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I Poultry i
I MOLTING HENS CUT
I OUT LAYING EGGS 1
Birds Go on Eating, Running
Up the Expenses.
"Br Ho>- S Dearstyne. Head North Carolina ?
' State ColleRe Poultry Department.
J WNU Service.
Early molting hens, which begin j
to drop their feathers in the early j &
summer, are not worth keeping in i
good poultry flocks. ' 9
These birds stop laying when j 2
they begin to molt, but they go I
right on eating feed and running | |
up expenses. | *
They do not lay as many eggs
as late inoiters and the eggs they
do lay are produced at a time when Pr
eggs are plentiful and prices are
low. ?
Since early molting is an inherit- ^
able characteristic, they will pass
tniw traii on to their offspring if
left in the flock and used for breed- in
ing purposes. tc
In hot weather, it is especially ]yj
important that only infertile eggs y(
be produced for home consumption fr
or marketing, as they have a much
greater keeping quality than fertile q.
eggs- ti;
Except in the breeding season, |
roosters should be kept away from
the hens. And only the best roost- in
ers, those with the ability to trans- p*
mit good qualities to their off- px
spring, should be kept for breed- aI
ing. m
If eggs are collected several ,
times a day during the summer, |?
and stored immediately in a cool to
place, they will keep much better.
Wire baskets which permit air to
circulate freely among the eggs *u
are ideal for the storage room. th
But even under ideal conditions, j m
eggs should not be kept in storage in
any longer than necessary. A th
poultryman who gets a reputation er
of marketing only fresh eggs can ar
command good prices. j ns
Lice and mites propagate rapid- ! hi
ly in hot weather. Infested birds , ec
soon lose their vigor and fall off pj
in egg production. Poultrymen ^
should examine their birds every j
few days so they can check infesta- I
tions as soon as mey start.
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Select Cockerels Early, [ 111
Is Urged by a Poultryman w
Make an early start in selecting ei
males to be used as breeders for , w
next year's poultry flock. During \
the early growth period it is possi- fl,
We to obtain information on feath- w
er development, growth rate, vigor
and standard qualities. j:
This is the suggestion of Dr. N. j .
F. Waters of the poultry husbandry 1 ?
staff at Iowa State college. The i
male is extremely important to the \ m
flock, Dr. Waters points out, since
he exerts an influence on the progeny
of approximately 15 female ki
birds. G
If a poultryman decides that he w
will need ten cockerels for the fol- m
lowing breeding season, he ihould
start his selection when the birds
are about eight weeks old. In se- ; .
lecting these ten males Dr. Waters j
recommends that about 40 of the | "J
best hirHs celAftod i DI
flock. During the next three or ^
four months a careful selection and P2
culling should be made from these sp
40 males until the ten best remain.
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Rations for Cockerels ! Co
A ration suitable for fatten- Al
ing cockerels would be equal parts | th
corn meal, barley, meal, shorts | Hi
and ground oats, with about 10 per wi
cent beef meal added. The im- j w:
portant thing is to feed them what | bj
they will eat up clean and keep m
their appetite good. Give them all cr
the water they will drink and see rj,
that grit is before them at all
times. The cockerels should be fed
in small pens or better in fatten- ?.
ing crates if for marketing. The
mash should be moistened with
sour skim milk or buttermilk; al- J1
low it to thicken. If the mash is
mixed with the moisture about
two hours before feeding,' it will "?
swell and be more easily digested. '
Never leave any feed in the trough, a
either in pen or crate feeding, after sli
the birds have satisfied their appe- sot
tite. sel
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Rations for Young Ducks j
Young ducks will thrive on com- die
mon grains fed either whole or ma
mixed and ground to a coarse buf
meal. They will do best when I ;he
most of their feed is made into a h
moist mash. They should have ;er
cabbage or other similar green no
feed and meat scrap or table |n
scrap, provided these are perfect- I
ly fresh and fed in moderation. In !rs
summer ducks will find most of .ra
their feed if neai water but may ;en
teed some supplemental rations. }0u
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The Cherokee S
Blooded Horses Are
epar?-?1 by the National Geographic Society.
Washington. I>. C.?WNU Service.
