(ESSBD POULTRY FOR CHOICE TRADE. A select private trade often demands | that poultry be very carefully pared, in which case the giblets should be removed and cleansed. Cut the gall-sack from the liver, the blood | vessels from the heart, and the contents of the gizzard. the after first which pre- remove Cut off | shanks removing the strong sinews through the leg and injure the the “drum-stick” T take ut these sinews run back of the tween it run up quality of and skin above the latter fork is 10 the the poin out singly or skewer. have a wall at the sinew, drawn out. tying uj hod vy pared Plucl O examine +H } \ . Lf # ‘ ihe nen Ireaxiasi mel Qr ¥ tv { ” ¢ . > t+ hi Soon need a few ho things frigerators do Pe OxX0 11¢ hit and not so likely to fested with Perches arranged out and Uniformity best dard breed of hens A small amount of sulphur fed the poultry during the winter keep the blood in condition. Money spent for poultry feed will be returned twofold in the profit de- rived from the sale of eggs, Unless fowls are provided with plenty of water during the early win- ter, they are liable to contract dis- ease, are become and taken OW cleaned in be obtained by the size of eggs can Keeping one stan to wil become so fat that thelr legs are in. capable of supporting their bodies. Every poultryman should lay in a fowls during the winter, Green feed is as essential as grain Don't let the hens dictate where they shall new nests git. In putting them on they should be covered so they cannot leave for twenty-four JOours The fad of marketing day-old chicks has led to being sold even they hatched, much to “fresh” egg be. the pur- some fore were indignation of the 134 While thie Lie ducks require plenty of water in day they should be pro- vided with dry quarters at night. ALFALFA DID RATHER WELL. After sever 3 trial on averago the experiment the AT FOR HORSE on SNtate MULCHING STRAW (ne 80) ithern Some nor The art mment example principal object during winter revent sudden ti days awing during Alternate freezing and contraction and expansion soil which results in straining and breaking the many other sentences which are as inappropriate to this climate We believe in mulching strawberry beds in Florida, not to them from freezing but to keep down weeds, | keep the surface moist and keep the fruit clean. Any one of these rea sons is sufficient, but the three con: | stitute an unanswerable argument in favor of mulching. In many places | the most easily obtainable material {is pine straw, and it is good, in oth ors the wire grass furnishes the best material. But it is certain that it is very profitable to mulch the plants.—- i Florida Agriculturist brig thaw. roots.” ‘here are just ke Ke ep SELECTION PAYS. A small herd of cattle that | been carefully selected with the pur | points is better and more | than a large herd composed of all { sorts, Animals in the World By Andrew J. Stone, HAT percentage of people, wild animal life, re in the and have ally found in for world are believed But he is brown bed beasts, not the not large ferocious as vicious as they are given credit larger and more powerful largest of the brown the largest strength 01 of than any bears ol the ecimen of lion, and i Comparing t} combat, the of the would remain enti: such rapidity an in world that ca: yowerful two ear woul at nuret app« quick ru strength, Cerise The among Of the found that de; very nail The whic? il interest in that the largest flesh-eating animals belle, Hon of powerful an animal America The bears lions, nor are they neariy them are much that the much as guperior in America? the largo or as People generally 3, that frican is the king are ing: but the largest of the lion It Is would a i BAY welgh three question By gclon. H.H. Lan a 16 Ww By Dr. J. A. Gilbert. us consider wh of skim-mil fecal use than knives and capable of and nos Hess By Mra. Florence E; May Once Sentenced to Den to find how is amazing person concerning the wo the son he shoald pi new hope. only as almost insurmountable ly, realize the Woman we informa of the rk going in the prisons of America $1 H wl " = wy 8g HY syringe fram f the that when a man comes irom snabled to start over again with ROM prisons are regarded here ble regeneration natural officials and not of poss sympathetic with which prison obstacles being among them, then they would be aroused to action It is greatly to the Another Since from tuberculosis 71 per cent, But there is much more to be done in the way of reform, and upon women Alcofuel From the Cactus. | Industrial or denatured alcohol is a name applied to untaxed ethyl] alco hol, obtained by the fermentation of starch, sugar and other fermentable carbohydrate matter of plifits; to which has been added some gubstance, often methyl (wood) alcohol that will render it unfit for use as a beverage without affecting its value for use in the arts, The authorities at the New Mexico College of Agrictulture think that the manufacture of industrial alcohol from cactug can reasonably be considered within the range. of possibilities.