The Syracuse Journal, Volume 23, Number 33, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 December 1930 — Page 6

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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS ■ ’■' ■ .-. . ■ Hoover A»k» Congress for $150,000,000 to Provide Work for Unemployed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD CONGRESS, in Its short session, was asked by President Hoover on Tuesday to appropriate from SIOO.000.000 to $150,000,000 for the acceleration of public works construction In order to provide employment for men i out of work. It was asked also to make thia emergency fund distributable i upon recommendation of a catenet j committee approved by the President. I With that amount available, the Presi- | •lent said It-would be possible to ex- I pend a total of S4XSO •mmm.si upon con- I . gttuctlon of all kinds In the nPxt 12 I months. I ’•Our immediate problem, -aid the 1 message “is the . inereaSM' of employ- | incut for the next six [months; and i new plans which do not. produce such I Immediate results, or Which extend I commitments beyond this period, are I not warranted " . , The President also urged that an up ‘ proprlatlon he .made to the Depart- I ment of Agriculture to tye loaned to 1 farmers for the purpose of buying I seed and food for nnimiils. He said ■ plett already started. In re*j-e> t to Muscle , ■ Shoals, bus regulation; relief of eon-' gestlon In the. courts, reorganization I of the bonier patrol in prevention *d.’ smuggling, and Taw enforcement In the District of Columbia, He said there] was need of revision of the Iminlgra- t tion' laws and that the deportation | laws should be strengthened. Surveying the finances of the coun- ■ try. Mr. Ilooyer more than Intimated i the Income tax reduction could not he I continued on 193t>. incomes. The esti | mated treasury deficit for the presept fiscal year is about sl>" aI )« he declared that “most rigid economy - Is necessary to avoid increase in , taxes," ' a. NEXT day Presiilytit Hoover sent In his annual budget message. In which he warned <N»ngress not to uh ■ dertake any expansion of governmental expendituresether than those required under the proposed uneth- : ployment and drought reliefand said he regretted he could not recommend a continuance of the In- j come tax reduction. The budget he i . submitted .pAivides for total expend tures of $4,054,519,200 for the (fiscal year 19.32. exclusive of postabexpenditures paijb from .postal- revenues. a*, < enquired with, .estimated expenditures ,<d $4,014 IMl.f**' in the fiscal year 193 J and actual expenditures of $3 JM44. l.V_>.4S7 in the “'-id year 19.". n 'To the senate the President submitted the World court protocols, as he had promised, together's with antes- j sage urging American ratification. ; There were indications that the ques- ; tion would not reach final settlement ■ this winter. ’ Nominations sent to the senate included the name of William N la>ak ; of Virginia to be secretary of labor j In place of James J. Davis; George ■ Otis Smith and Frank R. McNlnch j as members of the power commiss <»n. ■and a long Jlst of recess nominations ; made during the summer. Senator, Nye, chairman of the cam* | naign fund investigation committee, believed he had uncovered large un- i reported expenditures in behalf of the Davis-Brown ticket in Pennsylvania. ] so he as,ted the senate to defer the i swearing In of Jim Davis senator. < This would have meant that J<>e Grundy would continue to occupy the sear and many senators don't like him. so they <oted 58 to 27 to seat Ihi vis On J Wednesday both Davis and Dwight W. Morrow Jtook the path, and,the sem | ate was then complete, with 53 Repute * licans. 42 Democrats and 1 FarmerLaborite. TN HIS message on the state of the * Union the President said nothing about prohibition, but in the budget message he made it clear the administration intended to continue its policy of vigorous enforcement of the dry Jaws. He recommended an increase of more than three million dollars in the funds allotted to the prohibition and Industrial alcohol bureaus. This was highly pleasing to the dry members of congress, but it only stirred the wets to more energetic plans for attack on prohibition. These latter decided to- try to knock out the bureau of prohibition increase, which inrector Woodcock Intends to use in employing about five hundred new enforcement agents. The wet leader* also reaolved to make a fi?hc on alcohol poisoning and for a- vote on a

