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Lit,' .•,. •I< Detective By mUlAM ATHERTON WJ PITT «#{ Federal D e t e c t i v e Agency, the Bureau of Information, U. S. Dep't of Justice. J* ^ * ji • The Psychological Sleuth . jg * v ."•»>>* •> 1* * - Copyright by W. Q. Ctutpmao ly. \ „ v ^ " 'S-JSi :4; !. 3i4-' • : , ; * y •" :*3vr- ,' j®sV , • ' WA 'j;' , «.ViL ^ S • ... ^ - r* .i||>5 Billy Gard was jogging comfortably from the station to the Commercial hotel in the carryall which, in Royer­ ton, still afforded the only link be. tween those two points, when pande­ monium broke out in the slumbrous streets. He met its forerunner head on not two blocks from the station. This bolt that had launched itself from the clear skies tpok the form of a normally dignified family carriage drawn by two lea,n bayB. But the Bedate respectability which surround­ ed this equipage when it was driven by Its proper owner, President Sis- sons of the Royerton National bank, had been lost in the madness of the present exploit. For the lean bays were now extend­ ing themselves in what appeared to be an attempt to break all speed rec­ ords that the community had ever known. The dignified carriage toas careening from side to side in a way that threatened its overthrow at any moment. Gard's first impression was of a team that had broken loose from a hitching rack and dashed away un­ controlled. But as it flashed past him there was an instant in which the actual situation was photographed upon hif brain. For .this team was not without a driver. He had seen the form of a slim young man which leaned far out over the dashboard--pale, refined fea­ tures that fitted illy into a scene of such vigorous action. But what was more surprising was that this driver, instead of attempting to restrain his horses, was evefy moment lashing them into new exertions. \ "Homer Kester, as I live!" ejacu­ lated the driver of the carryall In con­ sternation. "Who is Homer Kester?" asked Gard. "The cashier of the bank," was the reply. Whereupon the young special agent of the department Of justice acquired an even greater Interest in the situ­ ation than he had experienced be­ fore, for he had come to Iioyerton for the purpose of making inquiries into the condition of its national bank, which was under suspicion. Behind the fleeing carriage came the town constable, who had evidently appropriated, for purposes of giving chase, the first horse he had found by the side of the street. Others had Joined in the pursuit and a rabble of small boys and curious townsmen crowded the street. From these the *would at least appear in the assets You know that I am now the lo­ cal representative of a New York in­ surance company. I am doing a great business, in' fact, I can promise a payment tomorrow." x "But," urged r director, "your per­ sonal account is also overdrawn." "That will not be necessary any more," said Caviness. "I am now on a firm financial basis. I am now in a position to throw new business to the bank instead of being a burden to it" With these assurances the directors parted with young Caviness on the friendliest of terms. They wanted to believe in what he said, as this would save the bank money and themselves embarrassment. Further than this there'seemed nothing that could be done, and the boundless optimism of the young man created cednfidence. The next day the insurance agent deposited for discount a sixty-day note for $300, given him by a man for whom he had written a policy. He drew $50 in cash, and allowed the bal­ ance to be placed to his credit. The directon were encouraged. The in­ surance man continued such opera­ tions, much of his paper being per­ fectly good. It would appear that he was on the way toward clearing up his affairs, but Caviness spent much money, some of it going toward the entertainment of sons and daughters of the directors. If they stopped him at any time it would have meant the absolute loss of the amount he al­ ready owed. As illogical as it might seem, more and more credit WM ex­ tended. - . In addition to the liberties that Cavi­ ness thus took with the directors of the bank, be had also established a sort of dominance over Homer Kes­ ter, its young cashier. The dominant insurance man had been a leader among their mutual associates from youth, was the social lion of the town, and always patronized the cashier. That Umid youth had allowed his friend -lo overdraw his account when his father was a director, and it there­ fore seemed safe. This fact made it easier afterward when it was un­ safe. Finally the directors awoke to the fact that George Caviness owed the bank $10,000. Homer Kester, the cashier, so reported. The directors jyere appalled. This waB the end. Caviness was contrite. He made new notes for the whole amount. These drafts tor alway*sw|0***tt6ttBt*. There was still - tvpmfrom Caviness. Yet what excuse could the eashler offer himself for refusing these small drafts when he had hon­ ored the big ones. FtnaQy the prodigal drew, in a single day, forty nmall checks ranging from one to five dol­ lars. * Despairingly the caffeier cashed everyone. " v It was during the week that fol­ lowed that the directors