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Show fHE MIDVALE JOURNAL Page Three other" of tlte • 0\/LT~ WELL-BRED HENS PROVE CHEAPEST 1-Rescue crews working at train wreck near Mounds, Ill., In which eight persons were killed and many Injured. 2--Presldent Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge and mine otnclals looking over the Rust Iron mine at Hibbing, Minn., largest OJ?en pit In the world. 3-Miss Grace -Lyons and Lieut. Harry Clark at Roosen•lt field planning a route for the New York to Bermuda airline to be started In December. ly E~MO ICOTT WATSON NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS ,."'T lS doubtful It one Amerleu ID ten eould tell you who Jilltaoah Watson was or what he did that should make his name remembered. Yet, about this time of tbP. year mlllioos ot Americans who live on the farms of our country pay homage to his memory, unconsciously perhaps; by attending and !tlclpoit!Dlg In au annual event which distinctively American as baseor the Fourth of July or Thanksday. For Elkanah Watson was "f~tth.er" of the county fair and It t( his persistence In promoting more than a hundred years that rural America, and especialyouth of rural America, can forward each year to "going to fair." Insofar as the county fair Institution whkh had a partieappeal to rural Amerlca, It Is Into note that Its founder was man. For such was the case, and a man, tired or city life, who to the country at the age of to enjoy "rural felicity" I tallllng to find lt. concelve.d the which resulteti In the Orst real fair. a new one. Fnirs have been In Asiatic countries from Immemorial for the purpose of traders and customers togethan exchange of their commodThe great distances to be covby the Asiatic merchant with his caravans, the sparsity of populaexcept In the cities, and the wide in language, reli!(ion nne! and trade customs made a fair t.Y of commerre, especially barbaric and semlharbRr!r peoEyeu In the European countrl£>11 fairs hove been Mid for hnnof years ther were essentially of barter and trade. So It for Amerll"a, where the comspirit Is so marked, to give of a fair a new meaning and It an exchange of Ideas. rathao e;;:change of goods. first fairs of any sort held In MllcntJ•v were those sponsored by governors when New York was Amsterdam, but they were on the E11ropean plan. In Governor Kieft estabilshe1l twn In New Amsterdam, one on Or16 "for cattle generally," and on Novembet 1 for hogs. Io was also held In the Dutch late In August and at the beof Sept ember, a Datch "kerwhlc'i was strictly commercial, the :mrghers met to exchang(' The custOJ:, was coneven under English rule and as 1676 had the sanction of lildlnnmd Andres. the ~unty fair of today Is uot deacendant o• the Dutch "ker· alt:hot~gh It may resemble lt In of Its features. It grew out of In agriculture which bemanifest Itself early In the of the new nation. The lenders time, such men as Woshl ngJetrerson, were farmers and was the most lmp.ortant bnslthe eountry. Between 178.''i ar:rlcultural societies sprang In Pennsyh-anla. aialne, Massachueeu.a and South as evidence of the organized In agriculture. These societies of'fllring prlv.es fo r supPrlor farm hut the7 held no fairs or and really did but little lnntlat:e better form production. princlpal Interest seems to have In lh·e stock and In 1804 and live 1tock exhlbltlona were Washington. At the second P~embers of congress began to tak~ 1rte1rest and subscribed half of th~! which was raised and dis- Blight Not Serious at first thougltl that the deof the chestnut would leu ve gaps