The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1928, Page 4

| Sught to leave no ripple on the surface but establish the ‘PAGE FOUR __THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Bismarck Tri bune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- tmarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. George D. Mann .............. President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ........... Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year, (in state, outside Bismarck) ........ Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota .. ‘Weekly by mail, in state, per year ‘Weekly by mail, in state, three ye: Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, Member Audit Bureau of Circulation 1.50 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it! or not otherwise credited in this newspaper, and also; the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) BOULDER DAM SET TO GO | The Boulder dam bill has been passed and received that executive approval which completes it as a great Piece of constructive legislation, full of intended and in- cidental potentialities, but withal also a vast experiment. Its appraisal in perspective must be awaited to afford a real judgment of its merits and shortcomings, rather than by appraisal now through the vision of imagination | which constructive undertakings on so grand a scale as the dam evoke in the mind. It authorizes one of the most wonderful projects of public utility improvement ever conceived in American engineering and legislation, but it has been so surrounded by suspicion and jealousy and selfish interest and its merits have been so confused by hostile and doubting criticism, that the public concep- tion of what it really means necessarily must be vague and undecided. The bill is an attempt.to correct some of the natural mistakes of the Colorado river, especially in relation to the Imperial valley of California, for the valley is be- low the level of the river and the stream is a standing menace from possible flood and destruction, while, harnessed, its waters would irrigate a vast area. But the measure is more than this. Out of the protective engi- neering which was the first form of the design has arisen the by-development of electric power as well as a water supply for southern California. The Golden state more than any others of the seven in the Colorado basin ‘stands to Profit by these developments. The bill has tre- mendous possibilities for the Los Angeles area in its Power and for the Imperial valley in its irrigation possi- bilities. If all the goals to which the project is expected to lead are achieved, southern California will gain from it an area of magnificent agricultural and industrial de- velopment. The final terms of the bill have been written in com- Promise as between the various states in the Colorado river drainage area, after a long period of pulling and hauling, even the provision for going into effect depend- ing on the assent of Arizona and Utah—which means Utah, as Arizona might not conceivably so humble itself to California as to come out of its sulk and make that generous gesture. The big fight of the drive to put the bill over was between these two states, while all the others have fallen into line for the compromise legisla- tion enacted and signed by the president. The battle for and against the bill was fought on three than to xeceive. Scattering sunshine and happiness to brighten the lives of others is bound to reflect back into the lives of those who radiate them. Ask the Lions and Good Fellows, the community Christmas committee and ‘the Salvation Army leaders whether this was not proved so Christmas. As one of the Lions said while the club feasted 55 boys with a Christmas dinner in the den: “We're the fellows who are enjoying this.” That was the only reward for all this Christmas cheer for the young which the community put on. It was all that was expected. And it was ample repayment. THE COOLIDGE ENGAGEMENT The engagement of Miss Florence Trumbull and John Coolidge is formaliy announced at last, and it is hoped that the announcement will give the two young people a respite from the ceaseless questions, rumors and reports that have followed them for the lest few months. It is only natural, of course, that the country should be interested in them. That is the penalty they pay for the eminent position of young Mr. Coolidge’s parents. But, after all, we owe it to them to give them as much privacy as is possible. So let's forget about them for a little while. It’s settled that they are going to be married, and the time is ex- pected to be next summer; fine! Now let's give them a little peace. THE ANCIENT TOOTHACHE Ordinarily we think of the dentist as one of those mingled blessings and curses which cre a peculiar product of modern civilization. Knowing that the cave men of old lacked dentists, we assume that they also lacked the |need for them. The teeth of savages, surely, must have been sound. An expedition from Beloit College has just unearthed the site of a prehistoric village in North Africa, where the ancestors