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u u , PAGET V) J BEAUFORT. NEWS TUT' RSDAY 7 , V- i 1 . i iwajV'V1"' f i VT 1 gv ..'... 1 ; 1 1 Earthquake at tea. kB-erpllou occurring at sea Is called seaquake and the chief effect la the production of hue wares and ttolent commotion of the water of the sea. In BIRDS ASSIST MATFIM AI1V IN WAR INSECTS Special investigations to find how . . ! 1854. durlnir an eurthauake at Shnoda. Iar vus mm species aid mankind I Japan, the vaters of a bay were first in his perpetual war on insect ene agitated, then 'retreated, leaving the mies are beiner carried on hv tho Tin. igitated, then retreated, leaving bottom bare in places where the wnter had been SO feet deep. A wave 30 feet high theft rushed In and swept everything In Its path. Other earth quake waves have destroyed cities and shipping; part of the destruction In the Messina' earthquake was caused by a wave produced In this way. Glue From Seal's Flipper. Hitherto the flipiters of the whales caujilit in our waters have been re garded as a waste product, but the fisheries bureau finds that they will yield G7 per cent of their weight in very excellent glue. It hopes to find a mfirket for seal flippers with the pine manufacturers. Each yeur about 35.00(1 fur seals are killed on the Pribyloff Islands, in Bering sea. Reck oning four flippers, at eight pounds, the annual production of flippers is 100 to 140 tons. Keep House Plants Moist. A piece of sponge, quite wet. and kept In each house plant has been found to result in greenness and fresh ness Instead of the wilting which so often overtakes house plants. Their failure to do well Is due not so much used against the grasshopper. Fro iv mic neat ui uic nuuse as iu nit? uij- ness of the atmosphere. The satu rated sponge should be pressed In among the leaves and stalks as near t the center of the plant as possible. mies are being carried on by the Bu-' reau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture. In the western States the grasshopper is particularly troublesome, so far as the farmer and the ranch owner are, concerned. Specialists fou.-.d that, of 27 spesies of birds examined 25 were grasshopper eaters. In' 19 of the sn?r-ie's all of the individual" col lected had given irrasshonners ptace oi their menu. The bird having the best records we-e re lark sparrows. : me-oSwIorks. FrarVHn fill, Arleai-! sas kingbird, crow blackbird, ad the common kingbird. " Probablv there ere no enough birds in the country to clean up a full-strength invasion of grshop ners such as the western farmr.i have ctme to dread, it is said, but the birds assist materially in the eTorts made by" man to cor.trol the pe?t Specialists say that poisoning cam paigns are among the best weapons m time to time reports are sent in, say ing tiat many birds have fallen vie- DIFFERENT KINDS OF GEESE Tculouse Is Most Popular on Account of Largs S:ze Emden and Chi nese Are Liked. The Toulouse is the Riant of the gevse family. It is a i.atlve of France. Its ordinary weight is fiom 15 to -0 pounds, Imt It is not uncommon to iind specimens weighing from 25 to 30 pounds. This 1 the typical gray goose, hut honeuih and behind these body feathers are white areas in the plu mage. It is s.iid by those who have had experience with this breed that young seeM? during the first year lay from 15 to 25 eg.s, when older they may ay from 25 to 40. The Kmden Is a popular breed In o'nie places. The bodies of the birds are snowy, white, the legs and hflls yellow. They have good type and conformation. In size it is the same ;is standard for the Toulouse, though it Is said a smaller number of Em- len reach this standard than the Tou louse. Tin Kmden. when well bred, prop erly fed and prepared, makes a car cass that sells well on the market, Cut it is said that many breeders In im to the poisoned mixtures placed' 'hls ,u,,tr.v have not fven much at Islanda In Great Salt Lake. There are several Islands to Great Salt lake. On these Islands, which, like