranean quarries which furnished the building material, for the city. In the latter part of the' Eighteenth century ome portions of! the city began to sink, and it was nee-; essary to strengthen the roof ol the q arries with masonry. In 1787 the atacombs were arrange< to contain the bodies removed from other burying grounds, and It is estimated that; upward o? six million bodies are now preserved in them. The hones are arranged in varied designs along thei siden of the galleries. Fair Enough You can’t choose your ancestors.; but that’s fair enough. They probably' wouldn’t haven chosen you.—El Dora J do Tribune. France is to have its first motorista’i camp, in the French Alps. »

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LEADING RADIO I PROGRAMS (Time given is Eastern Standard; subtract one hour for Central and two hours for Mountain time,) N. B. C. RED NETWORK Sunday, October 28. ( 1:30 p. m. United Radio Corp; • 6:00 p. m. Stetson Parade. ■ 7:00 p. m. Lehigh Coal & Na\, Co. 7:30 p. m. Maj. Bowes’ Family I’aKy. 9:00 p. m. David Lawrence. y 9:15 p. m. Atwater Kent. £ N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 2:00 p. m. Roxy Stroll. 6:30 p. m. Anglo Persians. 8:15 p. m. Collier’s Radio Hour. N. B. C. RED NETWORK Monday, October 29. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises. 11:15 a. m. Radio Household Inst. 7:00 p. m. Mutual Savings Hour. 9:30 p. m. General Motors Family Party. 10:00 p. m. Door. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 10:00 a. m. Copeland Hour. 7:30 p. m. Roxy and His Gang. 9:00 p. m. Riverside Hour. 9:30 p. m. Real Folks. 11:00 p. m. Slumber Music. N. B. C. RED NETWORK Tuesday, October 30. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises. 11:15 a. tn. Radio Household Institute. 8:30 p. m. Seiberling Singers. 9:00 p m. Eveready Hour. 10:00 p. m. Clicquot Club Eskimos. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 10:00 a. m. Copeland Hour. • 9:30,p. m. Dutch Master Minstrels. 11:00 p. m. Slumber Music. N. B. C. RED NETWORK Wednesday, October 31. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises. 11:15 a. m. Radio Household Institute. 5:00 p. tn. Vogue and The Mode. 8:00 p. m. Am. Mag. & and Woman’s Home Companion Hour. 9:00 p. m. Ipana Troubadours. 9:30 p. m. Palmolive Hour. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 10:00 a. m. Copeland Hour. 7:00 p. tn. Jeddo Highlanders. 8:30 Sylvania Foresters. 10:00 p. m. Chicago Civic Opera. 11:00 p. m. Slumber Music. N. B. C. RED NETWORK Thursday, November 1. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises. 11:15 a. m. Radio Household Institute. 7:30 p. m. Coward Comfort Hour. 10:00 Halsey Stuart. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 10:00 a. m. Copeland Hour. 8:00 p. m. Champion Sparkers. 9:30 p. m. Maxwell House Hour. 10:00 p. m. Michelin Hour. 11:00 p. m. Slumber Hour. N. B. C. RED NETWORK Friday, November 2. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises. 11:15 a. m. Radio Household Institute. 7:00 p. m. Wonder Hour. 7:30 p. m. Happiness Candy Stores. 8:00 p. m. Cities Service Hour. N. 8. C. BLUE NETWORK 11:00 a. m. Damrosch Educational 7:00 p. m. Interwoven Stocking Co. 7:30 p. m. Dixies Circus. 8:30 p. m. Armstrong Quakers. 9:00 p. m. Wrigley Review. 11:00 p. m. Slumber Music. N. B. C. RED NETWORK Saturday, November 3. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises. 10:15 a. m. Radio Household Institute. 1:45 p. m. Dartmouth-Yale Football Game. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 1:45 p. ni. Ohio-Princeton Football Game. 8:30 p. m. Godfrey Ludlow. 9:00 p. m. Philco Hour. The following is a list of stations carrying the above programs: National Broadcasting company Red Network: WEAF. New York; WEEI Boston: WTIC. Hartford, WJAR. Providence: WTAG. Worcester. WCSH. Portland. Maine; WLIT and WFI. Philadelphia; WRC, Washing ton; WGY, Schenectady; WGR. Buffalo; WCAE. Pittsburgh; WTAM and WEAR. Cleveland; WWJ. Detroit; WSAI. Cincinnati: WGN and WI.IB. Chicago; KSD. St. Louis: WOC. I‘avenport; WHO. Des Moines; WcW. Omaha; WDAF, Kansas City; WCCOWRHM. Minneapolis-St. Paul; WTMJ. Milwaukee; KOA. Denver; WHAS. Louisville; WSM, Nashville; WMF. Memphis; WSB. Atlanta; WBT Charlotte; KVOO, Tulsa; WFAA, Dallas: KPRC. Houston: WOAI, San Antonio; WBAP, Ft. Worth; WJAX, Jacksonville. National Broadcasting company Blue Network; WJZ. New York; WRZA, Boston; WBZ. Springfield; WBAL. Baltimore: WHAM. Rochester; KDKA. Pittsburgh; WJR, De troit; WLW, Cincinnati; KYW ano WEBH, Chicago: KWK. St. Louis: WREN. Kansas City; WCCO WRHM Minneapolis-St. Paul; WTMJ. Milwaukee; KOA. Denver; WHAS. Louisville; WSM. Nashville; WMC. Memphis; WSB. Atlanta ; WTB. charlotte; KVOO. Tulsa; WFAA. Dallas: KPRC. Houston: WOAI, San Antonio; WBAP. Ft. Worth: WRVA. Rid. mond; WJAX. Jacksonville. The Farmer Decides What type of radio program does I the farmer prefer? The National , Broadcasting company is conducting [ a nationwide survey of the farm au- I dience to find out. Frank E. Mullen, j who directs the agricultural activities ! of the NBC, states that the survey | will be made in every state of the na- ; tion. It is hoped to reveal what the farmer likes to hear. Another phase of the inquiry is a study of the economic and utilitarian value of the radio set to the ruralisu

