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THE RGCKDALE RECGRD Official Organ of Rockdale County PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY J. M. TOWNS Editor W. E. ATKINSON Publisher Waiting Hues ut the straw hat cleaner’s. Uneasy lies the head that tries to outguess the stock market When a real poet means "while," he says “while”; tho near-poet prefers ‘‘whilst" Taking n vacation too early leaves n person nothing to look forward to but work. In other days the women were all hooks and eyes. Now the men are looks and eyes. Many a little makes a mickle; and the grossest overweight comes from tiny fork and spoon loads. Probably those yeggs who stole a safe from an Atlanta sandwich shop mistook It for a sandwich. “Wizard of finance” Is a term much less used than formerly. Neverthe less, there are still wizards. Coroners should always retire early on Friday night In preparation for the strenuous two days to follow. Since short skirts are here to stay girl babies are not allowed to learn to walk as early In life as formerly. Children are now beginning to com plain that home might be happier If parents would stay home at nights. In Sweden they are making auto bodies out of leather. Fine business! A second-hand car can readily be half soled. Domestic tranquility is very largely a matter of continuing to call her “Baby," after she lias put on 30 pounds. Another marvel of arithmetic Is the way the dear thing ages only three years, if any, between the decennial censuses. It is said that the Scotch are hold ing up the issuance of that smaller paper currency, for they want their money longer. Odd Story—The telephone rang dur ing the poker party, and no one of those present remarked, "If It’s for me, I’m not here.” Is there no way of getting a con tinuous piano player and Ids piano up on a flag pole, so as to break both silly records at a time? Naturally It would he a lovely con dition if everybody spoke only good of everybody else, but what long gaps it would leave in the conversa tion. A German glider expert expects to glide all the way across the English channel in a single glide this sum mer. Or maybe hopes is the better word. The new SIO,OOO bills are promised in a few days. Now is the time to study the marks of the genuine ones, to avoid taking in a counterfeit by mistake. The Chicago bandit who attempted a theater holdup and was routed by the woman cashier’s “get out,” prob ably became confused and thought he was home. Astronomers now tell us that the planet Jupiter came within 289,760,000 miles of smnshing right into the moon. Just missed it, you might sny, by a comet’s hair. Back home there was always a lout in the hardware store who would daub up the under side of a wrench handle with shellac and ask a small boy to “jest heft it." The urge to get into the air Is strong with certain youths, but with out proper instruction in flying and a good plane, the earth is the best place for them. There is another brief interlude in the career of the young boy when he must be taken firmly in hand regard ing the following matter: Parking the gum on the dinner plate. If we should buy that London vase for which $145,000 was refused the other day it would be just our luck to have it broken the first time it was washed with the rest of the dishes. Another piece of advice which is doubtless received with mixed emo tions is where the dear girl has asked the medical publicist what to do about noticeably thin legs and his counsel is as follows, viz: Take up toe danc ing. A square mile is estimated as nec essary for an air field. Earth and sky unite in questions to be consid ered by realtor and aviator. A drug store in New York, still In operation, was founded in 1805. There were not any postage stamps then, but we suppose people asked for them. One of the things that a million Americans think they do, and don’t, Is to visit a dentist regularly every six months, as solemnly advised, whether they need to or not. BUSINESS AND RELIGION RIVALS j By REV. DR. R. W. SOCKMAN, New York (Methodist). THE three institutions which were improved by Christianity so mankind could profit from them, property, business and the home, are the same ones whioh in modern times have lessened the church’s influence. The solution is not for the church to seek to take the eyes of men from these three practical institutions and turn them toward heaven, but to demonstrate that the triumvirate can be enjoyed much more if religion is added to them. Before the time of Jesus Christ property, business and the home were such hard, exacting institutions, taking so much from the indi vidual, that little part remained for him to give to religion. Then came Christianity and humanized these institutions. Christianity made men trust one another, and the institution of credit and banking which sup ports our modem economic world was evolved. Asa result business has become a fascinating game. It has become a rival of religion not because it places on a man so much drudgery he has no time for the church, but because of its pleasant lure. In the First century the home was a disagreeable, tyrannical insti tution. Women were slaves. Christ lifted women up and started the movement which has resulted in the fact that now they are our spiritual comrades. The modern home, with all its defects, has far more poten tiality for 1 culture and religion than the home in any other age. But because our homes are such pleasant, engrossing places they detract from our willingness to attend church. This generation is tolerant of every thing because it favors nothing, opposes nothing, believes in nothing. The luxuries, conveniences and advantages given by modern busi ness, wealth and the home have deprived the native-born American of vigor and initiative. CO-OPERATION WILL HELP FARMER By ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture. Co-operative organizations can win ground for agriculture which can he cbnsolidated and held. Legislation alone cannot answer the farmers’ problems. After all that may be done by sympathetic legis lation there will always he much that must be done by the farmers themselves. In business, in civic affairs and in religion, co-operation has achieved respectability as in nearly every field of human endeavor, yet when the question is raised to its application to agriculture it is a subject of criti cism. Why co-operation, when applied to agriculture, should be frowned upon, why