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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1932)
Baking Companies Unify Operations New York.—The National Biscuit Company and the Iten Biscuit Com pany, will unite their operations throughout the Central West, a joint announcement states. The two com panies have been affiliated since 1928, but have continued to operate sep arately, each maintaining its own complete line of crackers and cookies. The move will take effect short ly, and Otto H. Barmettler, of Omaha, Neb., President of the Iten Biscuit Company, has been elected Vice-President of the National Bis cuit Company to have jurisdiction throughout the territory, with head quarters at Omaha. Mr. Barmettler has been a prominent figure in the linking Industry for thirty years, hav ing had previous associations with the American Biscuit Company, the Continental Biscuit Company, and also with the National Biscuit Com pany. The Iten Bakeries at Clinton, la., Omaha, Oklahoma City and Memphis, and the National Biscuit Company bakeries at Pes Moines, Kansas City, St. Louis, St. Joseph, Mo., will con tinue to be operated on the same scale as heretofore. Iten products will be made and distributed by National Biscuit Company under its name and trade-mark. So far as pos sible, sales and delivery territories will be rearranged to provide work for the employes of both companies. This move will co-ordinate the business interest of the National Bis cuit Company in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkan sas, and Tennessee, and parts of Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississip pi, Alabama, Oeorgia and Kentucky. The National Biscuit Company was organized in 1898, and is the largest baking company in the world, em ploying about 25,000 people, and op erating fifty bakeries and 2G0 branch •flices. It makes approximately GOO varieties of crackers and cookies. Collectivism Basis of Power of Inca Ruler3 The Inca rulers were enabled to build up a socialistic state at a pe riod in world history when the ex istence even of a feudal empire would have been a miracle, largely by their keen understanding of psy chology, Dr. Victor A. Belaunde, Pe ruvian scholar, declared in a George Washington university Hispanic seminar lecture. Doctor Belaunde said that, while the Indian as an individual Is lazy and will remain inactive if left alone, his race collectively Is very active. This fact, neglected by most historians in their speculations upon the civilization of the Incas, Doctor Belaunde asserted, was thoroughly understood by the Inca rulers, who never relied upon the natives to work individually, but organized their activities upon a “team-work” basis. MercolizedWax Keeps Skin Young Get an ounce and use as directed. Fine particles of agwl •kin peel off until all defect* such as pimples, liver •pote. tan and freckles disappear. Skin is then soft and velvety. Your face looks years younger. Mercolized Wax brings out the hidden beauty of your skin. To remove wrinkles use one ounce Powdered Saxolit© dissolved in one-half pint witch hazel. At drug stores. Makes Water Run Uphill The United States and 18 foreign ■countries have issued patents to Toribo Bellocq, an Argentine in ventor, on a new pump that makes water run uphill, despite the laws of nature which say that can’t he done. ISy creating waves in a pipeful of water this new “wave pump” can draw water up from almost unlim ited depths. According to Popular Science Monthly the operation of the new wave pump is so extraordinary that even Bellocq himself admits that he is not certain of its prin ciple. “Written Up” by Hawthorne The Great Stone Face, the famous profile in the white mountains of New Hampshire, was first seen by a white man in 1803 when Nathaniel Hall went out one morning to shoot partridges for the breakfast of a number of road workers encamped in the southern end of what is now known as Profile lake. Nathaniel Hawthorne visited the spot in 1S32. and 16 years later he wrote the tale which immortalized the profile and made it one of the most famous nat ural curiosities in the world. Gentle Reminder Friend—You’ll soon forget all about her and be happy again. Jilted Lover--Oh, no, I won’t I’ve bought her too much on the install ment plan!