GOOD POULTRY PROTECTOR.
Making Chute Door That Chickens
Can Open.
Wherever there is danger of
skunks, weasels and other prowlers
getting Into the chicken house and
killing poultry, a protector, such as
illustrated herewith, will be found of
great advantage. The best feature
about the protector is that the first
fowl to step on the running board
I
Self-Opening Poultry Protector.
will release the doors which will drop
and allow her and the other fowl to
escape. The only thing, therefore, neces
sary in operating is to lift the door
in the eveping after the fowls have
gone, to roost. It will latch itself and
remain in that position during the
night.
As will be seen from the cross
section, says the Orange Judd Farmer,
the floor is balanced and connected
with a stout wire to latch of the door.
This being tilted somewhat outward
from above, readily falls when the
latch is sprung by tho hen stepping
11 °y "N
I
Cross Section of Protector.
on the floor beyond the point of bal
ance. The measurements given in the
drawing are merely suggestive. For
large fowls the height of 12 inches
may not be great enough, but this any
poultryman can readily fix for him
self. The mesh of the wire front
should be too small to permit a weasel
entering; one inch mesh is plenty
small enough.
REMEMBER THE BEES.
Care in Winter Will Give You Stronger i
Colony in Spring.
The bees have been but little trou
ble to you so far, and will be but little
more, yet they do require some atten
tion, and in tlio spring when other
work claims your attention is the time
when they are most likely to be
neglected. At the present time about
the only thing to do is to look into
them, occasionally and see that they
have plenty of winetr stores and that
he mice and moths are not molesting
them.
Get the hives ready for spring occu
pancy when swarming begins. If you
wait till the bees are swarming there
will not be time to make preparations.
Clean all frames and sections by heat
ing a case knife and scraping propylus
and comb away. This is good weath
er for that; you can sit near the stove
and keep the knife warm.
If any of the colonies need feeding,
thick sirup of granulated sugar is
about the best that can be fed to
them unless you have extracted
honey, recommends Farmers' Voice.
Some form of feeder is best, but in
want of these it will bo satisfactory to
place the sirup in a shallow pan and
set on top of the frames. It is not
so easy to feed in an old box hive, but
where there are holes in the top for
putting a cap on th# sirup may be set
on top, the holes opened and a box set
over it; or the sirup may be placed
under the hive, on the bottom board.
Renewing Nests.
To keep the fowls free from disease
and lice (including mites), it is nec
essary to keep all about them in a
state of as perfect cleanliness as pos
sible. Renewing the nests will great
ly help, and this should be done oft
ener than it is. A barrel of cut straw
at hand will act as a reminder, and
t!\e nest will be renewed oftener than
it will be if no material for the pur
pose is at hand. We have seen many
nests in which the nest material had
been left in so long that it had be
come beaten almost to dust, and cov
ered a multitude of thirsty littlo
blood-suckers. If it is necessary to
renew the egg nest material of the
hen that is simply laying it is still
more necessary to renew often the
material in the nests that are used
for incubation purposes.
The clean, light and airy henhouse
Is the kind that win help the hens
to make a profit on feeds. There is
time in the winter to make them
right.
PROFITABLE AGES OP FOWLS.
First Laying Year of a Hen Gives
the Best Profit.
As a general ruin It Is found that I
pullets ar<- the most profitable fowls |
to keep fctr the production of eggs.
Some experienced poultry men may |
claim that they have just aw good 1
results irniii older animals, but the ex- j
perience of tlie many does not seem j
to bear out such a statement. We |
would like to know what our readers I
think about it. What ape fowl has
given you the best returns? Has your j
experience been iti accordance with
the following report from the Oregon
expeiiment station, as presented by
Prof. Dryden or that station?
it is a point in management that I
wish to speak of here, one point in
many that must be taken into account
if poultry keeping is to be made a
succtss. It is a question of the most
profitable age of the hen. Poultrymen j
who have kept in touch with poultry ;
investigations during the past few j
years are pretty well informed on this j
point, but the importance of this sub- i
ject is not yet generally appreciated.
