FEED HIGH; CULL POULTRY FLOCKS Owners of Birds Urged to Keep Only Good Stock. By Hoy S. Dearstyne. Head of Poultry Department. North Carolina State Col- I lege.?WNU Service. The high price of feedstuffs is leading to a critical situation in the poultry industry. Small flock owners are especially hard hit. But regardless of price, the poultryman cannot compromise with balanced feeding if he hopes to maintain the quality of his flock. Very cheap mashes are usually low in digestibility and thus are costly in the long run. If you have inferior birds in your flock cull them out and spend your money only to feed the really good birds. If you cannot afford to feed all your birds well, keep only those you can afford to feed. If there has been a time during the past ten years when poultrymen had to cull very carefully, now is that time. To meet high feed prices, the average production per bird in the flock must be increased, and this can be done by keeping only the highest producers. The lesson of this year should be sufficient to prove to all poultrymen that a better breeding program for the future is imperative. If more attention had been paid to breeding in the past poultrymen would not be so bothered by high prices now. And right now is the time to start breeding for the future. When mating the breeding birds, place the males in the pens in time to adapt themselves to new conditions before eggs are saved for hatching. Be sure that only vigorous, healthy, standard males of good type are placed in the breeding pens. There should be one male for every 14 to 16 females of the American breeds. Control of Coccidiosis With Sulphur Treatment Practical studies looking to control of coccidiosis, dread disease of chickens, with use of a sulphur treatment have produced results that augur well for the country's poultry farmers, according to recent surveys by the agricultural research advisory bureau. Pointing to the experiments successfully conducted by Dr. C. A. Herrick and C. E. Holmes, of the University of Wisconsin, the bureau declares that regular feeding of a mash mixed with sulphur gives evidence of providing a method of control for this scourge of the poultry raisers. During these tests it was found that different degrees of control could be obtained by varying thp nmnnnt nf ciilnhnr fnd Tr? 4ho broiler section of the East where coccidiosis is widely prevalent a modification of the method used by Herrick and Eolmes has been found effective. B. F. Jarvis, poultry technician working independently in Maryland and Delaware, has found that 10 per cent of sulphur added to growing mash and fed a full day each week is effective in controlling coccidiosis in broiler flocks confined to houses. Other experiments point to the value of the daily feeding of two or three per cent sulphur in the mash as a method of control. Grain to Develop Birds in leedmg grain the poultryman should bear in mind that birds will not develop normally on grain alone, and that a balanced developing mash should be before the birds at all times. Good results have been secured by having both grain and mash available to the birds at all times. Other poultrymen give a liberal feeding of grain in the morning and again in the evening. Both systems have given good results and the main thing to remember is that grain should be fed more liberally during the developing period than at any other time and that the grain mixture should consist of equal parts of yellow corn and wheat. Substitute for Green Feed A pood grade of cod liver oi. that :.?s been tested for potency and v"iamin content may be substituted in part for green feed, says a North Carolina State college poultry exPert. One pound or one pint should be added to each 100 pounds of mash when the substitution is made ?r it may be fed on the grain instead of mixing with the masn wnen more convenient. Where possible, some cured alfalfa hay or lespedeza should be provided. 