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    THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
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Adventure
NOVEL.
By
Henry Kitchcll Webster
(Cop j right 1910, Tbs UobtM-Merrlll Uomp&nr)
CHAPTER XIV Continued. '
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"You won't even glvo mo the poor
atlsfnctlon of knowing wlint you'ro
doing," he said.
"I'd love to," slie flnld, "to be nblo to
write to you, hear from you every day.
But I dpn't believe you want to know.
I Uilnk it would bo too hard for you.
iBccause you'd have to promise not to
try to get me buck not to come and
rescue me if I got Into troublo and
'things went badly and I didn't know
'where to turn. Could you promise
that, Roddy?"
He gave a gronn and burled Ills faco
Hn.hls hands. Then:
"No," he Bald furiously. "Of course
I couldn't See you Buffering and
Btand by with my bands In my pockets
and watch 1" lie sprang up and seized
Ihcr by the arms In a grip that actually
ileft bruises, and fairly shook her In tho
,ngony of his entreaty. '"Tell mo It's n
inlghtmarc, Rose," he said. "Tell me It
lisu't true. Wake mo up out of It."
But Under tho Indomitable resolution
of her bluo eyes ho turned away. This
was the last nppcal of that sort that
jho made.
"I'll promise," she said presently, "to
Ibo sensible not to take any risks I
don't have to take. I'll regard my life,
and my health and all, as something
a'qi keeping in trust for you. I'll take
Slonty of warm, sensible clothes when
go; lots of shoes and stockings
fthlngs llko that; and, if you'll let me
I'll borrow a hundred dollars to start
myself off with. It isn't a tragedy,
iKoddy not that part of it. You
wouldn't bo afraid for anyono clso as
Iblg and strong and healthy as I."
Gradually, out of a welter of scenes
llko that, tho thing got itself recog
nized as something that was to huppen.
(But tho parting enmo at last In a Ilttlo
different way from any they had fore
seen. Rodney camo homo from his ofllco
arly ono afternoon, with a telegram
(that summoned him to New York to a
conference of counsel In a big public
(utility enso ho had been working on
afor months. Ho must leave, if ho wcro
going nt nil, nt Ave o'clock. Ho ran
sacked tho house, vainly nt first, for
JRose, and found her nt last In tho
trunk room dusty, dlshovclcd, sobbing
quietly over something sho hugged in
Iior arms. But Bho dried her eyes and
camo over to him and asked him whnt
It wns that had brought him homo so
early.
no allowed her tho telegram. "I'll
havo to leave in no hour," ho said,
"If I'm to go."
Sho paled nt that, and Bat down
rather giddily on tho trunk. "You
must go," sho said, "of courso. And
Roddy, I guesa that'll bo tho easiest
way. I'll get my telegram tonight
pretend to get It from Portia. And
you can glvo mo tho hundred dollars,
and then, whon you como back, I'll bo
gone."
Tho thing sho had been holding in
her lands slipped to tho floor. Ho
stooped nnd picked it up stared ut it
with a sort of half-wakened recogni
tion. I f-fund it," sho orplnlncd, "among
some old things Portia Bent over when
sho moved. Do you know whut it Is?
It's one of tho notebooks that got wot
that first night whon wo wcro put off
the street car. And Roddy, look l"
r She opened it to an almost blank
page, nnd with a weak little laugh
pointed to Uio thing tlint was written
thoro: "March IS, 1D121"
"Your birthday, you ace, and tho day
.me mot ench other."
? And then, down below, tho only noto
fctoe had made during tho wholo of thnt
lecture, ho road : "Nover mnrry a man
with a passion for principles."
( "That's tho troublo with us, you boo,"
ho said. "If you were Just an ordl
nary man without any big passions or
anything, it wouldn't matter much if
your llfo got spoiled. But with us,
you ace, wo'vo got to try for tho big
gest tiling thoro is. Oh, Roddy, Roddy
darling I Hold mo tight for Just n
minute, and then I'll como and help
you pack."
