Walkerton Independent, Volume 51, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 December 1925 — Page 6

Walkerton Independent | Published Every Thursday bv TH E I Nl> ePENDENT- N EIVS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDFPEMIENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE .STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres. Business Manager Charles M. Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 69 Btx Months SO Three Months .60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, Ind., as second-class matter. it ne gets up at K a. m. to shut off a leaking faucet, she is the boss of the house. The world isn't all bad: No con- : science fund has ever reported a deficit. — The saddest thing about barring the Reds is that it may make big leaguers out of bushers. Brief digest of any 455-page treatise on weight reduction: Eat like a human being: Work. Why is it always designated a “swift kick”? Did anyone ever get one that was retarded? Physician: One who examines your arches to determine whether your tonsils ought to be bobbed. Conspiracies in restraint of trade. No. 96: “Let’s tilt it a couple more and keep the pikers out.” France leads all European nation.! i in the number of reasons why she can't settle with her creditors. Shade of Shakespeare on viewing Hamlet in golf pants—l never intended him to be that crazy. Women in Africa are said to b« clamoring for American clothes. Africa has the climate for them. Europe, turning determinedly to ways of peace, will find the fox trot pleasanter than the goose step. This age of substitutes has not yet reached the point where a flat head can be substituted for a level head. Five bandits held up a writer. It does one good to hear that the bandits once in a while get the worst of it. There at last has been found use for the names on pullman sleepers. They are giving them to subdivisions. Swindlers find no easier method than that of making love to and marrying gullible women and taking their money. Maybe that improved phonograph has been perfected with a device to stop it for the neighbor’s sake at midnight. How would the great statesman get under way in his orations if there had never been two Irishmen named Pat and Mike? Flowered vests for men are said to j be coming into vogue. In this connec- i tion, does anyone recall a gravy-col-ored flower? It requires a lot of silly capers and doings to enable society to take up the slack that is caused by idleness and indolence. Little boys seem to be about as anxious to get into long trousers as their fathers are to get into knickers, and vice versa. Prof. Albert Einstein is a violinist It had been understood all along that tn his understanding of his theory he was a soloist. The safest way. and generally the truthful one, is to assure your friend I that you have heard the anecdote before several times. The Arctic circle now has its own radio station. 1.3(X) miles north of Ed- ; monton. A good name for that sta- ! tion would be FRGD. — You can never tell in these times ; when a girl is reducing, except by her conversation. If you try to find out by watching her order at a swell restaurant you are going to be fooled. A bride of 1867 recalls her honeymoon trip through the West in a covered wagon. The snicker of belittlement that you hear is from a bride whose honeymoon trip this year took in seven detours. A retired business man. seventy-six years old. matriculates as a fresh- I man in Boston university. And if he doesn't wear a H»tle round cap. he’ll probably get hazed within gj* inch or two of his life. A corset manufacturer returning from Europe says the trend among men is toward wearing corsets "to keep their lines.” Still, to offset this report, comes another to the effect that suspenders are coming in again. There is much to be said for the young man’s balloon trousers, anyway. Eventually they can be made over into a couple of pairs for dad. There are persons still alive in this country, who can remember when a man could walk into a bake shop and purchase a pie for five cents. Tn digging up a skull in Nevada that contained a canine tooth six inches long, the scientists seem to have struck the age of the cheafier cuts. If the mother of two children who is preparing to swim the English channel were the mother of six she might strike out across the Atlantic. During the last six years the prince of Wales has traveled 120.600 miles, or almost as far as a postman walks during the same length of time. Again the desolating forecast that bobbed hair means scant hair. It surely will look odd at the musical comedies to see the bald-headed row »full of ladies.

IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday School ’ Lesson ’ (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D.D.. D«*n of the Evening School, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (©. 1926. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for January 3 — THE SON OF GOD BECOMES MAN LESSON TEXT—John 1:1-18. GOLDEN TEXT—And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (and w« I beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace ’ and truth. —John 1:14. PRIMARY TOPIC—JoRn Tells the I People About Jesus. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—Why God Came to Earth in Jesus Christ. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —The Purpose and Power of the In- ' carnation. The lessons for this quarter are taken from the Book of John, giving us an opportunity as teachers to present j this great message from God. In I teaching the lessons the teacher must get John's central purpose and bend every lesson to it. Happily the writer has plainly declared it lu chapter 20:30, 31. It is twofold. 1. To prove i that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. 2. To show that eternal life is to ; be obtained through faith in Him. With this twofold object before him, i John proceeds lawyer-like, to lay down ■ his propositions and then to intro- ■ duce his witnesses, one by one, to establish them. The section for our lesson is the prologue to the Gospel according to John. I. The Pre-existent Word (vv. 1-4). The Eternal Son is called the Word 1 of God because He is the expression of God to man. He is the one who ■ utters to men the Father’s will "the only begotten Son which Is In the I bosom of the Father. He hath declared Him” (v. 18). Observe: 1. The Son Is a Person Separate 1 From the Father. There is at the same time a.i Inseparable union existing between them. 2. The Son la Eiernnl. He was with God in the beginning. He did not begin to exist when the i heavens and the earth were created, I neither did He become the Son nt Uis I baptism, for He was before all things (Col. 1:17). 3. The Son Is Divine. The Word was God. He is a being equal with God and one in essence with Him. 4. The Word of God is the Omnipotent Creator. By Him were all things made, the world ant) all things therein. The One who died to redeem us, made us. />. The Word of God Is the Source of All Life. He is the eternal fountain from which all life has been derived. 6. The Word of God Is the Light of Men. Man's power to reason has come from Him. The conscience, and even the illumination of the Holy Spirit, have their source iu Him. 11. The World’s Attitude Toward the Word of God (vv. 5-13). 1. Men are Insensible to the Presence of the True Light (vv. 5-10). So dense is the ignorance of mankind that the presence of the very Lord of Glory is unrecognized. Christ not only made the world but was in the world directing and governing the whole creation before Jhe incarnation. He is the preserver of all its forces I and interests. Being thus unrecognized, God in His grace sent John the ■ Baptist as a witness that all men might believe (vv. 6,7). God was not willing that men should grope lu darkness, so He sent a man with a I true testimony to point out that light to them. 2. The Desperate Wickedness of , Man's Heart (v. 11). The Word was rejected by the cho- • sen nation. They would not receive the one whom God had anointed to be their King. . 3. Some Received Christ and Thus j Became the Sons of God (vv. 12, 13). While the nation rejected Him, some individuals embraced Him and were crowned heirs of immortal glory. In this section we are shown how men become children of God. It is not by blood relation with the Covenant peo- I pie "of blood”; (grace is not inherited) ; not by the efforts of their : hearts, “the will of man; but of God.” The new birth is God’s work ; man cannot change himself, neither cun one man change the other. 111. The Eternal Word Became Incarnate, “Made Flesh” (vv. 14-18). In these verses we are taught the ' Eternal Word became the Incarnate ! Son. The eternal Son of God became man, born of a woman. He I assed through childhood and youth into manhood. He was tested; He suffered and died in order that He might become identified with the race end lift It to Christ, and thus restore Hie broken fellowship. This incarnate Son tabernacled among us. Happiness and Sorrow Sorrow in itself is not happiness, | but happy is the man that can mourn, [ end certainly far from happy ought ' that man to be who has lost the very i capacity of mourning. There has been a faith which said you must not love 1 because love brings sorrow. But Jesus i Christ says that all the powers and | capacities of your nature have their j YHlue ami their purpose, and happy therefore are you if these powers, even I when they are powers of sorrow and | mourning, shall be brought into exer- j vise. You shall find away of happi- - ness even there; not that sorrow is happiness, but that you are happy in j the possession of the very capacity for : sorrow. —Bishop Boyd-Carpenter. Solace for the Solitary No one can ever become quite solitary, quite poor, quite miserable, who can truly say, “Lord, if only I have Thee.” That is just the time when God makes His consolation most gratifying and abundant, when we through distress of body and soul have turned from all temporal things to Hirn and have learned that royal, overshadow'ng “only Thee.” —Theodore Christlieb.

piEj TFln fir,.. - II• 4 J I - ■ r. 'I I ; I—Coleman1 —Coleman L. Blease, former governor of South Carolina, now United States senator. 2 —View of the part of Damascus that was shattered by the French bombardment. 3 —British troops evacuating Cologne after the signing of the Locarno pacts.