of Modern Europeans lived some 15,000 years ago. Skeletons were found, to be studied by an- thropologists. And—interesting enough—the report from the expedition states that “most of the skeletons showed abscessed teeth.” The toothache, apparently, has been with man from the very beginning. FIGURE THIS E OUT In the town of Rocky River, O., the other day, a mo- torist stopped his car in front of the police station and came inside. “I wish you'd keep me here a while,” he said. “I’m too intoxicated to drive my car safely.” The amazed police accommodated him until he was Properly sober; and on the following day, when he ap- peared in court, the judge was so overcome that he let him off with a five-dollar fine. And we're trying to dope out just what the moral of the little episode is. Should the motorist be condemned for getting drunk in the first place? Or should he be praised for realizing his condition and going to the police station? It’s a peculiar one to figure out. Three-fourths of all motor vehicles are sold on credit. Riders pay as they go. Editorial Comment A FAR-REACHING CASE (Memphis Press Scimitar) A suit for $5,000 damages has been started in San Francisco that may finally have ramifications through- out the country. Some time ago Sells-Floto circus visited that city and there appeared upon walls of the Eastern Hotel company Posters showing a circus girl very slightly clad, as you might call it. Now, the hotel is opposite the Southern Pacific railway station and incoming tourists, getting a look at that girl, would take the hotel to be not their kind ot a stopping place, according to the hotel company’s plea. Estimated damage to date, $5,000 and Sells-Floto circus asked to pay. Don't you see that, if property can be damaged by pic- main lines: Allocation to the states of the waters which will be accumulated in a vast irrigating and power reser- voir when the Boulder site in the Black canyon stretch of the Colorado river is dammed; whether the power de- velopment of the dam should be a governmental enter- (Prise or a private operation; and the amount of money that should be invested in the project. The house voted $125,000,000, the senate obtained its figures of $165,000,000, all to be paid back to the govern- ment through power profits in about 50 years. The presi- ‘dent in his message heartened the advocates of Private electric development, when he commented that “private enterprise can very well fill this field.” Senator Reed, of Pennsylvania, tried to write a provision for private de- )Velopment into the bill and Senator Borah, of the group {Which sees the menace of a gigantic power trust develop- ing, offered one for governmental operation. Reed's \Provision was defeated and Senator Johnson, of Cali- fornia, induced Borah to withdraw his amendment as inviting a veto of the bill. The senate finally left this Phase optional with the secretary of the interior, Eleven of the senators, largely the progressive group, voted against the bill rather in the fear that this evasion of a definite policy might invite, under a complaisant head jof the interior department, another experience like the Alaskan scandal in the Taft administration, which led to the Roosevelt rift in the Republican party in 1912, nd the Teapot dome oil lease scandal of the Harding Another source of delay on the Passage of the bill in the senate was the feeling of the senators who failed to Put the Muscle Shoals power development on a basis of governmental operation. These senators, who are dom- inated by a power trust complex, felt that here was an- other gigantic project at government expense that must at least stir the cupidity of selfish private interests and so menace the purity of federal administration, by corrupt Politics, if not actually fall into their grasp for ex- Ploitation of the communities that should have all the benefit of the 3 Upon the distribution of the water, the bill is a com- Promise as between the lower tier of Colorado basin states—California, Nevada, Arizona. California wanted 4,600,000 of the 7,500,000 acre-feet, Arizona wanted 3,000,000 and Nevada 300,000 acre-feet. The Nevada figures were adopted, but both California and Arizona ‘Were reduced 200,000 acre-feet, to 4,400,000 and 2,800,000 respectively. Eventually the disappointments of these figures must disappear when once the project enters into operation, if no new dissatisfactions arise; and in the end the ad- Justments which will work themselves out, given time, dam ures of denuded girls, a whole lot of property in these United States is being damaged? Of course. there is no need for worry over unemployment of law- yers. WHEN AIN’T IS RIGHT (Spokane Spokesman-Review) We see that the purists and the latitudinarians are still wrangling over the colloquial favorite, “ain't.” Some time ago the Spokesman-Review attempted to point out a dis- tinction between the proper and improper use of the word. Charles Carpenter Fries, professor of English at the University of Michigan, noted the same distinction while addressing the annual session of the National Council of Teachers of English at Baltimore Friday. “Al- though its use is severely criticized, actually,” he said, “the word is good English and is based on traditional rule, being a contraction of ‘am not.’ But because of its general usage it is also used incorrectly by persons using it with plural nouns and pronouns, as “They ain’t.’” The distinction is that you can say “Ain't 1?”—a con- traction of “Am I not?—but it is improper to say “Ain't we?” and “Ain't they?” ‘There is one satisfaction in being a latitudinarian to- ward colloquialisms. In the long run the latitudinarians will win, for they have the public with them; and in the end public usage controls. Pee) A STRANGE INJUNCTION (Toledo Blade) A judge of the common pleas court in Cleveland who refused to divorce Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kourim ordered them to bring no more children into the world for three years. These young people already are the parents of three children. The oldest has just passed, his fourth birthday. The father's wage is $24 a week. ‘The consensus expressed in connection with this unique court order, which has attracted nation-wide attention, 4s that three children in a family of such meager finan- cial resources are enough and perhaps too many. But the question arises immediately as to how such orders can be enforced. Court orders have, or should have, the full force and effect of law. When such orders are violated, the guilty Persons usually may be punished for contempt of court. Contempt Punishments may be fine or imprisonment or If the dignity of the court is to be maintained in the event the stork comes again to the Kourim family in defiance of the injunction against more children, the Parents must be penalized by imprisonment when both ought to be busiest, or fined when they will be most des- Perately in need of all the money they can get. ‘Wise and well meaning as they may be, law makers and courts will encounter no end of difficulties when they at- tempt to extend the operation of the prohibition laws to the reproduction of humankind. SALESMAN OF DEATH In Paris child ig? in Paris many a has been frightened to silence, m&ny a joke of macabre humor has been evoked by the name “Monsieur de Paris,” government executioner. Everyone knows that this is not his real name, that wh | A Mountain Labors and Brings Forth a Mouse! Our Yesterdays FORTY YEARS AGO Bismarck and Mandan baseball fans clashed in a baseball game in the city on Christmcs afternoon. Bismarck won. Heavy wraps were discarded and men in shirt sleeves were seen upon the streets as the result of the spring- like weather Saturday. On the eve of Christmas Dakota people are en- joying weather almost excelling that of the spring season. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Miss Lisa Olesen, Mandan, and Charles Danvik, Bismarck, were mar- ried at the Lutheran church, Charles G. Taylor has had some of his poems published in the Minneap- olis Journal. Mrs. Myrtle Brown has arrived home to spend Christmas with her family. semen ll ONEA Service | CHAPTER XLVIII to hold to Alester's lips. 4 i i : 4 ; she tore from Leontine’s bed. was denied them. placed night. Carstairs senior promised the soul of a jellyfish, longue where she had reposed for a reaeitre rey gant eee eeracrek you were doing but it was a for-|had been born into decadent aris- Then she looked around for a bell |tunate, thing, because your name tocracy. to summon help and when sh found one she rang it repeatedly. After that she went to the bath- room and brought a glass of water And when the curious followed the servants to the room the tragic sight of a butterfly who had B winged home on a murderer's bullet No one seemed to pay any atten- tion to Alester, who sat before the telephone and stared like a madman at the others in the room. He had got the number he'd asked for but now that he had time to realize what he had done he was terrified. at last ness of one who knew that in the magic clay of man he had spawned | dled into Mr. Weinerts’s motor car Louis Joss, Minneapolis, is the guest of friends in the city over the holiday season. TEN YEARS AGO Conrad Nelson of this city and Miss Anna Florence Garber were married here by Father John Weber. Mrs. Nellie Evarts of the county superintendent's office went to Re- gan to spend Christmas with her daughter Gertrude, who teaches the Canfield consolidated school. Albert W. Hoyt, pioneer Mandan resident, is dead at his home in Min- neapolis. Sgt. Frank Brown is home from Jamestown college to spend the holl- days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, James A. Brown. had him put away, it is rumored, to keep him from taking a few mort- Bages on it. t ee A Parisian authoress sent a mes- sage to Mars the other day, addressed to “Prince Charming.” Several news- Papers seemed to regard the event as news. ee @ A man in Port Chester, N. Y., took @ raging toothache to a dentist's of- fice. The dentist being out, the pa- tient hanged himself. There's always some way to end a toothache. eee “Merry Christmas” irs eateries S 30 languages at Colum! versity the other day, and “Christmas vme ho mo” of West Africa