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.
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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
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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" ;!
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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
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Broadcasting the culture of other i
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I attribute my long life to having
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It was not (Germany which lost the
last war: it was Europe. Another
war would destroy us.? Benito Mussolini.
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Once while attending a l'orvial
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by a foppist physician of
lis having been in company with
lim on a former occasion.
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The physician still insis ed. addng
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The purpose of culture is to
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moment, and give you a sense of
the continuity of life; the essence
sf vulgarity is to be wrapped up
in the concerns of your own time,
accepting its standards as permanent.?Upton
Sinclair.
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