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CHASTER II—Contlnnail.
*1 will defeat the purpose of those
Wrecker*, or will cell my life dearly,* lio
murmured, grimly. “Caution and vigi
lance, Darrel Grey, and you may become
a hero In spite of yourself."
He paused as ho had proceeded only a
short distance down tho tracks.
Par to the south he heard tho dim
echo of advancing sound, like tho dla-
tantnolso of a horse's hoofs on tho hard,
rocky road that led toward Miner's
Gulch.
“The depot agent," soliloquised Groy.
“He Is returning. Had I bottor wait and
sucure his aid? Harkl"
A sound that thrilled him keenly broke
the stillness of the sceno.
Par down tho canyon echoed tho
mullled whistlo of an engine.
“The train Is coming!" ho cried ex
citedly. “There Is no time to lose."
He diverged from tho track and struck
olT toward tho curva Through tho
trees at ono point he saw the obstruc
tions on tho track and the forms of men
noar It, and, making a wldo dotour,
reached the tracks farther on.
Two shadowy forms dashed past him
as ho did so, but ho noticed that they
wore horses, and tlion heedless of tho
discovery as ho realized that tho train
must soon reach tho place, began to run
up the ascending roadway of the trosllo
grade.
At t' at moment a wild shout rang bo-
hlnd him.
“Discovered!” ho mutterod. “If I can
reach tbo trestle crossing the canyon I
can defy pursuit."
Half a dozen shots rang out on tho
still night air, but Darrel Groy sped on
his mission of peril undaunted,
Hu roached tho lovol roadway that
curved to tho trostle and started across
It. Half way over the yawning chasm
below bo paused appalled.
A glaring headlight, the advance guard
Of tho oncoming train, had Just turned a
point of rocks dlroctly beyond tho
trestle.
It was so snnden, so noar, that he was
bewildered—horrified.
“The lantern!" he gasped, wildly.
“Oh, cau 1 signal them bufore It Is too
late?"
With trembling hnmls ho opened the
lantern, groped In his pockots for a
match, Ignited It, and applied It to the
lantern.
A steady flnmo shot upward, lie
braced himself on tho Iron girders of the
(rail trestle, and swung tho lantern up I
and down
Too lute!
Shrieking notes of warning, the train j
came thundering over thu rails and
dashed upon tho trestlo.
It qulverod and throbbed to the noisy
jangle of Iron tones.
Durriol Groy saw Ills own peril and tho .
futility of thu warning he had attempted
tu give at a single glance.
Doath—awful, sudden, apparently In- j
evitable -stared him lu tho face.
Tho red eye of llame, lurid, menacing,
the glowing headlight of the engine came
bearing down upon hi in.
He turned sick at heart; tho lantoru
dropped from Ills hand, ami he fell me
chanically as lie Imagined he could feel
the hot hissing steam of the approach
ing Iron monster upon his face.
The pilot Struck tho lantern, and tear
ing it to pieces sent it ovor tho trestlo to
the abyss below.
Darrel Grey felt It Just graze his hoad.
Then ne was swinging lu spneo, his foot
danglln-, his hands alono grasping a tie.
And ovor his head, thundering on to
disaster and deg^h, dashed tho midnight,
express.
HI A FT Kit IlL
riuoiiT
Crash!
A mingled jangle of sound, torrlblo
and uminous. broke upon the still night
air u low moments aftur tho thrilling
experience of Darrel Groy at the trestle.
If the engineer had seen the signal
lantern it hud seemed like a firefly on
the fast swooping landscape, or It had
been given too lato to enable him to stop
tho truin on its mad rush down tho sleep
Incline of the depot grade.
He had applied tho brakes to slow up
at the station, but this did not prevent
» terrible collision as tho engine met the
obstruction on the tracks.
There was an awful plunge, a shud
dering halt, and then, amid tho sounds
of splintered wood, Iron and glass, there
echoed the shrieks of tho terrified pas
sengers.
Dyke Despard's murderous plans to
enrich Ills asso latos In crime and carry
out his own schemes hud boon sue-
i osaftil.
Scarcely had tho crash come than
those men, cool and export from long
experience lu such scones, surrounded
the passenger i ouches.
