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Show THR TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. Wintering Calf on Grain Too Costly Can Dangerous Tainted Cream The Valley of Voices Flavors of Kerosene, Gaso line, Etc., Will Spoil Whole Churning. By GEORGE MARSH Author of "Tollers of the Trail." "The Wttelps of the Wolf fW. N. XT. (Coprrtsfct by the Strrln.) of these like that?" THE WINDIGO bad-land- s who could play The started over the Tou never law a wlndigo; portage while Steele turned Into the that's aura. The chances are that thick scrub toward the river. From you never heard one. But have the foot of the rapids the trail had you ever heard a Buperstltlous Inswung away from the broken Hanks d dian or of the Canadiof the gorge, but shortly Steele saw an wilds tell of its horrors? He g certainly makes a patches of fonm through the spruce. thins out of the wlndlgo. AnyHe stopped to listen, and again the way, this la the story of a wlnnotes of the violin shrilled above the digo that was real enough to' leave tracks like those of a great monotone of the troken waters. Slowbear and to kill a big bloodly he worked his way along the shoulhound. It Is also the story of a der of the shore, then, forced back to factor's daughter and an Americircle a gash In the eroded cliff, slum-ble- d can naturalist. The girl Is beautiful and educated and a wonupon a trail, and following it a derful violinist. The man Is brave short distance, suddenly stiffened. and strong. And when Brent The path led to a huge, Steele gets Into the "Valley of Voices" and sees the charm of bowlder thrusting out Into the stream. and Dentse St. Onge realizes that On the rock, her dark head nestling the mysterious wlndigo is worka violin to her cheek, stood a woman. ing for her destruction why, he drops everything else and starts Surprise held the man motionless. In to solve the malign mystery. To eyes which for months had not There's a fierce rivalry between looked upon a comely white woman, which complicates trading posts And the picture of the lithe figure of the the situation. Denlse, to save her father, has been forced Into a crown of dusky hair half musician, a promise of marriage. So Brent face turned to the river, the masking Job. Steele's ob Is a was a delight he hesitated to cut short But he does the job and gets his reward. by a betrayal of his presence. ' From the passionate hopelessness of Massenet's "Elegle" the violin swung CHAPTER I into a deathless lament of Urieg, grim with the eternal tragedy of his own north sea. As she played, the gray Steele stopped in Ms tracks.- With girl turned, exposing her face. On his right hand he freed his ear from her cheeks were tears. But she did and not see the listener for her eye3 were of his tump-lin- e the head-piecstood listening. Surely, he thought, closed. those were the unmistakable notes of She ceased playing. With a sense a violin, clear above the noise of the of awe at having heard the cry of he the continued up rapids. Curious, steep portage; now convinced that faintly through the beat of broken waters, which the trail paralleled, floated eerie music, now doubting his senses. At length his alert ears failed to capture the strains of the magic violin and he dismissed his illusion as 'he vagary of nerves overtense from the toll of the trail over which he had half-bree- d half-bree- blood-curdlin- d e come. For a space he went on, engrossed other thoughts, when through the roar of the waters a violin sobbed up to a wild crescendo . . . then ceased. Easing the top bag to the ground, Steele swung the lower pack, with its beside It, and attached tump-line- , waited. These were no fancied melodies of summer Whitewaters. It was no wraith music which a shift In the August breeze had brought him this mad playing. Again the notes of the violin were audible; clearer now. Some magician out there on the neighboring shore was baring his soul. It was unbelievable here, in this !ost valley of the Knchanted. north pure wizardry. Steele listened as the violin sang of yearning and despair, unutterable, which genius has voiced to the world through the magic of Its strings. And as he listened he wondered what tragedy lay behind that playing, what trick of fate had burled this master on the Wallof the bow In a fur-poing river. seeug "Wot you hear, de Wln-ligIn de Ptrong-water?Turning, Steele smiled at the blorky figure of the speaker standing in the bent untrail, his head and der a canoe. "No, David, but I've been listening to the violin of a shaman a medicine uinn conjuring up the spirits of the rapids. Someone at this French post Is a sorcerer." 