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Show CACHE AMERICAN. iahJAN. MichiganToday t i "i i Crops Cost Least on Manured Land Kcsult-- it'f t- - Hog Cholera Hazard to De Kept in Mind Our Pet Pccre . Intelligent Soil Trontment IlAII Xv c.lM5,NO VO. O HOfc up Kajv I PETTCe CAUINC CO; At HCMfc in Profit for CAN VV atfcCVt4JlLNioHl JACK. ?fUL W'R PE MEL't CONNER H HACtY .1ST A PACTV-fL- Parmer. r Dr i H !!, rmK Id r. ' UTUt (ACP f iiiu.it f HH' . Pointing the way lo wider mar .. glna of profit fur the fanner, results from 10 out of 20 111 t "11 rshow that rrop exiwrim.iit have been grown at the lowed cut trraum-n- t und.-- r a evuleiu of whl. b Im troli-manure. On Id of these 18 fields manure an-- l limestone have been the und profitable 11 treatment. r Manure rank a the U- -t gen eral purpose fertilizer. The manure from one horse or mw during a Jl. year contain a murh nitrogen at a half ton or mure of nltrale of Michigan Make a Major Pari of the World' Air Rifle. as 121 aodn, as much phci-hntNational Gaoarafkl Or " forests bav lung at nr yielded to Miund of super and at (rr.i V phosphate. i 4liOt. the spacious avenues radiating from much i M, MiMf ) potash nt 2D pounds of muher aurrounded lawn state bouse, riate of potash. romixinjr of were recently and though the cry for reforesting RetuilU for the part 20 year, not the elate Is widespread, the capital only from Illinois but also from a In n (ho Lumbermen's Memorial, overlooking the AO and her sinter cities rank among the Ohio, Reims Iran' and elsewhere, So Me river, r.at dedicated. cliy a most beautifully tree shaded agree remarkably well In Sometime appear Little dltl Monsieur JitiP NIcoleL communities. a figure of $2 to $3 a ton lb flrrt Mte muo lo ort fool on Ing a If burled In greenery, and for ai a reasonable and conservative Michigan In KH. or tho hardy pio- the most part displaying regularly value for a ton of manure. These neer mho later laid a firm foundaspaced maple along foliage-roofevalues are bnsrd on It performance tion upon taltlrh llir otate oral built streets, Michigan's towns thus pr In Improving crap yield Taking a the souvenir of great log the Illinois experiment fields as a ainixvt Hint today thrlr crude serve camp would be altea of (treat glug are of their state. whole, manure ha Increased wheat America o clilia Joined by a aplen-diMichigan's forest primeval lay yield three and a half bushel an network of Bna highway and with pine end softwoods mainly to acre, corn yield ten bushel an the north of forty-thirrailroad parallel of acre, oat yield (even bushels an In Its Infancy Mlchlgun wrna a latitude, and with the hardwoods acre, and bay yield of a huge Imnlier ramp; today Ita Indus- mainly to the euuth of It. A cen- ton en acre. Detroit Induatrles tury ego her area was still 07 per trie are lepton. Manure la an effective fertilizer cent timbered. alone normnlly employ some soil as well a on on In the expansion period that fol worker who are massed In ones, and Is especially state Civil war the nnlta attaining to 55.090 or 6.1,000 lowed the Old Man Sea so on sand and alkali. On the Aledo. In a single esmldltdiment It Is, of loomed op ns the great pine pro- Hartsbtirg, taMollIe and Mlnonk No More. Name a as course, her automobile Industry, ducer. Eastern farmers turned pi fields, representing highly producwhich predominates In thle mass oneer and trekked Michigan ward tive soils, manure last Dutch engineers Washington. for their fractional Investment In year was worth $1.50 a ton aa a employment. Zuiderzee have divorced completeof timber OW.OOl) feet the 125.000, When the future state was suryield Improver. On medium proThe ductive soils It fra worth $243 a ly from the North sea by an rendered by the British in liOfl, no- that rose north of Saginaw. dike. Part of the former salt- body attached undue Importance to prairie state were calling for tiro ton. It had value of $4 49 a ton gulf will become a fresh water with Ita ber, and Michigan's was massed In on the badly eroded hill land of a vlllnge named to he known as ljessel lake, COO Inhahllants and an area less blgstanda with easy river access to southern Illinois and a value of lake, In the Dutch. Ijesselmeer. Most or. 1.10 than a square mile. Skip years the Great Lake. more thun $0 a ton on aand land, of It. will be pumped dry and Detroit reappears as the naLp sprang 800 campa employing eneb a Is represented by the and however, Into neat Duteb developed tion's fourth largest city with an 25,000 logger. Ilank roads wer Oquawka field. farmsteads. In area of more than 1 10 square miles, laid through the wilderness. "In separating the Zuiderzee from a population of more than one and 1875 there were 30 solid tulles of the ocean tne Dutch are no more Cow of more than Gres. For Testing In An Expenses an Industrial the a quarter million