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THE ROCKDALE RECORD PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY J. Nl. TOWNS Editor W. E. ATKINSON Publisher Due to Infirmities incident to Its advanced nge, a local card table Is now a tripod. School Item: A helpful parent on the Hast Side got 03 last month in Ills eon’s algebra. It will be bad for one or another of the prominent radio announcers when the meek Inherit the earth. “Ultraviolet rays are said to be thrown off by the onion.” Possibly —not ultraviolet aromas, however. Weather experts say the climate is changing. A long, cold summer is threatened ns a future prediction. The world will never grow better until we can get rid of some of our prejudices without acquiring new ones. Too many movie stars seem to think that when they land on page one of the newspapers they are on location. Our yachting expert lias examined a recently captured specimen of sail fish and doesn't think much of its keel. When you carry out a basket of ashes in Utopia there isn’t a high wind, and in fact there aren't any ashes. Personally we never heard a good guess by anyone wiio went on to re mark, “My guess is as good as any body’s.” The Ignorance of the Chinese in money matters is demonstrated In the report that they have kidnaped a mis sionary. “Now a scientist thinks there is no such thing as an atom.” There must be. WJiat is it that comes out of atomizers? “An Englishman named Pilgrim lias crossed the ocean to America 75 times.” Won’t somebody point him out a rock? Speaking of spinach, there is one herb that is better canned than in its natural state. Canned, it tastes less like spinach. It is good that Doctor Einstein didn’t come out with his theory dur ing a war. Someone would suspect It was signals. ’ — —... When there are nine in the family, what would lie the best lliing to do with a two-ounce sample package of breakfast food? In 1950: “Say,” said the veteran aviator, “I can remember old-fash ioned winters when it was 70 below at this altitude.” They say that it is an exceptional man who can “stand” prosperity. But he is even more exceptional who can “stand” popularity. We are apprised of terrible suffer ing in Russia, with many starving to deatii. Sovietism seems to raise ev * erytiling but food. If the girls on Mars have six legs, many a Martian father must go into bankruptcy trying to keep his daugh ters in silk stockings. First and last, a good deal of time is wasted talking and writing about efficiency; and still more is wasted trying to become eflieieiit. The woman who proudly announces that her divorce decree has restored her freedom, sometimes forgets that it lias done fully as much for her hus band. Campaign literature must at this season partially subside and give place to those who print seed cata logues and pictures of the coming fashions. The most startling evening gowns, says Paris, have only a pair of sus penders above the waist. But what is there startling about a pair of sus penders? What good does it do to take all the courses in the saxophone, Easy French, etc., to make yourself a so cial favorite, and then laugh in the wrong place? In Utopia, where everything is called by Its right name, the party treasurer is quite commonly known as chairman of the deficit. Y\ illy has become quite a skeptic on the subject: lie wants to know why tiie codiisli hasn’t rosy- cheeks, with all that cod-liver ndl in him. Would it not make for variety in The program if some of the radio en tertainers who repeat the same selec tions over and over were to play one backward occasionally? Long ago, the movie drummer could get a very swell sound effect In the rolling surf scene by rubbing a hair brush over the head of the drum. Another thing Job never contended with, if we estimate his time and wardrobe correctly, was a disappear ing drawstring in the pajama trousers. Great Need of Today Ts Return to the Idea of “Human Partnership” By DR. RALPH SOCKMAN (Episcopal), New York. THERE is too much patronage in American life today, and too little partnership. As our citizenry has been increasingly trans ferred from the soil to the city, we have changed the tempo of our thinking from the slower processes of the seasons to the quick exchanges and ticker tapes of the market place. Ihe race of com petitive life is so swift that we do not try to keep pace with one another. The home illustrates the fact that parents do too much for their chil dren and too little with them. The present generation of youth is more heavily patronized than ever were its predecessors. Somewhere between a bolshevism of adolescents and a paternalism of parents there ought to be a partnership in which the experiences of the elders arc blended with ex periments of the youngers. In philanthropy the old friendly personal helpfulness