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fVN BOARD THE BYRD FLAG V SHIP, JACOB RUPPERT, ANT ARCTICA, Jan. 29 (via Mackay Ra dio)—Well, here I am folks. Back again on the good old Jake. Filthy dirty and no chance to get clean. Dog tired, every joint I possess ach ing madly. But gosh! What muscles ( am developing! I’ve been told by the club secre tary, by radio, that I’ve been lost. 1 didn't know it. But I’ve had the amazing experience of spending ithree nights — or rather the tiny parts of night I could spare for sleep, with the sun shining all jnight—in a tent with a snow floor. Ana omy me ex haustion of 20 hours a day of the most terrific phy sical labor could make me sleep on that cracking snow and Ice floor. I’ll never see a crack in a concrete sidewalk again without ’ wanting to run John O’Brien ocvuiiu mate wi awa; i i u ui iu the Ruppert Down here you’ll «ee a tiny crack you Could hardly (>ut a knife-blade into. A few min utes later it is three feet wide and you’re sprinting away from it as Cast as you can go. In half an hour a piece of territory as big as ten football fields, with a horrible grinding sound, has slid into the ocean, which is 1600 feet deep around these parts and darn cold. Nice stuff to sleep on, eh? My job won’t sound impressive to you. Checking gas and oil. Prosaic enough, I imagine, doing that in som9 warehouse or freight station. But on the edge of a slippery, crumbling cliff or snow and ice which is likely to disappear any : minute and take you with it, well, {.prosaic la not Quite the word, be-' t lieve me. i All day yesterday and practically f all night we worked with furious } energy on the ice to take advan J tage of good weather. The ship had {been able, with the aid of our won • derful motor boat cruiser, to snug jgle up to the treacherous and un \steady ice cliffs after drifting about ithe bay for three days to save her f from being sunk in & smother of j falling ice cakes as big as houses, ton the end of the big boom the * landing net was spilling radio equip tment and great red drums of gaso line and oil out onto the ice. And George Noville, C. P. Lindley, of Warren. R. I., several other fellows and myself were working frantical ly loading them onto the dog sled ges and tractor sledges for the mad dash away from the edge of the ice jto Pressure Camp, four miles back, I where the ice hasn't started to 'crack up yet. ! Admiral Byrd, on a tour of inspec tion, had located several cracks be hind us but we were too busy to ;worry. He worried, though, as he ialways does about his men when there is danger around. He consl iklng up of the bay ice us problem. But we bridge, we through a Lind i to sure Camp when suddenly we heard the four ominous blasts on that deep whistle on the Ruppert. It scared the wits out of us. This way the signal to cast loose ship and dash aboard. In other words, it meant both we and the ship were in deadly danger and the ship was going away from there immediate ly. Before we could move a muscle the ice started breaking up all around us and underneath us, with that awful grinding sound. The sharp eyes of Admiral Byrd and Commodore Gjertsen had spotted its beginning from the ship. Tre mendous cracks appeared like ma gic on all sides of us. One opened up directly under Lindley and he went head over heels into it, out of sight and almost took George and me witn nim. witn an our sirengtu we hauled him out, like a huge fish, and in the excitement Noville gave him a good kick, for no good reason at all. On the piece of ice that was fall ing next to the ship were several packing boxes of precious supplies and ten big drums of priceless gaso line. These simply had to be res cued. The big boom swung out quickly over the side and almost buried us with the landing net. Working like mad we rolled the drums and boxes hurriedly into the net and it was jerked into the air and onto the broad steel deck of the Ruppert. Thank the Lord that’s not cracking up! On all sides men were scurrying about on the ice—some to dig out the buried steel hatch cov ers to which our mooring lines are attached and casting them off. others rushing to the makeshlfl gang plank to the ship, made of telephone poles and more hatch cov ers. Up that gangplank we scamper ed madly and the men on board got busy hauling It In. Will you believe It,.five minutes after that whistle went off, the ship was moving out to open water, just as the whole area where we had ^en working, hundreds of yards of it, tumbled Into the ocean. Oh boy, some ex citement! But we’re getting used to these sudden moves. Nothing happens slowly down here. Wonder If 1 shall ever be able to accustom myself to a peaceful life at home again. 