CHAPTER XV.
The World Alone.
"Here's tho first week's rent Uion,"
Maid Rose, handing tho landlady Uirco
dollars, "and I think you'd better glvo
ma a- receipt showing till when It's
ld for."
Tho landlady had tight gray hair
"Hid a hard-bitten hatchet faco. Sho
aaJ no charms, ono would havo said,
of person, mind or manner. But it
was .nevertheless truo that Rosa was
vesting this room Inrgoly on tho
strength of tho landlady. Sho was bo
much more humanly posslblo than any
&f tho others at whoso placarded doors
ftoso had knocked or run? . . .!
The landlady wont away to wrjjo oat
n receipt, xioao closed the door after
Aer and locked it
ffee didn't particularly want to keep
bsybody oat But in a senso t which
h tad. aMr miff, tnw before.
ROSE ALDRICH LEAVES HER HUSBAND AND THE TWINS
AND GOES FORTH INTO THE UNKNOWN WORLD TO
MAKE A LIVING AND LEARN LIFE'S VALUES
SYNOP8I8. Rose Stanton, n young woman living In modest cir
cumstances, murrles wealthy Rodney Alilrlch and for more than n
year Uvea In luxury anil laziness. This life dlsgiiHts her. She plans
to do something useful, but feels that the profession of motherhood
is big enough for any woman, and looks forward eagerly to the birth
of her baby. She hns twins, however, and their enre Is taken entire
ly out of her hands by n professional nurse. Intense dissatisfaction
with the useless life of luxury returns to Rose. She determines to go
out and earn her living; to make good on her own hook. She nnd her
doling husbntrd have some bitter scenes over the wife's "whim." What
she goes and docs Is described In this installment.
this was her room, u room where any
one lacking her specific Invitation to
enter would be an Intruder a condi
tion which had not obtained either In
her mother's house or In Rodney's.
She fimlled widely over tho absurdity
of Indulging In a plensurablo feeling of
possession In a squalid Ilttlo cubbyhole
llko this. The wull paper wns stained
and faded ; thcro was an Iron bed the
mnttress on the bed was lumpy. There
was a dingy-looking oak burcnu with a
small mirror a marble-topped black
walnut washstand and a pitcher stand
ing In n bowl on top of it.
As for the hurrying life she looked
out upon from her grimy window, the
difference between it nnd that which
sho had been wont to contemplato
through Florence McCrca's exquisitely
leaded casements wns simply planet
ary. And yet, queerly enough, in terms of
literal lineal measurement, the dis
tance between tho windows themselves
wns less than a thousand yurds. And,
such Is tho enormous social and spir
itual distance between North Clnrk
street and Tho Drive, sho was as safely
hidden here, ns completely out of tho
orbit of any of her friends, or even of
her friends' servants, as sho could
have been in New York or San Fran
cisco. Of course, wherever sho went, what
ever sho did, thcro'd alwuys bo tho risk
that somcono who could carry back
news to Rodney's friends would rec
ognlzo her. It wna a risk that had to
bo taken. At tho snmo time she'd
protect tho secret as well as sho could.
Thcro wcro two people, though, It
couldn't bo kept from Portia and her
mother. The Btory given out to Rod
ney's friends being that Roso was In
Callfornln with her mother nnd Portia,
loft tho chance alwuys open for somo
contretemps which would lend to her
mother's discovering-tho truth in a sur
prising nnd shocking wny.
But tho truth Itself, confidently stat
ed, not ns a tragic ending, but as tho
splendid, hopeful beginning of a llfo of
truer hupplncss for Roso und her hus
band, needn't bo n shock. So this wns
whnt Roso had borno down upon her
in her lotter to Portln.
... I ltavo found the big thin? couldn't
be had without a nght," bIio wrote "You
shouldn't bo surprised, bocaUBa you've
probably found out for yourself that noth
ing worth having comes very easily. But
you'ro not to worry about mo, nor bo
afraid for mo, because I'm going to win.
