THE HEN-MAN 95 By R. H. WILKINSON Hell Syndicate.?WNU Service. THERE exists in America a certain type of person who. born and raised in a city apartment, possesses what is known in the vernacular as a yen to own a small place In the country, firmly believing that he can buy a few chickens, raise a few vegetables and live there, commuting to and from his metropolitan job, for about one-third the cost of existence in his city apartment. This is a splendid idea, especially that part about living one-third as cheaply as in the city. It has its other advantages* too. There is. for example, the matter of fresh air, fresh dairy products, plenty of space to move around in, freedom from the hustle and bustle of city life. It's a pity that the plan hasn't, can't and never will be developed profitably. I mean the moving-to-the-country bug. Steve Holton was attacked by the bug. Steve had become fed up on city life. He was a bachelor, young and handsome, and was forever chasing about from party to tea to dinner, to theater, or any other of the dozen places where handsome and eligible young bacnelors are welcomed. Steve was fed up. lie wanted a breath of fresh air: wanted to get up with the sun, drink in the crisp morning air, tend to the viuvKciis unci eaten cne i :;>u train to town and hi* broker's office. lie wanted to spend his evenings routed comfortably before a cozy Are, get in some good reading, go to bed, at nine o'clock and sleep the sleep of the just. Also, he wanted to economize. The cost of living in town wasn't giving Steve much of un opportunity to save for rainy days. This plan of Steve's was swell. Too bad it couldn't work. Steve talked the idea over with Jim 31cDevitL Jim had tried the same thing once, hut far some unknown reason was buck in his city apartment. .1 iin approved of Steve's idea without a moment's hesitation. "Croat scheme. You'll like It. Steve, out there. Fine way to live. Fact is, ] i ll have the missus buy her eggs from you. You can bring them in every morning. Help you get started." Sieve's dreams soared. Ho pictured himself laying aside a tidy sum from the profits on his eggs. Hood scout, 31m. Steve also called on Rus Whltcomb. litis and his wife had tried the llvingin the-country Idea. too. And Uus, like Jim, approved and applauded. Sure, he'd buy all the eggs Steve could raise. Fresh eggs from the country! Boy, nothing could be better. latter that same night Jim McDevitt called Uus Whltcomb on the telephone and the two of them held a gleeful conversation. So old Steve had got the bug, eh? Well, let him find out for himself. Won't do him any harm to get stung. He'd never rest till he got the craving out of his system anyhow. Resides, It was comforting to know there were other fish grabbing at thai same live-cheaply-ln-the-country bait. On the following Sunday, Steve chartered a drive-yoor-own car and motored out In the country. Along toward mid-afternoon he chanced upon a little place in the town of Medvale that seemed to suit his exact purpose. There was a white house with green Winds and a picket fence around the front lawn, in which a half dozen shade trees reared themselves. Behind the house there was a barn, several outbuildings and a rather large henery. Steve hunted op the owner and wai astonished and delighted to discover the place could be rented for less than one-half of what he was paying at his present apartment. He sowed the thing up at once by making a substantial deposit and signing a six months* lease. A month later Steve was established in his new abode apd tremendously happy. Two dozen Rhode Island Red chickens clucked contentedly In the heneryShrubs had began to flower and the hade trees were bursting forth their buds. Ah, yes, Steve was far happier than he ever dreamed he could be. He was going to bed eerly, getting up early, reading a lot and learning a <?od deal about the ben bosineea. ^ter the first week Steve carried t - * /f-pAir The Cherokee Sco with him each morning a half dozen nice freah eggs and proudly handed them to Jim and Rus when he reached the office. Jim and Rus received them solemnly and praised hini highly for his success and winked broadly behind las hack. Along about the first of May, Steve's hens, or most of them, stopped laying. After falling to solve the mystery himself, he consulted a neighbor and was told that the biddies were at this time of year usually interested in rais ing a family. Steve thought this was great. He went home, gathered together all his spare eggs and put five of his hens to set. The others he locked up in a barren anteroom to "break up" their family raising notions. At the end of two weeks eight of the three dozen eggs Steve had set, hatched. The young man was Jubilant. He proudly summoned bis neighbor, to display the result of his breeding efforts, and was told that five of the eight chicks were roosters, which wasn't so good. It was about this time that monthly hills began to arrive at the hen farm, and after an evening spent in intensive figuring Steve discovered that the cost of electric lights, cooking gas. telephone and other Inrfdentola <\t u?