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Middletown transcript., 1916-05-06
FERTILITY OF SOIL
AND KEEPING STOCK
Close Relationship Demonstrated
at Experiment Stations and
by the Farmers.
CBy F. B. AfUMFORD, Dean of Missouri
College of Agriculture)

(By F. B. MUMFORD, Dean of Missouri
College of Agriculture.)
The problem of the American farm
er today is how to conserve the fer
tility of the soil and yet insure a rea-
changing from grain farming to the
raising of live stock, the farmer asks
himself if this change has been sue
cessful in maintaining soil fertility.
From the New England states west
ward to the Dakotas, he sees a trail
of once-depleted soils reclaimed by
substituting dairying and stock farm
ing for exclusive grain farming. The
result of profitable systems of live
stock farming on even the poorest OF
soils is to be seen in Holland. Den
mark is another example Of country
whose soils were becoming depleted
by wheat producing, but where a sys-
TEN of livestock production conserved
the soil fertility.
Permanent success from exclusive
grain farming has not yet been demon
strated, so modern farm practice is
showing the importance of the devel-
opment of animal husbandry. The
close relation between the fertility OF
the soil and keeping of live stock is
demonstrated at experiment stations
and by the successful farmer. Pro
ductiveness of the acre of land is the
main factor for which the farmer is
everywhere striving. Because the
productiveness of the land is main
tanned and often increased is sufii-
cient reason for the keeping of ami
mails on the farm, not even taking into
consideration the increased profit from
the livestock farm.
Farm manure is now, and always
has been, the greatest available re
source for maintaining soil fertility on
the typical middle-West farms. Gen
orally speaking, the most prosperous
farms of this section today are those
on which live stock is a large, if not a
chief, factor of production.
While the practice of plowing under
clover and that of adding the humus
or vegetable matter to the soil will un-
duestionably keep up the humus or
vegetable matter supply. such mate
rials are too valuable for the nutri-
ton of animals to be thus employed.
At the Missouri agricultural expert
ment station for two years the aver
age income of clover pastured off with
hogs amounted to $40 per acre.
All such materials as stover, hay,
straw and grass can be profitably
marketed through animals, and at
least so per cent of their soil-building
value saved, and at the same time a
considerable profit from feeding the
animals
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FEW GET TO SEE PRESIDENT
Comparatively Only . Small Number
of People Ever Saw the Chief
Executive.

The aged bridgekeeper of New
Hampshire who saw a president of
the United States for the first time
when President Wilson stopped to pay
toll for crossing had an experience
more novel than it may seem. How
many people have ever been face to
face with one of the country's chief
executives during his term Of Office?
Grant, Arthur, Cleveland and Roose-
velt were familiar figures" in the
general sense of the phrase, but only
relatively small percentage of the
population have seen president.
Certainly many more Americans can
say they have seen president since
Roosevelt and Taft put the White
House on wheels, observes the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. AS travelling
presidents they set a new precedent.
But Notwithstanding the publicity
that attaches to the presidency, yet
1t is a position of comparative isola-
tion as respects contact with the peo-
pie. Probably many more persons
saw Lincoln during his debates with
Douglas than after he was inaugu-
rated as president.
Few people outside of Virginia can
have been able to say that they have
seen Jefferson and Madison, and the
same conditions were true for the
Adamses outside of Massachusetts.
Obviously the multiplication of trav-
cling facilities and the disposition of
presidents of this generation to util-
ize them has made the occupant of
the White House more generally Wis
ible to his countrymen. Even so, it
is somewhat out Of the ordinary to
''see the president" and vast numbers
OF Americans live and die without that
experience.
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BAD COMPLEXION MADE GOOD
When All Else Fails, by Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. Trial Free.

