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> ::vthna-nootth-.itm to end, and estimated that they § >~ held not less than 14,000,000 seed-- E 'Jings® . Mr., Cultra | "guessed" . that about $,000,000 of these would go to ¢ _» eother nurseries. His 100,000 eim who start early in the spring Th Mis-- : ~ Swainp» and ftollow the season north "He slammed 60,000 dezen into Chicaso . Sor the Decoration Day market I was n"?&wnfltotnm --" QOwer in Miltord it cames about that teme L 'Hote rounded up Gus Wichman % tor me. o--tuli':hm He runs & acre' farm in : auite 's" parch®"a" Wiock "or" 20000 ' . a " . hydrabgeas were pointed out. _ --_."We ship from 400 to 600 carloads oltmstoal"a m.'xr.eun': 'visited on. "It--~would surprise. how much we send to California. We 1~--,Juuud §Omietningy eis¢ of interest w::n. It's the story ~of Leb f and his peonies.' Some years ago when he started out. Leo Gould figured that there 'never gcould be wummm : u;muume-unm you know, is only $40. Bimple metic can show any farmer how long 3t will tike him to ~make his first Then he got to talking about acien titie reproduction, in--arching, grafting and budding. But that's a"bit tooe it would take him too durngd long. e e n he started to raise peanies. Neighhbors said be as pretty crazy but Leo let It go at that. Today he is . a peouy farm in Mississippl, another: in Tennessee, one in southern ] i8s, one in ltoquols caort» --=4 a fifth in in the great northernu forests the sun never strikes the seeds atter they drop. So we mustn't let the sun touch Wiacoagpsin. two or three "times a--day. '# must be-- _--_sed when ther t right," mm SHome of grain farm-- ers di in froquois ©eounty who rather laughed at Leo Gould a" few years ago say be is doing right well r , ~»me of the Missizssippi ship in a year to every state in the union and much stock to Canada. A aursery i»r<t be iended like.a baby. We must follow the laws of nature. In the great northernu forests the sun as many as 240 persons--men in the ing H. B. Cultra showed me about the plant. As he went he talked: "We specialize in the--propagation ot mursery stock. That is distinct busi-- ness.© We believe --we hvotlolu'-' gest propagating nursery in the Unit-- ed States. -- At least 'we know of none larger. --Much of our business is sell-- inz small stock to other nurserics." One of the spots of Intasest was the beds where the ~"evergretns" are being started. > These beds, four fet Thew» --developed a nuursy.;. . chey gt+ .. ~: sent ot 150 persons, on the average, mmm. During farm pretty much alone. Outside 'i':; may be required oyly in season. Now * 4 onnen Tan t e opulation ' ® "'fi"' Onarga © Nursery Company. H. E. and Arthur Snitra brathors an wate, it I tell them that down here a2 Mlinois grain ranch of 50,000 agres was eut up not'Jong ago. It belonged io Kawasd Sumner. Two of bis sons ire--now operating 7,000 acres. The trest was sliced up in the settling of tha--estate atter he died. uoisans. who--imagine they khow their es oo Ned faat bhty their 'flfllm';h'o.-hm ty is a county that very largely grows wain for the cash market. i Beyond 2 doubt that is the reason '\t&-umhmm asmaill and scattered: Bavond a population,* Grain< farming, for the BoIroguois county with its© tarms, its elevators and its general lnck of dairy cattle and Bogs, rathor would be surprised it be made a mo-- picture is different. lruquois county is the third largest County' in Hlinois. It is abouta third mmu. Ep_hndndhg. Indiatih state "*Take Ard it may--surprise some . good HIi-- grain-- farmer,~ with sufficient u10y® : j «* af the peony ~«/~ car--tm=~ locaon bt i mC¥Ar $ anywheve _ .] "J----f----don't know, except I have . -- & contract for a two--months' tryout, had to gire.me." ; ha | "Tough break for Ruthie. Sho's been up agninst it," the tall blonde eommented in &# maiter--of{fact way. ~ while she endertored to thrust the toes of the other into her halt-- ounce swimming suit, gueried: . © | --"How come you rung in on this, kidt 1 thought Ruth Baker bad the odd place einched." raphers 'and put their pictures on muu::mwu-m Lnfii ul"::.mdu dffices for every ouen. A lot 'Sor a little{ ~Life's caslest virtne!" staring in bewlilderment from one ',ammmmmm and loff Betay alone in the room &m the girls: who, for a meagre .'lnw-sq.mmb gm&.dm'"hl&:, 'to such as these, the morica give little and demand much. 4 'lnlhc hber , informal introdue \tion fnto their midst, the bathing: 'giris.had been languidly surveying {Betey, appraistng --her with the old keep her eyes open in the face of her questioner's unclead body.