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Artificial Breeding Of Dairy Cattle By F. H. JETER The advantages of artificial breed ing of dairy cattle are as follows: The services of superior sires are available to all farmers in an organ ized area. It eliminates the necessity of keep ing a bull or hauling cows to neigh bors' bull. Money saved by eliminating the investment in a bull, plus the cost of feed and labor will more than pay for service fees for artificial breed ing. It eliminates the danger of keep ing a bull. It aids in preventing the spread of disease. The bull semen is carefully checked before cows are bred, thereby detect ing sterility or low fertility before serious delays are caused in breed ing operations. Avoids the danger of mating large heavy bulls to small heifers or cows. Makes necessary the keeping of accurate breeding records. By elimination the necessity of keeping a bull, an extra cow can be kept and the profit from her will pay for all or a large part of the cost of breeding artificially. The quality of dairy cattle can be improved far more rapidly be cause superior sires are made avail able to more dairymen. Are there any disadvantages ? None that cannot be overcome by properly operated breeding associa tions. D-o not expect to settle cows on which the bull has failed. It is not a cure for shy breeders or cows with diseased reproductive organs. The little child was sitting, demur rely on the couch, watching her mother smoking a cigarette. Her little nose was wrinkled and in her pale blue eyes there was an expres sion of childish disillusionment. Fi nally, unable to stand it any longer, she burst out in her wavering fal setto: "Mother, when in the heck are you going to learn to inhale ?" Invest in U. S. Savings Bonds. GOING TO TRADE OR BUY A NEW CAR? For Information regarding financing and automobile insurance, it will be to your advantage to Insure with full coverage Form Bureau Mutual Automobile Insur ance—which will fully protect your In terests and those of the financing organ ization which you select. FOR FULL INFORMATION—CALL OR WRITI J. H. TATE, Agent Office: 32 N. Madison Phone 120-X Representing Fare Bureau Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. Bmh QMct Ctluabus, Ohit Can Black-Draught Help That .Dull, Dopey Feeling? yes, Black-Dratight may help that dull, dopey feeling if the only rea son you feel that way Is because of constipation. Black-Draught, the friendly laxative, is usually prompt and thorough when taken as di rected. it costs only a penny or less a dose. That's why it has been a best-seller with four generations. If you are troubled with such symp toms as loss of appetite, headache, upset stomach, flatulence, physical fatigue, sleeplessness, mental hazi ness, bad breath — and if these 6ymptoms are due only ta consti pation — then see what Black Draught may dQ lor, you. Get a package today. Advertising is good for business. The Importance Of Good Milk By JACK D. COBB County Sanitarian As a service to the people of Mc Dowel county your Health Depart ment, in co-operation with the news papers of McDowell county, intends to publish from time to time as a public health service articles of real oublic health significance to the community. Today's article will deal with milk supplies which should be of interest to every citizen in the county. On the positive side of the public health, ledger, milk possesses many ad vantages over other types of food used for human consumption. Cer-. tainly it is one of our esential ar ticles of diet. It has repeatedly been proclaimed "nature's most nearly perfect food, possessing practically all of our essential dietary require ments, with the exception of rough age, some iron and perhaps Vitamin C. If we examine the milk consumer nations of the world one can readily see that modern progress and civil ization, as we normally think of it, is largely confined to those places and areas Classed as milk producers and consumers. Since milk is classed as "nature's most nearly perfect food" yout Health Department is vitally inter ested in increasing the per capita consumption of good milk through out McDowell county and North Car olina. Most children should have a minimum of one quart daily v.nd adults one pint. Within recent years and because of growing demand for Grade A milk, many Grade A dairies and pas turization plants have been con structed throughout this section of the state, and yet this demand for good milk supplies is far from being satisfied, since many of our people are still consuming milk from un approved sources and car loads of milk are being shipped daily into North Carolina from other states. Why is your Health Department so concerned with good, clean, sani tary milk supplies produced on dairy farms awarded the coveted Grade A rating ? Here are some of the reasons why the negative side of the ledger often times gives the public health sanitation and health officer night mares: First of all milk is the one farm product which proves to be the most difficult to harvest, handle and trans port to the market in a clean and unspoiled condition. Secondly, it has been found to be 1 an ideal culture medium for the rapid growth of bac teria. These bac- j teria can include disease germs,; causing among others the following j diseases: Tuberculosis, Scarlet Fe-1 ver, Typhoid Fever, Scarlet Fever i Paratyphoid Fever, Undulent Fe ver, Diphtheria, Dysentery, Diarrhea and