The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 6, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 June 1932 — Page 2

For the. Children’s Sake By FANNIE HURST

te by McClun- Ne»»p*i>v Hxudlcote.) . ; (WNU Service) • •A NN MEREDITH'S marriage /y was one of those runaway / \ affaire. . She wet Donah! Mutrie on a Sunday and married him that ddy week. r *Her friends tirtd some of his, said Ann was*too g<x»d for him. Meaning thu* up Ho the fime of her marriage Donald had been what, might lie called a prodigious sower <>f wild oats. “ Ann knew this, after a fashion, and her sweet eyefl were alight with the determination to reform Donald. She married him *far love. Site could reform him with that love. , In whatever fashion Ann was to lie the loser by this marriage, she bettered herself economically. Donald whs a born money-maker. As his friends said of him, about everything lie touched turned to gold. Donald even a little the worse for drink could turn a better bargain than most men in the power of their full faculties. Ann up to the time of her marriage had been a sort of forewoman in a fairly large uptown department store of Urban Ctty.' One of those great shops “of convenience that occasionally dot the residential districts of large towns. The kind of shops that cater to the housewife who <faes not have ..tlmeTur the lung trip to the downtown districts. After her marriage, Ann lived In a lovely stone-facade*!, tefaroom home In a residential district where heavy traffic was ftirbjdden. But almost from the first, the reformation did not pan out.ns Ann had dreamed it would. Ifannld was as set in bls ways as lie was wild In his ways. ‘From the very first he began to come'home roaring drunk two and three* t fines a week. The lovely home that Ann had taken such pride in ere ating became a storm center of the most painful and difficult scenes from the very first. It was almost with horror that Ann regarded the coming of their first child. Blit for a while, about a year after Its nrri* 11. a change tt fa I'on.lM. He M-oI!:<-.| humble, <hastehwl. deeply contrite and In hiu> with the mother of his lovely 1 tile daughter, and far a brief twelve month the pretty home became Something of the Jhliiff Ann had dr<*anied It might be. The coming of her child was a peridd of happiness and thafik’filvIng for Ann. l ife a-otimed a tranquility and a beauty. . Donald, who could be very, very pice when he was nli'f, was not only the provider magnificent, but for thr.-e months after the comhig of the little boy remained n devoted husband apd fntbe,r. Then fine night ijonald came heme drunk. I With her bort in her m-m Ann ■ greeted this suddenly strange horror of it companion of hers and made up her mind to tigjit a valiant tight with Idin and nip in the bud the possibility of a return to his habits of debauch-, cry. There .were tears and reconciliation after that dreadful night. But sot iet lung had snapped in -Donald. Not only did the drinking continue, but I»onald became; untrue and faithI -to. Ann In theimost flagrant and offensive-sense of the.word. , I’oor Ann, . sometime* '■ she was obliged fa hold Iler head. Up and pretend not tu be scared with Insult when thv-e companions of IWuild's passed her with him on the very streets of the-city iri which they lived. ■ The next five years of her life been me a nightmare;] It was Ann s horror, It was- Annfa Inmdh. tioii to see her lovely children <s>!)»tanfiy subjected to the S|»fatacle of a maudlin father nnd Os home scenes of high, angry and bitter words that should neier have readied their tender little ears, i In vain Ann sought to avoid these seelies, preferring often tp .suffer in silence than to subject her sensitive little girl and boy to the.gross s|»ect«< le of’a family row. Because that ws* all they could ever amount to, with l>onald half crazed with drink, and blear eyed from top much dissipation and too little sleep. faVhy doesn’t she leave him?” said some of Ann's friends. On the other, hand, those of her more conservative relations, owing to religious scruples and fear of public opinion, advised her tiftMbk It out for the children’s sake. <lhj children's sake* was a phrase that lay constantly on poor Ann’s bitter lips. If not for her children, she would pever have endured It’ If not for the indignity of visiting upbn time fanbeent little products of her'' unfortunate alliance the stigma of the public separation of their parents, Ann would have gone back to her old position long ago. She did not crave divorce. She. too, had certain teUgioua scruples, and, be-

Survived Despite Lack of Hygienic Knowledge

Considering how little primitive man knew about hygiene, he managed to keep living, didn’t he? It is this monumental facrttiat fortlfl.es our belief In an* overseeing aa<£ omnipresent Providence. Something must have . preserved man. in the midst of his ignorance. and comparative helplessness. He died of hla diseases, but somehow enough.adults survived to carry on the race and increase It. One has ..only to read Doctor dendennlng’s eye-opening and mouth-open-ing (for the doctor is a humorist! article In the Fohtth to learn that ancienf 'Utah, frvhr the beginning, was fufl of‘physical faulttness. His dlsinteftmd teeaes rsbow -tt; and many at the ifcyptlan mummies bear the marks ofybebmitWaa..TUe ills of bad teeth resultedjU? tb« same maladies they do Rector Clendetming obserres that' at least one exalted Egyptian suffered from blackheads. Whether‘Wemployed sorcery or a face cream cannot now be determined, but either was futile.

