VOL. LI
AIRPLANES TO HAVE
WONDERFUL SPEED
j
Scientists Promise Great
Things far the Future,
Our new air age promises to be a
high-flying age. The 100 miles an hour
of present type airplanes will. It is
considered, be exceeded greatly by
adapting machines so that they can
take full advantage of the lessened
resistance of the air at high altitudes.
Before long we may look back on
flying machines of today, driving a
laborious way through retarding lower
air, with that same pity with which
a traveler in the blue and gold Riviera
express would let his thoughts wan- 1
der back to the times when, sitting
In open trucks, the first railway trav- I
elers jolted along with cinders from I
the engine blowing Into their fnces.
Wonderful results are rewarding an
eight-years' research In sending air
planes up to high altitudes and there
making them fly miles an hour faster
than would be possible in dense air
near the world's surface, writes Har
ry H&rper in the London Contempo
rary Review.
What science Is profiting by now
are experiments, prosecuted assiduous
ly, in perfecting a "turbo-compressor,"
or light, small, high-speed turbine, the
function of which is to "supercharge"
the engine of a high-flying plane.
What latest triumphs imply Is a vir
tual abandonment of flying near the
earth's surface, and an elevation of
regular aerial movement miles above
our heads. Hitherto planes flying at
great heights have failed to profit In
speed from the lessened air resistance
of high altitudes because their motors
have fallen-away In power. But the
"turbo-compressor" supplies the en
gine with high altitude air at such
pressure that tlie thinness of this air,
as compared with low altitude air, is
compensated for, and the engine pre
serves its power evetl at great heights.
In recent experiments remarkable
results have been achieved, not only
with supercharged engines, bijt also
with propellers having variable angle
blades designed to function efficiently
• at Immense altitudes. Sending up
planes till they have been miles high,
experts have been able lately to in
crease tfielr normal speed by more
than thirty miles an hour.
Scientifically, the quest now pro
ceeds along the following lines: Ex*
pertinents are to be made in increas
ing still farther the height of "super
charged" flying, vhile another research
will be to design aatf perfect saloons
In wtych passengers can be carried
through the air at enormous heights
and speeds. Such saloons will be sup
plied automatically, under pressure,
with air rendered just as breathable
as that at low altitudes.
Scientists, enthusiastic as to the pos
sibilities of immensely rapid flying
through thin air at vast heights, now
predict that researches will culminate
in the institution of regular "super
express". airways, miles high, along
which giobe-girdllng craft will hurtle
at 250 and 300 miles an hour.
*
That Was the Trouble
A Stranger on the main ftreet of
Hornelsvllle, Ariz., came upon a bat
tered individual with both eyes black
ened and' face swollen with bruises,
lying in a heap against the curb at the
principal corner.
"What happened to you?" asked the j
stranger with some agitation.
"A feller beat me up," was the re
ply, "for not payln' a bill."
"Why don't you send for a doctor?"
"The doctor was here about a min
ute ago, pardtter."
"Oh, you're all right then?"
"Why, pardner," said the wounded
citizen, "it was the doctor's bill I
didn't pay."—Hygela.
Beech for Fuel
Beeches are beautiful throughout
the year. From the ground to their
polished slender twigs the gray to
brown bsrk is dean and smooth, and
' both bark and twigs are so distinctive
that are not to be confused with
.. other trees of the forest These trees
are famed not only for their beauty
but for their many useful products as
".well, says "Tree Habits" by the Amer
ican Nature association. Their wood
is valuable for lunger and is made
into floorings, furniture, tool handles,
brush backs and kitchen uteaslls. Ajs
fuel It has no superior.
Testing the Pay Envelope
A writer in a recant 'number of j
Printers Ink asks this question, in sub
stance; "Would you rather receive
9200 a month and know you were
worth more than receive 9800 with a i
conviction In your heart that
by the standard of wages paid to
otters you were being overpaid?"
There are probably quite as many peo
pld-evsrpald in tbe business world as
there are those who are underpaid.
Wbsn business dumps the overpaid
ones are beaded for a taß; the under
paid ensm keep what they get sfid per
haps a little a»ore.