—En Rolig Hal Timma (Gothenburg). Third parties fail because nobody will sufficiently finance them. | Try Lydia E. PinKham’s Vegetabla Compound Felt Terribly Nervous Fagged out... always melancholy and. blue. She shoul d take Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. Its tonic actioa builds up the system. Try it. Sioux City Ptj. Co.. No. 37-1932 Out Our Way By Williams / X f X/ XALKiM \ / TA' RowDVS X / £»Tfe-P O'.lTSlOE \ /'TUT —Tur-N a UiTTlE. TOO V A flcwow BECAUSE y VSMTF\ NAE. f \ ( Go O^a, 1 lOcO, lT \ HE'-S 'SuttE th' I 0APE. VOO \ PeoOlE J MyWCI NAG. GU*aTLs*./iAM A I *TO ‘STEP OFFA XOoR / Thimw' XAAi GEnHEJEMAni-Akio \ TH‘ COMPnYG j H£'S Su'RU TV Gr.aT.EMAM is *A PROPERTY 'AnTH j *fi-C t3uu. O’ Ti-\ a GEmTCGMAM X ME! _.V 'AiCoos xs Xxd Because he. ain»T. MUCH OF A St'PE HQiM Rc/mOV GEniTuEm am TO Tf-V ROwO'Y *‘S. X iKiOuuCiE im ^' _ -X~T| v BR/xvsius j p Z zj_ _ ZjZjZ vJ.R.WtLLiAMC, 3-M eWt« MWVICf. MW. ,, Taips of Real Dogs By Albert p*y50n Tcrhune | I E5^ He Hurled himself at the Door Jack started life on the streets, As far as any records go. He was picked up, starving, by an agent of the Atlanta, Ga., Humane so ciety, and taken to the society’s shelter. So clever and likable was he that the officials felt certain someone would adopt him soon. They were right. Jack was picked out, " from many another canine waif, by W. R. Elsberry, a night watchman. Elsberry and the wistful-eyed dog were chums at first sight. When Jack became fa mous, a newspaper described him thus: “Jack is not an Airedale or anything like that. He is just ‘plain dog’.” But four years of pleasantly un eventful life were to be lived out by the mongrel before fame ar rived. Meanwhile, he shared his master’s long night vigils at a local roofing warehouse, and learned to be on the lookout for intruders or for other perils to the property he guarded. Jack took a personal interest— a queer sense of proprietorship —in everything connected with the warehouse. It was evident he understood the nature of Elsbcr ry’s job, and that he considered himself as responsible for the building’s safety as was his own er. Then, when Elsberry died, his soninlaw, J. W. Pike, inherited the night watchman position. Also he inherited Jack. So the dog kept on with his old duties, under new ownership. In the daytime, he lived with Mr. and Mrs. Pike, at their home, two blocks from the warehouse. At night he was tied in the ware house yard except when Pike was making his hourly rounds of the place. Though Pike owned the dog, Jack’s devotion and loyalty were even more for Mrs. Pike than for her husband. Then, late one windy night, fire swept the warehouse. Nobody knows how it started. But almost instantly the gale-fanned flames were roaring among the rolls of tar roofing stored in the loft. Jack had barked furiously at SIMPLER LAW New York Evening Post A new set of rules of legal pro cedure regarded as “likely to revolu tionize the entire system of ad ministration” law has been an nounced in England by Lord Chan cellor Sankey. The rules delegate to the civil courts the power to dis pense with the juries in certain cases; to accept affidavits instead of calling witnesses in persons; to fix a date for a hearing of a case 1 and then adhere to it! to reduce j the number of expert witnesses and i the first breath of smoke, and had tugged with all his might to break the strong rope with which he was tied. His warning barks gave Pike notice of the fire much more quickly than the watchman otherwise would have become aware of it. As it was, the tar fed blaze was making fearful headway. Pike dashed to the tele phone, to give the alarm to the nearest fire company. But he did a humane thing first. Realizing how fast the flames were spreading, and that his dog was tied helpless and might well be burned or suffocated, Pike checked his own rush, to the tele phone long enough to slash in two, with his pocket-knife, the rope at which Jack was straining. Then he telephoned. And, while he waited for the engines, he hur ried back to the fire, fighting it single-handed. Even in that mo ment of stark excitement, Pike noticed that Jack had disappeared. The man could not understand the desertion. In all moments of danger, the dog had ever stood stanchly by him. Yet, now, in this supreme peril, Jack was nowhere to be found. Pike believed the brave dog had forced himself into the swirl of flames with some canine idea of rescuing the loft’s contents. That seemed the only likely solution. As soon as the firemen arrived and took over .he task of extin guishing the blaze, Pike risked his own life by entering the building and searching everywhere for Jack. He shouted the dog’s name, and he sought for him until the heat and smoke checked his quest. Then he appealed to Fire Chief Terrell to help him. The chief seems to have been a good deal of a man. Willingly, he joined in the search. But neither he nor Pike could find Jack anywhere. They made up their minds the dog had bpen overcome by smoke some where in the loft. Now, that is precisely what had not happened. Jack had the heart of a hero. But also he had a quick and logical brain. He was not going to to frame an agreement between both parties not to appeal. Some other modifications are not of general interest in the United States. Con servative England leads a long way ahead. Elimination of jury trials in some types of criminal cases has been urged n ths country. The agi tation is not new, but it continues to be agitated. Simplification of procedure and elimination in both civil and criminal cases of many costs that are based upon archie ideas would save