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Show Ksw to Raise I s f i e Peisltry V. S t. L. D. LcGcar, St. Louis, Mo. is a graduate of the LeGear Dr. By 1 Ontario Veterinary College,y years of 1892. Thirty-.,'- veter-inar- practice on diseases of live stock and poultry. Lminent authority on poultry and stock. raising.Nationally known poulauthor and try breeder. Noted lecturer. what is available. health endangering, comfort we must not overlook the without sunshine, all of the fact that, food produits so necessary for bodily development and egg production would It is be valueless if not ing insects to make us wonder if the scientist mentioned at the beginning of this article might not be somewhere near the truth. Yes, and we havent even spoken of the moth that causes untold damage to clothing, bed ding and upholstering in thousands of homes every year. And that notorious nocturnal prowler the bedbug. No home is so care, fully kept but what the vile intruder may occasionally find a way in. They seem to be able to subsist indefintely without nourishment, but anyone who has ever acted as an involuntary host for them will certainly testify that they make up for lost time once the opportunity presents itself. As tormentors of live stock, too, flies and mosquitoes qualify for cham piosship honors in tho insect world. I have seen cows tormented almost to the point of insanity by the whirling. buzzing, biting hosts that swarm ed around them in clouds. Horses and other domestic animals also suffer painfully from the same plague. At least temporary protection can be given by spraying them with a good Fly Chaser liquid and their usefulness will be greatly increased there Finally, t. quite plain, therefore, that the value of plain, every day sunshine i3 something we connot afford to take It is a big, important for granted. that reason I shall be and for subject into it with any further to go glad poultry raiser sufficiently interested to write me in care of this newspaper (Copyright, 1929 L. D. LeGear, V. S.) Dr. by popular LET A PAYSON. U'f AH THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1929 LITTLE SUNSHINE IN in Ordinary Sunlight a vital Factor Chickens of The Development What the Ancients Worshipped Proves Blintly as a Deity, Science To Be Tmly ' Serving of Reverence. Editors Note This is another story in a series of 52 stories on poultry raising written by the well known national poultry authority, Dr. L. D. LeGrar, V. S., of St. Louis. The entire series will appear in this paper. Our readers are urged to read them carefully and clip them out for future reference. The ancients of many races worFor shipped the sun as a god. used it as been a centuries has symbol of porification, and even in Christian ihorihes today we find our ihlldren Little Sunshine In. singing, Let Until comparatively recently, however, it was not suspected that there was a real basis. In fact, for all this symbolistic reverence for the sun Now. science tells us that the ultraviolet ray3 of tho sun perform at least two very importast services for humanity and for animal life generally. Certain harmful germ life cannot survive in the presence of these rays and certain chemical processes necessary for proper physical development cannot proceed without them. Perhaps the most important service rendered in this way is the aid given to the growth of bony structures inside the body. This is particularly important to poultry raisers. We hear a lot about vitamines these days. No one seems to know just what they are, but quite a lot is known what they do and that is the important thing. Of the four known vitamines, Vitamin D is the one needed to transform certain mineral elements of food inao bone and eggshell. This important vitamine is manufactured right in the bodies of fowls by the direct action of the violet rays in sunshine. This is one rtason why I am always insisting on open front poultry houses and plenty of range space for fowls. Every possible means should bt employed to expose their bodies to Of the helpful action of sunlight. course, this does not mean that they may not seek shade on extremely hot days. Too much of anything is not good. Even in the shade in some cases, the ultra-viole- t rays can reach the fowls in sufficient measure to contiunue their good work. , Chicks that get plenty of sunlight will not develop ley disease or rickets, and soft shell eggs will be rare among hens of whom the same thing is true. Not the least of my reasons for so ardently sponsoring the open front type of house previously mentioned in this