THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,
APRIL 5, 1938,
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IF YOU WANT a
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GAIN and again I have been asked whether I would sink my last £500 in a small farm. It is an idea lurking unsuspected in the minds of countless forced to work in cities.
men
Again and again I have given the sarac answer: "Yes, I would, but.." Now let me tell you about the "buts." Is when all else fails that some people regard a small farm ha the last resort. They rent a properly, buy o few hundred head of poultry, a small car, a horse and a cow, and expect to live happily ever after. I huve But known some of them to do so.
have known for more who have
to town. returned
It is because so Now why is this?
Jast inany regard their venture as hope. They go into farming expect. Ing every hen to lay an egg a day na matter how they house It; every cow to provide gallons of milk.
£500 Outlay
NO in for farming" 1 tell
"GO these people, "study it.
and you will find it the most sulis- fying form of existence known to strong anyone who, is healthy and and does not expect to make a for- tune or enjoy expensive pleasures. But be sure you learn something
start," about it before you
Now supposing that the wind is set fair and that you are fortunate i unding a little 40-acres farm which has been vacant for some time. You have no ingoing to pay, no valuation to pay, just your rent. Then you set about stocking it.
Suppose that you intend to mix your farming so that your returns are fairly quick. Here is how you might lay out your £500:
A horse would cost you, say
A two-wheeled cart, second-
hand
Harness and gear
200 head of poultry (for bread and butter); sturdy Becond-season hens.....
1 good cow for fatting vent
2
SMALL FARM
By
Patrick Murphy
-this is his farm
very strong in those days, or
we failing ill. It meant a nursing home. would have found out in time that We had to leave the farm to itself
a for two months. it cost then about 7s. 6d. to rear chlek to maturity.
We ran short of seven-und-six pences after a while, and had to sell off half the pullets, actually losing nothing by doing so.
So we went through the winter
£
30
33
were
50
30
Trong brooch Ecke
18
Paultry houses, second-hand,
Implements
palis, spades, forks, and
30
Incubator
Seed
5
Rent and rates
GS
Working capital for wages,
foods, and a dozen other things
250
£497
£3 out of So you are left with your £500. With that £3 you can buy your first calf and start turning it into veal,
First Income
TOW your income for the NO
first spell must come from your hens, your liters...of young pigs, your veal. We assume it is spring and you can turn everything out to grass, so you will have me to cut some hay.
We
assume also that you are just
in time to put in your own vegetables and a few neres of cats to provide a certain amount of your own feed for the coming winter, and a few
roots.
#1
Now as hard experience is worth such whole heap of theory
in
matters, let me give you a brief ne- count of my venture on the land.
I had been acquainted more or less all my life with farmers and farming.
I knew all about horses, cows, pigs, and knew
the virtues of the Light Sussex and the shortcomings of heavy-laying Leghorns.
I knew how to rear the most tem- peramental of turkeys on the heaviest of soils, and I could make hay with anyone. (Incidentally, hayranking tsi always regarded as the joyous ma- inent of the farming year-It is the hardest work of the whole sumner.) My wife's knowledge was about twice my own.
Well, having rented a farm we had We little with which to buy stock.
a dozen big. managed to secure strong Rhode Island Red hens-at least five years old, I suspected,
Record Season
IN
the following spring we out the began to halch founders of our fortunes. We bought eggs at high prices and put them they wen! under the old herts n broody. When the chicks hatched out wo smiled at each other. vinced that our hands hnd not lost their cunning..
con-
And, indeed, it was a record aca- son. Let me tell you the figures of 101 chicks tho record. Exactly
able 10 were out. We hatched speculate at once."
When we got back we had lost the best part of our poultry, the cow whole flock with prospects, und a of young turkeys.
But the farm is still surviving, and
with about 150 pullets, and as eggs we're still happy in our country life.
we
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My bad luck is not going to fall to all its everybody, and farming in branches is a grand experience.
desperately dear
winter. The following change-over spring was to be the
You must bear in mind, though, from playing at farming to the real
that you need to find out beforehand thing.
begon all you can about it,
still
we
Wert
As early as January hatching The chicks balls of fluff when they began to die in dozens. We did not know then that you cannot rear chickens indoors without something to replace the sun- shine of which they are deprived,
Of the 104 chicks at least four dozen would almost certainly be pulleta. At a conservative estimule they would lay us in the flush of thei 'season a score and a half of eggs a doy Eggs in those days were 3d. and 40. each; let us say, then, 108. A day would be our income during October and November.
of the 104 chicks only six But proved to be pullets: That was the record and we even improved on it. One chick died, but not, as you might imagine, a cockerel. Olt, no, one of we had five the six pullets. So
instead of about 30 with to start the new season, We carried on, and by the following spring we had une fiue young cow, her calf, an old ców with prospects, four young sows, and 800 young chickens, of which we hoped at least.
a score might prove to be pullets.
