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HOW HEN LICE BREED
No bird or animal Is tormented with
lice more than the domestic hen, yet
care of herself than
sho
ev
she takes greate:
any other living creature,
her toilet dally, arranging
feather and resorting to every
method to rid herself of the pests,
which efforts would be
ghie could control the ¢
who
us
HARKS
ery
mnditions for
build poul-
much of
doing
leave so many hid
lice that it is almost
reach them except
labor. If
were
y
UNE
bro Those
Houses to save as
cost as possible, and by so
. i y
are liable to
places [or
impossible to
18 and patient
walls
of poultrv-houses the
presented would great.
of the
plastered walls are
than boards,
generally
hiding
reached with liquids,
the house must be
in order to
$0 breed in
The
roosts to the
hem off with the d
i from
the
breed
never
They
tedion the
plastered,
smooth surface
facilitate the keeping uouse
of 1k but
expensiv
and will not be
breed in the
y
clear
more rough
adopted
places
de
the
red
hen,
IST
the
roost
supplied
goes on
gray
hens, and
lice on
arge
the are
poultry-house« . at
as they
of the
0 remove
the skin
kind of
of
increase or
The n
in
is perfeet-
chew
in a thorough
Crushed oats
of
the
or
and nanner
grin
than
require on the
the horse
former
ding part
whole and
to animals that
therefore more suit
the latter with their teeth
ven long experience horses
generally held faith that crushed
oats are not so suitable as
for that
hard condition
fast pace
oats,
for feeding
Are
able
roubled are
than
with of
the
whole oats
be in
at a
horas are required
and to do
Times
to
word
Indiana
CORN OR CORN MEAL FOR HOGS.
A careful line of experiments
Station to
of shelled corn
fattening pigs
and corn meal for
It was found that
the corm meal was something bet.
ter, not always enough better as
fattening food to pay for cost of grind.
ing. The higher the price of corn,
the greater the saving through grind-
ing, since cost of grinding becomes
advances. Thus, with corn at twenty.
five cents a bushel, the saving from
prinding was only 1 1-2 cents, but
the corn at seventy-five cents a bushel
the saving from grinding was 4 1-2
WA Sn
The corn meal
quicker matur
ity than whole corn The pigs eat
more of the and make some
what larger gains It is sug
gested that meal could be used
to good advantage in finishing off
of which were at first fed
shelled American Cultivator,
bushel,
somew. at
per
produced a
meal
daily
corn
hogs
corn
lot
DON'T SELL THE GRAIN
The experience of farmers in Ohio
Indiana and sections of Illinois should
the importance of keeping
on our farms in order to Keep
fertility It is stated that
farms in Ohio began to decline about
emphasize
| stock
up soil
and the next census
| showed that live stock was declining
i in the state very rapid rate
| What has been the result? Look
| the smal)
grains, tell the story of reduced
better than
this, farmers
out more
commercial
of Ohio is
ol) years ago,
at a
at
vields of wheat and other
They
anything else Be
in pay
than $2 year
fertilizers What is
true of parts of In.
and southern Illinois Under
cropping there {8 no
under the keep up our
without buying fertilizers, or by
the crops grown upon the
| farm. The peas in
{ southern Illinois and feeding more
| live stock is helping n there
{ And since the alarm ound
ed thousands of are tur
their
are
soils
sides
| ing
| fcr
| true
{ diana
| our
Ohio
are
LOO UW a
system of
way sun to
soils
| feeding
Erowing of ccw
atters
been
farmers
fields to clover
their
Indiana
filling
live stock
up
with
YOUNG
HAY FOR
On most
ity of hay Fi
land plece of
grown
and on account
handled
80 rank
Marine
Monster of
iNGor
other
nat our fo
would have
a leading uava
‘The size
have reached its
The French, indeed
lv built a
172
beam,
of
ship of most extraordi
nary size feet k
tonnage about
she Is pronounced
for service.” And
marine monster 1500, whose
size made her so unwieldly that ‘she
hath never been out of harbor,’ was
but a third as long as our latest
eriiser, little more than two-thirds the
width, and a sixth of the tonnage
fact, she was relatively so small that
she might easily, one would think, he
een carried on the Indomitable's deck
Although a fifty-acre had pro
vided her timbers and it had taken
shipwrights a year to build her,
was than one-tenth
that of her successor of today." West
minster Gazette
nches bs
the
X50 but
unfit
tons: to
ww entirely
thia
An
vet
of
ve
forest
iM
her total cost leas
A Florida Shark Story,
A tarpon pursued by a sbark aear
Garden Key in one of its tremendous
leaps fell across a skiff containing
{two fishermen who were so busily en
gaged with a net that they did not
notice its approach The skiff broke
tin two, the fishermen became entang
led in the net and the shark togk a
huge bite out of the side of one of
them, Belton Larkin, cutting his body
inearly in two, It is thought the shark
| mistook Larkin's body for the tarpon
{it was In pursuit of, for sharks in
{these waters have never been known
| 10 attack a man Punta Gorda Herald,
IS MARS INHABITED?
ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCE.
Home of intelligent
Exists With Reference to Mercury,
Venus, Jupiter and Saturn,
cir
some
Of the eight
cling around the
respects the
very small, having a
more than half as great
and only twice that of the moon,
while the case is far
rea
planets which go
sun Mars is in
interesting It is
diameter not
as the earth's
most
ver,
to sus
intelli
from
proved, there is better on
that it is the
gent beings, not ver
man, than can hold-
ing such a theory regar other
member of the sun's family except, of
the earth nothing
can be seen on the surface of Mercury
and Venus Jupiter Saturn have
their curious other mark-
ings, but a fancy that those
two bodies are yet hot to
life N and Uranus
only far but afford no
which judgment
based
next
the planet is a next
to In
copic examination
which
home of
different
for
ding any
pect
be presented
course, Next to
and
belts and
trologers
too sustain
not
on
be
are
sign
can
Mars
earth,
ptune
away
any
Now.
outside that
orbit of lies
the
door neighbor, so
of and
the next place, teles.
reveals n
speak
any cur
lous features cannot be
i other
doubt, thi
planets
internreta tion
nterpretations
» wonderful lines
5
oun '
ge
“canal
convenience
word
and
of canals from thirts
bundred and fifty
theory.
one miles wide dis
credited the too, for a while
A Boston
however,
notion
dently
black
astronomer, Percival Lowell,
hit more plausible
He and now confi
believes, that these grayish
markings which come and go,
indicate vegetation made possible by
irrigation. He thinks that the belts
represent follage, but that the foliage
is made possible only by an elaborate
system of small channels, radiating
from a trunk canal which is itself in
visible. The changes in distinctness
which Schiaparelli noted, Lowell ex
plains by the succession of seasons
which shut off and the water
supply The lines, it is admitted, arc
more clearly visible in spring and
summer than in winter. Mr. Lowell
is a firm believer, also, in the genuine-
doubling of the
Many astronomers hesitate to
g0 far, and prefer to express no
opinion on the nature of the lines. A
few are outspoken on their skepticism
about the existence of the finer ones
and the phenomenon of doubling, re
garding most of the stories on the
subject a sthe result of some sort of
optical delusion .-
To get around any suggestion of
that sort, Mr. Lowell undertook to
photograph Mars two years ago at his
private observatory in Arizona. This
vear he sent a party to South Amer
fea with a powerful camera on a sim.
flar mission. A few days ago he re.
ceived a telegram reporting that some.
tine of the sort had already been
upon a
fancied,
roeatore
ness of the reputed
lines
80
Until it is
have
the
ones
known
thus
how many
depicted,
ae well ag
recorded,
done.
canals
whether
the wide
and whether any
been
HDATrTOW ones
have been
evidence of duplica
the narrow well the wide
ones have been recorded, and whether
Ones as as
evidence of duplication has been
expressed
clew the of
obtained, however, light
to be
hie
Piao
any
safely, If no to nature
lines Is
on their genuineness seem
assured. The full report the
tographers will be awaited with eager
Ness,
Now
of
RABBIT SCALPS IN TRADE.
In Western Kansas They Are Ex
changed for Groceries.
