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THE POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1938.

ISLAND CHOSEN i FOR HURRICANE f LOOKOUT POST Dot in Caribbean Held Strategically Located For Warnings New Orleans, Oct. 7.—The U. S. weather bureau has reestablished an observation post on Swan Island—a mere speck of earth in the spawning grounds of the howling tropical hurricanes. W. F. McDonald, chief of the New Orleans bureau, regards the post as the most important in the far-flung web of the hurricane warning system. The island is strategically located in the Caribbean with reference to shipping routes through Yucatan Channel and southward to major banana ports. Ar#d, McDonald pointed out, ships often scurry from the area on reports of a severe disturbance and leave the weather bureau without a guide to the storm’s early progress. The new post will plug an important gap in the chain of observers who warn the world of a storm’s vagaries from the time •it roars out into into the ocean un’til it dies, sometimes thousands of ;miles away. Ship Data Important Ships often supplement the bureau’s reports by messages radioed directly from the storm belt. McDonald said'that ships have aided •in hurricane forecasts since the earliest use of marine radio. With ship reports, the. weather .bureau’s system for beating the Tiurricane by outfiguring it is now "virtually complete. The Swan Island post has been used twice this year to chart the courses of two major hurricanes. i The weather bureau used the island from 1914 to 1927 when Tropical Radio, a subsidiary of United Fruit company, maintained ■a radio relay to transmit messages from New Orleans to points on the •lower Atlantic. The relay w T as abandoned when it became possible to radio direct. Navy Praises Site Navy officials, who supplied radio equipment and operators for 4he remote post, commented: “If it were possible to move an island around at will and place it where it would do the most good, a better spot for observing hurricanes could not have been found.” Embassy clerks reported that both Honduras and Great Britain •might challenge the United States’ right to use Swan Island. Honduras claims the island by right of early Spanish discovery in the 16th century. The United States places its .claim through operation of the Guano (fertilizer) factory in the Juiddle of the 19th century. o Wisconsin U. Gives Marital Lecture Series Madison, Wis.—A series of lectures to prepare students for regular courses on “marriage and the .family” has been assembled by the University of Wisconsin. The series, which win be given over a period of 18 weeks, will include talks on anatomy, reproduction, courtship, mental hygiene, ■parenthood, the conomic problems of marriage, and the future of marriage as an institution. • Lecturers will include Dr. Samttel Sfbuffer, University of Chicago; Dr. William F. Lorenz, director of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute; Dr. E. L. Sevrnghaus, University of Wisconsin medical school; Prbf, Howard Becker, of th euniversity sociology department. and Dr. Dorothy Mendenhall and Dr. May L. Cowles, both of the university home economics department. University officials emphasized ^hat the course is nothing more than an effort to “show students how fnvch they really do not know.” With the series of lectures as background, students may take any of the regular courses in marriage and family relationship, sociology professors explained. —o— y/OMAN TYRO ANGLER HOOKS 3 ON ONE LINE Bastrop. La.—Jack Sawyer believes women—at lea^t’ five he knows—make good fishing charms. He took five to Lake Enterprise, near Wilmot, Ark., to teach them the finer points of hooking the big ones. Sawyer was ready to give up ■when they stuck their poles in the bank and left him to watch them. He pulled one of their hoops up and changed his mind in a hurry. Three fish, two black bass and a catfish, were on it. The total ;weight was seven pounds. The cat was caught on the hook. The line had became entangled in 4-he gills of the tw T o bass. o BRITAIN CURBS “CON” MEN London —Confidence men are having a lean time in Great Britain. The annual report of Sir Ph?T|p Game, commissioner of police, Bhows that the total loss to their get-rich-quick methods was only (55,195 last year, as compared with $63,720 in 1936. o —- Sales of American-produced condensed milk to Czechoslovakia Bumped 300 per cent, the first half pf 1938 compared w ; ith 1937.

Library Books As Gifts for China Sought

OBLIVION ENDS.

