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electric fences
not always safe
Improperly Charged Wiring
May Kill Live Stock.
Bv David S. Weaver. Agricultural
‘Vneineer North Carolina State
College.—WNU Service.
Caution should be exercised in the
use of the electric fence, which is
becoming so popular with farmers
in pasturing live stock. While elec
tric fences have met with general
acceptance because the cost of the
fence and the cost of operation is
materially less than the standard
type of stock fencing, all electric
fencing does not have a clear slate
of safety.
Reports by investigators have
shown several instances where stock
has been killed by wiring that was
improperly charged. In some in
-1 stances it was homemade contrap
tions which were rigged up by per
sons who did not know what degree
of shock the apparatus was deliver
ing and did not understand how
much shock was necessary or safe
for live stock.
A word of caution to those who
might be contemplating installing
an electric fence would be to secure
the equipment from those sources
which have had extensive experi
ence and have the equipment on a
safe basis. The buyer also should
follow throughout the directions by
the manufacturer for safely install
ing the controller.
No person should attempt to in
stall a homemade apparatus with
out first consulting some person
competent of giving information as
to safety precautions to be followed.
The proper grounding of the wiring
system and electrical equipment
around farm buildings is also im
portant, as a slight shock from im
properly grounded systems has been
known to kill cattle.
Eggs With Thick Whites
Are in Greater Demand
I Eggs with a large quantity of
j thick albumen, or thick white, are
; regarded as of excellent quality.
[ Consumers also want eggs with a
[ large percentage of thick white be
| cause it stands up well around the
| yolk when broken. Such eggs are
I particularly in demand for poach
f hig.
Some fresh eggs have more thick
white than others, aod poultry spe
cialists of the United States depart
[ ment of agriculture have been ex-
I perimenting to find out why.
I They find that a hen’s ability to
I lay eggs with thick white is an in-
I herited characteristic. They find
■ that some hens lay eggs with a
I greater percentage of thick white
■ than other hens of the same breed
■ and in the same flock.
■ The season has a slight effect on
K the percentage of thick white, but
■ other factors, such as feed, periods
■ of light and heavy production, and
■ egg weight do not affect the per
■ centage.
■ At the national agricultural re
■ search center, Beltsville, Md., Dr.
K G. W- Knox, geneticist of the bureau
■ of animal industry, has bred two
■ flocks which further prove that the
■ thick white characteristic is inherit
■ ed. One flock lays eggs that aver
■ ®§ e 68 per cent thick white. Eggs
■ * om °^ er flock average only
■ 45 per cent thick white. The aver-
M a ® e fre sh egg has from 50 to 52
■ Per cent thick white.
■ Tree Booster
■ , iy° Un ® fr ees never stop growing
■ hen they are moved from the nurs
■ P ry *° Permanent locations, if a
■ ucketful of moistened peat moss is
■ P aced in each hole at planting time,
■ reveals the Country Home Maga
■ rP r ‘ Tukey, of the New
■ *ork Experiment station, found that
■ apple trees which were set in peat
■ ? P roduc ed six times as much
I P S r °wth the first season as those
■ rnat were planted without it. By
■ nootTj f° ur th season, the
■ 'f?J' fed ,fr ees looked like five-year
■ A 160-pound bale of peat moss,
H i- rec j ng ar °nnd $3, is enough for 50
I Outwitting the Weather
B p p /^‘ e cotton growers now
B irrpsn P f . CCt stands °f their crops,
81 ditinn 6C T e sod an( f weather con-
B clant S ’ ° y us lng variable-depth
B C. ’ Says the Country Home
I 5 The y Place the succes
■ Varv , eeds at different depths that
B twn ir/u™ a f ra °tion of an inch to
B the rif CheS ' wea ther is dry,
B a Sead n will come U P: if it
B If ! shal l°w ones come up.
