HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1924-7-24, Page 7e- •
Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West 'Toronto
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THE ADAPTABILITY OF BAR- .their lactation period. That is, then
Spraying Potatots is Neces.
sary Order to Keep Them
and Rot and Other oiseases.
Spraying, in order to be effective,
must be timely and thorough, and
sho.uld be commenced when the potato
beetle eggs are just hatching, which
is usually about the time the plants
are from five to eight Inches high; and
the foliage should be kept covered
'Free From Beetles Blight
LEY IN LIVE STOOK the time to make a selection of all pro- througl-dut -the season, special pre -
FEEDING..
fitable prOduceri, and cult out those cautions being taken to see that ,it is
- As a utility feed for live stock, the o' well covered during wet weather, so
which have not proirm their ability t
value of barley is geeeraller accepted, produce above a certain standard. says Prof. J. E. Hewitt, Dept, of
but its particular value in this respect Just what this standard should be in
a grade herd depends to some eietentli jag
Botany, 0.A.C. Never put off spray -
is le; ree4talely appreciated Barley, like on the locality in whieh the herd is because it looks likserain for once
cornlegeta carbonaceous feed and, gen-
situated, the marketing facilities and i rain and be on the dry the speay mixture will withstand
erally speaking, it may successfully
prices obtainable for feeds as well as. plants at the criti-
be used to replace corn in the rations. for enilk or butter -fat. I the best fungicide 4 for potatoes. For
cal time. Bordeaux is by all means
When fed alone it is open to criticism The Experimental Farm, Norman,' the first application use four pounds,
compared with oats, corn or wheat; i copper sulphate, eight to twelve
because of its lack of palatability as N S working under average condi-1
but when fed in grain mixtures this pounds hydrated lime and forty gal-
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but
. objection is negligible. It is rather
'beating in character, and because of
this must be fed with discretion to
such classes of stock as idle work
horses and pregnant brood sows, if
used at all.
When fed in an experimental way
to work horses, it, was not consumed
with the same relish as oats, nor did
it posses as high a . food value. The over feed cost with each Individual, It
difference., in this latter respect was, was fotind that a heifer producing less
however, comparatively slight. than 5,000 pounds as a two-year-old
For the feeding on steers or •beef did not, except in a very few cases,
cattle, barley has a high commercial show a profitable increase during her
value. In a test conducted at the, three and four-yeer-old form. To i1 -
Brandon Experimental Farm, InIlustrate, fourteen heifers; grade Hel-
which barley and frozen wheat were stein and Ayrshires, which event over
compared, the barley chop gave an
average daily gain per steer of 1 lb.
13 oz while the frozen wheat gave a
their gro-,..11 and died. This is necesTIIE WOODLOT ON TIE FARM
sary to prevent tubers rotting after
they are dug. Be sure and,eise plenty
Forty gallons may be sufficient to Greatest Harm Done by Allowing Cattle to Graze Where
of Bordeaux at each application.
cover the plants when they are small, Young Trees Should Have a Chance to Develop.
'but eighty to one hundred gallons will
in order to do thorough spraying. The BY ARTHUR HERBERT RICHARDSON.
be required when the plants are large
best type of spray is one -with tee- During last summer a survey was the tree a All this means that the life
nozzles which provides for Spraying niade in one of the red settled parts of ; of the wood lot is shortened and the
the under -surface of the leaves. Bor- Ontario, to determine the amount o ' ehance for perpetuity dotroyed.
deaux dust is also recommended for forest land available for tree plant- Horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, if al -
the control of late blight and rot, but ing, and to classify the kinds and con- /owed to run continually in a hard -
sufficient experiments have not been ditions of farmers' woodlots. The work wood bush, destroy the young trees
conducted to demonstrate its superior- was done in a county where the pre- and destroy the forest mulch. Horses
ity over the liquid spray. veiling species are hard woods, such nibble the tender shoots of eeedaings,
. as beech, birch, maples, etc., and feed an leaves and tear the branches
Jelly Sold Green Apples. where the valuable sugar or hard as far as they can reach. Cattle dam -
maple was so common that by some age the young growth and expose and
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After a bad windstorm the ground it was considered a weed. Each piece injure the roots of larger trees with
under our apple trees was strewn. of woodland one and one-half acre in their sharp hoofs. Sheep are destruc-
with small, very green apples. Al- size or over, was examined and a tive by nibbling and tramping, hogs
though they were extra good for jelly,. report was made out giving answers destroy seed and nature's seed bed.
