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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH. UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Entered as second-clamatter Feb, 8, 1929. at the pst office Randolph. Utah, under the Act of Mar. 3, 1879. Wm. E. Marshall,1 Editor and Prop ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SUBSCRIPTION 11.50 Per Year in Advance' , . Says Poison Best . for Mice Control Most Damage During Win- - ter; Rodents Do Their Work Beneath Surface. : i . ' By ANNA McCLURE SHOLL i Field mice are an orchard pest that most fruit growers are unaware of until it is too late to save their trees. Most of the mouse damage occurs during the winter months In orchards where a heavy sod covers the ground. The mice work just beneath the surface and are not noticed until the trees begin to die or fall to bud In the spring. At first the damage may be slight, but eventually the mtce eat away the bark from the trunk a few Inches below the soil so as to completely girdle Hie tree. The common meadow mouse migrates to the orchards when their food Bupply In the open fields becomes scarce. The d pine mouse is most destructive, doing worst damage to orchards growing near timbered areas. Orchardists are urged to examine the areas around their trees, looking for mice runways and Injuries to the trees. If evidence of mice Is found, they can be destroyed by putting out wheat bait which has been poisoned with strychnine. As a supplementary control measure, digging up of grass and weeds under the trees is suggested. This breaks up the tunnels and runways and causes the mice to seek their food In areas farther from the trees. Chemists Warn Farmers on Fertilizer Mixtures On her way to a faculty position In Lostland Academy, Janet Mercer meets Prof. Arthur Fleming, also on his way to the Academy. At the school they are struck by an air of mystery pervading the place. Gordon Haskell, proprietor, welcomes them. Wilton Payne completes the Academy faculty. In a schoolroom Janet finds a group which the teachers had supposed were scholars, are wax figures. Haskell explains unusual circumstances connected with the conduct of the Academy. Among the pupils is Berenice Bracebridge, daughter of the late owner of the school. The story of the tragedy of Lostland Academy is that of two sisters and two brothers of Berenice, who lost their lives the water, at in the same moment, some years ago. The wax figures were modeled in the likenesses of the four children, and Doctor Bracebridges will provided that they must be preserved. Payne learns from Berenice that the uncouth giant whom Janet had seen with Haskell is named Balder, and Is a valuable servant. From an old farmer, Jerry Moore, the only witness of the drowning of the children, Payne learns particulars of the tragedy. He begins to take an. Increasing Interest in Berenice, as Fleming does in Janet. CHAPTER IV Continued 14 Not tonight. Dont forget to put Ill see to It," Janet said. You wont come in, sir? Payne asked. .. He had noticed Haskells reluctance on other occasions to linger that library. "No, room. I have work to do In my Chemists of the United States Department of Agriculture have been making careful studies of chemical reactions In fertilizer mixtures to be able to warn farmers and manufacturers against undesirable combinations of materials. Some combinations cause loss of plant food while others render plant food unavailable to crops. Knowledge of such reactions has become particularly desirable because of the Increasing use of ammonium salts as sources of nitrogen In fertilizers in place of more expensive nitrates and organic ammoniates. Because these ammonium salts have a greater tendency to cause acidity In soils than the materials they have displaced, liming materials are being added to fertilizers containing these salts to overcome the acidifying action. When ordinary limestone is used for this purpose, only a limited quantity can be added; otherwise reaction between it and superphosphate In the fertilizer will render some of the phosphoric acid unavailable as plant food. Similarly the use of ordinary limestone In considerable quantity in fertilizer mixtures containing ammonium phosphate Is likely to cause loss of ammonia If superphosphate is not present But if dolomite, a kind of limestone In which half the lime is replaced by magnesium, is used, neither of these undesirable reactions take place. The ' desirability of dolomite as a liming material for mixing with fertilizers is enchanced by the fact that it also supplies magnesia to soils some of which are deficient In this plant Berenice looked after him with 'a I speculative, half maternal air. hope when Im off his bands hell enjoy life a little. Must everything go on like this until you are twenty-one?