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AU SIWASIX &iiGLiIkGL FITCMI AIRTIIA and I have been Mi quarreling again. It is one d( of our chief diversions. w Quarreling with Martha is th mirore fun than agreeing fe with the boss when he wants to raise ly my salary. When I think of what my th life might have been without having dt her with tae to wade into mre every sl. night and assault me with her entire ar large and well-chosen vocabulary while at trying to persuade me to revise my se 'language and squeeze the hot air out e% of it or to stop holding Peter Ether- m tbridge Simmons, Jr., up by one leg or Ili to admit that I am entirely wrong in th My claims concerning the weight of to Queen Anne, I hold up my hands and le bless Siwash college, which gave her le to me. Quarreling with Martha is more x- I 'tlarating than shooting the chutes. hi And it's a perfectly harmless pastime. I've quarreled with her for about eight at years now-three of them in Siwash Ii end five more since then, and as far tr as I remember we have never settled ta a single quarrel or quarreled over a at subject that was worth settling. I am vi very proud of our system. Sometimes I think we ought to patent it. No mat- se ter what I really want to quarrel with it her about, or no matter what reason , she has for locking up The Hague tri- ni bunal and calling out her reserves gi against me, we always quarrel about gr English history. It's a bully idea. You gr can put all the enthusiasm and ta- ,l, basco you please into the discussion, he but you never get anywhere-most ht especially you don't get around to pl what you would really like to quarrel fe about. That's why all of our quarrels hi together have never panned out a drop an of brine. If I ever made Martha cry, an I think I should go out to Lincoln Park gii and feed myself to the lions. I suppose we choose English history ev to row about because it was English se history which first brought us together Ei when I was a howling young nuisance W at Slwash and she was a compendium no of useful information with a twinkle A in her talk. I got acqualnted because ab of English history-don't tell me a th• college education hasn't its advan- we tages. And most of our quarrels end up with a discussion as to when I er fell in love with her. She maintains I that it took three years of steady ef- an fort on her part to land me. I claim m that it was a case of love at first qt ~ t; that she won me'by declining in to become acquainted with me, and at that long after I was her slave she a tried to give me away to a fat girl lii who wore No. 9 shoes. She always it shudders at this, and so do L It I wasn't a pleasant experience for me. w Martha and I went through college m ,,ractically hand in hand, and only ti pa: rd long enough afterward to en- ig able me' to sandbag a Chicago bank of into paying me a living salary. But m there was a time-in my freshman bi year-when if Oh, well, for that matter, the whole O affair is tull of if's. If I had gotten tl as mad as I should have gotten at I i her indifference--4f I hadn't taken up tu r study to amuse myself that spring; if IL I hadn't seen that Martha's hair would d be beautiful if she fluffed it up instead c of tying it In a hard knot that pulled o her eyebrows out of shape; and, most o particularly, if I hadn't gotten a tre- e andous grouch in the spring of my a ' man year-I never would have n Martha. It's fun to figure out o If's. Think of winning a wife v ng an acute case of dark blue bles I If that wasn't a top- I award for foolishness, I'll give s I am not going to tell it all, I while Im perfectly willing to c other people's love affairs I m't seem to care to take the dod let the world peer Into ours. I *.rnraded Martha to look upon I Spleasant diversion, and how hted her to come down about 1 4 d miles and decorate exist - r6 m-ths are secrets. But I don't mind telling you bow it all start- 4 e. After all, that's the mlportant oft these college affairs. It's just lkhe rolllng a ahowball down hill-start It and you don't have to worry about it. It will take care of itself. That's all I really did about falling In love with Martha. I started the affair; but I didn't mean a thing by it, either. Neither did she mean anything. In tact, she was a lot meanuer than I about it. It was the calendar that really be gn it all. One of the most mysterl ow thing in college life sla the way the year sillps by under you and goes away before you are half through with it. This never failed to surprise and grieve me. A year is such a conoond edly long affalr whern youea look it in the face-particularly a college year. When yeou coneider, along in 8eptem ber, that before June you have to go to chapel 200 times, read through sev ers books wriltten in decayed Ian gages, and fure out a chabby rol - of trigonoetry problems that lk