the lake's shores, are whitened by salt, immense flocks of gulls, ducks, geese and pelicans breed each year. On Antelope Island, the largest, alfalfa Is cultivated and cattle are raised. An telope Island, also known as Church Island, Is about eighteen .miles long. t L . r, ior me insects, oucn cnarges were j associated with the gypsymoth spray fention to fine quality. There are two varieties of Chinese ?eese, Brown and hite. This breed ing campaign in New England and hns different characteristics from the with the laying of poisoned mashes for cutworms and other insects. Careful observation, made by expert shows that the bird losses from such causes are insignificant- Some birds it is said, are not harmed at all by the presence of poison placed for insects or vermin; the quail tn Cali fornia were not harrned by the baits that were set Out to kill ' ground squirrels though the 'campaign was a general one and was t conducted with much intensity. In. the Dako- Whale Meat Resembles Beef. The meat of the whale extends in great boneless masses. In .uniform quality, from the base of the skull A k 1 1 M fat A ...... .0. .. 4 I.' lvalue tan mi. iii )jn:umiivr it l . i- j-' t . simitar tb beef, hut Is somewhat " lw ,ra' ccumoea 10 ine arse coarser In texture. Its flavor Is said n,c mashes placed for grasshoppers, to suggest venison.. One of the best hut the number killed was so slight "cuts" of the whale Is the heart., which as to be of no consequence, it is said, weighs 5,000 pounds. By killing stray cats and chasing off unscrupulous hunters the farmer Tlt halihut HaHAntnn it! 1 1 a Hanll. v ,S. ft tensive alliance with h Invariably pay all their b"l before starting on a flshlna expeditinn They regard It as bad luck to leave any on piiid account behind. Tliee men do not work for wages. Thev pay all ex penses for their equipment and then share the proceeds of the trip birds, - so that when his crops need protection against inset enemies' he will have a squadron of aerial cavalry to help him' repulse the raid, specialists say. others mentioned. The birds stand more erect and have longer and slen derer necks than the others The Brown Chinese- have at the base, of the bill a 'peculiar dark-colored knob. The Brown la considered the most prolific of all the geese. The stand ard weight for the gander Is 15 pounds, .goose 12 pounds. The female Is Said to lay from -K. to 50 eggs, sometimes more. A, large, fler cent of the eggs are generallyertile. , . The African Is "not at all common In this1 country. The color of ' this brVed Is dark gray on the back and light berirtith.- There Is a -dark atrip on the neck that mteiidy well down the Inck. , The- Mil la black and has a knob something tike .that of the Brown Chinese. The color of the eggs Is orange. I The geese of this breed lay better Uian Emden. but not so well as Um BESET WITH DIFFICULTIES Every-kind of - road - eo6t about twice as much to build in 1920 as it did in 1917", according to the Chief of the Bureau ol, Public Roads, Uni ted States Department of Agricul ture, and highway construction suf fered more than any other class of work through railroad congestion, strikes, labor troubles, and material shortages. After the war there was a . great nublic demand for improved roads. Many roads had been seriously dam aged by war traffic, and it appeared that the return of men from military ', service would provide an abundance i if labor. The army of laborers which was expected to apply for the J wark did not, however, materialize. On the contrary, there was a distinct shoftage of labor, and wages reached the highest levels attained in the. his- j tory of the country In 1917, com-; petent labor couuld e secured for frm $1.50 to $3 per dy, but the cor ve ponding wages'in 1920 were from 13 to $5 for a shorter day's work. In proportion to this demand there ; was also a pronounced scarcity ofj construction materials. Sand, grav-' el, stone, and cement, and materials commonly used in road work in-, creased