beer modification bill. Senator Ring-, ham and Representative Goss, both of Connecticut, already had introduced 4 per cent beer and medicinal liquor bills. cenator Masker l. oddie of Nevada has intnxluced a bill that will have considerable support in congress. even If It does not pass. It is designed to bar the entrance of products from Soviet Russia into the United States, especially lumber, pulp wood, wbqd pulp, matches, glue, coal, manganese- ore. etc., which have allegedly been dumped into this country at prices below the cost of production here. POSTMASTER GEXERAI. WALTER F. Brown In his annual report ah- | nduheed a deficit of $.*>9.<M»6.000 for the ; last fiscalyear. and 'advocated incre.as- - Ing the first-class postal rate from 2 I to- 2’s cents an ounce. He believes ! this, together With minor revisions of | ! Would wipe ouf the deficit, Siiid Mr Brown: I "It Is my Judgment that the Post i Oflb department should conduct it* rStrictly postal .operations without finan- | cial loss. It Is no more logical to ex- ~ f peet the government to transport and I deliver private mail for less than'cunt; : than It would be to ask a telegraph or ; ■' telephone company to furnish coni-'. . muniention service nt’less than cost. ' J eiit'RETARY OF WAR HURLEY I A-5 reported to President Hoover ■ that the general- effectiveness of the ' land : military establishment was be - ing adversely affected by existing : policies which build up the air corps J at the expense of the regular army I and fail to provide for kes-pihg Up | ad(s]uate war reserve materials. \Var reserves of materials, such a* i ammunition and supplies, will not be I { available quickly in time of war. Sec- < . rotary Hurley'-’warned, at’the present ' 1 rate Os depletioii. "It will he but a i i matter of several years." he said. ' 1 "when there will be no properly bal- \ | anced war reserve stocks on band for i I Immediate issue to mobilized land - » fiower. The ho k- <>f such reserve ; stocks would- make prompt and com-.] , plete .military effectiveness Impossible ' !. in a given situation.” . > He rej>ort(Mi that as a whole is more efficient t(»dav than at any. time since the "World war." and advocated a raise in pay for the army. Overproduction is the chief. threat, against Atm-rlcan ngricul- I ture today, and if the farmers would avoid ru n they-must-all unite to curb | | it. So declared ..Secretary of Agriculture Hyde in Ids yearly report. He -a. !•• , J "I want to emphasize the need for | { equitable, intelligent; systematic and collective action to bring supply into better relationship with demand." Citing the particular overabundance of wheat, the agriculture s,s ; re’ary ■ said producers of-that grain could ex- ; pe< t federal help only if they made tt i practical approiH-h-to the task of-com- i i bining to adjust output to needs. Lower farm incotyes from the pro- i duction of 1930 ns compared with the : previous year were predicted by the j I cabinet ttfllcer. He estimated the I t(L-,r> gate gross income from I'.'"*' ' crops at alrnut sf).9’S>,(itWi.tM»(). or about ■ IC. [>er cent less than in r.rjft. He at- ■ tributed the current slump in agrlcul- ; tunil prices to continued overproduc- [ tion at .! ' U <- worldwide business dejires'ion.” resulting in lessenetl do- ; mand. ■ ] i -' —”— Estimates put out by the Aifttri can Federation of Labor set the i ; number of American laboring men out i of work in November at 4.800.0P0. j . President William Green, predicted ■ • that at the present rate of increase I the Jobless would number 7,<M0,000 bv | February, Neither figure covered : office workers or farm ialmrers out of j i employment. j It 'vas announced in New York that John D. Rockefeller and John D. i ' Rockefeller, Jr., had made a joint con- ; tributlbn of 81.<kM>.fl00 to the local emergency employment committee's fund for the unemployed. This was a handsome gift, but not anywhere near so large, proportionately, as the contribution of any one of many thousands of citizens to the same cause. (« TIMMY.” a little Slack Aberdeen Angus bred by J. F. McKepny of King City, Mo.’was declared the grand champion steer at the International, Live Stock show in Uhicago. He was sold at auction, bringing only s2.so'a pound. Herman Trelle, bringing a , sample of hard red spring wheat which he grew at Wembley. Alberta. 1.200 miles north of Chicago, was crowned wheat champion; and Herbert C. Watson of Tipton. Ind., won the national corn championship. Purdue, the University of Illinois and lowa State college took most of the blue ribbons for sheep and swine. Collynle Clipper