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
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Riches Garnered From
Great Chilean Desert
Chile has many thousands of square
miles of land capable of cultivation,
yet its most valuable asset is a desert
where the rainfall is seldom morw
than half an Inch per annum. It does
not grow a single tree, or even a
blade of grass, except where patches
of imported soil have been laid. This
is tbe nitrate country, which employs
50,000 people directly and Indirectly
five times as many, and in which
something approaching $200,000,000 is
invested.
There are over one hundred and
! seventy separate workings, each of
■ which is the center of a busy popula
tion. Yet every ounce of food, every
! yard of clothing, every cog and shaft
! of Its huge machinery, every pint of
j water even, has to be brought from
I a distance. For many miles around
; the country produces nothing but
; nitrate of soda.
It Is an amazing fact that the most
valuable fertilizer of commerce comes
from a region where nothing will 1
grow, but It is a case of all fertilizer
and no soil and no rain. In earlier
days water was so valuable that it
was a saying that It was cheaper to
drink champagne, hut now water Is
i carried by pipes from far-off sources,
some of which are 200 miles distant.
Father Picked Moral
From Youngster's Joke
A prominent Los Angeles attorney
told the following story In a recent
address to the graduates of a gram
mar school. He said that his son, a
high-school graduate, came home one
day and asked him if he were a good
mathematician,
"Yes, my boy, I think I'm pretty
good," the father replied.
"Well, then, I have a problem I'd
like to have you solve. There were
three frogs sitting on a log—a bull
frog, a tree frog and a toad frog. The
bullfrog decided to Jump off. How
many were there left?"
The father smiled. "Wby, that's an
easy one. Two frogs were left"
, "And that's where you are all
wrong!" exclaimed the boy, grinning
"Three frogs were left because the
bullfrog only decided to jump off. He
didn't jump."
Then the lawyer Impressed upon his
audience that a person who would win
success must act promptly on his de
cisions.
Primitive Water Clocks
In the Malayan peninsula travelers
recently found the natives using a
most primitive method for measuring
time, which - has probably been in
vogue for 5,000 years. It la called the
water clock and is simply a small dish
or round bowl with a small hols in
the bottom. When this Is placed In a
tub of water It gradually becomes full
and sinks, which always happens In
the same period of time. On .the Ma
lay junks it is a common thing to see
a coconut shell floating In a bowl of
water to tell off the time away from
the home port. The ancient Egyp-
L tlans used the water clock. The sand
T glass or wster glass has two uses all
its own at the present time —for boil
ing eggs, and In the English house of
commons to time tbe bells that ring to
notify members that a division is at
hand.
Why Clergy Fought Light
When the mora progressive spirits
i In the British metropolis, years ago
i advocated the installation of munici
pally operated street lights, they en-
I countered much active opposition. Tbe
I clergy were eajfeclally loud In their de-
I nunclatlon of ths proposition. They
advanced tbe following three stupen
dous claims agalqst street lights: 1.
Artificial lighting is an attempt to In
terfere with tbe divine plan which has
preordained darkness during the nigbt
i time. 2. Illuminated streets will In
duce people to remain later out of
doors, leading to an increase In sll
ments caused by colds. 3. Horses will
be frightened and thieves emboldened
Why Rooster Didn't Come
Martin Simonds of Rodman, N. T,
went to bis henhouse to feed bis poul
try one day during tbe winter. His
flock responded to his call, except bis
favorite rooster. In the afternoon
Simonds had occasion to go to the rear
of the house and there, perched upon
the rim of tbe rain barrel, was bis
lost rooster. His tail feathers were
frozen Into tbe water. Shnonds had to
chop away five Inches of the ice before
be could liberate tbe rooster.
Christians in Minority
When sny one questions wby tbe
Christian churches send out foreign
missionaries, members of tbe church
can readily explain by pointing to tbe
proportion of Christians and noo-Chris
tian peoples in the world There are,
In fact, more than twice as many
; Qun-Christlans In tbe world as Chris
tiana snd although Christianity has
wade steady strides, many of tbe non-
Christlsn races are prolific snd tbe
I ratio is not changing very rapidly.
GRAHAM, N. €.. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925
Complex and Varied
, Is the Human Soall
I never cease to admire the Indeli
bility of human nature. It does not
*we«r off. Whatever they may do, men
are and remain what they are. They
may deceive themselves; they may de
ceive others, especially the short
sighted ones, those who cannot look
from the proper distance. Thus the
surface of the sea seems quite dark
when you are very near to it, but if
you climb into the crow's nest you
will see how clear the water is, and
the higher you go the deeper you see,
George Sarton writes, as quoted from
"Transparency," in Scribner's Maga
zine.