If you are troubled with pimples,
blackheads, redness, roughness, itching
and burning, which disfgure your com.
plexion and skin, Cuticura Soap and
Ointment will do much to help you.
The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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CONVENIENT BROODER COOP FOR CHICKS


For either free range or for inten-
sive poultry culture the brooder coop
shown herewith will be found very
convenient. 1t consists of frame of
any suitable size, preferably three by
six feet and two or two and one-half
feet~high. At each side is wire netting
between the framework for about two
thirds of the length of the coop. II
desired, glass may be used for part of
the remaining space, as indicated.
Preferably, one end should be tight
SO as to afford certain protection in
case of wet or storm Tightness may
be secured by using matched lumber
or glass. The coop has no bottom,
but rests directly upon the ground.
The left hand end is opened, but may
be closed by door which may either
slide or swing on hinges
The coop has a double lid; one
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11s and would get SO weak at times that
] fell over. I began to take Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
ten days later I could eat and it did not
hurt my stomach. l have taken tbs
medicine ever since and I feel like .
new woman. now weigh 127 pounds
SO you can see what it has done for me
already. My husband says he knows
your medicine has saved my life. -
Mrs. J. S. BARLOW, 1924 South 4th St.
Columbus, Ohio.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Conn
pound contains just the virtues of roots
and herbs needed to restore health and
strength to the weakened organs Of the
body. That is why Mrs. Barlow, .
chronic invalid, recovered so completely.
1t pays for women suffering from any
female ailments to insist upon having
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com,
pound.
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RECIPE FOR INSECT POWDER
Mixture of cresoI, Gasoline and Plas-
ter of Paris viii Be Found En-
tireIy Satisfactory.

A good homemade insect powder
can be made by thoroughly mixing
one-fourth pint of cresol and three
fourths Of a rint of gasoline. Add to
this mixture gradually with stirring
just enough plaster of paris to take up
the liquid. For the above amounts
it will take about two and a half
pounds of plaster of paris. Spread out
thin on paper until dry, screen care
fully and it is ready for use If
strong crude carbolic acid is available
it can be used instead OF cresol. This
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GIVE FOWLS VARIED RATION
No Economy in Feeding Just One Kind
of Grain-ProVide Ample Supply
of Pure Water.

There is no economy in feeding
fowls only one kind of grain, for that
compels them to eat more than they
should to get sufficient quantity of
food elements.
A large part Of the egg is water,
which necessitates providing the lay
ers with an ample supply of pure wa
ter. All of the fowls should have
plenty Of pure drinking water also.
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RETURN ALL INFERTlLE EGGS
Disappointing to Customer Who Wants
to Get as Many Chicks as Posi-
bIe-No Fault Of Buyer.

Infertile eggs are very disappointing
to a customer who wants to get as
many chicks as possible out of the
number he buys. Some owners adver-
tise that they will replace all infertile
eggs, while others guarantee ma
jority hatch.
If the eggs test out infertile after
seven days incubation, the purchaser
should return them to seller, as evil
dence that they we're not fertile, and
receive fresh eggs in exchange. 1t is
no fault of the buyer if the eggs are
infertile.
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addition, pays you for the privilege of
working"
But marketing the hay, even at a
high price, is not the most profitable
way to dispose of alfalfa. The best
returns, both in money and in soil i'm
provement, can be secured by feeding
the alfalfa to stock The stock will
bring returns, in money and also sup
ply the fertilizer to put back on the
land.
1t seems strange that people should
need to be urged to grow so valuable
a crop
1t is true there is notion that it is
hard to get start with alfalfa. But
this is due largely to not understand
ing what the plant needs Sometimes
it is hard to get a good stand Of
clover.
Glover, like alfalfa, will not grow
in sour soil, and it also needs it's
own kind of bacteria. Alfalfa needs
the same conditions-sweet, fertile
soil and it's own kind of bacteria.
Given the right treatment, alfalfa
is just as certain to grow and produce
good crop as clover is.
If we fail to get a stand the first
time, we should not say 1T won't grow
here" and quit trying. We should
simply be sure ali the conditions are
right, then replant. Sometimes we
have to replant clover; sometimes we
even replant corn and oats. but we
don't quit growing them because of
that.
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ANNUAL EXPENSE OF
MAINTAINING A cow
Animal Must Produce at Least
200 Pounds of Butterfat Year
Iy to Pay Her Way.
(By r. W. PECK. Minnesota Fxnar;roa,,.