Septic Sore Throat. In fact public health authorities ir. the past have attributed more deaths throughout this country due to con taminated milk than from all of our other food stuffs combined. Thirdly, it is common knowledge! that the opaqueness of milk pro- j uces an ideal camouflage or covering i to .hide dirt and other filthy sub-! stances. The public health bateri-1 ologist in many a modern laboratory j often times is not unduly surprised i to find more bacteria in some samples of so called "barnyard" j milk than he would find in a equal j amount of creek water into which our sewage mains discharge. Fourthly, arid this should con cern the mothers and fathers of all children, it is a well known fact that we feed much of our milk to the two age groups in the two extrem ities of life, that is, our young chil dren and our old folks, the toothless one, so to speak, to those in which probably the flame of life flickers lowest and the age groups ordinarily weakest and most susceptible to dis ease. Certainly, these most loved of all age groups deserve milk that is clean, graded and safe beyond all question. Certainly so important an article of diet, and yet one which often begins to rot before leaving the cow, deserves every possible sanitary precaution. Your Health Department is fully aware of its immense responsibility in protecting the milk sheds of this section, and it urges you to consume] mor.e milk but that you demand the best ,either Grade A pasturized milk and milk products preferably, or Grade A raw. A later article will deal with the major sanitary requirements of the U. S. Public Health Service, milk ordinance and code, which has been adopted by the Burke-Caldwell-Mc-1 Dowell District Board of Health for the protection of its citizens. Two women drivers were chatting. First—"I don't see why they say women are such awful drivers. I have run into lots more men than women." Second—"So have I. Even when ! they were parked." HO j INCHES FILL FLAT WITH POROUS 50IL TO WITHIN ■ONE-tNCHOF TOP COVER. WITH LAYER- OF SPHAGNUM MOSS | PAN OF WATER-I 40 WATT FLOURESCENT LIGHT WITH REFLECTOR. SUSPENDED 12 INCHES A&OVE FLAT BLOCKS TO HOLD FLAT ABOVE PAN GLASS FIBER OR CLOTHES LINE WICK Inexpensive Equipment Will Insure Ample Light and Water to Your Flants, and Protect Them From Disease. Science Designs Seed Box To Start Plants in Home Grandfather's methods of sowing garden seeds in a box to grow in the kitchen window during the win ter have been subjected by experi ment stations to a series of rigid tests. Sometimes grandpa succeed ed, and sometimes he failed; with out knowing exactly why. Science demands first to know why, and then seeks a way to pre vent failure. If all the protective measures which have been recom mended in the last few years were applied to a single seed box (see illustration) here is what it would have. 1—Automatic watering, by the wick method, to make sure the soil never dried out. 2—A layer of sphagnum moss on top of the soil, in which the seeds were sown, to prevent diseases, es pecially "damping off," which can not develop in the anti-biotic moss. 3—A lamp, preferably fluorescent, suspended a foot above the box, so it can be turned on to supplement the daylight, whenever light is needed. With this equipment, none of which is expensive, any amateur gardener ought to be able to sow seeds of flowers or vegetables in an indoor box, and bring the seed ling plants up to transplanting size without disaster. Most important of these devices is probably wick watering, which is as simple as an oil lamp. A wick, preferably of fibre glass, is passed through a hole centered in the bottom of the box. The top of the wick is imbedded in the soil, the bottom drops into a pan below the box, and as long as there is water in the pan, the soil will be kept moist. With a large enough pan you can leave the box for days without attention. Sphagnum moss will not allow plant fungi to develop. By spread ing a layer of moss on top of the soil, sowing the seeds in it, and covering lightly with more moss, germination will be quick, and loss by disease nil. But the moss will not take up water from below, and if wick-watering is used, it must be watered from above until the seed lings grow roots which reach the soil. Artificial lighting is not neces sary, where a south window un shaded by outside trees or building, is available. But where it is not, if a fluorescent lamp is hung over the box, as indicated by the di agram, and kept lighted all night, the plants will get enough light. It will not be needed until they sprout. Mazda lights may be used, but they should be hung higher, so that the night temperature of the box does not rise above 65 degrees. THE ANSWERS 1. Senate: Democrats, 34; Repub licans, 42. House: Democrats, 262; Republi cans, 171. 2. Sam Rayburn, (D.), of Texas. 3. Kenneth R. McKellar, (D.), of Tennessee. 4. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., and Charles Halleck. 5. Robert A. Taft and Arthur H. Van den burg. 6. Nine 7. 201 are lawyers 8. House Ways and Means 9. House Rules 10. Approximately one billion, fifty millions. Maried women in North Carolina were first given control of their property by the State Constitution in 1808. Don't let static spoil this picture.. • Let us check your radio NOW! Does your radio squawk and cackle wh«n you settle down for some listening pleasure? Does it fade out? 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