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Show ' THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Thursday, August 27, 1931 STAGE COACH TALES .By E. C.'TAYLOR POULTRY FEED THAT IS WELL BALANCED Calculated to Maintain Egg Production. Feed cost Is only a part of the expense of producing eggs. It Is about 60 per cent of the total expense. If it talres 9 cents feed cost to produce eggs, the eggs must sell for 15 cents a dozen. tQ keep from losing money. What the poultry man needs ts a cheap but well-balanced ration. There are two mash mixtures that can be prepared for about the same price. The first Is~ Equal parts of bran. shorts. cornmeal. ground oats, and meat scraps. The second Is: 100 pounos cornmeal, 100 pounds ground wheat. 100 pounds groun!l oats or bar· ley, and 75 pounds of meat scraps. Either mash must be fed dry and kept before the hens at all times In open self-feeders. Ten feet of feeder space Is needed for each 100 hens In the house. A grain ration Is fed with the mash. Sucb a ration may consist of any grains grown on the farm. It should c01~tuin some yellow corn tf It does •ot add too much to the cost by tnclndlng it. Equal parts of cracked corn, whole wh"Cat and kaflr Is a suggested ration, or 75 parts of corn, 2.'i parts of wheat. or In fact most any combination of grains. Range and Fresh Water Necessary for PullPts Crowding pullets on the range ls one cause of poor development. When the young birds have plenty of room they seem to feathN better and develop vigorous meaty bodies. Poultry profits are determined not entirely by · th9 number of pullets but by the qualIty of the individual birds. Never allow the water supply to run low on the pullet range. If water must be carried to the birds, take them fresh water whether they need it or not. This prevents the fountains or pans ft·orn running dry and causing the birds to trample each other while suffering from thirst. The modern method of feeding the grcwing stock consists tn keeping a balanced dry mash available at all times and that mash cannot easily be eaten or digested without large quantities of water to mix with It. No Profit in Keeping Weak Pullets in Flock Weak pullets should be disposed of as soon as possible after they are out of the Incubator, according to Leon Todd. of the Purdue university faculty. ''Poorly feathered chicks, often called 'bare backs.' usually are the result of an inherited tendency and one prominent hatchery man told me he had his flock owners band each said. he chick," poorly-hatched "None of the banded birds was used as breed..,rs. and after using this scheme it no IO<!'Igtr was necessary to use bands to identify the 'bare backs.' "Keep young birds and layers separated to prevent disease," he warned. .. Place the brooder house in clover or alfalfa, near a corn field, and move It a fe~ yards every tbree or four weeks and be sure there is plenty of water for the birds." Must Include Vitamins in the Chicken Ration Better chicks result If the hatching eggs are rif'h In vitamins A, D, and E. Yellow corn and green alfalfa leaves supply vitnmln A. Vitamin D w1ll be supnlied If the flock can range In plenty of sunshine. Whole kernels ot wheat contain vitamin E. Earh poul· try raiser prorhwing hatching eggs sholJI(J see to It that his breeding birds are rerefving their share of In thes~> vitamins-eontnlning feeds. case of a km~ spell of cloudy weathel', it woul(l be advlsnhle to feed a bloJogienll:v tested cod liver oil until sufficient sunshine returns, as such o!1 contains vitamin D. Cod liver oil can be mixed with the grain feed at the rate of one pint for each 100 pounds. Air Poultry House When a long poultry house conslsts :>f tight sections, while the hens all range In ooe tlock, we lind it pays to open all the Inside doors and block them open. This tends to stir up a draught in the house and the air keeps moving even on hot days. An ont· side screen door covered with hardware cloth can be used Instead of the wooden door on hot nights. and it w!ll help to keep out thieves but permit air to circulate through the house.lndiana Farmer's Guide. Quarters for Pullets ' The Idol of Stage Coach Daya BUN'l'ING, "Red" to evR illDDlNG eryone, was mQre widely known and had more friends than any other driver on the old National road. His entire service was the "Old Line," the National Road Sta11e company that did the largest share of the business nlong the famous highway of a ce.ntury ago. "R{'d" Bunting was 6 feet 3 Inches tall in his stocking feet, and was straight as an arrow. He was of a reddish complexion, his features prom- ' inent and striking, his voice deep ana sonorous. But he was not loquacious, He wru~ ~>nd had a habit of munching. endowed with strong common sense-the term "horse