The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, October 18, 1933, Image 7
Loafing hens not
\ WORTH THEIR FEED
Should Cull Flocks to Hold
> Expenses Down. ?
At present prices for poultry and
poultry products eliminate all hens
that lay Just enough eggs to pay feed
costs.
"Hens that lay from six to nine eggs
a month cannot make money for the
flock owner at present farm prices
and Bhould be killed, sold or cannetV'
says C. J. Maupln, poultry extension
specialist at North Carolina State col
lege. "Such hens will eat more feed
than their total market value and
should he taken from the flock In or
der to lower feed costs and Increase
the quality and production of those
birds left In the flock."
For proper culling, espec.ally where
the flock contains ,r)0 or more hens, I
some form of catching coop should he
provided. Such a coop can be ninde of
slats or Just a frame covered with
wire and should fit the poultry house
door so that the hens can be driven ;
Into it without Injury. With such a '
coop the poultr.vmen can cull at any 1
time of the year.
Maupln advises that close attention |
also be given to the breeding males as j
tills will determine, to a lilrce extent. !
the profit made from pullets hatched i
and raised next year. Old male birds i
that will not be needed next year ot |
young cockerels that are not develop- J
lng properly should be removed from |
the flock. Where possible, one or two j
breeding cockerels Rhould be secured j
from trapnested flocks.
i
Daddies of Muscovy Duck
Found in South An^jerica
Early explorers of South America
found the ancestors of the modern
Muscovy duck there In the wild state. I
Efforts to mate them with other breeds i
proved that they were a distinct spe- |
cles as the matlngs produced sterile 1
offspring. They were known as Wild
Musk ducks and also as Brazilian
ducks. They made their homes In the
wildest marshes and lowlands, and
nested and hatched their young In high
places.
Little attention was| given to them I
nntll about 1870. Since then they
have been distributed quite widely
over the world. In Europe and Amer
ica they have been bred with care and
found to reproduce to form and color
suitable for exhibition. Females have
been found to be kind and tractable.
Males under two years can be con
trolled, but when they get older they
are cross to children; and, especially
during the breeding season, will attack
ndults and even animals savagely. If
they are provoked, or disturbed In
their habitats.
The original, wild specimens were
almost entirely black. Other colors
have been developed. Some offspring
have plumage like the Blue Swedish
duck. This Is said to have resulted
from crossing white and colored speci
mens.
Yeast for Hens
flens fed fermented laying mash as
an extra to the regular mash and
grains at the coastal plain experiment
station In North Carolina, laid more
eggB than hens fed the regular laying
mash and grain. There was very lit
tle extra cost from feeding the fer
mented mash.
The fermented mash was made by
adding two cakes of yeast to ten
quarts of mash and adding enough
warm water to make the mixture fair
ly moist. This mash was allowed to
set for 20 hours, then the birds were
givt-npall they would eat In a half hour.
The 7,r> birds that ate the fermented
mash plus regular mash and scratch
grain laid 18,^00 eggs; those eating
only the regular mash and grain, 15,
asn eggs. i
Cost per dozen for feed was 12 cents
when fermented mash was used. 11.0
cents without. Birds that had fer- !
mented mash ate more mash, more
grain. These birds were better In ap
pearance and had higher vitality when
the feeding Jest was completed. ? Na
tlonal Farm Journal.
Get Rid of Lice
A new method of ridding bens of
lice has been ? developed wherein nico
tine sulphate Is applied to each bird
with a small oil can or medlelne drop
per. Two drops of this liquid are
placed Just beneath the vent. One
ounce of the material will treat more
than 100 hens. The treatment will
last for several weeks, and contrary
to general belief, the nicotine sulphate
will not blister the Rkin. Another and
more common method of using this ma
terlal Is to spray the perches.
Table Form in Fowls
The? perfection of table form In fowls
Is reached In fancy roasting chickens
A fancy ronster Is one that Is meaty
all over; that Is marketed when It
reaches full development (after whteh
It begins to lose quality) ; and that
when served on the table can be carved
easily. To meet the Inst requirement
a bird must have a brou.l s'-alght back,
flat at the shoulders, straight In the
middle and wide at the hips ? with the
Mpbenes level. Such a bird will lie
right on the platter.