merchants said people generally to carefully prepared questions. Many farmers have noticed the trees
didn't think of that, and such. fruit One of these was "Has the woodlot of their wood -lots beginning to die in
was hard to sell. So they wouldn't i been seri ly damaged by cattle?" the tops. Branches cease to bear fol -
pay us enough .‘a make it profitable. in 4 townships examined, where the Lege dild give trees an unhealthy ap-
to haul the apples to town. 1 above hardwood species are common, pearance.
We made glasses of jelly, and left, the answer too frequently was in the Then in some windstorm these are
-one with each merchaM for him to affirmative, and of the total number the first to be throvin. This "stag -
display on top of a pile of the fruit. of woodlots examined during the sura -I headed" appearance on the part of
People caught the idea, and soon we, mer, a large per cent. had been given ithe trees is seldom connected with the
sold all the green apples at the cur-', over to cattle to be browsed, weakened, unfair treatnient of the forest by the
rent price for cooking apples. Since' retarded in growth and finaUy to pro- otreer.auDeeude btoyltahcek doefetfruooecitiaenedeinf nos-'
then, when we thin the apples on our
trees, we use the same plan. -N. S.
Ives.
tions for the Maritime Provinces
along these lines, is conducting a
grading -up experiment, using pure-
bred sires on heifers of unknown par-
entage and of the average type and
production of the dairy cattle
throughout the country. The progeny t are much more costly and no more
from these ma:tangs are also fred to effective in keeping betties under con -
pure -bred sires and a record is kept, trol. Repeat spraying with the Bor-
of the production of milk and butter- deaux mixture often enough to keep
fat the feed consumed, and the profet the foliage covered. Add a poison to
the Bordeaux only when required for
beetles. No stated number of applica-
tions of the Bordeaux can be recom-
mended. The number depends on the
weather, the wetter the weather the
larger. ;he number. If the season Is
fairorable for blight fife' rot' continue
spraying 'until the plants have finished
ions of water, and 11/2 pouncl
arsenate of lime to ea.ch forty gallons
of the liquid spray. Paris green and
arsenate of lead may be used as a
poison instead. of arsenate of lime but
5,000 pounds as two -year-olds, s owe
in that years 'in 'average production
of 5 621 pounds of 8.9 per cent. milk
ain of 1 lb. 3 ozs. At the Indiate in 846 days, or a daily average pro -
Head Experimental Farm, in a test
egnevering a period of 77 days, barley
was compared ..with elevator screen-
ings. The barley -fed lot made an
duction of 16.2 pounds. The profit
over cost of feed was $81.74 per cow.
or 14.5 cents for every pound of bet-
ter -fat produced. The three-year-old
average daily gain per steer of 2.18', period of these same cows, averaging
lbs. while the screenings -fed lot made 1 327 days, showed a production of
a gain of 1.78 lbs. Barley also holds, 6,819 pounds of 4 per cerit, milk, or
a prominent place in the ineal ration' 20.8 pounds per day. The profit was
of dairy cattle. 1$49.90 or 18.3 cents per pound of but -
.The suitability of barley for bacon 1 ter -fat produced. As four -year-olds,
production has been repeatedly de- they produced an average of 7,238.8
monstrated by the Dominion Experi-' pounds milk, testing 3.9 per cent. fat
mental Farms, pertieularly for finish- in 808 days. This was a daily aver-
ing. It is not a desirable feed for age of 23.5 per cent and the profit
brood sows before farrowing or dur- . realized was $56.57 or 20 cents per
Mr the early part of the nursing per- pound of butter -fat.