had precipi­ tated the flight of the cashier. Billy Gard found the whole case easy to clear up with the exception of the ap­ prehension of the two men whc had been the instruments in wrecking the bank. ... f- The special agent had tittle doubt of his ability to catch Homer Kester, the cashier. There was the almost in­ fallible theory that such a fugitive would write home. There was but the necessity to wait untiji he should do so and the point of Hiding would be indicated by the post mark. There was no need of haste in the case of Kester, it seemed, but Caviness was harder to figure out. Yet Just the reverse proved to be true. Gard's theory for catching a man of the Caviness type held good, while on the fugitive cashier he abso­ lutely failed. In Royerton it was easy to find many intimates of the insurance man. From these it was learned that the spendthrift often visited Philadelphia and that while there he kept fast com­ pany. Some of the young men of the village knew of the places he fre­ quented, the people who were his friends. "Such a man," soliloquized Billy Gard, "always hides with a woman." , Whereupon the special agenl re­ turned to Philadelphia and began in­ vestigating, one after another, the re­ sorts and the sporting friends of the missing insurance agent. One thread after another was followed to its end until, in tracing a certain woman to Qermantown, the special agent met with a result and a surprise that was beyond his expectation. M A drayman who had hauled Vm goods and chattels of the woman he fined in It snjjjif iily to tit into this chaotic scene.' fet the special agent knew he had seen It be­ fore and instantly the photographic flash of such a face bending over the dashboard of a madly plunging car riage returned to his consciousness. It was the face of Homer Kester. Billy Gard had often had occasion to be vastly surprised by the unexpected vigor and prowess of mild and la\ac- abiding men when plunged by circum stances into the realms of the lawless He had therefore not been greatly sur­ prised when the young cashier had made his wild ride to freedom. Bur as the aggressive wlelder of a heavy stick that had beaten his antagonist Into unconsciousness--this was indeed a militant role to be played by the in­ offensive former cashier. That young man evidently had qualities that had not been attributed to him. Gard knew instantly that the man stretched across the dining room table was Caviness, the bank wrecker. The policeman, true to his training, rushed into the affray that it might be stopped and the participants placed under ar­ rest. The wlelder of the heavy stick turned toward the door, took in the situation in a glance and fled toward the back of the house. As in his es­ cape from Royerton, all the luck broke with him. As he dashed into the kitchen fte slammed a door behind him. It was probably all chance that the,latch was so set that the door locked, and the officer was delayed In breaking it down. From the back steps of this ground-floor flat to an alley was but twenty feet. When the officer gained those steps he but loo ted into a blank board fence In which there appeared another closed door- He rushed to this, fiting it open, looked out. There was not a soul in sight. The police of Philadelphia lost track of Homer Kester when he slammed the flat door in the face of this mem­ ber of its Germantown staff. The prowess of the federal agents, repre­ sented by William H. Gard, one of its best men, was also ineffective in trac­ ing the fugitive further than to a railway station where he took a west­ bound train. It was more than a year after this t h • ; .• •>< _• •!& j •' &"«?• - r4 t imm. stranger was soon able to gather the story of what had happened in the im­ mediate past. . It had suddenly developed that the , cashier was short in his accounts. The directors bad awakened of a sudden to a realization that the institution over which they presided was but a finan­ cial shell. There was no delay in the interest of expediency.. An im­ mediate call was sent forth for the constablk The young cashier went into a panic. In desperation he rushed from the back door of the bank, cut loose the team of the institution's president which stood near, leaped in and made a dash for it. It would have appeared that such a procedure would have been entirely futile, that there <would have been no question of the apprehension of this criminal. Yet such was not the case, and Homer Kester was a thorn in the flesh of the authorities and particular­ ly of Special Agent Billy Gard for many a day. For he ran his team two miles into the country, abandoned it, but sent it still adrift, caught a cross­ country trolley, and with the excep­ tion of a single fleeting moment, was not again seen by the authorities for a year and a half. i Gard, in the meantime, waa faced .with the immediate problem of deter­ mining the nature of the crime and representing the United States, that justice might be meted out. In the course of which work he developed the detail of what had happened to the lone financial institution of this coun­ try town and revealed a method by which a single depositor had filched it of its funds in a way that almost amounted to the knowledge and con­ sent of the directors. The trouble was all caused by a young man by the name of George D. Caviness who was bcrn with .a pe­ culiar gift of inducing his associates to perform for him such favors as were better not grafted. It would seem that he had taken for his model in life the monkey (if it was a monkey) that had first induced the cat to pull those historical chestnuts out of the fire. But so alluring were his blandishmentc, bo attractive his per- scyjt^lity, so popular was be socially, tLajt the town had become accustomed to forgiving his transgressions and al­ lowing him to have his way. The father of George D.