pOUpTll^^ V » * DROPPING BOARD. Arrangement made Which Makes a Lighter an: 1 Cheaper Affair. Instead of a solid platform, or "drop ping board," beneath the roosts, use two fairly wide boards in front of and behind the roost, as shown in the cut. % / \ r / ' i i i ' x The Dropping Board. They will catch practically all the droppings, and each board can bo car ried out and emptied when desired; or a basket can be placed on the floor directly beneath the opening between the boards, and with a hoe the drop pings on ono board can be shoved off into the basket and pulled forward into the other. Having two boards, and these loose, remarks Farm Jour nal. niak' -j «t < ■ "jior to gun I againt.l vet mill. GOOD POULTRYMEN. Some of the Ways in Which They May Be Known. It is never difficult to judge a poul try man by the conditions which exist around the yard anil houses. A good poultrynjan will keep every thing neat and clean and provide warm, and comfortable houses, with nice scratching sheds. He will keep only pure breeds, and these ho will select carefully and cull out all poor specimens. He will feed carefully a variety of foods —never too much or too little — and will at all times see that mites do not get. any headway in the houses. He will provide a separate house for the pullets and will never allow them to roost in trees or on fences. All in all, everything will tell at a glance that he is the man who will make a success. HEN POINTERS. It will pay to own a root cutter. Trap nests expose the fraudulent hens. Fatty meat should never be fed lay ing stock. Never undertake more than you can easily do well. No positively fresh-egg supply needs togo a-begging. Indifferent care will ruin the capa city of and breed. Indian Runners are small ducks and prolific layers. The steady layer is of more value than the phenomenal one. "Good condition" is measured by both weight and health. Have an object in view, and then "work strictly to the line." To market an ailing fowl is, or should be, considered a crime.—Farm Journal. An illy ventilated poultry house is an abomination in cold weather when the house must he closed to keep out the cold. It is better to let the house be cold than damp, but if well ventilated there is no need of it being either damp or cold. The drinking water for the fowls should have the chill taken off of it before they can be expected to par take of it freely. They will never lay eggs in abundance if they must drink ice cold water—Journal of Agriculture. The Need of Grit. I believe many chicks die during the summer because they do not get enough grit, declares a writer in Farm and Home. The past summer my sup ply of grit, ran out and an unusual number of chicks died of botvel trouble. As soon as .* began to feed grit again not nearly so many died. I make my own grit. I secured a supply of limestone and crushed it.to the desired fineness and it gave excel lent results. I am a great believer in charcoal for chieKs, and, indeed, older birds are all the better for having free access to it. During the past, summer I liave had excellent results from using only dry feed. Eggs Exported. Although the hens of the United States do not produce anything like so many eggs as our own people need, 59,000,000 were exported to Great Bri tain last year, says Farm Journal. Our British cousins consumed last year more than 17,000,000 pounds of poul try, a considerable portion of which was furnished by the United States. It is therefore plain that the poultry business is not. likely to be overdone in the United States very soon. Country Mud. Country mud may sometimes be a trifle too deep for comfort, but still it is good, clean soil; while the black ooze on the city streets is a com pound of coal dust and pneumonia, sweepings, brick dust and typhoid, be sides a hundred other filthy compo nents that cling to shoes and clothlag like wax. THE GULF COAST OF! TEXAS A LAND "FLOWING IN MILK AND HONEY." Semi-Tropical Climate; Vast Yields of Vegetables and Fruit. Corpus Christi, Tex., Feb. 12, The lower Uio Grande Valley is i sometimes erroneously referred to as ' I Southwest Texas, anil so is ElPaso, j but THEY ARE EIGHT HUNDRED JULES APART. It is Winter in Northern Texas while tho Gulf Coast country is enjoying I sunshine like that of May. In fact the Gulf Coast knows no Winter—every month is a growing , I month. Texas produces wheat like Minne sota, corn like Illinois, and more cot ton than any other two Southern i States combined. And no part of this | great State surpasses in opportunity | and possibilities the Gulf Coast Coun ' try and the region down by the Rio Grande. i Artesian water was discovered five j or six years ago on the great King ! Ranch, near Corpus Christi. As time j went on the Artesian Belt was extend ed until it now covers the territory | from Robstown, sixteen miles west of 1 Corpus Christi, to Raymondville, and is ! j being extended monthly with every in- j dication that, a satisfactory flow will be obtained in all territory not covered by the systems of irrigation on the Rio Grande. One ot the must successful plauUia j on tho Kio Grande is Mr. John Closncr, who owns six thousand acres near Hi dalgo, on the S. L., B. & M. Ry. From I thirty-three acres of Bermuda onions j Mr. Closner last year (1900) shipped ; thirty-five carloads of as fine onions | as were evar grown. This crop alone netted him $15,000. Two crops of corn can be grown on the same land each year along the Rio Grande. Rice, cotton and numer ous other