Four of them sprang to tho doors of
the two coaches, while two others
rea hod the baggago-car, and with lev-
elod revolvers hold the frightened train
men at hay.
Dyke Uosparil passed by the Injured
passengers with scarcely u glance, as he
entered the forward coach.
Dauton was liy his side. The formor
uttered a satisfied cry as ho observed a
young girl, pule but . omposod, extricat
ing herself from a broken seat
“The girl!” ho spoko hurriedly to his
compani n; “we must gel her from tho
car ut once. ”
“To the horses?”
“Yes. You attend so that”
“But if she refuse?”
> “ Kmploy force, Quick, while thoso
terrified wretches are too cxcitod to
notice what we are about'”
Dauton hurried toward the young girl
bis accomplice had pointed out
She was one of the most beautiful
cruaturos bo had ovor seen, but neither
her beauty nor apparent Innocenco and
loneliness hud any cllect on tho evil
hearten Dauton.
He crowded closo to hor, and to where
the fr.ghtcned passengers -.voro hasten
ing toward tho door of the coach, ami
saw her roach the platform and then the
ground.
“tVhat has happened? Is any nno In
jured?” she inquired, In a tremulous,
silvery tone of voice.
“This way, Miss Traroy. ”
Dantou had spo ,en and seized her arm
hs he gently led her away from the spot,
{die was too much oxoitod at tho epi
sode *f the moment to notloa hi* fa
miliarity,
■You know my namel* aho exclaimed.
In surprised tones.
“Yes; yon have frlonds awaiting yon.*
Almost mechanically she followed
him, until she noticed that they ware
some distance from the track.
“Whero are you taking me?* sho i
asked, In a tone of sudden alarm.
“To some frlonds, I told you, Miss ,
Tracoy.*
“Where are they—who are you? I go
no farther unless I know.”
“Wo will wait hero. Tbs accident has
mado some confusion. Hal there Is
trouble, it soems. ■ '
Just then soveral shots wore fired In
tho vicinity of tho train.
They evidenced a resistance on tho
part of tho tralnmon.
Dauton glancod anxiously toward tho
train, and then at a little thlckot where
tholr horses wore tethered, as If Impa
tient to get away.
The sounds of firing Increased In tho
neighborhood of the train.
Then a man’s figure came flying to
ward tho spot Danton advanced to
meet It.
“Dospard?” bo callod.
“Yes.”
“Our men!”
“Tbo tralnmon haro resisted, and wo
are beaten badly. There Is no tlmo to
loso; to tho horsosl*
“And tho girl?”
“We must got her away at onco.*
“Dospard! Y’ou hero?”
Unawares the girl had come upon
them. They could boo her shrink In
amazement and alarm, as sho viewed
tho evil face of the leader of tho band.
He uttered a cry of dissatisfaction and
annnynnco at tho Incident.
“Yes,” he said; “It Is I.”
“You are tho friend who sont yondor
man to mo?” demanded Inei Tracoy.
“Yes. You urn not safe lioro You
must go with mo.”
“Nevorl”
Inez drew back with Indignant face
and flashing eyes. Despard abandoned
all gentleness of manner, as he realized
the peril of delay. He sprang forward
and clutched her wrist In an Iron grasp.
“Girl,” ho hissed, “thoro need be no
deception between you and me!"
“Coward! release my hand I will
oall for help I wish to return to tho
train.”
“Bring tho horses, quick!” commanded
Despard to Danton.
Inoz Tracey struggled vainly In tho
powerful grasp of thu outlaw.
“You are ill my power at last,” ho
hissed. “I told you wo should meet
again when you last rejected mo with
scorn. To secure you, Inez Tracey, wo
wrecked yondor train. ”
“Assusslnl Vlllalnl*
■You will como with me whether you
choose or not Quick, Danton!" lio
shouted excitedly to Ills companion, as
thn firing was repeated In tho vicinity of
the train.
“You cotvard, take that!”
As Inez 'Tracoy uttered a loud cry for
help a form sprang from the thicket
Dyke Dospuru released his grasp of
tlio girl and turuod to inuot a new foe.