'Maybe you hear Wlndigo nil de same," dryly suggested the easing the stern of the canoe to the trail to uncover a broad, swart face wrinkled with amusement. "Up at Fort Hope de peopr scared of dls river for cure. ley tell me de strong-wate- r by de French post bad place Tor Ue devils an" de Wlndigo." "Yea. I heard that too, the valley has a bad name on the Albany. ut Martin's Falls, says h was railed the Walling river because of the moaning of the rapids here In winter. '. told him It was only the wind, but he wouldn't have It Insisted that the place wus 'bail country,' bewitched." "Iey say plenty peopl drown there, lone tam ago," gravely added Iavld. "So old I'lerre once told me, down at Henley house, lie was traveling from Ogoke to the Albany one winter and struck this gorge about sunset. But the spirits scared him so with their walling that he drove bis dogs Ion miles before be dared to make 1 can't understand why the ramp. French built a place on a tabooed river. They must have known Its rep- tit at Ion." -Wat." replied Pavld with a grl nsce. "I nevalre hear one of rtese Wlndlco howl een de night, but eef I see him now 1 eat heetu for sure. riviere." I rail dis de Start-In- ' Steele laughed loudly at the remark of his cotiifntiion, whose legacy lit superstition from an o.lib ay mother had been heavily diluted ty the blood of a Scotch father. "I rould est a caribou myself," be said, "but we'll bate a big feed at the Post tonltht You take me canoe over while I find out who'll playing that violin. Who would gues that there was a man wlthla a thousand miles In " half-bree- hard-heade- 'I Come Here to Play, Monsieur Often," She Replied In a Tense, Uneven Voice. bush-grow- s Fabllahles 0.) faint smile, but the dark eyes did not change as she continued: "Yet 1 have my father and my violin, while he he has only his memories." "But," he gallantly protested, "your father, mademoiselle, has the companionship of a very" he hesitated and finished weakly "his daughter." She laughed In his face. "Ah, monsieur, you have French blood In your veins. But the very his daughter," she mocked, "Is a dull substitute for a 'world of men,' as your Browning says. My father will be much pleased at the coming to Wailing river of Monsieur " "Steele," he prompted, "my name Is Brent Steele. I am In the field for the American Museum of Natural History." She bowed low with mock gravity. "Monsieur Steele, my father. Col. nilaire St. Onge, will be honored In offering the poor hospitality of Wailing River to a learned American sci- entist." Smilingly Steele raised protesting How hands at her characterization. charmingly, he thought, this strange girl, whose violin had sung so poig nantly of despair, whose face had reflected fear of the stranger, now lapsed Into raillery. 'Oh, pardon, monsieur," she went on, "I forgot myself; i am Denlse St. Onge. Now that the conventions have been satisfied, will you follow me to our chateau of logs?" "Thank you!" Her simple muslin gown and beaded moccasins seemed but to authenticate the stamp of race In the figure and carriage of the girl who led the curi ous man over the river trail to the carry. At the portage she stopped. "My packs are below here, where I left them to follow the Lorelei of the Wailing," he said smiling. Her face swiftly sobered. "Ah. Monsieur," she replied almost Inaudibly, "do not make Jest of this terrible river." Then, with a shrug, as If ridding her mind of an oppres sive weight, added, "I shall not wait for you, the post Is very near," and walked swiftly up the portage, fol lowed by the quizzical eyes of the man. He stood In the trail watching the retreating figure of the girl until bend shut It from 6lght. What eyes and hair, he mused, and what playing I It was clear she was breaking her heart over something the look In her eyes proved that. To think of such a glorious creature bur led In this country I Her father prob ably was a retired French officer Heaps of then marooned between Labrador and the Peace! But why he asked himself, didn't they mention her over at Hope this charming daughter of the factor at Walling Itlver? Yes, he decided, she certainly had been frightened at his appearance had looked him over as If he were a ghost. Then she had seemed super stitious; but she couldn't really be lieve In this tradition of the valley this Wlndigo and spirit stuff. That was Inconceivable. She was not afraid to come here alone and yet she called the river terrible. What had happened here anyway? Whom could she fear, and why? Thus the speculated Intrigued Steele. Then swinging his bags to bis back, he started for the post known us Walling River. As Steele left the forest to cross the clearing the dogs of the post start ed the usual uproar. Half way to the group of log buildings he was met by an Indian, sent by the factor, and relieved of his packs. stark despair, the trespasser, con scious of sacrilege, had turned to reireat when he was stopped by: "Qui vlent la? Who is there?" faced Caught, the eavesdropper about, hat In hand. "Mademoiselle," he began, redden ing under the questioning gaze which swept him from moccasins to tattered shirt, then fearfully searched his eyes as If seeking a sinister meaning In his sudden appearance, "1 am pack -I ing up the carry to the post. heard your marvelous playing and came. You will pardon my listening?" The dark face of the girl in turn The guilty man humbly flushed. awaited the revelation of her Just anger. That meant for the forest and waters only the nuked anguish of a soul a stranger hud heard, it was right that he should pay. "I come here to pluy monsleui often." she replied in a tense, uneven voice. "1 was startled I We see ni There is more but the Indians. nothing to pardon." She spoke In Bnglish, with a flavor of accent which