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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH. UTAH A Rival in the Flood INJECTING SWINE IN FLANK MEANS SAVING TEMPERATURE OF Holding the boat steady on Its course with her left hand, Dorothy shifted the searchlight with her right, looking for the rowboat. On the instant came a grinding crash, a womans shriek, a man's loud MILK IMPORTANT voice.' Terror caught at Dorothys heart She shifted the searchlight quickly up and down the swollen stream. By FRANK H. WILLIAMS There, atready past her, down the stream by a hundred yards the rowboat burst into view in the blaze from (), 1$22, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Dorothys searchlight. It was low in her Gordon pressed Pretty Dorothy the- - water. Both Howard and Alice pretty face against the window pane were standing np. The sound of an and looked through the gusts of rain agonized shriek came to Dorothy. and sleet to the swollen river some Then, quite suddenly,' the boat sank little dintance beyond the hsuse. and the two people sank with it into It was a wild night. The river had the river. risen steadily since morning and now Fairly sobbing in her excitement t, spread in the distance, a and anxiety, Dorothy spun the steerugly, moody lake whose farther shore ing wheel around. The boat answered was lost in the. darkness of the early at once, crashing and pushing its way twilight. The river bade fair to be up through the debris in a wide arc. o toe house by midnight. Could she get to Howard and the Dorothy shivered slightly as she girl in time? scene. was She gbzsd at this dismal As the boat straightened oijt with worried not about herself, for a mo- the down-streacurrent it fairly shot tor boat riding at ease on the rising ahead. Away In the distance the sure a her near waters the house gave disclosed the bobbing means of escape, but because of searchlight heads of Howard and the girl. Alice Howard Freeman, her sweetheart, was to the left, Howard to the right. ,vho was immured in an office building They were both about the same disSome tance on the other side of the river. from the boat. moments ago Howard had telephoned It seemed ages to Dorothy, but it was surrounded that the building by was only a moment or so until water and that he was leaving by a she really was between the two. , As she rowboat. Dorothy had pleaded with came to this point she swung her Dim to let her come for him in the to the left disclosing Alice searchlight Permotorboat but he had refused. hanging to a log some twenty feet haps now, at this very moment, he was from the boat. Again Dorothy swung course Of into the rowboat. getting the storing wheel. The boat staggered there was no danger, but the current a bit from the impact of logs and ahi the center of the stream was swift, debris, then chugged up to Alice's side. the river was filled with floating logs But what was Alice doing? and debris. YVouJd he be able to win As Dorothy watched in utter amazethe shore in his fragile boat without ment she saw Alice, with an evil look trouble? on her face, pushing the- to she was To Dorothy, who had livecLthere by holding straight toward the boats prothe river all he,r life, the flood was a In an instant it would mesh normal occurrence. 'Every year the peller. with the machine. The rear end of exriver overflowed its banks not as the boat would be pounded out ! tensively as this present flood, of Dorothy always had been suspicious course, hut enough to familiarize those of Alice. Now she saw in an instant U. S. Department of Agriculture people who lived near the stream with what was in Alices mind. Alice a Advice to the Home Gives the Characteristics of flood time. So splendid swimmer wanted to wreck Dorothy did not fear the flood so far the boat. She knew Dorothy couldnt Gardeners. as she herself was concerned. It was swim in a current like this. In this only because of Howard's unfamiliar-itway she might eliminate Dorothy and with flood conditions, owing to the be sure of Howard for herself! In recentness of his arrival the city, INTO FOUR GROUPS Dorothy gasped. For a moment ter- DIVIDED that she was worried. ror held her so firmly in its grip that That and another thing which kept she could do nothing. beating at the back of Dorothys mind Nearer and nearer Alice pushed the First Vegetables That Will Withstand and which she resolutely tried to keep log toward the propeller. In a moment y Crops; Frost; Second, from her were the causes of her wor- the would endeavor diabolical Those Killed; Third, Easily girls ries! be accomplished: g Plants. Fourth, Of the two worries, this thing at the On the instant, though, Dorothy back of her mind was much the great- came to life with a rush. She fairly Common garden crops are divided er. Despite her efforts to keep it down leaped from the steering wheel toward it rose up and frightened her. She the engine. In a mad frenzy of ex- by the United States