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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1931)
Plane for the “Sunday Driver” - - - ■ ■ ' .. ■.-— A “foolproof” plane that can be safely flown and landed by a novice, was tested at North Beach, L. I. Here is the plane as It came to a beautiful two- 4 point landing though Test Pilot Henry White had hands off the controls. He’s holding his hands , aloft. Automatically controlled movable wings make “robot” landing possible. Parrot Tells of Murder : w i ummsm Detectives walked into the New ,, York City apartment of Frank Yitkas (inset) as he explained, "Two men murdered my wife.” The woman’s body lay partly under a bed. a blood-stained axe beside it Suddenly a voice came from another room, “Papa, don’t! Don't! Don’t!”.It was the parrot shown above with policeman. Yitkas was arrested. Later he confessed. Milady’s wardrobe is not complete without the latest innovation in an informal dinner ensemble as portrayed above. The creation of printed silver cloth and black vel vet skirt has a wrap to match with the sophisticated accent of black fox fur. Noted Evangelist Ailing, May Resign Good ScOUt SlffUS Up Aim pc Semple McPherson, the evangelist who, it is reported, may resign the pastorate of Angelus Temple, Los Angeles. Cal., which ehe and her mother founded. 11! health is given as the reason for her retirement. Bernt Balchen (left), trans-At- - lantic and Antarctic flier, wel comed into the Boy Scouta of . 1^——a—BWBil ► America at Rutherford, N. J., by Chief Executive John E. Sel lick. She Takes It on the Chin J J - - ._~._-.l-- mi■.ti--- -ifir vimrtrwwn.ii~tt itTMffi t i v.it i, 'i r^~i " -tti-frfftVK iw'mhihi iummmmbim ^ Hatches battened down and all i deck furniture lashed in place, the U. S. S. California ploughs doggedly an her wav. imnrino > the punches of an angry “Father Neptune.” This striking picture was taken from the bridge of *.ha kaLtla shin durinv haaw uwmm wrooww—wj na——————— i 1 weather while leading the Paci fic Fleet to Panama for maneu vers. i Wallses with Wales Eleanor Nichols (above) accepted invitation to step the light fantas tic with the Prince of Wales at i dance given in his honor at th. Union Club, Panama City. Shi declared herself delighted by hi charming manner and brilliant con versation, but thinks Prince Georg a much better dancer, MissNichol is a daughter of Commander New ton Lord Nichols, in charge of Pal boa Naval Radio Station. Famil home is in Newport, R. I. Woman Explorer To Arctic Agaif For the third time, Miss Louis« E. Boyd, San Francisco society woman, will dare the Arctic thil Summer. She will head an expedij tion sponsored by the Nationa1 Geographic Society for exploratioa of northeast coast of Greenland. Author of New Plan Changes in constitution were urged by Owen D. Young to protect bank investors. He testified before the senate Banking Investigation Com mit ee. Young also advocated saying of bonus to needy veteran* wily. Wauls “The Razz” Miss Katherine Emmet, actress and member of Actors’ Equity Council, offers novel substitute for stage censorship. Mif,s Emmet suggests that an objectionable play be named outright by preachers and teachers, and ad rises audiences to show displeas ures by hissing. OF INTEREST TO FARMERS J PEERING EWES IN FEBRUARY The ewe flock that is to lamb In February will unquestionably re ceive good care, but too often the man with ewes that are to lamb in late March and April may neglect them through February. Ewes that are in low condition, due to nurs ing or other causes, should be given special attention. While it is not necessary to have ewes fat at the time they lainb, high condition will go a long way toward making itrong, healthy feeding lambs. In feeding pregnant ewes. It must be remembered that the ewe is making iuee uses of the feed given her. First, maintaining her body; second, {rowing and developing the fetus; uid third, laying up a reserve of at to draw upon when the suckling amb demands the most in milk. When alfalia or other leguminous bays are used as roughage, corn, >ats or one of the grain sorghums iot to exceed half a pound a head i day will suffice for e.wes. Silage blade from corn, cane or one of the •orghums will help in keeping the »wes in condition and will cheapen the ration materially. Moldy or frozen silage should not be fed to ewes. Many farmers desire to util ize as much coarse feed and rough ige as possible in feeding ewes dur- j Uig the winter months and the ewes 1 will undoubtedly make as good use of such feeds as other classes of livestock. The flock owner will find j it to his advantage not to depend wholly on such feeds for the win ter ration. Exerci.se is essential in keeping pregnant ewes in condition, but it should never be violent. They •njoy picking around even when sufficient feed is given them and the spreading of roughage over the ground is an excellent way of using the cheap feed as well as providing the ewes with the right kind of ex ercise. WHEAT IN HAIRY RATION It is not often that wheat is low enough in price to include in live stock feeds, but it is at this time. Wheat is high in starch and low in liber, thus rivaling corn in