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a teapot test will convince you of its sterling merit let us send you a trial packet at the same price you now pay tor ordinary tea black mixed or green address salada toronto b 192 i chapter xvii contd that dont make no odds weve t t plenty left at once her revolver rang out shot j f are gn after shot until every chamber was ough tq 0 t empty it mattered little whether iqh h through she hit or missed the mam thing was u recall the men and almost be- wcre ou of m god creek qr fore she had ceased firing a horse s yi hoofs thundered through the corrals js then t h you bet its war what did they that you shooting polly take thjm rfles for th on care dont shoot any more and then for a moment there was bedlam in the darkness outside horses gal loping amongst the buildings and men running and twice the sharp me tallic ring of a rifle after that the main body of gallop ing hoofs seemed to recede towards the hills but the boss and old al rode up to the house open the door and give me a lan tern my girl they have allgone i think except two and they wont do any more harm there was a hardness in the bosss voice which mary rolt had never heard before in all the years she had known him but then she had never seen him before in the light of his blazing stacks did you see anyone when you fired he asked as soon as she had let him in i think so but i am not certain oh dick i have not killed anyone have i she cried breaking down suddenly and clinging to him steady there steady little wo man keep your nerve a bit longer youare uoinf-splendfdtyv- no you have not hit any one mores the pity where did you think you saw them i over there by the storehouse ah but they could not get in in the time lucky we tumbled to their j which way they had gone the most experienced among the trackers guess ed that they had scattered and it was possible to say where they would re unite but jim would be back said the men and then they could make up their minds what to do but jim did not come though they watched for him from hour to hous though even an ordinary rider in ordinary haste might have been back before the second night fell the dark came again and with it no jim combe neither did morning bring him and it was not until late afternoon on the fourth day that two men walked slow ly before their led horses into the corrals kitty whose impatience was de vouring her saw them come jim was smoking of course and staring about him as he slouched along without a sign of haste without a shout to tell that he had come surely never any man walked as slowly as jim combe never any man looked less like the express messenger returned he roesnt seem in a hurry said kitty and there was a world of dis appointment and bitterness in her tone she expected every one to show his excitement as she did hers i did you ever expect jim to look as if he hurried osked mrs rolt who was leaning over the girls shoulder at the window did you want jim to boil up a gallop at the finish like the driver of an irish jaunting car look at the horses they indeed told a tale of haste in the past haste of which they were no all right but i wish the women folk j longer capable and possibly any man with a view to effect might have dragged his limbs as the horses drag ged theirs jim only walked slowly and limped a little stopping to speak to one of the boys and to help him offsaddle the roan then he walked quietly to the house with the doctor not stop- the two listening heard the beat of j ping to hear much of what old al had the returning hoofs and before long to tell him a tenderfoots wooing by clive phillspps wolley author of gold gold in cariboo etc vaseline trtojtal petroleum jcdy the reliable home remedy for cuts burns insect bites and many other troubles sold in glass bottles and handy tin tubes alchemists and general stores every where refuse substi tutes illustrated booklet free on request chesebrough mfg co comolidared 1880 chabot atc montreal rolt there are more indians out than the boys think and its a vast deal more serious than i like i saw two bands coming this way on my ride to soda creek i met khelowna and im afraid he has raised the whole country side to be continued improved by rolling with an ordinary land roller in cases where the crust is forming the roller will help to pulverize it and if the land is too loose it will pack the soil more closely around the seed and assist the ger mination a great many growers roll their field three or four times after the crop starts to come up as it will never damage the beets even when two or three inches high and almost invariably improves the con dition of the soil it is particularly necessary to cultivate after each shower so as to break the surface and thus conserve the moisture this question of conserving soil moisture is a most important one for every farmer to understand to grow the ordinary crop of roots or grain re quires from 18 to 22 inches of water during the growing season the rain fall is usually about 10 to 12 inches it is necessary therefore to have stored in the subsoil a large amount of water during the winter and early spring