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Show Mild Weather Is ofURtsno Best for Pruning witont Latter Part of the Dormant Season Is Advised for Wash chiffons in a soap solution. No rubbing will be required, just rinsing up and down. Dont have the water too hot. Peach Trees. HorticulBy Prof. A. 3. Farley, Extension College of Agriturist, New Jersey WNU Service. culture. fruit growAlthough The best way to ventilate a room is to open a window at the top and bottom or one window ers will take advantage of inild. at the top and another at the other weather to prime their trees, it is side of the room at the bottom. sometimes advisable to wait until the latter part of the dormant seaAfter putting water and soap inson to prune peaches. to washing machine let it run for Pruning under favorable weather a minute or two to dissolve conditions is not only more com- before putting in clothes, if soap you fortable than during extremely cold wish the best results. economWNU Serrlce. Associated Newspapers. periods, but it is also more ical as a worker can do more pruning in a day. Furthermore, an early start in pruning operations is some - Automatic Parachutes insurance that the entire orchard The parachutes which have will be primed and the brush re- been made use of up to the presmoved before it is time to start ent time the passenger to require spraying or cultivating. into operation by pulling it throw be It is suggested that apples a cord, which must not be done pruned first and peaches toward the until entirety clear of the plane. end of the dormant season, since is only there is more danger of winter kill- This requires nerve, which The occaby practice. acquired buds. than buds of apple ing peach sional passenger .might not be Many fruit growers prefer to wait competent to carry out this prowinter severe most until some of the effort gram and the weather is over before pruning their would deA new a be failure. bearing peach trees. automataction into expands sign it makes This practice possible to consider the amount of bud killing ically. This is done by a spring when cutting back or thinning out roller feature and the passenger branches on which there are fruit has nothing to do but jump. buds. For example, fruit bud injury may be quite severe through- Dr. Pierces Pleasant Pellets are an out the lower portion of the trees effective laxative. Sugar coated. and light enough in the tops to in- Children like them. Buy now! Adv. sure at least a partial crop if the trees are not cut back too hard. Our Suffering Bud injury may also be more severe Few do any suffering in silence on some varieties than on others, unless it is for sin. thereby making some modification of the pruning practice desirable. In general, ho.wever, the commercial fruit grower finds it necessary FEEL A COLD COMING? to start pruning early in the dormant season and to continue during the entire winter in order to comDo these 3 things plete the work in time to be ready for the early spring spraying operations. Keep your head dear far-sight- ed SYNOPSIS Ketia Marsh, pretty, selfish and twenty, arrives home in Corinth from school and is met by her older brother, Hugh. He drives her to the Marsh home where her widowed mother, Flnvanna, a and understanding soul, welcomes her. Keziaa sister, Margery, plump and matronly with the care of three children, is at lunch with them. Hughs wife, Dorrie, has pleaded a previous engagement. On the way back to his job at the steel plant founded by one of his forebears, Hugh passes Doc Hiller, a boyhood friend whom he no longer sees frequently because of Dorries antipathy. Fluvanna Marsh wakens the neat morning from a dream about her late husband, Jim, whose unstable character she fears Kezia has inherited. Soon Ellen Pendleton comes over. She is an artistically inclined girl who is a distant niece of Fluvannas and a favorite of Hughs. She happily tells Fluvanna she has become engaged to Jerry Purdue. warm-hearte- d, CHAPTER I Continued Im 3 telling you first, before I can anyone, the girl went on. tell you things, Fluvanna you understand. Im exquisitely divinely happy! . . . Why, Jerry she shook her head, murmured: Its beyond words the feeling. I never thought anything so nice would happen to me! All nice things should happen to you, Ellen! I wish Mother were as easy to tell things to as you, Fluvanna. She gave a rueful smile. She wont be pleased nor Father. It will be hard that part the telling them. Perhaps IU wait a while. Fluvanna called up the stairway. Ellen is here. Hurry down, Kezia. Ellen returned with the flowers arranged in vases. I mustnt stay for breakfast. I went out early painting in the ravine and left word that Id be back by breakfast time. Shell worry. Ill stay until I see Kezzie. Nice to have her home, isnt it? Not so lonely for you. Fluvanna nodded. Very nice. And Id have been much lonelier if a certain person hadnt been very kind about coming often. I? . . . PouffI I loved coming . , . youre just fascinating to me. I never get tired of being with you perhaps fascinating isnt She sat lown on the the word. I davenport beside Fluvanna. told Jerry I could tune in with you. He understood. He understands everything. Fluvanna patted her hand. So all this happiness came to you last night? May I tell Kezia? I dont mind. Ellen laughed. do tell Hugh. Hes And Hugh an understanding sort of person, my favorite cousin among hundreds! The older woman knew she was getting pleasure out or her naive confession so she encouraged her. You met Jerry in April? Oh, no last fall. Ive seen something of him for a long time. He would come then stay away. You see, he thought his family would matter. His father is a roller in the mill and his uncle runs a cigar store. He said he couldn't bring them to meet us and all the relations you and the the Woods, the Moffats, the Debarrys we are an awful crowd, you know. Not that hes ashamed of his