Ames la. — (Special) — Colu weather during February resulted in lower egg production per hen than last year in the calendar rec ord flocks, according to the monthly report just released by the poultry extension service at Iowa State col lege. The average production in these flocks was 9.6 eggs per hen as com pared with 11 eggs for the same month a year ago. The 'average price received per dozen was 11.4 cents as compared with 12.5 cents a year ago. the report states. Although the average expense per bird for the last month was 8 cents as compared with 10 cents in Febru ary, 1931, the average "margin” be tween receipts and expenses was only 4,1 cents per bird as compared with 8 cents a year ago because of lower production and lower prices. A large decrease in number of hatching eggs sold also contributed to a lower income. The 10 high producing flocks, however, had a margin between re ceipts and expenditures of 9.2 cents as compared to 10.4 cents a year ago. This fact indicates, according to W. M. Vernon, extension poul tryman, that flocks properly cared lor maintain production through unfavorable weather better than 1 locks which do not have proper teed and housing. BELILVES DEAD MAN WAS HER BROTHER Des Moines, la. — (AP) — Miss Elizabeth Costello declared Monday night that the man tentatively identified as J. W. Wilson who shot himself at Council Bluffs, Saturday night, may be her brother, Thomas P. Costello who lived at her home here. The man was found in a boarding house suffering from two self in flicted bullet wounds and died Sun day at a Council Bluffs hospital. Tentative identification was estab lished by personal papers and a railroad ticket to Des Moines. IOWA FARM BUREAU HEAD TO WASHINGTON Des Moines, la. — (AP) —Charles E. Hearst, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, left Mon day for Washington to attend a hearing with other farm bureau leaders on monetary stabilization calculated to bring about “a fair return to the farmer for his pro duce.” Hearst is chairman of the feder ation’s legislative committee. IOWA LABOR FEDERATION TO HOLD NO CONVENTION Burlington, la. — (AP) — The Iowa Federation of Labor conven tion to have been held here in June has been postponed a year, accord ing to word received from J. C. Lewis of Des Moines, state presi dent. Money appropriated for the con vention is to be used by locals throughout the state for relief work in conformity with action taken at an executive meeting in Des Moines. WOULD EXTEND BENEFITS FEDERAL FARM LOANS Des Moines, la. — (AP) — Ex pansion of the uses of the federal crop production loans was advocat ed here by Prof. R. K. Bliss of Iowa State college, chairman of the ad visory committee on Iowa crop pro duction loans. He said the aid of Iowa's congres sional delegation would be sought to make the loans cover cost qf hired labor necessary to plant and harvest crops and for purchase of feed for breeding stock. As interpreted at present, he said, the loans cover only purchase of seed, feed for animals used In crop production and gasoline and oi' for & tractor or other equipment. CORRECTIONVILI.E SENDS AID TO SOUTH DAKOTA Correctionville, la. — (Special) — Members of the American Legion post here were instrumental in the shipment of a carload of livestock feed to Wagner, S. D. The car con tained some hay and the balance was grain. The hay was baled by the members of the Legion and pur chase of grain was made with $120 donated by Correctionville people SPENCER, I A., COUPLE MARRIED GO YEARS Spencer, la.—(Special)—Mr. and Mrs. John Vestergaard of Spencer were married GO years ago, March 9, at Lomstrup, Denmark. They came to America, with their children, in 1890, and for 27 years made their home on a farm near Moorhead, in Monona county, Iowa. They then came to Spencer, where their two sons, John and Andrew, are en gaged in the contracting business. A daughter, Mrs. A. C. Johnson, lives in Moorhead. They have seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. If a man were comparatively as strong as an aunt he could lift 40 tons. SYNTHETIC SPRING A black glass bowl, all nicely lined With paper mosses gay; A cambric rose of coral pink, A linen lily spray; A fabric spike of hyacinth, Some varnished leaves of green; Some purple velvet violets A-peeping from between; A tissue cloud of maiden hair, Of May time woods prophetic; A golden jonquil made of cloth— E’en spring is oft synthetic, a —Sam Page Frozen apples have been kept four months without losing an ap preciable amount of vitamin C. Snyder’s Cough Syrup Snyder's Cough Syrup will help where others fail, something new in cough syrup, nothing like it on the market. It will help any kind of cough. Sold only in $1.00 bottle. If you can t get it at your rirug ciistn. will send prepaid for $1.00. C. J. SNIDES, Craig:, Iowa Competing Road Materials V_ From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. The Sioux City Tribune informs its readers that form er Gov. W. L. Harding is making addresses in various parts of the state in which he assails Fred