like Lairplane wrecks when they are pat ou the blackboard, the year es like a quarter-setion of eter aty. But smaddenly, just after you've mode a lot of friendships, have be eaeo a decided hit with a number of ares roundlag into good shape In the S0 Qluad, and have a dose plamns r the eunliveoment of the campus wdi under way, you wake up to find at tmhere Is about a month left before emaomncement, and that at the end d tat month the college will explode and seatter your brand-new lifelong Piead to all parts of the country. This Is the reason why so muy oel , boye become pensive along in and get what is technically ameas an ingrowin granch. S ,arsue seiLors have this diseas w r - but eves freshmen are set I ears down with a heavy e rsp In ge the My foolish eyes were openel. College days were so precious that after life "u would be morguelike compared with a them. And there were only a pitifully sh few college days. I had used up near- le ly a quarter of mine already! Used "E them up in frivolous ways-squan dered them like a drunken sailor; gle spent whole hours loafing In my room and oversleeping instead of getting out mi and soaking in the glorious friendships i so soon to be severed forever. Why. "' even now preparations for comumence- th ment were beginning! In a few weeks t1 the boys wouldl be gone. Some of ye them would never come back. Bangs 1lW might stay at home the next year. Al- w' len was doubtful about returning-at ha least the faculty was doubtful for him. fe Even I might never see Slwash again. I I had wastel the only year I might of have in college. il For over a week I was unfathom- in anly dejected. My kind roommate, ha Bingo i Bailey, fussed around me and tried to get mie to soak my head or itS take a large drink of kerosene, but I merely threw things at hinm and de clined his suggestions. el But gradually my mental turmoil hi settled down into one fixed accusation. IBad as my other crimes were, there w was one which surpassed them in asi- ha ninlty. I was feather-headed on the girl question. It was a fearful and de grading truth. I, Peter Simmons, a to grown-up man of eighteen and presi-he dent of his class, to say nothing of being molder of destinies-hadn't I ki helped mold Boggs' destiny?7-was a yo plaything in the hands of designing fenmales. A pretty girl could smile at fei him and bid him follow in a shy voice, mi and thereupon he neglected friends ha and studies and made himself that girl's slave. Ini It was awful. I had no stamina what ever. Swiftly I reviewed my six or seven master passions of the year. Every one of them was a pretty face. Whether the face concealed a brain or not I had never thought to wonder. A peachblow complexion, a companion able smile, a light foot in the dance- that was my conception of lovely woman. Bah ! When I thought about this for sev eral days it began to have its effect. I became quiet and powerful within and stern lines developed about my mouth. I could see them in the glass quite plainly. I was no longer a trust ing child to be sent toddling hither and yon by a woman's voice. I was a grown man with great purposes in life and I had precious little room in it for women. Acting on this impulse, I broke a date with Miss Willoughby with brutal directness, and declined my invitation to the annual party of the Kappa Kap Pajamas. I would ignore the sex entirely during the rest of my college course. Men had 'too much to do in college to be bothered by the woman question. But suddenly I had a better idea. Other men had become soured and had thrown down the girl question. But I could do something more. After all, the sex was not useless. There were fine women and Intelligent women delightful companions and Intellectual comrades. I would be large instead of merely Indifferent. I would pick out the brightest girl In my class and H win her frlendship. I would show her attention ald be her best friend no matter whether she was merely plain m or so homely that I would thank her " whenever she wore a veil. I This was a really splendid Idea. It was a lot bigger than the other. As ft soon as I had conceived it I forgot all t about my grouch. There was nothing Il left of It but my stern resolve. As a a matter of fact, the resolve was a little a I weak In the back, too. For, as I con- 11 Svalesced, the idea of causing pain and t sorrow to Ill those beautiful and trust- s l ing young girls became Intolerable, land I hastily recalled my regrets to i tthe Kappa Kap party. I had suffered severely, and I was ; I bound to give my idea a trial I needn't I carry this intellectual triendship basi- . t ness to extremes. But I could pick c t out the girl-a plain one-and at least t go and call on her. That would show * t my firmness of mind and discriminat s lng character. Maybe I would event e take her to a party. So I began to I t look over my