article is the antagonism of bacteria. sunlight to unwelcome Here again we find the ultra-viole- t rays responsible. They can penetrate many substances which will not admit other light rays, but they cannot go through ordinary window glass, consequently, if it shohld become necessary to dost up any part of the fron wall space ordinarily intended to be left open, use a glass substitute over a portion, and thin white muslin or cheesecloth over the balance. This will admit the ultra-violrays and considerable fresd air. Before going very far with incloB. ing hen houses, however, it is well to remember that the less hen ase pampered, the better off they will be. Pity for fowls merely because they are cold Is pity misplaced. Cold, fresh air that has been purified by sunlight is always preferable to the warm, stagnat air usually found in a closed house. Besides, it must never be forgotten that the closer a house comes to being inclosed on all sides, the more it is excluding the indispensable eltmcnts that only sunshine can It should provide in full measure. also be remembered that there is less sunshine is winter than at any other time, so all the more reason for taking the fullest possible advantage of IS THE WORLD REALLY GOING TO THE BUGS? Scientists Tell Us That The Insect Kingdom May Someday Dominate Drastic Measures The World, Needed To Keep This Ever Present Menace In Check. destroy- A letter recently placed on my desk announcing the opening of a National Insect Killing Week to begin July 7th, reminded me of a conversation I once overheard in a pullman while enroute Two fellow travelers to California. were derisively discussing a maga- by. zine article one of them had discover (Copyright 1929 by Dr. L. I) LeGear) ed in which a well known scientist had asserted that someday mans boast ed civilization would he utterly obi it erated by the ever increasing myriads Tired of Life, Blinded A lot of the lowly insect kingdom. War Bride Kills Self scoffed one, rot. of sensational W. Vn. Tired of a life Clarksburg, Guess other. Yeah, agreed tho of darkness and misery, Mrs. Fred A. havent these college profs anything Fratto, thirty, German war bride of to do but write fool stuff like that. man Frank Fraito, thirty, I said nothing for it would have and coal miner, fatally shot herself done no good. I would merely have through tie- - right temple at their home been considered another of those fool at Shinnstnn. Mrs. Fiatto was a pretty little Gerprofs with nothing to do but concoct man girl in the picturesque city" of amuse lurid poppycock for popular Coblenz when the American army of Nevertheless. I sympathized ment. occupation came there in 1917. There very much with the writers point of she met Frank, member of the Ameriview. I recalled the fact that, had can forces, and a romance blossomed it not been for the late General Goggas rapidly. They were married and when brilliant campaign against the ntos tm army left she and Frank settled at Shinnston. quito, the Panama Canal would have There they lived happily until 1920 the as dismal failure been the same when the young woman developed a As a French fiasca in Nicaragua. serious tumor infection of the brain. matter of fact, I would almost be will- At a Richmond, Ya., hospital where ing to back the mosquito to accomplish two tumors were removed, a surgeons the downfall of man single handed knife severed the optical nerve renderwere it not for the recent arousing ing her blind. Despondent because of of public consciousness to the face that her blindness, an infection that affected her mind and crippled her spine so these insects carry the germs of ma- she- was an Invalid, she decided she laria and other dangerous diseases. was better off dead and so decided on The use of insecticides to combat those suicide, several previous attempts at pernicious pests has now become fairly which were frustrated. general but much is yet to be done. There cannot be too many spray Joan tlArc Features gunS n action against this pval(ly Bring Movie Fame formidable enemy. Paris. Only because she had flip Should mosquitos need an ally in features of Kt. Joan, eighteen-yeaold their attempt to conquer mankind they Simone Genevoix has risen from the could hardly do better than enlist the m iss . unknown French women to aid of the lowly house fly. Born in become opr of the most popular of ! rencli moving picture actresses. filth, the fly never loses his liking Mndiimoiselle Genevoix had nevet for it. Nothing seemsto pleast him acted until a few weeks ago. and she more than a chance to dabble his was