The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-05-25
FOOD TRAINING CAMP TO BE
HELD At HURON IN SEP.
TEMPER.
GOSSIP OF THE STATE HOUSE
a Review Of che Work Of the state
Government At the Capitol and
at the Various State
Institutions.

ExpOSlIlOn WHICH IS co Do 00lQ II I1u'
ron September 10th 14th, inclusive,
has rendered its services as q food
training camp. to President Wilson.
to assist the government in its ef-
forts to increase crop production, and
reduce the waste OF food in this
country, which is known to be enorm'
Gus.
The men you are calling into serv-
ice," said Secretary C. N. Mc1lvaine in
part, in a letter to the president, ARE
being concentrated in military train
ing camps, because 1t has been found
that they can be trained more efficient
ly In that way than in smaller groups.
1t would seem that there is just as
much necessity to call the great rank
and file Of food producers and on
sumers into central food training
camps for a short course in the more
efficient methods of food production
and conservation. The appropriate
time is during the lull following the
harvest season, since the nation Is
working too hard now to care for the
crops already planted"
1t is believed that the government
will cooperate to the fullest extent
in furnishing lecturers, demonstrations
and exhibits to assist the fair in it's
work. The fair is making al unusual
effort to induce breeders of farm ami
mails to exhibit in larger numbers than
ever before, that farmers in this terri
tory may be encouraged to raise none
but the best breeds and types Of ami
mails. Manufacturers of farm machin-
cry are being urged to exhibit all
their latest models and improvements.
The state is being secured everywhere
for superior specimens of the vari-
cites of grains, forage crops, fruits.
vegetables and corn best suited to u
soil and climate. The women's depart
ment is to hold a series OF demOnstra-
tions and lectures by specialists OF
reputation to initruct housewives how
to furnish the table at the lowest pos
sible cost. Much attention is to be
paid to children's work. to enlist the
children In the work Of food produc-
ton and food conservation.
Sex Problems.
II youth mates with age are the
children more likely to be boys or
girls? II the father is the elder Of the
parents, or the mother is the elder.
or II both parents are the same age
and are youthful, OF in middle life,
what is likely to be the sex Of the
majority Of their offspring?
Facts bearing on such question:
are to be found in the vital statistics.
The flrst attempt to classify such sta
tistics for South Dakota with refer
ence to the question Of sex OF the
offspring has been made by DR.. Than
as Emery Mckinney, head of the de-
partment Of mathematics at the Uni
versity of South Dakota.
DR.. Mckinney took statistics for 63,-
900 births between 1909 and 1913 as
the basis OF his tabulations. DR.. Nc
Kinney states his conclusions as fol-
lows:
"In South Dakota in the years 1909
to 1913, inclusive, the mothers giving
birth to daughters showed less varia-
bility in age. in the distribution of age
with respect to the yearly average and
in the asymmetry of their distribu-
ton than did mothers giving birth to
sons.
"In South Dakota in the years 1909
to 1913, inclusive, the fathers of sons
born in this period were less variable
in average age, in the distribution OF
ages with respect to the yearly aver.
age, and in the asymmetry of this dis.
tribution than were the fathers OF
daughters.
Taking the entire period into con.
sideration. the average age of mothers
Of daughters differ less from that OF
the fathers than does the average age
Of the mothers OF some differ from that
of the fathers.
1.-THE average age Of the mothers
Of daughters is greater than that of the
mothers Of sons, and the average age
Of fathers of daughters is less than
that Of the fathers of sons"
Treat Potatoes Free.
Several bushels OF seed potatoes and
several hundred ears Of corn came
to the agricultural department OF the
Northern Normal and Industrial
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