millions of dollars annually. throw away his life uselessly by running into a burning building which contained no one he could save. It was high time to get help —human help. And Jack set forth to get it. I have said, he was utterly de voted to Mrs. Pike. That means, in the case of a loyal dog, that he regarded her as the supreme dei ty of his small universe; the one person, above all others, to go to in case of trouble; the one per son who could accomplish any thing and everything. So Jack scampered of at ex press train speed to his master's home, two blocks distant, where Mrs. Pike was asleep. He hurled himself against the locked front door, clawing and biting at its unyielding panels, and screaming at the top of his lungs. The ear-plitting din awoke Mis. Pike. She ran downstairs and let him in. Jack galloped around the half-awake woman and tugged at her nightgown, and then ran back to the front door, trying to coax her to follow him. She did not understand, or else thought the dog was romping. Failing to make his wishes clear to her, Jack scrambled upstairs to her bedroom and yanked her heavy coat from Its hook in the closet there. Seizing one corner of the coat between his teeth, he dragged it downstairs as fast as its cumbrous weight would per mit. Then he laid the ccat at the astonished woman's feet, and once again ran to the front door, barking frantically for her to fol low him. By this time, Mrs. Pike saw how tensely in earnest he was. So she slipped on the coat and went out on the porch. Jack was overjoyed that he had at last made her comprehend his meaning. He ran down to the street and back again and pulled at the hem of the coat. Mrs. Pike feared some mishap had befallen her husband and that Jack had come to take her to the night watchman. So she has tened along toward the warehouse in the wake of the frenzied dog, just as the fire appartus tore past on its way to the blaze. I have told this true story be cause it shows that the right kind of a dog can combine brains with heroism. Hundreds of dogs will bark when they smell smoke in their master’s homes. They win praise for this, a praise they do not always deserve. For, often their barking is just a sign of ex citement at the unusual ordor. But a dog which—like Jack will not only give that alarm, but will then try to bring help, is a dog that is 100 per cent worth while. Mrs. Pike seemed to Jack to be all-wise, all-powerful. So, in time of stress, he rushed to enlist her aid; not for himself, but for the property he guarded. A good dog! DIVERSIFIED PHILOSOPHY. I wonder if hitch hikers know They've grown to be a curse; That they are beggars, every one, Save only when they’re worse. There's two inventions that I know Could even now be sold; A lawn mower and garden hoe, Each radio controlled. I’d like to be the president; For every time I note A picture of him catching fish, He never rows the boat. And would it now have helped ua some, Relieved a bit our pain, Had all those jokes, when they wcra fresh. Been wrapped in cellophane? —Sam Page. THEFTS REPORTED Two minor thefts Monday eve ning were being investigated by po lice Tuesday. Mabel Stein, 422 Sixth street, reported theft of a handbag containing $2.90 from her home. Walter Hindricks, 3951 Monroe av enue, reported a shotgun stolen from a garage at West Third street and Wesley avenue. CRYPTIC *S IGWLS Ashland Daily Independent. If there is such a thing as mind reading, it should be a great help when the driver in front holds out ha hand. | OF INTEREST TO FARMERS | CIIF.AF' FEEDING BEEF CALVES Creep-feeding of beef calves dur ing summer and fall whlie they are nursing their darns is rapidly spreading , It Is regarded by cattle men as the greatest improvement in cattle feeding !n a generation, because it produces substantial early gains at two to three cents per pound, puts calves into fall feed lots weighing 50 to 100 pounds more than ordinary calves, avoids the shrinkage that comes when calves first go on feed, and produces calves that go onto lull feed In the fall without loss of time. The plan ha.*sueceeded well on small ranches and livestock farms. Tire first ex perimental evidence of the value of this practice was disclosed re cently when the preliminary re sults of a co-operative feeding ex periment. During a 160-day feeding period, beginning August 17, 1931, calves In a 2,000-acre pasture fed grain in creeps to supplement their mother's lrilk gamed about twice as nruoh ns those getting only pas turage and dams' milk in a special 1.500-acre pasture, nnd more than three times as much ns a third lot turned into the main herd with their mothers. Ranchers who fol low’ed the experiment were prepared Tor results showing thit creep-fed calves roundly outweighed the others, but they were amazed to learn that the cows whose calves were fed in creeps gained 79 pounds In weight during the experiment ns compared to an average gain of only 28 pounds per head for cows on clean