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Show Specialists Tell of Improved Pop Corn A III Variety Pops to BE SURE OF BULL'S VALUE AS BREEDER Dairymen Often Too Quick to Condemn Him. bulls into Turning tfood beef before tl'eir actual value as breeders has been shown, Is one of tile most wasteful dairy practices, says a bulletin of the University of Minnesota. "The real worth of a dairy bull cannot be determined until his daughters have been tested for biuterfat product ion iD comparison with their Too often, however, before dams. this has been done, the bull has been killed and all possibility of further service cut off. Nine such examples bave been found in the four years of testing carried on by the Hast folk County Dairy Herd Improvement as- -, soclation. This association has proven nine sires whose daughters propure-breduced more than their dams, the Increases ranging from 20 to 82 per cent. One dairyman owned two of these' sires, yet not one of the nine remained alive when their worth was krown. A recent sire to be proved was a pure-breGuernsey owned by Tilford Ilaugstol ol Fosston. Seven daughters of this bull, all that have been tested so far, have yearly production ifcords averaging 507.64 pounds on the basis of maturity. The seven dams have records averaging 3.'W87 pounds. The average increase cf daughters over dams in yearly but-frfproduction is 273.77 pounds, or .'n increase of b'J per cent. Had this bull been saved until the above records were available, he would i, only have been worth a good, big price, but could have helped other oairymen improve their herds. pure-bre- d d d Likes Hay as Roughage for Dairy Cow Ration Wherever silage crops can be grown successfully most farmers have by dow been converted to the use of silos. The silo stores a large amount of feed In a small space and his come to be regarded as the cheapest source of winter succulence. Occasionally, however, a really successful fanner is found who has a silo hut is not using it. Such a one recently expressed a strong preference for hay as a roughage for all kinds of live stock and particularly for dairy cows. His farm Is well adapted to the growing of alfalfa and red clover and his two burns are filled wire legume bay, all the straw being stacked in the barnyard. He finds that an acre of alfalfa hay will supply very nearly as much feed as an acre of corn and It Is easier to grow three acres of alfalfa than one acre of corn. "Don't you find that you need sn valence to keep the cows regulat-eri?- " was asked. "I have gone back t roots to meet that need," he bulls of the best type and dams are cheap. from Young sires carrying the best of dairy Mood may be had for as little as $75. Where three or four farmers club together to secure the service of such an animal, the cost Is almost yet the Influence on the herd Is tremendous in lowering production costs, says the Michigan Farmer. While the state college better sire truck Is being exhibited at a series of meetings in six widely scattered counties to urge this action by dairy farmers, there Is no limitations on the idea and groups of farmers everywhere In the state can bave the advantages of these superior sires at little cost It should be remembered that our outstanding farming estates were Invariably started by men who made wise Investments during some depression. Calves Need Grain for Most Profitable Gains Beef calves that are turned out to run with their dams on pasture need prain in addition to their mother's milk and grass if they are to be quick- fattened into profitable "baby beeves," according to W B. Toung, of the animal husbandry department, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. They should be taught to eat grain before they are turned out so that they may be fed in a "creep" while running with their dams, he said. Getting them started on grain before they are turned out can be done easily by feeding the cow in a low trough or box on the floor so that the calf may nose around and find, out what his mother is eating. Another method which may be used to save time and labor with several calves Is to fix one large stall or pen Into which all the calves may be run. The grain should be put in some kind of a feed trough low enough so that the calves can easily see into it aDd get their noses in. A mixture of equal parts of cracked corn and ground oats used at the rate of six or eight tarts, by measure, to one part of linseed or cottonseed meal, is a good one to feed. ly Teach Terracing Terracing equipment Is Deing pur' chased by rural school districts in Pottawatomie county, Oklahoma, to be used by classes in agriculture In the schools and by farmers in the neighborhood. The county agent and superintendent of schools in the county-widterracing program and a majority of the districts purIn one district chased equipment. eight farms were terraced and seven were drained. In another district nearly every farm had used the equipment before the school year was ver. Farmr ers there built five