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT jVENTS Revenue Bill Having Easy Sailing in House—Senate Takes Up World Court. By EDWARD W. PICKARD WITH few except the old La Follette bunch and some radical Democrats In opposition, the new revenue bill offered by the ways and means committee had easy sailing In the house last week. The most deter mined effort to amend it came Monday when most of the Democrats lined up with the Republican insurgents in an attempt to prevent the reduction of Income surtaxes to a maximum of 2<» per cent. They fought for a maximum of 25 per cent, but the regular Repub Means with the aid of a few Democrats won out. Mrs. Mary Norton, new Democratic member from New Jersey, made her maiden speech In advocacy of an amendment increasing the ex emption for single persons to $2,560 and for heads of families to ss.oi>o. This and all other material changes proposed were rejected. Repeal of the publicity provision of the 1924 rev- j enue act was approved overwhelming ly, ns were all the estate tax provl- ' slons framed by the committee despite the attacks of Rainey of Illinois and Green of Florida. Slatemakers of the house reported the makeup of committees, giving the Wisconsin Insurgents only minor assignments and stripping them of all i their seniority rights. For instance. Representative James A. Frear, who was removed from the ways ami means committee last spring. Is placed at the bottom of the Indian affairs committee. The senate was somewhat kinder, for it gave recognition to young Senator La Follette as a Repub- ‘ Ucan. But he, too, gets on only rel- I atively unimportant committees —those on mines and mining, manufactures and Indian affairs. He has indicated that he will follow closely in the footsteps of his late father. The sena- ■ torfal elections committee voted against the seating of Gerald I’. Nye as senator from North Dakota, holding that Governor Sorlie was not legally authorized to fill the vacancy i caused by the death of Senator Ladd. —" x yyHILE the house was busy with 1 W the revenue bill the senate put । in most of its time talking about pro i hibition, foreign debt settlements ami : the question of the United States adj hering to the World court. Senator j Edge of New Jersey started the prohibition debate with a proposal to legalize 2.75 per cent beer and was seci onded by Bruce of Maryland, both of I them saying a lot of very nasty things i ahout the Volstead act. Willis of j Ohio and McKellar of Tennessee were the leading defenders of the dry law. This is a sample of Senator Bruce's eloquence: “The worst result of prohibition is the coalition between the reputable element of society and the most disi reputable which has followed in its train. Prohibition is ragged and staggering. A contest against nature, rea- , son and common sense can end in no I other way. If you care more for your laws than for the Anti-Saloon league, strike hands with us and bring an end to this disgraceful situation. Much is said of the hurtful influences of the old-time saloon, but bad as it was, the , sale of influence could not be compared with a situation where whisky stills and home brewing outfits are brought into the home under the very eyes of our children.” SENATOR SMOOT on Wednesday asked consideration of the war debt settlements with Belgium, Italy I and other debtor nations, the adminisi tration hoping for Immediate approval. But Reed. Howell, Norris and Johnson all attacked the Italian settlement ■ as a cancellation of the principal and ' part of the interest. The Missourian I introduced a resolution directing the ' foreign relations committee to investi- | gate and report: 1. Whether any foreign governJ ment, corporation, or nationals have ■ furnished any funds for the purpose | of influencing the American govern- , ment or senate in connection with our Wedding Guests Hear Ceremony Called Off San Diego, Cal.—Society guests from all sections of the United States still were “waiting at the church” while they sought in vain for an explanation of the cancellation of the wedding of Miss Mildred Dern, Salt Lake City, and Harold Nester, Geneva, N. Y., both socially prominent, one hour before the ceremony was to have begun. Neither bride nor bridegroom made

