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Show GREAT IMPORTANCE OF SELECTING DAIRY HERD Animals Chosen Should Be Carefully Examined and Tested Physically Should Show Evidence of Health and Vigor. It'a for yon. he rejoined, and hi lips closed together resolutely He waa stepping past her, when over the seaward edge of the cliff there catne a sound like the yell of a with ttie sltipavxk of v f pfifrv Ml tin nijMittn tulrmn 1.orJ Win tin-Tom lilake Hh L hillKhfntn tht a Anirtati, werr nn aKriicrs rtire-- t T? uninhabupon vtr t ited Murid nn were the only fnH not n. d shunnrtl on the boat, Hiuk became a h ro hnani of JusofroiiKhn, The at the hetpleett pair f,ii4larWan filing lor the hart! of Minn Wlnthrojo wanted tus t&tft niat h i m a cigarette for which he whi tuorrd hy Hldke All three t onutrut lti Imt to shield theme Ivon from the nun T( v thn feasted on iiMoanute the only table- fiod Miss lanlle faced an un-pi thartt situation UUke reiovered hts Hutvewir'n magnifying kIhhs thus in ir m Hie He started a jungl hre kill iff a targe teoimrd and siunthc r4nf ecvtr cub I,i Ue letparuh tuvtrti tiiV built a email home They gained the Uff t v burning the bottom of a tr u until It f It The trio awured agalitMl the height white Mut Ignite KK from the clirr skirt waa Uldd upon as a atimal Ml a dress Jr cm the leopard made -I-vCKtte akin Oserhearlna a conversation Blake and Wlnthropa, Mlsa laeslle be a me frightened became Wluthrop til with fever Blake was poisoned by a fish and almost died Jackals attacked the camp that night, but were driven off Blaka constructed an ant by Oncvleve mat trap It killed a hyena On a tour the trio discovered honey and oysters Mies labile was attached by a poisonous snake Blake killed it and saved Its pol son to kill gnjne For the second time He tolnthrope waa attacked bv fever and Blake disagreed The latter made a strong door for the private compartment A terrible of Mies IjHea rave home atonn raged that night Wlnthrepe stole Into h r room, hut she managed to awing her door loeed In time Wlnthrope was badly hurt. He died the following morn ing The storm tore down their dlstrees flag, so a new one waa swung from a bamboo fade Mias Isratte helped In cov ering Winthropea grave wllh stones Ocnevieve took a strong liking to Blake On exploration tour they were attacked by a lion Ktor T t . -- it st. tu, r .jriti aliWIi I raging sea monster Siien!" shouted I 'iMtr - whirling -- ll ot I First Prize Dutch Belted Heifer. H cos-rade- d K AI.VOKD) po'nt of greater imIn portance selecting animals for the foundation of a herd or In making purchases of additions than to get perAnimals chofectly healthy stock sen should be critically examined and should afford evidence of being strong In constitution and of healthful vigor. It la advised that all be tuberculin tested, and this of course should be done by a competent veterinarian. Besides the robust character of the Individuals, the breeding stock from which they are descended and the herd, stables and farms from which they come should be closely examined on the score of health. Breeding and rearing the animals needed replenish and Increase the herd and refusing to allow strange animals on the farm are the best safeguards against the Introduction of disease. If purchases must be made let the new stock be strictly quarantined for at least one month before mingling with th herd On every farm of any alee a building for a tock quarantine and hospital suitably arranged and equipped la a most useful adjunct. This not needed for calving cows or for cases of lameness or ordinary accident, but for cases of acute sickness, retention of afterbirth, abortion or any symptoms of contagious disease it Is essential. Of course the building Itself, Its care and the attendance upon Its occupants must be subjected to regulations suitable to any hospital or quarantine There are many of the ordinary' accident! and aliments to which domestic animals are subject which can be managed b an intelligent owner or under hla direction without professional assistance. Every man his own cattle doctor.. la a very delusive title, one may well follow this suggestion within , reasonable limits, but Evtn as she saw the vessel. Its siren responded to Blake's wild gestures with a seties of joyous screams There could be no mistake He had been se n Already they were letting go am hot, and Ihere wb a lltttecrowd of men gathering about one of the boats Blake turned and started on a But Miss I.eslle tun for the cliff dafted before him, compelling him to bait Wait!" She cried, her eves sparTom, Its kling with happy tears. conic now. You neednt Let me by! Im going to meet them 1 want to But she put her hands upon his shoulders Tom! she whispered, let It be CHAPTER XXIV. Continued. now before any one anything can The lion stilled his roars and Let It possibly come between us! crouched as If to spring, snarling and be a part of our life here here, where grinning with rage and uncertainty I've learned how brave and true a HU eyes, unaccustomed to the glare real man can be! mid-daof the sun, blinked IncessantAnd then have him prove himself ly, though ha followed the man's every a stieakL he cried. No; I wont, Into movement, his snarls deepening