sides, It seemed to. her that she could never again have sufficient faith in the married state to try it with another. No, Ann was not for divorce. All she secretly craved was respite from the Indignities Donald continued to heap upon her and, above all, upon their children. And yet in Ann’s heart the fear for them of the stigma of separated parents was even greater. For six years the condition waged. Little Adele, a blue-eyed doll of a child whom Donald adored when sober, had literally been reared in a home of snarling domestic tragedy. Bobble, the boy, could tell by the sound of father's feet on , the stairs when he was returning home drunk, and would run screaming and sobbing to his mother’s side. Gathering these babies to her, sometimes it seemed to Ann that her hands were dark with sin.for having brought them into the world. What mattered it that their home was lavish? That their father, when sober, adored and pampered them? The atmosphere of that home was drenched in horror. When their father came into it, he smirched his children by fas very presence. One evening, such a shocking scene took place in that home —when Donald returned to it in the company of one of the women of dreadful finery he was known to associate with—and entered the very room in which his children and wife-were having their dinner—that without taking time to contemplate the results. Atm packed up her children, bag and baggage, and with them left the house. She went back to a boarding house she had lived in during the years of her work in the uptown department store? - I- .'. ■ The next day Ann sent for her nurse from the house she had left, and engaged her to take care of the children in the roomfag house while she sought out a position. The old store was glad to take her back. At an increased salary, a sufficient Increase to enable Ann to keep the nurse maid and leave her children in the care of this reputable woman while she went dqilyj to her work. It was not the idriil environment. But the two small boarding-house rooms responded to'(fhintz and white paint, and when Ann returned to them evenings, she did fa '.secure .in the knowledge that her children’s little ears would know only her loving greetings and that their little hearts could expand in an atmosphere of peace and lova. * '■ No, it Is by no means the Ideal solution. Ann s struggle is a bitter one. She will not accept help from Donald even for the children. But the two little rooms represent something that the. big house never boasted. Tranquility. The secure knowledge that the delicate growing minds of het Bobbie and Adele will know only the sunlight of harmony ami the kind of gentle environment that It is Ann’s life hope to provide them with. Now, as Ann looks back upon it all, upon the turbulence of the years, the agonized moments of imiecision, the ’ear of making the break from the so culled security her husband s boardand ke. p gave her in the comTnunity. she realizes that the cruel thing to her children would have been to remain with them there. Vassals to a father wh<> couhl provide for them only with the material things of life. Prisoners in a home where their little spirits were hourly subjected to the withering environment of disharmony and ugliness. Ann’k children no longer hear words of Idcker and anger. Ann's children no longer run terrified at the sound of a step upon the stair. Beauty thrives in those hoarding house rooms. The beauty of peace and contentment. It is said of Donald Mutrie that he has since cotne-To his senses and that a strangely sobered and regretful man is making every possible advance to his wife in Hie hope of regaining her confidence and resuming life with her on a sound and fresh basis. Whatever Anns ultimate decision, she starts for Her work each morning with a high head nnd a high heart. In her opinion she has kept her selfH'spect. ' ■ - In her opinion she has done the right thing by her children. Tr««’» Commercial Value The Spanish cedar is one of the most highly esteemed lumber trees of the West irfdles. Its most important commercial use is for the manufacture of cigar boxes. Planted as a protection on the coffee trails it grows rapidly but not so large as to completely shade out the coffee plants. Many of the large coffee-shading trees of various species were blown down by hurricanes of recent years. Old cedro trees 4 to 6 feet in diameter and 50 to 100 feet high were common in Porto Rico before the virgin forests of the Island were cut. Nece»»ity Blake—Don’t tell toe you have two dozen shirts! Drake— Have to. old man. My wife only sends the laundry out once a month. ; .