> She selt at home. Get: your sull on, mmmmadfi'fl'&'w m':nmmm"-u st her in friendly fashilon, Betsy Figure it out for yourselt.. 1t's the big--szalary that one in a million MIGHT get, and the kick:we get eout <of seeing--our mugs on the sereexi. . 'That's the truth of it. --Itf the Btandard--O8 or the Hantsa Fe 'bething suit to don, is shocked by | untied haer shoes, ?!'ceflfb--m.m wuz".fl!ls'?.i amased by She number of people secking werk, -- Movie oidtimers see a mpysterious resembluunce in Betoy »umflq"mj \NMeot doss» Alamaoll» as a rowhaon repuled io de responsibie jor many of the "Dbroken hearts of Holly 'wwumu% 'Mol and Betsy are depressed | emased by Lthe number o) peogle Hetfoss 4 C ~ 'Warner picturizstion of this novel, (oaike on n to her. 'They wore absolutely do ':dmmidul- h these giria; and of cither mor-- , [BiM curtavityas to ene anotber's 'fi-nw.'lndw »wflmhvfim per. . And the smile's Clare was, for all the m -""r_' P u w moeting of piahese. i.' E> f ----__ _ CTe be continaed) © ; .4: recognizing the hey; ~levity and sangfrold wilted before the 11v. Ing picture of what might as easily be abead of any or--every one of them, ~One of the girls reapectfully held forth x cigarette, then a match, for the woman, who smoked avidly. Bhe paused there to chat a mo-- mmuurnm.g; 4 "God, Mra. Perry, you .A,M a wet rag."~ Better spruce up; * Thoush Ciarg's spowh Ths Is the s was. argot of the atmosphere in which e e S reite Sbent this wo-- . it --the girls kid--just keep %u%flflm ready to. ahoot scene. you off when to ditch it. Then atick in the back of the bunch.. Ymhmw m'.-::gms 'n: &h.h&co-uhdw--&b sort of thing to dot" "Much? ~.Say, there's : nothing glse but! nhqmwru-r-' the Lord's Bupper th stick in a scene of the Bathing Beauties : doing ~a Morgan: dance. on the Mount of Oliveg, against the sun«| from©Clare, met and restod for a to her. They. wore--absolutely do ; dmw"dul- ifl-&»*m Lh-nw.'h-nflr * There was a certain amount of whhaflma k ; ~and wilh Rher wite hard applied to the task, Betsy managed U.fi-hbhtim-lhlt d.ll:q._" "um m conceailment l» sobe which she found on a chair attended by the least. pefracy;:. _ Whe ns made o pinoe Boe her t ol e . tX somelhing of the grand And the smile she bent over the ribald girls cupen wl her nteckings; 4# was, El.ommb ing her,. or . paping any-- there, the sult was on. / _ cmow kil pmatine nor o erack \?Zh"rfi:.':'.:'.m peres neeraciy is B owont a s e ie o 'l!f.- ® m.--' so fong had Mtudying and ad-- miring the and Ito <people and itse history, the name at _ once. flo- ehcountered © it many times "JAn Virginig _Perry, : indeed! ~« the screen's fAirst gredtest woman star, ~whose bhad* gons~ont these maby ago, 'but whose good will Clare?t If 1 get 2@.- ,"tho.-m:% go 1 !wmhuzu.wn she was sitting on top of the heap whe Sell for & big money boys with the greasy tongues.-- Nothing Feudiat 'ihs "haaten en 0s eouldn't see it that way, antd 4+ But.there's just this to it when M&mous actress on the secreen and the toast of Hollywood in the fArst vmhna.:bw-&.a: a Jarture, and is strangoly af ooked Oy her eyes. Warner :Brosw. Pictures, Phc.: nolion neanrs on Melirafoy fn= t aon, JIno, . *n «+ aaoken nexnm's on noop t "s imitk a the door, and thronged Yard, and on the set "I* that would be consié s for even privacy of the CQirig tank, where Betsy had learned to swim, _ , _ ! A -- "ofi'w"" & the girls began to troop out | Betsy noticed that mone of them wore a thing over their meagre swimming sulits. She Selt hot and woeak inside--at this of--the brazenness of life ind the screens, where yirls of it, through crowded halls, a thronged Yard, and on the set Something 1 never expacted to fAind Ma«zmmm in T pntn se * in -- throaty P i can't promise, but TH see the Boss, I'll get. to spesk up for you, too.. He likes you, and what --a star like Mclain says ad fthis joint euts more than & supply of its. Get into ecostume as quick as you caun. And come down on the set. It'll that's been missing all these years. scould And a bit of rest was in--the bottle. 