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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Liberal Fall Feeding Of
Cows Increases Profits

Liberal feeding of early fall fresh
ening cows and Of all cows during
the dry period will materially in
crease the dairyman's income, ac-
cording to E. A. Hanson, extension
dairyman, University farm, St.
Paul.
Too often the early fall freshen-
ing COW is underfed because pas
lures are low, and to many dairy
men it seems too early to start
barn feeding only a few cows. All
CTA records, however, show that
fall freshened cows, we'll fed from
the beginning, lead in year-round
butterfat production.
During late summer and early fall
months, alfalfa hay will serve as
pasture supplement If pastures are
sufficiently heavy. If pastures are
poor, fresh cows should receive
full feed Of hay and grain twice
daily in order to maintain high pro-
duction. Silage may be fed to adj
vantage Immediately after the silo
has been filed.
At this season of the year, fall
freshening cows are being turned
dry, and others are rapidly going
that way because of poor pastures.
Good dairymen aim to give their
cows dry period of about 8 weeks.
Cows thin In flesh when turned dry
should be fed fattening ration dur
ing the dry period. Cows in good
condition at freshening time will al
ways start the lactation period CIV
ing more milk daily and continue
at higher level for a longer period
than cows that have q short dry
period and freshsn In poor eopdi-,
ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
FARM
Tories |
CORN IN SILO is A
GOOD WINTER FEED
Crop Makes More Succulent
Roughage Per Acre.

BY r. r. Farnham, Dairy Specialist, North
! Carolina State Colege.-WNU Service.
; Comparatively few farmers take
full advantage Of their corn crop in
producing feed for winter consump-
ton. Corn made into silage pro-
duces more succulent roughage per
acre than any other known crop.
The trench silo is the very thing
for small farms where large up
right silos would be impractical.
Trench silos, inexpensive and con-
venient, are also being used more
and more on farms where large
herds are kept.
There is a growing tendency to-
ward silage in preference to dry
hays. Unfavorable weather at har-
vesting time is less serious for ST.
lage than when hay is being cut
and cured.
Silage is succulent and keeps cat
tie in good condition through the
winter. Silage production requires
less acreage and, therefore, permits
the use of soil-building crops on land
that would otherwise be needed for
growing hay.
The construction of a trench silo
is fairly simple. A narrow trench
should be dug on farms where only
a few animals are to be fed. A
cheap roof placed over the silo will
help protect the feed from bad
weather and keeps tie walls from
caving in.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Difference in Size, Hair
of the Hound Dog Family

Hound dogs are no strangers to
the average American dog lover.
The traditional hound has literally
"grown up'' in the American fam
lily, dating back to the time of early
colonization in Virginia. Over a
lengthy span of years, every section
of this country has developed its
particular type of hound dog, writes
: George Butz in the Philadelphia In
quirer.
The members of the hound family
that are recorded in the American
Kennel club archives for registra-
ton are Beagles, Bassethounds,
Bloodhounds, Foxhounds, Dachs-
hunde, Norwegian Elkhounds, Bor-
zoi formerly called Russian Wolf
hounds) Irish Wolfhounds, Grey
hounds, Whippets, Harriers, Az
ghans, Scottish Deerhounds, Otter
hounds and Salukis.
The hound that has changed little
in appearance down through the
centuries is the F'oxhound.
There's quite difference in sizes
among hound dogs. The long-legged
group consists of the Afghan, Saluki,
Greyhound, Whippet, Brozoi, Irish
Wolfhound and the Scottish Deer
hound. Each of these are high from
their shoulders, with well-sprung
ribs arching back to tucked-up hind
quarters. The Greyhound is consid-
cred the fastest one in the lot.
Only the Whippet and the Grey
hound have short hair, while the
Afghan, Saluki, Irish Wolfhound,
Borzol and the Scottish Deerhound
possess silky coats.
The Afghan has a small, lean wolf
hound head with a silky topknot,
and is clothed in dense silky hair
down each leg.
Beagles, Harriers and Foxhounds
are lower to the ground and each
has a short coat, usually of three
colors, white, tan and black. The
Dachshunde is the real "shorty" Of
the hound group, and has an excep-
tionally long body. These hounds
are of smooth, wire-hair and long
haired coats.
Foxhounds are strong-bodied and
built in proportion, while the Beagle
is vest-pocket edition Of the hound
that seeks the fox. Harriers are
larger than Beagles. The Basset-
hound is heavy, has strong short
legs and trails his game slower than
Beagle or Dachsie.
The Bloodhound makes forlorn
picture with his Tapping ears, well
wrinkled forehead and sad under
lined eyes. He is acknowledged to
have the keenest nose of the hounds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Shouting From Post TO
Post to Relay Messages