If you have learned to contemplate
life in its true perspective, how trans
parent, how beautiful it becomes. This
transparency is. Indeed, the very spice
of life. Among the many splendors
of nature, what could be more lmpres- |
■ive, more delightful than the infinite
variety of the men and women who
pass, mix and play before our eyes?
Birds are pretty enough, and there
seems to be no end to the beauty and
fantasy of tfcelr plumage, but what of
women! what of men! Can there be
anything under the sun more complex. I
more varied, more full of problems and j
enigmas of all kinds than the soul of '
man? Tne mystery seems bottomless, !
for even if we were to understand
each soul In Itself, we would still but
be at*its threshold. For we would not
yet know how each, of these souls
would react upon the "others. Each
possible combination, each pair of
souls opens a new vista of endless
secrecy.
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Many Name* Bestowed
* on Species of Duck
A study of the local names of Amer
ican birds, leads one to believe thit
our. citizens delight to Invent names
for the species in which they take in
terest. In almost any region names
for certain birds can be found that
•re not used elsewhere. Hence It is
possible' to collect rather long lists of ;
names for birds that attract popular j
attention. - For instance, 92 local |
names are known for a single species
of wild duck, the ruddy. In this case,
as in others, some of the names hijwe
a touch of humor or local color that
renders their study a pleasure.
The ruddy duck, for instance, gets
snch appellations as booby, dumb bird
and sleepy head, because it Is slow to
take alarm; and others like hard head,
leather breeches and shot pouch, be
cause so often it safely emerges from
a perfect rain of shot It has various
•derogatory nicknames, among the
mildest of which are dinky, blather
skite and fool duck, says Forest and
Stream.
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Snail's Pace?
"He moves %t a snail's pace," is s
remark frequently heard, especially
when the subject is a youngster going
to school or an offlee-boy who has been
sent on an errand.
But even of the slowest of the
younger generation the statement is,
to say the least, slightly exaggerated.
A recent experiment proved that a
snail progresses at the rate of one mite
in a fortnight
If you place a snail on a sheet of
glass and watch the underside, you
will see a series of ripples along the
animal's foot This foot is a network
of muscles, and the rippling Is pro
duced by these muscles lengthening
the foot in front and shortening It be
hind, which is the snail's mode of pro
gression.
Composition of Yeast
Yeast, strictly speaking, is a sab
stance consisting of the cells of cer
tain minute fungi. It sppears us a
surface froth or as a sediment in
fruit Juices and other saccharine
liquids in which it Induces alcoholic
fermentation. Yeast Is made of mil
lions of minute, simple plants. What
Is popularly called yeast Is a culture
of such fungi or plants. Manufacturers
cannot "make" yeast in the sense thst
they can mix chemicals and produce
it Yeast Increases only by the multi
plication of the fungi cells. la other
words, you must have seed yp»st to
■tart with. Ordinary cake yeast sold
on the market is composed of yeast
cultures in other substsnces pressed
Into cakes. —Pathfinder Magazine.
Keeps on Keeping On!
When last I went West by way mi
the "Broadway Limited," I was sit
ting on the observation platform watch
ing the scenery dash by, when the
porter came out to straighten the
chain which had been left in some
disorder by a group of young folks.
"We don't seem to be going so much
faster than an ordinary local train,
George," I commented "How, then,
can this be the fsstest train on earth?"
"Wall, sub," replied the African
with a grin, "de fae' Is we alls doan
go no faster'n lots of them pesky lo
cals, but we gits dar in quick time be
cause we Jist keeps on keeping on."—
W. L. Barahart, In Forbes Msgatlaa
(Hew York.)
{WHY
Dam in Upper Egypt Is Engi
neering Wonder
One of the greatest engineering won
ders of the world is the great Sennar
dam in L; per Egypt where 120 white
I men and 19,000 natives are racing
. against time In an effort to harbess
! the waters of the Blue Nile.
The agricultural legibilities of tbe
great Libyan desert are tremendous.
The heat there Is Intense, at times
as much as 125 degrees In the shade;
. so hot, Indeed, that sk-k men have to
be taken down Into Ice-packed cellars
i to be treated, (lie clinical thermome
ter being useless Above ground.
