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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Sally Sez FARM r Money to Burn pened to tell her I was going to Los Angeles to buy this car and she suggested that if I would telephone her shed let me read her story before' she mailed it east I suppose she didnt want to write anything to which I might object. . , Oh said Nellie. Did she write a nice, Interesting story about you, Elmer? Ill be hanged If I know, he confessed. We forgot to look at it. FEEDING .CORN TO Just as well you forgot, Elmer. She HOGS PROFITABLE couldnt write a snappy, interesting Story anyhow. Shes as spurious as a lead dollar. Now, how can you say such a thing Safest Investment and One about a. girl you have never met? Way' of Making Money Elmer challenged. ) Saw you walking down to the depot most The profitable method of marwith her the night she was In Pilarcorn for the next two years Is keting citos. Heard a fragment of her conit to hogs and then mar by feeding versation. Heard her laugh. Noted W. W. Shay, swine the hogs, keting her general make-up- . Thats all, but thats enough for little Nellie Cath- extension specialist of the North Carolina State college, says, in speaking cart. and the profit admit she in Isnt Well, Ill your of the low price of corn class, Nellie, but nevertheless I think to be made in hogs at the present shes charming. Shes bully company time. Feeding corn to hogs is the safest farm Investment and the surest so much so that I you and gave her the first ride after way to make a profit in farming this year. , Id promised you. If the corn Is produced at a low Nellie's gay, gurgling little laugh set him at his ease. Now that Ive cost per bushel, Mr. Shay says that it made you suffer, dear, you may pick is always profitable to feed corn to yourself up and dust yourself off. Im hogs. Even If the corn Is high In not miffed at you, but I could kill a price per bushel or the yield per acre is low, the feeding of corn to hogs number of people in this town today. When So could I. I wish I hadnt jumped will increase Its bushel value. Into that campaign for high school the farmer has a big loss in the cost trustee. Youre all that keeps me of corn, due to low production per from leaving this town and never comacre, this can he cut down by feeding to hogs, but not alwaysellmlnated. to back. I I a get hope whipped ing The person who cannot produce at frazzle in that trustee fight honestly, least 30 bushels of corn or more to I do. Nellies hand came over and rested the acre had best stay out of the hog on his. You go In and win, she comraising business. manded. The day I catch you dragdemonstrations in the in is the eastern this of tail the state this past your community ging part day you and I are going to have our year showed that corn will Increase first real disagreement. Leave Pilarenormously In value If fed to hogs. citos as often as you like and have a One demonstration showed a profit of 485 per cent on corn by such feeding, good time while you are away, but come back to Pilarcitos! When I bedespite the death of one hog during gin to demand a detailed report on the demonstration. The hogs. In this your doings it will be time for you to case, ate 209 bushels of corn, which commence worrying. would have brought $188.10 If sold as I dont think I could stand that, corn. After paying all other charges, he confessed soberly. and deducting the value of the hog No man of spirit which died. $19.75. the hogs still paid Nellie laughed. would. Where are you taking me for a profit of $285.94 for the corn and luncheon? left plant food worth $49.35 on the Out to Joe Angellottis. farm, whereas $31.35 worth of plant Nellie announced food would have gone out with the Well, Elmer, when' they found themselves seated, corn, had it been sold. The other two Ive sold your house and lot on the demonstrations proved the same thing. terms you named. If youll drop in at In the demonstrations, the hogs were the bank after luncheon and sign the put on half the time and deed, Ill attest it and the deal will he then turned In on standing corn, suphours. closed in twenty-fou- r plemented with fish meal. Three cheers said Elmer. Nellie, The raising of plenty of corn and youre a smart girl. When does the hogs will be a great boost for the new owner desire to take possession movement, Mr. Shay of my house? believes. He wants many hog feedImmediately." ing demonstrations this year, with acO. K. Ill take a suite at the curate records kept. hotel. Now lets Atta boy ! said Nellie. talk about your campaign for high Suggested Ration for school trustee and organize that Ive Fattening Lamb Crop been checking off votes, trying to estiLambs being fattened on a suitable mate your probable strength, and it mixture and good hay will not grain seems to me you have a fight on your to be eat as much silage as expected hands." Watch my smoke," said Elmer breeding ewes. As the lambs get on full feed of grain the roughage Is natClarke. Because he was so easy to handle urally reduced. About two pounds of Nellie favored him with a loving look grain daily Is a full feed for lambs being fattened. Corn Is of course thq and with difficulty, repressed an imto across the table and lean kiss universal fattener among the grains pulse barley Is used a lot Jn western New him. Dear, blind, straightforward, straight-thinkinElmer! All she had York. A suggested ration to start to do to hold him in line, was to show with would be a half pound of grain, him a fight and then send him into It. two pounds of clover hay, and one He had been fighting and winning pound of silage dally. Lambs when since his twelfth birthday and it had on full feed should clean up their never been an easy fight. His path grain and eat the good or edible part had always been beset with obstacles, of fheir hay. Some feeders feed a litwhich he had successfully hurdled, but tle wheat bran with the fattening far down that path Nellie could dis- concentrate which is a good practice cern one obstacle that must send him as wheat bran has a beneficial effect on the system of the Iamb. crashing to the ground. but before he death Yes, nothing