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186E IS 12 TULA YAQUITAS SATURDAY, AUGUST 23,

WE FLY OVER THE YOSEMITE

GATES

THE VALLEY, CATHEDRAL POCKS AT

Thrills of Scenic Beauty In This Wonderland As Seen From Airplane-Views Never Suspected By Folks On the Surface.

[BY NORMAN C. McLOUD.]

FOR Louring the Yosemite Valley to

the best possible advantage the deal right-seeing bus is the airplane.

fo wing me flight over this magni- dent rexion is an experience roi to be forgotten. In this way the visitor

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benefit of

of stretch of territory often described as the mo beautiful villey in the work Beneath

les a panorama of

The Valley. Deeply carved in the western flank of this range, about midway betwee the torrid foothills and the wintry sumits, lies the Yosemite Valley, in the genial middle zone of prolific forests, in reaching this stage of the journey the flyer comes to a chain renowned throughout the world for its is scenic towering cliffs, stately trees, and, most our, which is unsuspected by the of all, for its superb waterfalls. In visiter on the surface of the earth,

the Yosomite Valley the handiwork of Starting westward from San Fran

nature reaches its most aublime aco under the guidaree of F. E achievements.

The

first

impression of the aerial visitar will be surprise that the Valley is not larger. To the surface tourist this point is less apparent, as the grandeur of the Valley seems to fill the entire surroundings. From an air- plane the entire area may be seen in one sweeping view, covering the valley's seven miles of length and one mile of width.

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Matthe of the * Unjunt Sister Gentagical Survey, your plane carries you over the wooded, creats of the Coast Ranges and over the brad, level expanse of the Great Vallow of tuli. forain, checkered with irrigated felds, vineyards and

orchards.

Aft handred miles of dying you reach a dze barrier of mountains stretching north and south at right angles to your course and rising in a long, gradual lape, to a splendid row of new-clad peaks. The mountains comprise the Sierra Neends, the longest.highest and most impressive single mountain range in the United States.

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Chayun Of The Merced River. The Valley is but a widened part of narrow canyon which furrows the range-from-crest-to-base-the-canyon of the Merced River. As a matter of fact the Valley is but a single one of

Yosemite National Park. The Park itself embraces part of the western flank of the Sierra Novada in an area almost as large as the state of Rhoda Island, studded with peaks, domice a spijes and sculptured into

valleys. canyona and gorues. In all this region of wonders the Yosemite Valley standa forth as the outstanding jewel. To the seasoned. tourist the Yellowstone spells "guysera" in the same way the Year. mile Valley spells "waterfalls."

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As the airplane skirts the region, the the Yosemite is an enclosed valley, traveller is apt to be convinced that

with only a narrow entrance through which the Mareed River finds, its way. This conviction is due to the sheer declivity of the steep and towering walls to be seen in all directions. R seems positive that if the giant rocks at the throat of this valley should and block the exit the luckless

traveller within the area would be unable to mal make his way to the outside world. Thu illusion of impenetrability is no. complete that it is not dispelled until ane sees at close range the climatio trail which have been constructed up the seemingly

precipitate. Access to the region by the surface tourist has been fully provided for, but

PATING MYFO PARKFOR

INSPIRATION PONT

THREE.

main tourist centre of the Park. Across the Valicy, booming vallantly amid clouds of pearly mists, are the Yosemita Falls, the most glorious_of the

many cataracts in the region. The upper fall makes a leap of 1,450 feet almost a third of a mile--and is the highest unbroken plunge of water in North America, perhaps the highest in the world. This leaping cataract would of itself make its valley famous.

The lower fall seems insignideant in comparison with the mighty leap of the upper portion, and yet even this smaller, drap is twice as high as the world-famed falls of Ningura. With the 320 feet of the lower fall and the intervening curcades added to the height of the upper fall, the water hay

- a desernt of 2,506 feet from the brinki of the upland to the floor of the valley. These figures furnish food for content- plation-representing a waterfall ten times a great as twenty stary building.

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Other Pointe Of Interest.. On the north side, farther up, are the Royal Arches, sculptured one within another in an inclined rock wall. which riser to a height of 1,500 feet. An enormous natural pillar, the Wash- ington column, flanks there arelies on the right whilo above them rise North Leme, helmet-shaped maxs of granite.

Facing the jump of considerably more than half south side Arches, on the many groat features comprising the favourite place for tourists because of Glacier Point, that spirit with a parachute would have a

mile. From the summit great draft sheer clift of 3,200 feat. The view Its unique overhanging rock, with a; horses

loads along drawing

the-high

from this promontory is matchless.

