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The SOdie
By Edwin Baird.
CHAPTER I.
On a summer morning Tom McI{a
journeyed to Chicago, seeking rom-
ance. And itrwas in the Uni
Stockyards `that his tltought•flowed
the romantic 'channel which led
his encounter with Wah Sing Lo, t
Ids meeting the Girl with the Wist
fol Eyes, to hie acquaintance with th
Bald-headed Preacher, and to hi
thrinling adventure in the Seale
Room.
Ostensibly, he was visiting Chien
for the purpoee of eceing Packing
town. Early in the morning he an
oene two hundred others—all Iliinol
cattlemen, like himself—had fare
forth with the announced intention o
acquiring sundry market tips pertain
ing io their taming. But that wa
only an excuse for Toni—a peg where
on to hang his pilgrimage. HIS un
derlying motive ran deeper than that
The Union Stockyards of Chicago
ere scarcely the place to look for
romance, You would as soon search
for roses in the Great American Des-
ert, or expect to find pearls in a
Mulligan stew. The stockyards at
mosphere stifles romance.
And yet, to repeat, it was here, and
nowhere else. that the exciting lam-
ellae of Tom McKay had its inception.,
Looking back now upon the long train:
of remarkable events which helped'
to shape his life, he can perceive that
they really began at the moment he
stood shivering in the refrigerator de-
partment of one of the larger packing
concerns, surrounded by his friends.
He was gazing with a far -away
leek in his eyes at a thick -set, earnest
man who stood on a platform at one
side of the room, submitting a talk
ee the right and wrong ways of rale.
Mg stock for the market. This
heavy gentleman illustrated his cis-
raurse by pointing, as occasion re-
quired, to six newly dressed steer's,
suspended above the platform; and it
tins to ]tear his speech and to view
these steers that Tom's fellow farm-
ers had travelled from downstate to-
day.
But Tom who only last week had
sed ten thousand do]lars' worth of
cattle in Chicago, and who had amass-
ed a comfortable fortune from similar
sales in the past, was for reasons
aforementioned, uninterested in the
matter of beef. He stood a little apart
from the rest, blowing on his hands
in a pre -occupied way—for the place
was disagreeably cold—and wishing
he had worn an overcoat atop his
summer suit, when the first snral:l in-
cident in his Great Adventure came to
pass.
Perhaps it was his detached atti-
tude which persuaded Mr. P. J. Hen-
neberry, hovering near in watchful
fashion, to approach affably, jauntily,
on his alert face a cordial smile, right
hand extended.
" Mr. McKay, I believe. My name's
Henneberry—Patrick J. I represent
the Broadway Motor -Car Company—"
absently,
two cars now," said Tom
y, yet definitely too. ""I reck-
on I can worry along with these."
"We've a very attractive deal on
now," purred the persuasive Benne-
berry, producing sundry papers,
"whereby you can trade in a used car
1, ." His voice rippled on,
eunoothly, oilily, so deftly modulated
as not to compete with the voice of
the platform lecturer.
Tom heard the first few words it
uttered. The rest was a blur. His
niiind dwelt not on automahiles. It
dwelt on that other so different mate
ter which, mere then anything else,'
had enticed him Mere to -day, and
whleh, oddly enough, had attained full
growth and flowered in the heart of
Pactkin,gtown.
Suddenly. he straightened up. A
now right shone in his eye—gree light
which denotes the love and spirit of
adventuresome enterprise,
"By George, I'll d0
"Good for youl" exclaimed the de-
1iglvbed Henneberry. " I knew you
would."
Torn, who had quite forgotten the
salesonan'ee p2•esenee, seared at him a
momt:enit blankly. Then, with an
apologetic smile:
I didn't mean --just that, Sorry.
But give lie your card, and if I
happen to need a new car some day
1 e was off down the long, cool
room, dodging in and out between the
rows of dressed beef, heedless alike
of his curious friends, of the platform
sneaker, and of Mr. Henneberry, tag-
ging close behind.
Emerging to the warose sunshine --
or leach of it as filtered through the
smoke ---he successfully evaded the
auto agent and, hurrying to the
nearest telegraph station, directed to
his foreman the following oornmundca-
taon:
Delayed indefinitely. Don't worry,
Hunting Trimmed Lamp and others.
