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it A TTTMJ J . Tflt Vf TT dairy cows 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. H-l'l l -I-I-I-I-I-I-.1-.1-.1-I-I-;--!—l—l—l—l—F-i—l Facts * , *"*"i"I"I" , I ,i l**l"*!**l" , l"*l*“l**!* , l* , l**l" , l**l* , l**l**l**l* 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. **tt**tt****-JHHt***tt**#**tt*** | 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. * ******-st-3f**x--x********-x-***-x--::- 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.” rrs DANGEROUS GROUND you stand on —with a jga cough, a cold or grippe, and your blood impoverished. You must do something! 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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 w'ere happier? And weren’t you younger? l —Flics—Mosquitoes—Bedbugs—Roaches—Moths—Ants—Fie** Waterbuga—Crickets and many other insects Write for educational booklet, McCormick St Cos., Baltimore, Md. Bee Brand In sect Po wd e r or Li Quid Spraq Acidity Tlie common cause of digestive diffi culties is excess acid. 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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.