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Show i THE GRANT8VILLE wr NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, UTAH. BY OUTSIDE CAR 10 BLARNEY CASTLE site at slight expense posts may be set S or 6 feet opart, extending 7 or 8 feet above tbe surluce of tlie ground, with a ridgepole placed on top of them. Against Particularly Desirable for Stor- eni'h side of the ridgepole a row of phmks or puncheons Is placed, with age of Many Surplus their opposite ends resting in a shallow trench 4 or 5 feet from Vegetable Crops. the line of jsists. The ends are boarded up, u door being provided in one end of tlie structure and the room covSUPERIOR IN MANY RESPECTS ered with soil to a depth of 5 or C inches. A good type of outdoor storage cellar built ulong these lines is Outdoor Affairs Can Be Maintained at shown lu tlie Illustration. Uniform Temperature Over Long Storage in Regions of Severe Freezes. In sections where low temperatures Period Ventilators Add to prevail it is necessary to insulate the Efficiency. storage house so that tlie vegetables Outdoor storage cellars or caves are will not freeze. An type excellent for the storage of many vege- of storage house much used in many tables. They are puniculurly desir- section of the North has thick wuil able on the farm, as they afford con- filled with insulating material, sueli venient and Inexpensive storage facili- ns sawdust or shavings. The constructies for surplus vegetable crops that tion Is of frame and (he walls are usuotherwise might be lost. They possess ally 10 to 12 Inches thick. Both the all tlie advantages of the storage room inside and the outside walls aro In tlie basement mid are superior in sheathed with matched lumber so ns Tlie rafters many respects. The outdoor storage to umke them airtight. cellar can be maintained at a uniform are coiled on the under side with the temperature over a long period. It is same material and the space between possible to keep the cellur cool and the rafters filled with dry insulating Tlie use of building paper quickly to reduce tlie tenqiernture of malerliil. the stored product to the desired in the roof and wulls of the storage point for safe storage by opening the house Is of great assistance in indoor during tbe night and closing It sulating it. A tyie of storage cellar much list'd in the morning before the uir becomes worm. All ventilators should likewise in Northern sections of the country Is be kept tightly closed until tlie out- built purtly under ground. Tlie walls side air is again cooler than that with- arc of masonry and extend to a point in the cellur, when they should be Just above the surfuce of the ground. opened, unless the outside tempera- On these wulls plutes are set and a ture is so low os to be dangerous. This roof of frutne construction erected. safeguards the product and adds to The roof structure Is ceiled on tlie unthe efficiency of the storage chamber. der side of the rafters and some suitVegetables can be mure conveniently able insulating iiiaterinl, such as dry placed In such a cellar than in tbe sawdust or shavings, packed in tho storuge room in tbe basement of a space between tlie rafters, and then the sheathing, paper, and roofing madwelling. When tlie chief use "of tbe outdoor terial are applied. This type of strucstorage cellar is for storing turnips, ture Is preferable In many respects type, ns It Is easbeets, carrots, and other root crops to tlie commonly used as stock for food, It ier to maintain the temperature lit tlie proper point and Its insulation la a comparatively ensy matter. Protection from freezing may be secured with n simpler type of structure by making it entirely underground. In order to avoid Rteps down to tlie level of the floor, with the consequent extra labor in storing and removing the vege- CELLARS OR CAVES a well-draine- d A row of tihove-groun- d BREAKING OFF CONNECTION. Well," Bnid the far West mayor to the English tourist, I dunno how you manage these affairs over there, but out here when some of our boys get e tied up in that thar bankrupt company I was tellin' yer about they became mighty crusty I" tele-l'hon- Oh I" Yus; they didn't like the way the receiver was handlin' the business nohow." Indeed listener. I commented the earnest Then, may I ask what they did?" ' Sartlnly. I wus goin ter tell yer. They just hung up the receiver. Attention Missed. I thought Crimson Gulch had re- formed." It had," replied Broncho Bob. But it seems