class for possible can- I . :didates for my hlgh-minded and Intel-I n llgent friendship. I I I must say there were plenty of poa slbillties. I was surprised to discover I - how many young ladies In the fresh- Il i- man class had entirely escaped my no y tice. As I say, I had had a frivolous 1 a and beanty-hunting eye. But now that I hI had started hunting for plain worth, I dlI was overwhelmed with candidates. I 1- I would look at two or three of them n earnestly and then go away and rest r. for a while. There were tall, thlan a- girls; short, stout girls; old girls with l spectacles, and nondescript girls with r- clothes which fitted them tightly about a- the neck and nowhere else in partic o lar. I began to wonder how I was at I going to find, among all these girls, the ly on(e who might prove to be the most r sensidble and entertaining. Of course r- I might go and call on all of them In mu trn, but I balked at this. It would e- take too much time and suffering, and Sbesides there were two or three girls Inl--technically speaking-n the class, as any one of whom might be the logical Scandidate, and to tell the trath, I d didn't have the nerve to take the le chance. ad I sat through half a dosen classes e looking over the collection and siting a them up from their reeitations, and 1 finally decided that MisLs Martha - 1Scroggs would just about do. She was la a thin, freckled girl, bright but not ty gaudy, with severe hair tied up to be out of harm's way-a girl whom I e had passed on the campus until I had at gotten perfectly familiar with her ry hat, without ever once looking at her f face. But she had a breeawy way a lstag up the grmeat bhasebs na BYu . l istIr7 wateh pIease- s , em e was a girl who might be really enter- , taining. I decided to talk with her, 4 to call on her, and to become her I friend. It would be a just recognition of her abilities, anyway. It was a 1 shame that so many of the really de- , serving and able young women should be condemned to loneliness because their faces didn't happen to embellish the college scenery. I. Peter Simmons. would not submit to this injustice and fM:irthn Scroggs. the brightest girl In the class, should have a good time if I had any say about it. Full of this fine resolution. I slid out of history class rapidly one day and fell in beside the young lady as she trotted off toward the library. "Be lieve me, Miss Scroggs." I said, lifting my hat, "you certainly handled old Henry the wife-collector without gloves today." She turned quickly and looked at me. Then I remembered that I had never met Miss Scroggs. Of course we had been in the samne class and all that, but I realized that I had never trippted over any c'hair earlier in the year lighting for an introduction. She looketd at Inc. not in an unfriendly way, with a sort of curiosity-as if I had been some new kind of bug. I felt my fool face beginining to blush I have an awful time with that face of mnin-hbut I wasn't going to back out, and I toddled right along, wait ing to take whatever she chose to hand me. Miss Scroggs looked at me some more with a sort of perplexed air. Sud denly her face brightened. "(th. yes. I know now!" she ex clanimed. "You're the little man who hides behind MIr. Pierce, aren't you?" "Huh!" I said Indlgnantly. Pierce was a football man and broad, and I had dodged a number of flunks by sit ting very quietly behind him. But I didln't care to have the whole class notice It. I stiffened up to my full height. "Miss Scroggs." said I, "you know my name and you know you know It, and you also know I know you know it." "Oh," she said, "I've heard you re ferred to as Mr. Simmons, but It's so much nicer to get information first hand and accurately." "My name is Simmons," I said, bow ing low, "'Petey' Simmons." "I'm so glad to meet you, Mr. Sim I HE WALKED CARELESSLY UP AND SAID: "READY MARTHA!P COULD HAVE BITTEN HIM IN TWO. mons," said sthe, putting out her hand. "Good morning." Then she turned Into the library and left me. After I had thought of this incident for the rest of the day and most of the evening, I decided to be even larger than I had any idea I could be and overlook the whole thing. It was natural that Miss Scroggs should be a little confuased by my unexpected friendliness. Possibly she was even suspicious. It did seem queer, un doubtedly, for me to take so sudden an Interest in her. Anyway, she wasn't used to attention. I might have to persevere very gently so as not to frighten her. But she was a bright little girl and deserved notice and, confound it, she was going to get it. I had a chance to take of my hat and say "Good morning" to Miss Scroggs on the following day and on the day after that, but that was all. She was always surrounded by girl friends. They were the plain and un adorned members of the class, but they seemed to enjoy each other