staid and conservative business men who have co-operated and are co-operating in many business, religious and civic enterprises should hold up their hands in horror, and allow a righteous dread to drown their souls, when farmers begin to work together, is past my limit of understanding. The object of corporate production and selling of industrial com modities is the same as the aim of co-operative marketing of agricultural commodities —profit for the producers. The object of co-operatively promoting a civic ideal, or seeking jus tice for a class, is not distinguishable from seeking a fair price for agri cultural products and promoting justice to the farmers of America as a class. PRESS BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY By BRUCE BLIVEN, Editor The New Republic. Good citizenship depends on a good press, and true democracy can not exist in the absence of an efficient press. Two recent developments in the press I regard as dangerous—the rise of the tabloid and of the chain newspapers in which a tremendous amount of power is centered in one man. If the experiment of political democracy, which is still on trial, does succeed, the press will have played a tremendous part. The press is and must be the eyes of the citizens in viewing the activities of the govern ment. The United States has the most honest press in the world, and the only other in the world at all comparable is that of Great Britain. The American press is not subsidized. If by subsidization is meant that it yields to sinister influences and is bought off, I say emphatically “no.” The American government would never dream of such subordina tion, nor would the opposition dream of such a thing. "We have partisan editors in political beliefs, but that is because they have their own firm political convictions, and we can thank God for that. Press conditions in Europe are deplorable in that many newspapers are subsidized there. It is taken for granted in many places that news papers exist for some sinister purpose —either to be subsidized by the government or by individuals. SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS OVERDONE By DR. WILLIAM KILPATRICK, Teachers’ College, Brooklyn. Religion, the Bible and custom are losing their grip on the new gen eration as accepted authorities of conduct. Voting, bobbed hair and short skirts are a few of the symbols of the new freedom. Former standards of conduct were based on the Bible or the church or custom. Our youth are honest and alert. The demand is upon us to help them see the why of what is due, and, when they see, to help them to learn to do it. Education must be thought of as life. The school is the place where life is to be found at its best. But-the present school is too often quite content to sacrifice the present in a doubtful hope of helping the future. Too often, therefore, it manages to get neither. The school does not intelligently educate. - It over-emphasizes exam-* inations. In this respect the regents system is a great evil. The wrong emphasis has so beclouded thinking that most parents, most teachers and most colleges fail to see what hig-h-sehool education really should be. And in this the college preparatory school is generally worse. So long as the emphasis is on preparing for examination, by just so much is education forgot, the kind of education that really counts. “HE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., July .1, 1929. Tattooing Swine Useful Practice Marking Makes It Easy to Identify Animals After Being Slaughtered. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Tattooing hogs is a practical means of marking them so they can be identi fied after slaughter, according to tho United States Department of Agricul ture, and the practice is useful In numerous ways. It is particularly valuable In identifying the ownership of hogs in mixed shipments and in tracing any disease to the farm or other place of origin. Miscellaneous Circular 57-M. the Tattoo Method of Marking Hogs and Its Use, recently issued in a revised form by the United States Department of Agriculture, describes the tattooing instrument, tells how to use it. and dis cusses its numerous possible applica tions. The tattoo method of marking hogs is simple, inexpensive, and easily used. A tattoo marie properly, applied is ns permanent as tlie skin itself. Particularly Useful. In the field of co-operative market ing. where a number of farmers ship thi.ir hogs in one lot, the tattoo mark is particularly useful because of its conclusive evidence of the hog's origin. Such information is highly desirable as a basis for payment when diseased conditions appear at the time of slaughter. From the standpoint of live stock health officials such identification of diseased hogs is useful also. Hogs found to be tuberculous can be traced to their source, and other animals on the farm may be tested, leading to the eradication of the disease. The manner in which the tattooing of hogs led to the discovery of tuberculosis in a poultry flock is of practical in terest. In the course of investigational work a shipment of tattooed hogs to a central marketing point proved to be infected with tuberculosis. An in spector visited the farm and applied the combination test to the remainder of the hogs on the farm, with the result that practically 100 per cent reacted to the avian test. The inspec tor also found the chicken flock to oe badly infected. Tracing of Disease. On the inspector’s recommendation, the owner sold his entire flock of chickens, restocking with day-old chicks the following spring. Later, 32 hogs from this farm Were shipped to market and again identified by the tattoo mark. A report on 27 of these animals showed that not one had been found infected; the remainder were not slaughtered under federal inspec tion and a report on them could not be obtained. It was reasonably ap parent tlmt the tracing of the disease, slaughter of infected flock, cleaning, disinfection, and a restocking with healthy chicks had removed the source of infection. The tattoo should also be of aid in studying results of feeding tests, in identifying carcasses in contests of various kinds, such as the familiar ton-litter competitions, and in similar activities where facts concerning the size and quality of carcasses are de sired. In fact, any experimental work involving studies of dressed carcasses offers a wide field for the use of tattoo marks. A copy of the