Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-20

famous Emory unit, and during her
foreign service nursed many wound
ed American soldiers. This, how
ever, was not the principal topic of
her talk yesterday, her subject being
Saving The Babies" This she il
lustrated by quoting many figures
showing the excessive death rate
among babies, many of these being
from preventable causes. The duty
of the state toward the mothers of
the future, Miss Brown says, begins
with the young girl attending the
high school, the prep school, and
the institutions of higher learning.
These girls and young women, she
says, should be encouraged to see
and appreciate the need for trained
nurses, and to grasp and enlarge the
great field of service open to them
there. According to Miss Brown,
the number of properly trained
nurses is already sorely inadequate
to meet the demand, while, since the
signing of the armistice that field of
service, apparently, has been aband.
oned.
Should Know Nursing
Whether a young girl intends to
follow nursing as life work or not,
she should learn it's principles, Miss
Brown says, and the high school and
prep institution is the place best
suited to impart this primary know
ledge. No other profession so fits a
young girl for the duties and priv
ileges of motherhood as does nurs-
ing, according to Miss Brown, and
every mother should see that her
daughter is prepared for mother
hood, which is one of woman's high
est privileges.
At the conclusion of the classes
in the various buildings, Miss Brown
organized the students into play
bands, and within a few minutes the
campus was covered with rollicking,
jolly crowds, recuperating at
wholesome play after several hours
of hard work. This continued until
rain interrupted the exercises, the
ride about Americas as guests of
the Americas Rotary club being
postponed by weather conditions.
In the mems section of the short
course, w. H. Howell and Carl Wal
lace, both of Athens, were the chief
lecturers. "Cattle Selection" was
the topic discussed by Howell, while
Wallace again lectured on Swine" "
Cattle and swine belonging to
the college herds were used to illus
trate both these lectures. With
about fifty interested men and boys
the two lecturers went into the cat
tie pen on the agronomy division Of
the campus, and there the various
good and bad points of the cattle and
swine were pointed out. At the
conclusion of the lecture, students
present were asked to select the best
animal in the assembled herd, and
the selection of each was then ana
lyzed by the lecturer, with explana-
ton of errors made and proper con-
siderations allowed.
The chief point of consideration
in the selection of milch cow, ac-
cording to Howell, is the udder, for
without a large udder, no COW can
be expected to produce more than
an ordinary quantity of milk. And
the shape and condition of the I'D
der enters into the consideration as
well as it's size, for this vessel should
not only be large, but it should be
properly shaped as well. The udder
that is oval shaped at the bottom,
with a reasonable frmness, but de-
void of muscular tension, and which
has large "milk veins" running into
and away from it, indicates a good
COW, Howell told the students. And
there are other points which should
be considered as well in the purchase
of the family COW.
illustrates Cow Shapes
A cow in order to produce a
amount of milk, he said, must have
a large middle" that is the stomach
canacitv must be sufficient to store
away enough food to provide the ex-
pected milk, for, he told his hear
ers, the COW producing large guam
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