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Show t THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Strawberry for Every Locality School Children Recover Their Savings Klondike, Aroma and Howard 17 Are Three Leading Varieties. States Department (Prepared by the United WNU Service. MINERAL SUPPLY MAY CAUSE ILLS of Agriculture. ) People who avoid strawberries because of their high acidity need not Small Amount Only Needed deny themselves the pleasure of eatWith Meat Scraps. ing this luscious fruit if they will try some of the milder flavored varieties Too much mineral. in the chick rasuch as the New York, the Marshall, too and the Chesapeake Several hundred tion may cause as much trouble as extenB. Zumbro, P. in declares varieties of strawberries are grown little, the United States, one for every local- sion specialist in poultry husbandry ity and purpose, according to, special- for the Ohio State university. An oversupply of mineral may cause ists of the United States Department of Agriculture who have classified abnormal bone development in young them for the benefit of growers and chicks, and be responsible for chicks consumers. Of this large number of going down on their legs just as too varieties, however, only about 40 are little mineral may be responsible for grown commercially, and 19 of these subnormal development of bone with constitute 96 per cent of the acreage. the same result. k The three leaders Klondike, Aroma, If plenty of meat scrap and for 63 ration 17 the in' account for and Howard is included per cent of the acreage In the country. chicks from hatching time to ten weeks of age, there is need for but Best Varieties to Grow. in the ration, Climate and soil conditions are fac- little mineral materials contain Meat Zumbro scraps says. tors that determine to a large extent and lime calcium, 25 cent of 20 to per the best varieties to grow in the differmake up 75 per ent sections of the country. The Mis- the two minerals that h and In chickens, the ash cent of sionary is the leading sort In Florida in skimmilk of the total solids and along the Atlantic coast to Marycalcium. land. Most other parts of the South is phosphorus and are More minerals Blake-morrequired in the The prefer the Klondike. of vegetable form some when ration a new berry developed by the meat scraps, for substituted is In the protein is becoming popular department, meat a when or scrap is Carolinas and as far North as New he says. used, Jersey. Zumbro recommends a ration conThe Aroma is a favorite In most of the milder regions of the central states, taining 45 pounds of ground yellow corn, 15 pounds of middlings, 5 pounds Including the northern part of Arkansas and Tennessee, and the southern of bran, 10 pounds of oats, and, to meat parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. supply the minerals, 12 pounds of 1 5 and dried of milk, remainin is pounds scrap, the The Dunlap popular der of the Middle West. In the North- pound of salt. Some poultrymen are mistakenly rewest, Marshall, Oregon, Ettersburg most are Clark and 121, widely grown, ducing the amount of cod liver oil fed while the Howard 17 is king north of in the ration if plenty of minerals are the Ohio and Potomac and east of the fed. The cod liver oil is necessary to supply the vitamins which enable the Mississippi. chicks to assimilate the minerals into New Varieties Increase. New varieties of strawberries are the bones, Zumbro explains. being introduced constantly, the department says. Many of them possess Turkeys and Chickens no special value as compared with the Should Be Separated varieties, and most of them soon disappear from nurseryTurkeys and chickens cannot get mens lists. Occasionally a new vari- along together. The intestinal paraety such as the Blakemore has merit sites which bother turkeys do not seem to affect chickens and therefore, when enough tto make a place for itself. the two come together, the hens act as host to the parasite carrying the blackSoil Treatments Help head organism and this soon spreads Land Out Worn on disease among the turkeys. Crops Remove all the turkeys from the Sweet clover on land medium to low in fertility will not usually grow withpoultry range, give them a light laxaout expensive soil treatments. Red tive ration, and change their runs as clover on such soils will grow only often as every two or three months fairly well, and If the land is both during the winter and oftener during poor and sour, costly treatments are the summer. If you are limited on usually necessary for successful pro- space for range, you can keepi turkeys duction. Whether the farmer should on a screen wire floor, using wire netgo to the expense of growing red or ting over the top of their run on the sweet clover, or should use Korean south side of the poultry house. lespedeza as a substitute, can be determined only after considering tne conditions of the individual case. Culling Roosters Good Korean lespedeza can be grown to adPractice for Fanners vantage on many soils where producPermitting the roosters to run with tion of the clovers is "difficult or imthe laying flock during the summer practicable. It may be sown in small season costs the poultry industry of mixtures grain crops, in this country a good many millions of for temporary or permanent pasture, dollars every year. The feed which or on