and miles of drainage ditches and terraced 184 acres. Capper's Farmer. New Guernsey Record Florham Bella, a Guernsey cow owned by Florham farms, Madison, N. J., has established a new state record for butter-fa- t production by Guernseys, according to the announcement of W. R. Robbers, superintendent of advanced registry for the New Jersey agricultural experiment station. She has produced 16,050.4 pounds of mill, and !)o5.i) pounds of butterfat In lass A (mature age) for oue year. This new record for butterfat production Is 15.7 pounds more than the former record of 020.2 pounds, established last year by Monarcbs Ideal, a Guernsey in the herd of Charles D. Cleve land. Katotitown. The average production of Guernsey cows on advanced registry In class A Is lllCVal pound of milk and 558.2 pounds of butterfat. one-quarte- Agricultural Notes Watch the nests and see that they contain enough Miter so that the eggs will not be broken In the nesL In the Middle West soy bean hay as a substitute for we!'. In wintering alfalfa has worked ewes with lamb. It Is estimated that the American farmer is at least four times as efficient as any other farmer in the world. The United Slates bureau of biological survey estimates the average hawk or owl to be worth $20 a year to farmers. They prey on Insects and rodents. Watch Cow's Health One sixth of 't Top corn specialists have the record of two blades of surpassed grass for one. Through selection, they have produced a new strain which pops to 20 times its volume. The new strain, a yellow pop corn named Sunburst, was pearl produced during a seven-yea- r period by agronomists of the Urited Slates Department of Agriculture in with the Kansas agricultural experiment starion. The produced the new strain by testing ears if pop corn and retaining for seed the ones which gave the greatest volume of pupped corn. The test consisted of popping a sample of the seed from each of the selected ears and measuring the volume of the resulting popped corn. Kach sample was also tasted for flavor and texture. The remainder of the seed on the good ears was kept and planted the following year. The process was then repeated. Although the testing was a long job. It proved worth the effort in producing better popping corn. It took one man a day to test from tiO to 75 ears of corn. However, the new strain showed an average of 20 times the volume of the seed when popped, while Queen Golden , the variety from which Sun burst was developed, gives slightly more than 1!) times the volume of the grain. Such careful selection of seed, while not practical for the small grower, has possibilities for the commercial grower of pop corn seed, declare the agronomists who made the Kansas test. It is .fteu said that every day of the week is observed as the Sabbath or set aside as a holy day by some religious sect or people. Such is not the case. Friday is observed by a portion of the Moslem world ; Saturday by the Jews, Seventh Day Seventh Day Baptists and several other Christian sects; Sunday by the majority of Christians; and Tuesday by the sect of Moslems which prevails in Persia. There are no religions or sects at the present time, so fur as we have been able to learn, which, according to our calendar, observe Monday, Wednesday and Thursday as the Sabbath. Even a large portion of the Mohammedans, particularly those In Turkey, have abandoned Friday in favor of the Christian Sunday. Many years ago some writer made the broad statement that every day in the week is sot apart by some people as their Sabbath. lie enumerated the holy days of the peoples as follows: Sunday is observed by most Christians; Monday by the Greeks; Tuesday by the Persians; Wednesday by the Assyrians ; Thursday by the Egyptians; Friday by the Mohammedans, ami Saturday by the Jews. This is a curious hodgepodge of fact and fiction. The enumeration is absurd, because the Egyptians, Greeks and Assyrians (whoever they may be) are nearly all Christians or Mohammedans of one secf or another. Evidently the writer, in order to prove his point about the "perpetual Sabbath," Included certain ancient religions now defunct. At any rate, his assertion about every day being tile Sabbath of some religion is still frequently repeated by careless writers as representing an interesting fact. Pathfinder Magazine. Must Be "He's dumb, you say?" "Dumb! Why, he thinks 'curtail' means a dog story." Men who are really are scarcely aware of it. They are just themselves. he-me- n Arizona Growing Date Dozens of date palm trees were In Phoenix, Ariz., early this The name Republican has been ap- planted summer In response to a chamber of which a fact plied to three parties, commerce "plant a tree" campaign. fewest Hotel gives rise to confusion. The Repub- The date palms produce fruit in adlican party of today originated in dition to ornamental. South1854-50- , after the dissolution of the ern Arizonabeing is one of the few places The southern Whia; la the United States where the date Whig party. went over to