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ELMO SCOTT WATSON HERE’S a new “mine host” at the Wayside inn, immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in a group of poems familiar .to most Americans, and he is none other than Henry Ford, millionaire maker of automobiles. The Wayside inn hits sto*d nety* South Sudbury, Mass., for more than two hundred Curiously enough the Wayside inn was not it’s original name

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at all. That title originated in 1826 when the poet, bound from his home in Cambridge to Albany, N. Y„ stopped by the wayside during a change of coach horses at the Red Horse tavern and it so pleased his fancy that he later commemorated it in his “Tale of a Wayside Inn.’’ i 'The Red Horse tavern was built in 1686 by David Howe. Three other Howes were successive keepers of the tavern, their combined service as “mine host” totalling 174 years. Lyman Howe was the host at the time of Longfellow’s visit and it was into his mouth that Longfellow put the words of the poem which begins. “Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” In IS6O the last of the Howes died and the tavern furnishings were sold at auction. Ownership of the place passed through various hands; but it continued as an inn down to the present century. How it came into the possession of Henry Ford was toid recently by Mrs. Ford herself. Speakjng before the Woman’s National Fann and Garden association, of which she is president, at South Sudbury, Mrs. Ford gave the “inside story’’ as follows: Many funny stories have gone around about our inTentions, so I am going to tell you so that at least this group will hear the real truth. Well. I think we have owned it about five years, perhaps six. Mr. and Mrs. Lemon owned it and ran it as an inn until Mr. Lemon died. Mrs. Lemon carried it on about five years. Then she thought she would sell it and take a little ease. New Englanders had a great interest in coming to the place and they disliked the idea of its being sold, fearful it might get into the hands of some one who would cheat them out of the privilege of visiting it. When an association, formed by many .Boston people with the intention of raising money to buy it, was unsuccessful and a man offered to give Mrs. Lemon her price, Mr. Ford was approached. He was told about the man who intended to add on 60 bedrooms and turn it into a common, and take in everybody and all kinds. Well, some one, 1 don’t know who it was, said that was going to happen. Mr. Ford said, “We’ll buy it and save it.” That seemed an easy thing to do, buy it and save it. After we realized we owned it we said, “What will we do with it?” We didn’t know one thing about running an inn or hotel of any kind. We thought, “We won’t renovate it. We'll keep it in perfect order and keep it as a museum.” Then we began getting letters from these nice New England people who came to it so often, writing, “O, Mr. Ford, I’ve always been able to ride out to Ways.ide inn and have luncheon or dinner.” Mr, Ford is rather easygoing, so he said, “We’ll continue that.” That meant cooks and managers, all sorts of people to be here and run .it We were *' away in Michigan and when people are many miles away it is hard to tell whether the people are carrying it on as we should like to have them. But as long as people wanted it, we did it We did think we wouldn’t have anybody stay over night, and we should keep all the rooms as show rooms, but we got the same story when New England people heard that. “O. we want to stay over night,” and so we did that Os course we do have these restrictions. We don’t take everybody. Everybody has to be known by some one or have an invitation because there are only four bedrooms on the second floor and two on the third floor; not very desirable because in the summer it is hot up there. We just had to limit to people we know are reliable, people we know •will not bring a hip flask or anything like that.

Painless Dentistry Tried on Lioness

A bit of dentistry in which the dentist rather than the patient might have been expected to flee the office as the fatal hour approached is reported by Prof. Oskar Burgi of the University of Zurich. Switzerland. The patient was a twenty-year-old lioness, resident of the zoo at Seebach, and suffering from an ulcerated tooth. First Doctor Burgi administered a dcse of narcotic sufficient to keep the

