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HOSPITAL NOTES

Joe Barbieri from Anchorage is in the Seward General Hospital and is under observation by pr. A. D. HaverStock.
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 Mrs. Isabelle Baltazer, who ar rived on the SS Admiral Evans from Seldovia and entered the Sew ard General Hospital in serious, condition, has taken turn for the better and is now much improved, according to hospital reports.
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 Charles Gilliland was to undergo minor operation today in the Seward General Hospital
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 Harold F'oSS, of Iliamna, who has been in the hospital for some time, was to undergo a minor operation today
 Fred Keene, who was injured by a fall in Moose Pass on October 18, will be able to leave the hospital in day or two, according to hos pital report today.
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 George King, of Seldovia, who arrived on the SS Admiral Evans from Seldovia, has reentered the Seward General Hospital for med ical attention.
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 J. D. Kinney, Iliamna fur ranch CT, is making a rapid recovery and a marked improvement is noted in his condition.
 Mrs. OStrom and baby will return to her home today from the Sew ard General Hospital.
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D. E. Valade, of the firm Urbach and Valade, is due to arrive back in Seward today from a moose hunt. If previously performances mean anything, Valade should bring back record moose.
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Boats in port today were the MS Discoverer, Hazel, F1attery, Marion, Roy, Joan, Bavaria, He'll diver and the T-3049.
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Captain Heinie Berger, of the MS Discoverer, announced before sail ing this afternoon that his next sailing from the Port of Seward would be November 6.
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Seattle F. l., Times, Star, Frisco Examiner and other papers; latest complete line of magazines in every mail. ALASKA SHOP.
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Such a happy dessert for all ap- petites nm HORLUCK'S Danish Ice Cream. For sale at the Candy Cot tage.
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For that individual touch at your bridge parties, try the AL ASKA SHOP.
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Canada has second place among the countries of the world as a goldmining country and ranks next to South Africa in output.
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Joe Barbieri from Anchorage is in the Seward General Hospital and is under observation by pr. A. D. HaverStock.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Plan Permanent Garden
of Annual Vegetables

A plea that gardeners of the nation
plant more perennial fruits and vege-
tables in home gardens is included in
Farmers Bulletin 1242-F, Permanent
Fruit and Vegetable Gardens, recent
ly revised and reissued by the United
States Department Of Agriculture.
The authors, w. r. Beattie and c..
p. Close, horticulturists of the depart
Inent, stress the value of several per-
manent crops, especially asparagus,
rhubarb, horseradish, raspberries,
blackberries. logan blackberries, dew
berries, currants, gooseberries, straw
berries and grapes, according to To-
calfty. They say that garden of an
nual vegetables alone cannot compare
with one containing all of few of
these perennials.
Farmers Bulletin 1242-F describes
the cultural requirements and yields
of each of these plants and the num-
Der of plants of each required to sup
ply the needs of an average family.
The bulletin is available free, so long
as the supply lasts, to those request
ing 1t from the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington D. G.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
More Cottonseed Meal
Is Used as Fertilizer

Farmers and fertilizer manufac-
turers used approximately 215000
short tons of cottonseed meal as fer
tilizer in the year which ended July
81, 1880, or about per cent Of the
total meal produced from the 1929
cottonseed crop, according to reports
received by the bureau of agricultural
economics of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. This COM
pares with approximately $4,000 short
tons, or about per cent of the meal
produced from the 1928 crop Of cot
tonseed.
OF the 215,OOO tons used as fertilizer
in the year which ended July 81. 1880,
approximately $4,000 tons was used
directly by farmers and 10000 tons
by manufacturers in the production
of commercial fertilizers. In the pre-
ceding season 100000 tons was used
directly by farmers and $4,000 tons
by fertilizer manufacturers.
The supply of cottonseed and cake
meal available in the 1929-30 season
was about 100000 tons. Of this
about 100000 tons was exported, 215,-
600 tons was used as fertilizer, and
$1,000 tons was carried over into the
new season. Most of the remainder
Of 100000 tons, it is estimated. was
consumed as feed in straight form or
in combination with other products.
This compares with 1,755,000 tons in
192S-29 and 1,65600O tons in 1929.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Guinea Fowl Meat Is
Increasing in Favor
Management Of Small Flocks
Similar to Chickens.

