vr.E TWO
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1932
A Newsy Trip
Around The Wor
By Elizabeth Saunders
POULTRY
MI'S
LOAFING HEN NOT
WANTED IN FLOCK
Watch for the Slacker and
Eliminate Her.
In Manchester, N. H., when Co3- In Oklahoma City the "wild goose
tas Tergis, 70, was charged with chase" for police was a tame duck
keeping liquor for sale, his mother chase. Answering a call that "suspic
Efrosie Tergis, 103, pleaded guilty ious characters" were prowling a
in his stead. 'round a neighborhood with flashlights
. . . in the dark hours of early morning,
Detroit, Mich., when Kemi La- a detail oi omcers iouna two num-
of $109. bo on ers trying to round up tneir aeeoy
his telephone
In
i a charere
his telephone bin ior a can m "-u .pcvi.
ba, he did a bit of sleuthing around
the apartment building where he liv
ed. He found that Miss Mary Vunck jn Manhattan, an advertisement in
had a boy friend in Havana and call- tne pubHc Notices column of the
fed in police. Miss Vunck admitted Herald Tribune read: "AUTHOR
niaking the call, on Lagae's telephone Economist offers lien future royal
So she now faces a warrant charging t;es for board and research expen
breaking and entering a light house-:seSi Completing comprehensive work
keeping apartment. for publication. Believes found so-
ilution inter-governmental debt prob-
In Okanogan, Wash., deputy sher-:iem anQ- keys to recovery.
iffs found Bob Gurgle with 10 gal-; .
Ion f moonshine just about the time ;
fco t m. Gurcle started eurghng in rictsourgn, ra., last weeK to-
evidence out of bottles, but Gurgle liceman Walter Reese saw an alley
couldn't gurgle fast enough and cat with its head caught in a tin can.
went to jail for liquor possession. , Unable to free the cat the policeman
decided to shoot it. First shot blew
In Loncoln. Neb. Attorney General the can off, sent the cat scuttling;
Sorenson said: "Persons born to be .down the street, unhurt,
politicians should be born with a ;
third arm to pat themselves on the ;
back." i
In Indianapolis, two cruising po-j
lice officers spotted a prowler at the :
rear of a residence. So did a bull-1
dog. Before the officers could act, I
the dog chased the prowU r almost in-,
to their automobile. i
Pittsburgh's youngest hitch-hiker, j
Dick Hoffman, 2, was picked up two
miles from home as hes tood at the j
curb of a busy street, signaling with j
a little plump thumb. Detective R. I
Tulley led the wanderer to a police
station shortly before a frantic moth-j
er phoned the desk sergeant. Said :
she: "If there's a patch on the seat)
of his overalls, it's him." Tully
turned Dick upside-down the pateh
was there. i
Trench Silo Best
for All Purposes
Colorado Man Enthusiastic
Over Its Cheapness
and Efficiency.
"The trench silo can't be beat," snys
Walter Anderson, Ampahoe county
(Colorado) farmer living on the Wild
mere farm. "I wouldn't know what to
do without It," lie adds.
In telling his experiences with a
trench silo to A. II. Tedtnon, county
agricultural extension agent, Ander
son says:
"I prefer to cut my corn when I put
It in the silo, because It Is easier to get
It out later, but by putting It In whole
you would save the cost of cutting.
If you will cover the silage the day
you are through filling, you will have
no moldy silage,
"In covering my trench silo 1 use
dirt only. I tried straw for a while,
but found that dirt Is best. The way
I cover my silo is to just take two
The Associated Press discovered
Hot Coffee, Whynot and 0. K.; Flor
ida has Sonny Bay, Two Egg, Coon
and Sisters Welcome; North Caroli
na has Hog Quarter, Maiden and
Red Bug; Virginia has Ega, All
Swallow Well and Topnot; Askansas
has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy ! horg08 nnd a gUp tne team on the enJ
Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has of a long cul,ie on the other side of the
Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Geor-, trench and one man drives the team
gia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and j while the other works the slip. I put
New York. j on about four Inches of dirt, which
" conies off clean and nice.
In Evansville, Ind. sirens screech-;
ing, five fire companies pulled up in
front of St. Mary's Hospital. Jump
ing form their trucks, they found a
man trying to man a letter in tne
alarm box. They're still doing that !
"Bertha" and "Oscar" are stills
in operation at the University of Ok
lahoma and prohibition officers can
do nothing about them. The stills are
used by the petroleum engineering
department for analysis of crude oil.
Students supplied the names.
In New Philadelphia, 0., Robert
Ueekley's sister Mary, 17, is about to
become his mother-in-law. Give up?
It's like this: Robert's engagement
has been announced to Mary Dale
Reed. Meanwhile his sister and his
girl's father, James T. Reed, have
taken out a marriage license.
"Straw Is not needed, but If the dirt
Is very dry It will pay to wet It clown
a little so It will pack In good shape.
If the side walls are very dry It will
pay to take a hose nnd wet them well.
Yuu won't get any spoiled silage If
the walls are wet so as not to take
the moisture out of the cut corn.
