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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Children
By Olive Roberts Barton
_g>l<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.
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Weeding Out of
Zoo Was Advocated
Seattle — <UP) — Weeding out
the zoo at Woodland park here,
and keeping only the best speci
mens of each kind of animal, was
advocated by B. B. Lustig, presi
dent of the park board.
The zoo now costs the city of
Seattle $1,000 a week. Tusko, the
largest elephant in captivity, eats
$50 worth of hay a day alone.
Lustig complains that 40 or 50
coyotes is too many. Twenty eagles
and deer etc. should be cut to about
a half dozen of each. The city coun*
cil will pass on his suggestion".
Bandits Filled Their
Tank With Kerosene
Indianapolis, Ind. —(UP)— La
veme Daugherty, Zionville, tank
truck driver, had the last laugh
when four armed bandits crowded
his machine to the roadside and '
robbed him of $5. j
Before they started away, they 1
intended filling up the tank of
their own car with gasoline. By j
mistake they got hold of the kero- J
sene tank andshr shr shr shrd shr s
sene hose. Their tank filled, they j
sped aw'ay.
“They can’t get far,” chuckletj
Daugherty.
New College Course
Has Novel Features
Boston — (UP) — Features of a
new course to be introduced at
Boston University’s college of
Practical Arts and Letters next
semester:
No regular assignments.
No required work.
No examinations.
But, alas, the course will be
limited to 16 hand-picked honor
students.
Dr. O. L. Harvey explained that
the course would be an informal
group consideration of the lives
and personalities of eight great
Americans.
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NEW FRENCH BOMBER
Paris—A new French bombing
has made its appearance with inter
changeable landing gear which en
ables the plane to travel over land
or water. When used over water the ;
plane carried a torpedo weighing I
1,430 pounds, which can be released I
at a height of from 50 to 70 feet. It I
is manned by a pilot and bomber.
fVool for Spring
IT oal teems to be coming into ita
own in the newest of the Spring
fashions. Here is Sari Maritza,
screen actress, wearing a frock of
black wool with white ruffles run
ning down the bodice from the neck
line. Heary while sillt forms
narrow ethau la-wrist sleeves. The
three while buttons on the bodice
break up the expanse of black.
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"Thinkers” in Trousers
The pants fad for women seems to have invaded the campus of the
University of Chicago. Here are four co-eds of that institution all
dressed up a la Marlene Dietrich. Left to right are Lorrnine Watson,
Peggy Mo^re, Margaretha Moore and Peggy Halahan. They find they
can cross'fueir knees with greater freedom than ever when in trousers.
BISHOP STUDIES
FAR EAST WORK
San Francisco — (UP) — Deter
mined to get a first hand evalua
tion of evangelistic, educational
and social service work in the mis
sion fields of the Far East, the
Ri. Rev. James De Wolf Perry,
D.D., presiding bishop of the
Episcopal church, in the United
States, sailed from Vancouver,
B C., recently.
The tour, made at the request
of the National Council of the
church, is the first time a presid
ing Bishop of the Episcopal
church has visited the Orient.
The activities Bishop Perry will
Study were recently brought un
der review in the report of the in
dependent «cnd voluntary Lay
men's Foreign Missions Inquiry.
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HIGH IN THE SKY
names leap outward from the
surface of the sun at the rate of
20,000 miles a minute and some
times reach a height of half a mil
lion miles, according to a Califor<
nia scientist.
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Short Weight.
Prom Answers.
“I don’t know what to do about
Jim,” said Kitty distractedly. Ever ;
since I met him last year he’s only j
given me a bushel of kisses.” >
“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.
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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.
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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#
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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
<oi lx fore him, lm has but to eon*
< Ufr the individuality of the gilt*
hr 'fifth They should be rathe*
’eng arid deep of body, with strong
b< ekf rtieng legs um) pasferns
Width ( t body and length rf t*v;i
will fit i ■< ml somewhat upon tha
brffil. tsi!. m general, they should
not have too much daylight nude*
H eir other words, they should
indicate early maturity In their gen
• ru] muktup Indiscriminate breed*
ing of , dt esimiially when they
firr' nf'.i It it ti baJatii i (l ration during
tlx ppro<j of pregnancy, often re
ti.itf in a Jiigii iMirtsihtago cf weak
Pif many of which din hsfora
weaning turn, white those that liv«
flo not m ti gooil use of their fw?cf.
Ucaiif.f of jink, of vitality. A smaller
rmmix r i f v/ell si lert' d' well fed
nit,-- will produee ns many or mors
Mring thrifty pigs than a large*
iiumi.i <•* uiifxiie.eh.il ones. V/hils
;h< 1932 spring crop of pigs showed
r. r-rn’idf snide dserea.se in numbecY
r large amount of ciieaj corn thll
y«sr will t end many of tlieni to m »r
kfi wtigiiisig i onsiderabiy above, ths
avtragf if 1owner years, anj thus
Increan the amount or pork inor*
than the munlier would indicate*
milk HKiLPH LATK PULLETS
’.vhi x milk is a valuable imtilfry
feed at nil seasons of the year, fn
many cce<- it will he of special im
pc-rtanee fi» pullet feeding this fall
F r.fi so many pullets were Inta
hatched it may lie that they will ha
somewhat slow in developing Milk,
,fx. liberally will lui|> 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*
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