FLORIDA PLANS HOMESTEADING Tallahassee. Fla. — (UP' — One if the most unusual projects ever initiated by a state to put Its idle lands into possession of the colo nist will be inaugurated and set in force during the regime of Gov. David Sholtz. of Florida. The project in Florida will open large acres of state-owned lands to “preferential" homestead, and, generally speaking, its operation will be similar to the homestead ing of U. S. Government lands — that is, the colonist will be re quired to live for a part of the time on the state land which he selects and, at the expiration of a certain period, to prevent evidence of having made certain improve ments before the title of the land can pass to him. Legislation to enable the proj ect to be put into effect will be introduced as scon a3 it can be shaped up into definite form for legislative action. To this end the Land Department and other bu reaus of the executive and ad ministrative government of the State of Florida will co-operate, among them, the Agricultural De partment of the state, which for ears has been active in making soil tests and surveys. Until a co-operative report from the various bureaus of the state is prepared and has been submitted to competent legal au thorities, the amount of land that will be available for and suitable for preferential homesteading cannot be known. Governor Sholtz’s move will be of great advantage not only to capable settlers who wish to taka up land, but to Florida. - . — —■ w »■- ■■■ —* Movie Stars Succumbed To Jigsaw Puzzle Fad Hollywood — (UP) — The film colony has gone jigsaw puzzle al most completely, but in some in stances there is a strong incen tive. In the cases of Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo and others, it is said, the stars piece together their own likenesses with a silent satisfac tion, because all over the world others are working on those same likenesses, and the stars are col lecting royalties. Gable was reported to have cashed a $10,000 check recently as his reward for the curiosity of jigsaw fans. Many of the colony have taken up the puzzles in a big way, the more wealthy patronizing a well known art dealer here, who re cently disposed of 10,000 rare tap estry prints by having them cut into puzzles. Among the cinema folk who have succumbed are Marian Nix on. SaUy Eilers and her husband, Hoot Gibson, Sara Maritza, Joan Crawford, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper. Miriam Hopkins, Gary Grant, E! Brendel, Jimmy Durante and Helen Hayes. ♦ ♦ - Dean Named Great Modem Dental Plagues Cambridge, Mass —(UP)— Py orrhea and dental cares are the "great plagues, of modern times, according to Dean Leroy M. S. Miner of the Harvard Dental school. Declaring that the two diseases have become so extensive as to involve "practically the whole of the population of Christendom.” he estimated the cost of these ail ments in the United States alone at more than 1 billion dollars. Since it would be impossible to train and assemble an army of dentists great enough to combat the ailments by any known cura tive methods, he said, the nation must resort to prevention. Land Owners Get Easy Payment Plan Covington, Tenn. —(UP)— The easy term plan of payment has been extended to property owners of Covington. The taxpayers can pay their taxes on just about their own terms. Under a new system, taxes may be paid in advance, paid in Installments or liquidated month ly. There is even a cash discount of one per cent for those who pay them in advance. The installment plan permits the taxes to be paid in four in stallments. Under the liquidation plan, 10 per cent is paid over a period of 10 months. - ■ ♦ ♦ — Harmonica Adopted By High Schools Los Angeles —(UP)— The lowly harmonica, hitherto associated with wharf darkies, has been rec ognized as the "unofficial official” Instrument of Los Angeles high schools. There are 185 bands in city schools, showing that the small, piping instrument has replaced such grandiose affairs as the trombone and tuba in the aspira tions of small boys. A harmonica band program is broadcast every Sunday morning. Porch Aided Police In Capturing Suspect Dallas, Tex. — (UP) — Officers chasing a man wanted on suspi cion of burglary were unexpect edly aided by a substantial front porch on the home of Mrs. Edna Lowry. One of the officers’ shots at the man'r automobile punctured a tire and he lost control of the ma chine, careening from the high way into the Lowry porch. He was seized before he could «et out and run away. I Out Our Way By Williams ! ^MEAR'tM OUT To A 0«w \ / WOO OtYA BE ABLE TO ExPlAvM , COAU MOOSE Am’ RoOSTiM* \ THAT — Tut SES.H HOO SVAnO'M. Cm A P»UE OF COAu,MALF 11 MAVF FRO.’