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Those two years are beyond question the most momentous In the history of the system since the creation of the Yellowstone—the first national o-g-ooj ity park In the world—which celebrated iniinfirX' ltS seml ' centennlal last summer. The best thing of all is that the American people have within these two years seized upon the national parks as a part of their conception of the greatness of America. The plain people now feel toward their public playgrounds somewhat as they feel toward Old Glory—“Hands off!” They passionately desire to defend them and keep them in violation. That is why the people won a series of brilliant victories in the Sixty-seventh congress against the organized assaults of industrial and commercial private interests. That is why, under the leadership of the National Parks association, the General Federation of Women's clubs and scores of nation-wide organizations all of one mind as to the national parks, they have developed strength to see that congress shall legislate wisely for their. Other things that make these two years momentous are these: 1922 was a record season in attendance; 1923 will undoubtedly set a new record far in advance. The appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1 are larger than ever before and provide for many permanent improvements. Dr. Hubert Work is now secretary of the Interior in place of Albert B. Fall, resigned. That is a factor in the situation second to none in importance from the viewpoint of the national park enthusiasts. The secretary of the Interior is ex-officio boss of the national park service, has the say so with Director Mather and is subject only to the nod of the president and the fussing of congress. The National Parks association makes no bones of saying in point that it is glad of the change in secretaries. Secretary Fall was a good friend of outdoor recreation. It says, but he undertook to change the national park policy into one which would turn the system into an aggregation of hundreds of little camping grounds. “Wherever I can find a pleasant place for local people to go and camp," he said, “there I shall have a national park." Now the late Franklin K. Lane in 1918 established the national park policy thus: "In studying new park projects you should seek to find scenery of supreme and distinctive quality or unique nature to be of national interest and importance should not be lowered in standard, dignity, and prestige by the inclusion of areas which express in less than the highest terms the particular class or kind of exhibit which they represent." The secretary has made no official announcement about his policy at this writing, but he knows his position. Way round in politics and he saw what the army of enthusiasts did to Secretary Fall. Certain it is that he stands for efficiency as surely as his name is work. He proved that as postmaster general, for the rest, he is a Coloradoan who won fame and fortune as a doctor of medicine, a college graduate, and a man of affairs. Here, in part, is his public statement of his attitude toward the problems of his department: From the beginning, the problems concerning the park should be discussed from the beginning. The public should be prepared from the beginning to the end. And here is Secretary Work's official invitation to us to visit the national parks this summer. From the second sentence, Mr. Work has been provided for those who wish to bring their own equipment and camp out. These unspoiled nits of native America are for you. They are the recreation parks of the people. To visit them and see them is to inspire pride and make more real your love for America. In the guest of the government, I invite you to be its Director Stephen T. Mather of the national park service. Another factor whose importance can hardly be overestimated from the viewpoint of the national park enthusiast. For beyond question, Mr. Work has been provided for those who wish to bring their own equipment and camp out. These unspoiled nits of native America are for you. They are the recreation parks of the people. To visit them and see them is to inspire pride and make more real your love for America. In the guest of the government, I invite you to be its Director Stephen T. Mather of the national park service. This is a significant step towards the park's development and the development of the park. Director Mather is a rare avis. He’s rich, can take the time from his private business and is so fond of the national parks that he worries himself half-sick over them. His salary is a small part of what he gives to the parks each year. He certainly has accomplished a lot in his eight years of service. Even in the most acrimonious debates in congress, somebody usually takes occasion to pay him a compliment, generally referring to him as “the highest type of public servant." The Sixty-seventh congress (March 4, 1921 to March 3, 1923) was practically one continuous battle ground. A victory for the national pork forces with far-reaching results was that in the fight over the hill for the All-Year National park in and about the Mescalero Indian reservation in New Mexico. Senator Bursum of New Mexico got it through the senate. In the house, Secretary Full got it referred to the Indian Affairs committee instead of the public lands committee and in person supported it at the committee hearing. The proposed area, according to its opponents, was everything that a national park ought not to be; even New Mexico rose in revolt against it. The bill died in committee and is said to be too dead to be resuscitated. Another exceedingly important victory was the defeat of the bill of Senator Walsh of Montana for the damming of Yellowstone lake for commercial irrigation purposes. Senator Walsh circularized congress and made speeches in Montana for the bill. The result was the election of a conservation