Chicago—A plea for replenishment of the losses of Chinese libraries from Japanese bombings has been broadcast by the American Library Association. In its monthly bulletin the association prints an appeal from Dr. T. L. Yuan, chairman of the executive board of the Library Association of China.

Yuan writes:

FAMOUS HORSE IN GLOVER NOW Mentor. O.—King Bruce, the “forgotten horse” which at one time sold for 1100.000 and then was retired to solitude, now grazes Virtually unknown on the fields of

“According to a recent survey, over 35 national and private universities in China as well as a large number of cultural institutions have been either destroyed or disorganized in the course of Japanese armed invasion.” Yuan describes the “deplorable loss of libraries of Nankai university; Hopei Normal College, Institute of Technology, and School of Commerce and Law; the Great China University; the National Tung Chi University and Kwang Hwa University,” largest institutions of higher learning in China. He writes in detail of the destruction by bombing, pillage and fire of many of the larger libraries, and of those damaged as Avell as the loss. of a number of the universities’ buildings. In asking for occidental aid Yuan

said:

“While it may be the feeling of some of our friends abroad that any campaign to collect books for

the Perkins estate near here. The 15-year-old stallion once was famous as the illustrious son of the immortal French sire. Teddy. In 1926 he won. rs a 3-year-old, the important Prix Citronelle, which is to the French what the Kentucky Derby is to Americans. The first offer of 5100,000 was made by Joseph F. Widener, head of Hialeah Park, and was accepted, according to the present owner, Joseph E. White. The second offer made by Bing Crosby of the same price, Avas refused. As a stakes Avinner in France, King Bruce earned a total of 107,450 francs. Soon after he Avon the Prix Citronelle he AA'as sold to Widener, Avho brought him to the

United States.

Never Raced Here The King’s racing in this country Avas ended before it started, as the great horse strained a tendon while training for his first race

Chinese libraries should be post- Widener retired him to stud and

poned until the armed conflict is over, yet the urgent demand for Avestern literature is so overwhelmingly impelling that w r e are in-

clined to think otherwise. “Present hostilities are likely to

be long drawn out and may drag on for a considerable time. In the meantime 'Chinese scholars have to be provided with an adequate supply of material so that there shall be no intellectual stagnation.”

The American Library Associa-

tion asks those who have available from their libraries volumes which would find use in the hands of Chinese scholars, to ship such material, prepared, to the International Exchange Service, Smithsonian In-

stitution, Washington, D. C.

SCHOOLS TO TRY RADIO TEACHER

Cleveland—The city school board has inaugurated Avhat it believes to be the world’s first public radio system exclusively for educational

purposes.

Educators have expressed interest in observing the change Avhich broadcasts from the school’s station WBOE may make in teaching

methods.

“The experiment of teaching viathe air Avaves is being Avatched with a great deal of interest for the purpose of finding out Avhat use radio can be in education,” said Charles H. Lake, superintendent of Cleveland schools.

soon afterward sold him to a wealthy St. Louis mill owner, who kept the stallion in seclusion. His great past and royal a'ncestry forgotten, the King eventually was sold at auction, bringing a figure far beloAv his A r alue. He Avas purchased by M J. Ternansky, of

Doylestown, O.

“It Avas a tragic thing to see a horse like the King—a real aristo-crat—-slip down to the level of a barnyard Dobbin, but that’s Avhat happened,” White said, stroking the King’s mane. “He might have been there yet, if old Teddy, his

sire, hadn’t died.”

Sons of Teddy Scarce When the great Teddy died, it developed that sons of the famous horse Avere scarce. King Bruce Avas one of the feAV, and the King returned to his rightful prominence. Crosby, Avishing to add the horse to his Hollywood stable, reportedly made the second offer of 5100,000, but it Avas refused. A year ago White heard of the forgotten horse and succeeded in

purchasing him.

