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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE COUNTY RICH REAPER matter FeU Entered as second-cla8. 1929. atvthe pst office Randolnh. Utah, under the Act of Mar. 3, 1879. Wm. E. Marshall, Editor and Prop ss mu SUBSCRIPTION Per Year in Advance S1.0D Alfalfa Can Take WJCKV ILAWWK Red Clovers Site r Seed Is Reported to Be in Excess of the Normal Requirements. Prepared o by the United States Department WNU Service. Agriculture. Alfalfa may be able to pinch hit this year for another member of the legume family red clover. Estimates show only enough clover seed available s to plant about of a normal acreage. But supplies of alfalfa seed are in excess of normal requirements. On soils that are not acid alfalfa can be grown wherever red clover is adapted, although each has its advantages. In the emergency, alfalfa can substitute for clover in the Ohio valley and states to the north and east, and In the Upper Mississippi valley on soils well supplied with lime wherever farmers customarily depend upon red clover for hay and pasture, in the opinion of H. I Westover, alfalfa specialist in the United States Department of Agriculture. Because of the dry weather last summer much of this area produced alfalfa seed and adapted supplies should be available from domestic sources. In the southern part of this section, Kansas common will usually survive ordinary winters with no serious Injury, but to the north a more alfalfa as Grimm or Northern common Is recommended. Winter killing is the factor which limits the northern production of any variety. On the soils alfalfa may be sown alone; when conditions are less suitable, a mixture of alfalfa and timothy has given good results. In favorable seasons good stands may usually be expected from seedlings made with small grain as a nurse crop. Under favorable conditions alfalfa is as productive the first year as red clover and should produce as much or more the second season. Alfalfa, once established, produces greater yields, furnishes excellent hay and pasture, is more drouth resistant, and, being a perennial, does not need reseeding every year as does clover. I three-fourth- cold-resista- well-adapte- I d Hybrid Com Leads Again, Four States Announce In one of the worst drought years this .country has known hybrid corn scored a knockout victory over ordinary varieties, according to reports to tte United States Department of Agriculture from four cornbelt states. corn breeders at the agricultural experiment stations in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, after going over their tables on last years field tests find two important conclusions: Good hybrids continued to varioutyield the best eties as they have done every year since the tests began; more surprising, the percentage margin in favor of the hybrids was twice as great in 1934 as in 1933. Where the drought was bad last year the yields were far below those for 1933, but the significant point is that the hybrids not only held their percentage lead under such adverse conditions but actually doubled that lead, explains Dr. Merle T. Jenkins, who is in charge of corn breeding for the department In Iowa, for instance, varieties planted the at Ames dropped from 66 bushels per acre in 1933 to 16.7 bushels per acre last year. The hybrids dropped from 82 to 25. open-pollinat- open-pollinat- Grades for Cream Tentative grades for churning cream have recently been Issued by the United States Department of Agriculture for the use of the trade. These will be tested out In practice before being officially adopted. The grades represent a classification of cream according to Its value for the manufacture of butter of each Important market grade. General adoption and use of the grades with proper differentials in price for the different grades should afford a real Incentive and give definite encouragement to producers to produce cream of better quality, say department officials. Butter Fat Averages A herd average above 300 pounds butterfat per cow is generally recognized by dairymen to be profitable un- der usual farm conditions and an average above 400 pounds butterfat is considered exceptional The average of all cows in the United States today is near 190 pounds butterfat per cow. . Around the Farm Dark honey and white honey have the same food value. ' a first appeared In 1880; not become standard until Milk bottles they Copyright by Kathleen Norris SYNOPSIS The luck that had brought the Boston Lawrences to California at the beginning of the gold rush has deserted the present generation. From a ranch, their holdings have shrunk to a small farm, and the old family home In Cllppersville. The death of their poetlo father forced the three eldest children to work so that Sam and little Ariel might continue their education. had Phil, now twenty-livgone into the iron work, Gail to the public library and Edith to the book department of Clippersvllles largest store. Seventeen-year-ol- d Ariel is becoming a problem, and Phil Is fascinated by "that terrible" Lily Cass, whose husband has deserted her. Toung Van Murchison, scion of a wealthy family, returns from Tale. He and Gail had been close friends before he went to college and Gall has visions of the turning of the Lawrence luck. Dick Stebbins, Phils best friend, has the run of the house. Ariel is sneaking out of the house at night for joy rides. 