OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
SORGHUM VS. CORN
The gram sorghums would not be
onsidered the best hog feed in
. ections where corn does well but
where the rainfall is such as to
end hazard to corn production, the
train sorghums do well and thev
compare favorably with corn for
leedmg hogs. One western station
seeking to compare corn w’lth grain
sorghums for feeding hogs as also
to compare the feeding value of the
better grain sorghums, self-fed four
groups of five purs each on ground
corn, ground feterita. ground milo.
and ground kafir. The pigs aver
aged not quite 100 pounds weight
at the beginning of the trial; they
were fed in dry lot. Tankage was
fed in self-feeders as a supplement
to these grains. The ground corn
and tankage made the best show
ing as was to be expected and the
pigs ate less tankage with ground
corn than they ate with the grain
sorphums. Taking the ground corn
tankage ration as 100 per cent
efficient, the relative efficiency of
the grain sorghum was 98.91 per
cent for the feteria. 88.91 per cent
for the milo. and 80.82 for the kafir
At the same time the station also
fed four other groups of five pigs
each on the same kinds of rations
and in similar manner, but these
pigs weighed 150 pounds each at
the beginning of the trial. In this
trial the ground feteria-tankage
ration did better than the ground
corn-tankage ration, but pigs a..e
more tankage in proportion to corn.
By giving the ground feteria
tankage ration an efficiency value
of 100 per cent, the ground corn
lankage returned a value of 97.03
per cent; ground milo-tankage ra
tion earned 90.57 per cent, and the
ground kafir had a oomDarativr
rating of 80.5. Uniting the data for
the two trials we find the average
requirement of grain and tankage
for 100 pounds of gain to be 441.56
pounds ground corn and 16.68 pounds
tankage; 454 49 pounds grounc,
feteria and 22.606 pounds tank
age: 480.17 pounds ground milo and
21 24 pounds tankage; 517.05 pounds
ground kafir and 22.04 pounds
tankage. If we average the amount
of grain and tankage required to
produce 100 pounds gain in the four
groups of pigs weighing about 100
pounds at the beginning of the
trial and compare these data with
similar data from the groups aver
aging about 150 pounds at the be
ginning of the trial, we find it took
ar, average of 504.91 lbs. grain and
24.22 pounds tankage for 100
pounds gain with the lighter pigs
as compared with an average of
440 66 pounds grain and 16.79
pounds tankage for the heavier
nogs. In other words, as pigs in
creased In weight it took less grain
and tankage to produce 100 pounds
gain.
SOME FEEDING TESTS.
Ground soybeans with the oil left
in are a poor substitute for tankage
in a hog fattening ration when fed
along with shelled corn on pasture,
according to experiment station
tests conducted the past summer.
During a 90-day feeding period,
shotes weighing 78 pounds at the
start of the test (July 8) gained at
the rate of 137 pounds (1.52 pounds
daily; per head on corn and tank
age. and 74 pounds (.82 of a pound
daily i on corn and ground soybeans
when both lots were self-fed. This
slow gain in the ground soybean lot
was accompanied by a variable ap
petite—heavy eating for a day or
week, followed by the eating of very
little for from one to several days.
The most rapid gains made by any
of the eight lots fed were made by
the 13 pigs receiving a ration of
coarsely ground wheat and tankage,
self-fed. and running 8n sudan pas
ture. This lot gained 148 pounds in
90 days, 11 pounds more than the
shelled corn lot. Not only was this
the most rapid gaining lot, but also
it required the least pounds of feed
to produce 100 pounds of gain—326
pounds of coarsely' ground wheat
plus 24 pounds of tankage, against
315 pounds of corn and 40 pounds of
tankage for the shelled corn lot.
While soaking the ground wheat did
not pay for the trouble, the second
and third most rapidly gaining lots
were the ones fed finely ground
wheat and coarsely ground wheat
soaked from one feeding period un
til the next. These lots made gains
iust slightly above the shelled corn
lot—1.55 and 1.54 pounds per head
daily, against 1.52 for the corn-fed
hogs. Soaking the ground wheat ap
parently reduced the desire for
tankage, as both lots used only 19
pounds of tankage for 100 pounds
of gain, as compared with 40 pounds
with the shelled corn. 24 pounds
with the dry, coarsely ground wheat.
&nd 32 pounds with finely ground
wheat. Whole wheat and tankage
self fed gave a gain of 1.51 pounds
per head daily, and used 372 pounds
of wheat and 39 pounds of tankage
to make 100 pounds of gain. Coarse
grinding increased its efficiency 14
per cent. Whole wheat was 85 per
cent as efficient as shelled corn.