Early man did not live long, but he “lived dangerously,” as Nietszche invites us to da Whatever ailment he contracted, quickly killed him. Still the race “muddled through.” — St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “Much Enduring Love** Translated freely, the Hawaiian expression “Aloha nui loa” means much love or lots of affection. The word aloha is one much used In Hawaiian and It has a number of meanings, the exact one depending on the context. In this case it means love or affection. Nui is a superlative, meaning much or plenty, while loa is another very useful word, which in this case conveys the idea of eternity. Th* expression might be otherwise rendered “Much enduring love.* Oer Strong* Sp**ch = Our English language: Ten o’clock sharp means exactly the same thing as ten o’dock flat—New Orleans Time*Picayune.

1 • 'Me l»fl> H’ ■ ' *«-- ■ Street Scene in Palma, Majorca Island.

<r*«paredi by National Geographic Society, Waahlnrton. D. C.)—WNU Service. A FTER more than ( four cen- /\ turies of government by Euro- £ \ pean nations, the Balearic islands, now Spanish-owned, are seeking autonomy under the provisions of the new Spanish, constitution. It Is doubtful if there is In the world’s geographic photograph album a family group whose meimbers show as little family resemblance as do those of the Majorca, the big sister, so well known to the world, aits in the center, full-grown and radiantly beautiful. Minorca, slight and delicate, yet with a grace that suggests a certain knowledge of the world, sits at her side. While Majorca - is manifestly a daughter of Spain. Minorca’s features and person partake of the north—fa strange mixture of English and possibly a little Dutch with the Spanish. On the big sister’s other hand, Iviza, a charming peasant in bright apron, skirt and shawl? hung with barbaric jbwelry, piques the interest of .the genealogist, for in her a different strain, probably Arabic, seems to predominate. She;gazes out of the picture with level, quiet- eyes that are a bit mysterious and disconcerting. Her face is unsmiling, even slightly smudgy, but still peculiarly attractive. At her feet is Formentera island, one of the two babies, almost Iviza’s counterpart in face and dress. It seems unkind to draw attention to Cabrera, the other baby, .grouched at Majorca’s feet, for she is a spare, pathetic little figure, maltreated since birth. In her plain face are to »be read the signs of misery. - Such are the sister islands, and their description fits their people. The Islanders are the pleasantest of folk to visit — simple-hearted, even-tem-pered, sober-minded, honest, and kindly. The welcome accorded the traveler In the Balearics differs according to island. Majorca greets the stranger with easy familiarity, for she has known many tourists in the last few years; Minorca with/julet grace; and Iviza shyly; but the warmth of welcome is never in d<mht. Ask a passer by to indicate the , direction to a store or hotel; you will be escorted tp the door and bowed in. and generally you must not offer anything more material than thanks in return. The ideal Balearic climate contributes enormously to the traveler’s comfort. and, in contrast to what one often experiences on the continent, it is a gratifying surprise to find the fondas, or inns. Invariably clean and their meals wholesome. Mahon Haz a Fine Harbor. One of the outstanding features of the Balearic group W the abundance and excellence of its harbors. Mahon, the principal city of Minorca, is an example; One’s ship picks its wa.V down a water lane, through pink and gray shores capped with rolling green, into what the Spanish government plans to make one of the finest harbors in the Mediterranean. Ever since Mago, the brother of Hannibal, wintered in this harbor (which still bears his name. Bonus Magonis, now corrupted to Mahon), It has been famed as a refuge for ships, and its usefulness will be greatly increased when the Island of the Hats, a small knob of rock in the center of the basin, is removed. Past the ruins of San Felipe Castle, the scene of many hard-fought battles In Minorca's stormy history, past the Island of the Rats, there ahead, on the highest and greenest crest, glimpses San Antonio, the seat of the noble Vigo family. ? The Islanders tell proudly how in 1798 Lord Nelson, during the war with France, came into Mahon with his squadron, seized the mansion that overlooked the port where his ships rode, and Installed the lovely Lady Hamilton. But the town’s historians smile rather sadly and admit that, while history is replete with incidents of Nelson’s visit. It does not bear out the story of Lady Hamilton. And then Mahon! That is the way it cornea Suddenly, as the vessel rounds a point, it bursts into view, a quick splash of pink and white on the hillside, tier after tier of quaint streets, splendid in the sunshine. Mahon sparkles, as does the whole island. It is a maze of spotless up-and-down-hill streets of shining dolls’ houses. From the steamer’s deck the town, terrace upon terrace of white houses, with the spires of the Inevitable churches dominating the mass, appears pure Spanish: but that is just Mahon's little Joke on the visitor, for many of the houses show English feature* peering from under their Spanish sombreros. This mixture of the English and Spanish gives Mahon a character of Ito own, which is shared by its people. It is the women who refuses to conform. In continental Spain and in the other islands they take their places in th* fields with the men and the beasts of burden. Not so with upstanding Miss Minorca I She believes that “woman’s place to in the home” or possibly, as a concession to the march pf th* times, ha th* factory, but not in