to think of. Walt you Ive got Jenny! growls at the slightest change of atTen to till Ive seen your father. titude. one hell not fcear of It hell cut you In his blind animal rage Blake had off without a cent. Not but what Id forgotten that the purpose of his be glad myself; but you're used to lateral advance waa to place as great luxuries, girlie, and Im a poor man a distance as possible between him I esnt give them to you Love!" and tha girl before the clash. Yet She laid a band on bis mouth and s kept him moving along his She faltered and lay shuddering. Fear- shake hands on It like two real smiled up at him In tender mockery -spiral course, on the chanre that he ful that she was about to swoon again now, Mr. Blake; youre not Come, She struck frantically at his Blake slapped bef band between bis might catch his foe off his guard. After surviving very complimentary. hand. Suddenly the Hon half rose and palms with stinging force all these weeks, dont you my cooking The "Youre It!" fee shouted. , stretched forward, sniffing. There wm Keep away I hate you" she crM. think 1 might do. at a pinch, for a an uneasy whining note In his growls. Jokes on yout Kitty jumped Just the Before he could speak she was funpoor mans wife? Blake let the club slip from beneath other way, and he won't come back ning up the cleft. No, Jenny! he protested, trying his arm and drew his bow until Jbe In a hurry with that fire to head him to draw back. "You oughtnt to deXXV. arrow-beaHis thumb. hla CHAPTER a off. Jump up now and well do lay upon Jig cide now. When you get back among outstretched arm waa rigid as a bar on the atrength of It" your friends things may look different In Double Salvation. of steels Bo tense and "alert were all She attempted a smile, and a trace Think of your society friends! Walt his nerves that he knew he could of color showed In her cheeks. With CX37 till you see me with other men gen dilve home both arrows gnd still have an Idea that action would further her tlemen! Im just a rough, uncultured, lime to swing his club before the recovery he drew her to a sitting post ordinary beast was upon him. tlon, stepped quickly behind, and, with she cried, and she again "Hush! A puff of wind struck against his hla hands beneath her elbows, lifted You hand on hla mouth. her placed back and swept on the nostrils of the her upright. But she was still too Tom about things cruel shan't.say fuel) tloh; laden with the odor of famh. The weak andglddy, to stand alone. A m y Tomthe man 1 trust" that f " beast uttered a abort, startled roar, he released hla grip ahe swayed and her door and came out of the cave Her arms slipped about his neck and and, whirling about, leaped away Into would have fallen had ho not caught Blake was nowhere in sight She her eyes shone up Into his with tender and hastened relieved, 7 Blake'a ar, fcrT arm. thvJtmglq-vo-qulekty-thsighed, vastly radiance, flashed past a full yard behlnd.Z "Brace across to bathe her flushed face Ip !" he begged, "Steady !- '- he admonished hoarsely the spring Stopping evuFy few The second arrow was on the string up; youre all right" I I cant stand it!" fair Taln't bia aU'p duvajthe t,.lU.tcn lor. Whwlt. tbe grmiml Tm-T- ni 'Juat' aTlttie 'dlujSho The man I toYe- she whispered, But the Hon had vanished In the grass. murmured, clinging to hi shoulder cleft she galhei ed up a hamper ofHe o rushed her to him in hla great fled to the tree ladder With a veil, Blake dashed on across It will psss In a minute. Its so silly, food and arms. As she drew herself up on the cliff lo'the nearest point of the Jungle. As but I'm that way Tom. 1 I think you little girl' dear little girl ahe noticed a thin column of smoke he"My he ran be drew the burning glass from are the bravest man repeated, and he pressed his llpe his fob and flipped It open ready for rising from the last smouldering to her hair Yes, yes but thats not the polnt brands of a beacon fire that had been use; rrtbeTlon Jmdturncd 'bchlnmhP , Ye She anuggled her face closer against Ro now, like a sensible girl. built In the midst of the bird colony his shoulder sheltering grass stems he was too It's about time to hit the trail." in a very and outer extreme of the on the small voice "I I replied edge owardly to charge out again. Within He drew himself free, and without you know suppose headland She did not, how ever, a minute the jungle border was a wall a can m marry peo that glance at her blushing face began captains ship that, while the smoke column pie.1 f roaring flame. to up their scattered outfit streamed up from the tire The grass, long since dead, and His gather directly It But 1 havent even a Job yet' he hat lay where he had weighted It theie was a much hone-drwllh the daya of tropical down with cocoanut. He tossed skyward beyond exclaimed the "Suppose your father volume of smoke, which seemed unshtne since the cyclone, flared up the nut into the skin she pleaded There listen'" "Please Jammed Jarger eddied down and bag cliff face the have and was a sound like before the wind like gunpowder- Even the hat on hla head, sobbing the brim to suppressed pulling igalnst the wind the Are ate its way tar down over his eyes When he had was now rolling up into view from out is