and logs than their own, says a an Investment bulletinreclaiming product value of $2,000,000,000 a 30 year men chopped and aaws Really from the Washington (D. screamed, until In 1890 Michigans year. Some farmer feel tlmt Joining a C.) headquarter of the National Approaching the city by lake pine lumbering reached Ita peak association would only Geographic society. Six hundred steamer one beholds a striking pan- with 4.2.10,000 feet. be an additional expense an exyears ago much of the late ZuiderTransition to Manufacturing. orama. The Canadian aide shows and not an Investment, aa It zee was dry land, protected from Rut the young state's transition pense be many miles of green meadows, while should regarded. the North sea by sand dune Then manufacto the American side reveals a gradperiod from lumbering Any business man would be willthe sea rolled In. Today a huge ual Intensifying spectacle of mam- turing was not accomplished with to Increase his Investment If It nmn made dike will make possible moth cranes, towering alack vast out growing pains. Iler forests ing would Increase bis net returns maan Increase In the total laud area J factories all of Industry's shorn, a host of lumber towns associaTour the Netherlands of 7 per cent, of terially. City, Ray Ludlngton, Cheyboygan, panoply. tion can hurdly Increase your cream and In the arable land of 10 per Bag bulk Lest the motor car Manistee, Alpena, Muskegon, disproeases It can cut cent Into prices, but in many temporarily portionately on Detroit' skyline. It lnaw relapsed down your costs of production so Played Important Part. should be remembered that the stagnation or ruin. net return will be greater. The Zuiderzee basin, with an Is typical. that your of The Muskegon story 3,000 manufacturing major dty'a at a cost area of more than 550.000 acres. Is her peoples Can you produce butterfat plants Include 35 lines that fall Into Iler glories fled, of 11.4 cents per pound? One dairyalmost as large as the state of class of trekked, and grass grew In her man in the the Pocahontas (Iowa) Cow Rhode Island. Situated In the very f rebuilt she Then streets. In fact, ever since slowly productivity. association did and others heart of northern Holland, It bns on the desert left by vanished Testing the days when Detroit made the In the association aren't far behind long played an Important part In sawmills. How, the woodworking, first gold pens, ran the first refrigThe the commerce and social life of the In their costs of production. erator cars and built among the ear- automotive and other Industries country. While Holland Is rejoictown to average of the entire association have lifted the liest of sleeping cars and, tradiwas four and a half cents below the ing with her engineers In their the Is one of Ice cream her mixed tion adds, the first present prosperity received for their greatest victory over their ancient soda the Michigan metropolis lias most striking stories In Michigan's average price These butterfat dairymens herds foe, the sea, the fishing villages and been a plexus of diversified manu- annals. still are on the good side of the quaint Islands of the Zuiderzee, beSaginaw, once such a Sawmill facturing. Kenneth Littlefield, in loved of tourists, are silent. Most ledger. Detroits Remarkable Growth. City that her shore area was ma an Iowa report In Hoards of the sea ports along the shores of testing In the In terms measured filling Iler growth teriully enlarged by the Zuiderzee are destined to beDairyman. Incalculable with more shallow lagoons of population, has Increased come Inland farming villages, consima tons of sawdust, represents than 3GO per cent during thla cenr with only by Individual Hog Houses nected while tury. Indeed, her present roll of In- ilar rise, fall, and comeback. ToIslands may be hildustrial operatives surpasses by day she normally pays more In Earl Knebel, Iowa, writes: Our canals, slightly raised from enmore than 00,000 her total populafreight bills on her automotive and Individual movable hog bouses 5 by locks, only fields of grain, vegetables circling lum famed her than ten other the Within 1900. tion of past products 6 feet can be built complete with and flowers. r has ber cut was worth 40 years ago. years the office board floor at a total cost of $11.50 Among the ports which will beIn Flint took refuge carriage each. These are taken Its place In Detroits skyline, and do come rural centers are Edam, fadiand apartment hotels and hotel skybuilding. Many a town started not need farrowing rails to prevent mous for Its globular cheeses. It scrapers cannot be reared fast versified woodworking as a stop- the sows from lying on the pigs. once was the water-gatto AmsterManat with Citizens to her Ludlngton, gap. keep pace enough They were made of rough lumber dam when the only approach to the bored the