I v The masonry put In to hold back
| the waters Is roughly 450,000 cubic
; yards. and Its total "weight a million
ions. Every day 2.01*) ions of ma
j sonry are added to tbe structure.
I Once a year there comes un exciting
time for the engineers und all con
. cerned —the period of the annual Nile
flood. As a result of the heavy Afri
can rains at the source of the Nile,
the river becomes swollen and rises
considerably. The floods ure so regu
lar that they cun be fixed almost to a
j-'dny.,. ,
At Khartum the Nile Is In flood In
I June nnd at Assunn In August. By
; September the floods have reached
i Cairo, where the waters rise 32 feet
ajiove normal at Knsr-el-Nll bridge.
It Is these floods that cause the great
est anxiety to the engineers, nnd thsy
watch carefully for any signs of weak
ness, although If disaster set In, little
copld be done to avert it.
Why Physicians Have
• Faith in Antitoxins
Toxins are the poisons of disease
und produce the symptoms common.to
the disease after circulating through
the blood, explains Dr. Walter B.
James In Outlook Magazine.
Antitoxins are substances that work
against or neutralize the toxins In
J any given cases, and they are produced
by the use of the bacteria or the tox
ins. These are Injected Into an ani
mal, usually a horse. In Increasing
doses, until, it becomes habituated to
them nnd Is no longer rnude 111 by
them. .The Immunity or resistance re
' sides In the blood, wbjch has now
developed a defense mechanism
agnlnst the poison.
The animal's blood Is then drawn
! off in small quantities, filtered and
1 purified. This blood Is In turn Inject
i ed into the blood of a man, where It
exerts the same protecting Influence
against the particular toxin by which
it was produced us It did in the horse.
This Is. very briefly, the nature
j and diode of operation of antitoxic
serums. The use of an antitoxin In
| diphtheria has already saved count
less lives and has changed the once
' dreaded and fatal disease to a rather
I simple complaint If dlagnosejK early
and treated with antitoxin.
The discoveries of the Dicks and of
Dochez promise to give the same re
-1 lief from scarlet fever when methods,
j originated only in 1924 are perfected
- for this particular disease.
Why Collectors Worry
i Look what Is happening to the an
tique furnltuse business. Here comes
an expert m>m London, says Dey
i Goods Economist who says there Is no
. such thing as a Queen Anne walnut
dining table, even though many of
! them are sold. Chippendale wash
> stands are all bunk. People didn't nes
washstsnds In tbe days when Chippen
dale lived. Neither did they use aide
, boards.
| As for real Gothic furniture, well,
be bas his doubts, whether there la
' any real Gothic furniture in this coon
try.
If this thing continues thousands of
- Americans will have to refurnish their
homes entirely. They will have to boy
new furniture whether they want to
or not. cannot be made the
laughing stock of the nation. or even
of furniture reports.
Two Howlers
Special notice baa Just reached me
ef two excellent schoolboy bowler*.
The first Is the most Idiomatic trane
latlon of "Pax In t*llo," which was
rendered "Freedom from Indigestion."
The second relates to tho .well-known
historical Incident of Queen Elizabeth
snd Sir Waiter Raleigh's cloak. After
"describing tbe scene, the pupil made
the queen say:
"Sir Welter, I am afraid I have
dirtied your cloak."
"Dleu et mon droit" replied Sir Wal
ter, which means In English, 'My Q—d,
you are right I"
Why Felines Parr
Tbe purring soond made by rats is
made by throwing tbe vocal fords lata
vibration measured snd fegulated by
the respiration, snd this vibrotlon Is
strong enough to make the whole
laryns trrmhle so thst It may lie felt
or peen from the outside. Purring Is
highly of the cat ttlbe,
though not confined to lb It
is usually the means by whtcfc thees
felines alien contentment
Creatures That Take
the Palm for Ugliness
A writer describes the two earth
pigs, or aard varies, at the zoological
gardens, London, as nightmares, says
Christopher Bark in the Family Her
ald, and certainly, for sheer hldeous
ness they can give points and a beat
ing to almost any other four-legged
animal. Their nearest rival is prob
ably the wart hog, with Its fantastic
ttisks and huge wen or wart under
neath each eye. Another mammal
which is so utterly ugly that It makes
one feel uncomfortable to look at It
is tbe so-called nkked bat (cblromeles
torquutus). The body Is stark naked,
with a hideously greased black skin.