Fashions of Forty Years Ago
Adult and School Styles Have Undergone Great Change,
as Evidenced by Descriptions and Remem
brances of Four Decades.
In 1803, when Chicago was having
a world's fair, and the e.ves of the
world were focused on southern
Kansas where thousands awaited
the signal that would admit thein to
the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma, the
dress of both men and women varied
greatly. . If one must insist that fig
ures only play a nominal part in
tracing the growth of a city, one
must at the same time remember the
figures ih those days as compiled by
fashion designers and fashion writ
ers.
It Is apparent to one looking back
on those days that there was a phys
ical difference, or handicap, rather
than s mental one. Then there was
a question of what to wear rather
thnu a problem of what not to wear,
! as today. A child in 1803 was swad
I died from ankle to chin, while today
there is more laxity in dress. Exact
ly 40 years ago a fashion writer
i wrote In the Times.
"Let us hope," she said, "th.it style
will confine itself to soft rich vel
vets, which are always In good taste,
while plush, no matter how fine or
costly, is hopelessly vulgar and sug
gests the lavish tendencies of the
lumber camp cook who has risen to
the position of mistress in a million
dollar mansion."
While the high school lass was ad
vised to stick to velvets In lieu of
the outlaw plushes, the grade school
girl was given a tip on school dress.
For a gown on cool days she was
(old that "brown serge, of such a
golden hue as to bespeak the harvest
season, Is In good taste. Tailor
made, the skirt should rustle in a
manner aggravating to the ears of
those whose fall dresses are still
unmade. Ilodlce In back plain .
fastened to skirt beneath belt .
front opens In Eton-Jacket fashion
over full vest of creamy silk . . .
and brown straw hat that bristles
with brown bows . . . brown felt
| fastens with gold buckle . . . gold
hat-pin secures hat . . . Irreproach
able brown gloves and shoes com
plete outfit."
Hat manufacturers in 1803 must
have been rolling In wealth. Every
body wore hats, girls, boys, men and
women. The high school girls In
1893 wore turkey feathers, either a
single mar.tlal one at the rear of
their Jaunty hat, or two in front like
a double-ribbed ship. An assembly
of young women must have resem
bled "big-talk" sessions In an Tndlan
camp.
Of course, young men could not
escape the dictum of the fashion
. writer in 3803, any more than he
can today. Sh? advised trousers
that fitted snugly at the ankles and
flared widely at the hips. A frock
coat, trim and tight at the waist,
with very long skirts and worn un
buttoned. To fop it off, a moderate
ly high collar with the ends slightly
bent, was advocated. The tie was of
rich colored silk, small knot and
wide ends. A hat with a rolled brim
completed the outfit. And the "um
brella should be rolled very small
and tight and the handle should he
of rtntural wood . . . ivory, gold,
or silver-handled umbrellas and
walking sticks are not worn by the
man who dresses at all well."
Among those who remember the
school days of 1803 vividly Is Mrs.
Ada O. MacLaughlln. As she recall^
them, the fashions In that day were
not bo uncomfortable as they were
awkward-appearing compared to 103.'}
styles.
"We always wore light-weight
clothing the first few weeks of school
as they do today," she recalled. "But
the boys and young men never took
off r coat In the presence of girls or
| young ladles. It was not a 'worn
an's' age, mind .vou, but a 'lady's'
age. There is a difference.
"Today the boys and young men
go without coats. It Is much more
sensible. The girls never learn. Their
skirts are Just as close-fitting as they
were 40 years ago; they still like to
squeeze into them as they did then.
"Bangs were quite a rage In 1^93
Curled, straight, or haphazard. Hair
might be parted in the middle at tin*
beginning of a school year, and on
either side by spring. We practiced
all styles in hair modes.
"We all snng In high school then.
We all used the gymnasium. Then
were no exemptions. As for cooking
and sewing, those things we wcr?'
taught at home.