Ingenious Idea
Little Rest
DEMEMBER that
you're on a whole-time job. You can never leave your farm You for more than an hour or so. must be always on the alert for the and pests appearance of disease
be
VERY few people knew those sinong your stock. You must
things at that time. So prepared to sit up all night when we learnt to replace the sun as the your sows are farrowing. You must Eskiinos do with cod liver oil, and, study markets, animal diet, and your ofter days of doubt and despair, land. reared our big flock a little further.
Your equipment at the start will Then, suddenly, one day my wife be so slight that you must be pre- came to me with a face as long as a pared to borrow all manner of things
neighbours, such miller's bill. She told me that the from your
You chicks had gape-a tiny worm which ploughs, harrows, and rollers. And
you must be prepared to lend. gels in their throats.
with your We saved nearly all of them. But must, therefore, alt in they had had two sei-backs and il neighbours, and your personality cost nearly 100. a bird to rear them will be one of your greatest assets.
Bear all these things in mind and to maturity.
And so the story Kues on, You you stand a good chance of success. must be prepared always to allow for And what a man's life! You'll ke if you're that sort the unexpected misfortune. In my it all right case it happened to be
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The Story of FRANK CAPRA'S Mightiest Production RONALD COLMAN in
LOST HORIZON
A sarialization of Robert Riskin's screen version of James tilton's novel. Narrativo by Albert Dully. A COLUMBIA TIGANNY
WHAT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE Robert Conway, British diplo mint in the East, la found in a smrti Chlusas mission after having been misring for, more than a year. He has no memory of his phot: liệu but he readily Engtead agress to ralurn to with Lord Gainsford, On the bout, en route to England, some atrina of strange beautiful music bring back his memory. Fie Innists that he must leave the boat at kle next stop-that he must return to Shangria.. Conway tells of the evacua
residente tion
of the white from Baaku! where he was the conzul when the city can attacked by bandits, Con- tony, with his brother, George. -an American named Barnard, a sullen, down-on-her-luck duugh- Tes of jou named Gloria Stone and in English acientiar, Alex- ander Lovett, leave in the mat phone juul a few jumpă whend of the oncoming bandita. The next morning they discover that their pilot a nut Fenner of the Royal Air Force as they supposed, but a mysterious. songat They have been kid- Hopped! Suddenly the plane be jing to descend Conway and his in other plan to attack the pilot 1 soon as the plane renchen the ground.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Chapter Three
the The
plane bumped over rough, uninhabited apare. As it tax. ied to a stop Conway turned to his brother "All right, George, come on!" He threw open the door and started to get out Then he stopped suddenly George, peering over his brother's shoulder, whistled softly
Oeorge Joined him from the other slide just as Conway, after a quick frisk, stuffed the pilot's revolver into his pocket, "What's up?" George asked "Fainted*
Conway impressed by the pilot'a utter lirapness, lifted his chin, stared Into his face, pulled up his eyelid and then placed his hand over the Aler's heart. He looked up at s brother soberly "He's dead," fo said. "Probably happened the mo ment we hit the ground" Conway picked up a map that was on the seat beside the pilot and studied
See that spot" he asked George nodded. "That was where we stop- ped his morning for gasoline. He had it marked. It's right on the border of Tibel. Since then we've been in the air for fourteen hour covered milies.
roughly two thousand "Where does that put us" Cearge asked
See this spot" Conway asked: pointing at a dot on the map. stops. That's where civilization We're at least a thousand miles be- yond that in unexplored country that no one has ever reached."
George stared at his brother. wide-eyed, the gravity of them situ allon alowly. penetrating his mind.
"Lieter, Freshie, our chances of getting out of this are about-well, they're slim, ai best.. We can't af ford to have three hysterical peo ple on our hands. Keep this to your- self." He turned and entered the body of the plane
"Everything's a right." he said checrity "That pilot isn't going to bother us any more Hi's dead"
"Well what are we gonna do now" Barnard asked
"Wouldn't be much use doing any- thing." Conway said. "My sugges
It's tion is a good night's aloop. Warm in here, and the storm may dle down before morning."
George, who had followed his brother into the plane. suddenly grasped him by the shoulder and
group of colored pavilions A strange and half credible sight clinging to the mountainside. Welcome to Shangri-la," said Chang.
in amazement A horde of strange, whirled him around, "Why don't scantly attired nativee all brand-you tell them the truth" he de- ishing swords and ancient muskete manded fiercely Tell them they're -had sprung up around the plane a million miles from civilization- Conway climbed back into the plane not a chance of getting out of here alve, it's slow larvation, that's and shut the door
what it is-a slow, horrible death!" Everyone turned to Conway, hop- ing that he would refute his broth
The leader of the band went to the front of the plane and parloyed with the pilot in due course the plot handed over some gold to the er'e hysterical statement But Con outburst, native leader who turned and laway looked beyond them at George
who, ashamed of bio command to his men sued
"Hey, look," Bernard cried, slipped Into a seat, avolding his
brother's accusing eyes "they're loading her up with gaao-
line And indeed they were.
