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Events the World Over
Norfolk Boat Builder Confesses Cruel Hoax in Lindbergh
Case—Terrible Tragedy at Sea—Gossip
of National Politics.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
J5REAKING ued examination, down under John long contin- Curtis,
H.
the Norfolk boat builder who had put
himself forward as an intermediary in
W. H. Stevens
many trips to sea on a yacht in com¬
pany with Curtis. In his brief written
confession of his cruel swindle Curtis
said lie “became insane on the subject
for the time being, which caused me
to create the story in its entirety,” and
that he was “brought back to his
senses” by a telephone conversation
with his wife.
Curtis’ activities the night of the
kidnaping were being investigated. He
was locked up and later arraigned on
charges of giving false reports that
hindered the apprehension of the per¬
sons guilty of the crime. If convicted
he may be imprisoned for three years
or fined $1,000, or both. He waived
preliminary hearing.
Arrested in Brooklyn for abandoning
his family, Frank Parzych, a thirty
year-old narcotic addict, told detec¬
tives—and clung to the story after
more than twelve hours of questioning
—tiiat he was one of a band of seven
men who kidnaped the-child and that
the baby died after the man carrying
him down the ladder from ttie nursery
window accidentally dropped him to
the ground. The police were inclined to
believe this story was false.
Though the authorities of the entire
country are of course hunting for the
kidnapers and murderers of the baby,
New Jersey is still the center of the
operations, and the investigation there
is in the charge of William H. Stevens,
attorney general of the state, and of
Prosecutor Erwin Marshall of Mercer
county. Neither of these man is opti¬
mistic, fearing the case will be added
to the list of unsolved crimes because,
as Mr. Marshall said, whatever trail
there was is now virtually dead. The
necessary excessive caution of the po¬
lice while the child was still thought
to be alive lessened the chances for
solving the mystery. However, Attor¬
ney General Stevens by no means gave
up. At a conference of state, federal
and county police and investigators in
Trenton, a plan was established for
co-ordinating all activities in the hunt
for the murderers.
/'-\NE of the worst marine tragedies
Lt of recent years occurred near the
entrance to the Gulf of Aden when the
new French liner Georges Philippar
of the Messageries Maritimes sudden¬
ly burst into flames and was destroyed.
The loss of life is uncertain at this
writing, bnt probably about 100 per¬
sons perished. The survivors were
picked up by several steamships arid
landed in different ports. Two Brit¬
ish vessels took 254 of them to Aden,
and they said at least 100 of the thou¬
sand odd aboard the doomed ship were
trapped in their cabins. Many others
lost their lives in the stormy sea.
-U DROMINENT bankers and industrial
leaders, convinced that public fear
and uncertainty have prevented the
federal reserve system’s policy from
taking full effect in the stimulation
of recovery of prices and of prosper¬
ity, have formed a committee of
twelve to aid in putting to work the
hundreds of millions of dollars being
poured into the market by the system
in its program for credit expansion.
These gentlemen gathered in New
York at the call of George L. Har¬
rison, governor of the Federal Reserve
bank of New York, with Owen D.
Young as their chairman. The follow¬
ing statement was issued:
“Governor Harrison of the Federal
Reserve bank of New York has called
together a committee composed of
bankers and industrialists for the pur¬
pose of considering methods of mak¬
ing the large funds now being released
by the federal reserve banks useful
affirmatively in developing business.
“Its purpose will also be generally
to co-operate with the Reconstruction
Finance corporation and other agen¬
cies to secure more co-ordinated and
eo more effective action on the part
of the banking and industrial inter¬
ests.”
SPEAKER GARNER put forth his
•3 own plan for depression relief, and
it was indorsed by Representative
Rainey, leader of the house. Its main
features ate:
1. Appropriation of $110,000,000 to
be expended by the President in his
discretion for the relief of destitution.
2. Increase of $1,000,000,000 in the
borrowing power of the Reconstruc¬
tion Finance corporation for loans to
state and local governments, corpora¬
the Lindbergh baby
case, confessed to In¬
spector Harry Walsh
of the Jersey City po¬
lice that his story
was a hoax and his
“negotiations" with
the kidnapers were en¬
tirely a fake. He said
he never knew such
persons as those he
named to Colonel
Lindbergh and to
meet whom the dis '
traded father made
tions and individuals for the purpose
of increasing employment.
