Celotex Cooperates in Byrd Antarctic Exhibru

Byrd that he could'build a barn that would protect the cows from the Antarctic cold, and how he purchased 2,800 feet of Celotex from the J. E. Etheridge l-umber Company at Norfolk, Va., and built the barn in the ship's hold on the long voyage to Nerv Zealand. He tells also how the completed barn was sawed into sections, to be reassembled on the ice later at Little America.

"The llarn n'as the only building at Little Ameri'ca in rvl.rich there rvas no trouble with moisture in the walls," says N{r. Cox. "Two layers of Celotex enabled us to maintain temperatures of 60 degrees or more above that of the outside air at all times."

The cows averaged a yield of about 10O pounds of rnilk a day, ancl Admiral Ryrd believed the ample fresh milk supply was a major factor in his recovery from his severe illness resulting from his long, solitary vigil at the advance weather base.

Modt' ol insu'ated barn being shown by Celotex Co. at l0 large lairs and dairy shous.

h'armers atten<ling the State fails and clair.r' shou's this fall are hearing an interesting story presented by Edgar _[ Cox, ship's carpenter and herdsmar.r rvith the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, as to holv a Celotex insulated dairv barn sheltered Admiral Byrd's little herd of Guernsey cows from piercing Antarctic cold and helpecl them supply each member of the expedition 'rvith a quart of milk a day during the year's stay in Little America.

Mr. Cox is exhibiting the tu'o Guernsey cows and the young bull, Klondike Iceberg, rvhich rvas born aboarcl ship within the Antarctic Circle, and a quarter size replica of the Celotex-insulated barn which protected the animals from temperatures that ranged as lorv as 7l degrees belolv zero.

In his storv Mr. Cox tells how he convinced Admiral ' PORTLAND LUMBERMAN

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Morris Jones, Jones Lumber Company, Portland, was a recent visitor to'San Francisco. Mr. Jones is an aviator, with several hundrecl hours in the air to his credit, and l-re has piloted his os'n plane to San Francisco a number r>f times.

Mr. Cox is giving these and other dramatic details in his talk, rvhich has already been given at the Illinois, Wisconsin and Maryland State fairs, and the Brockton, Mass., fair. The exhibit will be shown at the following fairs and shows: Sept. l5-21, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, Mass.; Sept. 24-28, Trenton Inter-State Fai'r, Trenton, N. J.; Sept. 30 to Oct. 5, Dairy Cattle Congress, Waterloo, Ia. ; Oct. 6-12, Pacific International, Portland, Ore.; Oct. 13-19. National Dairy Show, St. Louis, Mo.; Oct. 2U26, Ameri'can Roval. Kansas Citv. Mo.