CAVERN IN HEART i
OF CORAL ROCKS
Although there Is much to attract
ftie attention of the visitor to the
balmy island of Barbados, which
is frequently termed “T.ittle Eng
land.” the principal aim of the sou
venir hunter who goes there is to se
cure the rainbow-hued anemones
from the floor of Animal Flower
cave one of n a rule's cuiiosities.
A short distance from Bridgetown,
Animal Flower cave is not a usual
haunt of the tourist. Because ac
cess to the cave is somewhat diffi
cult hunters for the souvenirs it
coutains are about the only people
to venture through its opening.
It is but one of numerous caverns
hollowed out of the coral rocks by
the snowy-crested billows that thun
der against the pitted shores of
Barbados. These waves are con
stantly urged on by the ever-blowing
tradewluds, which give tlie air the
salubrious effect of eternal Jtine
'tirae.
I lie entrance to the cave opens
In (lie face of a cliff 4t> feet in height,
with a bridge of rock to be crossed
hi the intervals between the incom
ing billows. When once within, (he
visitor is safe and secure. The wa
ter is smooth as glass nnd covers an
exquisite mosaic of sea anemones, or
so-called “animal flowers.” They
seem to he of every hue and shape.
The roof of the cavern is hung
with stalactites, from which clem
water drips continually. As the floor
of the cave Is covered with salt wa
ter no stalagmites are formed.
This cave is generally considered
to he a sublime spectacle. The long
Atlantic roll approaches the head
land in great unbroken waves until
It conies in contact with (he cliffs,
when it dashes against them with a
deafening roar, tilling the opening of
the cave with a watery curtain, the i
effect of which is peculiarly grand.
At the commencement, when the
masses of water are thick and com
pact, almost total darkness prevails
within the cave. The air then
changes to a brownish hue, which
melts into a yellow glare until the
wave has retreated, when a bright
light breaks through the opening, j
lighting up the cave, again to be
darkened by the next oncoming wave.
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To keep clean and healthy take nr.
Pierce'* Plen*nnt Pellet*. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.—Aav.
New Profession
Uncle—What are you going to be
when you grow up, Fred?
Nephew—The same ns you, Uncle
—an insulting engineer.
3 RULES
big help to BOWELS
What a ioy to have the bowels move
like clockwork, every day I It’s easy,
if you mind these simple rules of a |
famous old doctor:
1. Drink a big tumblerful of water
before breakfast, and several
times a day.
2. Get plenty of outdoor exercise
without unduly fatiguing your
self.
S. Try for a bowel movement at
exactly the same hour every day.
Everyone’s bowels need help at
times, but the thing to use is Dr.
Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. You’ll get
a thorough cleaning-out, and it won’t
leave your insides weak and watery.
This family doctor’s prescription is
just fresh laxative herbs, pure pepsin,
and other helpful ingredients that
couldn’t hurt a child. But how it
wakes up those lazy bowels 1 How
good you feel with your system rid
of all that poisonous waste matter.
0*. W. B. Caldwell’s
SYRUP PEPSIN
A Doctor's Family Laxative
No Doubt About That
Teacher—W hat is meant by Hob J
<|on's Choice?
Iiright Pupil—Mrs. Hobson, sir.
No More Boils or Ulcers! i
i
Kalona. Iowa —
"About 30 years ago
I was bothered a
great deal with boils
and I suffered with
a n infection just
above the ankle,
which the physician
called an ulcer. After
doctoring and suffer
in* for quite a while, the sore getting '
Heartily worse, I started taking Dr. Pierce’s I
Golden Medical Discovery,’’ said C. C. I
Swartrenilruber of Route 4. "Before I had
finished the first bottle I noticed an im- I
provemrnt and continued using it until I |
had taken six bottles. The sore steadily
healed until I was entirely rid of trouble, I I
■haven't had a bcil since that time.’’
Sold by druggists everywhere.
Write to Dr. Pierce'* ChaU, Baffale,
!4. T.. far fraa medical adrisa.
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Stoux City Ft*. Co., No. 1&-198* !
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
PROTEIN FOR PIGS
In these days of low corn prices,
there is a tendency on the part of
some farmers not to feed the fall
pigs a well balanced ration. They
are inclined to skimp on protein
supplements or leave them out of
the ration altogether. Most spring
pigs get some grass during the
summer, so the damage done by
withholding an adequate supply of
protein from them is probably not
so noticeable as it is with pigs far
rowed in the fall. To exchange corn
for tankage at this time seems to
many a somewhat doubtful practice,
but Is it? One station presents some
figures that are worthy of study.
