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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17

READING AND WRITING: Miss E. M, Deahelds latest Gay Life already being read by those who like Miss Deaheds lty offerings Martha Ostensos There's always Another Year is out Jeffrey Fanol who writes romantic vein has written sequel Broad Highway called The Way Be- vond and both these novels comprise new edition The family very much themselves in the latest Mzo de this last book little fed with Ranny Whteoak now Jana with hundred old gran out of the picture Professor Stanley Williams of Yale Uni vety American Lterature which according reviews is summary of literature from Puritan present times Miss Delahed known the literary world M Deaed bank clerks and hotel registers England Mrs Ar thur Paul the English peerage Edmee Elizabeth Monxa Pasture and right she visiting this country
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17

The Catholic Total Abstinence Society of New Britain open inc it's new Erwin hotel that city this week. The strongest and biggest worker the reorganization of this so
 cy Rev Matthew Tyno pastor of St Marys church New Britain and at one time St Mehaels in Waervlle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17

Along Bank canyon. Anna May Heme. Mau- reen Tyre Gertrude Eiehmann Mary Supenor Helen MeCar thy Johnny Carew Edward Reed Harry and Cubby Modugno John Joyce Martin John Sh and Frank Donahue were among light fantastic tppes Grange hall Friday night
 Billy German took in the Crosby Warren Harding grid encounter Bridgeport Saturday Tony Saeeo drops one center from South Gouldsboro Me- where his annual nothing to-do being enjoyed Joe Doughey the Diamond Gin eah Ale man, is vaeationng in Louisville Kentucky. Mike Perazze returned after few days visit the Great White Way. Colby Fletcher plans attend the Type writer Exposition held in New York this week. An selo Pazel back his job after being laid up with in iurd hand. Winnie Healey and Dr Uric A. Dionne h- tested to Baltimore Me. the weekend Claire La Bonne enjoying her annual leave of absence in Canada
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
HIGH SCHOOL BAND
 .REHEARSED TODAY

Members of the Crosby high school band held a meeting and rehearsal this afternoon at the school assembly hall. Floyd c. Evans, director of music i'll the local high schools, was in charge of the session. Several new selec- tions were rehearsed.
 Books on socialism have been barred from political prisons in India.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
Blood Spot in an Egg
Does Not Indicate Age

A small blood spot In an egg does
not indicate that the egg is stale
or bad, says the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, in response
to frequent inquiries.
Blood spots are found occasion
ally in fresh eggs, although this i'm
perfection seldom occurs In the best
grades of eggs that are candled and
sold on the market. Eggs, from
farm flocks are not so likely to con-
tain blood spots as those from com
mercial flocks that are fed for max
imum production.
The seasons when blood spots are
most likely to occur are late spring
when the hens are laying heavily,
and in the fall when the pullets be-
gin to lay.
Poultrymen who desire to remove
all questionable eggs from those
marketed should candle their en-
tire production and use such eggs
at home. Less forcing for egg pro-
duction and liberal feeding of green
feed will tend to reduce the forma-
ton of blood spots in eggs.-Scien-
tific American.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
Value of Blood Tests

The veterinary department Of the
Wisconsin experiment station ad-
vises that sc per cent of the posi-
tive reactors in their experimental
herds become negative within q
year without the administration of
any sort of treatment, while small
er percentage became negative in
the course of 80 days after they had
reacted positive to the blood test.
1t Is well known that negative
cows in herd infected with con-
tagious abortion are just as apt to
abort as those that react positive to
the test. This being the case it is
difficult to see the practical value
of the laws that have recently been
enacted by many states setting up
the blood test as a criterion of en-
trance requirements. For example
COW that reacts positive to the
test is not allowed to enter Wiscon-
sin, while one from the same herd
showing a negative reaction may
come in Exchange.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
Save All Straw Stacks
to Carry Farm Stock


