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Show TIIE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON. UTAH The Settling of the Sage Salt Lake City Directory 7o Read More . It to Learn More By HAL G. EVARTS WHAT At HAS GONE Copyright by Hal BEFORE old th CHAPTER V Continued il 1 going back. eral, what Im really thinking Is some thing like this, Billie, right this tnlu nte Im loving you more than did two minutes back. You might keep 1 In mind. Listen," tapping his knee with a forefinger to emphasize his point Cal Warren always wanted to put the Three Bar flats under cultivation lies probably told yob that a nun dred times. This will always be range country. It will only support a cer tain number of cows. If the Three-Babad a section in hay to winter feed your stuff you could run double what you do now on the same range. It's the same with every other small concern. Theres only a few spots suitable for bome-rancsites and every one of those bus a brand run nlng out of it now excepting those sites down in Slades range. If all those outfits put in hay It wouldnt cut up the range any more than It Is now except down Slades way. Every outfit in the country could ru twice as many head as they do now except Slade. lie couldnt The minute farm lng starts therell be squatters filing on every quarter where they can get water to put It In crop. There's twen ty places Slade would have to cover by filing to hold his range where ih others would only have to file on one to control the amount of range theyre using now." She nodded as she caught this point Folks have fallen into a set habit You think pf mind, he explained. because every squatter is burned oui that every outfit but the Three Bar it against sticking a plow In the ground The rest probably fee) the same way know they havent a hand in it but figure that you have. As a matter of fact. Its Slade alone. Theres a per sistent rumor to the effect that any man who burns ont a squatter can drop In at Slades and get five hun dred dollars In cash." The sheriff has never been able to pick np a single one of the men who f have burned those squatters out, she said. And he never will without some Aldens hands help," Harris agreed. are tied. But be is playing his own the best he can game single-handeOne day hell get his hooks Into some s so deep they I' of these never shuke them out. The home stead laws cant be defied Indefinitely The gi vernment will take a hand and send marshals Id here thicker that' files. Then the outfits that have hedged themselves in advance are on top. The rest are through." "Rut what can the Three Rar do against Slade until those marshals come?" she asked. There's a difference between sack lug an established outfit with a big force ot hands and burning out some Isolated Rquntter roosting In a wag I've fih-- on water on." Harris said out of the Drazy l.oop to cover the section I bought 'n the tints We can pick men and give them a oh wtih the Three Bar between spells of doles work. We can put In a com prove-ur b torch-bearer- charge." They mounted and rode back to ihe wagon and the girl went straight to Waddles with the proposition HarrR had urged. Tell him to go his best, Waddles advised, when she had outlined Har ris scheme. Ue'li put a bunch ot terriers on the Three Bar that will cut Slades claws. If they burn ou: ttie bos Cal Harris puts on the pir.ee then therell be one reul war staged at the old Three Bar. He's been telling you, she accused He did sort of mention it, Wad dies confessed. I didn't, he denied. But 1 drift ed into it sort of by accident N matter what topic 1 happen to be con versing on Im always thinking how much I'd rather be telling yoo about that. Whenever i moke some simple little assertion about things In gen d puny ditch to cover all the filings pay them for working on tt and charge that pro-ratshare of Irn provements up against euch man's final settlement. When they've nmd final proof we can buy cut those wh went to sell. Let's put the fiats In hay. girl, and start grading the Three Bar up. t doesnt take much more feed to turn out a real beef steer than of brothers down In ttie flat. In five years well have a straight red brand and the Three Bar will he rated at thirty dollars a head come as they run on the range, in stead of round ten or twelve as they'd figure us now. We'll have good ha land that will be worth more by Itself than the whole brand is today Say the word, girl, and well build np the old outfit that both of our folks helped to found. Itie girl had closed her eyes as he painted this picture of possibilities and except for the difference of voice It might well have been old Cal War ren speaking; the views and sentl ments were the same she bud so often heard tier