1^ ) The Cherokee Scout, BRITAIN' &a* '*r * *' sh* HK " 3BP* * View of the Crowdt i Prepared hy the National Qposraphlc Society. H Washington. D. C.?WNU Service. ONLY seventeen and a half miles long and nowhere more than nine miles wide, Malta, important island in Britain's lifeline to the East, is I the principal island of one of the I smallest archipelagoes in the world. I It survives from those remote days when continents were differently shaped anH the Moriiterranaaii-waF a series of lakes, divider by land bridges that connected Europe with Africa. Of one of these bridges the Maltese archipelago is today the sole existing pier, the one fragment extant of a causeway along which prehistoric pachyderms and ruminants groped their puzzled way to the African warm.h when driven from Europe by its increasing glaciation. Some of these mighty beasts lingered too long on the Maltese pier, and the cave of Ghar Dalam, near the southern extremity of the island, is full of their bones, converted in the course of ages into perfectly preserved fossils. Together with the other inhabited islands of the group, Gozo, population 23,796, and Comino, population 41, and including the naval, military, and air force establishments, Malta has some 238,40G souls?that is to say, more than 2,000 to the square mile. Thus it is one of the most densely settled geographical units. In Strategic Position. Why has this rocky little excrescence from the bed of the Mediterranean played a major part in history? Why does it play a part in the life of the modern world at such variance with its topographical dimensions? The answer lies, first, in its allimportant strategic position between Sicily and North Africa, and, secondly, in its possession of some of the finest harbors in the world. The tongue of rock on which La Valette built his capital is in shape not unlike Manhattan island, with the Grand harbor, where the battleships are berthed, corresponding to the Hudson, and Marsamuscetto harbor, the anchorage of destroyers and smaller craft, to the East river. But there is the difference that, both from the Grand harbor and Marsamuscetto, there branch several subsidiary creeks, providing secure and ideal anchorages, 'n the past for the galleys of the knights and their predecessors, at the pres ent day for the Mediterranean fleet of Great Britain. All around Grand harbor rise, bold and still perfect, the Knights' magnificent fortifications, intended to insure that never again should Malta and the order have to endure at the hands of the Moslems, to whom the Hospitalers were an ever-present menace, another such siege as that of 1565. Then, after a desperate struggle of nearly half a year, the Knights and the local population were just able, by superhuman efforts, to repel the flower of the army of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. If Malta's quarter of a million population is large, measured by the area on which it has to live, it is small for a separate nation. For the Maltese are a nation unto themselves, with their own language, their own traditions, their own physical characteristics, and a history that is perhaps one of the longest to which any people can lay claim. Very Ancient Civilization. In Malta and Gozo the art of building in remote Stone age days reached a developmen. of skill and refinement unknown in other centers of the megalithic world. Thus Malta was already an ancient center of civilization when the "tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," that still whistles across it during the winter months unaer its modern nam: or jrpeale, the "Greek wind," drove St. Paul to its shores. Thereafter, the Roman chief of the :sland, Publius, became its first bishop. Murphy, N. C., Thursday. S MALTA d Harbor of Malta. During the many centuries of their recorded history the Maltese : have had many rulers: the Phoenicians and their offspring, the Carthaginians, then Romans Arabs, Normans, Aragonese and Castilians, then for two and a halt centuries the international Order of St. John of Jerusalem (we also know them as the Hospitalers, and as the Knights of Rhodes and Knights of Malta) and finally, after a brief : French occupation, the British. i Despite so cosmopolitan a history, the Maltese have clung tenaciously to their ancient Semitic tongue, which is recognized by experts to be of Phoenician structure, and, to all intents and purposes, the a language of Dido and Hannibal. 3 Neolithic Sanctuaries. c Naturally, the old Maltese lan- a guage has borrowed in the course e of ages, words from other lan- i s guages, but it has always fitted ti them into its own Semitic frame- v work. The Maltese who emigrated to Asia and to the north coast of ~ Africa have no difficulty in making ' themsel"es understood by their Arabic - speaking neighbors, especially in Palestine and Morocco. A paleontologist may wander 8 about the cave of Ghar Dalam and ; ? study the remains of the elephants P and hippopotamuses which left their . 