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FOR PRODUCTION
El ninates Unprofitable Ani
ir als From Good Ones.
“Ae herd improvement test ad
van*s tlie breed in two ways,” said
H.’* Norton, speaking at Cornell
unhJrsity. ‘‘lt gets rid of the low
prßeing, unprofitable cows, and dis
tils those animals capable of high
proSction, the real seed stock of the
i breed
Norton, who is superintendent
of ■vanced registry for the Holstein
j Frielian association, says that the
herd! improvement test meets the re
ijuiili'tents of hundreds of breeders
wholave not felt warranted in under
takiL: iidvanced registry testing. Un
like the advanced registry test, in
whi< 3 the individual cow is the unit,
this est includes the entire herd and
is'l signed to furnish the owner a
defh te knowledge of the production
of] pch individual member of the
her It began January 1, 1925, and
for ne first year 269 herds including
0,31i cows representing 30 states were
on; pt.
‘"1 je improvement test will also
furn Bh valuable information regard
ing pres. Improvement of the breed
must be effected largely through the
sire; and since heavy production is
the K ief consideration, it follows that
the Iflection of sires having ability to
tranlmit high production is a matter
of fie utmost importance,” said Mr.
Nortjb i. ‘‘ln the past we have select
ed sires with a long line of high-pro
duciig dams, but this is not an abso
lute I guarantee that the sire will
tra|mit heavy producing ability to
his [laughters. The only real proof
that! a bull possesses this much de
sired) characteristic is the fact that
his Daughters are heavy producers.
Such bulls are commonly called prov
en jjires. To date, we have few of
them. Advanced registry testing, as
commonly practiced, does not prove
the because only the best daugh
ters jare tested.
“Testing ail the daughters of a bull
is the real check of his ability to trans
mit ahe factor for high production,
and this will be one of the outstand
ing features of the herd improvement
test] Herds which continue with this
test rear after year will show the in
fluence of the sire by comparison of
thclfproductions of dams and daugh
ter# Asa result many valuable sires
will# be saved for service, and not
slaKhtered before their real worth is
discovered.”
Careless Handling of a
I Bull Always Dangerous
dareless handling of a bull is dan
gerous. Safety demands that the sim
pleßprincipies of good herdsmanship
be used, without fail, every day of the
year. First, every bull should be
delArned as a calf. Second, every
bulSshould have a strong ring put in
higljoose when lie becomes a yearling.
Antlwhenever it is necessary to han
dleihiin, a strong bull staff should be
attßhed to the nose-ring. Third,
every bull in service should be con
fintJ to his exercising pen. Never
unAr any conditions should anyone
“trast” a mature animal. Even the
bull with the habit of holding his
head near the fence to be petted—
the®o-called “gentle as a kitten” bull
—should never be trusted. When he
disways his skill at butting in an at
tempt to catch and crush a hand or
object, it should not be looked upon
as were “playing.” Instead it should
be Roked upon as a warning.
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Spit should be added to all grain
rolfUres in amounts of 1 to 2 per
cent by weight.
* • •
Itatoes may be used with success
nltlough a heavy allowance of them to
a cow will produce milk of poor flavor.
* * *
3|lie farmer who lias a dry pasture
should not hesitate to cut some green
com or sorghum and throw it over to
the! milk cows.
* • •
Iter the heifers are safe in calf
nally increase the grain ration up
iree months before calving and
feed besides alfalfa hay and sil
six to ten pounds of grain a day
a week before calving.
* * *
y feed which is relished by the
such as corn, oats, bran, and lin
oil meal, is palatable. We must
to the cow's appetite if we are
and: most milk out of her.
* * *
me farmers like to milk so well
they keep ten poor cows rather
five good ones.
* * •
ie dairyman who wants a good
cow must raise her himself. Good
cows are not for sale except in
of death or divorce.
* • *
übble or stalk fields are all right
ordinary cattle, but they are not
enough for the dairy cow. If
Jses her energy roaming the fields
not have much left for milk
UNITED STATES NOW
OWNS 9,000 ISLANDS
All Are Outside the Bound
aries of States.