Steele had heard be fore, but not In French Canada. Relieved at his reprieve, he has tened to explain his presence on that portage of the Walling river. "My man David and I are bound from the Albany to Ogoke lake and the Neplgon. We've been In the bush since May." he laughed, painfully aware of a three-daygrowth of beard, with deprecatory gesture toward his frayed clothes, "and have some trading to do at the post, as jou see. Is It far?" "Only a short distance, monsieur, Mv father will welcome the sight of a white man; for him it Is so lonely here." "But surely," he protected, "It I more lonely for a woman." So sh was the daughter of the French far tor. at.d he wondered what force of circumstances had driven the father of this talented girl Into the fu trade as an employee of the French company; this girl with the somber etc who came to the white-waterwith her violin and tier grief. Wa it tragedy be bad chanced upon, or nere loneliness? Jotiely here for a wciuhii? S'irely. Monsieur, you spe.'; ni ti m:in of the .wirld with jnleriatidiua." The en ilhe inoutl, of the Lilt sYil.ed II 1- Pan The price paid for cream depends upon what the creamery can sell the butter for plus a reasonable profit. Butter Is sold on the large markets according to quality. In order to make good quality of butter, a butter- maker must have good quality cream. First-grad- e butter cannot be made out of all cream received at the creamery, because some of the cream will be tainted with onion, kerosene, gasoline and other flavors. Now- - if a firm can get 45 cents a pound for good butter, 20 cents a pound for onion butter and only grease prices for kerosene and gasoline butter, you can readily see the result. The price paid for all butterfat will depend upon the percentage of each kind of bum cream that Is received. Let us consider ker osene and gasoline tainted cream and see If the producer is not losing money. Oil Taints All Cream. A slight trace of oil In a cream can will taint all the cream that It comes In contact with, which usually Is an entire churning. An average churning in most plants is 1,000 pounds of but ter, or a value of $4f0 with butter at 45 cents per pound. A can of cream of an average test with butterfat at 40 cents, will bring $4.S0. Now If this can of cream Is tainted with kerosene or gasoline, it will ruin the $450 churning, and that butter will have to be disposed of at grease prices. You can readily see that there Is a large financial loss and the producer pays the bill. Bg Churning Lost. One of the dairy Inspectors hap pened to be in a cream station In eastern Colorado a short time aeo when a producer delivered a can of cream. The producer cautioned the cream station operator to be sure and wash the can thoroughly, as he was going to take home some gasoline in the can. Another inspector reported that he was in a Denver plant and saw a churning of kerosene butter. It is impossible to thoroughly cleanse a can after it has been filled with oil. You may think you can get It dean in that you can't smell the oil, but It will taint the cream Just the same. If we had to use tin cream pitchers, you wouldn't think of using the same pitcher for cream on the table and to fill your kerosene lamp. Using cream cans to haul o In is not unlawful, but results in a financial loss to the producer If the same can Is used for dairy purposes again. Colorado State Dairy Commission. 1,200-poun- d Gains Do Not Justify the Additional Expense. In wintering calves the use of grain in the ration Increases the cost of wintering materially and does not sufficiently Increase the total gains at the time or subsequently to Justify the additional expense, says the United States Department of Agriculture. This conclusion was reached from the results of a series of experiments carried on by the department In cooperation with the West Virginia experiment station In which grade Short horn, Hereford, and Aberdeen calves were used to determine the effect of different winter rations on gains the following summer. One lot of calves receiving a ration of mixed hay and a grain mixture of 3 parts corn, 1 part bran, and 1 part linseed meal made a winter gain of 08 pounds each, which was more than twice as much as another lot which was fed corn silage and clover hay. The latter drove, however, made a greater gain the following summer on pasture and lacked only 42 pounds of reaching the same total as the grain-fecalves. The cost of the grain ration through the winter did not Justify the extra gains, says the department. In fact, the experiment was carried until the calves were three years old, in which time the advantage In weight due to grain feeding the first winter was practically all lost by the tiina they were three years old. d Soiling Crops or Corn Silage as Supplements Soiling crops or corn silage are recfor as ommended supplements drought damaged pastures used for dairy herds. If the dairyman lacks corn silage and Is not in position to feed a soiling crop, he should give his cow a grain ration, says O. Q. Schaefer of the dairy division, UniFor versity farm, St. Paul, Minn. average or low producing covin on pastures badly burned the grain ration should consist of equal parts