In the forests, requiring planting, bnt the rl'sults or lnvestigutlons Indicate that th~ eaused by the dead or sui voged m rapl-dl7 being filled by va11Uame trees as the oaks, hick white asb, which can, In n·~llt't til. take tbe place of chestthe munuructure of wood r-rod- Smith, Resenting Preacher's Attack, Challenges Him to Public Meeting. By EDWARD W. PICKARD OV. AL SMITH, Democratic nomInee for the Presidency, does not propose to be bit In public without al ball:· The whole plan wao a ekilldefending himself, and his capacity tul blend of comnetition, social interfor self-defense Is conslderable. ltev. course and digni.fied formality. John Roach Straton, militant und For twelve years Watson labored tundamentallst pastor of the Calvary endlessly to "put his Idea across.'' By Baptist chnrch of New York city, saw 1819, with the aid of Gol'crnor Clin- lit to declare frQJn bls pulpit that Govton of "ew York, he hac.! Induced the ernor Srulth WUJI "the deadliest foe in legi~lature of that state to pa~s an America of the forces of moral progannual arpropr!ution of $10,000 to ai<l gress and true wisdom." The goYernor the nt>w ~ocletieg and frnm tha't Jlme promptly challenged the preacher to on the idea ~pread rapidly. And, n~ repeat the statement ln his presence the \Vl'iter in the "Pnr,-ennt of Amer- In the ehnrch during the week of Se!}ka," previouslY quott>d. say~: tember 2 and give such proof as he might be able to advanee, and permit The d!rert de~cendant or Wah;on's B~"'r];:shire- Ryt-<tcm Is the •'rr)llnty fa.ir." Smith to reply In full. lie sug~e~ted T"nlil\:e thP :mrient !airs nf Europe or that the mc~:ting mig-ht be conducted tho~e of early colo!linJ rlays it~ <"<'n· by question and answer if the pu,tor trnl purpose is not to farilit:1te exwished. In his letter to Doctor Strut('hange aud ~ale hut to exh ibit the beFt products and h .1nd1wnrl~ ot the lornlity on the governor sald: and to st !mutate impro ve ment by offe r"I do not know why yon stwuld ing priz e ~. Hor•1e rnees and a host make a statemrnt or that kind, but I Of Other attr.act i OW~ hnve addPd tO it~ lntP.re~t and i'xcitement. :F"rotn one day do know that I will nel'er permit it to 1t hn~ grown to three anrl four , Coungo unchallenged. I ha,·e spent 25 try folk dri\·e in from mileR :Hound years in the sen-Ice of the stute In t•l Joolt nt t"he stock in th e ir shf'ds and eJecti\'e office, and the record of that the prorluc~ vn exh l b ~ t l on tn the f':-tir hou ~ to and to watch the demon s tration service Is open to the pubik. I rlo nut of impro\'ed. machinery, The merry.gofeel that 1 should charge you l'ilh round plays its Rtridt>nt tunes, the F'l.:'rmaking thls statement for any politi· rlf! whPel s'ivings r1mud its Iotty circal purpose, as it was made in a ruft, the barl~ers !nr the s :de shows bawl of the mysteries or the amu~e cbnrch de~oted to the teachings of ments within their tent~. YarOs of the Christ, one of which was 'Thou shalt •nevitable taffy are con~umed as acnot· bear false witne,;s against thy qu~intanc c s from distant rorncrs or neighbor.' h the county mef't and gossip and ~epa rate in the everchan-;in.