Department re-of into four groups as tapped restlessly on the window pane citement she dashed at the electric Agriculture the time of planting them in the gards conwith the tips of her lingers as she switch. Even as she shut off the entinued gazing out at the flood. What gine there was a series of crashing open ground.' The first group includes the vegeshould she do? Howards message had thuds at the rear of the boat. These that will withstand considertables been explicit she should remain where sounds then stepped abruptly. She able frost and which may be planted she was and not come out to him. He had been in time. would be angry If she ventured out ' Leaning over the side of the boat, two or three weeks before the danger into the flood and storm to come to Dorothy found Alice swimming weakly of frost is past in the spring. The y crops, may him. There had been no question there. Minus the aid of the log, it was second group, or about the sincerity with which he had evidently a strain for her to keep be planted a few days before, or about the time that the last killing frost is said this. afloat. to occur. The third group, those And yet Dorothy came to a sudden For one mad moment, Dorothy likely killed by frost, should not be resolution. She swung back Into the thought of pushing Alice off into the easily until all danger of frost is room. planted dimly lighted river to fight alone, and perhaps lose I'm going out in the boat," she out. Then in a rush her better nature over. The lourth group, the plants, should never be planted in oiled to her stepmother, the only other triumphed. She leaned over and helped until both the soil and the air the open who was of the swayoccupant house, Alice into the boat. The latter came are thoroughly warm. ing agitatedly back and forth in a submissively enough. Among the crops of the first group rocking chair near the center table.' Dorothy started the engine again. that may be planted before frosts are I wouldnt, was the refily. Its To her joy tire boat showed leeway, past- - -- are Irish potatoes, smooth peas, came dangerous. and kicks ominous though jolts onion sets, cabbage plants, kale, turDad will be here any minute noTi' from the rear. in the other motor boat, said Dorobeets, lettuce, and mustard. They nips, She started the searchlight again, Ive got to go, thats all. I beating up and down the river, looking may be planted early because they rethy. cnnt stand it any longer. quire some time to come up. While for Howard. the The rain lashed at Dorothy and a young plants are injured by frost, There he was, hanging to a log nearchill wind buffeted her as she raced by, blood streaking his face from a by the time they sprout and come to the surface, frost danger is likely to from the house toward the boat Her wound in his forehead. be feet sank into the soft earth as she past. Together the two girls helped him Dont Follow Moon Rule. ran, slowing her speed considerably. into the boat. Now that she had come to this deciSome gardeners formerly believed In Howard sank wearily into the botsion and was actually launched on the tom of the boat. He gazed up at planting Irish potatoes and certain thing she had been longing to do all Dorothy with eyes in which a great other garden crops according to the afternoon, she was afire with eager- love was glowing. signs of the moon. No one seems to ness. She wanted to get to Howard I saw it all, said Howard, weakly. know how the old moon theory origiJust as quickly as she possibly could. You're wonderful, Dorothy. nated, but it seems to dute back to He sank exhausted to the floor. Fortunately the launch started at prehistoric times and probably was once. Dorothy heaved up the anchor A great joy welled up In Dorothys based upon the method of keeping which had moored the boat close to heart. She looked rather pityingly at time by moons rather than by months.' the house in a little bayou made by Alice, cowering pathetically in the far There is no definite exper'nental data the advancing waters, and switching corner of the boat. to show that the moon has any influan the searchlight, started up stream Never again would Dorothy have to ence one way or the other upon plant against the swift current for the office worry about this other woman. growth, and experienced gardeners preAnd with her heart overflowing with fer to plant their potatoes at a time building a uiile away where Howard Worked. thankfulness Dorothy stooped and when the weather and soil conditions Darkness had come by now, swift pressed a kiss on Howard's lips. are right rather than according to the and dense. The searchlight cutting Experience has phase of the moon. through the night disclosed a steady RUNS BETWEEN TWO RIVERS shown that the point of most impors downpour and a rushing mass of tance Is to have the land in y branches, tree trunks and junk 'of one Tunnel on English Railroad Is Concondition for planting, then proceed to kind and another. sidered