The writer carried on for several years
at the Utah experiment station a lino (
of experiments with the object of de- j
termining the value of the hen at dif- j
ferent ages for egg production. The
same hens were kept year after year
under similar conditions, and a record j
kept of production and of food' con- j
sumed. These experiments proved ;
that the hen is different from the cow,
which retains or improves her produc
tivity with age. The first year was
the most profitable, and there was a
gradual decrease in productiveness
each succeeding year. It is safe to ;
figure this decrease at 25 per cent. '
each year. With average prices for !
food and for eggs, it is not. profitable
to keep hens after they have finished j
their second year of laying. The j
first, or pullet year is very profitable, !
the second will give a satisfactory
profit, but during the third year tho
egg yield will seldom pay for the food
consumed.
These conclusions, of course, apply
only where the eggs are sold at mar
ket prices. Fowls that have a special
value as breeding stock should be
kept longer, but the notion that "the
old speckled hen" is the good layer
should not be cherished unless she is
caught in the trap nest. The fact
that she sings a joyful lay, paints her
comb a brilliant red, and scratches a
vigorous scratch should not be ac
cepted as sufficient grounds for com
muting the sentence.
It is safe to say that poultry keep
ers would be many thousands of dol
lars in the pocket by rigorously killing
off the hens every two years and re
placing tlieni with new stock —with
the exceptions noted above.
WARM WATER FOR HENS
Device Which Will Help to Provida
Comfort for Hens in Winter.
The drawing shown herewith taken
from the Orange Judd Farmer illus
trates a simple device for providing
fowls with warm drinking water,
which is believed to be more condu
cive to egg laying than cold water,
A shallow box forms a chamber in
which a small lamp is placed and sur
rounded by a tomato can with some
holes punched near the bottom for
Warm Water Device.
| draft. The top of the can is cut out
evenly and the can itself is placed
immediately holow the hole cut in the
top of the wooden box. A couple of
j thin pieces of wood are nailed on
| opposite siides of this hole, and a com
j mon drinking fountain placed on top.
| The warm air corning from the light
|ed lamp prevents the water from
freeziug.
CEMENT IN POULTRY HOUSES.
Its Use Makes the Cleaning of th#
Poultry House an Easy Task.
is particularly adapted to
the construction of poultry houses, ex
cept, possibly, the floors. If the cement
is made smooth it will be easily
cleaned at all times, and a stream of
water can be thrown onto it without
doing any injury. It is not a liarborer
of lice, mites or disease germs.
In the form of grout it is now being
used in the construction of the lower
parts of poultry houses, and can be
made of almost any thickness, where
I stones are abundant. When such
j foundations are laid they are rat proof
J and vermin proof. Usnally they go so
! deep into the ground that no animal
j will burrow under them.
But with the use of cement a man
| must know his mind before the poul
i try house is constructed. Once con-
I structed, it cannot be changed, as can
a house made <\f boards, without de
stroying the material out of which it is
composed.
But if a man has so carefully ktld
his plans that be knows he will not
change his mind as to his plans he
can safely go ahead in the use of
cement in bis poultry house con
struction, uud the more of it used
the better.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER io, 1908.
SEEMED WORSE EVERY DAY.
Dangersu3 Case of Kidney Com
plaint and How It Was Checked.
Mrs. Lucy Quebeck, Mechanic St., 1
Hope Valley, 11, 1., says: "Eight years j
ago I contracted so- j
vere kidney trouble j
and my back began
to ache continually.
Every day it seemed
worse. The least
pressure on my back I
tortured me, ami I \
could not stoop with- ;
out a bad twinge, j
(f \
The kidney secretions passed irregu- I
larly with pain, and I bloated badly, j
My head swam and spots flitted before
my eyes. One doctor said I was in- '
curable. However, I found prompt re
lief when I started using Doan's Kid- !
ney Pills, and the troubles I have re- |
lated gradually disappeared."
Sold by all dealers. 50c a box. Fos- j
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NINETY-EIGHT FEET SHY.
Mr. Gouty—Thank heaven, Tin not
a centipede.