elsewhere and and stained with crank case oil to growth. In fact, Detroits rapid istee, of Dutch cities was via the changes In physiognomy Justify the earth, produced brines, and made perserve the wood. Our ten sows greatest Zuiderzee. Now a deep canal conEnglish writer who remarked of the steam of lumber mills evaporate farrowed 80 pigs and not one was nects Amsterdam directly with the Wrecked build- the brine into salt American cities, killed by smothering. North sea. Artists will miss the state-wid- e a was There mushrooms." like spectacle ings spring up To prevent the smaller ones One turns gratefully from Deof Michigan remaking herself. Bnt from being robbed an individual water front at Volendnm, and the arrival of the little fishing schoonof the turn not around the until troits thoroughfares pen was made for each sow of light ers each Saturday morning. Hoorn Into that loveliest retreat of all her present century did she set a firm 6 by gates or panels, which will live In the annals of the sea, foot on the Industrial ladder, np were wired together so they could 8,000 acres of park space P.elle In Tape Horn, the southwhich she has since made so spec- easily be moved or taken down however. Isle. ernmost tip of South America, ascent. In an town a founded tacular the Pontiac, when not needed. When the pigs named after the home town of Its Where the Mint Grows. early boom period, leaped Into the were a few weeks old they were aldiscoverer, Willem Schouten. Inof the Southwest Lansing field of general expansion frenzy by taking lowed the run of a the most lamented Perhaps e of Kalaacnzoo clover with running water, by turndian place-namout the state's first railroad charter In 1830. Six years later work (Beautiful water) still bole true ing the panels upside down with change will be that affecting the was begun on the Detroit & Pontiac by reason of the cold springs which the wider spaces at the bottom. Isle of Marken, which Is destined to become a part of the southeast railroad. Presently many a pioneer, once refreshed the red man and These pigs were to be raised on or drained section. This Ispolder, muck-lancela refresh upon hearing the first locomotive's nowadays clean ground, so the sows feet and detached from the mainland land, of distant shriek, was seizing his gun ery crop valued at upward ndder were scrubbed with hot waIn the Thirteenth century, lies out to git the bar with the strident $2,000,000. The same muck region ter and soap before being hauled to of the ordinary routes of travel. voice. puts Michigan topmost, along with their new quarters." Wisconsin Its Inhabitants have kept the quaint northern Indiana, In peppermint Great State for Lumber. Agriculturist costumes and queer ceremonies The original track of wooded, These two sections produce, for that prevailed when their land berails was soon dispharmaceutical and other purposes, came an Island. The ground Is Sows of Care Udders States charging ripped-of- f fragments of 85 per cent of the United Failure to wash the adders of barely above the water at high tide. sheathing through the car bottoms. supply. Kalamazoo paper factories, which sows, an important part of the These snake-headas the flying fragments were called, caused many have produced bond and book stock swine sanitation plan, resulted In Archery Practice casualty among the 'passengers for 50 years. Instance how Michi- the loss of 100 pigs on a Whiteside until the D. & P. came handsomely gan turned to manufacturing when county farm, reports (Illinois) Ruins House Walls her lumbering peak had passed. Farm Adviser Shuman. to the rescue with a new and eleThe farSan Mateo, Calif. Even the Grand Rapids furniture market rowing bouses and pens had been gant car whose metaled flooring rain didnt stop Robert MacCol-listesmothered the snake-heaoffensive. comprises an International aggrega- thoroughly cleaned and scrubbed and his little bow and arconnection tion of manufacturers, buyers, and with boiling lye water. However, Michigans through-rai- l row. From a score of states when the pigs came they lived lth the East was established by salesmen. When the rain began to fall the completion of the Great West- and from European countries come about 72 hours and then died. ExMacCollister moved bis target ern railroad In 1854. Nowadays the the displays of furniture and In- amination failed to reveal the A practice Into the house. states transportation Is served by terior decoration. These are dis- cause, but at the suggestion of Pr. wall, MacCollister found, made steam lines operating 8,700 miles, posed on the vast floor spaces of Robert Graham, University of Illian excellent target for his armotor coaches 7,000 miles, and elec- 20 factory showrooms and ten spe- nois, and State Veterinarian W, H. rows. The exhibition built sows tric lines 1,090 miles. of udders