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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH COUNTY HEAP KB matter Feb Entered as second-clas- s 8. 1929. at the office Randolnb Utah, under the Act of Mar. 8, 1879 Wia. E. Marshall, Editor and Projt SUBSCRIPTION S1J0 Per Year in Advance pst el, Cheaper Feed for More Profit IN GUADALAJARA Grains Home-Grow- n Can Increase Fanners i Margin.' TELLS WHY CHICKS DIE WHEN BROODED More than one farmer is making the most of the Improved prices for dairy products by adopting economical feeding methods.' Savings made through more economical feeding are only one of the many ways in which farmers who are members of dairy herd improvement associations are finding that they can Increase their returns. Substitution of grains for more expensive protein feeds together with replacement of part of the corn by oats are two ways by which dairymen are finding it possible to cut feed costs without lowering their herd production averages. One farmer Increased his monthly net income from 17 cows by $10.88 with a less expensive ration. Oats replaced a part of the corn in the ration, thus reducing the cost of feed approximately 24 cents a hundred pounds. His herd also produced 34 more pounds of butterfat a month on the cheaper feed. ; Another increased his net income $11.55 a month through the same kind of a ration change. A third dairyman used a ration composed of corn, oats and distillers grain instead of corn and a high protein supplement previously used and was able to cut feed costs by nine cents a hundred pounds, although the protein content was the same. The cheaper ration reduced the feed cost of butter-fa- t by five cents a pound and the feed cost of milk by 14 cents a hundred pounds. home-grow- n r BRAINS WERE A. W. O. L. During the late war a doctor was examining a number of. men claiming disability. One chap complained that he was deaf in one ear. The doctor told him to cover his deaf ear and then asked him if he could hear. Yes, replied the soldier. Now cover the good ear, he doctor instructed. The man did so. Can you hear me now?" inquired the doctor. No, replied the soldier, and wondered why his claim was thrown out FORE! Mrs. B. It must be hard to be a golt widow. Mrs. W. It Is. About all a golf widow ever hears from her husband is . snores. , . Refutation Tour People are very likely to believe what they see in print" Yep, replied Farmer Corntosset Thats why these candidates have to keep travelin around the country go much. They have to prove that they dont look like some of the pictures of 'em that get into the papers. ' Breathing Do you think business is enjoying a breathing spell?" But Yes, said Mr. Dustin Stax. everybody is talking so long and loud that pretty soon nobody will have any breath remaining. Juct Imagine Mistress (to new maid) Be careful when you. dust these new pictures, Mary; they are all old masters. Maid Good gracious! Whod ever think youd been married all these times, mum! Half a Cord Brown What will you give me for my daughters piano? Nayber Ill give you $3 a cord for it, sawed, split and delivered In my woodshed. Restless Angler Youve been watching me for three hours. Why dont you try fishing yourself? Onlooker I aint got the patience. '? JUST THAT Skin Peddler In Guadalajara. Prepared by the National Geographic Society. on sites of ancient Aztec temples, the heads of whose idols were cut off by venerable city zealous Spaniards. In some churches is one of of heathen idols are built ins fragments meccas. to the walls. After the conquest, Spain, Sleepers run from Los An- built literally thousands of Mexican; Washington, D. a WNU Service, Guadalajara, geles through Guadalajara. Rails also link the city with the sea at Manzanillo; still another system ties it with Mexico City, with the Gulf of Mexico, and the Texas border. These railways, with the nations steadily growing net of motor highways, make Guadalajara an active distribution center. Here cheap electric power, ample labor, and abundant raw materials stimulate various industries. These include spinning and knitting mills, candy and cracker works, and shops famous for their beautiful tiles and mosaics. The arcades that shade the sidewalks before stores facing a plaza shelter many street venders. A hat peddler walks majestically along, with 15 or 20 hats for sale, stacked on his own bead, one atop the other, like a pagoda. Country peons usually wear baggy white drawers; but custom now decrees that this badge of rural servitude shall not be worn In Guadalajara streets. So, at the