Half Dome

floor and forming one of the most majestic cliffs in all the world. From, the edge of this cliff the adventurous

way in the valley look like ants and the motor cars of the tourists resemble beetles crawling rapidly, along a miniature trail. The crest of ΕΙ Capitun affords a view akin to that from the airplane-straight down into the depths of the Valley:

Directly opposite this impressive cliff stand the too Calhetrai Rocks, forming a promontory of height almost

The head of the Valley is squared off by another rock wall, above which, as

on a pedestal, stands Half Dome, tho most colossal and most strangely modelles rock monument in the Sierra, smoothly rounded on three sides and cut straight downward on the fourth. This curious rock suggests an apple, cleft in the middle: Steel. cables,

equal to that of El Capitan. This is stretched for pedesta

the only prantatury which juts far out into the trough. From ita anil leap the Bridal Veil Fall, 690 feet in height. its spray suffused with the glory of the rainbow.

as hand ralls, make this rock. nowhere is it seen to as good advantage but from an from an airplane. almost a mile above the Valley 4,860

The aummit feet to be exact. To the south it com Eastward beyond El Capitan and the mands a view of the Little Yosemite, Cathedral Rocks the Valley regains its a broad-floored, cliff-girt valley resom- full width and in a bay on the right the bling the Yosemite on a small scale. airplane visitor sees the two Cathedral The floor of this area is 2,000 feet Spires, the frationt and most delicate below, that of the main valley. In the shufts of rock in the entire region. At descent the little Merced makes two the left are the Three Brothers, with mighty teaps of 504 and 317 feet, res. gable shaped summits rizing one above pectively, with an effect of striking: another in symmetry of

of formt at beauty, uniform

18 angle, it designed

by ย cilful

architect.

The

highest there, known as Eagle Peak, rises to an elevation 3,800 feet above the valley almost three-quarters of a mile. On

the airplane is still the ideal means wenith of striking and distinctive wither alde vise an additional distince the annosite side stands Sentinel Rock.

for-

ceives the reason for the world-wide groves and meadows which offer ideal fame of this scenie area. walle.

In all the sites for camping and recreation. This, worki no other valley is so remarkably lower plane is four thousand feet above fashioned; no other holds, within so sea-level, while the forest slopes un small compass, such astounding

of from 3,000 to 4,000 feet on either side.

-A3,000.-Root-CIM.—— visitor glimpses the sheer profile of EI "Looking castward and upward the Capitan, 8,000 feet above the valley

sightseeing in this Valley of wonders, A World Wonder.

tures of agente, beauty. As seen from above the valley_in_a_broad, rock-hewn When the plane dres down into the sculptured and graced with silvery trough with parallel sides, boldly Yosemite the traveller at unce pre-caturacts. The floor is level, with

WHAT THE HEN DOES TO MAKE US RICH

top.

To the north of Half Dome the uic of plane visitor sees Tanaya Canyon, as deep as the Yosemite but serving only As the pathway of a small brook. Beneath Half Dorae lies Mirror Lake, with its splendid reßection of the Dome itself To the northeast appears Cloud'a, Rest, the loftiest aunumi in the vicinity of the Valley, with un elevation of 0.994 feet. With this view the airplane is ready for the return to the landing field at San Francisco

a finely modelled obelisk with painted

-Highent--Unbroken Fail In North America. A mile from the bass of Sentinel Rock nestles Yosemite Village, the

That Wonderful Fowl is One of Our Greates Producers of Wealth-But With Proper Breeding, She Could Be Made to Lay Many More Eggs, and Add Much to Our National Prosperity.

[BY ARTHUR BUDD.]

TE, as a nation, are proud of our wealth. While refraining from open brag on the subject, we strut a little, in the consciousness of money and lots of it in our pockets.

This wealth is

derived from many sources; but we scarcely realize how much of our prosperity we owe to the great American hen.

Her output of eggs for the year 1028 was worth more than six. times the total of all the gold and silver produced the mines of the United States daring that twelve-month.

by

During that year, by egg-production alone, she earned more than the total value of all the anthracite coal produced in this (country.

24,000,000,000 BEELD

In the calendar year 1928 she laið

keep chickens, whose total yield of eggs is enormous far more then safi- the twenty-four billion mark. cient to if the aggregate output above. Incubators Big Help.

chickens ware hatched and raised on In 1929 at least half a billion the farms of the United States. A mother than the incubator. great majority of them knew no other

In this connection, it is interesting dozen years the baby chick output of to learn that within the lait. half- hatcheries has been multiplied by ten- This means that hens' eggs are being artificially hatched in vastly greater. numbers.

The Incubatora very ancient inven- tion which we moderns have improved and developed on scientific principles

twenty-four billion eggs. That estimates, a mighty help to the chicken-

A well under the mark; but, accepting raiser. Sty and supposing the eggs to be worth an average price of twenty-five cents a dozen, the total value of the output was Bye hundred million dollars.

How should he get along without it7 There are never enough broody hemis to hatch the eggs that he wants to hatch.