3. A bond Issue of $1,000,000,000 for
construction of federal public works
in the interesi of revival of industry
and increase of employment, this ex¬
pense to be met by a tax of one-third
of one cent a gallon on gasoline.
/'”\UR senators are not yet willing
to give us rea! beer, even as part
of a plan to bring relief to the unem¬
ployed. By a vote of 24 to 61 they re¬
jected Senator Tyding’s amendment to
the tax bill. This amendment would
have legalized 2.75 per cent beer with
a tax of 24 cents a gallon upon it
which was calculated to yield $200,000,
000 annually for amortization of a
construction bond issue and an addi¬
tional $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 that
would have allowed that amount to be
stricken from the tax bill.
W ’V Democratic ITH the near national approach convention of the
speculation as to the chances of Gov
Frahklin D. Roosevelt for the nomina¬
Owen Young" D.
vorite sons to put the New York
governor across the two-thirds line—
770 votes.
One of the most prominent of the
“dark horses” has taken himself def¬
initely out of the running. Owen D.
Young, who had a large and hopeful
body of supporters though he never
had been an avowed candidate, made
the “final” announcement that he would
not accept the nomination if it were of¬
fered him. In a letter to John Crow¬
ley, publisher of the Times of Little
Falls, Young’s home town, he said his
reasons for this decision were “so con¬
trolling as not to be open for argu¬
ment.” It was assumed the chief of
these reasons was Mrs. Young’s ill
health.
A L SMITH has by no means sur-
4* rendered. In a radio address he
set forth his personal platform con¬
taining planks designed to cure the
ills from which the country is suffer¬
ing. The main features were:
Balance the national budget.
A manufacturers’ sales tax to meet
the $1,500,000,000 deficit.
Reduction of national expenditures
to an “irreducible minimum.”
Opposition to a veterans’ cash bonus.
Repeal of the Eighteenth amend¬
ment.
Immediate modification of the Vol¬
stead act, to permit wines and beer.
His previously proposed bond issue
for public works to relieve unemploy¬
ment, the bonds to be amortized by
proceeds from a wine and beer tax.
Defeat of President Hoover’s pro¬
posal to relieve unemployment through
funds of tlie reconstruction finance
board.
Clothe the President with power to
extend, if need be, the moratorium
on international debts “until a real
solution can be reached.”
Suppress “all blocs which bedevil
legislation.”
CENATOR WATSON of Indiana,
^ majority leader of the senate, does
not think congress can possible get
through its necessary business with¬
out a summer session before June 14,
when the Republican national conven¬
tion opens, so he proposed to other
leaders of both parties that a recess
be taken from June 4 to July 11.
Speaker Garner demurred, believing
all legislation can be disposed of be¬
fore June 11, so a decision was post¬
poned until June 4. If it appears then
that congress can end its work by
June 11, the recess plan will not be
pressed.
T TNLESS reparations payments are
v—' maintained, Rumania, Jugoslavia
and Czechoslovakia will refuse to pay
their international debts. This was de¬
cided upon at a conference of these na¬
tions, which form the little entente, at
Belgrade, and it will be their attitude at
the coming Lausanne parley. It is
not a new position for them, and is the
same as that maintained consistently
by France, their great friend.
Jugoslavia is especially concerned
about reparations, since the amounts
due it were estimated on the basis of
damage done. The Jugoslavs, fear Ger¬
many cannot be persuaded to resume
payments, in which case they will lose
annually an increasing amount begin¬
ning with $19,001,000 and reaching
eventually $26,000,000, or a total In
all of $875,000,000. Jugoslavia's war
debts to the allies total about $300,
000,000, so that full cancellation of
reparations and debts would cause a
loss of $575,000,000
tion grows intense.
H i s pre-convention
manager, James A.
Farley still believes
he will be nominated
on the first roll call.
He asserts that Roose¬
velt will be sure of 691
votes to 463 for all
other aspirants, and
that before the tally
clerk gets down as far
as Wyoming and the
territories, ernougn
states will change
their votes from fa¬
f OU T. REICBERS, a daring Amen.
lean uviator, was tlie Hrst of this
year’s crop of would-be transatlantic
flyers, and he failed. Hopping off from
Harbor Grace, he sought to fly to Carls
with a landing at Dublin. But he got
lost in the clouds when nearly across
the ocean, came down not far from
the south end of Irelnnd and was
picked up by the steamship President
Roosevelt, whose commander, Captain
Fried, and chief officer, Harry Man¬
ning, have rescued many persons from
death at sea.