Until about 60 years ago, almost
no use was made, for the purposes
of communication at distance, of
the simplest, most direct, and most
effective medium for the express
sion and transmission of thought
the human voice.
True, it is recorded that when the
Persians invaded Greece, in 480 B.
c., they established a line of senti-
nels who, by shouting from post to
post, relayed messages between
Athens and Susa in 48 hours. The
ancient Gauls used a similar COM
munication system for military pur-
poses. Alexander the Great is said
to have employed gigantic speak
ing trumpet which could project the
voice a distance of IL miles. Other
devices similar to the megaphone,
and still others following the prin-
ciple of the speaking tube, have
been used from time to time.
= But all of these were relatively
Ineffective in extending the normal
range of the voice. Not until the
invention of the telephone, in 1876,
was the spoken word set free from
the limitations of distance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12

There are, as a rule, ten eggs to
q pound.
A total of 5,035, 900 motor vehicles
of various descriptions are used on
the farms of the United States.
A good orchard fertilizer contains
readily available nitrogen. Nitrate
Of se@a, sulphate of ammonia, and
cyanamid are common forms that
meet this requirement.
Canada was the leading exporter
of honey to the British Isles in 1885.
A cellar with dirt floor is bet
ter for potato storage than one with
q cement floor.
The 1897 lamb crop is estimated
by the bureau of agricultural eco
nonics at nearly 81, 900, 900 head.
Eggs whip to larger volume and
beat more rapidly if they are at
room temperature than when they
are chilled.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
WOODLANDS TREATED RIGHT
HELP WITH FARM EXPENSES

Many farmers are reporting to the
United States Forest Service that
growing fuel and lumber and pulp
wood or other forest products out
down expenses on farm. Good cash
returns also are obtained when some
of the forest products are sold of the
farm.
One farmer says: Farm your
woods as you do your corn. Take
out the weed tress and the unhealthy
and crippled ones and give the best
trees chance to develop. Cut the
good trees only when they are ripe"
Still another farmer says: "My
woods are my bank: keep going to
it and getting money, and each time
the money keeps right on coming
back"
A fourth farmer says: "Cross ties,
are legal tender around here. We
bring In our ties and take home
-four, sugar, coffee, tobacco. calico,
and overalls."
Another farmer says: Money
from the sale Of timber has helped
to pay for the farm, taken care of
the taxes, and assisted in giving the
children a good, education. In adj
dition, our farm woods has furnished
lumber, posts and fuel for the farm"
And another reports: Timber
farming is different now from the
old days when woods work was just
chopping down trees and cutting
them up just as you came to them.
one after the other. Now you take
care Of trees a. paying farm sxcR,a
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12

Many animals are farmed or
hunted for skins, furs, or food, but
the armadillo is reared and hunted
for It's shell, notes q writer In Lon
don Tit-Bits Magazine. The arna-
dillo is about 20 inches long and has
two main shields, on shoulder and
hip, which are connected by nine
movable bands Of bony plate. It Is
this entire covering that Ii so covet-
ed, and artistic as well as almost
everlasting baskets, lamp-shades,
and presents are fashioned from it.
incidentally, in breeding armadil-
Los, one queer fact In noticed: a lit
ter Is always four In number and
all are Of the same sex. This fact
still puzzles the scientific world.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
Odd Harbor Coincidence