White, chief highway state engineer, because the state has laid some 4,000 miles of concrete highway and has built no bituminous or oiled roads. There isn’t any cause for concern in this case. Pro ducers of another road building material have stepped into Iowa to contend with the manufacturers of cement. They have employed some ballyhooers to boost their goods and knock cement. These advocates of bituminous roads have arguments with which to support their claims. Their materials have merit. As laymen understand facts in regard to paving all materials other than concrete require a concrete base. With this base and a surface of brick or asphalt the price ranges higher than the cost of plain concrete which when used wholly is made a little thicker than when used as a base for some other materials. Brick or asphalt surfaced roads are high class when laid under sound specifications. But their cost is greater thi»n plain concrete. Under which plan can the people who buy paving get most for their money? This is the question engineers have been required to answer. Advocates may argue plausibly that a bituminous pav ing is worth more than concrete—worth more than the dif ference in cost if the bituminous specifications make the price higher than concrete. In such a dispute not a great many people in Iowa will take the word of a paid advocate of one material over the judgment of Fred White under whose direction Iowa has expended $250,000,000 in highway construction with no taint or suspicion in any direction. If advocates of bituminous roads care to dispute with those who prefer concrete they will find it vastly more ad vantageous in Iowa to argue the merits of their cause. They will go up against a stone wall when they put their paid emissaries up to question either the wisdom or the integrity of Fred White. Don’t Be Downhearted Rest, Not Exercise Cure for Fatigu | IIRED BUSINESS MAN SHOULD PRECEDE GOLF OR GAMES WITH SHORT PERIOD OF RELAXATION BY DU. MORRIS FISIIBE1N Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia the Health Magazine The hardest advice to make peo 1 pie follow in times of economic j stress is the advice to rest. The trend of modern life is to j ward speeding up to a greater men i tal strain and almost ceaseless activity. As a result the life expect ancy of man over 40 is less than it was 25 years ago. Many a business man feels that the pi-oper procedure for relieving Ills restlessness is exercise in the form of handball, squash, calis thenics, or golf. When one is tired, relief will not come through physi cal exercise but through rest. The chief value of exercise is to pro vide stimulation to the activities of the body, not to relieve a fagged mind. The fatigue that occurs in in dustry involves usually vary little ■>{ physical fatigue. Emotional fac tors play a large part in fatigue. Machine work, specialization of jobs, and increased speed in indus try have brought about fatigue due ro monotony. When monotony be comes intense, exhaustion of the nervous system is likely. The time to exercise is after rest. Therefore, the business man the white-collar worker, or the in dustrial worker who has felt the strain of his day’s activities should precede any exercise at the end ol that day by 15 to 30 minutes of rest. He will then take his exercise, follow it with a warm shower bath and have another fairly long rest period before getting up for the evening program, or before going to dinner and then to bed. This advice to rest is not neces sarily to indicate that one should give up his activity. The best life is a useful one. Dr C. E. A. Winslow refers to the ad vice given by Nietzsche to “live dangerously.” “Life is to be used not hoarded,” says Winslow, "but neither should it be wasted i through unintelligence.” One physician, asked by a patient how to live long, said, “Get a slight chronic disease and take good care of it.” In all of our activities health must be uppermost in our minds, because without health there can be no happiness. Glorifying Yourself By Alicia Hart Nobody takes the old-fashioned sulphur and molasses dose as an antidote for spring ailments these days. But the most modern moderns still take tonics, though usually they have no connection with medicine! The best tonic a tired woman can take is some beauty treat ments, tapped off with some new clothes. It may seem like an extrava gance to go to a beauty parlor and get a thorough workout, but it is money well spent, if you can do it. Certainly there is no tonic in the world quite like that of seeing yourself come to animation again, when you have decided you are about petered out. Certainly it is. also, that the minute you do see yourself looking better, you act ually feel better! I suggest a beauty regime for this spring’s tonic. If you can af ford it, a weekly hair and scalp treatment, a facial and a manicure. Most women cannot afford all that. But no one lives who can’t afford to give herself some kind of a regime. Bast spring a woman I know de rided to take up clogging instead of eating her noon