FATTENING TURKEYS
Farmers who have turkeys are
likely to find it profitable to fatten
them for a period five to six weeks
before marketing them. A pound of
turkey can be produced with about
5 pound of grain feed, and at this
rate it will pay to transform feed
mto turkey meat. In addition to
the'profit to be gained by selling
the feed to the turkeys, there is
also a good chance to advance the
grade of the bird a notch and to
realize a premium for the extra
quality. In a recent feeding test
involving a flock of 430 turkeys
the good business of fattening the
birds was well illustrated. This flock
was fed corn, wheat, and had free
access to alfalfa for five weeks be
fore being sold. During this time
the average weight of the birds in
creased by 2.85 pounds witli a total
feed consumption per bird of 15
pounds. On the basis of last year’s
prices the gain in turkey' weieht
was worth 86 cents per bird and the
cost of the feed used was 15 cents.
For the No. 1 grade birds this rep
resented a gain of 71 cents per
HOLD FOUNDATION STOCK
In times of economic pressure,
farmers may be compelled to fore
go profit on capital investments, or
work for lower wages, or live a little
closer to the land in order to protect
their equity in land and equipment.
Without land and equipment the
farmer is out of a job. Any job that
provides food, clothing and shelter
ior a family is very much better
than no job at all. The producer
of good live stock and thereby of
live stock products has a lot at
srake when economic conditions
compel retrenchments in operating
practices. It takes many years of
namstaklng. patient work to build
bird. In addition, the flattening re
sulted in advancing many birds
from No. 2 grade to No. 1 and
when this was figured in. the gain
amounted to $1.63 net per bird
Turkeys should be fed liberally
of a ration made up of corn, bar
ley or speltz, and wheat. If possible,
skimmilk and alfalfa pasture or
leaves from hay should be provided.
The birds should be marketed as
they reach the proper degree of
fatness and maturity, while the
others may be profitably kept and
fed until they also are fat and in
good condition. Close confinement
of the fattening turkeys is not de
sirable.
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SCREEN DROPPING BOARDS.
How much is it worth to so ar
range the roosts in the laying house
that the droppings fall through
poultry netting and hence tile liens
can not walk or scratch in them?
Frankly, I have always doubted
whether it was worth while, says a
leading poulterer. But I have been
converted. Recently we were build
ing a new poultry house and I have
asked dozens of questions about this
and that of every good poultryman
I met. They do disagree about in
sulation, lighting, location of nests
height of dropping boards, width of
houses and kinds of feeders and
waterers. but not about keeping the
hens out of the droppings. I never
realized how simple and inexpensive
dropping boards and roost platforms
are until we built ours. In our case,
we merely took six-inch fencing
boards and made a rectangle 5x12
feet (the size of the dropping board
tables), nailing the boards so as to
make a box six inches high. Over
this we stretched two-inch mesh
poultry netting, drawing it tight, and
then nailed the roosts on top. When
we wish to clean the dropping
boards we need only prop or hook
up the whole roost section. No dis
ease will be picked up from the
night droppings. Manure will not be
carried from dropping boards to
nests nor will pullets be sitting on
dropping instead of on roasts.
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USE CLEAN FRESH LITTER
It will pay to use an abundance
of clean, fresh litter in all laying
pens now and all through the win
ter. There is no economy in res
tricting the quantity even when all
litter must be purchased. A laying
hen is always a happy hen and a
hen can not be happy unless she is
busy most of the time. Litter on
the floor of the house, if fresh
and clean, is an excellent means
of keeping the layers busy, even
though all the grain is being fed
in hoppers and none is thrown on
the floor. The right sort of litter
or bedding also helps a great deal
in keeping the flock warm on cold
days. Perhaps the best material
for litter is wheat straw. It is not
so stiff as rye Straw but neither
does it break up so easily as does
oat straw. Renew the supply fre
quently so that it will be always
fresh and dry. Since the litter ab
sorbs considerable moisture from
the droppings and from the air of
the hen house, it may have to be
changed often in wet weather dir#
should be taken to use none but
clean, bight staw. Moldy staw is
almost certain to cause trouble and
sould never be used in the poultry
house. Shavings are being used in
stead of straw in the nests by many
poultrymen. By changing these
shavings regularly the eggs are kept
much cleaner and meet with con
siderable more favor on the mar
ket.
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LOOK TO STOVE PIPES.
Many farm fires occur in the fall
because of defective chimneys, fur
nace pipes, and from dirt and rub
bish which have accumulated during
the summer. Before the first fire is
started all pipes and flues should be
thoroughly cleaned of dirt and soot.