“And I don’t intend to neglect him,” he said, feeding the King a lump of sugar. “I’m going to keep him here at Mentor and breed him Avith the best Ohio mares. He’s of the same family Avhich produced Gallant Fox and Omaha, and I expect to see the day when one of his colts Avill make racing history.”

SMOKE SCREENS MAY HIDE CITIES

About 60 city schools are equip-j London.-Great Britain’s chemiped to receive broadcasts from the'cal defense department is experi-

school board’s station. The remainder of the 150 schols are to be equipped in the near future. Station of 500-Watts WBOE is a 500-AVatt station operating on 41.5 megacycles. Here is a typical WBOE daily program: Uifth arid sixth grades spelling, sixth grade history and art, aridj fourth grade music. The assistant superintendent in charge of elementary schools, H. M. Buckley, explained Iioav the radio teaching is conducted. “The teacher is as much a part of the program as the pupil,” he said. “The teacher in the radio station may stop at various times during the program for the pupils to Avork problems or study diagrams and maps. He also may stop talking to give the classroom instructor time to conduct a demonstration of the subject being taught.” Best Talent Available Buckley said that the radio Avill make available for every school child the finest talents in all fields of education. A total of 12,000 pupils are able to tune in on a single lesson from station WBOE. All schools, however, AAith their 138,000 children can listen on radios to a prominent speaker talking on a subject of interest to all or to neAvs broadcasts. The Cleveland experiment in radio education is financed by the General Education Board, a Rocke-feller-endoAved institution. The late John D. Rockefeller, Cr„ was a native of Cleveland. The city’s school board receded 542,600 to conduct the experiment for two years. The Cleveland school system, however, has had daily, 15minute lessons on radio stations for several years. The pupils do not have to assemble in one ro»m for a broadcast, as each receiving set has attachments for one to 30 loudspeakers, which may be distributed throughout the school. o TAX TOKENS HOARDED

El Reno. Okla.—The slate puts out sales tax tokens by the thousands here but redeems them only by the hundreds. “We have come to the conclusion,” says Miss Daisy Braden, El Reno tag agent, “that someone either is hoarding the little one-and five-mill pieces or burying them in wholesale lots.” —o Chile w T ill permit the importation of Avheat only under government license. ’

menting Avith smoke generators that might be used In war to produce huge blankets of smoke oxer vital industrial targets, and possibly big towns, and hide them from enemy bombers. First big-scale open-air tests were made over the marshes on Foulness Island, loneliest part of the Essex coast. The generators Avere placed along 6,000 yards of the sea-Avall and set in operation. They made a cloud of light gray smoke several miles square. It Avas picked up by a southeast Avind | Avhich carried it over Essex main-

land.

R. A. F. reconnaissance planes, acting as enemy bombers, flejv at 5.000, 8,000 and 10,000 feet from the ground and tried to spot certain Avell-knoAvn landmarks. These tests first Avere arranged to take place last April. Unfavorable Avinds caused them to be cancelled. June was named for another try. The winds were wrong again. It Avas necessary to have a south-easterly Avind, so that the sriioke blanket would move over the whole island Avould move over designated landmarks. College Tolls Bells Probably 1,000 Years Old

Lebanon, 111.—What is believed to be the oldest bell in the United States calls students to class at McKendree college here. The bell, hanging in the college’s 80-year-old chapel tower, was found in the ruins of deserted Indian mission church in New Mexico by a band of Sante Fe traders and brought to St. Louis sometimes in the 1850s. According to dates and names molded on the bell it Avas cast in Spain in the 8th century and recast in the 14th. Brought to Florida in the 16th century it was remoA^ed orice again to Ncav Mexico. It is not definitely known AAhat caused the destruction of the mission in AAdiose ruins it was found, but it is believed to have suffered the fate of most Spanish outposts in the general uprisings of the Apaches about 1*580. In the fall of 1858 it was placed on display at the Illinois state fair at Centralia. When the fair ckfced it Avas bought for the neAA'ly built McKendree college and placed in the chapel tower.

