Timely Farm , Questions Answered at State Golleg* ? - Question!' How much fertiliser xbould I use on my tobacco plant bed? I I . Answer: An application of 200 ponnda of 4-8-3 mixture should be applied to each 100 square yards of bed. If a lower grade of fertiliser Is used It can be supple mented provided the meal la thor oughly mixed with the soil. All fertiliser should be broadcast and mixed thoroughly with the top three or four inches of soil. Do not us? tobacco trash on the beds nor any manure containing to bacco leaves, stalks, or roots. Question: How can I keep my chickens from picking ont their feathers? Answer: This trouble la caused by a small mite that gets Into the skin near the base of the feathers and causes irritation. To get rid of this mite the poultry house should be thoroughly clean ed and sprayed with a solution of three parts of crude petroleum or carbollneum and one and one half parts of kerosene. Dip the birds In a tub containing two ounces of flowers of snlphur and six ounces of flaked soap to five gallons of tepid water. Be sure that the solution gets to the skin. Question: Should the grain ra tion of my dairy cows be Increas ed during the winter months? Answer: This depends upon the quality of hay and the present milk production. Each animal should have about three pounds of silage each day for each 100 pounds of live weight and all the legume hay she will consume In two feedings. When the quality of hay Is poor, more grain will be required. However, no matter what amount la being fed, if the milk production remains normal then the feeding shonld not be increased. Extension Circular 103 gives the grain rations for dif ferent breeds and amonnta of pro duction. Thla circular will be sent free upon application to the Agricultural Editor at State Col lege. 8AY8 RED SQUILL IS BEST RODENT POISON Red Squill is rough on rats. But It does not kill domestic ani mals or poultry. George B. Lay, rodent control leader of the U. S. biological Sur rey with headquarters at State College, said Red Squill 1s the most nearly fool-proof rat poison known to man. It usually drives the rodents underground to die, thereby prev enting unpleasant odors. It acts slowly, Lay added, and does not scare off late coming rats with the bodies of dead or dying rata near the bait. The best time to put out Red Squill bait, Lay said, la during the wftater when rata and mice leave the fields and gather In houses, outbuildings, and barns. Flue-cured Red Squill powder Is better than the sun-cured type, be pointed out. He recommended that the poison be mixed with three different ingredients to provide a variety of bait. A pound of poison to 15 pounds of hamburger meat make* a good bait, he said. Or a pound of the powder may be mixed with IS pounds of cheap canned salmon or mackeral and a pound of oat meal. Or mix the poison with 16 pounds of corn meal and enough water to make it crnmbly. Usually, he said, It helps to put out some' non-poisoned bait for a few days to get the rodenta us ed to eating It. Then when the poisoned bait la distributed, the) will eat It liberally. Place the bait where othei animals cannot get at It, and where the rats or mice are llkel] to run. Although Red Squill wll not kill other animals, it maj cause them to vomit, Lay stated and then there la no need tc waate the bait by allowing the other animals to eat it. Will Richardson says one waj to make a man your friend is tc ask him for advice. f Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial Irritation, you can net relief now with Croomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing awl you cannot afford to take a chance with anything less than Creomul Kion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the lnflamod mem branes as the germ-laden phlegm Is loosened and expelled. Even If other remedies have failed, don't he discouraged,- Jour druggist Is authoriced to guarantee Creomulslon and to refund your money if you are not satisflfed with results, from the very first bottle. Get Creomulslon right now. (AdrJ * 'AMBL/NG 'Qpukn NEW YG?:( KEKNY Strange people are- always in the patent room of the New York Pub lic Library. Everything from young lawyers to the moat crotchety old inventors may be found there, and queer must be the thoughts thai run through their heads if one may judge by the insides of one of the government's! patent design and specifications books. * * ? * With 90,000 patents granted each year, and anything from a page to twenty pages or more devoted to cach patent, the site of each year's bound volumes of patents ? well, figure it out for yourself. + * * An itinerant printer was offered a job in trUmall print shop in