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the field, and there she refuses to go. Quite as remarkable, the alpargata, the rope-soled canvas sandal of Spain and the rest 1 of the Balearics, is practically extinct here. Whether it is that Minorca, producing a large proportion of the fine shoes sold in Spain, excludes this humble footwear from a feeling of local pride, or whatever th* reason, the fact remains that Minorca wears shoes. ? Minorca Sprung Alpargataa. The Balearics are rich in relics, from the days of the prehistoric inhabitants of the Mediterranean countries on down to modern times. Castles, churches, palaces, forts, and watchtowers are seen so frequently that they become almost matters of course. In Minorca there are still Standing more than 200 of the talayots. taula.s and naus—stone structures generally supposed to have been used ini connection with prehistoric religious ceremonials and the burial of the dead — and the cliffs and mountains are literally honeycombed with caves. Within twenty minutes' walk of Mahon there is a fairly well-preserved talayot, a truncated cone pf huge stories, probably 40 feet In diameter and .25 feet In height, with! a large taula near by. Surrounding the talayot, and marking another age in Minorcan .history, are the walls of a fort built probably of the stones of the talayot. . The surrounding fields are strewn with fragments of pottery from prehistoric times on down through the Phoenician, Grecian, Roman and Arabic occupations, and the high stone walls over which one scrambles to reach the charmed hilltop are capped with other fragments laboriously picked from the fields by the Island farmers. w The deepest thrill for the visitor to Minorca Is to be found in its prehistoric caves. A. talayot. taula, or nau Is an awe-inspiring sight when one realizes what it stands for. but it has not the Instantaneous effect on the imagination made by one of those cave homes of no one knows' how many years ago. I The Cove Caves, The Galas Covas, or Gove Gaves. comprise a group in one of the many coves that Indent the Minorcan shore, and certainly a better location from a dramatic standpoint coufa not have been selected by the cavemen. The cove is a wild, winding gash in the shore, descending sharply from the interior tableland tp the sea. •The approach to the caves is along a narrow path hedged by a matted scrub growth and by fragipents of the cove walls, which during the ages have become dislodged and have craslied to the valley. At the water level these walls are high, jagged, and precipitous; the sea beats and snaps at them and the place itself compels awe. Wild deeds tire plainly indicated. Add. then, to all this the effect of some forty blai’k apertures extending from the wafer line to the tops of the cliffs—all made by man when the human forehead was lower and human life more precarious than it is now. L It is a meager imagination. Indeed, that does not Immediately people the cove with small, active men, wide between the cheekbones and as agile as monkeys. We can conjure up the. picture and see thetn leaping among the crags to their eerie homes, chattering and bickering and certainly ready to make it most unpleasant for foreign invaders such as ourselves. Raima Bids for Tourists. The peaks of Majorca are plainly visible across the channel, and when one sails for Alcudia in a toy steamer, there are often among his traveling companions cows, ponies, crates of cfackens, and sheep, • all protesting loudly against the voyage, which is far from tranquil, in the emission of horrendous groans a seasick sheep has no competitor. Palma, the principal city of Majorca, Is snugly situated at the central point of a magnificent horseshoe bay. Like all other waters of these remarkable islands, the Bay of Palma could supply half the colors «of an artist s palette. The left-hand prong of the horseshoe shore, as one steams toward the city, was the scene of the first fighting between Don Jaime I. the Conqueror, and the defending Moors in 1229 A. D.. and It is on this prong that Palma's fashionable tourist section has sprung up, with stately Bellver castle, built by Jaime H. overlooking It from the top of a handsome wooded hill. Palma Itself Is a country villag* of 100,000 people and of considerable commercial importance. Some years ago tt awakened to the realization that it had natural endowments In the form of great scenic beauty, perfect climate, and historic Interest that assured tt a place in the sun if properly exploited. It heard the dink of gold in the tourist’s pocket and, rubbing the sleep from its eyes stepped forth to attract travelers. Handsome hotels have sprung up; public service Is furnished; roads are being improved; automobile registrations are well up In the thousands; there are “movies,” theaters and concerts, and Palma Is even talking of a golf course.