It was Darrel Gray,
lie had munugod to retain Ills hold on
the tie to which ho had fallon od thn
trestlo, and the train had passed over
him, lonvlng him unharmed.
Hastening towards tho scono of thn |
accident, I10 happened to como to tho i
very spot where Inez Tracey was strug
gling In the grasp of Dyke Darrel.
Tho outlaw's words rovoalod his com
plicity lu thn crlmo of train-wrecking,
and thu fact that n helpless girl was in
Ills power awakened all tho chivalry of
Darrel Grey’s goncrous nature.
It was lie who, acting on a quick Im
pulse, Imd stepped forward, and with a
single blow of his fist sont Despard fool
ing tu tho ground.
Inoz, horrified and howlldurcd at all
the fastroecurring oplsodos of tho night,
had sought safety In Immoillato (light.
Sho had started to hurry back to the
truin when she saw that a desperate en
counter between tho wreckers and the
tralnmon was In progress, and darted oil
In an opposite direction.
Danton obsorvod hor flight. Ho sprang
from thn thicket whore tho horsos were
to Intercept her.
Barrel Groy did not wait to moot the
bafilod Despard, but as he discovered
tho girl's dll uima, dashed after hor.
Ho caught Danton by thu throat and
Hung him to the ground.
Inoz. recognized him as a protector.
“Quick!" she said, wildly; “lot us llyl"
, “Why should wo Ily? Do not be
alarmed; these mon shall not Injure
you. ”
“You do not know,” cried Iuoz, ex
citedly; “these mon have associates.
Sec! They will pursue us. Do not put
yourself In peril for my suko.*
He heeded her frantic pleadings anil
allowed her to load him beyond the
thlckot. Two shots tlroil by Despard
caused hint to hasten his flight for thu
Imperiled girl's sake.
lie started ns ho heard a quick, shrill
whistlo. Undoubtedly It was a signal
from Despard to Ids band.
They crossed the thlckot and gained
thu upon plain beyond.
Barrel Grey was a rapid thinker and
acted quite ns rapidly. There was no
safely guaranteed at tho depot, for thu
bandits might go thlthor.
They could not/ regain tho trojn with
out meeting the outlaws.
Dyke Despard soomed determined to
secure till girl at all hazards. Only In
lmmcdlato and rapid flight was there
safety.
Gluncing back, Darrel saw Despard
nnd Danton securing horsos to pursue
thorn. Tho girl had kept closo to his
side, and kept urging him to hasten Ills
flight.
lhirrel paused ns lio saw, plainly re
veal' d in tho moonlight, tho two horsos
which belonged to Hanger Halpli. Des
pard's mun Vanco had cut them loose,
and nolthor had saddlo or brldlo. From
tho neck of ono of them, however, n
long lariat trailed on tho ground. Darrel
stole cautiously forward. Tho horses,
mettled stcods and easily startled, sprang
away. Darrel Urey seized tho trailing
lariat in lime to prevent one of thu
horsos from escaping.
lio brought tho animal to Its haunches,
nnd then, reaching for Its mane, sprung
upon Its back.
“Follow me! Keep closo to mot” lie
shouted excitedly to the girl.
Darrel Groy was an expert horseman.
As the stood beneath him dasliod for
ward ho unloosed tho lariat.
Quckly forming a loop he urged for
ward tho horso until It nearly overtook
tho freo stoe'd. Then ho flung tho lasso
with unerring accuracy. It fell over tho
lioail of the flying horse. Both came to
a halt and stood trembling In overy
limb, owning tacitly, muioly, tho su
premacy of a mas er.
Inaz. had watched theso maneuvers
with tiling od admiration and suspense.”
"Caa you ride od horseback?” asked
Darrel quickly as sho galucd bis aide.
“Oh, yes. ”
“There Is no saddlo.”
“I have ridden ton miles on an Indian
pony, horseback,” replied Inez.
Darrel cut tho lasso so as to form tw*
bridles. Inez Tracey had boon too long
In the West and was too familiar with
Its nomadic life to require any prompt
ing as to what was required of her In the
present emergency.
Lithe as u fawn she seized the horse’*
mane and was on It* tM*ck in a flash.