foreign policies or foreign relations. 2. Whether our war debtors are able to meet their obligations. 3. The amount, terms, and conditions of private loans made to countries or the corporations or nationals of countries Indebted to the United States. 4. What organizations exist and what funds have been pledged and expended to influence the action of the American government in its relations with other countries. The last clause is aimed at the American Peace foundation and other organizations that are conducting a campaign to bring about senate approval of America's entry luto the World court. THAT World court question came up for debate Thursday when the senate took up for consideration Sen ator Swanson's resolution providing for American adhesion to the protocol under which the tribunal was organ Ized, with the five reservations approved by President t’oolldge. Senator Borah took the lead of the opposition, seeking to amend the resolution with a reservation providing for United States adhesion only on the condition that the court be completely divorced from the League of Nations The de bate promised to be rather long, but the wise ones in Washington predicted j that the Swanson resolution would ' carry. The cause of the World court I i is now supported by the I'n-sident. the administration Republicans, m st of ■ the Democrats. and by many church. I student and other organizations The first bill passed by the senate i was one introduced by Bingham of t'onnectlcut. giving to the secretary of commerce authority to regulate and | control civil aircraft engaged In Interstate commerce and flying over government property. The measure : creates an assistant secretary of com merce to foster air navigation. AMONG the annual reports made last week was that of Rear Ad I nilral Billard. commandant of the coast i guard. He says the const guard Is making steady and gratifying progress In breaking up rum running and "will । drive this menace from American shores In due time.’’ But he predicts that this will be a trying task for years to come Secretary of the Navy Wilbur reports that the navy Is in first-class con , dltion and ready for action and that ' its morale is higher than ever before i He praises the President's economy policy and makes few requests for ad ditional funds. COL. WILLIAM MITCHU-LL was found guilty by the court-martial on all the eight specifications of the charge brought against him, and was sentenced to suspension from rank, command and duty for five years, without pay and allowances. The extreme penalty of dismissal was not imposed because of the military record of the defendant during the World war. Mitchell received the sentence quietly, and each of his ten judges shook his hand cordially in farewell. Just before the taking of testimony closed, the colonel received one of the hardest blows of the entire proceedings. It was in the form of a letter written last March by John W. Weeks, then secretary of war, to President Coolidge, and the document closed thus: “In addition to these matters, General Mit< hell’s whole course has been so lawless, so contrary to the building up of an efficient organization, so lacking in reasonable team work, so indicative of a personal desire for publicity at the expense of everyone with whom he is associated that his actions render him unfit for a high administrative position, such as he now occupies. I write this with great regret, because he Is a gallant officer with an excellent war record, but his record since the war has been such that he has forfeited the good opinion of those who are familiar with the facts and who desire to promote the best interests of national defense.” On Thursday Maj. Allen Gullion, assistant trial judge advocate, began the arguments for the prosecution, asking for the maximum sentence, dismissal from the service, on the ground that Mitchell “bad been proven guilty of disorder to the prejudice of good order and military' discipline and of conduct of a nature to bring discredit to the military service.” Major Gullion was extremely severe in his characterizaan appearance at the St. Francis chapel, Balboa park, where the marriage had been set for the morning. The only attendants at the chapel were social leaders from Chicago, San Diego, Coronado, New York, Boston, Utah, San Francisco, Hollywood, Los Angeles and Long Beach. They had started for the chapel from their homes or hotels before the dispatch of telephone messages informing them that the wedding was not going to take place. The only solace available to the

tion of Colonel Mitchell and also of the chief witnesses for the defense. Colonel Mitchell, asserting his trial was the “culmination of the efforts of the general staff of the army and the general board of the navy to depre- I elate the value of air power, told the court he had instructed his counsel to make no closing arguments. \7ASTLY interesting to the people of Illinois and In lesser degree to the whole country was the opinion ren- , dered by the Illinois Supreme court I holding that Gov. Len Small must ac- i count for about $1,000,009 interest on state funds which, according to the decision, he and his associates put in their pockets when he was state treasurer in 1917-18. Since the state constitution provides that a person indebted to the state cannot hold office it would appear that Small is ineligible for the oflice of governor and a quo warranto suit to oust him probably will be started later. The court decision is the culmination of a four years fight In the course of which the governor was found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud the state, under suspicious circumstances. Considering the same evidence offered by the pn>»ecution In the criminal case, the Supreme court now finds him guilty "beyond reasonable doubt.” Two of the seven Justices dissented. z^RI'AT BRITAIN has won Its quarVJ rel with Turkey over the Mosul vilnyet, the council of the League of Nations awarding to Irak all of the disputed territory except a worthless strip and extending the British mandate over Irak to twenty-five years. The Turkish delegate refused to take I part in the proceedings and declared । Turkey would not relinquish Mosul I until the national assembly at Ani gora consented. The Turks had been talking loudly of defying the decision of the council by force of arms, but It is predicted that they will yield and will enter Into negotiations with Great Britain in the hope of getting some compensation for the loss of the rich oil lands The English are willing to arrange a permanent peace on the Irak frontier and may offer Turkey loans or commercial credits, of whyb that country is in great need. If Turkey had any friends In the council, they were silenced by the report of General Laidoner. head of the neutral Mosul investigating commission. He told of shocking depredations and outrages committed there by the Turks since last March, and declared that if the Turks should be given the vilayet the league would have the blood of 80.000 Christians and thousands of loyal Irakians on its head. T GUIS LOUCHEUR’S financial L-/ scheme for France was rejected by the chamber of deputies, and the situation became so grave that many influential journals openly called for the establishment of a dictatorship to save the country from bankruptcy. The franc dropped until it began to look like an old German mark. To relieve the rest of the ministry, Loucheur resigned and Paul Doumer, president of the senate finance committee, consented to accept the finance portfolio. He said he believed sufficient additional revenue could be obtained by the collection of all taxes hitherto imposed and promised this would be done and that the tax dodgers would be severely punished. Dr. Erich Koch, chairman of the Democratic party, was asked by President von Hindenburg to form a new ministry for Germany. He made the attempt but failed because the Social Democrats would not part in a coalition government. The reichstag adjourned until January 12. RIZA KHAN, who seized the throne of Persia, was formally enthroned : as Shah Pehlevi Wednesday. Among the congratulatory messages received by the former private soldier was one ■ from King George of England. Ambassador a. p. moore has informed the king of Spain that ■ his resignation has been accepted and that he will soon come home. He was a personal appointee of President Harding. , | JAMES C. DAVIS resigned as director general of railways and the > duties of the office, now very light, i were taken over by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. mystified and waiting representatives ■ of society was contained in the state- • ment of Mrs. Fred C. Dern, mother of * the bride that was to have been, that i “the wedding has been canceled defi- , nitely. The young people themselves > have agreed to disagree. The wedding I will not be held at any time in the fu- ■ ture. Further than this there is nothi ing to be said.” i Miss Dem. niece of Governor Dern ► of Utah, and Nester met two years ago while they were on a trip around the 1 world.