Three different lots of pigs, each
weighing 43, 84 and 131 pounds per
head when started on feed, were
fed com alone. On this, they aver
aged 100 pounds of gain on 1,100
bushels of corn. Three other simi
lar lots were fattened on corn and
tankage instead of corn alone.
There pigs consumed an average of
6.5 bushels of com and 40 pounds
of high grade tankage. In these
tests, therefore, 40 pounds of tank
age saved 4.5 bushels of corn. Thus,
the all-corn lots, considering com
worth 15 cents a bushel, produced
pork at a feed cost of $1.65 per cwt.,
while the corn and tankage lots,
with tankage at $20 a ton, pro
duced pork at $1.38 per cwt. The
balanced ration, therefore, effected
some reduction in cost. This saving
in feed cost was not the only thing
to consider, however, because the
all-corn lots made only one-third
the daily gain of the balanced ra
tion pigs. Fall pigs need a mineral
mixture also, especially so If lin
seed oil meal or other vegetable pro
tein concentrates are fed Instead
of tangage. Thost who have fine
stemmed alfalfa hay on hand will
find it advantageous to give the fall
pigs all they will eat of this, sup
plied In a rack. Chopped alfalfa Is
better still than long hay. The lat
ter may be mixed at the rate of
10 to 15 per cent with tankage or
vegetable proteins. Alfalfa is rich in
vitamin D, and therefore aids in the
assimilation of mineral matter. Not
only does an all-corn ration make
slow gains, but when a drove of
pigs is fed nothing but corn, a larg
er percentage of them will turn out
poorly and a greater number of
them will make a poorer appearance
when ready for the market. Let us
not forget that while com is cheap,
tankage and other protein concen
trates are relatively equally cheap.
If you have been feeding all corn
or other farm grains to hogs, with
out a protein concentrate, better
investigate on what basis an ex
change of com for tankage or a
mixed protein feed can be made. A
balanced ration tends to produce a
balanced hog and a healthy hog.
HATCHABLE EGGS
Most poultry flock owners are con
terned about good hatchabllity of
eggs. The poultryman who produces
his own chicks should be no more
Interested than the farmer who is
producing eggs for a hatchery. The
price of eggs for hatching depends
a great deal on how many strong,
healthy chicks can be produced from
one hundred eggs. Care and man
agement of the breeding flock in
fluences the percentage of hatch
ability of eggs produced. The breed
ing flock should have a rest from
agg production prior to the hatching
season. While the flock is molting,
It has time to store up materials
that have been used up during the
long period of production. The
breedingg flock should never be
for egg production during the
breeding season, although normal
high rate of production (50 per
cent) does not seem to affeca fer
tility or hatchability. The breeding
flock should have access to the di
rect rays of the sun or be fed
codliver oil or sardine oil. Recent
experiment work showed that hatch
ability was increased 30 per cent by
the use of codliver oil and sardine
oil for confined hens. The breeding
flock should have plenty of green,
succulent feed. Green feeds develop
yellow color. Breeders with an
abundance of yellow pigment pro
duce hatchable eggs.
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VALUE OF SKIM MILK
Every poultry producer is well
aware of the fact that skimmilk
aro good protein feeds for growing
chicks as well as for laying hens,
and yet we doubt if the poultry
producer makes as much use of
these products as he might. A cer
tain amount of animal protein is
required in poultry rations in addi
tion to the vegetable proteins found
in the common farm grown grains,
such as oil meal, gluten meal, etc.
Most poultry producers purchase
this animal protein in the form of
meat scraps or tankage, or some
form of fish supplement. These pro
ducts are all right — excellent, in
fact — but when skimmilk and but
termilk are available on the farm
for the chickens, these prod a^s
may well be used as a complete
substitute for the purchased prod
ucts. Perhaps you may be in doubt
about the efficacy of a mash mad3
of ground farm grains alone, espec
ially for heavy laying birds, with
milk as the exclusive source of
animal protein, but you need not
be. One grower raised baby chicks
on skim-milk and buttermilk until
maturity, in fact, until they were
FIBER FOR HENS
In poultry feeding, the pendulum
is apt to swing to extremes. For
hen batteries, where the birds are
confined and have no opportunity
to scratch and pick in the litter,
the diet is imited entirely to the
feed and drink placed before them.
So the rations should be fairly
heavily supplied with fiber — ground
oats, short-cut alfalfa or other leafy
fibrous material. Laying mash in
batteries should not be too fine. A
fairly coars feed seems to be rather
more satisfactory. As a U f put a
few handfuls of coarse ground oat
two years old. with entire success.