edge of the city, pants shops are open where trousers may be rented. Just check your draw1 ers there and rent a pair of pants, as impecunious American students may rent evening clothes for a party I Changing sartorial standards, however, are destroying this simple industry. Indians arrive in the city with baskets of assorted fruits, guavas, gourds, tiny lemons, cactus pears and mangoes. On the pavement they arrange little piles one kind of fruit here, another there; then they squat down, silently awaiting buyers. If you want fruit, buy It, but dont ask questions. Toys, candles, soft drinks, postcards, newspapers, pottery, medallions of the saints, small melons white on one side like a fishs belly everything from mule gear and old tools to carved-woo- d sticks ending in ornate filigree balls for stirring chocolate are spread out for sale on the sidewalk. Good Merchandise In the Stores. Inside the large stores, of course, is modern merchandise. Some American women, wise in local ways, say that if the stores dont carry the particular hat or gown they wish, clever native women soon make them copying, If need be, from no more than a picture from an American fashion journal. Most lingerie, dress goods, millinery, soaps, perfume, and jewelry are sold by French merchants. Machinery, hardware, and such heavy goods are usually handled by Germans. Few Americans are found in retail trade ; they, with the British, are more interested in. mines, ranches, power plants, railways, or banka If you buy any sizable article in a store, the merchant whistles up a street porter to carry it home for you. Persons of position would lose caste carrying a big parcel through the streets. Porters even carry big bags of silver coin to and from the banks and for some re&son are seldom molested.' As you walk the streets of Guadalajara at Easter time, you may see a dummy man, In top hat and morning coat, in a generals uniform or merely in rags, hanging from a telephone wire. Suddenly the effigy explodes, from a small bomb hidden within, and bursts into flame. Then the street crowd laughs and yells, and maybe even shoots at the effigy, which is supposed to represent Judas. Burning him in effigy at this time is a Mexican practice. Sometimes "Judas is stuffed with bananas or candy which fall out when he blows up, and street urchins scramble for the street Buy your dead mans bread here," a bakers sign may read around All Souls day. At that time, some Mexicans believe, the spirits of departed relatives return to dine with their families. The dining table becomes an altar, and some foods are served in strange shapes, such as candy skulls, big and little, with cherries for eyes, ribs and leg bones made of chocolate, or cakes baked in the form of coffins. Many churches in Mexico were built . "Dont you think Ive improved in my playing? I dont know; sometimes I think you have improved and other times I suspect that maybe I am just getting used to It. The Rooster A small boy visiting in the country was asked to keep the' fowls out of the vegetable garden. Did any of the fowls get in, dear? be was asked. Yes, auntie, he replied, "the one ' .with the meat on its head , . , churches. They dominate Guadalajara Devotion of the Peons. Horses and rebels were housed In, some of these churches, with priestsj and nuns deported during the revolu- -' tlons. But the faithful carried on Pious peons came for. miles on their' knees to the churches. Old women, shouting the chants and litanies or, counting their beads, crawled to the altars on stiff old knees. Girls knelt! with crowns of thorns on their brows, and small boys clutched at the crupi-- i j fixes. From Guadalajara out to the subur--: ban church ot Zapopan is but a short! trip by tramcar ; but during an August feast peons hobble out to it on theirj knees, taking all day. When prayers, are over they stage a costume play depicting the Spanish conquest of Jalisco. Then Indian players dress and act the parts of Spanish knights and the local Indian characters of that conflict In recent years education has been taken away from the church, and the new generation tends to abandon these mimetic dances and dramatic , rituals. The chief edifice in Guadalajara Is the cathedral ; its twin towers rise over the city, visible for miles. On feast days long strings of lights illuminate the towers, and at Easter the; bishop washes the feet of twelve old! men, chosen at random from street ' crowds. to the aid Rushing king of Spain in; the Peninsular war went many men of Guadalajara. Legend says money was sent, too, raised