crops, as well as a great variety of fruit can be grown just as successfully. At a dinner recently given some visitors, a Gulf Coast agri culturist set fifteen (15) different va rieties of vegetables before his guests. A comprehensive book of eighty | pages, profusely illustrated and fully descriptive of the Texas Gulf Coast i may be obtained by addressing John Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Manager, Room 1. La Salle St. Sta., Chicago, or j Room 1, Frisco Bldg., St. Louis. WORDS DERIVED FROM SPORTS. Pastimes the Indirect Means of En riching the Language. Sports and pastimes of bygone days —and even of the present time —have added much to the English language, i "Check," which is said to be "shak," a variation of "shah," has not only come into common speech, but has ! been the foundation of many other words. A philologist traces to it"the checker board." "the exchequer" and i "a checkered career." "A gd move" ! is also probably from chess. "Stoon to" is from falconry. "Take the winiP out of her sails" is from yachting; so Is "on the wrong tack." "To jockey," "to show a clean pair of heels" are from horse racing. Fencing has been very fruitful as a source of new words. It gives "a hit.," "a palpable hit," to "parry a question," or "fence with it," "a home thrust," "a | counter," "to be off one's guard." : From pugilism comes "to toss up the sponge," or "to chuck it up." "Put your back into it" is a reminiscence of rowing. Cricket has given many phrases, of which perhaps "stumped," "I stumped him on that question," is the common ■ est. "Coming up to the scratch" i 3 1 probably derived from dueling. "Ay, there's the rub" is derived from bowls, though "a rub on the green" is | akin to it. Hostess' Trade Union. What is wanted is a hostess' trade union, a powerful combination of so | ciety women pledged to maintain their | own self-respect, and to extinguish : socially any man guilty of the slight- S est lapse of the courtesy which every ! woman has every right to expect. The drawback to the formation of such a j society lies in the fact that unfortu nately being respected neither by men nor by each other most women do not respect themselves either—Ladies' Field. GUIDES CHILDREN. Experience and a Mother's Love Make Advice Valuable. An Ills, mother writes about feeding children: "If mothers would use Grape-Nuts more for their little ones, there would be less need for medicines and fewer doctor bills. "If those suffering from indigestion and stomach troubles would live on Grape-Nuts, toast and good milk for a short period they would experience more than they otherwise would be lieve. "Our children have all learned to know the benefit of Grape-Nuts as an appetizing, strengthening food. It is every evening, with few variations, like this: 'Mamma, let's have toast and Grape-Nuts for breakfast; or, let's have eggs and Grape-Nuts'—never forget ting the latter. "One of our boys in school and 15 years of ago repeatedly tells me his mind is so much brighter after having Grape-Nuts as a part if not all liis breakfast." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the lit tl'> book, "The Road to Wellville," in pfcgs. "There's a Reason." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1907. WORKS IN THE GARDEN. j Eighty-Seven Years Old, But Hat a Sound Back. Robert Scollan, 87 yoars old, of 55 j Garden St., Seneca Fjlls, N. Y., a fine, sturdy old gentle man, who works EFT~ -» a in his own gar jSa don, gives thanks to Doan's Kidney \J Pills for his sound back kidneys. MrMft ' h ai j a severe at tack of kidney trouble and lumbago, ! which caused hint much suffering. He began taking Doan's Kidney Pills and was soon cured. We always keep them on hand. My husband was cured ; of bad pains in tho back by taking j only part of a box." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Wonder of Plant Memory. Plant memory is a problem for the inquisitive botanist, says the Dundee ; Advertiser. In 1901 a plant allied to the squash and pumpkin was taken to New York from the desert of Sonora, l In Mexico, and since then it has been kept—without watering—in a strange ; climate 3,G00 miles from home. Dur ! log the six weeks of rain in the des ; ert the plant grows its leaves and flowers and perfects its seed. Then it dries up and leaves only a water filled gourd, which a thick, hard shell seals against animals and evaporation. | The transplanted specimen still re i members the rainy season of six J weeks. It wakes, sends out rootlets, | steir.c and leaves, an l then d**ie3 up i again until the following year. NO RELIEF FROM ECZEMA For Over Two Years—Patent Medi cines, Quack Cures, and Doctors Fail—Cuticura Succeeds. "I was very badly afflicted with ec zema for more than two years. The parts affected were my limbs below the knees. I tried all the physicians in the town and some in the surround ing towns, and I also tried all the pat ent remedies that I heard of, besides all the cures advised by old women and quacks, and found no relief what ever until 1 commenced using the Cu ticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent. In the Cuticura Remedies 1 found immediate relief, and was soon sound and well. C. V. Beltz, Tippecanoe, ind., Nov. 15, *05." Henry Clay and Lew Wallace. "Mr. Clay was of a personality once seen never to be forgotten. Tall, slender, graceful, he had besides the air majestic which kings affect, im agining it exclusive property. 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