so much that I hated to burst ruthlessly in on their ranks and take Miss Scroggs away. It made me mad, how ever. It was Friday, and now I would have to wait until Monday to become intimately acquainted with her. Some how, seeing her hedged about by for bidding females and entirely inacces slble, made me more anxious than ever to begin the friendship, and Sunday seemed a long day. On Monday conditions were very fa vorable. I cut in ahead of the body guard going out, and followed Miss SScroggs down the stairs. She was mine. I was quite excited. "Good morning," I said pleasantly, raising my hat. I was about to fall into step with her and walk over to the library. But I didn't. She turned and spoke to me very pleasantly, but from the next planet, and suddenly I became afraid that if I walked with her I might bore her. Perhape she didn't want to be bothered with me that day. I didn't want to make a bad impres Ilon to start with. I passed on rapg idly the other way, and by the time I Ihad walked around the college build ings I was indignant. What was the I matter with me, anyway? Thls was Sthe only time Petey Simmons had ever I shown the white weather. What was Sbe afrald of? He ought to be klcked. I I got a bow and a smile out of Miss I Scroggs the next day, but she had her I gang with her. I was rather relieved r when I saw it, too. After all, this I was no mere eamps enterprise to be ! conducted hastly between clases. I weuld waylay her and walk hoer with Sher. T e he -ars she led is t-m opposite part t t wn, but I had iota I of business out than way. I had heg lected it all that year, and now it a was pressing. I cro sed dejectedly be hind her for two evenings while she and two of her pestiferous girl friends I c.attered gayly homeward. Once I got a bow from her at her gate, but that was all. Business was certainly poor. I Rut in the third week 1 had a great i stroke of good luck. I wZondered into f the library one afternoon and f,ud Miss Scroggs reading-alo'e. i was I as excited as if I had discov,'red the r heroine on the four hundred and a thirty-fifth page. I approached stealth I- ly, to avoid alarming he., and sat Z down beside her. I "Working hard?" I asked, with a t perfectly magnificent smile. She smiled back. "Verye" she said. t Any other girl I knew would have d put down her books. I felt a slight e jolt. But I was there, and I defied I1 the whole college to remove me. "I r wish I could work as hard as you do," elI said enviously. At that moment I e really meant it. y She looked around the library and I then at me. "I've only got one of the I books," she said cordially. This time the jolt was quite decided. e But I wouldn't give up. "If I get a k nice, large book, will you straighten t- me out on Queen Elizabeth's family?" oIJ asked. "I simply cannot get the old girl's kin untangled." e "I've got to get my French." said I- Miss Scroggs, hastily, "but I'll call Miss Evans over. She's splendid in C- English history, and I know she'll be 0 glad to help you." " Then she went away before I could e object and hauled Miss Evans over to I me. Miss Evans was a peculiar-look t- ing, well-seasoned lady, with thick I glasses and gummy smile that would Is have warded off a burglar. She was 11 delighted to help me, and she did it U while Miss Scroggs went away to a U neighboring table and studied French, W in which, heaven knows, I needed help far more than I did in history. It was t- a contemptible trick. I couldn't get w away from the Evans lady until class it time, and my mind wandered so that I got Lizzie's family more mixed up r- than ever, and tipped over a big laugh in class while I tried to sort them out. 3- The boys at the house asked me a lot of supposedly smart questions that I nlght about my new affair with Mir Evans, but I took It very scornftlly, even if it did hurt. I was all messed up In m myind. Was it possible that SMiss Scroggs didn't care to be both Sered with me? No, it was't. But a she certainly was discouraging. Howl ever, Petey Simmons never was a quit I ter. I didn't want to quit, anyway. i I would have given a lot to it around in that college library for a couple of a hours with Miss Scroggs and have t her sparkle away to me the way she i did to those confounded girl friends. She looked as if she could be perfect t ly delightful It she felt that way. I found out what church the Scroggases frequented the next week, t and decided to shift my attack. If I i couldn't associate in college with Mar a tha-I decided that I would call her , that to myself because I liked the I name-I would go out and use a church in cold-blooded fashion for the pur t pose. I went to two church socials o and found Martha at the second one. r It seemed to me she was perhaps one s thirty-second of a degree more cordial In her greeting-at any rate she bowed i to me before I Jogged her