A Sour
Stomach
In the same time it takes a dose of
«oda to bring a little temporary relief
of gas and sour stomach, Phillips
Milk of Magnesia has acidity complete
ly checked, and the digestive organs
all tranqullized. Once you have tried
this form of relief you will cease to
worry about your diet and experience
* new freedom In eating.
This pleasant preparation is Just as
good for children, too. Use it when
ever coated tongue or fetid breath
signals need of a sweetener. Physi
cians will tell you that ev^ry spoon
ful of Phillips Milk of Magnesia neu
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<3et the genuine, the name Phillips is
important. Imitations do not act the
lame!
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L Milk ,
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Juvenile Sherlocking
Visitor—And where is your mother
today, Freddy?
Boy—I think she’s gone to see
grandma. She put on her longest
skirt
Mosquito Bites
HANFORD’S
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A* to Water Rights
There are all sorts of legal questions
Involved in the matter of the control
of water. All navigable waterways
belong to the public. The federal gov
ernment has jurisdiction over lakes
and rivers as regards their navlga
tlon; while the states have the juris
diction in other matters. Ponds and
brooks belong to Individuals, subject
to state regulations.
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SIOUX CITY PTG. CO., NCL 27-1929.
Heat Is Real
Political Factor
Summer in Washington is nearly
always hot, very hot. The sun
shines torridly all day, and the as
phalt pavements absorb the heat
thirstily. Then all night they give
off the heat they have absorbed all
day. So the nights are often about
as insufferable as the days.
Heat usually dampens human en
ergy. It does in Washington. Liut
the prospect of heat has the oppo
site effect. It is that prospect which
is now galvanizing congress into en
ergetic dispatch of the things it
must do, before it can take a re
cess.
Neither house can adjourn for
more than three days without the
consent of the other. So, if there is
to be a recess, it must be a matter
of agreement between the two.
As it happens, the House has done
most of its work. It passed the
Farm Board bill and the new Tariff
bill. The Senate has tied the first
up in a deadlock by adding the ex
port debenture plan; the second it
has not touched, having but just
received the results of the House s
labors.
The Senate would lik’ to nut the
tariff over till September and get
away from Washington for the hot
months. The House leaders, after
consulting the president, reply that
the Farm Board bill must first be
passed, and that a definite date
next fail must- be set for a final vote
on the tariff measure as It is agreed
upon in conference.
It looks as if the Senate would
agree to these terms, first receding
from its insistence on the export
debenture a3 a part of the Farm
Board bill. This yiedmg. however,
will doubtless be with the reserved
purpose of putting it into the tar
iff measure later. ,
However, Senator Borah, w;ho is
something of a salamander, is in
sisting that no matter hew hot the
weather, congress shall take no re
cess, but remain in session unt.l its
work is done. Just how much sup
port he can get ior his heroic pio
gram, as expressed in his slogan,
"The farmer needs relief, not re
cess" remains to be seen. The pro
gressive-democratic bloc that as
sumes to rule the Senate, has plen
ty ol' hardihood, but seems likely to
melt under the rays of old sol, so
rapidly waxing more ardent.
LINKS TO A GRADUATE.
John Tyndal C., now list’ to me
You bright young graduate;
’Gainst much advice that soundeo
nice,
Let me expostulate.
You’re told he'll win from cut the
dm
And clamor of the masses,
Who loves his teacher, heeds his
preacher.
Gets “A" in all his classes.
You’ll never guess how masses press
About a would-be hero;
To them he'll be, you’ll shortly see,
But just another zero.
You’ll find that trig, which loomed
so big ,
With sine and eke with co-sine,
Is not a tool with which to rule,
Nor help you much to dine.
Your challenge hurled to fire the
world—
And rivers burn much harder—
Won't get you much but just id
Dutch,
Nor stock an empty larder.
You must be good—that’s under
But good for what? I question;
All by yourself to earn much pelf,
Needs' more than mere suggestion.
No prancing steed you’ll ever need,
Spite what the poet wrote;
But buy a tether of strongest leath
er.