I'm making tho fight, somehow, f6r you
as well as for myself. I want you to
know that. I think that realizing I was
living your llfo as well as mlno, Is what
has gtvon mo tho courago to start . . .
"I've got somo plans, but I'm not going
to toll you what thoy are. But I'll wrlto
to you every week and tell you what I've
done, and I want you to wrlto to Rodney.
I want to bo suro that you understand
this: Itodnoy Isn't to blame for what's
happoned, Wo haven't quarroled, and I
behove wo'ro farther In love with each
other than we'vo over boon before. I
know I am with him. .... Broak this
thins to mother aB gently ns you llko, but
toll her everything before you stop
This letter written nnd dispatched,
sho had worked out tho details of her
depurturo with n good deal of care.
In her own house, beforo tho sorvants,
Bho had tried to uct Just as Bho would
havo done had her pretended telegram
really como from Portln. Her bag was
packed, her trunk was gone, her motor
waiting at tho door to tako her to tho
station, when tho maid Doris brought
tho twins homo froni their ulrlng, This
wiisn't chance, but prcarrangemont
"Glvo them to me," Roso said, "nnd
then you may go up nnd tell Mrs.
Ruston alio may havo them In a few
minutes."
Sho took them Into her bedroom and
laid them sldo by sldo on her bed.
They hnd thriven finely Justified, so
far us that went, Harriot's decision
in favor of bottle focdlng. Und sho
died back thcro in that bed of pain,
never como out of tho other at all,
they'd still bo Just llko this plump,
placid, methodical. Roso had thought
of that n hundred times, but it wasn't
What she was thinking of now.
Tho thing that caught her as sho
was looking down on them, wns a
wavo of sudden pity. Sho saw them
sudenly as persons with tho long road
ull nhend of them, ns a boy and a girl,
n youth and a maid, a man and n
woman.
She'd novor thought of them llko
that beforo. Tho baby sho had looked
forward to tho baby sho hadn't hud
had never boon thought of that way,
either. It was to bo Bomcthlng to pro
vldo her, Rose, with an occupation; to
mako an alchemic chango in tho vory
substnnco of her life. Tho trnnsmutn
tlon hadn't taken place. Sho surmised
now, dimly, thnt she hadn't deserved
It should.
"You'vo nover hnd a mother nt
all, you poor Ilttlo mites," sho snld.
"But you'ro going to havo one somo
day, You'ro going to bo nblo to como
to her with your troubles, becuuso
Eho'll havo had troubles herself. She'll
help you Lear your hurts, hecauso
Bhe'8 hnd hurts of her own. And
she'll bo able to tench you to stand
tho gan, Iwcacuo she's 8tud it her-
For the first time since they were
born, she was thinking of their need
of her rnther thnn of her need of them,
nnd with thnt thought came, for tho
first time, the surge of passionate ma
ternal love that sho had waited for
so long In vain. There was, suddenly,
nn Intolerable ache In her breast that
could only hnve been satisfied by crush
ing them up against her brctist; kiss
ing their iinnds their feet.
Roso stood there quivering, giddy
with the forco of it. "Oh, you dar
lings I" she suld. "But wait wait un
til I deservo It I" And, without touch
ing them at all, sho went to the door
nnd opened it Mrs. Ruston and Doris
wcro both waiting in the hall.
"I must go now," she snld, "Qood-by.
Keep them carefully for me." Her
volco was steady, and, though her eyes
were bright, there wns no trnco of
tears upon her cheeks. But there was.
a kind of glory shining in her face
that was too much for Doris, who
turned nwny nnd sobbed loudlyT Even
Mrs. Huston's eyes were wet.
"Good-by," said Rose again, nnd
went down composedly enough to her
car.
Sho rodoMown to tho station, shook
hnnds with Otto, the chauffeur, al
lowed n porter to carry her bag Into
tho wnltlng room. There sho tipped
tho porter, picked up the bag herself,
nnd wnlked out the other door; crossed
over to Clark street and took n street
cnr. At Chicago avenue she got off,
nnd wnlked north, keeping her eyes
open for placards advertising rooms
to let. It wns nt tho end of nbout half
n mllo thnt sho found tho hntchot-
faced landlady, paid her three dollars,
nnd locked her door, as n symbol, per
hnps, of tho bigger, hcnvler door that
sho had locked uppn her past life.
