The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 52, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 April 1932 — Page 2

News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate to Expedite Revenue Bill —Lindberghs Still Hope Despite Double-Crossings—April Market Crash Cost Six Billion Dollars.

FOLLOWING a conference between Senator Joseph T. Robinson,' minority floor leader in the senate, and Presii dent Hoover, active steps were taken to expedite action on

I the billion dollar rev- • enue bill and other I pending legislation before congress. Fears I that the measure might founder in a I senatorial storm over . tariff duties were thus dispelled. ,lt was '■• agreed ' that barring all tariff amendments to the bill is an itn- 1 possibility, Ijut that general tariff consideration is, but of

Senator Robinson

tlie question. Whit? the assured support!“ of the Republican leaders a coftipromi.se limiting the bill to a few tariffs, such ,s oil, coal, copper and wood pulp, is in sight. The first two already are Iti the bill, the others are bucked by Strong and determined .support, . With this solid eonuressional backing for speeding the huge bill. President Hoover turned confidently to de mand of the business world a fres.fi conviction In American security and a halt to the steady dec line in prices on the public exchanges. At the close of the 1 conference of Democratic senators. Senator Robin ‘ son gave out a brief interview: “It is.the sense of the conference of Democratic that the hearings on the revenue bill be closed, at the earliest-pra< ti< able date and that the passage of the measure be expoditHl in every possible «ny." Senator Watson of Indianij. the Republican leader, immediately concurred in tii.' pronouncement and InItiateil a movement looking to the .compromise for limited .revision of the tariff which would open the way for qtlilk disposition of the revenue bill. • . ... ■ ' ' ' DESPITE* the failure ofi'the kid naiters to restore -the Lindbergh baby after the SSu.mii ransom was paid by Colonel l .tidltergh. the belief persists m official circles that the. child will be restored to rts parents’. The optimism seemed i<> spring eho'tlv from faith ip the ability of Dr. John F. t'ondoli of the '•.l’.i f-n’* <o!|tu< t to reestablish < otnmunn ation with the gang which is believed to be holding the baby, stolen froth bis parents’ home near Hopewell. N J., on March 1. i , -■ Doctor t'ondbn is reported to have told tfie members of some of his clam*# yat New Rochelle college that he h.|A rei ogt. . ■ ■: (he penri»i<n*hify4n all the notes from the kidnapenr-as the handwrjiting of a former pupil. It was supported, too. by the growing . oiivicti. ft v 1 J k.dmipers as well as the bate, s : other were double crossed by the mysterious individual who received tfie XAtt.tMto-ih currency . from the hands of Doctor t’ondonon the night of April 2 in a joheiy cor nor of St. Ravmoml v s cemetery in tfie Bronx. ' No word has come from the criminals'. however, 'inir (he ‘money was paid- . x - In order that Doctor ("jondon can pursue his efforts to recover the baby . f of official ::Oet f»Tem e. n presell tatties of Colonel !'.indlu*rj|;h have re quested tironx officials not ho question .him. 'They agreed to. heed the re quest. A new and puzzling angle was In-’ /tried into the mysgerv w hen dispat. lies from London quoted an ar I In the Daily .Mai*! that some of the ransom bills had been- found in the British capital. Scotland Y ards deteetjvjes begun ft soar* li torjhe person who brought the lulls' into England., J Colonel Schwarrkopp revealed that efforts to trace the ransom hills had not provided a clew. A woman was questioned for 4’veral hour* fn Man hattan in the belief that ft „was she who tendered one of the bills.in pav tnetit for purchases in a Greenwich (Conn.) bnkeshop Monday night. "But she finally was released with apologies. THE senate banking committee was advised by Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock exchange. that stock and bond values