~ had been a director of the Royerton National bank and at one time a man of mi&ans. It was a great shock to the town when, three years earlier, the elder Caviness had blown out his brains, i It was a surprise to his associates to find that his estate had so dwin­ dled that there was almost nothing left. The bank was directly embar­ rassed, because of the fact that the younger Caviness had borrowed, upon his father's endorsement, $3,000 from that institution. Knowing the young­ ster as these directors did, they called, him on the carpet and asked bim what he intended to do toward mak­ ing good. > * "I am going to pay these notes si- ' i»ast immediately," be aaid confldent- of the bank when the examiner came around. He promised he would in future depos^ only cash and certified checks. The hope of recovering some of the money led the directors to keep the account open. There seemed no other way. t But Kester, the cashier, had not re­ ported all the facts with relation to the CavinesB accounts. The checking account of the latter was at this time overdrawn to the amount of $3,500. The cashier realized that he had been personally at fai^lt in allowing this. He had confessed his embarrassment to Caviness. The latter had advised that the cashier juggle the accounts in such a way that the shortage would not show, and that he fail to report it to the directors. . Arranging the accounts was easy. As a matter of fact, these overdrafts were already being hid by being carried on the books as cash. The arrange­ ment had become necessary upon the occasion of ja recent visit of a national bank examiner. As the examiner had been deceived, so might be the di­ rectors. So it happened that Caviness was $3,500 deeper In debt than the di­ rectors knew. ^ Billy Gard was fascinated in devel­ oping the psychology of the case-- the manner in w'.iich this prodigal played upon the cashier and the di­ rectors to his advantage. But here the miscreant had come to the end of bis string with the directors. He was to be allowed only to pay in money. But with the cashier the sit uation was different. Caviness now had Kester in his control. That young­ ster bad made a false report to the examiner and the directors. He had violated the law. His position, even his freedom, depended on helping Cav­ iness to make good. "If I had but a few hundred dol lars," Caviness told Kester when they met surreptitiously to talk the mat­ ter over, "I could clean up the whole amount. 1 have a most unusual busi­ ness opportunity in Philadelphia. You must let me overdraw just once more "Not a cent," insisted Kester. "I have already let you ruin me and the bank. I will go no further." "If you don't," brutally stated the insurance man, "you are ruined by what you have already done, I am ruined, the bank is ruined. This la th-> one cha^e." In the end he went to Philadelphia to grasp this one chance. Billy Gard acknowledged that it was logical that the cashier should allow him to do so. The draft that Caviness drew was for twice the amount he had named but the harassed cashier could not bring himself to refuse to honor It. Caviness had proven himself psychologist again. Two days later a smaller draft came bjut with no line of explanation. The chance to recoup might depend upon this money, the cashier felt. He appreciated the great er chances on the other side but, hav ing honored the larger check, he could not turn down the smaller one. U was not logic that he should do so As the days passed there came other FELLED BY A BLOW FROM THE STOUT 8TICK. OF A 8LIM ANTAG- -1 ONtST. -----. v'-- - w^a tracing had given Gard the Ger­ mantown • address. It was eleven o'clock on a sunshiny morning when the special agent reached the address. It was a narrow house in a closely built row and evidently was rented, each floor aa a fiat.