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Show fp r i e n, as " wsir tfeMtf- f PIUTE COUNTY NEWS. JUNCTION. UTAH within a dozen feet him aver In a leisway. For perhaps seemed to have no particular object In view. Then Heater-tooth himself struck ptraight for the shore and climbed out. Others followed him. Half a dozen workers disappeared In the canals. As many more waddled out among the aiders and willows. Eagerly Ilaree watched for Uml.sk and his chuml At last he saw them, swimming forth from one of the smaller houses. They climbed out on their playground the smooth bar Ilaree above the shore of mud. wagged his tall so hard that his whole body shook, and hurried along the dam. When he came out on the level strip of shore, Umiak was there alone, supper from a long, freshly cut widow. The other little heavers had gona Into a thick clump of young alders. This time Umisk did not run. He Ilaree looked up from his stick. squatted himself, wiggling in a most friendly and ingratiating manner. For a few seconds Umisk regarded him. Then, very coolly, he resumed his supper. of them swam up of him and looked urely and curious five minutes they KAZAN by JAMES OLIVER CUKVOOD. COPYRCHT QY DOUBlfDAY MR E tQm Apple Blotch Easy Soft Pork Caused ORGANIZATIONS to Cure by Sprays by Improper Feed Hervlc. now nt the fur end Heaver-tootand Ids engineers were adding a new section of dam, and in order to accomh THE BEAVER Part wolf, part dog Synopsis. when two months old Ilaree has Ills (lrat meeting with an enemy, Papayurhlae w (young owl). Fighting hard, the antag- onists are suddenly plunged Into swollen creek. Umlly buffeted, and half drowned, Buree la finally flung on the bank, but the water has destroyed hlB sense of direction and he Is lost, lonely and hungry. For many days hie life Is one of fear and distress, lie meets various creatures of the wild and goea through a thunderstorm. lie Is learning more and more. lie atrnys Into the trapping grounds of Pierrot and Nepeese. Nepeese wounds Ilaree with a rifle, but he escapes. Ilaree decovers and learns nature's secrets rapidly. Nepeese Is determined to catch Ilaree and tame him and tries again. Ilaree Is strongly drawn to the girl, but still fears man. a plish their work more easily they had flooded fully fifty yards of the low ground on which they were working. The dam held a faselnutlon for Ilaree. The top of It was high and dry, and there were dozens of smoothly worn little hollows In which the beavers In one of had taken their these hollows Hnree stretched himself out, with his eyes on the pond. Not a ripple stirred Its velvety smoothness. Not a sound broke the drowsy stillness of the afternoon. The beavers might have been dead or asleep, for all the stir they made. And yet they knew that Ilnree was on t he dam. Where he lay the sun fell In a warm flood, and It was so comfortable that after a time he had difficulty In keeping his eyes open to wuteh the pond. Then he fell asleep. sensed this Just how Heaver-tootfact Is a mystery. Five minutes later he came up quietly, without a splash or a sound, within fifty yards of Ilaree. For a few moments he scarcely moved In the water. Then he swam very slowly parallel with the darn across the pond. At the other aide he drew ldmself ashore and for another minute sat as motionless as a stone, with his eyes on that part of the dam where Ilaree was lying. Not another beaver was moving, nnd It wns 'very soon aphad but one parent that Heaver-tootobject In mind getting a closer observation of Ilaree. When he entered the water again, he swam along close to the dam. Ten feet beyond Ilaree he began to climb out. He did this with great slowness and caution. At lart he reached the top of the dam. A few yards away Ilaree wns almost hidden In his hollow, only the top of Ids shiny black body appearing to Heaver-tooth- s scrutiny. To get a better look,- the old beaver spread Ids sun-bath- k concluded, says the United States Department of Agriculture, that the wider the ratio of softening fats In the ration to the carbohydrates and protein from which synthetic fat is formed the firmer the carcass. It is evident that the fat formed from carbohydrates and protein Is always materially harder than that derived from the fats of peanuts, soy beans, rice and corn, all of which are 9 f' 1 a w 5 rj 1 ,i i' "t Impelled by the wild alarm of the Willows terrible cries nnd the sight of IMerrot dashing inudly toward him from the dead hotly of Waknyoo, lturee did not stop running uutll It seemed s though his lungs could not draw another breath. When he stopped he was well out of the canyon and headed for the beaver pond. Exactly wherein lay llaree's fears It would be difficult to say but surely It was not because of Nepeese. The Willow had chased him hard. She had flung herself upon him. lie had felt the clutch of her hands and the snioth-e- r of her soft hair, and yet of her he "was not afraid I If he stopped now and then In Ids flight and looked back, It was to see If Nepeese was following. 