The kelegrap!her's pperp'lexilby over
the third sentence in Tom's. comgnuni-
oabion was not ehared by the mann to;
Whom it weuee sent --George Yocnln.
"ton huan, I thought sro," mused
Yom1m, when he lead read the tele-
"'Iltle feet like nim," And
ri, as he fed and: watered the stbocic
for . the night and sleeted d borne
through the late-seinmer desk, he
thought ensively; "I with I were
with himil"
OOM
At this moment Toni MoKay stroll-
ed from an ornate betel in Chicago
on
m
to
o and Olark, and cast his gaze over
the currents of life hastening nois7ly
o in four directions. The streets were
a ablaze with light and color; the hur-
rying crowds laughed and chatted
gayly. Huge electric signs were
Chien • everywhere --over theatres, rosttaur-
- ants, cafes, barber shops, saloons.
d Taxicabs sad private cars chuffed
s and honked emitting a pungent odor
d of gasoline. The city was awaken -
f ing to its midsummer night's pleasure.
-1 All this, to your native Chicagoan,
$ was common -place, uninteresting; but
-1 not se to Torn McKay. To him
was athril•l with excitement, Tha
. swirl of metropolitan life, to him
was pregnant with mystery, dile
with adventure. He was rubbing c
bows with romance, so he fetlt,
• Ilis cigar, unnoticed, died. H
relighted it, fell in wie the eve
:<hifting crowd, and wa-s swept ,don
to the centre of the street. H
stopped beside a traffic polietena
and shouted above the ear -plittin•
din:
Pretty big crowd in town to -night.
Ig':aring him, the policeman yelle
to a stl'eet-car motorman who w•a
clanging his heli for no apparent ren
son ""Lee noise there!"
Tom •persevered: "Can yon tell in
where 1'll find a good show?"
i "They're all good," bellowed tri
policeman, and blew two sharp blast
!on his whistle for the traffic to mov
east and west.
"Thanks," said Torn, and, proceed
ing to the corner, bought an evenin
paper, but he did want to talk, an
would have done so perhaps, had tl
boy been an American instead of
Greek, who spoke Ness than six word
of English. n�lis'h. Any^tvay, he was to
busily employed in shouting hi
wares to bother with conversations
patrons.
Contributing the paper to an Indus
trious street sweeper; also of Gree
extraction, Tom moved east ,in Ran
dolph Street and addressed himself t
a taxicab chauffeur leaning idly
against his machine and railing a
cigarette.
"Good evening, friend. Wong you
have a cigar?"
The chauffeur, patently surprised
accepted the costly perfecto, rolled it
between thumb and finger, and held
it to his nese, suspiciously. "Much
obliged. But what's de idea—"
Hereon he was interrupted. A man
and -woman in evening attire, emerg-
ing from a glittering cafe, engaged
the taxicab, and Tom saw the trio
vanish in the maze of the brilliant
thoroughfare.
He next essayed talk with a salld-
wieh man, and next with a chewing-
guan peddler, was not encouraged in
either case, and then progressed to an
adjacent theatre where, accordingto
the vari-colored electric bulbs above
the gilt entrance, "The WhirlyGirly
Revue" was on display.
It was now a trifle past eight
reek, and the 'theatre rush was at
its height. Irresolute, be loitered in
the crowded rotunda, mangling with
the happy throng, the only one there,
it seemed to him, who had no com-
panion. Nobody noticed him. He
was more completely ignored than a
shipwrecked man en a desert island.
He became conscious of an inereasing
sense of loneliness ` and t dieeppoinits
meat.
Then, abruptly, this feeling disap-
peared, The crowd •ha$ thinned some-
what, and he now beheld stending
alone on .its outer edge, a lovely
young girl. She was looking his
way, as it chanced, and their eyes
met, and the first thing he noticed
W AS that her expression reflected a
sadness akin in hi
and sauntered leisurely in the direc-
tion of Randolph Street. He had
dined well, lee smoked an excellent
cigar, and he was !n a receptive mood.
Ile paused at the corner of Randolph
What One Woman Did.