of corn and oats or equal parts of barley and oats. For cows of more than average production one pound of oil meal should be added to the ration for every five or six pounds of the corn and oats or barley and oats. Where no pas ture is left at all the cows should be fed about as In winter. RAPID DECLINE IN MILK PRODUCTION The rapid decline In milk production as the summer advances la the result of a combination of factors, says O. B. Bender, assistant dairy husbandman at the New Jersey College of Agriculture, New Brunswick. Chief among these is the poor condition of pasture. In many regions a drought In midsummer causes tough and woody pasture. The result is that the cow, especially If producing a liberal amount of milk, doesn't get sufficient food and loses flesh by trying to keep up production. Finally the production declines, Blowly at first and then inore rapidly as conditions become extreme. Records from creameries show that for 100 pounds of milk delivered June 1 there are only 40 pounds delivered August 1. Files may be a slight factor, but their Importance Is overestimated. The flies and the hot weather are factors In so far as they both discourage the animals from grazing. If kept on pasture the tows should be turned out to graze during the early morning and late evening. The growing of soiling crops may be a good practice. Grain Is an effective means of holding up production, but It Is an expensive practice to the extent that the grain replaces grass. Silage Is not a complete ration, but It may be used alone to supplement pastures. If conditions are such that most of the feed has to be supplied outside of pastures, then the feeding should be practically the same as In winter. If the production of the herd drops to a marked degree during the summer It cannot be brought back to the point where It should be. Therefore, to Insure a paying fall production, it is highly Important to keep up the milk flow during the summer, even though there may be no Immediate Save Farm Machinery by Covering and Painting Now Is the time of year to get all the farm machinery under cover and painted. If the metal Is covered with paint. It will not rust. Rust destroys thouTwo Important Factors sands of dollars' worth of farm mato Get Alfalfa Stand chinery each year. Not even a wealthy The two most important factors in farmer can afford to neglect his magetting a good stand of alfalfa are chines. Grease and rust that has accumuseed bed preparation and the use of pure adapted alfalfa seed, according lated should first be removed. The to Kansas State Agricultural college rust may be removed by means of agronomists. Alfalfa and small grass sandpaper, or a strong steel brush. seeds should be planted In a finely pul- Grease may be removed with soft, verized moist soil, which contains a warm water. A coat of paint over anything Is good supply of available plant food. Preparation should start early in the the same as a covering, and protects season, and at this time the seed bed what it covers from the elements. It Is economy to paint. should be put Into final condition by frequent working with the disk, set straight, a cultipacker, a drag, or a Keep Late Spring Pigs harrow to firm the subsurface well on Good Growing Ration and to smooth and pulverize the surface soil. Late spring pig litters should be Most of the winter killing of alfalfa kept on a good growing ration well last winter and spring, was due to supplied with either skim milk or using southern grown, or Imported tankage. If there Is any Indication of seed, say agronomists who urge the cheaper corn this fall these late spring use of only native grown seed free pigs might be carried along for growth from weeds. on a limited corn and tankage ration while on good pasture. Until good pasture does arrive a liberal supply of Now Is Recommended Rye tankage or skim milk and grain for Winter Cow Pasture should be provided. Little Is gained by keeping a pig Farmers who do not have wheat for fall and winter pasture for dairy cows down to half efficiency hy a limited xbould sow some rye, say dairymen ration. Young pigs become stunted on at the Kansas State Agricultural col pasture alone. At least two pounds of One precaution that must be grain daily on good pasture for 100 lege. observed In pasturing dairy cows on pounds of live weight ore required lye. especially where milk Is sold, Is for best results. Evidently Wailing River has a to remove the cows from pasture three mystery and one that challenges or four hours before milking. This a brave man and the girl precaution will keep the milk from being tnlnted with the characteristic rye flavor, which Is objectionable to TO BB CONTINUED.) some people. The college herd Is Early plowed kaflr stubble makes Nicotine in Tobacco pastured on rye from seven o'clock In good oat ground. Nicotine la a colorless. Intensely the morning until one o'clock In the Clean hens In clean quarters make poisonous liquid. If exposed to the afternoon. for poultry profits. air, it absorbs oxygen and becomes e brown and ultimately solid. The Produce Excellent Hay quantity of nicotine contained In toFifty ears of corn should be Crop by Sowing Timothy gathered for every acre to be