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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH THE MCI! COUNTY REAPER matter Feb, Entered as second-clas- s 8. 1929. at the pst office Randolph. Utah, under the Act of Mar. 3, 1879. Wm. E. Mar eh all. Editor and Prop SUBSCRIPTION Year in Advance 11.50 Pr Test Strength of Wire Farm Fences Cornell University Plans to Establish Test Yard on State Property. By H. W. Riley, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Cornell University. WNU Service. Of all Jobs on the farm, probably chasing stock and repairing fences are the most wasteful and exasperating. Many farmers complain that some fences on the market today are not as durable as old fences. Fences would not break so soon if they were made of heavy, durable wire and were well Such fences, however, galvanized. seem too expensive for many farmers If they are not sure of their durability. The American society for testing materials has decided to test farm fencing and other galvanized wire products. A test yard will be set up in New York state on property of the college of agriculture. There many samples of farm fences will be exposed to the weather and carefully watched. Before they are erected, these fences will be completely analyzed, and as the years go by a carsful record will be kept of the durability of each fence. The best fences will be clearly shown In a few years. This society has already shown that the durability of steel against rusting h to is Increased when from per cent of copper Is used In the steel. This copper Is added to the steel as it lies in n molten pool In the open hearth furnace, and the additional cost Is small enough to be disreone-fift- one-quart- garded. Medium Fat Hog Is Best for Family Cuts of Pork moderately fat hog produces the "family size cuts of pork, says Prof. It. B. Hinman of the New York State College of Agriculture. Such hogs, he adds, will yield hams and three-rishoulders that w.eigh about sixteen pounds each, bacon strips and loins that weigh from ten to twelve pounds. These cuts, of desirable size to cure and store after smoking, may be cut into satisfactory economical slices or roasts for cooking. Heavier bogs normally produce a greater proportion of lard. They also produce bacon and hams that some families consider too fat Good quality, thrifty hogs normally produce the most desirable meat, Professor Hinman says. Precaution should be taken to see that all animals dressed are In a healthy condition. A 225-poun- d b Ice Needs on Farms In parts of the country where natural ice suitable for storing is formed it Is time to provide for next summers needs. The Department of Agriculture has estimated that ton of Ice per cow will serve the dairyman co cool and hold cream at a safe temperature If delivered two or three times a week. However, If the whole milk Is to be cooled the needs will be not less than a ton and a half per cow. These estimates were made presuming that both ice house and cooling tanks are in good condition. If more than 30 per cent of the ice is lost by melting the amount stored will have to be increased accordingly. The average family needs between five and ten tons per season even when the Ice is used sparingly. one-ha- lf Trees on Line Trees standing on a boundary line belong to respective owners of both sides as tenants in common and although it is asserted in one case that when a tree stands on a boundary line the landowner on either side has the right to lop off limbs and roots on his side close to the trunk, yet it has been more recently declared In several other cases that either owner may not destroy the boundary line tree without the other!s consent, and if he does the other owner may recover damages against him.' The adjoining landowner would have no jurisdiction over any tree not on the line nor on his own land. Indiana Farmers Guide. Agricultural Hints Radium dust added to the soil,, will speed up the growth of plants, experi- ments show. At least 50 per cent of the honey bees Jn New TOrk state died In last winters sub-zer- o weather. Potatoes lose their sweetness with age, or if stored In too warm a place, just as fresh peas do. Nigeria Noted as Place of Gargantuan Extremes Washington. More imposing than the famous umbrella of Tweedledum and Tweedledee are the two ceremonial umbrellas made in England recently for Akenzua II,'Oba of Benin, Nigeria. Each is 12 feet across and stands 14 feet high. Large as these umbrellas are, they will