The chimney should be cleaned of
soot deposits and inspected for
cracks, especially if it is in an old
house and supported by brackets
which may have warped and set
tled. All loose bricks should be ce
mented in place. If the chimney ap
pears unsaie, it should be torn down
and relaid from a solid ground
foundation, with cement mortar and
with a flue lining. The average gal
vanized furnace pipe does not last
more than two seasons because it is
rapidly corroded by the weak sul
phuric acid formed if the coal con
tains some sulphur. Jab it a few
times with a screwdriver: ir the
pipe breaks through or appears to
be weak, it should be replaced. Pa
per or other inflammable rubbish
should not be allowed under a de
fective furnace pipe which may lei
burning soot drop on it.
KNOW THE HAWKS
Really, there are only three
hawks that are harmful. They are
the cooper's hawk, the sharp
shinned hawk and the great gos
hawk. Can you identify them? A
good many boys shoot at anything
that looks like a hawk, regardless
of its value to the farmer. Take
t he case of the big rough-legged
hawk that soars so majestically in
the sky on a clear day. He is the
farmer’s friend because he is a
great enemy of meadow mice and
lemmings. He will even kill rats,
but he leaves the songbirds alone.
Then there is the broadwing hawk
which lives on insects, especially
those found on leaves, flowers and
fruits. The red-shouldered hawk, an
other useful cousin, is a great enemy
of mice. We don’t see so much of
the friendly marsh hawk with its
white rump and long tail. The
sparrow hawk is a great eater of
insects, such as grasshopDers,
beetles, crickets, ground caterpillars
and spiders. This handsome hawk
is one of the smallest and most
useful. All hawks except the first
three should have your urotection.
You will get more enjoyment watch
ing them soar in the sky than in
killing them.
up efficient strains of breeding ani
mals. because of this, the owner
of such animals should resist sac
rificing them during a temporary
economic depression. He had better
sacrifice other things of less im
portance.
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SMITE THE RODENTS
It has been estimated that one
pair of rats breeding without inter
ruption and with no losses would
increase in three years to nearly
260,000,000. Normally, rats breed
six to ten times a year, and thr
average is about ten to th» Ttter.
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Allowing good hogs is good bust'
neat.
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Faith in Humanity
By Bruce Catton, NEA Service Writer.
Civilization, says Professor Kenneth S. Latourette of
Yale, may be on the verge of a new "dark ages.” Within a
few years, or even a few months, he says, society may col
lapse and its fragments may be drawn into a whirlpool of
misery and chaos unparalleled in modern history.
What makes his prediction so ominous is the fact that
this scholar is not alone in his pessimism. Some of the
wisest men of our time, looking to the future, can see noth
ing but disaster. Any thinking man must have moments
in which everything ahead seems exceedingly gloomy.
The only comfort is that things are hardly ever quite
as bad as they seem. Human beings, somehow, have a way
of seeing destruction lying in wait just around the corner.
They also, without realizing it, have a way of muddling
through, a way of surviving when survival seems highly
improbable.
And one reason why the darkest prophecies so seldom
come true is probably that most of us, deep in our hearts,
do not really believe in them. Deeply embedded in man’s
consciousness, illogical but enduring, is the unspoken con
viction that he is on earth, as the phrase used to go, for
a purpose; that he is slowly and painfully moving upward,
and will continue to do so, not because he is wise and far
seeing but simply because he is riding a current that wells
up from the very fountainhead of the universe.
We seldom talk about that feeling. It is seldom ex
pressed in public speeches, in newspaper articles, in books
or in magazines—and, when it is, the intellectuals prompt
ly laugh it to scorn. Yet the feeling persists. No age has en
tirely lacked it. We are confident of our destiny.
And that confidence, in its turn, breeds courage; the
courage which enables the race to live through tts world
wars, its financial breakdowns, its disillusionments and its
black catastrophes. The abyss may lie just ahead, but be
yond it there is a new slope to surmount, on which the
light will be clearer.
That, or something Mke it, is what most of us believe.
We may be wrong—but the belief at least keeps us from
panic.
NOT A CHINAMAN’S C HANCE.
We shudder to think of faithless
Japan,
As we point to our Kellogg pact
And piously hope the League we
renounce,
May make her repent of her act.
But the way of the world has never
been just.
As Darius once learned from a
Greek;
Or a Carthage razed, that a Rome
might arise,
And the strong keep their rule
o’er the weak.
And what of ourselves when we
wanted land?
Of that what does history say?
Was it hard to invent a pretext for
u fight,
When Mexico stood in our way?