people! He says they are plain, nice people, saved to send him to school in the East . . . hes very proud of them . . . just thought it wouldnt do. Afraid to let himself go because your father has money? Ellen nodded, then said in a low I told Jerry that the fact voice: that he loved me meant everything more than money, more than family. It seems to me that when two people love each other, they give the most priceless possession something greater than anything in the world. Fluvanna kissed her impulsively. You are a sweet child and a very wise one. A silence, then Ellen rose. I must be going. Wait. Kezia will be down in a moment. She asked me to call her early because shes playing tennis. She went to the stairway. Coming, Kezia? . . . Ellen is in Ren-shaw- s, a hurry. She heard Kezia murmur to her- A few self before she replied: minutes. In a little while Anna announced that breakfast was getting cold. Ellen started toward the door, the rainbow expression of her face I really must be faintly clouded. running along. Tell Kezia Im sorry some other time! She had scarcely started her car ia the street and moved off. when Kezia came downstairs. Her arms stole around Fluvannas neck Alma - Mater, she murmured caressingly. Then she said with silky vindictiveness: What was Ellen after at this hour in the morning a worm? Kezia! I know wanted to see what I was doing today and make plans! She doesnt need to think I intend to go around with her all the time. Fluvanna took a drink of coffee. Why do you think such unpleasant things? You played together a great deal when you were small. Wouldnt it be just as 'easy to think she was fond of you, wanted to welcome you home? Kezia sulked for a minute. Then she broke a piece of toast, I supcrumbled it thoughtfully. pose I might have come down. Her mother smiled as she saw Kezia was victory in sight. ashamed of her action, but had had to defend it. She has a tough time at home. No wonder she comes here so much. Cousin Gavin is too nervous to allow the radio to be played when hes in the house, and her mother, pretentious and calculating, nagging the life out of her what a mother! shuddered Kezia. I have no reason to be envious of Ellen. If a man goes romantic over her they think of Lizzie for a mother-in-lathen its good-by- e Ellen! She sat there, her eyes dreamy and misted. Im so mean, she faltered, and youre so good to me! Oh, Mother, how do you put up with me? Fluvanna was moved, as she always .was when Kezia was penitent and misty-eyeeven though she knew it did not hinder her from doing the same thng over again directly. The girl rose in a sudden whirlwind and came around to her chair, laid her cheek against I know Im horrid! hers. Charming, emotional and impulsive like Jim. Her heart plunged with misgiving for Kezia, a vague anxiety. She caressed her automatically. Kezia went back to ner chair. Be nice to her when she comes again or, better still, telephone her. I will, Kezia nodded between bites. Ill telephone nei this noon. Pete told me about this Purdue she has been going with very smooth looking like Ronald Theyre all betting it wont last a month! I wouldnt be too sure. Kezia looked up quickly. have you a scoop? she tell you anything? Not for the public yet. So keep w d, Col-ma- n. i i secret. No? Well, is Kezias brows went up. that a headline! Ellen put it over! Cheers for Ellen! Kezia rose from the table. IU breeze around there after I get through playing tennis and ask her to bring him over some . night She dropped a kiss on her soon. IU teU her that mothers hair. while Im immured in the halls of learning, she grabs off the best- looking man in town! CHAPTER II The back yard lawn of the Hugh Marshes was veiled in the translucent light which comes just before darkness. The west was a faint saffron streaked with mauve; birds talked in sleepy twitterings; a wood dove cooed in a willow. Dorrie reclined on a wicker chaise longue and Hugh sat near her smoking a pipe. Hughs eyes were on the arabesque pattern of the trumpet vine. Dorrie aUowed the evening paHugh, per to drift to the ground. Im constitutionally lazy. "M-mr- a. Arent you interested? hear what I said? That you are lazy? Did you Yes, I heard. 1 dont know what we can do abou it. She shrugged and a curling smile that he never liked to see crept around her mouth. It means nothing that you have a lazy wife? You make pretty things for the Your house curtains, cushions. clothes you spend a lot of time sewing. But thats what I like to do! I mean Im lazy because I dont do the things I ought to but dont want to! You see theres a distinction. Im not complaining. His mind slipped away to the plant. If they landed the Cincinnati order and the one from Day-to-r. it would keep them running all through June, when there would be a natural recession. They hadnt done badly for a small plant, considering conditions. Youre not thinking about me! said Dorrie sharply. He knocked the Who else? If I think ashes out of his pipe. about the business, its for you, isnt it? Im trying to make a confession, but you wont listen. His left brow went up in its humorous twinkle Whats bothering youi conscience? I should have your family here once in a while. Were always being invited to your relatives. Its one of the things I ought to do, but dont want to. You mean you dont care for my family? I dont care for many people, do I? she tossed back, smiling. No; but I thought you and Mother Im fond of your mother. She has an extraordinary effect on me. Makes me feel good inside and out like a steam bath and a soothing oil rub by a Swedish masseur. Gosh, Dorrie! Margery, since she has those children, doesnt talk my language. I cant get passionate over croup and adenoids and spinach, car. I? But Kezia has a streak of wickedness I understand. Fun to watch her maneuver her own purposes. (TO BE CONTINUED) Siamese Cat as Faithful as a Dog, High Jumper, and Its Mew Is a Yell The Royal Cat