(Richard Whitney

had depreciated at least six billion dollars durins: the April collapse in security values. Testifying as the principal witness In the commit t ee's investigation of short selling on the st<* kexchange. Mr. Whitney said that the drop in securities values had been as drastic during the past week as , during any other

period of the depression. He concurred in an estimate by a committee member that stock market and bond losses from the peak of high prices in 1f»29 had dropped M.’1.000.(M)0.000. Mr. Whitney’s estimates were made at the conclusion of the second day of the committee’s attempt to pin responsibility for recent stock market losses upon the activities of Wall street bears engaged In short selling operations. At the conclusion of the day’s hearing the Investigation was adjourned until Monday, when Mr. Whitney I* expected tn place before the committee a complete record of the short sales during the last week together with a list of the prominent bears who bare been on the abort side of the market. Mr. Whitney vigorously denied that abort sales had anything to do with

the recent drop In securities values, asserting .that widespread liquidation and unsettling tmsiness developments rather than bear raids were responsible so? the drop. He asserted, and produced figures to prove his point, that during the first week of the April U.K-line, the reduction in stock prices w’as accompanied by a decißie in tin* short interest or short sales. Goaded by rapid tire questioning, Mr. Whitney stanchily defended the stock market and its operations. He asserted that speculation was essen-, tial to a balanced market, adding that., an efficient, useful market could not be conducted without short selling. He denied emphatically that brokers loaned st«< ks of their customers to short sellers or themselves sold their customer'’ securities short in ordef to depress the market. In response to questions, Mr. Whitney said he thought between fifteen and twenty million persons were trading on the stock market wludi the crash came in 11*29. PLANS for retaining the full fight- *" Ing strength of the Tnited States fleet in the Pacific, while Conditions remain unsettled in the Far East, are beitig Considered by administration ofhcmis. At pres.-nt the scouting, as well a-s the battle force, is operating in I'aciflc w aters. <*rders. how ever, call for the ? return of the scouting fleet with its : big eight inch gun cruisers, in May. It is-. ex]»eeted these orders will be canceled. Normally’ only th.- battle force comprising 'the backbone of Amerieun naval strength is k,ept on-'the Pacific side of the Panama canal. Following conferences between State end N ivy ffe]> irtn.ettt oth< ials. Admiral Williatn V ; . Pratt, chief, of navaloperations, left for the west coast several ago to investigate the pnictieability of keeping the entire fleet there for several-months longer. The question of whether it would be more or less economical, to base the entire fleet on the Pacific side this year was one of the factors taken info consideration. The State department. It is report.ul, notified Navy department officials thatif practicable it would like to have the scoupng force retained fn Hie Pacific following the Hawaiian and west <oas| maneiivers which wCre.co'nc. cludtsb several weeks ago. The understanding is that the State department officials look the position that maintenftnee Os the'fleet at its full strengtb: In Pacific waters- would have .a i.enehe far. eastern idtua tion. Pin 'ii>i:\ r pAt L y.»N hinden berg who was re-elected president of Germany, in the run off election by* an overwhelming majority, issued h

j President ( Hindenburg

proclamation ai'cvpling the election and thanked the Germanpeople for their re* uewed expressions of con f i den c e, He pledged himself "to 'continue to” serve my fatherland and folk with all my power." “True to my oath, I w ill continue to fulfill my’ .duty of remaining qbove all partie' with justice : atit And « i'll ft.

tixAl ’desire to help i»ur fatherland to freedom and equality externally, and to unity and progress at home,” he l ite eighty four >ear-old president again urgently appealed to the German people, to unite. "I implore uil’ German men and wopien. whether they yob'll for or (gainst me. to cease their wrangling* and close their ranks?’ he said. Again, as seven years ago, I nppea) to the entire German people to cooperate. It is necessary to unite all power* hvorder to surfnount the present confusion ami distress. Only* by standing ■ together are we strong enough to master our fate. Therefore, in unity, let us go forward with God.” ?