Daughter Now Career of 1935 ‘Miss America’ McKeesport, Pa. —Three years ago Henrietta Leaver was acclaimed as the most beautiful girl In the nation. She had Avon the title, “Miss America,” and as such Avas in a faA'Orable position to launch a successful professional career. But she didn’t. Instead, Miss Leaver got married. She submerged her desire to stay in the spotlight by becoming the wife of John Mustacchio, a McKeesport restaurant proprietor. Today, the former “Miss America” is the mother of a 22-month-old baby girl—Patricia Lee Mustacchio—Avho promises to groAv up to be as beautiful as her mother. Mis. Mustacchio already is making plans for the future of her baby—plans she hopes Avill be climaxed in a successful movie career. Because she believes that talent as Avell as beauty is necessary for a successful career, the 1935 Miss America is seeing that Patricia Lee gets instructions in singing and dancing. When the child is five years old, Mrs. Mustacchio Avill take her to HollyAvood for the acid test. “We’ll buy a round trip ticket,” the mother says, “but I don’t think we'll use the return half.” ‘DUAL CONTROL' IN HOME URGED Pasadena, Cal. — Families in which the Avife is the manager are happy in 47 per cent, of the cases; families where the man is dominant are happy in 61 per cent of the Cases, and families Avhere both husband and Avife share the managership are happy in 87 per cent of the cases, according to Dr. Paul Popenoe, director of (he Los Angeles Institute of Family Relations. His conclusion, therefore, is that those families in Avhich the husband and Avife are on a 50-50 basis In dominating the family life have a much greater chance of happiness than those in Avhich the family is either dominated by the husband or by the Avife. The statistics were based upon a survey of thousands of families that liad remained intact for a period of five or more years, and Avas conducted among the normal, educated section of the population. While the 50-50 basis of running the family is the best one, Dr. Popenoe said that “if there must be only one head of the family, it is obviously safer for the husband to be the bead than the Avife.” Cooperation Best Method “Nevertheless,” he added, “it is obviously still more safe for the family to have Iavo heads, intelligent. mature and co-operath r e enough to work out their problems together.” Dr. Popenoe's survey established that there are three danger spots where the lack of co-operation may quickly produce disaster in married life. These are: 1— Handling of family’s finan-

ces.

2— Planning of family recreation. 3— Management of children. Dr. Popenoe urged that all three of these subjecls, and especially the first two. should be thoroughly studied and settled before marriage. The movies, Dr. Popenoe believes, are having a tremendous infiuence on the marriage question and relations in the United States now. “Most of the education for marriage which the average youth gets at present,” be said, “comes from the movies, radio, billboards, popular songs and newspaper headlines describing the failure in the marriage of prominent pebple. Pessimism Built Up “From these sources, one easily gets an attitude* of pessimisnj, of cynicism and of defeatism.” He said that if a person goes into marriage in that frame of mind, it doesn’t make much difference whd is the manager, for the marriage Avill likely fail anyway. “The average person who marries in Los Angeles county,” he said, “has only half a chance to succeed. “Each year the figures are about the same: 25.000 marriage licenses issued; 13.000 divorce and family relations cases filed in the courts.” This is above the average for the rest of the United States. Dr. Popenoe believes that conditions in Other parts of the country are normally more favorable for happy marriages than here, and if the same scientific approach to marfir.ges were made there that is made here, the chances of more happy marriages throughout the United States would be greatly increased. ■ C) * Enormous Map of Moon Made in 25 Sections London.—A map of the moon in 25 sections which will take seA^eral years to complete is being constructed by H; Percy Wilkins, a Welsh engineer, Avhose bobby is astronomical research. As each section of the map is completed it is reduced to 8 feet 4 inches in diameter, and the original deposited in the library of the British Astronomical Association for safe keeping where it is available for reference. Much of the work is being carried out Avith instruments of Wilkin’s oavu construction.