There is an atmosphere of re
about some homes, ee11101)0 anile
countable, but undeniably present,
fasting all who are fortunate enoug
motes otss theirthresbolls, 1 Una
sucl a home intimately. It is sinn
plc and harmonious, ail while it a
joyously bright it is restful. Ther
is no sense of confusion, beeause tit
women who made it what it is use
neither figured draperies nor rugs o
a decided pattern with figured wall
papers. Neither did she put da
or iergc-figured paper in a eenaa
room, for it is always questionabl
and seldom looks well. She did us
a dim, soft tapestry paper in th
hall, and in the bedrooms some small
welb'covered patterns "that did no,
"travel."
She did not famish any room en
tirely in browns, but she pet plenty
of dull -blue in the brown rooms, giv
ing a balanced ration of color. Neith
er did she put a depressing blue pap-
er on any room, for that might giv
the family a chronic case of th
blues. "Cold" looking papers, each
as grays, blues or greens, were no
put in a north room, nor in a room
having little light, but yellows were
used to reflect all the light pos
sible. She avoided using yellows
oranges or reds, except in small
touches, in rooms hewing a strong
dark interior. And because of the
et things she did vet da, she made a
home 'that was like ee bit of 'heaven on
a1- earth,
h So many of tie are controlled by
w circumstances than it is not always
ways
possible to follow a definity plan; buts by recognizing such fundaanontal
e rules a5 this homemalcer observed,
e and keeping them in mind whenever
d changes are contemplated, we may
f in time reach the goal oe at least
- ta'avel along the path which leads
rk to it
Il
e See That Children Eat \Wholesome
e Food...
e Nutrition is power, force and en-
, ergy. The human body must create
t this for iIsell; man is not a buttery
that can bo changed or reloaded at
- will, therefore et behooves us to look
well to the requirements of our body.
Underfed children will grow to
-
maturity fully two or three inches
under normal height, and with a
e handicap of twelve to eighteen pounds
e bellow normal weight. This Inas been
traced in mast instances to faulty
t nutrltdon, ineitnitary surroundings,
and lack 01 care for the .physical- well-
bebe g.
The efficient mother must undor-
stand thoroughly and be alert to pre
-
1 vent this dwarfing of the capacity of
the human being,
One child is permitted to eat what
he Bluets, gliscac iiieg ileotl that is
vitally necessary if he is to grow
bone, teeth and muscles structure.
Then, again, tsome mothers will give
the child a nickel ora dime for cake,
pie or ice cream for the noon lunch-
eon. They aro indifferent to the
source of these articles. A saucer
of well -cooked cereal and milk 10001d
have satisfied the child and at the
same time have supplied him with the
food needed for nutrition.
Store a Keg.of Herring.
it glare of light, but put her grays, or
t cool colors, in these rooms. Nor did
she use borders on her papers, for
d borders carry the eyes up to the cell-
ing.
There were not many pictures, but
e such as she had were good, with sim-
r ple, not ornate, frames. She avoided
e hanging them against a figured wall-
a, paper, for this causes confusion.
gl Neither did she hong her pictures
from one hook, theieby leading the
eye, by the converging lines of the
d j wire, to the hook instead of to the
s picture.
Thera was nothing in the house too
o • good to be used. She avoided put-
! ting more than five objects on a
e mantelpiece, nor were the living-
s rooms cluttered with loose photo -
o graphs. The rugs and large pieces
o£ furniture were not placed "on the
bias," straight, sda-uetural lines be-
d • ing se much more -restful. There
1e was no plate -rail, with a lot of dust -
a collecting plates and other objects on
s it; nor were there any dead, scuffed
o fish or birds hanging in the dining.
iroom to reproaoh her when she want -
1 to enjoy a savory little trout or a
. piece of game. Her Ohina was net
Gree painted witlh rest/Motet anlitmatls oii
- flowers, for who would care for ice -
o cream served on a lobster's back?
Neither did this homemaker dis-
play all her silver on the sideboard,
for she found that a dish of fruit and
a pair of candlesticks looked so much
more attractive, and required less
care.
The exterior of the house was not
painted a cold, stony gray, nor a
bright green, nor pink. Instead it
was painted white with a mossy -
green reef. She did not paint her
porch -ceilings sea -green nor sky-blue,
for such colors tire sensitive eyes.