lunch. She drank a glass of hot water or ate an orange and put in 30 minutes clogging every day. The way it set her up was remarkable. An other woman might find the same results in an hour’s dancing after work. Still another might find the equivalent by putting in a half hour or so every single night in her own rooms, exercising to music. Along with this exercise should go care of your skin, hair, nails. Being well-groomed sets you -up quite as much as having new clothes. Are you brushing your hair and giving it tonic every single night? Do you pat your cheeks, chin and under your chin the requisite number of slaps each night and morning? Do you always, no mat ItADIO AMATEURS OFFER AID Kansas City, Mo. — (UP) —Ama teur radio operators throughout the (vest have offered President Hoo ver and his organization for un employment service their aid in transmitting all his long-distance messages without cost. The object is to save money for the unemploy ment organization, so “every cent can be used for actual relief work.” CIRCULATE ANTI-RIOT PLEDGE New Haven, Conn. — (UP) — To discourage freshman riots the Yale freshman student council has cir ter how tired and discouraged, take time to remove the day’s grime and carefully oil your skin for the night? Well, these are all spring tonics. Why don’t you take yours? THE NEW LIVING ROOM. The place where mother spread the wash, And oft by high fence barred, Has long been known to all of us As simply, “the back yard.” Not any more! That name Is out. Just read the recent ads; Rechristening of that well-known plot Is ’mong the latest fads. With chairs and tables, rugs and shades, It’s had, it seems, a boom— ’Tis called by those who know their stuff, “The outdoor living room.” —Sam Page. PREPARATION. How still the day! With out stretched arms, All rigid stand the trees, Like travelers marooned by storm, With snow drifts to their knees. No cloud skims o'er the low hung sky; Indeed, there is no break Between its grayish, white expanse And snow encrusted lake. But something moves, ‘though we can't see. Life stirs within the roots Of these stark trees, begins to rise And tint the w'illow shoots. This stillness, while the earth drinks deep; This death-like, sad repose, Prepares the way for almond spray, For lilacs and the rose. —Sam Page. A SALAD SUGGESTION An unusual salad can be made by combining shredded cabbage with diced orange and grapefruit sections. Add plain mayonnaise and serve it on lettuce arranged on individual dishes. For the buffet supper, it is equally as interesting served in a large bowl and gar nished around the edges with let tuce or parsley. culated a pledge in which students bind themselves not to participate in riotous disturbances. Most of the yearlings have signed, dooming a time-honored but dangerous and costly undergraduate pastime. Not United. From The Humorist. Lady Visitor; And what brought you here, my good man? Convict: Well, madam, my father said when I was a boy that he fioped I would marry beauty and brains, and I wanted to please him. Visitor; Yes? Convict: So I'm in jail for big i a my. OF INTEREST TO FARMERS TIIE HOG SITUATION Not too many hogs, but too few consumers ot hog products, or too small an amount of hog products consumed by those who do eat them, is this paper’s explanation of the present low price of hogs. Last month the government Issued its report on the present and prospec tive hog crop of the nation and It was generally conceded to be very bearish. At all events, It was re garded as discouraging to hog growers, and since then there has been a general movement to market hogs. Weights at this point have been running 20 to 25 pounds lighter than a year ago, and farmers ap pear to be getting rid of their hogs regardless of weight or condition. The figures given out by the de partment of agriculture indicate an increase of 19.7 per cent in the fall pig crop. Of course there were the usual additions and deductions on account of increased litters, de crease in number of sows bred, etc., but allowing for everything of this kind, the report indicates the num ber of hogs on farms on January 1 was approximately 56,823,000. This, of course, looks like a lot of hogs but it must be remembered that ours is a mighty big country and the largest hog growing country on earth. Furthermore, the estimate of nearly 57,000,000 hogs is by no means excessive as compared with actual supplies of former years. Back in January, 1923, the govern ment reported 69,044.000, nearly 12, 000.000 more than show ud on the farms and ranches of the country in 1932. And it might have been ad ded that in the meantime the pop ulation of the country has increased something like 16,000.000 to 18,000, 000. Before we jump at the con clusion that there are too many hogs in the country it may be well to look back a few years. Former January lsts, on which largest sup plies on farms were reported, were: 1900. with 62.868.000: 1908. with 61. 300000: 1918 with 61,200.000: 1919, With 63.800,000: 1923 with 69,044. 000: 1924. with 66,361.000: 1928, with 60.420.000. On January 1. 