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Show THE PROVO HERALD , , , , TWO INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS IN FATTENING MARKET HOGS BY o. mmr I North Dakota and Wisconsin Stations Make Tests With Barley as Feed for Swine and Produce Some Quite Valuable and Interesting Results Corn " Is Not the Only Thing. 4 ' HERE are many kinds of f (tola. Now, will every- - -- ; . please ait till until they are called upon specifically to rise? . I had been every kind of fool except one. I had expended my patrimony concealed a tear; and he went on .to Pretended my matrimony, say that the old man bad Jealously and bucket-ihop- guarded this paper for 20 years. He played poker, with money in left It to his family as part of hit essoon my parted many ways. But. there remained one tate, the rest of which consisted of role, of the wearer of cap and bells two mules and a hypotenuse of land. that I had not played. That was the The sheet of paper was of the old leeker after burled treasure. To few does the delectable furor come. But blue kind used during the Civil war. of all the would-bfollowers in the It was dated June 14. 1863: and of King Midas none has It described the hiding place of ten of" gold" and silver coin founds pursuit so rich in pleasurable valued at $300,000. Old Rundle grandpromise. " But, going back, from my theme a father of his grandson, Sam was a was I do while as lame pens muaj given the information by a Spanish fool of the sentimental sort I saw priest .who was in on the treasure-buryinand who died many years May Martha Mangum, and was hers. She was eighteen, the color of the before no, afterward in old Rundle's body ' . i lawn-tenni- s s, non-arabl- e e hoof-print- s burro-road- s FIret Prize Sow at the Royal Show, England. With corn plentiful and cheap, In the corn bell will, not be easily interested in any other kind of feed for fattening hogs and cattle, but as the price of corn as It stands today and with the probability that it will steadily advance in the future, it is only thapart of wisdom and good management for farmers to study the value of other grain for feeding at less cost In manyjountries where corn cannot be raised the finest pork and beef are produced from barley, other grain and roots. In Denmark, for instance, where the finest bacon in the world is made, farmers feed their hogs Entirely on barley. Frequently in this country the price of barley becomes very low when the malting demand is oversupplied and it is then that the shrewd farmer can supplant corn with this grain and sell his cornto better advantage than by feeding it. Farmers in the northwest where barley is grown to a large extent are becoming more interested in this grain and the experiment stations up there have done some excellent work in proving its value as compared with corn. An experiment began by the North Dakota station four years ago to show the value of barley as compared with corn for fattening hogs, hasjroducejl some very valuable and interesting results. A dozen pigs were divided into two lots of six each. The animals in each lot were uniform in size, thrift and general condition. The average weight of each lot was at the beginning of the experiment, practically Identical, 127 pounds. Those in lot one were fed a ration composed of four parts ground barley, and one part of shorts by weight. The pigs in lot twp were given four parts of ground corn and one part of shorts. The pigs were fed for a period of 83 days, the grain being soaked inwa-te- r and fed in the form- of a thick , slop. fher feeding value of a pound of corn proved to be lS per cent greater than a pound of barley, but much of the barley was inferior in quality and eight-month-ol- - -- if It would have been good, sound grain, might have made a better showing. The difference in price of about seven cents per bushel between barley and corn must also be taken into consideration. The Wisconsin station, which ha a fine reputation for careful feeding Investigations, some years ago made a teBt between corn and barley and re ported that the value of corn was only eight per cent- - greater than that of barley. The barley was figured at 48 cents a bushel, corn at 55 cents and shorts at $14 per ton. The hogs In this test sold at $8.20 per hundred, the barley fed hogB netting a profit of $1.00 per hundred pounds "and the corn fed hogs netted $1.89. ' Id this test the price of barley at 48 cents was too high as that was the regular price for best grade malting barley while the average price of common barley was 37 cents per bushel. Taking these figures it would have been cheaper to feed