m all th ltlons are 80 favorable that
MR | thriftif seeds germinate, the least
B time 316 * loed at chopping
B White Tomato
B agncn,tf nia State department of
B tomato an , nounc es a new white
B Clark ’ Q deve i°Ped by Dr. Jonas
Bl Gilrov U T farm f r and Physician of
Ml new cor. ine doctor describes the
B about mf ieS as .“absolutely white,
ij tomato k s . ame size as the ordinary
i fcveTo ’rt n UCh lt was
B Penrnprtot after eight years of ex-
H Fair sT’ / 13168 the Indiana
I Workers Gui d e - The Mexican
I tened if L he farm have chris-
I El Tomato Blanco.”
REMEMBER . . .
“It’s All In The Examination”
Or. L. N. Huff, 54 Broad Street
Healey Bldg., Atlanta —a Spe
cialist In Eye Refractions tor
over 30 years, and a State Board
Examiner for Optometrist since
1923, leads the South In eye ex- .
aminations.
Let Dr. Huff take care of the
only pair of eyes you will ever
have.
OR. L. N. HUFF
Poise in All Things, at
All Times, Is Important
Lord Northcliffe, the famous Brit
ish newspaper publisher, began to
earn his living before he was 20, and
by the time he was 30 he was a mil
lionaire and the foremost newspa
per publisher in England. Yet ha
regretted all his life that he had not
gone to college, relates a writer in
The Neighbor Magazine.
One day he explained this com
plex to Tom Clarke, author of My
Northcliffe Diary. “I have all the
money and all the social position I
want,” said Northcliffe. “Social po
sition is nothing to me, and never
was. Titles don’t appeal to me. You
are a young man; don’t worry about
those things. The important thing
is poise. How a man handles a situ
ation is a much more important
thing than the situation itself. Poise
In all things and at all times—so
few man have it.
“I have suffered from my disabil
ity throughout my career. You can
not know how much. I suffer from
the fact that I was not at Oxford. I
can never outlive it.
I “You have a son? Send him to a
good college—to the best college.
Not necessarily for three years or
more. That may be too long. Ona
year may be enough. It is a great
asset. It means a lot to a man. It
gives him in his impressionable
years the foundation of poise among
his fellow-creatures, which can ba
got nowhere else.”
Animals Always Fighting
But Some Die of Fright
There are some wild creatures
Which feel that they must fight an
other of their own species if they
meet; wolves and wild cats will
often do this. Certain domestic dogs
have this trait.
We have one diminutive wild ani
mal in this country, writes Oliver
G. Pike, F. Z. S., in London Tit-Bits
Magazine, which is a born fighter—
that pugnacious little warrior, the
common shrew. In country places
we often see what many think is a
dead mouse, but if we examine the
body we see that it has a very
pointed snout, and is smaller than
our common house mouse. At soma
seasons there are dozens of these
dead shrews to be seen. The causa
of death has been put down to sev
eral causes; one is the fact that if
two shrews meet they fight, but so
many are found dead that all can
not be the victims of these battles,
j The food of the shrew consists
almost entirely of insects. At cer
tain times these are hard to find,
and if the shrew goes without food
for about 24 it dies. It
searches for food on the ground, and
If this is frozen the little creators
soon starves.
The Brazilian Venice
Pernambuco is called the Brazil
ian Venice because of its canals,
deepened to ofltain filler for low
lands. The city is the easternmost
In South America, and the white
crested surf of the Atlantic never
ceases beating upon its shores. In
the old part of the city the streets
are narrow and the houses tall, the
Idea being to obtain the maximum
of shade.
How Snakes Crawl
A snake cannot cross anything
Smooth. It must have a rough sur
face to pull its body along by rhyth
mic contractions. It cannot crawl*
for example, on smooth Ice or glass
—so if you are afraid of snakes,
surround yourself with ice or glass
and rest assured none will bother
you.