Stabilize Oats Market Is Urged

<4 Farmers Advised to Carry Over More Product From Large Crop Years. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Fanners of the United States can sometimes sell a small crop of oats for more money than they can sell a large crop. This situation could be changed by regularly carrying over more oats from the large-crop years to the small-crop years, says the United States Department of Agriculture. When a surplus is produced, a large part of It is quickly used up, instead of being carried over to years when the crop Is small. Economists in the Department of Agriculture have figured out what the effect on the gross value of our oat crops would have been had producers followed the example of Joseph in the land of Egypt and saved up the surplus from fat years to eke out the supply in lean years. Could Have Saved Money. It Is estimated that the producers could have received $171,000,060 jor about nine cents a bushel more uu the carryover, by storing surpluses and regulating their movement to market in the period from 1895 to 1913. This calculation is based on the assumption that a regulated movement of the crop would have eliminated extreme price fluctuations and caused the price to conform to the general trend. The gross value of the oats consumed in the United States from 1895 to 1913, on the basis of the December 1 farm prices, was $5,964,000,000. A policy of carrying surpluses from years of overproduction to years of relative shortage, says the department, would probably have increased this value up to $6,135,000,000. This finding Is not offered as absolutely conclusive. It is based on estimates and leaves out of the reckoning such considerations as local prices, differences due to grades, and storage costs. Nevertheless, the study is believed to Indicate that there is an economic basis for efforts to distribute the oat supply In a more orderly manner. The popular view that a large crop may often be worth less than a small crop is confirmed. Four large oat crops harvested in 1902, 1904. 1905 and 1906 bad a value of $69,000,000 less than that of four small crops harvested in 1901, 1903, 1907 and 1908. Here is a clear indication that more uniform consumption would have brought an increased , cash return. Study of seasonal price trends bears out this conclusion. It is shown by the department that when the price of oats at the beginning of the crop year seems considerably above the i normal seasonal price for a crop of the size being harvested, it may be expected to fall below the normal seasonal price at the end of the crop year. This is because the abnormally high price ea.ly in the year reduces consumption. Such reduced consumption must be compensated by an exceptionally low price later on or part of the crop will not be sold. A properly adjusted price would be the same throughout the season, except for a I gradual advance to cover the cost of | storage. To maintain such a price ; it would be necessary to have uniform seasonal consumption throughout the season. In like manner uniform consumption from year to year jis necessary to prevent extreme price fluctuations when annual production varies widely. Normal Annual Price. The department found that a normal annual price can be figured out for oats on the basis of the United States supply, because that supply is produced and mostly consumed within the country. Exports of oats from 1909 to 1913 and since the war have averaged not more than two per cent of the crop. Imports of oats have been still smaller. On the other hand, in