Farm Inventory Should Be Made

Best Time Usually Is First of Year; How to Set Values and Depreciation. The best time to take a farm Inventory is when there is the least to figure. For general crop and s‘ock farms, this is usually some time between January 1 and the time when spring work begins, says the State College of Agriculture at Ithaca, N. Y. Probably the best time to take an inventory on a poultry farm is lust after the pullets are put into winter quarters. Farmers fortunate, enough to have worry about income taxes should take their inventories on Jan uary 1. There is no set date for taking an inventory; any convenient time will do. It should, of course, be taken on approximately the same date each year. Estimating Values. In placing values on stock and machinery, a good general guide is to estimate the price the animal or machine would bring providing the owner had a reasonable length of time to dispose of it. This figure wrii usually be about the price one would have to pay for something just as good at a well-attended farm auction There is no set rule for figuring depreciation on machinery. It should be remembered that depreciation is much higher on new inventions than on standard pieces of farm equipment. Tractors and- harvesters usually depreciate faster than wagons and plo\Ys. The rate of depreciation on a miscellaneous lot of farm machinery. some old and some new. usually averages about 10 per cent of its inventoried value of the previous year. However, because the depreciation varies on all farms, a good rule to follow is to value machinery at about the price it would bring at a well-attended farm auction. Three Things Needed. While there are only three things necessary for taking a farm inventory —paper, pencil and the inclination — a fourth one will help. This is a copy of tiie Cornell inventory record book called “How to Take a Farm Inventory and Make a Credit Statement." This book contains simple hut complete directions for taking an inven-

KIND OF FARMING DETERMINES HOW TO CARRY ON PROFITABLY

Fanner Must Adopt Type of Work Which Pays. “Some farmers do not make money because they do not carry on the right kind of business on their farms. One of the first things a farmer must i do if he expects to make a fair labor | income is to determine what type of ‘ farming pays best in his locality, says the rural economics department of the Ohio State university in an analysis of the accounts of a group of farms in counties lying along the Ohio j river in southwestern Ohio. In comparing the five farms with the highest labor incomes in the group, with the farms having the three low i labor incomes, it appears that the best I paid farmers were depending more heavily upon live stock for their profits than were the low three. The high five derived 84 per cent of their cash income from live stock, while the low group obtained only 74 per cent of : their receipts from this source. i The high five had 6.6 more milk I cows to the average farm, 1.1 fewer | brood sows, and 43 more hens, than the low-return group. The net increase in live stock on the high five farms was almost two and one-half Large Asparagus Plants Not Easy to Transplant Asparagus plants of much size are not easily transplanted, as they make a vast amount of roots, and in getting them up one is likely to mutilate the roots so badly that the plants will be set back quite severely. Either fall or spring is the suitable time to do this work. There is some advantage in fail : setting, as the ground is usually in - fairly good condition then, while in early spring, it may tie wet and soggy until quite late. It is more profitable to make a new bed of one-year asparagus plants than to attempt transplanting old ones, and in setting plants, none but the strong appearing, thrifty ones should be used. Rhubarb clumps may be divided and reset in fall or spring. Use plenty ot manure or fertilizer, though not in contact with the roots, with both rhubarb and asparagus. g Agricultural Notes If your land is sour, lime will help you to grow legumes. ♦ • • Before planning to increase production. make sure that the product can be sold. • • • inferior products in a shipment of good quality truck usually cost the shipper many times their value. • • « Windfall apples should be taken from the orchard and used as hog feed instead of selling them to housewives. • • • Seed wheat should be graded If It contains weed seeds, chaff, straw, dirt, or a large percentage of badly shrunken grain. • K * It doe. not pay to gamble with wheat smut. You may win for a while . but eventually you will lose enough In one season to pay for treating for several rears.

