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jill of the fields g a romance 5 by kennaway james fe i motherless jill merridew becomes on the death of her father owner of a farm she counts on mark hanson head man to assist her in the management mark resents remarks made by phillip barbour who professes to be investigat ing the history of old county families on returning to london barbour meets two foreigners the reason for his in terest proves to be a chemical fertiliser discovered by jills father which he hud not made known to jih on returning to the farm phillio finds jill upset over mark hanson who had declared his love for her barbour com forts jill and old george tells mark of barbours attentions mark quairels with jill but is interrupted by the news that n body of a man has been found in one of the wheat fields jill realizes that mark and barbour will clash eventually chapter viii yes she would appeal to marks bet ter nature even in these difficult cir cumstances to keep the peace she little knew that mark had al ready decided to do nothing of the kind the more he thought of the matter the more he saw that it was going to be impossible for him to con tinue at stone town that being so he did not intend to leave without getting a little of his own back from this man who had so unexpectedly and so inconsiderately walked across his path his pugnacity was as elemental as that of a stag in autumn ill get even with that flashy fellow j before ive done if the police dont do it for me he said to hiniself i wsh that old devil george would let me know whats in his mind he knows something but george was not yet in a com municative mood as mark discovered when a little later he tried again to get the old man to speak you must leave it all to me mas- trhanson he said i know what im adoing theyre after summat and i know what it is who are thgy a lo of em said george that man found dead in the field was one of em and you see what he got who gave it to him asked mark ah that would be telling again said old george with a quiet cackle through his whiskers dead men tell 710 tales and live ones have got to be careful anyhow there he was in the field at a time when honest men should be abed and rogues has no business out you were pretty late yourself mark could not resist saying as he thought of georges spying through the window of stone town ah but you see i had been out after an are oh confound you and your hares mark exclaimed half laughing what about that tobaccobox of yours that was found under the body thats what id like to know why youd think that ossifer thought id killed the poor ihap myself and him coming all the way from foreign parts too mark gave a gasp of astonishment dyou mean to say you know what the man was he asked george synopsis got a good idea said george but it dont do for ne to say anything that inspector will find it all out for you if you leave him alone- clever chap that i wonder if hes as clever as you said mark it seems to me that you are holding back a great deal and i canc understand why you said you dont need money and ive told you you can get as many hares as you like so far as im concerned and ive told you that you have a duty to miss jill how can i persuade you to put your cards on the table why cant you go and toll miss merridew about it at once because shes too concerned about other things like that mr barber said george with a slight touch of malice leave him out said mark see ill tell you vhat iil do if youll tell miss jill what you know ill give up my cottage so that you can have it for the rest of your days i know youve always wanted it a definite glimmer of interest show ed on georges face well as i told you before master hanson he said theres hardly any kind o bribe i could take being an old man and wanting nothing but your cottage do interest me but what would you do yourself you got to live somewhere near the farm and im mortal sure you wouldnt live in mine with all them rats in the thatch and the rain comin through oh ive got somewhere else mind you wouldnt need to worry about me ah right then said george ill think it over and let you know and dont get thinking too much about that baccabox i can look after myself when it comes to that so saying old george hobbled away and hes got mother place where he can live has he he muttered oo himself njw i wonder what that means it means hes not going to stay here nuch longer in a way i dont blame him shes gone and took up with that mr barbour and the farms become more like a circus than a farm what with one- thing and an other but it wont do for him to go farms going down as it is and hes the only chap who can pull it round and as for mr barbour well that little affair wont last long if i know anything about it whod think a frimula could causa all this trouble burglaries murders and broken hearts and certainly it was the formula frimula george called it which was at the root of all the troubles which had of late befallen stone town with the exception of the decline of the farm even that had been accentuate ed since mr b rbour had come and had distracted the already overoccu pied mind of mark hanson it had beei enough for mark to love jill without a rival with a rival as he put it his brain was running on one jsylinder and that boded ill for stone town i could strangle that old rascal he said as he watched georges re treating figure if i didnt know that he had been old jasper merridews greatest confidant i should think he was a mass of pretence and if- only i could find out what is among jas- per3 ptpers myself there mightbe a chance of solving all these happen ings that barbour is after some