barley and sell corn. Investigations that these two stations have made shows that barley makes more lean meat than corn. 01 course corn Is the greatest fattener in the world when fed to hogs, but a better grade of bacon can be produced by feeding barley than corn. When hogs are fed for weight alone there Is no doubt that corn has the slightest advantage, but where bacon is produced for the best special mar kets barley will turn out the best product. The result of the two ex, periments show: That It required 18 per cent more barley by weight than corn to produce the same gafti m leading pigs when both grains were fed In the proportion of four parts of grain to one of shorts by weight. That It is profitable to feed barley to hogs If pork is selling at an average price. That the carcasses of the pigs fed barley and shorts showed a greater distribution of lean and firmer flesh than the carcasses of pigs fed corn and shorts. That pigs fed on corn and. shorts will dress a higher per cent than pigs fed on barley and shorts. white .ivory keys of a new pianOi beau tiful, and possessed by the exquisite solemnity and pathetic witchery of an unsophisticated angel doomed to live In a small, dull, Texas pralrle-towMay Martha's father as a man hidden behind whiskers and spectacles. He lived for bugs and butterflies- - and all Insects that fly or crawl or buzz or get down your back or In the but ter. He was an entomologist, or words to thaleffecL . He spent his 1U seining the air for flying fish of the June-buorder, and then sticking pins through 'em and calling 'em names. There was another besides myself who .ttreught May Martha Mangum one to be desired. That was Good loe Banks, a young man Just home from college. He had all the attainments to be found in books Latin, Greek, philosophy and especially the higher branches of mathematics and g logic. If It hadn't been for his habit of pouring out this information and learning on every one that he addressed I'd have liked htm pretty well. But, even as it was, he and I were, you would have thought, great pals. But, in our talks together and in our visits and conversation with May Martha, neither Goodloe Banks nor I could find out which one of us she preferred. May Martha was a natural-borand knew' in her cradle how- - to keep .people guessing. Old Man Mangum certainly was absent-minded- .' After a long time he found out one day a little butterfly must have told him that two young men were trying to throw a' net over the head of the young person, a daughter, or some such technical appendage, who looked after his comforts. I never knew scientists could rise to such occasions. Old Mangum orally labeled and classified Goodloe and myself easily among the lowest orders of the vertebrates; and in English, too, without going any further Into Latin than the simple references which Is lo Orgetorlx, Rex Helvetll is far a 1 ever went myself. And he told us that if be ever caught us around his house again he would add us to his collection. Goodloe Banks snd I remained away Dve days, expecting the storm to s.ub-lidWhen we dared to call at the bouse again May Martha Mangum and LANDS USUALLY her father were gone. Gone! The they had rented was closed. NEEDING LIME house Their little store of goods and chattels was gone also. not a word of farewell to eithWhen Soil Is Sour It Will Tarn er And of us from May Martha not a Blue Litmus Paper Placed note pinned to the white, fluttering in Contact With hawthorn-bush- ; not a chalk mark on It Red. the gate post nor a postcard in the' a clue. (By DR. TV. P. BROOKS, Massachusetts.) postofflce to give us For two months Goodloe Banks. and Those soils on which, when seeded, timothy and clovers fail, and I separately tried every scheme we could think of to track the "runaways. where sorrel comes in largely together with red top. usually need liming. We used our friendship and influence It should be pointed out, however, with the ticket agent, with livery sta that the presence of sorrel s not a ble men, railroad conductors, and our onelQDe,.Jfirn constable, but without B roof th a t i roe- -f Th w n e. NEW PLOW IS QUITE UNIQUE Digs Up Earth as Wheel on Which Thejr Are Attached Is R- evolvedWork Done Effectively. -- - Something novel In the plow line-habeen invented by a Louisiana man. Instead of a fixed blade tnat spades up the earth, this apparatus has a wheel in which are pivoted steel rods. Inside this wheel Is a part set close enough rto thrrim-- of the wheel to threw- 4ee4 seml-circul- -- md 1 w( In talking things over one after- reach the ground, in the course been heavily limed; but on such soils ... noon