81e would not have run hurd from her nlono. Her eyes and voice and hands! had something stirring In him ; he was awed with a greater yearning and a greater loneliness now and that night he dreamed troubled dreams. ltaree was glad when the dawn cetne. lie did not seek for food, but went down to the pond. There was little hope and anticipation In his manner now. lle remembered that, as plainly as animal ways could tnlk, Umisk and his playmates had told him they wanted nothing to do with him. And yet the fact that they were there took away some of his loneliness. It was more than loneliness. The wolt In him was submerged. The dog was master. And in these passing moments, when the blood of the wild was almost dormant In 1dm, he was depressed by the instinctive and growing feeling that he was not of that wild, but a fugitive in It, menaced on all aides by strange dangers. Deep in the northern forests the heaver dot's not work and play in darkness only, but uses day even more than peonight, and many of Heaver-toothple were awake when ltaree began disconsolately to Investigate the shores of the pond. He did not try to hide himself now, and at least half a dozen heavers had it good look at him before he came to the point where the pond narrowed down to the width of the stream, almost half a mile from the Omd. Then he wandered back. A'l that morning he hovered about the pond, showing himself openly. In their big mud and stick strongholds the beavers held a council of war. They were distinctly puzzled There were four enemies which they dreaded above all others: The otter, who destroyed their dams in the winter time and brought deatti to them from cold and by lowering the water so they could not get to their food supplies; the hnv. who preyed on them all, young and old alike; and the fox nnd wolf, who would lie in ambush for hours in order to pounce on the very young, like Umisk nnd Ills playmates. If Ilaree had been any one of and his these four, wily leaver-tootpeople would have known what to do. lint Ilaree was surely not an otter, and If he was a fox or a wolf or a lynx, his actions were very strange, to say the least. Half a dozen times he had the opportunity to pounce on his prey, if be had been seeking prey. Hut at no time had he shown the desire to harm them. It may be that the beavers discussed the matter fully among themselves. It Is possible that Umisk and his playmates told their parents of their adventure' and of how Ilaree made no move to harm them when he could quite easily have caught them. However this may be, courageous old Beaver-toottook It upon himself to end the suspense. It was early In the afternoon that for the third or fourth time Ilaree walked out ou the dam. This dam was fully two hundred feet In length, but t no point did the water run over It, gue overflow finding its way through smioes. A week or two ago tinr-- o y, i'u'd have crossed to the oppo-s- .i , of Hie pond on Ibis dam. but s i J h good-nature- d k Important The Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls are two national organizations, working side by side in lime-sulph- thecauseof healthy, happy, intelligent womanhood; training the minds of eager girls for service, greater tralningthelrbodies for the destiny that shall be theirs. All honor to them! Wise mothers Ilka Mrs. Alice Louthan partment. The disease, which Is most severe In middle-wester- n orand chards, was given the name blotch because It describes the characteristic spots appearing upon the fruit. As the disease progresses there Is a running together of seteral spots and a change In color to a deep brown or black. A cracking of the fruit, usually In three directions from a central point, is very common. Small, nearly white spots and dark, sunken, oval areas appear on the leaves, but only under extremely favorable conditions does blotch become a serious foliage disease. of thick, Thorough sprinkling bushy trees is diffictult or Impossible, and these should be pruned before treatment. The spray Is most beneficial when applied as a fine mist rather than a coarse stream. The latter is likely to Injure both fruit and foliage, especially In the spring. Vhere blotch is only a minor disease the department recommends the use of solution diluted at the rate of 1 gallons to 50 gallons of water. However, If a fruit loss of more than 10 per cent has been caused by blotch during the previous year, the application of bordeaux mixture Is advisable. Farmers' Bulletin 1479-Apple Blotch, Just Issued, contains much valuable Information relative to the nature, economic importance and treatment of this disease. A copy of the publication may be had free, while the supply lasts, upon application to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. southern urge ters in their early teens E. Pinkbams Vegetable Mrs. Louthan says h - dam-buildin- g Lamps Hurry Crops Four crops of wheat can he raised piece of ground in one on a single year with the aid of electric light. This remarkable fact has been fished after exhaustive experiments in the application of light to plant growth in England. Easter lilies and daffodils over which 1,000-wat- t lamps were suspended grew from bud to bloom in four days. Ordinarily this growth takes four weeks. 