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To begin with we found the inn in very bad repair. The basement was full of broken down furniture, the lower floor had to be changed so there would be more room from floor to ceiling and we made it nice and clean. The next job was rewiring it. We were afraid of fire, the wires had been stuck in every which way. We went into the walls and fished those little wires through and put them through, what do you call it, a conduit? It was an awful big piece to do and not many who have seen the house before would know that we Aid it. We wanted to keep it as old as possible. People began to come in crowds. We found we couldn’t thke care of them. One Thanksgiving 600 came to dinner, they began telephoning for reservations early in the morning. We had to do something. He had to have another dining room and just as soon as we started doing that we had to have another kitchen. An old-fashioned sink and stove and oven that would do years ago for a few people won’t do for many people. We have to have things up to date and of the best, but people ■don’t see the modern kitchen. 4 Just as soon as we started enlarging the dining room people said, “The old inn must be making so much money they don’t know what to do with it. It was closed Sunday? because we decided the type of people who streamed in were not interested in antiques at all. They merely wanted a place to spend the day. We stopped busses coming out at night because we thought it was inconsiderate to have the persons who had been showing people over the house all day. taxed further by tourists who would come to the Wayside inn in the daytime. Interesting as is this “inside story” it does not tell all that the motor manufacturer has done to preserve this shiine for future generations of Americans, for he has spent more than a hundred thousand dollars to build a new link of public highway so that heavy traffic may be diverted from the neighborhood of the inn. He has bought more than 2,500 acres of land surrounding the inn, and across the way from it he has restored the old stone mill over whose wheel the water still pours as it did in the old days when the farmers brought their grain there to be ground. Around a bend of the Boston Post mad, which goes past the inn, stands the school house where Mary went, followed by her little lamb. This school house originally stood near Sterling. Mass., but, finding it in a dilapidated condition, Mr. Ford bought it and moved it to a site near the Wayside inn so that it. too, may be preserved for posterity. Not the least of the interesting facts about the Wayside Inn of today and its new host has been his unrelenting search for the original furnishings or duplicates in the same period. Over the entrance of the inn swings the sign which tells the passing traveler that this is the Red Horse inn and which bears the name of its builder. David

animal without pain and virtually asleep. Chains and ropes were then used to tie the patient so tightly that escape was impossible. The jaws were propped open and tied. Not until then did Doctor Burgi begin his dental operations, but his troubles were not oyer. The ulceration affected one of the great canines or “eye teeth” of the giant cat. So firmly attached to the jaw was this great tusk that ordi-

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nary methods of pulling It were unsuccessful. The dentist was compelled to crush the tooth and extract it in more than a score of fragments, the lion meanwhile enjoying a fitful sleep induced by the narcotic. With the tooth once out of the way the socket was soon cleaned and disinfected and the animal released, minus the toothache which had been distressing her for days. Many a worthless man has a good disnositlon.

