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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH tl THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Bernard H. Ewer, Editor and Prop. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 Per Year in Advance matter Feb, Entered as second-clas- s 8, 1929, at the post office Randolph, o i: ! News Notes j Its a Privilege to Live In I V UTAH j I PLEASANT GROVE Utahs strawberry crop was worth $336,000 in 1928 and $226,000 in 1924; an increase of $110,000 in four yers. SANITARY RUNWAY QUITE VALUABLE UTAH Barley in Utah in 1928 yielded more per acre than in any other state. Utahs average was 49 bushels per acre. The United States average was 28.5. Brooding Platform May Be Used With Fair Success. HEBER CITY The yield of tame hay per acre in Utah in 1928 was 6 tons, being exceeded by the yields in only four other states. The United States average was 1.61 tons. i (By T. G. ' 'Klein, Extension Poultry man, K. S. A.) By making use of the sanitary, runway, the permanent brooder house that has for years been the menace of the poultry industry may be used with a fair degree of success. The runway is merely a brooding platform that Js placed in front of the brooder house. It has a floor of inch bail screen or hardware cloth. The wire floor, which is about 15 inches from the .ground, allows all droppings and filth to fall through. Wire sides and top of one inch poultry netting confines the chicks to the runway and protects them from enemies. The sanitary runway accomplishes everything that turning the chicks outside will accomplish, giving them exercise and sunlight and keeping them from contaminated soil. Diseases are less likely to spread when chicks are running on the wire floor, for they have less opportunity of infection. The runway may be ten feet wide and the entire length, of the brooder house. The framework may be constructed of 1 by 4 inch material. These boards are placed on edge to support the floor. Boards may be spaced two feet apart. The wire may be either 24 maor 48 inch widths. The terial makes a slightly stronger floor. Sides should be two feet high. Sections of the top should be hinged for ease in filling the feeders and care for the chicks. one-ha- lf 48-ini- Sufficient Number of Nests Properly Placed The number of nests in relation to the size of the laying flock during the heavy laying season is important. With a sufficient number of nests properly placed there is less danger' of eggs being deposited in the litter and becoming lost, stepped on, or otherwise broken. Nests should be darkened ; they should be so constructed that it is easy for one to see and remove the eggs. If nests are too large eggs may be broken by two of more hens crowding Into them. Twelve by fourteen lnche Is suggested for the larger breed and ten by twelve inches for the smaller breeds. Nests should be easy to remove to facilitate cleaning. - Turkeys Natural Food Lines Often Overlooked Then there are a good many persons working with turkeys In a small way who do not recognize one of the turkeys natural food lines; they fail to remember, if they ever knew, that the turkeys food in its wild state consisted chiefly of insects, beechnuts, acorns, berries, and so forth, with but little corn. The average poultry raiser who has not studied Mr. Turkeys former habits of life feeds too much l, corn and the latter especialfor small turly. So much to the tends crop and cause pack keys indigestion and liver trouble. corn-mea- corn-me- I al Poultry Notes I ' Clean ground enables poultrymen to carry more pullets to maturity. Sanitation and breeding are, both essential in eliminating poultry diseases. Any flock that will average better than 120 eggs per bird is a profitable ' ' flock. - ' More moisture is required for turkey eggs used for hatching purposes than for chicken eggs. obtained Gluten feed is a in the manufacture of glucose and cornstarch. It is used in the mash as a source of protein. ct Remember, a start in turkeys costs more than a start of any good breed of chickens; there Is always a good market for your turkeys. no- Early hatching of chickens this spring and proper handling of the pullets will bring them into laying condition next fall during the months of eggs.' high-price- d , Sweeter 2.-4- -- (Prepared by the National Society, Washington. Geographic D. C.) THE ninth of May the sun moon staged another of great periodic dramas in which the Queen of the Night for a few. minutes banislidd the King of the Day and ruled the sky. , No one in America or Europe could see this great show of the heavens, for the moons shadow swept over only a narrow band extending from the middle of the Indian ocean to beyond the Philippine islands; and the pencil of darkness traced most of its line over water. But it crossed land in northern Sumatra, the southern tip of Slam and the northern Malay states; Just touched southern Cambodia, and swept across the middle Philippines. But so Important was this brief blotting out of the sun to the scientists of the world that parties of them Journeyed to these far off lands In the path of, the shadow, taking witb them elaborate Instruments and cameras. Yet the total eclipse that