4,000-ac- re e, CHAPTER III The next day, to all appearances, was like all tbe other Friday mornings of the year. Sam and Phil got away first of all, leaving a litter of coffee and cold toast on tbe kitchen table. Gail rushed down next, with her rich hair nnwontedly flat and trim, and a kitchen apron replacing tbe office dress she too often wore Into the kitchen. Then Ariel, looking tired and seeming nervous, came down in a terrible hurry, as usual. As soon as she had departed for school Gail and Edith agreed that she had cried herself to sleep the night before. Shes such a baby I Edith said lovingly. Gall made no answer; her patient, level gaze went to far spaces. She mentally wrote and rewrote a suitably casual, yet cordial note of thanks to the sender of the roses. She stopped at Mullers on her way downtown and bought a box of fine notepaper. The note Itself was written at the library a few minutes later. At the end of the note she added: If you can, come and have sapper with ns very Informally oh, so very Informally! on Sunday. She thought of this, all day long. Come and have supper with ns in' formally oh, so informally! But at three oclock she had something else of which to think, for the telephone in the library rang suddenly, and the voice on the other end demanded Miss Lawrence. It was Van, cheerful and friendly. What time was he to come to supper, and why put it off until Sunday? This was Friday. What the heck are you doing tomorrow? Tomorrows my Saturday at the library, until nine oclock." Gall could hardly bear the happy beating of her own heart as she hnng up the receiver. She thought she would suffocate with sheer felicity. She went home on winged feet, stopping to pick up Edith, to buy the dotted swlss dress. Gail hesitated long over colors, finally deciding on a deep purple. It would be practical and that shade was always lovely with the dull gold of the Lawrence hair. This was one of their happy evenings. They strolled home through the shabby streets, admiring gardens, stopping at shop windows. A block before they reached tbeir own corner the Lawrence girls took the footpath through the Morrison place, their hands linked, their voices murmuring along together with the easiness of lifetime intimacy. Should yon be glad if he was In love with you, Gall? Oh, heavens. Ive only seen him once in five years! No, but I mean should you? Gall considered. Yes, I think I would. I dont know that I want yon to marry and go away from Cllppersville, Sis It mightnt mean that Gall paused, on the fresh grass that was thickly set with popples and buttercups, under the Morrisons oaks. She broke into laughter. Arent we idiots I To have It all settled but the wedding day!1 Yes, bat It sometimes comes as suddenly as that GalL I suppose It does, her sister I was thinking, she said agreed. after a paupe, that we might have Dick on Sunday thats one more man, if we dance to the phonograph or have games. Thats four men to three girls. And Ariel really doesnt count as a girl, because shes just a kid, Edith reminded her, approving this plan. That night, while Edith sewed and Ariel played idly with pen and paper, . By KATHLEEN NORRIS Gall played solitaire. It had been her custom to do this ever since her fathers death. As she played she kept np a sort of monologue. Sometimes it was in the form of an argument, a dissertation. Often it was odd bits of poetry, or remembered scenes from Dickens or Poe or Stevenson, recalled word for word; most often of all It was improvised, in the form of a story or of biography. Just how she had begun this she never could remember ; it was a family institution now. Phil never went out when Gail started to play cards. Edith was her loyal prompter when Gail forgot a date in some dramatic tale of English history, or tried to remember the source from which some fantastic theory had sprung. It was all heartening and happy, and especially wonderful to have the evening end with them all wandering upstairs at once, lights ont below, everyone at home, safe and united. Gail saw the roses, still bright and fresh, in her room, and sat oo the edge of her bed with one shoe on and the other In her hand, for a long, long time, dreaming. It was not imagination then? Van Murchison had sent her those roses. He was coming to supper night after next. Oh, Gail, WNU Service cheese-and-eg- 1 , good-nig- be equal to good-nig- Well . . . She wouldnt quite admit It But she drifted off to sleep on the rosiest sea of hope and joy that ever a woman knows. Van came to supper the next night and everything was happy, unpretentious, and naturaL The kitchen was just what a kitchen should be, when he arrived, a social place In which three pretty girls were busy and three rather clumsy