And keep it on your goat.
The rolling stone best let alone,
Nor ever gather moss;
Pick stones of worth and amyls
girth—
But hide them from your boss.
Consult a witch before you hitch
Your wagon to a star;
An ashy blonde, though seeming
fond,
Might cause a family jar.
And if you’d wed your daily bread—
A rich man’s only daughter—
Just look with care, not at her Hair,
But what her mother's taught her.
And if you shirk your daily work,
Life scon will lose its savor;
Some things will come to every
bum—
The best are had by labor.
There's truth in that, as e’en your
cat
Might have the wit to see;
But when you rest, then comes the
test
That hath appeal for me.
Let idle hours conserve your pow
ers.
For play should build one up;
Or else the past becomes at last
A very bitter cup.
I'm wasting time, both yours and
mine.
In giving you advice?
Most youth must burn ere it may
learn
That folly hath it3 price.
Advice, advice. It’s surely nice
That any fool may give it:
For few there are, too few by far,
Who even try to live it.
So If you’re wise, you’ll not despise
What I have said, to me it;
Do what I 3ay—but don’t get gay
By asking me to do it.
—Sam Page
--
Q. How much larger is the Pacific
than the Atlantic ocean? A. S.
A. The Atlantic ocean covers 41,
331,000 square miles; the Pacific
ocean, 68,634.000 square miles.
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Why, Osslfer!
From The Humorist
Tht traffic police raised his hand
and the woman motorist stopped
with a jerk.
Said the policeman, as he drew
out his little book: “As soon as I
saw you come round the bend 1
said to myself, ‘Forty five, at
least.’ ”
“Officer,” remonstrated the wo
man indignantly, "you are very
much mistaken. It’s this hat tliai
makes me look so old.”
11 — --'ll
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS j
GROWING GRAPES
Repeated experiments with tree
fruits have shown the desirability of
some form of thinning as essential
to the produetion of fruits of good
size. Thinning of the grape, while
frequently mentioned in the litera
ture of the vine, has most often as
signed the practice to a stage of
growth consideraby after the flow
er clusters have set fruit. Erorn some
earlier tests In thinning at this peri
od it was impossible to detect any
marked gain from the practice so
far as compactness, size of cluster or
size of berry was concerned. In fact,
no benefit could be detected.
More recent tests have been made,
doing the thinning at a much ear
lier stage, and from these it is be
lieved that the practice, at least in
the home garden, is highly worth
while, especially with the finer
grape varieties. As practiced in the
tests the vines were pruned at the
dormant stage, just as is usually
done. With the Chautauqua method
of training it is customary after a
year of good cane growth to prune
the average vine to four canes of
approximately 12 buds each. Each of
these buds normally produces two
good sized clusters, and in some
years a third much smaller cluster.
As the buds on the cames open in
-the spring the fruit clusters soon
become noticeable, and when the
shoot has lengthened to a foot or
more the entire three are piaiflv
noted. At this stage of growth all
the clusters were cut from one and
two canes of many vines, leaving
the same number of growing shoots,
but with the clusters lacking on one
or two canes, at the option of the
grower. The defruited shoots con
tinue to elongate during the active
growing season and produce mafty
leaves. But, not having fruit on
them to develop, the leaves appar
ently contributed to the growth of
fruit on the remaining fruit-bear
ing shoots, to the end that compar
isons made at maturity showed that
the fruit from the defruited vines
matured much better and that the
amount was greater than from
those vines which were not defruit
ed.
PHARAOH’S DREAM
Pharaoh's dream of seven fat !
years that were followed by seven
lean years saved Egypt from starva- j
tion. Eighteen years’ results with
dairy cows recorded by a western
experiment station tell the same
story, although it does not run so
neatly by sevens. Seventeen hun
dred and fifty five yearly cow rec
ords are considered. They group
into fat, lean and ordinary years.
Fat years are seasons of good
weather conditions and good crops.
Lean years are dry seasons. Ordin
ary years are when the crops were
average—neither good nor bad.