Abol.i’ HITLER has been ordered ** by the German government to disp:ind his army of 400,000 national socialist shock troops and to end terrorizing activities for which it holds them responsible. This sudden blow at the strong Fascist organisation came in the form of an emergency de- • ice signed by Preaidtent Von Hindenburg. This decree dissolved Immediately all 'quasi military organizations” of the national socialist workers party. A minimum punishment of a months imprisonment is provided by the decree, to which htlty ne added a fine, for any participation in the dissolved organizations or support accorded It. | 'T'HE panic which swept/over portions of Argentine and/C'hile as' a result of the eruption of nearly a score of volcanoes in the Andes mountains qdickly subsided as the fire and ashes which had belched from the craters diminished. Scientists immediately began an investigation in an effort to discover what had caused the phenomenon. Several parties of seismologists made air surveys of the volcanic regions. Meanwhile, the great area over which the ashes fell—extending the entire width of the continent from the Pacific coast of Chile to the Atlantic roast of Argentina and Uruguay and about 400 miles wide—looked as if it had been visited by a heavy snowstorm. At some points the ashes were reported to be lying 14 inches deep.

THE battle over immediate cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus flared in both houses of congress Tuesday as the house ways and means committee began hearings to determine whether the public should be asked to assume an additional two billion four hundred million dollar cash burden to enable the World war veterans, to cash their adjusted compensation certificates. The advocates of legislation permitting veterans to cash in their bonus certificates at once disclosed that they hope to float the bonus law through congress as “a prosperity measure" rather than as simply a bill to advance veterans upwards of two billions in cash. Spokesmen for the bonus Jaw asserted its passage would start the United States back toward prosperity by increasing money in circulation, boosting prices and reducing the value of the dollar. Shortly after the bonus advocate? had had their say the movement for full payment of the bonus was assailed in three quarters. Senator Joseph T. Robinson o (Dem., Ark.), senate Democratic leader, issued a statement in which he asserted that payment’ of the adjusted compensation certificates would produce harmful results. Majority Leader Henry T. Rainey (Dem., Ill), and Representative Hamilton Fish (Rep., N. Y.), also attacked the bonus law s. All three denounced that section of the proposed bonus law which calls for inflation of the currency by the issuance of two billion dollars worth of United’ States certificates, this new money to la* used in paying off the veterans. The idea as advanced by The sponsors of the bonus law, that the measure could be financed by the simple process of running the government printing presses until -two billions of new currency had been issued, came in for special condemnation. JUSTICE PIER<‘E BUTLER of the United States Supreme Court hamlei! flow n « decision that throws a further safeguard around the Amer-

icon home against unlawful searches and seizures. The decision affirmed the circuit court’s deiixibn that the prohibition agents w ho raided, on a mere arrest warrant, the New York premises of Daniel M. l.efkowiz ami Pauline Paris, used by them as headquarters for receiving bootleg liquor orders, and

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t hen B took possession of . all Hje papers and documents in the room, were not legally justified in <o doing. The Supreme court holds the. arrest of I.efki'W’iz was properly made, bus says:' ' ■•;■.■ "There is nothing in the record to support the cirtiin that at the,time of the arrest tlie offense for which the warrant was' issued or any other, crime was being committed in. the presence of the officers. Tlie mere soliciting of orders from the room in eonrie. lion w ith the other uses alleged in the complaint is not sufficient to constitute the nmintenaiice of a nui-.. sance thereon.” PRESIDENT HOOVER .and■ Gover- • nor Roosevelt won favor of the-; electorate in primary elections and conventions in five states. in Illinois, although the delegates to # the state' vonAention ate uninstrm ted it is believed that a majority, 'of.tho't- chosen faxor the President. F6r governor, Judge Henry Horner of Chicago won the Democratic nomination, while the Republi&ns chose further Gov. l.en Smail. a* in Nebraska’s preferential primary. Governor Roosevelt was (lie winner for the Democratic . nomination by a substantial: margin-. The slate of Republican delegates favors President Hoover, whose name did not appear on tire preferential- ballot. The prospects .of both I‘resldent .Hoover ami Governor Roostvelt -were si reiigthened l>y the action of three sta t e conv en t i ons. In Missouri the Republican com vention instructed- the entire state delegation of 45 to vote for Hoover. The Florida Republican convention pledged nine delegates at large to Hoover. District meetings gave him four more and two other district delegates remain to be chosen. Kentucky’s entire Democratic delegation of 2»i was instructed by the slate convention for Governor Roosevelt to vote for him as long as his name is before the national convention in Chi- ! cago. The Kentuckians backed Senator, Alben IV. Barkley for the Vice presidential, nomination. E'RANCE does not take a fancy to * the American proposals for disarmament as presented by Hugh S. Gibson, the American representative.

