mm " -^i^tMm „^,^ rill I^K New World Of Light â€" CJne of the younj^Cbt persons ever to wear spfctaclcs is 11-month-old Johnny Peoples, seen being fitted with special glasses at an eye hospital by nurse Madeline Dorey. Born blind, johnny underwent a series of four opera- tions for the removal of cataracts, and saw for the first time when the i^lasses were put on him. THEFAEM FKONT fAk-^C^ H. H. -McKiiiley operates a meat market and restaurant down in In- diana â€" but wliat he says might strike right home to sonic of us living north <if the border as well. McKinley buys his animals locally and kills all his own meat. He claims that farmers are their own worst customers when it comes to buying the fat and finish they strive to p\it on their stock. * * * ".\bout half my business is selling beef in quarters and halves to farm- ers who want it for freezers or locker storage," he says. "They like .1 lean grade of meat that would only grade commericial to good. They <lon"t want choice or prime. Too fat, and they hate to see the fat wasted. This is funny, when on their farms they feed their stock to put on fat." * » * Worth thinking over, isn't it? And not only in regard to beef. * * * When you buy new fencing, keep in mind that the price of the wire is only a small part of the price â€" is the good advice handed out by J. F. Schaffhausen, writing in "The Country ( ientleman." The big cost is posts, labor to set them and erect the wire, staples and annual main- tenance. * ♦ * This means that to get the lowest fencing cost per year you should begin with wire that is strong enough for the job and properly galvanized. .Mso, you need treated posts, placed properly, braced where needed, and on them the wire must be stretched and stapled correctly. * * • After the fence is in place, it needs at least one annual inspec- tion so that staples that have pulled loose can be renailed, broken strands repaired, and weak or bro- ken braces corrected. Clean fence rows are an asset, but don't burn the brush and grass away. Heat may destroy the galvanizing on the wire and permit rust to develop. * * » Corner posts are the critical ones from a maintenance standpoint. For most farm uses, an 8-inch diameter corner post is needed. It should be set in concrete to a depth of ,3^ or 4 feet to reach below the frost line. The post-hole can be 18 inches square on top and flared out to 20 inches at the bottom. The concrete mix best suited to the job is made from 1 part cement, 2 parts coarse sand and 3 parts coarse gravel. Use seven gallons of water to each sack of cement. * » ♦ The best corner brace for a wood- en fence is a thrust post between the tops of the corner post and the second and third post from the cor- ner. These two brace posts should not he over 1(1 feet apart. The first one may be inches in diameter and the oihiT 4 inches. The thrust posts slunild be at least 4 inches in diameter. To complete the cor- ner assembly, apply a wire tension member from the bottom of the corner pi.st to the top of the second post, and another from the bottom of the sei'oiKJ post to the top of third one. * ♦ ♦ This tension member can be made up of No. y galvanized wire wrap- ped so there are 3 strands on each side of the posts. As each stra""* of wire is wrapped aro""'' '. .' staple it to .1". . . â- - '"•= P*'?' • Whei> '"^ ^*' separately. '•''"1^ ivtres are- in place, use »nort piece of pipe to twist them and crralt a tension great enough \-^ to pull the tops of the posts until they are leaning slightly in the op- posite direction from which the fence is stretched. Then, when the fence is tightly stretched, these posts will be plumb. Leave the pipe in the wire to permit adjusting this brace on your annual rcmnds. « * * A line post which is not perform- ing its full function is a weak link and should be replaced at once. Rot- ted and weather-cracked posts that no longer hold staples should be cut out and replaced. Since the ground may be frozen when you make your fence inspection, digging holes for new posts may be difficult. It's easy, however, to drive a steel post, and the fence can be attached in a few minutes. So carry a supply of steel posts on your fence round and drive them 2 ivet down into the ground along the fence line where you find you need them. * • * Broken strands in a woven-vvlre fence may be fatal to the life of a fence unless they are promptly re- paired. If you do not already have a good wire splicing tool, acquire one. If you do the job with a pair of pUers, the chances are that the galvanized coating on the wire will be removed. * * « If you are making use of an oc- ' casional steel post alongside wood posts to provide spots for ground- ing fence wire against lightning, check to see if both tht woven wire and the barbed wire are well grounded. Animals often drift into the wind into a fence corntr, where they huddle. The weight of their bodies occasionally disconnects in- securely grounded wires. » * * Persons climbing over a fence can cause considerable damage. Wires are stretched or staples are torn loose; braces are cracked and nails pulled out. Prevent this dam- age by constructing stiles in the places along the fence line where the traffic is not heavy enough to warrant the use of the gates. ♦ * • Large gates usually present a problem. The light ones are easy to operate, but can be broken when livestock crowd against them. Heavy gates, on the other hand, often sag and are hard to operate unless' they arc well designed and properly hung. Plank the fence for 12-feet on both sides of the gate if large herds of cattle will he passing through. This will reduce damage to the fence. ♦ * ♦ If the passage is used frequently by trucks or tractors, you may want a cattle guard instead of a gate. To build one, dig a pit 18-inclies deep, as wide as the lane and .S or fi feet long. Place an 8-inch-wide reinfor- cd concrete wall around the pit. l-'orm a ledge in the walls at the sides of the road to support pipes, rails or timbers flush with the lane. Now divide the pit into three parts and build two additional walls to support the guard rails at the inter- mediate points. When the concrete hardens, place the rails 6 inches apart. Use 2-incli steel pipe to