Lincoln Medal
A strange coincidence distin
guishes the Lincoln medals struck
at Chicago early in 1865 from other
varieties commemorating our mar
tyred President. The obverse die,
showing a bearded bust of Lincoln,
cracked after a few impressions and
had to be reinforced, and this crack,
says an official of the Detroit Com
club, is clearly visible on the med
als. It extends from below the right
eye down through the lobe of one
ear and across the metal surface in
a course similar to that taken y
the assassin's bullet on. Apn %
1865.
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Dean o I The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
® Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for April 30
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lectedand copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
PAUL CROSSES INTO EUROPE
LESSON TEXT— Acts 15:38; 16:4-15.
GOLDEN TEXT —And after he had seei>
Die vision, immediately we endeavored to
go into Macedonia.—Acts 16:10.
Guidance is the moment by mo
ment need of every man and wom
an, boy and girl. The whole of
life calls for decisions, many of
which look quite innocent and un
important, but upon which the des
tiny of an entire life may turn. Who
does not recall the poet’s lament
over the want of an ordinary horse
shoe nail which resulted in the loss
of the shoe, which disabled the
horse, whose rider was lost, with
the result that the battle went
against his people.
Since the great issues of life may
turn on the simplest of choices, we
need guidance at every point in life.
This need has been recognized by
those who would make merchandise
of their neighbors. Quacks and
charlatans offer guidance by every
method, from reading the palm,
looking at the stars, or consulting
the spirits, to those smug enter
prises which pose as spiritual and
talk much of prayer, but which do
not honor the name of Christ nor
recognize Him as Redeemer and
Lord.
One of the glories of the Christian
faith is that the believer is indwelt
by the third person of the Trinity,
the Holy Spirit Himself, who is
ready and willing to give divine
guidance in every detail of life from
the smallest to the greatest.
We study today the coming of the
gospel into Europe, and that means
through aur forefathers to America.
We consider what from our view
point was a crucial point in the his
tory of the Church. Thanks be to
God that His servant Paul was in
that hour obedient to the guidance
of the Holy Spirit. Observe that
the gospel came to Europe
I. By Providential Hindrance (15:
36; 16;4-8),
Not only the steps, but also the
stops of a good man are ordered of
the Lord. That is not an easy les
son to learn. We may be as much
in the will of the Lord when all of
our efforts seem to be thwarted as
when they prosper. Let us not for
get it.
Paul had set out on a second jour
ney to carry out a follow-up cam
paign in the cities where he had al
ready preached. This was a good
plan and had God’s blessing (see
v. 5). But soon we find that word
“forbidden” (v. 6) and then “suf
fered not” (v. 7). The Holy Spirit
began to close doors to the gospel
preacher. Now what? Shall he go
on in determined self-will? Or shall
he become discouraged and embit
tered in his soul? No, let him wait,
for God is guiding him by provi
dential hindrance, which is soon to
be followed
11. By Divine Guidance (16:9, 10).
The Spirit spoke to Paul in a
vision revealing the divine purpose
that the gospel should go over into
Macedonia. The Spirit leads in our
day, possibly not by visions, but by
impelling inward prompting com
plemented and checked by the
teaching of Scripture and by provi
dential circumstances, and a man
may know what is the will of God.
A word of caution is needed at
this point. Some earnest Christian
people go astray by projecting their
own desires and purposes into the
place where they come to regard
them as the will of God, and thus
do themselves and others, and
Christianity itself much harm. The
three things already mentioned
should agree—(l) the inner prompt
ing of the Spirit, (2) the teaching of
God’s Word, and (3) God’s hand in
our outward circumstances.
111. Through a Faithful Witness
(vv. 11-14).
The gospel came to Europe be
cause Paul and his fellow workers
were faithful to their calling. When
God led, they went to Macedonia
(vv. 11, 12), where they sought out
those who were in the griace of
prayer (v. 13). Paul spoke to them
about Christ (v. 14). It is one thing
to have a vision, it is another thing
to be obedient to that vision (Acts
26:19), There are some who talk
much of their consecration to God,
but who give little evidence of it.