planted bacco varies from two to eight per When timothy Is sown alone In the next year. cent, the coarser kinds contaltdng the larger quantity, while the best fall It produces an excellent hay crop Havana cigars seldom contain more the following summer, but when sown Poison bran mash Is an Indispensable than two per cent, and often less. during late winter or early spring It Item on the last banquet menu for Nicotine does not appear In tobacco Is necessary to wait until the followgrasshoppers. smoke. It la split into pyridine and ing year to get a hny crop. collodlne. Of these, the latter Is said Timothy mny be sown with either Corn selected for seed should be to be the less active and to prwheat or rye. When sown with a stored at once In a dry. ponderate In cigar smoke, while the nurse crop from 6 to 8 pounds of seed where It will cure quickly and smoke from pipes contains a larger per acre should be used. When sown place remain dry. amount of pyridine. e olone. about 10 pounds Is the proper amount. straw may be regardsoy Roughly, nover. elth- -r sweet or red. may be ed as about Marvclou Precocity s as valuable as sowu with the timothy In the spring. clover hay, but this Is not an exact The precocious Infant was being submitted to the psychological tests In figure by any means. e e order to determine the degree of his Double Value of Straw He hud already picked out 1 arm? genius Imaniie when they bale Legumes take from 50 to 100 pounds numbers, ariaiigod blocks and distinttraw and sell If for enough to pay of nitrogen to the acre from the air guished colors. Then rame the sit actual cost of baling and hauling thnt annually. An amount sufficient for a of vari- they are rettlm: nn much out of It corn crop. Seed some alfalfa pretne test, the Identitli-Htloous coins The Investigator tossd a pniHjble Ate they? Pry straw may this fall. e nickel on the floor. The precocious not he of great vntue as fertilizer, Infant bent over It while the proud but when mined Alth rresh manure Oats Is a good grain to feed colts, parents held their breath. !t worth is mom than doubled. Mors hut when not available a grain ration i Infant winke't II eri.l use of bedding results In clean consisting of six parts corn, three Then the I Ms dud and cried exultantly ;it r !nd healthier nniirinli. and gives i parts bran, and one part linseed oil Heads'" -- I'utlitlncler Magazine. 'Biiri-ueal. Is a splendid substitute. amount of fertilizer. i 1 - i profit Records of Association Are Exact CowT-Testi- ng Yearly milk and butterfat producg assotion as determined In ciations by weighing and testing one day's production each month Is accu rate within a very small per cent, says the United States Department of Agriculture. To determine the accuracy of the association method of calculating yearly production, the department made a study of the actual yearly production records of 70 cows of the Minnesota experiment station. These Minnesota records gave the production of milk and butterfat for each milking throughout the year. By systematically picking out the weights and tests for one day ench month as they would have been association by methods and thus calculating the yearly production It was found that the association method was accurate within 2 per cent on milk production and within 3 per cent on production of cow-testin- cow-testin- g d cow-testin- g butterfat. A tabulation was also made of 100 yearly Individual cow records from the department farm at BeJtsvIlle, Md. These records gave only the milk production night and morning for ench day In the year. A yearly total, calculated from one day's record each month, when compared with the actual milk production showed an accuracy within 1.09 per cent. These compari sons indicate that the method used in association work gives a very accurate record of production. cow-testin- g Alfalfa and Clover Are Good for Dairy Heifers That alfalfa or clover hay fed with corn to dairy heifers produces good growth and favors early maturity, was shown by recent feeding tests at the Oldo experiment station. In the tests, continued through two winters, alfalfa hay and corn were fed to one lot of Holstein and Jersey heifers and clover bay and corn to a similar lot. Without other feed both lots made more than average normal growth. Alfalfa hay did not prove greatly superior to clover hay for growth when fed liberally with corn, but It did prce superior to clover hay for fattening, or gain In weight. The tests showed that either alfalfa or clover fed with corn furnishes sufficient protein and other essential materials to produce excellent growth. The liberal use of legume hays favors early maturity of heifers. Thla permits early breeding with a consequent saving in time and cost- - The legumes carry more calcium, or lime, than the grasses, and good alfalfa, clover, or other legume hay, Is therefore better than timothy or other grass bay for growth. two-third- Dairy Hints 4& OiO't OS OiOH Oi 00HO Keep the drinking water supply for the dairy herd clean and wholesome, e e Ship your cream at least three times week during this hot weather. Keep It eooL e new herd sire wh'le the demand Is slack and you can get better bulls for your money. P.uy that |