~-ln- diana Farmer, Leeds, England, has 5,000 girls in its publie elomentary schools under sys tematic instruction in the art of swim. ming, and 6560 of them hold certificates as expert swimmers, PRECIOUS STONE INDUSTRY THERE WERE RECORD-BREAKING IMPORTATIONS LAST YEAR, Search for Diamond Fields on This Continent—Popularity of the Pearl ~~Where Precious Stones Are Found in This Country. every variety United Btates than Precious were imported into in before, Blones of the quantities the Washington correspondent of the New York Even. ing Post Viost ame iz than in the thre« last larger ever year writes diamonds ( gdnning The importation « Nas seven times the diamond cu country havin recent years importations ™ Govern- tudyir ng the its oyster, ods for In in various has stimulated the rade in American gem Ul Discovers gems seclions ihe couniry yuning in tone, California ity and the in them has stimulated tourmaline, beryl, topaz “hese crystals are of especial popular ar kKungzite interest Frederick made where these that it bids Mountains, led precious has been Mt. Mi mineraiists, the gem of the to and George Kung, expert who has a study gems are found, fair to rival the Ural which for fifty years have world in the production stones. Some prospecting done in Maine for gems region thinks of at the tourmalines found did not exceed in value a few thousand dollars. have increased in production, and have more than made up for the de. creased production of the turquoise mines in New Mexico and Arizona. Black quartz, cut in the form of beads has been sold throughout the world in competition with rich green aven- turine, which sparkles with specks of mica. Great quantities of this stone have been taken from the Black Hills of South Dakota, Among the stones which have been found In large quantities in Amelia County in Virginia, and for which there is a considerable demand, are the dmethyst, topaz, malachite and amazon stone, Mr. Kunz attribufes the recgrd eos tallished last year for the importation — —" so ———— a A ———— of precious stones of all kinds, rang- ing from the richest gems to those of the poorest qualities, and even to ev- ery form of imitation, to the general “good times” the American people are enjoying, “This record,” he says, "Wes achieved notwithstanding the Husso- Japanese and was due to general prosperity.” War Schoolgirl Swimmers, AMEER LOVES A PRIZE FIGHT. Methods of Entertaining Oriental Monarchs, devices vernment Curious Of all the adopted ZO to ente English ruler of Afghanistan duri to India trea the one ys most IN THE EVERGLADES. They Are the Haunts of Modern Robin Hoods. the 17 Service, resi- in ap eed there. the cypress g which border the who they look ask thelr passed, names 3 memory stor- These men trap of- laugh as After they have will mention recall to your tragedies 1001 ar who of help p but asked wigh Indians never betray them whom 1 knew well when he an Indian had refugees certain one of these his “Umum no together with an earnest shake asl seen a - lan ¢ s8e., ODE happened to know that he had been with the man inquired of on the day Sometimes these outlaws kill one another, usually over a bird rookery which two or more of them claim. I passed the camp of of them, beside which hung a dozen otter eking, and a few days later learned that both had been killed, probably in a quarrel, but possibly by some third outlaw, tempted by their wealth of skins The country in which they live is a labyrinth. The big rivers fork into smaller streams, which divide and form into creeks that, although deep, will for miles give passage only to gkiffs, for which a way must frequently be cleared with knives through vines and overhanging bushes, Often these creeks branch out into hundreds of shallow channels, making a thousand tiny mangrove keys in each square mile. Within these mazes are occasional blazed traile, upon one of which I found hang. ing to a tree an old shoe containing a bit of paper on which was pencilled “of n want Sum grub tom has got it."— Scribner's Magazine, ing if 1 had not previous While hunting last fall near Care bondale, Pa., John Pappos shot a glant owl, measuring four feet seven inches from tip to tip.
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