Head and face are also naked except
for a few scanty clusters of stiff hairs
which grow out. of wart-Ilne ex
crescences. Around the neck Is a col
lar of dingy brown hair resembling ft
mangy fur tippet.
The creature is not only repulsive
to sight, but also to the sense of smell.
It is a sort of winged skunk, the odor
of which is literally sickening.
Among reptiles there are a number
so fantastically hideous that no mere
description can do Justice to their
looks, or lack of them.
The palm in thlß respect belongs to
tho horrid moloch of Australia, com
monly known as the "Ttforny pevtl."
This is a stumpy lizard about eight
inches long, of a dirty yellow color,
with muddy brown patches. From the
tip of Its nose to the enfr-af Its tall it
Is covered with spines which are of all
shapes and sizes. Tbe largest grow
upon Its head and show up like two
curved horns. Its feet are armed with
strong, sharp claws.
The frilled iisard, another Australian
reptile, lives on Its looks. If alarmed.
It gets upon Its hind legs and in
stantly spreads an enormous ruff. It
lashes its snake-like tall and opens a
moutli full of needle-like teeth.
The octopus. Incarnation of borro*
Is as dangerous as It looks. The sting
ray, a hideous creature, has a power
ful tali armed with a sharp spine
which exudes poison like a snake's
fang. Tropic seas sro full of fish of
fantastic shapes armed with terrible
spines and long threatening teeth. Not
all these are>bad as they look, yet as
a general rule an ugly fish Is slso ft
dangerous one.
Selling Children in Peru
Legalized child slavery still exists
in Peru—even in Lima, tha modern
capital city. Indian peons frequently
sell their children to well-to-do fam
ilies for sums equivalent to about M-25.
The sales are made usually when the
children are about eight years old, and
the purchasers have exclusive use and
control of the children until they are
sixteen yean old In the case of a girl,
or eighteen years If a boy. As long as
the owner feeds and clothes the child
no one can take it away. There have
been recorded cases in which, when
one woman sought to buy a child from
■mother hf offering the fsther of the
child more money, the courts upheld
the rights of the first mistress. Girls
sre sold more often than are boys, In
asmuch as the Indians regard girl
children as llsbllltiea
Airplane Still Novelty
"I tried recently In a Cleveland ho
tel to buy an airplane postsge stamp
for a letter to San Francisco." writes
Fred Kelly In the Nstlsn's Business.
"The stsmp seller hsd none snd said
it was tbe first time he hsd had such
a request Out of curiosity I then
went to another leading hotel and
tried to buy stamps for slrplsne mall.
They not only didn't have such stamps,
but evidently hsd never heard of tbem.
I next tried the experiment of asking
business men (or Information about
the cost of sending s letter by slrplsne
from Cleveland to New York. Of a
score I ssked not one knew! Tbe fact
Is thst the airplane mall service, not
withstanding the marvel of it is still
too new to be popular. It takes ft long
time for a novelty to sink Into ths pub
lic mind."
His Decision
"flay, what the dlctfens Is all thst
yelling about, out hack of tbe smoke
house?" demanded Gap Johnson of
Rumpus lUdge, aroused from Ms dose
on the porch.
"Msw was making soft soap and got
her dress afire," replied Banty, one of
Johnson's offspring. "She's roiling on
the ground now. trying to put it out,
and the children are watching her and
hollering about if
"Aw, well. If I want any dinner I
reckon I'd better go end help hsr."—
Kansas City Stsr.
In the Edible Class
"Yes," said the teacher, "we have
several plant* and flowers named with
the prefix 'dog,* Of course, the 'dog
ruse' and 'dog-violet' are well known
to you all. Can any of you tell me
others f"
For some seconds the class re
mained dumb. Then a bright idea
Illuminated tbe face of an orchis,
and up went bis hand
"Collie flowers. Miss I*
Hard to Get French
to Leave Homeland
Vigorous attempts continue to be
made by the colonial ministry to en
courage French emigration to the col
onies. But in spite of colonial exposi
tions and a deluge pf literature and
motion pictures descriptive of life in
those parts of the world where France
bas territorial possessions, few French
people have been Induced to leavs
their beloved homeland. Tbe attach
ment of the French to their soil is, In
deed, well known. Tbey prefer making
a mediocre living In their own country
to prospects of wealth abroad. And not
only Is the average Frenchman loath
to leave his country, but seldom does
be abandon his native town or village.