The main element in food for
cattle and horses is the bulky feeds
such as hay, fodder. and, In their
absence straw will do. Grain and
mill feeds will not take the place
Of these bulky feeds for live stock
and are of secondary Importance
when 1t comes to sustaining life
and carrying the stock over to
new season.
In many communities there are
haystacks which have been carried
along. Some may have reached a
ripe old age. hut nevertheless they
will sustain life and will come in
handy.
In many communities there are
also strawstacks which, heretofore,
have been considered of no value.
Ideas as to the value of stock feeds
will change Of necessity, and straw
will sustain life. whether it be OF
this seasons crop or produced In
prior years.
Therefore, straw should be care
fully conserved in those commune
ties especially which are threat
ened with a feed shortage. or In
any community reasonably close to
the dry districts, so that it may
be had as bulky feed for the
stock In winter.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
Attic, Basement Waste
SPACE in Most Homes

A study of the undermining oppor-
tunities for dealers in the attics and
easements of old homes. made by the
National Lumber Manufacturers asso-
citation, shows that in an average six
room house of about 23,75O cubic feet
Enclosed by walls and roof only about
$4,000 cubic feet are given over to
space used for such common domestic
occupancy as resting, eating, sleeping.
recreation, entertainment. cooking and
the like.
OF the remaining $3.50 feet, 5,ooO
are found in the average cellar or
basement and about 3.150 in the attic
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
TURNING CATTLE
ON GRASS RISKY
Better Plan to Sell Animals
Directly From Feed Lot.

1t is better to sell directly from
the feed lot cattle that have been
heavily corn-fed during the winter
and spring than to turn them on
pasture. Tests at the Ohio expert
ment station and elsewhere show
that such cattle turned on grass
lost heavily during the first few
weeks and even later fail to make
large gains.
For this reason, G. Bohstedt,
head of the animal industry de-
partment at the Ohio station, holds
that the turning of corn-fed cattle
on grass in the spring is financial
~ risky practice, especially with
poorly bred cattle. A feeding trial
under his direction last year
showed that corn-fed cattle would
much better have been sold direct
ly out of the feed LOT than later
after having been turned on pas
ture.
Sometimes cattle feeders are
tempted to change their original
plan of shipping directly from the
feed lot. Perhaps heavier cattle
command a premium; or, If young
stuff is being fed. it may not be
finished enough to suit the present
market.
Cattle need roughage even for
finishing, which cannot be done on
corn and cottonseed meal alone.
The supply of hay. silage, or shock
corn may be low. But it Is mis-
take to turn the heavily corn-fed
cattle on pasture. although the
grass is abundant and cheap and
palatable to the cattle.
It may be possible to spread the
hay or siIage little farther. The
steers may relish some bright oat
straw. Grinding or crushing the
ear corn to corn-and-cob meal will
help provide roughage. A little
bran and oats in the ration is
splendid under such conditions.
At the same time liberal amount
Of cottOnseed meal should be fed.
especially now that 1t is cheap.
Yearlings and older cattle will do
well getting about three pounds
daily per head. More has been
fed at times with profit.
I. These or other alternatives may
make 1t necessary to turn corn
fed cattle on new grass. and both
practical experience and expert
mental evidence argue for selling
directly out of the feed lot.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
or-saving Units in
Home Help Housewives

Labor-saving inventions are being
developed and placed in the home so
fast that the housewife should give
serious study to the value of each be-
fore installing it, says the household
research bureau, discussing how to
economic on time, energy and pa
thence in the average residence.
stake kitchen and storeroom CEN
sus, first of all, and note how many
practically new pieces Of equipment
are stored away now" says the bu-
reau. Business organizations analyze
their methods and equipment, discard
ing all operations that involve unnec.
essary cost.
Modern homemakers should an
alyze their work in just the same
way. One should consider what the
actual saving in time, labor or money.
or all three, will be, before purchas-
ing any new piece of equipment. Elk
pensive devices used only few min
utes now and then generally cannot
justify their cost. They do not indi-
cate efficiency in buying.
son the other hand, certain items
of equipment are so useful there is
no question about the wisdom of adopt
ing them" says the bureau. A good
vacuum cleaner quickly pays for itself
by saving labor, time and floor cover.
ings."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
What Pullets Cost