1930, there were 53.238,000 hogs on farms, and. with the exception of 1903. with 47.200.000, 1905 with 52.000,000 and 1926 with 52.148,000, w'ere the small est of the present century. “An esti mated supply of 59.000.000 hogs in the United States at the beginning of 1932 should not'be discouraging to any hog grower. A glance back through the records will demon strate that the years of heaviest supplies have not always been years of low prices and that the years' of light receipts have not always meant prices. As has often been i pointed out. the supply is only half the story. The important item is the demand. When industrial and com mercial conditions are bad and there is little or no export demand for pork products, prices of hogs are bound to be low regardless of supplies. On the other hand when everybody is busy at good wages and Europe is looking for pork products from America, prices of hogs are more than likely to be strong regardless of market re ceipts. In a word, there are not too many hogs in the country for a normal pork demand at home and abroad. It is the lack of this de mand and not the size of the hog crop that is responsible for prevail ing low prices. IMPROVING PASTURES Bluegrass is the premier perma nent-pasture crop throughout a large section of the United States. Early spring care is important. An established bluegrass pasture can be best maintained and improved by disking it in the early spring after severe freezing weather has passed and before spring rains start. This usually means doing the job in late February and March in most blue grass sections. Single-cut the sod with the disk set nearly straight and weighted so it will penetrate three or four inches deep. In places where the grass has disappeared and weeds have come in, double disk with the disk set at a sharp an gle. A light top-dressing of manure before disking is very helpful. If manure is not available when the land is low in fertility and where no clovers are growing, it will re spond profitably to the use of com mercial fertilizer. A 20 per cent sup erphosphate will usually fit this condition. On good land carrying considerable clovers a 4-12-4 mixed fertilizer is desirable. In either case about 200 to 250 pounds per acre is about the right quantity. Following the disk a seed mixture suitable for the condition of the soil and its lo cation should be sown. In all cases In most Midwestern states a mix ture of timothy eight jxninds, alsike clover three pounds, Korean Lespe deza three pounds, and orchard grass six pounds per acre 1s suitable. For fertile land underlain with limestone add 10 pounds of sweet clover to the mixture, and for flat wet fields, either poor or fertile, add five pounds of red top. No covering Is necessary when these mixtures arc sown behind the disk. FEED AND YOLK COLOR Egg-volk color depends upon what {he hen eats. Such feeds as yellow corn and the green leafy parts of plants, especially of le gumes, such ns clover and alfalfa, when fed in -large quantities, will color the yolks yellow. Wheat, oats, buckwheat, white corn and beets will color the yolks only slighty, and the so-called light-colored yolks are the result. Certain leaves will often discolor yolks; for example, two weeds—shepherd’s-purse and pennycress. They appear in advance of other vegetation in the spring, which accounts for many grassy eggs that appear in flocks at that time. Rape produces one of the deepest colored yolks so if a poul tryman aims at a market that de mands a light-colored yolk, he should avoid feeding this green. Birds that have access to dry leaves of well-cured hay and those that receive 5 per cent of alfalfa-leaf meal lay the highest percentage of pale and medium colored volks. The value of eggs for food is in no way ~ FEED PLENTY MILK Milk has a very definite place in the feeding of poultry, especially young chicks. Any chick ration should have in it some dry milk, probably about 10 per cent of the mash. Seme poultrymen, wishing to feed larger quantities and in a palatable form, will find that evap orated buttermilk can be fed in a paste just as it comes from the par rel, in little troughs, so that the chicks will nqt get in it. Milk is rich in vitamins, palatable and eas ily digested, and is the most avail able and important source of pro tein in baby chick feeding. Mill: led to tile laying liens and breed affected by the color of the yolk. As to the taste, when such reed* as rape, fresh fish, turnips, onions, and sometimes cabbage are eivcn In large quantities, the flavor is likely to be affected. In small quantities there are no noticeable effects. SOME GRAFTING HINTS Fri*t growers find topworking and grafting generally much more successful when the cions are waxed as soon as they are cut. A thin coating of paraffin wax prevents drying out. Cions coated with wax start quicker and the mortality is greatly reduced By using wax the grafting season may be extended much later than would otherwise b? possible. This waxing treatment also may be used on young