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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH PODHW WITTY KITTY By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM mis MAKE CHANGES IN POULTRY HOUSES Farmers Insulate the Walls and Ceilings. By R. E. Cray. Extension Poultryman, Ohio State University WNU Service. Fanners are looking to the comfort of their hens this winter. They find it production Is more constant during the cold winter months. Many farmers have reduced the cubic content of their chicken houses, and others have Installed heating systems to be used when the weather Is so cold the water In the houses freezes. False ceilings are Installed to cut the cubic capacity of the houses. Some are made with wire netting above. In which straw Is stuffed. Other farmers employ a good Insulating material. Because warm air rises, it is the roof that needs to be insulated. Some poultrymen also Insulate the walls In their poultry houses, some with straw held In place by wire netting, others with commercial Insulating material Still others go further, modifying the window arrangement by eliminating the bafflers formerly recommended and fitting all of the openings with glass windows or glass substitutes. Poultrymen also are worrying less abont damp floors In their poultry houses. Results recently announced by experiment stations point to temperature control as more Important than beeping the house thoroughly dry. When the temperature In the house becomes so cold that the water freezes In the drinking fountains, brooder The stove 6tove8 are recommended. should be surrounded with wire netting to keep the litter away. pays. The girl chum jays if these international bridge tournaments keep up, all hope of world peace will be shattered. (fi). gathered at Pot Holes, near Yuma, Calif., to celebrate the starting of the WHEN throngs with interest the operation of the walking bridge dredge shown In the illustration canal they as it shoveled up ten cubic yards of earth at each swoop. The dredge is a veteran on big projects, having been used first on the Panama canal and later In Mississippi flood control work. Bedtime Story for Children QUESTION BOX By ED WYNN... The Perfect Fool By THORNTON W. BURGESS PETER FINDS ANOTHER FRIEND you ,r)IDdown and your relatives come from the Far Nortn alone?" asked Peter of Dotty the Tree Sparrow. ' was Dottys .prompt reply No, Slaty the Junco and his relatives came along with us so that we had a very merpy party. j Peter pricked up his ears. "Is Slaty here now?" he asked eagerly, j Very much here, replied a voice right behind Peters back. It was so unexpected that It made Peter Jump. He turned to find Slaty himself chuckling as he picked up seeds. He was very nearly the same size as Dotty but trimmer looking. There was no mistaking Slaty the Junco for any other bird. His head, throat, and breast were a clear slate color. Underneath he was white. His sides were grayish. His outer tail feathers were white. His bill was flesh color; It looked almost white. Are you here to stay all winter? cried Peter. ' I certainly am," was Slatys prompt It will take pretty bad response. j weather to drive me away from here. It the snow gets too ieep Ill juM go up to Farmer Browns barnyard. I can always pick up a meal there, for Farmer Brown's Boy is a very good friend of mine. I know he wont let me starve, no matter what the weather Is. I think Ut is going to snow. You know I am sometimes called the Snowbird. Peter nodded. "So I have heard, said he.' By the way, Slaty, what do you make your nest of and where do you put' It? asked Peter. My nest is usually made of grass and moss and rootlets," replied Slaty. .Sometimes it is lined with fine .grass. When I am especially lucky I line It with long hairs. Often I put 'my nest on the ground and never very far above lb I am like my friend Dot-t- y the Tree Sparrow in this respect. I , llpperty-lipperty-li- Know looked over 1 saw him skipping around the yard and still drinking from the same medicine bottle. Can you account for these strange actions? Yours truly, V. GATES. Answer: The man you refer to Is evidently a very sick man and his doctor must have told him to take his medicine two days running aud then skip a day. Dear Mr. Wynn: My brother is in the regular army and I have decided to enlist in the army also, but do not ' -- nw what o do. You see the only condition under which I will join the army is that 1 must be near my brother. How shall 1 go about joining the army and being close to my brother? He is In the Sevent- regiment Truly yours, D. ZERTER. Answer: Yours Is a difficult problem, but I will help you: First write to the United States government and tell them you wish to enlist in the army and, as you want to be near your brother, whos in the Seventy-fourt- h regiment you wish to be put in the Seventy-fifth- . . IIIHIIHIIIIIIIIllimillllUlHHIIHHIIIIIIIIIlIIIHIHIIIIIlllllllHllllllHHimillllll Service. are subject to codes. The outstanding feature of the proposed 1935 hatchery Green Wool Coat code is the development of a national breeding and disease eradication program In the poultry industry of the United States. This program is under the direction of the secretary of agriculture. The purpose of the code is to prevent unfair competitive practices and misleading and deceptive methods of advertising, and to promote the best interests of the Industry In all possible ways. It is also aimed to aid workers in the hatcheries by specifying the honrs of labor and wages. Also, an attempt Is made to protect the buyer against misrepresentation and fraud. II Through A WOMANS EYES JEAN NEWTON ii i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiii WHEN WE WAKE UP LONDON neurologists recently an Interesting experiment with three soldiers of the British army. They tested the soldiers as to the effect of their mental attitude on their physical strength. This was measured by a device which the men gripped with all their might, registering as . they gripped. It was found that in their normal state the men