On ground farm grains, hopper fed,
a certain amount of whole grain,
minerals and some green feed, with
all the skim-milk or buttermilk they
would drink, and no water, the
birds developed normally into good
layers. Laying began when the pul
lets were from five to eight months
old. It was found that the birds
did Just as well on this sort of ra
tion as when they were provided
with meat scraps in the usual pro
portion in the mash, and that they
produced the same number of eggs
under both methods of feeding. The
milk lots consumed from two and
one-half to three pounds of milk
for each pound of grain eaten.
Sweet skim-milk and buttermilk
were both superior to clabbered
skim-milk, because more palatable.
The birds did not eat quite as much
of the clabbered as of the sweet
skim-milk, and therefore they did
not get quite as much protein as
is required for maximum produc
tion. If water is eliminated when
milk is fed. more milk will be con
sumed. and it takes the place of
water because 90 per cent of it is
water. If you are near a creamery,
you may be able to get buttermilk
at a very low price, and thus
cheapen the poultry ration.
EXCHANGING SIKES
Those who belong to cow testing
associations, and who, therefore,
have production and feed records of
their cows, are in a much better po
sition to select heifers for replacing
old or otherwise undesirable cows
in their herds than are those who
do not know definitely which are
their best breeding animals. In re
cent years, much emphasis has been
placed upon determining the degree
to which the herd sire has the power
to transmit milk producing capacity
to his offspring. In the great ma
jority of our herds, a bull can not
well be retained for more than two
years, and by that time none of his
daughters will be old enough to
have milk records, hence the real
value of the bull will not be known
for a year or so after he has left
the farm. However, if the bull Is well
bred, and if he fas originally selected
with considerable care, the presump
tion is that his daughters will prove
to be better producers than their
dams. Such a bull should not be
sold to the butcher. He should be
exchanged for a similar bull of a
neighbor who also keeps herd rec
ords. Some neighbors trade bulls
in that way, and each retains own
ership in his own bull. For ex
ample. Farmers A and B exchange
bulls for a period of two years. If,
at the close of that time, Farmer
A finds that the heifers of his bull
have turned out to be better pro
ducers than their dams, he may take
his bull back again to breed his old
cows, for the express purpose of
raising some more good heifers. By
that time, the bull has been proved,
and Farmer A knows just what to
expect. Even If Farmer A should
not desire to take the bull back
into his herd, the bull nevertheless
has behind him a brecdl**- record,
in terms of daughter production,
and should provo to be a good in
dividual for another farmer. Fome
times bulls exchanged in thai way
become the property of the new
owners, but earle Keen reports to the
other as to producing capacity
of the daughters of the exchanged
sires. Comparatively little has actu
ally been done along these lines,
and, as a result, thousands of valu
able breeding bulls have been sold
for slaughter before their value as
Improvers was known. This, In the
past, has been a source of much
waste, and should be guarded
against in the future. From now on,
it will be of even greater importance
to breed up high producing herds
than ever before. Production cost
must be lowered as much as possible
and that can best be done through
building high producing herds.
COD LIVER OIL
A portion of ordinary cod-liver oil
solidifies in cold weather nad gives
a cloudy or slightly milky eppear
ance to the oil. Cod-liver oil used
for medical purposes, however, must
be free of the cloudiness when cold.
To secure the clear product, the
cod-liver oil is chilled and the clear
oil poured off. The portion that re
mains is known as cod-liver oil
stearene. From tests made. It ap
pears that cod-liver oil stearene has
all the vitamin D potency of cod
liver oil and that it will take the
place of the regular oil. Since this
stearene has been available for as
low as 60 cents a gallon in 30-gal
lon barrels, flock owners would do
well to investigate it. Cod-liver oil
or stearene is fed all year by many
leading poultrymcn. It is usually
mixed into laying mash at the rate
of 1 per cent, or one pint, per 100
pounds of feed. Cod-liver oil or
stearene is especially beneficial to
early chicks or poults having little
or no access to direct sunshine. It
prevents rickets or leg weakness in
! fast-growing chicks or turkeys. A
good grade of cod-liver oil fed to
' young turkeys the first eight week*
will practically eliminate crooked
j breastbones. It is fed to chicks and
1 poults at the same rate and in the
same way as fed to hens.
