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THE ROCKDALE RECORD Official Organ of Rockdalf County PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY J. M. TOWNS Editor W. E. ATKINSON Publisher “Ultraviolet rays are said to be thrown off'by the onion." Possibly —not ultraviolet nromns, however. Weather experts any the climate Is changing. A long, cold summer Is threatened as 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 who went on to re mark, "My guess Is as good as any body’s.” The ignorance ojt 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 ns an atom." There must be. What is it that comes out of atomizers? “An Englishman named Pilgrim Ims 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 be the best thing to do with a two-ounce sample package of breakfast - In 1050: “Spy,” 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 lie is even more exceptional who cau “stand” popularity. ** 1 -- -v—-eu- - ■ * We are apprised of terrible suffer ing In Russia, with ninny starving to death. Sovietism seems to raise ev erything but food. If the girls on Mars have six legs, many n 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 efficient. 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 nnd give place to those who print seed cata logues nnd 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 n so cial favorite, and then laugh in the wrong place? In Utopia, where everything Is cnlled by Its right name, the party treasurer Is quite commonly known as chairman of the deficit Willy has become quite a skeptic on the subject: He wnqts to know why the codfish hasn’t rosy cheeks, with all that cod-liver oil in him. Would it not- make for variety in Hie 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 tlie bead of the drum. Another tiling Job never contended with, if we estimate his time and wardrobe correctly, was a disappear ing druwstring in the pajama trousers. “What,” asks a curiosity-seeker In a household column, “is the way to prepare the vegetable, broccoli?’’ Also, what is the way to pronounce it, after it is prepared thus? When the sun peters out, billions of years hence, an astronomer says an other will probably bob up to attract the earth. But would that be loyal' Too Many and Too Drastic Laws Must Inevitably Defeat Their Own Ends By REV. CALEB R. STETSON (Episcopal), New York. SF ALL the laws wc have on the statute books of this country were en forced, I question whether anyone of us would be at liberty for very long at a time. It is one thing to make laws with the child-like faith we seem to have that laws once made will enforce themselves. It is quite another matter to secure the observance of law by the mass of the the people. We are undergoing a process of disillusionment at present. I think that all too often well-intentioned people have considered what was for the good of other people in their endeavor to make this land of ours “God’s country.” They have not thought quite enough about whether they are willing to obey the laws they advocated. In my opinion the first thing we should think about when we talk about law enforcement is “Am I willing to suffer the penalties I am urging should be imposed on others?” When laws become too many or too drastic they defeat their own ends. Public confidence and public support is lost, and nullification and disregard inevitably follows. Tin's has already been an experience in this country. Many laws have been forgotten—lost sight of because no one observed them and no power was willing to, or able to enforce them. It is high time that we should make a serious attempt to think this tremendous problem through in our country. We need to give up our illusions and to face frankly actual conditions. •* j We have reason to be encouraged that the present government of our country is to make a serious study of the whole question. The remedy ing of conditions will take much longer than the study, and it is a move in the right direction. It all brings us back to the thought of the need in all things to he thoroughgoing, not to be content with going part way on the road to right, but to be ready and willing to go the second mile. Proper Courses of Study Would Enable Adults to Absorb New Ideas By DR. EARL BARNES, Brooklyn. Men and women over forty should be compelled to go to school. Chil dren learn anyway, but the ability to acquire knowledge with adults de creases one per cent each year after the age of twenty-five. The ability to apply knowledge increases, on the other hand. For this reason I rec ommend compulsory education. The hunger for knowledge should be fed with new ideas based on concrete realities. Get anew thought every day or your central nervous systems will become stale. The acquiring of knowledge may be likened to a file which must be enlarged to embrace new ideas. The bjggest problem today is the fitting of other people’s ideas into our own files. Lot’s wife deserves as much credit for looking back at the fire as the Itoman philosopher Pliny for dying under the ashes of Vesuvius. It was a hunger for knowledge in both cases. Book knowledge is “canned” and predigested and is rejected by the curious-minded in favor of orig inal observation. Under-Privileged Boy Needs Special Attention if He Is to Be Saved By JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, Noted