known only to her fellow towns feet in every conceivable form of folk ns a quiet and demure young girl germ laden nastiness and then trans- who some day would make a good wife But fer it to food intended for human for one of f tie town's beaux. French producers discovered she reconsumption. Screening is only partJoan of Are even in mannerial protection. Flies will get in in sembled isms and today site is among the most spite of every barrier erected against praised of French actresses. them and a good Fly and Insect PowMademoiselle Genevoix Is appearing der should be constantly on hand to in the new French film, "The Wonder strike them down as fast as the; ful Life of Joan of Arc," which pur ports to be nn authentic reproduction show up. of the Maid of Orleans life, and histovarious the whilt But discussing rians and critics have acclaimed her insect pests that threaten the health interpretation as superb. and comfort of mankind let us not forget that athletic fellow the flea. Payroll Dropped From To most people he is merely a minor Airplane Is Scattered nuisance treated more as a joke than Hutchinson, Kun. Picking up $10,-tx'Yet, science as a serious menace. in silver uud gold strewu over an now recognizes this tiny broad jump urea of 75 yards was the experience champion as a carrier of the dreaded of William Carr, former guard for the The fact that al. payroll agent located in the Tampico Bubonic Plague. most all domestic animals are occas- oil fields of Mexico. The money, wages for oil workei. ional hosts to the flea is reason was dropped by airplane from sacks Fly enough for extreme vigilance. In absence of a landing Held. One and Insect Powder for the smaller day when the plane flew higher than animals and especially household pets usual, three sacks hit the ground, and occasional dipping for infested hurst open, and scattered their golden live stock will help to keep down the contents over the surrounding urea. Let it not be forgotten, too, Only $94 was missing when the guard flea. that tho rat is a carrier' of these plag- had finished picking up the money. ue ridden insect so swat the rat at every possible opportunity. Mosquitos, flies, fleas, bedbugs and Oklahoma Blind Man were just getting a good start. Who in Commerce Group said civilization wasnt menaced by Okla. For the first Edmond, And how about roaches? bugs? In the history of Oklahoma, time insect world, Comical clowns of the and perhaps for the first time but dangerous pests just the same. tn the country, a blind nmn has They annually destroy thousands of been elected president of 8 dollars worth of foodstuffs and much chamber of commerce. Philip C. Slack, blind since that they do not actually consume is was elected unanimously birth, so polluted by their filthy bodies that Edmond group. Coming to the a leave it is not fit to eat. They to Edmond more than twenty disgusting odor on everything they eight years ago, Slack has estub touch and there is no question but lishrfl one of the largest book He Is a what, like the flies, their feet and shops in the state. of the Janesville bodies are living incubators for milgraduate (Wls.) high school for blind and lions of disease germs which they the college for blind at Vinton. abandon reckless strew about with Iowa. wherever they go. More work for the blowgun and the insect powder! By all means remember the roach when you remember National Insect Killing Week. FOR SALE: j y2 by 12 rod choice So far we have not gone outside building lot. ..Corner of 6th West & the walls of the home. Yet, we have Utah Ave. . Inquire of Chase Lumber already found enough germ carrying,! & Coal Company, Payson, Utah. 6tpd. r Warship Sets Record CITY HADE FAMOUS fer Lengthy Pennant After Uni'.e.j Slates men of war have been o.t f. reign services for more than a year they are entitled to fly the homeward hound pennant on their de purture f. uni the foreign port and on entering the home port. The pennant is a couch whipped affair having a reu and white stripe running Its length with the exception of the blue field surmounted by thirteen stars at its head. The length of this pennant is determined by the number of men and One foot is nl officers in tie crew. lowed for each individual In t tie ships crew. The longest homeward-hounpennant flown in recent years was on the Pittsburgli when siie returned from four years service as flagship of tic I American forces In European water'. Tliis pennant was !XW feet long, in order to overcome the difficulty of tly Ing the pennant, about fifty balloons were used to give it additional