Records on 46, 121 pullets. kept
during period of three years in six
leading poultry producing counties
in California, give the net cash cost
of raising pullets to six months of
age as 20 cents. When labor. de-
probation. and interest on invest
ment were added. the net cost of
raising each pullet increased to 80
cents. The total cost was S1.36. but
there was an income Of 33 cents
from sale of cockerels and pullets.
of three cents from sale Of eggs.
and a miscellaneous income of one
cent. These figures, according to
l.. d. Sanborn. assistant farm adj
wiser in Los Angeles county, were
gathered by the agricultural extern
sion service of the University of
California.I,os Angeles Times.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
[ 1([lL[lBY.
WATCH GOOD LAYER
TO PICK BEST EGGS
Shape of Body and Head Is
Not Reliable Guide.

Science blasted a persistent myth
of the American barnyard when De-
partment of Agriculture investiga-
tors announced that there is no
mathematical relationship between
the shape of hens egg and her
potential egg production. -.
Months of delicate measuring,
weighing, counting, tabulating and
cross-indexing were required to
demonstrate the scientific truth that
neither the shape of hens body
nor the shape of her head bears any
relationship to her egg production.
Apparently" the scientific in
quiry concluded, "a hens ability to
lay depends upon egg-laying ances-
try" S.. S-...a.- a. .
To gather the information upon
which these general conclusions
were based, the departments inves-
tigators devised a trap nest. Under
the general direction of j. p. Quinn,
poultry specialist in the bureau
of animal industry, the government
test was checked on two widely di-
vergent types of chickens. r.
investigators measured the live
birds, the dressed carcasses, and the
bones of about 400 trapnested
White Leghorn and Rhode Island
Red hens" the report says. "They
could find no relationship between
egg production or egg size and the
shape of the hens body. They con-
clude that the shape of the body,
as indicated by length of keel and
the width and depth Of the body,
have been much overemphasized in
culling practices. Similarly. the
shape Of the head, often regarded
as an Indicator of laying capacity.
was not q safe guide. Head and
skull measurements revealed no fac
tor-length, breadth, or depth of
skull with high capacity
for egg production. The weight of
the brains was not a criterion as
to the number, total weight, or
average weight of the eggs the bird
had laid"
The surest way to pick out good
producers, the bulletin suggests, is
by the empirical method-that is,
by watching the suspected good lay
ers and counting their eggs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
4Termites Menace to
American Buildings

The wise American home-builder of
today will expend a few extra dollars
to make his house termite-proof if he
really wants it to last. If he doesn't
he may awake some day to the realiza-
ton that a perfectly sound looking
joist or section of flooring has been
eaten away inside by these tiny white
ants which have invaded the country
In armies Of billions in the past 80
years.
This warning is offered in the Amer
lean Architect Magazine which points
out that all of the United States, with
the exception of the northernmost
states and the area between Lake SUI
perior and the Rockies, has already
felt the effect of the termite invasion.
The tiny insects have always been
a menace to furniture as well as build
ings in Africa and other tropical and
sub-tropicaI countries, but only in re-
cent years have they, for some unac-
counted reason, become important in
the temperate zone.
Living in underground nests of mil
lions, situated just below the frost
line, they bore their way up and into
any wooden structure which is con-
nected with the ground. They rarely
eat their way through the wood but
continue to bore inside. Instances have
been found where huge joists, compar-
atively new and apparently as strong
as ever have been found to be mere
shells filled with fine sawdust as a re-
suit of the termite's activities. r
The only known way of checking
the pests, says the American Archi-
tect article, is to interpose metal
sheaths and concrete, through which
they cannot bore, between their I'M
derground nests and the wood of the
building. -
In warm, damp climates the ter
mites have been know to literally de-
your furniture from the inside. The
only means of Graduating them in
these cases is to place. the furniture
I'm room made alright and filled
with a hot, dry heat until the pests are
killed
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
Second Floor Plan.