Darrel had arranged the lariat sp that
It he'd both horses togetpy «Ir Aso Inez
should lo9n control of/the (toed she
redo. # , -j
“Look!" Tho young airl.pointed back
ward as sho spoke. iDarrel flastCx a
swift glan o In tho dl»ctlon. ft'' ’
A pistol-shot whljffod over hi* head a*
the horses slarlpd/
“They are In 'pursuit," he said; “four
of thorn. It Is aVrace for liberty. Cour
age, miss, and Darrel Grey will soo you
safely In tho hand* of yoor friends, or
die In your service.!" \
And thon, across the broad lovol plain,
bogan tho exciting race between Dyke
Despard with hit villainous associates
and Darrel Grey and his beautiful com
panion, which was destined to terminate
In a startling and tragic manner. For, In
volved In the renegade’s Interest In Inez
Tracoy, was a plot that menaced Qio
future happiness, fortune, und leva of
that orphan waif of tho Wostern
pralrlos.
[to mi continued. |
HAD READ MARC ANTONY.
Mot riven the Toughs of HalsleJ Street
Could Make Him Forget It.
Now and thon soino comical things
happen in tho recalvlng room out at the
County Hospital. Dr. Hoctor was on
duty ono night nnd hail fallon asleep on
tho llttlo cot provldod for physicians on
duty, when ho was aroused by the rattle
of tho patrol wagon at tho front en
trance. Ho listened to the shuffling foot
steps in thn hull and know It wa9 a ease
of drunk, with more or less elaborate
trimmings. Finally two policemen
struggled Into the room assisting ono of
tho most wrcckod nnd dilapidated speci
mens of humanity tlint ovor lay on a
stretcher. Tho follow had bocomo In
toxicated, hud fallon Into a quarrel and
had siilferod a terrible boating. Ills face
was badly cut In a dozen placos. HI*
lips were swollon and bleeding, his eyes
were blackened and half shut, his elieeks
wore lacerated and his teeth wore loose,
and ovor all was the raggudesl, muddi
est, most disheveled suit of clothes pos
sible to Imagine.
They laid him on thn operating table,
nnd ono of tlio attendants assisted the
doctor torcmnvo the garments and hatha
him, while the pollqomon bado good-night
and went back to their beats. Spite of
Ills liquor and his terrible drubbing the
fellow was gamo, nnd a sort of grim
humor welled up ovory moment
of thn operation that was necossary to
lit him for rccovory. Ho Jokml about
tlio stitches in his cheek, and told his
doctor the ncsdlo must havo boon casa-
hnrdened. Ha protested against tho
plaster, and clnlmed lie had always
iieard a porous plaster rocoramnndnd
y try ^
CANDY CATHARTIC
25c. 50c.
“Late the
all .
DRUGGISTS.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES
ITEMS OP INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS.
The Quality ol Pasture—Beans Among Corn
—Planting Potatoee Under Straw—Weedy
Strawberry Bede—Etc., Etc.
THE QUALITY OF PASTURE.
All the grass roots which root near
the surface make the best early pas
ture, for these only get much warmth
In the early spring months. June grass,
red top and timothy pasture are best
In the order named. Clover Is very
poor, Innutrltlous feed until It begins
to blossom. Then It very rapidly In
creases In value, but should be cut for
soiling rather than pastured, as stock
will trample down clover In blossom
and waste more than they eat.
BEANS AMONG CORN.
Succotash was an original Indian
dish, and to tho Indians we probably
owe the practice of growing corn and
beans interspersed in the same field.
Usually when the early planted corn
falls a hill of beans Is placed in the
vacancy where the corn Bhould have
been. Still another way of growing
beans among corn Is to wait until near
July, and then plant hills betwoen
between every hill of corn, and there
after cultivate only In the rows that
aro free from the beans. On good land
a considerable crop of beans may be
grown and without Interfering with the
corn crop. Wo have tried this plun
when we were living in a city, where
all our gardening had to he done on a
tho straw over the place dug up, so
that the fruit may not be soiled. The
wcqds are great robbers of moisture,
and If not killed in spring will not
only greatly lessen the crop, but make
It hard to keep the bed! for another
year’s use.