An amazing coincidence occurred
in San Francisco harbor. In 1914
two tankers, with the same dimen-
sions, equipment and owners, were
built in the same shipyard. In 1922
one collided with a steamer and
sank. In March, 1887, relates a
writer in Golfers Weekly, the other
vessel collided with the same kind
of steamer, in the same manner and
place and under the same circum-
stances, and then sank crosswiss
upon its sister ship.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12

A herman is one who seems manly,
generous. and respectable because
his babyish thoughts don't show.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12

When a man begins to remember
many incidents of his boyhood days
that never happened he is in his
second childhoQds
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
A GOOD WIFE
Heavens Gift To Man
Evangelist John Moses Baker
Baltimore. Maryland

Rev. Baker is the author of the
poem Her LONELINESS Never Faded"
There Is nothing on earth that we
cherish,
And nothing husband loves more,
Than the wife that was given to help
him.
And save in temptations so sore.
When trials and conflict surround
him,
She then is his comfort and stay,
And when the dark clouds gather
DER him,
Her smile quickly drives them away.
In sorrow and anguish what comfort,
Comes from her watching and care,
No battle so fierce or no danger
To keep her away from him there.
She will stand by when all others
forsake him,
And keep brave and true till the last,
And in life's darkest hour will
comfort,
Until every temptation Is past.
She will always be sweetheart and
dearest
OF any on earth he holds dear,
Her voice will always be sweetest
OF any he ever will hear.
A last when life's journey is ended,
By her side he will lie down to rest,
And in Heaven she will be with him,
Forever and ever the best.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12

A pending resolution in Congress
provides a way so that farm tenants
and share troopers can buy homes,
with long terms of forty years al
three per cent through Government
facilities.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12

Styling us different os
II Is beautiful. for
this blgoer-Iooklng,
beiter-looking low
priced cor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12

1t is easier to stand prosperity
than it is to get chance to try.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12

Smooih-powerfvl-
positive :. the sofe
brakes for modern
travel giving
moximum motoring
protection.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
with sHocKPRooF
sIEERINGl

So sofe-so comfort
oble-so different -.
Tho worlds finest
ride"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
HINTS FOR FARMERS

There are, as rule, ten eggs to
q pound.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12
CWlTH sAFETYo GLASS
AL ARQuNpl

ALL AkOuNDl
larger Interiors
lighter, brighter colors
--ond unisieel con-
sirueilon, mokine each
body q fortress Of
sofety.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-11-12

Rev. Baker is the author of the
poem Her loneliness Never Faded
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-25
ChTICISM IN EASY

At periodic intervals. someone ap-
pears in print with a slashing attack
against the life insurance industry.
These critics are usually unable to
find a single good thing about in
surance.
Yet the fact remains that life in =
surance. for the great bulk of per-
sons, is the only form of investment
that offers both profit and LOG
per cent safety for principal. 1t is
a practical and certain means of
achieving a financially Independent
old age. II is the surest means of
protecting dependents in event of
the wage earner's death.
The depression demonstrated the
worth of life insurance. Thousands
of families were saved from dire
want by their pocities. Millions Of
dollars a day were paid out in loans,
cash values and completed contracts.
II is easy enough to criticize life
insuraice but no comparable saw
ings and protection substitute has
been offered.
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-25
FIRE INSURANCE GROWS
CHEAPER

The annual report of the presi-
dent of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters points to the remark
able decline in the cost Of fire in
surance.
The average charge per 800 of
fire insurance today is more than 40
per cent lower than at the beginning
of the century. And since 1900, the
decline has been uninterrupted-the
average premium charged each year
has been lower than the year before.
Fire premiums are naturally bas-
ed on the fire loss occurring in an
area. Reductions in premiums are
not generally possible unless a re-
duction in loss is consistently re-
corded over a period of years. For
more than three-Quarters of a GEN.
tury, the fire insurance industry has
worked on the problems of fire pro-
lection and prevention. II has cover
ed the entire country with an elab-
crate system of engineering inspec-
tions of cities, towns and villages. 1t
has tested building materials of ev-
cry kind and exhaustively studied
building methods. The facts produc-
ed by this work are reflected in SAT-
er materials. and in better munich
pal building codes. The model
building code" promulgated by the
National Board has been widely
made into law.
No i@3ustry has done or is doing
more to serve the nation-tO protect
The lives and property Of lis all. 1t
IS as eager as any policyholder 10
still further reduce rates. And they
will be reduced if every individual
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-25
FEMALE WASP FIXES sen
OF HATCH FROM HER EGGS