GIRLS MODERN IN OLD REALM OF THE HAREM Istanbul ResidfcUt Tells Of “Career Women’’ in New Turkey Cleveland, Oct. 7.—The modern Turkish girl isn't so far behind after all. She can have “dates” and she can vote. Miss Gertrude Benditsch, Avho spent 18 years in Turkey ,has returned Avith Avoid that Turkish women rtOAv enjoy the freedom that American Avomen lake for granted. Blonde, attractive Miss Benditsch Avas graduated from the American college in Istanbul in 1936. She came to Cleveland to study nursing at Lakeside hospital. She is the daughter of a Greek mother and an Austrian engineer. “Turkish worrien go out With men as do the girls in this country,” she said. “Of course the educated women have adapted themselves more rapidly to modern AA*ays, but then that is true anywhere.” Rapid Advance In 29 Years She said that it has been just 20 years since Turkish girls emerged froiri the Seclusion of the harem and discarded their fate A r eils. in that time they have become more completely “up-to-date” than most Avestern people realize. Turkey’s feminine population has full suffrage, according to Miss Benditsch. “They can vote and hold office. They also may own property,” she said. And the “career Avoman” has invaded the new Turkey. Miss Benditsch said that Turkish girls are employed in business and the professions. Some haAc received military training. To AVhom does today’s Turkish miss dAve her freedom? To Kendal Ataturk, knoAvn as “the strong man of Turkey,” Miss Benditsch said. “The young people of Turkey are solidly behind Kemal Ataturk and are trying hard to modernize the country,” she said. She described the “strong man.” His Eyes Are Piercing “He is a blond man of tremendous vitality and personality, and the deepest, most startling, piercing green eyes.” She said it was necessary (o give up certain luxuries if you live in Turkey, but that it is worth the sacrifice. It is pleasant living thefe, particularly because the people are not in a continual hurry as they are in the United States, she said. “The chief difference between Turkish and American men and Avomen is the difference in the tempo of their lives,” Miss Benditsch said. “I don’t understand Avhy people here work so hard during the day and then dash hurriedly off to engage in strenuous exercise or play.” Miss Benditsch plans to return to Turkey to enter the public health service, when she bus completed her hospital training in Cleveland. The health service is being deA*eloped rapidly under Keinal Ataturk, she said. PRISON SYSTEM MAY PAY WAGES McAlester. Okla. — A dismissed prisoner at the state penitentiary here receives 55 and a prison suit of clothes, but it may be fhat In the future he Avill walk forth Avith several hundred dollars in his pocket. A plan which would enable prisoners to earn wages and save a fund which would be paid them on their release has been advanced by Lea NiClvOfs, chairman of the state board of affairs. Nichols said that he hopes to have instruction in manufacture of ornamental furniture begun at the prison. Furniture pieces made by prisoners Would be sold and the proceeds from the sales credited to the prisoners. The plan is in the formulative stage now. Nichols said. “It might be possible for a man, in the course of four or five years, to save 5300 or 5400 by the time he was released,” the board chairman said. “Such a sum Avould be a Avonderful help to a man just out of prison. It would tide him over until he finds a job and becomes re-es-tablished in society.” Nichols said that the proposed plan AvOVvld combat the disadvantage of a released prisoner trying to get a foothold in business. The manufacture of furniture, Nichols said, in competition with free labor at the penitentiary has been discontinued. Under the present prison policy, furniture made at the prison is used only iri state institutions. But, he said, manufacture of ornamental furniture Avould not cause any disturbance in the state markets. Articles to be made \Aould include small tables, what-nots and various bric-a-brac. A man trained in this art is being sought to conduct the new prison school. “The furniture Avould be sold and half the proceeds would be sent to the prisoner’s dependents, and the other half A\ouId be credited to him for his use Avhen he is released,” Nichols said.