idle and waste land not now roosters eat will go a long way the affording any profits and yearly betoward keeping the flock in good concoming less valuable. dition and increasing the egg production. The important source of loss, Bees Get Pollen From however, Is the fact that fertile eggs spoil so rapidly during warm weather. Different Forest Trees Except in the case of valuable breedMany forest trees are as valuable to ing animals, the cockerels should be beekeepers for their pollen as for the sent to market at once, and even nectar of their flowers. Without polthose which are kept should be isolen, for which no satisfactory substilated. tute has been found, bees will fail to raise new brood. Pollen furnishes meaty, nitrogenous elements in the Market Infertile Eggs diet af the larvae. The barely noticefor Superior Quality able flowers of many trees are often Poultrymen who cater to markets rich in pollen, as well as In nectar. demanding prime quality eggs may Willows, maples, black locusts, tulip in meeting Buch difficulty experience bassor yellow poplar trees, tupelos, hot a weather unless demand during woods, sour gums, and wild plnms are Such is the are their infertile. eggs important sources of both pollen and belief of Prof. Willard C. Thompson, nectar. Elms and aspens are also polpoultry husbandman for the New Jerlen producers, although not considered to be nectar plants. The presence of sey agricultural experiment station, forest who explains that germ development certain hardwood of fertile eggs begins at a temperatrees thus becomes an important consideration in the choice of sites for ture of 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Once the breeding season is passed, he adds, apiaries. there is no reason to continue producing fertile eggs, as the presence of a Massachusetts Favors male birds is never essential to egg production. Two Feeding Mixtures The Massachusetts station makes New Chick Disease the following recommendations for Much of course mixtures. A feed poultry respiratory disease in poultry In will depend upon local conditions such Minnesota and North Dakota has been as the price and availability of the inattracting considerable attention reChicks become droopy and cently. gredients. The laying mash is: 200 lbs. the down appears rough. Every few 100 lbs. wheat bran, 100 lbs. seconds the chicks raise their heads and gape for air. The mortality usumiddlings, 100 lbs. ground oats, 50 lbs. meat scraps, 25 lbs. fish meal, 25 ally runs about 50 per cent in Infected lbs. alfalfa leaf meal, 25 lbs. dried birds. No cures are known but respiskimmllk, and 5 lbs. salt. ratory disease in general requires Scratch feed: 500 lbs. yellow com, plenty of pure fresh air. Uniformly 250 lbs. wheat, 150 lbs. barley, and warm temperatures and clean quar100 lbs. oats. ters are the recommendations offered. skim-mil- School children who saved their pennies in the thrift fund of the defunct Vineland (N. J.) Trust company, closed last June by the state department of banking and insurance, received every 'cent back through the generosity of CoL Evan E. Kimble, head of the Tradesmens Bank and Trust company. The children are here seen cheering for Colonel Kimble, who Is In the center of the group. one-tent- e, Typical Family Is Police Dog Mourns for Army Officer Found in Indiana 1 Research Fixes on Browns of Indianapolis as Aver- age Household. All coast cities differ so markedly that none of them can be regarded as typical. So It was decided the typical family must live in an inland city. A study of all Inland cities showed that Indianapolis, the nearest large city to the center of population, best met tests for a typical American community. The search, therefore, narrowed down to finding the typical Indianapolis family. For this stage of our search we empanelled a jury composed of all the Smiths, Whites, Millers, Johnson, Browns, Joneses, Davises, statisIndianapolis. A nation-widtical search for the typical American family" has just ended with the selection of a household at 4144 Carrollton avenue, Indianapolis. The family con-- slsts of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill J. Brown and their two children, John, thirteen, and Louise, fifteen. This family, according to the Ameri-- can Magazine, is the one which most Wilsons, Moores, Williamses, Thompsons and Taylors in the Indianapolis nearly typifies in every respect the telephone directory. These are the 12 29,000,000 families composing the namost common names, and the total tions population of 129.000,000. number listed Is 3,366. The father Is forty-fou- r years old; Built Inches he Is five feet eight and Up the Picture. - "All these was born he has and tall, gray eyes; people were asked to and grew up in a small town in westthink of some family of their acquainern Indiana, the son of a country tance which they regarded as typical, printer; his education consisted of a and then specify the principal activities and characteristics of that family. high school course and part of a college course; he left college to become From the replies we built up an exa'salesman, and has continued in that act picture of the characteristics of occupation ever since. His wife came the typical family. We learned, for Instance, that the from a nearby town and was seventeen when he met her ; they were marhead of the typical