-C, (M A ONE A FROZE TO OEATM , vajiTM TVV , I BLOCH" LOMu, IM FROMT OF A / FEAR OF GiTTW CAUGHT AM 2 MO\0E , VS|\T TH‘ FEAR OF ( F\REO PER VOAFiM AM" I MOT Ci»TTM A SEAT WjHEM \ BREAVl<332 6Y MEA 5ERVICE INC. I have watched children over and over learn to do things well themselves after one or two sim ple lessons in which they seemed to fail. How they do it la cannot say. because an older person is usually slow to learn anything new. It takes a man years to learn to play golf well, or for a woman to make j a really good pie. Children, on the other hand, are perfectionists, 1 rot perhaps according to our own I impatient standards, but to the limit set for childhood. One time a lady showed a little | girl of eight how to crochet lace. The child held the hook awk- j wardly and it seemed that her stiff | little fingers never could get the i look over, or learn whose to drop | stitches and where to pick them j up. Two or three lessons seemed I hopeless. The little ball of smudgy thread was put away and there it lay in a drawer, neglected, for a month. The little girl, one dull day, decided to get it out, She worked industriously for an hour. Then she came and laid the result on her mother's lap. She had done an inch of lace almost ex actly like the sample, except that it was a bit uneven and here and there a skipped stitch had left a tiny hole. "I can do better if no one shows me,” she said after her work was praised. But this was wrong. She had to be shown. Someone had to teach her the first steps. After that, some good fairy who appears to work on children’s minds while they sleep, did the rest. They will tell you ‘‘it just suddenly came to me.” I don't know what it is, but it is true that in hun dreds of ways, if we show chil dren the way, they march on alone without holding our hands. So many busy mothers become impatient about teaching their little girls how to do things about the house. It seems like such slow up-hill work. They cannot see results and so give up and do it themselves. The point is that children do not do things well while they are learning but some day they will add not only interest to the prin ciple but probably a dividend of their own ingenuity. It is never a waste of time to teach them anything. Veritably, each patient lesson is a seed that cannot help growing — by the same magic that produces a flower after we have done our lowly bit of putting the seed nto the ground. And the flower-bed of a child’s mind is never to small to moke room for another plant. I know of no time better spent than to teach children how to do things. ---- Weeding Out of Zoo Was Advocated Seattle — “Bushel?” repeated Jean. “What do you mean by that?” “Why, four pecks, of course,” ex plained Kitty. . Bananas grow on a tall plant, which really is an overgrown herb. PREVENTING MILK FEVER We are often asked to advise how milk fever (parturient paresis) may be prevented says a leading veter inary, and have suggested, as the chief preventive measure, letting the calf nurse for 3 or 4 days from birth, or not stripping the udder clean for 72 hours or thereabout, after calving. Thosq measures, to gether with dally outdoor exercise, light laxative rations, housing in a well ventilated stable, and "drying off” the cow at least 6 weeks before calving, arc fairly successful in less ening the occurence of milk fever, but they arc not certain to do so. A new plan of prevention has been perfected. Having found that a lack of calcium in the blood Is the direct cause of milk fever, he tried the effect of Injecting a solution of calcium gluconate under the skin of the cow, Immediately after the birth of her calf, as a preventive of an at tack of milk fever and the effect was satisfactory. The injection