Strongest among nil the welter of
emotions boiling up within her? was a
perfectly enormous relief. Tho. tiling
which, when she had first faced it as
tho only thoroughfare to tho real llfo
she so passionately wanted, hnd
seemed such a veritable nightmare,
wns an accomplished fuct. The week
of ncute agony sho had lived through
whllo sho was forcing her sudden res
olution upon Rodney had been all but
Ho Was Counting Aloud the Bars of
tho Music.
unendurable with tho enforced con
templation of tho moment bf parting
which they brought so relentlessly
nearer. Thcro hnd been aerror, too,
lest when tho moment actually came,
Bho couldn't do It Well, and now it
had como nnd gone! Tho surgery of
tho thing was over.
Roso dusted tho mirror with n towel
n reckless net, ns sho saw for hor-
self, when sho discovered sho wns go
ing to havo to uso that towel for a
week and took nn appraising look nt
herself. Thou sho nodded confidently
thero was nothlug tho matter with her
looks und resumed hor ulster, her
rubbers, and her umbrella, for It wns
tho kind of December dny which called
for ull i three. Then, glowingly con
scious thnt sho was saving n nickel by
bo doing, sho sot off downtown afoot
to get a Job. Sho meant to get it
that very aftornoon. And, partly he
causo sho meant to bo very definitely,
Bho did.
On tho last Sunday beforo Roso went
nwny sho had studied the dramatic
section of tho morning paper with
n good deal of care, and was rewarded
by finding among tho nowa notes
nn item referring to a now musical
comedy which wns to bo produced
at tho Globo theater Immediately
after tho Christmas holidays, "The
Girl Uu-SUlra" vim tho title of It U
.it spoken of ns one of the regular
Globe productions, so It wns prolmblo
Jimmy Wnllnce's experience with the
production of nn earlier number in the
series would nt least give her some
thing to go by.
Granted thnt she was going to be a
chorus girl for a while, she could hard
ly find n better place than one of the
Globe productions to bo a chorus girl
In. According to Jimmy, It wns a de
cent enough little place, and yet It
possessed the ndvnntngc of being,
spiritually, as well as actually, west of
Clark street. Rodney's friends were
less likely to go there, nnd so have n
chance of recognizing her, thnn to nny
other theater lu the city.
The news Item In the paper told her
that tho production was In rehearsal,
and It mentioned the name of the direc
tor, John Gnlbralth, referring to him
ns one of tho three most prominent
musical-comedy directors In tho coun
try. When she nsked nt the box office at
the Globe theater where they were re
hearsing "Tho Girl Up-Stalrs" today,
tho nicely manicured young man In
side answered automatically, "North
End hall."
"I'm afraid," said Rose, smiling n
little, "I'll hnvo to nsk where North
End hall is."
"Not nt all," said the young man
Idiotically, nnd he told her the nd
dress ouly a block or two from Roso's
room.
CHAPTER XVI.
Tho First Day.
With her umbrella over her shoul
der, Rose set sail northward again
through the rain, absurdly cheered.
Tho ontrnnco to the North End hall
was a pair of white painted doors
opening from the street level up
on tho foot of n broadlsh stair
which took you up rather suddenly.
At tho head of tho stairway, tilted
back la a kitchen chnlr beneath n
single gas Jet whoso light ho wns try
ing to make suffice for the perusal of
a green newspaper, sat a man, under
orders, no doubt to keep Intruders
uway. The thing to do wns to go
by as If, for such as she, watch
men didn't exist Tho rhythmic pound
ing of feet and the frayed chords
from a worn-out piano, convinced her
she wns In tho right place.
