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Show 7 t r i HUS IN Inoculation of DIE . CHI WBE NATIONALIST SOLDIERS UNBR1 DLED ATTACK ALIENS, BRITISH LIVES ALSO LOST Why Loop Antenna Returns to Favor 7 U. I r 3. and English Warships Open Fire, and Ultimatum Goes Forth Washington The Chinese situation to sudden crisis, filled with gravest possibilities in the roar ol American and British naval guns at Nanking. An unknown number of American and British lives have been taken by a mob of undisciplined nationalist Guns of American and British warships and rifles and bayonets of American and British sailors blasted a way to safety for the survivors. Other foreigners, including more than a hundred American men, women and children, are still in the seething turmoil of the river city, their fate unknown. Solemn warning has been served on nationalist leaders by the American and British commanders to produce these' unharmed or take the flamed Improvements in Receiver Design Aid in Making Plan Practical. By L. M. CLEMENT Chief Engineer, Fada Radio. Perhaps the mystery of loop opera- tion always will stir the Interest of the lay person I That a small wooden frame wound with a comparatively few turns of wire can act as an antenna for a receiver and pick up without any other connection a certain station, either local or distant, is indeed marvelous. It brings to mind the story of the New England farmer who witnessed his first demonstration of the electric light late in the Nineteenth century. He marveled long at the idea of light coming from a box connected by two wires to a small glass bulb. After deliberation, he admitted that it was wonderful, Indeed, what they thought up, but for the life of him could not consequences. Menacing muzzles of understand how they made the keronaval guns, trained on a swarming sene flow up th wires! city of a quarter of a million populaLoop Returning. tion, backed the demand. A review of receiving set apparatus By what steps Rear Admiral fl. H. placed on the market within the last Hough, American naval commander at few months reveals the Nanking, and its British colleague of several distinct and incorporation outstanding was to ultimatum enforce their plan unknown to the Washington govern- features which were not present a ment. In face of that fact Secretary year ago. Among the more obvious changes is Wilbur declared after conferences increasing use of a loop, or, as It with Secretary Kellogg that Admiral the Is technically known, a coll antenna. comWilliams, the American naval mander in China, had unlimited au- The coll antenna either has supplemented or displaced the outthority to employ his forces as he side aerial wholly for method of pick-u- p deemed necessary to protect American with certain types of receiving sets. lives. Curiously, the use of the coll anHe has the full 100 per cent sup- tenna .dates back to the time of the the naval first radio port of the government, In fact, the experiments. secretary said. first designs of transmitting and receiving apparatus called for a form of Tong Warfare in Big Cities coll antenna. The lack of the modern Chicago Two Chinese were shot meaps and practices of high amplifiand killed in a west side laundry in cation prevented successful experiwhat the police believed to be a re- ments at that time except over distances. newal of tong warfare here, which broke out with the killing of a member Just before and during the war, of the On Leon tong in a Chinese with the advent of high amplification, the loop came into prominence, pargambling house. Chinese sections In ticularly because of its directional New York cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific characteristics and its portability. Towere under heavy police guard after day we find navigation depending to an outbreak of a tong warfare that some extent upon the advantages and took, at least six lives and wounded use of the coll antenna in connection others. A barrage of bullets felled with directional compass work. A few years ago the loop antenna members of the On Leong and Hip was resurrectSing tongs in Brooklyn, Newark, N. J.; as a means of pick-u- p Chicago, Manchester, Conn.; Pitts- ed and used In radio receivers for burgh and Cleveland within the space broadcast reception. of a few hours, smashing a truce that At that time, when the Introduchas been more or less in force for the tion of radio broadcast reception in Itself was considered such a phenompast two years. enon, the loop probably enjoyed Its favor In large measure due to its London Hears Far East News London The British capital .was novelty appeal, rather than the posshocked by news of the slaying of sible advantages it possessed in simof operation or installation. foreigners at