sup- port cars, tractors and light trucks. For supporting loaded trucks, you wfH need 'liscarded railroad rails or small 1-l^eam^ ♦ * * To control goats or sheep, V- 'shaped wings sloping from the ends of the pit to the fence or gate should be provided. These animals will cross over if even a2-inch-wMe imooth passage exists. The late and still lamented Ring Lardner wrote some of the greatest sport yarns that ever saw print. But one of the things which dif- ferentiated him from most of his tribe was that he never choked up or grew misty-eyed over the char- acters he was describingâ€" a decided contrast to some of our modern sports chroniclers who would have you believe that, even thdugh some of our baseball, prize-ring and race- track heroes may be a trifle rough on the outside, they're solid 24- rarat gold at heart. . • » • Read such of Lardncr's stories as "Champion," about the great prize fighter who was a louse at heart, or baseball talcs such as "Alibi Ike," and you'll see better what we're trying to get at. Ring called them as he saw them, and he faw them more clearly than most; and we'll never forget his comment, when baseball's biggest scandal broke in 1919 and folks were going around saying that the trhicago Black Sox, in addition to being crooked, had been a pretty poor bunch of ball players to boot. ♦ » » "I don't like what the So.\ did any better than anybody else," niioth Lardner, or words to that effect, "still, that isn't going to make me say that Eddie Cicotte (I'dn't have a swell fast one, or that Shoeless .Toe Jack'on couldn't take a sweet cut at the ball." * • • So it is only fitting that one of Ring's sons â€" John, to be exact â€" should do a grand job of debunking one of sportdom's greatest myths in a recent magazine article. This is the myth that the game of base- ball is a strictly United States prod- uct â€" that it was. in fact, invented practically in its entirely, and in- cluding its name, one summer's afternoon at a'place called Coopers- town, N.Y., in the year 1839. * â- * * Upon this myth has been built the Cooperstown "Shrine of Base- ball," to which certain of the Scotch Influence â€" There's no lavish waste of material in this trim swim suit modelled by Mary Brown. A touch o' the Highlands is also evident in the plaid "l<ilt" effect formed by the ballerina ruffles at the bottom. Designed by Margar- et Newman, the suit has a sim- ple, strapless bodice. game's "immortals" are elected at regular intervals. As a producer ol baseball ballyhoo and material for after-banquet speeches in the off season, Cooperstown has prob- ably been worth all it cost, and more. The whole trouble is that the records go to prove (1) that the game wasn't invented at Coopers- town; (2) that Abner Doubleday had nothing to do with its inven- tion, or the drawing up of its rules, and (3) that the name baseball was used for a somewhat similar game in Kngland years before it was ever heard of on this side of the Atlantic. ♦ * ♦ For example, in the year 1700, the Rev. Thomas Wilson, of Maid- stone, England, was writing some of his memoirs of the century just ending. "I have seen Morris-danc- ing, cudgel-playing," he wrote, "baseball and cricket and many other sports on the Lord's Day." (We wonder if tliey took a vote about it first, as happened recently in the Queen City of Toronto). • • « More than that, a far greater and better known writer than the Rev. 4 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AOBNTS WAKTEU TO BBhh Sam'a Garden Truclura, vary profltabla Uoa. Send fur lllerulure. Gar- den Power Toola Llmitud, W»»t HIU, Oniarlo. HEI.I.. popular H. 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More 'eggs from the same amount of feed and labour are always a uood deal, but rlt'ht now. Top .Notch bonus cKEs are the best kind of vniHl In- surant e ucalnst fluctuutlnit prlies. If you want both high egB production and hiih meat production you con't bent Top Notch chicks. Can supply day old. started, older pullets, also turkey poults In Broail Breasted llronie. White Holland, Beltsvliie Whites. Prompt de- livery. Top Notch Chirk Sales. Guelph. On- tario. Mr. Wilson also made reference to baseball by that name. She was Jane .^usten who, in her novel. "Northanger Abbey," wrote, "It is not very wonderful that Catherine should prefer cricket, baseball, rid- ing on horseback and running about the country at the age of 14, to books." ♦ * * It wouldn't be fair to quote the article at any great length You'll find it in the May issue of TRUE M.^GAZINE, and it's well worth looking up. But, as John Lardner figures it, the whole thing seems to stem from a controversy between A. G. Spalding â€" the man who did more to put the game on a solidly profitable commercial basis than anybody elseâ€" and one, Henry t'hadwick, sometimes called the "Father of Baseball." * * * Chadwick, although a real lover of and authority on baseball, was P^nglish by birth. He believed that the gante derived from the British sport of "rounders." .Al Spaldinsj would have none of such heresay. » * * "I claim that baseball owes its prestige as our national game to the fact that as no other sport, it is the exponent of American cour- age, confidence, combativeness. American dash, discipline, deter- mination, American energy, eager- ness, enthusiasm, .\merican pluck, persistency, performance, American spirit, sagacity, success â€" it would be as impossible for a Briton, who has not breathed the air of this free land as a naturalized citizen; for one who had no part or heritage in the hopes and achievements of our country, to play baseball, as it would be for an American, free from the trammels of Hnglish tradi- tions, customs and conventionalities, to play the national game of Great Britain." « * * And so, Mr. Spalding appointed an investigating committee to go into the matter, .^nd â€" sure enough â€" they investigated and discovered that baseball was the sole invention of little Abner Doubleday and his playmates. « • » However, as we said before, we haven't the heart â€" or the space â€" to spoil your pleasure by quoting more of a grand sports article. I<ook it up yourself. But try and do so right soon. 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