of our simpler earlier communities is being replaced by organized impersonal charity. In religion we have now largely a mere professional propaganda financed by silent spectators. We hire ministers to preach our sermons, evangelists to recruit our church members and musicians to voice our religious mo tives, while the laity simply sit back and provide the funds. Such patron age can never he an adequate substitute for the partnership methods of the early church. Between Sincere Religionists and True Scientists There Is No Conflict By GEORGE R. THROOP, Washington University. There is a great deal of talk and discussion at the present time on the conflict of education as represented primarily by pure science, and re ligion as understood in the minds of many, but this is a most unfortu nate and unnecessary condition. To most of the true scientists and sincere religionists of the present day there is no real conflict. All the facts of nature and life and the universe are too unfathomable for us to attribute them to any merely blindly operating force. How this entire world of ours and all the uni verse could function without some power and guide greater than human comprehension and understanding is beyond the real scientists to fathom. What we need most is charity and tolerance on all sides. Religious education is to address itself not only to the correction of our present ills, but it renders special service as a groat prophylactic agent in hu man society. We have been working oil the theory that somewhere back in the early history of the races, the train of civilization ran off the track, and that the business of religion has been to send out a wreck ing crew, to extricate bruised humanity from the .wreckage. The church lias served as a kind of spiritual hospital for wounded men. But the big job of the church through religious education is to teach men how to run the train so that there will be no wreck. Re ligion is not only a cure, but it is also a preventive. **• A -.lwwk . * >*,„.>) i -J. ' ' Training of Younger Generation of Immigrants Important for Civilization •*’*!• . ..JrVil- . KuVy '■*'* • u * J .V.' By DR. ROMAN DYBOSKI, Chicago Social Worker. Training children of European immigrants in the culture of their parents’ countries seems to me to be the best method of preventing a rift between America and Europe. There is no use denying that a rift has opened up between America and Europe since the war. We are in danger of losing the unity of West ern civilization and if the world breaks into two units a third party may arise, probably Asia headed by Russia. The civilization of America and Europe is what we believe to be the best in the world, and the link between America and Europe seems to be the second generation immigrants. There must be people on both sides of the Atlantic who understand each other if there is to be unity of peace and unity of culture. It is the younger generation of immigrants who have the best strain of European culture. This helps them to understand Europe. They should he encouraged to study the culture of America and some of them go back to their own countries to educate their people and help secure this unity. Inventions and Discoveries Have Not Minimized Reality and Presence of God By REV. W. HAROLD WEIGLE, Jr., New York. In spite of what the pessimists of today maintain, it is possible to live a usual life in an unusual way. It is astonishing how hungry the hu man heart is today for things spiritual, and this applies to the person liv ing in the slums and hack streets as well as to those living on Park ave nue. While there are many disturbing factors in our national life yet this is not an irreligious nge. The prolific birth of new cults is an evidence that people are very conscious of their need for God. The great inventions and discoveries in this generation do not in the least minimize the reality and presence of God. We must study down to the spiritual depths in which God alone can bo found. And this is not a closed secret. God can he found hv any heart which diligently seeks Him. But we must seek and accept. The church today is endangered by the loss of initial enthusiasm for a great cause and the loss of the keenness of discipleship among people who once enjoyed an ardent and profound religious life. Men of Wealth Realizing That Riches Constitute Public Responsibility By DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, New York. Wealth is one of the severest tests of character. Mental cares in con nection with the possession of wealth frequently cause physical ill-health and nervous breakdown, while the abundance of physical comfort and luxury tends to produce an even more serious malady, ‘’spiritual anemia.’’ The rich man who is wise, acts upon the principle that wealth is -i public responsibility, and that therefore they who have it are obliged to use it in such a manner as te set an example in the art of living. America may point with pride and satisfaction to its two richest men. Mr. Ford and Mr. Rockefeller, as examples of sane and useful living. Even with greater pride may we point to the sons of these men, whose careers pro sent a gratifying contrast with the proverbial “sons of the rich.” THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., May 15, 1929. Skill Required for Fattening Breeder Must Now Give More Attention to Feed ing Light Animals. (Prepared by the United Stales Department of Agriculture.) Because of tlie higher price of beef, smaller families, and a smaller pro portion of tiie population doing heavy manual labor in recent years as com pared with former years, tiie consum er is demanding ligliterweiglit cuts of beef. Cattle breeders and feeders have been gradually adjusting their operations to meet this change. Instead of feeding the heavier type of beeves commonly marketed 40 years ago at four or five years of age, they are now feeding calves and year lings und marketing them when they weigh from 700 to 1,200 pounds. Grow Rather Than Fatten. On account of tiie tendency of calves to grow rather than to fatten, more skill is required to fatten them within a reasonable time than is nec essary in the case of older cattle. Tiie several phases of tiie fattening of calves for market are discussed in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1.41 C-F, “Fat tening Beef Calves,” just issued by tiie United States Department of Ag riculture. In comparing tiie fattening of calves and older cattle tiie bulletin lists sev eral advantages in favor of calves: The quantity of feed required to make a pound of gain increases as tiie animal grows older. Calves make from 33 to 55 per cent more gain than mature cattle on the same quan tity of feed. Fat, open heifers, weighing from 700 to 800 pounds, sell nearly as well as steers. Heavier heifers are discrimi nated against because they have more internal fat and are not so well cov ered as steers, and because, being old er, the possibility of their being preg nant is greater. Calves can be carried longer than mature steers when unexpected cir cumstances arise, such as bad mar kets, a strike, or an embargo, as they will retain their “bloom” longer after they are ready to market. Why Not to Fatten. On the other hand, it is not always advisable to fatten calves, says the bulletin, for tiie following reasons: Fattening calves require more at tention and skill on the part of the man feeding them than is the case with older cattle Calves of slow-maturing type will not fatten rapidly enougli to make de sirable carcasses as yearlings. Such calves should generally be carried about two years as Stockers before they are fattened. The total feed required to produce a fat three-year-old steer may be made up of a much larger proportion of roughages than that required to pro duce a fat yearling. Mature cattle can eat coarser roughages and broken ear corn much better than young cattle. Mature cattle may be fattened in a much shorter time than calves, as they have only to fatten, while calves grow as well as fatten. A copy of the bulletin may be ob tained by writing to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C. Difference in Alfalfa Seed Due to Qualities One cannot study the behavior of alfalfa in different fields without com ing to tiie conclusion that there is a great difference in the ability of vari ous lots of seed to maintain a stand and to resist killing out. Examples can be found of wide differences where two lots ot seed were sown in tiie same field. One lot may show much killing out and disease while the other holds its stand in fine shape. That the difference is in heredity due to the in herent qualities carried in tiie seed can be the only conclusion. ;$ $ $ g <s 3* *s♦ *♦* ♦> •$ $♦ *l* ♦♦♦ ♦> * *3* v ►3* * Around the Farm I *:* _ ❖ .j**;. *j *; ;* *;* *j:;.;.;. It pays to treat seed grain for smut. • * * If you have idle land on your farm it will pay you in the long run to start some trees on it. • • • Good forestry practice is as much a part of good farming, as is good cropping practice. * * * I.eafy, smail-steinmed hay, cut be fore it is too mature and properly cured without being rained on is best. • * * Tiie larger potatoes especially for cattle should always he sliced to pre vent choking on the part of the ani mals. * • * Don’t forget that tiie early thin ning of vegetables to a stand means increased production and earlier maturity. * • * As feed crop on the farm, barley Is commonly considered at least 90 per cent ns good as corn, pound for pound, as a feed for live stock. * • * Beets serve the same purpose ns do pasture crops like oats, wheat and Su dan for