Nanking, recalling the plicity In the final analysis the receiver of of Boxer the uprisings. tragic days' that day was usually of the four or Only the briefest accounts have been e design and did not permit received in official quarters and no the of satisfactory loop opera degree definite information had been received as to the number and names of the tion which could be obtained with the outside antenna. Since foreigners killed and wounded. Gov- regulation ernment spokesmen deplore the hap- performance Is the predominant factor in determining the worth of a penings and declare that the guilty Chinese will be held responsible for radio receiver in the end, the loop the attack. The rapidity developing gradually but steadily waned in pubevents will be left largely in the hands lic favor. of the British representatives on the Loops In Modern Receivers. spot and any action they deem necesMany recent improvements In resary to protect life will be backed to ceiver design have contributed to the limit. make the operation of a receiver on a loop antenna entirely practical, and this furnishes the Impetus which Is Aliens Still in Stricken City but surely messages gradually Conflicting Shanghai on the modem a pick-u- p as the loop early Friday morning from the city of receiver. of foreignNanking, where a number Probably the most important develers, including Americans, were kliled use and wounded by Cantonese shelling opment which has influenced the commercial in of the loop practice Thursday, left the fate of a portion of once more, is the introduction of full the American community there in which doubt.1 Prior to Thursdays shelling of and complete metallic shielding y anti the high permits counter in which resulted hill, Socony y necesamplification fire by British and American warships, for its successful operation. Jt was known that 155 Americans, con- sary coil antenna is very efficient as The e forty-fivwomen sisting of ninety men, ind twenty children were ashore. Some compared to the outside antenna and of those remained, despite the landing only a fraction of the voltage induced "of a rescue party made up of Ameri- in the outside antenna Is Induced in can and British forces, who succeeded the loop. To obtain the same volume from the speaker with this smaller in removing most of the stranded. sufficient amplification pick-uobRabbits Overrun Section of Wyoming to compensate therefor, must be tained. Green River Rabbits in southwestWhen first were in favor, the ern Wyoming are still a menace to the addition loops y of more stages of D. farmers, according to F. White, who to provide, the amplification was in from his ranch in the Henrys necessary for loop operaFork country.. Mr. White says that sensitivity tion could not be satisfactorily acthe settlers had hoped that the high complished because of lack of the price of rabbit fur would encourage necessary knowledge. Since then, the hunters to decrease the number, but of- - multi-stag- e tuned it has not done so. They have taken employment of the amplifiers quite a toll of the ranchers hay stacks shielded type made possible the use this winter all along the Uinta mounas a means of pick-up- . of the loop tains, he says, and farmers fear they observation of the casual Even a will also be hard on spring crops. styles in radio today brings to light the Increasing use of the loop operatMinnehaha Fails Again Singing ed receiver, which employs only a loop antenna Minneapolis Minnehaha falls, made small two or three-foo- t famous by Longfellow as Laughing and gives satisfactory operation in restaWaters, laughed again as it had in gard to the reception of distant tions. more a For than year the ages past. Thus we find the pendulum of pubflash and gleam among the oak trees, of w'hich Longfellow sang, was si- lic choice again swinging back, and lenced until last summer water pump- the loop operated receiver is seen e ed from wells was sent plunging to everywhere today. In the higher-pricseven Is of made use where apparatus, the creek bed below. However, the is used almost rollicking mirth of Minnehaha as- or eight tubes, the loop sumed the tone nature had given her, entirely for operation as the amplias naturally produced water from the fication provided is sufficient for the recent heavy precipitation leaped from reception of even the more distant stations. the cliff to the gorge below. sol-dier- i a f --t f I r i I v five-tub- f I fs i it radio-frequenc- audio-frequenc- I f ln-lt- p, radio-frequenc- tr radio-frequenc- y '1. Grade Sires Surely Fading Away Fast Various Legumes e s, e s. non-legu- F in-fir- , requency . - . NewsNotes f It a Privilege to Utah Live in a Experience of Can ; Take Nitrogen From Interesting One Montana Fanner. Air. If Proper