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Sho was out of school for four months. I read tha advertisements of the Vegetable Compound, and since she has taken it sho has improved and has gone back to school. I recommend the Vegetable Compound to other mothers with girls who are not as strong as they should he. Mas. Alice Louthan, Route 2, Charleston, Illinois. Some girls in the fourth generation, are now relying on Lydia E. Pink-ham- s Vegetable Compound. lime-sulph- d make-believ- Apple blotch, a destructive fungous disease attacking many of the leading varieties of apples, may be controlled by spraying with bordeaux mixture or solution, according to the United States DepartTrees of susment of Agriculture. unless systemvarieties, ceptible atically sprayed, are frequently killed by repeated attacks by the blotch on twigs and leaves, and nursery stock Is often seriously damaged, says the de- Mixture Favored. mixture of corn meal 5 parts and peanut meal 1 part fed wdth or without supplementary minerals to pigs starting at 80 pounds and making gains of about 100 pounds in 9 or 10 weeks produces, In the usual case, hard or medium-harhogs. When the corn meal Is reduced to 2 parts to 1 of pednut meal either soft or hard hogs may result. The feeder Is cautioned not to use this combination unless he Is willing to accept any consequences that may come from offering soft hogs to the market. The progress made In the solution of the soft-porproblem Is discussed In Department Bulletin 1407, just published by the United States Department of Agriculture In with the agricultural experiment stations of Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, MissisNorth Oklahoma, Carolina, sippi, South and Tennessee, Carolina, Texas. Some conclusions regarding the feeding of various feeds In different combinations are listed In the bulletin. They do not, however, represent all of the results actually obtained during the progress of this work. Many other questions Involved In the problem are being studied nnd a great mass of valuable data pertaining to them has already been obtained. Progress Made In Solution. The progress made in the solution of the problem In Its more practical aspects has come through the defini- Good Whitewash Recipe tion and establishment of certain for General Farm Work basic facts associated with the normal Numerous Inquiries are received by process of growth and fat formation North In the hog. These facts pertain to the extension division of the best about the Carolina State college the relative softening or hardening whitewash to use for the henhouse or In of feeds concerned the properties The requests are the desired combinations and the other outbuildings. particularly numerous during the sumreasons for such properties; the Inmer. . The following directions may fluence of the stage of development or size at which a given ration Is give an effective whitewash. Slack a half bushel of quicklime fed, and the Influence of gains on the or lump lime with boiling water, keeprations. ing it covered during the process. A copy of this bulletin may be seadd a peck of salt discured as long as the supply lasts by Strain this and In warm water, three pounds of solved writing to the United States Departground rice boiled In water until It Is ment of Agriculture, Washington, a thin paste, a half pound of Spanish D. C. whiting and a pound of clear blue dissolved In warm water. Mix these toAlfalfa Cut Early Will gether well and let the mixture stand Give the Largest Yield for several days. Heat it and apply as quickly as possible with a whiteProf. C. J. Willard of the Ohio exwash brush. periment station Is opposed to the Alum added to whitewash will stage of cutting alfalfa on make It stick better. Use an ounce the ground that a considerable num- to a Molasses makes the lime ber of the lower leaves begin to drop more gallon. soluble and makes it penetrate tenth-bloooff soon after the stage the wood or plaster more deeply. Use lias been readied, and since the leaves a of molasses to a gallon of pint In much are richer protein than the whitewash. A pound of cheap bar stems he holds that late cutting dissolved In a