buoy anc.v. After the Pittsburgh returned to home waters every member of the crew received a part of this pennant as a keepsake. Gains and Losses in Language About Equal tn the past the English language lias gained two or three words and lost one or two every year. The rate of gain and loss is now much higher. Since the world has grown smaller, we have gained many scientific and foreign words, but because time also lias dwindled, we have lost many that While the were worth a thought. spread of a literary sense of humor is words forcing some good Anglo-Saxoout of use, the mechanical and scientific apparatus which now form a great part of our outer life are bringing in an eru of modified, democratic Eatinity. The old speech, though It served George Eliot well, will hardly serve us. The scientific and analytic spirit of the day, which takes tco lit- tle for granted, has made words derived from Greek and Latin fashionable with English writers, while the imposing language used In commercial advertising must eventually affect the vocabulary of the general public. Observer. London. Beauties of Gibraltar Gibraltar is considered by a traveling correspondent to be one of the most beautiful and picturesque lauding ports in the world. Rio, New York, and Sydney, he writes, are all fair and lovely places, but they are all outshone by Gibraltar. As one steams np the straits the scene Is one of surpassing beauty, with the rugged and weird North African coast on the right hand nnd the stately beauty of the Spanish coast on the left, with the fairylike Tarlfa lighthouse Jutting out into the water from the Spanish shore. Above all, the rock of Gibraltar itself looming in front, with its green shore and massive heighl rising in majestic grandeur above the town at Its foot, presents one of the grandest sights in the world. Concerning GrumWing Grumblers may be divided Into many classes. There are perpetual grumblers and occasional grumblers, Scrooge-likgrumblers nnd cheerful but even the habitual grumblers; grumbler Is better to he borne with than the grumbler who grumbles as if he really means it, says a London journalist. A little grumble relieves a heavy heart, so we all like to grumble at times. We all like to complain of our lot If we feel It It a sad one; we like people to agree that it is a sad one and that we are ha.'d done by. We like people to listen nnd be sympathetic, hut most listeners will he very grateful If we make an attempt at a grin at the end of the dreary ree ntal. This Fortune Teller Out of the Ordinary ' BY FiCKLE FASHION Of course don't believe In fomnie tellers and till that bunk bat I went to him Jut out of ctirhMty. Betty swears b, Mm. She says lie told In, that i veil v.u things id, out her-i- ll v, i lit to h.ui Jit-- , So didnt know. out of curiosity. Well, toy dear, he said 1 had the mo-- t extraordinary a crystal. He'd never Men a eryst..l IE said mine. my as extraordinary aura Just gli'Mvd with fame and MHe said that I warn'd make a innie. w owlet fill w liter. Yes, he said he sew 1 Chefco, China, Once Seat of Hairnet Industry. Chefoo, China, re- Washington. seized by revolutionists, is a cenily city made famous bv Fickle Fashion, says a bulletin from the Wash- Ing'on headquarters of tbe National Geographic society. The Germans started the hairnet Industry on a lurge siule, but tbe World war in Europe, nnd cheap hair nnd cheat) labor in Asia, caused tbe industry to migrate to the Shantung province with Chefoo as headquarters. Although American womens money paid the wages of thousands of women and girls in and near C'hefoo, when the hairnet Industry was flourishing, perhaps few of those American women con'd locate Chefoo on a map without considerable searching. The city lies on the north shore of the Cape Cod of Chinn, which extends into the Yellow sea from the main portion of Shantung province, toward the middle section of Korea. If a line were drawn tine west from Cincinnati. Ohio, through Denver, Colo., and continued across tho Pacific, Chefoo would be one of the first Chinese cities the line would touch. Third Chinese City. Chefoo now ranks third among Shantung cities, with about 100,000 inhabitants. A large foreign settlement, with modern hotels, consular office buildings and residences bordering wide, electrically lighted streets, occupies n knob of land on the north. The adjoiring Chinese quarter Is congested. Narrow streets, winding through this portion of the town, are lined with squatty buildings, mostly of flimsy construction, but It Is here that Chefoo bristles with business activity