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*-i4m Y'v>zm '<• *• -- -ij-jk- »••&• --•*• ir A -- t *4*2 ^(d THE PLAINDE ALER, THURSDAY, MARCH 1930 r^Viiss sr , TIMATED COST OF RAISING PULLETS win Months' Time and 80 Pounds of Feed. _ « Jprom $1 to $1.50 to [: ci ^ Juliet they plan h * \|j. ' Charles N. Keen, as x ;HE > -,w p,--"-- "*-- " ALONG LIFE'S TRAIL *• : >* By THOMAS ARKLE CLA*K Bfii of Mm, Cnlvmlty •( Illlnals. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE Poaltrymen should have available spend for every to raise, declares assistant professor poultry at the Colorado Agriculcollege. "To bring into production a dual rpose pallet--one which may be itilized for meat or egg production-- bout seven months' time and 30 •unds of feed are required," Mr. een says. "To bring into production pullet of the Leghorn type, about ve and one-half months* time and 24 unds of feed are necessary." Other Interesting figures which ve been compiled from authoritative urces, but which are of course averse figures, are given by Mr. Keen, ho believes they will be of special terest now that the new chick seaion Is beginning. It Is emphasised at good management In most cases hould produce better than average ults. Since It generally takes about two \-ieggs to get one husky chick, and pdnce pearly three chicks must be hatched to get one good pullet, it has been esmated that It really requires about eggs to obtain one good pullet. Several good authorities declare that t costs about ten cents to produce a hick. A six-year-old Rhode Island ed should weigh about three-fourths ]of a pound. A six-week-old Single Comb White Leghorn should weigh jabout seven-tenths of a pound. A Rhode Island Red should weigh two jwnnds at about eleven weeks of age and should have consumed about 7.2 pounds of feed. A Single Comb White Leghorn should weigh one and one-half pounds at about ten weeks of age and should have consumed 6.5 pounds of feed. SAMOANS USE NOVEL WAlf TfiROPE SHARKS --. . .. , / Native* Lead Fish to Boat, Then Lasso It. / We were all surprised a few years ago when Walter and Grace were married. They were quite children at the time; they had known each other only a few weeks, and their acquaintance had in no sense been Intimate. Their marriage had been a matter of sudden impulse, and they had gone off without announcement or knowledge of their friends. They were headstrong, both of them, each determined to have what he wanted without regard to right or reason. They stayed on through college, as many young people do, after they were married, and graduated. ' No one seemed to concern himself as to whether they were getting on together ill or otherwise. The newspaper last night announced that she was suing for divorce. Their brief romance was at an end. Cruelty was the ground she alleged. Neither one had ever realized the real meaning of marriage, and the only way they could see out of the muddle they had made of life was divorce, and divorce seldom settles marital difficulties. There is a great deal being said these days In favor of making divorce easier, so that those who rush Impetuously and thoughtlessly into the most sacred and binding relationship which exists between human beings may with less difficulty throw off the responsibilities and the obligations which they have assumed, the more readily to take on others. Graham was telling me the other day that he had entered into - a contract to sell a certain guaranteed product next summer. I am not at all Impressed with Graham's qualifications as a salesman and I frankly said so to him. "Well, you see," he explained to me, "I'm not of age, and I don't have to keep the contract if I don't like the work. It isn't difficult to get out of the thing." ^ I had not so looked upon a business obligation, but I presume I am a little ground clean, and the feed that is given them must be clean and wholesome. The feeding utensils and drinking fountains must be kept as clean as possible. It is a gptfd idea to always keep a good disinfectant on hand, and every time the house Is cleaned to use a solution of the disinfectant. The house should be cleaned out at least once each week and disinfected whenever necessary. It should be dis- ' Inflected thoroughly after each brood Is placed on range, to guard against any contagious diseases. : ! t i n in m u n u n i , ; The Test of Their Love By H. IRVING KING mm nimmn mum Sanitary Management Is Baby Chick Need K tbe baby chicks are to keep their health and grow vigorously, we must practice proper sanitary management. _ _ We must keep the house clean, the ^djj_faSMnned4 nor have I so thought of marriage. It has always seemed to me a binding contract, a contract entered into for life, and seldom le gltlmately broken excepting by death. Those who go into marriage with the idea that if it is not pleasing they need not be bound are not likely to find happiness. Waatern Newspaper Union.) Hard-Boiled Eggs Safe ^ Food "for Baby Chicks ft Ss common practice to feed the Infertile eggs tested out from the incubator to baby chicks. In so doing it Incurs the danger of infecting the chicks with pullorum disease (formerly called baciiiary white diarrhea). Where eggs form a part of the chick£ diet they should be boiled for at least five minutes and preferably longe^. This boiling will destroy the germ of the dreaded chick disease, and then it la a perfectly safe and good practice to feed the boiled eggs to baby chicks. One should not ran the risk of Infecting the brood by feeding the mufn* Feed for Poults Little turkeys should not be fed for the first day or two, as they are absorbing the yolk of the egg from which they came and this is what nature intended that they should get After two days they may be fed chopped hard-boiled egg and corn bread crumbs for the first week, or soaked stale bread in milk and squeesed dry. When they begin to get get out on the range, they may be fed morning and night only, as they , get much from the range. Y oung DUCK nation A widely recommended ration that has been extensively used by duck raisers, is as follows: As a starting ration a mash made up of equal parts of rolled oats and dried bread is fed. It is found desirable to add a small quantity of sand, one part to twenty parts of the mash, and moistened. As much as the ducks will clean up readily Is fed five or six times daily. After the ducks are six days old equul parts of bran, yellow corn meal, rolled oats and dry bread can be fed. Pago Pago, Satnoan Islands.