was re peated In about 20 hours, if seen to bo necessary, as indicated by symp toms of impending milk fever. Ho further announced that the subcu taneous Injection that the gluco nate is, in itself, "a curative meas ure of specific efficacy." The appli cation of the calcium treatment in volves a somewhat delicate tech nique and therefore should be per formed by a qualified veterinarian who will be the be.st judge as to the dose appropriate both as a pre ventive and as a cure. The dosage is prescribed by the firm that pre pares and sells the gluconate so ution to veterinarians, and may vary somewhat according to the strength of the solution. Experience is nec essary for Its use. While the cal cium bluconate injection treatment has now been widely tried by vet erinarians, who report favorably re garding it, the popular air-inflation treatment of the udder has not yet been abandoned for the new treat ment. It would seem, however, that It may prove successful when the air treatment does not seem to be having the desired effect. In such cases the calcium tmament should at once be given, if a veterinarian is available, and the dose injected in such cases may, necessarily, be larger than that needed where the treatment is relied upon instead of the air-inflation treatment I cer tainly should recommend the use of calcium bluconate, experimentally, as a preventive of the disease, and its application in all baffling at tacks which threaten to prove fatal, where the air treatment has been applied. In favor of the calcium treatment it may be said that the udder not being the organ injected, there is no danger of mastitis being caused as it often is when due care has not been taken, In giving the air-inflation treatment, to thor oughly cleanse and disinfect the teats ahd have the Instruments used perfectly sterilized. -- •—♦ ♦ FEED FOR PRODUCTION When one can buy a bushel of corn with a dozen eggs, poultry feed ers can certainly afford to feed their hens to the limit. It takes feed to make eggs. Corn alone won’t do it, but a large per cent of corn can be used in the laying ration. The laying mash can be made up of 200 lbs. yellow corn meal, 100 lbs. wheat shorts, 100 lbs. wheat bran, 100 lbs. meat scrap, and 5 lbs, salt. Mix this mash together thoroughly and keep it before the hens all the time. This gives a mash that is high enough in protein to give a good egg yield. It is high enough in corn meal to be high in vitamins and palatable. It is high enough in bran to be slightly laxative. This mash can be fed with a scratch feed made of straight yellow corn, whole or cracked. Feed the scratch feed twice a day, one-third early in the morn ing and two-thirds late in the after noon. Keep fresh clean water and oyster shell available all the time. A V-shapcd trough made of 1 by 8 board with a 1 by 2 board nailed on the top of either side with a heavy wire running through the cen ter and nailed tight at one end with a strong spring on the other end, makes a good feeder. A Leghorn hen will eat from 70 to 75 lbs. of feed a year, while a Red or Rock will eat from 80 to 85 lbs. This will usually be about half mash and half grain. If all of the grain is yellow com and 40 per cent of the mash ration is corn, this will make 70 per cent of the total ration corn. This 70 per cent amounts to one bushel to the hen which can be bought at present for the price of one dozen eggs. At the present price of corn the farmer who is feeding poultry is in a good position to make some good cash. WHAT AN ACRE WILL DO Alfalfa is one of the best feed crops in the corn belt, because of its high yield and relatively high protein content. Corn at 50 bushels per acre yields 187 pounds of digest ible protein and 2,018 pounds of di gestible carbohydrates and fat. while three tons of alfalfa yield 666 pounds of digestible protein and 2,- j 430 pounds of digestible carbohy drates and fat. It will thus be seen that three tons of alfalfa, a rea sonable yield as compared with 50 bushels of corn, produces three and one-half times as much digestible protein as 50 bushels of corn. Added SET LARGEST EGGS There may be room for argument as to whether the desirable traits we find in fellow humans are inherited or are a result of environment.