a Remarkable Feat plant ns soon aas weather conditions It was slow work beating up against of Engineering. permit. the current. Every now and then DorThe dwarf or smooth varieties of The longest tunnel on any railway in English peas may be planted about othy gave a swift turn to the wheel to escape a rushing log. Once or the United Kingdom is the Severn the same time as Irish potatoes, or twice the boat quivered under die im- tunnel, the wonderful engineering feat just as soon as the ground is dry that carries the Great Western rail- enough to work in the early spring. pact of some heavy object, whose was unavoidable. way under the Hirer Severn. It Is Here again soil preparation is imporWould she never reach the office four and a half miles In length. tant, and the ground should be made But flow many people are aware that fine and mellow before planting. building? Suddenly, as the boat veered to one when traveling through It they .have Opinions differ as to the depth to side in response to Dorothys efforts not merely a river above them, hut which the seed peas should be covalso one beneath? asks London Anto escape a tree trunk, she gasped. Some authorities claim they ered. There, coming swiftly down the swers. should be covered as much as 4 Inches, When flie original contractor was while others maintain that 2 or 3 stream some thirty feet to Dorothys right, was a rowboat. No oars were engaged in the tremendous task of inches is sufficient. Much will devisible. At the rear of the boat, hold- constructing the tunnel the workings pend, however, upon the. character of ing bis coat in the water and trying were suddenly flooded out by a tbe soil in wklcU the crop is planted to guide the boat in this fashion, was mighty rush of water that burst in. Howard! And crouched in the front So great was the inrush that operations Ornamental Buttons. were suspended for months and the of the boat was a woman ! Ornamental buttons will play an imDorothys heart skipped a beat or most powerful pumps did not lower the two at this sight. It was this woman waterone inch. portant part in trimming coats and contractor the Dorhad been the resigned iofiks. They may be of bone, wood, who Eventually strongest of ermine othys two worries. She knew who tl.2 and the G. W. R. took the task in hand lade or colored kid. On ninny are placed woman was an Alice Wlspert, Ho- themselves. Then their engineers dis- or chenille Evening-wrapwards stenographer, her rival for Ho- covered that It was not the Severn beautifully carved . crystal buttons or that had broken in. "s had been sup- others in onyx edged with tiny rhinewards affections! Oars lost! came Howard's voice posed, hut a mig.iiy underground stones. on the wind, suddenly and oddly cut stream beneath the river had been off as the wind shifted. Hooks and Eyes. taptieii. A gigantic culvert beneath the On boat veered. rat's 'o-,- carries off this flow nr the kooks and eyes are ahvays Again Dorothys If '".'ii-- i' n the ctv the instant the rowboat and its occtry buttonholing them 'on ifng off out each day, w i. . no. That is, instead of sewing over Br'sio' is upants were lost In the gloom. x it ii'i'e. were they now? Results of Experiments Obtained by Dairy Experts Explain Why Product Sours. SURFACE COOLER "oldest Water Obtainable Should Ueed and Cana Set in Well sulated Tank Protection S by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Milk of ordinary quality held at 75 (Prepared degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature not uncommon In the summer, soured In 36 hours, while the same quality of milk held at 55 degrees kept sweet for 80 hours, and at 40 degrees for Semi-Hard- Heat-Lovin- semi-hard- heat-lovin- g . first-clas- - on-ru- si s - Jt hours. These results were obtained in an experiment carried on by the dairy division, United States Department of Agriculture, to determine the effect of temperature on the milk ; and the results explain in a large measure why milk which has not been cooled on the farm and kept cold often Is sour when It arrives at its destination. The best and quickest way t cool milk to 50 degrees Fahrenheit is over a surface cooler. Use the coldest water available, and then set the cans of milk in a tank filled with water below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. A can of milk precooled with water at 55 degrees Fahrenheit and set in a tank of ice water at 37 degrees Fahrenheit was cooled at 50 degrees in 20 minutes. The use of a surface cooler is especially necessary when the time between milking and shipping is. short, if warm milk is run over a surface cooler, and then set in a tank of water cooled with Ice to 40 degrees Fahrenheit or below, it should not be difficult to cool milk to 50 degrees within an hour after it leaves the cow. Because precooling with a surface cooler is not practiced and ice is not put into the cooling tank before the milk, much milk reaches, the shipping station