for the use of the crop in the dry monthe of the summer any soil which is hard on top particul arly if it is inclined to crack will lose moisture very rapidly vhile in that condition the careful farmer must keep a well cultivated mulch of three or four inches on the surface to pre vent evaporation this applies both before the crop is planted as well as during the growing months the second hoeing should be done about three weeks after the thinning or when the plants are about 10 to 12 inches across the second hoeing bensons corn starch chicken croquettes creamed eees i gravies and meat sauces ealn a moat delectablerlchness and smooth ness when made with bensons our recipe book is full of practical suffeesttons lots of eood things easily prepared write for a copy to our montreal office the cauda starch co uihted montrcal drantford 219 greater profit to the manufacture and to the industry if the reader has followed us close ly he will observe that we have eh deavored to impress five points the i ft e ia a hen that will pro importance of which can scarcely be j du from p to 60 eggs in succession as a rule facts about hens and eggs while heavy laying is as 4 desirable phenomenal egg recordtfe- not a guarantee of strong rugged off spring there must be a limit the hen that lays 150 eggs in a year is doing mighty good laying and she is not so apt to break down early in life as is the one which is tryinjf to break the record pullets and yearling hens that have done such remarkable work in then first season are not so apt to do heary work in the second year extreme cold and extreme hot weather affect hens alike the regular layers give the best sized eggs whil the spasmodic layer generally produces an assortment of sizes the size of the egg becomes smaller as the hen increases the number of her product so also does the color gradually change from a dark brown to a light color towards the close of the litter there is not very strong fertility iri burned the stacks to get a show at the store there was no answer to this but over estimated 1 thorough pre- i a ru hens tnat iay steadily paration of the soil 2 shallow j cold weather are indifferent recommended in all cases where there j planting 3 early thinning 4 are any weeds and is practiced by a j frequent cultivation 5 harvest- i the culture of the sugar beet p it is rather difficult to say what is about half of the men of the ranch but he managed to take in a great best soil for the production of the reined up their lathering horses in deal in those quiet glances which kit- sugar beet since it seems to make it- i ty resented so much i self at home almost everywhere when j any one hurt were his first the soil is sufficiently rich and sub- words to al before the old man had j soil warm and dry the least suit- time to open his mouth i able soil being the very heavy clay two of them hurt badly pointing and even that can be made very good to the fresh earth none of our beet land by a generous application of folk scratched lime the safe rule is this that any didnt try to rush the ranch then and which is suitable for the pro front of the mess house did you get any of em asked al devil a hoof you got sick of the hunt mighty quick yes drawled one of the boys i aint almighty stuck on night huntin once youre over the hogs back its darker nor the ways of a provincial politician its so blanked dark it fairly drowns you after that glare and he looked towards the blazing stacks the injins kinder sunk out of sight in it we shall have tosend some one to warn the faircloughs thats done boss i sent dan hes up half way to grouse creek by now if the injines havent got him thank you al i think two of you had better come in and sleep in the house tonight just to reassure the ladies the rest of you had better seleep with your horses and there will have to be a couple on the look out all night they might try to rush us not whilst them illuminations is game just go and look at the house turned said a guesg you can al touching his arm and whispering sleep soli1 to when its dark say nothing if the missus has shot straight the old man nodded and went out in a couple of minutes he was back again for the lantern when he re turned again he handed the boss a key i thought as you alius kept that yourself boss where did you find it in the door of the store house rolt looked down at it for a mo ment the old devil he muttered jest so but how did he come to get it old mary must have stolen it from it will be different but ill see to the lookouts boss when weve put them two out of sight and he point ed to where something lay in the sha dow oft he stables it was a pity as it was kinee- shaw he added therell be no let up now until they wipe us out or some one lets daylight into old khelowna he thought a heap of kineeshaw broke the storehouse and got the j duc of suitabl f pr0 chapter xviii that night the watchers watched in vain the three and twenty stacks of good hay which should have been my room when she came begging this turrad into beef at thirty or forty afternoon dollars a head flared up and then died guess so women had ought to do down into clear red heaps of