Her stratagem succeeded. The man
glunccd up nnd, though sho felt ho
didn't return to his pnper again, ho
made no attempt to stop her. She
walked steadily uhend to another open
door at the fur end of the room,
through which sounds nnd light came
In.
Roso paused for n steadying breath
before she went through that farther
door, her eyes starry with resolution,
her checks, Just for the moment, a lit
tle pale.
,Tho room was hot and not well
lighted. In the further wall of It was
a proscenium arch and a raised stage.
On tho stage, right and left, were two
Irregular groups of girls, with a few
men, awkwardly, Rose thought, dis
posed among them. All were swnying
a little to mark tho rhythm of the mu
sic Industriously pounded out by a
sweaty young man nt the piano a
swarthy, thick young mnn In his un
dershirt. Thcro wero n few more
people sprawled in different pnrts of
tho hall.
It was all a Ilttlo vague to her at
first because her attention wns fo
cused upon a single figure n compact,
rather slender, figure, and tall, Roso
thought of a man In a blue sergo
suit, who stood at the exact center of
tho stage and tho extreme edge' of tho
footlights. Ho wns counting aloud
tho bars of tho music not beating
tlmo at all, nor Voiding to the rhythm
In any wny ; "standing, on tho contrary,
rather tensely still. That wns the
quality about him, Indeed, that riveted
Rose's attention and held her, as still
as ho was, in tho doorway an ex
hilarating sort of Intensity that had
communicated itself to tho swaying
groups on tho stnge.
You could tell from tho wny lid
counted thnt something wns gathering
itself up, getting ready to happen.
"Threo . . . Four . . . Fivo
. . . Six . . . Seven Now 1"
ho shouted on the eighth bar, and with
the word ono of the groups trans
formed itself. Ono of tho men bowed
to one of tho girls and began waltzing
with her; another couple formed, then
another.
Roso watched breathlessly, hoping
tho maneuver wouldn't go wrong for
no reason la tho world but that tho
man thero at the footlights .wns so
tautly determined that it shouldn't
Determination triumphed. The num
ber was concluded to John Galbrnlth's
evident satisfaction. "Very good," ho
said. "If you'll nil do exactly what
you did that tlmo from now on, I'll
not complain." Without pause he went
on: "Evorybody on tho stage big
girls nil tho big girls!" And to tho
young man at tho piano, "We'll do 'Af
ternoon Toa.1 "
There was a luomencary pause then,
filled with subdued chatter, whllo tho
girls and men rcallgnod themselves for
tho new number.
Roso looked them over. The girls
weren't, on nn aVeragtt, extravagantly
beautiful, though, with tho added
charm of make-up Allowed for, there
were, no doubt, many tho audiences
would consider so. They wero dressed
In pretty much anything that would
nllow perfect freedom to their bodies,
especially their arms nnd legs; bath
ing suits mostly, or middy blouses nnd
bloomers. Roso noted this with satis
faction. Her old university gymna
sium costume would do perfectly. Any
thing, apparently, would do, because,
as her eyo adjusted Itself to details,
she discovered romper sulU. pina
fores, chemises, overalls all equally
taken for granted.
Gnlbralth struck his hands together
for silence, nnd scrutinized tho now
motionless group on the stage.
"We're ono shy," he said. "Who's
missing?" And then nnswercd his own
question: "Grunt I" lie wheeled
around nnd his eyes searched the hall.
Roso became aware, for the first
time, thnt n mutter of conversation hnd
been going on Incessantly since she
hnd come In, In one of the recessed
window sents behind her. Now when
Gclbralth's gaze plunged In thnt di
rection, she turned nnd looked too.
A big blonde chorus girl wns In there
with n man, a girl who, with twenty
.pounds trained off her, und that sulky
look out of her face, would have been
a beauty. She had roused herself with
a sort of defiant deliberation nt tho
sound of the director's voice, but she
still had her back to him and went on
talking to the mnn.
"Grant I" snld John Gnlbralth again,
nnd tills time his voice had a cuttlnj
edge. "Will you tnke your place on
the stage, or shall I eujoeud rehearsal
until you'ro ready?"