prepared by the United States Department.
of Agriculture. )-WNU Service.
Guinea fowl meat is increasing in
favor as substitute for game such as
grouse, partridge, quail, and pheasant.
Guinea raising therefore promises to
become more profitable on general
farms where plenty of range is avail
able, according to Farmers Bulletin
1391-F, the Guinea Fowl, just issued
in revised edition by the United States
Department of Agriculture Most
guinea fowls are raised in small flocks
Of from ten to twenty-five, although a
few large poultry raisers near the
principal markets raise from one hum
dred to two hundred year.
The management Of small flocks Of
guineas is similar to that Of some
breeds of chickens, except that guineas
may be mated in pairs or one male
provided for every three or four fe-
males. The hens begin to lay in April
or May and lay from 20 to 80 eggs
before becoming broody. If not al
loyed to sit they continue to lay
throughout the summer, laying from
40 to go or more eggs. Many guinea
raisers prefer to use ordinary hens to
hatch and rear guinea chicks, but
guinea hens and turkeys may be used
successfully. The incubation period
for guinea eggs is % days.
The demand for guineas begins late
in the summer and extends through
the fall and winter months. The
young birds are sold when they weigh
from one and half to two pounds
at about three months of age or older.
On some markets there is limited
demand for old birds which are often
sold alive. Copies of Farmers Bulle-
tin 1391-F, may he obtained from the
Office of Information. United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. G.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Find Garden Space for
Testing New Novelties

Every gardener should have an area
for testing novelties. He will not
have sufficient capital at stake to be
disappointed if half of them fail to
prove worthy under his conditions and
for his ideals. The mental quest is
one of the chief delights in the making
of experiments.
If novelty fails the quest is never
theless as keen. An experimental plot
without failures is not worth having.
Now and then one of the novelties
will prove useful to the man who tries
it. He will then enlarge his area Of it
and test it on a commercial scale. In
a year or two it may supplant some
of the older varieties. In this way the
gardener can always keep abreast of
the time and ahead of his competitor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Yard Lights Convenient
When Cold Winds Blow

When cold winds blow and frequent
night trips are necessary to visit the
brooder house, narrowing or lambing
pens, yard lights with flexible methods
Of switch control are greatly appre-
ciated. These are available to the
man with the farm light plant as well
as those who receive electric power
from high lines. Dome reflectors may
be mounted on poles or the yards may
be lit from lamps in angle refectors
conveniently placed on farm buildings.
These should be wired with three-way
or four-way switches installed at CEN
trail positions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Rat PROBING Is
Neatly Described
Principles Call for Use Of
Well Made Concrete and
Good Steel.

prepared by the United states Department
of Agricultural -WNU Service.
Modern building principles and rat
proofing go hand in hand, says a new
Farmers Bulletin on Frat PROBING
Buildings and Premises" just issued
by the United States Department of
Agriculture. These principles call for
the use of well-made concrete and
steel, and other indestructible and
noncombustible materials that are too
much for even the sharpest of rodent
incisors. They include also fire stop
ping in double walls and floors and
the elimination of all dead spaces and
dark corners where the rat can hide.
The sanitary features provide for n.y.
gienic storage Of food, and the rat
cannot live without something to eat.
Rat Proof All Buildings.
All new buildings should be made
rat proof, says the bulletin. Cities
in growing numbers have added rat
proofing clauses to their building or
dinances with such good effect that
others are sure to follow their lead.
Builders should therefore compare the
cost of rat proofing during construc-
ton with the probable cost later, in
case local laws should require that all
buildings be made rat proof.
The cost of rat proofing all the con-
struction on many American farms,
the bulletin says, would amount to less
than the loss occasioned by rats on
the same farms in single year. The
pamphlet gives details and illustrates
methods for rat proofing all kinds of
farm structures, including barns, corn
cribs, granaries, and poultry houses.
It also considers the rat proofing of
markets, and suggests city-wide eff
forts toward the suppression of the
rat pest. 1t includes a model rat
proofing ordinance and an ordinance
regulating the collection and disposal
of garbage. prepared by the United
States public health service.
Permanent Rat Control.
Throughout the bulletin it is emphG
sized that the removal Of the rats
food and shelter offers a practical
means of permanent rat control. "The
number of rats on premises and the
extent of their destructiveness are
usually in direct proportion to the
food available and to the shelter af-
forded. Rat proofing in the broadcast
sense embraces not only the exclusion
Of rats from buildings of all types
hut also the elimination of their hid
ing and nesting places and the star
walton of the animals. Through open
doors and in other ways, rats may fire.
quently gain access to structures that
are otherwise rat proof but they can
not persist there unless they find safe
retreats and food. When rat proofng
becomes the regular practice, the rat
problem will have been largely
solved"
Copies of the new publication, Farm
ers' Bulletin No. 163S-F, may be OBJ
tanned free on request addressed to
the United States Department Of Ag-
riculture, Washington, D. c.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10