fire and their own chores i aint got no use in the white day light were nothing for injins round a ranch theyve but grey spots on the home meadow got all the rifles i they had been licked up as clean as what the mist was by the sun and left lit- all them spare rifles and three or tie more trace than the indians who four dozen boxes of cartridges i should say though some of them wont help cm much the rifles are forty- fives and half the cartridges were for your fifty hundred and ten guess we bustled em a bit or they wouldnt have made such a fool break as that whilst they were speaking mary rolt had remained unnoticed with them now her husband saw her and bade her run up stairs and tell the other two that it was all over and no harm done when she had gone master and man faced each other for some min utes in silence cant save the stacks al guns while we were at the stacks might have known that they would try that what did you all want to go to the stacks for didnt calcul ate to blow them out did you al hung his head it is dispiriting when you have a great story to tell to have it understood and sentence pronounced before you have had time to open your lips how many injuns were there about fifteen i guess more than that said the man who had not been there but he did not stop to argue or hear any more de tails he remembered the two bands which he had seen on his way to soda creek and he knew all that it was vital to know so he followed prothc- roe quietly to the house the doctors report was a good one and soon made when sober he was a capable man and anstruthers in juries however painful wcre suffi ciently simple a bundle of nerves fine bred and high strung was protheroes com ment a steer who had had the same smash up would have gone on feeding three ribs broken badly shaken up and bruised a bit of course but the ribs have knit already j you did the right thing mrs rolt these are your bandages no they are jims had lighted them these had vanished utterly two spots of fresh turned earth outside the corrals might sugest the recent presence of the chilcotens to those who knew what lay below but these and the charred railings where the stacks had stood wcre all the traces they had left from the hogs back to the black timber of the enclosing hills there was no sign of a camp fire no hint of a mans presence and one by one tho scouts sent out from the ranch came back with the same story tho in dians had been about a score in num ber and wcre not now to be seen nei ther had they left and trail to say duction of beets the better corn i land it is the better beet land it is likely to prove and whatever is the best way to prepare it for bets i we believe that the very best way to prepare a field for beets is to be- gin the previous season after a crop of wheat oats barley or clover has been harvested and plough about i three inches deep this is much bet- tor than disc harrowing or other sur- 1 face cultivating aft it is necessary to turn the stubble in order to get the best results any manure which is to be used should then be applied and the land worked several times to mix the manure thoroughly through the soil and get as much weed seed ger- minated as possible this should then be fall ploughed deeply or if spring ploughing is resorted to it should be done early enough to allow the surface to be frozen a little to in sure a good peed bed the ideal seed bed for beets in the spring is just what would be consid ered an ideal bed for wheat in the fall i o a solw bottom with a fine top this is best obtained by using only a roller and light harrow the last three or four times over your field which will tend to pack the bot tom and pulverize the top planting and thinning in planting there are two important great many good growers regardless of weeks for the extra cultivation it gives to the land the rows are ordinarily planted about 20 inches apart and the plants left 10 to 12 inches apart in the rows in very rich loamy soil where the beets are inclined to grow out of the ground they should be left closer so as to compel the roots to go down into the soil for room this will not only make a heavier crop of better quality but will also eliminate a great deal of the waste in topping harvesting it is very important to harvest the crop when it is ripe too many farmers believe that while the other crops should be harvested when they are ripe that the beets can be harvest ed at any time this idea is entire- wrong from our observations we believe it to be just as important to harvest beets when they are ripe as it is to harvest a crop of wheat oats corn or any other of the farm crops ing the crop when it is ripe cana dian farm the house fly danger best method to exterminate them is to prevent their breeding house flies are now recognized as most dangerous carriers of the germs of such diseases as tpyhoid fever in fantile diarrhoea tuberculosis etc hot weather layers the majority of eggs are laid be tween the hours of 9 oclock in the morning and 3 oclock in the after noon remember that full fed chicks ar paying chicks it pays big dividends to hurry their growth the use of sulphur on chickens we cannot