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THURSDAY. Ot‘TOBER 5th, 1933 THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO PAGE SIX =;=SI . ND INFORMATION FOR THE BUSY FARMER thing weird in the silent way that: A load disappeared-â€"perhaps tllere was water in the hole. very close to the top. Ruth took a step forward, just C 1 h “50 minim . a a as . . t as a sudden rear 01 sound belched; an t . . . from the blmkm,“ ghe Qtw,mwd_.acres of land Sllltilbk‘ tor farming the trash had iust struck bottom. illumoges .3“ 0f lhls .thal N,” “in- On Thinâ€"[EITr‘ManM-h Ann 1001‘ 1‘,“ hn “It fink noth lllons are in occupied tarms of which 3 c h * . ’e( c L '. c â€" about 1st, 102%]. which l‘i‘}ll‘(‘5{"l’lt> a reduc- tion of lti per cent. . Joy/v 134.2 .‘4 U; FIFTH INS'l‘ALMENT Vl'ather and mother lay on their backs. SYNOPSIS . . . . Rmh Vial-ion, liringlthcil‘ hands clasped above David'sl in the East, comes into possession ot‘lhcad. I threeâ€"quarter interest in an Arizona. The stillness was stifling. Finallyl ranch, left to her in the will of her the hand of her husband gradually} only brother, reported to have diedlrelaxcd. How could he possibly sleep ‘3 While on business in Mexico. \VithlPoor Kennyâ€"so terribly tired. Shel her ailing husband and small child‘ lowered her eyes from their upwardl she goes to Arizona to take possesâ€"Istare and looked at the window. It sion, thinking the climate may prove was no longer a black hole but at beneficial to her husband’s weakened‘patch of lightâ€"as though the moon lungs- AI‘I‘iVing‘ at the nearest town, were shining. l she learns that the ranch, “Dead Carefully, she got to her knees and! Lantern,” is 85 miles across the deg- worked her way to the foot of the} ert. Charley Thane, old rancher and bed. Thus kneeling, she could rest rural mail carrier, agrees to take her elbows on the sill and look out them to “Dead Lantern” gate, which into the flight- was 5 miles from the ranch house. l A sound, a Single squeak 01' a metal As they wearily walked past a 'lluge lt‘Dl‘ing‘, instim‘tlvely brought hel‘ eyes from sight. The minutes passedâ€"two l ten, or a hundred, the girl could notl echoing clank among the clump of overshadowing boulder in a gulch inito the back door of the ranch house. naver and Indian Ann are the only 1 slowly toward the ancient adobe and NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY lwent toward a mound of earth heavily ’Course with Ann it's different,” |hadl reached the clump of bushes through the gulchâ€"Jout just the same The three sat silent. Soon the bushes. A moment later, Snavely reâ€" and girl saw the giant woman tow- . empty. This time he opened the door coming to the ranch house, a voice , Some one was standing there; some whispered “Go back! Go backflone had just come softly out. Breath- hieir reception is cool and suSpicious. less, She WatChed- The figure mOVed occupants. They hear the legion of; stopped. She knew that it wasl the gulch. ISnavely. After a moment he turned lslightly and, walking with quiet steps No. Ycu understand I don’t beliéve covered with bushes. This mound wasl there’s anything to itâ€"it’s jest an i nearly opposite the girl’s window and echo or some noise, that‘s all_ 5 about a hundred feet away. When he I “How do you mean?” 'Snavely paused and seemed again to] Well, sher superstitious clean‘ be looking at the adobe. She saw thati through. She’s scared to death to go he had a bundle under his arm. Sud- s-he dasn’t go around it. She thinks the voice tol’ her never to avoid it in case it wants to tell her anything.” slightest of noises came from behind them and at the same instant Snavely appeared and Walked _50ftly baCk ‘50 raised his eyes. Turning, the man the ranCh house- HIS hands were ering above them. Snavely, alone, I in such a way that it did not squeak. was not startled by her silent ap-: pearance. have told. Then she heard a hollow, adobe reluctantly. .‘ Suddenly he stooped low and peared from sight. disap canvas chair, lazily improvising on his guitar. Little David was tremen- dously busy making things with the small acorns which covered the shad- ed ground. Often Ruth glanced toward the oak denly he stooped low and disappeared ,tmey and once she had gone part way‘ over and shouted to Warren to watch out for snakes. She returned to the She rather felt that she also should be under that tree. Anyway, the adobe looked quite clean and pleasant compared with its appearance the evening before. Only last evening? Ruth could hardly be- By mid-afternoon of the next day]lieve that She had “M yet been She nodded t0 Warren-'RUâ€"th COUId hardly Stand‘ All mom"ltwenty-four hours on the ranch; it “Your trunk 311' things is in Yourliilg’ and for three hours Since lunchlseemed a month. Well, the cleaning room «she and Ann had been cleaning out Ruth stood up at once and gath_ltlle two rooms in the old adobe. ered her sleeping son in het- amms. In spite of Ruth’s exhaustion sh “Thâ€"hank you so much_1_we’11 be had done very little actual work. 0 going to bed now, I guess.” lthe