sense" originated among the "Pike boys" of the National road and was applied to him-and he was affable, conviwial and compalll.o.... able. This !dol of boys and men alike along the National road was born in Fayette county, Pa. He was not only a famous driver, but also was a trusted stage agent, stage proprietor and tavern keeper. He once owned the Central hotel in Uniontown, Pa., and probably would have died a rich man had he not been a vicitm of despond· ency and depression when the rail· roads supplanted the old east-west highway. During the Presidency of Ma:rtin Van Buren, It was deemed desirable by the administration leaders in Washington that one of the President's mes· sages be spread speedily before the people of the country. Arrangements were made with the Stockton line to carry the message westward, as the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was not then in operation west of Frederick, Md. iBuntlng, as agent for the stage coach line, went to Frederick to receive the message and convey it to Wheeling, W. Va. "Red" sat beside the relay of drivers the entire ' distance, 222 miles, although he did not handle the reins himself. The distance was covered in 23 hours and 30 minutes. Changes of teams and drivers were made at the usual relay stations. Jo· seph Woolley drove the coach from Farmington to Uniontown, making sparks fly as the coach speeded down the long western slope of Laut·el hill. Homer Westover drove from Union· town to Brownsville, Pa., a distance of 12 miles, 1n 44 minutes. Mail coaches in those d:pys carried only three passengers. There was spirited bidding for the privilege of riding in the coaches directed by Buntlog on this record ride. That was before they started. Two of the passengers lasted as far as Uniontown, and tile third got out at Brownsville. That speed in a lumbering stage gave them too much of a shaking up. It didn't disturb Bunting at all. This ride occurred before the telegraph wires extended west of Frederick. The Pittsburgh Gazette had arranged to get an early copy of the President's message, and had agreed to pay Robert L. 'Sarry and Joseph P. McClelland, employees of the National Road Stage company, $50 for speedy delivery of the message at their office In Pittsburgh. Brownsville was the distributing point :lor the United States mail at the time, and Barry and McClelland took the mail coach, the "Industry," famous along the route, at Uniontown and t•ode to Brownsville on It, to ob· tain the message and convey it to the Pittsburgh Gazette. When the mail was opened. there was no copy of the message for the Gazette, and rBarry and McClelland returned home disappointed, and the Gazette had to walt for the next mail In 1846, after the railroad was completed to Cumberland, Md., "Red" BuntIng droYe the great mail coach from Cumberland to Wheeling that carried the message of President Polk official· ly proclaiming war with Mexico. He left Cumberland at 2 a. m. and reached Uniontown at 8 a. m. He breakfasted there with the passengers at hls own hotel-he owned the National house , at the time--and then started off again. He reached Washington, Pa., at 11 a. m., and Wheeling at 2 p. m. He made the 131 miles in 12 hours. "Red" was a firm friend and staunch admirer of Henry Clay, "father" of the National road, and Clay often stopped for days at "Red's" hotel in Uniontown. Bunting named one of his sons after the great Kentuckian. ((c), 1931. Weotern Newsoaoer Union.) Jewish Surname• The American Hebrew says that ) Jewish surnames date only from 1812, when IIardenburg, the Austrian, devised a specious and Ingenious form ot tyranny by which to afflict the Jews. Since they had never had surnames ai)d bad preferred to remain without them ln the thousands of years of their existence, Hardenburg saw a new means whereby to inflict discomfort upon the Jews. In this wholesale naming the two most common sources of name~ were the Bible and the occupation of the person. As the culls are removed the ffock will, of course, need less room and where a large bouse with pens ts used the remainder of the ffock can be Denote Time•• Travel moved Into fewer and fewer pens and The letter "M" stands for Meridian the empty ones thoroughly cleaned and dilllnferted and made ready for the highest point attained by the sun the. pullets, a wrlter In the Ohio Farm- In its dally course; hence, noon, or er comments. This method of arrange- twelve o'clock daytime. A. M. stands meut will spread the labor OT ~r a for ante-meridian, or before meridian, longer tlme and mean less rushing ·this I which ls morning, and P. M. stands tall when the ?ullets are ready to b& for post-meridian-that Is, after meridian, or afternoon. put I.Jll their wmter quarter& I FATE'S ODD MIXING OF TWO MESSAGES