give too emphatic warning against sulphur which is ji very commonly recommended remedy for the control of the lice on chickens from filth and decaying materials d its use usually leads to dig- they carry infection to the home and j astrous resuug a many j to the food which we eat i used sulphur and lard a seeming the best method to vsjasaj fles is to prevent their breeding been wegted from th houseflies breed in decaying or de- lousy mother not knowing in just composing vegetable and animal mafei f 5 j t o ui r what proportion to make this mix- ter and in excrement stable refuse i j i n t ti t ture the novice has added enough is especially attractive to them in 1 i sulphur to make it yellow feeling sure cities this should be stored m dark 1 x a it would be effective it is the effecr tiveness of this prparation that leads to such bad results for the sulphur soon begins to burn the tender skirl of the chicken making sores that sel- dom heal and it is often the case flyproof receptables and should be regularly removed within six days in summer farm manure shuld also be removed within the same time and win u 0 i v r cither spread on the fields or stored if not harvested they trehkely to distance of not less than quart- fvom onequarter totneiavthe take a second growth by which they j ermde from j house dwelling j young j thug treatcd g from two to ten days after the applu cation is made it is much better to use the lard sweet oil or blue ointment but never not only lose heavily in weight but j manure piles may be also deteriorate considerably in sugar i borax using threefifths of treated with pound in this i every to cubic feet of manure about 140 days to mature the crop scatter the dry borax principal dy the general appearance of the field around the sides and edges of the pile should tell the experienced grower and wash in with water when the crop is ripe the tops will i kitchen refuse is a favorite breed- flatten down so as to run the rain ing p ace for flies and great care awav from the roots and about one- should be taken to keep garbage cans third of the lower leaves will turn tightly covered of a golden brown shade if there the contents should be buried or burnt at once if possi- should be any doubt it can be deter- me no refuse should be left expos- mined by pulling a few beets when cannot be disposed of at learof fibres it is a sure once it should be sprinkled with if they are indication that the roots are not tak ing anything more from the soil and should be harvested at once if the roots are not being delivered prompt ly after protected above or with borax as described chlride of lime windows and doors should be screened to keep flies out of the harvesting they should be i house milk and other foods shuld be from the sun and frost by j covered with muslin or other netting subject young chickens to the danger of burns from the use of such an ac tive agent as sulphur burns and subsequent sores should be guarded against as much as possible for more harm will arise from these than from the work of the lice storrs experi ment station the piles with leaves but j j is especially important to keep every effort should be made to get them to the factory at the earliest possible moment after taking from the ground a3 they will then work up to much better advantage and with flies out of sick rooms and to prevent the spread of disease by this means new zealand has an annual death rate of less than 1 per cent of course i ought to have known points to be remembered the first jims packing effective but a trifle severe here let me loosen them a little and his deft fingers which were as delicate as a womans and as strong as a mans played about an- struther with astonishing rapidity thats better isnt it anstrulher sighed yes i can move now i think without fainting but you must not at least not much jim was on the right tracli is to use plenty of seed and the other to plant very shallow in a series of j experiments covering 5 years con ducted at the experimental farm at guelph il was found that beets planted half an inch deep averaged more than 20 tons per acre those planted one inch deep yielded about 19 tons those planted one and a half inches deep yielded only 18 tons and that each half inch added to the depth three vital questions are you fall of enery vital force and general cood health do yon know lhat good digestion is the foundauon ot fiood hcallh paini and op- preaslon in stomach and chest after catinfi with conitipntion headache dizzineit are turo tuna of indiseation nf other scidelt syrup the tfrcat herbal remedy and tonic will cure you after meals take at all drufiifhts or direct on receipt of price 50c and 100 the larfie bottle contains three times as much as the smaller a j white co limited crali street west montreal but he certainly did not give you much of planting deducted very materially play you dont drink much do i from the crop until the beets planted you four inches deep yielded only about no not much four tons per acre and youre not twentyfive lord we believe that early in tho soa- lord what could hurt a man who son while the soil moisture is close to doesnt