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Show EMERY COUXTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH s PHI bivcfer YEARLING HEN NOT ALWAYS POOR "BET" Many Can Qualify as Profit- able Layers. frt J w - - , f tm fyi j f - a V- V.;-- ; - r 4lm : lit , v extension specialist of the college of agriculture, University of Illinois. "In some Instances it Is good economy to keep most of last year's pullets. For one thing, they have gone through their most expensive depreciation. Last fall good pullets sold for $1 to $1.25 apiece, but these same birds probably would not sell for more than 50 to 75 cents this spring. This heavy depreciation is all because they have reached the hen class, and in the minds of the buying public they do not represent the potential value of a pullet. "However, many of these yearling hens, if well bred, are far from being through as profitable layers. It Is true that they may not make as. high an annual production record, but they can be quite as profitable as many pullets. One big advantage of the production from yearling birds Is that there should be no discount for small eggs. A Singapore by National Geographic Socle:y. Service. Washington. D. O-W- NU fPwmred uncompleted British naval at Singaport again may with workmen. The base haa been a political football in British official circles for more fiian a decade. Construction began In 1921 but before much progress was made, the project was Interrupted by In that political quarrels until 1928. year the base site was the scene of much activity but work again was halted when the Labor party, which opposed the project, came into power. To the military strategist, Singapore Is one of Britain's main links in its chain of defenses that stretch from Gibraltar through Malta, Suez, Aden and Ceylon, but to students of geography and readers of fiction, It Is the "Crossroads of the East," and a city there "East meets West." In all the swift, significant changes wrought by white men in the East, no, me event stands out more conspicu ously than the rapid rise of Singapore. From a Jungle Isle, where tigers ate men at night, to a magnificent city, tenth among the ports of the world, in less than a century ! Its place on the map, its strategic position here at the crossroads of the East, forced It to a growth at once unique and astonishing. Last year "early 10,000 ships cut the cobalt-blu- e leas of the Malacca strait, tying up the trade of Singapore with Europe, Africa, and India, with Australia, China, Japan, and the Americas. And how Singapore came to be a city l one of the latter-da- y romances of the Orient. Away back In history, before even the days of Marco Polo, the Malays had founded their powerful Kates and set up an empire on their peninsula. Then came the Portuguese and laid waste to the strongholds of the sultans, leaving colonists whose descendants, bearing long, aristocratic names oddly out of place among Malay cognomens, are still found throughout foe THE Indies. After the Portuguese came the Dutch, from Malacca to Manila, only to be followed later by the British, bo, with their genius for colonization, are here to this day. It was this British adventure, about a hundred years a?o, that lured Stamford Raffles, bo.-- n at sea, into this restless re-t- n of the then unknown East. And fate willed that he should found this weeping Peat Singapore. "ineanore was not Hindustan, Hire nor acquired as a ready-Had- e colony. Ilk FToneknnfr; If was duply bought as New York was, and "raw. when Sir Stamford nnfflps elected It as an outpost for British traders on the China route and pur-a- d for the East India company It was a Island then, peopled by few score savage Malay flsherfolk. Kw it is a wonder city, with mar-M- e bank buildings of singular beauty ,nd great stone law courts and cov- emment edificeg and Chrlgtlan churches "" in striking contrast to the orna- It m the Sultan of Johore. d ""wai Malnv of the Hindus, 'and the houses of the Chinese. A Jungle Reclaimed. Through the thick lumrlo led only the elephant paths, wide, roads have now been built, and hoarse Squawk of the mntnr horn drovriAri - ... - flnerve growia or. uie rarklnj Ples Joss D tiger. Forty-fiv- e years ago a few Para rub- . S8 onl 01 "rZ11 of I S Today- - three-fourth- s rubbcr comes from this glon. And ln th,s magic development , Orleans hra a. icuuiiJK rule. ymjcu IBIS T.,1.. liun, penmsuia, stretcning S f miles from tne Siamese fronti d0Wn t0Wfrl the equator, form Vast humld relon 0 dense fore f nal 3u"Se' elephants, mbhT Rnd naked people, rice fields, plantations, nnri tin m f n r IPow Aaierli cn tourists see it. ,Singapore, uuc 011 a tiny ereen lsie f th ame name, which lies Just off "er nlnnto traitv the i -- ... "Steam Roller." the end of the peninsula and nearly on the Equator, is the capital of the British crown colony commonly called the Straits Settlements. This colony embraces the Province YVellesley, the Dindings and Malacca on the mainland, and the Islands of Penang and Singapore. More than fifty steamship lines and Its cable net and radio stations tie Singapore up with adjacent regions, and British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and Slam constitute a unit In commercial geography which centers at the great port. "The Melting Pot of Asia," they call this prolific, potent peninsula, because of the babel of races, colors, and castes which its wealth of rubber and tin has drawn to it. But ln all this Industrial army of Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, Tamils, Hindus, and assorted South Sea Islanders, the Chinese are the most numerous and powerful. The Malay himself !s too lazy even to be a good fisherman. He grows a little rice, a few coconuts, and nets the fish he needs, but Nature