he said to me: of the revolution, they will be aimed the grasses and clovers are likely to "Suppose you do find her, crowd it out, while on. soils which are would you profit 7 Miss Mangum In need of lime, they are unable to do has a mind. Perhaps It Is yet un... so. t When soil Is sour it will turn blue cultured, but she is destined for highlitmus paper placed In contact with er things than you could give her. It red. To carry out the test, make have talked with no one who seemed more the enchantment about a tablespoonful of the soil into to appreciate ancient of the poets and writers and a thin mud with pure water and after the modern cults that have a for a Bhart it has. stood tlmelay of pliece" of "blue lit mu paprorrtrand are wasting cover with the mud. Be careful not lite. Don't you think you time looking for her?" to handle the papers with the'flngers. your "My idea," said I, "of a happy home removeKthe minuteB ten After about house Id a grove of In an eight-roopaper, washingit if necessary to show live oaks by the side of a charco on a the" color. If It has turned red, , the Texas prairie. A piano," I went on, Boil Is sour and needs an application "with an automatic player in the sitof lime. Practically all druggists : ting room, .three .thousand head, of catkeep litmus paper. tle under fence for a starter, a .The most certain evidence of all and ponies always hitched at a r as to whether lime will prove benepost for 'the missus' and May Martha ficial Is afforded by a simple experiMangum to spend the profits oL the ment which may be carried out as ranch as she pleases, and to abide follows; Lay off two square rode in with nre, and put my slippers and pipe a part of the field to be tested which away every day In places where they seems to be fairly representative and cannot be found Of evenings. That," New Kind of Pl.ow. , they, y . V . . 1 r buck-boar- even in quality. To one of these apto thrust downward and forward into ply twenty pounds of freshly slaked After applying at once work the-- earth instead of merely dragging lime. A few In .deeply.and thoroughly Ut ThP of the . wrirht tr,fsv OVl V, .roinp. r," eacn to later uayB to Insure its pioi iiDerai apply plow, too, is sufficient of either manure or, fertilizer, quantity As the work the effectively. doing rods come up out of the ground they precisely the same .amount to each. Plant table beets, it the soil ismuch drop Into vertical position, points upneed of Jlme these will' make a to the ward, until they come around better growth upon the limed plot. striker again. ". ' - said I, Is what is to be and a fig. t dried, Smyrna, dago-stanfig for your curriculums,-- r cults And . philos:. .. ophy, t...-,,- ... . "She Is meant for" Higher" things. repeated Goodloe Hanks ' "Whatever she Is meant for." I an- wered. "Just now she is out of pock-Iet. And I shall find her sb soon as i can without aid of the colleges." "Thev game Is blocked," said Good- ,oe- Horses of pnttlng down a domino; and we Clubs. Norway. Agricultural the beer. . e The horses of Norway are chunky., had Hoys and girls who desire to prgar.-(z' In Shortly after that a' young .farmer an agricultural- club can obtain f res little animals about 60 inches"height, ..hardy, and gentle vapd Very I whonr Lknew came Into town and a bulletin giving. them DrougM me a folded blue paper. He secrestrong. .The average price for a good to the Information by writing 1 laid hla grandfather, bad lust died. I 190 from to $220. f working horse ia tary of agriculture at Washington.-. . - -- - n ' . ; - much-valuabl- e 1 ' T ' bouse- .- Old Rundle wrote It down from dictation. "Why didn't" your father look this up?" I asked young Rundle. "He went blind before he could do so," he replied. "Why didn't you hunt for it yourself?" I asked. "Well." said he. "I've only known about the paper for ten years. First there was the spring plowln' to do, and thenchoppin' the weeds out of the corn; and then cometakin' fodder; and mighty soon winter was on us. It seemed to run along that way year after year." That sounded perfectly reasonable to me, so I took It ud with vouna Lee Rundle at once. The directions on the paper were simple. The whole burro cavalcade laden with the treasure started from an old Spanish .mission In Dolores county. They traveled due south by the compass until they reached the river. They forded this, and buried the treasure on the top of a e little mountain shaped like a in row a two between standing higher ones. A heap, of stones marked the place of the burled treasure. Atnhe party exceptthe SpanAway said,ish priest were killed by Indians a few yarmtiono