drink and isnt twentyfive j the surface that half inch is the best your case was not worth the ride but i depth later in the season when the you ivill like its fine granulation buy your sugar in these neat 2 or 5lb cartons which you can place directly on your pantry shelves just cut off the corner and pour out the sugay as you need it earitic extra quality j granulated comes also in 10 and 20lb bags for house wives who likmo buy in larger quantities hie ailpurpose sugar 1 5lb cartons i0 and 20lb bags perhaps we may have others he add ed cheerfully now that old khelowna has broken out as soon as the doctors insepction was over a council of war was held in the diningroom whilst jim and the doctor cut themselves vast chunks from the boiled salted beef on the table pity that the boys did not over haul some of them said jim yes it would have saved a hull lot of trouble agreed al we could have given them their medicine right there now weve got to take it to them th lgjflig you think that wo cant afford to leave things as they are asked rolt i dont think about it i haint knowed injuns sinco i growed grass high for nothing when injuns start on a racket of this kind theyve got to be wiped out or theyll como back like chickens to a doughnut aint that so jim but jim was busy eating anil listen ing ho was not much of a gns bag any way the men said but at last oven his appetite was appeased and he turned from tho men to the boss im afraid that it has got to be soil moisture is not quite so near the surface and the soil is warm a lit tle further down it is often advisable to plant one inch deep but never un der any circumstances should beets be planted more than 1 vi inches deep i in using a beet drill there is not like ly to be much trouble but with a grain drill deep planting must con stantly be guarded against the beets should be cultivated as soon as the rows can be followed about a week later they should be cultivated again and the thinning should be done immediately after tho second cultivation at this time the plants should stand about 1 inches high if tho thinning is dclayod at this time the growth goes into a great many beets which should go into one and the crop is likely to suffer according ly in addition to this it is much more difficult and expensive to thin tho crop when it gets larger after thinning the beets should fce cultivat ed about once ach vyeejs unju they fill tw rpjm w jhe jroys pre plant ed about 20 inches apart this should be from to g wiejtj ffter thinning duatlr if the crop doatiwt come up as quickly as ekpectcd it can often be syrup and banish stomach troubles for dustesnraer ssysa sesrs w n natttnttat petteb sure euro and preventive no matter how horses at any age aro afflicted or exposed liquid glvon on the tongue aots on the blocd and glands expels the poisonous germs from the body cures distemper in dogs and sheep and cholera in poultry largest sell ing live stock remedy cures la grippe smong human beings and is a flno kidney remedy by the dottlo or dozon cut this out keep it show to your druggist who will get it for you free booklet distemper causes ana cures special agents wanted sfohit medxcax co chemists and bacteriologists goshen xnd t8a cure of gapes gapes is a disease caused by thread like worms in the windpipe it is much akin to husk in calves and is picked up off the grass in the same way death results from exhaus tion consequent upon coughing ex cessive mucus and loss of blood through irritation of the membranes not all gaping means gapes the symptoms besides gaping are sneez ing stretching the neck in a sleepy moping way discharge of mucus wings carried low and eyes closed lime and camphor dust arc used by being blown into a box in which the chicks are placed a tablespoonful of tincture of asafoetida to a quart of drinking water has been tried with good effect thirty drops of spirit of camphor poured on to loaf sugar which is then dissolved in a pint of water has given satisfactory results a bulletproof coat innocently tested by a gentleman as to its merits a personal friend of mine writes a correspondent of the manchester guardian had an amazing experience with bulletproof armor when he was in paris at the beginning of the war a fluent french inventor per suaded him to give him an opportun ity to demonstrate in england a thin chainarmor shirt which he said would resist any bullet or bayonet a sample shirt had bedn hung up and fired at with satisfactory results but it was with some skepticism that my friend attended the official demonstra tion however to oblige the inventor he put on one of the shirts to show its comfort and flexibility it was then that the inventor achieved a dramatic effect for he whipped out an auto matic pistol and blazed away straight at my friends chest fortunately tho armor proved successful before he had received enough breath even to protest a war office official grasped him warmly by the hand sir he said you are a bravo man my friend disappeared with becom ing modesty something lovely he cant you find anything plcas ing to say about the immhin of my family she well i remcinber thoy were all opposed to our marrwgu m i