men were trying to make themselves useful Galls biscuits were browned to a tarn, and the g dish famous Lawrence turned out perfectly. They sat abont the table until eight oclock, and then Phil and Dick, after duly carrying handfuls of dishes Into the kitchen, departed. Ariel began at the kitchen table her composition, and Edith generously forced Gail and Van away. No, please Its nothing. Ill leave them all until morning anyway proYou were going sometested Edith. where go on! We were Just going for a run. We can perfectly well get these out of the way, Gall argued. But she did not insist Somehow the dishes and the kitchen did look greasy and dnll tonight; a little domestic drudgery was all right, but it would not do to disSaturdays and Wednesdays, every too much of It other month, Gall stayed at the library gust Van with a coat, and she and She np caught until it closed at nine oclock. On these dusk to his roadout in went the Van days Edith always came down at abont six with a big sandwich and an apple, ster and rolled smoothly away from fraand Gail and 6he repaired to the dress- dingy Cllppersville up Into the linstill where hills twilight grant colroom Gail where devoured the ing with the sweet smell of dew on lation, powdered her nose, exchanged gered,and of meadows wilted under the dust the news of the day with her sister, sun. all in ten minutes time, and returned long days Old Aunt Marys?" about How to the desk refreshed. What sort of a place is it? Ive Alternate months she went home at never been there. noon on Saturdays and Wednesdays, Oh, highly respectable!" but was on duty all day Sunday, openwent, accordingly, to Old Aunt They reten oclock and ing the library at a low wooden shack on the Marys, maining at the desk until five. Gall Peninsula highway, with a greasy hated the Sunday dy.ty, but the Satur- dance floor in the center, and greasy day nights were for some mysterious bare tables all about 1L The air was reason eternally exciting. There was thlck.with grease, for Aunt Marys big always a good deal of noise and traffic frying kettles were right In full view; downtown, the theaters were packed, Aunt Mary and her colored assistants the streets gaily lighted, and the quiet, were also greasy. shadowy library seemed like a coign But the music was good, and the of vantage from which she watched floor good, and the whole scene so the world. novel to Gall that she found It deOn the particular Saturday evening She and Van talked flippantthat followed his arrival in Cllppers- lightful with much laughter, as young and ly ville Van Murchison came in. Gall who are just making each othwas busily stamping and dating, open- persons ers usually do. Van acquaintance ing and shutting the covers of books, even laughed when a chance question when a voice in the line asked anx- from Gall brought the conversation iously: own condition. to his about Have you a good book about cockBut ought you be up so late? roaches?" Oughtnt you be In bed, drinking acidoShe looked up on a Wild rush of de- philus milk or something? Gail delight, and there he was, in dinner manded as the clocks hands moved clothes, with a light overcoat on, bnt to half-panine. bareheaded. They laughed soundlessVan crushed out his cigarette, ly together, and Gall sedately disposed smiled down at his own fingers, smiled of a dozen claimants before she was up, with a glance Into her face. free to murmur with him for a minute. My dear child, theres no more the matter she smiled. with my lungs than with Oh, hello, Dyou want a book?-Yesyours 1" Theres what?" Gall demanded I seem to need one. How abont this one? blankly. I havent got con, Van reiterated. She grinned at Little Susys Cousin flunked out of college at Easter, I Prudy. I think that would be about your that was all! Or no," he remembered, number. conscientiously, I did have a heavy Ill bet its racy I Til bet theres chest cold, coughing, all that to That stay considerable matter that couldnt go was part of It you see? I had and what week a home at Christmas, book! in this the mails, through !" For they were not Oh, In his Incorrigibly gay manner he both bubbling audibly with suppressed finished the sentence with a shrug. laughter. not sick at alll Gall said, Youre to Well" said Van, Tm going up In so disappointed a tone that they the Speedwells for dinner. both laughed outright Who are they? a married Barchl They sat on, watching the dancers. Well Corona the low open pine crossbeams one of the Against And see? Spence Spence, of the roof cigarette smoke was rising girls married a Speedwell, see? blue and opaque. The music droned Oh Burlingame? And gosh, how I on, the saxophone whining above the Burlingame. other, instruments; the crowd was hate It! thinning now, some of the tables were You do?" empty. Oh, Lord, yesl When the clock struck ten Gall said He regarded her curiously. must go home. Van made no proshe it?" like to mean say youd Dyou a returned test; he seemed tired, too, willing to Gall composedly stamped with woman say a faded at smiled book, They were laughing again, driving