ComprOs.ses have to be made some
where and probably more have to be
made when building home than in
anything else.
AS suggestion to those that are
contemplating building a home, here
is small cottage which seems to
typify a real spirit Of home. It is q
story-and-a-half construction and has
been designed to produce charming
outside appearance and the interior
will be found equally satisfactory.
The house is small, the dimensions be-
ing 20 feet by &c feet, but it contains
six good-sized rooms. The living room
extends the depth of the house and is
reached through the covered entrance
porch. 1t is IL feet 6 inches wide and
10 feet long. At the front, to the
left, with three windows at the front
and one at the side, is the dining
room, IL feet by IL feet 6 inches. At
the rear Is the kitchen IL feet square.
An open stairway leads from the
rear of the living room to central
hall on the second floor opening of
Of which are three bedrooms and q
bathroom.
The broken roof lines of this house
with the dormer-like windows gives 1t
the appearance of much larger house
than it really is. 1t provides plenty Of
room for a good-sized family and is
Of the type that is most economical
to build.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
Farmers Miss Chance

With American farmers scouting
around in an effort to locate cash
crop to which they can turn without
fear of harmful competitive sur
pluses. a golden opportunity has
been going by the boards. The De-
partment OF Agriculture reports that
nearly 100000 pounds of red clover
seed are imported annually into the
United States because growers In
this country have failed to meet the
demand for this seed.
The department experts believe
that the intermountain region would
find such a crop highly desirable.
not only because it would fill need
of farmers In other parts of the
country. but it also would be valu.
able in restoring and improving the
soil on which it is grown.-Washing
ton Star.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
JESTER WELL PAN
FOR MAKING MIRTu

The business Of making the 49,.
laugh has reached large pronoa puuue
This modern career offers onaa
nifty TO gain substantial fortnn.. O'
those who know what the massos
consider funny. The salarlos WV
broadcasting humorlsts now -. u
coed those OF grand opera stars
they not only receive big nav TIN ~
selves. but substantial sums s,o a
to their collaborating writers TS Ssa
is the offsetting disadvantage ,ha.
Joke which could be used for moH,.. |.
In a play is good for only one rsSl'
performance. aulo
These modern jokesmlths are a.,
Gus students Of the psycholovr s'.s !.
laughter, who scientifically % -.
the business Of tickling the rIsIhm.
of their audiences. The yon'a
knows that incongruity is a ora.
source Of mirth. A chicken n
barnyard is seldom funny, but !,
enters the dining room during 4 q.
NAL banquet It causes shrieks !,
laughter. Another source OF him..
Is found In the feeling OF superlo,
lty that people experience when M.
anticipate joke before Il "a actr.n.
sprung. Then there is humor whit,
consists Of a narrow escape fro~
harm or tragedy. Being run over !,
falling and breaking a leg. does ~,
make people laugh, but q close sho,,
from which the victim energies win
his dignity ruffled is often funny An
these things the gagman knows ana
manipulates in making his comedy
The old Idea that mcrriment !,
trifiing and unworthy Of serious moD
has given way to the knowledge th,,
q sense Of humor may often enab'
q man to rise above his troubl@
''Tell me what you laugh al and m
tell you your mental age" said PRO
lessor Gaum, Of Rutgers college
sense Of humor is a sense Of promr
tion. Laughter at ones self is tes,
OF character. The gagman does poi
often dare to use this reputed typ,
Of humor and turn the laugh on h,
audience. as Aristophanes did. but
his strides have taken him far from
the old sIapstick comedy, SO lin,
may even carry him into this rang,
Of drollery.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
LIVE STOCK REMINDERS