attention e and I made the most of It. I trailed around with her and behind her for half an hour, fighting my way through . mobs of girl iends-I never saw a r girl so cursed with girl friends--nd y after having gotten two distinct laughs from her by a line of talk that , would have reduced one of the Brown r. ing hall beauties to helpless mirth, I came rilht out and asked her if I couldn't walk home with her. My d knees shook when I did it. g "Why, there isn't the slightest use p of that, Mr. Simmons," she said kind . ly. "Ralph Madison lives next door, e and he'll take care of me." e Ralph Madison was a town student e -a sophomore whose only prominent I point was his teeth. He was a sissy 't and a nincompoop, and when he r. walked carelessly up and said, "Ready, s- Martha?' I could have bitten him in Stwo. They went off together like old I and well-worn triends, and I went out I- Into the nlght and planned murder and is arson for three hours. I Anyway, that ended it. I'd laid my ai pride down before Miss Scroggs, and a she had not only walked on It, but I had wiped her feet on it. I'd tried s to make a friend and companlon out ar of a girl who would probably never d have another chance to mingle with a Is real masculine mind. And what was ae the result? She had laughed at me. I Very well. I would ivs p my large Ih mineade Iea and go s and daly Swit wthe hmiit Ogrl eo the ane isL I had been a tool fte neglecting them, anyway. They werh at least, kind and appreciative. For a week or more I soused myself in society and, attended the Kappa º Kap party with tremendous success, t [ not less tb'an eight girls confessing o0 that they could die dancing with me. But I didn't enjoy myself. Somehow w socloy seemed as unsatisfactory as a t Itfth dish of ice cream. I got to hang- g ing around the library between classes of d -not in the hope of talidng with Mar- o, s tha-I wouldn't have tried that again It . for a farm--,hut betcaura, it 1tr'J I Elkind of homelike in there, and I liked h, º. to watch her studying with her rain- b .t coat and tant on-they became her a more than 1 SUplpOSed would be pos- a sible. I got considerably interested a in English history, too, while I was c L wasting time there. I had to amuse In e myself some way-and I did a lot of c t reading in the hope that some day I g d could get up uunexpectedly and recite I to young P'rofesor Harris until he choked me off. It would be such a sI tunning surprise to him, coming from me. I chuckled, at the thought of it. d So I filled up on Macaulay until I was 0e a walking biogruaphy of William of Orange, and one day when Professor i Harris ordered me up to do my usual a tight-wire baluncing act between a , uflunk and a "passable" I sailed into i the English for their attitude to Dutch e Billy like a prosecuting attorney ar raigning a chicken thief. d Professor Harris had only escaped 11 from England about two generations bn ack, and he bristled up when I tried º to explain how sweet it was in the beef-bolters to invite William over Id with his army, End then after using to them, to boot said army out of the k- country as a nuisance-in a perfectly "k polite and well-bred manner, of course Id -the English are always polite. So is we had a little ten-minute bicker, and it every time Professor Harris got a a hammerlock on me I managed to fall back a generation or two and grab up Ip some other English political crime is which I had run across in the last et week. So I came out of the deal with " out more than one shoulder on the at mat, but pretty much worried-for Ip Professor Harris was determined to gh avenge his precious England, and I saw it where it was up to P. Simmons to a keep on stoking in history at the rate of one quarto volume a day. I hurried over to the library after class, and had Just gotten Hume and Macaulay stacked up, one on each side, when I looked up and saw Miss Scroggs sitting near me and looking at me. She ducked her head with her peculiar little smile and bow. It warmed me clear to my shoes. I bowed back and went to work all cheered up. But I hadn't gotten more than a page or two worried down when someone dropped a note going by. It was from Miss Scroggs. "Three cheers for the Dutch," It read. "Re-enforcements coring by forced marches." I smiled across to her and waved my hand around my head, meaning "Hur rah for our side" and "Soc et tuum," and other things. It made me feel mighty good, and I decided, when we ran out of Dutch complications in English history, to Jump in on the French side, if necessary, and keep up the fight. After all, it was a lot of fan to joust with a professor. It was as exciting as baseball. Someone sat down by me and I closed the book. It was Miss Scroggsa She was Just a plain girl, as I have carefully explained, and I can't see why I went so dotty and nervous all over Just because she came over to talk to me. I suppose it was be caus- At least that was the only reason I could discover. "I've come over to ask you if you've ever read Motley an William," she mat asked. "Ie's dandy." 