Show lv i TIIE GARLAND OF MONEY PROBLEMS DOUBTFUL ABOUT “HEN BATTERIES” Poultryman Warns Plan May Be Too Expensive Poultrymen are warned to avoid Investing much money In ‘‘hen batteries” until more facts are known about the system according to J H Bruckner of the New York State College of Agriculture He cites the survey conduct ed by the California experiment station In which the poultrymen conclud ed that “the evidence "Is not sufficient this method to Justify recommending to California poultrymen” One of the advantages claimed for hen batteries Is that the same amount of space can accommodate double the ofv number layers Mr Bruckner points out that the building used for a hen battery must be a better building than the usual laying house It must have a higher celling and must be Insulated to save beating costs Ventilation Is a problem for the house Is kept at about 50 or 60 degrees Fahrenheit Hens are affected by heat and forced ventilation Is usually nec essary Add the extra costs of Insulation heating equipment and fuel and the costs of the hen ventilation hatterles and the poultryman may find It cheaper to double his capacity by building two of the usual type houses work shows no appre Experimental clable gain In egg production In labor A or in reducing mortality saving slight reduction Is noted In the amount of feed used but Mr Bruckner says this may be due to the heated house It appears that rations apparently satisfactory for typical conditions are not In batteries for hens satisfactory Just as chick batteries hare not displaced rearing but have proved useful under certain conditions he predicts that hen batteries may prove useful for some poultry plunts but will be of no Importance to the vast majority of poultrymen How Properly to Candle Eggs to Protect Sales Various classes of eggs are unsuitpoul- und even If the them how to detect chances of his producing many are lie should know candling tech slim All he needs as equipment Is nlque an electric lamp with a cone shade half hole over it having an One rarely needs a sixth sense to detect a rotten egg Don't feed it to Other kinds of discarded eggs chicks however can be worked Into the mash for the flock and thus are not a total loss Moldy eggs should not be fed back Eggs They should be buried with stuck yolks can be used for poultry feed providing they present no hut are evidence of having spoiled not good for human consumption In a fresh egg the air space Is small of over not measuring The yolk Is diman Inch In diameter limited freedom ly visible possesses of motion and shows no visible germ The white is firm nnd clear and spot free of flonting particles absolutely like meat or blood spots In a stale egg the space Is larger movable an Irregular have and may lower outline the white Is thin the yolk Is plain to the eye and It moves easily If blood veins or a shows In a "heated” should not be eaten "blood the ‘egg ring” egg Poultry Notes Eggs are about Co About five pounds qulred to grow a per ceut water of feed are broiler re Seneca county Ohio poultry raisers had st record of lSM(i(Hi eggs market ed last year Rock pullet laid A White Plymouth 205 eggs In 2‘2 days at the western New York laying tests A broody hen can he broken up by confining the bird In a coop with a slat wire bottom for three or four days or The quate with owner must feed an ade-- ‘ tlqek ration If be Is to produce egg good hatchability The Income from farm poultry the United States as a whole is ceeded only by that from cattle ton hogs and milk In excot- During the past seven years Lincoln county (N C) poultry growers have sold 700000 pounds of surplus poultry for a total Income to ther farmers of $151000 o has laid six A hen in Zellv England a eggs contained In a shell eight and half Inches long such will set “ by forcing feed as excess of meat or fish meal exciting ovarian organs often egg trouble up the by Proteins are flesh formers The value on proteins for fowls depends The proteins “completeness” found In mlTk" are sufficient to make In condigood growth and keep birds of the their tion LONG AGO Other Nations in the Adjustment of Currencies to the Demands of Trade and Public Welfare Romans Had Their Troubles able for food and the backyard try grower ought to know them UTAH TIMES GARLAND BEVERLY HILLS— Well all I know la just what I read In the weeklys Been kinder dull the last couple of weeks outside of what little scare we had over the prohibition issue in the vaCourious states ago ple of weeks our own Govenor Bill Murray kicked a muss up quite when he called out to halt the Marine the drinking of S by I Voting In the other states was just about what was expected Poor old London Conference Its trying so hard to live that is outwardly It Is Inwardly none of em care what Nations have Just about happens to reconslled themselvs to believing that they each one got to help themselvs out of the mud and not Just do It by and agreements with some conferring other nations premature it We ourselvs