1 certainly will for the first six months because I’ll sleep that long the minute 1 reach there. You should see us. Our nice whits working suits are filthy black. So are we and the beards we are grow lng are comical to see. We haven': had a real bath since we left New Zealand and the Ruppert, being ar oil burner, has deposited on all o/ us a nice layer of sticky, oily soot which no amount of cold cream seems to budge. If I ever get into a nice white tiled bathroom, with plenty of hot water and towels and scrubbing brushes, 1*11 kiss its walls and eat the soap. The club tells me that all the cards and working maps which members get without cost have been sent to date but that some of them have been returned because names and addresses were not clearly enough written by applicants. Write them about this If your card and map haven’t arrived and they’ll send them. If you haven’t applied yet for membership, which costs nothing, do so now, with your friends. Simply send us a self-ad ressed stamped envelope and your bershlp card will be sent you diately, with the map being he following day. Address lope to Arthur Abele, Jr. erica Aviation and Ex lub. Hotel Lexington nd Lexington Avenue, S More Red Meat From New Pastures Every basic crop producer has ample opportunity to provide him self and his tenants with plenty of red meat, and dairy products, now that the crop adjustment program is under way, says L. I. Case, ani mal husbandman at State College. With the reduction of basic crops—cotton, tobacco, corn, hogs, wheat, and the like—certain acre ages must be set aside, kjuch of the land thus retired is suited for pasture, Case says, and should be used as such. Case adVises the use of beef cows that are fairly good milkers. In this way, the landowner may be provided with all the milk and cream his family needs and at t.ae cimp fimp frt raiw ralvM into good beef animals. Beef that is not consumed fresh after the slaughter can well be canned for consumption throughout the year. Beef produced on the acreages retired from the produc tion of basic crops cannot be mark eted, Case warned. Two acres of good pasture are needed for each cow. A ton and a half of hay and 12 bushels of corn, or the equivalent, should also be provided for each animal. Case urged farmers to seed pas ture lands where thy do not al ready have a good stand of grasses On loamy soils of the Coastal Plains a seed mixture of: carpet grass, 10 pounds; lespedeza, 15 pounds; and dallis grass, 5 pounds has proved good. On course dry, sandy soils th< following mixture is good: Ber muda, 6 pounds; ditllis grass, i pounds and lespedeza, 18 pounds On black, peaty soils blue grass anc herds grass with lespedeza are good Modern science, it is said, has an nihiliated distance, but some of u think we need more distance fron those who are talking at us anc trying to sell us things. Mountain rarmers \ Adopt Dairy Program — t Economical production is featur- I ing the dairy farming program in 5 the foothill and mountain counties * this year, says F. R. Farnham, ex- 1 tension dairyman at N. C. State College. 3 Dairy) and livestock producers'1 particularly are seeking advice froini j their county agents for ways ta 1 lower their production expenses so as to meet the prevailing prices and 1 still make a profit. 3 Specialists in the dairy field of fice have worked out a four-point 1 program which is being recoin- I mended through the county agents 1 as follows: ^ Prepare a trench silo; grow a winter cereal hay crop; grow plenty j of lespedeza, and provide lounging * rooms for housing the cows during ( the winter months. The trench silo has been proven s a tremendous advantage, Farnham said, in nrovidine silane for winter. ‘ A good ceral hay crop can be ' planted with three bushels of ;:tch or Australian winter peas to the : acre. Where an ample supply of * silage is available, lespedeza may be 1 plowed under and used chiefly for soil building. Barns remodeled so as to elimi- ( nate many box stalls will provide 1 excellent lounging room for the 1 cattle, which should be dehorned ji before turned in together. Ample ventilation should be provided Farnham pointed out that ma nure from cattle kept in shelters is much better conserved than that from cattle allowed to roam over dried or dead pasture lands. It being fashionable for the ladies to wear flowers, chose of us who raise gardens will probably have plenty of ragweed and (wormwood blossoms to send the girl friend next summer. The government is supposed to ; have a hog-corn program, so it should tell us what to do with all ! the road hogs, and the people who are getting corned. Jeveland Kt. L items Miss Ruby Johnson, who under rent an operation for appendicitis fonday at the H. F. Long hospital, tatesville, is getting along nicely, er many friend's will be glad to :arn. _ Miss Rebecca Niblock of Apex, nd Mrs. Jefferson Canoy of High tint spent last week with their arents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Nib jck of Cool Spring. Miss Viola Gaither is on the sick 1st at this writing. We wish her speedy recovery. Mr. W. H. Burton and Mr. John ’hifer are also on the sick list. it Phifer has double pneumonia nd as very low. We wish them ioth a speedy recovery. Mrs. J. A. Vaughan of Cool pring is spending a few days with ter daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Smith, f Monroe. Miss Mary Pence of Harmony pent a few days here with relatives Mrs. Roy Maness, and little son f Reidsville, visited Mrs. J. F. Goodman last week. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Fraley, nd daughter, Mary Katherine, pent a while Monday night at the lome of P. A. Johnson. It is remarked that animals eat inly when necessary, but in the :ase of the animals known as boys, t seems to be necessary about all ibout all the time. 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