New York last week. He explained quite seriously to the man who offered the job that he was sorry he couldn't take it, because the man with his relief check was expected that day. and he had to be home to get it. His greatest pastime is bet ting on the horses! ? * # There's still a big hole In the ground where the old Union League Club used to stand until thfee years ago at Fifth Avenue and 39th Street. Wonder how much in taxes has been paid on that valuable va cant corner? ? * * The Brooklyn Chamber of Com merce recently estimated that New York Citv has lost 7000 factories since 192$, many of them moving out of the Metropolitan district be cause of high costs. Yet New York City still has 56.7% of the factorv workers employed in New York State 1 * * * Frequently I've heard the remark that New York's supremacy as the financial capital of the United States will sometime pass to Chicago. Cer tainly its 'station as a manufactur ing city has dwindled, and I won der how important its status as a shipping port will be a hundred years from now ? if we continue to develop synthetic products as rapidly as we have in th^ last twentv years. ? ? ? ? Canes, by the way, aren't so popu lar as they used to be. if you can judge bv the few that are left hang ing on bars, these days. Bruce Barton ? Much to Do, Pioneers MIXED up with a great deal of justifiable complaint about axlaling social conditions there is a certain proportion of plain ordinary self-pity. It expresses Itself after this fashion: ''You Whp ara older have grabbed all the opportunitiea. You had It easy In your day. If you couldn't find a job, or if you didn't like your job, there was always the land. You could pioneer. Seeu through the rosy haze of emotion, the pioneers appear aa a company of hardy young men and women, with their attica full of ham and potatoes ana their cellars full of hara cider ?dancing barn dances and holding husking bees. But what were the facts? You gat a glimpse of them in a recent biography called Ola Julea by Marl 5a ndox, daughter of a Nebraska sod-hut pioneer. Merely to escape starvation. Old Jules was driven from one home stead to another, a half-dozen moves. Sand storm and drought de stroyed his crops; his cattle died from lack of food or water, or were froien to death in the terrific shelterless winters. He had to fight o 9 thieves and wolves, and labor from star-light in the morning to moon light at night. Four wives wore themselves out trying to carry on with him; he could hardly have been punished more by sentence as a galley slave. His case is not exceptional. Out of the multitudes who Itarted West with the Forty-Nlners, only a few arrived: thousands travelled only a little way before the privauons drove them back. Even a tene ment room would seem luxury in comparison with what they had to endure. The western frontiers arc gone, it is true, but if any boy or girl has in him the courage of the pioneers he will not be downed in this age, any more than he would have been a hundred years ago. Courage is timeless; so, unfortunately, is self-pity. ? . . . . Too Many Babies Means War 0NT the subject of Peace I am a middle-of-the-roader, and am accord ingly ahot at from both sides. My preparedness friends criticize me as a contributor to peace movements; my peace-at-any-price friends regard me suspiciously because I advise a strong national defense There is too much heat on both sides, and not enough facing of the hard facts. The horrors of war ought to be constantly advertised like the hor rors of highway accidents. We need to be innoculated continuously also with the serum of caution against foreign propaganda. Thus far I go along with the peace workers. But when they talk about the causes of war they frequently talk nonsense. The World War, in its effects, la still going on; the depres sions of 1919-23 and of 1929-36 are as much a part of it aa was the Battle of the Argonne. Is anybody so child-like as to think that Big Business is as well off today as it would have been if peace had reigricd since 1914? Is there any banking house that would not have profited more from twenty years of peacer The real causes of war are not bankers or battle-ship builders or scheming politicians. The real causes are babies. Havelock Ellis pointed this out years ago in his Essays la War-Time. The French, with their declining birtn-rate, did not want war; the English people did not want it. The German peopie did not want It. But in forty-four years the Gernrms had increased from forty millions to eighty millions ? there was :he war pressure. Today Soviet Russia has about sixty people for each ac, c of tillable land; the United States has a hundred. But