father express. Next to the longed for partnership with old Bill Harris the dream of his life had beer to see the Three Bar fiats a smtKitn meaduw of alfalfa. Ill put a bunch of terriers In then that will be hard for Slade to uproot, Harris said What do you say Billie? Lets give it a try." Id like to see It done," she said But so much depends on the out come. Ill have to write Judge ( ol ton first. He has all my affairs In a They say folks get disappoint In love and go right on living, he oh served. wonder now. I've heard that men run mostly to form and at one time or another let it out to souip little lady that theres no other In the world. Thats my own state right about now. Are you always going to keep on disliking me? I dont dislike you, she said Fht waB still convinced of his fathers trickery toward her own; but Da1 Harris quiet efficiency and his devo tion to Three Bar interests had con vinced her, against her will, that he had taken no part in It. But if you brought me out here to go Into that that never seen me since Kvarts WNU Servle Warren ranch, the Three Bar," a stranger applied tor work aa a r.der. Ann Warren known to all ae Billie, ie the ownet ef the ranch. The girl's father. Cal Warren, had been the original owner. The newcomer :s put to work. Cattle rustlers have been troubling the ranch cwnera. The new hand gives hie name ae Cal Harris. By his announcement In favor of "squatters" he Incurs the enmity of a rider known as Morrow. The will made by Cal Warren stipulated that half the property should go to the son of his old friend, William HarrlB, under certain conditions The new arrival is the man, and he discloses the fact to Billie Slade, a ranchman with an unsavory reputation, visits Billie Slade, endeavoring to embrace Billie Is interrupted bv Harris While the riders are at their evening meal, far out on the range, six outsiders Join them Billie knows them to be "rustlers." To test Harris' courage tht girl appoints him temporary foreman, suggesting that he order the visitors to leave Somewhat to her surprise he does so. The men depart, making threats Bil lie makes Harris permanent foreman. Catching Morrow leaving cattle were they can be stolen Harris discharges him. Biding with Billie, a man presumably Morrow, shoots at Harris. Three Bar riders start in pursuit of Morrow. One of them, Bangs. Is ambushed and killed. Harris outlines his plans for bringing settlers into the country. Im Q. of Then his Idea Is to Import a bunch 1 she said. wont have a bunch of hired killers living at the Tiiree Bar." These boys will Just be the sort that's handy at knowing how to avoid Waddles getting killed themselves, evaded. You can't rightly blame any man for that And besides. Slade has to be met on his own ground." Do you think Slade is at the hot torn of the Three Bar losses every year?" she asked. Waddles stated hoof, Every Every lust head! Maybe the albl no's layout rustles an odd bunch oi and off. But Slade is the man thats out to wreck your brand. The big cock heaved a sigh as he reached a decision on a matter which had fleet, troubling him for days. 'Thats what Cal WarreD was afraid of Sla-iebranching out our way like be had already toward the south. And thats one reason he left things tied up the s way he did. He tapped a docu men! on bis knee and handed It to the girl. You aryl Young Cal have been sor' he said. "Cast an ot eye over that and maybe Itll help yon two youngsters to get along.' Three times the girl read every word ot the paper while Waddles smoked Ids pipe in silence. Then she sat on the gate of the wagoi and gazed off across the sage; and she was picturing agaiD the long trail ot the Three Bar cows; but this time she was reconstructing the scene at the end of tt Instead of one man scheming to trick an old friend at the lust crossing ol llieir trails she now visioned two old men regretting hope of a partner that the ship had never been fulfilled and planning to cement that arrangement For old Bill In the next generation. r Harris had left tier a full est Id everything he owned on earth with the single stipulation that she ro taiD her half of the Three Bar foi much-thumbe- d life-lon- half-inte- years after her father's death. she asked presently But why? Why did he do that for me? Hed five I He did tt for the girl of old ('at Warren, the best friend he had top side of ground," Waddles said Your dad and Bill Harris had been pale since they was hatched They knew there was hard times aDd changes ahead and both hated to think of the old hrnnd going under or changing hands. They was afraid that It both you and the boy knew your path was going to be carpeted soft in any event that you might sell out If things got to breaking wrong. This way It