A setting hen stops laying To express this very striking fact inwhile incubating a clutch ofegi other terms, the American hen in 1928 With the help of an incubator. It is produced two hundred and eighteen practicable to bring out a large num

for evary man, women and child in ber of chicks at one time, so that they the United States. In reality she did can be handled as salt. Much more better than that, but for safety's sake, important the fact that by ch

artificial nid

they ca

can be hatched. figures are earlier. The biggest profit so the

arr

Grant or on the conservative side.”),

How conservative thess Brures are

may be fudged from the fact that infant where dalckens are concerned rly if not quite twenty billions in derived from an Inid, iz Inte nearly

1928 of eggs were produced by our fards when they command a high prae; and, hent Bat townsfolk and villagers, a to obtain pallets that lay during.

them out of the shell before the pre- vious spring has fairly started.

More Eggs Per Hey..

A problem of great importance is that of increasing the egg output of the American hen,,. How shall she be persuaded to las greater number of Les per annum than she is now accus- tomed to produce ??

This is a

• question which has recently engaged the

tommy

many learned investigators

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HERBRO VELVETO

Ba regards the number, she ought to do better than that. Indeed, she can do far better when bred on scientifle principles

Selentite Breeding Brings Results, The average, every day farm hen does not lay more than ninety eggs in twelve-month. That is about her Imit. But possibilities in this line aro indicated by the fact that through plentific breeding, many pallets are now produced whose yield per annum

even been a few that ran over the

are hundred market

fudlelous

brooding exceeda two-hundred eggs. There have". For thousands of years

of years chicken. zafers have made a wise practice of selecting for batching purposes the As yet, the breeders have not gut egga, of their best-laying hens and be able to reckon upon the fecundity far enough along with their work to, undoubtedly na-a-result of that intelll- gent system, we have domestleated of a pullet of supertor laying pedigree. bird which wonderfully fecundis

A hen may be laying marial. be descendes, in all respect but late day, Hus known to

"There is no

no counting on her daughteraria diveran varieties, from wild species of pheasant native to southern India: going to be different; the brandhi w

Low

hapa thirty-odd small

of elective breeding, the

and perfected that high fecundity wil o be established in improved strains A

dennite heritable charac

hi Jaya much bigger engs

suburban residents, commonly the cold months, it is necessary to get and three times ke many

If the number of dia

the average farms hen

ed even by ten, the resulting aggregate of money.gain would be huge. Another wfm of the scientific breeders is to develop strains of chickens that will lay large ezza Breeding has more to do with this matter than any other factor. An ordinary uggs Weighs about two ounces; an exceptionally large one may weigh three ounces. There may bes difference of half a pound in the weight of a dozen egge, which is of no amall importance in the economy of the housewife who bays them. Thus it in manifest that egga ought to be sold by weight, and not by number, unless eggs are graded carefully. according to sixe.

superior to the human animal, which seems to inherit-only-two "tincts" to suck and to grasp t

One thing not at all generally under- stood is that a ken comes into the world with only about 650 eggs in her body. She can, therefore, in her life- time,, lay no more than that number. But, by judicious breeding, strains of pullets are produced that give nearly all of their total possible yield in the Brat two years of their lives. Those are the most profitable birds. At the end of their two productive years they poultry industry, most profitable to marketed at so much per pound. are eliminated from the flock to be American farmers, would result.

The American hen is a wonderful The Poultry Industry of the United bird, and her egg-production. fe a great It is also desired to develop, through

States he

has an annual value of well over sources of wealth. But in breeding, a tendency on the part of

this respect. $1,000,000,000. The rate of increase she is susceptible of

much

imprové- hens to lay eggs of uniforms size. Like from year to your in the quantity of ment, as has been addquately demons wise in colour there should be anlegge used has been exceeded by that trated by formity he tint of the eggshell of few other agricultural products, time is coming when she will lay bigger brooding experimetita. Tho always the same, To meet the market More people are

requirement of to-day-to fetch, that keeping and rad terested in eggs and many more of them; withe

makes,KAN

tri

fowis then In

more profit to the farmer and a corresE- toy the highest price-ogg any other agricultural industry, ponding increase of food supply for should be very white or else dark-No Sebatitute For The

the people. brown.

For the eggp as an article of

diet there is no substitute. Not only its food value, but alsó ita m

favour it, se one might say, a

BY A FAN. the food supply of the

If the consumption of eggs in this I never was known as a-hasty coss; country were increased by only one a I am generaly meek and mild:" week per capita, the total additional It's seldom er ueror I start a fuss, number required per annum, to supply And it's rare; they get me riled,

demand would be 5,200,000,000 or But I'm on the trail of a certain gux

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Calek A The ben is a sort of miracle, from the moment she emerges from the egg:

Infant one day old ware. able to walk about and feed itself, making a choice of provender suitable for its digestion what marvel that would be Bat the chick, only twenty four hours out at the shell, has already

ów; the edible: properties

andaß her vocabulary of its anxious

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will leave him arpong, the