gallon of boiling soap brings about too great a loss of the water and added to five gallons of most valuable part of the plant, to thick whitewash will impart a gloss The safe way, Justify the practice. like that of oil paint. says Professor Willard, to get the largest yield of alfalfa with the greatest feeding value per pound Is to cut Neglect to Paint In early bloom. Eight years of exVarious Farm Buildings perimenting have shown that alfalfa There is probably no one other cut just before bloom will average 49 per cent leaves while that cut thing that the average farmer negwhen it has reached the seed stage lects more than the judicious use of will nverage 3S per cent leaves. The paint. The idea seems to be prevremaining (52 per cent of the plant alent that paint Is used primarily to at the seed stage Is stems, low in beautify. Its use is regarded as a luxury rather than as a necessity. protein. Paint does, of course, improve the looks of farm buildings, but it is far more useful as a means of protection, says the Indiana Farmers Guide. Paint and varnish, while beautifying the home will at the same time lengthIn transplanting any of the onion en the life of a valuuble piece of property. tribe, snip off half the leaves. Paint Is an economic necessity. It Make succession sowings of beets, has been said that the fife of a frame lettuce, late peas, beans, and radishes. building will be lengthened from two to four times by constant painting. An inherited property, whose worth is Any kind of millet hay fed in large quantities for a very long period of beyond valuation, or a house that cost time is liable to be injurious to horses. much to build may be preserved indefinitely, if it Is properly painted. Young pigs 'will start to eat at an It may easily get beyond the painter's early age If they are allowed access ability to save. Plasterers, carpenr to a with corn, shorts and ters and laborers, will cost nine times the price of the first stitch, and in tankage. the end the painter wifi have to follow them. in United the Farming population States, according to reports, constitutes of the total populaEradicate Burdock With tion of this country. This Waste Crank Case Oil owus of the nations wealth. The proper use of the waste crank Alfalfa wilt Is a new disease which case oil will soon rid a farm of burIs killing out fields. If the stand bedock. The oil is cheap and may be comes so poor that the crop is not secured In abundance from neighborprofitable, fields should be plowed. hood garages. It is a real pleasure It Is not advisable to return such land to watch this persistent pest give way to alfalfa or sweet clover for several to treatment with the waste oil. Any time before the hard stalk forms, the years. dock leaves should be shaved off even The feeding of only alfalfa and with the ground with a sharp hoe. skimmed tuilk to dairy calves is not On the stub, pour a little of the waste entirely satisfactory. A mixture of oil front a teapot or other suitable l equal parts cf alfalfa hay and prairie container. One application seems haj- will probably give better results and rot the roots of the plant. since leafy alfalfa fed in connection Those who have had a lot of trouble with skim milk sometimes causes keeping the burdock down ought to scours. enjoy using the waste oil. A h Chapter V Health of School Girls of Agriculture.) (Prepared by the United States Departme of Agriculture.) From the results obtained o date In the experimental work 'eluting to the soft-porit may be problem Just as In the life of eery man there Is one big, controlling influence, either ior good or for bud, so in the life of Ilaree ttie heaver pond was largely un arbiter of destiny. Where he might have gone If he had not discovered it, and what might have happened to him, are matters of conjecture. Hut it held him. It began to take the place of the old windfall, and In the heavers themselves he found a companionship which made up, In a way, for the loss of the protection and friendship of Kazan and Fray Wolf. This companionship, if it could be called that, went just so far and no farther, With eaclt day that passed the older beavers became more accustomed to seeing Ilaree. At the end of two weeks, if Ilaree had gone away, they would have missed him but not In the same way that Ruree would have missed the beavers. It was a toleration on matter of their part. With Baree It was different. He was still uskahls, as Nepeese would have said ; he still wanted mothering; he was still moved by the puppyish yearnings which he had not yet had the time to outgrow ; and when night came to speak that yearning quite plainly he had the desire to go Into the big beaver house with Umisk and his chums, and sleep. During the fortnight that followed Heaver-tooth- s exploit on the dam Baree ate his meals a