wide open now." We hud to make some kind of a demonstration. Theres nothin' we used to enjoy so much as havin a good talker come along an' tell us how. wicked we were. We've been so reg'-lifspectuble that nobody pays the least attention to us an we feel slighted." ar A QUEER FELLOW. He's an odd sort of a chap. Wont argue about the tariff. Whats his reason for not arguing V Says he doesn't know anything about it" Advice. Ha is the wretch wholl only shlik And loaf throughout the day. For he who finds no fun In work Finds little fun In play. Antidote for Agents. I have here a little treatise on the evils of the Australian school system as against the effects of toe dancing period. It should during the be in every home. Hi buy one if you'll cash this check But for me, said the the book agent was gone. An pre-glad- al long-suffere- r. Lots Doing It Pop, what's it mean to burn your candle at both ends! Paying alimony and courting another woman at the same time, my eon. Last Call. When does the last train leave for Maple Junction T" asked the traveler. July 81st, of this year, sir," answered the agent See here, young man. Don't get gay with me. What do yon mean by saying the last train leaves July Sir Just that dr. The Hillside, Juni- per Valley and Maple Junction railroad has been sold to a rival line and will be scrapped. He Spoke From Experience. When I was a boy I wanted to come a railroad president." be- That was a laudable ambition.' However, I soon changed my mind. What caused you to do that! I used to talk to an old, flagman on duty at a crossing near my home. He convinced me that there was nothing whatever In the railroad business. one-arm- Choosing a Course. My boy Is undecided about what collegiate course to take. What would you advise?" That depends. Does he want to build up his muscles or his mind?" Blarney you make ' the Cork, Ireland, WHENEVER Castle,1 be sure to turn a cold shoulder upon the modern tramway and upon the motor car. The only way to go Is by the outside car, or jaunting car, for this Is so entirely Irish. Up you will clamber to the rather rickety step of the car, thence to the swinging platform for the feet, upon which you must maneuver in some way to turn about and take your seat Probably you and your neighbor If you have one on your side of the car will laugh a great deal and clutch each other excitedly; If you have the seat to yourself, you must curl one knee up before you, la somewhat the way a woman does in riding sidesaddle, brace yourself against the Iron end to the seat and cling tightly. Theres a knack In riding on an outside car which It needs a little time to acquire. But, no matter, you are off swinging around corners and jolting over the cobblestones, through the city, across a river ond out Into the sweet green valley .of the Lee which leads to the village of Blarney. If it Is spring, the trees are all daintily, Huffily pale green, the yellow primroses are beginning to show themselves and, perhaps, there Is here and there a hedge of brilliant goldeh gorge. Birds are singing all around you, too, and the river ripples gently over Its Btones; but the probabilities are that your driver will talk so much that you will not heur the muidc of the river. He will tell you all about how It was Cormac MacGarthy, back In the fifteenth century, who built Blarney castle; and how, although the place now belongs to a local landowner, all the MacCarthys of the countryside still feel that they own the place and are certain that it will one day come back into the hands of the family. Every MacCarthy who plows a field, within sight of the old jagged keep of Blarney castle, looks up at It with pride and a sense of rightful ownership. Kissing the Blarney Stone. Of course, everyone knows that he who kisses the Blarney stone Is supposed to gain the gift of eloquence. The legend goes that the original Cormac McCarthy the Strong one day rescued a woman from the lake ; and this woman was so grateful that she offered, by way of showing her thanks, to give Cormac a golden tongue. But, she made one condition; in order to get It, he must kiss a particular stone, five feet below the top of the parapet of Blarney Castle. Naturally, Cormac leaped up the winding steps of the keep, two steps at a time, ran around the path which encircled the inner court, lowered himself to where he could reach the stone which the woman had Indicated, and hastily kissed It Presumably he was afterwards possessed of