/’''APT. ROBERT DOLLAR, the aged
and spectacular dean of the ship¬
ping and lumber industries of the Pa¬
cific coast, died at his home in San
Rafael, Calif., after an illness of sev¬
eral weeks. Born in Scotland in 1844,
he began work as a lad in Quebec and
rose steadily to the dominant position
he held at his death.
The coast guard lost its able com¬
mandant when Rear Admiral F. C.
Billard passed away in Washington,
where he resided. He was fifty-eight
years old and had been ill two weeks.
Dr. B. J. Cigrand, founder and pres¬
ident of the American Flag Day asso¬
ciation, died at his home In Batavia,
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LTENRY L. STIMSON, secretary of
state, returned from Geneva, says
his conversations there convinced him
that Europe agrees with the United
States on what can and must be done
in regard to the far eastern situation
and will co-operate with Uncle Sara.
He is certain neither Japan nor Rus¬
sia wants war, and he indicates that
the great powers will strive to keep
the Manchurian trouble localized, at
least for the present. However, the
authorities in Washington are rather
alarmed by the military situation in
Manchuria because of the continued
concentration of troops along the
frontier.
JAPAN is in a state of ferment and
•J the occidental mind can scarcely
figure out what the results may be.
Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai was assas¬
T Inukai
affairs. Inukai’s cabinet resigned and
plans were made to install ICisaburo
Suzuki, new president of the Seiyu
kai party, as premier. But the rep¬
resentatives of the army served Pr:
tiee that a national cabinet must !<e
formed not based on political par¬
ties. The vice chief of staff declared
the army would refuse to approve any
nomination for war minister in a
party cabinet. The constitution pro¬
vides that the war minister must be
a general of the army, so the army
can prevent the formation of any
ministry that It disapproves. Late
dispatches from Tokyo indicated that
the army would have its way, and
all over the world there was specula¬
tion as to what might be the effect
on Japan’s relations with China and
especially with Russia.
Prince Saionji, last of the elder
statesmen, was called to Tokyo to try
to effect a compromise.
LI J_J ARRY J. LEIK, superintendent of
Mount McKinley National park in
Alaska, and three companions climbed
both of the mountain, the first
time this ever had
been accomplished,
and discovered that
tragic disaster had
befallen a group of
scientists headed by
Allen Carpe who had
attempted to scale the
mountain for the pur
p o s e of measuring
cosmic rays. Carpe
himself and Theodore
Koven lost their lives.
Kove n’s body was
found on M u 1 d r o w
glacier, and it was certain that Carpe
had fallen into a crevasse. The lost
leader was regarded as the ablest
mountaineer in America. He was
working under the direction of Prof.
Arthur H. Compton of the University
of Chicago, who had expected to join
him in Alaska to continue the cosmic
ray study.
Two other members of Carpe’s
party, E. P. Beckwith and Percy T.
Olton, Jr., both of New York, were
safe, encamped on the glacier, Leik
reported. Beckwith was seriously ill
with fever and was rescued by air¬
plane. N. D. Spadevcockia, also of
the party, had left the camp to seek
aid and was missing.
JJ INDUS and Moslems in Bombay
LI fought each other for days and
about a hundred were killed and many
injured before the British troops could
quell the riots with rifle fire and tanks.
The strife between the two races
spread to Calcutta and there, also, it
was necessary for the police to fire on
the mobs.
OOPE PIUS XI issued an encyclical
* entitled “Charitas Christi” in which
he called the world to prayer, penance
and mortification to save itself from
“the peril of terrorism and anarchy”
and “tlie still graver evils that are
threatening.” For this purpose he set
aside a period of eight days for “repar¬
ation” on the octave of the feast of the
Sacred Heart, beginning June 3.
(©. 1032, Western Newspaper Union.)
CLEVELAND COURIER
sinated by a group of
young army men and
at the same time mil¬
itary terrorists raid¬
ed and bombed vari¬
ous buildings and did
other damage in To¬
kyo. These events
signalled the out¬
break of an actual mil¬
itary revolt against
the existing govern¬
ment and its course
in na t> ona ' an< ^ espe¬
international
Allen Carpe
GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State
The citizens of Hogansville recent¬
ly presented a most colorful pageant
in celebration of the National Cotton
Week.