It" ho ventured, and he sea no She the to over heed gave ilong the ground with fearful rapidity, Mrhed hts club he walked back past The perturbed. greatly listened, vor-this, for ihe sight uf the bearon.had muffled voice sounded very meek and railing behind It an upwhlrllnf the his averted with girl eyes of smoke and flame- - No living Instantly alarmed her with the pos- plaintive: 'TU try to do my part, Tome on, he muttered. sibility that Hlake was anil on the Mr. Blake really I will 'renture could have burst through I I hope Inside the barricade hlake was headland, and would imagine that she hat belt of fire. we can manage to struggle along She was the close to waiting opening' A wave of fierce heat sent Blake seeking him omehow. You know, I have a little crept through and rose to catch him She paused, her cheiks aflame f But of daggering back, sconced and tills bv the sleeve. my own. It's only three three mil the only sign of Blake that she could ered. There was no exult anee In fflx but "Once lion; she said look at Tom, pie. see' was the fire Itself She reflected bearing. For the moment all thought I was most "What! he demanded, and he held to you In my that he unjust well have beIn might very awe left f the lisn was swallowed up her out at arms length, to stare at her I wronged you. Now I fore dawn As likelv as not he had He stared at the thoughts. bt his own work. In frowning bewilderment Tf I'd must tell you that T think you are descended at the noith end of the known that. jell of leaping, roaring flames from he the hi a vest the noblest man" had and off cleft gone tp ihe river to lesth his upraised arm. To the north "Youd never have given me tht away! he exclaimed, and he staif his catamaran. At the thought parks and lighted wisps of grass shook off .her hand roughly. to to propose to you, you chance Don't all the color ebbed fiotu her cheek dear old lilven by the gale had already fired t what silly' she cried, her eyes know don't You a tool! left her while ami trembling. and .he jungle half wy lo the farthei "See with tender mirth dancing von re talking about" With Again she stood Insitatmg idge here! 1 Hut 1 do, Tom. believe that you sigh she sorted on toward the signal Sup by step Blake drew back His She turned from him. and back staff beet struck against something soft are and held up a withered, crum again, hear do nt a blackguard you She was close . upon the border of fie looked down and saw Miss Iaslie He looked, and saw tha' flower pled No blackguard Is brav. The way the bird colon v .n BUk, ,at up and j yfng o the sand., white and still von amarj?Uj, blo8goln " . ,he terrible beast faced that she found herself si irlug into his Ihe had fainted, overcome hy fear or You kept It! to've gone and blinking eyes "Yes. blackguard The heat by ike unendurable heat even then Because because, I to've let he shown "Hello yon that say to mumbled He you drosllv. Bust have stupefied him as well He down In the bottom of my heart, then, Even see? itareT at her, dull eyed, wondering if a single word Cant you Hrang up wide awake and flushing I bad begun to realize to know what He tf m not wh&t you call a gentleman. I With the guilty consciousness of what the w as dead His brain cleared were like and of course that Whew how any man ought to he had done ' Iaah at the sun way you Do you tprang over to where the flask lay he thi unht 1 meant Tom, tell me! treat a woman but to go and let you up! Didn't mean to oversleep. Mis think Im tide the yeninants.of the lunch Do you shameless utterly He was dashing the last drops of I now. before wed got back gmong Leslie You see I was pretty late blame me for Jjelng the one to to-But the beacon of course tending ie tvpl4 water la her face when she "Blame you!" he cried He paused ThaTs Tio A'Xcu.se But but. Tom, why not, If noaned and her eyelids began to flut to put a finger under her chln and "Don't'" she exclaimed The a were raise her downbeat face. Hla r He flung down the flask and fvJJ , hol-h- e retorted, harshly. I'm goeyet ing now to pile up wood on the cliff tears in her eyes, vn she smiled as were very blue, but there waa a twin chafing her wrtat. know what you mean for a beacon fire. In the morning I II she spoke "Torn!" she moaned. kla In their depths. "Oh. yes; It, was Youve been i Up all by 'pretty late start making that catamaran" " "Yea. Miss Jenny. I'm here. dreadful, wasn't It? But I guess Iv You shall not night." No, you shall not no complaint to fllerjust now." Ight," he answered. "No, I haven't Not all night" THE END "Have I had a annstroke? go off and leave me, and- - and risk I quite understand. "To be sure I can hardly your life! I cant bear to think of it! shy it aeema Now " tt down Trying. Stay with me, Tom dear! Even if a Mr. Thomas Blake' and eat this luncheon " If there Is anything mi earth that Tta all right, I tell you. Only a ship never came" "Can't Haven't time 1 Te got to will try all tha Chriatlan graces of the He turned resolutely, no as not to fttle bonfire 1 touched off. Quess you get to the river and set tq work. HI average man. It Is to crawl into auat have fainted, but It'a all right see her bluahlng (ace. be tald get some jerked beef and est It n tha union suit on a chilly morning only