Writer Starts On Life Story of Tather Tim’ St. Louis. — A biography of the late Mgr. Timothy Dempsey, pastor of St. Patrick’s parish, known familiarly to thousands of St. Louisans as “Father Tim,” is being written by a young St. Louis seminarian. Harold J. McAuliffe, S. J. The Rev. Dempsey Avas widely knOAvh for bis operation of Father Dempsey’s Charities, Avhich included a hotel for men, a hotel for AA’dfking women, a day nursery, a parish school, a con\*aleseent home for women, and a salvage shop to raise funds for underprivileged and undernourished children. He was pastdr of St. Patrick’s parish for 38 years. He died on April 6, 1936. Father Tim’s biographer is seeking letters, photographs and other pertinent mate-

rial.

STATE SETS UP HEALTH GUARDS

Concord, N. H. — Ngav Hampshire’s new marriage law, requiring prospective brides and bridegrooms to submit to blood tests before they can obtain a license,

became effective Oct. 1.

Before issuing such licenses, city and tOAvn clerks must receive a statement signed by a licensed physician that the applicant has undergone a Wasserman, Kahn or other similar state-approved standard laboratory blood test and that such test shoAvs that each applicant is not infected Avith syphilis. Such tests may be performed by the state health department at request of a licensed physician, or at a laboratory approved by the department. Such tests must be made not more than 30 days before

issuance of marriage license.

The physicians’ statements must be accompanied by a record of the standard laboratory blood tests performed and each must contain the exact name of the applicant. Any person failing to comply Avith these provisions must forfeit 560 for each such failure. The certificates filed with the clerks Avill not be considered as part of the marriage record, but will be retained as confidential reports. BURIEDVILLAGE OF TRIRE FOUND

Mandan, N. D.—Within pistol shot of the site of historic old Fort Abraham Lincoln—Avhere General George A. Custer and his 7th caA*alry rode to their deaths—Columbia university anthropologists have uncovered the early life of Dakota’s prairie Indians, the Mandans. Headed by Dr. W. D. Strong of Columbia’s anthropology department, the party unearthed an ancient village. Many Indian bones and numerous weapons, agricultural implements, trinkets and pottery have bfeeii uncovered. Matty skeletons have been fblind hi graves. Dr. Strong said, Avhefeas the Mandan burial custoni was on a scaffold built above the ground, exposing the body to carrion birds and the elements. Dr. Strong said it Avas probable the graves were used follOAving a smallpox outbreak or a battle AVith Sioux tribesmen. The Mandans did not wish to disclose their losses to their enemies, he believed, and buried their dead. LeAvis and Clark inspected the ruins of the settlement on their 1804 expedition. At that time the Village had been abandoned some 40 years, a smallpox epidemic having swept through the settlement. TOWN DEPENDS ON FISH BITES Fisimile, La.—This town's prosperity depends solely upon the way the fish bite. The city limits are marked by the picture of a straw-hatted farmer boy fishing off a stump and it discourages all industry more strenuous than bait-digging. A man known to the seasonal residents of 100 cabins as “Mr. Ed” is the unquestioned boss of this fishing-for-pleasure Aillage. Mayor by virtue of no election, his chief assistant is Miss Cornelia Gravel, 68, Avho takes care of all other official duties—extracting hooks from fishermen’s hands and treating poison-ivy, burns and insect bites. The mayor OAvns the cabins and the general store and issues credit according to the length of time he has known the seeker. It was over the question of noise that he ousted one couple. Fishville, IS miles from Alexandria. was in existence before the Civil War, according to the mayor. The fish have been biting Avell ever since. Hot Avealher doesn’t bother the inhabitants of this tOAvn. When they get hot, they pull their cots out into the water, roll in and hope the fish stay in the bushes. The management doesn’t object. In fact, the management sleeps that way itself. o South Africa alone has 800 languages, and the Bible has been translated into 218 of them.

