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EARLY TURKEYS BEST
We hatch chicks to bring the pul
let into fall lay late enough to avoid
a fall molt. We hatch poults, if we
"have our ruthers,” to market at
Thanksgiving or Christmas. If the
dealers overstock, the holiday sur
plus goes into cold storage, and the
cold storage surplus competes
against later hatches after the holi
days. Then, young stock that ma
tures late is either sold at reduced
prices or held till another holiday
season unless the breeder has a
market for late breeders, if we con
sider the good of the turkey indus
try, should not exist. To sell a late
hatched or immature turkey for
breeding is a mistake The time ele
ment in marketing turkeys makes
the quality of early maturity im
portant. Early maturity is in part a
matter of inheritance, and in part
feed and care. One season is more
favorable than another when poults
are hatched and grown by hens, de
pending on the range, the warmth
and available feed. For semi-range,
a well tended strawberry bed on the
edge of a corn field is ideal for
poults. They get the live meat of
meset life, the shade, the mellow
soil together with the curds and
cracked grain or growing mash
from the poultryman and grow like
weeds. Poults like a clean range,
they want grain and seeds free from
road dust. A chicken hen will
scratch in the middle of the road;
a turkey hen will carry her brood
to the meadow and stubble. Cottage
cheese is a standby for feeding
poults because young poults are
growing frame, feather and flesh
and require the protein they get in
curds, meat scrap, alfalfa and bran.
The carbohydrates in their grain
ration give them fuel for energy
and fat. Bone meal, grit and char
coal provide those most important
rlements which help to utilize other
Foods to advantage—minerals. The
outside coating of grains provides
fitamins. A poult snatches a beak
Ful of alfalfa, wings a hurried flight
for a flying insect, gulps down a
grasshopper, swallows seed, drinks
buttermilk, makes more turkey.
Commercial chick feed and growing
mash are used for poults to advant
age.
DIAGNOSING HOG CHOLERA
It is often impossible to make an
accurate diagnosis of cholera when
the outbreak is first discovered in
the herd, because the usual post
mortem symptoms are apt to be
present in hogs affected with other
diseases. The only safe way is to
Inoculate healthy animals with ma
terials from the suspected animals,
and wait several days to see wheth
er the disease devrtops. This meth
od takes too much time. A new
discovery has been made which
promises to be of great importance
in detecting the disease at an early
stage in the herd. Some experiment
al work done by the Rockefeller In
stitute for Medical Research indi
cates that there are certain changes
that take place in the cellular con
tent of the blood in hogs that are
infected with cholera. In the nor
mal hog. there are from 14,000 to
24,000 white blood cells per cubic
centimeter. In hogs infected with
cholera, the number of white blood
cells is practically always decreased
to 8.000 or less per cubic centimet
er. This decrease takes place soon
after the animal has taken up the
infection, even appearing bs'ore the
temperature reaction. While the
method of counting these white
blood cells is somewhat complicated,
most veterinarians can be taught to
do this work satisfactorily at xheir
office or laboratory, and some will
no doubt find it possible to make
such tests on the farm or wherever
the cholera-infected hogs are found.
A large number of bioed counts have
been made from hogs infected with
other diseases, but no such charac
teristic reduction has been found to
occur with the white blood cells
from any other infection.
HOG PASTURE NECESSARY
Hog-feeders are finding that it
is profitable to use considerable pas
ture for both economical and rapid
gains on pigs. In addition, hogs are
usually more healthy and thrifty
when carried on pasture. Most
growers are agreed that pasture of
some kind is essential, but they
sometimes differ in regard to which
crop to use. A western experiment
station says alfalfa is the best hog
pasture, but that it is closely fol
lowed by red atjd alsike clover! rape,
or oat and rape mixtures Bluegrass
is the best permanent hog pasture
for most sections of Missouri. Best
results in tests have been secured
with bluegrass during’ the late
spring, early summer and fall. The
chief drawback of bluegrass is that
it languishes during the summer.