Premier ( Andre Tardieu of France, rep-- I resenting his government. bitterly assailed the plans at the Geneva conference. Mr. Gibson pro- !■ •"*•-! that tanks, big guns and gases be Abolished in the. interests of security, but he made no mention I of battleships, "the most obvious aggressive weapon.” said M.

Tardleu. Abolition of certain types of aggressive arms will not necessarily provide security, he said, but might, on the contrary, be disadvantageous to an invaded country. The only means to security, he declared, is common action against an aggressor. This was generally accepted as a restatement of the French proposal for placing offensive forces at the disposal of the League of Nations. In any case, the premier reminded, the conference, this disarmament meeting is under the auspices of the of Nations, and he suggested that nonmembers of the League keep this In mind. Mr. Gibson’s proposals were in line with plans worked out by Norman H. Davis in conference with President Hoover and Secretary Stimson. (©. !»«. WMtera X’ew»p*p<r Union.)

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IMPROVED L ’ UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY j chool Lesson (By RKV. P. B. FITZWATER. D- D-. Member of Faculty. Moody Bible Institute of Chicago,) <©. I>IT. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for April 24 ABRAM’S GENEROSITY TO LOT LESSON TEXT—Genesis 13:5-15. GOLDEN i TEXT—Be kindly affeci tloned one to another with brotherly I love; in honour preferring one another. PRIMARY TOPIC—A Generous Uncle. JUNIOR TOPlC—Abram Divides With His Nephew. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP- . IC—An Adventure in Friendship. YOUNG PEOPLE ANO ADULT TOPI IC —Too Generous to Quarrel. ( Apparently a famine was sent upon Canaan soon after Abram entered it! Because of this famine, he went into Egypt. Doubtless the famine was sent because of the wickedness of the Canaanites, but it was. sq Timed as to develop the graces of Aferpm’s heart. He needed to be taught tlje? fact of his own weakness in order to hilly realize God’s power and faithfulness. It would have been far better for him to have remained in Canaan with its famine, knowing that he was where the Lord had led him, than to go into Egypt. L Abram and Lot Go Out of Egypt (w. 1-4). • 1. Thrust out by Pharaoh (v. 1 cf. 12:1$, 1!*). Ry prevarication Ahram, deceived the king concerning the relation of Sara! to himself, but when the truth w.as known that she was his wife ‘ instead of his sister. Pharaoh thrust ; liim out. This is not the last time’ 1 that a child of God was rel’tiked and I thrust out by a man of the world. 2. His wealth greatly increased (v. 2). Although Abram was away I from the place to Which God had-called him, his temporal possessions increased. Increase in riches is no sign that a man is in fellowship God. 3. -He went back to Bethel (vv. 3. 4), Although he had declined from the pathway of faith and hail suffered shame and humiliation before a i heathen king, when thrust out he had the good sense to go into the place of the altar, where hit tent had been at the beginning. It-was hyre that he called upon the name of the Lord. There is no record of his having done iso while In Egypt. His Egypt experience cost him much spiritually, though he became rich there. He seem» even to have lost his influence over Lot? 11. Abram and Lot Separate (vv. ' 5-13). . I.’ Strife between their ‘‘herdmen (vv. 5-7). The goods of both Abram : and Lot greatly increased. This increase in goods threatened strife bei tween Abram and Lot. When they attempted to settle, down, trouble arose J between their herdmen. This is the j first record of relatives quarreling over financial matters. Riches often interferes with friendship. They engender I greed and selfis#inoMß in men, and kindle jealousy and strife between them. For the chosen of God thus to j quarrel: is utter folly, and criminal. : especially when the enemies of the r Lord’s pyople look on. ’2. Ahram’s magnanimous behavior (vv. S. 9). He made to Lot a generous proposition which relieved pile disgraceful situation. Lot was allowed , his choice. Though he owed every- > thing to Abram, he was allbwed to choose that suited him best. Abram's behavior in this case is a fine example of the art of living together peaceably. ■ 3. Lot’s selfish choice (vv. 10-13). ! His selfish heart prompted • him ’ to grasp for the best. His action shows that his stay in Egypt was ruinous to him. <>ne cannot go into Egypt without being affected by it. Tins- was a' fatal choice for Lot. Though he for a while prospered’ ami even was elevated to high official position and gained society for his children, it was i an expensive undertaking for him. HI. Abram Delivers Lot (14:11 1G). Lot. with-all his goods, was taken away when the confederate kings cartie against >S<klotn. Though Lot’s trouble was the-result of fiis selfish choice. Abram s magnanimity of soul expressed Itself by taking up arms to deliver him from the oppressor. Lot is an example of one saved so as by fire (I (’or. 3:11-15). lie is an : example of the man who allows the world to get the better of him. He set his affections upon earthly things, and ! the time came when he had to separate j from them. The world and its lusts 1 pass away, but he that doeth the will j of God abideth forever (I John 2:15-17). i Once his money and his family were in S<*dfffn>J)#* endured its wickedness while longing to escape from it (II Pet. 2.-6-S). In contrast with Iz>t who suffered from hbs evil .choice Abram was greatly prospered. He grew rich in temporal things while at Hie same time he was rich toward God. Abram’s whole life show s that those who make obedience to God first get the needed worldly things (I Kings 3:5-13p Matt. — k GEMS OF THOUGHT No man is hurt but by himself.— Diogenes. ’'"''X Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother’s look, with a father’s nod of approbation. • • • Make no vows to perform this or that; it shows no great strength, and makes thee ride behind thyself.— Fuller. • • • Souls are made sweet by taking the acid fluids out, and by putting something in—a great love, a new spirit, the spirit of Christ. ■ • • • General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room.—Locke. • • • Almost the surest test of the disinterestedness of our prayers is the proportion of thanksgiving they con? tain.—Bishop Tborold.