Did ever hear of rabbit scalps
being rated as an article of commerce
in the
ut
you
exchange
butter?
the
or as a medium of
manner as eggs and
Kan ,
Wakeeney,
cents each
same
in Trego
which is
five
scalps, no matter whether
tuna 1 full
W. J. Williams, who is the
in Wakeeney,
months
County, country
seat of the mer
chants pay for rabbit
the unfor
te “bunny” was grown or not
proprieion
of a store bought
2,840 during the
March, April and May this year, John
Keraus, another
bought
BTOCeryY
merchant of the same
place, scalps, while no
fort
merchant in little town paid fot
rm
legs than 500 scalps
farmers and punchmen
to the county
Umbrelias,
3 rom Pompeii,
Naples, dating
ut S00 B
Beaten,
shman
some
old Ir who
had wale ions given
by a de
them for sale among
A smart American
touring the Emerald Isle,
try his old
one of and
“These small apples
over here, my friend. In America we
have them at least twice the size”
The Irishman slowly removed the
vipe he was smoking from between his
and coolly surveyed the speaker
from head for a nd
two. Then, in a tone of mingled pity
and reproach, he exclaimed
“Shure, sorr, you must be
Ireland and know
the fruit av our country,
can't tell apples from
Chuma
to
rT and exposed
his
student who
ai % y
him friendly
other goods
wae
wishing to
wit on the man. ook
sald
114
ui
th va lona
ne mei
are
you grow
to foot soe or
a stranger
very little about
whin you
gooseberries!’
in
a A A AL A,
“Was the deceased in the habit of
taking any drugs?’ asked an English
coroner of the witness. “Oh, yes”
sald the witness” “What drug did
he take?” asked the Coroner. "Oh, re
plied the witness, surprised,
thought you sald ‘grub.'”
—-——
The average rent paid for New
York city tenements and apartment
houses built within five years
amounts to $146 annually for each
person living in them,
-
NOW THE BRITON NAY
Famous Bill Become:
London
galized in
The H«
at its third re:
Throughout
by Lord Salisburs
used every trick
being reached
The
peers, retrospect
|
aw rei
ively legitimati
These marriages, though lawful
the colonies, were void in Ei
The whole country rejoices
passage of the bill into law
King Edward notified
that he thought the bill
and thiz had much
ing through
The passage of
Sister's
lative struggle, dating
early history of the church
Previous to 15633 marriages of con-
sanguinity and affinity were wholly
govered by canon law and such mar-
riages from 1532 to 1835 were void-
able In the latter year the Lynd-
hurst act made past marriages of af.
finity valid and future marriages
void. The House of Commons at first
rejected the prohibitory clause as re-
gards marriage with a deceased wife's
sister, but afterward accepted it.
A royal commission was appointed
—————
in
the Lords
should pass,
to do with its go-
ack to the
Belmont and Ryan Fall Out.
Friends of August Belmont and
Thomas F. Ryan practically admitted
there was a grave breach between the
two financiers, and an effort by the
Belmont interest in the Interbor-
ough-Metropolitan to throw the Met.
ropolitan Street Railway syetem of
New York City back on Mr. Ryan's
hands was predicted.
Money Market Relief.
Secretacy of the Treasury Cortel
you aranounced a new plan for money
market relief.
\ Tor wARy Tets
//
(»
in
laws, and
attempt
House of
Ommne
LOMmMons
examine
from 1849 uy
madi
lords and
the
Commons
were
i tO pass
As a rule the
1 t bill by a e majori
been thrown out by the
rough the aggressive oppositio:
he bishops and a few ultra
peers, although King 12
when Prince of Wales. set
example of voting for
On August 20 last
and animated debats
Lorde. by 111 to 79 votes,
second reading of the
bili, minority
every one of the seventeen igh
who are members of the Hous
Lorde, and as the measure had ur
viously passed the louse of Com
mons this
law
arg
i erdies
lay
after prolo
the
Sister's the
SERRiOn it nov becon
Mrs. Dills Buried Alive,
| Mrs. Susan Dills and her sities:
year-old grandson, James Co were
| buried alive in a mica mine near
Syiva, N. They were visiting Mr
{| Dill's mine, when an excaval.on oe.
(curred, and they were smothered io
death.
Haywood's Tour Abandoned,
William D, Haywood, teeiing 12°
i Strain of the trial through which he
, passed in Boise, ldaho, has given un
{ his proposed tour of the Kast, and
+ will return to Denver