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has no desire to take up her abode in that
locality, for "white men can not live long in
the withering heat - consequently all the work
about the ranch is done by Indians, under
the direction of an educated foreman. The
average life of a white man in Death Valley
is very short."

Marianna Miller interested us with her selections
also.

First she showed us a little agricultural
paper which had on its cover a picture of
our own Cloverly - it having been
selected as a type of a model rural home.
Then she told us how to beautify the home
& grounds - and lastly read to us of experiments
at state experiment stations,
"which prove that egg production can be
increased by the use of artificial lights
in the poultry buildings.

By the use of those lights, deception is
really practiced on the chickens. The lights
are turned on at 5 A.M. during the winter
months, when of course, it is still dark, &
the chickens are fooled into believing its
daylight. Then, in the afternoon,
when it begins to get dark about 3.30 or 4 o'clock,