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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Friday, January 4, 1929 It With FLASHLIGHT BIG AID IN CULLING Shows Many Loafers Among Layers in Hen Flock. Literally catching the loafers napping Is an excellent method of culling the poultry flock, If the culling process Is carried on from week to week. ExtensiCin specialists in poultry at the Olllo State •Jniverslty suggest that the weekly culling may be done very conveniently with a flashlight when the birds are on the roost at night. Birds showing shriveled combs or molt, or having empty crop~. should be culled. Absence of yellow pigment Is one of the indications of a good producer, and It may he difficult, under a flashlight, to dE'tE'r·mlne the coloring of the eyerlngs, earll)bes, vent, beak and sha!lks. If thet·e is doubt, the birds cnn be l~olated and examined again by daylight. The heavy E'gg producers will havF lost yellow color from the body part;, mentioned. However, th~ color will return should the bird cease to lay. In the low producer, the comb Is pale, small and shril·eled, the vent is yellow, shrunken and dry. Eyes are small and shrnul\en, tut·nin~ In toward the beak. Shanks are yellow, round and full, the pelvic bon6.S close to· gether, hard and rigid. Space betweE>n the pelvic bones ami the breast bone Is shallow or full of hard fat. The skin Is thick and umlerlaid with fat. The bird is generally narrow across the rlhs and hips, and the body Is shallow and round. How Much Does Pullet Cost Till Able to Lay? The North Carolina St:l.te college has conducted several tests to determine the amount of feed required to "start a lled, Bur:-f'd Plymouth Hock or Wyandotte la~·ing pullE't. In one series of tests the emi re ani mal feed was milk and in the other meat meal. In the ca~e of the milk-fed pullets it requirE'd 20 ponnJs of f~>ed from the time the pullets were hatched till they be· gan to lay 21 weeks later. This feed cost 71 cE>nts. In the meat meal flock, nine and one-half pounds of mush and nine and one·half pounds of grain were usE'd and the co::.1 was 57 cents. Adding the cost of the chick, and otlt· er costs, the S. C. Hhode Island Hed, Barred Plymoutn Rock or White Wyandotte pullets just in lay would cost Sl.fiO when milk fed and $1.17 when meat meal fed. These pullets sell for $2 each at laying time. If you have surplus milk, feed It to the growing birds. ,. 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON .reLY 11 of last year, "j.Jst fifty-one years to t:\'l~ day and to the hour after Buffalo Bill Cody killed Y~l1ow nand, the Cheyenne war chief, in a duel m~ur tl' ~ banks 1----:---l of War Ilonnet creek In South Dakota" (so II,'!~~~~ sald tile newspaper reL: ports of the aft' a! r), there was unveiled at the Cody Memorial AssoC'Iatlon museum at Cody, 'Wyo., Robert Llndnen ux's painting of that classic fight In frontier history. It Is well that this Incident was ~hosen a.s the subject for a pictorial rerord of hi~ lnrllan·fi~htlng fame, for among all the [ndian-slaylng feats which have hPen credited to the gun of Buffalo Bill, the dramatic killing (lf Yellow Hand on the War Bonnet fs the only one which Is so well .authentlrnted as to leave no doubt as to its aC>tually having happened. At least such !lc'l the conclusion one reaches after reading "The !llaklng of Buffalo Bill-A Study In Heroics," published rt"CE'ntly by the Bohbs-1\Ier'2'111 rompany, a book "htch fnrl!C>ates that for onpe at leM;t, a biographer ·of this notPd plalm<man has taken thE' trouble to go hack of the clonrl of .legend and tradition that has gath· erPd 11 round Cody, to seE-k thE' facts and to write tl~ true story of his ~ l!fe. The circumstances under which the book was written are interE>stlng. It was started as a collaberatlon by Jl!clwrd J. Walsh and Milton Salsbury, son ef Nate Salsbury, Cody's fl1lrtnE>r In the Wild West show. but before the first chapter was written Salsbury died. Walsh continued the wor1{ with th(' assistance of Salsbury's widow and sister. ''Our largest In· <l:ebtE>dn!"Ss, however," says t ..e foreword, "Is to .Jolinny Baker, t1 e foster son of Cody and custodian of the mu· settm at his grave. Our purpose was uot so rnuf'h to tell the story of a life as to study the processes by which a semilegE>ndury figure was created. Unlike those popular heroE>s who grow In fo!ldore fortuitously, Buffalo Bill was the subject of the delibprate and In· finitely sldllful use of publicity. •'Bill Cotly himself Is well worth