range whose calves were not given supplement feed. The creep-fed calves numbered 69 and gained 210 pounds each, or 1.31 pounds per day. at a feed cost of two and a half cents per pound, while the 49 calves nursing their dams without supplemental feed gained 111 pounds apiece, or .69 pounds daily. The 102 calves turned with mothers into the main herd gained an average of 69 oounds, or .43 pounds per day. All calves weighed about 275 pounds at the start. The creep-fed calves received a mixture of four pounds of ground milo heads to one pound of cot tonseed meal in a self feeder. Dur ing the latter part of the faeding period ground ear corn replaced the ground milo heads, but the pro portion of grain to cottonseed meal was kept the same. — SOY BEAN MEAL Recently some discussion has arisen in regard to the r-elative ; palatability of soybean oil meals manufactured by the hydraulic or “old process" and by the newer method, known as the expeller process. It has been claimed that meal manufactured by the expeller process has a most desirable nut like flavor which that made by the hydraulic or “old process” does not possess. There was a time when some manufacturers secured a meal by the expeller process that had a fine, nut-like flavor, while other who made use of the hy draulic process made a meal that had a somewhat raw, beany taste. However, it has now been definitely demonstrated that the difference in the flavor of soybean oil meal does not depend upon the process em ployed in its preparation, but rather upon the manufacturing technique. Certain manufacturers employing the hydraulic or "old process” are making soybean oil meal with just as fine nut-like flavor as those employing the ex peller process. In fact, there are manufacturers who employ both processes, and one can not detect any difference in the taste of the meals made by either method. Not all meals made by the expeller process possess the r.ut-like flavor, now regarded as adding greatly to their palatability, nor do all meals made by the hydraulic process pos sess It. This, in short, means that the consumer need not concern himself with what process was em ployed in the manufacture of the soybean oil meal which he buys. If' the meal has that delightful nut-like flavor, which is liked so well by livestock, he can rest as sured that he will make no mistake If he buys on a price and protein content basis. Some years ago. be fore the technique in connection with the hydraulic process was fully worked out, some makers did get better results from the expeller process but such is no longer the | ease with those who have perfected, so to speak, the hydraulic or “old process” method as applied to soy bean oil meal manufacture. THE FARM FENCE If there Is any one thing on the farm more than any other that so often degenerates into such a run down condition that it is evident to the passer-by, it is the farm fence. The money-making value of good fences, especially woven wire fences, is not generally appreciated, if one is to judge from the many poor fences he sees in driving through most rural sections. When a man has his farm well fenced with wo ven wire, he has an asset the value of which It Is difficult to estimate In dollars and cents. Cer tainly, its value is many times as great as its original cost, when one | considers that a good fence will last I 20 to 25 years or more. In some J years, good fences pay bigger divi dends than in other years, because there are times when grain crops are beaten down by storms about the time they are ready to har vest. When such accidents happen to a field that is not fenced, the crop is often a complete loss. On the other hand if a field is fenced ‘hog tight and bull strong,” the damageed crop can usually be PAINTING BARN PAYS During the last two years a study has been made of the buildings on some 25!) farms In this group there were 115 barns that had never been Dainted. The expected life on these bams was 37 years. Sixty-six barns had been painted when built, but were now in need of paint. The ex pected life of this group was 46 years. Thus, the application of paint when the barn was new in creased its serviceable life 24 per ■rent. Ninety-two bams were painted as paint was needed. These had an expected life of 53 years, an in creased life through the use of paint, of 45 per cept. Where a good picked up by livestock without any loss whatsoever, or at least at a comparatively small loss. Then, too, the man wno has his tarm weU fenced because of that, fact is very apt to become a much better far mer than it fences are lacking or are too poor to really protect the livestock. A totation of crops is much more easily carried out on a well fenced farm than on one that Is only partially fenced, and it almost invariably means the grow ing of a larger acieage of hay and pasture, one often feels like saying that the basis of successful agri culture is the growing of legume roughage a3 well as grain