; hulls in the feed boxes. Usually the
birds will devour them ravenously,
indicating lack of fibrous material
in their regular diet. There is a
feeling that the absence of fiber in
feeds given birds in confinement
results in a contraction of the di
gestive tract, deficiency in assimi
lation and is generally detrimental,
i 11 safe to say that battery birds
cen be kept in better condition if
given more fiber than birds on the
i floor.
REQITKKS FERTILIZER
CUy soils generally orig.rate from
shale beds.
Beauty and Antiouity
One hundred years old—no. not the jrirls, but the spinning wheel, which
you will find inside tho walls of Old Fort Dearborn at Chicago’s World’s
Fair—A Century of Progress. The wheel is operated by beautiful "Miss
Fort Dearborn,’’ in private life, Maria Middleton, of Wayne, 111., and
Mi** Eleanor Fiaher. ____
! Fires Reduced Grain
Storage Space Greatly
Chicago —(UP)— In eight years
elevator fires have reduced storage
space for grain in Chicago by
8.500.000 bushels. In the last five
the Rosenbaum Company’s eleva
tor on Goose Island, with a 2,000,
000 bushels capacity but only
1.635.000 bushels of grain, was
burned.
In this period there have been
no new elevators built. Chicago
has fallen from the largest stor
age center at the turn of the cen
tury to about third. Minneapolis
has a capacity of 91.000 000 bush
els. Kansas City has space for
60,000,000 bushels, with Duluth,
Minn., and Superior, Wis., to
gether, another 50,000,000 and
Buffalo the same.
Chicago now has a capacity of
slightly more than 50.000,000
bushels but 24 500,000 is unused.
Only 11 elevators are under con
trol of the board of trade, all but
a 5,500,000 bushel suace being in
Print for Erening
I
The dominant charm of this lovely
evening frock is its fragile sim
plicity. It teas icorn by Miss Helen
Clair, Raw York actress, at a recent
fashion show. The frock is of black
and white print, ruffed at neckline
and shoulders with a graceful flair
at the hemline. Elbow-length
gloves of the same material ate worn
with the frock
Puzzle Craze
Provided Employment
Racine. Wis —(UP)— The jig
saw puzzle craze, which has
swrpt the country, has brought
employment to dozens of Racine
residents. The Western Printing
and Lithographing Company here
turns out 25,000 puzzles daily.
The company lias been making
puzzles for children for the past
10 years, but only In the last six
months has it catered to adults
A nommercial artist draws the
ouzzies into odd shapes and in til
use. The greater part or me re
mainin’: 19.000.000 bushel unfilled
space could be made acceptable
by action of the board of direc
tors. if needed.
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Marriage Commandment*
Given to Homemakers
Salt Lake City — (UP) — Ten
•'commandments of marriage”
were given to delegates attending
the. Homesteader’s Conference in
Salt Lake City by Mrs .E. T.
Erickson.
Though men were not in at
tendance. the •‘commandmcms’’
also were proposed to govern their
matrimonial duties.
Seme of the laws follow:
Do not disparage your husband.
Do not spend too much time rrith
your mother.
Husbands should not scold their
wives.
Live as far from relatives on both
sides as possible.
Husbands must make love to their
wives; constantly be her sweet
heart.
Do not smoke in the living room.
Welcome each other’s friends into
the home.
Perseverance Awarded
Struggling Gold Panners
Watsonville, Cal. — (UP) —
Perserverance. pays rewards, ac
cording to Henry Lelbrandt and
his two sons.
For weeks the trio had panned
for gold in the ocean beach sands
near here, finding only a few
cents worth each day. They had
just decided to dismantle their
sluice box and give up when the
father decided to "run through"
one more batch.
It yielded a nugget weighing
one ounce, whch netted $21. The
Leibrandt-s renewed their effort*
to find other nuggets.
Five Dollar Sul
Found in a Log
Madison, Ind. — (UP) — James
Frooks found a $5 bill in a hol
low log which he was sawing up
for wood.
The log, half submerged, was
pulled from the Ohio river by a
construction crew and given to
Frooks for the asking. As he
sawed through a crack, the bill,
in a fair state of preservation,
was noticed.
It was believed the money was
hidden when the log was yet a
tree.
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Gold Found Under
Dance Pavilion Floor
Rainier, Wash —(UP)— One and
one-half dollars was "panned”
here reoently in a lode under a
burned dance pacilion. The "pros
pectors" had been razing the ruins
and discovered the tiny vein of
gold.