was voted best. Apparently they have bootleggers in Africa, too. % 8 ————_—_———— Veni ciatnaninee! sae New ar! good | BARBS | wishes! A couple in Washington, D, OO A man sentenced to life imprison- C., have just become the parents of their fourth set of twins, ment in New York the other day sold the Brooklyn Bridge twice. Relatives RUT WEY GROVES (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1928 Pic. ADVICE! . Coy tiay:t0 Sale IF YOU ARE “LIVERISH” “The liver is the heaviest gland in the body, being about one-fortieth of the entire body weight. It is much larger in proportion in children and tends to make their abdomen slightly pendulous. The liver rests on various abdom- inal organs, such as the kidneys, large colon and stomach. In addition, its weight is supported by five strong lig- aments. The liver is located in the upper portion of the abdomen just be- low the diaphragm. Only one-fifth is on the left side, the remaining four- face of the right lobe, and when dis- tended can usually be felt as a round = near the end of the ninth ril ‘The liver has a double blood sup- in which respect it differs from other organs of the body. The blood supply comes over the vein and carries food materials from the stomach and intes- into the liver, where the vein di- in fine capillaries. The liver this way destroy or neutralize harmful substances coming from the digestive tract before they have an opportunity to enter the gen- eral circulation. In addition, some food materials are removed from the blood and stored in the liver for fu- ture use. The liver receives its own nourishment from the blood coming through the hepatic artery. Blood from both the artery and portal vein after circulating through the capil- laires of the liver is emptied into the hepatic veins and then directly back into the main circulation. There are three known functions of the liver but there may be others yet undiscovered. The first is the manu- facturing of bile which goes directly into the small intestines or is stored in the gall bladder; the second is the formation of urea and uric acid from the waste products of the body so that they can be discharged by the kidneys; the third function is to pre- vent too much dextrose (digested sug- ar and starch) from entering the blood immediately after eating. If this did not occur the muscles would be gorged ‘with food immediately af- ter mealtime, and starved in between. The liver stores this dextrose as glyco- gen (animal starch) until the tissues need it. An interesting example of the in- He Fill g é the bile duct opens and the walls of the gall bladder contract, allowing tha flow of bile into the food mixture. Bile consists of the organic salts coloring matter from the hemoplobin Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the ‘Tribune. Enclose a stamped cddressed envelope for reply. of worn out blood cells, small quanti! ties of fats, soaps, Cholesterin and water. It is this cholesterin which usually forms gallstones. The bile is supposed to be a waste product since it is toxic when present in the blood. Bile assists the pan- creatic juices to digest fats and has some antiseptic purposes to prevent putrefaction of the intestinal contents and it also is a stimulant to intestinal peristalic movement. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Acid in Grapefruit Question: Georgia writes: “Kindly advise me if there is more acid in grapefruit than in oranges? Also if it is good to drink the juice of an orange in the morning and about hal! an hour afterwards drink a cup of hot water with lemon in it?” Answer: There is usually slightly more acid in grapefruit than in or- anges, but the new type of grapefruit being developed is now approaching the same sugar content of the orange and contains less acid than formerly. It is a good plan to drink a glassful of orange juice early in the morning about an hour before breakfast, or as close as a half hour if no starch is used at the meal. Swollen Limbs Question: Mrs. K. B. asks: “Will you please inform me as to my leg troubles? My lower limbs just above the ankle bone and to about half way to the knee are a lumpy, solid puffi- ness. They are not sore nor do they pain—just unsightly. Am using an electric vibrator at present, but as yet have noticed no change. Thew swell more during the day.” Answer: Your trouble may be caused by some heart disorder, or the inefficient functioning of your kid- neys. I cannot diagnose such case: by mail, but suggest that you have a good diagnosis made and write me again telling me the result. terworking of the different organs is noticed here, for the pancreas throws @ secretion into the blood which checks the liver from giving off more glycogen than the body requires. In @ disease of the pancreas, this secre- tion is not present in the blood, and the liver may allow too much dex- trose (a form of sugar) to be present, Producing the symptoms of diabetes. The gall bladder acts as a store- house for bile when digestion is not taking place. When food passes from the stomach into the small intestine, oe RY AS oj ©; |AGIRL LOVES’ “LOVE FOR TWOete “They