DAIRYJvXCTS COWS NEED FREE ACCESS TO WATER Should at All Times Have All They Will Drink. (Prepared by the United States Departmeat of Agriculture.)—WNU Service. Dairymen who want the most milk and butterfat from their cows should arrange to let them drink as much water as they want when they want it, says T. E. Woodward, of the Vni.ted States Department of Agriculture. Mr. Woodward, who is senior dairy husbandman in the bureau of dairy industry, has completed experiments to determine the relation of methods of watering dairy cows to their water consumption and production. The tests were run both in warm and cold weather and included both high-pro-ducing and low-producing cows. The results of watering twice a day and once a day were compared with results obtained when the cows had free access to water. In these tests, according to Mr. Woodward, the cows drank more water when watered Only twice a day than when they had water at will or when watered only once a day, but their production was highest when they had water at ilill. The production of the cows in this experiment averaged 2.8 per cent more milk and 2.1 per cent more butterfat when given free access to water than when watered only twice a day; and when watered twice a day they produced 1 per cent more milk- and 1.4 per cent more butterfat than when watered only once a day. Mr. Woodward al§o reports that the increase in milk production as a result of more frequent watering was more marked in the case of the good producers than in the case of the low producers. Inferior Bull Never Worth Keeping in Herd Many inferior bulls are finding themselves installed as herd sires these days, probably much to their surprise, because they are the kind that usually go to the stock yards at a fairly earlyage. In fact, a considerable number of these have been'to the stock yards, only to be rescued by some kind-heart-ed truck-driver anil taken back out in the country as a herd sire. Os course, the fact that the truck driver is able to make a few doillars by saving him for a while may also be a contributing cause. It’s a good deal for the live stock trucker, but it's a tough deal on the dairyman. The bull in-service now will determine largely the ability of the herd four and five years from now. It will mean the placing in the dairy barn of milk-manufacturing machines that lack the capacity to turn out large quantities of product or profit. Spray for Flies According to Ji J. Davis, entomolo gist at Purdue university, a good homemade spray for peeping flies off cows can be prepared! by mixing one pint of oil of tar with one gallon of used crank case oil. Another recommended spray may be made by mixing (one gallon of fish oil. two ounces of oil of tar, two ounces of oil of'pennyroyal and one-half pint of kerosene. The most satisfactory way to apply these is with a;small compressed air sprayer .that can be obtained at most stores handling spray materials. There are several other reliable commercial fly kprays on the market. Grain Sheaf Hay Oat sheaves fare very nearly equivalent in feeding value to a combination of equal parts by weight of threshed oats land oat straw. Oat sheaves alone pre hardly a satisfactory dairy cofa ration. The wheat sheaves will perhaps be a little more nutritious than the oats. Horse# can be carried quite satisfactorily on either oat sheaves or wheat sheaves provided they are not at hard work. . Some extra grain for cows is needed while they are making. A mixture of equal parts) of bqrley, oats, wheat, wheat bran and oilmeal wiU prove very satisfactory, Intestinal Trouble Scours or diarrhea Js merely the visible symptom of an intestinal Irritation, either caused by food of parasites. Cows may (fantract a disease known as Johne's disease, or the trouble may b* caused by faulty food. If you. ha' e much trouble, we suggest you see your veterinarian or write your state veterinarian. In the meantime, feed the cowS one teaspoonful slaked lime, one tahlespoonful whole flaxseed and a tablespoonful charcoal In ground oats once daily. A little sugar added" will help also. Examine the hay for mold, or the pasture for fern, etc. — Idaho Fanner. Feeding Minerals to Cows Tests at the United States dairy experiment station, at Beltsville, Md., indicate that if cows are allowed free access to a palatable bone meal, they will tend to adjust their consumption to meet their_needs. Good producing cows fed a ration estimated to be deficient In phosphorus, ate generous quantities Os bone meal at the experiment farm, while poor producers having a smaller demand for minerals ate very little—Wallace’s Farmer. Canadian Milk Record The Jersey cow Volunteer Sultan’s Mayflower, owned by Gordon C. Poole, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, made the highest two-year-old record in Canada in 1931 in the 305 day division when she produced 9,078 pounds of milk containing 569 pounds of fat with an average test of 6.27 per cent. This is a silver medal record and Mayflower Is a daughter of the silver medal sire Maxwelton Volunteer Sultan, probably the outstanding Jersey sire in Quebec today.