For answer she tufntd nnd began
walking slowly ncross the room. Sho
started walking slowlj, tut under Gnl
bralth's eye she quickened her pace,
Involuntarily, It seemed, until It wns a
ludicrous sort of run. Presently sho
emerged upon he stnge, looking rath
er nriincinny unconcerueu, una tne re-
hcursal went on ngnln.
But Just before he gnve the signal
to the pianist to go ahead, Gnlbralth
with a nod summoned a young man
from the wings and said s'omething to
him, whereupon, clearly carrying out
his orders, he vuulted down from tho
stnge nnd came walking toward tho
doorway where Rose was still stand
ing.
But he didn't como straight to her;
he brought up before a woninn sit
ting In n folding chair a little farther
along the wall, who drew herself de
fensively erect when she saw him turn
toward her, assumed n look of calculat
ed disdain, tapped n foot gnve, on
the whole, nn Imitation of n duchess
being kept waiting.
But tho limp young mnn didn't seem
disconcerted, nnd Inquired In so many
words what her business wns. Tho
duchess said in n harsh, high voice
thut she wanted to ace the director;
a very particular friend of his had
begged her to do so.
"You'll have to wait till he's through
rehearsing," said the young man, nnd
then he came over to Hose.
The vestiges of the smile the duch-(
ess hnd provoked were still visible
about her mouth when he enme up.
"May 1 wait and see Mr. Gnlbralth
after the rehearsal?" she asked. "If
I won't be In the way?"
"Sure," snld the young man. "He
won't be long now. He's been reheanr
lng since two." Then, rnther explo
slvely, "Huye a chair."
He struck Roso os being n little
flustered und uncertain somehow.
It wus n long hour that Rose sat
there in a little folding chnlr, un hour
that, In spite of nil her will could do,
took some of the crlspness out of her
courage.
When nt last, a little nfter six
o'clock, Gnlbralth snld: "Quarter to
eight, everybody," and dismissed them
with n nod for u scurry to what wero
evidently dressing rooms ntithc other
side of the hall, the ship of Rose's
hopes had utterly gone to pieces. Sho
had a plank to keep herself nflont on.
It wns the determination to stny thero
until he should tell her in so many
words that ho hadn't nny uso for her.
The deprecatory young mnn was
talking to him now, nbout her and tho
duchess evidently, for he peered out
Into the hall, then vaulted down from
tho stnge und came toward them.
The duchess got up, nnd, with a
good deul of manner, went over to
meet him. Roso didn't hear what the
duchess said. But when John Gnl
bralth unswered her, his voice easily
filled tho room; "You tell Mr. Pike,
If that's his name, we haven't nny
vacancies in the chorus ut present If
wo find we need you, wo cun let you
know."
lie snld It not. unkindly, but ho ex
ercised somo power of making It evi
dent thnt us he finished speaking,
the duchess, for him, simply censed to
exist. Then, with disconcerting sud
denness, he looked straight at Rose
nnd snld: "What do you want?"
She'd thought him tall, but ho
wasn't. He wns looking on a perfect!
level into her eyes.
"I want n Job in tho chorus," said
Rose.
"You henrd what I said to that oth
er woman, I suppose?"
"Yes," said Rose, "but . . ."
"But you thought you'd let me nay
It to you again."
"Yes," she said. And, queerly
enough, she felt her courage coming
back.
Rose Aldrich's luck in hunting
a Job In the chorus of a musical
comedy and what happens after
ward Is described with thrilling
emphasis in the next Install
ment. ITO BE CONTINUED.)
Resistance of the Wind.
Tests on u model pf the nnval collier
Neptune made in the wind tunnel of
tho Washington nnvy ynrd by Naval
Constructor William McEntce show
thnt if this vessel wcro steaming
against n 30-inllo wind nt 14 knots an
hour it would require about 770 horse
power to overcome tho reslstanco of
tho wind. Tills is about 20 per cent
of the power necessary to propel acr
through the water.