There are peasants whose families
have been on the same farms or In the
same districts for hundreds of years. A
French writer has started Investigat
ing bow long certain peasant families
hsve been In the same place and has
found some interesting examples. Thus
In the village of Jeannet, In Burgundy,
a furtner named Sacller baa authentic
records showing that the first Sacller
begun to till the soil of the farm In
1672 and It has been In his family ever
since.
Skis Used by Swedes
Since Sixth Century
In Sweden ski running Is at least
fourteen centuries old, and probably
dates back to prehistoric times, sc
cordlng to Prof. Otto von Frlesen, of
the University of Upsala. A runestone
at Boeksta, not far from Upsuls, shows
a picture of a ski runner, and it Is
probsble that long before tbey knew
how to write runes the Swedes lesrned
tbe art of skiing from the nomadic
Lapps anif Finns. Professor Frlesen
says that in the Sixth century south
ern European writers described hunt
ers In Sweden who were able to glide
through the forest st high speed. Tbe
runestone, which dates from the mid
dle of the Eleventh century, proves
that sk! running wss then common In
Sweden.
In the Viking age skis were in fre
quent use. Winter sports hsd a special
divinity, tJll, wbo was himself devoted
to the use. of skin. Outwardly he was
tbe symbol of the bright sunny winter
day thst stimulates to outdoor life and
warlike guinea. Roads being rare, the
skis furnished means of communics
tlon, no mstter how severe the win
ter, snd speed on them was highly es
teemed.
.t
Had Origin in Quoits
The game of horseshoes Is based on
quoits, which Is a pastime resembling
the ancient discus-throwing of Greece.
Few traces of a game resembling
quoits can be found on the continent
of Europe and Its origin may be sought
for on the borderlands of Scotlsnd snd
Englsnd. There sre references to it
I in the midlands, dating from the be-
I ginning of the Fifteenth century. As
cbam. In bis "Toxopbllus" (1545), re
fers to the game as being chiefly by
; the working classes, wbo often used
horseshoes for wsnt of quoits, a cus
tom still prevslling In country die
-1 tricts.
Designed for Convenience
The position of the hands of a clock
Is one which has been selected for tbe
reason that It furnishes the greatest
fsclllty to meet the requirement for
painting the longer name above the
hands and the shorter word below.
The minute hsnd has varied in
position from 17 to 25 minutes after
8. Sometimes tbe longer name re
quires to be. written in s semi-circle
above the handa There have been
stories connected with tbe desth of
Lincoln, thst the position of the hands
la commemorative of the hour ef the
death but tbla is not true.
Not Really Profanity
It is perfectly correct when you sey
that "dam" got into bsd company sad
Aok some of the color of "damn."
But whst is the origin of the word?
"Darn" is not ftn Intensive sdjective
meaning "very moat." ss you aasume,
but is an offspring of the Shakea
pearsan word "deem, ttern" which
signified "terrible," originally "dark
ened, soiled." A cognate verb la
"tarnish" (to soil),—New York Herald
Tribune. ,
Tracing Use ef Gas
Natural gas. was used In s practical
'way by the Chinese shortly after the
opening of tbe Christian era, for nch
purposes as tbe evaporation of salt
from brin* It is said that certain
houses in Peking were heated—if not
lighted—with the gas.
la Europe the first usfe of gas for {
commercial purposes dates back to the
experiments made by Murdoch, who \
lighted his home with It In 1792, and j
to the work carried to a more prac- j
tical conclusion by Wlneor. In the
United States the first gas plant was
established In Baltimore In 181®, which
was followed by one in Boston la 1828
aad see In New York In 1828.
NO. 12
Pure Bred Live
Stock in Favou
Experience of Ownen Will
Are In Position to Hake |
Comparison.
(n*p«n4 *r tk« VmtUM BUtaa DiiMtMl i
of A«rWm*«ra.) .