iod, hut may be introduced into the; The results obtained from twenty-
' tion after the pigs are a week seven heifers with less then 5,000
or two of age. Because of its carbon- pounds of milk as two -year-olds were
,
aceous nature it should not be fed to , striking in their contrast with the( lowed to form and to teach the prin-
newly-weaned Pigs in any appreciable above. Their first lactation period ciple of "Mine and Thine". Whipping
quantity but find its chief use in the; (844 days) showed an average pro- will not do it; more patient arid pains -
ions of bacon bogs after they have, duction of 3,819 pounds of 4.2 per etaking methods are required.
ed the age of about three cent, milk, a-. higher. butter -fat test,1 Laughingly we often say: "What's
months. At this time it may safelYi truly, than the fourteen in the first' mine is my own, and what's yours is
t • e too." This expression is all
As the margin of profit grows nar-
rower the more important it is to weed coieo
out the poor cows, and the greater the
percentage a cows falling below the ly the same age, or 1 i
profit line. , cut -over land which iS beginning toI and the cattle move freely from one
- sprout or seed in itself, an examina-Ito the other. In some sections of the
s ' tion of the underbrush and forest floor I province, large tracts of cut -over,
will be instructive to the man who is , hardwood land are purchased as al
interested in the betterment a his "ranch" for the purpose of pasturing
young cattle in the summer. Such
bush. On the ground, beneath th
°I far e areas of course, conssting as
duce inferior timber for fuel.
When Nature is• allowed to produce , forest floor by cattle, the trees have
trees in her own way without the de -1 been unable to obatin nourishment
vastating effects of stock, the floor of and consequently have declined in
the forest is mane a source of food vigor.
and recuperation. If the woodlot is With many farmers and stock own
made up of mixed hardwoods of near-tere, the• woodlot section of the farm
• • ' t f forms a part of the teneral pasture
Home Education
'The Child's First Schooi is the Family"-Froebel.4
larger trees, if these are piesen ,
18 81g.. they often rdwoods,
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Mine and Thine -By Jennie Ellis Burdick thick network of young growth ran
are not under discussion in this
ing in siva from a match to a whi?-
Just the other day I received a let- Then comes a day when she fussesi ewe. These are the children of t e ' article, but wleere the farmer has a
ter from a mother which was a cry because the children do not take care, forest and on them, just like the chil-1 few acres of good bush, and is proud
for help. Of their toys, do not pick them up do'
, i dren. in any community, depends the of it, and wishes to give It a chance,
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"My boy, John, has been taking, not realize that they have money l• future of the woodlot. Beneath these so that it will continually provide him
money from my pocket -book. What value. But why should they? Those 1 is an accumulation of forest debris I, with fuel and an odd stick of timber,
shall I do? I do not want him to things are common property -there is made up of leaves of successive sum- ,I he should keep the cattle out. Where,
adnIdotwhcoe
nresisittsmoifghat
..Alas I this mother is not the onl
I If John can take Mary's things, of bark, pressed down by
1 mers, droppings of twigs anednepwieceefsl; nhuowyeebyeerr,eith
one -with such a problem; unfortunate- without leave or license, and she can' many 'win'ters. This layer, which is prove a hardship to fence it entirely
from cattle, a plan should be adopted
acres, rwe so, o
no sense of personal responsibility.
grow up a thief."
ly there are many parents who at take his, and Mother can do the samel often called duff, serves as a mulch to;
some time or another are confronted with Father's what's the difference the forest trees. On top it is coarse :whereby a small section is given over'
with this sanie unpleasant exeenience• if they take kother's? The children and irregular but as it nears the; to cattle and the remainder is fenced
The mother facing the problem must are old enough now to know that ground it becomes finer and richer ou for recuperation. In the protected
take drastic measures to break off a money buys candy, money will get until it mixes with the virgin wild part the young tree growth will come
habit which should not have been al- adraission to the movies, money is This is Nature's seed bed, her store- on uninterrupted, additional seed will
needed for that "tvreeny-weeny" doll house for food, leer reservoir for mois-1germinate, the forest floor will be pro.
or those marbles down at the corner tore. If the forest floor is therefore tected and the veoodlot will take on a
store. They have seen Mother pay destroyed, the children of the forestl much healthier and more natural ap-
for the things she bought at the are killed, food is not permitted to , pearance.--Canadian Forest and Out -
store. So now, not having any money accumulate and moisture is denied doors.