Sorghum and Sudan grass were of
value as emergency pasture crops
for hogs. However, they do not pro
duce so well as other Dasture crops.
Bye and wheat are of value in the
fall and earlv spring. In the trials,
soybeans and field peas were not
satisfactory for hog pasture. It
should not be expected that, hogs
can be fattened economically on
pasture alone. A complete and well
balanced ration for prigs on pasture
is essential. Shade, water and oth
er essentials should be furnished
when hogs are on pasture. Rotation
of pastures, along with treatment to
get rid of parasites, is essential to
healthy pigs.
LET COWS* DETERMINE
Now is the time to be thinking
about roughage for the dairv bevel
next winter. Even in times of good
milk prices, the dairyman who ties
himself to the grain-bag with no
thought for the palatability of the
roughage of his cows may come out
at the end of the vear with figures
approaching red ink on his ledger.
Grass is a cow's natural food. Man's
aim for high milk-production has
made it necessary to feed grain in
order to get more nutrients into
the cow’s stomach with which to*
WELCOME NEW NEIGHRORS
Loads of farm implements, etc.,
remind us that It is again moving
time. Who could select a date in
advance that would more certainly
guarantee either bad roads or
weather? Moving time is when the
farmer learns how much junk and
how little other property he has ac
cumulated since the last move. The
moving itself is a bis undertaking
for all concerned, but the task of be
coming established in the good
graces of new neighbors develops
H1* ,“®£k that a family possesses.
Neighbors are usually thoughtful
and helpful in assisting families
mavmg a wav, but some time# woe
fully neglectful of those unknown
make the milk. There is. of course,
a limit to the amount of grain that
can be profitably fed to cows. Be
yond that limit, either the food is
entirely wasted or the extra stimu
lation is unprofitable. A cow knows
by instinct as socn as she gets her
muzzle into the manger where the
most inviting wisp of hay is, and
she will seek that out first. Crops
should be chosen, seeded and har
vested on the dairy farm with the
cow’s appetite as the first thought.
The general principles are about as
follows: High protein roughage is
more palatable than that with a
low protein content. This means
that on a dairy farm, legumes
should occupy first place on the
cropping system. Grass crops cut for
hay should be harvested early for
higher protein and palatability.
Semples of grass hay cut June 20,
July 4 and July 20 and analyzed at
one experiment station during the
PEst summer yielded 6.9 per cent,
5.8 per cent and 4 per cent respec
tively. A distinct difference was
noted in the ease of grinding these
samples when they were prepared
fo: analysis, the earlier cut grass
grinding much more easily.
SUNFLOWERS FOR SHADE
The tenant who can’t control the
matter of shade from trees and
bushes for his poultry may have the
satisfaction of growing his own
shaoe in sum lowers even on a one
year lease. Hie advantage of an
nual shade is that it can be grown
on ground known to be clean. Corn
grown on either side of a grass
range makes gc*od shade. Cloth
stretched over the top of brooder
yards answers for shade, but given
their choice, chicks will take natur
al snade in preference to the shade
cf an awning, and sunflowers make
one of the best plantings. Sun
flowers can be planted earlier than
dorn; are practically immune to
cnick damage after they are two
teet high; they are easily harvested,
and ripening as they do when the
molt is in process, are especially
helpful for a molting ration. It is
surprising how quickly chickens
learn that jarring a sunflower stalk
when the seeds are ripe releases a
shower of seeds. We used to have
a White Wyandotte cock that har
vested the seeds for his favorites*
says a professional poulterer.
He would size up a stalk and hurl
himself again it. If the seeds rat
tled down, he called his wives. If
not, he attacked another stalk.
Drilled in rows three feet apart, used
as a border for the runs or in
clumps, sunflowers aside from their
shade are a good crop.