WAS VERY FULLY OCCUPIED.
Situation in Which Bibulous Irishman
Had His Hands Fu".
Some one asked George TV Cortel
you, secretary of the treasury, if he in
tended becoming a candidate for gov
ernor of New York. Now, Mr. Cortel
you had an especial aversion for lead
ing questions, so he answered by tell
ing the following story:
Two Irishmen celebrated St. Pat- j
rick's day and started home together, !
but became separated. Finally they J
discovered themselves hugging lamp i
posts on opposite sides of the street, i
"How are yez, Pat?" called Mike. j
"Fair," says Pat, "how are yez?"
"I dunno," says Mike; "come over j
and see."
"I can't come," says Pat.
j "Why rant yez?" says Mike.
"I've got me hands full shtayin' ;
where I am," says Pat. —N T . Y. Herald.
TWO GOOD STORIES BY BARRIE. :
, One Told by Successful Author Is De
cidedly Against Himself.
Air. J. W. Barrie, the author of I
I "What Every Woman Knows," tells a ;
; good story against himself.
A lady of his acquaintance had j
I taken a friend to see one of his plays, j
and, quite astonished, he asked her :
why she did so.
"Oh," was ihe reply, "it's such a
quiet street for the horses!"
He also tells of a playgoer who re
ceived no response to his repeated re
quests to a lady in front of him to
remove her huge hat.
j At length, exasperated, he said: "If
you won't take off your hat, my dear
madam, will you be so kind as to fold
| back your ears?" —Woman's Life.
Conscience.
A man who does not use his eon
' science often has terrible paroxysms
j of it; but a man who uses it ail the
j time never comes into what is called
a state of conscience. It comes on
| him as dew 011 flowers, and falls on
: him gently as rain on the ground. He
< is full of conscience, but it is not con
! cent rated at any single point. It is
j distributed through the brain, the
i nerves, the muscles and the skin. It
is in every part of him. It pervades
S his life. It does not, therefore, rise
! up lino a freshet.—Henry Ward
; Bee^her.
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It requires 110 scientific training to
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Simply stop it for a time and use
Postum in place of it, then note the
beneficial effects. The truth will appear.
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condition," writes a Term, lady, "t suf
fered l'rom indigestion, nervousness
and insomnia.
"I was then an inveterate coffee
drinker, but it was long before I could
be persuaded that it was coffee that
hurt me. Finally I decided to leave it
off a few days and find out the truth.
"The first morning I left off coffee 1
had a raging headache, so I decided 1
must have something to take the place
of coffee." (The headache was caused
by the reaction of the coffee drug—
caffeine.)
"Having heard of Postum through a
friend who used it, I bought a package
and tried it. I did not like it at first
but after I learned how to make it
right, according to directions on pkg.,
I would not change back to coffee for
anything.
"When I began to use Postum I
weighed only 117 lbs. Now I weigh
170 and as I have not taken any tonic
in that time s can only attribute my
recovery of good health to the use of
Postum in place of coffee.
"My husband says I am a living ad
vertisement for Postum. lam glad to
be the means of inducing my many
friends to use Postum, too."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
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MADE ROACHE9 HIS FRIENDS.
Act of Artemus Ward That Had Far-
Reaching Effect.
Oforßp V. Kolcey, u veteran jriurri.il- 1
Ist of ei»veland, remembers Artemus
Ward well.
"Ward called on me," lie paid the
other day, •'the night before OIK- of
his panorama lectures. There were
some three or four large roaches scur
rying about my room, and they attract
ed his attention.
" 'I am very fond of roaches,' ■ he
said. 'Once, In my own home, 1 found a
roach struggling in a bowl of water. I .
took a half walnut shell and put him !
in it; it made a good boat; I gave him
a couple of toothpicks for oars. Next
morning 1 saw that he had fastened
a hair to one of the toothpicks, and j
had evidently been fishing. Then,
overcome with exhaustion, he had j
fallen asleep. The sight moved me. I j
took him out, washed him, gave hitn j
a spoonful of boiled egg, and let him
go. That roach never forgot my kind
ness, and now my home is full of
roaches.'"