Pounds of
Butterfat
First there were four ordinary
years and the cows averaged.. 236.2
Three fat years followed and the
average was . 303.0
Next four lean years followed
and the average was . 264.6
The next were two ordinary
years and averaged . 232.2
The next were four fat years
and averaged . 323.2
The last was a lean year and
averaged . 281.8
The entire 1,755 cows for all the
18 years averaged . 2913
Pharaoh’s dream still holds good.
Corn enough is wasted during the
fat years to carry the cows through
the lean ones if it were stored in
pit cr trench silos. Silage will keep
in good condition for 10 years. Cows
get thin and out of condition in
lean years and they do not come
back during the first fat years. For
this reason the loss carries over
into the good years. Corn silage
saved over from a flush year will
sell for enough more on a lean year
to give splendid interest on the
investment. It is one way of almost
surely doubling the value of it.
WHY “RAINBOW” HOGS
Ask one oi oui* American pure
bred swine breeders why he and oth
er breeders are striving for the type
of hogs which is termed “rainbow
backed.” and usually he cannot tell
you. He, along with most judges and
pure-bred swine breeders, has come
to accept this particular feature as
essential, yet they do not know why.
But if you will take a trip across
the Atlantic and visit the farms and
the fairs of England and Denmark
you will find that arch-backed hogs
are discriminated against. That
type does not win in the show ring
and it is not wanted. These people
ask why we are striving for it. They
want their hogs to have a straight
top—to carry level from the shoul
ders, through the loin and back
through the rump. They hSve three
main reasons for desiring the
straight top: First, the most popu
lar and highest-priced cut of pork
on the London market is the side of
bacon. A hog with a highly arched
back is invariably cut high in the
rear frank. Such a conformation
means that a uniform depth of side
bacon is impossible. The second
reason they strive for the straight
top is that hogs with highly arched
backs have a less desirable-shaped
ham. An extremely arched back in
variably means a sloping rump. In {
the third place, the Danish and
English farmers strive for a differ- i
ent type because they do not have
the same demand as we do for pork
chops and loin. There the loin and
chops go with the bacon. There is
a lesson for us in the work of these
Danish and English swine men. We
can well afford to begin to study our
hogs from the standpoint of what
they will produce in cuts of meat
as well as from the standpoint of
most economical gains. Our hog
exports have been raoidly declining
in recent years, yet the export rep
resentative of one of our largest
nackers says that if American
farmers would start producing a
tvD.e of hog that would yield a
Dlump. shanelv ham. weighing 10 to
11 pounds. It would meet with ready
demand abroad. Hams from the
rainbow-backed hogs lack the de
sired shape and plumpness at this
IMPROVING THE SOII
Sweet clover equals. If not sur
passes, any other field crop as a
soil Improver. Its rank growth en
ables It to place a large amount of
nitrogenous matter above ground
which makes it of great value to the
Improvement of such soils when
turned under. The large tonnage of
sweet clover that can be turned un
ler not only aids and assists the
soil from a fertility standpoint, but
lids materially in helping the phy
sical condition of such lond®. P^vy
-•lays are made pliable bv the turn
ing under of heavy growths of awpet
dover. Sandy soils are also helped
bv the Increase of the humus made
'Ae.gi.fc ike ji ha.yi 'hit v.*J
forge ahead in the tut are s the ens
that will emphasise production ot
the valuable pork cuts and economy
of production.
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SEX OF CHICKS
A simple mo.iioU o» u. mining
sex in uay-om B.urcu iioex v._i
lias been dsvelopeu at tnj ur-gon
experiment station. onue.va;.—i ui
several thousand chic.-s naa p.o.'cd
that their tex may ue told .y the
color of their legs. At the tu.ie of
hatching some chicks have .vctlow
legs ana feet, while others have icjj
and feet that ure almost black.