">OME 46,000 acres of land,
^ much of it magnificent virgin
J forest, will be included in the
Mammoth Cave National park
Kentucky. In the long struggle
?- establish this national park,
aurice H. Thatcher, for many
*ars United States representative
om Kentucky, was a prime mover.
Discovered in 1803, Mammoth
ave was considered the largest na:>nal
cavern in America until the
rploration of the Carlsbad caverns
New Mexico. The underground
tssages are of remarkable extent,
obably undermining the entire
ea of the proposed park developent.
Almost every dweller in the
Mghborhood has a cave of his own.
which he seeks to attract visirs.
Underground rivers in which
vim eyeless fish are a weird feaire
of the caves. Besides these
ere are vast stalactites and stalagites,
the best of which are seen
tKa ? 1
vuv v Ul IIIC V.UVCI II ieutucu
rough the New Entrance. A "frozi
Niagara" of salmon-colored rock
id a stalactite which, when illumiited
by an electric light placed bend
it, shadows the perfectly mold1
form of a beautiful woman stepng
down as if to bathe in the subrranean
river, are unique.
There are onyx caves and crystal
?ves; one might profitably pass
eeks going through them all. It
as in one of these that Floyd Colts
met his death.
Beyond Mammoth Cave to the
est winds the beautiful Green riv
known as one of the deepest fresh
ater streams in the country.
In this neighborhood was shed the
st Kentucky blood of the Civil
ar, when Granville Allen was shot,
amilies were torn asunder by the
flerence of allegiance. Few states
lew the horror of Civil war as did
entucky. To understand what war
eant to the border people, one
>eds only to be reminded that Jefrson
Davis was born near Hopnsville,
not far from Bowling
reen, and that Abraham Lincoln
as born near Hodgenville, a few
iles to the north.
Birthplace of Lincoln.
At Hodgenville, a stately memoal
shelters the humble log cabin
which Lincoln was born. Sim
icuy marKs tne place as it marked
e great soul it fostered. Visitors
luse for a drink from the Lincoln
ring.
Memories of Lincoln linger in the
:ry air between Hodgenville and
irdstown. To Knob creek the Linln
family moved before young
araham was two years eld, and
ere they lived until he was eight,
s earliest recollections, he wrote,
are of Knob creek, and how he
as saved from drowning there
the quick aid of a chum. Not
uch chance of drowning in the
eek now; it is little more than a
rulet.
ii mere is a nouse in me world
irthy to inspire music, it is "My
d Kentucky Home," near Bardstvn.
While a guest in the house,
en owned by his kinsfolk, the
>wan family, Stephen Collins Fos
composed that deathless ballad,
fy Old Kentucky Home."
He wrote the music, it is said, at
desk in the wide hall, the sun
earning through the door opening
vard the slave quarters. That
ifsame desk still stands in its
nted place, the most precious of
ntucky's furniture relics.
Jven without the Foster tradition,
home would be priceless. It
ikes no attempt at ostentation,
: it is peopled with ghosts of
fine old South,
rot far from the town is Gethnane,
a retreat of Trappist
nks, one of two such monasteries
the United States.
Auisville, the city of George RogClark,
comes next on yeur itinry,
northwestward over an excelt
highway. It was there that the
ighty soldier ended his days in
emeso over the ingratitude of
cout, Murphy, N. C., Th
OL?"
CAINTUCK
Revered in Kentucky.
the nation he had spent his all U
aid.
At Louisville, too, are the hom?
and tomb of President Zacharj
Taylor, "Old Rough and Ready.'
i His daughter Knox was wooed ant
| won by Jefferson Davis, then 3
young lieutenant in the general'
| command.
To lovers ot horse racing. Louis
vilie is a n.ecca when the Kentucky
Derby is run at Churchill Downs.
Where Baseball Bats Are Made.