Washington.— Acceptance by con
gress of the Samoan islands us part
of the United States’ territory definite
ly adds six more bits of land to the
thousands of islands the nation now
owns.
“The United States has acquired
some 0,000 islands outside the boun
daries of the 48 states,” says a bul
letin from the Washington, (D. C.)
headquarters of the National Geograph
ic society.
“This host of territorial islands is
scattered from the South Pacific north
across the Arctic circle. They sprin
-1:1-'* the seas of both hemispheres for
* distance of 15,000 miles from St.
John, in the Virgin Islands, to Balabac
island, on. the outskirts of the Philip
pines.
A “Milky Way” of Islands.
“While 9,000 islands are few, per
haps, .reside the island collections of
Great Britain, Holland and France,
yet American territorial islands deco
rate the oceans like star galaxies or
nament the heavens.
“The Philippines are the ‘Milky Way’
of the United States’ island constella
tions. They alone comprise approxi
mately eight thousand islands. Every
one knows about Luzon, the monster
Philippine island, as large as Ohio in
area. Almost nothing is known of the
seven thousand islets in the Archi
pelago having an area of one-teutli of
a square mile or more.
“Then there is the scarf of Aleuti
ans swung across the blue sea void
toward Asia. The United States coast
and geodetic survey does not know
for sure how many Aleutians there
are, but it is endeavoring to find out
by airplane surveys. Then, down in
the panhandle of Alaska lie many
more islands behind whose protecting
flanks, steamers thread their way up
the Inland passage. Other islands
fret the Alaskan coast, including a
famous little sandbar of an island be
hind which Wilkins and* Eielson took
oft' to fly across the top of the world.
“How large is Hawaii? That all
depends upon how the territory is
measured. By square miles of land
the Hawaiian islands have an area
equal to Connecticut and Rhode Is
land. By their spread over the Pa
cific ocean the islands occupy a re
gion as long from east to west as the
United States is wide. Wake island,
of the territory of Hawaii, an unin
habited atoll 18 feet above sea level,
lies nearly 3,000 miles away from the
Lsland of Hawaii.
“To American citizens who wish to
be marooned on an uninhabited ils
land with ten selected books, the Unit
ed States offers endless opportunities.
In the West Indies there are some
very nice islands on which nature, bar
ring occasional lapses, maintains the
quietness of a good library. Wake is
land, previously mentioned, assures al
most perfect privacy. The nearest bit
of land is 300 miles away.
Choosing a Sequestered Spot.
“Rose island, in the Samoan group,
has unusual advantages for the seeker
of literary leisure. It is 80 miles east
of its nearest neighbor; climate, equ
able; real estate, one island half a
square mile in area comfortably situ
ated within a coral breakwater; in
habitants, none; fishing, excellent, al
though many species are poisonous.
New packets of ten selected books
could be obtained by the small boat
which comes to Rose island annually
to deposit emergency stores of food
and water for the use of sailors who
might be shipwrecked.
“The Samoan islands loom large in
the history of the United States’ for
eign policy. The joint agreement of
Great Britain, the United States and
Germany to establish a protectorate
over the islands, represented, it was
said, the first departure from our na
tion’s historic attitude toward alli
ances. The joint protectorate did not
work out well, so, by treaties in 1900
and 1904, the United States took con
trol over the eastern half of the is
lands containing Pago Pago harbor,
the finest in all the South seas. Con
gress, after all these years, has passed
a resolution accepting the twenty-year
old gift of the islands from the Sa
moan chiefs.
“In the lists of American territorial
possessions one group of islands sel
dom appears. The status of 70 guano
islands scattered all over the Pacific
is indefinite. Even the position and
existence of some of them is indefinite.
By a law passed in 1856 the United
States extended temporary protection
to American citizens exploiting guano
deposits on bird islands. While the
United States is not obliged to main
tain sovereignity over guano islands,
neither has she surrendered all rights.
Over some islets and banks such as
Navassa island, between Jamaica and
Haiti, Quita Sueno bank, Roncador
cay, Serrana bank, and Swan islands,
all in the western Carribbean, and
Gente Hermosa or Swains island near
Samoa, the American flag flies without
question.”