Engineer. During half of a boy’s adolescent years he has the opportunity to “go bad,” hut it requires five years to develop him into a criminal. In the category of “under-priviliged boys” are the boys who are deprived of proper parental supervision. It constitutes about two-thirds of the en tire boy population of this country, and particularly those boys whose parents are aliens, with no adequate conception of the political and so cial institutions of our nation. Owing to the congested condition of their homes, under-privileged boys must find recreation in their hours of leisure upon the streets of the community in which they live. The hours of leisure, which are nearly one-half of the hours of early adolescence, are the dangerous periods in the boy’s life. . The hoy in the street is detached, the gang gets him and he is ex posed to the evil influence of gang leaders, usually older and of the pronounced criminal type, who divert his youthful energy and love of adventure to pranks that soon lead to misdemeanors. Problem of Better Amusement for Youth Becom ing of Increasing Importance By PROF. FREDERICK P. WOELLNER, University of California. There is need of a higher type of amusement and entertainment for American youth than is now provided for it. The increasing amount of leisure being afforded the race by reason of the advantage of a me chanical age, makes the problems of amusement of increasing import ance. The class of recreation now commonly indulged in is fraught with real moral and social danger. We are running up the wrong alley in the matter of our recreations for young people, and as a result we are creating a class of mental bank rupts. Last year $20,000,000,000 was spent in this country for amuse ments, about twice the amount spent for education. That means for movies, theaters, golf, cards, trashy magazines and the like. But I don't believe that most of us work so hard that we need that quantity of amusement every year, and we are squandering the great wealth of our country on futility. Our false type of recreation stimulates anti-social reactions, and with the increasing amount of leisure of a mechanical age this becomes increasingly important. Artistic Impetus Given by the Small Town Rather Than the Large City By REPRESENTATIVE RUTH HANNA McCORMICK. The real artistic impetus of the American people conies not from New York, Philadelphia or Chicago but from Main street, and the small towns have developed more writers, opera singers, sculptors and painters than all the great cities combined. The great cities have their art galleries and their museums, but only because some benefactor provides them. In the smaller towns there is a much more genuine and more general artistic development. The day is over when the concert company or road show from the big cities, no matter how low-brow its program, could invade and capture the small town. People resent poor caliber programs and immediately ask: “What is New York trying to put over on us?” THE ROC KDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga„ Wed., May 22, 1929. Jersey Sets Butterfat Record ■'*; V/. 4 l O.cgon Jjrsey Produces One Thousand Pounds Butterfat. For the first time in history an im ported Jersey eosv has completed an official test record of more than l.tloo pounds of hutterfat. The new record maker. Imported Xenia’s Ox ford Lilac, 574105. is owned and was tested liy Harry D. Iliff, of Sunny Lea farm. Independence, Ore. She has just finished a 305-day official test with a production record of 1,022.37 pounds of butterfat and 17,600 pounds of milk. This cow was bred on the Is land of Jersey, the island near tlte coast of France where the Jersey breed originated. She was purchased ami placed on test in 1023 by Mr, Iliff im mediately after she made the 7,000- tuile journey across the Atlantic and. the United States. In that test she produced S2l pounds of hutterfat, 13,- 122 pounds of milk in 365 days, with calf. Xenia’s Oxford Lilac is not only the highest record imported cow, hut she is also the twenty-second Jersey in the United States to produce over 1,- 000 pounds of butterfat, or 1,170 pounds of butter in one year. Her daughter, the Lion’s Lilac, 671002, also owned by Mr. Iliff, is now on official test and is making such a high production' record that it is Garlic Flavor Is Quickly Detected ■■ ■ Best Way to Control Bad Tastes in Milk From Cows Is to Prevent Them. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Milk containing objectionable flavors probably causes as serious losses to the American dairy industry as the production of milk that sours, accprd ing to C. J. Babcock, of the United States Department of Agriculture. Dairymen, he says, are giving consid erable attention to keeping their prod ucts sweet, but are not paying as much attention to the flavor and odor. Yet a pleasing flavor will have a tend ency to extend their market through increased consumption. Work Very Quickly. Two weeds —garlic, or wild onion, and bitterweed —are of considerable economic importance in affecting milk flavor in many dairy regions. Garlic, or wild onion, has almost instantane ous effect. Experiments carried on by the bureau of dairy industry show that garlic flavor can be detected in milk drawn from a cow one minute after she