"I always use sideboards on the
sides of my trench and build these
boards up just as high as I need to
take the corn I have to use. This ex
tension, when backed up with some
dirt, gives plenty of room. If those
who fill their trenches with whole corn
would use a sharp spade to cut the
corn down Into the holes, It would
help them get a good, tight pack. As
for me, I would never spend a penny
on anything but a trench silo. It has
so mnny advantages over the other
kinds."
Trench silos are advocated by the
Colorado Agricultural college as a
cheap and efficient means of conserv-
Believe it or not, but according to ' 'nS feed for live stock.
Riploy Miss B. Bates of Chicago is ,
the owner of an ear of wheat and
corn growing together on one cob,
In Manhattan, a clinic patient sit
ting in St. Vincent's Hospital waiting
room late at night saw another pa-
a: i. i j i i i . , .
uent leap suaueniy into tne air, cry
out, "I'm a fireman! I'm a fireman!"!
and fell back dead. Examination show
ed he had a dagger between his
shoulder blades. I
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In Dallas, Tex., corporation court !
Judge Muse took a quick lesson in '
Spanish. His teacher was an aged ,
Mexican charged with vagrancy. The ;
Mexican launched into a voluble ex-1
planation of something. Judge Muse i -
attempted unsuccessfully to" inter
rupt. ' Finally the Judge said in des
" peration, "Oh' you want to get out
of here. Well, go!" The Mexican re
sponded in "crisp1' English, "Thank
you, judge."
Altho E. C. Parks, of Seattle,
Wash., was unaware that the bale of
hay or! the rear bumper of his car
was on fire, firemen did and extin
guished the blaze on the run, after
a three block chase.
In San Rafael, Calif., weeing prow-!
lcr A. Monti tnter a house, Deputy!
Sheriff George Smith followed, con-'
Iroritod Monti. Drawing his
Deputy Sheriff Smith shot hi
Lamb-Feeding Pointers
Proved to Have Merit
How heavy should a lamb be at 5
months old? One year Ralph Kurtz,
Allen county, Indiana, made his lambs
average 07 pounds at 5 months. An
other year they averaged 00 pounds
at the same age. Some, of course,
weighed more than. 100 pounds each,
and it Is Mr. Kurtz's ambition to ob
tain an average of 100 pounds.
Mr. Kurtz, docks and castrates at 3
weeks old. By that time the lambs
will begin to. eat grain, so he makes
a creep and gives them corn and oats
with alfalfa hay. At times silage Is
fed.
"After grass gets good lambs will
not consume much gr'aln," said Mr.
Kurtz, "but we feed It as long as they
will eat It We try to finish lambs on
alfalfa pasture. That will give them
a good finish without grain and gives
us our cheapest gains."
Mr. Kurtz keeps 25 grade Shrop
shire ewes and has about 30 lambs
a year to market. In the fall sheep
are given the run of the farm. They
clean up vegetation In fence rows,
glean grain dropped In harvesting and
eat weeds or volunteer grain In stub
ble fields. Kvvps "get no grain until
about two weeks he fore Imnliing tlnje.
Catawba
a Cojntv fanniM's fin:!.
J'is'ol, ing that they can g-ct one-third mo.x
msplf in fnv tVioi".. ,.!,,. a: . ...
t'. a j. .... - ,, , ' """.'. i "is season ny KUi-
.v. no mt' signs ot rnooa i row
ier iynti -ave him.;,!
iiP.
ing and plucking the
fait.
birds befov;
Dlscoverlng the hens that are loafing
and are not paying for their board Is
an easy task if a few simple rules are
followed, asserts P. B. Zumbro, spe
cialist In poultry for the agricultural
extension service at the Ohio State
university, co-operating with county i
agricultural agents. ;
Whether or not a hen Is In produc
tion, he says, may be determined by
examining the vent, pubic bones, comb,
wattles, and ear lobes. The vent of
a laying hen Is enlarged, soft, pliable,
moist, and free from yellow color.
That of a hen out of production will
be dry and stiff.
The pubic bones of the laying hen
are wide apart, usually the width
of two or more fingers, compared with
the close-fitting bones of the non-producer,
which are no farther apart than
the width of one or two fingers. In
the laying hen there Is considerable
"j depth between the rear of the keel
and the pubic bones, usually the width
of two or more fingers, compared with
the one-or-two-finger width of the hen
out of production.
The comb is large, full, and of
glossy appearance in the case of the
pullet or hen about to lay. This
condition lasts, as a rule, until the
peak of production. Toward the end
of production It loses Its gloss and
prominence, and although still red. It
appears limp and wilted. The comb
of a hen that has quit laying is small,
contracted, dry, and usually covered
with a white scale or dandruff. The
comb, Zumbro adds, is one of the best
external characters to Indicate non
production In hens as they are ob
served in the pen or yard.