CHICKEN HOUSE ON WHEELS
An advertisement in an English
poultry magazine offers a new so
lution for getting and keeping the
chickens on clean ground. Accord
ing to the description and the pic
ture, it appears the house is built
on wheels and a portable track is
piovided. It sounds easy, according
to the ad: “The moving of a fair
sized house (up to 125 birds) over
the ground by means of portable
rails is simple and easy. A man and
boy can quickly transfer the house
to entirely clean ground with no
damage to either the house or the
giound over which the house is
moved." Several poultry keepers
have remarked that the old saying
about "three moves are equal to a
fire,” applies as well to a large
biooder house or movable hen house
or hog house. But wheels and a
track would make it easy on the
temper and the buddings. And
then, maybe it would be done when
it was needed and every time it was
needed. But there are disadvan
tages, also. Getting the young
chicks into such a house instead of
under it when a rainstorm came up
might be a problem. And keeping
the house from wheeling out into
the road or down behind the barn
when the wind really got busy
might be a problem. Also, keeping
such a house warm when the tem
perature suddenly dropped about 60
degrees as it does In Iowra occasion
ally would present some difficulties.
LEARNING TOO FAST
It’s a good thing all poultrymen
do not adhere to Pope's rule: ‘‘Be
not the first by whom the new are
tried, nor yet the last to lay the old
aside.” If all adhered to this, prog
ress would be impossible. Pome's
rule is even a little too much for
some farm poultry keepers, if we
can judge from the report of a re
cent poultry survey in a central west
state. This survey showed that only
30 per cent of Hock owners on farms
surveyed fed mash throughout the
year; 28 per cent fed mash during
fall and winter; the remaining 43
per cent fed no mash at all.
THE IDLE HORSE
“You say the idle tractor is cost
ly.” says a mathematically minded
farmer. “How about the idle horse?
Cost accounts on several farms show
that it costs $194 to keep a horse a
year. Of this amount, $99 represents
feed and bedding. The average value
of these horses was $113 a head.
They worked only 850 hours each,
which is less than three hours a day.
Cost per hour of horse labor, 21
cents. Every hour the horse is idle
means a higher cost per hour for
1 labor.”
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IMPROVING THE PASTURE
A few years ago, a progressive
farmer, as an experiment, applied
two tons per acre of ground lime
stone and 400 pounds of 16 per
cent superphosphate to a hill pas
ture. Before this treatment, six
acres were required to carry one
dairy-cow through the summer. Af
ter treatment, the bluegrass and
white clover came back, and only
a little more than two acres have
been required since than to carry
a cow for the season. The ferti
lizer and lime were put on in fall.
LATE HATCHED CHICKS
If It is necessary to hatch late
chicks, they should be reared on an
extremely shady range.
renters coming into a new com
munity. There should be a recog
nized responsibility upon the more
or less fortunates who are more
permanently located, either by
choice or circumstances, to make
newcomers welcome. A little assist
ance at the right time creates a last
ing impression for good. An urgent 1
invitation to attend and partici- I
pate in local doings of chinch, I
school, lodge or farm organization
is a duty resting upon all neighbors
at this time of year.
THEY MUST HAVE 'EM
Keep broken oyster shells always
within reach of your fowls If you
want t&em to lav freely.
Will Tradition Ring True?
Miss Louise Schmidt, of Me- <
Keesport, P*., enjoys tb* dis
tinction of being champion
hoop-roller among her class
mates at Wellenley College,
Wellesley, Maae.. having won
the anneal May Day contest
Following the race, Misa Schmidt
was presented with ajbouauet
by Mika Mary Muller, president
of the senior class. Tradition
is that winner will be first
senior to be married.
Itatarnatlanal Hawaraa
Census Taker His Only
Visitor for Ten Years
Hailed Queen of Beauty
In University of Ala.