At the Louisville Slugger factory
baseball bats for many of the fa
mous players are hand-turned bj
skilled workmen- The
growth ash comes to the factory ir
rough billets. These billets ar<
rounded and laid on racks to sea
son for 17 months before they ar<
made into bats. Because ball play
ers are particular about the weigh
and balance of their bats, each stej
in the shaping of the sluggers re
quires the utmost care. Special or
ders are prepared by hand workers
From Louisville it is a pleas.
trip to Frankfort, the hillencirclcc
capital of Kentucky. The old State
house, now a museum, is an archi
tectural gem of pure Greek design
Within it is a self-supporting circu
lar stairway, one of the few remain
ing. The new Statehouse is a splcn
did structure, with a magnificen* ro
tunda under the vaulted dome.
It is strangely fitting that Dntie
Boone is buried in the cemeler;
overlooking the capital of the stati
he helped win from the wildernrss
From the path around his tomb oni
looks down to the broad valley o
the beautiful Kentucky river.
The heart of the Blue Grass is th<
home of the thoroughbred. To on<
who has striven futilely, ballled by
crab grass, to encourage a lawn
the sight of those blue-grass pas
tures brings mixed feelings. On<
does not feel outraged to see sj len
did horses browsing on such la*.-ns
but one is hard put to escape taking
affront at cows and sheep feeding
on the velvety carpets.
Lexington Is Charming.
In itself Lexington has a weoltt
of charm as well as historic irterest.
The University of Kentucky i:
there, its mellow old buildings scattered
over a shady campus. In the
study room at the College of Engineering,
heavy tables, with tops
fashioned of thick sections of a venerable
sycamore tree that once
grew on the campus, are treasured
relics covered with carved names
of alumni.
Another fine educational institution
in Lexington is Transylvania
college, the first school for highat
education west of the Alleghenies.
There Jefferson Davis and Henry
Clay were once students. The library
of this school contains thousands
of volumes so rare that scholars
from all over the world come to
consult them.
Ashland, restored home of Henry
Clay, stands on the outskirts of
the city. On the walk behind the
house the magnetic orator and
statesman used to pace back and
forth planning his speeches.
Through the perfect green of the
Blue Grass country you may drive
to High Bridge, where a railroad
bridge 317 feet above the water
spans the Kentucky. Crossing the
river on a ferry, you approach old
Shakertown, once the home of a
strange sect who believed in celibacy
and the coming of the millennium.
Another place of interest in a
swing south of Lexington is the old
fort at Harrodsburg, where George
Rogers Clark planned his campaigns.
The fort has been restored
and is open as a museum.
Old Centre college at Danville attracts
you because of the heroic victories
of the "Praying Colonels"
f'jotball team.
A* Berea college you see the remarkable
results of vocational education
brought to mountain whites.
One cannot escape a feeling of humility
at sight of the industry of
those students.
unday, July 30, 1936
Test Tube ""Doubles" I
for Living Body
in Medical Study
Tissue Is Kept Alive
Loiifi Tinie in Glass Jar
THE lifeless test tube has
finally become an adequate
substitute for the living body at 1
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research, at least for purposes
of certain scientific studies.
Whole pieces of tissue from adult 1
bodies, instead of cells or bits of '
embryos, can now, for the first j
i time, be made to live on for long '
periods and to function normally
in a glass jar just as they do in '
the body.
> How this long-attempted scientific
feat has been accomplished is |
described by Dr. Raymond C.
1 Parker of the Rockefeller Institute | (
' for Medical Research in New York, |
j in a report to the journal. Science.
1 Offers Big Field.
3
This method of keeping adult
! tissue alive and functioning in a I
f glass flask is expected to "provide
a means of studying a great varii
ety of physiological problems that
could not be approached" by oth,
er means. Doctor Parker and Dr.
- K. Landsteiner. the Rockefeller
t scientist whose researches on
- blood groups won him the Nobel
i prize, have already succeeded by
i this method in studying the for
mation in these tissue bits of the
5 important disease-fighting sub
stances known as antibodies.
Another noted Rockefeller insti5
tute scientist. Dr. Alexis Carrel,
long ago succeeded in keeping liv"
ing tissue alive outside the body
and other scientists have done so
t since then. Doctor Carrel played a
I part in the research reported by de
signing the peculiarly shaped flask i
- | that substitutes for the body in these J
. ; latest experiments.