The Macon 82nd Division Associa¬
tion, world war veterans, has voted
to hold a state reunion of the veter¬
ans of the division this fall.
At least sixty farmers of Clarke
county plan to grow a variety of cash
and supply crops this year, L. S. Wat¬
son, county agent, reports.
Although beneficial rains have fallen
recently in nearby territory, there has
been no real beneficial rain in the vi¬
cinity of Sylvester this year.
A carload of flour, consisting of 220
barrels has been recently received by
the Dawson community chest from the
American Red Cross Association.
Contract has been let for the erec¬
tion of a building at Valdosta to
house a paper-sizing plant, and con¬
struction is expected to begin at
once.
A small cotton crop in Georgia this
year was predicted by the state ag¬
ricultural experts recently who based
their predictions on sharply reduced
fertilizer rates.
Dr. R. M. Eubanks, Atlanta, was
elected grand chancellor of the Geor¬
gia Knights of Pythias at the clos¬
ing session of the annual convention
at Macon recently.
Patients at the Milledgeville state
hospital enjoyed their first “talkie”
recently when sound equipment was
sent out from Atlanta for an exper¬
iment at the institution.
Thomas Pickens Henry, S3, Confed¬
erate veteran and prominent finan¬
cier of Chattooga county, died at La¬
fayette recently. He is the last sur¬
vivor of Wheeler's cavalry regiment.
Whole-hearted support of the Eighth
and Ninth District Press Association
was pledged to the “Forward Georgia”
movement by delegates attending the
annual meeting at Cornelia recently.
A tablet marking the site of the
inn where George Washington stop¬
ped during his visit at Savannah,
May 12-15, 1791, was unveiled with
appropriate exercises at that place
recently.
On May 18 Augustans turned hack
the pages of history to the May 18
of 1791, when that city was the cap¬
ital of Georgia and America’s first
president, George Washington, paid
it a visit.
A cotton styles show, sponsored
by the Home Economics Club of the
Georgia Teachers’ College at Athens,
as the program for its annual open
meeting, was put on at Pound audi¬
torium recently.
The Jenkins county grand jury in
its report at the end of its spring term
meeting at Millen urges the county
voters be given an opportunity to
vote on abolishing the city court of
Jenkins county.
Possibility that Athens will soon
be without a transportation service
is seen in report to city council by
the Georgia Power Company that the
busy company is losing about ten
thousand dollars annually.
That business conditions point to a
gradual but steady improvement is
the judgment of speakers who ad¬
dressed the executive council of the
Georgia Bankers Association at a
meeting held in Atlanta recently.
The long-contemplated direct pas¬
senger line between Atlanta and New
Orleans will be opened June 4, ac¬
cording to an announcement recent¬
ly by Willis Haviland, Atlanta traffic
representative for American airways.
Election of Claude Rountree, of
Thomasville, as president, and elec¬
tion of other officers featured the
final session of the fifty-seventh an¬
nual convention of the Georgia Phar¬
maceutical Association in Atlanta a
few days ago.
A one-day session of the Southern.
Master Printers Association and the
Southern School of Printing was held
recently in Atlanta. It was the 14th
annual joint convention of tile two
organizations, which assembled em¬
ployers in the printing trades from
all over the Southern states.
A petition to congress to Issue fed¬
eral bonds to provide funds for a
widespread program of public work
and improvements and indorsement of
the bill pending in congress to appro¬
priate five hundred million dollars for
immediate public relief were contained
in a resolution adopted recently by
the Atlanta Methodist Ministers’ As¬
sociation.
Officials of the mills affected by
the textile strike in Horse Creek Val¬
ley, near Augusta, said that an agree¬
ment had been reached whereby op¬
erations will be resumed in a few
days.
A return to the state treasury of
$46,089.76, representing unused ap¬
propriations in the several divisions
of the department, was noted by State
Auditor Tom Wisdom in the annual
audit of the office of Eugene Tal
madge, commissioner of agriculture,
Eilsd with Governor Russell recently.
Orchard Pests Can
Be Done Away With
Good Fruit Is Produced by
Healthy Trees,
(By H. R. Nlswonger, Field Horticul¬
turist, Colorado State College.)