Female insects of at least one
group can regulate the sex of their
offspring. Entomologists of the Uni
ted States Department of Agricul-
ture find that parasitic wasp
brought here from the Orient Is
years ago to help control the Japan
ese beetle varies the treatment cf
her eggs according to the size of the
host on which she lays them. She
withholds the sperms that insure
female hatch from eggs deposited ON
the relatively small worms-beetle
larvae-that have mOulted only once
to enter the stage known as the sec
ond instar. Nearly all the young
wasps from these eggs are males.
The hatch from eggs laid on the
larger, third-instar larave, however,
is preponderantly female.
To prove that the female wasp
(Tiphia popiliavora) fixes the sex of
her progeny when she deposits her
eggs, the entomologists transferred
eggs laid on second-instar larvae TO
larvae and those laid
on third-instar larvae to second-in-
star larvae. Mostly males hatched
out on the third-instar hosts and
mostly females on the second-instar
hosts.
These imported wasps will not de-
pOsit eggs on first-instar hosts the
small worms that have not yet
moulted. They will lay them on sec
ond-instar larvae. hut prefer third
instar larvae. Variations in numbers
of second-or third-instar larvae
available to the wasp during its
brief adult life cause it TO huctaate
in numbers from year TO year. This,
the entomologists say. may be partly
responsible for the failure of the
wasp to fight the Japanese beetle as
successfully in the United States as
in the Far East, the native home of
h0fh
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-25
THERE Is No STANDARD WAY
TO BUILD LOM-COST ROADS

There is no standard method OF
building low-cOst' roads, according
to engineers of the Bureau of Pub
lie Roads of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. Methods us
ed successfully in one location may
not be the best under different con-
ditions.
In building low-cost roads local
materials must be used or the roads
will not be low in cost. Wide vari-
ations in natural materials such as
sand, gravel, tOp-soil, and clay make
it necessary TO adapt construction
methods to the materials used. The
stability or load-supporting power of
low-cOst surface depends upon the
content of material that is not soft
ened by water. Sand. gravel. cinders.
Stag. and crushed stone all have this
property, but must either contain or
have added TO them a small amount
of binder-clay most commonly
Only enough clay to hold the parti-
cles together should be used. An
excess causes mud and rutting. A
vide variety of mixtures has been
successfully used. many of them con-
tanning 10 to 80 per cent of hard
particles with a clay binder.
Engineers are further improving
lOw-cost surfaces with bituminOuS
chemicals, and other pro-
ducts. A good surface mixture with
plenty of hard Darticles, either fine
or coarse. is first requirement. 1t
Is not worth while to treat poor
soil
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-25
STABBING THE CONSUMER

An informed observer of attacks
against the chain store Industry re-
Gently said that critics of the chains
commonly hold two assumptions:
First. that there is something in
hcrently evil in the chain method Oh
distribution; second, that the busl-
ness of distribution exists and should
be protected for the benefit OF the
distributor-especia the least ef-
ficient distributor - regardless OF
what happens to the consumer.
Practically all anti-chain legisla-
ton, such as the RObinson-Patmah
act the proposed Miller Tydings
nrice maintenance act and the varl-
Gus state acts imposing heavy special
m, class taxes on chains, erects an
artificial barrier against the process
ses of free, legitimate competition.
By making illegal, mass retail prac-
tices that cut overhead costs OF varl-
Gus kinds and thus make it possible
to narrow the price spread between
producer and consumer, they actual
ly place a premium on waste and IN
efficiency The manufacturer, mid
dleman or retailer who is unwilling
TO operate on high basis of service
and efficiency is pampered by the
law. and the efficient competitor and
the consumer are penalized,
Chain stores came into existence
as the result of definite public de-
mand for economical retail agencies.
Their influence in the retail field has
been good, and one of its direct re-
suits has been ID improve the stand
ards of service and distribution meth
DDS of independent merchants. In
dependents who were willing to keep
up with the march of progress have
not been forced out of business-in-
stead they have multiplied and pros /
pcred, and today independent stores I
do more than 40 per cent Of all the .
nations retail business.
Any act which outlaws free com
petition. or interferes with it in any
way, must operate at the expense
of the consumer. This is demon
strated now in the rising cost of
living.
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-25

