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TINFAIM FRONT
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When an emet•ge.ney looms up,
a man sometimes has to act
quickly, anct not according to the
book.
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When the temperature hit a
steaming 95°, with high humidity
and no air moving, Sanford Al-
ger had to act quick or lose his
chickens.
He bought large blocks oe ice,
and put them in the pens in
front of electric fans. It did the
trick—he didn't •lose a chicken.
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If you happen to be troubled
with mites in the litter of your
poultry house, here's a tip. You
can kill thein right •where they
are—without throwing out the
litter,
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One way is to sprinkle the lit-
ter with a combination dust con-
taining 5% DDT or methoxy-
chlor, plus 20% sulfur, says Da-
vid Brannon of Washington State
College. Put on about 3 pounds of
dust to each 100 square feet of
litter, and mix • it in thoroughly.
* *
if you don't owri a mecha-
nical litter stirrer, and want to
try an easier method, you can
just spray the litter with insect-
icidies, and let it dry for a day
or two. For this :method, says
Brannon, mix up 4 pounds of
50% wettable DDT powder or•
methoxychlor with 6 pouncls of
wettable sulfur per 100 gallons
of water.
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About 3 gallons of the mix -
lure to each 100 square feet of
litter should do the trick.
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How often should you treat
the litter? Since both DDT and
methoxychlor last well, once a
season should be enough.
Broiler growers don't agree
on how much lighting their
•chicks need. Some say: "All the
time," Others say: "Just in the
summer.•,
.
C. B, Latette of Shelby County,
eomprorisses, and has some good
reasons for it, too. Starting in
1948 with one small house, he
now markets 90,000 to 100,000
birds per year, and is recognized
as one of the best broiler men
in the fast-growing broiler re-
gion of East Texas.
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Lafitte has a time switch that
turns on the lights 'at 10:30 p,m,
and off at 6:00 am. You need
lights especially. in the summer,
he says, because the broilers
will eat more in the cool of night
and be ready for market sooner.
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But why not burn them all.
Corn Chi,
A&1 Zest end Novelty
Iter iRQRQTIlle ]I A>@PDX
lee warm weather when appetites Inv be jaded, try serving
4,1110tU r hover dishes, Recently in Dallas, Tex., Nell Morris, On
aDit tfte 8t'xuth's dutstand,ir,g itome eeotaomists, showed me how to use
t oari't clttps k baked dishes. tiler recipes wilt certainly make ,your
sut'ttmertime cooking a little more interesting.
t:OORN C 1'S ZIPPY GHEESl,
(Serves 9 to 8)
One and one -hale cups milk, 2 eggs, slightly beaten; IA teaspoon
dry ireustard, 1 V4: teaspoons salt, 1/4 teaspoot cayenne, 1 cup onions,
eholspetil; cups grated American cheese, 1 cup crushed corn chips
(measure after crushing).
Add heated milk to slightly beaten eggs and seasonings. Mix
crr>ions, cheese and corn chips together and place in a greased
baking dish. Pour milk and eggs over this and bake in moderate
oven (325 degrees F.) for 20 minutes.
For an economical and out -of -the -ordinary family dish, rr~^ this
recipe:
CORN G"1111i'-RLONX CASSEROLE
(serves 6 to 8)
Four ounces macaroni, 4 slices bacon (fried crisp), 3 tablesooris`
bacon drippings, 4 tablespoons chopped green pepper, i/i cup
:.'hopped onions, 2 cloves garlic (minced), r/2 teaspoon tnonosodiunt
glutamate, tip teaspoon white pepper, % teaspoon salt, 1. can con-
densed tomato soup, 2 cups lightly crushed corn chips (measured
atter crushing), 1 cup grated• American cheese.
Boil macaroni in salted water until tender. Saute anion, green•
pepper and garlic in bacon fat, then add seasonings, tomato soup,
minced bacon and cooked macaroni. Place half of corn chips in
a cosset -late, Add the macaroni mixture, Top with remaining corn
chips and grated cheese. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.)
,••w 20 minutes. .
CORN CHIPS BAKED NOODLE LOAD
(Serves 8)
One package (5 ounces) noodles, 3 eggs, 2 cups milk, % tea-
spoon salt, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, % teaspoon white
:o Meals
porn chips and zippy cheese served with. chin
hot weather luncheon dish. Try it to relieve
notony of summer.
1 cup grated American cheese,
chips (measured after crushing).
Cook noodles in boiling salted water, Drain and rinse. Corn -i
dine beaten eggs, milk, seasonings, cheese, corn chips and noodles.;
pout' into a greased casserole. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees)
F.') for 45 minutes.
cup
Agafte
sauce are a zestful'
the mealtime me.
finely
crushed cornII
night? "We used to do this," said
Lafitte, "but when the power
would go off, the birds sometimes
got excited and piled up. But by
letting them get used to the
darkness for a few hours each
night, we never have trouble."
(Some growers who use lights
have stand-by battery-operated.
sets,)
"Another advantage," Lafitte
reasons, "is that it gives the birds
a chance to rest awhile. When
natural darkness comes on, the
birds stuff their crops—enough
to last the two or three hours be-
fore the lights come on."