brought about all this travel and expense lasted only five minutes in Sumatra, and less than four in the Philippines. It was not the darkness Itself that Interested the observers, but rather the haze of light that appeared around, the circumference of the lightless moon, for that is the chromosphere of the sun and it holds many secrets. Also, they wanted to see the stars that shine Immediately past the edge of the blotted-ou- t sun, for their' position may shed new light on the Einstein theory. Meanwhile the man in the street will be wanting to know what is the use of such Investigations anyway; and if the astronomer takes 'time to answer, it will be to say, I dont ON know. ' Nor could anyone foretell what new truths would be discovered, or foresee what new applications to human welfare they may have But new scientific knowledge always has a way of turning mens midds to its application to human necessities. Today, In peace times, we see the great dirigible! the Los Angeles, flying through our skies without fear of the gas explosion which has wrecked r so many superb craft And all largely because , Lockyer, in 1868, training his spectroscope on the great flames that shoot out from the rim of the sun, detected a new line in their spectrum. ' He noticed its close resemblance to the lines? of hydrogen and concluded it must be the spectroscopic signature of a light gas unknown to terrestrial chemists. How Helium Was Found. Twenty-eigh- t years passed, with everybody thinktng that this gas was a stranger to the earth. Then Sir William Ramsay . obtained minute quantities of a new gas from uraninite. Imprisoned In a test tube and electrically excited, it began to glow. Studied with the spectroscope, it showed the same telltale autograph that Lockyer had observed. ' More years passed. The World war was on, and America had entered it. The housewives of the plains of Kansas bad been complaining of the quality of their j natural gas. It didnt make enough heat or sufficient light n A university professor, H. P. Cady, was sent down to find out the trouble. In his spectroscope appeared once more the unmistakable signature that had come to Lockyer, Ramsay, and to Sir Ernest Rutherford in his manifold investigations of radio activity. It told him why that gas wouldn't produce sufficient' heat and light U contained helium, as inert as stone and playing the same role in natural gas that slate plays in coal. Then the American Chemical society met The university professor was put on the program to tell of his discovery. He apologized for intruding a theme upon the attention of that great body which could not by the longest stretch of his Imagination, llghter-than-al- - middle-wester- have any bearing on the momentous issue before which all other matters should stand silent But after he spoke, a venerable British savant declared that he need offer no apology; that if the orar went on another two years the professor's contribution would do more to promote victory than all the other contributions to the proceedings. Tbn came helium as the straw that would break the Hohenzollern back, if all other weights should fail. It made possible the construction of giant dirigibles which could conduct raids over the enemy lines without fear of Inflammable bullets.' And it was the training of a spectroscope on a huge flame on the rim of the sun during an eclipse that had drst revealed this element Thrills in Astronomy! Romance? Astronomy offers more thrills to the alert human mind than all the fiction in the Library of Congress could provide Recently millions of people listened in on the election speeches and returns, and marveled once more at the wonders of radio. But they little dreamed that a patient Danish astronomer had done the pioneer work which released Bells telephone from the bondage of wires and made the ether of space Its servant When Roemer found that eclipses of the moons of Jupiter occurred 16 minutes earlier when Jupiter and the earth were on the same side of the sun than when on opposite sides, be deduced that light was hot instantaneous, but traveled at about 186,000 miles a second. Clerk Maxwell concluded that light, to travel at such a velocity, must be and that there must be other wave lengths than those which register on the human eye. Hertz detected these hypothetical waves, Marconi harnessed them to signaling, and Pupin made them the burden bearers of sound. Vacuum tubes can now take the infinitesimal bit of energy . these waves possess after spanning a continent a bit of energy no greater than a tiny fraction of that expended by a fly in crawling up a window pane and, "stepping them up" and amplifying them, make them capable of producing a 1 1 electro-magneti- c, room-fillin- g - sound. Here is an inkling of a solution of the problem of power sources after coal and oil supplies are gone. Studying Sirius, the gay Dog Star, and his less brilliant companion, astronomers have found indications that this satellite of the Dog Star has nearly as much mass as the sun, although it is only a little larger than the earth. If that be true, then' there are states of matter of which man never dreamed before. On that basis this dark star would be 50,060 times as heavy