entire two floors she was on n them the man and wife stood in the center of the room. The yellow light from the oil lamp shone upon the walls of earth, mellow and dim. “What do you think of him?” ask- ed Warren, glancing suddenly into Ruth’s eyes. “I don’t know,” said Ruth slowly. “Did you notice that look on his face when he Was talking about peoâ€" ple? Not what you’d call a social animal.” “He hates usâ€"he hates every hu- man being!” developed puffy The h white ’hands mounds. extremely tender. scrolls of earth untiringly. bravery in attempting to do any work whatever, but as a matter of plain fact she was afraid to do anything else. That morning at breakfast she can, if you need help.” All day this reply had rankled. She Warren said nothing for a t§.me,~,told herself that Ann was merely a the lid was dropped. then, “We’d better go to bed, I guess" ' servant employed on the ranch and Ruth nodded. that Snavely’s interest in the ranch One of the canvas cots Ann had '; was only one-quarter. Yet, while placed near the glassless window; this was in some ways a comforting another, close by, was probably 111-. reflection, it could not put from her tended for David. The third cot was mind those Paley jerking eyes. i! , _ lylSnavely suggesting that sh The old adobe seemed very huge able to scrape an area whlch might; and dismal. With no word betWeen , ha“? been covered by the “111011 bath-l tub before the palms of her very; red} had asked if Ann could help her, andl Snavely had replied, “I reckon she to in the rear room. When the man andl Warren and David were spending was over. She supposed that a storm would come in a few days and the whole place would fall down. In such an event she could imagine e move her family into the barnâ€"after clean ing it out. Since rising that mnnin'g, she had wondered constantly what Snavely , , 08 had been doing the night before. But m Ann’s huge hands upped up long she had not gone to the bushes to investigate, she had not mentioned MuCh migm be said for Ruth’s the incident to her husband, and she had not the remotest intention of asking Snavely. And, just as she told herself that the voice in the gulch was an echo, she told’ herself that Snavely was probably attending some neglected ranch choreâ€" well, such as putting something away in a box which made a clank when Ruth did not know what she thought about Ann. The giantess both fas- cinated and frightened her. She was fascinated by the skill with which Anln d'rove nails and she was fright- ened when the woman bent her back and tossed aside a huge chunk of l girl had finiShed their preparations the day under a great live oak which the three cots- were so close together stood on the western bank of the that there seemed to be only a single 1 gulch and was visible from the door- broad bed made up in three sections, way of the old adobe. It was a beauti- So hot Was the night that covering ful tree, its Wealth of shade madeI was impossible. With David between even more inviting by the cool green them and the lamp extinguished the of .its leaves’. Warren lay back in a WINNIPEG. 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Several times Ruth had tried to start friendly talk with Ann but with no success. The giantess had not once smiled; she did her work like a relentless machine, but a machine with thoughts of its own. From the corner of her eye she saw Ann loading trash from a pile near the door into a wheelbarrow. She stepped to the threshold and asked casually, “What in the world shall we do with all that stuff, Ann? It won’t burn; that’s certain.” Ann grunted and lifted the wheel- barrow. Ruth fell into step beside her as the giantess wheeled her load toward the clump of bushes beyond the woodpile. “You know, Ann, we ought to have a regular place for putting trashâ€"something out of sight where we could put things we didn’t want to see any more.” Ann said nothing. “I’ve often wished I had a place where I could put things, I’ve done that I shouldn‘t have done.” The haughty cast of Ann’s featrues sof- tened; she looked into the girl’s eyes and nodded slightly. Inside the encircling fringe of un- (lerbrush a half a dozen s‘un-bleached planks lay upon the ground. Ann turned back the nearest of these dis- She tipped the wheelbarrow and the trash slid from sight. Ruth caught her breath withâ€" out knowing whyâ€"there was some- in'gjcst, an oi' well we throw stuff} inimH “llowrihow deep is it?" “Way dcpia hundred feet. reckon. The folks what built the 'dobe digged it years ago. But they never found no water jes’ hcre'bouts" The girl shivcrcd. Something in Ann’s face caused her to turn quickly â€"Snavely was coming through the bushes. Ilis pale eyes glinted danger ously. “Now, Ann,“â€"hc spoke in a high voiccefi‘d think you’d better be tend- in’ to the milkin’. You best finish to butcher this evenin’ too.” Ann left at once. After a moment in which he stood as though half stupefied, Snavely smiled on the girl. “Ann’d rather do most anything than milkAseems to me. She don't know how lucky she