Star, a Shorthorn bull owned by F. W. Hubbell of Des Moines which has been winning first prizes all his life, took the senior and grand champion i ribbons in its class. Fourteen hunI deed boys and girls of the 4-H club were guests of the exposition and special awards were given 432 of them for their agricultural achievements. A team from Oklahoma A. and M. college won the trophy for the best live stock judging, outscoring twenty-two other college telims. The intercollegiate meat Judging contest was. won by a team of students from the University of Missouri, individual honors in this event went tn Miss Eva Buel of Nebraska university. SCOTLAND’S coal miners all went on strike agaiqst the application of the “spread-over" hours arrangement, but the English miners voted to 2<M\ooo to reject a proposal for a general strike. The vote represented l a triumph for Prime Minister Mac* Donald and members of the cabinet, I who had sat with the delegates’ con- , ference for hours, urging all. efforts [ for settlement of the difficulties with < the mine operators, including, if necesh sary. indorsement of the spreadover. C GOVERNMENT, agents in Portugal T uncovered a big conspiracy to ■ bring un a revolution, part of the plan being io blow up putdic buildings in Lisbon. Tlie police arrested a number of alleged conspirators and found more than tUXI bombs in the homes of some of them. The plotters already were distributing bombs to extremists In taxicabs and motor trucks. Polltl-.' ; clans of the Republican-Democratic phrty and several army officers are ■ involved. OFFICIAL announcement was made in Rome of the arrest by the i Ovra. the Fascist secret police, of about thirty men accused of eonspir- ; ing against the Fascist regime, and the prisoners are said to have con- . fessed'their guilt. Shme” of the culprits are intellectuals and others are Just Communists. | . GERMANY has caused uneasiness throughout Europe by a protest to the League of Nations over the alleged terrorism against German minorities in Polish Silesia. The accusations made by Foreign Minister Cnrtius are serious and it is evident the i German government- Intends to force an examination of the matter by the I League's C(>Uncil during the meeting which opens January 1!). The situation is made more grave by France's - attitude, inasmuch as the Paris govI ernment is pledged to. defend the Integrity of Poland with the same de- : termination as the Rhine, and military action liet.ween Germany and Poland Ipso facto would draw French armed intervention against Germany. -.-Learning, that the German Fascists were organizing a frontier force to : resist “Polish aggression,”, the police j raided the castle of a baron near the 1 Polish border, arrested 350 Fascists all fully armed and In uniform and : three truck loads of arms and munitions. On neighboring estates I were found large cache* of rifles, ammunition, barbed wire arid other mate- . rials of war. FRANCE was Startled when Pierre Renaudei. Socialist leader, told The' chamber of deputies that a Moslem holy war is on the point of breaking out in northern Africa. He said he | had information that the army was planning Immediate operations against the tribesmen on the largest scale ; since the Riff war. Renaudei went on to reveal army secret*, despite the | protest of army officers, but most of I his a<ldress was omitted from the I official reja>rt of the session by agreement. MISSING for several days and given Up for lost after she started a flight from Havana to Miami, ■ Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller of Australia turned tn safe and sound on one of the Andros islands of the Bahama group. She had been driven far ont of her course by a gale and made a forced landing on the islet when her gas gave out. A fishing boat took her to Nassau. She planned to return for her plane and fly it to Miami. ONE definite decision has been made by the Indian round table conference in lavndon. It is that Burma is to be separated from India and set up as a dominion of the British empire at the earliest possible date. Burma has a population of about 13,250.000. Its capital is Rangoon. MRS. MARY JONES, known as Mother Jones, who had been tne militant friend and advocate of the laboring man; died near Washington, after an Illness of more than a year. She was 100 years old last May. (@ by Wrfwa Newspaper Union.)