the the that buildings. Welch, cially But Mrs. Robert Person, ownMichigans every city, It seems, buyers, of whom 3,000 are some- had not yet farrowed were washed er of the borne In which MacCoi-llste- r must make something, end her very times present, hall from every state with soap and water and then was living, objected. She The pigs they capital Is not content to make only In the Union and from half a dozen painted with Iodine. told the court her walls were laws. Lansing normally has 15,000 foreign countries. farrowed have been successfully bands engaged In Industries, mainly Its 75 furniture factories, employ- saved. The swine sanitation plan, pockmarked with arrow holes. MacCollister paid to have the the automotive or auxiliary thereto, ing some 14.000 people, represent an when completely carried ont, Is a room replastered. producing an annual output valued annual products value of about remedy for a large number of disat $185,000,000. Though Lansings eases. Prairie Farmer. j - s l AliH!:.IT eslab-Ilahlr- g d one-thir- 350,-00- 0 Famed Zuiderzee Is Now Called Ijesselmeer dark-colore- d light-colore- d Holland. It dark-colore- Iu-tro-lt g bcwll-"derin- g g her-hel- once-ruine- d salt-wate- cloud-touche- e traffic-choke- d 10-fo- but the houses are built on blllocka southwestern end of the Zuiderzee. One polder, the Dutch word applied to any area of land protected mounds brick and frame dwellings by an encircling dike and drained are grouped, while on the eighth by Ita own system of pump back U the silent borne of the dead. of Wlcrlngen Island, consisting of Colorful as the ports and Island 50,000 acres, bas been completed, of the Zuiderzee may be, they have and this year craps were harvested outlived most of their usefulness. from fields which In 1930 wer covHolland ered with water. rapidly growing population demands more farm land North Holland baa undergone The Zuiderzee, the greater part of many cbnnges In Ita which bad hardly more than 15 feet boundnrle The first effort were of water at low tide, offered a precautionary, the war wltb the source of new land. waters being wholly on the defenThe Innd to be reclaimed will sive. The bolding of the streams In be roughly divided Into four sec- check, keeping them within their tion or polders, by take IJessek proper channels, allowed some of and the mouths of the Arnstel and the marshes to become dry. This IJessel lake Itself, gain of Innd wbetted the peoples IJessel river when drainage operations are comappetite for more. Dutch farmers pleted, will be a long, funnel shaped yearned for thousands of acres too body of water running back from shallow for fisheries but Ideal fr the new sea dike to the city of pasture land to produce cheeses for This led to drainIt will be a mere shadKnmpen. foreign market ow of the former Zuiderzee. Most ing of Inland lakes and coastal strips of the new Innd will be reclaimed by windmills the most characterfrom the huge, stomach shaped istic feature of Holland landscape Grass Land Made More Valuable by Fertilizer A book by Sir Frederick Klcbl director of research for tho ImLtd, perial Chemical Industrie give some of tbo remarkable results obtained by the application of to pasture fertilizer English farmers are endeavoring to Improve their luxuriant pastures by getting more coutlnuoui earlier and growth. Result of 492 trial made In Englnnd are reviewed by Sir Frederick. On 91 per cent of the farm the grass was ready from 14 to 23 day earlier on plots treated with nltrochalk at the rate of 145 pound to the acre. It la pointed out that there la a considerable gain when live stock can be turned out a fortnight earlier and the cost feeds of expensive concentrated saved. It Is shown by charts that while grass land Is under present conditions the Inferior of arable land as a producer of food. It la possible by supplying nitrogen and mineral food to more than double the quantities of crude protein, nearly treble the digestible protein, and about a third more total food measured as starch, than are contained In the oat crop. In New Zealand TRUMBULL there are already 3,000 farmers expert graziers all of them who are applying nitrogen and There Is a young girl from New her own country, as a skylark la of fertilizers to their grass a season ber coal a This mine. York, member of the Junior league par- land. edand that sort of tiling, who has ents figured that It would be an lived in Pari Rome and Vienna, ucational experiment If she went to Soybeans for Hay gone to house parties In London and the Pacific coast by way of the visited In Budapest, but who hasnt Great Lakes, and discovered for herIf yon are going to be short of been far west of Jersey City and self that Indians no longer roamed bay, seed soybeans broadcast and Is as Ignorant of the United States, the woods of Michigan or the plains cultivate them with a harrow or of IHInoI They have been show- rotary hoe until they get a good She start and ahead of the weed The ing me some of her letter stopped to see Mackinac Island and soybeans will yield a heavy tonfeed. Just got quite a kick out of It That cer- nage of tainly takes me back to my youth, about equal to alfalfa In feeding when I need to sail from Old Mis- value. With seed cheaper this year sion or Traverse City to Mackinac than ever before, a small field of beans will not be a heavy investIsland. ment and the return will be as as from any crop on the But to get westward. I like what great The farm. soys should be put In the girl wrote when she saw her about time, but If first Idaho potato. 