BAD ITCHING HUMOR.
Limbs Below the Knees Were Raw—
Feet Swollen—Sleep Broken—
Cured in 2 Days by Cuticura.
"Some two months ago I had a hu
mor break out on my limbs below my
knees. They came to look like raw
beefsteak, all red, and no one knows
how they itched and burned. They
were so swollen that I could not get
my shoes on for a week or more. I
used five or six different remedies and
got no help, only when applying them
the burning was worse and the itching
less. For two or three weeks the suf
fering was intense and during that
time l did not sleep an hour at a time.
Then one morning I tried a bit of
Cuticura. From the moment it touched
ir.e the itching was gone and I have
not telt a bit of it since. The swelling
went c'own and in two days I had my
shoes on and was about as usual.
George B. Farley. .00 South State St.,
Concord. N. H., May 14, I!>u7."
When Disease Will Disappear.
At the reopening of a medical school
in T.ondon recently Sir John Broad- j
bent, in an address to the students, i
said that he looked forward"to seme
Utopian era when such diseases as
intluenza, pneumonia, measles, scarlet
fever and the like will become more
or less extinct as a result of proper
ventilation of offices, shops, public
I buildings and private houses, and oth
|er sanitary measures, such as the
i avoidance of overcrowding, the aboli
| t.ion of children's parties and the habit
jof indiscriminate kissing. The last
■ should not be a hardship," Sir John
j added, if we accept the schoolboy's defl
] nit ion of a kiss: "It is just putting
I your mouth to a person's cheek and
j drawing in your breath, so as to make
I a little noise, which is not bad. but it
| does tothing in the way of helping
| you to love the person.' "
Diversion in the Country.
"I visited E. R. Thomas and found
him doing well after his motor acci
dent," said a member of the Automo
bile Ciub of America. "Thomas, as
usual, railed against our bad roads.
"He said that a friend who lived in
the country had been to see him.
" 'The country is all right in the
Rummer,' Thomas admitted, 'but in
| the fall and winter don't you find it
dull?'
"'Dull?' said the other. 'No, in
deed. Why, out our way some motor
car or other gets stuck in the mud
every night.' "
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
I with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, us they cannot roach
J the scat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or consti
tutional disease, and in ord'T to cure li you must take
internal remedies. Hull's Caturrh Cure is taken In
ternally. and acts directly u*:on the IJWKKI and mucous
surfaces. Hail's Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medi
cine. it was prescribed by one of the best physic lans
in this country for years and is a regular prcn rlption.
j It is composed of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
• mucous f^urfeces. The perfect combination of the
two ingredients is what produces such wonderful re
mits lu curing catarrh. Send for t< stinionlals, free.
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Slid by price T.'c.
'Like Hull's Family Pills for constipation.
A New Ailment.
A South side four-year-old was not
I so full of mischievousness as usual.
"What is the matter, Ethel?" asked
her mother. "Aren't you feeling well?"
"No'rn," replied 'he little miss. "1
fink there mus' be somefing wrong
■wif my liver and bacon." —Kansas
City Times.
Is This True?
"I wouldn't do for politics, I guess,"
j said the pretty girl. "I'd simply vote
I the way papa votes."
I"In that," remarked an observer,
| "you wouldn't differ so very much
from most men."
Qualified.
"Why in the world did you elect that
{ dumb man as your representative?"
"That's all right. lie may not be
able to taik, but he can make DIO
! tions."
I
About One.
| Mrs. Hoyle—What time docs your
| husband get in nights?
Mrs. Doyle—About the time the
' cuckoo clock has the least to do.
The Anglican church has broadened
to the extent now of holding ordina
tion services outside the cathedrals, so
that more people may see them.
John D. Rockefeller and the duke of
; Westminster each receive over 250
begging letters a day.
It's surprising how many friends
you have when they need you.
Mm. Wlfislow'il S«»othlnßT Syrup.
For children teething, #oft«n# the Kunw, rcdu« ID
ll 4iuiUtttlou t ULIUYTT J'TTLUT CUJCH wind colic. 2%>cj*bolU6.