- Gard had recon- noitered front and back, had gossiped with the grocer at the corner, with some children in the street. - He was looking for an opportunity to approach the janitor of the house to question him Informally, wanted to talk to the postman. Then he met the policeman on this beat. He had asked this guard­ ian of the law about the occupants of the flat in question and the two men were drifting idly past when pande­ monium broke loose. Shriek after shriek tore its way through the drawn curtains of the ground-floor flat. There was the crash of broken furniture, the whack of heavy ^lows, the thud of falling bodies. The policeman and the special agent ran to the door of the house to which the former put his shoulder with good effect. They were thus let into a nar­ row hall. Off of this were the doors to the flat through which the noise of a vast disturbance continued to come. It required the strength of the two men to break through the barrier, and some delay was occasioned. But when the door was Anally forced it was a wild scene that was revealed. They had broken into the sitting room. Sprawled across Its floor was the form of a disheveled woman, frowsily blonde, shapely, clad in i dressing sacque and evidently uncon­ scious. Chairs were upset, tablea over­ turned. ' <•/" The Intruders gave hut ^hurried glance to this apartment, however, for the action of the play was still going forward and might be seen through the torn portieres that led Into the ad­ joining dining room. As they looked the form of a strong young man fell heavily across ttate dining room table, felled by a blow from the stout stick of a slim antagonist. The wlelder of the attack shifted his position and Billy Gard got a view of his face, llvid- ly white, delicately cbieeled and re- and George; D. Caviness was servlng time in the federal penitentiary at At­ lanta. Billy Gard had been working hard on. many other cases that had in­ tervened and the tracing of Homer Kester had been allowed to rest. It is the motto of the federal detectives, however, that a case is never aban­ doned, and now Gard was back upon the old task of catching the fugitive cashier. His decks were otherwise clear and bis Instructions were to get his man. ' Gard locked himself up with the Kester case for three dayB. He read the records of it, reviewed his person­ al knowledge, got together every scrap of information that had any bearing upon the character of the fugitive. He wanted to know exactly what Bort of youngster Kester was, he wanted to place himself in that youngster's place and attempt to determine what he would have done under the circum­ stances. It is a method that has been used by a few detectives with very great success. But it is only the oc­ casional man who is so human that he may discard his own personality and appreciate the course that would be taken by another who may thua get results. « In Kester he had a youth of twenty- four who had been born and reared In Royerton, had rarely been away from that town, had no Interests out of It. He was a young man of good character, had demonstrated certain strokes of boldness and action. He had a mother and father and two sla­ ters living in Royerton. It appeared that Kester had fled and that he had cut all ties behind him-- that he had left town and had never communicated with his relatives or friends. While Gard had been off the case a vigilant evatch had none-the-Iess been kept upon all letters arriving in Royerton that might possibly be from the fugitive No letters had come. "Now Gard," said the detective to himself, "were you a youngster ofthlp training, living thus in Royerton. sur­ rounded by a fapiily to which you were devoted, with no interests in the world outsider with a certain element of n . these^rbilMfili^ ble. would you run clear away and never communicate with them?" "No," ̂ answered Gard. tranaported back the' few years that separated him from tSe Inexperience of twenty-four "I could not hreak so easily from my dependence upon my family and the only world I had ever known." "And if you were thus thrown upon your own resources in the big outside world and had no money, and if you had liie additional handicap of having to keep in hiding--would you be able to face a proposition like this and still not call for help from your people V So the detective reached the conclu­ sion that Kester was, in all probabil­ ity, communicating with his relatives. It was evident that he was not writing home. Too close a watch could be kept on letters coming to a small town for any of bis people or their confidential friends for them to be received with­ out the knowledge of the fecial agents who, through the postmaster and letter carriers, had been steadily watching this means of communica­ tion. So the conclusion was reached that Kester was getting messagea to his people through some other means than the mails, in all probability through a confidential messenger. To do this he must be near by. He could hide to best advantage in a city. Phila­ delphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore were in a convenient radius. The detective drew the conclusion that, were he in the boots of the fugitive, he would have taken refuge in one Of these cities; that, had he not been willing to risk the mails, which Kester evidently was not, he would have used some trusty go-between and through that agenoy would have learned the news from home and received from his rela­ tives the money upon which to live. Upon the basis of this theory Billy Gard asked himself more questions. "Were I hiding under auch condi­ tions whom would I use n* a messen­ ger?" , A faithful former servant who might be living there, a dist.