~ t•rowds that Doctor Strnton said be would give move over the grounds. It ha~ be· Governor Smilli the satisfaction be C'Ome tl1e t;trmer'ts c:trnfval-far resought, and sng;:ested the m~eting be. moveU inrleef1 from th.at ftrst exhibition 1 .vhen \'lat~on display€-d hls two merino held In some auditorium Jar;:er than flhcep urrcler the elm treP. Jn the Twenthat of his church. He also propo3Cd tif'th century the automobde has again that he and Smith should tonr tile brouti!lt changes f'arm~rs rome from South in a series of debates. the d;~lant counties and with them t•rowd!! or city penple. The fair Is no After reviewing two New York Nalonger mer!'IY a t'a.rmer's ln~titution. tional Guard regiments ln camp at Torla.r It is E-Stimated thut thPr~ art: Peekskill, Go>ernor Smith devoted more tlmn :l.OOO n;;l'il'ultural fairs held most of the week to his exeeuti>e dunnnually in this country, including ties. Among other things he ordered the town. eouuty, -tate, national nne! the officials ot Saratoga county to intPrnutinn:,l ~xhibiiions. Some Slle- clamp the lh.l tight on garublng and dnlizc in li\·e ~to('!\, some In dairy other forms o! vice prevalent ut Raraproulll·ts sol•:e in poultQ·, sorne In to;;a Spring~ 'fben he journeyed to bees, in g;; •lt"n tr11rk uud others In Chicago for the Brennan funeral. lielrl t·rops Hut tia• greater part of tlcem are the gPIH'J'al county fairs THE death of George E. Brennan whic·h :u·e hPI1l in ,\ u;:ust and Septemof Chicago the Democratic party, ber. ~!o:<t of tl~t•m now ure in the both of the nalion und of the state of ~liclcliP \\'est. for 1\Pw J<;nglanrl, wlo<'r~' llllnols, snfi'P.red a great loss. Mr. the fair o:·iginntec.l. has lost its lead- Brennan was national committeeman ership in t1illl·hPr H:Hl importanee o1 and, since the death of Roger SulllIts f:rlt-s. Hut en•11 thour;h uwdern ron- vun, had been the undtsputed leader clitlnnA lm-.·1' r-lc:tn.'!~cl thl' county fair of the Democracy of Illinois; and for in many rP~'flN't~. P:'st•ntially it is the years he was high In the councils of same as it h:t~ hPcn for the last balf the party. Always fraokly a "wet," be was one of AI Smith's stroogest t·entur~: or lll<>rl'. For this institution hns an npp~ul wlrit-h no other annual friends and most valued advisers. lie l'n•nt In Atllf'riL•Jtn life has an•l worked for the nomination of Smith notl>ing erer c·:m or likelv will toke In 1924 and largely hrought uhout the ltg plac·e. So tile next time you SIJPnd selection of Davis when It was seen a rla.v at the rot:nty fair and eujoy that Smith could not win. This year the plc•asur~s whkh only it cnn fur- he was among the most determined advocates of the nomination ot the nish, just gil'e o thoug-ht for a mo New York governor. Mr. Brennan me. ~ thnt ''Yanitee of Yanlwes whu was nn example of the best type of wu~ uorn within ritlP shot of Plrmouth practical politician, th<J kind that r:or't," Jo;lknnah \\'utson. and he g1·ute fn l that he wns willin~r to speud twt'ln• makes innumerable friends within and 1\'lthout h!s party auc.l that pluys the year:! of his life popul:u·,zin~ nn lcle:c whlrh won for him tht• title of "father game hnrd but cie1mly, keeping hls own reputation for honesty unof the ronnty fnlr." Bmlrcheu. He sought office but once. In 19ZG he run for the Un i l<'tl State~ Plan Beautif;~l Lake An artlfldal lnl:e, thl'Pf' RI]Uare se•mte nne! •·nme not l't>t'y far from defeating ~'rank I. Smith, Hepubllc,,n ,,~ In rxlf•nt. nnd us hemltifnl 111 an, whom the senate refuseu to seat. Its surmunclin;!s ns any a•1tmnl lnkP in the •·ountry. Is l>art nf thP North ATliHDAY was the big day fot· \Val~s sdlPillt' for pro'. i<lin;: eleetric· llr•t·bert Hoover and t11e Republicpower. ans. The eundir.late received th~ for mal notification of his nomination In the greut stadium of Stanford univerw0rc u !Iitie hahy BnJ I hopp aucl sity at Palo Alto, Calif.. and clelivered his eugeriy awaited speech of ac Jll'll:V yon will s~e him sc~em. 1 ex pec·t him hnme hr thP nPxt y<'ar or ceptance. The ceremony wu~ pt·eceded by a concert sud stunts by the Htutwo.'' dents. Mr. Hoover's speech was "P.ut where Is l1e." JlC'rSiM<'d thP heard by many thousands who were youth. 