(By r. W. PECK. Minnesota Experiment
Station.)
FROM several years records of milk
production and cost of maintenance ii
has been found that COW must pro.
duce at least 200 pounds of butterfat
or about $500 pounds of milk annual.
ly if she is to pay her way. This
means 19 pounds of milk daily for
300 days.
The annual cost of maintaining a
COW is close to $65, if man values
his labor at Is cents an hour. If a
man wants more than a market price
for feed and this bare wage, he must
put his time on cows giving more
than 200 pounds of fat. The larger
the increase over this amount the
larger his pay will be.
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Bv GRACE MARIAN sMITH)

(By GRACE MARIAN SMITH.)
AS there is now little new land to
which we can go, we must give at
tention to rebuilding the soils we have
worn out.
We can do this three ways:
By applying commercial fertilizers.
By growing legumes.
By keeping stock and returning the
manure to the land.
A combination of the last two is
profitable and leads to diversified farm
ing, which is essential to permanent
agriculture.
In some sections of the country, es-
pecially where the ground has been
cropped hard a good many years, it is
very profitable and sometimes almost
necessary, to apply lime, and also
phosphorus in some form.
The alfalfa crop, which does so
much toward replenishing the soil,
pays a good profit while it is doing it.
Do you remember the market price
of the hay secured from an acre Of
alfalfa? And the cost of growing it?
Does it pay as well as other farm
crops?
Remember that in addition to it's
money returns, alfalfa is paying US
by adding fertility to the soil. A P.
Grout, an Illinois authority on alfalfa,
says: Alfalfa is like a man who Of
fers to pay you for letting him work
for you 1t works day and night,
rainy weather or dry. does more than
any other help you can hire; then, in
Middletown transcript., 1916-05-06

made of matched lumber and secured
by crosspieces as shown. In order to
hold 1t up hinged prop may
be placed in the middle This prop is
long enough to drop down on the out
side and lie parallel with the wall
without actually touching the ground.
The second or inner top may be made
to slide in a groove It consists Of a
framework covered at one end with
wire cloth and at the other with bur-
lap or cheese cloth. The advantages
of having a double top are that in
warm weather the fowls can be kept
comfortable by abundant ventilation
and in cold, wet or otherwise unpleas-
ant weather they may De completely
protected by the solid top. A COOP of
this kind can be used to advantage in
rearing chicks at range, but it is not
satisfactory for full grown fowls.
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PREVENT DISEASE IN FLOCK
Cause of Roup Can Always Be Traced
to Filth of Some Kind-keep
Houses and Yards Clean.

The fundamental cause of roup can
be always traced to filth of some kind,
which may be no fault of the owner,
since the birds may eat putrid food
at neighbor's premises, or when ex-
hibited at some poultry show.
But usually the trouble lies in the
home poultry quarters, and especial
care should be exercised to keep the
yard free from putrid food and the
house and all vessels used for feeding
and drinking purposes as clean as pos
sible at all times.
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powder can be boxed, put in dry
place and kept for long period of
time.
To apply the powder, dust the birds
thoroughly around the vent and in the
fluff under the wings. This applica-
tion should be followed by a second
in four to six days to kill the lice or
mites from the unmatched eggs or
"nits' present at the first treatment.
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NEVER HAD A CHILL

nA1EA
my little daughter, 10 years old, suffered
nearly year with chillS and fever, most OF the
time under the Doctors care. / was discour-
aged and friend advised to try Elixir
Babck. I gave it to her and she has never had
Il chill since. 1t completely cured her." Mrs.
Cyrus Helms, 302 St., N. E., Washington, D. @.
Elixir Babek so cents, all druggists or by
Parcels Post prepaid from KlOcZewski & Co.,
Washington, D. c.
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That's Different.

I'm trying to sell that house 1
bought last year, l thought it would
be an easy matter, but 1t isn't"
What made you think it would be
easy"
We'll, the agent didn't have any
trouble selling it to me-"
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Treating Ailinq Birds.

Birds affected with colds should be
closely watched and given prompt
treatment The practice at the Penn
sylvania agricultural experiment sta
tio1 is to isolate sick bird and wash
its head i'll some mild disinfGctant,
such as creosol. Simple colds may
be doctored, but contagious diseases,
like roup, when severe, leave no al
tentative but the destruction of the
afflicted hens.
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Start Purehred Flock

Elaborate preparations and much
expense are not needed to start a
purebred flock. Many a purebred
flock had a beginning in one setting
of eggs of two or three birds. The
main thing is to start.
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Rations of Idle Horse.

You can cut down somewhat on the
rations of a horse that has very little
work Give him from four to eight
pounds of ground oats and corn, fed
on chopped hay, in two meals.
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Horse Exnorts.