The Wayside Inn „ _ near Sudbury, Mass. Howe and the three Howes who succeeded him. After the tavern furnishings were sold at auction, ' the sign hung in its place for several years. Th?n some students, out on a lark, carried it away and a farmer who had rented them a sleigh found it in the sleigh after they had returned the vehicle. He put the sign in his hayloft and there it remained until Mr. Ford started the restoration of the inn and sought it out. ■When Mr. Ford decided to reconstruct the inn he used as the basis for his work these lines from Longfellow’s poem: The fire-light, shedding over all The splendor of its ruddy glow, Filled the whole parlor, large and low; It gleamed on wainscot and on wall. It touched with more than wonted grace Fair Princess Mary’s painted face; It bronzed the rafters overhead. On the old spinet’s ivory keys It played inaudible melodies, It crowned the somber clock with flame. The hands, the hours, the maker’s name. And painted with a livelier red The landlord’s coat-of-arms again; And, flashing on the window pane Emblazoned with its light and shade The jovial rhymes that still remain. Writ here a century ago, By the great Major Molineaux, Whom Hawthorne has immortal made. So £ar as it was possible, first buyers and later buyers of objects in the irtn'were traced and one by* one as many of these objects as could be found were purchased and brought back to the inn. “The bronzed rafters overhead,” of course, remained fixed in their place. “The somber clock crowned with flame” stands today reaching almost from the floor to the ceiling and the present day visitor may see for himself “the hands, the hours, the maker’s name” —Edward Faulkner, a I.ondou clock-maker of the middle Eighteenth century. “Fair Princess Mary’s painted face” hangs on the wall near the fireplace, still “touched with mors than wonted grace.” Near by the “landlord’s coat of arms” hangs over the mantel. The “old spinet” has not yet been recovered, although the owner of the original is known and Mr. Ford still hopes to obtain it. However, another of the same period stands in its corner. All of these are in the ,’ront parlor, which is to the left of the doorway and is called the “Longfellow room.” On a table more than two hundred years old lies a book opened at the lines spoken above. The window on which the “great Major Molineaux, whom Hawthorne lias Immortal made,” cut his verse with a diamond ring was lost many years ago. But two of the panes of glass hav£ been preserved and are carefully framed. The “jovial rhymes” which the major “writ near a century ago” were as follows: What do you think Here is good drink Perhaps you may not know it. If not in haste Do stop and taste You merry folks will show it. The tap room where could be obtained the major's “good drink” is opposite the Longfellow room. The ancient bar. conveniently high for the elbow, but without the foot rail of a later period, still stands as it did in Longfellow’s day. On the shelves behind the spot where “mine host” stood are bottles and jugs of various kinds. Os course there are no bottles to be opened, nowadays, so that these empty relics are all that remain to tell of this adjunct to the joviality of the group which gathered around the fireplace in the tap room to sip and smoke and talk. Nearby still hangs the “pipe tongs.” a long implement like a pair of scissors with which the guest, without bending his back, might reach into the fire, pick out a glowing coal and light his pipe. On the walls of the Longfellow n om hang the portraits of some of these guests made famous by Longfellow, in assigning them parts in the “Tales of a Wayside Inn.” Among them are Ole Bull, the violinist; Professor Treadwell, the theologian; Isaac Elrehi, “the Spanish Jew”; Luigi, “the Sicilian,” then a Harvard professor, and Thomas W. Parsons, the poet. Another of the rooms is called the “Washington Room” because of the tradition that George Washington spent a night there on his way to take command of the Continental army at Cambridge. , On the third floor which was the old garret there are rooms for about twenty guests. Here the motorists of today, sleeping beneath the eaves as travelers of an earlier day before slept, may “take mine ease tn mine inn” and be grateful to the “ninth landlord” of the Red Horse tavern for this opportunity to enjoy the practical use of an American shrine because “mine host” of today is Henry Ford.

Life's Little Ironies When Robert Burns lay on bls deathbed in Dumfries he is said to have declared to his wife: “I will be better known a hundred years from now. Jean, than I am today.” More prophetic words were never uttered. The poet who died tormented with a debt of SSO hanging over him that he was unable to meet is known everywhere today, while the sale of one copy of an early edition of his poems brings enough money to hav< kept Burns in affluence all his life.