Bacteria Let us digress for a moment to exAre Present. In short, the plain loop operation. advancing radio wave is made up of two components, one electric and one (Prepared by tbe United State! Department of Agriculture.) magnetic. The magnetic field spreads Legumes, generally speaking, are out from the station in horizontal those cultivated crops such as peas, rings ever widening from the transvetches, clovers and alfalfa beans, An apt illustration is the mitter. which can take nitrogen from the air. pebble in the pond" analogy. When This fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, the loop is pointed toward the source, however, can take place only if the the magnetic field will strike the loop proper bacteria are present In the root at right angles, and a maximum of nodules. When not naturally present the magnetic field will be enclosed by tlu-scan be added artificiallbacteria the loop. This field is changing and, on the other hand-s- uch in similar fashion to the coil in a y. as small grains, potatoes, and the transformer, has a voltage set up In Ul-cannot take nitrogen from the it This voltage is then amplified by air een though Inoculated with bacthe receiver. When the loop Is teria. beturned at right angles to the line Cant Inoculate tween it and the transmitting station, Speculative Investigators have tried none of the field cuts through tbe loop to inoculate the roots of and therefore no voltage is developed. repeatedly with th various kinds of Without a voltage set up in. the loop and have bacteria, there Is no effect upon' the receiving been announced.positive results howCareful tests, set. This easily explains not only the ever, says the United States Depart; ment of Agriculture, have not conpick-u- p action but serves to Illustrate firmed these claims, and it is highly its directional properties. improbable that the original nature The directional effect of loop operaof the plants could be tion naturally helps in securing addiexperimentally to such a .detional selectivity. Under the present changed that they would be able to take crowded air conditions full benefit can gree from the air. be taken of this directional effect by uitrogeu To give every farmer an opportunity turning the loop to exclude the unde- to gain a clearer understanding of sired station, provided the desired the most Important facts relating to station does not lie in the line between the inoculation of legumes and nonreceiver and the undesired station. with nitrogen fixing and other legumes In the large cities, where but limitbacteria, Farmers Bulletin 1496-has, ed space is available, outside antenna been bulletin does the If prepared. construction Is often impossible, and not answer all the questions that where barriers of steel preclude the arise further information can be sepossibility of proper reeeption with cured from the experiagricuiyiral the inside antenna the loop then ment station of the state in which the comes decidedly to the fore. farmer lives or by writing to the buA large factor in the growing prefreau of plant Industry, United States Is erence of loop operated receivers Department of Agriculture, Washingthe ease of Installation and possibility ton. D. C. of portability. Many such loop sets Nodule Bacteria Necessary. have found their way Into other places To get the fu'l benefit from their than the home. growth, legumes must either find the Novel Feature. nodule bacteria In the soil or must be - Even in cases where loop operation with them. The plants usualhas proved very successful, the un- supplied ly find bacteria of the right kind In exbeen objection has sightliness the soil If the same kind of legume pressed by the critical set user. has been successfully grown on the much Present-da- y done practice has same soli previously. On the other to overcome this objection. The loop for the first time, legumes if, hand, which 'on a is now mounted bracket are grown which have never been can be swung out of sight or cleverly planted in that locality and whose If itself.' Or, worked into the cabinet bacteria are. different from those 1 it Is to be permanently exposed. It occurring naturally in the soil. stand on the par, from a furniture Inoculation Is urgently needed. Soy point, with the set Itself. beans, hairy vetch, and alfalfa, for In conclusion, we can sajg that once - have instance,frequently failed more, loop operation is coming Into trials merely because they were latto the measure in favor due large planted without being Inoculated. But est practices of engineering and de- even the same legumes have sign which have been constantly at been grown before, Inoculation may work to provide better and better ap- sometimes be advisable. paratus for public enjoyment The