this re spect. The chief difference in these grains is in the protein and fat content. Wheat is much higher In protein and lower in fat than corn. The relative percentages of these two ingredients in these grains are 12.4 and 9.6 per cent for pro tein and 2.1 and 4.8 per cent for fat. It is this fat or oil in the corn that is chiefly responsible for its pala tability to livestock; hence wheat is not as palatable as corn. Another thing against the palatability of wheat as compared with that of corn is the fact that it forms a itickv and unpleasant mass in the mouth due to its high gluten con tent. Wheat ranks high in total digestibility. Each 100 pounds con tains 80.1 pounds digestible materi al. Corn has 81.7, barley 79.4 and oats only 70.4 per cent. Any com parison of wheat and other grains should be made on the ton rather than the bushel basis, owing to the great variability in the weight of a bushel of the different grains. Be cause the grains are small and hard, wheat should always be grQ\jn<J for dairy cattle. To over come its stickiness other grains or mill feeds such as ground oats, bar ley, bran or beet pulp should be mixed with wheat. In fact, for best results with cows it should nev er make more than one third the total grain ration. WATCH THE PROTEIN Last fall when grain prices began tobogganing, many fanners quit buying any high-protein concen trates. They concluded that with grain prioes so low it would be more profitable to feed more grain in stead of high-priied commercial protein concentrates. The wise dairyman didn’t follow all of the way, at least, on this supposed economy, for he knows that if he skimps too much on the protein in the ration sooner or later his cows will get out of condition and that it will take a lot more feed, and there fore money, to get them back than it would to continue using a pretty well balanced ration. In addition, there is this question of lowered milk and fat production from a ra tion too low in protein. If the mix ture is poorly balanced, lowered production comes Just as sure as taxes. Proof of the cost of feeding a low-protein ration in order to avoid buying high-protein concen trates can be founeji in the records of herds In cow-testing associations in every state. If we are going to keep dairy cows, we should keep only good ones and then give them an opportunity to produce efficient ly. Cows are factories. Factories must be efficiently built and equipped and then well managed to give adequate returns. -• 4-. f r,r,l)l\u 1 lit. CALI Considerable damage may be done in the development of heifer calve* by not paying careful atten tion to a few fundamentals. First of these is that the calf should be fed moderately after being removed from ihe cow. A calf that is left with its mother will nurse often and take only a small quantity at each feeding. When fed by hand the calf usually is expected to eat more at a time and at less frequent intervals. In general the quanti ty of feed a calf should have may best b« governed by its body weight, starting off with not to exceed more than 10 per cent body weight and Increasing the feed as growth goes on. In other words, a calf weigh ing 70 pounds at birth should not roceiv* over seven pounds of whole milk daily, divided into three feed ings where such a procedure is pos sible. As growth develops, increase the quantity in proportion to body weight by the addition of skim milk. Care should be taken that the calf does not get more milk than it ean properly handle even with in creasing growth, since a pot-belly may then result and the rest of the calf look stunted by compari CORN STOVER FEED That the feeding value of corn stover grown under the droughty conditions of 1930 may be higher than normal, thus compensating somewhat for the small yield, is in dicated by some analyses of s»m ples. About one-third of the stalks tailed to produce ears. Apparently the sugars and nitrogenous com pounds that normally move into the ear to form the grain have been retained in the stalk and leaves. Barren stalks taken from shock 9orn cut September 18, showed a crude protein content of 9.25 per cent. Normal corn stover runs about U per cent. Stalks which bore ears this stasou contained 7.3 oer cent son. As the calf gels o. Icr it will, of course, be permitted to have a* much well balanced grain and roughage as it will reads y clean tip, A good grain mixture is two paru bran, two pails ground eras and one part oil meal. It a b.t sleeker calf Is desired one part com meal or hominy may we:l be added. Our experience with roughage has been that straight alfalfa or clover hay is net des.rable for a yoi -r ralf, a» bowel disturbances are very liable to occur. We much preier a good mixed hay even stiv: ht timo thy. Such hay keeps the bowel* functioning correctly and also de velops a Rood body. Tit third es sential is that all utensi.s used in feeding a calf shou'd be perfectly clean. A little milk left in the pail front one feeding to the next fur nishes a wonderlul medium ior th* development of bacteria. Pahs used for calf feeding should be exactly as well cared for as are the cooking utensils In one's home. -- ♦♦ —■■ ' ■■■— make farm attractive The all-too-inany implants cheerless farmsteads are not due to the farmer’s lack of appreciation of beauti.ul surroundings, lor no body appreciates trees, shrubs, gras* nnd flowers more than the farmer. The failure to beautify the homa grounds Is due to the be!, el that home beautification Is a very dif ficult and expensive matter. requir ing the services of a landscape arch itect and the purchase of a lot of high-priced plants. And that is a mistaken notion. Nobody wsil say, of course, that a landscape architect couldn’t do a better job of homa beautification than the average farmer. If the landscape men cant do a better job, there is no excuse for his being, ir the farmer will just keep a few essentials in mind, how ever, he can do a jcb that w.’