Nor did slhe paint the outside win-
dow -sashes black, making the win-
dows look like great holes against the
vn, Bhe was
ngtt only alone --the was lonesome.
She promptly averted her eyes, of
course, but not before he had re7nark-
ed how fine they were large, deep
blue, long -lashed, and inexpressibly
pure—and how, at the present mo-
ment, they seemed overflowing with
poignant wdsefuenese. And then he
perceived something else which per-
turbed him still more: her sleet white
fingers were moving together in ner-
vous agitation, and the bit of lace
they held was twisted into- a tight
little ball unrecognizable as a liana -
kerchief. Obviousily she was in keen
distress.
(To be continued.)
Impossible!
That biinkin' patent spirit stove of
yourn has Bern out, George.
Well, can't yer•light it again?
Nol It's gorn out 'through the roof
of the dugout.
Sympathy is all right i11 lots place,
but it can never take the plaice of
ready money.
"IG de by teaching that we teach our-
�seolves by reletting that we observe,
by
affirming that we examine, by
showing that we look, by wailing that
we think, by pumping that we draw
.t wlittex into the 'win,"—Aamie ,
WHEAT GROWING AT 0.A.Ca
•
'Valuable Information Gained by
Experiments at Guelph.
For nine years in suoeeeelon ex-
periments were conducted at the On-
tario Agricultural College at Guelph
in treating winter wheat in diff'er'ent
ways to prevent the development of
stinking smut ad the results have
been very satisfactory, In the aver-
age for five years, untreated seed pro-
duced 4.2 per cent, of smutted heads,
while send which was immersed fan'
20 minutes in a solution made by
adding one pint of formalin to 42
gallons of water produced a crop
which was practically free from smut,
This treatment has been found to be
sieeple" in operation, comparatively
cheap, effectual in completely ]tilling
the smut, and productive of the high-
est yield of grain.
The results of twelve separate tests
made at the College show an average
increase in yield of grain per acre of
6,8 bushels from large as compared
with small seed, of 7.8 bush. from
plump as compared with shrunken
seed, and of 55.6 bush. from sound
as compared - with broken seed,
Thoroughly ripened seed produced
more grain and produced more straw
than seed which was cut at an earlier
stage of maturity,
Eight separate tests demonstrated
that land or which field peas had been
used as green manure yielded 6.5
bush, of wheat per acre more than
land on which buckwheat bad been
used be green manure. Winter wheat
grown on clover sod also yielded bet-
ter than that grown on timothy sod.
Burlaps of the Japanese.
The earlap is almost entirely want-
ing with the Japanese, but this ap-
parent aiomoly is none at all. It is
we whose ears are badly formed, or at,
least different from those which na-
ture, if not interfered with, would
have given us. Our ear is disfigured
because for centuries our ancestors
loaded it with more or less heavy
ornaments, which in the course of
time elongated its inferior part. We
inherited from them both the suctom
and its effect—the lap. A fact goes
to show that this. useless and cruel
custom was unknown to the Japan-
ese, the expressions for earrings
mimi-gana) and earlap (mimi-taboo),
Buy Peace
Stooks Now
Write for list of selected in..
vestments which yield from
6% to 1096
with absolute security.
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106.106 Transportation Uulldlnm
MONTREAL, - QUE.
were not introduced into the Japan-
ese language until the epoch when
the Japanese entered into connection
with the Occidentals, those whom
they were wont to call barbarians.
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T0RO,t r0 CANADA
AIAKESOREAa IN 3 MINUTES
Issued by Canada Food Board
Of course you shore potatoes and
apples in your cellar for winter but
what about a keg of herring or a
box of finnan hadddes? They are as
investment of the hest kind for you
can always turn to them in time of
need and prepare an appetizing and
economical meal in. the twinkling of
an eye.
There is a big victory to choose
from. Of the •salted and dried kind
you have kippered herring, salted or
dried codfish and salt pickled alewives.
The frozen varieties obtainable in the
West are lake fish, sole, brill, cod,
plaice, witehes and flounders; and in
Eastern Canada, cod haddock, mack-
erel, herring, sole flounders and lake
fish. Other varieties of fish coming
out of Canadian 'lances besides white-
fish, trout and pickerel axe eiseoes,
pike, gold eyes and mullets.
