THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER Scenes and Persons in the Current News OLIVE Interior of the Transformed Lincoln Tomb STOCK! COTTONSEED MEAL FOR LIVE STOCK Especially Valuable Protein Feed for Dairy Cows. i (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.)—WNU Service. Cattlemen and other live stock owners who need a fet'd high in protein to supplement home-grown roughages will find cottonseed meal or cake satisfactory, accord- ing to information given in Farm- ers’ Bulletin 1179-F, Feeding Cot- tonseed Products to Live Stock. This bulletin has just been issued in revised form by the LTnited States Department of Agriculture, Washington, I>. C. Cottonseed meal stimulates the appetite of fattening animals and causes them to con- sume more feed and likewise to make greater gains. Cottonseed meal is a valuable protein feed for dairy cows, as the bulletin shows, one pound of good quality cottonseed meal furnishes as much digestible protein as three Interior view of the Lincoln tomb at Springfield, in., as it lias been transformed. This new chamber pounds of wheat bran. The addi- surrounds the marble and bronze sarcophagus in which lies the body of the Emancipator. President Hoover I tion of cottonseed meal to rations accepted the invitation to take part in the dedication of the remodeled tomb on June 17. I—Miss1 —Miss Margaret Young, descendant of Brigham Young, chosen “Miss Pioneer” to reign over the Cov- j for high-producing dairy cows, ered Wagon Days festival in Salt Lake City late in July. 2—View of the rebuilt Lincoln tomb in Spring- however, renders the rations satis- Mac- I Held, 111., at the dedication of which President Hoover delivered an address. 3—Prime Minister Ramsay ! factory only so far ns the protein Donald and his daughter at the gate of Chequers, his resilience, where the conference with Bruening and | requirement is concerned. Curtius of Germany took place. >i^^ pasture may be Flying Battery That Beef cattle on Travels 50 Miles an Hour | fed cottonseed cake or meal as a ! fattening ration with satisfactory —¦ ¦¦ —1 may also be fed cot- ' } Lindbergh Plane Is With Pontoons i results. Hogs ¦ Equipped i tonseed meal in limited quantities ; as a protein supplement. Horses, j however, should receive only cot- tonseed meal of good quality and in limited quantities, not more than one pound daily for a horse weigh- I ing 1,000 pounds if digestive dis- - turhances are to be avoided. The bulletin shows how to com- pare various grades of cottonseed | meal or cake and how to select the feed which supplies a pound of protein at the least cost. A num- ber of suggested rations which in- I elude cottonseed products are list- ed and the results of several ex- periments show the value of sup- plemental feeding of animals on pasture. Copies of Farmer’s Bulle- tin 1179-F may he obtained on ap- plication to the Office of Informa- tion, States Department of United This new flying battery of the States army consists of 8-inch Agriculture, Washington, D, C. United an howitzer on an S-wheel chassis attached to a truck carrying a 77-mm. anti-aircraft gun. It has a speed on highways of more than 50 miles an hour. Pit Silos Are Popular in Feeding Live Stock (By WALTER G. WARD, Extension PLEADS FOR BEER Architect, Kansas State Agricul- Ancient Idol Dug Up in Illinois tural College.) Kansas farmers are finding the \ use of the pit silo most economical Ikf * Whp * ’ ~ k in their cattle feeding enterprise. *2' S’!1 *3H, „ s-. {| v ,• The pit silo should have a con- crete collar beginning three feet or more below the ground to avoid I frost action and extending three or four to increase the feet above ground Workmen at the Glenn H. Curtiss airport at North Beach, N. Y., adujsting the pontoons on The above in will i the capacity. wall Lockheed airplane which Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh soon begin their flight to the Far ground will also serve as a East. I protect- ! ing wall to keep animals from fall- plK* >. % | ng into the silo when it is empty. SKAGERRAK MONUMENT Below the collar the silo should Each Hopes to Be Miss Universe be dug with smooth, true walls and | plastered with a mortar consisting ' i- .v of one part cement to three parts of clean, coarse sand. To this mix- ture should be added hydrated lime equaling 10 per cent of the cement used. If the ground shows any m&; Wm tendency toward caving it is advis- able to use reinforcement, such as hall screen. wire fencing or St About the only serious disadvan- tage to a pit silo is in the