FIVE-MINUTE CHURNS.
Every now and then there seems to
be a need for calling attention to hum
bugs and fallacies that pester and live
olt the dairy Interests. Oue that makes
Its appearance regularly Is the two-
minute churn, or, In some cases, the
five-minute churn.
If farmers were properly educated on
the subject ot churning there would
be no demand for a churn to bring but
ter in less than from twenty to forty
minutes. For twent'y-flve years pro
gressive and up-to-date dairymen have
known this to be true, and have gov
erned themselves accordingly In select
ing and using a churn. Editors of
agricultural papers should know It if
they do not know It, and therefore they
should not admit to their columns ad
vertisements of churns for which the
principal claims made aro that butter
can be churned In them from two to
five minutes. All such churns are con
structed with internal devices, such as
paddleB, shafts and floats, all of which
have a tendency to break the grain
of the butter, while the churn of to
day that Is Indorsed by those who have
a practical knowledge of nutter making
has no Inside fixtures.—F. W. Mosely,
In The Massachusetts ploughman.
THE APPLE BORER.
When we came to this mountain
lio' finally pulled out a loosened to .th 1 city lot,, and it was necessary to make | country some twenty-six years ago it
und offered it to an attendant for a paper
wolght.
At last tlio patching was completed
and ho stood up in an unsteady fashion,
his slnglo Kurmont bolng tho shoot with
which he had been covorod after his
bath and whllo tho doctor had bcon at
work upon him. A tali mirror at the
end of the offico attracted his attention
and he walked toward It, wrapping his
sheet about Ms shouldors as if it hail been
a Roman toga, struck tho most heroic of
attitudos and delivered himself to the
sowed and comontod figure in tho glass:
pardon me. thou bleeding pleoo of earth.
That I am meek and gentle with theso butcher* 1
Thou art tho ruitiR of the noblest man |
r l hat ovor lived In Ohlongo.
Woe to the hands that shed this costly blood 1
Ovor thy wound* do 1 now prophesy—
Which, llko Healed lips, do struggle to exolatm—
To bog tho voice and utterauoo of my tongue—
A curse shall rest upon the fiends of Halstod
street
Who basted me with brickbats.
"Good-night, Doctor; I’ll go to bed. *—
Chicago UcraUL
Sra Wai.tjeii Rai.eioit, while yet •
young man, fought for months on the
sldo of tho Huguenots In tlio French ,
civil wars, and afterward In tho war in 1 through It, will see the absurdity of
the land produce as much as It could
be made to do.—Boston Cultivator.
PLANTING POTATOES UNDER
STRAW.
Some years ago some ono wrote a
letter in a farm paper claiming the
great advantages from putting potatoes
on a clover sod, and covering the sets
thus planted so lioavlly with straw that
no growth of either grass, clover or
weeds was possible. He claimed an
extraordinary crop with no plowing, no
cultivation, and only needing to pull
the straw away after tho potato tops
had died down, and find a crop of nice
clean potatoes lying whero the sod had
been. We doubt much whether the or
iginal story was a true one, though on
a small scale It might have been true
If the season was wet enough. Any
one who stops to think how much
straw it must take to cover 43,. r ill0
square feet of surface deeply enough
so that grass and weeds cannot grow
Ireland. On his return from Ireland. It
Is said that ho won tho quoon’s favor by
throwing Ills new plush cloak Into a
muddy place In tho road for hor to walk
on. Ho fitted out ships and fought against
tho groat Armada, or flout, of Spain,
when that country tried to conquer En-
g and. Ho was a great statesman, a groat
believing that a potato crop of even
one acre, was ever grown In this way.
What would be the advantage? It
would only save plowing and a little
cultivation. On the plowqd acre, the
potatoes would be best, because there
believing that a potato crop of even
soldlor, a great soaman, and an excel- I supposing it rotted in time for potato
lent poot and hlstoilan. lio is sahl to
have first planted the potato In Ireland.