'Of it she writes; can wait until the corn necessary It was three times as large as 1 Is out of the way. had Imagined elephants to be. It will stand a lot of hay Soybean wildest surpassed my expectation harvest at abuse time, and though I After had dug at It for a while, I was afraid I might fall In the de- It stands in cocks for a long time, will come ont all right so far as pression I had made. I had an awis concerned. value ful time getting things all used np. feeding One Idaho potato should feed a Prairie Fanner. family." Lights of New York d d phns-phntl- c higb-quallt- g e r vtru wer available for protecting pig against this disease, one could. In the fall of the year, count the farm la a given community on which the disease wse raging, by Ih amoks from Ore bunting deed were betplen Farmer hog They might Just a well have tried to stop a ryclone. Tb discovery of bog cholera serum vlru mad It possible to stop most. If not all, of this enormous lot. Tb preventive treatment Is no good to a bold; It must be properly Injected Into the animal for whose benefit It was mad available, The Important question for each win producer, who bs not already Immunised bla ptg to deetd I whether be ran afford to tak In the risk of losing bl bog the th time notwithstanding price of pork, farmer ran III afford to lose their bog after they are nearly ready for market. Farmer should keep close witch of All farmer In a given their bog neighborhood should know Immediately when and If there la an outbreak of cholera In tbo neighbor hood. of earth obtained by digging drainage canals On seven of these water-washe- This typically English tweed suit in black and white check Is exquisitely tailored. Isobel of London, court dressmaker, sponsors It. There Is a touch that tells" In the detail of the pocket and the design White at the top of the sleeve ocean pearl buttons sewn through with black faille trim the deep collar of the white marocaln Jumper. A necklace of overlapping pearl leaves Is appropriately worn with Now that there Is the costume. such a wide selection of ocean pearl button clips and buckles dyed In fashionable colors to be bad. the outlook la for their lavish use this falL Elaborately designed styles which Introduce marcaslte or rhinestone greatly Increase the scope of thla attractive type of trimming. Hay Cures by Burning White moths recently Invaded New York. Some called them gypI do not know what sy moth kind they were, but they were beautiful. They were so thick that they absolutely Interfered with traffic. Drivers would halt to wipe them from the windshield of their car and In the Bronx they were so thick that persons telephoned the polio The police were plenty busy on their own account brushing moths out of the station houses. The moths probably rode In on the night wind. Something queer always Is being brought Into New York on the wings of the wind. Last year It was a swarm of grassA few of them even came hopper in open windows as high up as the twentieth story. Curing hay in sweat stacks by letting It heat Is really bnrnlng part of the hay to make heat to dry the rest, the United States Department of Agriculture say When the hay heats In the sweat stacks a type of combustion takes place, although there Is no actual This method, used where flame. there Is so much rainfall there Is the hay, little chance to produces what is known as brown Although it may be relished hay. by live stock, bay cured this way Is inferior to properly made hay, as the heating produces a degree of deterioration, the department say George Washington Is reputed to have thrown a dollar across a river, but the states of New York and New Jersey threw a Washington bridge across a river and the result for the year Is expected to be a million dollars In toll fee Thats nothThe Holland tunnel makes ing. $2,500,000 a year. low. For a long time It was the fashion to be lean and hungry looking. Now, If you look that way. people merely put it down to the depression. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service, A By rmu? L. KETCnUU didnt even look op JIM PETERS Tony entered the room, Tbs germs which rsue hog chol era pay no attention to economic II was titling looking out of the win; kill bug dow, and be beard Tony bang the conjoint They call out a greeting, but be during a deprmwlon Just as quickly door and didn't mov aa during more pro(ieroue time I got tagged for Tony Mid; DairyMy a writer In Hoard over parking today, Jim. That man. the third Utn (Ms month." Rrfiir cholera scrum and bug O. 'a Preventive Treatment the Only Safe Precaution. Old Fool sun-cur- e sun-cure- d Agricultural Hints Grain crops In Great Britain are up to average hay considerably be- Jim nodded and went on looking out tho window. Tony," ha Mid, Pv bad bad new Ilia voire waa curiously fist 11 didn't bear a word yon said. Im eorry." What1 troubling yon, Jim?" be Mked. "Anything I can dot Ton know bow I feel about yon." Y I know, Tony. But you cant do anything. Nobody ran." For s moment, Jim Peter hesitated. Bhella'a deed." "What I" Tb younger mao recoiled a (bough from s blow. "Too you don't meow" Jim Peters nodded and turned bark to look ont tb window. It wag an automobile accident," Bb was alone, Jim Mid at last A driving out tb Robnck road. truck struck ber car at It ha pinned Just Ilk that "Where where did they tak her?" Tony asked, Jim Peter turned around. "They took ber borne, Tony. Pr Just been there. I couldn't stand IL I bad to com way." Tony nodded. He stood up. HI far was drained wblt of blood nd be seemed unsteady on hla feet. Thla la awful, Jim. Awful for yon." For you, too, Tony. Too liked ber." Ye I liked her." Both men were silent They looked t each other, hardly knowing what to say. Ita all over," Tony breathed. Jim Pelers nodded, Yea, It all o rer. Ton know how I feel, Tony. I feel Just Ilk yo do and you feel For yon loved ber, Just Ilk m too, didn't yon? Tony looked down t the floor, ni shoulder drooped. "What difference doe that make now? be groaned. "And bow could I? Too loved ber first Jim. And you've been like father to me." Jim Peters nodded. That Just It I was too old, be whispered. And looking out of tbo window, bo said aloud : "Tony, don't you want to see ber? Her mother la all alone with ber. I ought to go but I can't Will yo go, Tony? Tony Caldwell nodded. "I Ill go, Jim." He crossed the room and opened tbe door. He closed It behind blm softly. After Tony bad gone, Jim Peters stood for a while looking out of tb window. Then be crossed tbe room to the telephone and gave a number. A moment later be said : Shelia, la that you? . . . Thi 1 Jim. Listen, Tony Is on bis way over to your place. He bas some crazy Idea about your being dead. . . . Ye dead. , . . Ob, just be good to him, Sheila, and promise Don't tell him me one thing. I called yon. . . . It Just a Joke." He bung np the receiver, abruptly, and hurried Into the next room. Most of bis things were packed. Tbe trunks could be sent for later, of course, and tbe few things that be needed most be threw Into a suitcase. Once be paused to took Into tbe mirror and to examine bla face quite closely. He bad never admitted that he was getting old. It was only when be realized that Tony loved Sheila that be had suddenly become conscious of bis age. Tony seemed just like a kid and be had never felt the difference In their ages. But there was a difference. He was alShelia was twenty-fivmost forty. Outside he caught a cab and was driven to the Pennsylvania station. He climbed ont, walked Inside, and bought a ticket He started for the gate, reached It, passed through and started down the trains when he heard bis name called and turned to look back. A girl was trying to break past tbe barrier. She was running toward him, arms outstretched, face radiant And then Irrespective of everyone, she was In his arm sobbing, and calling him an old foot Sheila, Jim Peters asked, what are you doing here? Wheres Tony? Didnt he The girl nodded against his chest He told me, Jim. But Tony, hes Just Tony. And youre you. And your story was so absurd. I Tbe girl drew back. "Youre not running away, arc yon? she asked, frightened. Jim pulled ber back In bis arm I am not he said. But how did ... e. I" yon find me? Shelias voice was muffled against Thin apple on vigorous trees, to his chest Jim found It difficult to about six inches apart. Remove all hear ber very well. She said somefruits affected with insect or dis- thing about a wild taxi ride to his ease injury by spray burn, by hail, rooms, and she spoke of another wild ride to the station, and In beby limb rub, and with other blem- tween she said something about findish e ing a marked Pennsylvania timeFire blight was first reported In table on his bed. But Jim Peters wasn't paying very the United States as attacking apclose attention to ber explanation. ple and pear trees In the Hudson Such trivial things really didn't valley. 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