Hugh Gibson

■■ FOOD OF QUALITY FOR BREEDING HENS Only Way to Get Best Eggs and Healthy Chicks. “Poultry has suffered! along with other farm crops, but due to the drop in feed prices in proportion to the prices being received for eggs, and because of the tnild winter permitting production to stay at level, poultrymen have been much epepuraged to go ahead with their work,” says Roy S. Dearstyne, head of the poultry department at North Carolina state college. “However, some poultrytnen have attempted to increase their margin of profit by decreasing the feeding or substituting certain feeds which do not give as good results. Onj? of the main substitutions being practiced is to use vegetable protein feeds for animal protein feeds. Soy bean meil and peanut meal are good if used in limited quantities, hut they should not entirely displace the anltpal protein, especially when production is heavy and the eggs are being used for ‘ Any radical change frpm the usual methods of feeding at this time is likely to be reflected In the! hatchability Os the eggs or the livability of the chicks, Mr. Dearstyne says. The breeding hens should be fed so that they will produce only the highest quality of eggs. Mr. Dearstyne insists that green feed, plenty of sunlight, an adequate mineral supply and milk in some form, should be fed the birds to get the best eggs for protlucing healthy chicks. If the breeding birds are to he through a long laying and maintain body weight, they must be fed a balanced ration. It is particularly unwise to depend on grain feeds alone without masl). . ] ■ ■ ‘ Chickens a Life Saver, Says Ohio Poultryman R. IV. Sweitzer, poultryman, has told the Ohio Farmer how lie managed to reduce feed costs in his flocks. “To make nfofiey we had to press down on feed costs.” says Sweitzer. He believes the cost of grinding grains for poultry Is a wasted expense. He feeds a free choice, ration vfith corn, wheat, germinated oats, meat .scraps and milk before the birds at all times. Greens are supplied by cabbage and apples and cod liver dil is fed in the grain. Mr. Sweitzer raises all bls grain and buys only concentrates. "Last year.” showed Sweitzer, “we received 6 cents a pound for our. 1 grain by niarketing it through our hens?’ Dairy cows were his main line until disease broke out and he had to sell his stock. “Our chickens at this time proved a life sayer,” he said. j Causes of Paralysis Paralysis Is occasionally seen In chickens that are heavily fed rapidly. It is also seen where there is overcrowding and poor ventilation. Let them have.plenty of sour milk and green add one teaspoutiful of fold extract of nnx vomica to each pint of drinking water. There is a form <of pantlysis that attacks mostly young birds, <fot' w«hich there is no treatment, of any value and Is usually fatal. In cases of this hind, it Is advisably* to get a new flock and put tftiem in new buildings on clean land. | (Changing the old flock, to new ground or buildings dot's not stamp out the disease. —Michigan Farmer. Incubator Pointers , I.evel the Incubator With a spirit level and place bits of wood under any leg that seems short. This, not only to keep an even heat in the egg chambers but prevents the vibration that.occurs when the floor Is uneven and one of the incubator legs does not rest firmly. A cellar Is the best location for the Incubator as it is.free from vibration and the air will be rather moist. When the machines are operated In an upstairs room the entire family must be—careful to avoid running, heavy walking, banging doors or carelessly leaving them open and chilling the air around the machine. Need Cod Liver Oil Poultry kept around cities where smoke abounds do not get sufficient sunshine in winter time, and hence cod Hver oil is necessary for them, Prbf. E. L._ Dakan, of the Ohio State university, says after testing out several flocks. Two years ago he fed all flocks without cod liver oil except one, and that one pen la,id the most eggs. Next year he fed cod liver to nil flocks except one, and that year this single pen without: oil had the lowest production of all. —Ohio Farmer. Heavy Layers Hens have to meet a high standard before they are used for breeding purposes at the United States live stock experiment station at Beltsville. Md. Poultry men of the Department of Agriculture choose breeding hens only from those which produce at least 225 eggs In the pullet years and- whose eggs average at least two ounces In weight. They save only the chickens from hens whose eggs are at least 70 per cent hatchable. Pullets are not used in the regular breeding pens. Watch Nests, Watch the nests and keep ffltem well padded with clean litter. Is the excellent advice given by R. G. Kirby, In the Michigan Fanner. It saves broken and dirty eggs and helps to prevent the egg-eating habit. Many nests can be filled with litter in the time required to clean a few dozen eggs, and during the spring when hundreds of low-priced eggs are produced, they must be as clean as possible to reduce the time required to prepare them for the boxes.