Loaded With Narcotic*
Calcutta. —Narcotics valued at $35,-
000 were taken from a ship raided by
police here recently. The vessel was
from China and was found to contain
firearms, besides the cargo of nar
cotics.
Golf Ball Explodes
Chicago.— Harold Carver, aged ten,
threw a golf ball into a fireplace “to
see what would happen.” It exploded
and his face was badly burned.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., April 24, 1929.
BRITISH TO TRY
FOR AIR RECORDS
Expect to Cop With New
Mystery Plane.
London.—Two world’s air records—
the nonstop in a straight line and the
endurance—are to be attacked by
Britain’s new mystery plane.
Built specially for these attempts,
the plane, a giant Fairey Napier long
range monoplane, was recently com
pleted at Cranwell airdrome, Lincoln
shire.
Definite details of the intended
flights have not yet been revealed, but
it is suggested that the plane may try
to fly around England for three days
and nights to beat the endurance rec
ord. It may then, perhaps, fly to
South Africa by stages, but return
to England nonstop, a distance of,
roughly, 6,000 miles, which would beat
the nonstop flight in a straight-line
record.
While the plane was being built all
data as to its construction was shroud
ed in a veil of secrecy, but since its
completion the veil has been lifted
slightly to reveal a large number of
innovations and novelties, specifically
included for the attempts on the rec
ords.
For instance, there is a hooter,
which will sound in the pilot’s ear
should he get off his course when at
tempting the endurance record. It
operates automatically, but how it
does so is still a secret.
From wing tip to wing tip the ma
chine measures nearly 100 feet. The
fuel is carried in this giant wing. For
tlie duration attempt there will be
more than 1,000 gallons of gasoline
stowed away. Tlie total weight of the
machine and fuel is ten tons, and to
carry it I he wheels and tires have had
to he strengthened. The tires are
pumped up by an electric pump and
the wheels are fitted on to ball bear
ings in order to facilitate the takeoff.
To insure no failure of the gaso
line supply, a wind-driven pump can
be pushed through the side of the
fuselage if the engine pump fails. If
that fails, a hand pump can be used.
The filtering arrangements for the oil
are duplicated. This is in order that
one filter can be cleaned when tire
other is in use. Arrangements have
been made, also, for oil to be jettisoned
while the monoplane is still in the air.
The pilot’s seat is fitted with pneu
matic upholstery, and there is a pneu
matic bed. There are also facilities
for hot and cold drinks and food.
The engine is an ordinary type
Napier Lyon, developing 450 horse
power, but secret alterations have
been made with the carburetor sys
tem greatly to reduce the gasoline
consumption. In a bench test the en
gine ran perfectly for more than 70
hours.
Test Use of Crude
Oil in Plane Motor
Berlin. —Tests that are claimed to
have been entirely satisfactory have
just been made in flights with an air
plane fitted with anew “junker’s” 600-
horse power engine that operates on
crude oil.
This is the first time an airplane
has been flown in Germany with a
crude oil motor, and due to the fact
that crude oil is not readily ignited
this makes for safety from fire in a
crash. On account of this safety fac
tor, coupled with the low cost of crude
oil, it is claimed the invention of a
crude oil motor will do much to popu
larize flying.
The motor, which is the result of
many years’ research, was lengthily
tested in a motor car before being in
stalled in an airplane. The makers
have so far refused to reveal details
of the test or specifications of the
motor other than to say it generated
600 horse power.
Uncle Sam’s Private Fox
Farm Yields 586 Pelts
Dutch Harbor, Alaska.—Uncle Sam
has a fox ranch all his own. A total
of 552 blue fox skins and 34 white
ones were taken from animals trapped
on the Pribilof islands during the
season of 1928-29, as compared with
901 the previous period.
These island foxes live on the car
casses of fur seals killed for their
pelts during late summer. The early
winter frosts preserve the meat until
the following June. Then for three
months foxes subsist on sea food
combed from the beaches.