by melting gold and, silver plate and candlesticks from the! cathedral In gratitude the king gave this church Murillos great painting, "The Assumption of the Virgin, still hanging in the cathedral though many! attempts have been made to buy or purloin it - , Loses Popularity. The bull ring Is here, of course; but such sports as boxing, football and e baseball have robbed it of pop-- i ularity. Despite its continuous appeal' to the peon, who glories in its cruel, gory combats, and survival of a few! other habitues, as a busl-- j ness Is on the decline. Bulls from Spain are still sent to' Mexico City, where tourists help sup-- j port the arena, and some fighting an-- i lmals are still raised on the West coast ranches for Guadalajara. One of these; is the old Rancho San Jose de Gonde,: in Navarlt, which dates from 1550. It: is one of Americas oldest ranches.: Its output of small black, savage bulls; went on for generations. To perpetu-- : ate the fighting instinct, the rule on this ranch was Kill every bull calf that does not seem to hate men. Such! a plan Insures a bull ferocious as any' wild anlmaL One young bull on this ranch chased a vaquero up a tree and kept him treed till he nearly died of ' thirst V, When Cortez conquered Montezuma and founded New Spain, he had with him one Don 'Nuno de Guzman, who! soon rose to power and grew jealous of his chief. Eager to gain more hon--i ors and riches for himself, De Guzman,: in 1529, quit the Aztec capital with; picked Spanish troops . and many' Tlaxcaltecan Indian allies, to explore' the unknown regions farther west and; north. In their travels, De Guzman and his lieutenant, Cristobal de Onate, came upon a huge Indian stronghold, Nochlstlan. Fighting ensued, and nearby the Spaniards built their camp, a, cluster of huts. Though moved about later, to various neighboring sites, a town was laid out about 1530. It was named for De Guzmans home town in Spain, Guadalajara,, from the Moorish meaning River of Rocks. From the king of Spain the new town got its coat of arms in 1539;! so it was really a white settlement; nearly a century before the English; landed at Jamestown. g old-tim- bull-fighti- i , . Wad-al-hajara- h, Control of Erosion Important to Farmer Controlling erosion, the thief of fertile topsoil, is a prominent feature of the new program. The and conserving crops advocated under the new program serve to check erosion in several ways. While these crops are growing, their roots form a thick mat which holds the soil particles in place. They also check of rain water by Impeding f the its flow down hill and by increasing the capacity of the land to absorb water in large quantities. Then after they have been plowed under, the building and conserving crops add organic matter to the soil that makes it soft and spongy. Rain soaks into such soil and is held for long periods. Soil well filled with organic matter also has a greater tendency to remain in place than gritty sand or clay soils. When the soil absorbs large quantities of water it prevents floods during heavy rains and keeps the land from drying out so completely when rainfall is scarce. On an 8 per cent slope a field on which nothing but corn is grown will lose 25 per cent of lt9 rainfall by imf mediate and an average of 67 tons of soil per acre through erosion each year. But if the field is in a good crop, it will lose less than 5 per cent of its rainfall and only a few hundred- pounds of soil per acre. When corn, wheat, and clover are grown in rotation, the average run-of- f of rain water is less than half the amount from a field kept continually in corn, and the soil losses are only as much. soil-buildi- run-of- ! run-of- soil-buildi- - , one-seven- th Use for Durum Wheat . Coccidiosis, Pullorum, Cause Poultiyman Says. Ml By Extension Poultryman. for the Ohio State University. C. M. Ferguson, WNU Service. When chicks die during the brooding season, the cause is usually coccidiosis or pullorum disease. For pullorum disease there is no cure. The disease Is transmitted from the parent through: the egg. It Is caused by a specific! bacteria, and may be conttolled only, through a sound program of blood test-- 1 ing of breeding flocks. Coccidiosis, on the other hand, is, caused by a microscopic organism that; enters the chicks body through the1 alimentary tract It may be picked up: from contaminated soil contaminated! feed, or contaminated litter, and the; most likely source of the infection is from adult chickens on thd farm. It Is very unlikely that this disease Is often purchased with the chicks. The