thing is clear and it looks as though the wan in scarecrows clothes was after the same thing unless he was one barbours crowd and theres jill gone and fallen in love with him what a mess the wish that he knew of the quest of phillip barbour and perhaps others led his mind into a channel which alarmci him why should he not at tempt to look over old jaspers pa pers it was in impulse which he thrust away at oiee but it was one which he felt certain would return whilst mark nd george had been talking barbour had been speaking with inspector norton when phillip had left jill with his reassuring words he had gone to the- door where the inspector was awaiting him jill had not taken his reassurance too seriously and was filled with appre hension she went quickly to a win dow which overlooked the farmyard and the meadows where norton seem ed to be doing most of his crossexam ination from here she was able to watch barbour and the inspector as they talked the conversation did not take long and jill was astonished to see th inspector smiling a the end of it she had not thought him capable of n smile presently after he had chatted little with the inspector jill saw phil lip returning to the house and found herself running eagerly downstairs to meet him he entered the house al most with a touch of bravado weve soon put that little matter right he said airily as jill led the way into the old farm kitchen 1 dont think he will want to ask me any more questions but of course the chap is only doing his duty exquisite quality green tea also in black and mixed the dominion coasttocoast charloltelown prince edward is land mr v l brcnton provincial dairy superintendent states that in 1933 twentyone creameries thirteen cheeso factories four pasteurizing plants and fortytwo ice cream manu facturing plants were in operation in prince edward island the dairy in dustry of the province he says show ed progress over the previous year saint john new brunswick ad dressing the rotary club at saint john mr alex gray general man ager and chief engineer of the saint john harbour commission said that about 15000000 had been spent on harbour development since 1927 and that plans for further expansion in the near future were being studied quebec que more than a quarter of the canadian creamery butter pro duction in 1933 was contributed to quebec province the output amount ing to 02238000 pounds out ot a dominion total ot 215917334 pounds ottawa ont during the last five years the mandarin variety of soy beans has never failed to mature its seed crop at the central experimental farm ottawa according to an official report it is the earliest available yes only he neednt do it in quite i yellow seeded variety and matures on what por over 50 years royal yeast cakes have been the standard x f of fine quality today they are pre- y i f erred in 7 out of every 8 canadian f 1 homes where dry yeast is used in home baking individually sealed in airtight waxed paper they stay absolutely fresh for months you can be sure of full leavening power cvery time you bake with them free the royal yeast bake book to use when you bake at home 2j letted tccipei lof breads rolls bunt coffee- cakes 1 address standard brands ltd fraser ave liberty st toronto oct ask too for leaflet the roytl road to better health buy madeincanada goods such an obnoxious manner questions did he ask you oh just wanted to know what i was doing up here and what was my interest in stone town of course i told him of the book i was writing about the old farms of ungland and how it necessitated my seeing various documents in old farms 1 want you to tell me more about that book some time said jill her old doubts about the existence of such a book had gone she accepted bar bours occasional reference to it read- ily yes ill tell you more about it later meanwhile i am rather held up until you kindly allow- me to look through your fathers papers when will you let me do that oh quite soon she replied lot lis get a few of these troubles out of the way listen thats the doorbell again i shudder every time it rings a moment later mrs blore knocked on the door and entered another of those newspaper men she said oh bother exclaimed jill it seems as though i shall never have any peace again very well ask him to wait no tel him to go put in barbour sternly yoj are too kind to those fellows i cant have you worried like this mrs blore looked from one to the other in surprise and perplexity all right then tell him to go she said meekly not without some aston ishment at the manner in which she was capitulating to barbour had she known it barbour at the moment was playing a desperate game he had a definite feeling thai others besides hinseif were after the formula and he had fears that he might lose it after all he must do something to make his chances as cer tain as possible and thebest thing seemed to be to carry his friendship with jill to a more definite status he had thought it over very thoroughly and had arrived at the conclusion that to marry jill would be a sweet and easy way out of hi difficulties he was partly in love with her or so he imagined and she was the owner of one of the finest farms in england whai more could a man want when mrs blore had gone he strok ed her tenderly on the shoulder poor little woman he said you are having a rough time youve no idea how sorry i was for you last night to be- continued resourceful man there are many ways of aiding prosperitys return and of furthering onos own business and a lucan baiter shows himself a man ot resources recently being in need of a borac to carry on his business successfully and being a llttlo shy of tho medium ot