1 present, and hy yet more millions all '11~'s pl:tyin;.! 30 htl!~·.:; of g-olf on over the country who were served by the puhlie linl<s.'· pxpl:linetl th! the hookup of 100 ndio stations. ParmothN. ty leaders from practically every state went• to Palo Alto and tor severn! The Ht-sl m:tl> on w!.iel> t!c~ worcl days before and after the notificaAustrnlln ccpfiPUr~ wa' puhlished lr tion the cand!d11te was busy discussthe yPa r 11<~-1 ' Ing with them details of campalgn G tributed as prizes for "the best lamb, sheep, steer, milch cow, jack, oxen and horses actually sold." In 1809 the Columbian Agricultural society wns organized In Washington and h{'ld an exhibition In the city of Georgetown nearby. But this was not ~he sort of thing that appealed to the avernge farmer of the day for it was more or less a society e\·ent and, as ~orne one has said, "Its attcndanee list reads more like the soda! regi ster. h~IH!c<l by t4'e l'resid~nt of the UnitPd Rtnte.• and his lady nnd the cabinet mem- bers." ' It remained for Elkunnh Watson tn originate a fair in whirh tl!e common farmer IH>Il! cl be int~rPH!t'd b~ caus<' he roc1ld feel tlmt he hnrl a rPa! part in lt. \\'ho he '·as H ~d hnw hP did this Is deRcrihe,l ·In the ,-olume "Toiler~ of Land nnd ~ra/' In the Yale l'nil'er~it:v Press "l'agf'ntlt of Americ·a," ns follows: Elkanah Watson wa6 not nmon.-r thr tountiers of the ~t .~hteenth ce ~futy or.:;chonJ or ag-ricultural experimPnters and writers, but hP wal'l it~ most il f ~ .. ting-ui~hccl pupil . A~ a bus:ne~s m:lr, trav£~oled he had along the AtlantiC' f'l'·a- board anrl In J<:urot>e. . . In 1~·17 hfl gave up commt:'rre and took '!P rarming at Pltt~flelfl, MrtHS. During tr·p nflxt four years he mnde hls cnntrihu - tion to the devE-lopment of Amerirnn ~gticullure. the By 1811 he h~d rompl•t•rt ot the Berl<shire Agr 1- or~anl2ation culturnl ~ociety. Watson wrote jn l820: .. In the fall or 18<17 I procured the first pair rr "'h~('p merino that hnd nppPared tn . ! was 1ndurP.d to notify an exhibltl,,n of the~e two sheep under the grE>:-tt elm !n the public square In Plttsfhd· .. Berkshire, tr not In the stote. on a certain rlay, farmer~ Many RrJ •wen femnles were excited by curio~ity to nttenrl thie first novel and humhl,.. txhibitJOH. It was by th!s lucky nC'cident I re-nsoned thus: 'If two an~m~lF are rap:tOle nf ex<'itlng so mu<•h attention, what would be the errect of li larger scale, with Jargt::- anlmn1s?' Th~ farmers pre!;ent respnndE'd to my reon;,arks with approbation We berame acquainted and from that day to tile present, agriC'UJturaJ societies, cattlP shows, and alJ in connection thf;'rf.>with have predominated In ·my mind." The Berkshire Agrfoultural society was founded In 1811. The prineiple• on w"hieh It waR based proved pop- ular. Slowly at first, then more and more rapidly the BerkRh1re system spread until It reached we•t Into the new stues of Indiana and llllnot• nnrt e\o·en penetrated the southern entton kingdom. Unlike Ito prerleoe""or, thP· .. grtcultural societies of PhlladelphiR and New York, It wns an organization of the common Carmer In lttc:~; tlme 1t s.rved hla Interests well. Watson wns a student or human nature. The purpose of the organiz~tion was to hold eaeb year an ex!