The little girl was right (though her
grammar was wrong) when she
said, “It’s better to walk your talk
than to talk your walk.”
IV. Through a Receptive Heart
(vv. 14, 15).
God sent an obedient messenger
to the place where He had a pre
pared heart (v. 14). Space forbids
much reference to this godly, suc
cessful business woman and house
mother, but we do note that she
not only received the Word of God
into her own heart, but at once
gave herself to the task of passing
it on. The first thing she could do
was to give aid and comfort to the
messenger of the truth, and she did
that at once. Be assured that from
that day on she did all she could
to prosper the gospel on its way
through Europe and to the ends oj
the earth. Have we done likewise)
WHAT to EAT and WHY
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C. Houston Goudiss Explodes Some False Notions
About Food; Warns Homemakers Against
Fallacies and Superstitions .
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
IT HAS been well said that a little knowledge is a danger
ous thing. This is particularly true of dietary facts, for
half-truths can be more misleading than lies.
There should be no place for half-truths, misinformation
or superstitibn in a matter so vital as the choice of food. Yet
judging from the letters that come to my desk, thousands of
homemakers are being influ-<$
enced, not by scientific knowl
edge, but by “old wives
tales,” and a multitude of
fads and fancies which there
Is not a shred of scientific
evidence to support.
Some food fallacies are harm
less. Others may be detrimental
to health. For they result In an
unbalanced diet that deprives the
body of substances needed to
maintain physical efficiency at the
highest possible level.
Misinformation About Meat
Many common and persistent
fallacies concern the eating of
meat. It is wrongly
charged that light
meats are more
wholesome than
dark meats . . ,
that veal is not
is a contributing
cause to disease,
and many other
equally foolish no
misconceptions are
in a class with the absurd ideas
that eating turnips will make you
brave, that lettuce is a cure for
insomnia, or fish a food for the
brain.
There is no evidence to support
the belief that some meats arb
less desirable than others because
they are less completely digested.
Tests show that the length of time
meat remains in the stomach va
ries with such factors as the quan
tity of fat present, the method of
cooking, and the amount of chew
ing it receives. But there is no
marked difference in the thorough
ness with which the different kinds
of meats are digested.
Erroneous Ideas About Cheese
Other fallacies that continually
crop up in my mail are the ideas
that cheese is constipating, and
that this good food is not complete
ly digestible. Neither belief is in
accordance with the facts.
Numerous tests have shown that
when cheese is given a proper
plage in the diet, it is usually well
digested. Moreover, it has been
demonstrated that there is prac
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a bolero la a chief charm of
this pretty dress, for street and
daytime. It accents the soft full
ness of the bodice, above a tiny
waist and slim-hipped, circular
skirt. Make it of flat crepe,
checked or printed silk for now.
Later on, have it in gingham, linen
or batiste.
This adorable basque frock is
smart for both school and parties.
It puffs out so charmingly at the
shoulders, flares at the skirt hem,
and hugs in to a small, pointed
waist. Sash bows, tied in the back,
draw it in snugly, and look gay
and pretty besides. For school,
choose gingham, calico or percale.
For parties, taffeta or silk crepe.
No. 1672 is designed for sizes 14,
16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 re
quires SVs yards of 39-inch materi
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quires 2% yards of 39-inch materi
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tically no difference between
cheese and meat with respect to
ease of digestion.
As for the completeness with
which this food is utilized by the
body, studies made by investiga
tors for the United States depart
ment of agriculture, demonstrat
ed that on the average, about 95
per cent of the protein and over
95 per cent of the fat of cheese
were digested and absorbed!
Some few persons may have an
allergy to cheese just as they are
sensitive to a variety of other pro
tein foods. But that is an abnor
mal reaction and has no bearing
on the use of cheese by persons
in normal health.