Ways of Cutting Production Costs Colorado Expert Suggests Ideas for Obtaining Best Results. Ways of cutting live stock and crop costs of production were discussed before farmers attending the feeders’ day at the government experiment station, by Janies E. Morrison, assistant director of the "Colorado Agricultural college extension service. Suggestions for reducing production ’ costs included: 1. Culling unprofitable live stock and replacing it with good individuals. | 2. Feeding balanced rations. 3. Keeping premises sanitary and stock healthy. 4. Keeping records of costs of production. 5. Using only good seed of adapted .varieties. (>. Controlling plant diseases. 7. Destroying pests, insects and rodents. “We should not be afraid to investigate new crops. but we should be cautious about plunging into them? he said. This is no time to take a flyer in anything. “What live pays for feed depends on the feed and live stock markets, skill in management and equipment to permit handling at low cost. ♦ "Live stock contributes to the sta-. bility of farming, and makes for a well-balanced farm business by furnishins an income throughout the year, by distributing labor more equally front season to season, and by furnishing a market for products which the market will not take otherwise either because of low quality or an oversupply. "Ordinarily-, with low cost, handling, live stock will pay more for feed crops than the cash grain market.” Much Loss From Insect Pests Is Preventable When we fight insect pests we are attempting- to .conserve agricultural production rather than to necessarily increase production. We are attempting to save ourselves that tax or, toll of t.-n cents on the dollar which insects extort. In normal times this arnbuhts to more than S2.000,(W,000 worth of agricultural production annually,. A large part of this loss is preventable. If nine cows, when protected j from pests, as much milk as ten unprotected, why feed and, milk the tenth cow? The enormous economically preventable insect losses can be saved with less effort and expense than It- takes .to actually produce( that amount. If it were not so there would be rio. excuse for the state and federal departments to urge farmers to practice farm sanitation and to carry out the various other lines of. insect control xVork. True some insect losses cannot be controlled economically, and such losses we must, continue to accept until sortie one perhaps devises a means of effectively controlling them,—Missouri Farmer. Storing Soybeans Soybeans should have less tljian 1> to 16 per cent moisture before they are to be stored, according td Hackleman. University of Illinois. With thousands of bushels of beans being harvested ami stored it is important’ that these beans be put into storage in proper condition to keep without spoilage. ' ■ . | "In additiort to the moisture content, farmers can control three other factors which determine the grade of soybeans.” says Hackleman. "These are conditions and appearance.jbroken and split beafis and foreign material. As for. condition and appearance, soybeans, like corn, should ‘lookl good? that is, he free’from mold. ,naye no insect injury and so far as possible should be clean. “The amount of damaged beans may mount if there is excessive cylinder speed in threshing, concaves (set too close, too many teeth, or bejins too dry'when threshed.” Barley Smut Control Effectiveness of organic mercury dusts in the control of stripe disease of barley and covered smut is (credited by the Wisconsin university ( with a great reduction isl the losses sustained from these diseases in Wisconsin. Seed treatment %lus new pedigree strains No. 37 and 38. which are resistant to stripe, have given striking results In control. Likewise the adoption by growers of treatments such as formaldehyde dust are recognized by the university as being standard effective methods that are easy to apply and less risky to use. They blaim ItjO per cent control’ of oat smut wMu these dusts are used under practical farm conditions. The treated see<V usually yields enough more to amply'* pay for,the cost of material ami labor. * —Wiscinsin Agriculturist. ' Legume Helps Wheat Margins of profit on wheat may be widened as much as nine bushels an acre when the crop follows a legume . rather than a non-legume in the rotation. This Is shown by a comparison of wheat yields after legume hay and after corn in a rotation of wheat, corn, wheat, legume hay. grown on an Illinois experiment station field. The legume in the case of the experiments was a mixture of alfalfa, red clover and alsike grown for hay and the second crop plowed down for wheat. Hog Cholera Subsiding The prevalence of hog cholera which during the autumn months was unusually severe In some parts of the country. Is showing signs of abatement, according to the United States bureau of animal Industry. Although for a time hog cholera threatened to cause losses as serious as in the severe outbreak in .the fall of 1926, the prompt use of anti-hog-cholera serum saved many herds, which without it would have been lost, and stopped the ■oread of the epidemic.—Ohio Farmer.