- " Or until I marry If I marry before 1 am twenty-one- . Then the guardianship-trusteeship passes to my husband until I am twenty-on- e then to me absolutely." Mrs. Denver laid down her knitting, My child, why dont you marry? A nervous silence followed this remark. Payne put his hand over his eyes as If to shade them from the light, and Arthur and Janet looked like people at a play just after the curtain has gone up. Mrs. Denver resumed her knitting. Berenice stirred the fire and great tongues of flame sought the black case of the chimney. Then, feeling strangely juvenile together and as If skirting the dark wood of fate, they drew around the ' fire telling stories. Then Payne said,1 Someone must be delegated to get fudge. "Ill go, said Berenice, rising. "Ill go with you." No, please." Payne waited; gave her a little start, then followed her. At the foot of the staircase she turned, not toward the kitchen, but toward the room where the figures were kept "Berenice, his voice had a stern yet tender quality. She started vioOh, why did you lently, looked back. food. "Because 1 thought you might do this. You watched the door too much. 1 was getting afraid again I suppose the anniversary and Mother Marthas tolling the bell depressed me I wanted to see their dear faces be kept from thinking they could ever harm me. Its a foolish fancy but It came, and I thought 1 would, look In there first before I got the fudge. He walked with her down the pasWill you take one of the sage. lamps from the brackets? He lifted It down. She turned the handle. Why, its locked, and theres a new lock ON, he must give me the key ; he must Dont you think Its just as well to have this room locked? The figures are safe from prying eyes and meddling hands and 1 am sure your guardian will give you a key. He may not - He is very firm at , Cause of Heaves Heaves (emphysema of the lungs) Is caused by overfeeding the horse hay, especially dusty timothy hay, or threshed clover hay, and working it immediately after a meal when the digestive organs are distended, .declares a writer in Hoards Dairyman. Indigestion results and Irritates the pneumogastric nerve of the stomach and in time the branch of that nerve supplying the lungs also becomes affected. The lungs can then no longer perfectly expel air and the abdominal muscles have to be used to help expulsion. That causes the double bellows-like action of the flanks, and the gas expelled during the coughing spells is caused by the Indigestion. The disease is incurable when established. Farm Topics i w Erosion by wind and water is the major enemy of the soil. Some 25,000,000 bushels of corn each year are used to make corn sirup. Dairying is the most important occupation on Wisconsins 181,767 farms. An average of $16 per farm would be needed to pay the annual fire loss on farms. - c .. , t , me what you think could be done with them? He promised her to look through them. The four had played cards, eaten fudge, chatted, with Mrs. Denver placidly knitting in the background, They thought her quite adorable In her faculty of being with them stricwithout any of the middle-age- d tures on their Impulses of the moment. They had a common unspoken feeling of being In a play. The wind sweeping wildly from the mountains rattled the heavy window frames and swayed the maroon rep curtains softly. They had a sense of empty rooms and bidden projects about them. Berenice forgot even that she had ever felt fear in , the place though the everpresent mystery was still sharply with her. Briefly told for Busy Readers t WILL FtANT LILACS LESSER FIRE LOSSES DROUTH RELIEF DAM A GREAT STOCK SHOW STATE DEBATE CONTEST . ' Payne turned back to the approximate date of Doctor Bracebridges second marriage, and found this en- try: Mrs. Haskell is a dear 1 would not lovable. , come? woman-m- ost be sur- prised If after our marriage, Berenice did grow to love her as her own mother. The child is only four. The first mention of Gordon Haskell rather surprised Wilton: "Well, he arrived at five to take up his new duties; and I must confess 1 am disappointed in him, though whether this first feeling will wear off, and a heartier one take its place, remains to be seen. Two weeks later: Jethro announced to me that he disliked Gordon Haskell, and did not Intend to be his student. 