bulletin gives complete directions for several methods of inoculating legumes. Copies may be obtained, Some Valuable Pointers , as long as the supply lasts, by writing on Soldering the Joints to the United States Department of Good solder joints are important to Agriculture, Washington, D. O. radio sets! The amateur set builder who has had no previous recourse to Inoculate Sweet Clover the use of soldering, will sidetrack Before Sowing in Spring much unpleasant experience if he foltime to inoculate sweet clover The lows a few elementary requisites. The parts which are to be solderfed seed Is Just before sowing It in the must be cleaned to brightness and a spring. Obviously, the dirt for this sufficient amount of good flux should purpose will have to be taken from around a plant that grew last year, then be applied. Examine the soldersince Is Jthere will be no new green see to clean and that it ing copper that the tip Is properly tinned, i. e., plants at that time. The easiest, evenly coated, with solder. Heat the quickest and perhaps best practice In topper adequately, but take care that inoculating Is to take a few handfuls of dirt from around sweet clover or it does not become brilliant, otherwise the tinning will burn off and a alfalfa roots and make a thin mud of process of cleaning and retinning It. Then pour a little of It on half a must be gone through before it is bushel or so of the seed in a tub. Then again serviceable. Using an electric work it over with the hands, and In a soldering copper simplifies matters a short time every seed will have a great deal, as these maintain a fairly smear of the mud on It. Care must be taken that direct sunlight does not constant temperature. Tin the parts which have been pre- touch the Inoculated seed. Some peopared and then place them in the de- ple add glue to the water in making sired position for joining. Put some the mud. solder on the tip of the copper and while firmly holding the parts to- Early Variety of Oats . gether apply the copper to them. Best for Average Year When finished, wipe with a cloth to The A remove residue, of flux. early varieties of oats or the good joint appears smooth and Inconspicuous medium early are better for the averand exerts a maximum of binding ef- age year in the corn belt. They get filled before the worst of the sumficiency and electrical transfer. . mer heat arrives while the late varieties may be caught in the hot wave to the extent that their kernels beCheap, Jtjbes Soon N. G. come chaffy. It is a case of, their . for Distance Reception ripening too rapidly. Official comparThe best designed and constructed isons in the state of Nebraska over a receiver is perfectly useless without of have shown that early the proper vacuum tube. Tubes can period" years are for that state. Some better oats be bought for prices ranging from of the farmers In western Iowa claim 50 cents to $6, but In general It can that they have proved In a practical be said the prices indicate the relathat early oats are best for them tive values of the tubes in regard to way also. life and performance. The filaments in the cheap tubes arl generally made of thin platinum wire which evaporates rapidly when heated to incandescence and soon loses Its power of electron emission or burns out completely within a very Dipping Is the most effective methshort time. Further, the design Is od of ridding cattle of lice. such that the tubes are ery poor There is no better time than now to amplifiers or detectors, so that it is Impossible to get displan for having cows tested for tu' tant stations or even local stations berculosis. with the proper volume. From the Instant that the cheap Poorly prepared seed beds have been tubes are first lighted, their sensi- responsible for more failures to obtain tivity starts to drop off, and within a stands of alfalfa than any other facrelatively few hours they are useless tor. , for distance reception. An honestly built tube employs tungsten wire for Land Is the most valuable human tlie filament and then this tungsten possession. If It is well cared for It wire is Impregnated with thorium, remlns the most valuable. If not, It which Increases electron emission. becomes a liability. Tungsten is an extremely hard nnd Four parts of corn chop, two parts refractory metal which can be held at incandescence for hundreds oi 9t bran, and one part of linseed or hours with but little Use by evap cottonseed meal makes a balanced oration grain radon for a dairy cow. ' (Prepared by the United State Department of Agriculture ) - l, , Salt Lake National forests in Utah In conducting the better sires are traversed by 891 miles of 'roads e nation-wida better stock campaign, These are crusade promoting the use of .pure- and 2408 