All that night they remained in the plane, sleeping nitully, and in All that day and far into the the inorning Conway and Georgo night they flow From the windawa eet out through the atorm to for there was nothing to be seen butage. A couple of hours later they their arms filed with a stendy procesaion of mountain | returned, peaks as the plane climbed higher mountain grass.
the plane "Well," George said. dumping the In and ever Bigher Conway did everything he could Erase on a seal, "at least we won't fellow passengers starve while we have this. There's to keep his calm When the altoimeter regisreal nourishment in this stuff' tered 15,000 feet and ntlll continued Barnard turned away in disgust and to climb, Gloria, who had suffered peered out the window Suddenly In silence most of the day, pressed he shouted "Hey-look" her hands to her cars and began
They all rushed to the window
to groan "My ears are killing me Coming over the brow of a nearby she cried Barnard tried to calm hill was a caravan of native por In the middle of the caravan
her.
We've been up fourteen hours
ters.
on this stretch, sister," he said there was a hooded chair carried by four nailves. Conway approached "This can't, last much longer.
Gloria's volte rent the air
F
the chair, bowed courteously to the
can't stand 11?" she screamed Take elderly Chinese who was its occu- us down' 1 can't stand the pain pant, and greeted him in Chinese. any more She rushed to the The Chinese smiled at Conway.
"I am from a nearby lamasery." panel behind the cockpit and be
arm
gan to pound on the glass. Barnard he said in perfect English “ty
name la Chang." followed her and put him
Conway grinned and extended his around her shoulder "Take it easy, hand. • "Bline'a Conway!" he said sister," he said.
"Good heavens" cried Lovett,
"Can he land
Quickly he explained to
For a lime nothing was heard imply Bave her stined moans. Buddenly Chang what had happened to the the motor began to spil and rough little group in the plane. Chang lis The plane lurched violently, there tened quietly and then ordered hin was a loud, sputtering noise and servants to provide warm clamen for the refugees "I shall be pleased then the motors went dead.
"He's run out of petrol." Conway to guide you to our lomarry where
you will be most welcome." explained.
Conway and his companion quickly climbed Into the warm clothes and the caravan was soon Conway tried to keep the doubt on its way back up the mountain out of his voice. "Ife can glide her pass. It was torturous and weary- down." he said.
ing journey Hour after hour they George, peering from the window. climbed higher and higher into the began to shout. "There's a spot hemountain fasthom, akirting danger. can make! The plane awayed perilous ravines, maneuvering around ously in a cross wind as Conway treacherous hairpin turns. 10oked out over his brother's about At long last they reached the same der. He turned to the others his mil of the mountain, crept around voice electric with authority "Come a narrow ledge and with one accord here, all of you: Crowd to the back they stopped, staring unbelievingly of the plane. He may nose over!" that what Jay before them.
They all rushed to the rear of It was, indeed, a strange and half The plane as it lurched to the Incredible sight-an eye-filling hom ground. The undercarriage wtruck son diffusing a softness and a the lay clearing, bounced mavera! warmth that was breath-taking. Be times and finally stopped. For a molow them, to the left, a group of ment there was utter silence. Then colored pavilions clung to the moun Conway grasped his brother.
fainalde. Farther on, in the hazy "Come on, George We'll try the distance, was a valley that looked adme thing again. You go around for all the world like a huge tap- back and I'll tackle him from the estry, superb and exquisite in its front. Conway opened the door blanding of soft colors. and they both plunged out into the swirling snow,
Conway elambered forward to the cockpit. He pushed open the door and climbed inside. The pilot was alumped, Inert over the controls.
Conway felt a hand rest ligbily on his arm. He turned and found Chang standing beside him,
"Welcome is Shangri-la," he said!
(To Be Continued):
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1 Fondle a bird for example (7). 6 Part of a car to include an ani-
mal (7):
9 He has his services on a battle-
ship perhaps (5).
10 Where
many a foreign artist works (?).
11 Related in Scotland, (3),
12 A Dictator is certainly one (5).
13 Attack, but why amusement
shown!
(0).
A painter was met about this
16. Α
(3) 17 Enough for a buttonhole
hops (5).
per-
18 This makes a tin dress (9), 20 "Mouthcase" seems an apt ana-
gram
(9).
24 A bright collection of Roman
numerala (5).
detergent (3).
2 A
28 Grave (B).
32 Disease that starts a man in a
casino (5).
33 Anglers ike to feel this re-
versed at this (3).
34 When you start a ball rolling
you overcome this (7).
35 Feminine name (3).
30 Range (apparently there has
been some ring too) (7).
37 This word is made of letters'
(7).
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Derby winner (7).
2
A youngster partly peculiar in appearance (7),
3 There should be no bad sight in
the army, as the men are so of
ten told this (two words, 5).
4 English poet (7).
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6 Confusion (5).
0 Part of an amphitheatre (5), 7 Weapon that might be useful to
the wounded (5)...
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20 (7) (Yes you have a clue).
21 Foreign coin (3).
22 Proverbially simple letters (3). 23 Graceful (7).
25 Strong but might be not evil
(7).
28 Empty (7).
29 Far from a dlige (5).
30 A humble fastening (5).
31 "But mercy is above this seep- tred sway, it is enthroned in thes of kings" ("Merchant of Venice") (5).
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