in summer at so high a temperature that it sours on the way fo the 180 . y Be Needed in Shipping. . TO PLANT CROPS FAVORED Department of Agriculture Urges Veterinarian to Avoid Possibility of Injury by Selection of Some Other Place. (Prepared by the United 'States Department of Agriculture.) rain-swep- WHEN AND HOW IS Use of Ham or Shoulder OJtsn Results in Infection. National Garden Bureau. well-insulat- If the soil Is a light sandy loam and Inclined to dry out quickly, the peas should be covered 3 to 4 inches. Bui if the soil is rather heavy and inclined to pack closely, they should not be covered more than 1 to 2 inches. The varieties of peas having wrinkled seed coats should not be planted until about two weeks after the smooth varieties. Theyare just a little more susceptible to injury from frost and will mature about as early if planted when the ground has slightly warmed. When to Take Chances. In the case of certain garden crops, the investment in seed Is too great for taking a chance with the weather, but with beets, lettuce, and radishes a very small quantity of seed Is required, and if they come through in good shape, the product will be ready for use much earlier than if the planting were delayed. About 25 or 30 fert of row will give all the early beets required' by an ordinary family. Radishes may be planted in the rows with early peas. However, it will be necessary to remove the radishes before they begin to crowd the peas.. As a rule, ralishes will be ready for use in three or four weeks after planting, or just about the time that "the peas have begun to make a . vigorous growth. Most gardeners jnake the mistake of planting too many radishes,' or at least of planting too many at one time and not being able to use the product. method of growing The lettuce was to plant a bed along one side or in one corner of the garden, and when the plants were large enough, to thin them, using the product as needed and leaving the remainder to grow larger. This method of growing lettuce is not so desirable as the plan of planting it in rows, where it can be more easily cultivated. Lettuce is very susceptible to heat, and it is difficult to grow it after the weather has become hot. For this reason It is best grown as a spring and a fall crop. Two or three plantings at intervals of 10 days or 2 weeks in spring and a planting or two in autumn should be sufficient for the needs of the ordinary family. Planting Second Group. The second group, including carrots beets, parsnips, radishes, salsify, wrinkled peas, spinach, swiss chard and early sweet corn, may be planted shortly before the probable time for the last spring frost. The planting of these crops should be so timed that they will escape frost and yet be started Just as early as possible. The third group of garden crops, or those that should not be planted until after danger of frost Is past Includes cucumbers, muskmelons, okra, snap beans, cauliflower, and well hardened tomato plants. The time of setting tomato plants, however, will de pend on local conditions. If they ar not crowding each other too much In the plant bed, It may pay to delay setting them In the open ground until the air Is thoroughly warmed. Little is gained by planting tender plants in the open ground too early. Tbe fourth group of plants, comg plants, monly known ns the Lima includes peppers, eggplant, beans, sweet potatoes, and summer squash. These crops are easily injured by cold nights and periods of rnlny weather, and it is always best to delay planting them until a safe period has been reached. It should be borne in mind that dtertafn soils warm up slowly In spring,, and that such plants as eggplant and pepper! are susceptible to Injury from cold -- . heat-lovin- soils. ; from packers indicate many veterinarians and farmers who persist in immunizing hogs against cholera by making injections in the ham or shoulder, a practice that often results In infection und the formation of deep abscesses in the hams and shoulders where the serum and virus were injected. The United States Department of Agricul- lure has long advised against using those parts as points of injection, and the department veterinarians are instructed to avoid the possibility of such injury by selecting some other place. The ham has been favored as a place for making the Injections because they can be made more rapidly and easily Complaints that there are still j and over, use the ordinary buttonhole stitch or loop it. It takes little, it any, longer to do, and time is saved, because hooks and eyes are on to stay. Light Fur for Spring. Light furs are the only kind chosen for spring season, any dark fur looks ugly in brilliant sunshine; soft gray squirrel, white Persian In mb, whit caracul and white monkey are me favorites. The linings of these wraps are of sliver of gold tissue, or Chinese crepe brocaded with black or gold. city. On many farms tbe water used for cooling milk comes from the