-oii hood was quite as much. If not more, than the cost of the same conveniences in town. It was two days after this that Steve learned, much to his disappointment, that the "fresh" cream, milk and butter which he had been having left at his door each morning were shipped out of Boston on the night previous and distributed in the country by a chain dairy products company. Augmenting these startling revelations, Steve came to the conclusion that getting up with the sun every morning wasn't such a swell Idea, especially if it happened to be a rainy day or If the air wasn't bracing because of the humidity. He found also that the long, quiet evenings were more or less palling once you got used to them, and that a month of rending had brought him I up to date on current literature. In fact, Steve began to know a long| ing for a fling at city life, for an eve| ning at a night club or trip to the i theater or a gay dinner party. Stnrtlingly, he discovered that, after all, farming was a business, and unless you devoted your entire time to it, it wns pretty dlfllcult to make it pay. Which, incidentally, when you look at the thing squarely, is quite true of almost any business. To add to all this, Steve one day awoke to the fact that Jitn and Bus. who had had their fling of commuting from the country, were giving him what Is known as the merry ha. hn. 'I'hnv hn.l In ? ...nnnn. n# I-1 ' II.XI, III a IHIIIIICI Ui put up a Job on him. They wanted to see him get stun?. And when he finally admitted that this country idea was a lot of bilge they would be all set to enjoy the situation with crude and raucous guffaws. This knowledge was disturbing. Steve's ears burned at thoughts of It, And in the end he vowed to foil the instigators of the Joke, and turn, il possible, the tables. Thus minded, Steve on the day following brought as usual his half dozen fresh eggs to the conniving rascals who posed as friends and advisers suggesting on delivery that. In view of the fact that eggs were scarce these days and because these from Medvale were strictly fresh, the recipients o! the daily half dozen pay a little more than the amount asked at the cornet delicatessen for less fresh hen fruit. Jim and Russ agreed readily enough Of course, fresh eggs were worth more money. * What was more, they were eagei and anxious to give Steve a helping hand. A week later Steve moved back tc his city apartment and with a greai feeling of relief settled once more 1nt< the comfortable routine to which h< was accustomed. But each morning for six month: thereafter he paused at the cornei chain store en route to the office, pur chased two one-half dozen boxes o eggs at 20 cents the half dozen, am later sold them to Jim and Rus foi 30 cents. Which explains why, In the earlj fall, when Jim and Rus, puzzled ovei Steve's continued success as a hen man, motored one day to the lltth white house In Medvale (the sami house. Incidentally, which first one an< then the other had occupied duricj their own venture In the egg-raislnj business) they discovered that Stev< had quitted the place six months pre vtous, and were prone not to guff a v when next they encountered the would be hen-man, hut merely to chuckle li good fellowship fashion and vow wlU him to warn all others against tlx live-in-the-country bug when It at tacked friends and nelgfibors of tlx city. "V"' t ut, Murphy, N. C?, Freda] DEVELOP PULLETS' BODY FOR LAYING Use Care in Early Feeding to Bring Maturity. By Roy S. Dtarstyne. Poultry Department. North Carolina State College. WNU Service The proper feeding of chickens during the period of early development is of vital importance in determining their future laying capacities, so tests at branch station farms during the past five years have proved. One of the most critical periods in a bird's life is that between the time It goes oiT the starting mash and the time it is placed on a laying mash diet. The feeding should be such as to bring the birds to bodily maturity at approximately the same time they start laying, and