surest means of preventing an Infection is to isolate the young chicks from the old chickens. Hens should, not be allowed to associate with chicks, nor be permitted to run over the; ground on which the chicks are being, ranged. Use of cinder yards, wire porches: and clean range all have their place! In fighting this disease, but in addi-- j tion, it is important to take precaution! against carrying the disease organism: from the adult flock to the chicks onj the poultrymans feet. For this purpose, wear rubbers when caring for the ; chicks. Since coccidiosis organism requires j warmth and moisture during the part of its life cycle spent outside the body! of the fowl, it is good practice to keep the brooder house as dry as possible by placing water fountains on screened platforms. " ; Finds Oil Dipped Eggs Will Hold Fresh Quality, Many poultrymen beat the heat inj summer by dipping eggs in a thin, white: mineral oil This seals the pores of the shells and helps the eggs retain their fresh quality. Recent tests by the United States! Department of Agriculture show that, oiled eggs also stay fresh much better) in cold storage than unolled eggs. In! h an storage test, the orig-- i Inal grade was retained by 65.8 perj cent of the eggs oiled at a temperature, of 60 degrees F.; by 55 pef cent oiled at 80 degrees, but by only 32.5 per cent of those which were uhoiled. Eggs given the oil and vacuum car-- j bon dioxide treatment retained 88 per cent of their original grade at the end of the storage test This method, developed by T. L. Swenson, of the bureau of chemistry and soils, was 35 per cent more efficient than plain oiling. and 173 per. cent more efficient! than storage with no oil treatment In the vacuum process eggs are chamber. dipped in oil in an Enough air is pumped out to create a partial vacuum. Some' air also escapes from the eggs. When carbon dioxide is turned into thq chamber, the eggs draw enough oil into the pores of the shell to form- a complete seal Carbon dioxide has a stabilizing effect on the egg white. If air is used,! eggs do not retain their freshness. eight-mont- , j air-tig- ht - While durum wheat is unsatisfactory for the manufacture of bread, it is particularly suitable for the production of macaroni spaghetti and other similar food products which are collectively known as alimentary pastes.- The best quality pastes are made from semolina, a coarse granular product obtained from durum wheat by a special milling process which differs from that employed in the production of flour from bread wheat Macaroni and similar products, says the Montreal Herald, are prepared from semolina by mixing and kneading it with water and salt to produce a stiff unleavened dough which is forced through suitable dies to produce the shapes desired, the surplus water added being removed by a drying or curing treatment The Silkie Bantam The silkle bantam is the most onjque specimen of all poultrydom, and is one of the oldest of the over 100 varieties of bantams. The silkie does not have feathers like other fowls, but is covered with a silky down, from whence it derives its name. Silkie bantams are bred in white, black, gold-- ) en and partridge, but the most perfect! are the white, as they are the original and the variations of color are yet inj the making. Aside from their plumage they are unique in that their THn, flesh, and bones are a dark mulberry color. They are good layers of medium-sized eggs. Their most valuable characteristic is their propensity to be broody, and they are prized by game and rare bird breeders for hatching! and rearing valuable and tender birds.! Agricultural Notes A good home does not operate on a Silkie bantams cannot fly. dole system. i . per cent of the farm homes still use lamps for lighting purSeventy-seve- n : Original Bantam Breeds The original bantam breeds, imported and otherwise, are: Cuckoo Cochin, poses. Bearded and Mille Fleur, Blue de Anvers, Black de Grubbe, Blue A farm woman who does not have de Grubbe, Black Belgian, Blue Belrunning water yearly carries two tons gian, Quail Belgian, Black Belgian Bar-bu- s of water two miles. de Anvers, Mottled de Anvers, Blue Belgian Barbus de Anvers, Bel, The champion and reserve champion gian de Uccle, Golden Sebright, Silver carload lots of cattle at the 1935 InSebright, Black Sumatra, White Silkie ternational were fed corn on pasture Black Silkie, White Japanese, Gray until August 10 and September 1, reBlack Tailed Japanese, Japanese, spectively, and then finished in dry Creve Coeur, Black Rose Comb. ' ' - Non-bearde- . lot . d |