Commercial svMe supplements
are also efficient producers OF
pork.
The roasts from the two-year-
old and gearing steers are more
palatable than the roasts from the
calves.
Beef from two-year-old and year
ling steers is more desirable than
beef from calves both in the feeder
and finished stages.
Feeding the brood sows some
potassium iodide in their slop sew
eral weeks before narrowing will
prevent hairless pigs.
Rapidly Of gains is important.
So is market topping ability. But
neither of these two items is a
safe guide to profitableness in cat
tie feeding.
A good substitute for any of the
cereal crops ON farms raising live
stock is alfalfa, grown either alone
for hay or in mixture with
grasses for pasture.
There is considerable variation
in the price of hay and other
roughage in different places this
year because of widely varying
local supply and demand.
Gifts that ave farrowed when
twelve to fourteen months OF age
and are not bred for fall litters
should not be fattened. but fec
!, with sufficient liberality to insure
good growth.
Shipping to central markets BY
producers has already been the
favorite method of Iarge-scale pro.
ducers. The range cat.leman OF
the corn belt feeder who has any.
/ where from q few carloads to sew.
eral trainloads of cattle to market
at one time usually prefers tC
take his own stock to market.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
Wilt Harms Dent,
Also Sweet Corn
Resistant Varieties Needed
to Combat Disease That
Is Now Spreading.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of observation-disclosures Service.
Bacteria wilt of corn, or Stewards
disease, formerly believed harmful
only to sweet corn. affects field dent
corn. too. in much of the corn belt
and may reduce the yield as much
as % per cent. ~
Corn breeding seems to offer the
best defense against bacterial wilt.
The chief method of preventing
losses is to plant resistant varieties.
The breeding of resistant varieties
is already under way and the de-
partment has several strains which
show resistance.
The bacterial wilt attacked sweet
corn more severely last year than
it had in recent years, but for the
last two years the disease has been
increasing in fields of dent corn.
The disease is most prevalent on
dent corn in Illinois, Ohio and In
diana, but it occurs throughout the
corn belt.
Corn disease specialists have
known that the disease could occur
in field corn, but they believed it
comparatively harmless to dent corn.
Now survey of &C Illinois fields by
several of the department workers
shows that the wilt definitely in
jures dent corn in several re-
spects. The chief damage comes
from the wilt spotting the leaves and
thus cutting down the area of
healthy leaf surface. This results
in: Weakening the plant so that 1t
is more easily attacked by stalk
rots; weakening the plant, making 1t
less resistant to cold; weakening the
stalks, which break more easily and
frequently; lowering the yield; low
ering the quality.
Despite intensive study, bacterial
wilt remains a stubborn corn dis
ease problem regarding many phases
Of which the scientists have only
limited knowledge.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
Ry w. A. RApFoRD

BY w. A. RADFORD
Mr.. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to
practical home building. for the read
srs of this paper. On account of his
wide experience as editor, author and
manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the
highest authority on all these sub
1ects Address all inquiries to William
A. Radford, No. 407 South Dearborn
Street, Chicago, ILL.,, and only inclose
two-cent stamp for reply.
Where your house is to be built is
almost as important as building it.
The particular size of lot, with the
particular frontage or natural adj
vantages which you want may not be
available to you for several reasons.
The kind of neighborhood, the distance
from transportation, the conditions as
regards paving, sewer, gas and cleo
tricity, ETC., are some of the things
that will govern your selection of a
domestic. So we say pick out the
place you want to build before you at
tempt to choose house plan.
Having done that and with the lot
In mind, try to find house that will
at 1t. IL it is narrow lot, then you
must have a narrow house; if it is
shallow lot, then you must find plan
that is. not too deep from the front
to back so that it will not merely go
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
Feed Crops Set Record;
Plenty for Farm Stock

Farm animals will not go hungry
this year since the combined world
crop of corn, oats and barley
reached record figures in 1892, ex-
ceeding the 1881 production by near
" Is per cent, according to a re-
view of the situation by the bureau
Of agricultural economics, United
States Department Of Agriculture.
The bureau reports that the
movement of the 1892 feed grain
crops from exporting countries this
season has been considerably less
than the movement Of the 1881 crops,
with corn shipments rejecting a
relatively sharper reduction than
the movement of barley or oats.
Smaller Argentine supplies. in
creased consumption of corn as food
in Rumania due to very small
wheat crop, and the very low level
Of prices in exporting regions are
important factors reducing corn ex-
ports. Several importing countries
have also advanced import duties on
corn.
available information on feed
grain crops for harvest in 1888 in
dicates only a slight reduction In
the Argentine corn acreage planted
but a very heavy abandonment and
damage to the crop on account Of
locusts and drought; the new crop
In the Union of South Africa was
not planted under particularly ia
vorable conditions; Russia reports
little change in the 1898 planned
areas for barley and oats; winter
barley paintings in the Danube ba-
sin have been reduced somewhat"