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of their own, they take it out of the - - -
'a anyone to notice instances in which
pocketbook which belongs to Mother,
In comparison with corn for the. per cent. fat in 286 days or 2,646 ttice it, The wife assumes that the Each member of the family should at once attack her; and until she has
until it comprises upwards of 50 or t was only $14.08 or 8.8 cents per (pound , right as a joke, but it is all wrong t but which to their way of thinking hens act like the higher bipeds. They
be introduced and gradually increased. group, but, the pro over ,
60 per cent of the meal ration as the: of fat produced. As three..year-olds,I when .we put it into practice. Yet' is a family affair. are snobbish. If you introduce a new
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hog approaches marketable weight. 1 they averaged 4,173 pounds milk, 8.9; so many young married people prac- HUMAN NATURE
hen to a flock, the older residents will
feeding of market hogs it has given. pounds less than did the first group of home Is absolutely hers, and her hus- understand and should practice the IN HENS
,,,, proved her eualities she will be kept
principles relating to ownership. 0
- - away from the feed box at least until
and cost 0.26 of a cent more per 114-.1 $22.07 or 13.5 cents per pound of fat, aside. If she wants to use any of his There should be no appropriating of the old-timers have had their fill. At
0.11 of a lb. lower daily gain per hog fourteen, and the profit,. was only band's things are gradually pushed
ducted at three Dominion Experi- two -year-olds. n theirfour-year-old ers or even his razor -she takes
I quest and a "than For the summer vacation there are
roost among the native daughters, but
of gain in feeding tests recently con- orie cent less than the first group of tbelongings--tools, handkerchiefs, slip-
. ione another's belongings without a re- night she will not be permitted to
mental Farms in Eastern Canada. The, form (in 290 days), they averaged I them, regardless of the value he ing of this habit will require persist- studying animals. And to observe ani -k you." The form- few more. diverting recreations than
apart in the slum
deductions drawn from these tests I 4,799.6 pounds of milk testing 3.9 per; places on them. 'Occasionally he pro- ent patience on the part of the a u 1 nature you need not go far afield muse find a peg
memcorner of the henhouse. When the
members of the family. A penalty , or be equipped with expensive upper -
with swine were as follows: 1. That cent. fat, gave a total profit over feed, tests, sometimes emphatically, but , flock is roaming in the fields she will
might be impose& for every infringe -I atus. It is enough to use your eyes,
bacon hogs are capable of makingl 'cost of $26.67 or 14.2 cents per pound more often to gently for her to realize"cut" and left to scratch for her -
slightly
of the rule. land ears near home. There is much, be
self; but if she finds a good place for
That pound for pound, barley has a by Group 1 over Group 2 in this per- continues to treat his things as though, Of course, each child should have, to, be learned about all the baruyard,
worms, the old settlers wilr"jump her,
slightly greater gains on corn. II of fat produced. The increase shown his justification in doing so, and she i
slightly lower feeding value than corn. tied was 2,438.7 pounds milk, $29.90' ni ere her own. He states his ob.; an allowance out of which he must' innaortan_,
ee and the most interesting.
luck. as soon as they discover her,
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. S. That barley -fed bogs are more in profit over feed cost, and 5.8 cents jections less and leas strenuously until i chase some necessary article. At of them, perhaps because they are thei claim,*
evenly fleshed. 4. That barley -fa. per pound of butter fat. Ten cows in he ceases; he consoles himself by any- first the amount should be small and most irritating, are the hens.