Food Control Corner
Great Britain a17d her Allies have
been there of •bubter for several
months, and the Canada Food Board
have been asked to take steps to re-
lieve the condition which has bowie
heavily upon the people of Great Britt-
ain, France, Italy and Belguim, The
pressure upon cargo space has been
heavier than ever, since the United
States has entered the war, and be-
gan moving her troops across the
Atlantic. Ships are needed for
soldiers and munitions of war, as well
as for flood stuff's-. The maul staple
food stuffs naturally receive the first
consideration.
To -day in Great Britain one-half
pound butter or margarine per :month,
per person, is all than :the supply al-
lows, as compared to the creamery
butter consumption of two pounds per
person, per month in Canada.
The Canadian' Gloveriiment on the
reoommend'attion of the Minister of
Agriculture and the Cenadta Food
Boatel, at the request of the British
Ministry of Food for increased ship-
ments, • has commandeered all the
creamery butter made between Sep-
tember 30th., and. November 9th., in-
clusive, in the Provinces of Alberta,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and
Quebec for export 60 Great Britain
and Allies. tjp
This does not mean, however, that
Canadians need be panic-stricken, rear
does it mean that there is the least
justification for hoarding or profiteer-
ing. There are in store, unaffected
by this commandeering order, 20,000,-
000 pounds of creamery buttiter made
before September 30th. Dairy buic-
ter is not affected by the order. The
average cost to cold storage com-
panise for butter now in stare ie
about 44111 cents a pound. The pro-
fits of stort'a a companies seliihrt rho
wheledalers ea'e iimfbed by the Canada
Food Board Order lie, 45 of June fide,
to 4 per cents„ and of wholesalers salt-
ing to retalbeats to 10 pes' confik over
costt dlelivered to weaehougo,
The present, supply of creamery
butter in storage, together with dairy
buttes• produced during the next six
weeks, will be quite sufficient to fill
the ordinary demands of the Canadian
public.
Boarddng-houeo keepers are re-
minded that they must get a license
from the Canada Food Board if they
serve fifteen meals se day oubsidei
thein• families. It is illegal not to
gent the •license, and the penalties may
be heavy.
How are those who omit to get; a
license to be discovered? Very easily.
The grocer must not knowingly serve
boardinghouse keepers who have no
incense. He nislcs having his own
license taken away, which would part
him out of business. B, erding-
homse keepers must also obtain sugar
certificates to ger; their supplies of
sugar, end the retailer meet endorse
these at each purchase. Order 46
of The Food Board -which, it must be
emphasized, ds 07.0 larw of the land
to-day,—specifically includes among
Public Eating Places private families
keeping boarders and boardinghouses,
ptrovdded, of course, they serve fifiteen
meals, Retail grocers have been
warned individually by the Food
Board a;gadnst breaking 1lliese regula-
tions.
A ileal Surjrrise.
"I was talking tui' my cdilored meal
of all work the •other day," said a
well-known business man, "and I alsic-
ed'him if he went to church,
" 'Yessur, I goes to church every
Sunday,' he said.
" 'Are you a member?'
" 'Yessuh.'
" 'What church?'
" 'Prespeteeryn:
" 'Do you believe in the doctrine of
ele,etion Y,'
" 'Yessules
"Do you think I am elected to he
saved?!
" 'Law, Mr, Mellen, I didn't even
know you all was a candidate,' n
02.75
e3.2e
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wholesome brad,
rills, re, wuhnut
•sootele, Saves iron,
d helps conserve
the Nation's food
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WEST INDIAN TRADE
OF GERMANY TO GO
(EXCLUSION OF CHEAP WA1U'
AND ESPIONAGE AIMED AT
British Commercial Interests Prepare
ing to Drive Out Fore.igu Inllu-
cnce Front the Island.
7:i• question of Germans being:
permitted to take part in the delib-
erations on trade matters in the Bri-.
fish West Indian Colonies has been
raised le at least one place, says iI
despatch from Kingston, Jamaica,
For years, the foreign element in
these coloelos made every effort to
capture the tr'ede of each island, The
efforts of German representatives in
the introduction of exceedingly cheap
wdres in markets like Jamaica, and the
extent to which they succeeded in .0:-
tacking
a1:tacking trade relations with the Me-
therinnd, ere instances of the influ-
ence which Germans brought to bear
en eonnlunitiee in the West Indies,
Not only wrare- cheap and inferior
grade goods thrown broadcast, as it
\vele, on the Jamaican market, but
local business houses in this•cnlony
established important connections
with firms in Hamburg and other
parts of the German Empire,
Trade Largely German.