tell me you called the po-|mother—at least she had taken it/the wound,” she said simply and Alester nodded. e |couldn’t have been kept out of the tried to hush it up.” When he revived Alester was | torment. still at the telephone and Jerry was a sobbing, distraught heap on the silk pillows. Dan struggled to sit up on the floor and fell back weak- ly. His eyes closed oral. and his face gradually became colorless. <, Evelyn herself was beginning to |>uried his face in bis hands, succumb to the horror of the situa- tion when help arrived. She had found a moment to perform one merciful act that nearly shattered her nerve to control. Over the dead 0 outside the gates.” girl she had placed a sheet that lester bowed lower before his| ing clu rey sponsible for your wherever it is required.’ with an edge of scorn in his voice. stern decision. ee could not be lower in spirit and recovery. her without one farewell word... even a look. ... nurse told her. UT, bow as low as he might, he| She “You must go away, Miss Ray,” |J¢rry’s name, Then she placed her EVELYN lifted Jerry away from | lice to the inn yourself,” his father | for granted that Mrs. Harvey would | Jerry submitted to being led away. Dan and led her to the chaise |@{d to him. be akin to all mothe: known—except, perhaps, she had Dan had seemed so natural in his A half-hour later they were irs. Starr, lowed to return, The doctor was “I don’t suppose you knew what| Jerry knew that Evelyn's mother | with Dan. “How is he?” the mother ap- led. “Stay with him,” the medical affair, I'm afraid, even if you'd| manners, so simple and unaffected,|man replied. “He may return to that Jerry had never imagined he | consciousness at any moment.” “What are they going to do? Do| belonged to a socially well-placed they want me?” Alester cried in| family. hung in the tremulous words air like a sword of “And. Her experience with prominent | doom. “Not as @ prisoner,” his father| people had been only with those r. answered contemptuously. “But I’'ve| who moved en the uppermost crust | you must... say goodby to him,’ given my word that I will be re-|of the social world. She did not|the doctor told them quietly. appearance | know much of people who lived in “You will have him back ... or unostentatious comfort, with well- Y sank into Mrs. Harvey's Alester sank down in a chair and / filled libraries and exquisitely fine linen, coin silver for heirlooms, and | y, “I trust you not to leave the/a taste for chamber music and art grounds,” the elder man went on, | exhibits, rms. The doctor helped to seat er in a chair by the window. “I will sit by my boy,” Mrs. Har- vey said in a voice that sounded She had always thought of public|itke a silver wire drawn to the “In fact, I shall see that you will| spirited clubwomen as meddling |», be immediately apprehended if you | busybodies. Of course she did not | sxeleton reaking point and played upon by know that Mrs, Harvey was a lead-| an hour a, by like eternity. she might at/ wre, Harvey's eyes never left her least have been prepared to meet|son’s face. Jerry fought to keep & woman of efficiency. herself ay ... ft was his moth- pected, when they told her | erg right, 4 mother was there, to find ®/ perhaps his last—words, she told bis hope than a grief-stricken girl who| Weeping, moaning woman at herself, hovered over the hospital cot of a| bedside. Instead she saw a slender, wounded man and prayed for his|@uietly dressed lsdy—the word to hear his first—and Her head was buried in her arms when she heard her name called. came to her unconscfously—sitting | and there was Dan looking at her, It Dan should die... . If he left | With one of Dan’s hands in hers. |anq his mother smiling the smile Mrs, Harvey turged as the nurse /tnat mothers have smiled through came up to her ‘and whispered son’s hand tenderly on the coverlet the ages—the wistful smile that ac- companies the delivery of their own into the hands of the lother-wife Jerry pleaded to stay. “Just until |904 rose to meet this girl her son) who succeeds them. ILE gentle hands lifted Dan | nj- mother comes, Ho can’t be left and carried him into the bed-|aione—oh please don’t drive me room to place him on the bet ae away... he might call for me... ter crept out into the hall an WN} he might want me... .' to the rear entrance, No one tried | ‘outaide the building the news soft Palme and heard « beautiful) But later she was allowed to be to stop him and presently he was| boys were ignoring the street warn- | Voice say! burning up the road in his black | ing: ti roadster on the ar to Levine and coling, tne hestlioee Bis 7 He needed his father’s protection, | to the tragedy at the ne “ which be begged for in the latter’s|tnn. “Millionaire's son—bootlegger | Ken effort: “Will he live?” room until morning had long re-|—show girl.” ... Jerry did not hear it. and taken to her hotel on the orders Neither did she know that Evelyn |in a whisper. had talked about. They looked at each other si- lently for a'few seconds; Jerry flew to the bed. In a moment the doctor placed a then Jerry | hand on her shoulder, Dan let her found her hands clasped