e requirement a simple one. For They are the most widely distribut- But in time of fear or trouble bens;
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hogs give a superior quality of bacon. Group. 1 would give more pro • g, "Shedoes not interfere at my,
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ed of all the domesticated animals, for like human beings, are likely to forget
5. That home-grown barley can be fed four-yeae-olds than twenty-one1 f business and I ought not to .
p examI , when he first enters school, . rt their social distinctions. If at the end
ally an imported feed). erage- heifer in this case with a pro- that is her place of business." But be for his o pencils. As he grows , of . the g o
t mi ht be well to insist that he pay / they are found in almost
lhore economically than corn (gener- in Group 2. This show e that the av- object to what she does at home, for t t "inhabited by hu- of the day the flock finds that the wind
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It might be welle.to emphasize the duction of over 5,000 pounds of milk keeps his treasures -at the office and older add an itern at a time, and ati man beings, ameng the savages of has shut the henhouse door and that
Importance of using home-grown feeds as a two-year-old is 110 per cent.; club. , the s'ame time increase his allowance. little -explored regions as well as in they must seek shelter under a bush,
for economical eoroduction underepres- superior -to the average heifer below' By and by the children come. „
I Thi allowance should not be the back yards of civilization. Even they will all huddle together, immi-:
ent market conditions. Barley can be 5 000 pounds at the same age. 1Mother punishes John when he objects! This
foerernteoitnhin child' ,the families who make their homes on grants and native stock, without dise
universally grown, is a relatively s ' Considering the fact that the aver-, to Mary's taking his toys. " ' t
., sh"ornuled Iregve dgu2tiesEasbochutthe! the canal and river barges of Europe crimination.
i Among hens as among human be.
cattle, sheep, and swine where a car- per year, something must be done to, taken ,her prized plaything, the little e lect of which will cause the with-; for a long time; they are mentioned
which willi keep hens.
accerftealdiviL.t he ohuetn as , dti sngsusrgenatowki
heavy yielder, and is particularly well age production of milk from all cows' kind and generous," she tells him.
,house, the perfor.manc
". the tr t and boldest rule. If
sided for adding to the rations of in Canada is less 4,000 ds; When Mary. cries because John has entitle him to his allowance, and. the Hens have been associated with man ings
there is a rooster, his leadership is
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bonaceous feed is required. bring up the average and cut down girl is punished for being sulky and;holding of it
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in some of the oldest texts. Many a
a fight to determine who is to be the
hsseretii
the number of unprofitable producers.. selfish. Grandmother g• Johna Thus the child learns that money their traits are so like those of have but
VALUE OF SELECTION ON MILK By adopting a reasonable standard toy, but Mother acts as if the gift is obtained by rendering service, that heings that certain observers
social arbiter. In pecking roosting
upon which to base our selection, weconcluded that a hen on the highroad
laces for the night hens observe a
may materially decrease the cost of is the ultimate symbol of human . lo
' system of rank as rigid as that of a
PRODUCTION COSTS. had been made equally to the two, each member of a family has work to
_ children. In every way she kills in 1 do, if the house is to be a home, and
During the late summer the major- milk production and increase the them that natural instinct for pride that respect for the rights of others is nateire.
However that may be, it is easy for •
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diplomatic dinner in London If a
ity of the cows on the well-managed1 labor income which at the present in ownership. one of the first rules of life. . pariah ventures to push in among the
dairy farm re nearing the end of time is far too lew.
-.aristocrats onthe top roost, the others,
peck her until she returns to her pro,
POULTRY Especially is this. true when. dry mash eeeeeeeee.. per station.