removal of the silage, which necessitates the ••'. |y Ma use of some kind of a hoist. If the '%W % Wm Is made with sufficient ca- hoist WKbKSßi^KSKbM^^B^^^ * > w ISgS pacity that only one trip into the ¦ silo is required at each filling, this - x. ffiljß ; offer such a difficult prob- '>% JB does not ' i‘trV; ''' 1 lem. Alfalfa and Clover Are Congressman L. C. Dyer of Mis- souri who told President Hoover Favored for Farm Stock of the benefits, financial and other- Oats hay may be fed to beef cat- wise, he believed would result if tle hut it is not as efficient as clov- the making and sale of real beer er or alfalfa hay. Oats hay corre- were legalized. sponds very closely to timothy hay in composition. It is much lower NEW MIDDY PILOT in protein, is not eaten with quite Grotesque human figure made by prehistoric mound builders of Illi- i so much relish as legume hay and nois, unearthed in the southern part of the state, and now on exhibit i does not have the conditioning and at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. The figure is 12 This is the Mariners’ monument I laxative effect of the Tatter. Alfal- Inches high and weighs 42 pounds. The features have been carved with at Lahoe, near Kiel, Germany, fa hay contains 10.6 per cent di- skill and, although executed over a thousand years ago, it is erected quite mod- to commemorate the sea I gestible protein, 30 per cent car- ern in conception. battle at Skagerrak, the greatest bohydrates and 0.9 per cent fat. naval battle in the World war, Clover hay carries 7.6 per cent called by the allies the battle of protein, 39.3 per cent carbohydrates Jutland. The monument was put and 1.8 per cent fat. Angling for Fishing Title up by the Germans recently. Oats hay has only 3.4 per cent protein, 38!4 per cent carbohydrates HEADS VETERANS and 1.2 per cent fat. Here are the seven European beauties who came over to compete for the title of Miss Universe in the contest at Galveston, Texas. Left to LIVE STOCK FACTS right are Inga Norberg, Miss Sweden; Daisy Frieberg, Miss Germany; il JJtj Gerd Johansen, Miss Norway; Lucienne Xahmais, Miss France; Karen Schentz, Miss Denmark; Inez Monolassa, Miss Austria; and Netta A clean start for pigs has a real I cash value at marketing time. Duchateau, Miss Belgium. * * * The cheapest thing in the most profitable ration for live stock Is j “fresh air.” Harding Memorial Is Dedicated • • • Skim milk, good quality alfalfa Ilf & hay, or clover hay should be fed to furnish protein. H Jr * * * g?--—-iy. When pigs are five or six weeks old, they should have middlings or Lieut. Cora. James L. Hall, who ja<s?yf shorts and tankage or cob meal. i is the new graduate manager of * * * athletics at the United States More than two-thirds of all the | I Naval academy at Annapolis. Com- cattle infected with tuberculosis mander Hall is also a graduate of MiiP have been slaughtered since 1917, William and Mary college, and was federal authorities estimate. prominent in athletics during his * * * midshipman days. Feeding hogs in cars at loading time or in lots immediately before In Other Words—- loading increases death losses In "Now that women are manning transit by 25 to 30 per cent. Cambridge * * * our banks,” pens a cashier, "and already have six of Heavy feeding and no exercise j their sex as presidents of banks in on Sunday or rainy days are bad I our country, I’m wondering if for horses. Be sure to reduce the they’re figuring on putting a new feed when the work stock is idle. complexion on * * * finance, and.” he nervously queries, “if they’re likely Gen. (J. A. DeSaussure of Mem- If wheat cannot be sold at profit to become competent to compete The twenty-one fair contestants in the invitational sea fishing on a 50-cent bushel price, it A new photograph of the Harding Memorial erected at Marion, phis, Tenn., who was elected com- per with men as cashiers?” “Surely,” championship for women angling from the Rainbow barge off Long honor the late President Warren G. Harding, and where mander may be utilized with off-grade peas admits the Boston "and Beach, Calif., during the one-hour Miss Inez Shumard won Ohio, in of of the United Confederate sheep, Herald, race. the he and his wife lie buried, which was dedicated by President Herbert Veterans at their annual reunion in and cheap forage for swine most of them would make grand title with a catch of 46 deep sea beauties, including 28 mackerel, 4 bar- high government officials. Montgomery, or cattle feed, and turned Into a tellers, too!” racuda, 2 bonita and 12 tom cod.