King .lainos I. kopt'him in prison In the
towor for more than twelve yoars, and
thon released him. Ill 1018 tho same
king had this great man put to death to
plouso the King of Spain. Whon Ra
leigh was about to bo boheadod, he felt
of tho axe, and said, "It Is a sharp mod-
iclno to euro ms of all my diseases. ”
Whex Washington becamo President,
all tho chief towns woroon tho sea coast,
or on tho tldo waterof tho rivers, oxcopt
Lancaster, In Pennsylvania. Outside of
tiiat State iho roads wore so bad that a
largo trading town was not possible
away from water convoyanco. Tlio In
terior trade of Pennsylvania was carried
on In great wagons, known as Conestoga
wagons, each drawn by six or eight stout
horsos. There were ton thousand or
more of thofio wagons running out of
Philadelphia Tho wagon trade with the
interior mado Philadelphia the chief
town of North America. Trade with ro- I ready to blossom,
mote districts of tho country was still
carried on by means of pack-horses and
bateaux, or small boats.
roots to use It. The story, though
plausibly told, could not deceive any
one who had much experience in grow
ing potatoes.—American Cultivator.
WEEDY STRAWBERRY BEDS.
It was the old-time idea that there
should be no cultivation of strawberry
plants the spring before they are to
bear. The plant gets its name from
the fact that straw is largely used as
mulch for the beds in winter, and this
In early spring, if raked Into the spaces
between the rows, Is rolled upon to
destroy weeds. It will do this to a
great extent, nnd will also form a clean
bed on which tile strawberries may be
borne without getting soiled. There is
certainly objection to running a culti
vator between strawberry rows In
early spring Just before the plants are
That will make so
much soil disturbance that the soil will
not be compacted again, nnd the fruit
will he mixed with sand nnd dirt. Yet
If the strawberry bed is as rich as it
ought to he, what weeds start among
the plants will attain large size and In-
“1t Is not fair to attack tho Russian
Jews who como hero,” said ono of them,
“because wo are uiinhlo to engage In the
skilled Industries or because wo aro un- I jure tho crop. The best way Is to re
move the weeds by hand, pulling them
out. If the hoe Is used plae-s some of
educated. Whero I camo from ill Rus
sia, no Jew Is allowed to learn a trade
or to cultivate tho land, or to outer ths
learned professions, anil only a fow Jews
are permitted to go to any academy or
university. We are podulers and pawn
brokers and tinkors and small money
lenders Iti Russia boeauso wo are kopt
out of nearly ovory other business.
That which bofits us, ombowerod In
beauty and wonder as wo aro, Is elioor-
fulne-s and eourago, and tho otideavor
tu reali o our aspirations. Should not
tho heart, which has rei cived so much,
trust tho Powor by which it lives?—
Emerson.
Giit.li coin is shipped abroad In five-
gallon, Iron-bound, oaken kegs. Eaoh
keg holds ten bags, and eaoh bag con*
tains 54,000, so that tho valtio of a keg
Is S50, OiK). Gold from tho Other sld*
usually comes In boxes.
was a wild, undeveloped country, with
no fruits of any kind. The first fruit
we set out was apple trees, and nine-
tenths of them were dead In two years.
We cursed the nurserymen high and
low for sending us old, worthless, dis
eased trees. What few trees lived soon
showed us that we were In a superior
apple belt; then we Legan to Investi
gate and found the borer was the
source of our trouble. Wo used all
kinds of washes, oils, tars, and to very
little effect, but after long experience
we find the moth’s egg that batches
the borer has to be laid where it will
get the extreme heat of the Bun. The
moth lays its eggs at the base of the
tree on the south side a half Inch be
low the surface, the only place the eggs
get the proper heat, unless on the up
per sldo of a bent limb In the top of
the tree, where there Is a check that
gets the direct rays of the sun. Every
tree we now set out we wrap with a
par^ of un old newspaper from three
inches below the ground to a foot
above. The first year Is the season the
borer gets In the tree. The tree is
destitute of sap, and the borer thrives.