Chicks with yellow legs ana feet are
males; those with daix legs ana test
are female. Sometimes the feet of
females may show pitenes of ysilow,
but their legs will always be dark
Between these two gioups grada
tions in color will be round, ranging
from yellow with a slightly smoky
tinge to a light smoke or a dark
smoke color. Of these the ligntar
ones will be nudes and darker ones
will be females. Four years ago a
group of 100 day-old chicks were
separated for sex on the basis ot
leg color. Of these the sex of 94
was correctly determined. Two
years ago one poultryman hatched
2,000 Barred Rock chicks which he
planned to breed in a new laying
house with outside runs for only
1.200. He wanted his pullets to run
outside, but his cockerels, which
were to be fattened for market,
could be developed inside. As they
came out of the incubator the chicks
were separated for sex according to
leg color. The cockerels were shut
up in one end of the house: the pul
lets were put in the other with out
side runs. When they developed to
a point where their sex was shown
by their plumage, a few pallets were
found nmong the cockerels and a
few cockerels were found among the
pullets, but It is believed there v-ere
fewer than two down errors. The
next year this same noultryman
hatched another 5.0C0 chicks, sena
ratine them for sex as before. He
sold 600 dav-old cockerels to a man
Interested in raising capons. Few
errors in selection were reported.
Errors that do occur are made on
chicks whose legs are intermediate
in rolor, but these are in the mi
nority. A l'ttie nrpctice will enable
a breeder of Barred Pocks to judge
with fair accuracy where the colot
line is drawn.
CARE OF HOUSE’S SHOULDERS
When you buy a horse collar get
one that fits the hcrse that is to
wear it and don’t change xt to an
other horse. There is a consider
able variation in the shape of horse
shoulders, particularly those of
geldings. My rule has always been
says an expert in the handling of
horses, to have ample room i-o place
my hand In the lower part of the
collar when buckled up and on the
horse and to have a little play orj
the sides as well. I have always
believed that more length than that
does not let the collar set on the
face of the shoulder right, and too
short a collar will choke the horse.
I have always liked the idea of
soaking a new horse collar in water
for 24 hours before putting it on
the horse that is to wear it. The
. soaking softens the leather and lets
it moid more completely to the
shape of the shoulders. Dry the
surface thoroughly before you put
It on the horse. A horse with
shoulder galls is a pathetic although
not an unusual sight. The greater
part of the sore shoulders come from
ill-fitting collars, dirty collars and
dirty shoulders. I have always
made it a point to rub all dirt from
the face of each horse’s cellar when
I unharnessed him, and I do it with
the palm of my hand. The collar
is usually moist with sweat and the
dirt will roll off under the palm
pressure and leave the leather face
of the collar smooth, bright and
clean. If It does not rub clean wash
it clean with water and dry it with
a cloth. I like to bathe the horse's
shoulders with cold water when
they are unharnessed, making sure
they that are entirely clean. The
horse will shy a little and snuffle
his nostrils a bit the first time or
two, but he soon seems really to like
it and I fancy that the cool water
feels good to him.
PROTECTING ALFALFA
The greatest loss sustained In
growing alfalfa is by winter-killing.
Various proposals have been made
to minimize the losses from severe
winters but so far nothing has been
found to prevent all losses when the
winter is severe.
It has been found that feeding
the plant well, that is supplying it
with all the elements of plant food
necessary to develop a strong plant,
lessens the chances of losing alfalfa
in open winters. Cutting alfalfa only
twice a year in the northern lati
tudes is one of the best Insurances
against losing a crop by severe
freezing and thawing.
It is pretty well understood that
alfalfa fields need protection unless
winter conditions are exceptionally
favorable. Some years ago many
growers adopted the practice of
manuring alfalfa fields in the fall,
using a manure spreader for dis
tributing a light coating over the
alfalfa field. This has worked out
advantageously in many places. In
stances can be cited where alfalfa
which received a light application
of manure in the fall came through
the winter in good shape, while
fields under the same condition, but
not manured, winter-killed.
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TRV IT
The adhesive nature of the white
of egg makes it a useful glue or ce
ment, especially when mixed with
brick dust, plaster of Paris, gum
mastic or lime.