exchange he found a man who was willing to exchange a horse for a bakers products and lie bartered 400 loaves of the staff of llfo for tho animal the payment is to be made in installments as needed by tho party of tho other part clinton nowsrccord issue no 934 the average in 120 days five years ago twenty bushels per acre was a good average yield but during the last two seasons the yield of a selects ed strain has been well over thirty bushels this showing indicates the possibilities for improvement in the crop winnipeg manitoba preliminary studies carried out by the canadian society of technical agriculturists on tho malting quality of barley at the manitoba barley research labor atory on grain grown by the do minion experimental farms show wiat taking canada as a whoe prince edward island would produce tho best barley and that the other east ern provinces would do fairly well in british columbia the quality is variable depending upon the soil and climatic conditions o the different valleys on the prairies manitoba produces the best quality although fair quality can be grown in tho northern sections of saskacthewan and alberta in manitoba the east ern and northern parts give the best results regina saskatchewan in decem ber last cream graded higher in sas katchewan x in the previous de cember being 734 per cent table or best grade compared with 490 per cent in december 1932 the per centage of table cream throughout the year was 542 compared with 522 in 1932 levhbridge alberta canadian sugar factories raymond have finished one of tho best seasons on record the plant having run for 112 days slicing an average of 1175 tons of beets per day the record day see ing 1359 tons passed through the mill and turning out a total of 40- 000000 pounds of refined sugar from 131000 tons of beets the sugar content of the beets was high aver aging 1s40 per cent calgary alberta phenomenal growth in herds and in production of jersey cattlo and milk in alberta dur ing tho past year were reported at the annual meeting of the southern alberta jersey cattle club by mr w t hunter vernon western field representative of the canadian jer sey cattle club he referred to a marked increase in demand for jer sey milk not only in western canada but throughout the dominion dur ing tho past eighteen months mr hunter said 300 jersey cows were brought into edmonton and calgary districts most of them from british columbia alberta now ranks fourth in the dominion in total registration and transfers of jcney cattle on tario quebec and british columbia leading in that order victoria british columbia british columbias agricultural products were worth 34466000 in 1933 a slight gain over tho 1932 flguro of 34373- 926 according to a yearend estimate released by hon k c macdonald minister of agriculture in addition it is estimated that home growers pro duced about 1000000 worth of fruits and vegetables in their gardens cheese problems are reviewed industry first established in 1864 gradual decline noted tho problems facing the cheese in dustry in ontario today are many says the economic annalist issued quarterly by tho agricultural econ omics branch dominion department of agriculture perhaps the most im portant ono affecting production costs is the declining volume of business in 1s64 tho 1st cheeso factory is re ported to have been established in ox ford county ontario from then on a rapid development took place in tho industry until early in this century sinco 190004 period there has been a gradual decline in production of cheese in ontario and in fact through out the whole dominion in 1931 ontario had 714 factories in which were produced slightly over s4 million pounds of cheese this figure repre sents a decrease of 364per cent as compared to a production of nearly 132 million pounds in the year 1900 with tho development of large ur ban centres and increased demand for milk for fluid consumption and for use in the manufacture of other dairy pro ducts the production of cheese de clined paralleling this development came improved means of transporta tion better roads and more suitable means of handling milk the net effect of this combination of circumstances being increased competition and de clining volume of business for cheese factories it has been difficult for operators of these cheese factories to cope with these changed conditions and thus compete with the users of milk gives his paper scoop on suicide copenhagen denmark c a arn- fast was a newspaper man ills life was ruled by tho clock his newspaper the aarhuspostcn went on the streets at noon every day and news had to be written set into type and printed beforo that hour last week tho aarhusposten had a scoop the exclusive story of arn- fasts suicide at 0 am just in time to make the edition tho story of his death was writ ten by arnfast himself in a not to a fellow reporter i have shot myself i am no joy nor of sufficient use to anybody in these hard times when it is difficult to earn a decent living honestly it is now c oclock my old paper thus getting the news of my suicide exclusively a considerable nugget melbourne australia standard gold to the weight of 709 ounces and 150 value was contained in a nugget found near a footpath at sea lake recently regravelled from a neii- boring pit etkaymore i atlantic city the preeminent hotel achievement the safe t0edyceweijhj is moderate living arid once or twice a week a sparkling glass of wmmm liver salt to ensure complete elimination new large bottle 7s says 50 per cent canadas people are nonbritish plan to create permanent em pire development com mittee talked out in house london recommendation of sir assheton