Best Ration One ‘ That Has Variety Quality of Protein Found to Be as Essential as Quantity. (By Prof. F. B. Morrison, Department of Animal Industry, Cornell University.) Variety may be more than the spice oi life; it may even be necessary to life. Scientists have known the importance of protein for sixty years, but more recent experiments show that quality of protein is as essential as the quantity in a feed. Corn lacks two of the essential amino acids, and if a young pig is fed corn as its only source of protein, it will make no growth whatever, even if it gets an abundance of carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. The proteins of meat, milk, and eggs have exceedingly high food value, for they contain all of the necessary amino acids in abundance. Proteins in cereals are considerably lower in efficiency than animal proteins, and in all of the cereals are similar. Navy beans, lima beans, and cowpeas have too little cystine, but soybearfe and peanuts furnish highquality proteins. Recent experiments Indicate that alfalfa hay is deficient in cystine, should it be fed alone, but cereals with which it is usually fed contain an abundance of this amino acid. Swine and poultry are likely to suffer more from unbalanced proteins than are cattle, sheep or horses. Swine and poultry are fed Chiefly on cereal grains and other concentrated feeds and their digestive systems are not adapted to using much roughage. Consequently proteins furnished by tankage or meat scraps, fishmeal, and milk products are especially important. In Kansas experiments with beef cattle, a .combination of linseed meal, cottonseed meal, with gluten meal was better than a combination of the first two. Merely timothy hay and oats provide an excellent - ration for work horses. Brood mares and growing colts must have, however, an ample supply and proper kind of proteins. Fine Profit From Lambs Fed Alfalfa and Grain Six hundred range Rambouillet lambs fattened at the Belle Fourche field station of the United States Department of Agriculture at Newell, S. D., and sold on the Sioux City (Iowa) market; returned an average of SlO a ton for the alfalfa hay and from 70 to 88 cents a hundred pounds for the grain they consumed. The lambs cost $4 a hundred delivered at the station and sold at $6.35 at Sioux City, which was top price for fat lambs for the day. When slaughtered these lambs dressed from 49.4 to .51 per cent. A careful grading of their carcasses revealed that in the entire 600 there was only one cull and nine common carcasses, 38 per cent of the group grading good to choice and 60 per cent medium to good, most of the latter missing the higher grade only because of excess weight. Potato Notes Plant only good seed, -d ounce pieces dropped approximately i 11 inches apart. Planting at greater distances will prove to be too costly this year. Treat seed potatoes infected with scab or rhizoctonia. Largest potato yields will be obtained where the fertilizer is applied two to three inches from the seed piece and on the same or a slightly lower plane. Cultivate deeply and close to the plants early in the season, but keep the cultivator away from the roots as the season advances. cultivation later In the season does more harm than good. Start spraying with Bordeaux mixture when the plants are six to eight inches high and make applications every week or ten days. Twenty years’ tests have proved spraying to be a desirable practice.—American Agriculturist. To Kill Botflies Carbon disulphide is the most effective substance for the removal of bots from horses, says the United States Department of Apiculture. Before administering the treatment all feed should be withheld from the horses for about 18 hours. Then the animal Is given carbon disulphide in gelatin capsules, the capsules administered by hand or by means of a balling gun. Carbon disulphide will remove many bots If administered at any time of the year but the greatest efficiency of the treatment Is obtained If the treatment Is given during the winter months. At the same time a ; consisting of 2 per cent of coal- i tar creosote should be thoroughly applied to all parts of the animal to destroy the eggs.—Nebraska Farmer. ) Soybeans and Sheep Soybeans may be profitably pastured by sheep. They may be turned In when the pods are formed and foliage Is still abundant and -green. Some recommend drilling pats, barley and soybeans just before corn planting. About July 1, fence across the field with woven wire and moveable supports, and pasture a portion at a time. By this method 310 lambs, pastured from July 5 to August 25, made gains of 508 pounds and were nearly ready for market.—Exchange. Profits From 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. The legume in the case of the experiments was a jnlxture of alfalfa, red clover and alsike grown for hay and the second crop plowed down for wheat—Missouri Farmer.