throughout the day. coolies from neighborhood farms and villages trudge to the market place under londs nenri.v as large as those atop mules and donkeys. Other coolies tug at the handles of loaded Shantung wheelbarrows whose wheels are sometimes three feet high. There Is little room in the lanelike thoroughfares for anything else, nevertheless the rickshaw boy draws his fares at high speed, often forcing pedestrians to sidestep into children-filledoorways for safety. Through the Chefoo streets, all the products for export from the Chefoo neighborhood are carried" to waiting cargo boats in the harbor. Apples, sweet potatoes, peanuts, wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco, pongee silk and hairnets are transported by vessels flying the flags of many nations. Cargoes for Chinese consumption are loaded on coast-wisboats that make Chefoo a port of call. Junks that lazily float about in the harbor pick tip short-hau- l shipping. Pongee silk and peanuts are among the more Important Chefoo exports. The latter were introduced In Shantung hy an American missionnrv. Then Came Bobbed Hair. Chefoo was classed as one of the tinwalled, therefore unimportant, communities of China before 1S92 when tlie port was opened to foreign shipLater a large portion of Shanping tung shipping passed through Chefoo and the city enjoyed a period of prosperity until 1904, when the Shantung railroad was completed nnd the port was forced to share commerce with ports the railroad touched. Another shock came whpn the Tientsin-Pukorailroad was completed In 1912. Tsingtao. a port on the southern coast of Cape Cod. succeeded In getting railway connections, while Chefoo got only a promise of a connection. As a result Tsingtao gradually outgrew its northern competitor The nearest railway station to Chefoo now is 200 miles to the southwest, between which busses frequently run over a government-ownehighway. "Fickle fashion threw a bomb shell Into Chefoo industry when It decreed bobbed locks for American women. When the Industry was at its height $5,900,990 worth of hairnets were shipped from Chefoo annually; a majority were sold In the United States. Two years later the value of hairnet exportation dropped to slightly more than $2,090,000. Seventeen thousand women and girls In and near Chefoo made hairnets In 1921; now only a few thousand are employed In the Industry. I pens in my cry :..!. And m going to travel. Maybe mt this year but next -year or the year aft t. He debit ay lie but vv.,s eg go, where exactly tinctlv saw a train or a boat in my crystal. And It ten to this, dear. He said I was go. ng to marry a talli-sort of dark man with grayish-browthat a perfei t description eyes. of Fred? He ini t i actly tall, but he is more dark than light and his eyes are more gray th.,n h!uo. I m sure lie means Fred. He mid wed be mar ried next summer or the winter after that. Its really quite remarkable the I things he tell you Of course, dont and tellers in torlime ledieve really but. lies awfully I know its all fooll-jn-good mill you a in a go to him 1 h. n h. u i j Currents of Great Rivers There Is no stream which has a regular current of CO miles an hour, or even half Utah The lower Amazon flows at a sate of three miles an hour. The Mississippi, In Its lower course, has a velocity of about three and a half miles an hour. The Congo has for many miles above Its mouth a current of about seven miles nn hour, the Impetus of its great falls extending for a great distance below them. Ttie Nile, similarly Influenced, moves for a long distance at nine miles nn hour. Mud Bytrned for Power Burning mud to produce electric power Is being tried in Germany with remarkable success. Mud at the bot- tom of a small tributary of tbe Rhine was found to be permeated with combustible matter. Cp to that time It was considered worthless and a serious obstacle t navigation In the Rhine Into which it was carried. The wet soil Is being fried out and used as fuel In an electric generating p'anL Duplicate Goa Slcne Je-ui- j d Russian Turkestan Inteiesting stories are told of Russian Turkestan hy Doctor Skoeed of Lund university. Stockholm. The Tad-hitribes lead a most primitive nomadic life, speaking ten or more Iranic languages, and do not know the use of watches or other European technical implements. No roads or bridges are to lu found tli ere, except a few remnants from the time of Alexander the Great, who cros-e- d tiiese rock mountains TOO B. C., hut tlie Swedish explorer hail to ride on horseback on narrow paths on precipitous brinks, where a single step aside