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TRY IT ON YOUR HIVE.
An Entrance-Contractor Which Wih
Not Blow Away.
I use a bottom-board with %-lncb
cleats on the front, tapering down to
% at the back of the board, making
an entrance % by the width of the
hive. This size is used on good
colonies for June, July and August,
and also for the winter months while
How It Is Put On.
In cellar, writes A. Tien of Falmouth,
Mich., in Dee Culture. When I wish
to contract the entrance I use a
notched stick held in position in front
of the hive by a super spring. This
is fitted between two small blocks 5-16
by % by 2%, fastened to the hive
with two screws which hold the
spring firmly. This entrance-block is
cut out on one edgd % by 4 1 / &, on the
other edge % by 8. This is similar to
the plan of E. H. Clare, p. 235, al
though I use one spring and one block
which will stay in position. Neither
wind nor chickens can remove it.
A % entrance suits me well in sum
mer, and for cellar wintering; and
in. fall or spring it can be changed in
an instant without hunting for en
trance-blocks.
CULLING IMPORTANT.
Prof. Orf, Kansas Experiment Station,
Urges Thorough Work.
Not all poultry keepers cull their
flocks closely enough. The best re
sults come from careful culling. Prof.
Orf of the Kansas experiment station
emphasizes the matter thus:
Any chicken that is not paying for
its food in growth or in egg produc
tnon is a source of loss. As soon as
the hatching season is over old roos
ters shoould be sent to the market.
Market all hens two years or more
of age. Send with these all the year
ling hens that appear fat and lazy.
By the time the young pullets are
ready to be moved into quarters these
hens should be reduced to about one
half the original number. Some time
later a final culling of the old stock
should be made. Those that have not
yet begun to molt should be sold, ae
they will not be laying again before
the warm days of the following Feb
ruary. This system of culling will
leave the best portion of the yearling
hens, which, together with the early
hatched pullets, will make a profitable
flock of layers.
| Many farmers practice no intelligent
culling of their chickens, but allow old
hens, together with runty pullets and
scrub cockerels, to consume the food
and occupy the room that should be
used for the workers of the flock. A
small number of the best chickens will
pay more profit than a house crowded
full of everything raised. It has been
repeatedly demonstrated that pullets
are more profitable than older hens,
but as yearling hens are considered
better breeders and better sitters it is
well to keep a few of them through
their second winter.
The pullets in permanent quarters
should be well fed, and if they have
been hatched at the proper season will
begin laying during the fall months.
As the weather turns cold and rains
set in, the pullets should be confined
to the houses and given careful treat
ment, for an outbreak of roup may
result.
Producers of pure-bred poultry
should exercise great caution in keep
ing their stock pure by not allowing
cockerels to run with their hens too
late a period before eggs are used for
hatching purposes. Very little care is
taken in this line on the farm where
a farmer has more than spoiled one
pure breed of poultry.
Make Them Jump for It.
To promote exercise of the fowls in
cold weather hang up about three feet
high in the henhouse or some dry shed
pieces of meat, turnip, sugar beets,
cabbage and like- feeds for them to
pick at. In this way they will not par
take of too niitch of the feed and will
get needed exercise on cold days.
Keep Them Busy.
Do not. let the hens get in the habit
of stamiii.-r around all day doing noth
ing. When they do this it is an indica
tion that they are 100 fat, diseased cr
fed in such a manner that they do not
have to work for it. Activity and egg
laying go together. Either make the
hens be active or keep ones that nat
urally are active.
FEEDING FOR EGC3.
Study the Fleck and Avoid Overfeed
ing as Well as Underfeeding.
With ogj's at 33 cents a dozen, and
the grocer predicting; 40. every poultry
breeder is anxiously asking what he
can feed to secure eggs. "I feed my
hens so and so, I keep them free from
lice, I almost live with them, and don't
get an egg," complains one. "Our eggs
cost us from fifty to seventy-five cents
a dozen," says another, outlining a
method of feeding which surely should
bring results if anything could. The
trouble is few people begin early
enough to feed for eggs. Strong,
healthy hens will lay on a very badly
balanced ration, sometimes with poor
housing and apparently little care.
The reason is because they are vigor
ous, because they are sufficiently
strong to digest and assimilate enough
food to produce eggs. A hen might
come from the very best laying strain,
she might be fed an abundance of egg
forming material, but if she has not
the ability to digest her food she will
never be a valuable layer.
The best ration and the cheapest
ration is the ration which brings us
the greatest number of eggs and keeps
our hens in the best condition. Chick
ens require a liberal diet in cold
weather; too often they are fed enough
to keep up the animal heat, but not
enough to produce eggs as well.