mowing. Fictlonized versions of his H£'e ha\"e been appE>arlng for half a (,Xmtur~·; to add another such would be t\'Orse than futile. W c wanted to tlnd ~nd tell thE' true facts. which seemed to IS much more dramatic than the fiction and more romantic b~ause they are credible." And their search for the fncts led them to a PonC>Iuslon which Is, perhaps, as true an evaltmtlon of Buffalo Bill as has ever yet bE'E'n wriW>n, It Is containe-d In the cl131ter, "Tile Last of the Great Scouts," from which the following excerpts arll taken: Man and boy, William F. Cody lind the whole span or the winning ot the West Ue first crossed thP Mi8souri when It was the jumping-oft place of civilization. He lived to see the plains crisscrossed with barbed wire and bard roads, .o hear airplanes zoom over th" pa~ses where the prairie schooners had lumbered, to promote a canal and say proudly, '"Ain't I the father of lrrl· gat! on?" to own roadside Inns In the mountains and even to project a dude rench. . . . Ot those who worshiped him as the valor?us champion that beat back the redl;kin and saved an Inland empire, few realized that rls active llfe on the plains ended when he was but twentysix years old. The Indian wars were over; the plains had no future to offer him, and he was wond~ring whether he could get a job In the city as coachman or driver of a fire engine. Then came Ned Buntline, the dime no,·ellst, ·wd, on his heels, John Burks, probablY the greatest all-round pres~ agent that ever lived, to persuade him, magnify him and make him their creature. Certainly no Individual, before the days of movies and radio, ever had such effective personal exploitation. For nearly t".:>lf a century he was contlnuougly held before the public, In the pages of nickel and dime novels, on the boards In blood and thunder melodrama and In the astounding Wild West show which toured from th" tank towns to the very thrones of Europe. . . Truth about him has been hard to ~orne oy. Those who knew him In youth s,re dead or forgetful. The records are. brittle, sparse and often fabulous . For fortunately there Is at the disposal of the authors of this volume a mass ot "Butralobllla" never be· fore available to any biographer. . Burrowing In these collections and In the historical records, we learn, 118 might be guessed, that the flesh-andblood Bill Cody was somewhat less In stature than the Buffalo Bill of the Ink and the limelight. But \\'e learn, too that t.ls life had nldden romances Into which the professional romancHs did not delve. Even It he had fought all the Indians that were credited to him, the youth on the plains could never have rivaled In courage and end •trance the man that Buffalo Bill be<'ame as he fought debts and disaster and Illness and injustice In his old age, Let none doubt that he was then a bero. The story of Buffalo Bill's life llS It Is usually tolt.l, Is so well-known as to need no retelling here-how he was born In Iowa In 1846, went with his parents to Kansas during the antisin very fight of the fifties, 11nC. how his father was killed because he wa.s a E'Fee-Soller. Then the eleven-yearold boy got a job -;vlth Russell, Major and Waddell, the famous outfit ~·f freighters, and near Fort Kearney, Neb., killed Ills Orst lndian. Although "upon this feat, the whole structure of Buffalo Bfll's prestige as a lndlan killer was reared," no hlstnrlcal record ot It has ever been found and such con 'ting stories have been told about It t at there is a legitimate doubt as o the truth of any of the clr~umsta ces s\]rroundlng the Inc!· dent whl • gave Billy Corly the title ungest Indian slayer on the plains." In fact the dime novelists, such as Col. P1 tlss Ingraham and Ned Buntllne, have so confused the record of BuK l Bill's life with their exaggerations that doubt can easily be cast up many other feats uttrihutert to him nd alleged to have beE'n per· formec kluring his earlly friendship with ' d Bill Hickok, as a soldier In the Ci I war, as a pony express t-lder and as a scout In the Indian wars. Espec a ly Is this true In the latter case, d In particular In regard to an lncliPnt, sepond only to the Yellow nand ·!lllng for Its publicity value. That vas the killing of Chief Tall Bull at thE' Battle of Summit Springs . Colo., In 1869. Although Cody Is credit .d with having killed Tall Bull, stron e~t evldenee points to Maj. Frank North, organizer of the famous Paw e Scouts, as the actual slayer of that hief. • It ~·as at this time that Ned Buntllne appeared In Cody's life and the