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Eighty-three-year-Old Edward F
Staples, Civil War veteran of th«
Twenty-fourth htichigan Regiment
doesn’t seem downcast over th«
fact that he has had no callen
sine* 1920. He lives in a lonely
farmhouse on a back road neai
Taunton, Maas. Census enumer
ators recently were astonished to
learn that they were his first visi
‘ors since 1920.
V
Miss Theda Matson, eecendyeai
student at the University of Ala
bama, has been elected “most bean
tifal co-ed” by her admiring class
mates. Miss Matson is one of the
most popular Rid* enrolled at the
university. She is from Birming
ham, Alabama.
<lni*rB*tl*aal NawarMlI
Acclaimed Athletic
College Queen
Elizabeth Morrow Plant
New School for Cirb
Miss Marjorie Ward, of Hannibal,
Missouri, waa elected the most
athletic girl at Sullina College,
Bristol, Va. She is an nil-round
star, having wen laurels in basket
^ali, baseball and tennis.
tlaieeaattoaaJ Nrwweslt
\ V „..^w8r/ '
Misa Eliwibetk Mornjw, daugh
ter of Dwight Morrow, Uaitod
States Ambassador to Mexico, ie
attempting to lease an estate at
Englewood, N. J., for tke purpoee
ef opening a school fer peuag
girls. Miss Morrow has had ax
tenaire experience as a teacher.
Last Fall she became a Telwnboer
instructor ia a M catena G«mx
as eat eckeeL
OlllruMMl SwnO
The Beginnings of Our Memorial Day
To the women of Columbus, Ga.,
belongs the honor of having con
ceived Memorial day as we know it
today. The first observance was on
April 26, 1866.
Charleston, S. C.. had previously
held a form of memorial exercise on
May 1, 1865, consisting of dedica
tion ceremonies of the ground
where 257 Union soldiers were
buried. Ten thousand persons at
tended the exercises, which were ar
ranged by Janies Redpath. general
superintendent of education. But
is this gathering was called for the
dngle purpose of defeating a ceme
tery, it could hardly be regarded as
the ‘‘first Memorial day.”
There were no festivities in con
nection with the first Memorial day
tn Columbus. This was a day of "sad
memories.”
Prom 1861 to the end of the war
Columbus had a Ladies' Aid society,
ta purpose being to care for sol
diers, ill, or wounded, who might
come home or who could be reached
In the field. In January. 1856,
shortly after the end of the strug
gle, Miss Lizzie Rutherford asked
Mrs. Jane Martin, a resident ot
Greenville who was visiting in Col
umbus, to Join a number of other
women at Linwood cemetery in
looking after the graves of soldiers
who had died in Columbus hos
pitals.
The duty of devotion finished,
Miss Rutherford and Mis. Martin
discussed the significance of the
work they had been doing in the
cemetery.
"Let us continue the Ladies' Aid
society for work of this character,
said Miss Rutherford.
Within a few days, in January of
1865, she called a meeting of the so
ciety at the home of Mrs. John
Tyler.
THE NATION'S Hr.All
They are passing along in bne to
day.
The brown and the gray and the
blue,
Heroes who hallowed the nation's
ground.
That gave their all for you;
Straight and tall, with a swinging
step,
Or bowed with feet of lead,
They are marching on In endless
line—
Our country’s glorious dead.
Whether they rest in our sacred
soli, |
Or in fields that are far away,
Or fathoms under the ocean’s
waves
They are living again today;
Coming up from their graves of
sleep
With a question deep in their eyes.
They are asking if we have kept
the faith,
If their flag still proudly flies.
Oh, the days are long since they
went away.
The men who were glad to give
Blood and bone and all that was
theirs
That you and I might live;
Happy and proud to give their all
To their country’s urgent need,
Coming from mansion and farm
and cot,
From every class and creed.
They are passing along in line
today,
The brown and the gray and tire
blue,
Heroes who hallowed the nation’s
ground,
Who gave their all for you;
Straight and tall, with a swinging
step,
Or bowed with feet of lead,
They are inarching on in an endless
line—
Our country’s glorious dead.