better and more varied machinery
enables workers to produce as much
or more In a short week than they
previously produced In a long week.
Thus, they can work less and still
maintain or increase their produc-
tive value. Even though their hours
go down, their usefulness and their
wages so up
The labor unions have also been a
factor. They have won MANY con-
cessions from management, and cut
the working week without cutting
wages.
Management has also done a great
deal to make shorter hours possible
IL has improved the technique of
production in many ways, to the end
that less employee motion be vast
ed, and that each worker produce
more in his working time. 1t has Of
ten voluntarily reduced hours even
as 1t has raised hourly rates of pay.
Finally, in recent years govern
ment has been a factor. A number
OF states, of which Oregon was the
first, have specified the maximum
hours per week which women in in
dustry can work, and these statutes
have been upheld in the courts as
being necessary to the public health
and well being. The Federal govern
ment has also stepped in, as hap
pened with the NRA. A Federal law
now in effect refuses government
contracts to manufacturers whose
employees work more than 40 hours
a week.
The current drive for a 3O-hour
week, to be fixed and enforced by
the government, is believed to have
little chance of immediate success. /
Even some labor leaders are Gubi- (
GUS of its merit, in the belief that !
II would retard unemployment. Past /
history would indicate that a still .
shorter work week will come in I
time-but as the result of progress
and evolution, rather than political
pressure.
The Annalist reports that moth
ing has occurred to change the
upward trend of business
nSt'its CAScpl SlSSl StTlheS, Dut luey
have been sufficient to cut a point
and half off the business index"
Thus, in 1887, strikes are a major
worry even as they were in 1886 and,
10 a lesser extent. in 1885. Until cur
r. mt labor controversies are settled.
he business outlook cannot help but I
be- unsettled.
Production figures are fair. The
Federal Reserve Board reports that
in recent month manufacturing ac-
ivity recorded more than the nor
l.al increase over the previous
month. General manufacturing in
lCstry is at about 11S-100 equals
he 1926 normal.
Some industries are doing above
he average. One of these is electri
al appliances-refrigerators, air
systems, etc. These ap-
Dliances have been improved in eff
'ie ency and reduced in COST and their
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-25
larket is rapidly broadening.

market is rapidly broadening.
Commodity prices have been de-
clining somewhat in most fields. No
one thinks there will be big drop,
however, and some will not be sur
prised if this fall witnesses a gem
elal advance all along the line.
Consumer resistance" is a factor
here.
Newest national industry-trailer
manufacturing-is going ahead fast.
Last year, Business Week reports,
more than $50 makers were in the
trailer business, and their gross
came to $27.000.000. Over 10000
house trailers, averaging s525 a
piece. were sold.
Milford chronicle., 1937-06-25
FUTURE is PROMISING
FOR HEALTHIER PLANTS

Plant disease specialists are first
to admit great gaps in their know
ledge OF the young science Of breed
ing disease resistance into plants.
But in spite of this. what they do
know has proved valuable. DIR. g. II.
Coons, of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, estimates that
II crops are worth about $66,O00.-
900 year more because disease re-
sistant varieties have replaced older
varieties. He regards this estimate
as conservative. In 1885 disease re-
sistant varieties were growing on
more than 55,000,000 acres-more
than a quarter of all the acreage in
these IL crops. Some of the more
conspicuous examples of gains from
disease resistance are found In wheat
flax, sugar cane and sugar beets, let
tuce and cantaloupes. In the sugar
canes and faxes new varieties ac-
count for practically all the acreage.
Where improved lettuce and canta-