general storage tank or from a spring. The temperature of such water when it reaches the cooling tank is much higher than when It leaves the well or spring. Well or spring water that has a temperature of from 50 degrees to 55 degrees Fahrenheit frequently is warmed up to 70 degrees or 75 degrees Injecting Hog in the Flank. , at this point, but they can be made with equal success in less valuable parts, such as the flank or auxiliary space, where there is loose connective tissue that readily absorbs the serum. In making an auxiliary injection the front legs should be spread apart so as to stretch the superficial muscles between the legs, and the needle should be' directed so as to avoid the muscles of the shoulder. It Is desirable to make the Injections at a point that will make drainage easy should an abscess form. Serum should never be injected into a mass of fatty tissue, as It is not sufficiently absorptive. Although the serous membrane lining in the abdominal cavity takes up serum readily, abdominal injections are not recommended because of the danger of puncturing the Internal organs with the needle or of carrying infection into the cavity. Small pigs and shotes up to 80 pounds in weight may be held up by the hind legs, with the forefeet resting on the ground, and the injection made into the loose tissue of the flank. A pig so held is in a good position for the taking of temperature, cleansing the area of operation, and making the Fanners' Bulletin 834, injection. which has been recently reprinted, contains full information regarding hog cholera and the methods of control. ILLINOIS LEADS IN BUILDING State Constructed 341 Miles of Permanent Hard Road in 1920, Setting . New Record. , Be Cooled Immediately After It Is Drawn. Milk Should One of the most interestingdevelop-inent- s of the last ten or fifteen years has been the complete rehabilitation g of the road, In Its role as one age-lon- of the chief means of communication. The years that Intervened between the coming of the railway and the coming of the motorcar saw a great silence and a great quiet settle down over vast numbers of the worlds highways, says Christian Science Monitor. The motorcar, however, has changed all that, and today states and countries are vying with one another In the matter of road building, as to both quantity and quality. All honor, therefore to the state of Illinois with its 341 miles of new permanent hard roads, last year, a record for such constrnction in any state In the Union prior to Fahrenheit before It reaches the cooing tank. Even under the best conditions,' milk xansported during hot weather usually is several degrees warmer by the line it reaches the railroad station. To show the importance of protect-n- g milk in transit during hot weather, our cans tf milk cooled to 14 degrees Fahrenheit were hauled 13 lilies from a farm to the railroad station. Can No. 1 was an Insulated type; So, 2 was an ordinary can covered h with a felt jacket ; No. 3 was covered with a half-inc- h felt jacket, 1920. ind No. 4 was an ordinary, unprotect-)- d can. During the trip, with the air COW WILL INCREASE INCOME iemperature at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, the milk in the insulated can rose one la Most Efficient Money Maker legree in temperature, the milk In the Animal on Farm and le Entitled to Good :ans protected With jackets, rose six Treatment. legrees, and the milk In the unprotect-!- d can rose 20 degrees. The cans E. A.' Hanson, dairy extension spewere then shipped by rail In an ordi-iar- y at University farm, renews the cialist more car for 1,000 than baggage Are you keeping cows or are inquiry, an nlles at average air temperature If about 80 degrees Fahrenheit, to they keeping you," in a collection of jtudy the effect on the milk. In the feeding suggestions recently issued by lnprotected can the milk had reached him. Put the cow to' work, he says,' i temperature of 60 degrees Fahren-lei- t and she is the most efficient money in two hours, or after it had trav-sle- d about ten miles from the farm maker on the farm today.' A cow pro(before reaching the railroad) ; the ducing 25 pounds of 4 per cent milk uilk in the can covered with the half-inc- h dnily makes one pound of butterfat jacket reached 60 degrees Fahren- a day, worth about 50 cents. This heit only after 11 hours, or about 268 cow needs rations and hay and silage miles of travel ; the can covered with which should not cost more than 15 h rhe jacket traveled for .13 cents dally, leaving 35 cents dally tours, or about 332 miles, before above the cost of her feed. Where can caching 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and you Invest your time and efforts to bethe milk in the Insulated can did not ter advantage? Give your cows a each 60 degrees Fahrenheit until af-e- r chance. They are all capable of doing better when properly fed." 29 bom's,, or 650 miles of travel. ten-gall- one-inc- , one-inc- . v |