THE DOUBLE HITCH
Working horses and mules in the
largest possible teams adapted to his
farm may add as much as $200 an
nually to the net profits of the in
dividual farmer.
from such growths of sweet clover.
One is often enabled to pasture
sweet clover during two or three
months of the year, and then have
a good sized growth above ground
to turn under a soil renewer.
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CHASING RATS
Catch- one rat, smear him with
coal tar, and let him go. The warn
ing will not be lost on the whole
brood that Infest your premises,
which will at once leave to trouble
you no more. If this plan falls—and
so many plans do fail—place on the
floor near where their holes are
situated a thin layer of moist caua- >
tic potash
elicious! this
effective bran
cereal makes it
a pleasure to
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©1929
F.C&,
_"NOW YOtTLL LIKE BRANT
I Mothers find it
I magic for scuffs
■ One touch of the dauber and scuffs disappear^
S Smooth, uniform color comes back to faded
B shoes. More than 50 marvelous shines—10
B cents. Colors for black, brown, tan and white
B shoes—a neutral polish for others.
9 BARTON’S a
1 DyanShj n 6 /
HI * SHOE POLISH jSHS
Athenian Vase Prized
Possession of Museum
An Athenian red-figured krater, a
large ornamented vase used for mix
ing wine und water, of special Impor
tance owing to the fact that it Is
signed by the maker, Is among the
recent accessions to the collections of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Now
York. The wine jar bears in tlreek
tiie Inscription, “Polion painted lt,“
and Is the only known one signed by
tills artist.
The piece stands two feet In height
and is oY about 420 B. (J. The vase,
unfortunately, had been broken and
has had to he put together again with
restorations of missing parts, hut this
has been accomplished without seri
ous disfigurement to the decoration,
which Is in unusually fine style. Four,
possibly five, other vases have been
attributed to Polion—one in Naples,
one in Bonn, one, with satyr* painted
on It and another with athletes, at the
Metropolitan museum.
Chance for Inventor*
Efficiency engineers view with alarm
the groat amount of valunble material
which is wasted In the tin cans which
primarily contain food products of one
kind or another and which find their
way to the dump. The amount of tin
represented Is very considerable and
should be put to better use. Conse
quently there is a call for something
which will be a substitute for the tin
ran. The requirements are that the
understudy should be light and of
rheap production.
When Winter Comet
She—Most men never think serious
ly of saving until they’re married.
He—Perhaps they only realize then
aow badly they need to.
Terrible Situation
Pill—Was the street car crowded?
Pickle—Crowded? Why, even the
sieu had to stand.
No Fooling Her
He—One kiss from you, Mis*
Gladys, then I would gladly die.
Miss Gladys—Yes, I know that ^
story, and afterwards you’ll continue
to die, time and time again.
1SAME PRESCRIPTION
HE WROTE IN 1892
When Dr. Caldwell started to practice
medicine, back in 1875, the needs for •
laxative were not as great as today.
People lived normal lives, ate plain,
wholesome food, and got plenty of fresh
air. Hut even that early there were
drastic physics and purges for the relief
of constipation which Dr. Caldwell did
not believe were good for human beings
The prescription for constipation that
he used early in his practice, and which
he put in drug stores in 1892 under the
name of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin,
is a liquid vegetable remedy, intended
for women, children and elderly people,
and they need just such a mild, saf«
bowel stimulant.
This prescription has proven its worth
and is now the largest selling liquid
laxative. It has won the confidence of
people who needed it to got relief from
headaches, biliousness, flatulence, indi
gestion, loss of appetite and sleep, bad
breath, dyspepsia, colds, fevers. At yout
druggist, or write “Syrup Pepsin,"
Dept. BB, Monticello, Illinois, for fres
trial bottle.
Banish
Mosquitoes
Easier! Quicker!
Flit is the new, easier, quicker
way to rid your rooms of mos- 'i
quitoes—for comfort and health. '
The handy Flit sprayer floats a
vapor that does Dot fall in drops,
from which no mosquitoes escape!
All die—or money back. More for
your money in the quart size.
VThe yellatu
can uriththe
black band"
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