mile up the creek, where there were plenty of eraw fish. But the pond wns home. Night always found him there, nnd a large part of his day. He slept at the end of the dam, or on top of It on particularly clear nights, nnd the heavers accepted him as a permanent guest. They worked In his presence as if he did not exist. He still could not Induce Umisk nnd the other young beavers to join him in play, nnd after the first week or so he gave up his efforts. In fact, their play puzzled him almost ns much as the operations of the older heavers. Umisk, for instance, wns fond of playing lit the mud at the edge of the pond. lie was like a very small hoy. Where his elders floated timbers from three inches to a foot in diameter to the big dam, Umisk brought small sticks nnd twigs no larger around than a lead pencil to his play(lain ground, nnd built a of his own. Umisk would work an hour nt a as industriously time on this play-daas his father nnd mother were working on the big dam, and Ilaree would lie flat ou Ids belly a few feet away, watching him and wondering mightily. He could see some reason for nibbling at sticks lie liked to sharpen his teeth on sticks himself; but it puzzled him to explain why Umisk so painstakingly stripped the bark from the sticks and swallowed it. Another method of play still further In an Instant His Feet Shot Out From Rarees ndMinees. A short discouraged Under Him. distance from the spot where he hud flat tail out beyond him and rose to a first seen Umisk there was a shelving silting posture on his hind quarters, Imii'i that rose ten or twelve feet from his two front paws held squirrel-likthe water, and this hank was used by over his breast. In this pose he was the young heavers as a slide. It was lie probably worn smooth nnd hard. Umisk would fully three feet tali, weighed forty pounds, and in some climb up the bank at a point where it wavs be resembled one of those fat. was not so steep. At the top of the docs that slide he would put his tail out flat begood natured, go largely to stomach. Hut his brain hind him nnd give himself a shove, was working with amazing celerity. shooting down the toboggan nnd land Suddenly he gave the hard mud of the ing in the water with a liig splash. dam a single slap with his tail and One afternoon, when the toboggan Ilaree sat up. Instantly he saw Heaver-tooth- , was particularly wet nnd slippery and stared, lleaver-tootstared. from recent use, Ilaree went up the For a full neither moved beaver-patto the top of the hank, the thousandth part of an inch. Then and begun investigating. Nowhere Ilaree stood up and wagged his tail. so had he found the beaver-smel- l That was enough. Propning to his strong as on the slide. He began vviiddit-- l reforefeet, Heaver-tootsniffing and incautiously went too far. In ji instant bis feet shot out from ly to the edge of the dam and dm n over. He was neither cuaHous nor under httfl, ami w.fr s'wgle wild in wry great haste now. He made a yelp lie wont shooting down the toboggreat commotion In t lie water and gan. For the second time in his life swam boldly back nnd foeth under he found himself struggling under Hnree. lien he had done tl.-- s several water, and when a minute or two later times lie cut straight up the pond to he dragged himself tip through tiie the largest of the three houses and soft mud to the firmer footing of the Five minutes after stwxre, he hud at last a very disappeared. Heaver-toothexploit word was passopinion of beaver play. ing qnicklv among the colony. The stranger Farce was not a lynx, lie was not a fox. He was not a wolf. Barees stay with the beaver shows that at bottom' he is more Moreover, he was very young and harmless. Work could be resumed. dog than wolf, and so fitted for human companionship. Flay could be resumed. Ttiere was no verdanger. Such was Heaver-tooth'- s dict. (TO BK CONTINUED.) If some one had shouted ttiese facts in heaver language through a megaMind Developed Early phone the response could not have been quicker. All at out e it seemed to William Ewart Gladstone, "The Ilaree, who was still standing on the Great Commoner. four times prune edge of the dam, tnat the pond was minister of England, was graduated at alive with beavers. He had never seen Oxford In 1831, at the age of twenia to ninny at one time before. They two, with t tie highest tumors la uu were popping up everywhere, and some classics and uiulheuietics BOTH AGREE v nib-b.in- g WNU AND MOTHERS Fats of Peanuts, Soy Beans, Bordeaux Mixture or Lime Rice and Com Strikingly Sulphur Favored. Softening. Prepared by the United States Department Question Mamma, was Adam the first man? Yes, dear. Did lie ever get a spanking, then? Sad Connoisseur This is a very rare hook. "Yes, too had it Is so old, I isnt it? 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