Hence a perfectly healthy flock may
be a flock of poor layers. Whether the
hens are not laying because they have
not the digestion to assimilate their
food and turn it into eggs, or whether
they are not laying because they have
not the surplus material for eggs, is a
point the owner must decide for him
self. Well hatched, well raised hens
will always lay if they have abundance
of food and abundance of fresh air.
How they are fed is important, but
equal importance should be attached
to how they are bred.
A GOOD COLONY HOUSE.
Style of Building Which Is Not Ex
pensive and Is Portable.
During the dull season our local
lumber dealer and his assistant built
some portable colony poultry houses
as follows, writes an Indiana corre
spondent of Orange Judd Farmer: The
frame is securely bolted to the sills
□ JIM
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Portable Colony House.
which are made sled-runner style.
The walls are made from closely-fitted
tongue and groove drop-siding. The
floors are tight, and the ventilators
covered with screen wire to keep out
rats, weasels, etc.; the cover of roof
ing felt. Each house is painted. The
size is C by 8 feet; G feet high in front
and 4 at the back. They cost me
sls each for all material and work.
Very likely they could be built for
less in places where lumber is cheaper.
EGG MANAGEMENT.
Ration Which One Farmer Finds Ef
fective with His Flock.
I have found no better egg ration
than wheat and oats in the bundle for
forenoon and principal feed, with corn
late in the afternoon, writes a South
Dakotan, in Orange Judd Farmer. A
good, warm, well-seasoned mash of
some kind on cold mornings three or
four times a week is greatly relished,
particularly if mixed with milk. The
grain should be kept in the bundle and
be fully three-fourths wheat. A little
millet is excellent fed in the straw. I
save much labor and other expense by
feeding hens, sheep and/other stock
their grain in the bundle. Early cut
corn and oats fed this way to stock
give satisfactory results with me.
A steeply slanting floor in a hen
house can be kept dry and clean much
easier than a level one. Feed bundle
grain on the upper end, and straw and
anything else will be scratched to the
lower end, where there should be a
small door to throw it out The hens,
if good, live ones, will sometimes
scratch it out themselves. A floor 20
feet long should be at least 18 inches
higher at. one end than the other.
Earth, gravel or cinders make a much
better floor than boards.
With these surroundings, and the
birds and feed described, with plenty
of fresh water and green food, and a
little fresh meat now and then, it is
not a difficult thing to get both pleas
ure r«nd profit from a large flock of
poultry.
CACKLES.
Poultry products were never higher
in price than they are to-day, and
many farmers this year have b<#?un to
realize that poultry will yield then
more profit than any other stock on
the farm.
Pure-bred poultry pays, and it is
none too early now to begin to select
breeders for next season. Sell off all
old males to prevent harmful inbreed
ing, and secure the very best new
ones.
If your chickens are mixed and you
wish to grow one kind only it will be
well to build house and yard early this
winter for confining the pure stock
during the breeding season.
Keep the poultry house dry, light
and clean. It lias been found that
chickens can stand considerable cold
and do well if all other conditions are
favorable.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1909.
FACT VERIFIED.
fkrr, i
Kid—Say, mister, got change fer
five dollars?
Kind Gentleman—Yes, my boy; here
It is.
Kid —Thanks, boss; I just wanted to
see it. I'd kinder got to thinkin' dere
wasn't dat much money in circulation!
ECZEMA ALL OVER HIM.
No Night's Rest for a Year and Limit
of His Endurance Seemed Near
—Owes Recovery to Cuticura.
"My son Clyde was almost com
pletely covered with eczema. Physi
cians treated him for nearly a year
without helping him any. His head,
face, and neck were covered with large
scabs which he would rub until they
fell off. Then blood and matter would
run out and that would be worse.
Friends coming to see him said that if
he got well he would be disfigured for
life. When it seemed as if he could
possibly stand it no longer, I used
some Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Oint
ment, and Cuticura Resolvent. That
was the first night for nearly a year
that ho slept. In the morning there
was a great change for the better, in
about six weeks he was perfectly well.
Our leading physician recommends
Cuticura for eczema. Mrs. Algj
Cockburn, Shiloh, 0., June 11, 1907."
He Explained It.
"As long ago as when King Solo
mon lived," said Representative
Gaines of Tennessee, "there were men
who darkened counsel by words with
out knowledge. Some men make a
simple thing unintelligible by an ef
fort to define it.
"I once heard a Sunday school
teacher who told the children that he
would give them a summary of the
morning's lesson. A bright little lad
asked the teacher what was the mean
ing of 'summary.'
" 'Oh, my boy,' answered the teach
or, 'by summary is meant—or, meant
—er, yes—summary is an abbreviated
synopsis of anything.'"