ITALY BECOMES FARM TEACHER IN EAST AFRICA

Ethiopian From To

Tribes Turned Brigandage Plowing

Rome.—Although Italian labor is being imported into East Africa as

can look forward to violent fluctuations in the price of both corn and hogs. The hog cycle has reached a stage when increased hog production has taken place in two successive years. Some decline in purchasing power of hogs in 1939 may

be expected.” “Supplement C”

“Supplement C”, a multi-protein home-mixed combination that captured top place in the 1937 tests at Purdue, again produced the fastest gains Avith the hogs on pasture. However, the cheapest grains, Vestal said, were made Avith the meat and bone scraps, chiefly due to a lower consumption of this supplement. As in 1937 tests, the supplemental mixtures Avere more

quickly as ft can be absorbed pro-1 palatable than the meat and bone

j visions have beCn taken to find constant employment for the native populations, it is learned. After some experimenting authorities have come to the conclusion that farming is the best outlet for these local peoples. With their agrarian and pastoral backgrounds, the natives are better adapted to wOrkittg the soil and raising cattle than they could be to any from of urban labor. Under the guidance of the agrarian section of the Governmental Inspectorate, the natives are being encouraged to interest themselves in truck farming, cereal growing, cattle raising and poultry and small barnyard animal raising. Former Slaves Trained Former slaves and nomadic tribes Avhose main form of lucrative employment once consisted in pillage and brigandage are among the converts. Those already engaged in agricultural pursuits are being encouraged to improve their methods. This is where the greatest resistance admittedly is being encountered. The native is encouraged to recognize the benefits obtained from cultivation with mechanical equipment. The Avork is slow but in most cases it is said the natives can see the enormous difference between the results obtained Avith primitive tools and those obtained through the labor saving devices of the Italians. The native Avill be taught to produce better products in greater quantity and at Ioav cost. Once the natives have been convertCft to the modern methods of farming, Fascism believes the greatest obstacle will have been

hurdled.

Various Grains Planted About two-thirds of the territory stir rounding JaA^elle, ti.,* seat of the Borana Commissionership, in the Galla and Sidama province, recently lias been plowed and sown to maize, barley, dura, wheat and vegetables. The agrarian Section at Javelio has prepared 40,000 square yards of land to be soavii to wheat, maize, barley and corn for fodder. Hog feeding is developing rapidly. The agrarian section also is studying the reasons for the almost total disappearance of fowls from the d’isfrict aiid has arranged for the construction of an experimental hen house Avith some 100 birds. As they reproduce they Avill be distributed in pairs among the native families. HOG'S RATIONS NEED BALANCE

Experiments Show They Do Better on Variety of Foods

scraps alone. “Supplement C” is composed of: 20 pounds meat and bone scraps, 20 pounds fish meal, 40 pounds soybean oil meal, 10 pounds linseed oil meal, and 10 pounds cottonseed meal. Replacing one-half of the soybean oil meal Avith an equal quantity of Avheat middlings increased feeding value. Vestal suggested for winter feeding that ihe 10 pounds of soybean oil meal in “Supplement C” be replaced Avith 10 pounds of bright alfalfa meal or leaf meal. The fastest and cheapest gains of hogs on dry lot Avere from a supplement composed of 20 pounds meat and bone scraps, 20 pounds fish meal, 40 pounds of soybean 011 meal, 10 pounds of cottonseed meal,,and 10 pounds of alfalfa leaf meal. Here again supplements containing fish meal Avere mo b t effective for gain production. In the “lifetime” supplement tests, Avhere the same protein is fed the pregnant sow, the suckling litter, and until marketed, apparently the mixed supplement was more effective than tankage and soybean oil meal for fattening hogs, but less effective than these supplements for brood sows and growing pigs. Complete results may be obtained from the Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station. Tree Projects Id Dust Bowl Prove Success Amarillo. Tex.—A high percentage of survival of trees planted by. the Soil Conservation Service in the treeless Texas I anbandle has been reported by H. D. Petheram, forester for the P'ederai conservation agency. Petheram Avas convinced that proper choice of the sites For planting trees Aviil give the Pan-hapdld-Plains an advantage of beauty. Avindbreaks, and soil conservation from us new trees. He said that the 150.000 trees ant' shrubs planted this year have flourished. State and Federal agencies have co-operated in tree planUngYn tirearea. HighAvays have been beautified and roadways improved by trees. Other trees have been planted to provide Avindbreaks and shade for livestock, and most important —to reduce the loss from Avind

erosion.