Life in the test tube reported,
" however, differs in certain impor"
thnt respects from that achieved by
* | other methods. The famous chick
en heart tissue which Doctor Carrel
1 has kept alive for 24 years, for ex- j
f ample, did not come from an adult '
a body, but from an unborn embryo t
. The test tube life of this famous tisi
sue and of others similarly cultured
f have not been natural ones. Instead
of just existing and performi
ing its natural functions, Doctor |
, Carrel's chicken heart has kept on
r growing, new cells being formed
apparently indefinitely. f
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Miner Embarrassed
[ When Big Elephant I
' Tumbles Down Shaft
f
l MONTREAL.?Mining in the ?
. itinede has its oeculiar. often rath- r
' er heavy, embarrassments. There 7
is. for example, the case of a BritI
ish mining-engineer friend of Dr.
' Frank D. Adams, emeritus pro- t
fessor of geology at McGill uni'
versity. ti
This engineer runs a tin mina
j in Malaya, just below the Siamese
boundary. His miners, Chinese
! workmen, have been considerabl) r
' bothered, because an uncommonly t
' huge crocodile swam up the creek
1 to their settlement, and at the
; same time a leopard has been j f
snarling and stealing livestock. : P
Then one night an elephant wan- | c
dered into camp and fell down the ,
mine shaft. The fall killed him, of
1 course.
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L/iotiuaco XJUJMI
Evading Taxes
ROCHESTER, N. Y.?A tip
for tax-harassed towns and cities
was presented by Lieut. O. S.
Reading. United States Coast and
Geodetic survey, in explaining the
advantages of aerial surveying be- ^
fore the meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science here recently.
"How little detailed knowledge we
have about land and resources," tc
said Lieutenant Reading, "is indicated
by tax equalization surveys li
of some fourteen cities in Connecti- oi
cut made with the aid of aerial tc
photographs." tl
"These disclosed so much unrecorded
property that the tax rate
was lowered an average of 29 per
cent, the grand list increased an ?
average of 47 per cent and the cities w
lifted out of financial difficulties."
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Feuv>
f?? Little 0
^GETTING SOMEWHERE
The two tramps were stretched
3Ut on the green grass. Above
them was the warm sun. beside
them wis a babbling brook It was
a quiet, restful, peaceful scene
"Boy," mused the first tramp
:ontented!y, "right now I wouldn't
?hange places with a guy who owns
a million bucks'"
"How about five million?" asked
lis companion
"Not even for five million,"
drowsed the first tramp
"Well," persisted his pal. "how
about ten million bucks?"
The first tramp sat up.
"That's different." he admitted.
"Now you're talking real dough!"
?Mark Hcllinger in the New York
American.
' HELP
"This boy you graduated is
good advertisement tor you. profes
sor."
"How so?
"He acts like he knows everything
in the world '
The Start
A surgeon, an architect and a
politician were arguing as to whose
profession was the oldest. Said
the surgeon: "Eve was made
from Adam's rib, and that surely
vas a surgical operation."
"Maybe," said the architect,
'but prior to that, order was creited
out of chaos, and that was
in architectural job."
"But," interrupted the politician,
'somebody created the chaos
irst!"
Please Move On
The meek little man approached
he policeman on the street corler.
"Excuse me, constable," he said,
'but I've been waiting for my wife
or over half an hour. Would you
>e kind enough to order me to^
nove on?"?London Tit-Bits Maga:ine.
Nothing to Stop It?
Mother?Everything I say to vou
;oes in one ear and out the other.
Betty (innocently)?Is that why I
lave two ears. Mummy?
A Human Zero
"How's that widower you maried
turning out as a husband?"
he former widow was asked.
"A pain in the neck," she sighed,
'the poor fish was so cowed by his
Irst wife there even isn't any
leasure fussing with him."?Cininnati
Enquirer.
"Have you decided where you're
riinn nn vni?i~ KIo "
"Yep! I'm goihg to whatever
lace my wife selects."
While Rome Burned
Nero had just completed his his>ric
solo.
"There's no use of trying to upft
the public," he said. "Think
1 a crowd that would rather run
> look at a fire than hear me play
te violin!"
Mental Atti'ude
"I wouldn't marry the best man
n earth," said the irate young
'Oman.
"And if you did," said Miss Caynne.
"you'd never believe it."