"I suppose I was what they call a
tomboy. I played all the boys'
games In the neighborhood, although
threatened with punishment by my
mother for doing so. I ciin remem
k her many times when I hid my
knuckles at the diiiner table because
they were so skinned after playing n
gnme of forbidden 'shinny' with my
brother and the boys,
"Yes, girls rode bicycles then, but
the rest of us who were brought up
'right' didn't consider it very lady
like. Of course, today the bicycle
craze seems all right. It's derived
from the European countries, and
I've been around the world ?slnre my
high school days."
The nble fashion writer in IS'.Kl in
cluded all types In her reading pub
lic. If they had to be bicycle riders,
then here was what she advised them
to wear : ?
"Cheviot cloth, short bell-shaped
skirt with senms mounted on the tint
In front and with gathers behind
Two pocket flaps garnish the front.
Blouse bodice mounted on a yoke
adorned with English point lace. The
puffy bodice Is made In the same style
behind. Sleeve close-fitting on fore
arm and puffy above, the tight-fitting
part being trimmed In the same style
as the yoke. Cap of dark blue cloth.
High boots and trousers of the same
cloth as the skirt, puffy and buckled
below the knee." ? Kansas City
Times.
Ancient City of Italy
Recalls Glorious Past
Once the center of Florentine life,
expressing artistic Tuscany, the
glorious past of the Palazzo Vecchlo
of Flrenze, Italy, blooms and pales
each year like a June rose.
A monstrous structure with a slen
der tower 808 feet -and a copper spire
gating from 1453, the Vecchlo lives
in its greatest glory when nobility
and officialdom of Italy gather each
June to review from high on Its his
toric walls the traditional footbnll
gnme ? a cross between soccer and
rugby ? which Florentine teams
garbed In costumes of ^olumbus'
days play In the plaza fr.clng It.
The glory Is brief. Just rn echo of
the proud days when it wn the scene
of the forum of the republic with Its
popular assemblies, tumults, festivals
and executions In 1380. It took eigh
ty-eight years to build the Vecchlo,
from 1208. The oldest part preserves
the huge projecting gallery and bat
tlements. It houses treasures In art,
sculpture and pnlntlngs which great
hands of Italy, long gone, turned out.
French Human Flies
Profit From Tradition
American "human flies" who today
find it hard to make money out of
their exploits may borrow an Idea
from the French. The weathercock
topping the cathedral of Senlls,
France, which maintained Its perch
despite eight German projectiles hit
ting the sp)re In 1914, was recently
brought down to fill the pockets of
the men who climbed to It, writes
Samuel Chamberlain In American
Architect.
Four stone masons who were re
pairing the tower remembered the
tradition that whenever the peak of
t lie cathedral had been reached by a
steeplejack, the cock (I.e Coq Gau
lols) could he brought down and
passed from door to door as n means
of exacting tips from homeowners,
and thej- -(lid It. As this Is the bird's
first descent in 1'JO years, the cus
tom has not been overdone.
Twice In recent history an auda
cious alpinist has succeeded In climb
ing up the spiny surface of the spire
as fnr as the rooster, without the aid
of ropes or scaffolding. In June,
1731, an Innocent-looking young man
obtained permission to climb to the
bell tower. He dashed upward and
passed through an opening on the
j, highest platform before the startled
**sextoh could catch his breath. Climb
ing like an ape from crocket to
crocket, he finally reached the huge
ball of copper which caps the ma
sonry. By a heroic and almost sul
cidal effort, the climber got over this
ball.
Once on top of the ball the rest
wus easy. He performed a few gym
nastics to the awestruck witnesses
below, and then boldly unfastened
the weathercock, stropped It on his
back and crawled down to face the
irate sexton. I'.y this time nil the
population of Seniis was a gaping,
horror-struck gallery Including, un
fortunately for the Intjepld climber,
the bailiff, who promptly clapped him
In Jail.
ONLY USE FOR IT
He ? 1 wish you would use >our
head a little more, nij dear.
Wlfey ? Good I I will go to the mil
liner's tomorrow nnd use it trying on
hats. ? Stray Stories Magazine.
VALUABLE SUPERFLUITIES
A child born with six arms, la
Catalonia, Spain, has reached tha
age of seven. lie would seem of a
size now to carry the watermelon at
a picnic. ? Detroit News.
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