looked like you'd be sure to stick They was planning the best they knew. Your dad told me to keep an eye on the general lay. And Judge Dolton sent me that copy to have od hand to sort of iron things out when I thought best. Im telling you tie know you wouldnt quit the cause Three Bar as long as theres two cows left." Does Col know? she asked. Not word, Waddles asserted. Ties likely considerable puzzled hint self. But he surmises things will break right some day, knowing his own dud and havin' visited round a day or two with yours. You drop th. Judge a line, girl, and turn Harris loose to rip np the Three Bar flat and seed It down to hay." She nodded and slipped from the of the wagon, taking the pa per with tier. Harris was soaking s flannel shirt in the little stream, flat tenlng it In a riffle and weighting It down with rocks She went straight to him and sat on the hunk, mottouiny him to a seat by her side. He drlet tils hands and took the paper she held out to him. What's In the wind? he asked She nodded to indicate the di cu ment and he sat dowD to look over it His quizzical expression was erased as he saw his fathers name and the girl watched his face for some evl denee of resentment as he read on Their status was now reversed, foi Bill Harris holdings had been easily double those of her own parent. She saw the sun wrinkles deepen at the corners of his eyes as he grasped the text of It and he looked up at her and laughed. Now we're resting easy, he said An even trade. Uneven, she dissented. Of course you know that I'll not take advantage of that." Accounts are all squared off bo And of tween us now," he said. course you'll do Just what It says. He held up his hand as she started to Dont you dissent. he reproved Lets let that end of It slide rest for a while. Maybe some day well lump both Into one and the two of us boss the whole Job." She rested a hand on his apn. "Of course you know I'm sorry foi a number of things Ive said to you, Rut I want to thunk yoo she said for being too decent to return them iD kind. You're real folks, Cal." Good girl, Billie, he thanked her As to what yon said, It's remarkable that you didnt say more. I knew yoo werent crabbing over what you might lose for yourself but over the though I that your father had been tricked tried to put myself Id your place and If I'd been you I know Id have kicked me off the place, or told Waddles tr turn loose his wolf. He switched abruptly away from the topic In hand and reverted to the subject they had discussed an houi 1 end-gat- e past "Weve a clear field now with noth trig on our minds but the Job of put ring the Three Bar on Its feet" he said. The Three Bar fk a pretty small outfit the way tilings are today but In a few more years the brand that runs three thousand head will fle nlmnst In the class of cattle kings The range will he settled with an out fit roosting on every available site The big fellows will find their range if cut up and then theyre through the Three Bar files on all the water out of (Yuzy Loop and covers the fiar with hay we'll control all the range for a number of miles each wav Theres not another site short ol Rrandon s place west of us twelve miles or so; about the same to the east; still farther off south of us Well he riding the crest. Yon try and get a letter off to the ludge to day." The girl nodded. (TO BE CONTINUED Colonists Placed Ban on Sumptuous Dress Nowadays one of the most proud nent feutures In the attire of the fair sex Is the use of silks and satins. However, such was not the case with the women in the early days of the mode colony of Massachusetts. Their of dress was not governed by tlieit own discretion and fcudgeta Rather took It upon themselves to dictate Just what should be worn, not also that the only by the women, but men folks should dress In accordance with the Judgment of those handling the affairs of the community at that lime. the general court As early as was enacting legislation which provided that If a man was not worth 20 to wear pounds, he was not eligible or buttons lace, silver or lace gold were not knees They points at the permitted to wear hoots owing to the scarcity ot leather then As for the women. If their property was not valued to the extent ol 2xi All Books at Publisher's Prices Wall stnd them C.O.D. if you My so. was three yean pounds, their attire was not to Include Thus. It silk, tiffany hoods or scarfs was possible, by glancing at the dress of neighbors to tell approximately how much of this world's goods they The distinction of dress possessed. was an accepted distinction both of social rank and of occupation ONION FLAVOR IS CAUSE OF LOSS More Optimism haeut gnen up I Ope that one days some real smart scleu ti:t Is going to discover