er President Hoover would issue the
call for the international silver confer
ence which was given authorization
by the last congress. Silver has been
in a parlous state for many months,
for. while production has not greatly
increased. the sales by India on its
return to the gold standard. and by
other countries for the purpose of les
SEEMING the silver content of their coin
ages, have glutted the market. In
1925 it's price was GO cents an ounce,
and it now sells for about half that.
1t was thought Mr.. Norman might
discuss the plan offered by Francis Fl.
Brownell. chairman of the board OF
the American Smelling and Refining
company. This scheme proposes that
the United States. England including
India. France including Indo-China.
and as many other governments as
possible. arrive at a "gentleman's
agreement" that mo sale will be made.
for a stated period-say three years,
or until further notice-of any silver
now or hereafter owned by each gov.
eminent. at less than some fixed price.
say, for example. so cents per ounce.
'Second--an understanding that
those governments will purchase the
amount of silver they are now au-
thorized by law to purchase for sub
sidiary coinage. whenever the price
of silver in the open market is below
the figure to be agreed upon as above
$50 cents per ounce, for example).
"Third-as compensation for agree
ing /. and to prevent too rapid a
rise-an understanding that the gov
ernments, and particularly India, may
sell government owned silver when
ever the price is more than. say. five
cents above the figure agreed upon
as above"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Far1nHn,|,ltr!'4.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES urEIs1'

Rats cost the nation $200,OO000O q
year.
Raw vegetables from your own gar
den are tasty and healthful.
You can sow cabbage seed outdoors
when you plant spinach and radishes.
Put in another. planting of onion
sets to keep the green onion crop
going.
Western soils need humus. Humus
is decomposing organic matter Bury
the leaves, lawn clippings, etc.
Losses of seedlings on land that is
not adapted to alfalfa is what makes
alfalfa expensive. Be sure your land
has enough lime.
Gardening is a combination of head.
work and footwork Let the headwork
guide the footwork and there will be
less of the latter.
The best time to set out strawberry
plants is in the spring. Plants set out
in this season should not be allowed to
produce fruit the first year. All bios
som buds should be pinched of as
soon as they appear.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

matter to the state legislature for an
inquiry. but he extricated himself by
the simple expedient of forwarding
the charges to Jimmy at his retreat in
Palm Springs. Calf, and asking him
to make answer when he returned to
New York. -
However, the affairs of the metrop-
oils are to be thoroughly Investigated,
and Tammany may be approaching
one Of its temporary eclipses. The
state senate. by the strictly party vote
of 90 to "a. adopted resolution for
an investigation by legislative COM
mittee consisting of three senators
and four assemblymen, and after
pretracted debate the assembly con.
Cured with the senate. the vote being
76 to 70. The action of the senate
was a surprise to the Democrats, for
Mastick and Westall. the two Repub-
lican Westchester senators who had
formerly blocked such a resolution,
suddenly shifted their votes and went
along with their colleagues. Their
NA0hSG "a ON\nlANt hHGH
William l.. Ward, Westchester Repub-
lican lead n, dropped his opposition to
the inquiry following telephone con-
versations with prominent Republicans
Of New York city. The investigation
s. to include all departments of the
municipal government and the infer
Tor courts.
National Importance is given this
New York scandal by its possible eff
feet On the Democratic party's action
N the national convention next year.
1t may greatly promote the chances
Of franklin Roosevelt for the presi-
Dental nomination. or il may ruin
.hem. He would be favored by those
parts of the country in which the
Democrats are politically dry If he
we're freed from the Tammany brand.
But Al Smith is said to be cold TO his
randidacy. and National Chairman
Raskob is reported to be strongly in
favor of giving the nomination TO
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