the Democratic party will thrive. on the slavery question and the palm tiorthern Whigs affiliated with the Possibly every one prefers a J4i,i Free Soil and parties. week to a shorter day. At a meeting held at Uipon, Wis., in KT? fife' 1S54, a group of Whigs, Free Soilers One can have such a fine house and Democrats threatened to form that it is a lot of trouble. a new party if the bill passed. The bill passed, and on July (i, 1S54, icpresenuillves of the Salt City same groups met at Jackson. Mich., and formed a party to which they gave the name Republican. In the ASSAYERS AND CHEMISTS S. Wwt election that fall, the new party car- OflW and Laboratory St., Suit t.ttltn City. I'tah, P. O. states. The Dem Temple ried 15 of the Box I'itifi. Mnlline i i'viliics and prices ocratic party as now known began furutflted on request. 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths who op with the Used Pipe, Fittings & Valves Radio connection in every room. posed the federal Constitution be RATES FROM 1.50 cause of the rights surrendered b Newly thrrailed and coupled for aU purposes fvionsey Iron and Metal Co. the states to the federal govern Juii opposite Mormon labtnutl - Salt Lnlie City. I'tah wont. In 1702, it took the name Re 700 So. 3rd West ERNEST C. ROSSITER, Mgr. Furmtiiri- am! MupplU-sTheater and publican party to oppose the Feder- ontrc Church Mimeograph alist party. It was later sometimes and I.Sne of Supulies.Kull Stationery, Wrapping l'aper, etc. Oldest and Larxest Sehool known as the Democratic-RepublicaSwaii What You iKin't Want for Someand Kqiiipnietit Houho in the West. thing yun tlo throiiKh the most interoKttni; uiplv I I SCHOOL M'I'I'I.Y TO. party, which name is still the official jmMlahed. Sample eonv 10c. The Suit ljilie t'lty. Swapper's lileud. Sallno. Mich,, Mol J designation of the Democratic party. '55 (So. State Street After its principles were clearly formulated in 17SKS by Thomas Jefferson, it was sometimes called Democratic, but generally Republican, until Andrew Jackson's administration, Guard tlieir tender ekins by He was the which began in 1S20. using Culirura Soap regfirst President to be oliicially listed ularly from the day of birth. under the name Democrat. Know-Nothin- Salt Lake City's rkiKunt,s g Kansas-Nebrask- a Lake HOT EL Directory TEM SQ - iimt-aziri- Your Children! Oinf latent, if required, to soothe and Assist with the Putty Wanted Freedom heal any irritations. At Iiecket, Mass., for several nlphls the slumber of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith was disturbed by weird noises that seemed to come from the chimney of their home. Smith, who does not believe in ghosts, dismantled the chimney and found inside the family cat. Hi Not Soap 25c. Ointment 25c. and 50c. Talcum 25c. Proprietors : Potter Drug & Chemical Corp., Maiden, Mass, What We Do Counts what we think or say, but Must Be Her 1 hear the knocking of your late wife! l'a Iron Who's she knocking now? Pathfinder Magazine. Medium Mum's the Word Bertha And they are keeping their engagement a secret, aren't what we do, will have Its effect upon the world. Let, then, the thinker do and the doer think. McNulty. they? Mattie Well, that's what they are telling everybody. You might as well refuse to sign The bridge member who js absent a petition. They seldom do any good. gets the most slams. (Ml! CONTEST CLOSES MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, MIDNIGHT Handy Grain Bin Boards d the dairy cows or California were tested for tuberculosis in the first four months of the year. The 11 1.302 cows tested represented an Increase of 32.143 tests over the number for the same perod in 10::0. Dr. J. I. Iverson reported. He reports that ''airynien are striving to rid their herds tuberculosis "ns they realize that healthy cattle lay the foundation for an iniyiroved dairy Industry and a better Blrket and higher prices for dairy products." x Boards in grain 'ln doorways slide up and down easily when arranged according to the plan used by John l'. Becker of Bridgewater township, Rice county, Minn, As explained by Harry Hass, Rice county agent. Mr. Becker fits his boards so that they lie slanting instead of horizontal. Mr. Becker cuts his bottom board about 2 inches wide on the left end and 6 inches on the- right end to give the proper slope. The other boards are then added, one after another, with their ends cut at the proper angles to tit the groove. All of the boards slant up from left to right, and by lifting the right end of each board they come out very eas Ily. Mr. Becker says this Idea saves blm much time and annoyance. Dairyman's Chance Pure-bre- Twenty-Si- Times Its Volume. Three Party Divisions Wrong Idea That Each Had Name "Republican" Day of Week Is "Holy" July and August cultivation In the orchard extends the growth period and prevents the fruit from taking on the best color. I Careless handling In picking, grading, or packing Is responsible for much cheap fr fit. 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