family would preried In 1914 when he was twenty-sevesumably be found working for a corTheir poration and not in business for himand she was twenty-twtwo children are both In the public self. This specification led us to a schools. Their home Is a detached eight-rooframe house, well furnished ADVANCED SURGERY and equipped with bath, steam heat, electric sweeper, washer and lroner, automatic refrigerator, telephone and radio. They have a car and a garage, and are fond of motoring. They all play golf and tennis. Just Ordinary Folks. Mr. Browns comment on the selection was as follows: I dont know whether were typical or not Ill tell you exactly what I think we are were Just ordinary citizens who try to do the right thing. Of course a selection like this sets anybody thinking. I suppose the first ambition of the typical American family Is to have a nice home. Probably they like to dress well, but dont go to extremes, and they try to strike a balance between pleasure and work, without worrying too much about the future." The statistical method by which the Browns were selected is thus described by M. K. Wisehart, who was in charge of the search. We started out, he says, to find the average family of America. Just what is meant by the average family? For certain purposes It can be figured out statistically. By the latest available census figures we know that the average American family contains 4.2 persons, four Individuals and a fraction, which of course doesnt actually exist. What we really mean when we speak of the average family is the typical family. .In .identifying this family, we deEinar Wegener, a Danish painter, cided not to follow any preconceived statistical prejudices, but rather to get who had been married for years, rethe advice and suggestions of a lot of cently underwent an operation at the typical people as to the kind of family hands of Professor Doctor Warnekross, Dresden this typical family should be. gynecologist. First of all, statistics showed us The operation resulted in the changthat for the past 80 years the drift ing of the man into a woman. He of population In America has been or rather she adapted the name Lill away from the rural districts and to- Elbe. The marriage was declared ward the cities. Today more than 56 void. It Is also said that 'the has given up the profession as per cent are urbanites. Hence It was concluded that the typical American a painter. Above may be seen the former Einar Wegener, now LIU Elbe. family would be city dwellers, e one-ha- lf n o. m - ' well-know- n man-woma- v. 1 n Toronto, Ont. Dusty, a police dog, was the inseparable companion of CapL James Kennedy, former officer of the Queens Own Rifles and Boer war veteran. Inconsolable at the death of his master, Dusty tried several times to jump Into the casket beside Captain Kennedys body before the funeral. Shut out of the room where his masters body lay, Dusty jumped upon the late captains arm chair and refused to move. The pet has been sent away temporarily. manufacturing concern as the typical industrial plant out of about 800 which are listed in Indianapolis neither big nor Uttle, employing about 250 persons. In this plant, then, we sought for an employee whose family would most nearly answer the specifications given us by our jury. According to this Jury, the family must be in moderate circumstances, must depend on the fathers Job for their living, must own their own home, must have children In the public schools, 'must be interested in civic affairs. There were many other specifications, which enabled us to eliminate rapidly. For Instance, the members of the Jury, in their letters, had stipulated that the typical family must be one which started from scratch and had made good; It must be thrifty; It must live within its income; It must pay its bills ; the parents must be good moral examples for their children. Following these Instructions, we reached Merrill J. Brown as the employee whose family filled the' bill." Scotland Yard to Train Women for Sleuth Work London. The feminist movement has won even Scotland Yard. It Is learned that women police will now be trained in the intricate work of crime detection, and the commissioner. Viscount Byng, Intends to transfer them to the criminal investigation department as part of his 1931 scheme ft reorganization. New detectives will be recruited from the ranks of the existing women police. By the end of the year it is expected that there will be 25 fully trained women plainclothes detectives with the same status as their male colleagues. The women detectives will have unique opportunities in dealing with expert shoplifters and other women criminals. Promise Private Yacht Piers for Centennial Washington. Assurance that ample wharfage will be sfforded for commercial vessels, chartered steamers, and also private yachts at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Yorktown has been given by the United States sesquiccntennlal commission and the Yorktown association. The present commercial wharf at the site of the battfe will be thoroughly overhauled and three barges will be furnished by the navy to act as temporary wharves during the course of the celebration. Three long, specially constructed piers will connect the landing barges to the shore. Sesqui-centenni-al high-prote- grass-clov- er pollen-bearin- g corn-mea- l, in |