tory and for making out a credit statement, together with space for recording two years’ Inventories. Any farmer who wishes to take an inventory can get a free copy of this booklet by writing to the college of agriculture at Ithaca, N. Y. Only Alfalfa Seed Now Verified by Government (Prepared by the United State* Department of Agriculture.) Changes in the seed origin-verifica-tion service of the bureau of agricultural economics which limit the service to alfalfa seed but which also extend the service so as to cover practically all commercially handled alfalfa seed have been announced by tiie United States Department of Agriculture. Practically all large alfalfa seed handlers have voluntarily enrolled with the bureau as verlfied-origin alfalfa seed dealers. Last year 17.000.* 000 pounds of alfalfa seed were verified as to origin. During that period only a part of the alfalfa seed handled commercially was covered by the service. It Is expected that United States veritied-origin seed certificates will be attached to more than 40.000,000 pounds of alfalfa seed this year. The first year’s operation of tiie service, according to the bureau’s seed marketing specialists, has demonstrated fully the effectiveness of the supervision by federal agencies in giving adequate protection to the certificates issued, so that now most dealers and buyers of seed recognize the reliability of the service and its value to both producers and consumers of seed. Quality of Milk Admittedly the quality of milk cannot be modified by making variations in the proportion of carbohydrate to protein. Notwithstanding the best grade of milk is produced from cows which are in good healthy condition resulting from the use of a well-pro-portioned grain mixture. Silage cannot be excelled as a source of succulence, and shredded fodder supplemented with clover or alfalfa hay is clearly the best roughage: the (Hover hay to supply th • ash and protein, the cut fodder tu supply bulk.

times as great as on the low income farms. For every dollar’s worth of feed fed to the live stock on tiie high five farms there was returned 31.47, while for a .dollar’s worth of feed the low three farmers obtained a return of only $1.05. Find Honey Crop Aided by Winter Preparation Many beekeepers find that winter is the proper time to pave the way for a good crop of honey, reports Ray Hutson, bee specialist at the New Jersey experiment station. These men make a practice of assembling all equipment during the winter season so that when spring comes most of the time can be devoted to beekeeping. Extra hive covers, bottom boards and bodies are nailed together, painted, and stored during the cold months. Frames are put together at that time so that they will be convenient the following summer. The specialist states that there is no assembling job which is not best done during the winter except putting in the foundation. Low temperatures, he points out. make wax brittle and therefore this one operation can best be deferred He continues: “Section honey to be of best market quality should have little propvtis about it. A step in the right direction is to scrape the inside of the comb honey super and its fixtures during the winter. In some sections of the state bees place considerable propolis on the tin rabbets of bodies used as extracting supers. also is best removed during the winter.” Pure Breds Best Animals of good breeding will make more pounds of meat and much more high-priced meat than mongrels; they are also more responsive to feed. They fatten quicker and because they dress a higher percentage of net to gross, sell for more money. They are also more uniform in type and markings and for that reason—to say nothing of the larger amount of highpriced cuts yielded by their carcasses —they bring an increased price over common cattle. Potash Fertilizers The value of potash fertilizers on alkali soils was conclusively demonstrated last season op the Joe Herron farm in Howard county. Ind., the Purdue News Service states. He broadcast 200 pounds of 0-8-25 fertilizer per acre on alkali soil where he had been unable to get a crop of corn. In addition to the 0-8-25 fertilizer. 75 pounds of 2-12-8 were sown in the row on all the field. The alkali soil receiving the 0-8*25. in addition to the 2-12-8 produced 88 per cent more corn than the check plot receiving only the 2-12-8. Value of Silage The money value of a ton of silage will vary with the price of corn and hay. Actually there is no market price for silage since none is sold on the .open market. It is usually estimated that a ton of silage is worth as much as one-third of a ton of hay. The price of hay varies in different localities so that it is rather difficult to name a price for silage. At the present price of corn and hay, a ton of good quality silage should be worth front $5.50 to $6.

It May be LI k** When your ‘ Children Ciy for It Castoria is a comfort when Baby Is fretful. No sooner taken than the little one is at ease. If restless, a few drops soon bring contentment. No harm done, for Castoria is a baby remedy, meant for babies. Perfectly safe to give the youngest infant ; you have the doctors’ word for that! It is a vegetable product and you could use it every day. But it's in an emergency that Castoria means most. Some night when constipation must be relieved—or colic pains —or other suffering. Never be without it; some mothers keep an extra bottle, unopened, to make sure there will always be Castoria in the house. It is effective for older children, too; read the book that comes with it.

Reduce Fei&i Rest DIXIE FEVER AND PAIN TABLETS

Joy of Labor The only things worth having In this old vale of tears and laughter are those you have to work at least a little to get. and we suppose a really intelligent mosquito would rather have the girls wearing stockings than not.—Ohio State Journal.

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