had an average grip of a hundred and one pounds. Then, hypnotized and told they were weak, their greatest effort registered only twenty-nin- e pounds. Still hypnotized and told they were very strong, their strength returned to the normal hundred and one pounds and then jumped to a hundred and forty-on- e So, the men were weaker, In the to a hundred relation of twenty-ninand one, when they BELIEVED they were weak, but BELIEVING they were registered actually they strong, strength of a hundred and forty-on- e against a normal best of a hundred and one! Sure enough people are constantly hypnotizing themselves Into one thing or another. Some allow a few disappointments or defeats to hypnotize them into accepted failure. Of most of these it is true that If they believed better of themselves they could do better.. It is also true, as enthusiastic encouragers point out to us, that most of the unusual achievements iu the world went hantj In hand with the supreme confidence which Is Hatching Chicks In the day to day operation of the ii found and Joy In mak ing things grow out of the earth, but who hypnotized himself, or allowed a fond parent to hypnotize him. Into belief that he was called to go to the city and make good? How about the woman who would hare made a good accompanist, but who hypnotized herself into belief that she must not be lost to the coqcert stage? That story of heartbreak and defeat is a not uncommon one. The experiment of the soldiers proves how belief in ourselves can hypnotize us into strength. The question is, can we follow through when we wake up? , Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. This coat by Chanel Is made of bright green wool. Its handsome lines give elegance to the form, and the treatment at the waist makes high-loit suitable for large women as well as small. Perfect Commonwealth The perfect commonwealth Is a society of free men and women, each at once ruling and being ruled. e V. f. Sw That Panama hats, contrary to popular belief, are not made in Panama. They are made in Ecuador and Colombia, but are known as Panama hats because they are brought to Panama and there traded. . McClure Newspaper Syndicate. "men though It brands .However, me, it must be pointed out that selfhypnotism can be a two edged sword. How about the man who would have made a perfectly good carpenter who hypnotized himself into confidence that he was cut out for the law and lived the life of the also ran and the failure? How about the farm lad who kill-Jo- Fish Oil Aids Production Sex of Wild Geese m which convinced some and women they could not fail. incubator there Is perhaps nothing more Important than frequent and regular turning of the eggs. The more turning the better, at least np to four times in each 24 hours. Turning Is more effective during the first half than during the latter half of the incubation period. This suggests that It should be begun early. It is considered sound practice to continue turm lng until the eggs begin to pip. One should not be in too much of a hurry to remove the chicks from the incubator. They should be given time to become thoroughly dry. Chilling at that time constitutes a serious handicap. If the hatch is good the moisture from hatching chicks may be enough to chill them. Successful Farming. Two years experimental work at the Dominion experimental farm, Scott, Bask., has shown that pilchard (fish) oil added at the rate of 2 per cent to the laying mash of equal parts by weight of oat chop, barley chop, bran, shorts and beef scrap, has increased egg production 31 per cent over the production from pullets fed the same mash without the oil. Cod liver oil, fed at the same rate, Increased production 20 per cent Where fish meal was used to replace beef scrap in the mash, the production remained practically constant and no objectionable flavor was detected in the eggs. When bran and shorts were replaced by ground whole wheat, production was increased by 3 per cent Japan Also Adopts Streamlines M Incubator Eggs and Baby Chicks Subject to Codes Even Incubator eggs and baby chicks the Associated Newspaper. WNU p. 1 PoWM WNU Service y-fourth Dear Mr. Wynn: Can yon tell me why It Is that Scotland is always full of Americans In It always sr ?ms to me easier to hide a nest on the ground than anywhere else. the summer? There Is nothing like having a nest Sincerely, CL SICK. well hidden. It takes sharp eyes to Answer: That merely demonstrates find my nest, I can tell you that, Peter the gratefulness of the American peoRabbit." . The reason Scotland is full of ple. Just then Dotty, who had been pickin summer Is simply to pay Americans of of out seeds the a weed, ing top for the Americans being them back gave a cry of alarm and Instantly there was a flit of many wings as the little full of Scotch In the winter. feathered folk sought the shelter of the bushes along the edge of the field. Dear Mr. Wynn: There Is a man living across the Peter sat up very straight add looked from me who Is acting queerly. street this way and looked that way. CrouchThe first day I saw him he was runflat among the weeds he saw Black ing around his back yard drinking ning Cat. Peter the Pussy stamped angrily, medicine a from bottle. The second then with jumps he started for the day I watched him he was still rundear Old Brier Patch, ning and still drinking from this medicine bottle. Now, the third day I . T. W. Burgess. WNU Service. II Bell Syndicate. Egg y THIS the lines. is one of the new streamline locomotives now being tested on the governmental railways for the purpose of speeding up service on The way to tell the difference between a male and female In wild geese is by the shape' of the bird. The males are usually much larger than the females, longer necked, and coarser bodied. The male always keeps his head up higher than the female, and is usually on guard so far as protection to the flock Is concerned. When the male and female mate in the spring the noise made by either one is of equal proportions. The markings are Identical on both male and female, |