>lbltlon or the best handiwork and the best products or the farmers of the locality Prtze~ were awarded for pre-emint>11re animals· and rrt"~"Pf'!, And in b11tter, ch~ese o nd cloth m:-.de In the In farm home. At the end of the nhlhltion came the general as•embly In the largest village church . Here amid lmpre"slve ceremonies, the honors were distributed, each pr1ze accompnnlE'd by a c.rtlftcate or distinction which, handsomely framed, held a plare or hooor on the wall of the rarmer'o J>arl•>r Watson's greatest wa~ problem to arouse the active Interest of the ladies In tbe.!le exhlbltlor.s The dip!omnttc ah!fta to whkh he and others resort'ed tn order to win o\'er the coun- try women, unaccuRtomf''"' to arth•iti~s outside their own home• and fearful of aromling comment by appearing ln a public competition, were flnnlly ev~rywhere triumphant. At tht'!' end of tbe a-eneral assembly eame the ··pastor .. uets. The ro.-est• nre still fur from being fully r>rorlut·tll'e, and will eon tlnue to be much below normal for H number of year~ after tht> hlight has done its work, though progress towuPCI compiPte recol'ery 11 nearly e,·ery where ~utiMnt:tory. Domeatic T ragedy "~luther," Raid the twc•lve-year old hoy, " have l gOI a dnddy?" "Yes, son," replied the mother. "'fhen where is he? I don't re member ever sePlng him." J'N s NEVEfZ. LEARI.J J./071-IIJ..IGTHAT \VAV, BOY.' r-----..,~ T€UMEJ Wf!Ar MOI-JTI.-I J.-/AS 28 DAYS~ work. Friday was the fifty-fourth anniversary of his birth and be was the guest of newspaper correspondents who accompanied him across the continent at a birthday dinner at a Pulo Alto hotel. R ~;l'RESENTATIVES of 31 d1·y orwho attended the Kansas City and Houston conventions as observers mad~ public u report in whkh they denounce Uovernor Smith for his attitude on the liquor question and call on prohillitionlsts to disregard tlreir political or rdig!ous affilialions und join In defeating Smith by supporting Hoover. Drys gained a victory iu ~Iissourl in both the Hepubliean und the Democratic primaries. The Hepuhlicans nominated Roscoe C. l'utter;on of Springfield fur United StatPS senator and Henry S. Caultield of St. Louis !or goYernor. The Democrats put up Charles :\I. Hay of St. Louis for tile seoute nnd Francis M. Wilson of Platte City for the governor~hlp. Hay's oppon<:nt, James A. Collet, ls a wet and a protege or SPnator Heed. In the Kansas Hepublican primaries the farmer~ sco. ed by nominating Clyde M. Heed for governor ovrr fi-ve other aspirants. The Demoeruts nomit:~oted Chauncey B. Little, former ~:unizatlons congre~Sill:lfl. 0 :\'E more attempt to fly the Atlan- tic ocean from :b;UI·ope to America tailed when Majors Idzikowskl anu KubQla, l"olbh airmt'n, Wl.'re forced to come down in tlw water berause of a faulty gas feed pipe. Fortunately the German steamer Samos was nt'ar by and pifk<' d them up. The a' iators had started from Paris for New Yorl: nnd reached the vic·inily of the Azores before they were com1Jeilec.l to turo hark. ThP,.ir plane was wreeked when It st1·ucl( the surface of the ocean GO miles off Cape l<"inisterre. poon Florida was struck hy anotl•etlerce tropic storm during the week. 'fhe central east coast towns rt'ceired the first blows, and then the storu1 swept across the state to the gulf, doing \'Ust damage in the south central portion. Houses were unroofed, orchards rn \'agecJ and roads mude impassalile, but strangf'ly there wus no loss of life. Belated reports from .Java tell of the destruction of the Island of l'nloewen, Dutch East Indies, by the eruption of the Uokatlndo volcano and resulting earthquake and tidal wuve. Six villages were wlpPd out and the death loss was believed to be about one thousand. SUnavy nMAIUNEl 1•'1-4 of the