FAR FROM HOME COOKING
There is a well-known Ameri-
can general, at present in Korea,
who is noted for his keen in-
terest in all that goes into the
Army's stomach,
Approaching the n e r v o u s
young cook of an advance field
kitchen, the big • man boomed;
"Here, let me taste that." The
cook opened his mouth to pro-
test, but the general snapped
"Don't give me any buts --give
me a spoon!" -
The general dipped his spoon
into the huge soup cauldron,
and tasted the liquid.
"You don't call that stuff soup,
do you?" he 'roared. •
"No, sir!". stammered the sol-
dier. "That's what I was trying
to tell you --it's dish -water, sir!"
Albino Soby—Warming, mothering and feeding a tiny albino
squirrel thrills three kids who found it, apparently sick and
orphaned, Kate' Mobley, 8, at left, coaxes him to eat; Her sister
Kuulei, 15, holds him while the third sister, Potty, 12, fixes
a special bottled formula recommended by animal experts at
the zoo.
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Crackers and Cheese — And,
what better refreshment for a
picnic than crackers and cheese.
Serving up his special brand for
the day, our photographer com-
bined (fire) crackers and cheese
(cake) to produce the eye -
appealing picture of Norma
Randall, Hollywood actress, seen
above.
Bitten By Snakes
Over 400 Times
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Georgie Cann, reptile -keeper at
Sydney's Taronga Zoo Paik, has
caught 17,000 wild . live snakes
(he claims this is an Australian
record) and has been bitten
over 420 times. George has been
in the game since boyhood.
For thirty-four years tie gave
snake show all over Australia.
With him in the pit he woul»
have 200 venomous snakes, cop-
perheads, .rattlesnakes
He thinks he's fairly venom -
proof, but thirty-one years ago
a tiger snake near Nowra (N.S.
W.) nearly finished him. He was
out in the bush catching snakes.
He collapsed in his shack sev-
eral hours later and was uncon-
scious for four day,.
Fortunately, a. friend chanced
along on the fourth day, found
him lying on the floor, and re-
vived him after half an hour's
vigorous shaking. Cann could
trove neither arms nor legs for
a fortnight,
A 'month later another tiger
snake bit hire at Maitland
(N.S.W.) when he was putting
on his act. Cann was blind for
three. days.
George':: two sone, twenty -
.four and fourteen, share his en-
thusiasm for snakes. During the
war the elder boy, a soldier in
New Guinea, caught two tree
boas and shipped them to his
father for the zoo.
Cann tells a good story about
the younger lad, When he was
five, his mother found hien in
a tin pit with twenty blue -
tongued lizards, One protesting
lizard was clamped between his
teeth. Said Cann Junior, "elute -
My, this nasty lizard bit me, so
I'm biting h'iin baoli,"
What le new is opposed, be-
oause most are unwilling to be
taught.
w-SAM.l,"1 L JOHNSON
World -Famous Diamond i demi► in
Potato Field
What has happened to the Koh -
i -Nur, the famous and fascinat-
ing diamond that has glittered
for so long as one of the shining
highlights of the British Crown
Jewels? The startling answer is
that nobody knows.
It played no part in the Coro-
nation ceremonies. It had not
been built, as so many people
expected, into the Queen's newly
reconstructed Imperial Crown of
State, Apart from the Queen her-
self, and three close confidential
advisers, no one knows the iden-
tity of the stone's present owner.
Was it mentioned in Queen
'Mary's will? The great diamond
• was set into Queen Mary's per-
sonal crown over forty years ago
and was long regarded, like the
crown, as her late Majesty's per-
sonal property. The contents of
royal -wills, however, are never
disclosed, and the value of the
'been ern includeConsidered
ori nl Qu enso have'
Mary's
•reputed £3,000,000 .fortune.
Legal Puzzler
With watchful regard for the
legend of a curse that ordains it
unlucky to men, Queen Victoria
is known to have willed the Koh -
1 -Nur to Queen Alexandra. From
her it passed to Queen Mary,
who merely loaned it for the
queen consort's crown at George
VI's coronation' in 1937.
But Queen Victoria also made
a provision that the diamond
should always be worn by the
queen consorts of England and
never by the kings.. To -day, of
course, there is no queen consort.
Our young queen is sovereign in
her own right; the Queti Mother
is, in reality, a dowager queen;
the Duke of Edinburgh, although
a consort, is not in line as a man,
and thus an interesting legal si-
tuation has arisen.
Yet this is by no means the
only strange twist in the Koh-i-
Nur's recent story. During the
war it was kept in an old hat -box
in •the vaults of Windsor Castle.
At one time, when German in-
vasion seemed imminent, it was
placed 1n an air -tight preserving
jar and buried in a potato field.
And to heighten the conta'over-
sy, it is being urged that the Koh -
1 -Nur belongs to the government
of India and should be returned.