heroics. which were continued by Burke during Cody's career M a showman, began. They "made" Buf· falo Bill the popular hero and the man of world renown. Though ten years has elapsed since his dPath, that renown survives. The chapter, "The Magic of a Name," says: The spirit of Butralo Btll . . broods not only over the promontory (Lookout mountain, near Den\'er, wher·e he Is buried) on the margin ot the prairies where he chase<! the buffalo, but also over the Big Horn Basin where he pioneered and skylarked Wvoming celebrates his birthday each February. In the town whleh he founded he rides forever on a hor~e of bronze, and where the Codv trail winds otT toward the Yello.wstone stands a replica ot the 'l'El ran<'b houde. .More than a de'cado after his death the name of Buffalo Bill still ha.s magic to draw the crowds. Railway advertisements lure travel· ers Into the Buffalo Bill country. Dudes go to the ranches In lncresl!lng num· bers. In the shops of Cody they Parnestly try on and buy the chaps and sombreros and lariats which entitle them to play for a little while at being rough riders of the West. And each July dude and old-timers !lock to the Cody Stampede-when the cowboys of the basin put on their (?udest shirts and come jingling In for a frolic of roping, stake racing, bull· dogging and bronco busting, to keep alive memorie~ of the days that Buf· f'llo Bill made glamorous. For Early Winter and Late Fall Production With most ordinary flocks only 50 per cent or so of the flock is kept as aged hens, the other half being pullets, and the purpose of this Is to provide for early winter and late fall egg pro· ductlon. Pullets, when hatched early and properly fed, will begin lnylng In October or No,·ember aud lay quite heavily during this season of the year. Hens that are one year of age or older rarely begin lnylrig bE'fore late December or early January. They do their heaviest laying during the late winter and early spring months. 'fherefore, to balance egg production It ill necessary to have approximately half the flock old hens and half the flock pullets-. • • • •• •• ••• • 'l'l1e geological survey says that coal dut;:. not cccur Itt veius, uut fn strata --!hat Ls, It was de[lnsited an~ Is now found In lay{'rs between and parallel r.vitl.l other luyers or beds of ~tratlfil•d rock, just as one leaf In a bo-ck occurs •tween and I~ fill rullPI with the other . of I he hook. 'l1tese layers arE' wron~ly calf{'tl "v<'ins," hut acro~s strata instead of with them. CPrtaln black hydrocarbon minerals, supE>r· ficially resembling coal but related to the 11Sflhalts, do occur In veins that cut acr•)SS the Inclosing strata. The gll~onite I"E'ins of uor1 hwestern Colo· rado at':! examples. Don't Bother Babies A woman who is so fashionable that she Is almost a str·angpr to her little son del'ldcrl It was about time she beeumc !lc·qrminted with him. She read old books ahnut the thlugs mothers used tCI flo, Sllch as sln1,'ing lullabies and rocking to sleep. And then, one night, she sent her nurse out and stayed at home, just for n new sensa· tlon. She crept Into her little son's bed· room, and began to croon, as she pushed the ued about, "Hush-a-bye, baby. on the tree-top," The child turned a wondering eye on her, and then said, sleepily: "I say, eut that stufl' out. mother. A fellow want~ to ~et some sleep." New o()eras help to settle ltld SC>orea. 'l'he class had been told to bring things to school for drawing lesson, and just as the lesson was about to begin, a smutl hoy was found standing \ tearfully at his teud1er's desk. 1 "I've swallowed my object," be ex· plalnE>d. "\\'hat was It?" asked tbe teacher l anxiously. "A banana," replied the would-be artlst.-Pearson's Weekly, When ! HIRED CLERKS FOR THA'!' Child en Ctr fl It Castorla Js a co!l~{oJrt wl1en Baby ~ tretful. No sooner than the little ' one Is at ease. If a few drop~ soon bring No harm done for Castorla Is a remedy, meant for babies. safe to give the youngest infant; have tho doctors word for that I vegetable ~pro· duct and you it evf'ry day But It's in an that .;torla means most. Some wh constl;>atlon must be colic pains -or other suffer! be without It; some motbE>rs unopened, to make ways be Castorla effective for older qr1•uret~, r'UlO the book that '• Doe-sn't yonr devotion to sport1 cause you to neglect your business:" "No-I hire clerks to do that." Voice of Hope Although reforms seem rather late, We hope, from day to day, There always Is a candidate To cheer us on' the way. Setting Her Right The new Q!lkman was a bashful young man, but he was anxious to please his clients. An elilerly woman appeared at the door of a house he j served, and demanded. haughtily, 1 ''How my milk bill1" The much youngIsman blushed and stnm· , mered, "Beggin' yer pardon, ma'am, but-my name's Jim !"