is to have somethin’ to milkâ€"it ain’t every cattle ranch that’s got a milk cow.” As he was speaking he walked away from the well and Ruth followed. “I got that Jersey for milkâ€"solely for milkâ€" traded a long yearlin’ beef for her to a Mexican who was gom’ to slaugh- ter her . Besides,” he smiled again and stopped beyond the bushes, “we‘ve got good milk for our victuals.” “Oh, I see. It seems like good business to have a milk cow, then. Mr. Snavely, about that wellâ€"” “You’re dead right it’s good busi- ness. I told Grey that when we first started up. While he was puttin’ in a new windmill, and the tank, and the ce-ment water troughs I looks around and got hold of that Jerseyâ€"she's already paid for herself in the poor little weak calves she’s nursed.” They were passing the woodpile land Snavely stooped to pick up the axe. f‘I come up here for thisâ€"me and Ann’re goin’ to butcher. We need meat. Can’t keep it more’n a couple of days in this weather, but Ann’ll jerk a lot of it. But we’ll have fresh meat for supper.” He smiled. “‘Don’t reckon you ever had a chance to eat beef 3. half hour after it was killed. You want to come down to the corral and watch us butcher?” “Noâ€"no, thank you. Mr. Snavely, please fence that horrible well! I won’t let David out of my sight until you do. And when you begin I’ll get him out of the wayâ€"I don’t want him to know about it or be curious. He must never go into those bushes. Pou‘ll fence it right away won’t you? Please,” Snavely nodded. “That’s a good idea, Mrs. Warren. I’ll attend to it r [SM-ERIE! $.31 h A “4 Somethihg in to turn The girl shivered. Ann’s caused her quickly. face myself to-morrowâ€"we never expect- ed to have kids on the place and just throwed loose boards over it to keep the stock out. But I’ll fence it sure.’ “Make a very strong fenceâ€"one David can’t get through or over. Couldn’t you use boarldks, These barbed wire fences look so insecure.” Something terrible flashed into Snavely’s face. ‘Barbed wire’â€"he spat the wordsâ€"“ain’t goin’ to be used for nothin’ on this place! What wire is here can stay but by God I ain’t never touched it an’ I ain‘t never going to!” “Wellâ€"Iâ€"I’m glad you will use boards, Mr. Snavely,” said Ruth unâ€" certainly, and left him. That evening when the girl and her family went into the ranch house for supper, they were sorry to see that Ann had a long cut on her cheek Snavely explained that she had done it on the catch of the kitchen cup- board. (Continued Next Week) " l l WE HAVE'the best cut hard wood you could find. So clean and sound with the cleanin‘ to-morrow. We got‘ .cultivated state all winter, but ridg- nearlv 86 million acres are improwdl l'j-‘I’k‘l'lmt‘ms calmed “m 091‘ 3- 1am]: 'period of eight years by the Domin- ion Experimental Farm. Ottawa, show that the largest crop of man- hens eating their have been ~gcls is secured when they are thinâ€" made such as putting dummy cggslned to a distance of 9 inches apart. on which the hen damages its beakyThe report also observes that the or putting in the nest an egg filledlsyslem of blocking plants into small with some substance such as quin-llumches results in the production of ine or mustard. The only sure cure,imany small roots, which are difficult llmvecl', is to hand over the bird toito harvest. the cook. Certain suggestions for Cures for l I \\'v“ thg> Weekly Crop Report The seed of carrots. due to the factl In Spite 0f 10W lie StOCk prices, inâ€" that the individual seed-clusters d0;quiri05 for sires 0f high quality and not ripen at the same time, cannot'bl'eeding females PartiCUIarly 99W be harvested in the same manner as .lanlbs, has been greater than “5113-1, mangcls and swedes. The individual according to a report from DUfferln seed-clusters must be picked by hand Cmth- Recent Showery Weather has when they become brown and several greatly improved the condition 0f the pickings are necessary to harvest the land for fall Wheat germination. AD- crop in best condition. lple picking is in full swing in all the _ iorchard districts and a fine crop of Dipping Sheep 'clean, healthy fruit is being harvestâ€" Ticks and other external parasites ed. Pastures have held up fairly of sheep are serious enough at any well in Eastern Ontario and live stock time and cause more direct loss than should go into stables in good con- is generally supposed, but during the dition. From Leeds County comes period when the sheep are in winter the [report that more clover and alfal- quarters it is even more important fa are being left for seed than usual, to rid them of all sources of irrita-‘the second cut alfalfa having an ex. tion. It is espceially desirable that cellent seed set. the flock be clean. before and during lambing, otherwise the infestation is Huness Oats sure to be passed along to the lambsi AS a Cheap source 0f high quality which will thus receive a very seriousded 0f Pal‘tiCUIar value for pomtry set-back at the most important per-iand Young StOCk 311d one WhiCh can 10d of their lives, ‘be used at once without processing, -__.