ORCHARD GLEANINGS CONTROLLING SAN JOSE SCALE PEST Spray Should Be Used While Trees Are Dormant. Many peach and apple trees have been sprayed in the past few years in Arkansas with lubricating oil emulsion for the control of San Jose scale. For th»»se that are now in the fruit business it might be well to keep watch for this small inconspicuous pest, which appears as a small gray dot about the size of a pin head on the branches of the tree, advises C. Woolsey, University of Arkansas, college of agricultural extension service. On the young wood the scale is often encircled with a small reddish ring. The San Jose scale multiplies very rapidly and will often kill a tree in a single season. Lubricating oil emulsion should be tifeed while the trees tire dormant to control these insects, and care should be taken to see that the spray mixture covers all parts of the tree inside and out. The following conclusions are drawn from Arkansas Extension Circular No. IC4. which may be secured from the county auent or by writing to ’cultural Extension Service, 310 Federal Bank and Trust building. Little Hock, Ark. “Lubricating oil emulsion is now recognized as the most satisfactory spray material to use in the control of San Jose scale. A 2 per cent solution. or three gallons of the stock emulsion to 100 gallons of water, is the dosage recommended. “This material offers all that can be desired in efficiency, for iu experimental work practically 100 per cent of the scale hit were killed. In contrast to lime sulphur, which is most effective only in early spring, it may be used at almost any time during the dormant season when the weather is warm enough to permit spraying without reduced efficiency. The fact that oil emulsion is not caustic, as is lime sulphur, takes away much of the disagreeableness which accompanies dormant spraying. At present the cost of oil emulsion is about one-half as great as that of lime sulphur, which is the cheapest of the other insecticides used for the control of scale.’’ th6 circular states. Proper Implements Are Important in Orchards Where the orchardist can have the right implement for the particular kind of work for which it is best adapted, he is, indeed, fortunate. He will also be able to do more and better work if the implements have been kept in the best condition and ire available for work when needed. Many growers who handle a rather extensive acreage have found that the tractor may replace horsepower to advantage. This will be particularly true on land and soils where tractors may be operated efficiently and wher the acreage is enough to Justify additional expense. The tractor will be able to cover the land much more Quickly and at the same time supply additional power for better work. Moreover, it may often happen during the winter, spring or summer that there are only a few days during which the soil works well. If suffi?ient team power is not available, much cultivation may be neglected on account of the inability of the grower to do the tillage work rapidly. This, of course, results in an increase of Injurious pests, more expense for spraying materials and labor, and too often lower grade and less fruit Is received through decreased tree vigor. Protect Newly Planted Tree From Sunburn In addition to forming low heads, the trunks of newly planted trees should be protected from sunburn. The ordinary, perforated tree protector used for citrus trees may be used, or the trunks be wrapped with a few folds of newspaper tied at the top and near the bottom and made loose enough to allow the air to circulate freely around the trunk. The wrapping should be done soon after the tree is planted but should not extend above the point where it is intended to form the first scaffold limb. The upper part of the trunk should be whitewashed, and for this the following formula has proved satisfactory: Seven pounds unslaked lime, two pounds sulphur, two pounds salt, mixed with water to make a thin paste. The wrapping should be allowed to remain until the trees develop ample top to produce shade for the trunk, which is usually after the second growing season. Prevent Washing Orchards set on sloping land and hillsides must be protected against washing. This may become one of the most important parts of the process of establishing the young orchard. Orchards in such locations may, necessarily. be maintained in sod to pre- . vent undue washjng, but still the area immediately around the young trees must be handled under clean cultivation, and proper measures taken to prevent washing of the soil around the trees.

Drainage Big Help We have plenty of proof, both in this country and abroad, that removal of excess water by drainage increases the growth of the trees almost immediately. The producing power of entire stands has been increased by three or four times through drainage and open growing stands have given place to thrifty young forests. The investigative work in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, will serve as examples, on how to drain with assurance of maximum success.

Bolster the Pasture -With More .Crops

If Supplement Is Provided Live Stock Will Not Suffer for Feed. piue grass is the main constituent of our- best pastures and makes abundant growth during spring and early summer, and again in the fall months, but there is usually a period during the summer when little growth Is made. The capacity of the pasture during that period of the year is apt to be rather uncertain, particularly in a dry year. Supplemental Crop Helps. H. R. Cox, farm crops specialist at the New Jersey State College of Agriculture. suggests that if a supplement to the pasture is provided during part of the summer, the stock will not suffer from lack of feed, and the pasture will not be injured by grazing too closely. This supplement may be of various kinds. Sometimes additional grass pasture may be rented. With sonie it may take the form of providing for temporary pastures or using soiling crops, or by use of silage. Hay land may be pastured after mowing. Grain stubble is sometimes pastured but the cows do not get much besides ragweed. In case of necessity, some of the first cutting of grass and clover may be grazed. A few farmers in New Jersey pasture the second cutting of alfalfa after it is well along. This is not particularly good for alfalfa, but it is not as hard on the crop as pasturing during the

Starking Apple Is Delicious

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I/ B J # | s X -W i if jmb I L ■ "wk ■ tw ■SB Starking Apple Tree; Apple in Inset. Color is recognized as being of the utmost importance in selling manufactured articles nowadays. Motor cars, alarm clocks, bathtubs, even kitchen ranges are being made in colors to help them sell. Is it strange that color should be considered vital in marketing agricultural products, especially such an attractive one as a bright, red, apple? With its brilliant red color stressed as its most important improvement, a nursery firm of Louisiana, Mo., has introduced a new strain of the famous Delicious apple, which has been given the name Starking. The big point of difference between the Delicious and the Starking is that Starking is solid, rich red all over the apple while the parent is a striped and lighter colored apple. Furthermore. the Starking colors red several weeks before the original Delicious starts to color. Otherwise the two apples are of identical quality. As one expert puts it: “The Delicious got ripe before it got red; the Starking gets red before it gets ripe.” Whereas the Delicious lacked color. when it was picked at a state of proper-tirninesS which permitted storage. the Starking has attained its brightest color when still solid and ready to be picked when hard ripe. It is estimated by apple experts that the item of increased color alone would mean an increase of $1,000,000 a year additional income to the grow-