No weakling may hope to keep or
I protect
The thing that a stronger would
steal;
And the lesser beast ever must lay
down its life
To the lion in need of a meal.
A doctrine, this, of defeat and
despair,
And not to profess in a creed:
Yet destined to rule upon earth
everywhere.
While the god of the world is
greed.
—Sam Page.
Soviet Traders.
Russian business operations in the
United States have shrunk to a
]>oint where Amtorg, the soviet
trading agency in this country, is
cutting down its staff by more than
half. The fact that it also is re
ducing its office space would sug
gest that the new state of affairs
OLD LAKE WRECK RAISED
Port Washington, Wis.— <UP>—
Parts of the hull and keel of the
nteamer Toledo, which was pounded
to pieces in a storm 75 years ago,
have been dragged from the bottom
of Lake Michigan by a wrecking
crew excavating a new channel for
a power plant here. The Toledo sank
20 rods from shore. O ily two of the
00 passengers and civ v were saved.
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COULDN’T SCARE HIM
Charleroi, Pa. — File youths
.lonned skin-tight 1 lack clothes,
painted bones on them with phos
phorescent material, and set out to
is expected to endure for some time.
The reasons, as set forth by the
head of Amtorg in a recent number
of its official organ, the Economic
Review, would seem to credit the
American business man with a self
sacrificing patriotism he would
scarcely claim for himself. The basic
condition for large commercial
operations between nations, said Mr.
Bogdanov, is adequate banking fa
cilities. and these have not been
furnished by the United States. At
the same time the campaign
against Soviet imports has resulted
in a large decline in sales. Since
soviet purchases depend on soviet
sales, a decline in Russian orders in
this country from more than $100,
000,0C0 in the first 10 months of
1930 to less than half that amount
in the corresponding period for the
current year become inevitable.
To say that American business
men and bankers have turned their
back on a desirable soviet custom
er in a time of depression when
tlie smallest customer is precious,
or that they have refused to handle
soviet imports despite the lure of
low prices. Is to suggest a sacrifice
oi personal advantage to principle
for which there must be very few 1
parallels in the history of com
merce. This lias not been the be
havior of other countries in their
I relations with soviet Russia.
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The Right Idea.
From Pathfinder.
“Say, don't you ever take a va
cation?”
"I feel that I shouldn't leave my
job.”
“Why. can't the company do
without you?”
“Yes: that's just what I don’t
want them to find out.”
scare couples parked along the liigh
| way. They approached one motor
j ist who was changing a tire. “Boo!”
the youths yelled. “Scram!” shout
ed the motorist. With that he
struck one of the “skeletons” over
the head with a tire iron. The mo
torist turned out to be Constable
Joseph Judson.
♦ ♦
HIKERS BLAMED HOOVER
Dodgeville, Wis. — (UP) — Two
hitch-hikers, a man and a woman,
passed through this city together
recently. On the man's back was a
sign: “ Don't offer me a ride. I don't
deserve it. J voted for Hoover
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Listen to Seott'g fCmulgion'g "Rowwni of the Saa” every Sunday and
l'ueeday at 8:80 p. m. over the Columbia Baaic fretwork
LOVER OF TODAY
A “GOLD DIGGER”?
Would Seem So, if This
Story Is True.
Where the e tesla n winds blow over
the Egyptian sea, at the port of Alex
andria. all Is not well; nnd true love,
which never runs smoothly, Is having
Its difficulties—because England went
off the gold standard.
As the story goes, a young Egyp
tian was strolling along the shore of
the Lake Marcia, fed by waters of
the Nile, his ladylove by Ids side.
They were to be married nnd the
young man was happy in the knowl
edge that the girl's father had set
tied upon her a dowry of 500 Egyp
tian argenteus, a coin kindred to the
British pound sterling.
With this sizable fortune, the young
lovers planned to wing llielr way on
a honeymoon Into the cinnamon
country, through the Arabian gulf.
While hooking passage, next day, the
young gallant came across the latest
news from England, brought In on a
freighter, announcing the suspension
of the gold standard. Immediately,
Ids prospective father-in-law was ap
prised of the fact ttiat there would
be no wedding unless the nnte was
boosted to £700. Otherwise, the girl
would he left waiting at the temple.
Now here Is rigid departure from
the standards of old, when the
Ramoses presided over the destinies
of Egypt. Then, a lover laid before
his lady’s feet heaps of Incense, resin,
nnd ebony, nnd pure Ivory, nnd gold
nnd silver from the lnnd of Ainu,
with tesep wood, nnd the cnssinbnrk,
aham Incense and mestnmkohl, with
the skins of leopards from the
north, npes and monkeys, and a Jug
of wine; but these things happened
before the days of the Egyptian min
ers, the gold-diggers.