in price between 1917 and 1920 from 50 to 100 per cent. Nat-1 urally, these increases in cost were reflected in the prices paid to con- j tractors for road work. Gravel roads j increased from S4.535 to $,250 per mile; concrete from $21,165 to up ward of $40,000 per mile, and brick roads from $33,000 to $55,000 per mile. As funds available for road con struction are largely limited' by stat ute, or by the returns from taxation, a majority .'of (he'Sutes this year have deliberately withheld work, the plans for which had been completed, until they could obtain a jgreater re turn for their expenditure. A BIG OFFER THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER -AND THE BEAUFORT NEWS For Entertainment. The groceryntnn vu "kiil't lit tie Marie one dnv mid asked ln-i u-Iiom girl she was. io which u- n-'''-d "Pnpa's." "Well then nh- little girl Is Mavbelle?" "She ; to ' mamma" "What nboni hniihii I nine, then?" he wild She r. ,n ii for a minute then naid: '"Oh he Ju.tt for entertainment " Phonogrph as a BuroUr F1rm A pnirtirnt Kenitu hn hili!ed np his ph't'Mzrnph to the do'ii nnd at nlcht after hours h'nM :inv In-nuter wrred In oM-nhic the dour the p!ion ocrMpb Is set Into anion and hv nienns of a sjH'rlally ninde renr, u rails loudly ff help to rvtrti the thief True Ther' ti th'ni that everjhodf krii and hut few rinem!er and that I tl'Hi the other fellow un't of ferine to bei on hl estne Jmt fi th fnn of It Tbere' mily one nr to beat t hp othet fellow's game sud that not to play M Te Place a Ladder FipeHmenf deierinlne 'be anrle hiri n 'sd'lef hniild he ptured in tnr ft nMlmmn deiree of afetf Inr ifm nln hife hnnn that 'he snr'e of dreree 'be '.est whet rier M.e height of the a lder. Brook lyn Kag'e The Vl'a ' A rural ev ti:ir eHt it an old om en .e i,b "kipo-kel :'iHir'-ler.tlou ny e ihn ifrnr to 'tien sjeeded lT" We e Tir own ofnnli-fi at to wb'rh t !inwnetit!nn party Hoe Ion Trar."rlp Dai'y Ratio o' ar Oytter ! h lieen i airiila'ed iha' an o.'er Ire Ifl'te long COtltlime ot,e twrlf h f eiit.ir inrh of elid food daily, and in obtain It mutt tV'er eftt or nine railnrt af eea wa'ff. NORTH CAROLINA LEADS U. S. IN EIRTH RATE KAI EIGH, N'. C. Feb. 2S. North ('".lolina t ow e: the entire U lited States with t!ie highe t birth ;-t in the L'.iion. according to statistics for l.20 just compiled by the St. ,te 1'oi.iii of HeallH At the :'me tin e this tate bus one of t..e l.)we t death ..tes. lit ports during tlie pa.sl jeir show a toVal of S3,S'0d b.rth in t ie ht'ite, a rau' of 32.8 per tiuu.ai'd. The de tax totaled for t .e sanu- p.-; iod 33,'-2H, a rate of 12.9 per l touosnd. The.e figures do not include t'.e itill births, which anuu.tel to 4,171 i'or the year. During 1920 every six minutes a new life was born into t ie world; ev ery fifteen minutes another life was s.iapped o. That the births are so far in excess of the deaths accounts for the large increase in t'.ie popula tion of the state' during the last de cade as shown by ti.e last-census fig-' ures, for the state has had little in crease by reison of Immigration. A comparison for the past three years shows the following: 1918 to tal births 76,176 or rate of 30.8, and tote! deaths 42,411 or rste of 17.6; 1919 total births 69.791 or rate of 29.3, and total deaths 30,114 or rate of 12.4.. The very high death rate for 1918 was caused by the epidem ic of Ir.fluensa. and this probably sImi accounU for the leiened r.it of births and deat'ts during the follow ing year of 1911'. In 1920 the b rth rate melt forward ronntdrrably htle the death rate show a difference of only five per huidied thousand. North Carolina h Wen exceeded in birth rale heretofore only by Utah, which in ItMH had a rale of 3 1.9. The rale for the entire regis- trstion area of the country the same A rather unique and interesting marriage took place Saturday after-, noon in the railroad shops at Spen cer. Max R. Iddings and Miss Ruby Harris, both of Salisbury, were the contracting narties. Harris is an rlf