--Perhaps in no other place In the world Is shark fishing the sport It Is some few miles out from Pago Pago. No harpooning, spearing or trolling here. The old Samoans would refuse to take you to the shark fishing grounds If you dropped a hook. They have their own method. In a large outrig ger canoe the good-natured Samoans set out from Pago Pago bay In the afternoon. On the way they offer solemn prayer that many sharks will appear and that their catch will be heavy. It is a religious rite with thetn. A tin of salmon is emptle4 in the water--juice and all--as the first mor sel to lure sharks. A stout stick Is run through a hoje in s half coconu! shell and made fast. As a native thumps it up and down In the water a heavy, chugging sound is made which *lds attracting fisli. Native Offer Prayai*. A 75-foot line about the thickness of a man's thuini) is put out. It has a piece of wood attached near the entl and a good-sized chunk of decayed meat Is fastened on for bait. The piece of wood keeps the bait very close to the surface of the water. The other end of the* line is made fast to the boat. If sharks fall to appear the natives offer further prayers. Excited cries of "afe afe" break the quiet of the trop leal waters as a school Is sighted. It ts the native word for "come on" or "welcome." Soon a shark heads for the bait, but the native at the line draws it In Just rapidly enough so that the meat is kept a bit ahead of the •fish. A shavel-nose shark cannot snatch It tn one gulp without turnluti over on its back, hence it Is quite a simple thing for the man at the line to lead the shurk to the boat. The fun begins when the shark ap proaches the boat Seated beside the native at the line are two others; one with a heavy, hempen noose and the other with a stout 5-foot pole. The line is pulled In rapidly and the bail raised out of water Just before the shark reuclies the boat As the shark matches at it a native slips the noose over the shark's nose and head ami draws it taut back of Jhe dorsal fin The fish virtually has been lassoed. Quite a Battle. A 0 to 12-foot shark can do consld erable kicking and fighting--almost sufficient to swamp or upset the boat. The tatlve with the stout pole places it against the shark's mouth and as the fish opens its Jaws the pole if rammed down its throat. The enraged shark puts up a tremendous battle but it quieted somewhat when its head is split open with a hatchet. A heavy club also ts brought into play and la ter the shark is split bpen Just above the tail and gradually bleeds to death. Sometimes they have been known to 'fight for several hours. The natives find certain parts of the shark quite tasty and the return of a successful hunt often is the incentive for a feast among the Samoans. Many of the young Samoans know nothing of this exciting sport, but the old men are past masters at it. Judge James Wilkes Foxall of West Chester, Pa., who is attached to the American naval base in charge of legal matters at Pago Pago, is one of the few white men who ever accompanied the natives on a hunt He characterises it as the "most exciting of sports." Geese Mate in Pairs Geese generally mate In pairs, though a young gander will sometimes mate with more than one goose. Later he will usually pick a favorite. When mature the easiest way to tell a gander is to listen to the voice. A gander has a voice which is a cross between a whistle and whisper. A young male hatched In June has an excellent chance, but if he is kept In a pen with a lot of other birds of different ages be ready by February* Nothing to Play With Opportunity goes only so far. We should not assume that the prosperity built here by our fathers Is perpetual. The economic history of modern civilisation is strewn with the ruins of once mighty edifices of business power.-- American Magazine. \ Tftofmca^Tdverti sement) Dp You Want Boy or Girl? Try Algebra Berkeley. Calif.--The sex of children no longer may be a matter of guesswork before birth, according to Dr. Herbert M. Evans, chairman of partment of anatomy at the Unlvei of California. In a paper made public. Doctor Evans, famous as the discoverer of ... vita mines E and F, contended that the he probably w , jj0ng hidden secret of sex determina JOHN PURVEY Crystal Lake, ia REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE for SHERIFF of McHenry County Yonr support is solicited and will - • be appreciated^ -> * . lion had been discovered. e "If an X mates with a X. the off spring will be a boy," Doctor Evans declared. The problem now, be added. Is to ascertain whether you |re donii nated by the factor X or Y. Sex of a baby. Doctor Evans said. Is determined during the period of fertilization and the presence of one of two microscopic chromosommes is the determining factor. Designating one as X and the other as Y, Doctor Evans explains that within a group of 48 chromosommes" of a germ cell, a pair of minute germs will control fhe sex of the child. Thus the algebraic formula for sex determination is: XY equal male; XX equal female. 