SMUT LOSSES IN WHEAT SHOW BIG INCREASE IN FIVE YEARS

Growers Are Urged to Treat Seed Before Planting. As stinking smut of wheat has increased rapidly In the United States since the war. causing greater losses than any other plant disease, wheat growls are being urged to treat their seed with copper-carbonate dust before planting as a preventive measure. An investigation of conditions In eastern Colorado showed seven to ten per cent of the wheat crop ruined by smut the past vear, according to E. A. Lungren of the Colorado Agricultural college. In some instances fields have shown as high as 30 to 50 per cent smut with the consequent losses of ten to twelve dollars per acre. Smut losses can be prevented by treating the seed wheat before plant-

entire season. Os the crops that are sown for. temporary pasture, there ia nothing that will’beat sweet clover where soil conditions are right,, for it. Using Method of Soiling. A few farmers meet the shortage of pasture by using the method of soiling, that is, cutting green crops for the cows. Corn, clover, and grass may be used in this way; or certain crops may be planted specifically for this purpose, such as oats and peas in spring, and soy beans in late spring. Soiling involves considerable labor, however, and it is usually cheaper to let the cows gather their own roughage. Avian Tuberculosis Is Spread by Brood Sows Investigators at the Illinois expert- 4 raent station have added another link to their long chain of evidence on the part whic^’avian, or fowl, type of the disease plays in tuberculosis of swine and calvefe. They have shown during the past year that the avian type of the may be perpetuated in swine independent of contact with infected chickens or contaminated ground. The evidence has been obtained that pigs infected with the avian tyi>e of tuberculosis may pass, in their fjeces, virulent tubercle bacilli •capable of establishing the disease in other pits independently of other means. Hence, sows infected with avian tuberculosis may be Looked upon as a potential means of spreading the disease to pigs.

ers of sych a district as the Wenatchee, Washington apple growing district, could all the fruit on the Delicious trees in that section be given the solid red color of the Stacking. Experience has proved that the color, which the buyer can see. Is far more important than the flavor, or any other quality in determining the market price. The markets, however, have recognized the superior quality of the Delicious type of apples. Only highly colored good quality fruit can be graded extra fancy and get the top market figure. This teaches that even orchardists are affected by fashion, and must pay attention to the appearance of their product. The Stacking was discovered on a single branch of a Delicious apple tree in a New Jersey orchard. This branch was observed to be loaded each year with apples that became red tn late August, a month before ripening, when the apples on the other limbs of the same tree were still green. This is a natural phenomenon which occurs possibly only once in a million or more trees; it is termed a “mutation” or an unexplained departure from type, one of the ways nature has of improving the species the cause of which men have so far been unable to explain. By taking the wood of this exceptional branch, and,, propagating it on root stocks, trees possessing the qualities of the single branch were obtained, and the Stacking apple was made available to all orchards. The Starking apple was awarded the American Pomological society’s Wilder medal in 1926. Except for its « color, the trees and fruit of Starking have the same characteristics as the Delicious. A number of orchard-' ists have observed that Starking bears at a younger age, often when three or four years old. The apples have exhibited greater storage endurance. having been kept more than a year without deterioration. Like the Delicious it grows rapidly and Is exceptionally resistant to the attacks of insects amj diseases.

ing with copper-carbonate dust, applied to the grain in an air-tight mixer, the college says. This treatment gives practically perfect results, not only killing the smut spores on the kernels before planting bin prote« ting them from smut infection that may be in the sacks or drill. The commercially pure copper dust or powder can be mixed with the seed wheat at the rate of two to three ounces, or two to three heaping-ta-blespoonfuls. of powder to. the bushel. The best method of applying dust is to use a barrel mixer or box fixed in the manner of the ordinary cement mixer. Since the copper carbonate is a dry treatment, the seed can be planted immediately after dusting, or held a tong time. The effect of the treatment is permanent Moreover, seed germination is not injured by the cop-per-carbonate-dust treatment.