Once the hen leader has been chosen
and young chickens in order to insure
an abundant supply of clean, coo .
ouantities of grain and mash needed
One is to weigh out the approximate
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I place. And in eliminating competitors
I hens are Most businesslike: If a hen
Ifeels under the weather or is injured,
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is hopper fed and is constantly avail- 1 there is little insurgency, but let the
During warm weather it is highly able to the hens. e social boss weaken and woe unto her 1
important that special attention be , Two ways of accomplishing the ob- ‘....i. e
IA rival is always -ready to take her
e given to the water supply of -both hens ject are in use by careful poultrymen. ea.
eee'r.
water at all times. for a week with the expectation that ':-.4.4e- ,;.' . ' there is none so magnanimous as to
It he right on the ground. Branch indicate at a glance just how much' - :e.414..,5,
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i young. . Similar new courage has been
Growth and egg production are, the two mixtures will become exhaus- refrain from giving her a stab. If she
both severely handicapped when the' ted at the same time. Any surplus . s disappears for a time to hatch a brood,
water supply is insufficient. that remains may be weighed back et s4see *AY' .
she must give a strict account of her.
An easy way to handle the summer the end of the week. self upon her return. But no mattee
watering problem where- running Another method . is to use grain thew meek a hen has been she will
Water is available is to run a liee of and mash supply boxes , on the inside , ; when she becomes a mother defy th4
half-inch pipe out to the range, letting of which have been marked scales to ,' I queen of the flock in defence of het
- lines may be run to each section of feed is in the box. WI en mash is fed, ,
,,,e.oanease noticed' in human mothers.
the range 'or, if desired, to each col- in large • hoppers the scale may be I --• e.---
elen If the pipes are laid in a deep fur- With the facts at hand week by, ,
itself. e"Wee A Prayer. •
ony house marked on the inside of the hopper ' .,,,,
kept much cooler than if they are left made in the quantity of scratch feed
week and necessary variation may be 1
-,-:'--f' If I have faltered more or less
In my great task of happiness;
above ground, yet there will be no given daily in order to keep the de. If I have moved among ray race
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row and covered the water will be
serious inconvenience when the time
sired ratio of, grain to mash: . And shown no glorious morning face;
fall. - . e.s. , If beams from happy taxman eyes
Have moved me not; if morning skies,
A simple and cheap watering 1Books, and my food, a.nd summer rain
Sun and light make for sanitation
comes for taking the pipes up in the ----,...._
trough for the range may be made by in the pig sty. YOUNG SCOTS IN QUEST OF FORTU NE . Knocked on ray sullen heart In 'Mill;
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soldering a ':1 -at piece of tin or ' gal- Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take,
vanized iron tO eaeli end of a section
. A feature Of the Canadian exhibit ',Finding the routine of city office young adventurers -- Frederick S. in Glasgow, but found a, clerical occu-
And stab my spirit wide awake.
-Robert Louis Stephenson.
of ram .gutter or eavestroug . at the British Empire Exhibition is a ., We uncongenial, four young men from Rinnie, Walter Moetimer, aaraes 0:Illation unpalatable. Each of them se- .
When one is attempting to keep the, model, d tirely of butter, of the ' Glasgow, who were college chums to- I Kem -'
lug and Norman J. IVI'Gaw----sail- cured -£100 capital from his parents
mash consumption of a flock of hens: Prince of Wales s andine outside his' • ed from Liverpool .for the Dominion' before starting out on their venture,
- _ . wad a get er, Ne set ou try con
t to jointly "'recently on the Canadian Pad c . . d they will travel - right through I If the slats in the pig creep are
consumption, as for instapce . equal' half tons of butter w2re required for clualors% with fcrtune in Canada's "Montroyal," as third-class passengers. Canada from Quebec to Vancouver. placed
Educatei at the Fettea in the creep can be used without
t'cally instead of horizontal-
(' I rfe li,t to measure the results and fine refrigerate): cabinet and attracts Iburgh, they worked for some months S.:as, and they expoot to take pp ochaae;gi ing until the pigs are mucle
cpanntities by weight, he may find itI this model. It- is contained in a very broad nace5. College, Ddin- All four are fine speclments of young
in Eoffie definite relation to the grain 1 Canadian ranch house. Iwo
ust how well he is succeeding. an unusual aniount of attontioe. I -Of flees ranging from 19 to 21, the in stockbrokers' and shipping -offices farming or fruit growing in the west. 1
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