Petheram said that trees would Continue to groAv in the semi-arid region if they were protected from damage by livestock, from fire, and cultivated frequently. The trees are planted in locations that receive full benefit of rain Avater, usually in low places, where excess Avater can be impounded and used for the trees’ growth. Big Week Due

Balancing a hog’s ration, like balancing a budget, is a big step tOAvard “lifting the mortgage,” bull an additional step is the improve- j ment of the ration by feeding a variety of animal and vegetable proteins, which have a higher supplemental value than when individually fed. Essentially this was what hundreds of farmers from all sections of Indiana and from neighboring states learned today when the results of the recent hog feeding test's were discussed at the eighteenth annual Purdue university Swine Day. During the past summer about 400 grade Duroc-Jerseys were placed on feed experiments to compare the complex or mixed protein supplements Avith single suppleriients. These tests, conducted in dry lots and on pasture, took place, on the University’s Swine Experimental Farm, situated three miles north of here, and under the direction of Professor C. M. Vestal of the animal husbandry depart-

ment.

Visitors Inspect Hogs During the morning the visitors inspected the hogs at the farm and the afternoon program was staged in the livestock judging pavilion on the university campus. Acting 1 Director H. J. Reed of the Agricultural Experiment Station welcomed the farmers to Purdue. Following Professor Vestal’s discussion of the experimental results, James R. Wiley, also of the University’s animal husbandry staff, spoke on results of carcass studies of ton litters. “Lack of finish is the greatest shortcoming of our Indiana market hogs, especially those sold under 220 to 225 pounds,” be said. “The great bulk of our medium type hogs can be full-fed for maximum gains from birth to market Avitbout becoming too fat, even when sold at 250 pounds or more. In discussing the outlook for hog production, Dr. E. C. Young, Purdue's well knoAvn agricultural economist, said: “The most important single factor in appraising the outlook for corn and hogs is the general price level. The most reasonable expectation is for some additional rise in the general price level. It appears certain farmers

For Wisconsin Deer Hunters Madison, Wis.—Wisconsin is prepared for as many as 100,000 deer hunters during a seven-day open season starting Nov. 19. The state conservation commission reports that more than 3,352,000 acres of public lands in the northern deer country are open to bunting at this time. Hunters are limited to one fork-ed-born deer for the season. Nonresident deer bunting licenses cost 550. Residents pay 52. An estimated 30,000 bucks were killed during the 1936 seven-day open season, and 15,000 more during a three-day season last year, according to figures of Walter E. Scott of the commission’s game management division. Scott reported an increase in deer population, evidenced upon information from the general public, conservation department fieldmen, increasing claims for damage by deer, greater numbers of accidents on highways involving deer and automobiles, and the results of deer cpnsus drives. His figures show an average of 31 deer per section of land before the 1937 season, 28 per section afterward. “After the 1937 season, 79 of these deer drives were made on a total of 56,231 acres distributed on unit areas averaging approximately 700 acres apiece throughout the deer country of the state,” Scott said. “It Avas found that the startling number of 279 deer were counted on a 1,050 acre area in central Wisconsin, which had been closed to hunting during the deer season, and as high «s 60 deer were found on a single section of land in northeastern Wisconsin despite the fact that the area had not been

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Canberra — A report from the lieutenant governor of Papua is to the effect that one of the principal motives for head hunters is to please the girls. The latter haA^e a preference for men who have demonstrated their ability to bring in a human head now and then.

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