hogs. They are not nearly so valuable as alfalfa or sweet clover. • * * One of the most valuable Items of farm equipment, from tiie standpoint of tiie cash return on the investment, is a good fanning mill or recleaner. Unthrifty Seed Is Never Recommended Money and Labor Is Wasted Without Proper Start. Poor seed will not produce a good crop of potatoes r.o matter how much labor and money are expended on fertilizer, spraying and cultivation, ac cording to K. H. Fernow of the New York State College of Agriculture. Good seed must be relatively free from virus diseases, true to variety and in good condition. An inspection of seed shows wheth er it is badly sprouted, shriveled, or affected with black heart or freez ing injury but only by examination of tiie growing plants can freedom from virus diseases be determined. To ob tain heal thy seed maintain a seed plot in which control methods against virus diseases are used, or else pur chase seed from someone who uses control methods. Some growers buy enough good seed eacli year to plant an increase plot from which they obtain seed for their main planting tiie following year. Such a practice is satisfactory only if the good seed purchased is planted at a distance from potatoes which have a relatively large amount of degenera tion diseases and if conditions are not too favorable for the spread of virus diseases within the plot. At present there is no way to know absolutely whether seed is free from virus diseases but the use of certified seed usually results in healthier stock. The fields from which such seed comes have been inspected by the state college and have been found to contain only a small amount of virus diseases. Vegetative Propagation Used for New Varieties New commercial varieties of fruits may he obtained by the vegetative propagation of what is known as bud sports. As applied to fruit trees this term refers to branches which for no apparent reason bear fruit different in size, shape or color, or are differ ent in some other respect from the rest of the tiee. Such bud sports are fairly common and when propagated by top grafting remain true to type according to hor ticultural experts at tiie Michigan experimental station. Over 100 of these variations have been under ob servations for several years oy mem bers of tiie horticultural staff of that station and are being put to tests to see whether they will transmit their characteristics when propagated vege tatively. Although sufficient time has not elapsed to prove that all of tiie sports under test will “breed” true to type, some at least are known to have this characteristic. . - Most of the bud sports which ap pear on the fruit trees are inferior to the parent tree, but some few are superior and it is to these that we may look as a source of new com mercial varieties. Wheat Makes Best Feed for Growing Turkeys Wheat makes one of the best feeds for growing turkeys after the first six weeks’ feeding of clabber cheese, and dry bread or rice soaked in sweei milk. Onion tops should be cut up into the cheese and soaked bread feed to give the much-needed green stuff. A good sprinkling of black pep per should be given on these feeds As they get older, switch over to the grain diet very gradually so there will be no stomach derangement. Middlings with about-one-fourth the amount of corn meal added, then moistened with skim milk, make a good morning feed right along, with wheat or other grain for the evening meal. Pigs Follow Steers Pigs should be put in the feed lot with steers being fattened for market, for they will gather all grain dropped by tiie steers and clean up the grain scattered around the feed hunk, 'l'he pork produced from this feed, other wise wasted, will add materially to tiie profits from steers. Pigs weighing from 1(H) to 150 pounds are tiie best size. Smaller pigs are not so well able to look after themselves running among the steers. As soon as the pigs are fat enough for market they should be sold and replaced by thin pigs. Feed for Chicks Feeding tiie chicks begins when they are from thirty-six to forty-two hours old. Well-baked corn bread crumbled with hard-boiled eggs and a little coarse sand is fed very sparingly. Over-feeding is a prolific source of bowel trouble and should' be carefully avoided. What they will pick up clean in three or four minutes is enough. Clean water, finely crushed oyster shell, a dry mash of bran and a little beef scrap should be kept con stantly before them. Plenty of Sunshine The successful hog raiser has come to appreciate sunshine more and more. Modern hog house plans provide for admission of plenty of sunlight to the pens. Hogs require an abundance of fresh, pure air, which should be fur nished without subjecting them to in jurious drafts. 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