American breeders of the so-calIed
continental horses will probably have
to furnish stock to the French and
Belgians after the war is over. There
are great possibilities in this field.
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Grit Is Necessary.

Don't forget that sharp grit for the
hens is necessary at all times. Also
crushed shell and either charcoal or
coal cinders.
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The Eiuht-Foot Disk.

3 four-horse, eight-foct disk will or.
dinarily cover about eleven acres per
day, as compared with seven acres for
the two-horse, six-foot disk.
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New EGG Average.

Ten years ago we were demanding
that flock of hens average $50 eggs
year. Now we are striving to bring
the average to 16O a year.
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female troubles and
nervousness. l had
a pain in my right
side and could not
eat anything with.
out hur ting my
stomach. l could
not drink cold water
at all nor eat any
kind of raw fruit,
nor fresh meat nor
chicken. From 170
Do11nda 7 vzyap+ IN
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nnn,t sorimn on Feed

If the haymow or the feed bin be-
gins to run low, don't scrimp on the
feed. Better sell COW, if you have to,
in order to get more Feed.
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Proner Use Of Dynamite.

Dynamite and the stump-puller work
wonderfully well when rightfully ham
died.
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Color of Enns.

The heavy laying breeds of chickens
lay a white egg. The general purpose
breeds lay brown eggs.
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Something 70 Kick About.

1T was a great move the Russians
made in abolishing vodka"
yes" replied the man who is never
happy, "only it seems to me they have
got rid of about the only word in
their language that is easy to pro,
nounce."
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Fluent.

Your employer is quite a golf en-
tnusiast."
rs he? Well, that explains it.
was wondering where he got all those
words he handed me when asked him
for a raise"
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Time to Shin Poultry

The time to ship poultry is when the
demand is good and the market
steady.
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FITS, EPILEPSY, FAILING SICKNESS
stopped Quickly. Fifty years Of uninterrupted
success OF Dr. KIne's Epilepsy Medicine insures
lasting results. LARGE TRIAL BoTTLE FREE. DIR.
KLINE COMPANY, Red Bank n. J.-AdY.
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Happy Thought.

Happy thought! I'll get mine to
talk into a phonograph and save the
record"
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Eqqs for Hatchino.

Eggs saved for Matching purposes
should not be subjected to high or
low temperatures.
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Early-PIowed Acre,

The early-plowed acre gets the jump
for next years high-production goal.
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BEST Profits Erom Feed.

Feed sold from the farm in the form
Of butterfat sud pork brings the best
profits
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Water for Fowls.

Water for fowls must be clean, fresh
hnd available at all times.
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PuIverIze Garden Soil.

Pulverize the soil in the garden. The
deeper and finer the seedhed, the
better.
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after SIX YEARS
OF SUFFERING
Woman Made Wen byLydia
E. PinkhaEn's Vegetable
Compound.

Columbus, Ohio.-'I had almost given
up. ! had been sick for six wears with
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hot foot bath with
JOHNsON's FOOT SOAP

will relieve them at once and make life worth
living. The safe and sure remedy composed Of
the old and reliable ingredients-Borax, Iodine,
and Bran. Csc per cake at first class druggists
or sent prepaid on receipt of the price by the
manufacturers. THOMAS GILL SOAP co,
711.717 Kent Ave-. Brooklyn. N. Y.
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FARMS WANTED
Interested in Embroidery Work ?

Ask for our catalog of latest embroidery designs.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-23
Many Features
For New Show

This week bill at the Pantages
theater will have eight features
with Herbert Lloyd and his
Peaches In Pawn" as one of the
headliners. This is musical
farce in which Lloyd's comedy is
combined with singing and dane
ing by a company Of pretty girls.
Lima Regianni and Giuseppe
Vogliotti, recent stars of the
Mascagni Opera company, have a
pleasing musical act. Among the
other features will be Chinco, the
English comique and juggler;
Minnie Kaufman, worlds great
est woman cyclinst; Four Renee
Sisters in an deliberately staged
singing and dancing act: Neal
Abel in blackface comedy; Ward
and Faye in travesty. singing and
dancing. The eighth episode of
THE Crimson Stain Mystery"
will be the motion picture fea-
ture of the bill.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-23