*But, when it comes to hens — well, at least a large share of the best and most important things come by in heritance. Not the least of these is the size of the egg. Since eggs are more and more being sold on grade, with size of egg one of the greatest factors in grading, getting chicks flop large eggs is very important Of course, stepping into a hatchery a few days before the chicks are hatched, and looking over the eggs to this much greater protein yield, alfalfa also produces 20 per cent more digestible carbohydrates. Tho ll.estock farmer will do well to Increase his alfalfa acreage at the expense cf corn or other grain crops. Records kept by a group of central Illinois fanners this year, in co-opcration with the farm manage ment department of tho Univer sity of Illinois showed the com yielded an average of 47 bushels per acre, containing 2087 pounds of digestible nutrients, while alfalfa produced slightly more than two tons an.acre, enrryino- 2,14fi pounds of digestible nutrients. Similarly, winter wheat yielded 1,149 pounds, soybeans 1,210, oats 894 and spring wheat 828 pounds of digestible nu trients per acre. Every stockman should produce as much nlfa'.fa or other legume hay as he can utilize, thereby net only reducing tho cost of his feed bill, but also Improving his land. -, 4 HEN’S OWN MENU E'tpeJimcnts in progress rhed light* on how hens choose their food when given free choice, which In- 1 formation Is valuable in planning rations. A lien buttery was used, and 13 hens were confined in sepa rate cages. Specially designed feed ers provided compartments for dif ferent foodstuffs. Teste were divided Into periods of 23 days ard very careful records were ke.pt. The fact which most interests us is the choice of hens, which shows that from January 2 to June 17 the hens themselves balanced their ratten ac cording to tha following percent ages : Yellow Corn Mral .34.43 Whole Wheat . 19.91 Cracked Yellow Corn . 1R58 Wheat Bran . 13.14 Standard Wheat Middlings .. 3.63 Oyster Shell . 3.21 Ground oate . 301 Mica Grit . 191 Fish Meal . 1.31 Meat Srrnps .84 •Dried Skim Ml'k .79 Alfalfa Leaf Meal .01 Sodium Chloride .03 100.00 It was of espccloJ interest to nota the rmnntitv of corn products con sumed and the rather largo percent* err of wheat bran compared to Wat meddlings. The Ingredients u; ed in the test ware there of a lending experiment station’s rations, vhirh formulas nro made up each year by lending poultry specialists This experiment, with many e’hers, shows that c*.o ’ with safety, and probably io ncjvant'g \ use larger quantities of corn than hn.vi h(1 ■ loforc be n consld -cd dtsir# abia SHUN TMK SCRU’B J Whin torn In abundant and rhcEp — especially cheap — there I a tendency to breed rnora r ov/s, This brings up the question of ths i’( i liable quail lies of a good sow, The man who ki epe a record and f ltd.'- his gilts accordin'; to th?.ir enter."’ |.1*1 lm maun' records, will J ; vc but little trouble in selecting hi: breeding gilts, lie known wheth* cr n rlvni gilt caiuo from a good nu i ( r that r.li*■ was a producer of lair f hf.fi is and that che was a milk pjortmer. With tint knowU toward growth me goixl condition in tbea; birds It has also been found in experi ments 1 •.; f milk is superior to any other * ijj piement to the ration In increasing egg size. l>ry skimmilk er buttrrmiJk •ou*i>'iiseii milk, o* Ufiinri milk preferably sour, may ha used. Th< dry milk, of course, may be mi iff tl it mi Uy into t|iii nix'd!, w,. }* the tit tin terms are fed ftp era U3y of m a meant mash. r<*R BTfH'K OK POULTRY CtU'figf wot litter at once Thera is danger in dump, moldy litter O'- Ufly: Will Ik Ip some, but that if.n’i one ugh T»h' length of time tha nt>k bie Ik rii lay lug, whether pul* In? o; an: he: a bit to do with tha size of 1-11* * ggsonr sees In thn tray* o." the ini obatin Nevertheless, it tha hatchery opeudoi has a reasonably big:h j landard of slue for eggs set> iio i\t i to km 23 oupes per dozen for pul.*!- jukI 23 ounce* for llock* of yearling hens, wo can be reason* abJ.T sure Unit lie Is doing his part A ftBudanl of one ounce hlghei ought 1o t* maintained, but *1 prist nt this Bpi>eur*i to he tnnnac* ticaL