f" days later. The secret was a monopAfter glancing over it In a masterly oly. It looked good to me. way, he leaned hack in his chair and Lee Rundle suggested that we rig bestowed upon me an explosion of sarout a camping outfit, hire a surveyor donic, superior, collegiate laughter. to run out the" line from the Spanish "Well, you are a fool, Jim," he said, mission, and then spend the $300,000 when he could speuk. seeing the sights In Forth Worth. But "WJiy an I a fool?" 1 asked. "Burled without being highly educated, 1 knew treasure bas been found before in a way to save time and expense. many places." We went lo the state land office, "Because," said he, "In calculating and had a practical," what they call the point on the river where your line a "working" sketch made of all the would strike, you neglected to allow surveys of land from the old mission for the variation. The variation there to the Alamito river. On this map would be nine degrees west Let me I drew a line due southward to the have your pencil." Goodloe Banks figure river. The length of lines of each surrapidly on the back of an envelope. vey and section of land was accur"The distance, from north to south, ately given on the sketch. By these the Spanish we found the point on 'the river and of the line run from had a "connection" made with It, and mission," aid he, "is exactly 22 mlleB. an Important, corner of It was run by a pocket compass, acthe Los Anlmos survey a cording to your story.. 'Allowing for grant made by King Philip of Spain. the variation, the point on the Alamito By doing this we did not need to river where you should have searched have the line run out by a surveyor. for your treasure is exactly six miles varas It was a great saving of expense and and nine hundred and forty-fivfarther west than the place you hit time. So, Lee Rundle and I fitted out a Liipon. on, wnat a fool you are, Jim!" He smiled In his superior way; and wagon team with all the accessories, and drove a hundred a,nd then I saw come out In his face the forty-ninmiles to Chico, the near- singular, eager, consuming cupidity of est town to the point we wished to the seeker after buried treasure. "Sometimes," he said with the air reach. There we picked up a depuHe found the of the oracle, "these old traditions of ty county surveyor. corner of the Los Anlmos survey for bidden money are not without founus, ran out the Ave thousand seven dation. Suppose you let me look over the location. hundred and twenty varas west that that paper describing our sketch, called for, laid a stone on Perhaps together we might" The result was that Goodloe Banks the spot, bad coffee, and bacon, and back to Chlco. . and I, rivals In leve, became compancaught the mall-stag- e ions In adventure. We went to Chlco I was pretty sure we would get that $300,000. Lee Rundle's was to be only by stage from Huntersburg, the nearbecause was paying all the est railroad town. In Chico we hired expenses. With that $200,000 I knew a team drawing a covered spring wagWe I could find May Martha Mangum if on and paraphernalia. .1 Ala-mlt- pack-saddl- your water marte - wj J una d five-leagu- e e two-hors- e . e one-thir- 1 d g disTance as revised bTSbbdloe and his s flutter the butterflies In old man dove-cot- , too . If 1 could find variations, and then dismissed him and sent him on his homeward road. that treasure! it was night when we arrived. I fed But Lee and I established camp. Across the river were awdqzen little the horses and made a fire near the mountains densely covered by cedar-brake- bank of the river and cooked supper. but not one shaped" like a Goodloe would have helped; but his That did not deter us. education had not fitted him for practical things. Appearances are deceptive. A Hut, while I worked he cheered me like beauty, may exist only In the expression of great thoufhts with the eye of the beholder. down from the dead ones of old handed of "the and the grandson l treasure"; hllla He quWedBonietranlatlon8 from the "exanilneffthOBe with the careNof a lady hunting for Greek at much length. The next morning was a bright June a wicked flea. We explored every side, one. We were up early and had breakmean elevation, circumference, top, He reangle, slope and concavity of every fast..., Goodloe was charmed. one for two miles up and down the citedKeats, I think It was, and Kelly river. We spent four days doing so. or Shelley, while I broiled the bacon Goodloe was looking at old Rundle's Then we hitched up the roan and the wben he ripped out a most document of hauled the and 'the remains dun, coffee and bacon the 149 miles back to unrolleglate swear