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J WINTER FEEDING HINTS FOR DAIRY ’ • I j Legume Hay and Silage Are Favored in Ration. “Without doubt, legume hay and silage are essential for economical milk production,” says John M. Shaw, j of the lowa State college dairy husi bandry department. “The dairyman ! must realize he is competing with oth- [ ers who are producing dairy products, J j and without both these gbod -rough- ■ ages he is handicapping himself at tint I start. While the dairy cow is, and a.« ! ways will be. a machine for convertin* farm produced feeds into products (t i high marketability, yet those who det i pend on the cow for this work must [ supply her with the best possible i crops which the farm can produce. Frankly, but I believe truly, the who does not supply his cows with leguminous hays and silage has no right to complain if he fails at dairying. These feeds are part of a dairy farmer s ’equipment.’ j “A good grain mixture can be made up of 500 (>ouhds ground corn. 400 j; pounds ground oats and 100-150 ! j pounds linseed oil meal, or .coarsely : ground soy beans. This mixture 1 should be fed at the rate of about ! seven pounds daily per one pound of butterfat produced. “The silage and hay should be fed liberally, but the cow will ordinarily handle silage at about she rate of three pounds daily per 100 pounds live weight and hay at the nne of one pound daily per 100 pounds live; weight;” Dairymen Should Choose Tried Sires for Herds Dairymen cannot expect to get helf- ' ers and cows able to produce 500 to 1.000 pounds fat from a bull If the bull’s dams and sires were able to pro- ; (luce only 20li to 400 pounds of fat, ac- ■ cording to John M. Evvard. live stock i expert. To get high record heifers ' one must seek bulls with parents bav- ’ ing higli records. The answer to the problem. “How ! am I to tell what a hull’s heifers will b„e able to produce?" is to use the' “tried sire." Mr. Evvard states. The I “tried sire" Is an assured proposition, j The side with the inferior pedigree isa wild gamble as contrasted to the Investment type of sire, or’"tried sire." The use of Inferior sires for even : short periods In the herd will cause I | shortage of milk and fat production in j the herd for generations. Hence It Is important that the prospective side of the future milkers should be chosen with extreme care The old statement that “the bull Is hrtlf the herd" is only partly true due , to the fact that he soon will dominate the entire herd. i Essential Factors for Producing Quality Milk It is n<>t difficult to find dairy farms with beautiful buildings and the latest types of equipment that are not producing high grade milk, or to find dairymen of education who. for one reason or another, are not doing : so. Proper equipment and good edu-I cation are valuable and helpful, but < back of It all. the dairyman himself is the most Important factor. There are many dairymen, who produce high quality milk uniformly although they have simple equipment. It Is the will to do the necessary things well and at the proper time that counts. The essential factors that underlie the production of high quality milk ; may he summarized as follows: (1) (fiean barns, clean milkhouse, clean milker, and clean and healthy coxvs. (2) Proper washing and effective sterilization of all utensils (3) [ Prompt cooling of the milk to itO de-. ' grees Fahrenheit or lower and keeping J It at that temperature until delivered. Dairjf Facts Clover hay Is two-and-a-half and al-J salsa three-and-a-half times a* rich in digestible protein as is timothy. Heavy Ingses In butterfat occur whenever separators are poorly ad- ' Justed or not property cleaned. • •• • Milk production also carries responsibilities. When carelessly produced [ and hnpro(>eriy handled milk may be the means of spreading disease; 1 Every owner of a separator should I have the skim milk tested at regular j Intervals to detect any loss of butterfat. Most creamery operators are glad to do this for tliefr patrons. • • . .1 Wheat is about equal' to corn, pound for pound, as a feed for dairy cows. Because of its stickiness. It should he mixed with other grains and should not exceed one-third of the grain mixture. • • • Many hul’s are confined to box “tails, which sometimes makes them hard to handle, offers no chance for exercise and Is dangerous for farmers In handling the animals. The lack of exorcise may get them out of condition. •• • - Pedigrees must be something more than--mere records of the names and numbers nf the ancestors of animals : offered If buyers are to be persuaded i to pay prices very much above the commercial milk producing value of such animals. Once a cow Is permitted to make a drop in her milk production due to exposure out of doors, or due to Improper feeding for a few weeks, she cannot be brought back to her former production during that milking period. • • • During the winter season the calf Is often infested with lice. Under such conditions It cannot be thrifty as the lice sap the calf’s vitality. Probably the most efficient treatment for lice Is an application of a 2 per rent solution of a coal tar dip to ail tarta of the calTs body.