not before. After the birds start laying most of their food goes into egg production and very little. If any. goes to skeleton growth. Hence, a bird that starts laying before it has reached full growth Is liable to remain undeveloped and will seldom have the stamina needed by heavy producing hens. Too great an amount of protein in the food before the laying period is apt to start the pullets laying too soon. An excess of carbohydrates or a feed of cereal crops alone also are conducive to too-early laying. A good 1 feed should have the proteins and carbohydrates well balanced. ] A mash containing 15.1 per cent proI teln. of which 4 per cent was animal I protein, fed along with the regulai scratch feed whs found to give tlie ' best results In the experiments con[ ducted with Rhode Islands Reds and White Leghorns. Fed on this diet, the birds reached sexual and physical ma , turity at approximately the same time Discovers an Easy Way to Clean Poultry House The ease and efficiency with whict a poultry house may he cleaned de pends considerably on the constructor of the dropping boards. If they art made in removable sections the wnrfc is much easier, writes a correspondent in Successful Farming. For this type of construction, attact supports to the wall on which the drop ping boards are to he built. Thes' shottId be spaced not more than 4lA. I feet apart find should extend into tht I center of the building about feet The dropping boards should be mad* I in sections 5 feet long and 4 feet wld* so they are of a convenient size t< i handle. If "eye" bolts are fastened t< j the hack wall and honks placed In cor responding positions in the droppinj , hoards, they may be hooked to tin wall, making them easy to remove. Removable roosts may be placed 01 top of the dropping bonrds. Whei constructed In this way, the roosti may he taken out and the droppinj hoards may be removed or raised li \ the front and hooked to the cellinj until the house Is cleaned. To Stop Feather Pulling Feather pulling among hens is not i 1 j habit, nor is It caused by too cloai 1 i quarters. Neither Is it caused by be ing hungry, unless one could call 1 1 being hungry for salt. Salt seems t< be what they want when they pull r>u ' feathers and pick each other. Freshl; pulled feathers have a slight saltiness | but the blood has more. To stop thi feather pulling and picking, says a cot respondent in the Uural New Yorkei hang a piece of fat pork low enougl ' for the hens to reach it?two or thre pounds for a flock of 30 to 40 hensp and keep water by them all the time ? As long as they have water they cai eat all they want, and It will not hur lb era. Small Eggs Hatch Poorly Hatching eggs, weighing less thai 20 ouiices per dozen. showed, in re cent experiments in the state of Mich lgan. a very poor hatchability and pre duced small chicks which developer slowly. Eggs weigUlng 21 to 22 ounce per dozen had a fair hatchability, bu those weighing 23 ounces or more pe dozen showed a good hatchability ant chicks of good weight. Poultry Hints Loafing hens In the farm flock ea the profits the bus; biddies make. Chemically, the shells of brown egg differ from those of white ones. Orlt Is an aid to the gizzard I crushing and grinding feed and shout be before the birds at all times. Nc OTer three-fourths of a pound of har grit will be needed b; a ban In a year' i time. r, April 20, 1934 I LJ J,llJ,l,MpROVED 1L 1 UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson (By REV P. B. FITilWATER. D. D, Mtmbcr ?f Faculty. Moody BlbU Inntltut* of Chicago.) #. 1934. W?st?rn N#wip?p*r L'nlot. Lesson for April 22 OUR ALL FOR THE KINGDOM LESSON TEXT?Matthew 19:16-30. GOLDEN TEXT?1 have showed you all thing*, how that ac laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember i.h? words of the Lord Jesus, how he said. It is more blessed to give than to receive.?Acta 20:35. PRIMARY TOPIC?A Poor Rich Man. JUNIOR TOPIC?Giving Jesus First . Place. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC?The Right Use of Money. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC?Stewardship of Possessions. The lesson title Is likely to be mis* understood and the teaching misapplied. Jestis did not directly, nor by i Implication, tench that eternal life : can be obtained by parting with possessions. In his dealing with the young man. Jesus showed him his erroneous notion as to personal goodness and endeavored to reveal unto him his own essential nature. I. A Certain Young Man Came to Jesus (v. 10). ! For a full view of the characteristics of this man see Mark 10:17-30 and l.uke 18:18-30. 