The well-beloved Daniel Frohman sends me the following Interesting Information : "The Iate Leonard Grover, a widely h'tlown theatrical manager of the early '70s, was the manager of the theater in Wasllington in 1865 wherein Abraham Lincoln was shot. "He told me the following curious story in connection with that event: "It was the custom of the Presi· dent to send word to !11r. Grover to say when it would be convenient for him and his family to attend a performance at Ford's theater. "One day previous to the memorable tragedy, he drove c1own Pennsylvania avenue and stopped in front of the theater. He tore oft' a margin from the newspaper in his possession, and wrote on it that IH' and his family would be happy to attenct the next evening. The play was 'Our American Cousin.' "About this time Mr. GL·over was negotiating with J. Wilkes Booth for a continuance of his contrul.'t as an actor In the Ford theater company. Booth wrote Mr. Grover a note on a sheet of paper folded In two sections, saying he would accept the renewal. "Mr. Grover tossed Lincoln's script Into a receptacle, and he also put there Mr. Booth's letter. "Many years afterward (Mr. Grover told me) In looking through an old trunk ro get letters and material for a book he was writing, he came across ~1r. Booth's old letter, folded. Inside the fold of the letter was the strip of newspaper Lincoln had used to write on."-Willlam Lyon Phelps In Scribner's Magazine. Naturally through new markets ln the form of upholstery Unlngs, auto-tire cords, Amelia Earhart, the nQted avlntrlx, and ihe llke.-Populnr Mechanics Is said to be as witty as she Is pret1\fagnzlne. ty. It was during a Washington dinner given in her honor that a woman said to her: Influence of Forests "Here's another lovely debutante Proved by Experiment gone and got herself engaged to an Forests influence the amount of old man. Yes, Helen Summers is gomoisture in the air as well as con- ing to marry old man Calhoun, the serve the water in the ground. Hu- banker. What is It that makes these midity records taken by the Pacific old fellows such winners with thil Northwest forest experiment &tation girls?" in a Douglas fir forest before and ":Must be checks appeal," laughed after the trees were cut Indicated a Miss Earl1art. remarkable difference in atmospheric humidity, according to the forest Live every day as l:t thy last. service, United States Department of Agriculture. In the forested area the relative humidity feU below 35 per cent In only one-third as many hours as In an open area nearby. After the forested tract was cut over, the atmosphere above It appeared to become almost as <!ry as that Qver the open space. The tests showed that the removal of the trees increased the number of hours during which the humidity was below 35 per cent by two and 'JDe-llalf times. MercolizedWax Keeps Skin Young G,_t aD Ounce and wt:e u dil'ect.ed. Fine Partld~IS of g:ed eldu peel off until all defeate 11uc.h. aa pimplee llvet epob, tan and frecklel!ll diaappt~ar. 8kin ie th~ eofl and v~Bl~ety. Y OUI" fa.ce.looka )"e&r• youo.ge:r. Merooliaed. Wa::r: brinas out the h1dden beauty of your akin. Te f'!IIIOVe ~rlnklu uae one ounce Powdered Su:olite dimolved •n one-half viDt Witoh hazel~ At dn.I& stofea.. on' CUSS I• Got Whole Owl Famill" At Kinston, N. C., Jacob Deaver Flit kills mosquitoes quick! caught and caged a baby owl, and parental love resulted in catching the oy,.!'s father and mother. The birds found their offspring In the cage and visited It at night. Deaver trapped the male owl and found beside the cage a mangled chicken, parts of which had been thrust through the cage to the Infant. Deaver caged the· old owl and set the trap again. The next morning he had caught the mother owl. A dead chicken and n Largest Seller In 121 Countries headless rabbit were close by. Now the owl family lives ln Deaver's cage, W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 35--1931. More Uses for Cotton peace_J!ul and contented. apparently Efforts to find new uses for cotton, Domesticated Hen emphasized in connection with aid to Sage Irritated An of Mount Morris, N. Y., Dixon June southern farmers, have found results "There ought to be a law," began has a pet bantam hen, and the chickIn plans for doorknobs, buttons, autoen ha.s become so domesticated that moblle paint, combs, movie films, the Indignant citizen. "Wait a minute," Interrupted Sen- it entered the house and laid an egg writing paper, shock absorbers, wire Insulators and artificial leathers ator Sorghum. "What there ought to between two dolls in n carriage on made from the entire cotton plant, be Is a law to prevent the making of the second floor of the dwelling. No except the roots. 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