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| Florence Is Man but
% Navy Thinks Him Girl |
Lynn, Mass. —Florence Wright, *
* seventeen, about as perfect a *
physical specimen as the navy *
* recruiting station here ever saw, *
* despite bis name, was turned *
* down for enlistment in the Unit- *
* ed States navy because a Maine %
* town clerk has recorded him a x
5 s |r *. *
* Wright recently moved here jj;
* from North Vassalboro, Maine, *
* his birthplace, and after passing J
* all requirements was told he *
* must present his birth certifi-
* cate. The birth certificate ar- *
* rived and stated that Florence
$ Wright, female, had been born *
| there March 6, 1912. %
* Florence hates his name now, *
| and was about ready to clean #
* up the recruiting station until ;j
--| he was told be probably would *
* be allowed to enlist if he can *
% clear up his birth record. *
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SHEEP HIS DISH, BUT
‘GAWGE’ EATS CHICKEN
Once He Craved Mountain
Flesh, but No More.
Montreal, Que. —George Washington
Jeffries, railway porter, spends bis
time going West from Montreal to
Vancouver and then back East again.
George has lost count of the number
of times lie bus passed through the
Rocky mountains.
George is nothing if not an epicure.
There are few men who have a better
appreciation of well-fried southern
chicken. There is only one dish lie
lias ever heard of—lie has yet to taste
it —which offers any comparison. That
is broiled mountain sheep.
Whenever George passed through
the Rockies, the home of mountain
sheep, the desire to try conclusions
witli some broiled wild mutton swells
up bis throat.
Until recently his hopes of sinking
bis teeth into a bit of mountain sheep
seemed as remote as tlie stars. George
was no hunter, lie could not chase
mountain sheep around the hillsides.
Then, one evening as the train pulled
out of Jasper Bark, Alb., a male pas
senger, well tanned, asked George to
bring a large metal case he had with
him into tlie dining car steward and
request that it be kept well iced until
the train reached Montreal.
Knew It Was Mutton.
George knew that the passenger was
an eastern hunter just in off I lie trail
—hunters often go on the train at
Jasper—and that there was some
wild mutton in the metal case. There
could be nothing else that would be
prized so much as to be put in a
metal case and kept iced all the way
East.
When lie had made up all the berths,
when the slices were polished, when
snores sounded through the sleeper,
George prepared to make bis way for
ward to the diner. He would only
lift up the lid of the case and have
a look inside. Perhaps a steak, just
large enough to taste well, would not
be missed if cut off neatly. George
ran bis finger over the blade of his
long knife.
He tiptoed through the diner where
the staff was asleep, opened and
closed the door of the pantry behind
him. It was dark. He could not find
the light, but lie discovered the catch
to the ice chest and felt inside for
the lid of tlie meat case.
He got out his knife and lit a match
so that he could see how things lay.
Something glistened there in the case.
He looked closer. Two brown eyes
stared knowingly out at him. They
never blinked and were as large as
saucers. There was nothing in the
case but eyes.
First He Yelled.
George Washington Jeffries did sev
eral things pretty well together. First
he yelled. Then he dropped the lid
of the case and the flickering match
that was burning his fingers. In the
darkness lie yelled once more. As he
found the door of the pantry he yelled
again. He was yelling better, witli
more volume and greater coherence.
The sleeping car was awake and stir
ring as something rushed blindly
through the dim aisle to the rear of
the car. George Washington Jeffries
thought the dining car too long but
regretted that bis own sleeper seemed
such a short car length away.
The next day he heard tlie passen
ger who had got on at Jasper explain
ing to a fellow traveler that, after sev
eral bunts in the Rockies, be believed
the eyes of mountain sheep to be tele
scopic. He was taking a pair of eyes
East with him from an animal lie bad
killed. They were up ahead in tlie
diner, packed in moist earth and moss
as they had come off the trail, and
surrounded by ice to preserve them on
the eastward trip. A friend of his, a
doctor, was interested in testing tlie
theory.
Wisconsin Yields Gum
Like Irish Peat Wax
Washington.—Wax similar to that
extractable from Irish peat has been
produced in peat bogs of Wisconsin as
result of experiments conducted by
the bureau of mines.