Is so kind that It is said one hour's effort a day will support him and his family. It Is the Chinaman who Is the tin miner, the farmer, shopkeeper, artisan, contractor, and financier. Nature's motion picture, as your ship swings Into the narrow, Singapore roads, is like a vision of some fabled Dream Isles of Delight. Fairy isles they seem, floating on a turquoise sea, wooded, in green, miraculously brightest broken off and cast adrift' from Sumatra and Malaya. Cruising through these straits, your ship creeps so close to certain Isles that you can actually see the natives going about their dally life, and you can clearly make out the Intimate details of the tiny palm-lea- f shacks, which stand on stiltlike piles out over the water. When Not so Charming. But on certain hot, steamy days ln early autumn, when no air stirs and the tide has run very low, these Islands, on closer inspection, are not all so charming. Then the receding waters leave vast, flat banks of slimy stinking mud, alive with crawling creatures birds; and the pursued by myriad mangrove trees that hug the shore are left standing with their naked crooked roots all exposed an oddly repellent picture, suggesting the wet, slippery colls of a million monster serpents, their bodies all twisted together, seeming to crawl ln and out of the foul steaming ooze. Tou are glad, then, when your ship has poked her restless nose past these reeking mud flats and you come to the anchorage, tying up amid as strange a fleet as ever the sun shone on. Swarming about your ship In their bobbing canoes, little Malay boys come to dive for nickels, for do not all American sahibs observe the odd custom of throwing money Into the sea as they approach a tropic port? The white man's life today ln Singapore, as In other tropic parts. Is easy The British and and comfortable. American trading firms are all staffed. In the higher positions, by men from the home lands. Office hours are fairly short, down ln this equatorial clime, for the white mnn must have more recreation than In the colder countries of the north. Here, near the Equator, dnsy and nights are about equal; toward dark the din of barter and sale subsides and the streets begin to empty. The houseboat folk of the river and the wharf workers quiet down. Chinese shopkeepers shuffle out to put up their High above, the star picshutters. tures of heaven are hung out the sprawling Scorpion and the majestic Long before ten Southern Cross. o'clock this magic, mongrel city of tin, trade, and turbulence Is sound asleep. No speeding Joy rider, owl car, or Jazz breaks the delicious stupor of Its repose. Jungle-gowne- d long-legge- d roof-garde- Income and other taxes are very heavy, especially in Great Britain, where they are 22 to 25 per cent of Incomes. ConseTery moderate quently many efforts are made to evade them legally. By a quirk ln the shipping laws, a yacht owner living ln his boat Is not taxed, and one such "home" may be seen at Monte Carlo, where it has been moored for years. The author, Compton Mackenzie, novelist, has leased the tiny Island of Jethou, which lies with Its smaller sister, Herm, just east of Guernsey, In the Channel Islands. Curiously, this lease Is taken from the British government, at an absurd figure amounting to perhaps $1 a week and If the novelist lives there six months in the year he may live In England Itself the other six months and entirely escape the income burden. By virtue of his Investment, he may fly his own flag and assume many feudal privileges of the ancient duchy of Normandy, for these Islands are a part of that dukedom. There are no taxes on tobacco, spir its, on gun licenses, nor has he a tax to pay to his local government Herm, next door, also was leased ln a similar way, and has a curious history of Its lease to Prince Bluch er of Waldstadt, Germany, great grandson of Blucher, the general of the battle of Waterloo. The late Prince Blucher was strongly attracted to the Australian kangaroo and bred them on Herm. The island Is now ln Its original state and the kangaroos have vanished. They've Never Tasted a Tonic! well-know- n One way farmers and poultrymen can save this year is to keep most of last year's pullets so that fewer chicks will have to be raised, says H. H. Alp, poultry EVADE INCOME TAX IN DEVIOUS WAYS "With the present knowledge of feeding and of management methods. It is not hard to have yearling birds laying well early in the fall and Chicks' Growth Helped by "All-MasSystem h" dried buttermilk or sklm-mil- k is mixed in with the mash it enables the chickens to get their source of milk much more evenly than ln any other way. This also is a wonderful source of vitamins for young chicks and helps to give the succulence which would not be obtained if only scratch grains were fed. To sum up the advantages of an system: It keeps the chicks busier throughout the day; it supplies the chicks with many sources of protein; It enables a better distribution to the chicks of milk and the vitamins It contains and, furthermore, it insures a better distribution to the chicks of the minerals which are so essential for uniform growth. Where Pink Granite in Highway Pink granite from the mountainside was used to build the recently opened highway In Cadillac mountain, the highest on the Atlantic seaboard, in Acadia National park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. It has a granite fence on the outside of the road. IVm J S5f; are not patent medicine Their appetite needs no coaxing. Their tongues are never coated, cheeks never pale. And their bowels move just like clockwork, because they have never been given laxative. a habit-formiYou can have children like this and be as healthy yourself if you follow the advice of a famous family physician. Siimulafc the vital orqans. The strongest of them need help at times. If they don't get it, they grow sluggish. Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin is a mild, safe stimulant. When a youngster doesn't do well at school, it may be the liver that's lazy. Often the bowels hold enough poisonous waste to dull the senses! A spoonful of delicious syrup pepsin THESE The Pope's Railrocd The new railroad in the Vatican City is only 600 feet long (half of which is tunnel) but is double tracked, has an elaborate station and one of the most elaborate trains In the world. The latter, for the pope's Wise Is he who learns from the especial use. Is made up of three coaches. One carries a throne, an experience of ethers. T once or twice a week will avoid all this. It contains fresh laxative herbs, active senna, and pure pepsin, and does a world of good to any system young or old. You can always get this fine prescriptional preparation at any drug store. Just ask them for Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin-Get some syrup pepsin today, and from those Erotect your family sick spells days, frequent and colds. Keep a bottle in the medicine chest instead of cathartics that so often bring on chronic constipation. Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin can always be employed to give clogged bowels a thorough cleansing, with none of that painful griping, or burning feeling afterisn't expensive. ward. It other a private chapel and the third a combination dining and sleeping car. All coaches are of steel, painted maroon with the pontifical coat of arms In bronze. If a man hasn't the germ of uprightness in hlin, praying for guidance gets no response. h f!i Feeding Too Late It was formerly a common practice to feed baby chicks too soon after hatching but now many farmers and poultrymen are going to the opposite extreme and waiting too long before feeding. About 24 hours are required to complete a hatch. That is it will be 24 hours from the time the first chicks hatch until the last ones are out of the shell. If the chicks are not fed until more than 48 hours after the hatch is completed some of the chicks are more than 72 hours old before they receive any nourishment. The long wait makes them weak and past desire to eat. Forty-eigh- t completed maximum feeding. should be hours after the hatch is is now recommended as the amount of time to withhold For best results the first feed given earlier. To Get Production In order to keep the pullets In laying condition, to get them to gain weight and produce eggs at the same time, J. H. Bodwell, poultry expert recommends : 1. Make the laying house clean and means have which comfortable, roosts, hoppers, fountains, enough and have plenty of space for the flock. 2. Free the birds of lice, mites and worms before putting them In the house. 8. Darken the house when the flock Is first moved to new quarters to prevent their worrying and losing flesh. Remember that a hen cannot produce eggs without good feed any more than a windmill can turn without 4. wind. Benefits of All-Ma- sh poultry ration that has given good success at Iowa state college is composed of 650 pounds Of ground yellow corn, 350 pounds f ground heavy oats, 100 pounds of ground wheat, 80 pounds of meat scrap or 60 per cent protein tankage, 20 pounds of dried milk and four pounds of fine salt. In addition to this ration the flock should have a good supply of calcium grit and gravel. The ration saves labor and special care in balancing. Prairie Farmer. An h h Fifty Per Cent Production I have read much about the good care and artificial lighting necessary to keep hns up to 50 per cent production on k ort days. My pullets were hatched May 11, laid their first eggs October 10, and on December 1 were over 50 per cent production with very little care and no artificial lights. The 107 unculled pulletw laid 1,300 eggs In November, averaging 53 eggs per day for the last half of the month on which records were kept. Michigan Farmer. TOQDDQ .,7 -- V A cnDOHDaio Food elements in both were the same CHEMICALLY, two baby foods can be exactly alike. The same percentage of carbohydrate, fat, protein, mineral salts. The same vitamins. Yet on one, a baby may lose weight, grow thin and weak. And on the other, that same baby can flourish and gain and take on new life. What's the reason ? ; ; : Digestibility. Digestibility of prime importance Doctors know that a baby can starve on what is apparently the most perfectly 'balanced" formula if his body cannot use the food elements it contains. Only a food which is easily and completely digested and assimilated can give to your baby the full amount of building material his little body needs. Countless doctors and mothers have found this out through actual experience. And that is why Eagle Brand, over a period of 75 years, has won a marvelous reputation as an infant food. For Eagle Brand, next to mother's milk, is the easiest form of milk in all the world to digest. In baby's stomach, Eagle Brand forms soft, fine curds, like those formed by mother's milk. Every drop of Eagle Brand is quickly assimilated, goes quickly into the making of bones and teeth, muscle and tissue, energy and strength. This milk can build 100 babies! And what a builder Eagle Brand is! s baby clinic, Recently, in a their field in two physicians specialists fed a group of 50 average babies on Eagle Brand for several months, to test its exact value in baby building. Bone structure was studied with the X-ra- y. Tooth development was watched. Weight and height were periodically recorded. Blood tests were made ; ; : and those 50 Eagle Brand babies, judged by every known test, proved themselves splendidly nourished. 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