^ut relative, some individual hired f&r the task. There were not so many possibilities. They might be exhausted in a few weeks' investigation. Wa* there not, however, a shorter road fo results? "If I were In this lad'* place," the detective again queried lt-trospectivp- ly, "what would makn me write home?" "Obviously nothing Would," came the answer, "so long aa I could com­ municate through the safe? medium of a trusted messenger." "But if the messenger tsre an Im­ possibility, would I write*" This query the detective had some difficulty in answering. He brought himself to experience the lonesome- ness and homesickness Of tfce fugitive, the lad whose whole Ufa interest was wrapped up in the little Circle in which he had moved. At the same time he appreciated the fugitive's proven fear of the mailkand Ifls avoid­ ance of them so far. / But fpr the sake of laying down a basis for action Detect!ye Billy Gard granted that he would write if he could not communicate otherwise. If this were admitted what was to be done? Obviously the former methods of communication should be vut off. How could this be done? The messenger method of communi­ cation was possible only because the 'fugitive was near home. If he were far away it could not be usad. If he were far away he would also feel an added degree of security. A worldly fugitive would not, but Kestir would. With a continent between him and his crime the man who had always lived in this narrow sphere wouK not ap­ preciate the possibilities of his cap­ ture. He would write. Special Agent Billy Gard vas quite sure of this. He would havf done it himself qt twenty-four. The runaway cashier should be captured by being caused to flee thousands of miles further away. Having reached this conclusion the special agent called Police Sergeant Flaherty on the telephone. Would Flaherty come to see him? Flaherty would be there in fifteen miimtes. Now Gard knew 4hflitxF^aherty had grown up in the littlfc tow'n of Royer­ ton. His folks lived there and Fla­ herty occasionally went b&ck for a visit. The Irishman was a trustworthy guardian of the law*and might be de­ pended upon to carry out orders. "Flaherty," said the special agent, "would you like to take a bxt of a trip to Royerton over Sunday and see your folks, with all expenses^paid?" "Would I eat a Dago'sap pies when I was hungry?" said the policeman. "Well, here is the lay of the land," Gard explained. "I am after that fugi­ tive cashier, kester, and I am going to get him. He is not far from home and his folks are in communication with hiih. I want them to know that I am after him. They will tell him, will supply him with a bundle of money and be will not stop running until he reaches Arizona. Then I will get htm/' "Them are not police methods," said Flaherty. "I am not catching this dip, but when I do pinch them it is usually by getting close to them." "I like to catch them on the wing," said Gard. "Anyway you have merely a speaking part. " Your talk Is to the home folks, to the effect that I am hot on the trail of Homer Kester and like­ ly to nab him at any moment Go talk your head off." Whereupon the polleemaa from Roy­ erton spent the week ena at that vil­ lage, had a good time and passed the word of warning. Billy Gard waited ten days.' At the end of that tlm« he waa called on the telephone by the post­ master at Royerton. A letter had come to a sister of Homer Kester and In that young man's handwriting. It was postmarked "Spokane,,^Washington." I Gard dispatched a long telegram in code to the special agent of the depart­ ment of justice nearest Spokane, he bemg located la Seattle. He asked that officer to *run over' to Spo­ kane and pick up his man. It was merely the task of locating a well-dc scribed stranger, in % comparativelj small city. Two days later the d* partment was Informed of the arrest "Psychology," said Billy Gard ruml natively "is a great Iwrty «® * #«t»»" tlve-- when ft works." > is* wmmm V"] CourtM? pf Xlwiour! Agricultural Experiment GRADING AND PACKING •y • '• >'•' *The standard apple barrel is 20 Inches between heads, diameter of head 17% inches, circumference at bulge 64 Inches. It holds three bushels. All the barrels should be carefully "faced." The quality of the apples in the "face" should not mislead the-"buy­ er, but should be a fair sample of the contents of the package. Corrugated circular cardboard is of* ten used against the top and bottom of the barrel to prevent bruising the fruit. These can be purchased at from 1 to 2 cents apiece, according to quan­ tity, and are a good investment. The "face" of the barrel is made1 by placing a series of circles of apples in the bottom of the empty barrel. The bottom of the barrel forms the top when the package is headed. When the first circle around the outside is completed, the next circle Is placed. This circle being smaller, it will contain severnl tipples less than the larger circle. The "face" Is com- pletetTby finished in the same manner. The face should be firm when fin­ ished, with each apple setting firmly against the other. The apples In the LATE SUMMER HINTS FOR ORCHARD WORK un­ picking Weeds Are Made Easier If Kept Cut--Re­ prove Ail Surplus Limbs. \ (By J. C. WHITTEN, Missouri ̂ Agricul­ tural Experiment Station!) Mow the tall weeds and summer grasses in the orchard, allowing them