valuable vita mines In a food that we really enjoj id eulilig. Rushville Uetn-hlWe of the-- e .... Pest Is One of First Plants to Appear in Spring. There Is little sale for milk bearing the aroma of the wild onion, and when butter has this flavor, It is next to imposslhfe to eat it Yet we have the wild onion with us in many of our best pastures," says John A. Arey, dairy extension specialist at the North Carolina State This pest is one of the first college. plants to appear In the spring and Is also a visitor In late fall. Fortunately during the summer months, the plants die down and thus give no Onion flavor makes milk trouble. practically unsalable and the butter made from cream with this flavor Is usually sold to a renovating plant at a very low price. This loss Is always handed down from the creamery to the milk producer since the price that a creamery pays for butterfut Is determined by the price It receives for butter. It Is important, therefore, to keep this flavor out of the milk, states Mr. Arey. One of the best methods of doing this Is to take the cows off of the Infested pasture at least six hours before it Is time to milk. Mr. Arey states that tests made with the herd of dairy cows owned by the North Carolina experiment station have shown this to be on effective way of ridding milk of onion flavor. The tests further show that this plan should not cause any great Inconvenience to the average dairyman. T1ip period of time during which the wild onion Is most prevalent Is usually short and so the plan need he in operation only a few weeks. If properly carried out, the method will save the dairymen thousands of dollars each season. Milking Very Important Part of Cow Management The udder of a cow is a delicate organ and very sensitive to abuse or Some persons Improper handling. seem to have an idea that it is simply a sack Into which the milk gathers to be drawn off at milking time. The ndder, In fact. Is Just one large collection of cavities or glands lined by many cells or small pouches and surrounded by a network of arteries and veins. During the day and night these arteries are bringing together the various constituents of which milk Is composed, such as fats, proteins, water, ash, etc. Along toward milking time these cells have collected their full capacity of elements, but not until the actual process of milking Is begun do the numerous cells in the udder start to give up their contents, which gravitate to the milk cistern in and above the teat. There is no denying the fact that milking the cow is a very important phase of her management. This is especially noticeable when she has been hustled Into the barn with a dog at her heels or otherwise excited g g Profitable Production of Average Dairy Cow A dairy row will not pay her expenses, In the opinion of Prof. J. II. Fuller, head of the dairy husbandry department at the University of New Hampshire, unless she produces at least 7,500 pounds of milk per year. This production, which he considers necessary to meet such charges as feed, labor and overhead, Is nearly 3,000 pounds greater than that of the average cow tn the United States. Professor Fuller suggests a minimum of ten cows for each worker, assuming that the man who cares for ten cows will also do other work about the farm. He says that a man with fifteen cows can well afford a milking machine and recommends the use of litter carriers and drinking cups to keep labor costs on the dairy farm to a minimum. full-tim- e Fall Freshening Offers Some Big Possibilities It is not surprising that the good dairyman has his cows freshen In the fall, since it gives him the high milk flow during a season when he can control and keep uniform his rations and stable appointments. Then, too, winter Is the time when dairy products bring the best prices, for a large- - proportion of the population of milk producers have their cows freshen In spring, and do not supply silage, roots or even good dry rations. For that reason the heaviest supply of dairy products Is offered In spring and summer and the light supply In fall and winter. Solomons Grand Song The Song ol Solomon wus Incur lr the eurllest Jewish scrip porutc tures. Selections were sung at crtulD festivali Id the temple at Jerusalem prior to Its destruetkn by Titus It was first declared .aronlcul by the Synod of Janinia Ik) A D. DESERET BOOK COMPANY 44 East South Temple SC P. 0. Box 1793 Salt Lake City Limiting Milk Yields Milk yields may be limited by an insufficient supply of lime In the feed. Dorn, oats, timothy and redtop are Imv in lime while the legume hays are high. A ton of soybean hay contains about elhty times as much lime as a ton of shelled corn. 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