should reach that obstacle could save Proper Attention Will Elmer Clarke from having his nose Prevent Much Pig Loss rubbed In the dirt and Nellie had a There is a considerable loss of pigs vast curiosity to see how this man, who had tasted victory, would as- at the time of birth and within a very similate defeat, chagrin, sneers, gibes short time afterwards. Many pigs are and the varied cruelties of a world bom dead, and many more are so weak that they live only a short time. which tramples joyously over the felMuch of this loss can be avoided by low who goes down In the fight. Standing alone, in a stricken field, would proper feeding of brood sows and by Elmer, defeated, acknowledge defeat? providing suitable quarters for farWhy, Nellie, what are you crying rowing. Of course, attention at farabout? he demanded suddenly. rowing time will save many pigs, but unless sows have been fed a ration Nellies sweet mouth trembled piti, I I I cant tell you, Elmer. that contains sufficient protein and fully. thats all. I I mineral matter, It Is a foregone conIm just havent any spunk Please forgive clusion that there will be some dead me darling. pigs at birth, and many of those that Elmer was delighted. Most men are are born alive will be too weak to live when they think they have observed long. infallible evidence that the girl they love, but arent quite certain of, Supplementing Com evinces signs of jealousy. Poor Elmer For supple entlng corn on alfalfa was Doris. of she jealous thought pasture one pound of tankage has (TO BH CONTINUED.) proved to be as efficient for pigs as two pounds if linseed meal, soy beans, Father of Postage Stamp It is not generally known that a or soy bean meal. A mineral mixture blind man gave the world its postage composed of equal parts of ground stamp, says an article In Popular Scilimestone, and salt ence Monthly. In 1840, Sir Rowland did not improve a ration of corn and Hill, head of Great Britains postal soy beans on alfalfa pasture. In fact, service, suggested the Idea which has the feed required per 100 pounds of since spread to all parts of the globe. grain was higher when minerals were The first American stamp appeared lu fed than without them. These are 1847 and bore the portrait of Benjasome of the results of last years hog min Franklin. feeding tests. r I By Jtnsen ! y- -B- Peter B. Kyne by Peter B. Kyne. r ' WNU Serytce r i THE STORY : i. Hiram Butterworth, miser, dies suddenly leaving: his fortune of more than a million to Elmer Clarke, nephew. Before his death Hiram arranged for payment with interest of $40,000 which he had swindled a man out of forty years before. Unknown to Elmer, his sweetheart, Nellie Cathcart, bank teller. Is heiress of the swindled man. Colorado Charley, crook, and his partner, Mae, plan to pluck Elmer. Posing as a reporter named Doris Gatewood, Mae calls on Elmer. Elmer Is a candidate for school trustee. Nellie spots Doris as an adventuress. Elmer goes to Los Angeles and visits Doris and her brother. CHAPTER VIII double-crosse- Continued 15 Elmer arrived home In a singularly happy frame of mind. He had had a perfectly delightful time In Los Angeles. At parting Doris had, In her brothers presence and with that candor and charm which so fascinated Elmer, Insisted upon kissing him good-bThen she had walked out to the car with him and shaken his hand in farewell. She said she wouldnt sleep a wink until she knew he had arrived home safely and wouldnt he telegraph her the instant that happy end had been accomplished? Elmer would, lie promised her solemnly to that effect and he kept his promise. He should have known better. Old Lady Bray handled that telegram, made a note of the ladys name and address and promptly circulated a report that Nellie Cathcart had better look out that a girl In Los Angeles was after Elmer Clarke and 3 In a fair way of landing him. The theft of the queen bee from a hive could not possibly have upset a f so much community of bees as the three reports on Elmers Los activities upset Pilarcitos. Angeles The town buzzed with gossip and idle speculation. and If it had been prior to that fatal trip to Los to the Angeles, it was now last man and woman. Elmer had been regarded, the moment news of his Inheritance had become known, as first prize, won by Miss Nellie Cathcart. Now, to have a stranger beat Nellie out by a whisker In the last Jump, as It were-t-o employ racing parlance set the town agog with excitement. Elmer arrived In Pilarcitos too late In the afternoon to take Nellie to luncheon, and as he was due that night to conduct an Initiation of a class of thirty neophytes Into the local lodge of the Woodmen of the World, he had no opportunity of seeing her until noon of the following day. By that time, however, he had listened to enough bucolic badinage and impish queries regarding his gallantry in Los Angeles to realize that Nellie Cathcart must have listened to twice as . y. one-hal- anti-Elm- pro-Elm- er pro-Nell- much. Consequently he was somewhat troubled of soul as he drew up In front of the bank and waited for Nellie to emerge. She came, ' flashing him a radiant smile of welcome front the top step, where she paused to make deliberate appraisal of the new millionaire, his chauffeur and his new car. Elmer stepped out, opened the tonneau door aud waved her In. Oh, boy! Nellie murmured lessly and popped In. Elmer, darling, its gorgeous so gorgeous that Im grateful to be the second girl to ride io It first Nellie couldnt help thrusting that one home and it went home, too. Elmer flushed and looked as guilty as a dog as he climbed lu beside her. Well, there was but one thing ty do and that was to tell the truth, shame the devil and let the chips fall where they might Well, Ill tell you all about her he began, but Nellie raised a menac. . ing finger. Dont Elmer It Isnt necessary. Yon do not have to. I know you just happened to be riding along, you met he she was walking, she recognized you and you just had to be decent and give her a lift. Well, have It your own way, he Only replied gloomily but bravely. that wasnt the way. You see, I'd met her before. 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