miles of trails. users and to stockmen other valuable inanimal of bred sires, the Ifureau in many cases are and forest of the dustry of the United' States Departgenerally used by the public. ment of Agriculture receives many accounts of Interesting experiences from Price An unusually heavy flow of owners who are gradually highly lnflamable gas was struck at a aniof well-bredepth of 525 feet in the test well of the learning the merits " McGee & Holmes syndicate, four miles mals. On each enrollment blank; Adilch southeast of Price. The drill'is borliig must be signed by anyone wishing to in the Mancos shale and the gas flow become a member, a space is provided i considered an encouraging sign. owner may menin which a More than $15,000 for roads . Provo tion any Inferior sires recently dis- and trail in the Wasatch forest have posed of, giving reason for so doing. begn authorized, according to an anAn enrollment blank received . from a nouncement made Thursday by E. C. Montana farmer contained a brief ac- Shepard, forest supervtBQr. Eight count of his experience with a grade thousand dollars of his will be used boar. for construction, of the Provo river boar road to extend as far as Mirror lake. I disposed 'of a about two months ago, he wrote. The work will begin as soon as weathSecured a younger pure bred for the er conditions permit. The balance of same money. I have noticed that the money will be expended for trails grades (Duroc) eyen after several and' mountains roads. Some of the generations of pure crossings fade preliminary work has been begun. in color as they grow older and do Logan In the 'neighborhood of sevnot fleLhen so readily nor look so head of cattle will be shipped out enty well" of Cache county within the next week, In color the possibly fading Though to County Agent R. L. requires further explanation than the according who said that dairymen from reasons given, officials In the bureau of Wrigley, antifial Industry remarked, when not- Sevier and Sanpete are here purchascattle to ship to their respective ing the experience of the farmer, that ing In view of the Increasing numbet- - of counties. . Vfarmers using only' pure-bre- d sites, Cedar City Following are the opengrade boars are fading away In a ing and closing dates of the hational broader sense. In a, few decades, or parks throughout the country: Zion even a few years, one may see many park, Cedar Breaks, Bryce canyon and communities Insisting bn purebred the north rim of the Grand catty on, June 1 to October 15. Yellowstone sires In all breeding operations. park, June 19 to September 19; Mesa Verde park, May 15 to November 1; Getting Rid of Canada Rocky Mountain park, June 15 to OcThistles by Smothering tober 1; Rainier park, June 15 to SepSmothering out a patch of Canada tember 15; Yosemite, open all year. thistles by the use of straw piled Brighton Harry Hammond, waterover them to the depth of three or works observer stationed at Brighton, four feet Is the most successful meth- returned after a week's stay in Salt od we have found In fighting this stubLake to find the same Bnow depth, alborn weed, says a writer In the Ohio though a foot of fresh snow had falFarmer. len, and to learn that his telephone, Previous to the use of the straw out of service for more than' a month, method, we had tried various means is again connected. to kill, the thistles. But in spite of Forty-twofficials and deOgden such methods as cutting them off of the Pacific Fruit attaches partment above the ground, at the surface of from company points between the ground, and even grubbing out Express San and Francisco are Neb., Omaha, part of the underground stems, the in conferannual to the attend Ogden patch persisted in spreading. A year ago last August we were ence of the operating organization confronted with the problem of doing which opens in the Hotel Bigelow. The conference will last three days. something with an old straw-pilSalt Lake Livestock exhibits at the After some consideration we decided to haul It outLonto this tpajcl of tenth annual Inlermountain Stock and thistles. Here It lay all winter 9nd Hofse- show to .be hqjd in Salt Lake, until plowing time in the spring when March 29 to April. 