word. "Come here," he said, holding the Concho CitJ. As shortly as could be after our paper up against the sunlight. "Look hi said, laying bis. finger empty return "'Goodloe Banks and I foregathered in the back roomjof Sny- against It. On the blue paper a thing I nad der's saloon to play dominoes and flsh never retired before I saw stand out I tola Goodloe about lor information. In white Jettcrs the words and figmy expedition after the burled treasures: Malvern, 1898." ure. "What about It?" "If 1 could have found that three ..."li'ji.tha-water-mftr- k," said Good-loe- . I said to hundred thousand dollars," him,-"- t could d.i . "The paper was manufactured In the face of the earth to find May Mar 1898. the' wrlllng on iepaper is dated 1863. This Is a palpable fraud" tha Mangum." "She Js. meant for higher thlngB." .."Oh. I don't knew," said I. "The said Goodloe. "X, shall find her my-- ' Rundles are pretty reliable, plain, unself. But, tell me how you went about educated country people. Maybe the manufacturers tried to perpe- discovering .the spot where nof VinH IndPnmont vea Imnnwliintl trate a swindle. And then Goodloe Banks went as burled." I told hjm In the smallest detatL I wild as his education permitted. He showed it In the draftsman' sketch' dropped the glasses off bis nose and with the distances marked plainly glared at me. . V . . "I've often told., you you were a upon iL Man-gum'- s, pack-saddl- pack-saddle,- cedar-covere- d 4 hav-ooure- d and-slfte- thU.-unvlp?I- ' I .. . fool," he said. "You have let yourself be Imposed upon by a clodhopper... And you have Imposed upon me." I rose and pointed a large pewter-spoon at him, fresh from the dlth waiv ter. "Goodloe Ranks." I said, "1 care not" one parboiled navy bean for your edu- cation. I always barely tolerated it in '. any one, and 1 despised J Jn . yoju,Jv " htts dcne Is It a curse to yourself and. a bore to your friends. Away," f 8ald"awajr' with your water marks and varia--tion- s! They are nothing to me.' They shall not deflect me fronOny quest." I pointed with my spoon across the-rlvto a small mountain shaped like a pack saddle. "I am going to search that " moun- tain," I , went on, "for the treasure-,- - . Decide' now whether you are "in It or not. If you wish to let a 'water mark-- or a variation shake your soul, you are no true adventurer. Decide." A white cloud of dust began to rises far down the river road.- It was the? mall wagon from Hesperus to Chlco ' Goodloe flagged it. "1 am done with the swindle said he sourly. "No one but a fool would. pay any attention to that paper now- -. Well, you always were a ftol. Jim. I .. leave you to your fate."!!. He gathered his personal traps, climbed Mnto the 'adjust"" ed his glasses nervously, and flew away In a cloud of dust I Investigated the hill shaped like a-- . pack saddle from' base to. summit. . It" found an absolute absence of 'signs re-lating to buried treasure. There was no pile of stones, no ancient blazes on e the trees, none of the evidences of hundred thousand dollars, as set 1 ...... . your-learnln- for-yott- T g - , ' mail-wago- " the--thre- X(01nthad Rundle. manwi , came down the hill In .the cool of.' Suddenly, out of the cedar-brake I stepped into a beautiful . green valley, where a tributary smalK. stream ran Into the Alamito river. And there I was startled to see what' I took to be a wild man. with unkempt' beard and ragged hair, pursuing a. giant butterfly with brilliant wings. he ia an - escaped - mad--. JTerbapa man." I thought; and wondered howr I the afternoon. he hadatrayed-8Q-- f arfrom seats of education and learning.. And then 1 topk a few more step and'saw a cottage near .7 the small stream. And, in a littlo A grassy glade, I saw May Martha Man " "- gum plucking wild flowers. She straightened up. and. looked at" me.' For the first time since I knew her I saw her face which was that color of the white keys of a new piano turn pink. I walked toward her . without a word. She let the gathered flowers trickle slowly from her hand-. to the grass , she-' "1 kiyw you would come,, Jim," said clearly. ""Father woufdo't let me write, but I know you would come. What followed you may'1 guess there was my wagon and team Jus t-- across the river. f vine-covere- d j I've often wondered what eood too much. education Is to a1 man;tf he cao't use it for' himself." If aHJkthe benefit of It are to go tA'bthets 'iwliere doe . , It come In? , For. May Martha Mangum abides. , U .jfj uJght-roowith me. house In a live oak grove! and a piano with an automatic 'pla'yVK and a good start toward the three thousand beadv of cattle Is under fence. , The - ' - |