A report Just issued by the United I
j States Department of Agrtcultan am i
I (the progress of the better rino- I
better stock campaign for the improve* $»
,ment of domestic states •
, briefly why pare bred —i—l« erosl 4
based on the average experience at '%
hundreds of stock ownen who hare |
been in a position to make compart- t ,
sons. It thus points to the nsulfg |j
which other fanners who are eootfd> 1
erihg the Improvement of their lira |
stock may expect from pot* bred alm 1
and also from the combined we at 1
I pare bred sires and pure bred dOH £
Summary of Petnta.
Following Is a summary of tke 1
points In which pure breds tusl:
| Baaed on utility alone, pan bnft.|
live stock has an earning power from
,a third to one-half greater t 1 "" scrub! |
i stock. Pure breds excel other stodfc a
in: Superiority and uniformity Ik con- J
formation and type, greater sale valuai S
early maturity and economy la tM |
[conversion of feed into meat; —"V 1
wool and work.
Surplus pun,breds an salable at '1
satisfactory prices In a majority at 1
The progeny of pun bred sine las 1
practically a 60 per cent greater sal* |
value than the progeny of sing not |
pun bred.
Better breeding, combined with 1
proper and adequate feed, practically; |
prevents runty tire stock, of wfclc* 9
| {the average farm has about 1 pgr 1
Well-bred beef cattle, sheep anil 1
: swine yield from 5 to 10 per ceat smmb a
meat than inferior animals of tkj i
same live weight, and the meat la at I
better quality.
' Profitable Uee of Peed.
Improved live stock makes about 4D\ |
per cent more profitable use of M '%
than common stock. Pure brede exes# f
grades, and gradee excel scrub*
I The use af pun bred slree leads to
the ownership and UH of 'M|y stK
times as many pun bred female Ml- -1
mala
The foregoing brief conclusions mm 1
bssed on thorough sasljsss at lugs S
numbers of reports. The
for »etter live stock which the T'l'it- 1
ment is conducting; la ro npastlsa
with the various states; baa lmiMlt ■s&
in a gradually Increasing roeapdttaa 1
lof the many points In which well-tee* |
animals are superior to ettiteaqr ani 1
stock The study and control at m+i a
mal breeding are amoag the asset laa-l %
portent and practical —rrrn l eg aofe* 1
jlng live stock enterprises mora pteflfa |j
able to farmen and also at teiprefft|ri]fl
the quality of meats.
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Barley Is Superior for
Fattening Farm StecK]|
j Barley la unsurpassed as a annenn]!
iter cloven and alfalfa; it Is a bettaa 'I
feed than oats tor fattantas hepi. 1
■beep and cattle; and atece It to eaa 1
'of the best substitutee tor con, «■ J
early maturing quality will make thta I
grain doubly valuable In a riieiiiaito $
'summer.
The early meturing quality at bag* ~2
Jey gives it a distinct advantage ami 1
oats. This Is especially true during th% J
present corn ahortage. The grata eaa J
be threshed about the —"y ttoM am -I
wheat, eliminating two threehings and '3
making available a midsummer grata |
Barley Is decidedly superior to lata "!
oats as a nurse crop for doven sadfa
alfalfa because It abades the jiseiiil g
■ns, and, by Ita early maturity, leave* %
mora moisture In the ground tor th* |
young clover.
' Chiefly because of Its lower par* i
rentage of bulls, barley to a betted >1
feed than oats for fattening hog*.'!
sheep snd cattle. Barley costtateaaMSja.l
carbohydrates than either wheat ec 3
oats, has less fat, and contains eaijig
one-third as much crude fiber as eawll
Football on thm Roof
Within a stone's thr«Jw of that eo- J
tbedral dome the preservation of wftkto jj
la now the business of the whole World, g
there is a sports ground on which L
' cricket and football have been played |
regularly for the last 90 yean.
You might search for this a long tima |
without finding It—lt is on the roof at |
St Paul's choir house. There, on al» J
most any day in the week, you mar |
find half-a-dosen youngstan la to/Ar
I ball shorts or flannels exercising tea {
I wire-netted rage which la about tfcfl9|
' length of a cricket pitch.
, When the choir house was bnllt to
. was realised that It waa necessary tea
the boys to ban some place whsfW.il
' they could pUj games, and, this bw j
lag impossible In the crowded city,
streets, a aporte ground was laid WW
oa the roof. —London Tlt-Blts.
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