Italy nas more than four hundred; Germany more than five hun dred. and Japan more than twenty- four hundred! The nations with declining birth-rates cry, "Peace." The crowded nations talk about their "destiny." The rulers who ma':e war are not rulers really; they are distracted nurses, at their wits end because of too many bab.es SUKDAYKHOOL LESSON hy line Charlat E. Dunn Jttut M tiling Human Nttdt Luton for January 5 Ik. Lukt t :46 58. Golden Tori: Lukt 1: 46, 47. The lesson* lor the first tlx months of the new y??r we taken from th? gospel of Luke. Under the general title, "Jesus Meeting Human Needs, | we ? h a 11 study what hat been aptly called tha most beautiful book in the world. Luke's gospel, the longest of the four, gives the moat comprehensive pic ture of the Master we have. Note first that It is the work of an educated man. Luke was a prac ticed writer, with the richest vocabu- ? ? , lary of any of the ***' ?**- D**" evangelists. Then, too, it is worth while recal ling that the picture Luke draws is similar to that of hi* friend and fel low-traveler Paul. We can agree with Tertullian that Paul was the illumina tor of Luke. - This explains the uni versal note in Luke's message. Luke, with Paul, believed that the gospel was meant for the Gentiles as well as for the Jews. But perhaps the moat appealing feature of this third gospel is its mag nificent compassion for the poor and wretched. Here the humanity of Jesus appears to wonderful advantage. Lake alone records the parables of the Great Supper, Dives and Lazanu, the Prodigal Son, the Good Samaritan, and the Pharisee and the Publican. And he only tells the story of the penitent thief who hung beside the dying Master. Jesus came, according to Lake, on a mission of grace. His purpose was "to seek and to save that which was lost" Luke was a big hearted physician, with a generous soul, and so naturally stresses the sympathy of the Master for the under privileged. Thus Luke's picture emphasizes the tenderness of Jesus. Dante said, long ago, that Lu!:? describes most fully "the meekness and gentleness ol Christ." These Qualities were fully present ;n Marjr, the s*'eet mother of the Lord, whose famous scng, "The Magnificat", Is our lesson text. Read it for its oeauty, truth and strength. How well it summarizes the root meaning of the gospel message I i GOOD CANVAS HELPS PROTECT SEED BEOS A good grade of canvas having 1 26 strands to the Inch used on i tobacco seed beds will help pro tect the young plants from flea beetles and cold weather. To keep the beetles out how ever, the seed bed must be made 1 tight, said C. H. Brannon, exten sion entomologist at State College. He luggested that six-inch boards, stood on their sides, be ' placed around the bed, with soil : banked around their bases. The canvas Is stretched1 over the boards. ' ' As additional protection, he aaid, a atrip of ground about two feet wide encircling the bed may be planted to tobacco. If the to bacco in the strip Is kept poison ed regularly, It will serve as a trap for the beetles. Poles may be placed around the margin of the trap. Since flea beetles often wreak serious damage to tobacco beds, Brannon la urging the growers to take every precaution possible. He also pointed out that nap thalene flakes have been found good In the control of small worms in the tobacco beds. Tight beds, he added, will hold the gas much longer than a loosely constructed bed, and In them a more effec tive worm control is possible. Even if a grower does not plan to seed his tobacco bed for a few weeks yet, Brannon said, he should start preparing the beds right away so as to have them In ( good condition at seeding time. . Detailed instructions for con troling weeds and insects in to bacco plant beds may be obtained free by growers upon application ' to the agricultural editor at ' State College, Raleigh. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United States Civil Serrlce Commission has announced open competitive examinations aa fol lows: Junior graduate nurse, $1,(24 a ye^r. Assistant to technician (fores try), $1,(20 a year. Assistant geophysiclst, $2,(00 a, year. Accountant and auditor, assis tant accountant and auditor, sen ior accounting and auditing as sistant, $2,000 to $3,200 a year. Bureau of Motor Carriers, Inter-1 state Commerce Commission. Certain specified education and experience are required in connec tion with these examinations. Full Information may be pb-i tained from J. A. Wheleas Secre tary of the United States Civil* service Board or Examiners, at the post office In this city. If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do j in hard times we could all ac quire a competence. f