pomv CHICKS HAVE RIGHT TO PROPER START Therefore, Give Attention to “Hatching” Eggs. Successful Colorado poultryfaen who produce eggs far hatching find that it pays to give close attention to (1) th* condition and care of the breeding flock, and (2) proper care of hatching eggs before they are set. < More farmers and poultry men than usual are hatching their own chicks with setting hens—the good old fashioned method —reports O. C. Ufford. extension poultryman at the Colorado Agricultural collejge. “The breeding flock from which hatching eggs are being-produced,” says Ufford, “should be carefully culled to eliminate hens that are too fat, lack vigor or health, or have serious defects of type and color. “Bacillary white diarrhea, a serious disease of young chicks, comes from hens in the breeding flock that are affected,’’ he adds. “It is not possible to recognize such hens except by blood testing the individual birds.” Green feed and sunshine supply vitamins that are needed for normal health and growth of chicks. It is pointed out. The baby chick first makes use of Vitamins when It is developing in the egg, but the egg will not contain these important elements unless the breeding flock is fed a ration that supplies them. Therefore the flock shoufa have plenty of sunshine and a well-balanced ration that Includes green feeds, minerals and water. ' » Losses Sure When the Chicks Are Overcrowded Crowding always results in enormous losses and occurs just prior to the chicks taking to the roost. It may be discouraged by maintaining heat but eventually thtf chicks will take to the corners. It might be ideal but Impractical to construct a round brooder house, but one can eliminate the corners in a hojisie with square corners. A° scheme of this kind consists of inclined wire netting frames about 2 feet wide placed in the back and sides of the house.' The inner edge is next to the floor while the outer is elevated about a foot frofa the floor. It is, of course, necessary that these frames fit tight fa that it is impossible for chicks to, get lunderneath. With this arrangement the chicks crowd out they are elevated and there is no danger of the clicks being suffocated. Usually small roosts are nailed on theupper side of the frame and it is only a short time ufail the chicks are rbosting. The old faea was that too earlyroosting caused crooked breast bones, but that idea has been exploded so that flow the advice is to get the chicks roosting as soon as possible.— Missouri Farmer. . Estimating Oil Need Five hundred chicks kept in confinement far the first four weeks will eat about 200 pounds of mash and will need four poiunds or two quarts of cod-liver oil. The same number of chicks will consume , close fa 850 pounds of maish the first eight faeeks. and; if confined, will need two and oneeighth gallons of cod-liver oil. From this, one can ' estimate the amount of oil that will be needed and can make the purchase {and have it ready .when the chicks ate hatched. Cod-liver oil may be secured from the local drugor th‘e county agent or farm demonstration flock co-operators in the county can .supply the names ,of com-panles-that sell; the cod-liver oil. Brooder-House Litter Ground corn cobs make satisfactory litter for brdoder houses, .says the Nebraska College of Agriculture. The coarsely ground cobs make as good a litter as chopped hay or straw. Some poultrymen prefer to use commercial litters. Sand does not make a good floor coverfag unless the chicks are well fed all of the time. Chicks placed on kjand sometimes fill up on It producing; indigestion and other unsatisfactory J results. Graded Eggs Sell Best The average per capita consumption of eggs in €lanada is 361, nearly an egg a day for every person, and the highest consumption of any country. Canadian officials credit this to the fact that eggs fire carefully graded, and that the Canadian housewife goes tn market andJ buys eggs with confidence. She knows that eggs graded as extras are of the highest quality and can housed for any purpose in the home. Every egg passing into trade in that country is graded. l —Prairie Farmer. Bantam as Foster Mother The little bantam hen assumes an Important role in the pheasant rearing programs pf many of our states. Tai these projects the common little bantam hen is given the job of hatching the pheasant eggs and looking after the chicks.'‘ If this kind of hen isn’t used, game breeders advise that at least a fairly small chicken hen should be placed in charge of a clutch of pheasant eggs, because a large, clumsy specimen is quite apt to kill some of the young chicks.—Ohio Farmer. Farm Flocks Show Profit Although egg prices have dropped considerably, records from about 300 Ohio flock owners show''that during the past three months they made an Income of $233 and had expenses; amounting to $lO4 per flock, according to P. B. Zumbro, Ohio State university. Eighty-eight per cent of the total income was from egg sales, and 69 per cent of cash expenses went for feed. Feed cost per dozen eggs, he points out, is decreasing as production increases. —Ohio Farmer.