A miin may follow his natural bent
and yet be perfectly straight.
A Nice Hint.
"I know what I'll do," said the girl
whose bashful lover would not pro
pose. "I'll go out as a trained nurse."
"Hut that Is a profession. You
know nothing about It,"he replied.
"Haven't 1 bad six months' experi
ence kitting tip nights with you?"—ll
lustrated Hits.
The Language of the Plants.
"He didn't care to write to her when
he wanted her to arrange for a secret
marriage, so he sent her a running
vine."
"What did she do?"
"Sent him a canteloune."
How It Happened.
Jack—How did Spylow get the bum
eye—football?
Jake —No, zlr. Sprained it last sum
mer at der bathing peach.—Wlscensia
Sphinx.
Substitute.
The Critic —Oee, but you talked
through your hat this evening! Why
did you?
The Speaker—l lost my head.—
Cleveland Leader.
Pensions for the heroes of the cross
were advocated by Prof. J. W. Zeller
before the Laymen's association of
the Central Ohio Methodist confer- j
ence.
Some men seem to enjoy getting
the short end of it occasionally so that I
they will have an excuse for register- !
tag a kick.
The average woman can change her j
mind in half the time it takes a man
to change his collar.
Allen's l'oot-r'ase. a Ponder
Per swollen, .sweating feet. Cilves Instant relief. The !
original powder for the feet. 25c at all iJruggistb. |
He's a poor expressman who is un
able to deliver the goods.
HoVitual
Constipation
May bo permanently overcome by proper
personal cj forts v»ithlbc assistance
the one truly laxative
remedy, Syrup ofl'igs an J kAW\r ojSo nr>a,
112 VvK icK enables onetoform regular
habits daily So that assistance to na
ture may be £roc)ua)ty itispenficclwith
when no (on£er needed a<> Ihe best o£
remedics.whrn required, are to assist
! mature and not to supplant the natur
al junctions, vdwch must depend uUi«
tnafrely upon proper nourishment,
proper living generally.
To get its beneficial cjjecfs, always
buy the genuine
Svrupfixir
manufactured by the
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| ■ n V |j want to aell, send description and price.
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A. N. K.—C (1908—49) 2259. I
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application of Sloan's Liniment.
This liniment takes the place of massage and
is better than sticky plasters. It penetrates —
without rubbing—through the skin and muscu
lar tissue right to the bone, quickens the blood,
relieves congestion, and gives permanent as
well as temporary relief.
Sloan's
Liniment
has no equal as a remedy for
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, or any J
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Price 2Bc„ BOe., and SI.OO.
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A Clever Fellow.
"111(1 you friend make a hit at th«
literary club?"
"I kucsb he did. He pronounced
"l.es Miserables' In a brand new way
and then alluded to it as Victor Her
bert's masterpiece." Washington
Herald.
JUST DOUBLE
320 ACRES INSTEAD
OF 160 ACRES
As further inducement
pjKfJCf-SM to settlement of the
A wheat-raising lands of
Western Canada, the
yj p* Canadian Govcrnmenl
las increased the area
ntffflUw that may be taken by a
homesteader to 320 acres —l6O free and 160 to
'be purchased at $3.00 per acre. These lands
; are in the grain-raising area, whore mixed farming
is at:,o carried on with unqualified success. A
I railway will shortly be built to Hudson Bay, bring.
! ing the world's markets a thousand miles nearer
these wheat-fields, where schools and churches
are convenient, climate excellent, railways close to
all settlements, and local markets good.
"It would take time to assimilate the revela
tions that a visit to the great empire lyinc to
the North of us unfolded at every turn." —
Correspondence of a National Editor, luho "blsited
Western CjnaJj in A'Jjust, 1908.
Lands may also be purchased from railway end
land companies at low prices and on easy term*.
For pamphlets, maps and information Ofi to
low railwuy rates, apply to Superintendent
I of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or the
authorized Canadian Government Agent:
H. M. WILLIAMS,
Law Building, Toledo, Ohio*
fil Raw Furs Wanfed Jm
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