bare gray hair and a wilted voile In the starlight But at the Lawhome conversato tbe dress, and returned rence gate Gail was conscious that tion. somehow their parting was going to I Imagine I would, she said. be a little stiff and flat Some minutes You dont go to dinners? before they arrived she began to dread I havent much chance. It would be stiff. It would lay a to one? this It to go Whatll you take bar upon the frothy gaiety of do what could do heavy I that could I the in Go evening. my place. doing. youre But she could not save herself. She Nonsense! She laughed and shook ous. her head. Van went away, leaving conld not be suddenly flirtatious-amorhow. not Did know She did contentment her with a feeling of and completeness, a certain thrilled be expect her to let him kiss her goodsense of being alive, of being pleased night? Did he even want to kiss her? She did not know. with everything. she told Edith in Suddenly she felt like an innocent bed, Later, reading little girl A sense of helpawkward Van had come In to see her. smote her. This happy evelessness Gall, he didnt! ning must end on a high note, she Oh, yes, he did. st it She must not say like Edith saying good-- 1 night to one of the girls from the store like a nice old lady saying good-nigto a dear old friend. But somehow she could not carry The wild thought of leaning above him for a second, when she moved to leave the car, and of putting a batter fly kiss on his bared head, crossed he( flurried mind. But that 'would be Idiotic that was not the way girl kissed boys nowadays. They sank against the boys, their bodies limp, their painted months plastered against the boys' months. Such a girl at thl moment would have her head on Van shoulder. While she confusedly considered It, they had reached the gate and she wan out of the car, Van making no move ment to get down. Gail went abont to his side of the automobile, and stood1 looking np at him for a moment Van, Ive had a perfectly deliclou time. He moved the gas conted idly to and fro on the wheel Sure, it was fun. His own voice seemed flat Gaili tried desperately for tk hilarity of1 the earlier evening. As for your consumption I shant get over that for a long time It My what? he asked dally. Your fake consumption. It was no use. Perhaps they were both too tired for talk, Gail thought A pause, brief, but much too long.1 1 See Then Gall said, Well good-nigsoon? you GoodOh, sure!" he said, and night! and he was gone into the dark.' Tbe girl made faces at herself as she went np the steps; she was conscious of a shamed sort of feeling of It was as if she nad sold thats must exclaimed Edith, significant! it anti-clima- her birthright somehow. Actually, she had not compromised; there had not been a word or a glance all evening that might not have been exchanged by the moist decorous of, friends. But that was part of the trouble ! Or else she vas tired; maybe that was It The front door was open, a bead of gas wavering In the hot, odor-- i ons hallway. Edith came out from her doorway like an angel, cool and' fragrant from a bath. She welcomed Gail as if from the wars. Darling, did you have a good time? It was heavenly. We drove around for awhile, and then we went down to Old Aunt Marys." Gall Lawrence I Was It wild? On Sunday night I No, it was as calm as a mill pond.j There were two policemen there, andj a lot of nice college boys. Some ofl the girls looked rather well ordl-- j nary; bat it was very qnlet Nothing rough." TO BE CONTINUED. Double Bass Is Larger Than the Player Himself The double bass, which stands beside, its player at the rear of the orchestra, is larger than the player himself. Liksj the cello, It has a spike which rests up--l on the floor. Owing to the thickness of Its strings and because of the great Bize of the instrument, exceptional strength la required to press down thei heavy strings. The bow Is very sturdy,! Solo playing on the double bass1 would seem at first sight to have all the delicacy of an elephant dancing The double bass harmonics are of little value, yet there have been great solo players on the double bass, such as the Italian Dragonetti, The very deep tones of the double, bass are essential as support for other. Instruments, writes an authority In the Washington Post It is the giant member of the violin family. r The of the double bass is heavy, gruff, ponderous. It may be. used to burlesque the effects of lighter Instruments. In swift passages it can never be entirely clear; for Its long, heavy strings are slow to cease vibrating. The double bass, then, ma? be used for the most part as a humble drudge, giving the foundation of orchestral music. But It has capabilities, and the great composers have given It passages that are of the utmost significance and importance. (1763-1846- ). tone-colo- Stamp Part of Envelope The Post Office department says that stamps are embossed on envelopes at the time the envelopes are made and are a part of the envelope Itself. If the embossed stamp is cut from the original envelope. It Is not good for postage if attached to another |