Ikal
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oritcimm
CULTIVATION OF AN ORCHARD
Summer Work Is Necessary If Profit
Is to Bo Made Threo Methods
Given by Expert.
Summer cultivation of the orchard
Is necessary If n profit Is to be mnde,
In the opinion of F. S. Merrill, nsslst
nnt professor of horticulture In the
Knnsns States Agricultural college.
"Three methods mny be practiced In
tho cultivation of tin orchard," said
rrofessor Merrill. "The first of theso
Is the sod-mulch system. This Is prac
ticed on bottom land or lnnd high In
fertility. Orchards on fertile lnnd are
likely to produce n heavy growth of
wood, which prevents the formation of
fruit buds. In order to overcome this
a grass crop should be sowed in tho
orchard. The grass crop Is mowed
when necessary and allowed to re
main on the ground.
"The second method, often used,
consists of sbwlng n grass crop In the
orchard and harvesting the hny. This
system Is injurious to the trees nnd re
duces the size und value of the fruit.
"Where the topography and slope of
tho lnnd will permit, clean cultivation
is ndvlsnble. It kills the weeds nnd
conserves the moisture. Orchards cul
tivated In this manner will producq
lnrger fruit than under other systems
of cultivation.
"Clean cultivation will keep down
Insert pests by destroying their hiber
nating places and food supply. The,
buffalo tree-hopper is less Injurious
in clean cultivated orchards because It
removes their food supply."
HANDY APPLE-PACKING TABLE
Portable Device Made of Odd Ends of
Lumber and Mounted on Dis
carded Wheels, Is Useful.
A table for sorting npples to be
packed for shipment was mnde of odd
ends of lumber, and mounted on dls-i
carded wheels, ns shown, mnklng It
readily portable, writes M. Glen Klrk
patrick of Des Moines in Popular Me-
Apple-Packing Table.
(chanlcs Magazine. The handiest fen
ture of the rig Is a chute from tho
top, on which the apples nre sorted,
for culls, leaves, etc., which might get
into the barrels. The sluts of the tablo
extend lengthwise, and tho chute open
ing Is ncross the top. When the chuto
opening Is wanted wider or nnrrower,
tho slats around It: nre moved.
CAPTURE OF CODLING MOTHS
Old Practice of Placing Burlap Band
Around Tree Trunk Effective
In Reducing Numbers.
One of the new-fangled contraptions
for the orchnrd is n trap to catch tho
codling moth. Most of the codling
lnrvno after leaving tho apples spin
n silken case or web under tho rough
bark on the trunk und there change
to the moth stnge. The ol'd practice!
of placing a burlap band around the
trunk to entice the worms hns been,
effective In reducing their number, but'
Is rarely used ns It requires n great'
deal of attention. The new trap con
sists of n strip of burlap wound around,
the trunk In the usual way, but over
this Is tacked n strip of 12-inesh
screen, six or eight Inches wide, which,
encircles the tree trunk over the bur-,
lap band. The upper and lower edges
of the screen nre turned under and'
carefully tacked. to tho bark, which
has been scraped smooth.
SAWDUST USED FOR A MULCH
Has Proved of Benefit to Berry and
Small Fruit Plot In Home Gar
den, Especially Potatoes.
Sawdust used as n mulch for tho
berry und small fruit plot In tho homo;
garden hns proved of much benefit,
especially for potatpes. After pre
paring tho ground In tho usual wuy,
plant tho potatoes In drills or rows
itwo feet npart and IS Inches In tho
row. Cover loosely with two Inches
of soil, then mulch with sawdust 4 to
0 inches deep.
KEEP RABBITS FROM TREES
Veneer Protectors May Be Had at
Small Cost From Almost Any
Nursery Paper Is Good.
Protect those trees from rabbits.
Veneer tree proteoiors mny bo had nt
n smnll cost from ulmost nny nursery.
Stiff pnper properly wrapped around
baso of tree Is commonly used. Corn
Btnlks nro sometimes tied nbout trees
with binding twine.
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