1. His virtues. a. Courageous (Mark 10:7). Fie was of high standing, a rich young ruler (Luke 18:18. 23). To come to Jesus at this time meant to this young man ! ostracism from national fellowship. II required rea! courage. I | b. Earnest (Mark 10:17). lie came and knelt before Jesus. ? i c. nign aspirations (v. 10). Ho wanted eternal life. There was an I aching Told In his soul In the tiihlst t of pleasures which affluence brings. . I d. Pious and uioral (v. 20). From youth up he professed to have conj formed to God's holy law. e. He believed that .lesus could Inj form him of the "good thing" to be done to inherit eternal life. M *2. Mis mistaken notions. . J a. About Christ (v. 10). ne es, teemed Jesus to be good but did not , apprehend hira to be God. : | b. Concerning himself. He was selfl righteous. He thought he was good i and that he could do something good. , c. Concerning eternal life. lie thought that eternal life could be ob, talned by good works. II. Christ Dealing With the Young , Man (tv. 17-22). 1 Jesus skillfully led the young man k to see his errors and then put his k finger on the weak spot in his life. > 1. Jesus' question (v. 17). "Why j calleth thou me good?" Without giving him a chance to answer he dej clared that only God was good, as If ; to say. "I am good and therefore 1 am God." j 2. Jesus' answer to the young man's i question (vv. 17-20). "If thou wilt en9 ter Into life, keep the commandments." I Jesus here met him on his own ground, ? namely that of the law. The law re? veals sin and thus shuts the mouth of a self-righteous sinner (Rom. 3:10). I The law curses Instead of saves (Gal. | 8:10). The gospel was given to save # I men from the curse (Rom. 1:10, 17). g , 3. Christ's command (v. 21). Replying to Christ's citation of the comt ! mandments of the law the young man B glibly asserted that he had kept them t all from his youth up. In Christ's y 1 command to go and sell his possessions and distribute them to the poor, ^ he put his finger upon the weak spot 4. The young man's decision (v. 22). He decided against Christ. In the su^ preme test he chose his wealth. e III. The Relation of the Rich to the Kingdom of Heaven (vv. 23-20). This teaching concerning the peril 'a of riches was most timely. Covetoust nets was fast taking hold of the people. Judas was well under Its sway, 1. It Is difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom ( . 23, 24). Thij difficulty lies not In the possession ol ii j riches but In trusting riches. The step !- from possession to trusting Is a verj i- short one. Riches are deceitful (Matt - 13:22). The tendency of Increasing 3 wealth Is to destroy the nobler life ol 8 the soul. It lulls Into security (Rev t 3:17); It leads to self-indulgence (1 r Tim. 6:2), and to pride (Ezek. 23:3) J Entrance of the rich Into the king dom la possible though difficult (tt 23. 26). It Is possible for the grace el God a. To sanctify ricbee. t b. To ao open a man's eyes that hi may see his downward course and re pent s c. To change a man from self-seek tng to self-sacrifice, d. To make men humble. n IV. Rewards for Following Chris d (rr. 27-30). ,t Those who turn their hecks opoi d their country and possessions fot a Christ's sake shall receive a hundred fold to this life and eternal life f? the world to come. ? Page Three Claim Paper Violin I* of Superior Quality A violin made from the gummed paper used in orthopedic appliances has been shown in Vienna, and It In claimed that it possesses a tonal quality comparable to instruments made from selected woods by the host Italian craftsmen. The acoustic properties of the gummed paper were accidentally discovered during the manufacture of orthopedic appliances and the violin was made as an experiment. While it Is possible to construct easily enough from paper an instrument rigid enough to permit of use as a violin sounding hoard, the purity of tone could not be gauged without a test. Popular opinion regarding | the nature and qualities of woods employed in old violins have recently been controverted by scientific tests. Kven trained musicians cannot readily distinguish between the notes obtained from a "Stead" and other highly prized makes when properly tuned and played. Your local dealer carries Ferry's Pure Bred Vegetable Stunis. Now only 5 cents a package. Adv. Eternal Law of Life To love one's neighbor as oneself Is not a mere pious sentiment; it is every whit as much u law of life as fresh air is to the body.?Sir Wilfred J Crenfell. t/milMNK. 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