the camps, their seasons pay in
their pockets; railroad construc-
ton men, similarity CARRIED; mi
ners come down from Alaska to
winter, dust in their pokes; sail
ors from the ships-of every race;
fishermen from the halibut
banks; professional gamblers,
Chinese, Malays and Mexicans,
remittance men, drug fiends,
thieves, wantons, beachcombers.
They milled around like stamp
eding cattle. They got very drunk.
They gambled away their money.
There were fights. Somebody was
stabbed. Somebody fired shot.
The walters formed "V" such
as we used to see in football, and
charged the milling, drunken
mob. They brought out a big
man whose face famed with al
coholic rage. | remember he had
broken nose.
They kicked him into the
street.
ITS 'Flat-face'," said a barten-
der to me. Hes always start
ing something. He's black
smith-and good one when So
ber-and he's stronger'n hell"
Fritz had added an innovation
to "Erickson's" the next time
visited 1t.
"Ericksons" had become fash
ionable. Ladies and gentlemen
from the more respectable" dis
tricts took to organizing "slum-
ming" parties.
Fritz had a special entrance
made for them. The entrance
led to balcony. From the bal
cony you could look down upon
the "rabble" drinking, gambling
roaring and fighting.
On the ground floor you drank
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-23

hands," said a visitor from the
middle west recently. "if he tries
to cross the Great White Way at
any Of the intersections from
Thirty-fourth to Columbus circle.
1.-THE who's whosers,' both in
Bohemia and society, have left
the Great White Way and like the
SHOWS of yesterday seem to have
gone forever"
Theaters Are Moving.
Even the theaters are nov
ing from the place supposed
to be sacred to them. Most
of the New York theaters are
now on side streets, between
Thirty-siyth and Forty-siyth.
The buyer from out of town no
longer eats at cabarets on Broad
way, because the pretty girl who
acted as model at the wholesale
house where he is buying, knows
that society, both grave and gay,
can only be seen off the Great
White Way.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-23
BY Fred L. Boalt.

PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 90
l have just renewed acquaint-
ance with Fritz and "Erickson's."
Fritz said to me: You amt
changed much since you were
here the last time"
said to Fritz: "You haven't
changed, either. But 'Erick-
sons has changed lot"
YES" said Fritz, 1T amt
much like the old dump, is it,"
He laughed comfortably.
"How's business?" I asked.
Never better" Fritz replied.
Prohibition pays!"
Before l tell you about "Erick-
sons" reborn as the only pro-
hibition saloon and workingman's
resort, must tell you about the
"Erickson's" / used to know.
There's new name for II
now-"Fritz's Workingman's Re-
sort"
Fritz isn't any philanthropist,
let me tell you. He's a business
man. His motto is: Get the
money!"
Fritz was getting the money"
at "Erickson's" before Oregon
went dry on Jan. 1.
The first time l visited "Erick-
sons" 1t was the biggest, tough
est saloon / ever saw. II had
three bars, one the longest in the
world.
These bars were manned by go
bartenders who worked in two
shifts, 30 in each shift. "Erick-
sons sold more beer and whisky
than all the other saloons in Port
land com bined.
There was a continuous variety
show. aid the girls worked" the
boxes.
There was wide-open gambling
faro, roulette, craps, poker,
solo, every kind.
Never have seen such a mot
ley crowd as was In "Erickson's"
that night.
There were loggers in mackin-
avs and corked boots. fresh from
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-23
The Idyl of Twin Fires
By Walter Prhard Eaton Copyright 19145 by Doubleday Page Co.
Week "shea of the Irish Brigade by Randall Parrish

tthe kitchen. The side door, on a
grape-shadowed porch, was in this
lell, facing the barn across the
way. 1t was a typical house of
the carpenter-and-builder period
of century ago.
The front door faced an aged
orchard. The orchard ran down
a slope of perhaps half an acre
to the ferny tangle of the brook
bed. The winters had racked the
poor old orchard, and great limbs
lay on the ground.
But, as | stood before the bat
| tered doorway and looked down
through the storm-racked orchard
to the brook, | had sudden VI
sion of pink trees abloom above
a lawn.
There is no need to go into de-
tail over the deal. Milt Noble
was Yankee, and so was |. But
at last we struck a bargain, and
became possessed of the house,
barns, 80 acres of land, horse
and two Jersey cows.