It"1-11 VKUU-r HI AIUIBR jl l& i a rAUt ano ma raw i Take 'advantage of this offer at it means both papers for almost the price of one. You get the county news from your home paper and valuable employe of the railroad company and 1 Z'ZZ'. information about everything connected with pany. The marriage took place in tiie large paint room while the toot-; f arm f rom The Progressive Farmer. ing of whistles played the wedding , march. i Three ladies have been appointed on the board of education at New Pern. This is the first time that ladies have ever served any public of fice in New Bern. BothPapers for $2,25 A Toulouaa Coosa. Toulouse. Tl rarraaes of old birds are rather hard to prepare for mar ket. The skin Is dark and there Is down and als pin fenilem that give the rsrt-aiw a poor appearance on the market. TUBERCULOSIS IN CHICKENS Disease Is Quite Common and Is Caused by Quarters Being Paoety Ventilated and Lighted. Tuierminls In twiitry reu:ts In a liMta of weight. The bird may look all right for a lime, but they will he found to be lltht. Mr. Barton, of the North Ihiknta Agricultural mllese. ststen that In the Inter lage tbeblnU termie weak, often they cannot fly imt.i the nxi"l Imt lt In N comer. and after a little rile According to Mr. r.rton. I hl dlen -e l quite com. Itloll. line- tlliB fnr'.e n veil B rblcl.elt. hie i In tell If the hlrds bne I iiM'ritloi ' I" cut Ihem open If tin- bird l II.M In uelsht nnd the llrer l etilnrt.''-l i t.il aiitted It may be qlte mtfe to n llmt It hn been mifTerllif from tnl.ei-ulnl He atete tbnl 'imll o,uiirter poor ly ventilated. piMirly ll;htii. and damp are conducive to the prend of the div es. The b"t reiiely I to dist" first Printed Seek A l atin Bible, printed by Ctterbrg sad rot at Meali la 14U Is tb ir nei knon printed koek. A encty f nt ook is dw u tit RrtUh a ears at tando. , . of all Infected bird and If the flock te year waa 14.4. For the same yearf badly Infected lo dUpo of all the lha deata tau for the sama area waa birds: then thoroughly clesn . the aoase son yarn, mnnirn ana aian HwmaaNy C'aeeJfUd. Hairs any hosm o di-4 tr ra eta esse Warr.ees and LTers, cwss ta!ar sad switJere tries aa4 dar. aeoakart sad BMkee - lUttar ta MH plcewsa ear) ya Aww tkaa .tela a kiss Mwt y m l faev Trararttftf tfi Mtf ta trs,c ksa! yt 111 Carl Lamar, awhlef of pobc .at Karnarwilla. was arrested In that town Sunday afternoon pa .a charga f aValtng la and transporting liquor. mult Um oAcera wart, searching Laaur's aoasa, ha threw sows and bra La, two half gallon jsrs. Tkres gallons of Ua ardent wart found la la Ura. ee aiala with iulerrulols-rea birds. Mr. Barton recommends a dla lafensnt mad ap la taa ratio of one ounce of croolln and one ouoce of car Mk arid "U gsllon of watsr. ta1aet ttf Uwsrd Wa learn at Ift.t-ef-sr.i skw d rresaf sr.a va ce aat aff apna aassstjadf at aoser.ir.g the rspo atMliiy fat aar fsttara-tUrttBga. j RUB - MY - TISM Ii a poweirtl Anttaoptlc and Pain Killer, cures infected cuU, old tore, tetter, etc. Relieve Sprain, Neuralgia, Rheuma tlim. PROPER SMELTER FOR GEESE ioars' ProatlM ahwuld te Prweldod Ooeg , WKitar - and Honey . WeotAoe Have H Dry. SSBSBBIOM tv In wiater or daring atorsiy, waaibef, Va torn protect loo shosld b petnWed, malar g d aot ! ally nee- a haae. loco kind at she) ir. sah s a abed apaa ea ta south aid, a pealtry bouse, or a Kara, Is aeaaTt rwtdl Tb gona kwaa baU b kept rtiea and pleuty af cftoaa nt prv1Wd for lb mm are MCW, R S. Hdyster 1 l WW I) "iTrit EC0N0IV1ICAL There is no economy in cutting expendi tures which bring you a profit That b extravagence. Rcystcr's FertUizcr econ omizes fcr you by mailing your land and your labor produce larger, finer, curcr yields See your Royster Dealer and place your order now. Guano Co. Norfolk- Nclira.jVa- Inchbur-, Vt, MpKfi, C, Srr-Urg, &. C, Uta Ga. . , ... .Maoofi, Ga. CokjmUa), Gx Mowtoewry, Ala. Irnur6hflu Al-.BWfe, Ma. ToUsJo, Oaia 9 ,J 1 II I I I' I i m ii ' 1 t
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