About the third year, if the tree is in
good thrift, the borer dies out or does
not get in on account of the abundance
of sap. So you will notice it is only
the first two years that the tree needs
wrapping. What really is needed is
to shade the butt of the tree on the
sunny side. If a little sprig or leaf
comes out on the sunny sldo near the
ground, leave It there to shade the
ground for a year or two. A piece of
a board, shingle or the half of a bar
rel stave set on the ground on the sun
ny side of the body of the tree is suf
ficient if It will remain. Trees should
bo wrapped before the first hot days
of spring. When I set out trees I ex
amine each one carefully to see If there
Is a borer already in; If so, I dig it out.
—Horace F. Wilcox, Julian, Col.
HORNLESS CATTLE.
Many of the disagreeable features of
dehorning may be avoided by prevent
ing the horns of calves from develop
ing.
The horns of cattle consist of two
horn can be felt as a slight elevation of
button.
The horn tissue developes from the
skin Just as do hoofs and clows In the
lower animals and nails In human be
ings. There is a zone In the skin
about the base of the horn known as
the matrix, from which new horn cells
are constantly being formed, the older
parts being pushed on. If we destroy
the periosteum from which the bony
part of the horn is formed and the
matrix from which the horny part I*
formed, we prevent the further devel
opment of the horn. In removing horns
which are already more or less de
veloped, ns in dehorning mature ani
mals, the cut must be made deep
enough to Include the matrix or the
stump of the horn will continue to
grow. It may not be out of place here
to remark that there Is no danger of
cutting Into the brain cavity, as at
this point It lies very deeply. The
openings frequently Been on removing
the horns are only empty spaces with
which the frontal bone is honeycomb
ed.
In calves the growing points of the
horns are small In extent and can be
destroyed with little trouble. In our
experiments we have made use of caus
tic potash. Caustic potash, so called,
Is a pure form of the same substance
which constitutes the potash sold in
cans for soap making and cleaning
purposes. It Is in the form of white
sticks, in diameter about the size of an
ordinary lead pencil. As ts name in
dicates, It Is a powerful caustic, rap
idly destroying tho skin and other tis
sues If kept In contact with them. In
this property lies Its value as a preven-
tltive of the growth of horns.
When properly applied it destroys
the matrix or growing point of "the
horny tissue and the underlying peri
osteum from which the bony pith
grows.
The hair should be cut away from
the young horn as thoroughly as pos
sible, so that the potash may come in
Intimate contact with the parts to be
treated. The only secretion should be
removed from the parts to be touched
with the potash by wiping carefully
with a rag or sponge moistened with
soap suds, or water containing a little
ammonia. Parts not to be touched
should not be moistened.
The stick of potash Is rolled up In a
piece of paper so as to leave one end
exposed. The exposed end Is dipped
In water to moisten It and then rubbed
on the button or embryo horn until the
skin begins to start, care being taken
that the whole of the button and the
border or matrix is included in the
treatment. In young calves a few days
old a surface half an Inch or a little
more In diameter wllf cover these
parts.
Caustic potash, or caustic soda,
which answers as well, can be obtained
at almost any drug store. When not
In use it should be kept In a closely
stoppered vial, one with a rubber stop
per preferred, or it will liquefy.
After the calf is two or three days
old the sooner the potash is applied
the better.—New Hampshire Agricul
tural Experiment Station Bulletin.
THE CURRANT OR GOOSEBERRY
WORM.
At the first appearance of the de
structive currant worm, prompt action
is necessary if complete relief be de
sired, as the voracious appe.tite of this
pe3t Is wonderful, and the plants are
rapidly denuded of their leaves. Prob
ably the best remedy is white helle
bore, which may be used without fear
of injury in its contact with the fruit.
It may be applied diluted in water and
syringed with water and the powder
dusted over them, or the latter follow
ing a rain. For a small number of
plants the powder dusted will perhaps
be found the best, as it seems to at-
parts of different origin; the outer I tach itself more lastingly to the leaves,
horny shell Is a growth derived from 1 A second application, about ten days
the skin; the Inner part or pitch con-' after the first, will usually be found
slsts of bone, and is an outgrowth of' necessary. In the course of an hour
the skull. I after the applications have been made,
At the birth of the calf each of thesej the ground will be found covered with
parts Is undeveloped and Only exists 1 the dead or dying worms, and the
as a possibility, but they at once begin bushes entirely abandoned.—Meehan’s
to grow, and in a short time the young Monthly.
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