Italian was sunk by collision with another vessel during maneuYers In the Adriatic r.nd for 34 hours rescue crews labored heroically to raise the craft a1id sa1•e the crew of two officers and twenty-tl\'e men. Most of this time the imprisoned men were In communication with the salvagers by telephone, but their messages ceu~ed suddl'nly and whl'n the submarine was finally hoisted to the surfnce It was found the entire rrew had been killed by chlorine gas liberated when salt water flooded the storage batteries. that "the American mission property In Chinn Is treated as though it be. longed to an enemy warring with China rather than as the private prop· erty of a friendly nation." Mr. MacMurray cited specific Instances and declared that this action by the ~a tionallsts had caused nn unfavornbl(' Impression· throughout I he world and was painfully disappointing to the American goYernment. S CroatianRADI'l'CH, peasants, who TE~'AN leac~r of tile wus shot ln the Belgrade chamber of dPputiE's some time ago, Is rlead of hlR wounds, and obsPr\'('l'll In cf'ntrnl Europe believe tbf're Is a cbnnce of riYil war lu Yugo-Slavia unlf'ss out~Ide Influences ure exertPd Etrongly. The Cronlll bitterly resent th~ Serbian domination over the government or the kingdom and recently set up a separate parllument In Zlgreb, their own capital. T women liOUSA"-'DS or made a British men and pence pilgrimage to the battlefields of France and Belglum to mark t11e fourteenth anniversary of the beginning ot tbe World war. TbE'y were led by the prince of Wales, Lord Jelllcoe, Lady Haig, widow of tile British commanrler, anu other notables. s AUSTR.\1 CUA~IBETIL.UC'. Brltis h foreign ~ecretary, who i ..Is been qnite Ill for some time, will not be able to go to l'aris for the si;mlnl! on Au;;u~t ~7 of the Kellogg nntt-wnr treaty. Ilis place will be taken by Lord Cu~hendun, appointed acting secr!'tary hy the king. Genn3ny Is perturbecl by ChamhNlain'~ prol on;:;ed illn<'~S for It had hren hoped the question of tile early evacuation of the Hhincluud coulrl be brought np by l~oreign Minister Stresemnnn at the Paris mPetlng and settled at Geneyo In S~>ptemher. Tbe German prt'sR does not like the appointment o! Cushendun. fR ilE Obregon party ot T finding no capable leader ~fc:rlco. in its ranks, has practically di;hand~d. and its general E>ecretnry has announced that he Is squarelv bebind President Calle~. This giv(•S Calles a free hand In currying out ills reconstrnc tioo program, which Includes a;::-rarian lttws, rehahilitntlon of haciendas, re cr~ation of agrarian credit and agra rian banks and the pnconragemt>nt of foreign capital and Immigration. Cong1·ess, which Is 85 pf"r cent Obre gonist, Is supporting Calles. It is still considered likely that Aaron Suenz. gO\'ernor of Nueva Leon, will seek the PreRidPncy in succession to CallE'S. Bishop l\liguel de Ia Mora of Me::rl co City Issued n si>.'ll~d statement re· pudiating the charge that the rlt>rg~ wa~ responsible for the murder of ~n prul Obrt'gou. I:Ie said the fact that onf Catholic priest and one nun were In \'olved in the crime did not mean that the clergy as a body wns responsible The statement assertE-d that It was publicly known that the Mother Su perior Concepcion Accb~da de iu Llata was mentnlly deranged and that se,·eral cnsf's of Insanity have been reported in her family. ONE respect the future of Gene I NTunney is now settled. The follow0 Ing announcement wus given to the press last week: "Mrs. George Lauder, .Jr., of Greenwirh and New York wlsl>t>s to announce the engag-ement of her