meant death in the rocky valley Here lie was told 3,990 feet below. that many Russian soldiers bad fallen e and been killed. On the Safe Side There are so many 'unsafe tilings around a home, if a mol her will think of sucli things, serious injury is spared the baby at its investigating age. She can teach the older children M with her in keeping sharp objects, such as pencils, sensors and knives from tlie babys grasp. Medicines and matches may he kept on a high shelf, and while cooking, the handles of pans should not he left in such n position that huh.v can grab at them nnd spill the hot liquid. Eternal watchfulness is the price of safety! Old Roman Sacrifice The relief of Annul; pha Traiani In the Roman forum represents the sacrifice of tlie hull, sheep tint pig which usually nceomparh'tl tlie purificatory ceremonies o Each animal represents a valim. fie part of the farmers stock. The ceremonies generally took place at the dose of tlie census and for tin army at tin beginning of a (ampaign and probably also in connection with tin founding of temples ami oilier similar occasions. The animals were led around Hie assent lily and Iben sacrificed. Lights Out in Time to Save Woman Swindler Not to Be Expected actress was traveling to tbe seaside to join a concert party. At tlie London station tla porter cast a disapproving eye upon her large quantity of luggage and intimated that she would have to pay excess unless she was a theatrical artiste.. "That's exactly what I am. said the An evicheck-worke- A well dressed woman swindler recently made purchases in two local stores, paying for them with a check-drawon a Cambridge bank. The manager of the third store she visited proved not as gullible, nnd detained the woman while he called the bank. As the bank was Informing the owner that the check must be "rubber, the store lights suddenly were extinguished. During the few minutes of darkness the woman disappeared. n girl. Well, then, mi-- s. said tlie hnrried man, hy didn't you sa.v so at first? I cant go about all day long insulting passengers y asking them if theyre actresses. Eon don v Solitude our modem d iv, with tie pace that our civilization tri s e, and to maintain, a great many people are made nervous by peace and solitude. Our speed of life M such that In U. S.French Visa Fee Cut to Aid Tourists Paris. An agreement has been reached between France and the Cnlt-- , ed States to cut the tourist visa fee In the two countries from $10 to $2. Nor-mno Armour, American charge daf-- j faires, announced here. The fee will be good two years Instead of one year, as at present. It is believed the agree- ment will eliminate tourists complaints regarding passport difficulties. City Times Goa, a settlement in th West eoa-- t of Main, has lor centuiies been tin property of the I'm lugiicse, says an article in l.otehm Tit itils. Short! ts up after their uc ttpat ion, the peared anil set up u monastery, uud it was there that a -- ic- ial sort ot The Jesuits made ..i- - made. jewel these stilus, wna h have come to he known as im.i stones, from various solidified drugs, hut we today are tot illy in the dm k es to what drugs d uud how they they were cnii.po-eweie made. Each st ne was m euited in a silver filigree ease and rep 'e- -i nted fine examples of old workmanship. When the owner ot the stone was troubled with indigo' Lion he had onlv to scrape off a small portion of his stone, and drink it in a g'ass of water, and lie was quite all right in a few moments. Goa stones t day. however, are rare ami tire only to he fouuj in valuable collections of antiques. Stoop-shouldere- Zanesville, Ohio. Providence dently protects the woman Kan-a- s Jewelers Unable to i d Cromwells Music Before Oliver Cromwell became Protector, music was proscribed In England. And as Cromwell was musically inclined, he had a professional musician among the members of his household. When, by the authority of parliament, the organ was removed from the chapel of Magdalen college, Cromwell had it erected at Hampton court, where he resided, and frequently had Milton to play it. At the Restoration the organ was returned to Magdalen college, blit after some years It was In Tewkesdisposed of and bury abbey, where part of It remained tn use until a few years ago. out of ctfio'oy. when vveseck repose,, vv e make a mad dash f,,r jt. i',t solitude has a hand to still tin pulse's leap, a voice to calm and Solitude Is a room into which wv can retire whenever we need a change from present company. It is a bourne of solace and reflection. American Magazine. . rea-sw- ! e. j |