of Montana congressman over a dam pauper and the death of the bill in committee. The battle over the Barbour bill for the Roosevelt-Sequola National park (an enlarged Sequoia) ended in a draw, with the national park forces holding the advantage. They forced the hour to amend its bill by inserting a clause exempting the park from the control of the water power commission. The Los Angeles-Southern California Edison company interests through the late Representative Osborne gave notice that they would offer a water-power amendment. “Congressional courtesy” prevented a vote, owing to the illness and death of Representative Osborne. The Steamship bill, for an Appalachian national park of 5,000 acres of mountain top to be donated to the government, was approved by Secretary Fall. It was fought by the national park forces on the ground that the area was unsuitable. The bill died in committee. So far, so good, any of the national park forces, but there is yet a still bigger battle to be won— the complete safeguarding in perpetuity of all national parks against every economical and commercial use of whatever kind. The American Association for the Advancement of Science passed a resolution defining the issue at its last meeting in Washington. This organization is international, has 12,000 members in the United States and Canada and at its head is Dr. Charles D. Walcott, executive secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The preamble sets forth that the national parks of the South are not only in the hands of the government but also in the hands of the government. the United States constitute a system of "National Museums of Native America"; that the combined national park systems of the United States and Canada If preserved untouched will constitute ax “unique continental exposition of Inestimable valut to science and to the popular education of futuri generations”; that at the option of a single gov eminent official several of the American parks and all but one of the Canadian parks are open to min ing and grazing; that the control of water-power It the future American parks has been recently sur rendered by congress to the water-power commls slon, and that Interference with the natural con djtign of these parks will destroy their usefulness to science and education. The resolution call! upon the people of America and Canada "to securt such amendments of existing law and the enact ment of such new laws as win give to all units In the International parks system complete conserva tion alike and will safeguard them against every Industrial use either under private or public con trol at least until careful study shall Justify th« elimination of any part from park classification.” The General Federation of Women's Clubs passed a resolution to the same effect at Its recenl mld-blenn'jil council at Atlanta. The national park appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1 aggregate an Increase of $243,210 over those of the current year. In the table that follows the first column of dollars con tains the sums set apart for administration, main tenance and protection; the second the sums for permanent Improvements; the third the total ap proprlations for the several parks. The fourth column shows the attendance at each park for the calendar year of 1922. Park A. M. AP. P. I. Totals Visitors Crater Lake. 26,200 I B.SOO S 35,000 33,015 General Grant.. 10,000 40,000 50,000 50,450 Glacier 100,000 125,000 225,000 23,936 Grand Canyon 60,000 65,400 125,400 34,700 Hawaii 10,000 10,000 27,750 Hot Springs.. 65,600 2,000 67,600 103,164 Lafayette.... 30,000.... 30,000 73,779 Lassen 3,000.... 3,000 10,000 Mesa Verde.. 25,000 10,000 35,000 4,261 Mt. McKinley. 8,000.... 8,000 7 Mt. Rainier... 60,000 73,000 133,000 70,371 Nat. Miners. 12,600.... 12,500 171,876 Platt 10,000.... 10,000 70,000 Rocky Mountain 66,000 11,000 74,280 219,164 Sequoia 35,000 85,000 120,000 27,614 Bully’s Hill *9ji! Wind Cave... 10,000.... 10,000 31,016 Yellowstone.. 320,000 48,000 368,000 98,223 Zion....... 13,760 133,000 146,750 4,109 Wash. Office.. 33 200.... 33266 Forest Fires.. 25,000.... 25,000 Acct’s Services 6,000.... 6,000 Totals....31,143,250 3671,201 31,822,730 1,316,385 As to the permanent Improvements General Grant gets $1,857 for a sanitary and water-supply system. Glacier gets $100,000 toward the construction of an east and west road through the park across the Continental Divide; It also gets funds for an administration building at Bolton, the west entrance. Grand Canyon's Item Includes $40,000 for the Hermit's Best Kim road and $50,000 for a community building. Most of Mesa Verde’s $10,000 will go into a water system at Spruce Tree camp. Mount Rainier gets $38,000 for the widening of the Paradise Valley road to permit two-way automobile traffic; $25,300 is for a new camp ground at Longmire Springs, Rocky Mountain gets $8,280 for the purchase of land for a public camp ground. Sequoia gets $54,000 for the completion of the Middle Fork road to Giant Forest; $15,000 goes for a water system in Hunt Forest, Yellowstone’s Item provides $25,000 for a sewer system at Yellowstone Lake and $15,000 for additional camp grounds. Yosemite gets $33,000 for an administration building. Zion gets $133,000 through an Item in the Presidency bill; It will be used for the building of roads and trails and for a bridge across the Rio Virgin on public lands outside the park. Visitors to the parks this season will find many and various improvements. Rocky Mountain has been declared an all-year park; an administration building is going up on a site donated by the Gates Park Woman's club. Mount Rainier has a new shelter cabin at 10,000 feet elevation. Travel to the parks is 30 percent by rail and 70 percent by private car. Mount McKinley will be practically inaccessible until 1924. The annual cost to the people of the national parks is one cent and one mill per capita. Park