All breeds and varieties of chickens
mny be culled on the basis of these
factors, he points out. However, pig
mentation Is another characteristic In
dicating whether or not birds are lay
ing. Birds of the yellow skinned va
rieties, such as Leghorns, Rocks, reds,
and Wyandottes, show yellow color In
the beak, skin, and shanks before they
start laying. It Is similar to the yel
low In the yolk of the egg. The col
oring material Is provided by the feed,
largely from yellow corn and the
green, leafy parts of plants. When
the bird starts to lay, the coloring ma
terial in the feed Is used for coloring
yolks of eggs, and the amount that has
been stored In the skin, beak, nnd
shanks Is gradually used up. This
constitutes a fading or bleaching
process, the extent depending upon
the number of eggs produced.
Pastures Are Important
In these days of low-priced grain
and comparatively high costs of pro
duction, farmers are turning more and
more to Increased pasture acreage as
one r.i'lhod of reducing costs. A re
cent bulb-tin published by Purdue uni
versity emphasizes the importance Of
good pastures in a balanced system of
farming.
A study made in southern Indiana
revealed the fact that the farms that
had one-half of the acreage In pasture
crops were considerably better off
than those that had only one-fourth
of the area in grass and three-fourths
In grain crops. Tree copies of the bul
letin, which Is No. 3.10, may be had by says.
writing to the university at Lafayette,
Ind. Prairie Farmer.
cured and dried. The weights show; The stems of the common vari tv
that the common variety produced are smaller than the ethers and ther
13900 pounds of dried hay to the acre fore all of it may be consumpd in v,e
wun me lenn.ssee
3580 pounds. Kobe
' 341)0 pound;
hay.
num-
G next with
was third with I
and Korean fourth with I Mr- Blalr "as conducted a
ioo, i-n : ner or npid nnmnncrmtinwr.
loo-iu puunus. I " 1 1 c un !ps.
pedeza all over eastern North Caro-
I This demonstration again proves Una this past season in an effort t"
Vi.jf flin crt.nnllo imnfrtl'flii VAripripC: Tl r, r,i 1 1 a vl -us iUr nvnwx .
'" I"--!'"1"" among tne cron
cannot always be depended upon to farmer oi that section and also to d
outyield the common. This latter va- termine the most adaptable variet"
riety makes l:ss of a show than the! for hay, seed and pasture. Some of
others because of its low habit of 'these tests have been very valuabl
growth. However, it often compen-:and indications are now that a i
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sists xur mis uy me K'eaier num- siuerauie acreage Will be planted
Der oi staiKs on tne ground, rsiair small grain next spring.
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SAYS COMMON LESPEDEZA
BEST FOR HAY IN EAST
By F. H. Jeter
RALEIGH, Nov. 7 The common
variety of lespedeza made the best
yield of hay per acre in a demonstra
tion conducted on th farm of D.
W. Eagley of Moyock, Currituck
County, by farm agent T. B. Elliott.
"All of the varieties used in the
demonstration produced within a few
hundred pounds of each other but
the common was in the lead," says
Enos C. Blair, extension agronomist
at State College, who had charge of
the demonstration. "We planted the
lespedeza in March on black land and
cut it on October 3. However, the
hay was not weighed until October
24, by which time, it was thoroughly
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Cost of Layers' Feed
Under normal conditions it takes
57.2 eggs to pay for the cost of feed
for a pullet during the pullet year,
figures supplied by the Dominion ex
perimental station at Lennoxvlllle,
Que., show. This figure Is arrived at
from an average of 12 years' results.
The number of eggs required to pay
the cost of feed per bird varies with
prevailing market prices from year to
year. During the period of the report
It has ranged from as low as 50 eggs
In 1022 to a peak of C9 in 1928, while
it took 51 to pay the feed cost In 1931.
When, eggs are cheap feed Is, usually,
correspondingly cheap. This year
feed is cheap In localities enjoying
fair cmps. Tosslbly the egg value
of a pullet's feed will be less than the
average. Montreal Kerald.
Poultry Facts
Canning old roosters is the best way
to dispose of them this year.
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The most common troubles with lit
tle chicks are those due to crowding
and contaminated soil
In handling ducks pick them up by
the neck rnther than by the legs,
which are apt to break easily.
A new-laid egg Is said to be about
00 per cent water, and if the birds
cannot obtain enough, the egg organs i
are bound to suffer.
Pullets should be fed lots of grain,
Including some yellow corn, advises
Miss Cora Cooke, extension specialist
In poultry, Minnesota university farm.
Ducks lay their eggs In the morn
ing and should be confined until 9:30
a. m. The average Pekin duck lays
from 100" to 120 eggs each season.
'""
Proper care' and. feed prevents a
well-bred pullet from molting in the
falL Plenty of feed wil not make the
pullets too fat
It la most Important that the hen's
droppings, about 50 pounds a year,
should be properly stored or treated.
The simplest and best way Is to mix
the material with twice Its weight of
dry earth and keep covered when
possible.
Early laying by pullets is controlled
primarily by breeding. The time of
laying can be influenced only a few
weeks by feeding but it is not advis
able to "hold back" pullets In the
fall
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