'llu'.fllthnwhni The assistant was frowning now, oring : an i k P l i ;hw.ih-momlnfl.h }wumuud»m and almost so to Betay and Clare at hand. The sassistant, do a'iu"hmlmm of being moved,-- _ "It unnerved cme, --Ted--sort of m._mdmn?nd amanubhed me in the face. T went a group near the 400F U ID¢t it sistant, nervous but tat more~----please." <She was 'pleading ""ous by one the §HH dre# 60 in for you. I u¢d been able to And someone offhand to take your place you'd have been barred tfrom the studio forever,. As i: in you're upon her in the stiiness: "¥rying to amoenok one over on me, obt YTou're a Pm one, Tiz . being grubbed i'ur lounu'uhh a whole. The next will be , car e n s d e on e e published sodn.)} _ -- < /' . _=~. h"' To be continued) + _ «'Sor :' the ' ehtidled ( ~Ahe midst of a garden party lrafiv'-wleuh.m h ground the brink of a lewn guests, -- startied this latest delight.: * 1= #h'll'lgwwh.t'inhulm m IM word from Clare that she did not T isk thr antol momert cam «; Then the awful it came. i ®"0, K. Now we'll grind!" called | Tole goels aot rstran rhe aige ering of her n'&ov& sale 'Aush: of , 'that stained it, as she stood now in just uk "Trur Mirighied wpes look ' Her took. comiert in the fact that, apparent-- ty, not a fou) of the men or : '=nu-*" itention is bre | all, this was but a lwh day's work. Abe bai u-z:um.n. m:. she stood now in just broag sunlight of a Ca) tfore :WM of her con-- * success, of her ambitions. It . was such a szollef to reach aympa-- thetic ears, to have the counsel and . the midst of a garden party)-- Marshall, with ='v'-blchh.t:n a dom of--a hunter mwm«smg-w mdwmmumg o niktng Hecwine, fncluding Hemy Tar shigle togush, t + nond they were to effect a surprise _ ewtonwe ar to the scene action, and 'Sor all the other welter of work w actual shooting to € in, Betsy found herselt con-- Siing to 'him piecomeal--and to "Mich the robe, kid!" sold Clare. Time aftér time the director re hearsed 'all hands--parts and er-- home wrecker was.the ouly thing known about him by the rif and vaft. of sStudioland; and, in the par-- lance of that atmosphere, he had Presently the hard work of mak-- eudiden: Interest in Betey. McLain's (mamber of people ig work, ,m}.ld Chutney errive in ood : as uia;o'wuum";l e Phek uht desressce ty the as to ain's .obrio uhfl:m:': ..____Warner picturization of this novel. HLINOPSIA * sHeve.me. with 2: di" eal ho 1 are the mitrrore® rw'flgrhdl'-nu'x:lndpeu it ; : mmmnn' obe, %1idt" aaid Clare. . is i ' m'i.b.ut Mvithth-.c_q eeeerwe y interest or the sure tread' mm td insd cugmeu" dost i "":(mmmm ¥ Wt:- * amercury ~ of _ ol a s ag o '--...'.,'? Betsy Ter-- C ina n tny, 0 _ leiieest poaee ' were heary with the glntted! . -- | L"#-fl'm of .'!.'.'2'.2 |+ & good day?" Marsha!l beamed. . --; | _ T 1"_"?%! ing manner an antidote for her, biues. She gare him back, wanly, the searching frontal glint of. words lK@ . tn'-pltnb' _ came home at the end of their fi;zlsknuom' &' mw;uamu; barometers -nglu.m; fllx'-ndgeclm amtrrore® of l'd""fllflu; stood on the top step, did; net stride along with the suap of| healthy interest or the sure tread' Marshall,: with the raceold wis > g«om oft--=& hunter of human Rearts . m' !m @ m'i '."----7'-.-' ---'--l The. fnjured: .~~ #4> f Herbert Foote of sCrton, Maine, Dmay, Imore Gead than allve, was fl.'"fltmbyclm.vfl.. the help of the other giris, now guilltily' frightened by the realisa tien of the nearly fatal results 0| I Studios are ever ready for emer gencies. Skilled medical assistanct; dDrought Betsy around, and present dressing room, Ing befere looking up Hal and Rvu"(}t?ovbo l::'nvhfl, plight, ve to rescuo. Then McLain and Virginin, regard-- Tess of 'the inexorably grinding camera, jumped to the edge of the pool and cried eut in their slarm, In an instant the whole set was in wake; anger and shame had capped the apring from her young egs, the strength from her body. And who> wetse rangsed cum sround its rim, she became a it tim of fright and pent--up emotion. Helplessly, she sank to the bot~ -- _ tom of the tank, in a dead faint ---- _ Meve --me, with he pretend hm"'uh':!'" 16 Olare, furions, ratsed her Aand and stepped forward to siap the ".CHAPTER vn1L more dead than alive, in the deeps be--