1l5 TIl get him now," I said promptly. ly, I got up, but healtated a minute. ed While I was goae she woeald go away, oft at coarse. I decided I wouldna't go th- away. Then I thought rd better. Then But I didn't know what to think. I looked * down at Martha pleadingly. She lit looked up and didn't bat a eye. "I'll U· Ind the place for you when ya come d back," she said. of (copyright.) h LET CLOCK RUN THE RANGE Electri Cooking ateve That Will S Lightn Work in Kitchen and Save Coest SAn electric cooking stove that is con troalled by a clock with an oven, into u which ome can put food with the full h ranne that at the time desired It r- will be cooked, Is deserlbed by the Sd a entiae American. S "Meals can be cooked automatically Son the new electric mtge-tht is to 4 ay, the housewife can put the food Ied n the oven at any time of the day - and set the clock for automatically led turnling on the corrent, and hence the for heat, at the proper hour, at the same h time settlng the thermostat to main a tain the proper temperature. Baking. ad roasting and boling an be done in nctthi way. When the proper tempera hat tr eis reached, which requires ten n minutes to half an hour, depending th, pon the temperature required, the S current automaticalY cuts off, and y from the on cooli proceeds as in a relessa cooker. The heavy heat insa Slation about the walls of the oven- Stwo inches of rock wool-causes the ovens to retain tbeir heat for hours. SNo attention is reqaired until the hour arrives at which it was determined at the meal should be ready. at "With the new electric range break h . aa be prepared in the way Just mentioned the niht before with tbe na * *e that it will be ready eatly oldn tie." out nd Stmping Him. " am now prepared to answer any a question you may care to ask," said wd the lecturer bnt "Ayoe barredr asked a man in 'le the audience Ot"Certanly not," replied the man on S nust wait a few minutes, will hwas e abter, till I run home and get me. that fouaryearold kid of mine. He's e got a few ad om that rd like to mayhave w fes me."-DetIt KEEP STOCK COMFORTABLE DURING WINTER The cattle sh,,uld he stabled; there is no strength In frosted grass t or fodder. Young cattle do better when kept in lopen yards. with deep. I well-bedded sheds to go, under. Cows gibing iilk sh,,uld Ie st:thled i and given nmilk-Iro.ducing fed. One I of the best todls for eitlher mlli'h cows 1 or fattenlng cattle is dried sugar beets. It comes in 21I-lIpoeunti s5:,'ks. (ne-half *pek u,f it snked in \anter for at few hours, mixe'd with two quarts ef wheat bran and ,one quart of corn and cob meal makes an excellent norning's meal for a cow. Some milk farmners are feeding sugar heets, rcorn andt cohmeal, ensilage and mixed hay. buy lng little grain. On this raticn the cows keepe in good flesh and give a godx quantit3 of milk. Personal Attention. Every atrlllltal lhtould he at least well h1..keed at by the fariinr per s-,nally every dlay. Tre tleor, care fullly ih ('in l4t,.e4 t at his stock the :IN, ·-' 14 r - SA MIGHTY POOR PLACE FOR LIVE STOCK. better for them and himself. Give all the food the cattle need, but al low no waste. Feed under cover in racks; fodder and coarse hay should be cut fine, or ground, mixed with grain and hot water in cold weather and fed lukewarm. Fodder fed by this method will be eaten clean and it will last longer. The most success ful men are the ones who either do their own feeding every day or have competent men to take their places. TICK ATTACK NO. 2 The Texas-fever tick lays from 3,000 to 5,000 eggs a year. Ticks suck as much as 2,000 pounds of blood a year from a 1,000-pound steer. Ticks reduce a cow's milk 18 to 42 per cent, a loss of 7 to 15 cents a day to the farmer. Ticks get the benefit of every pound of feed hay, and concen trates infested cattle eat It costs the South $50,000,000 a year to board the ticks on cat tie. Driving cattle through ar senical dipping baths kills Texas-ticks and lets the animals grow. Louisiana and MiSsissippi have made ticks Illegal by re quiring every county to dip all cattle. Two hundred and ninety-four thousand and fourteen square miles of territory have been freed from the cattle tick by dipping, but 484,529 square miles remain to be freed. SPREAD HOG CHOLERA GERMS Pigeons Carry Infection on Feet From One Farm to Another and In feet Neighborhood. Unconfined pigeons flying from farm to farm trequently carry the germs of hog cholera on their feet and infect a neighborhood, which Is then at a loss to understand how the outbreak of cholera came about. The same is true of buzzards. On several occasions when Investigations ot sources