in rose|¢, at the physician's command. Jerry answered in a choked, bro- fly. A cure with him for half an hour. - Dis P! »|marry you. Yo “What is that on your finger’ Ke anerbierd ge ae Dan asked, staring at her left hand. Jerry giggled—yes, it must be said—she giggled, but oh so hap- Dan's mother put an arm around | pily. her. “If God is willing,” she said imac In all France there is only one current guillotine knife, Paris has to travel. somethnes te Melt neconitaee |, somet - THE GIVERS ENJOY IT MOST a taker of virginities, sometimes to Rouen to speed a a) been said, we are good fellows at Christmas parting fratricide. He is a traveling salesman of death. because it is the day when we allow ourselves to be what His salary until last week was a paltry $455. like to be regulariy, then » large number of | M. de Paris long since wanted a raise. Timidly bu folks have made a very satistactory test of | ter of Setioe eee ne ygublect, to his superior thetr real selves. There didn't seem to be any other kind and M. de Paris was never raised. of human nature about. Paris, desperate and confide 'B in the They were sunny, tile-floored, cheerfully fur- nished breakfast room from which they could look down to the Sound and out beyond to the spot where the Carstairs yacht rode at anchor in majestic idleness, when the but- ler came to inform them that @ po- lice inspector was waiting to see them, “Show him into the library,” Mr. Carstairs directed. Then, to Alester, “Remain here until I send for you.” . ing man would clutch at a straw. ‘at breakfast in the| of physician. There Myrtle came , hot bath in Jerry's tub, eat a bite/ hig of breakfast and Iie down to rest unti} time for her to go to work. trained, from retersing to. toe aitueegh sho, tated strained from returning to the mu hospital and when she got there| pinched them in to hold But he did not send for be mie tennt Dads Sater ms Bi ee shaken young man who paced room in @ fever of fear and dread.| Jerry's mental picture of Dan's Alster turned to him e's drown [anght be elther fat and’ contented [tell thaw the, criss wast hii might er ant ing mae would clntel at or shrunken and tired like her gwn jing. “Dr. Cider is ready to: dress not be ‘Then they were sent away. Jerry eee to re it begged with anguished words that were wrung heart. “No.” The nurse shook her hi iz s 8&3 “It’s your mother’s wedding a rated ask Him. |ring,” she oat “Bhe gave i to me " ded her from interviewers and|I want my boy to live now more|downstairs when ... when we vee ‘a ine dea ene Kept her from reading the papers.|than ever. I’ve never had a daugh-|didn’t know if you would live to ‘When night came she was bun-|ter, Jerry.” sive me another one.” “Plain gold,” Dan said softly. Ifeless girl to whom jewels mat- not, She seemed to see a tag on the girl's rich sur ve." she knew, was what she been willing to sacrifice Leontine had lived—in Sauerkraut and Cabbage Question: Mrs. M. D. asks: “Why do you never mention sauerkraut or boiled cabbage in your weekly menus?” Answer: Sauerkraut is a good food if you remove some of the salt brine. This can be done by simply washing the sauerkraut in cold water. Boiled cabbage is a good non-starchy vege- table if the gas formed from its use does not bother you too much. (Copyright, 1928, By The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) $ f Farm Facts | o Insist upon local dealers buying eggs on a “loos-off” or quality basis. Under the loss-off plan, which has come into increasing use in the last few years, no payment is made for eggs which are unfit for food, and a difference, based on quality, may be made in the price paid for good eggs. Parasites may be discouraged on the land by a carefully planned sys- tem of crop rotation. Many fungi, bacteria and other organisms attack only certain plants or their close rel- atives and soon die out in the soil if other crops are planted. Frequent changing of crops tends to starve out many parasites. ‘The money value of a clover croj should not be measured solely by the increased yield obtained the first year. Crops may be larger for several years after a green manure crop has been turned under, Breakage of eggs shipped to mar- ket can be reduced by the use of ex- celsior pads now manufactured com- mercially. They are made by wrap- Ping excelsior with paper, are about 1-3 inch thick, and the size of an €gg case compartment. For best pro- tection six are used, one in the bot- tom of each side of the case, and one above and one below the top filler, Hens are particular about thelr comfort and will lay well in cold Weather only if comfortably housed. Now is the time to clean the poultry house, disinfect it, and see that it is in good condition for the winter. Dampness will cause trouble in cold weather. Provide one nest for every five hens and sufficient roosting space to avoid overcrowding, To prevent silage from molding in the silo feed @ layer of from two to three inches every day, keeping the surface The male breeders in the flock should be houses in winter sibility of their frosted. Frosted or frozen combs af- fect thelr fertility and breeding cx i