not seem out of proportion In Nigeria, a country of Gargantuan extremes, where many things grow oversized, says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National deGigantic Geographic society. scribes Nigeria : its extensive desertlike areas In the north, its broad savannas, and its mighty forests. Its equatorial rainfall reaches a total in some regions of more than a hundred inches, causing luxuriant foliage, trees over 200 feet high, and yams over a foot long. Through the country sprawls the broad, lengthy Niger, one of Africas four greatest rivers, and one of the dozen great rivers of the gold-lettere- d Biddle, a Rhode Lindale, Ga. It possible. for .makes Island Red, Grocer C. W. Bramlett to brag about selling the worlds freshest sanitation and insects. swamp-bre- d Daily the hen enters Brara-let- ts store here, hops up on an egg crate where customers are being served, and lays an egg. She is a most considerate hen, too, the grocer declares, for she goes outside To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pleasant Pellets. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach. Adv. egg. disin- yellow fever, and sleeping sickness were rampant ' Modern Capital. Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, Is the port through which most of its exports pass. Originally built on a swampy lagoon island but a foot or two above sea level, it was extremely unhealth-fu- l for Europeans. However, reclamation of swamp land and modern drainage and water systems have done much to make it more habitable. It has a railroad, fine public buildings lighted by electricity, schools, hospitals, and a cathedral. North of the region of swamps and lagoons dense tropical rain forests spread Inland for almost a hundred In these grow mahogany, miles. ebony, oil palms, rubber trees, and lronwood trees. "Visitors traveling northward find that as the altitude increases, the climate becomes drier and more bracing ; rain forests give way to monsoon for- Smallpox, Pierce , Are Exceptions 'k. Second thoughts, despite the erb, are not always best - to cackle. d mountain peaks, and ests, then to savannas of grass, dotted with trees. Natives use oil as food or ship it to Europe for use in soap making. African one of the great "Kano, trading centers. Is over 700 miles by rail northeast of Lagos. Its aggregation of mud huts Is enclosed by a mud wall about 14 miles in circumference, 30 to 50 feet high, and pierced by 13 cowhide gates Between October and March, camels lurch through these gates Into Kano, loaded with bags of Bags of these nuts, groundnuts stacked up in pyramids of from 500 to 1,000 tons, and protected from rains by tarpaulins are as distinctive a feature of the Kano landscape as the dye pits, camels, and red mud walls. r prov- tree-cla- shea-butt- shea-butt- er er - FOR LARGER BLOOMS AND STURDIER PLANTS world. With an area of about 372,674 square miles, Nigeria is nearly seven times larger than England, and contains more people than any other British dependency It except India. swarms witn almost 20,000,000 people. Of these only 6,000 are Europeans, several hundreds are Syrian traders, the rest are Africans. No other country of equal size in Africa has such a variety of native tribes. Each tribe has its own peculiar customs. African women near Sokoto wear rings that stretch their ear lobes to their collar bones; while women In Bornu stain their front teeth black and their canine teeth red. Members of numerous tribes wear artificial tails. Nigeria Is as definitely striated as a marble-cake- . Along its southern coast a humid, languorous region of swamps, mud flats, and lagoons stretches inland for only ten miles near Lagos, but over 60 miles In the Niger Delta. The 200 miles of coast comprising the Delta Is cut by numerous creeks in whose brackish tidal waters mangroves stand. These trees are of economic value to Nigeria as sources of timber and tannin. One variety Is burnt to obtain the salt in Its ash. "The creeks are known as the Oil rivers because natives, chiefly Ibos, living on their banks, exist largely by trading in palm oil. Seeking palms, they travel in canoes np the creeks sometimes for 40 or 50 miles. Nigeria is an outstanding producer of palm oil, and In ,1930 exported 136,000 tons of It The lush, steaming coast of Nigeria and its immediate neighbors has been A j camera which will photograph a subject In six different poses on the dubbed The White Mans Graveyard same of plate has been invented