marvelous eloquence, and this Is the reason why all other visitors to Blarney have wanted to kiss that stone, too if .they are both daring and For this feat Is not altogether an easy one. But, by this time, your driver has put you down by the little Blarney railway station, bidding you cross the tracks and take a path through the woods, close by a tiny stream. In a few momenta you come out Into an open field, where, sure enough, a MacCarthy Is hoeing the rows; and there, before you, looms tlie great keep of Blarney Castle. The keep Is practically all that remains today, though around Its foot there huddle numerous crumbling walls and archways, which show that there were other buildings, too. Not far away Is Blarney Lake, about which the man hoeing the rows tells you a curious story. Two o' the gentry, he is saying, war one while Jlst afther dlscussin how deep was Blarney Lake. Wan o thlm said It was bottomless, an the steady-heade- d. Castle. other wan he allowed how that was noways possible at all. Bo they agreed they'd Bind down two divers. This thing they done prlslntly, the gentry thimselves by the lakeside and awatchln. Down wiut them divers, but they nlver come up at all; and, though the gentry kipt and nlver did they see thlm divers again. But, afther eight weeks It was, they had a letter from thlm, and they was In Australia. They were so!" Up on the Castle. And so you leave the llaeCarthy, so full of wonderful and mysterious tales, and wend your way to the castle. You take your time climbing the spiral, uneven stone steps of the keep, for they are very steep and long. But, at last, you reach the top and stop to look east, west, north and south, at the charming views; little green and brown fields, marked off by hedges, dark clumps of woodland, here and there a sparkling blue lake or a clump of gone. But you soon hear stifled shrieks sad exclamations from the other side of the parapet, so you make your way to the spot. Yes, there someone is about to kiss the Blarney stone. A big stalwart youth Is lying down upon Ids back, his hend towards a square opening In the outer wall of the parapet ; another strong youth, perhaps two of them, sit down upon ills feet, so ns to hold them firmly. Then the seeker after eloquence grasps an Iron bar, placed in position for this purpose, swings himself down through the opening in the parapet referred to, pulls himself up again on the outside, and Just manages to kiss the surface of the Blarney Stone ; then, being strong and lithe, he Jerks his head back In again and suddenly he Is again sitting up on the floor of the parapet and the others boys are letting go of his feet It wasnt so hard to do after all, you think ; at least, not If you are a strong young boy who does not mind looking down all those giddy feet to the trees growing against the foot of the keep. But, doubtless, you are wise enough to content yourseif with watching others kiss the Blarney Stone and with buying a post card showing the famous stone, with Its Latin inscription, Cormac MacCarthy Fortls Me Fieri Fecit, A. D. 1446, which, translated In Irish, means Cormac Mucarthy, bould as bricks, Made me In Fourteen Forty-siReally, .you know. It does not pay to go to the trouble of kissing the stone, for It may even not be the Identical one which Cormac MacCarthy the Strong knew. Many people Insist that that stone was long ago removed from its position, that this Is not the genuine stone at all; at any rate. It seems that the stone once fell from Its place. Probably It Is as well to acquire eloquence in some other way. daz-zll- x. nbove-groun- d tables, ng End View of an Outdoor Storage Cellar, Showing the Frame of Posts Covered With Planks or Puncheons and With Dirt Additional Protection May Be Given by Placing Manure, Straw, or Corn Fodder on Top of the Dirt should be located near the stable, where the material will be convenient for winter feeding. When it is to be used for vegetables for the table the cellar should be accessible from the kitchen at all times. If apples or other fruits are to be stored in nn outdoor storage cellar It Is desirable to have a cellar, one for vegetables and one for apples, with a ventilating apparatus In each com- partment. a sidelilli location is deslr-nbl- e. Tlie excavation In tbe hill should be of the approximate size of the cellar, using" tlie dirt for' Covering the roof nnd for blinking the sides of the structure. A frame is erected by setting two rows of posts of uniform