In the course of studies of the ori
gin and composition of Wisconsin peat
now being made at the Pittsburgh ex
periment station of the bureau of
mines, the amount and character of
wax extractable from peat by means
of hot alcohol was investigated. The
peat contains approximately 0.85 per
cent of a white wax melting at 169
degrees Fahrenheit in the crude state,
and at 175 degrees Fahrenheit when
purified by recrystallization from pe
troleui# ether.
This wax apparently is very similar
to wax extractable from Irish peat.
It is quite different chemically from
the wax recoverable from low-tem
perature tar, because this consists
mainly of hydrocarbons.
Seattle May Build
Its Own Trolley Cars
Seattle, Wash. —Seattle city fathers,
already in the street car business,
may turn street car builders and fur
nish 200 needed trolley cars for their
municipal enterprise, should the city
utilities heads accept a “build your
own” plan recently submitted to
them.
According to plans and estimates
each car could be constructed at a
saving of $2,000 over a cash bid ten
dered by a St. Louis car building firm.
A saving of $5,500 per car would bp
made if the rolling stock was pur
chased on time.
Seek Russian Colony
in Wilds of Siberia
Tn an effort lo find a lost colony In
the wilderness of northern ‘Siberia,
which preserves the lift, and thought
of die Sixteenth century, u scientific
expedition Is about lo leave Lenin
grad.
Before the revolution n political ex
ile, M. Zlnzinoff, claimed lo have pene
trated the icebound fastness of the
lost colony, lie declared that the
people spoke old Russian and were
unaware of anything that had hap
pened in Hie world since the Sixteenth
century. More recently a man named
Art's in arrived in Moscow with a tale
of*the Russian tribe.
Both reports place the colony some
where near the mouth of the In
digirka river, Yakutsk, where it flows
into the North Polar son.
Only about 200 persons form tlie
Colony, said Arosin, but scientists
til Ink that if tlie colony lias survived
for 400 years it must at one time have
been far more numerous.
Many Russians fled in the Sixteenth
century to the inaccessible parts of Si
beria to escape political persecution.
It Is considered likely that (lie lost
colony is formed by descendants of
one of these groups of refugees.
Rays to Bring Death
to Harmful Bacteria
An invisible electric death ray lias
been discovered by a German physicist.
The apparatus is fitted with valves
like those used in an ordinary radio
set, of so small a size that it will fit
in a cigar box, with which lie could
send out ultra-short waves of a length
less than three meters.
These waves will kill instantaneous
ly germs, insects, and even small ani
mals which come within their reach.
“My assistant and I,” said the in
ventor, “are now engaged in perfect
ing the apparatus.
“Our death wave is not dangerous
to living beings apart from those
which come within its carefully limit
ed sphere of action. Flies and insects
which pass across this field drop dead.
Mice are killed in a few seconds. Rats
are dead within three to five minutes.
“If we succeed in perfecting our
apparatus we shall be in a position,
without in any way injuring the tis
sue of the human body, to kill disease
causing bacteria within tlie human
body.”
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you stand on —with a jga
cough, a cold or
grippe, and your blood
impoverished. You
must do something! (Hjif vl
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Half of Face Lifted
To popularize face-lifting opera
tions, a mannequin, whose right
cheek reveals tier as i>. woman of fifty
and whose left cheek is that of one
of thirty, is attending English race
meetings, fashionable restaurants and
hotels. Women with sufficient curi
osity to talk to her are handed a
business card. A small quarter moon
of skin was cut in front of tier right
ear and another in tier scalp, after
which a doctor lifted that side of
ttie face. Tlie other cheek was left
intact. The operation cost, about SSOO.
Even on Installments
It always pays to count tlie cost.
Then perhaps you won’t have to pay
it. —Grand Rapids Press.
Can you think of a time when yon
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It Seemed So
Daddy was having a round of golf
with a friend, and little Joan came
along witli mamma to look on. After
watching tlie game for some time,
Joan asked:
“Mustn’t (lie ball go into that little
hole, mamma?” —Pearson’s.
After a man has been in politics
eight years, lie can lie automatically
amiable.