by C. B. Austin, Los Angeles photographer. The because its diseases that stalk the white trader. Until 1903, one out of camera has two matched lenses. You can depend on Ferrys Purebred Flower Seeds. They are the offspring of generations of Takes Six Poses on One Plate perfect plants and will reproduce, in your own garden, flowers of wonderful size, color and form. Choose your favorite varieties today from the Ferry Seed Display Box. OfflP '213 SGEWttUi CIC' C' H5 (ittl LH4U fiStlflu jsQA By No Means A tall man isnt , necessarily high minded. Exchange. iSIIYESJMOREiTIMEI WORK thanaIOO2 and WASHING MACHINE No Heating with Matches or Torch ... No Waiting. ..Lights Instantly, Like Gee DEDUCE your ironing time one-thi. . . your labor one-hal- fl The Cole man bon will save you more time and work than a $100 wash ing machine! Iron any place where you rd Ageless Riddle of Sphinx Nearer Solution Two Young Men Touring World in Small Motor Work of Vandals Proves Aid Capetown, S. A. Two young men, A. F. Kane from Chicago and W. J. Kah-le- r from Chile, arrived here in their - to Archeologists, Cairo, Egypt The ageless riddle of Egypts sphinx was declared nearer an answer as archeologists examined fresh evidence given them unwittingly by robbers whose vandalism uncovered the nearby tomb of a hitherto unknown Egyptian queen. The new addition to the fabulous women who preceded Cleopatra as first lady of the Nile is Queen Rekhetra,' who lived in 3666 B. C. Her tomb was unearthed close to the famous Gizeh pyramids by a robber band that stole from the burial place all that was im' mediately convertible Into cash. To reach the tomb across which the sands of centuries had sifted, the robbers uncovered constructional details of the sphinx, the idol, to the sun. Heretofore available scientific data has placed construction of the Sphinx at approximately 2850 B. C. In the fourth dynasty. The new evidence may eventually prove some connection bewomtween the brooding, broken-nosean of the sands and Queen Rekhetra. Thus the Sphinx, archeological and mystic puzzle for ages, may be really older than hitherto believed, but not older than 3666 B. C. Also, the new evidence points strong- 189-fo- woman-heade- ly to the possibility that the Sphinx was not built out of solid rock, cropping out of the desert, but out of rock that was transported by a superhuman feat of engineering to its present site-fathe rising sun in the shadow of those companion wonders of the world, the Pyramids. cing HEFTY YOUNGSTER lion-bodie- d, ot d A Real City Father Roseburg, Ore. A real city father is Dr. E. V. Hoover, Roseburg. He can claim the title for having been mayor of the city four times, but more important to him is the fact that in 38 years of practice he has brought nearly half the population of the city into the world. car after having driven for Rooster Has Two Hearts, Each Working by Itself East Windsor, Conn. When Emil Joseph Randazza, Jr., of Gloucester. Mulnite killed one of his choice roosters Mass., who some day will make quite for dinner he found It had two nora hefty gent He is but three years old mal sized hearts, each operating Indenow and weighs 125 pounds. He pendently of the other. The only weighed but 7 pounds at birth, but other abnormality was an enlarged has now acquired enough weight to liver. The rooster, he said, did not challenge Englands baby who claims differ In outward appearance from others of a flock hatched last spring. title of worlds heaviest child. . . Wisteria Pods Explode In the fall of the year wisteria pods sometimes explode with a noise somewhat like a gun being fired. ! Self-Heatin- g . 111,000 miles. They traveled from Japan to London, from London to , Norway, and from Cape North (Norway), the northernmost point in Europe, to Capetown. It has taken them five years to do It and that means that they have averaged nearly 430 miles a week for the whole of the five years. In a travel-staine- d car, bearing badges of every nation and packed to the roof with equipment and many weird cunos, they drove nonchalantly through Capetown, looking for somewhere to rest We have been on the road for five years, they said. We are collecting material for books and lectures. At the end of the month we shall leave for America to prepare some of this, but we shall return in 1936 to undertake another trip planned in the reverse direction. During their trip they have worn out five different cars. 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