height In (he bottom of the pit near tlie dirt walls and a third line of posts uboul 5 feet higher, through tlie center of tlie pit. Those posts serve ns sup-liorfor the plunks or puncheons forming the room of the structure, ns with the above-groun- d type of storTlie age cellar alrcudy described. door is placed at one end and a ventilator put lu the roof. The whole structure with tlie exception of the portion occupied by the door Is covered with dirt nnd sod. The thickness of the covering must be determined by tlie location ; tbe colder tbe climate tho thicker the covering. The dirt covering mny be supplemented In winter by a layer of manure, straw, corn fodder, etc. Outdoor storage cellnrs usuully are left with dirt floors, ns a certain degree of moisture is desirable. These cellars may be made of concrete, brick, hollow tile, stone, or other ts Construction of Cellar. As the root cellar must be weather proof, that Is, capable of being kept material. free from moisture and free from Outdoor Storage Cellar Built of frost, its type and construction vary with the geographical location. In the southern portion of the country the structure Is usually entirely above ground and protected by only a few Inches of sod and with straw, leaves, etc. In Northern sections outdoor storage cellars are made almost entirely below ground and covered with a foot or two of earth. Storage in Regions of Mild Winters. An storage cellar, suited to conditions in southern sections of the United States may be built on above-groun- d Con- crete. The type of outdoor storage cellar described above, while low in first cost, is short lived, as the conditions in the cellar are favorable to the decay of wood. The concrete storage cellar, although rather high in first cost, as compared with wood, is a permanent structure. For detailed Information in reference to the mixing and handling of concrete, the reader is referred to Farmers' Bulletin 4C1, entitled Tho Use of Concrete on the Farm. . n broken nnd a bee emerges. This is the story entomologists tell of Insects Pass Three Different Stages to bees. Reach Maturity Story Told by Best Listener in the World. Cheapest Poultry Feed. Entomologists. The horse Is really one of the best Oats Is iierhnps tbe cheapest feed listeners in the world. He Is always Bees, like all true lnsecets, pass we now have for poultry. It is also on the alert for sounds which concern or interest him. When he looks at any- three different stages to reach matu- one of the best feeds we con give to bee. The egg, tlie chickens, both tlie young und tbe thing he turns his ears toward it to rity, or a observe the better whether any sound which Is a tiny little object about the old. size of a timothy seed, Is laid by the comes from It If a horse Is particuin a wax cell. It hatches In Value of Rape. In queen Interested him of your driving larly he always turns his ears backward to- about three days and then becomes a Pry rape leaves, according to chemlarva which ical analysis, contain over 28 per cent ward you, but If be has no concern on small crescent-shape- d that subject or if he sees anything must be fed. Nurse bees feed It with of protein, as compared with 15 per ahead that Interests him he keeps his a mixture of predigested honey and rent in alfalfa and 10.5 per cent la ears pricked forward. A horse hears pollen and this food is absorbed by cowpens. the whinny of another horse at a great- the skin. It is some time later before er distance than the average man can the mouth parts and abdominal cavity Garden Fair Exhibit are formed. hear It Now is a good time to begin to plan Tbe larvae are said to moult very an exhibit for tlie county fair. Only often, ns the skin becomes too tight, tlie finest material should he exhibited Unappreciated. The Manager See here Our audi- so fast does the little creature grow. and it should be well staged. ences won't stand for those wheezes of After about six days when It Is much Tie some of the leaves over the caullarger than the original size a porous yours. The Monologulst I dont see why cover Is put on the cell and cocoons iflower heads us soon ns they are not. The fellow I got em from said spun. Then a dormant state exists formed. This will keep them white. they'd been enjoyed by hundreds of for 11 days. In about 21 days from Cauliflower is quickly browned by tbs the time the egg was laid the cell la sun. thousands for the last century. - 1 DEVELOPMENT OF HONEY BEE full-grow- |