trees and shrubs before transplanting. Desic cation or drying out has long been recognized as the chief hazard in transplanting trees and shrubs. Demonstrations in a number of places under varying condition* have shown conclusively that dip ping the tops of small trees and such shrubs as roses in a wax have greatly reduqed mortality following transplanting. Some. orchardists have even thought that by applying a coat of wax they have been able to revive newly planted trees which remained dormant late into the summer. At least there is u growing interest in the use of wax covering both bv nurserymen and fruit grow ers. There are n number of pro prietary waxes suitable for this pur pose now available. These prepared waxes are no daubt preferable un less a large number of trees are to be dipped. Trees and shrubs should so far as possible be pruned before dipping, to eliminate unnecessary cost. A rather inexpensive home made wax is made by mixing four parts of paraffin and one part of pick-up gum—a gluelike substance. Parraffin used alone flakes off too badly for outdoor use but does maka a satisfactory covering for storage or shipment of cions. Another satis factory wax consists of one pound of resin, three ounces of linseed oil and five pounds of paraffin. The temperature of these waxes when applied should be about 170 to 180 degrees F. Metallic bands used for shipping sprav' materials or Mmilar containers can be used for dipping vats. If many trees, or shrubs are treated plans should be made to In sure an even temperature of the wax. Only the tops of. trees or shrubs are immersed. The wax may be applied with a brush if necessary. It is advisable to add a small quan tity of beeswax where extremely high temperatures are apt to occur. SELECTING ROUGHAGES Poor roughages make it nearly impossible to feed cows profitably; good roughages solve most winter feeding problems. Now is the timej as spring seeding approaches, to meet the problems for next winter. When legume hay and silage are available on a dairy farm the choice of suitable concentrates is easily made; these concentrates are rela tively cheap. If legume haf is luck ing two alternatives are open; one is to buy the right kind of hay, the other is to use the available non legume roughage and supplement it with concentrates that supply more protein. Either alternative is gen erally expensive. The man who year after year tries to milk cows with only poor roughage to feed them is attacking an almost insurmountable obstacle. Alfalfa is not only the best hay for cows but is even more sig nificant than any concentrate. It can be grown successfully in most sections of the country; the dairy men in these sections had better lay their plans now for a sufficient acreage to meet the demands of their herds. No acre on a dairy farm will yield more profits than an acre of alfalfa. In areas where alfalfa canhot be grown successfully a substitute must be provided. Red clover serves admirably in this. Some northern dairymen rely on it solely. Again, soy beans are finding highest favor, though only an an nual crop that must be seeded each year. They have greatest use as an emergency hay crop if the alfalfa or clover winterkills. Sweet-clover hay is highly indorsed by some dairymen. However, as an emerg ency hay crop when abundant yields are essential, the sweet clover does not suffice. Some one of the le gumes wilf be found suitable for any section of the country. Complete dependence for successful dairy feeding cannot be placed upon grass hays, cane, Sudan, timothy, fodder or straw. THE LIGHT PROBLEM The successful use of artificial lights in stimulating egg production during winter is dependent to a considerable extent upon the meth ods used in stopping1 the lights in the spring. They should never be operated after April 1, and it is well to use much of March for closing them' down—that is, they should be stopped gradually. Any sudden stop ping of lights, resulting as it does in the birds consuming less feed, is very apt to be followed by an un seasonal abnormal molt and by cessation in production. If the lights are operated as an evening lunch it will take about two weeks to stop them gradually, advancing the time of lighting each evening, about 15 minutes, until the lighting period comes just at dusk. If they are operated as morning and evening lights simply to extend the normal period of daylight, they can be safely discontinued when normal daylight hours approach or reach the hours during which the birds have been lighted. DOCTORING DOBBIN The modern method of ridding a horse of worms is to withhold feed for 36 hours and then have a vet erinarian administer 4 or 5 drams of oil of chenopodium in a gelatin capsule and follow immediately with a quart of raw linseed oil. Colts take less doses, in proportion to their age and size. ers during the next two months will help to bring them back into condition, following the heavy drain of winter confinement and produc ing they have experienced. 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