Plane for the “Sunday Driver”
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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
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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
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► America at Rutherford, N. J.,
by Chief Executive John E. Sel
lick.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