visitors in 1922 spent about $85,000,000. LIVESTOCK NEWS Selection of Breed for Good Flock of Sheep In establishing a flock of sheep for the farm there are many advantages in the farmers of a community selecting the same breed. One important advantage is in changing rams so as to avoid inbreeding. A farmer with only a few ewes is likely to inbreed or use a poor sire, rather than introduce new blood through the purchase of a good ram. Sheep are divided into three general classes: 1, the line wools, such as the American Merino, Delaine, and Rambouillet; 2, medium wools, such as the Oxford, Hampshire, Shropshire, Southdown, etc.; 3, the coarse wools, such as the Cotswolds, Leicester and Lincolns. The first class of fine wools are especially desirable when run in large numbers on the ranges in mountainous regions, as they herd well together, retain the wool well, are well protected by a close fleece, and probably do better than other breeds on coarse or more or less woody vegetation. Of the fine wools, the Rambouillet has the best mutton type and is the largest in size. The second class, or medium wool sheep are probably best for non-irrigated sections of the state but do well anywhere, as they are of a distinct meat type, mature early, and furnish a higher percentage of mutton than the fine wools. They are not as large as coarse wool, for the sheep mature earlier. Some of the breeds of this class are rather small, active and well adapted to the raising of sheep. To grazing where the feed is sparse. The Southdowns are the smallest and mature very early and rapidly, but shear only about six to eight pounds of wool. The Shropshire is the most popular farm sheep in America, giving a well-balanced yield of mutton and wool, and shearing 12 to 14 pounds under farm conditions. Hampshire and Oxfords are larger than Shropshire, but are a little slower in maturing. Any one of these breeds will give satisfaction. —Extension Service, Colorado Agricultural College. Some Reasons Why Hogs Are Popular Farm Animals (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture) What is the basis of the hog’s popularity, which, in spite of his relatively small size, enables him to stand third in total value among all our domestic animals in the United States? In the first place, of course, he produces toothsome meats which in some form or other combine well with most of our common vegetables, but, according to the Department of Agriculture, there are other reasons why the hog has become a favorite on more than three-fourths of our farms. The hog converts much of our corn crop, 30 to 40 percent annually, into a concentrated food, and in this work of concentration he is no waster. He is an efficient user of feed. It takes about six pounds of hay to produce a pound of lamb (live weight), ten pounds of hay and ten pounds of corn to make a pound of beef, and 5.6 pounds of corn for a pound of pork. Hogs are frequently used to “hog down” or harvest crops and in this way they save the labor of harvesting. In this country, pork and lard enter prominently into our food supply. The average annual consumption per capita for the last five years was 67.3 pounds of pork and 12.5 pounds of lard as compared with 600 pounds of beef. Cut Down Sow’s Ration When little pigs scour, when little pigs show symptoms of scouring, cut down the sow’s ration immediately. Four ounces of raw linseed oil or fifteen to twenty grains of copperas in the sow's slop will help to correct scours. Thumps in suckling pigs come from too much rich food and not enough exercise. The best remedy is prevention by sufficient exercise. LIVE STOCK NOTES Keep the pigs in clean quarters to prevent disease. Better sires, better herds; better herds, better profits. Early docking of lambs insures one against loss and a severe check in growth. Raising live stock is a brand of pleasure that money standards cannot measure. Small, undeveloped horses from pony mares and inferior breeding stock are always a drug on the market. If advantage is to be taken of the present good horse price it is necessary to offer good stuff. Change the hog house or dairy barn ventilating system with every change in weather and with every change in the number of animals in the building. Corn-cob meal, as feed for young pigs, is far better than pure cornmeal because it is not so concentrated and is more completely digested. Young pigs are so partial toward green fibrous foods, such as cornmeal. As corn silk and tender, stringy vegetable matter generally, that they will eat more of it than they should. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION Belmont Lt—not water Sure Relief DELL-ANS 254 AND 754 PACKAGES EVERYWHERE A Way. “Jimmy, I want you to help me make Tom Jealous—awfully, wildly jealous." “Righto! Let’s get married.” Instant relief from CORNS One minute— and the pain of that corn endal That's what Dr. Scholl's Zino-pads do—safely. 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There being in the profession no local rules for buzzing bees, your average steeplejack probably would get the all-clear signal from below and slide promptly down to safety. But not our hero. He takes out his pipe, lights it, and goes on painting. "It soothes the nerves," he says frankly about pipe smoking. And, by the way, although there are only twenty-five genuine, no scaffold steeplejacks in the country. Our Hero is one of them. We have no way of knowing what kind of tobacco the steeplejack pours into his pipe on these bee-buzzing occasions, but we have a feeling that it is Edgeworth. For Edgeworth does much to give the smoker a sense of calm and peaceful security. Of course, we wouldn’t care to go on record as claiming that Edgeworth is a two-fifteenth century old. We would like to see the rest cure in the mountains; but we would like to see the rest cure in the mountains. 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