-Stray Stories. I ~~~~~~~~~;~~~~~~~ Swedish 'I.'he great respouse Swedes have given to Seems Safe to Ask Swedish government "Why are you so pens1Ye1'' be ard of education Is as~ ~dm. ; of the Unil·ersity of not pensive," she replied. There are now so ma "But you haven't said a word for ales whCI have finished twenty minutes." . 1 courses that there Is "Well, I didn't have anything to to do. say." 1 I high stu • officla s In, SwedE>n. young gradu" univer • " ug for theln How to Golden Wedding IN FLU "Here Is an Invitation to my golden wedding." "What! Your olden wedding?" "Yes, don't you know I am marryIng a millionaire's daughter?" . oid ZA' I "\Vhat eh, , what?" I "What about •em, old top?" ., ..I just heard a fellah say that : chickens vote.'' • • WHAT COLLEGE DOES "I saw you young chiropractor." "Conversing I He lug about his spln.al told him I didn't want more of his back ta Transcript. • Parrots arE' seldttm born capth· 1ty, but Nature Maguzloe curds a t>ase of a parrot hatched In a San An ronlo shop. Poultry Facts • ••• •• • • •• Birds that are not tit to be kept ovE>r as breeders should be disposed of at once. • • • Moldy or spoiled feed Is always dangerous. It causes loss of appetite, diarrhea, fungus growth In the "Innards," and often kills the fowls. • • • I 1 Coed-Do you think colle ..e Is doing much for you? Stude- I dunno I I knew most of this stuff before I came. Don't be afraid to feed oats, e~pe clally If you can get heavy white oatR. They are a grE'at poultry feed, unles~ too much hull and not enough kernel. High Coat of Sareaa Beware or the sarcastic cbal!. It serves no end If, every time you get a la h, You lose a friend. • • • If laying fowls lose weight, gl ve them more grain. If thp're IU?:y, llr.avy, and laying poorly, cut thE' grain down, so they'll eat more mash. Herr Professor 1 I ~~--------------.--~-. OLD FOLKS SAY .. • • • "Professor, what chair do you oe- \ cupy 2" "My chair Is In a barbers' college." . "Hehi" "I do not occupy it. l stand bebind it." • • • Necessary Corn, also barley, It fed, should be given In the evening, because these feeds provide needed heat for the birds during cold nights on the roosts. Improve your flock next year by getting some good males to breed with them. Start right now to looking or writing around and locate some good ones. • • • Coal Ft'rmation DRAWING FROM NATURE Turkeys wlll begin laying indoors. eYen In the late winter months, It they are well shE>lterE'd and given a good laying mash. • • • There Is plenty of room for more poultry meat and It puys to keep 11 flock of good meat fowls that have been bred for e~g production. Card Shark-Come on, pard: Jclr, our little gatJle. You know bow to play, don't you! WI sen re-Yes, but 1 don't know how to cheat. No Cause ,or Prid• "Whut makes the monkeys so angcy this morning?" inquired the keeper. "Well.'' said the attendant. "Professor Gardner has just oeen around telling them of the Darwinian theory that they have descended : .•,m man." • • • Dcn't think you hrtve to keep Leghorn!' to get eggs. Any breed or variety <:an IJp bred for E>gg production. It Is a rr.ntter of strain more than breed. Compact Luggage Gerlle-Gee, I'm out o' luck. I've my compact. . Flo-Here. use mine. Gertle-Bnt I bad my bathing suit to~t In it. • I I DR. CALDWELL WAS RIGHT r The basis of trea.tr:!ng siclcnc-ss bas n changed since Dr. Caldwell left Medica\ College in 1875, nor since lte placed on the market the laxative pre~ription he had used in his practice. He treated constip$tion, biliousness, headaches, mental depression, indi<'Clltion, sour stomach and other indispositions entirely by means ot simple yebetable laxatives, herbs and roots. These still the baBis of Dr. Caldwell's Pepsin, & combination of Jther mild herbs. with pepsin. •)a-••r-o-a•a•~-o-a-a The simpler the remedy for tion, the safer for the child and And as you can get results UJd safe way by using Dr. )yrup Pepsin, why ta.ke chance& >Lrong drugs t , A bottle will last sE,veral montliR, ~u can use it. It is pleasant to tba taMe, gantle ill action, and free from narcotics. Elderly ymople find it ideal. All drUg stores Jun--. the fenerous l:ottlcs, ~r write "S~ ntp l'epom," D~pb. BD, Monticello. Illinois, for fn-e trial bottle. |