Variation of Dutch Colonial Type Brings Most Interesting Results r~ ~ —- — '•cs . ’ JI Jr I ISr'W ! - 1 ~ ~ : 3 Six good large rooms and a large sun parlor are shown on the floor plan of this frame home. The center entrance leading into the hall and a living room that extends across the side and a good-sized sun parldr are features. The house is 24 feet wide and 30 feet long.

By W. A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to practical home building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his Wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the ■ highest authority on all these subjects. Address all Inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 407, South Dearborn street, Chicago, 111 , and only inclose Itwa-cent stamp for reply. Variations of the different types of home building designs are always interesting for they demonstrate that individuality of treatment brings most I happy results. This is shown in the ' home reproduced herewith.’ This is a | variation of the Dutch colonial type I of architecture. But by the design of the roof over the porch and extending it up to the eaves, the architect has taken away the plain effect of the Dutch colonial and substituted a graceful break in the otherwise straight —mir ' 3—»o' —a 1 —IT L—, V ' r»“•' j E=i iZO-«3o'Jß| 1I J I ' ■TORCH I ‘A I !■ \ lines. Tliis arrangement made possible a closet off the enhance on the first floor and one of the tame size on the floor above. This home contains six good large Find Unlimited Use for I Basement Wasted Spaces When a person thinks of all thef space that has been left over to ui purpose in the cellar he marvels tbit / it is not put to use. V: The basement is usually the warmest spot in the house and is an ideal location for a playroom for children '■ or a recreayion-rodm for adults. ClevI er householders are found taking to [ the cellars, even when there is no danger of cyclones or thunderstorms, j Architects who are designing new houses are reckoning with the room ■ bujlt below stairs, and those who are making over old houses are devising means whereby they may evolve at I least one attractive basement room ■ besides the laundry. j it is quite possible to decorate the . necessary beams and supports, and it i is also within a possibility to have j small windows fixed attractively, and then there may be any number of electric light plugs. Often the chimney is such a§ to make a fireplace an accomplished fact, and that is a great asset, especially a room fixed dovvp17“ajrs for billiards. y_ house entrance may be <Y e that many basements have, but it nus' | beautified by having an iron handi rail, and it is also a good plan to cover each step with a pfoteetpr to avoid accidents by icy weather. Thefloor covering may be just plain (what is called granite) linoleum, or j it may be of tile laid in mortar, or ‘ the cement floor itself may do with a few furnishings.. Carpets of many in- ■ expensive varieties may be used. The expert contractor knows many tricks that can be used in finishing the floor. if the floor is wood and expense is an item, use the fl(»or as It is. If you have any old carpets or ancient • clothes that are too badly worn for use by you or the Salvation Army, have rugs made from them. The cost is small and the covering will be ideal. There is much wear and tear saved on all parts of the upper quarters and stories when the basement is turned into livable quarters, and with the installation of modern heating apjiaratus. even in the oldest houses i much dirt Is eliminated. Concrete or stone walls in the base- ■ Tile Used for Floors, Roofs and Partitions Light weight and incombustible tile for use as fireproof partitions, roofdecks and floors gre manufactured from gypsum and wood fiber, with about 97 per cent of the whole being gypsum and the balance wood fiber. ! When used for partitions such tiles are laid up very mqch as brick is laid up. only the mortar used is a gypsum mortar. For roof-decks they are manufactured to special sizes, laid aerpss the steel roof members, fastened and then are ready for any standard kind of a roof covering. When used for floors, ■ they are covered with cement topping, over which the finish flooring is applied. In addition to barring fire, because of their incombustibUlty. tile reduces the transmission of heat and sound from room to room or floor to floor, because of the natural insulating properties of thfe gypsum from which they are made and because of the hollow air spfice that each tile contains. They also can be sawed to fit odd-sized