of Siam is a personage in its native land. Legends surround its name. Its coloring a light fawn or biscuit is that of all sacred animals. Although its origin is lost in the maze of history, it was worshiped ages ago, as were the sacred cow and elephant. A scarce and rather valuable animal, the Siamese cat, has to be practically bootlegged out of Siam, although the King of Siam occasionally presents one to a singer or artist whose work he admires, oi to a visiting dignitary. However, most of those in this country were imported from England, where the real breeding is going on, writes Evelyn Avery in the Detroit News. Born pure white, at about five weeks of age the coat darkens and continues to do so with maturity. The points valued in this cat are a rather small and flat head, called snake head, a small regal body of a light fawn color, with dark head, legs and tail. The more decided the contrast that is the lighter the body and darker the other pc ints the better. The fur should be fine and glossy, resembling beaver. All Siamese cats have blue eyes. These cats are the most intelli gent of all breeds of cats and are conceded to be the most companionable. Their cry itself is startling a sort of yell, a long way removed from the mew of the European cat. To be successful in raising a Siamese cat, a high and dry temperature is necessary, especially the former. They can absorb any amount of heat. A peculiarity of this breec is its ability to jump to almost any height, such as the top of a cabinet or picture railing. Siamese cats are as faithful as dogs and are unlike other cats in that they form very deep attachments to individuals, just as dogs do, and are indifferent to places. They are also intensely jealous and would likely kill or drive away any other cat their owner attempted to keep in the home. The hatred of water cheiished by the other breeds is lacking in this unique animal. It will ask for a bath, will even climb into the tub and wait to be scrubbed. The Siamese cat is oriental. Never in its kitten days is it at all cuddly. Lithe, sinuous and almost always in motion, it attracts or repels definitely. The first pair cf Siamese cats were imported into this country about 25 years ago, by a Chicago woman. life-savi- ng Protect your throat Stolen Horse Saying Is Applied to Oats Yields Build up your alkaline reserve The parable of the farmer who waited until his horse was stolen before locking the barn applies today in the loss of soil through erosion. At the Guthrie, Okla., experiment station of the Soil Conservation service two equal-size- d fields, one eroded and the other virgin grass land, were sown to oats. The virgin land yielded more than 40 bushels to the field proacre while the duced 11 bushels. Losing oats, a prime horse feed, is in a way equivalent to losing horses. The difference of 29 bushels is enough for the usual work horse ration for more than 100 days. The eroded land had been in cultivation about 30 years, and continued cropping accounts for some of the difference in yield. But erosion was largely to blame for the wasting of the fertility of the field. If oats were selling at 40 cents a bushel, the difference in returns from the e fields would amount to two $11.60. Furthermore, the cost of terracing badly eroded land on the Guthrie project was more than three times as great as on newly broken land. These facts, according to the Soil Conservation service, show it pays to start: saving soil bn newly soil-wast- ZiUDERI'S A HELP YOU DO ALL 3 YOU CAN THROW CARDS IN HIS FACE ONCE TOO OFTEN ed you have those awful when your nerves are all on edge dont take it out on the man you love. Your husband cant possibly know how you feel for the simple reason that he is a man. wife may be A no wife at all if she nags her husband seven days out of every month. For three generations one woman has told another how to go smiling through with Lydia E. Pink-haVegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure in the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 2. Preparing for motherhood. 3. Approaching middle age. wife, Dont be a three-quarttake LYDIA E. PINKHAMS VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go Smiling Through. WHEN three-quart- er ms one-acr- er cleared land rather than wait until washing waters have carried away most of the good soil which had developed through the years. MORNING DISTRESS is due to acid, upset stomach. Milnesia wafers (the original) quickly relieve acid stomach and give necessary Grain Ration for Jerseys A good winter grain ration for Jersey cows depends upon the amount of milk produced and the elimination. Each wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk of magnesia. 20c, 35c & 60c. quality of the hay fed. Under or- dinary conditions, states an expert at the North Carolina State college, each cow should receive of one pound of grain for each pound of milk produced in excess of ten pounds. This means that a cow giving 20 pounds of milk would receive six pounds of grain a day. This feeding is based on the supposition that the cow is getting about three pounds of silage for each 100 pounds of weight and all the legume hay she will eat. Where the hay is. of poor quality, more grain will be six-tent- hs SALT LAKES NEWEST HOSTELRY O Our lobby Is delightfully air cooled during the summer months Radio tor Every Room 2 OO Rooms 200 Baths required. Co-o- ps r Make Color Film A color film featuring oranges and lemons, avocados, other fruits and dairy products, and automatic re- frigeration has been released by the California Fruit Gowers Exchange with five manufacin turers whose products are The film is educational, the Country Home Magazine, says but is intended to boost the sale of all of the products. When a farm co-o-p becomes strong enough, it with big can afford to instead of fight corporations private ing them. 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