The shipping trade to Kiegstor
, was largely German. Ships 2f the
'Samba rg-Amer'iea Company broo'Jght•
cargoes from Hamburg, and in return
took away large consignments of our
produce. German worships frequent -
1y eltisecl - in West Indian waters;
they indulged lit target practice off
the coast of Trinidad. .Even in Kings
ston harbor en one occasion the crew
of one vessel were fcr a cosmic? of
clays engaged in rifle exercises, at
which ball cartridges were used.
This was drone in a busy harbor
end what is mere, without the sanc-
tion of the governing authorities.
OfNeters of each ship .toasted "The
Tiety" in one ports. It is on record
that while a ship of war was in King-
ston harbor at a luncheon, at which
a few professional and business men
who are sub) sts of the British Sov-
ereign ver present, 'the apir'it of
egotism v1'hach has for years char;nr-
Iterize•I tine 0wmalls as a menace to
the peace of the world asserted itself,
I and so the inuell-vaunted toast was
proposed. liritiah subjects sitting
around were expected to stand and
drink to the day when the Kaiser's
forces weal,\ meet and demolish those
of the great British Empire. One
,professional plan at once, so runs the
story. drank to the "British Day."
1'lre day" the Teuton nation had
so fe vently prayed for came in
August, 1914. Things s hav
g e not been
going well with them since then. Bri-
tain's coloniee did not attempt , to
rebel, as- the Ria1ser was led to be-
lieve. On the rontrary, the Teutons
have. been brought face to face. with
tvhat is certainly the most united
body of people on the face of the
earth. Just a couple of weeks before
the war came like a bolt from the
blue, an officer of a German ship -in
port did not hesitate to say, "Jamaica
.incl other British colonies in the Cari-
ibbean will soon be in our hands. 111,4 4
"Yon black people will 53!11:14ore
become slaves." A governor hoe ail -
ready been selected fog the Island of
Jamaica in the person of the Kaiser's
Coy,ul General in this island, Weal-
thy .merchants had been selected to
become victims of German oppres-
siol; it is known that for years more
than one German had been domiciled
Imre making secret inquiries as to
the financial standing of representa-
lives of commerce; some had been
! narked out to hand over £40,000 or
250,000 aach as soon as the "invading
force" had been landed here.
Colony Fostered Espionage.
What is now agitating ,the minds of
more than one community in the West
Indian archipelago is whether Ger-
mans be permitteed to return to these
outposts of the empire after the war,
to scatter thei.l cheap wares Mead. ,
cast to the exclusion of articles of
British make, to introduce again
methods of espionage. But these were
not the only ways in which the Ger-
mans sought to undermine British
prestige in the Caribbean, There was
a somewhat large colony of Germans y
and German -Americans in Trinidad,
and there they made their presence
felt on matters affecting the Crown.
At a recent meeting of the Cham-
ber of Commerce of the sister colony
it was urged that only British sub-
jects should be admitted to hold office
in the society. During the discussion
it was stated that in the past foreign
members had insisted on the right to
vote, and had even voted against the
interests of Great Britain. The maj-
ority of the members have now agreed
that the revised rules of the Chamber
must provide against non -British sub-
jects enjoyin gthe right to participate
in, and vote on, matters affecting Bri-
tish interests in the Island of Trini-
dad.
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"Inhere is a ,peculiar loveliness i81
the •eheer1ulntess of arch people. It
is unelnpeotedt—•like the hit osgreen.,
in the desert, tit gaine by canitratstt, It
ins a flower of the epdrit produced in
the wilderness."—j, Edward Haaliow,
Beets, satiate, turnips and radishes
are not injured by light frost, Parer
nips and s,alsdfy maty be left in the
ground over wintter without injury.
When storing these root ertops 10 the
eeillar, cwt blhe tope off, bat not close
enough to ear,.., the emote to bl''eed"
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