only export five percent Well our business for the last three years has been off over 50 or 60 percent and yet we lived through It Well that little old five percent wont do us much good Its that 40 to 45 to 55 that we lost at home that we want Nations are going to buy from you Just what they have to have and thats all When we went off the gold that did more good than ail the other things we could have done to build np exports I happened to be in Manchuria and down in China proper and In the Malay States along about the time England went off the gold and after they did that It lowered their prices almost a third well our own Government men commercial attaches and Department of Commerce fellows told me that we hadent sold an automobile or a thing that England made after they went off the gold for if our prices had been practically equal before then all at once they drop off one third why naturally that left us high and dry with a money that was too expensive according to Englande So they got the business and thats whats all this hollering about by France and the so called gold block over In London now Its the fact that our money Is cheap and our stuff Is within the reach of all buyers now for the first time In years Roosevelt Juet kinder outflggured the boys Why during the last couple or three of our administrations we would no more think of doing anything that would antagonize Europe than Is the we would fly This Roosevelt most original fellow he figures If he can help the fellow at home he has done a pjetty good job even if he has made all Eurepe sore at him France got where she Is today by taking care of France Along about the summer of 26 I was over there and their franc was and selling by the pound and bushel not by count at all Well America hollering their heads off ‘‘Why dont France stabilize their franc?” It n as their franc They could sell em by the bale If they wanted too Things were not a whole lot cheaper for naturally with cheap money things go up In proportion so why all this holler about the world not being able to do anything till America tells what their dollar Is worth Our dollar hasent got any more business over there prowling around than we have over there messing about If our dollar goes over there and gets In bad that deserves no more sympathy than us going over there and getting In the cooler Its got to 'take Its chances the same as an Individual has Your worth Is at home your dollars worth are is at home you as an Individual worth whats its worth to Its community If five percent of exports are going to save us we never was very bad off But wo have been bad off and five wont save us We e get got to fix so this home market many Its many times five percent we have Of course always had a great group of Interns t e who ation a rush over to Eucancel rope and cancel the debts tarriff anything to make a local hit Mr Hugh Gibson one of our most able foreign AmbassaIs dors who last served in Belgium now' in Brazil he said that half our unofficial Amwith was trouble foreign making who went speech bassadors around Europe eating on the Country what and giving a wrong Impression of was All sentiment the real American and beAmericans are wired for sound to defore they go abroad they ought we would tach the wiring In five years In the Nation most popular be the world I run my ranch you run your has ranch What you do with yours I cant mannothing to do with me If you and age mine without consulting a pretty poor ranch yours wny I am man So our problem is not what is the or Rome dollar worth In London Taris or what even it is worth at home Its Its hnwjto get hold of It whatever worth © 19S3 VcXmtht Sydntt lc as Did Greek and Alexandrian Influence became official money in Rome after 209 B C the double Thereupon standard was adopted silver and copper both being coined and a mint ratio of 120 to 1 was established Although sliver was used exclusively In the foreign trade copper continued to constitute the principal money at home Now silver greatly Increased in For one thing Alexander quantity discovered enormous treasures of both gold and silver In the Orient nnd set them In circulation And there was the great silver mine In Spain which at one time employed 40000 miners Thla had the effect of cheapening silver: boosting prices In terms of silver At the time when wars had cut off the supplies of Rome’s copper the value of that metal In relation to silver rose more than did the general commodity dex number And furthermore copper was a commodity useful to have around while warring Roman statesmen well understood Gresham’s law IS centuries before Gresham : with a double standard an Increase in the supply of silver being coincident with a reduction In the supply of and an Increase In the demand for copper would have led to the hoarding of copper as money If the double standard was to work It When after 366 B C the Romans became commercially ambitious and was necessary to reduce the mint founded a maritime colony they