1 . remonstrated with him, but the lad, with all his fine qualities, Is at times hotCHAPTER V. headed and obstinate. Althea, NorWhen every one but himself had man and Isabel show .this aversion to gone to bed, Payne sat down to read Gordon; apparently only little Berthe diaries of the late Dr. Jethro enice likes the poor fellow. She alBracebridge, but he had no intention lowed him to take her on bis knee of going back to the earlier years yesterday and hear her say her letfirst, on the track, as he was, of the ters. Poor baby I Education at pressituation In Lostland academy just be- ent interests her but slightly., Six months later : fore the deaths of the four BraceI Intend to appoint Gordon cobridge children. It was easily traced, guardian with Mrs. Bracebridge, In case of my death, over the five children. I shall, of course, provide for him, too; though not In the measure I do for the others. I am sorry the youngsters bate him so, for it leads to a series of minor outbreaks between them. Privately I think Gordon a rather savage teacher; some men are like that too Impatient of a pupils limitations! I have asked him to be more gentle and more nonchalant with his scholars. Children as a rule respect and like people who are rather casual toward them. The intense adult is their abhorrence. Perhaps they know better than we do that a rage for reshaping life Is not according to the sweet reasonableness of the divine policy. Gordon Is ambitious! I doubt greatly If he cares to bury himself long at Lostland academy; so the children jand their arch-fo- e may be separated naturally. In the last year, Gordon Haskells name appeared very seldom. Doctor Bracebridge evidently had other things to worry him an epidemic of measles "Oh I He Must Give Me the Key; in the school, and a series .of thefts, He Must! particularly one large sum from the locked drawer of a desk in the library. as the diaries ended abruptly on the In another place was written twenty-nintof September of the year am afraid it Is Balder; a sullen, On that fatal day, of the drowning. disagreeable fellow, but as he does Doctor Bracebridge had ceased his twice the work, when he chooses, of records, never to open them again. an ordinary man, It doesnt seem right ' He evidently bad been a man of to dismiss him merely from prejudice deep scholarship, and of what is some- or the suspicion of something we cant times missing In conjunction with prove. Ive given up trying to reconscholarship broad and deep sympacile my Incomparable four and Gorthies. In one place be had written: don. That, too, is a The thinker is sometimes more matter, and with such temperamental chemistry, one likely to go astray In his conclusions does well not to meddle. man of action. than the Poor man. It would have been betEducation should never be carried be- ter If you had meddled, Wilton reyond the point where It stultifies flected. Those boys and girls probspontaneous and generous deeds. Life ably diagnosed Haskells character betwas meant to. be loved out; not ter than you did! TO BE) CONTINUED. thought out v 1 -- 1 an--nu- breaker and a further step toward improvement of western livestock. More than 2000 animals and some 1500 birds were displayed in what was termed by officials as one of the finest livestock shows ever held in Ogden. BOISE, IDA. Approximately 1000 cars is the lead in potato shipments this year over the same period last year. During one week 89 ' times. , , he Its better for .thinks Maybe your health and" spirits not to go there . too much. "Perhaps he Is right and after all now you will think me foolish again, there was something else beside fear. I suppose Ive been like a little girl with her dolls who doesnt want them to be lonely or unhappy, even though she knows they are not alive. Later in the evening she showed him some old diaries kept by her father. Tve often thought they ought to be published; be put down so many comments on current events, as well as the academy news. Would you look over them for me some time and tell cars of Idaho potatoes arrived in Chicago. OGDEN, U T. Invitations have been distributed to all high school principals in Utah requesting representatives of all student bodies to participate in the second annual high school debating tournament to be held at Weber College, Feb. 15 and 16, It is announced by Prof. C. M. Nilsson, in charge of the contest. Included in the session will bo public speaking and oratorical contests. A new feature will be tho competition in the extemporaneous public speaking contest. .PROVO, UT. If postal receipts offer a criterion, recovery is on the way in Provo, according to Postmaster J. W. Dangerfield, who points out that the 1934 receipts show a net gain of 6.75 per cent in Provo over 1933. Most of the gain came in the last six months with a gain from July to December of 8.08 per cent. December alone showed a gain of 1.04 per cent in receipts over December of 1933. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Complete medical training at rhe University of Utah was made possible by the announcement recently of a $500,000 gift to build and equip a medical science building. PAROWAN, UT. Due to open range conditions, only about half of Iron countys last cattle purchasing allotment was used. Range anl- mals are faring better than expected because of the open winter. PROVO, UT. Authorization for the purchase of an additional 49 acres of land near the Bridal property in Provo canyon for s in the was voted department by the city . I h warm-hearte- d Veil-fall- commission Six Fragments Make Up Losaps Islands; Part of Carolines Is Nearest Neighbor Most of the islands of the Carolines are of coral formation, rising but a few yards above sea level. Many are treeless but some are covered with dense tropical vegetation, including coconut palms, the source of copra, and breadfruit trees. Portugal These ' terms date from 1650, at which time they were used for bad or An medunpleasant taste. icine (such as castor-oilis a phrase in frequent use. . Of , manners and dres3 we sometimes say that they are in bad tasts or in poor taste; but we have and there is nothing to prevent one from using the word 111 with taste if one wishes to do so. Literary Digest ink, are the Truk (Hogulu) islands, the largest1 group In the Carolines. They are situated fifty miles northwest of the Losaps. The Carolines originally were known as the New Philippines." The present name Is In honor of Charles II of Spain. The archipelago was discovered in 1527 by Diego da Rocha, a Portuguese mariner who was followed fifteen years later by Saavedra and Villalobos, who also were natives of green. recently. . BURLEY, IDA. Cassia-count- y made substantial sales of cattle under the AAA program drouth relief to the government due to the extreme drouth which affected all sections of the Minidoka project. There was a total of 166 cars, rep- resenting 7167 head of cattle disposed of to the government. These involved the sale from 600 different farmers and amounted to $95,319. Train Bird to Catcb Fish ant to warrant the use of mapmakers on Losap Island. nearest of the the Among neighbors which are sufficiently importLosaps s SHELLEY, IDA. This city is supporting an F E It A project to build a sewer system. The project was authorized without the necessity of voting a bond Issue. Shelley at present has no sewer system and the complete project will Involve $75,060 and employ approximately 100 men for a period of several months. . , llllllllllllllllllllllllli d . water-work- right3-of-wa- y . palm-fringe- -- 133 in, 1929. al OGDEN, UT. The sixteenth Ogden livestock show went down into history as a record , !One of the cleverest of all divers is the cormorant, which can be trained to catcb the fish for its owner, and Is often used In this way by Chinese. In Britain cormorants live In colonies, usually on small rocky Islands. The haunts are not pleasant places to visit, for an appalling stench surrounds them. The nests are built of seaweed, which soon decays in the hot sun; pools of sea water are formed in hollows by storms and soon become thick and MONTPELIER, IDA. A storage dam in Montpelier canyon has been approved by the drouth relief divi- slon of the I E R A, according to Information received from state headquarters. Plant SALT LAKE CITY, UT a Lilac was adopted as the slogan of the campaign being launched by the Federation of Womens clubs to fill Salt Lake City with the purple and white flowers, at the meeting of the Salt Lake district of the federation. PROVO, UT. The property loss by fire in Provo during 1934 was $39,558.50, a 50 per cent reduction from-th- e fire loss in 1933, according to a recent report. There were only 86 fires during the year within the city limits as compared with . , The Losaps, says a National Geographic society bulletin, consist of six fragments of dry land on the rim of. a coral atoll which is about five miles In length from north to south, and two to four miles In width. They are Laol, the largest of the group, Losap, Lapur, Pis, Alananubu, and Alanmwassel. They have a population of about 200 and are within the Japanese Pacific island Mandate, seven degrees north of the Equator. The lagoon of the atoll is a quiet, protected sheet of water. It Is clear of navigation dangers for light draft vessels and affords good anchorage. There is a trading station ' . -- out the lamps when you go to bed." In SOTO Service by W. G. Chapman SYNOPSIS By H. R. Niswonger, Extension Horticulturist, North Carolina State College. WNU Service. short-taile- . jEl(0)M WMFIEIS Copyright Intermountain News 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BLANDING, - U T. G o v. Johnson of Colorado, who . has an appropriation of $6,971,000 for high- way improvement projects, has $60,000 to be used on tbe strip leading to San Juan county, on Highway' 160, in the vicinity of Dove Creek. It connects with the Utah gravelled highway which was completed in the fall,' and will connect the county of San Juan with Colorado and New Mexico cities. BURLEY, IDA. An average of five to six cars of potatoes daily leave the tracks here. Last year 919 carloads had left the Burlej station, against 760 carloads tot the same period this year. , al-lot- ed . Til-Tasti- ) . . v -- |