has consumed one-half pound of garlic tops, and in milk drawn two minutes after she has inhaled garlic odor for ten minutes. It is necessary to remove cows from garlic-infested pastures from four to seven hours be fore milking to prevent the garlic fla vor in the milk. Bitterweed, found particularly in the South, makes the milk bitter, and, unlike most feeds, the effect of eating bitterweed does not pass away between milkings. “The only method of preventing bit ter milk in sections where this weed is abundant,” says Mr. Babcock, “is to keep cows off infested pasture until the weeds can be exterminated.” , Best Way to Control. “The best way to control off flavors In milk is to prevent them,” says Mr. Babcock. “In the production of palat able milk preventive measures are al ways best. Therefore dairymen should (1) feed milk-tainting feeds just after milking, (2) keep cows and barns clean, (3) properly ventilate cow sta bles. and (4) aerate milk in order to decrease the intensity of feed and barn taints. Finally, prompt cooling and storing of milk at a low tem perature will retard the development of flavors and odors from biological action.” Give Grain Supplement to Animals on Pasture Should grain be fed to dairy cows on pasture? Since spring and sum mer grass Is relatively low in nutri ents, a cow producing 25 to 30 pounds of milk per day must eat about 150 to 300 pounds of grass in order to get enough' feed for her daily re quirements. Since this is practically impossible, a grain supplement must be given. For cows producing 20 to 35 pounds of milk per day, a mixture of the ordinary farm grains such as oats, com, wheat bran, and barley fed at the rate of l pound of grain to 4 to 6 pounds of milk produced per day will be sufficient. For cows pro ducing more than 35 pounds of milk per day, the ration should contain one high protein concentrate such as cot tou seed meal or linseed oil meal. projbable that she, too, will produca more than a 1,000 pounds of butter fat in 365 days. In this event, Xenia’s Oxford Lilac and her daughter will be the only dam and daughter in the Jersey breed to both exceed 1,000 pounds of butterfat on official test. The Lion’s Lilac in a previous test of 305 days started when she was one year and nine months of age, estab lished anew world’s record for cows of all breeds for that age class. With her yield of 742 pounds of butterfat and 10,752 pounds of milk, she won the first Medal of Merit ever present ed to a yearling cow liy the American Jersey Cattle club. Mr. Iliff owns two Jersey cows that have produced more than 1,000 pounds of butterfat in an official test. These two cows and the new 1,000-pound producer, Imp. Xenia’s Oxford Lilac, by their records, give Mr. Iliff the hon or of being the only breeder with three Jersey cows in the 1,000-pound class in his herd, Air. Iliff’s Jersey herd rarely numbers more than a doz en cows, but these cows are such high producers that they hold both national and state championships in several age classes as well as many other notable honors. Frost-Proof Corn Is Grown in Illinois Tests Indicate New Variety Will Yield Largely. Frost-proof corn which will with stand a temperature of 27 degrees, has been successfully produced in McLean county, Illinois, by Dr. James R. Hol bert, expert in charge of the Funk ex perimental farms. In addition to being highly resistant to cold weather, the new strain has shown itself to be less susceptible to the corn borer and flourishes during drought when other strains die. Pre liminary tests indicate that the new kind of corn will yield an average of 18 bushels to the acre more than or dinarily good corn. While the new seed has not yet been produced in sufficient quantities to be marketable, Doctor Holbert told an interviewer from the Farm and Fireside that he is making every effort to perfect it. He recommends that when sufficient seed is available that a whole town ship be planted so that there can be no cross pollenization from inferior fields. The cold-resisting corn was grown only after years of experiments in which more than $250,000 was spent. To hasten the experiments, Holbert invented a refrigeration machine which can be lowered over four hills of corn at one time and the desired temperature secured. Cold tests are made both at the beginning of the seed’s growth and at ripening time. Doctor Holbert declared that corn does not necessarily have to be frosted to be stopped from ripening or killed. Some corn crops, he added, were found to be unable to resist a tem perature of 42 degrees. <j> <xk>oo<hkk>o<kkk>oooooo<>o<h>^ 8 Cultural Hints 8 O-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOV A cow must have three quarts of water for every quart of milk she produces. • • • Farmers who have had the most ex perience are frank to say they never had too much silage. * * * Good breeding and good feeding go hand in hand. Success depends upon combination of the two. * * * Soft corn may often he due directly to lack of fertility in the soil, accord ing to crop specialists of lowa State college. * * Too rapid drying of ordinary con crete removes water that is needed in the process of setting and weakens the concrete. * * * Raising good crops is no longer the only job of the farmer. 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