DASY

TO END MOISTURE • IN MILK HOUSE Proper Insulation Will Put Stop to Nuisance. A subscriber complains that moisture collects on the ceiling Os his milkroom, which is built as an addition to his dairy stable and with a self-closing dbor. He asks how he caii plaster the ceiling ftnd walls. The moisture condensation to lack of insulation and lack of vehtilatipn. A layer of good sheet insulation on top of the ceiling joists would take care of the insulation of the ceiling pretty well. Then you should have about a 10 by 10 or 10 by 12/mttake flue starting at the ceiling and going up through the roof and capped with a regular barn ventilator. This should have a valve at the bottom operated by a chain, so that it can be partly or entirely closed, as may be necessary to keep the temperature where you want it. Also your walls probably need insulatlngyfefore you plaster. The’patent planter board helps a good deal, but an extra sheet of insulation if the walls, are of blocks,! or the extra sheet with the studding spaces, filled with dry sawdust or shavings if of frame construction. U’ill add a' lot to the warmth. Rut if you insulate the Ceiling and put in a ventilator, you probably will have no further trouble. — Wallace Farmer.. To Feed Grain Properly One Must “Know’, Herd Feeding grain economically Ito cows requires in the first place (hat we know wiijat each cow in the herd is producing. This', in turn, nieans that we must; weigh the milk from path cow at fairly frequent intervals and have satiiples. of the milk tested for butterfat. Granted tiyit we kilos the pr> diK tion of each c"« , a rough and, ready rule is to feed one Uound of grain ttf oach four pounds of milk produced by Holstein cows around 3.5 per cen* fat. Extra Bfc<>d producers —say cows “producinx 50 ■to 60 pounds of milk daily—will .require a larger proportion of grain than this and cowjs near the end of lactation period and giving 15 pound* or Jess will not require as hiuch. There will never be a rule so good that tlie feeder will not have to rely somewhat on his ■own judgment. An Ayrshire cow. giving richer, milk, might have a pound of grain to’three and a half pounds = milk, a Guernsey one to three and a Jersev one to two and pounds. - ■ Raise Only Good Calves Healthy calves are advocafe<i as a sure sotiree of healthy, producing dairy tattle. • I>airymen Who ’add to their herds by r-urclmst* freqtuyyly Increase their troubles., according to Dr. J. I’. Iverson, chief of the Ciiliforniii division of animal industry, because it rarely ; happens that healthy, producing cows can be bought cheap. .Doctor Iverson stresses that only good 'calves from cow.' of known production ant good typo should be raised. Such calves, he. says, when segregated soon after birth .and fed milk, pasterizedepr known to be from tu,bereulpsi-s-free eqttle., be-, come desirable dairy cows, free from disease. ' Feed More Grain A study of market prices gives, a lot <>f food for thought Just now, especially for the dairy farmer who buys a lot of his feed. A couple of years ago nutrients could be purchase. I most cheaply in clover hay. while timothy hay was fourth bn the list at' ?13 per ion. Now. according to computations’of a contemporary, timothy is the most expensive of (feeds ami - red clover is a more expensive feed than oats, wheat, alfalfa hay, barley. • gluten feed and shorts. /I‘he Change 1n price levels means that farmers can profitably ent down on the amount of hay fed and-feed grain more liberally. ' ' Watch Profits A recent lest at the. Mitchell. Nebraska,< experiment station stiows that cows on rongiiage alone produced milk and butterfat cheaper but the total value of the product above feed cost was less than with cows whw’h got ggrain in addition to the roughage. James A. Holden, who conducted the test, sums it up by saying that the daws receiving grain paid more than the market price for it. He adds that farmers having cows capable of . producing over 360 pounds of butterfat vfor a year on silage and hay alone Ywill find that it pays to mid a good dfjhin mixture at present feed prices. —.Successful Farming. Eradicating Tuberculosis ' During the year endlrTg December 31. ISBI. 8.446 initial (tests were conducted upon 121.764 battle, according to the January 21 report of Dr. E. T. Faulder. director of thewireau of animal industry of the NewjYork department of Agriculture and markets. The report goes on to say that 43.089 reactors were revealed, or cent. 3.632 herds were found infected? or 42.3 per cent. It also states that'4.Bl4 herds revealed no tuberculosis. —American Agriculturist. How High Herd Was Fed By producing an average of 714 pounds of milk and 40.9 pounds butterfat in December, the W. L. Maya and Sons hexd topped the McLean No. 2 Dairy Herd Improvement association in December. This herd was fed on a ration of ground shelled corn, ground oats, bran, linseed oil meal and soybean oilmeal with silage and clover hay. The high cow was owned by Guy Hilton and had a production record of 82.2 pound of fat for the month. —Prairie Farmer.