Kat'herine Edelroan in Kansas City
Star.
SOLDIERS, REST!
Soldier, rest, ttfiy warfare o’er.
Sleep the sleep that knows not
breaking.
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking.
In our isle’s enchanted hall,
Hands unseen thy couch are
strewing.
Fairy streams of music fall,
Every sense in slumber drowning.
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er,
Dream of fitting fields no more,
Sleep the sleep that knows not
breaking.
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
MEMORIAL DAY
Thp graves of American soldiers
of three wars are'now strewn with
flowers on Memorial day. Of those
wars the last, fought on European
soil, has had a more powerful in
fluence In uniting our people in a
dervoted patriotism than the conflict
with Spain. Today there is no part
otf the Union but mourns a soldier
who gave up his life for the cause of
civilisation in France There was
not only no North, no South, in
the spirit that Inspired America,
but no division of alien origin In the
ranks of her armies. The melting
pot had produced an invincible host
that marched to the same national
air and followed the same flag into
battle against the enemy of human
'liberty. The temper that withstood
he ordeal welded together the old
jatlve stock! and the people of 50
nations. It nas been said that this
country was not a nation, because it
xmld not count upon the foreign
«ra in an emergency. The answer
ang out at Can tigny. at Chateau
flhierry, in the swift advance
(hcrougn 9t. Mihlel, in the desper
ate and triumphant fighting in the
Argon ne.
America emerged from the war
foremost in the prestige that comes
from unequaled material resources
and the valor otf her sons. No one,
friend or foe. doubts the fiber of her
nationality. All this the men who
fought her battle in France, and all
those who waited for the call to ac
tion. well knew. Their pride of citi
zenship to nowhere excelled. But
humility should go wKh this satis
Back Again.
From Passing Show.
Traveling Salesman: May I show
you my sample*, sir? If you remem
ber, I executed ybur last order with
promptitude and dispatch.
Important Person: I gave you no
order!
Traveling Salesman: Pardon, sir,
you said "Get out,” and I got.
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Q. Wky is a binocular gloss to
be preferred to a spyglass? T. D. G.
A. The binocular glass has an
advantage over ordinary spyglasses
or single lens telescope, because it
enables both eyes to focus os the
same object and gives a much
i tronger vision than can be ob
This meeting formed itself into
the first Ladies’ Memorial assooa
lion. with Mrs. Carter president.
Nothing was done toward select
ing the date lor Memorial until
Miss Rutherford returned. To heT
was given the honor of choosing the
date She selected April 26, giving
two reasons: First, that it was a day
of sad memories, the date upon
which General Johnston surren
dered his army to the Federal*, an
act that sealed the fate of the Con
federacy; second, it was a date
when flower* would be plentiful.
Death has claimed all the women
who attended the January meet
ing. There is one person alive, how
evfr, who has personal knowledge
of the gathering. She is Mrs. M. E
Gray, daughter of Mrs. "Tyler. Be
cause she was only 14 years old, her
mother did not permit her to come
into the room, but she attended the
first exercises held the following
April 26 at the St. Luke Methodist
church.
Rapidly Mias Ruthcr'crd’s idea
spread through the south. Mrs
John A. Logan, wife of Oen. Lo
gan, commander-in-chief of the G
A. R, learned of t’ne practice while
visiting in the south. At her urgent
lequect, General Ixvgan issued an
order to all Grand Army posts to
celebrate Memorial day on May 30,
1868.
As the years passed, .-'-fate after
state has, by an aot of legislature,
set aside one day each spring a*
Memorial day. While most state*
celebrate May 30, others have set
aside ..pill 20, May 10, and June 3
The American Legion Hi now urg
ing that May 30 be made a univer
sal Memorial day, not only through
out the United States but all over
the world.
faction. A year ago at New York
Commander Culebmutlh of the
American Legion uttered words of
admonition when lie sa4d: “We
shall live as a nation only as we
remember our dead.” The Grand
Army of the Republic, with num
bers reduced to a little group of
heroic men who march bshlnd .he
flag with feeble step*, stiH has the
place of honor at Memorial day
services. A little while and the dis
tinction will pa«s to the vchvar,.: ol
the Spanish war and to those of
the great war; and upon the Amer
ican Legion will devolve the respon
sibility of carrying forward the
sgnndard of nationality by remem
bering the soldier dead on each re
curring Memorial day.