One of the best ways to control In¬
sect and disease pests in the orchard
and to improve the quality of fruit
this season is to give the orchard a
thorough cleaning. This applies espe¬
cially to apple orchards.
Apple scab, for instance, spreads
from dead leaves which have dropped
from trees that were infected with
the disease last season. The leaves
should be raked up and burned or
plowed under as early as possible.
The codling moth winters over un¬
der the loose bark and among the
refuse where cull apples were piled
or boxes and other containers were
stored. This bark might be scraped
from the trees, raked up and burned.
Make a general cleaning of such
places as the codling moth is likely
to hibernate. This clean-up practice
will reduce the number of worms in
the fruit this season.
San Jose scale and other insects
multiplied greatly during the latter
part of the 1931 crop year because of
favorable weather conditions. Spray¬
ing the trees with lime sulphur will
keep this scale under control, and the
use of one of the commercial, oil
sprays will give control of tlie scurfy
and oyster-shell scale insects.
Some trees which are weak and are
giving no good returns might be re¬
moved from the orchard or top-worked
by grafting in from a better tree or
variety.
Soil Zone Cuts Figure
in Corn Fertilization
Studies at the Ohio experiment sta¬
tion show that results from fertiliz¬
ing corn vary with the soil zone into
which the fertilizer is introduced.
Placing fertilizer in direct contact
with, or immediately above, the seed
has proved most damaging. Damage
varies with the amount of fertilizer
and rainfall.
An application of 460 pounds an
acre of 4-12-4 in rectangular areas 4
by 8 inches and 1% inches di re¬
duced the stand of corn 33 per cent
in 1930 and 45 per cent in 1931. The
same amount placed in a 4 by 8-inch
band % inch above the seed gave a
stand of 62 per cent in 1930 and 70
per cent in 1931. The same quantity
applied % inch above the seed but
divided into two lateral 2 by 8-inch
bands 3 inches apart gave a 90 per
cent stand in 1930 and a perfect
stand in 1931.—Capper’s Farmer.
Care of Ewes
In order to give birth to strong thrif¬
ty Iambs the ewes need plenty of nu¬
tritious feeds and sufficient exercise.
The ration of the pregnant and nurs¬
ing ewe should consist of feeds rich
in minerals and protein and the cheap¬
est source of these nutrients is in
clover or alfalfa hay. Turnips are
also a valuable feed for breeding ewes,
due largely to their tonic and regu¬
lating effect, and are fed at the rate of
three pounds per head per day along
with a liberal supply of hay.
Salt should be available at all times
and where well-balanced rations are
fed, especially those Including good
legume hay, sheep will ordinarily re¬
ceive enough calcium and phosphorus
which are the other mineral nutrients
most apt to be lacking.
Farmers Favor Silage
Ninety-nine of one hundred Nebras¬
ka farmers who built and used trench
silos last year believe that they have
been worthwhile, according to a sur¬
vey by the Nebraska College of Agri¬
culture. Ninety-five of one hundred
men will use their trench silos again
if crops are poor and eighty-two of
them will use the silos even if crops
are good this year.
Ninety-eight per cent of the men
said that silage was a much better
feed than dry corn fodder. Sixty
two of them fed it with alfalfa, twen¬
ty supplemented It with cottonseed
cake and twenty fed it with oats
straw or some other straw.—Ex¬
change.
Agricultural Squibs
Argentina’s corn area is 5 per cent
greater than a year ago.
* * *
Twenty-eight Edgecombe county (N.
C.) farmers sold 89,210 pounds of fat
hogs for $3,485.46 in a co-operative
shipment.
* * *
Wisconsin valuation of farm equip¬
ments is $16.65 per acre of crop land.
Only two states, New York and Penn¬
sylvania, exceed this valuation.
* * *
County agents in Vermont made
8,856 visits to 4,746 farms in the
United States last year, and answered
13,146 telephone inquiries from farm¬
ers.
* • •
Heavy breeds of poultry, such as
Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds
and Wyandoftes, have been more prof¬
itable for the last three years as farm
flocks than have the lighter breeds of
chickens, according to cost records of
200 Ohio farmers.
* • *
Good seed is one of the most effec¬
tive crop insurance policies known.
If possible, buy seed grown in your
own locality. If not possible, buy In
your own state, and buy early while
good seed is still available.