daughter, Mary Josephine Lauder, to Mr. Gene Tunney of l\'ew York. No date hr1s been set for the wecluing, which will likely take place In Xew York In the late autumn or winter." Miss Lauder is listed in the social reglstf'f null is heiress to n large fortunc. She Is twenty-one years o!cl nnd was eduented In fashionable schools In this <"OUntry and France. ~he Is an Episropulian, while ·runney Is o C11tholic. The retired rhamplou alrE'ndy hns fiiHT!Jasecl a rt>sidence in Ureenwirh, C'onn. His dt>parture for ~;urope for a wallting tour with Ti>ornlon Wilder was set for August 16. C to IIIN!~SE Nntionulists were ruiiPd tin1e slwq.ll in a note fmm American ~Iinister .John \'::n A. ~l:tc Murruy COlll't'l'llin~ t!11· ··on tinuPd OC· cupation of A tt<c·1·ir-:.n "' ::<.:on pn•p erty by :\"ationaii:-:1 t.'o1•· 1 said that Clcina lwo peated pASt prntPst~ '>et" bl rt' nn e' rl••,·hrerl L-.. U ; >t Th" notp liens with good bre~rl:n;: often produce two dollars worth of egg~ ill a year UHli'C !hun hens with poor breeding, u'ille from their in•:reused value as breeuers, nceonling to experiments on the Comell poultry fnnn at the college of agril·ultm·l' ut It:1aca, N. Y. 1'his meuns that if u poultryman can gl't low-breJ c·hir·b for nollung he could a!Torll to J;.~ y oue dollar a ehick for lol l(h-lin e biC'clS, aud still n1nl:e $1 more u ,VPlll' un cuch bird than from the loll'-l:u~ b:rd~. l'oullr~m e n ut Cornt>ll point to these facts us evic1PU!·e that u bahy chirk costing ten Cl'lll3 may he u ~ar, while a chick co:;ting fifty ceHt~ muy be a good im·estnwnt, if tl>e higher pricetl chick comes from con£i~tl nt high-producing stock. 'l'rap nesting, pedigree hatdt'ng, and r•rogl'ny testing must be u"Pd to obtain consistent high records. 'l'he records of the hens range from 175 to :JU2 eggs. !Oeventy-iil·e per cent of the pedigreed flock laid more than ~UO eggs in one year. The males are from hens with pedigree" of ~25 eggs to 302 eggs. One pen uf :JJ pullets on the expt'rimen t farm n I'<'J':Iger.l 8G eggs a hird during the four win ter montbs lo ~larch 1, or ubout 22 e;;gs a bird u month. 'l'h c ~e egg~ 1\'PI'e prodt. ,·ed during the season or hi .;.:h price~. wllirh Is not true of hiJ'clS that do not h3Ye gnn ,l breed!n;.:. the dPpartmEnt Sa)·s. 'I'IJe numuer of hirds tlut ha'"e laid ::.!01.) e;::.~.~ .Hls inereased from :~s in 1()::!1 t~ 17!1 in 1:127. Cheap but Ideal Floor Favored for Henhouse A chPnp but ideal fluor can he put In a chicken hon;-e by filling in about eight inches of r!ncler~. gravel, or cru~herl rot k and core1·lng It with ab'.lUt two indws of riel1 eement. Tho poi'OUS material unclrr the cement will brenk up the soil enpill:u·ity and tend to lwep the tlool· c!J·y. The filling should be tamped un:il it forms a solid ha~e for the eonercte. 11ollow tile fonns n more satisfactory base for tl1e conerf'te and only nne-half an indt of ct·ment is needed to cover it. 'file is more expensive than the other flll er. bowevPr, anti ~omctimes much han!Pt• to get. It shunlll be laid In a l l )·er of ~and so the surface of the ti \1 c:<n be macie as smooth :ts P "S~ il r l r hr fore the ce111Pl11 co1·erin~ is put on. A sl11pe of fonr lne:Jp:; In twenty feet from the lrn c:k to thL• front of the hou~e will tetHI to I;C"P the litter ewnly tli-trihu ted o\'er t:: e lloor. This slo!