rooms and a large sun parlor. How these rooms are arranged and their sizes are shown on the floor plans. But it is the exterior of the home which will have its greatest appeal to those who want the unusual in the design of their home but who have not a large sum of money, to invest to achieve this result The entrance door design, already discussed, the sun /eta Icio. to r-J MiI .‘Il B ' “j Bed Pm. I Second Floor Plan. porch and the balcony above, the suggestion of a balcony outside the bedroom to the left on the second floor, and the lattice side into the porch, all are unique features. The -interior arrangement is along colonial lines in that there is a central hall with the living room to the right extending the depth of tlie house and tlie dining room, sun porch ajid kitchen with breakfast nook'adjoining the latter room, on the other side. Tlie stairway running out of the hall leads to the central hall on tlie second floor off of which open three bedrooms and a bathroom. 'Die dimensions of this house.are 24 feet by 30 feet, exclusive of tlie sun porch projection. It i§ of frame construction set on a Concrete foundation and has a full basement. i ment may be whitewashed or painted a- light color and wall lights with glass Lreflectors add much charm and cheer. Tlfttkory furniture that does duty outside in summer may take a new lease “n life. It may do winter service. HeaUhful Fad Saves Makers of Home Doors Door manufacturing, an industry seemingly threatened by an' architectural fad. has been saved by a health fad. according to IL Y. Stillwell, exj ecutive secretary of tlie National Door Manufacturing association. “When they started building these new homes and apartments without any"tnterior doors we thought i the door industry was going to, be seriously Manned,” Stillwell said, i "Spanish arches, oriental arches, ■ French arches, the architects went arch-crazy.” * Mr Stillwell admitted that he liked arches personally, but decried lliem as a menace to the door industry. “BUt'we have been saved," he continued. “Just as this arch fad was beginning to be felt throughout the industry, the sunshine for health fad saved us. Almost overnight home owners ilemanded more sunshine. Sunshine demands windows, sun parlors and Walls of glass. “Fortunately the door manufacturers also make windows. Houses may - be built without inferior doors, but as long as the demand for windows, solariums and French doors has been j increased the manufacturers of doors —and windows—are content.” Wash First Planning on some repaint jobs around your House this spring? Don't forget that the price estimate should include a thorough washing, for paint won’t -hold on a greasy surface or make a good appearance on top of ' flirt. Plant for View A few wisteria vines, two or three box bushes and a clump or so of tall flowering spring shrubs, to be seen i from the house rather than against It, are much more attractive than quan- • tity planting in the nurseryman’s style. ' j i spaces with the same ease that wood is sawed and nailed.. —1 s Need Not Be Alike Homes need never again i>e built ; alike. Like Jewelry, clothing, ice- ; boxes, typewriters and many similar i articles, color is beifig injected into 1 homes so that they may reflect Originality, beauty and good design *as never before. Especially through de- ; velopments in face brick manufacture [ in recent years, each home owner’s desire for individuality and charm In ; his house is being met in an ever-in- : creasing variety of colors and greater numbers of attractive textures now available. Placing Fireplace On entering a living room, a fire- j place appears at its best when it is at ! the far end of the room. For practical ' reasons also, this has the advantage of , avoiding the drafts that are so fre- I quently noticeable to persons sitting around a fire which is located near a doorway or open Mairs.