__ lexcept perhaps grinding, hulless oats Ridging in the Fall has no equal writes A. Gordon Skin- One of the best methods of killing, ner, Agricultural Representative in weeds is to ridge the land in the fall. i Haldimand County. lThe yields as There are men who claim that thereirecorded are most encouraging and is no benefit in the way of killing 3 compare so favorably with the ordin- rootstocks of sow thistle and couch'ary hulled varieties as to put the grass remaining in the soil after sum- hulless variety in the lead when con- mer cultiation. Others regard ridg- side'ring actual pounds of digestible ing as supplementary to early after- nutrients produced, and after all that harvesting cultivation in. the eradi-,is the point in which we should' be cation of weeds. At the Kemptville most interested. A twenty bushel ‘Agricultural School in Ontario I‘idg-icrop of hulless oats weighing fifty ing is considered an important tillage pounds per measured bushel is equal practice, all land ploughed early andlto a yield of forty-two bushels when subsequently top worked being drilled figured on the basis of 30 per cent up in early fall. Another advantage hull. of ridging is that it aids in getting Hullses oats are very susceptible on the land a few days earlier in the I to smut and unless measures are tak- spring which is a decided gain on'en to prevent this disease, the loss low or heavy land. Some clays tend will be heavy. Treatment is very to run together if left in a highly simple, however, and can be readily made by any farmer with equipment which he may already have. Copper . ' I carbonate dust is used and according Klllmg The “"3 lto instructions issued by the Depart- Mos‘t efforts to keep Clear 0f ment of Botany, O.A.C., should be stable flies have been restricted to applied at the rate of about two Spraying the flies on the COWS- The ounces per bushel of seed. Al hand suggestion is now made that the flies operated cement mixer is an ideal be fought in the stable as well. The piece of equipment for this operation idea is to spray the flies with a kill- and is in common use in Haldimand. mg Spray While they are settled in The Fomalin treatment cannot be the walls and ceiling. If this sprayâ€" applied to Huness. Oats as it will ing is done in the early morning it destroy germination 0;)pr car. will be more effective as the flies bonate dust, on the other hand, is are then sluggish in their movements. safe to use and seed can be treated Late afternoon is 34150 a gOOd time-'any time when it is convenient and Close the stable and spray with a stored without injury. Treated seed, fin'e mist that fills the air. One part however, cannot be used for feeding of formalin in 19 parts of lnilk or or milling purposes, sweetened water makes a good and ing up corrects this. cheap spray. The same mixture may be left around in plates for the flies l Hudson Decorators B. R. WOLFREY, Prop. to drink. Keeping all manure clear- ed away from the stable and yards will remove breeding places for the flies and reduce the nuisance. Where it is not convenient to move the man- ure to the fields, it should be kept in a. screened shed. Painting, Paper-hanging and Decorating WORK GUARANTEED Estimates Free A Taxpayer of The District, Church St. Richmond Hill P. 0. Box 32 l 1932 Farm Figures Depressed economic conditions have not affected the continuity of agri- cultural production in Ontario, ac- cording to figures just issued by the Department. The acreage planted to the principal crops amounted to 9,- 225,700 acres in 1932, as compared with 9,176,062 the previous year. Beans, potatoes and flax experienced the largest percentage decline in acreage, while barley, alfalfa, buck- wheat and corn showed the greatest increases. The average yield per RICHMOND HILL acre was very satisfactory, but gross value of agricultural production show Prepare your lawns and 331" ed a decrease of $45,677,000 from the dens.f.0r gOOd ShOWing in Spling preceding year, the figures for 1932 Fertlllzers now at reduced prices bang 322634590“ FLOUR BRAN SHORTS A crop of 45,759,800 lbs. of to- bacco was grown in Ontario in 1932, Poultry feed always in stock 82W THE “MILL marldng a new high record of proâ€" duction. The outstanding feature of 139 this industry is the increasing preâ€" dominance of the bright flucucured type which has increased in produc- tion from 8,726,000 lbs. in 1928 to 27,615,000 in 1932. An increase in the number of horses and cattle on farms in On- tario and a reduction in the number of sheep, swine and poultry occurred between June 1st, 1931 and June 1st, Phones WE DELIVER PLASTERIN G l Chimneys Built and Repaired General Repairs 1932. The total value of all live- stock and of each species fell during P. FARR, the year and was due chiefly to a further drop in values per head. The K R No- l â€" RiChmond Hill total value of all livestock amounted Phone 464%“ and not course. Try a load. Apply I. D. Ramer .& Son, phone 10. to $144,580,000 on June lst, 1932, compared with $l71,732,000 on June __â€"..‘_â€" ______â€"â€"