.l rate very high. First of all, a good lawn. A good stand of grass is the carpet for the outdoor living-room There is no reason why the man who grows good hav or pasture can t grow a good lawn, provided he fences the lawn to keep chicken* and pigs out. Shrubs should be used about the house to break the line of the foundation and to sort of tie the house to the ground. For this purpose one can use overgreens or shrubs such at splreas, barberry, mock-orange1, snowberry. etc. Most any r.ur.-rry catalog will suggest a good combin ation of shrubs and offer sugges tions for planting. The taller-grow ing shrubs are planted nearest the house, and the lower-growing ones in front. The usual procedure is to space the shrubs about as far apart as their height. All plantings should follow curved lines (unless one la going formal gardening.) The o>4a line of the foundation plant m# should be curved; the arrangement at the corners of the house should be rounded instead of angular. Taka a look at the sketches in your cata log—theie’s how. Keep the center of the lawn open. The flower bed had better be along the border, backed up by shrubbery, instead oi in ths center of the lawn where it h Vi folks in the eye. Walks and drive# should be as direct as po's ble, yet can be slightly curved. The driva 1 should be to the side of the hour** rather than the iront. T. s “tu» around" doesn’t belong in Iront of, the house. Where a walk or drive i* curved, a shrub or two can be placed inside the curve to-make it appear, that the, walk had been built around the plot. Bv far the safest procedura is to la.v out your pirns on paper before starting to plant. Let one inch on the drawing represent, say, !0 feet of actual distance. Make this sketcli in pencil, mark the lo cation of trees with an X. small shrubs with a circle, larger shrub# with a small ircle inside n iargeT one, etc. Indicate the walks and drive, outbuildings, etc., in iliff sketch in their proper places. Than consult the sketches in your cntlf logs or booklets on home beautifi cation (there are many good ones to be had free from various placap.1 and see what shrubs need to 8* moved. Finally, mark the locations of new shrubs to be planted, and make out the list needed. I! the list Is to large for your pocketboot stretch the planting over several seasons. The smaller sizes com® cheaper, but will not give the effect you want quite so quickly as th« larger ones. What makes tlie task so much simpler is the wealth of helpful literature that’can be had on farm home beautification. if there Is enough interest in the sub ject, why not put on a fajm horns beautification contest? Know ho.v? FEEDING FERTILITY As the breeding season approach es, one of the vital problems of th# poultry keeper is to manage hi* birds so as to get maximum fertility and hatchability of eggs. The breeders now have been confined for many weeks, the amount of sunlight which they have been re-1 cciving and hence the vitamin D content have been greatly reduced,' and special measures must be taken in feeding and care to correct this, deficiency. Tests made at a number1 of experiment stations and on com mercial poultry farms show that feeding each day a mixture of ger minated oats, evaporated buttermilk and cod-liver oil will put the birds in fine condition, and will results in materially stepping up the hatch. This mixture is .specially palatable, is rich in vitamins A. B, D and 1^' the last the recently discovered ferkj tility vitamin. In feeding this mix*] ture it is well to use three poundl] of dried cats germinated] two' pounds of evaporated buttermilk, and an eighth of a pint of cod-Ilvir oil to each 100 birds. FVed the mlx-j ture in open troughs and provld* enough feeding space for all the birds to get an equal share. j GOOD BY-PRODUCT A small flock of sheep on a well conducted farm cannot lose mcney for their owner. j crude protein, which is also some what higher than normal. Appar ently this past year's crop of com stover also was lower in crude fiber and higher in nitrogen-free extraol than average stover. It is probable that much of the corn stover in oil drought area may have a feeding value equal to mixed clover and timothy liay. SUMMER FEEDING PAYS The value of feeding dairy cowl, well during the summer can not M measured entirely in the milk pro duction at that time. The bettw care has a beneficial effect thil lasts over Into the winter follow ing.