took ratio from 120 to 1 And so the size up coining The money was bronze of the coin “as" was changed from lead an tin being combined with 12 ounces of bronze to 10 8 6 and raw copper The unit of value eventually to 2 ounces Thus the reweighed an as and was called by that lation of silver to copper fell as low as 20 to 1 while the normal sources name of metal were unavailable When the Silver which the Roman generals flow of new copper was found desirable io have on hand to deand the buy army equipment as they went on conquests and which was already mand was cut off the old ratio of Copper and widely used elsewhere thanks to 120 to 1 was restored The Romans were slow to get a Three hundred coinage system years after the founding of the city far advanced In many respects Romans were trading like a tribe of Reuben Cahn writes tn aborigines the Chicago Tribune They were quoting prices In sheep and oxen The two were related In a decimal system— 10 sheep equaled 1 ox In Etruria which lay northwest of the Tiber river were copper mines and at an early date copper was brought to Rome It came to be used In shields harness wagons ships and for many other purposes Thus Is had a market value and It became the custom to urc lumps of It In makThe government paid ing payments howno attention to this Innovation ever for some years At a time when of copper were being used In pieces trade a souse driving his chariot recklessly along the Applan boulevard might have to settle with the Judge by driving up a flock of sheep Since copper was sold by weight it became convenient to have pound lumps called an “as” There were also two and three pound pieces Thus copper served as money before the state started Issuing pieces of metal stamped with picture of the gods mythical heroes and contemporary politicians silver performed similarly In ' the World war The market ratio was 30 to 1 In 1917— now la 76 to 1 Devaluation of copper was not undertaken by the Roman republic at any time for profit nor to relieve the burden of debtors the ends It today sought by gold devaluators was done to maintain the double standard It was the earliest examcurmanaged ple of a successfully On the Ides of March 44 rency B C the great Caesar was 'slain After him came emperors who osed the republican precedent to debase the currency as a racket until Its value was but of what It was before The history of money in the Roman republic was a succession of readjustments to make a double standard work That the republic supplied Its citizens with a sound and an honest medium of exchange Is testimony both to their ability and their Seldom Need to “Talk Too Much” be my observation and experience me that talking Is hard convinces work that it is not merely a mental effort but that it Is a physical effort that Is wearing on the muscles as well as the nerves The toll of ‘making conversation’ — which Is undoubtedly the most unnecessary activity that humanity engages in — la more exhausting than the most arduous I mean that It Is for physical labor the people talk too much The people who do talk too much have to make conversation because what they think Is conversation burbles from their Ups like the water from a spring “People of course cannot give preto all vious thoughtful consideration the remarks that they make — as te their justifiability and effect even though they experience repeated Inla stances where after consideration talk even extremely disconcerting discreet talk must have some spontaneity but It is certain that the less they Bay the less danger there will be of a subsequent feeling of regret “I don't think that the people who talk too much are really any more untactful than the people who don’t and when they say things that are better left unsaid the effect Is diluted by their general gush of words till It Is hardly noticed It la the people who don't talk much that must watch The Intheir step— or their tongues of tends to their remarks frequency make their hearers note and perhaps what they say Bo It realremember ly wouldn’t appear to be safe to say anything — which would make life duller somewhnt and a good deal News leas laborious" — Indianapolis Mr Cato Ninetails Gives a Little Dissertation on the Subject ‘There Is too much talk about the people who talk too much" declared Mr Cato Ninetails “It does no good whatever because the people who talk too much keep right on talking too much In fact It does harm for It merely adds to the amouht of talk and so Increases that kind of unnecessary noise "I have never been able to determine whether loquacity Is s gift or a disease I am rather Inclined to think that It Is a disease of the nervous system but on the other hand It may be merely one of those Involactions like resuntary physiological of the piration or the circulation blood seem to doesn’t Mentality have much to do with It as It Is noticed that the people who talk too much generally say less than the peolittle ple 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