of hog cholera infections were made by a veterinarian the buz zard was found to be to blame. Statis tics published show that pigeons are responsible for about 20 per cent of the spread of hog cholera and it is estimated that they caused in this way in 1915 about $15,000,000 damage in the United States. TOBACCO STEMS FOR NESTS Make Best Material for Reason That Mites and Lice Cannot Stand Odor of Plant Tobacco stems make the best nest Ing material for the reason that lice and mites cannot stand the odor of tobacco. When stems are used they should be lightly covered with straw or ex celsior to make them softer and to keep the eggs from coming in contact with them. Peas Become Buggy. Peas often become "buggy" in the winter time. The standard method of preventing infestation of grains of all kinds is to fumigate with carbon bisulphide. Be sure that your stored seed Is not injured when It Is so easy to put the bugs out of business. Bring Back Old Orchard. Plenty of stable manure, cultivation and judicious praning will almost without exception bring back to besr ting the old orchard that seems to be beond bone. Keep the statbles clean and well bedded : bedding helps to keep the stock w'irIn a iil cinifort llie, It saves feedl al li :1 large qoa litity of ceellent manure t made. 'IThe improved steel tie I. the I.est halter, it gives more fr e itu to, the :i nim al, it is easy to fisten and easy to rtl" se 1t1 iuital. Attention to Horses. (;ive horses, rony stall<. bed well. clean the "table's very muirning, have the stables well lighted lan ventilated. F'Ieedl acordin g to work required. Bran andl cornienil, hi:alf and half hy weight, is excellent as ninter feed, mixed I cut hay or iunthrashed, olits. have head halters . ithi weight on the end of each strp, then there is no danger of horse heilEL ,lit in his .stall. K,'ip' rldl h,r.es wtell shod with heavy -iies ainl thick caulks, that may lie hli:irletletl a thee l ier it is icy. lrould .-o,\w sIholdl rt le, kept in small, dirty Ipe'i ntiin yards; give thmll :i smll li ht to e~ert- in; they need vegetable and mineral matter as well as grain. Wheat bran and oat meal slop is the best food. Keep fattening hogs in warm, well bedded pens. Old corn is the best grain. Boiled corn is just as good as ground, and it is a great sav ing. It should be boiled soft enough to crush between the finger and thumb. Boiled corn mixed with wheat bran is a good winter food for shoats and pigs. -" ------------ --s TILE DRAIN CBEAPIESI , Much Money Wasted in Construe tion of Open Systems. Closed Water Course, if Properly in stalled, Requires Very Little At tention as Far as Maintenance Is Concerned. (By E. B. HOUBE, Colorado Agricultural College. Fort Collins.) Many farmers are laboring nader the mistaken notion that a closed drain is much more expensive thea an open drain, and are therefore wasting money in the construction of many small open drains. The fact of the matter Is, that in the majority of cases, especially where tile less thea one foot In diameter is required, the closed drain Is the cheapest. The slope of the banks of an open drain should not be less than 1 to 1, and the drain should be in most cases for irregular lands, at least 4% or 5 feet deep. Figuring an open draln of this size and comparing the cost of the same with a 10-inch tile drain, we find that they are just about equal. The cost of the construction, how ever, is not the only thing to be tages into consideration, but the mal - tenance of the system is also of re importance. In the case of the opes drain, we have conditions exactly ri for the rank growth of vegetad i and the open drain continually ased attention. The cost of malntesanet, therefore Is high. The closed-di " drain, on the other hand, if propaep Installed, requires very little attentes as far as maintenance is concerned, and in the end is cheaper than the open drain. Open drains have their place sa serve their purpose well when p g. erly used, but they should be e0ea structed for outlets of larger dd s w.iu systems where tile would be at 4, the question on account of the . size necessary. They are, h.owe' entirely out of place when conetreWit~ as lateral drains for nladvd:r farms. CONTINUAL WAR ON INSECTS -, Hen Should Be Dusted With Ge*d i inla ep Powder at Least Once Weeldy as Preventive. Don't forget old "biddy" the e."V factory." She must be dusted onses a week with a good ace powder, wes no lice, as an ounce of prevni means much to the poultry keegpi. Get busy and keep busy all the ti'~:, fighting lice and mltes. Bean Reduce Faeed Cgt. . Soy bea In silage are . common and should prove _ valg| reducing feeding costs when age is high In price. Cut Out and Burn Canes` All old canes of raspberru blackberries should be eat out burned. Hotbeds for Vegstables Prepare hotbeds for grorlw and radishea durins the months.