low." "Come now, Mias Leslie. .to discover that tha washerwoman has It waa allly of me to faint. But In a dry, even tone; "don't make It ao way- You gee she and Tom' aenalble be turned It wrong side ouL Lets protested. then 1 saw that dreadful thine leap hard. awfuliv y S' Blake, about '1 lie cloud of atnoke beyond the cliff nd was now rolling up more to the left. He dashed away towards he noith edge of the cliff as though he nfended to leap off Into space The tan after him as fast as she could r tlie loose btones Before she had (oveietf half the distance she saw him n ilt on the vety brink of the cliff ami begin to wave and shout like a few steps farther on she madman It was caught sight of the steamer Iving dose in, only a little way off the north point of the headland d there is always a point hard to define at wliich professional aid should promptly be summoned So long as an owner is certain of the difficulty and has knowledge and experience as to treatment or remedy he may depend upon home resources But In cases of obscurity, uncertainty or complications the owner of a good cow disregards his own Interests and his moral obligation if he fall to summon a veterinarian, as much as If he neglected to secure proper medical service for a sick child And the veterinarian should be selected with the same care one exercises In choosing a family physician Close confinement, with Impure air and lack of exercise, is as prejudicial to the health of milch cows as to that of human being- s- Some recently promulgated theories of dark, warm stables and no exercise for profitable milk production are without a rational basis and certain to lead to disastrous results sooner or later. Exposure to storms and cold Is equally . injurious to the health and profit of cows. A judicous mean la the provision for moderate exercise In the open air and sunshine, and the application of the same common sense care for the comfort of cows which one would approve for members of his own household. Every member of the herd, young or old, should pass under the critical eye of the owner or hla trusty assistant daily, and preferably twice a day. The least Bymptora of disorder, llkt dulness, loss of appetite, rough coat and Irregularity of milk, manure or urine, should be noted and promptly receive the attention which It deserves. Experience is needed ott the part of the caretaker to detect and correct the beginnings of trouble and thus malntalp the general health of the herd SPLIT-LOGDRAGISUSEFUL -- fr- - tno-vueu- Y , I i I 1 1 - -- Perspective view e drsg. split-lo- g y "hat x The spilt log drag shown herewith is one of the simplest, cheapest, and yet the most useful and effective Implements for the Improvement of earth roads ever Invented, a mere glance at which will enable any practical farmer to make one In some states the farmers by common agreement drag (he road along their own fronts after every ralnand the results are almost unbelievable. , IMPORTANCE OF principle In It, however Wheat con tains some fat It also contains protein. which Is needed for egg and tissue building But it u one of a long line of egg building foods. It ts not the best food for feathers. And In some parts of the countryJt jpay be the most expensive of the ing foods. Corn, in some sections, la also prohibitive, owing to Its price, to be used economically. It Is then that knowledge of foods comes Into play and suggests substitutes. Chick ena. like' all other live stock, require Variety to do their best. When cickens have unlimited range they balance their own food and get what the system craves When man feeds he has to furnish thid balance. Common sense will not always decide how to get the balance Id" FEEDING-HEN- S Problem on Which All Inexperienced. People Go Broke Until They Have Mastered It Few Master Science. 1 I 1 -- j (Bv C C WENTZLER.) Feeding Is the dividing line between failure an success In poultry I culture Even professionals sert that the feeding sometimes Is a as- matter of secondary importance. It is all Important. It Is the problem, the rock, on which all Inexperienced people go broke until they have mastered it Few Pounry feedlmr 1 a science master the science. It la the one thing In which common sense will not guide you. You cant feed common sense. It requires Corn and a knowledge of foods. wheat ,gnd meat are as far as Jhe knowledge of some people extends. We should become familiar with the foods sod learn what functions they perform. We know that corn makes fat. W also know that fat Is the fuel the source of the chickens heat and energy. There Is very little g Value of Sheep. Sheep aro great soli renovators and weed eradicators, but the man who would make a profit on them should not get the Idea, that they are simply scavengers. egg-bpll- . d , Science In Farming.1 Convince y"ur son and daughter that to be successful on the farm they must have healthy bodies and bright minds and they must be proficient In mathematics, chemistry, physiology, pathology, bacteriology, biology, political and domestic economy and a half dosen other sciences, and they will begin to respect the farm and stop calling farming "Dago business," and a little later the wofld will look u to the farmer, not down at him. 1 i f |