crops, The man who grows a large acre age of legumes usually has plenty of rich pasture in summer and an abundance of clover, allalfa, soy bean and other legume hay in winter. That calls for livestock, and as a result of the growing and feeding of a large amount of leg ume crops to livestock, the soil be comes richer in plant food from year to year and more grain U grown on a comparatively small acreage on such a farm than on a large acreage where little or no legumes are raised Ordinarily, wa give livestock credit for building up the fertility of our soils and there is no objection to that way of looking at soil problems; the fact remains, however, that unless we use legumes to the fullest ex tent possible, our livestock prob lems are not likely to prove profit able ns they might. When every field is fenced so that all can be used for pasture, the farm is in the best condition to bring maximum returns, and that means it must be well fenced — if it is fenced hog and sheep tight, so much the better. ESTABLISHING SWEET CLOVER For several years I have been engaged in making a study of farm experience and farm practice with sweet clover throughout the Corn Belt and Plains states, says an extension service field man. Taking the reading from the experience of thousands of farmers visited, there is now made plain the sure-fire an swer for getting a stand of this crop, even under extremely trying conditions. The trick consists in having a firm seed bed. If the sweet clover is going to be seeded alone on land which has been tilled In some row crop the previous year, the surface should be merely lightly scratched in preparation for the spring clover seeding. If the crop is to go in along with spring seeded grain a roller or subsurface packer should come right along after the seeder. The firm seed-bed principle of seeding clover not only insures a stand in ordinary seasons, but even when the weather is unsea sonably dry. This was illustrated last year in the drought-stricken area of North Dakota, where in one community I found three fields with perfect stand, when all other seeding in the neighborhood had failed. Each of these farmers had drilled the sweet clover along with flax or small grain, the clover seed and grain or flax being mixed to gether before drilling. These suc cessful farmers used from four to six pounds of sweet-clover seed to the acre. The usual seeding in this section is eight to twelve pounds. But with the packer firming the ground right behind the seeder r thick star»l was secured. GROWING SOY BEANS ^ Early cultivation has been found by investigators to be an almost certain way for farmers to get better crops of soy beans off the larger acreage of this crop which they are now growing. Such culti vation kills many weeds. Soy beans in rows wide enough to cultivate are easy to free of weeds, but it is better to cultivate with a rotary hoe before the beans are tall enough to cultivate with u row cultivator. Soy beans drilled solid are especially likely to get weedy unless special precautions are taken. In such fields a crop or two of weeds should be eradicated on the ground before the beans are planted. Secondly, the crusty soil should be broken before the beans are ready to come up. Third, a rotary hoe should be used often enough to keep down the weeds until the ground is shaded. The rotary hoe should be moved fairly fast to get satisfactory results. Just because the plants are being injured should not stop cultivation of soy beans, getting rid of the weeds will more than offset any reasonable reduc tion in stand. In one experiment it was found that the stand of soy beans was reduced less and the weeds killed better when the beans were cultivated one half inch high. The next best height of soy beans from the standpoint of killing weeds was three inches and the least best six inches. Stand was reduced less in plots cultivated in the afternoon than in those cultivated in the morning. --»♦.- ■ - DEFECTIVE EGGS A blood clot in an egg is due to bleeding in the ovary or oviduct, from heavy feeding and stimul lating feeds. Feeding more green stuff may relieve the congestion. An affected egg is much less likely to hatch, but if hatching occurs the chick will probably be normal. Affected eggs should bo rejected for hatching purposes. AND POWER IS COSTLY Dull knives in the ensilage cutler Increase the cower reauirement about 50 Der cent. grade of siding is used or where knots and rosin spots are covered before painting, the results are much more favorable. These fig ures show that paint will at least pay for itself in extra life of the building, besides bringing returns in sanitation, appearance, and gen eral satisfaction to the owner. In addition to all this, painting makes the farm an asset to the commun ity. An attractive, well painted barn and a neat, clean farm homestead are special assets to the dairy cattle breeder in both the sale of his milk ajid sale of surplus saUle.