"IF 1 FORGET THEE,
O AMERICA!’*
From the Weekly Calendar of the
First Church in Newton.
Memorial day has a twofold sig
nificance. It is sacred, first of all. to
the mcm017 of those who gave their
lives for their country. T\> how
many the day brings a poignant re
minder of such precious sacrifices I
But its second message comes to us
all. whether we have suffered thia
personal loss or not. It reminds us
of the supreme value of those ideals
for which those whose memory we
cherish dared to die.
Israel in Babylon was surrounded
by wealth and luxury such as they
hftd never dreamed of. The captives
were treated with consideration and
developed that commercial ability
ior which they have become fa
I mous. Like the mediaeval Jews of
Europe they acquired wealth and
became almost the musters of their
masters. The temptation was strung
to forget Jerusalem, to forget the
national hope and destiny, to turn
away frm the worship of Jehovah,
and to be content with mater a!
gains and luxuries. When the sum
mons came to return and rebuild
Jerusalem, only the choicest spirits
volunteered. The rest decided the
project as impractical and shrunk
from Its hardships. At this crisis
Psalm 137 was written. It breathes
the deepest devotion to the national
Ideals, ft inspired Timothy Dwight s
familiar hymn, "I Love Thy King
dom, Lord." The writer cries out
against those who prove faithless to
the highest. Let them forget, but
as for me. “If I forget thee, O Jeru
salem, let my right hand forget her
cunning . . . If I prize not thee
above my chief Joy."
We are In the midst of the reac
tion from the idealism and devotion
which the perils of wax inspired.
Memorial day reminds us anew how
great, how precious, hpw abiding in
shelr authority are those national
and world Ideals for which we
fought. Ood forbid that we should
forget them in the chase for ma
terial gains and pleasures. II I for
get thee, O America, and the ideals
for which so much has been sacri
ficed and which yet remain to be
fully realized!
MEMORIAL. DAY
William Allen White In Judge.
Out In Kansas City the other day
a veteran of the Civil war of the
’60s, the war which Colonel Roose
velt always called The Great War.
Issued a call for a meeting of the
veterans of the army of Appomat
tox. The call was well advertised.
The region within two hundred
miles of Kansas City was once the
home of nearly a million veterans
of the Civil war. But only one man
responded. The disappointed veter
an had hoped for ten!
It seems but yesterday when we
all were writing editorials calling
attention to the danger of the ever
mounting pension roll. Today It is
disappearing. The "Old Boys” are
taking, their widows with them and
their children have grown up. By
this sign of their passing, more
clearly than by any other token v«
may know that an era in our na
tional life Is closed.
The only reality of the day wt!)
be a little group of time-battered
old men climbing Into the motor
bus at G. A. R. hall-to go to the
cemetery, and there to wander
about footlessly reading the names
on old tombstones. And so comes
change 'lest one good custom
should corrupt the world I”
talned by the use of one eye alone.
The first binocular telescope which
was Invented in 1606 consisted of
two telescopes placed side by side.
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Q. What'crop loss do weeds
cause? H. <3. F.
A. The Indiana experiment sta
tion some time ago made a survey
of the losses occasioned by the
growth of weeds on lands prepared
for useful crops and foiled the less
or reduction In yieki In the case of
corn to be 10 per cent; tame hay,
3to 16 per cent; potatoes, 6 to 10
per cent; spring grain, 13 to 1ft per
cent, and wintao grain, 5 to 9 per
cent.