MAKING TEST OF POULTRY IDEAS TO FIND OUT THEIR FULL WORTH

Experiments Made Leading to Conclusive Results. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) To determine the soundness of various ideas held by commercial poultrymen, the United States Department of Agriculture has conducted experiments leading to rather conclusive results. From a practical standpoint it is highly desirable for poultrymen to improve, if possible, the hatchability of eggs, to distinguish pullets from roosters at an early age, and to obtain other similar information commercially important but baffling. There has been considerable divergence of opinion on most of the questions. ; Hatchability, says the department, ■ probably is best improved by testing breeding birds for bacillary, white diarrhea, and eliminating affected birds. The size of eggs has no significant | effect on their hatchability. t There is no significant correlation between either shape or weight of egg ' and the sex of the chicken hatched from it. Therefore, from a practical standpoint, poultrymen cannot expect to influence the sex of chicks hatched ' by selecting eggs according to either , shape or size. While there is a fairly definite relation between the weight of eggs and । that of the chicks hatched from them, , there is no significant difference in ’ weight of either sex, and It is highly Improbable that pure-bred chicks can be separated according to sex at , hatching time. ( Male chicks grow faster than the fe- , males, and as early as two weeks of agq there is a significant difference

» the case of wheat, the price of which is determined in the world market, it is not possible to assume a normal annual price based on American conditions. The influence of the United States crop on the price of wheat at Chicago is measured by a co efficient of only 0.32 whereas the influence of the crop of the entire world on the Chicago price is measured by a coefficient of 0.71. Thus wheat prices declined following the short United States crop of 1893 when world production was large. On the other hand they arose after short crops in the United States and In the world in 1907. 1908 and 1911. They declined in 1913 when the United States had a normal crop and the world crop was large. This is worth bearing in mind by farmers who contemplate a shifting of acreages between wheat and oats. A change which would affect wheat prices very little might have a big effect on the price of oats because oats are sold in a narrower market. Provide Nest Boxes in All Convenient Places Many farmers and other persons who keep poultry fail to provide nests for their hens, and then wonder why they seek their nests about and under the farm buildings in fence corners, under brush-heaps, and various out-of-the-way places. If clean boxes, provided with straw or other nesting material, had been put up at convenient points, the hens would have used them and would not “steal” their nests. A very good size for a nest-box Is a little more than one foot square and nine or ten inches in depth. They should be well made; and if planed and painted, all the better. Apply kerosene freely to the inside, where the boards are nailed together. Nest boxes should never be permanently attached to buildings, but placed upon a floor, or hung upon the side of a hennery or other convenient place for both fowls and attendanL Potash Useful to Cure Various Corn Diseases The relation of potash to corn diseases is to be studied in an extensive investigation now being started at Purdue university. This work will , be done in co-operation with a large potash Importing corporation, and the work at that station will be regarded by them as official for the entire United States. Corn plants frequently are affected 1 by the accumulation of iron and aluminum compounds which make ‘ them more susceptible to disease and • reduces their power to produce ears. » It has been found in some instances, however, that where an abundance ’ of potash is available, no such dis--1 Acuity is encountered. It is believed 1 that the entire corn belt may be affected by this excessive amount of > iron, and this belief is the basis of ■ the potash investigation. ■ Ax Best Remedy for EggJ Eating Fowls in Flock 1 Egg eating sometimes becomes a serious vice in a flock, the fowls ' becoming very fond of eggs when they have learned to eat them. The habit spreads from fowl to fowl and unless ’ checked will often spread through the whole flock. Egg eating usually be- ! gins through accident by eggs being broken or frozen. See that the nests are properly supplied with straw or other nesting material and have them [ darkened, so that if an egg is acci- • dentally broken the fowls will not be ; likely to discover it. Supplv plenty of - lime in the form of oyster shells, bone, i or similar substances to insure a firm t shell. ’ Mulch strawberries after the i ground freezes. Use clean straw, i marsh hay, or leaves.

in the rate of growth between the sexes. The addition of skim milk to a ration induces much faster growth, the difference being observable as early as at the end of the second week. This points to the value of skim milk in growing-chick rations. Wheat tests higher in protein in dry years. • * • Some say dust potatoes, and some say spray, but either is better than neither. • • • To burn dead leaves is to burn humus; they make a pretty, but expensive fire. • * • Cold, fall rains can also induce colds. This is especially true when pullets are under a temporary shelter. •• • 1 Barley is superior to rye or wheat for winter and early spring pasture, and is readily eaten by all kinds of stock. • • • A standard-bred male at the head of a mongrel flock will improve the quality of the stock materially. A mongrel male will produce no improvement in quality. • • * Purple vetch, brought to the United States by the Department of Agriculture from Italy, is one of the least hardy of the commercially grown vetches and is a gamble where winter temperatures drop below 15 degrees above zero.