as the same bulk of water. In other words, a pint of the material composing that star would weigh 25 MORGAN Snap beans in the amount of 2400 tons were sold by Utah farmers to canning factories for a total of $140,000 in 1928. Four years ago only 1000 tons were canned and $50,000 was paid for them. DUCHESNE Seasonable temperatures and dry weather have resulted in great improvement in canyon roads and summit crosings, according to the bulletin of the state road commission issued recently. Heber to Fruitland is open to all traffic. over-eatin- g; MYTON Lyle Young of Myton, who has supervision of distrib tion of water from the Taylor ditch, on the South Myton bench and for Pleasant Valley, reports the canal in good shape and water now running in sufficient quantities to meet the demands for culinary purposes. CASTLE DALE Emery county commissioners have appropriated $1875 n for graveling the Pikes to Ocean highway between Huntington and the Carbon-Emer- y county line, the project now being 60 per cent complete. An appropriation of $780 was bridge over a wash, west of Green also made for the construction of a River, on the state road. Peak-Ocea- Salina canyon, famous SALINA among western highways as the only road that crosses a railroad track 17 limes in 20 miles of its winding course, is reported to be in fine shape r,d cars are coming through from Price and Emery counties without any delay. This road is one of the main connecting links in s rathem Utahs highway system and many travelers are now using this road in their journeys between eastern and southern Utah points. - KAYSVILLE Utahs 1929 onion acreage is expected to lead, that of 1928 by 100 acres, the p onion acreage report issued recently by Frank Andrews, federal agricultural statistician, declares. It is estimated that 1100 acres will be grown, compared with 1000 last year. Idaho acreage is estimated at 1200, compared with 1000 in 1928, while the entire crop of late onions in the United States is expected to have an acreage of 53,070, compared ' with 46,470 in 1928, according to the figures. late-cro- Phillips It, Milk of Magnesia FARMS Idaho Offers ExceUent Opportunity to men with limited capital. Good, producing (arms available. Write Idaho Chamber o( Commerce, Boise, Idaho, for Booklet (2). New Astrology embracing Einstein Law and modern scientific discoveries. Different system, send 25 cents (or booklet. Money refunded If not satisfied. Shearhod System of Astrology, 406 Geary St., San Francisco, Calif. For Poisoned Wounds as Rusty Nail Wounds, Ivy Poisoning, etc. HANFORDS BALSAM OF MYRRH Itoney tack for first bottle if Dot suited. All depart. Nation Paint Bill The paint bill of the United States during 1927 reached the tremendous total of $519,009,842, according to a census of manufacture taken by the Department of Commerce. More than 1,000 establishments were engaged in the manufacture of paints and varnishes, and a total of 28,061 wage earners, other than salaried employees, were engaged In turning out the product New York state led, with 1$2 plants engaged in the business, and Illinois ran second with 109. Sweepstakes the dust . VERNAL Verne Caldwell of Meeker, Colo., professional hunter of big game and predatory animals, who has for two weeks been in the Browns Park country on Pott creek, thirty miles northeast of Vernal, making a survey' of the mountain lion situation, reports that he has found numerous carcasses of deer killed by marauders. Mr. Caldwell states that for every car-cfound there are. a hundred that are never found, because mountain lions very frequently drag their kills into places positively inaccessible to as men. PROVO Extraordinarily heavy snowfall during the past winter has delayed timber work and grazing In Wasatch national forest near Smith tons. The world Is looking for a good Fork, Ranger J. B. Hahn reported reof electricity that will enable cently to E. C. Shepard, forest superIndustry to transmit power long dis- visor. Work is expected to be nearly tances without undue loss of energy. a month late. Ranger Hahn stated' It Is possible that this new under- there was a depth of 55 inches of Bnow standing of the constitution of mat- May 1, compared to less than 24 inchter might lead to the open door of a es on the same date last yeari .The new and better conductor to take the water content of the snow is 14 inchplace of the diminishing supply of es. Timber work started May 6 last copper in the transmission of elec- year, but will not begin until June trical power. .. Should such a conduc- this year. tor be found, then the melting snows HEBER CITY Substantial increase of the Rockies and the Andes, of the in Utahs rye crop this year over last turn and the Himalayas, might Alps the wheels of the worlds Industries, but decreases in the winter wheat and light the lamps of Its homes, and pro- hay crops, are indicated in the May duce all the fires of its kitchen ranges 1 crop forecast issued recently by Frank Andrews, federal statistician. and sitting-roofireplaces. The astronomer and the physicist Production of some 31,000 bushels of have pooled their forces in rye is predicted this year, compared the atom. 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