circular may be ob tained by writing to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C. Epicurean Porkers Are Favored at Beltsville The hog’s reputation as a gourmand Is so general that he is rarely credited with any refinement of appetite. Even farmers were surprised a few years ago to find that these “greedy ani mals” would select the proper feeds for a balanced ration if served the cafeteria way. Some hogs, however, it now ap pears, are capable of even finer gas tronomic discrimination, according to J. H. Zeller, swine specialist of the United States Department of Agri culture. Two shoats at the department’s ex periment farm at Beltsville, Md., he says, have apparently found the inside of the corn kernel a great delicacy. Unlike most of their kind, they do not eat the whole kernel, but like squir rels spend hours at a time cracking the grain, deftly extracting the meaty inside, and ejecting the kernel shells in neat piles about the lot. Kernel cracking, however, is not a common accomplishment of the pork er, Mr. Zeller says, and he doubts the possibility of teaching the trick to the common herd even if it were found a desirable trait to develop. Killing Horse-Radish a Very Difficult Matter The cutting out of horse-radish after it has become established is a very difficult matter. The same gen eral procedure will need to be fol lowed as in the case of any other weed that has a large storage root. If the infested patches are kept bare so that the plant cannot develop leaves for the manufacturing of plant food, starvation will result. The procedure may be most effective after the land has been ployed quite thoroughly. If the areas are not very extensive they may possibly be clen ad out by chem ical treatment However, we have very little information concerning the specific action of these materials on horse-radish. —H. O. Werner, Univer sity of Nebraska. Find Cabbage Market Likes Small Heads Average of Three Pounds in Size Brings Best Price. New York state markets often pay two to three dollars a ton premium for cabbage that is solid and weighs about three pounds to a head since that Is the size most convenient to the housewife, says F. O. Underwood of the State College of Agriculture at Ithaca, N. Y. To meet this demand, tlie intermediate type of Danish Bali head is the best variety to grow. To obtain medium-sized heads, the pi nuts must he close together, says Mr. Underwood, who points out that heavy yields are possible even with heads of this size. Plants may be set 18 by 3G inches apart in the field, re quiring about 10,000 plants to an acre, and on good land they may be set 14 or 15 inches apart in the row. Close planting requires better land, more plant food, and plenty of mois ture. A supply of moisture may be favored by applying manure to the land a year before the cabbage Is grown, by using cover crops, and by fall plowing. The intermediate type of Danish Ballhead is best, for It produces heads that are round, that are slightly flat tened on top, and that taper slightly at the base. Also the heads are solid, the leaves are well closed over, and the foliage is vigorous. The length of stem is, in itself, of little impor tance, but the tail-stem types do not yield so heavily and the leaves do not close over so well on top. The flatter types are larger, are not so solid, do not keep so well, and are sometimes said to be too much like domestic cabbage. Making Bees Move on Is Not Accomplished Soon Bees often take up their abode where there are not wanted, as in a cavity in a wall. A good way to get them out is to put a bee “escape” over the en trance to the cavity, so the bees can get out but not in. A cone of wire cloth about 8 inches high with a hole at the apex just large enough for one bee to pass through will serve as an escape. A regular hive should be placed beside the entrance for the return of the escaped bees. The queen remains in the old cavity and goes on laying eggs, but as the colony is quickly reduced in size the quantity of brood decreases. The younger bees leave the cavity and join the bees in the hive. Anew queen should be given to the bees in the hive as soon as pos sible. After about four weeks, remove the bee escape and make as large a hole as possible at the entrance of the cav ity. The bees will go in for the honey and carry it to the hive. For this meth od to work successfully, it is necessary that the bees have only one exit from the cavity. Cutting Canada Thistle in August Most Favored Dates suggested for the best date to cut Canada thistle vary. A. Han sen, botanist at Purdue experimental station, has inquired into the matter with no definite results so far. This date seems to vary somewhat, according to the almanac one happens to consult, but seems to center some where around August 14. That the al manac signs do not always work is indicated by the experience of one irate farmer who tried the method arid concluded that he evidently cut while the sign was on the twins, since he now has two thistles where he had but one before. Why so many farmers have suc ceeded in practically destroying Can ada thistle by a single cutting is a mystery. It may be related to the fact that when thistles mature the stems become hollow and cutting at that stage followed by rain may fill the hollows and cause rotting. This rather unusual condition has been ob served a number of times. | Agricultural Notes | Alfalfa is a superior feed for live stock. • * * Good seed of standard varieties is always in demand. It pays to pro duce it. * * * It is commonly recommended there should be one acre of alfalfa for ev ery dairy cow. * * * Half of the failures in getting wind break trees to grow and thrive can be laid directly to faulty preparation of the soil. * * * High-producing cows need grain even when on good pasture. Early pasture grass is high in protein, so grain mixtures should not contain more than 15 per cent protein for best results. * * * To assure milk of pleasing flavor the dairyman should not give his cows any feed likely to taint milk until just after milking. He should then fol low this practice with aeration of the milk against flavors or odors. * • * In ordinary seasons sweet clover will furnish about 50 per cent more grazing than bluegrass on soils suit able for its use and in many instances twice the grazing has been produced. Even greater advantage is observed in dry seasons. 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