Schools for Missionaries.
The immense Northfield schools and
colleges for the training of mission
aries and preachers were erected out
of the profits derived from the sale of
Moody and Sankey's "Sacred Songs
and Solos." Miss Ada Ellen Bayly
("Edna Lyall") built St. Peter's
church, Eastbourne. England, with
part of the money she received from
"Donovan" and "We Two." She also
presented a fine peal of bells to the
neighboring church of St. Saviour and
christened them after the heroes of
her books —Erie, Hugo and Donovan.
STATE or OHIO CITY or TOLEDO. ?
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partner of the firm of F. J. CHKNKY AC CO., DOING
business In the City of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said Arm will pay tho sum of
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The Family Skeleton.
Visitor—By George! But you've
added a great many beautiful vol
umes to your library since I was here
last. Must cost something, old man?
Mr. Meeker —On the level, Bill, I'm
on the verge of bankruptcy buying
souvenir post card albums and book
case sections to hold them. —Puck.
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"When poverty knocked at the door
I presume love flew cut of the win
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Little Sinner Wat Providing for Fu
ture Emergencies.
Muriel, a flve-year-old subject of
King Edward VII., has been thought
by her parents too young to feel the
weight of the rod, and has been ruled
by moral suasion alone. But when,
the other day, she achieved disobedi
ence three times in five minutes, more
vigorous measures were called for,
and her mother touk an ivory paper
knife from the table and struck her
smartly across her little bare legs.
Muriel looked astounded. Her moth
er explained the reason for the blow.
Muriel thought deeply for a moment. !
Then, turning toward the door with a
grave and disapproving countenance,
she announced in her clear little Eng- j
lish voice:
"I'm going up-stalrs to tell God 1
about that paper-knife. And I shall !
tell Jesus. And If that doesn't do, I
I shall put flannel on my legs!"— |
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ABOUT THE LADY DOLPHINS.
Child's Inquiry Natural, Perhaps, to
One of Her Sex.
A theatrical manager at the Piay- 1
ers' club said of the school of classl- !
cat dancing that Miss Isadora Dun- j
can conducts:
"Miss Duncan hears some quaint
remarks as she converses with her I
child pupils. One day, preparatory j
to the first lesson In a dolphin dance,
she delivered to her class a little lec
ture on this fish. She described the
grace of the dolphin, and afterward j
she described its habits and mode of
life.
" 'And, children,' she said, 'a single
dolphin will have 2,000 offspring.'
"A little girl gave a start.
" 'And how about the married ones?'
she gasped."
LOVE'S SACRIFICE.
■ .
"Wat's de matter, Reginald, have
youse sworn off smokin'?"
"Yes. You see, I'm engaged now,
and my fiancee objects to a disagree
able breath."
Another Crop Ccming.
Louie is the brightest youngster in
the South side. If you doubt this ask
Louie's father. According to the same
authority Louie's mother consented to
the sacrifice of his curls recently and j
he was taken to the nearest barber i
shop. He was left unguarded while \
the deed was being committed and
the horrid barber —just think of the
poor mother's feelings—used the clip- !
pers. So when Louis's father re- j
turned for him the boy proudly ex
hibited a hairless poll for his in
spection.
"Well," exclaimed the father, "he
didn't leave much."
"No," chirped Louie, "but it'll grow 1
out again all right, 'cause he left the !
seeds in." —Kansas City Times.
Disease Damages Tea Crops.
A curious disease which has done
much damage to the tea crops of
northeast India is known as "red
rust." An account of the species of
alga (Cepaleuros virescens), which I
causes it, is given by C. M. Hutchin
son in the "Memoirs of the Agricultu
ral Department of India." It attacks
the leaves and stems of the tea plant,
forming yellow patches. It is prop
agated by two kinds of spores, one 1
carried by water and the other by air.
Needed Them in His Business.
"What with whooping cough, !
measles and all that," began the first j
traveler, "children are a great care; i
but they are blessings sometimes —"
"Certainly they are," interrupted ;
the second traveler. "I don't know |
how we should get along without
them."
"Ah, you're a family man, too?"
"No; a doctor." —Stray Stories.
All Conventions Observed.
Wife (suspiciously)— Who is this |
Kitty you and your friends talk about !
at your club? Is it proper for a
young woman to call there?
Husband (innocently) Perfectly j
proper, my dear. There is an "aula" j
there to chaperone this Kitty.
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0 Wh»f makes you think so? Have
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Miss Roxie Swellman."
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her choice."
"Aw, really? What did she say?"
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to be her husband."
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The crop of 1908 still keeps Western Canada
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