2, will include some it was scattered around and plowed of the outstanding show animals of under. Only a few thistles, weak the country, .reports' Reed W. Wajnick, , specimens of their kind, survived and secretary of the exhibition. attempted to grow after this course will parIndians Ute again Myton of treatment and a minutes work with ticipate in their old tribal ceremony the hoe completely put the patch out Wednesday of next week when scores of business. We havent been troubled of braves and squaws from all parts with this patch of Canada thistles of the Uintah reservation will gather since. d in a pasture, near the My top opera house, to begin the five-da- y Too Little Pruning Done orgy of the Bear dance. on Bearing Apple Trees Myjon Growing of corn in the necesBecause of the low prices received Uintah basin Is an agricultural delocal to in the order, sity supply for fruit, many growers will be Inbusimand is and it being urged by clined to do little or no pruning. This Is unfortunate, says the college of ness men and others in terested in the future of this part of state.. The growagriculture of Rutgers university, for ing of corn has been tried out to such while It is good policy to cut corners In times of depression, It Is not a sav- an extent that it is believed it can be produced In. a profitable, manner. ing to slight pruning. are The college continues in part; Those who raised corn last year satisfied with the results attained. Many growers have done too little V Milford With only 1100 acres of supruning on bearing apple trees such as Wealthy, Staymnn. Rome, and gar beets reported contracted so far others. This has resulted in too many this year in Millard county, a decrease small green apples that are not worth of practically 50 per cent under last picking and has helped only to glut year, heavy acreage in the county will the market, thus bringing down the be planted to wheat. This was the statement of M. S. Winder", secretary prices received for good fruit. After giving the tree a good thin- of the Utah State Farm bureau, who tour ning, the long lenders should be head- returned Saturday from a five-daed back on varieties that tend to fruit of the county, on spurs. If the tree is beyond 20 or Myton C. P. .Wgtterson of Myton, 25 feet high, it should be cut back. who has leased the Upalco flour mill lo"More small cuts and fewer large cated here, is urging the farmers to ones would be a good slogan for plant more wheat. Mr. Watterson many growers to follow. If detailed says he will be able to handle 50,000 pruning of small limbs Is practiced bushels this fall. He advises farmers e this winter, there will be less need for to plant hard wheat varieties, in to soft wheat, as the hard hand, thinning of fruit next summer when labor Is scarce and costly. With- wheat, he says, brings a better price out this detailed pruning or thinning and produces a better grade of flour. of fruit, apples of good size and tolor Ogden Ogden Citys operating deare hard to obtain. ficit for 1926 is $12,843.39, as compared with the estimated defiicit of $39,895.20 s&t up for the city by the 1926 budget, Clean Wheat Seed Will ' which was prepared in December, 1925, Greatly Increase Yield it is shown by the annual report of Field tests have demonstrated that Mrs. Mary E. Farley, city auditor, the use of dead seed grain may mean which was submitted to the city coman increased yield of from one o six missioners. . t bushels per acre over the yield obSpanish Fork Utah countys annual tained from uncleaned seed, says A. livestock show will open at Spanish A. Hanlon of Purdue. In one test it Fork, Wednesday, for four days., Jacob was estimated that the time spent In C. Hansen, president, and Dr. George running seed wheat twice through a C. Taylor, manager of the show, refanning mill paid at the rat of $35 port that this years exhibition will per hour. have more entries than any previous Weed seeds, dirt and chaff in wheat livestock display in the county. Morerepresent a huge economic .waste over, the stock will represent more since they mean reduced fields, In- branches of the livestock industry. creased cost of harvesting and threshJohn Ephraim Armstrong, ing and needless expense for storage recently marketed 1000 lambs space and freight charges, since It costs just as much to ship weed seeds at Kansas City at $14.90 per hundredas pure grain. According to the rec- weight, tooping the market for that ords of the federal seed inspection day. These lambs averaged 88 pounds, service, three Middle Western states with no culls. The lambs netted him than $2 a head more than the produce about 5,000,0(10 bushels of for- betters Best offer he received for them locally. eign material In their- - annual wheat Salt Lake City Pilot Jimmy James crop. established a new flying record from The surest way to reduce the heavy loss caused by weeds In wheat fields Los Angeles to Shit Lake when he covis to carefully clean the seed wheat ered the 60 miles in four hours and nine minutes, sixteen minutes better with a farm fanning mill, and right than his own mark and tied by Maury now Is a good tlms to do the Job. Graham. He carried nearly 400 pound! of mail. live-stoc- k d live-stoc- k . high-grad- e , - 4 o e. - brush-enclose- y ' pref-ernec- wool-growe- r, |