At that time, ns it Is taken from
i lie “oldest book In the world," writ*
j len on papyrus, a man bothered him
self not about a dowry from his wife's
parents, put undertook to provide for
the lady, to wit: “Take care of thy
house; love they wife purely; fill her
stomach; clothe her bock; these art
the cares to give to her body. Caress
her, fulfill her desire during the time
of thine existence; it is a kindness
which honors ith master. He nor
brutal; consideration will lead her
better than force; . . . this Is her
breath, her aim, her gnze. This cs
tablishes her in they house; if thou
repellest her it Is an abyss. Open
thine arms to her for her arms; call
her, show thy love, and give to
her of thy bounty, all thy worldly
goods."
Now, what have we in Egypt? P.o
cause Great Britain suspends the
gold standard there are a let of sulky
young men who will not marry on
less their faihers In law-lo-be dig
down in their jeans and make up the
loss on the bourse. Old Cheops
would roll over in Ids grave, and the
regent queen mol her of Thotmes
111, who advised her son to shower
upon his beloved all the precious
woods of I he Holy land, with ver
dant incense trees, and all Ids house
hold goods, would blush with very
shame, were she not mummified.
Gone are the good old days In
Egypt, when lovers came hearing
gifts. The spirit of materialism has
fallen upon the swain of the land.
The code of the fortune hunter has
tnken the place of rhe tomes of
Ptolemy who, advising the young
men to mnrry, let loose this piece of
wisdom, an Inscription found at Abu
slmnl: "Activiey produces riches
and riches do not last when activity
slackens.”
In the badinage of Broadway, a
man who conies seeking remittances
from his father-in-law Is a bum. In
the case of the Egyptians, it may be
set down as a sad state of affairs
when the romances of Cairo are
blasted by the enactment of laws
made In a London parliament, thus
proving that It Is a small world after
all. Its smallness. In this Instance,
Is best exampllfled by the shriveled
souls of the lunmoraii who postpoue
Ihplr wedding until their fatlier-Iu
law recoup lost fortunes. These fel
lows must come from Lower Egypt,
for In Ihe higher life there Is no
gold standard attached to love.—
John J. Daly, in the Washington
Post.
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Two Days of “Freedom”
for Husband and Wife
It Is • mistake to think that two
people ran. in tills Twentieth century, j
live tlielr whole lives happily, sue
cessfully and abundantly <>n the basis
that husband am] wife are one, un
less each parly to I In* arrangement is
free to follow Ids own tastes and fan
cits. Otherwise you inevitably get
boredom and unbearable dullness.
Hullness lias wrecked many mar
riages which otherwise would have
been successful.
f have eliminated the possibility of
dullness. On two days -ach week 1
never see my husband. It has proved I
a really sound arrangement. 1 do 1
| what I like, go out with friends 1
choose, even though some of them In*
dislikes mid others he thinks Just
silly. Still, lie does not object. For !
those two days we live our lives
apart ns if we had no mutual re
sponsibilities nt all.
lie chooses bis own friends. Some
of his friends I dislike as much as
he dislikes some of mine. Others aru
just dull and uninteresting.
The days we are together we enjoy
each other more because we have
been apart. We are each of us re
freshed and have something new to
talk about. It is not a bad plan, and
I might even say that It is a plan
which many other people might find
very suitable. They will be sur
prised nt the results.—Anita Loos In
the London Saturday Review.
Big Area Burned Over
Forest fires In the United State!i
in Iftifl swept over a total of! more
ihnii 52,000,UlMl acres, an aren great
er than file stale of Ohio and Indi
ana eoinldned. Careless smokers were
responsible for more fires and great
er losses than any oilier cause. The
damage caused by these forest tires
reached an estimated total of $05,
DGS.itoO. not including damage t»
young growth, wild life, water-shed
values and other Intangible value*
which could not lie measured In dol
lars and cents.
Ordered to Thraih Wife
As the result of a court clerk's er
ror a divorcee in Berlin, Germany, is
suffering from the effects of n thrash
ing administered by her ex-husband,
with court order. A few days after
he had been divorced the man re
ceived official notice tfiat lie was to
pay alimony, to enter her house, and
to thrash her. He quickly complied
by putting Into effect tlie second and
third parts of the order. In vest! ga
llon disclosed that the order should
have read to pay alimony, but not
enter the house or llirash the woman.
There are two ways of doing a
thing—even three, four or five, when
it comes to making friends.
There are people who just natural
ly niuke you cheerful because they
are—bless ’em.
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