thompson chairman, James q.
Stone, and new member. Sam H..
Thompson of Illinois. have Just taken
Office. In making its decision known.
the board pointed to its past pur-
chases of large wheat stocks and as
serted that sit cannot indefinitely buy
more than II sells nor indefinitely hold
what it has bought" Farmers must
know. the board continued. that lit
cannot follow regular policy of buy
ing at prices above the market and
selling below cost"
No definite sales policy for its pres
ent big wheat holdings was announced
by the board. There were Indications,
however. that should the farmers dis
play tendency to help themselves by
restricting wheat acreage. the dis
posal of The 1890 ercp holdings would
be spread over a long period and
sold slowly. u
In the market the Immediate effect
of the announcement was of course a
sharp break in prices. On the Chicago
Board of Trade wheat deferred fu-
lures reached the lowest levelD since
1896. July touched 59h and Septem-
Der went down to 60 cents.
There was quick recovery. however.
when the stablization corporation an
'nounced this plan: Effective April l.
the corporation will quote selling
price of S21s cents a bushel t. o. b. No.
2 hard winter wheat at Chicago for
ordinary quality. with premiums asked
for grain of high protein and quality.
This price will be advanced n cent a
bushel on April 10 and IL cent a
bushel every ten days thereafter until
June 80. the date which marks the ex-
piration of the current crop year.
In Washington it was asserted that
1t was now certain that farm relief
legislation would be a major issue
during the next session of congress,
and something new in this line may
be devised. Senator Borah is still urg-
emily supporting the export debenture
plan. and Senator Watson of Indiana
prefers the equalization fee scheme.
Senator McNary also likes the latter
program but says he cannot see how
it will help solve the present prob
lem in the face Oh the world wheat
surplus. President Hoover is opposed
to both these plans. Borah suggests
that the present wheat surplus in this
country be sent to China or destroyed.
The European powers will not let it
be dumped on their markets.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Undesirable Seed

Immature and discolored alfalfa and
sweet clover seed may terminate fair
ly well but cannot. be expected to
produce plants unless it is of good
weight, according to Prof. o. A. Stew
ems, seed analyst at the North Dakota
agricultural college. Low grade seed
can be expected to produce half or less
as many plants as the termination
test indicates. Slightly green seed
terminates well. Seeds which are
brown from age or heating are dead,
he states.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

as pioneer patrons of science who have
given millions of dollars to promote
it during the last score of years. Much
of the practical results of the Mellon
gifts have come from the Mellon In
stitute of Industrial Research which
they established at the University Of
Pittsburgh in 1913. There all industry
and many branches of science are fur
nished place to make discoveries.
The MELONS do not usually pay for
these researches, nor receive any cred
it for them, although they furnish an
important part of the scientific ma
chinery.
1.-THE Mellon institute" says DR..
Frederick E. BreitlTut, president of the
Institute of Chemists, sis the West
Point of our industrial system. assist
ing the United States to attain and
hold its foremost position amongst the
Industrial nations of the world. Its
activities have assisted in bringing to
the United @tates the largest chensical
industry in the world.
"What Andrew W. Mellon and Rich
ard b. Mellon nave done has become
more or less part of our industrial
fabric and chronological organization
but 1t required great vision and cour
age to see this 20 years ago when
research was still merely an unwel
come stepchild in most of our indus
tries"
ia 1881. Western Newspaper uniOn.D
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
News Review Of Current
Events the World Over
Farm Board Abandon Efforts Stabilize Wheat Prices
-Austro-Cerman Customs Union
Stirs Protests.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD

Owen D. Young. Tammany itself Is
split into two factions. one headed by
Mayor Walker and John f. Curry and
the other by AL Smith.
EOR two years the Treasury depart
ment has been investigating
charges that European safety match
manufacturers were disposing of their
products in this country at low prices
to the injury of domestic producers.
Evidently the charges were found to
be true. for Secretary Mellon issued
an anti-dumping order against the i'm
portation Of safety matches from eight
countries.
Such action previously had been
taken against Russian matches. The
latest nations affected are Finland,
Norway. Esthonia. Sweden. Latvia,
Austria, Holland and Poland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

NATIONALIST of Porto Rico re-
ceived no encouragement from
President Hoover when he landed al
San Juan and delivered his first adj,
dress, which was made to the island
legislature. On the contrary, he dwelt
on the innumerable benefits the island
had derived from its rule by the Unit
ed States. predicted fine things for its
future, and pledged the support and
cooperation of his administration to-
ward continued Porto Rican prog
ress.
The island, said the President, has
in the course of single generation
emerged from stagnation to a high
place in the march of progress. and
constitutes now "a magnificent exam
pie of what a capable and intelligent
people may accomplish under free in
stitutions." Mr.. Hoover praised the
efforts of Gov. Theodore Roosevelt to
secure new channels Of livelihood for
the islands increased population.
President Hoover's reception in San
Juan and everywhere else mis- auto
mobile tour of the island took him was
enthusiastic.
Wednesday was spent at st. Thorn
as. capital of the Virgin islands, where
the people welcomed him respectfully
and told him plainly the needs of the
little group that has just been placed
under the control of the Department
of the Interior. That night the Arizona
began a leisurely return to Norfolk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

G ECRETARY Of, the
y Treasury Andrew
W. Mellon celebrated
his S e v e n t VS. | K t h
birthday on Tuesday.
and the day was made
notable by the joint
award to him and his
brother. Richard B.
Mellon. of the medal
of the American In
stitute of Chemists.
Though neither of
them is a scientist,
thav are tins honored
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

have been favored and encouraged by
bankers and some employers whose
desire for standard profits has over
come their better judgment. If they
are persisted in. return to normal
conditions will be delayed for two
years or more. 1t is only through the
development of the purchasing power
of working people to the highest posi-
BILE point that mlrLet can be found
for the goods which we are produc-
ing in an ever increasing volume.
''ln the light of these facts the
American Federation of Labor con-
ceiyes 1t to be its duty to resist. with
all the influence and power at its COM
mand. any attempt on the part Of en-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

ployers to reduce wages. Furthermore
it will be the policy of the American
Federation of Labor to direct Its eff
forts when favorable conditions per-
NIT, toward compelling those employ
ers of labor who nave reduced wages
during this period Of unemployment,
to restore them"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

NGONTAGU NOR
1V1 man. governor of
the Bank of England.
came to the United
States Friday on one
OF his frequent quiet
visits, having little to
say to the press, as
usual. His arrival in
tere st e d financiers
deeply, for 1t was be-
lieved he would go to
Wash;L gton and that
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

MAYOR JIM NJ 7
IN Walker of New
York has been given
the opportunity to ex-
anime and reply to
the charges of mis-
feasance and negli-
gence in office filed
a gal in st him. Gov.
franklin Roosevelt
found himself in a diff
ficult position when
asked to GUST the
MAYOR or refer the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

THRoUGHCUT the
i battle maneuvers
Of tine American fleet
in Panama waters
Secretary of the Navy
Charles Francis Adj
ans was a deeply in
terested observer. He
returned to Washing
ton with the firm con-
viction that. notwith-
standing the develop
ment of aviation. the
oattleship is still the
~ al-lxAno 30 ,,a1lnrv1
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

ORGANIZED IL, Ia
ed States is prepared
to fight. with all the
strength it possesses.
any attempts to re-
duce wages. Such is
the assertion of Will
liam Green, president
of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. In a
statement issued in
Washington. he said:
Reductions in wages