pownall that a standing committee representing the whole em pire be established to promote empire development was talked out last weefc in tho house of commons the proposal was seconded by d g somerville who declared there were cooooo foreigners settled in canada and asked why britons might not have jrono there instead he was supported in this stand by hamilton v kerr who hciu 50 per cent of canada9 population was nonbritish malcolm macdonald son of the prime minister and undersecretary for dominion affairs emphasized what he said was a need for empire cooperation he declared agreement of all the empire governments would be necessary before sir asshetons suggestion could bo made effective and recalled the fate of the defunct empire marketing board as an indi cation there was little hope of such agreement mr macdonald recalled that the ottawa economic conference had not adopted such a recommendation is golf too slow for some little time past the golf professionals have been debating vari- ous proposed changes in the game with the object of speeding it up the modern craze for speed has at last swept them along with its flood and the result is that the royal and an cient sport is threatened with pro posals that will sound very like sacri lege to the golf devotee who has held the rules that have governed golf for long years as something not to be lightly tampered with if indeed alter ed at all save in minor detail to suit local conditions or requirements leo diegel four times holder ot the canadian open championship whose lengthy surveys ot the greens when he is putting have become a matter of history is the leader in the revolt against the slowness of the game something he says is radically wrong it has reached a point in golf competi tion when the field stretches out like a slow movie parade with no particu lar objective except to sh w off the uniforms of the procession well we might agree with mr die- gel as to the uniforms some of the professionals appear to be under the impression that they are entering a coloured hosiery competition not a golf match but as for he rest sure ly it is up to the playes themselves nobody spends more time in survey ing a lie than the average profes sional tlie general complain is that the average amateur takes too little time he is always being warned by the pro to take your time dont hurry this looks like a case ot practising what they do not preach but the amateur golfer is hardly likely to worry about that to him there are other features about golf than merely cutting jowu his handicap one of them is 3 delightful leisurcliness once that is taken out ot golf it will lose half its attractiveness for tho great majority can we ot havo one sport left which has not bowed down in crazy worship to the modern demon ot speed montreal daily star heres that quick way to stop a cold 4m a 1 a- take 2 aspirin tablets drink full glass of water repeat treatment in 2 hours f throat is sore crush and dissolve 3 aspirin tablets in a half glass of water and gargle according to directions in box almost instant relief in this way eggs wanted we pay top prices for egos write for our weekly quotations whyte packing co 7880 front st east toronto thcsimplc method pictured above is the way doctors throughout the world now treat colds it is recognized as the quick est safest surest way to treat a cold for it will check an ordi nary cold almost as fast as you caught it ask your doctor about this and when you buy sec that you get aspirin tablets aspirin is the trademark of the bayer com pany limited and the name bayer in the form of a cross is on each tablet they dissolve almost does not harm the heart instantly and thus work almost instantly when you take them and for a gargle aspirin tablets dissolve so completely they leave no irritating panicles gel a box of 12 tablets or a bottle of 21 or 100 at any drug store amptnih tamcts am maoc w canada may grow tobacco but not cut it up windsor tobacco manufacturing may be a good business but its no job for an amateur that became clear following examination of chapter 60 rovised statutes of canada 1927 chapter 00 pertains to the excise act and its enforcement it may be strange but none the less true that farmer can grow tobacco in a field but cannot process it into to bacco for his own use by running it through a cutting machine and press theres a law against it section 12 of the chapter says in effect no person unless licensed shall carry on the business or trade of tobacco manufacturer or uso any utensil machinery or apparatus for the carrying on of such trade or busl- ness section 55 is a clause stipulating that all tobacco intended for commer cial uso shall bo placed in bonded warehouses section 102 says in part every person carrying on any business sub ject to excise or having in his pos session or in his premises any ma chinery tools utensils apparatus or appliances suitablo for carrying on any business subject to excise who makes use of a tobacco press or cut ting machine not reported to a proper officer or for tho use of which no license has been taken out shall bo llablo to a penalty for tho first offence not exceeding 500 nor less than 200 for each subsequent offence the penalty is 500 and for any oftcnce first or subsequent provision is made for a further penalty of 100 for each day offence was committed threo men who appeared recently in east windsor police court wcro charged simply with manufacturing tobacco without a license ono ot tho accused at whoso home machines for cutting tobacco were found was fined i 50 and costs with the alternative ot one month in jail the other two were fined 23 and costs or ten days