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"I'm sorry you won't be able to run over withto the correspondent "It would mean only one more day I'll take you tomorrow"

"Sorry," was the reply "But I must make Santa Rosa Burbank has pro, and you knohat that lad for an account of the experiment Can't you outline it?--briefly, just briefly? Here's Mr Graham It will interest him, I am sure"

"More water-works?" Grahaood farmers out of hopelessly poor ones," Mr Wombold answered "I contend that any farmer to-day who has no land of his own, proves by his lack of it that he is an inefficient far his slender Asiatic fingers in the air to eed Efficiency no longer implies the possession of capital It is a splendid experiment, an heroic experied "Tell us"

"Oh, nothing, just a white chip on the table," Forrest answered lightly "Most likely it will never coh just the same I have my hopes--"

"A white chip!" Wombold broke in "Five thousand acres of prime valley land, all for a lot of failures to batten on, to farm, if you please, on salary, with food thrown in!"

"The food that is grown on the land only," Dick corrected "Noill have to put it straight I've set aside five thousand acres midway between here and the Sacrarew, and that you need," Woers redeee fro is, I believe the West and the worldI want to dothe way I've divided the five thousand acres into twenty-acre holdings I believe each twenty acres should support, comfortably, not only a family, but pay at least six per cent"

"When it is all allotted it will mean two hundred and fifty families," the Gazette man calculated; "and, say five to the family, it will mean twelve hundred and fifty souls"

"Not quite," Dick corrected "The last holding is occupied, and we have only a little over eleven hundred on the land" He smiled whimsically "But they proe six to the family"