POULTRY I ELCTiSWINTER FEEDING ‘ NOW NEGLECTED Equipment in Poultry House Often Lacking. Quite frequently poultry owners attempt to go through the winter with insufficient feeding and watering equipment in the poultry house; Weeks of bad weather during the j winter make it hard to care for tlie flock adequately unless attention has been given to feeding needs. With the advent of mash feeding, flocks being fed in niany instances o 0 a mash ration alone, mash hoppers in the winter house become practical* ly a necessity. These hoppers should be large enough to care for the mash needs of the flock for at least two weeks, to save labor by less frequenj filling. A good rule to follow in judging the flock needs for a definite time is to allow for a consumption of about three pounds of mash per bird; per month. One foot of feeding space should be allowed for every ten birds iin the flock. The hopper should be 1 arranged so that the fowls Cannot I roost on the top. Where scratch grtain Is fed.it should be fed in the litter, either In the house or in the scratch shed or rooni. To facilitate the feeding of this grain, a storage box in one end or corner of the house that will hold enough ; scratch grain for a month of winter feeding will prove to be a valuable and small investment. Boxes should ■ also be provided, and kept filled with [■ grit and shell throughout the wintek Any drinking fountain that can be easily cleaned Is good. Automatic fountains, if meet this require- ■ ment. are to be recommended and if a self-heating fountain is available j that can be kept well cleaned, it wirl aid in keeping up egg production through the cold ’ winter months. ! Birds should never he forced to drink ice water, even though such automatic heating equipment is not installed in the house. I■ ' ■ Select Breeding Stock Early in the Season Poultry raisers who contemplate hatching their own baby chicks should have the breeding pens or flock mated at least three weeks to a month before the eggs are saved for hatching. Success in raising the baby chick | flock is in a large measure estan-./A, lished before the baby chick Jis hatched. Vigor and vitality naturally come from parent stocks that aj*e i strong in these qualities, says O. p. Ufford, extension poultry specialist, Colorado Agricultural college. j “One,should use only males thht are vigorous, and well-de- [ veioped. When possible, secure thejse males from breeders who can furnish | them from high producing hens. A male from high producing 'stohk should never be used, however, unless he has vigor and vitality. I % "Hatch Plymouth ivv-ks. Rhode island Reds, etc., net later than April. A very good time to hat(\ or buy Leghorn chicks is during part of March or tlie first week in Aptfil. Cliicks hatched later titan XISjA 15 are very, seldom profitable.” ■ ************************** Poultry Facts ************************** Candle the eggs on the seventh and fourteenth days. • • • The estimation of a bird’s-prospec-tive breeding value is the acme of the breeder’s skill. • • • Inbreeding to make an establishment of any point should always“e approached with caution. Cock birds usually produce excellent quality chicks, but sometimes give poor fertility early in the season.. • » < If a farmer keeps chickens at all, he can afford a comfortable poultry house. Tlie old poultry hotise may be remodeled and made more comfortable at very little expense. » » • Fowls infested with round worpis may be treated by feeding them dry mash containing one' (>ound 2 per cent nicotine tobacco dust in each 50 ** pounds. The medicated mash should be fed for four weeks. To secure the best flock fertility, mate such breeds as the Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds. Wyandottes and Orpingtons with one male to every 12 to 15 females. For tjhe smaller breeds, such as the) Leghorps, one male to every 12 to 15 females can be used. slo§t varieties of tapeworms hdve intermediate hosts. That is, a portion of the tapeworm’s life is spent I in the body of an, insect or grub and I the tapeworm gains entrance to the chicken's body only when tlie chicken ; eats the intermediate host. ... In dealing with tapeworms, as with ' round worms, prevention is better thpn cure. Thorough daily cleaning and careful disposal of the droppings 1 will prevent the insects from becoming infected so that they will be harmless for the chickens to eat. • * • The smaller tlie pen the more floor space per bird needed. Allow at least i four square feet of floor space for' general-purpose breeds and two and ; one-half to three square feet for l«eg- ! horns. If there are too few birds ; the house will be cold. I The poultry house should be com- | fortably warm, dry, light and well ; ventilated. Frozen combs reduce the I vitality of the birds and their production. A small amount of heat in cold weather is of great value if your • house Is not warm enough otherwise.