Cheese Is Not Constipating
The mistaken idea that cheese
is constipating doubtless arose
from poor menu planning. Cheese
is a highly concentrated food. It
enjoys the distinction of being the
most concentrated source of pro
tein known. Because of this fact,
menus containing cheese should
be balanced by the inclusion of
foods containing bulk or cellulose,
such as fruits, vegetables or whole
grain breads. When these foods
are omitted, it is not the pres
ence of cheese, but the absence
of bulk that is responsible for the
meal being insufficiently laxative.
Homemakers who have the in
terests of their families at heart
will banish the notion that cheese
is either constipating or difficult
to digest when properly used.
They will give this splendid food
a regular place in their menus
and thereby provide valuable
nourishment at a most economical
cost. It is doubtful if any other
food provides such a variety of
important nutrients concentrated
in such a small space. Besides
its fine quality protein, cheese is
notable for its energy values, for
supplying the minerals, calcium
and phosphorus, needed for teeth
and bones, and as a source of
vitamin A.
Don't Make Mistakes About Milk
Not even milk has escaped a
variety of groundless supersti
tions. It is said to be “fattening”
when the truth of the matter is
that no food is fattening unless
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consumed in excess of bodily
needs. The food faddists say that
fruits and milk must never be tak
en at the same meal, for tha
fruit acids will cause the milk to
curdle. Here is an outstanding
example of the misleading effect
of half-truths. For it is a physio
logical fact that milk is always
curdled in the stomach by tho
action of the hydrochloric acid!
Some people are afraid to eat
acid-tasting fruits because they
have the erroneous idea that they
produce “acidity” in the body. In
spite of their acid taste, however,
most fruits have an alkaline reac
tion following digestion.
My earnest advice to homo
makers is to disregard all such
fads and fancies. Don’t be guided
by hearsay advice. Eat a wide va
riety of foods in moderation. Learn
what constitutes a well-balanced
diet. And make that your health
ideal.
Questions Answered
Mrs. E. B. L.—The refreshing
flavor of pineapple makes thin
fruit useful for stimulating a lag
ging appetite. It contains valuai
ble minerals and the vitamins, A,
B, C and G.
Mrs. A. L. T.—Children require
more protein than adults in pro
portion to their body weight. Nu
tritionists estimate that about 15
per cent of the total calories of
the child’s diet should be taken
in the form of protein.
®—WNU—C. Houston Goudlsa—l939—6o.
UncU PkUO-
Says:
Make It a Vacation
Most people grumble at a detour
instead of relaxing on it.
We cherish some of our prej
udices. They are worthy ones.
A soft job may be one that you
have worked at so hard that you
know how to do it—soft.
But Who Are the Joneses?
All the nations in naval arma
ment act as if they are “keeping
up with the Joneses.”
Does anyone want “equality”
with those whose speech and
manners exasperate?
A he man is right agreeable il
he isn’t too assertive about it.
And That Goes for Life
It isn’t love altogether that
makes a marriage a success. It’*
mixed with common sense.
Inefficiency usually lies in in
capacity to observe closely.
Correct Constipation
Before-Not After!
An ounce of prevention Is worth a
pound of emergency relief. Why let
yourself suffer those dull lifeless
days because of constipation, why
bring on the need for emergency
medicines, when there may be a
far better way? That way Is to
KEEP regular by getting at the
cause of the trouble.
If it’s common constipation,due
to lack of "bulk” In the diet, a
pleasant, nutritious, ready-to-eat
cereal-Kellogg’s All-Bran-goes
straight to the cause by supplying
the "bulk” you need.
Eat this crunchy toasted cereal
every day-wlth milk or cream, or
baked into mufflns-drlnk plenty
of water, and see If you don’t for
get all about constipation. Made
by Kellogg’s In Battle Creek. Sold
by every grocer.
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