Sonne of It Yours
But perhaps you, yourself, have
a fragment of the Koh -i -Nur and
are giving it house room unaware
of the curse? After the East India
Company presented it to Queen
Victoria, the :186 -carat stole was
cut down to 106 carats. The
smaller part was again split and
many of the smaller chippings
found their way into private
jewellery,
In size, the Koh-i-Nur-•---Moun -
tain of Light—cannot compare
with the modern 3,025 -carat Cul -
heat in the State Crown or the
770 -carat stone found in a Sierra
. Leone river -bed seven years ago,
which has now passed to a pri-
vate buyer. Yet it is one of the
,World's oldest known diamonds.
Legend traces it back 2,000 years
-<-when. it was allegedly found
in the Golconda mines in India
and it has a documented his-
tory from the year 1304.
It formed part of the toot of
Malwa, seized from the old Pa-
than empire. It passed into the
fabulous treasury Of Delhi and
Was found there when great
'ainerlane's grandson conquered
..Hindustan industan and founded the famed
ltitogul empire.
Wars have been fought around
the :Koh -i -Nur, In trying to find
it, men have fallen down stair-
ways and broken their necks. A
harem' slave once hid it away
and appeased her conquerors by
revealing it hidden in the em-
peror's turban.
Emperor's Plight
But how to get it? The con-
queror suggested exchanging
turbans as a gesture of friend-
ship and the unfortunate emper-
or, Mohammed Shah, had no
choice but to comply.
Half a century later, another
emperor in the same plight tried
to deceive a conqueror by foist-
ing him oft with a perfect repli-
ca. In return, his capital was
ransacked and his palace razed
to the ground until the diamond
was at last found in a heap of
ashes.
Following the overthrow of
the Sikh empire, it was handed
over to John Lawrence, the
British Resident. Absent-minded-
ly he put it into a cotton coat
pocket, forgot about it, and then
learned -the coat had gone to the
cleaners.
Panic-stricken, he turned the
laundry upside down. "If you are
looking for that piece of glass,"
said a servant, "I have put it in
a drawer."
Brilliance Fades
And when Queen Victoria was
at last presented with the Koh -i -
Nur, it must be recorded .that
she did not think much of it.
The gem did not seem to shine
with sufficient brightness, hence
the old queen ordered it to be
recut. But' the harsh truth is
that diamonds as old as the
Koh -i -Nur gradually lose their
power and brilliance.
This "gem of germs" is no ex-
ception. Some years ago it was
valued at £140,000, but it, was
priced at £2,000,000 when shown
at the Great Exhibition in 1851!
So who now owns the Koh -i -
Nur? it is nearly two years since
it was last seen twinkling in
Queen Mary's crown at the
Tower of London. Since then the
crown itself has been dismantled,
and the Queen was seen to be
wearing gems from it when she
last rode to the State Opening
of Parliament. If the Koh -i -Nur
has to await the next queen con --
sort, its icy fires tray lie in cold
storage for sixty years or more.
On The Naming
Of Cats
It Occurs to me as I write this
that the naming of eats is au al-
most infallible guide to the dei
gree of affection bestowed on a
cat. Perhaps not affection sa
much as true appreciation of
feline character. You may be
reasonably sure when you meet
e cat called Ginger or merely
Puss that his or her owner has
insufficient respect for his cat.
Such plebeian and uniinagina..-
tive nares are not given to carr;
by true cat -lovers. There is a.
world of difference between the
commonplace "Tabby" and the
dignified and sonorous "Tabitha
Longelaws Tiddleywinks" which.
the poet Hood christened his cat.
And her three kittens called Pep-
perpot, Scratchaway and Sootl••
kins reveal an affectionate inter-
est which is never displayed by
such ordinary names fig Sandy
or Mickey..
We cannot all rise, of tour• ,t,
to Southey's heights. He, you
may remember, called his ead,
"the most noble the Archduke
Bumpelstilzchen, Marcus Mac-
bum, Earl Tomlefnagne, Baron
Raticicle, W a o w h ler and
Scratch." . . .
Not that grandiloquel•it or ion -
cy titles are necessary to a true
appreciation of cats. What could
be more dignified or appropriate
than the name of Doctor John-
son's cat Hodge? And the hand-
some Bedfordshire cat who is
mentioned later in this story is
adniirablP suited by his name
of Albert.
Without doubt the names guest,
to individual cats shed interest: -
Mg light on their human owners.
No one but a true cat -lover could
call his cat Gilderoy, Absalom,
Potifar, Wotan, Feathers or Shah
de Perse.—From "Charles, The
Story of a Friendship," by Mich-
ael Joseph. Copyright, 1952, by
Michael Joseph. Prentice - Hall,
Inc.
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Toothsome Prize —. The spirit of
adventure paid off in lots of
thrills and a real prize for Larry
Cokenower, left, and W a l t e r
Myers. Using a snare -pole with
a wire loop, they caught a four-
and -one-half - foot alligator in
the Des Plaines River.
Squirrel Friend ---Douglas Holmes, shows off his pet squirrel "Skip"
to his seventh grade classmates al Union High School. Th., t'o.i
found "Skip" several weeks ago and the Iwo have become
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