0 Whether the factors of X or Y are more dominant in some persons than in others is not revealed in the report, but it Is presumed research Is being carried out to determine the prede terminance of X or Y and learn a method of selection. Doctor Evans points out there are 48 chromosommes In both men and worn en. In the female there two X chrom osommes and in the male there Is one X sad one Y. (Copyright.) THE Honorable Roscoe Fielding had money; had been abroad; had been In congress; was respected by the community and had a good digestion. A well-conducted and .dutiful orphaned nephew lived with him and acted as his secretary and general factotum. A charming young lady, daughter of a deceased friend, and Iioscoe's ward, was also an inmate of his home and was devoted to her guardian. His life glided along smoothly and pleasantly and yet he was not entirely happy. Every mortal has a past of one sort or another and the Honorable Roscoe was no exception. The obstreperous part of Fielding's past was that which had to do with his marriage. Hailed as a 'love match" it had turned out most unhappily ;Vnd though the woman in the case bad Song been dead, the Incident--for aftjer all It had been only an ir.ddent in the busy life of Roscoe Field'.ng--had given a certain twist to his mind which caused him to doubt the existence of such a thing as pure and disinterested love--the kind the poets sing of and the romancers write about James Ripley and Florence Rajtcliff, his nephew and his ward, Were, however, absolutely sure that the poets and the romance writers were correct. So, after talking the matter over in the manner customary with young people In a similar situation, James went to his uncle and told him he and Florence were in love with each other and, therefore and co&sequently, wanted to be married. "Nonsense!" cried the pessimistic uncle; "It's propinquity, not love, that Is the matter with you two. I suppose that, sooner or later, you are bound to get married. But marry like a reasonable being. Pick out a girl with money, a good disposition, and ambition and worldly knowledge enough to assist you in making a career for yourself." The old man then delivered a sermon to Florence upon the text of the absurdity of marrying for love and intimated that she would do James an irreparable injury by marrying blip. This last argument so Impressed Florence that when James proposed that they go off and get married at once, the Honorable Roscoe notwithstanding, she tearfully but firmly negatived the proposal1. Fielding watched the young couple closely for awhile and then began to have misgivings. "I wonder." he thought, " If there is the possibility of such a thing as a successful love match, after all." Two months later the Honorable Roscoe Fielding died. After the funeral the "family lawyer" asked James and Florence to call- at his office. There he showed them a will of the deceased In which he divided his large fortune evenly between his nephew and his ward; upon the condition that they sign a written agreement not to marry each other. If they refused to sign such an agreement or, having signed It, violated It, then the fortune went to a research society and James and Florence were left penniless. "Let the society have the money and be hanged," said James. "For my part I absolutely refuse to sign any such agreement. You say the same; don't you, Florence?" "N-o-o," faltered Florence tearfully. •*1*11 sl-g-n. Guardian told me I should ruin your prospects in life If 1 married you--and I see now that I would. I love you too well for that" "What!" cried James, "are you g0> ing to let the prejudices of a deafl man who happened to have been unfortunate In not being able to discriminate between spurious love and „fhe real article, stand between us? Or is it perhaps, your share of the money you want?" The taunt brought Florence to tupr feet with flashing eyes. MJames Ripley." she cried, "you know very weU it isn't the money." "Of course I do, old girl," laughed James, "lluln my career If you married me did uncle say? You'll ruin my life if you don't. We both refuse the conditions of the will, sir. Come on, Florence." She started to follow her lover; but the lawyer called thefla back. "My instructions from my late client were," said he. "that in case yofi agreed to the conditions of this will l should burn this envelope unopened. If you refused, I was to open it." He took from a large envelope a wIH signed two days after the one he had read, In which^ Fielding had bequeathed his fortune to his nephew and his ward unconditionally. "Poor, dear Mr. Fielding," said Florence, "he sought to test the reality of our love by mere money! It will stand harder tests than that--won't it, Jumes?" "You bet." said James. And through the years of their 'ong wedded life it did--and stood them successfully. **3oUi«r« *f FortrntT During the frequent wars which occurred in Italy before the military profession became so generally prevalent in Europe, it was usual for men of enterprise and reputation to offer their services to the different states that were engaged. They afterward extended their services and u^der the title, "soldiers of fortune," fought for employment In any country or state that would pay them. • Ifiho Pastor Sajwi One may heed medical advice to avoid crowds by not attending church, only to find oneself later In a place more crowded than churches. . . . "Peace with security" means using the sword to crop the wings of the dove of peace.--John Andrew Holmes. Nugget of Wisdom The house beautiful stands by the wayside. The most precious things are the commonest and these are gained, not by large tottunes, but by large souls. 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