CHICKS HAVE RIGHT
TO PROPER START
Therefore, Give Attention to
“Hatching” Eggs.
Successful Colorado poultrymen who
produce eggs for hatching find that It
pays to give close attention to (1) the
condition and care of the breeding
flock, and (2) proper care of hatching
eggs before they are set.
More farmers and poultrymen than
usual are hatching their own chicks
with setting hens—the good old fash¬
ioned method—reports O. C. Ufford,
extension poultryman at the Colorado
Agricultural college.
“Tlie breeding flock from which
hatching eggs are being produced,”
says Ufford, “should be carefully
ctllled to eliminate hens that are too
fat, lack vigor or health, or have seri¬
ous defects of type and color.
“Bacillary white diarrhea, a serious
disease of young chicks, comes from
hens in the breeding flock that are af¬
fected,” he adds. “It is not possible
to recognize such hens except by blood
testing the Individual birds.”
- Green feed and sunshine supply vi¬
tamins that are needed for normal
health and growth of chicks, it is
pointed out. The baby chick first
makes use of vitamins when it is de¬
veloping in the egg, but the egg will
not contain these Important elements
unless the breeding flock is fed a ra¬
tion that supplies them. Therefore
the flock should have plenty of sun¬
shine and a well-balanced ration that
Includes green feeds, minerals and
water.
Losses Sure When the
Chicks Are Overcrowded
Crowding always results in enor¬
mous losses and occurs just prior to
the chicks taking to tlie roost. It may
be discouraged by maintaining heat
but eventually the chicks will take to
the corners. It might be ideal but im¬
practical to construct a round brooder
house, but one can eliminate the cor¬
ners in a house with square corners,
A scheme of this kind consists of in¬
clined wire netting frames about 2
feet wide placed in the back and sides
of the house. The inner edge is next
to the floor while the outer is elevated
about a foot from the floor. It Is, of
course, necessary that these frames
fit tight so that it is Impossible for
chicks to get underneath. With this
arrangement as the chicks crowd out
they are elevated and there is no dan¬
ger of the chicks being suffocated.
Usually small roosts are nailed on the
upper side of the frame and it is only
a short time until the chicks are roost¬
ing. The old Idea was that too early
roosting caused crooked breast bones,
but that idea has been exploded so
that now the advice is to get the
chicks roosting as soon as possible.—
Missouri Farmer.
Estimating Oil Need
Five hundred chicks kept in confine¬
ment for the first four weeks will eat
about 200 pounds of mash and will
need four pounds or two quarts of
cod-liver oil. The same number of
chicks will consume close to 850
pounds of mash the first eight weeks
and, if confined, will need two and one
eighth gallons of cod-liver oil. From
this, one can estimate the amount of
oil that will be needed and can make
the purchase and have it ready when
the chicks are hatched. Cod-liver oil
may be secured from the local drug¬
gist, or the county agent or farm dem¬
onstration flock co-operators in the
county can supply the names of com
panies that sell the cod-liver oil.
Brooder-House Litter
Ground corn cobs make satisfactory
litter for brooder houses, says the Ne¬
braska College of Agriculture. The
coarsely ground cobs make as good a
litter as chopped hay or straw. Some
poultrymen prefer to use commercial
litters. Sand does not make a good
floor covering unless the chicks are
well fed all of the time. Chicks
placed on sand sometimes till up on
It producing indigestion and other un¬
satisfactory results.
Graded Eggs Sell Best
The average per capita consumption
of eggs in Canada is 361, nearly an egg
a day for every person, and the high¬
est consumption of any country. Ca¬
nadian officials credit this to the fact
that eggs are carefully graded, and
that the Canadian housewife goes to
market and buys eggs with confidence.
She knows that eggs graded as extras
are of the highest quality and can be
used for any purpose in the home.
Every egg passing into trade in that
country is graded.—Prairie Farmer.
Bantam as Foster Mother
The little bantam hen assumes an
Important role in the pheasant rearing
programs of many of our states. In
these projects the common little ban¬
tam hen is given the job of hatching
the pheasant eggs and looking after
the chicks. If this kind of hen isn’t
used, game breeders advise that at
least a fairly small chicken hen should
be placed in charge of a clutch of
pheasant eggs, because a large, clumsy
is quite apt to kill some of
young chicks.—Ohio Farmer.