Approximately $4.00 in dimes,
nickels, and pennies, which had
i fallen through cracks in the
pavilion floor also were found.
cate curves from pictures selected
by the production department,
which specifies the number of
pieces required. Puzzles contain
ing less than 50 pieces are not
taxed by the government, but a
10 per cent tax is paid on the
I larger "adult” puzzles.
MAN’S GUESTS ARE ARRESTED
Montesano, Wash. — (UP) —
, Leonard Huttala invited Cecil
Cousins and his companions to
share beds In his home Cecil
Cousins and companions were ar
rested next day charged with at
tempted theft of the beds.
Sunday Sc hool Class Wins
$50 Prize in Big Contest
Names o'’ \v*nnprs in the Fourth
Mg Gold Medal Flour, $2,000 Contest
that closed March 2t‘> have Just been
announced and the judges awarded
one of the five $50 cash prizes to the
Square C!nss of St. Paul’s Sunday
School of Northampton, Pa„ who had
gent In a Joint entry.
Other winners of major prizes were
as follows: $500
Mrs.J.Kerr Faison, Bennettsyllle, o.C.
8200
May Fitzgerald, Penvor, Colorado.
$50—Louis Nagel, Baltimore, Md.
$50—Mrs. C. Newman. Jr.. Aiken, X. C.
$50—Mrs. Kate Slyker, Huron. Ohio
$50—Mrs. Boh Bohr. Oherlin, Ohio
General Mills, millers of Gold Med
al "Kitchen-tested" Flour, and spon
sors of these thrilling cash prize con
tests. has announced that the fifth
and last contest In the series wil]
run from April It to 9th.—Adv.
Ox Unit of Exchange
With Pastoral Peoples
The earliest money mentioned In
Greek and Unman literature la the
ox. A slave was quoted at *J<> oxen
nt one time and a suit of armor at a
hundred. Kxpresa'ng value In smli
terms is quite usual with pastoral
peoples. So closely were cattle re
lated to money that when the Hit
mans came to tint! u Word for It they
called it pecuula, front the word
perns, meaning a herd of cattle or
sheep.
I'or a good many purposes the ox
prohahly sufficed as a medium of ex
change, hut there must have been
many difficulties. For one ox is fat
from being exnelly like every other.
There are oxen and oxen. On a par
ticulur day at any stock yards the
best grade of cattle ntny sell for
twice that of the poorest grade.
The use of nn ox ns u standard of
value must have led to a great
amount of higgling. And If Gresham's
luw operated, the poor ox must have
driven the good ox out of circula
tion. He who had a payment to
make would tender the lunte and the
halt and the sound beast would be
hoarded. But Ibis Is only conjecture,
since there was no such thing as
legal tender—you needn't accept a
hull In payment for nn agreed ex
change If you didn't like the hull.
In the second place an ox couldn't
well he broken up Into pieces for
small Change. Quarter and half oxen
couldn't he made to circulate with
perfect ease. We who ntnke a pur
chase for a buck and a half can hard
ly appreciate the difficulty of an un
dent who hud nn ox nnd a half to
pay or to receive.
Jk SAFI!
Everyone accepts the fact that Bayer
Aspirin is the swiftest form of relief
for headaches, neuralgia, neuritis,
periodic pain, and other suffering.
If you’ve tried it, you know. But no
one need hesitate to take these
tablets because of their speed. They
are perfectly safe. They will not
depress the heart. They have no ill
effect of any kind. The rapid relief
they bring is due to the rapidity
with which they dissolve.
So, keep these tablets handy, am?
keep your engagements—free from
pain or discomfort. Carry the pocket
tin for emergencies; buy the bottle
of 100 for its economy. The new
reduced price has removed the last
reason for trying any substitute for
genuine Bayer Aspirin—each tablet
stamped with this cross;
And It'* Cheaper
Why face lifting? Yon can lift It
yourself If you smile enough.
7heir MEDICINE
CHEST
For 20 Years!
A/TORE than a million propit
will take an NR Tablet to
night and be healthier, happier,
tomoriow because at it. Man?
ot them are men and
women past three scots
nt*l ten. who hav> mad*
NR theirmedicine chest
ifor M years ce mote,
f HR has lire r as drpeod
able as their family doc
tor during those trying
years when age threat
ens to slow up vital or
gans Thismild.all vege
table laxative and corrective ha* kept them
regular—still keeps them well, vigorous and
eager (or more happy days to come That s be
cause K»t ia/f/v trams sluggish bowels to regu
larity—tones ths liver and clear* the intestinal
tract ol poisons that cause headaches. cokK
biliousiiess.elc,
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me 1 • ->t F- *•*
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