1 bor.es there when the world was yet S young. Advancing from these and n from the Neanderthal man, of whom i s possible traces have been found in ? Malta, many thousands of years ti into tne Stone age, he will find in _ Malta and Gozo a series of neolothic sanctuaries ? Tarshin, the Hypogeum at Hal Saflini, Hagiar Kim, M'naidra, II Gigantia, to mention | only the most important ? unequaled elsewhere. Other survivials of a different sort ! are the cart tracks which traverse many of the barren rocky surfaces of the island, the tram lines of prehistoric man. The width of the tracks of the two - wheeled carts which, with their gaily caparisoned little ponies or donkeys, are the traditional vehicle of the Maltese farmer today, correspond almost exactly with those of his ancient predecessor. On the small, uninhabited islet of Filfla, now used only as a target for naval gun practice, survives a lizard of dark green spotted with red, which occurs nowhere else except in this gToup. if one wishes to see how the distant forbears of the present population cultivated their land, one has only to watch the Maltese farmer of today plowing his field; and a student will note the eyes of Osiris still painted on the bows of Malta's sturdy little schooners. In Malta, during mid-Lent, are the carnival festivities common to other Mediterranean places, with features of more special interest. At the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, June 29, are the densely ' thronged Imnaria racer. These * races for horses and donkeys are b of unknown but undoubtedly great ? age. The course is a piece of straight, hard road leading uphill 51 to the big square in front of Notabile, where from his great stone box the grand master in former days ^ handed down, and now the gover- it nor of Malta hands down the ban- g ners of victory to the winning comcetitors. Spectators, including leading fam- ? ilies of the island, watch the proceedings from two smaller but similar boxes flanking that of the govHE 9 The name Imnaria is a corrup- m tion of luminaria, illumination, for it was the custom on that day to illuminate the churches of Notabile w. and adjacent Rabat in honor of the _ two saints. A more picturesque, if f less trustworthy, tradition derives 1 Imnaria from Hymen, the god of | marriage, it being supposed that K the young men of the island were wont in former times to choose their I wives from among the maidens Rj coming to watch the contest. ^ December 31, 1936 "Quotations" ;! ?v? It's a mighty good thing for the j rholf world to keep your word.? I Franklin D. Roosevelt. x Politeness is not one of the things j inculcated by the American educa- . tiona! system.? //. Mencken. It takes centuries to win a little freedom and a very few minutes to I destroy it-?Sir Ernest J. /\ Benn. Broadcasting the culture of other i nations helps us to understand their j thoughts.?Guglielnio Marconi. j I attribute my long life to having been extremely considerate of my stomach.?Donicf Frohman. j It was not (Germany which lost the last war: it was Europe. Another war would destroy us.? 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For free sample of Penetro Nose Drops, write Dept.D-26, Memphis, Tennessee. To relieve chcit colds, rub with stainless, snow-white Penetro ? especially before you go to bed. ("penetro^ VNOSE DROPSJ a raooucT or hough mc. hcumis-ikw note ybuni aspoonfu gj?2FMlLKOfMAGNESl/HH hh^jn one tasty^bb bwr^waf e DOLLARS & HEALTH he successful person is a healthy per- 1 )n. Don't let yourself be handicapped 1 y sick headaches, a sluggish condition, omach "nerves" and other dangerous gns of over-acidity. TAKE MILNESIAS lilnesia, the original milk of magnesia i wafer form, neutftlizes stomach acid. ' ach wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk f magnesia. Thin, crunchy, mint-flavor, 1 sty. 20c, 35c & 60c at drug stores. J HEARTBURN? < s surprising how many have heart y irn. Hurried eating, overeating, heavy 1 aoking, excessive drinking all lead tn sartburn. When it comes, heed the irmng. Your stomach is on a strike. HI 5ne Up on the Doc For Samuel Johnson Once while attending a l'orvial function, Samuel Johnson was reninded by a foppist physician of lis having been in company with lim on a former occasion. "I am sure that I do not renember it." replied Mr. Johnson. The physician still insis ed. addng that he that day wore so fina i coat it must have attracted his attention. "Sir," said Samuel Johnson, had you been dipped ir. Pactolus [ should not have noticed youl" By way of explanation?Pactous: A river of ancient Lydia, iamevl for the gold found in its ;ands. 3sy to Make :andlewicking may also be used. Done in jermantown the sauares wmilH m r>ir