to lie as a mulch under theltWes. Apples color and mature-better, es­ pecially on the lower limbs, If the growth under the trees is mowed down. Green weeds and summer grasse^ exhaust moisture from the orchard soil In a dry time; a mulch on the ground saves soil moisture. «• Fruit buyers pay better prices for apples in clean orchards; they can see th^ fruit Its quality shows up. It looks easy to handle. The man with a neglected orchard never gets what his fruit is worth. / Cut off the limb that blights be­ fore It begins to decay. That may save the life of the tree. Apple picking Is made easier If the weeds are mowed in the orchard and f Station. . " i* * APPLES IN ORCHAftllk * ; y 1 ? ' . : face are placed with the stem end neact the barrel head. The remainder of the barrel is quickly filled by a half bushel basket. "Rack" the barrel after each basket is emptied, so that it may be compact­ ly filled* The barrel- should be filled in manner until within a few inches of the top. The "tail" or "croWn layer" Is then placed. It is placed with the stems upward and should project about 1% Inches above the ends of the staves. The center should be a tie higher. A corrugated paper cap Is now pat OIL next the barrel head. A barrel press is used in forcing the head down. The top hoop is removed and the second hoop slightly raised. Great care must be used In getting the pack firm. Apples shrink, and If the barrel Is not well "racked" white being filled, it will become slack, caulk lng the fruit to bruise. Apples for storage should be packed and placed In cold storage as'soon aa possible after picking for best results, --Farm Life. -the place kept clean. Pickers are dis­ gruntled and do poor work where they have to wade through weeds and briers wet with dew or autumn rains. The grower who gets lato his or­ chard now sees anything el*e which Is the matter with his orchard, has his attention called to anything which needs to be done to improve .it, and learns a good lesson for next year's operations. Dead limbs take a great deal of wa­ ter from growing apple treerf. They are in the way at gathering time and make the whole crop look diseased. If caused by canker, the disease will spread to other parts of the orchard. Prune them out now and paint the wounds. Water sprouts and surplus limbs take too much water from the trees in time of drought; prune out those which are not needed on the tree and save the water for the ripening fruit; fruit won't mature well where shaded by sprouts. The crop shows up bet­ ter where the tree Is kept pruned, ad­ mitting sunlight and air, and enables the buyers to see the fruit better. These statements are not guesses or mere opinions. They are some of the things that have been proved by care­ ful tests at the Missouri agricultural experiment station. MOW WEEDS TO AID FARM'S APPEARANCE WEED SEED OETTINQ NEARER RIPE EVERY DAY, (By J. O. RANKIN, Agricultural Editor, - SfinOarl Experiment Station.) Have you mowed those weeds? Then your farm Is worth more pnd you are a better neighbor and a bet­ ter citizen than if you had not. Every­ one thinks more of the farmer and farm if he sees the weeds neatly mowed as he drives along a weil- dragged road. As he passes the end of the line fence he sees a fence row, not a weed row, and the same is true of the cross fence. Does this describe your farm? Then rabbit shooting may not be so good on it next winter, but buyers will offer you more an acre on it because they C*tt Needs "Baby Fat." It is of great importance to retain 'on a colt his "baby fat" If he is ever to mdke a big profitable horse. He can't retain it by following his mother to the fields on hot days, or by fighting' flies in the pasture. £?•*'• C««t of Raising Calf* ' estimated by good awtttnrfty that it costs $75 to raise a calf to the age of two years. If these figures are sound, $75 is not too much to pay for a good cow* know it will take less work to make crops on It for a number of years than If all that weed seed had not been harvested. If you still have that weed crop to harvest, you will have to hurry. Weed seed Is getting nearer ripe every day. The hot, dry weather has hurried ripening Instead of belat- Ing it. Bur pulling time Is coming and the horse weeds ia the fence rows are getting harder for the mower or scythe to handle, but there Is some consolation in the thought that there is Null time to do a great deal of good and that too early mowing might hava let the weeds come op and make an­ other crop of seed. Sheep Thrive an Attention. Sheep will thrive on a short bite, but don't let the. bite get too short. A change from one pasture to another Is thO best Idea. Change often enough to keep the bite fresh. Sheep love at­ tention and variety and tfcrtye on tHam, w/'v. 'y . ,^i i i ii • . ' 1 i .i w--*--»w ^ Towt* Most Have Pure Air. Fowls cannot IMtariiby unless they have plenty of^^H[ to breathe,. This calls for <^^^Httilatad poub, try house. Immmm *; J? - at ' -"v-. v'V'a.,\C. -Ltfe.'-vo#-' ~ I h - y ..... ~ J r.. e . V* "ij' - .• - I - \ • 1 ' ' ' • ^ ... ^. •. .. . ' - >. . • ... jr. V V ... , .. . ... . .. - . - . ( ^ ^ ^ . * "V • .- ..." ; .- . . ' y ~ " I "T •2&S&C Jid.