•e will practi<-all;· dimlnute the cli sa;;n·eable ta;;J' of srrntc·hing the llttet' out f~·om tm rkl' th e dropping 1J.,.uds of the Ol'lii na r.r home. There IO> no b etter time 11f the year to put a floor In the ehld<r·n house than just lx•fore the pullets are put iuto tlleir \\'inter quarters. Profit on Goslings Is Made During Holidays , The best profit on m:, rl,et goslings (~·om•g gee~e) i& m:td ·' ou those marketed at Cllri $ lma~ an ·! New Years, us a general rule. Turke,1·s have the call n t Tlmn ksgi ving. ll w i 11 not do, howeYer, to neglect the young geese and unless they a1·e kl'pt growing at top speed they will not be large enou::h to be mo~ t proOtable when they are wanted for the holiday tables. Sc>metimes we rPad that these young geese will obtain all the food they n~ed In the ti<'lds nnd that they will live and grow if they have noth· h1g but grass mHl whatever else they eun find among oatm·e's stores. Give Clean Water Clean and fresh water is as necessary to the sucre>s of egg production as Is a correctly bulanceu ration. The mm~ who goes to a lot of trouble with his feecling hut Is ju,,t indiiTerent with his watering. may expect trouble. Water Is one of tile chief constituents of no egg and it is reqnirerl by the hen just ' as much as n hum~o hein~: requires water to drink. It should he !(il•en ~e,·erai times each day, especially in summer. NE of President ('ool:cl~t·'s callcn at Cedar Lod;;P r•n Ute Hrule wa' Gen. Herbert Lord. director of the The Purdue unh·ersity poultry dehudget, who conferred 11 ith the C11leJ partment summarizes the general I£xecutil'e on gol'ernment dPpartmf'DI tr<'atment of tl!e farm hen as follows: estimates. 'l'hey dlscussPd especiall.' "liens won't live on hopes nn<l prosthe nntlripated Post Office dl'partmeat pects. Tlwy must hare feed, and deficit, which was prediclcrl by Post plenty of it. The hen clocs not get master General New when the inter enough to eat In summer. The field~. state commerce commission ordered · harnynrds and feed lot~ will furnish incren~ed payments to milroa.!s carry the hrn littlt> else but grains and ing department mail. lo tic? Presi green food. These alPne and in their d!'nt's oplulon this dPficit c·omes b~ cause of postal Ia ws enacted by tht pn·~rnt insufficient qunntities will not be sutlicient to pro<luce good egg pr(}last congress ovf"r his vetoes. duction.'' Must Have Feed Tl m Olympic track and fie!. I Ngames nl Amst•'rdam the Unit.• Rtnt~s won ftrst place with a total ,., 173 points. ~'inland was SI.'Cond wit 10:! points. and Great Britain thir with 46. In women's competition Cunadn stood first with 34 po!nts nn< the Culled Slates second with 2~. The M:trHihon race of 26 miles won by El Ouafi, a young Alger!. lliPlal worker from Paris. Manm>. !'In za, a newsboy from Sao tlago ('hile. finl,hed second. Joie Hny, tht vetp:·nn American runner, could do D(> hPII Pr thnn ti fth. w·J Culling Nonproducers An ea~y and Pllideut method of culling the nonproclucers out of the new hatch of pullets ran be accomplishecl In the following manner, It <'<lrh hatch has bl'en housed separately: Keep the first 75 per rent of the pullets that come into prnduction and sell the oth~r one-fourth, or those that nre last to start producing. By following this practice, few nonproducer;- will be carried through the winter on high-priced feed, taking up room needed for layers. Deformed Eggs A great many of our farmers have experienced dltnculty In having hens lay tlrln-shelled eggs or eggs without any rhell whatever. At one time this was supposed to be entirely due to lack of lime, but experiments show that this is not entirely true. Then It was thought that possibly some Intestinal trouble of tlte hen cau&ed the ditnculty. l'he bdhma experiment ~tatlc•n, In trying to find a remedy for lhls trouble, had rood success ID using |