FOR THE POULTRY RAISER.
There is leds profit 4n half-starved
hens than in thése too fat,
The qualifications for a successiut
pouitryman, are patience, perserver
ance, pluck, “enterprise end capital.
If thera is any tendency to loose
ress of the bowels among pouliry,
give them ashes to pick over.
This will it.
A good
picking, Is to rnb
cloth that has Ix
ped cornmeal,
It is not t
1 of
ig Of
coal
correct
way
ater
ducks,
with
clean
them
amipened and dip-
10
well a
en d
in
0 late {0 get In a IeW
bushe fine grave] for the hens to
work at. They
ciation of
good many
A
egz producer, and
ries
tka poultry
show their appre- |
kindness by
will
your
exira eggs. i
is Zool |
wor
ol
contented hi always a
anything that
inhabitants
robs the egg baskel. |
sre should be shade |
re fowls are |
or frighteng the
yard
For this reason
in the yard
the
frees whe
kept.
Those who ar the
method of whitewashing the insida of]
o tired of old |
the chicken coops to exterminate ver
min, can find a cheap paint and
titude in crude petroleum, yrand
with Venetian red It also hag a pre
sarvative value for the wogpd
The lice are still - got rid
them. If you
handy try burning a lot of cedar
ings in
chased out the chickens,
and fi
tried it say it
{nsec
col
of
an old iron pot
; shay
Ving
close up the
the henhcuse. After ha
il it with smoge
ats
building ‘tightly
Those
any
Th ¢
rich tak
to aid in grinding
If you do not lov
enough to give the:
you had better
Milk may s
who have
+
nobhhle
ers, but there
inp the way
her
this season
of
feathers
mixture made
#8 in alend
&
a
To save the i
ing chicken boxes, | rhich you
live poultry, slip or
of thick paper in bottom;
empty throw these away.
The in pounltry-honze
should be low, so that the
not jump from any great height
often causes bumblefcot—a awelling
of the bottom and of the {
Nest egzs are useful to guide pullets
or strange hens to
boxes, but that is about
it. The old theory that the
of nest eggs induces egg produc
has jong since exploded.
One of the things the
poultry keeper ¢
wash them
the
have
three aheots
the when
roosts the
fowls need
whieh
side t
tha neat
of
locate
NN
¢ oxtent
fon
’
hoon
worat neat
with the ezza
'
He
The
in
weg ren
warm
is to water
opens
shell,
short
spoiled
nl tls
nratectin
prote
pore
3 in
in
and
ones
WINTER PROTF
BERRIES
TION OF STRAW
fer 4%
in Lae
Mulching consis covering o
the with
or in fact an}
cover and protecti
ig practised for
vent a u excessive evaporatic
the moisture of the soil during
summer and also to avold the effects
of freezing and thawing in winter So;
while mulching is practised In the
summer to retain moisture and asaisi
in the development of the fruit, pro |
tecting so far as may be from drought, |
in winter, but for |
aves, straw, sawdust
that
it
PUrposes:
soll
thing
34
tn y
of
tha
yo
or
=
it is also practized
a different purpose: the strawberry 18
rot a deep-rooted plant, its r are |
of the fibroug order, spreading In al
directions In search of fer ys: 1
of necessity are
the asil when I!
freezing of the injury
to the plant; it froop.|
‘mg and thawing that work mischief to
it by severing or tearing the root, |
and after a time lifting them from the
soil, in which situation they are loft
to perish or simply engaz: In a pro |
longed struggle for bare existence. |
The game effect is produced in a field
of clover when, as it is termed, It is
“frozen out” With freezing and thaw
ing strawberry plants are “frozen
out,” the prevention of which calls
for winter protection. It la not nee
essary that the protéetion should be
given to prevent the freezing of the
soil, for thig Is hardly possible, but
it is to retain the frost in the doll af
ter it becomes frozen, which lx more
efsily accomplished than the first con
dition, therefore. the appllieation of
the material may be omitted until the
soll is effectually frozen. The nse of
isaves Is somewhat objectionable for
the reason that unless they are hell
down by some welght they are lable
to ‘blow away, and also for the further
reason that they are Hable to pack
down 80 closely as to kill the plants.
Strange ag it may appear, plants seem
to require breathing room, or breath.
ing facilities during the winter den
son, although they are supposed to
be dormant. Old hay or straw may.
be used instead of leaves, but for efit
ciency and great convenlence, there
Sota
Ii
iit
embraced
The
no
Hoge
bt
mere
iozely
FOPTOR
effects
is the frequent
501]
of evergreens, such as hemlock,
spruce, arbor vitae or anything of a
similar character that has a close foli
Spreading these over the plants
sufficiently to cover them securely an
excellent protection ls afforded, anl
that is in no way liable to result
disastreusly to the plants themselves
suggestions are made for the
benefit of who grow the berry
only in moderate quantities although
the principle applies with equal force,
however extensive the plantation. In
the spring, when all danger from frost
the covering can be re
the plants will foun!
resh and green, ready to com
vigorous growth.
age,
cne
These
those
or
oS
has passed,
moved a
i
nd
be
looking
mele a
KEEPING EGGS IN SUMMER
Even if eggs held for
mparatively short time before bein
used cr disposed of It will found
advantageons to keep them in the best
manner p Where they may be
some little time this is much
mor®d important. Egg racks are good
to have for this purpose.
a
o
are only
1
be
138ible.
box fitted with
holes to plac e
shelves
the eggs
Eggs do nol keep so we
in baskets, ete, where
contact with one
best thing for an egg rack
boxes filled with sawdi
bran, in which the ezgs
end until
cork are best
bran is used it
waiched, for there
i musty
in
in,
Hi
they
which are
end down
n put
in
next
whe
come
another The
on
if
fs a
if kept in
the boxes or s
cmiog !
marked
is easy to tell when
they
gathered, and so )
ii better
1elve
re dates it |
were
3 v
4 oF Qispose
THE GRAIN FIELDS
seed
obnox!
our pains in selecting
and
t in
grain wead other
ous per fs ghowing up
The only
pests to
now and pluck
plants The plan
practicable one has
cleaning his seed
mustard and
plant, al
en
»
along about harvest time
way to get r of
go through field
out the individual
perfectly
ar
id these is
the Is
is
if
been careful in
grain Watch
wild The mustard
wed mature, will make
f trouble; but if the fields
as mustard
will not be a very
lean them out With
situation different
Cultivated oat In
but has large,
spikelets Some claim
oats In the Cent:
gtates, as a short rotation
rid the fields of it But
mistake to allow it to get a foo
Keep it ont The |
question I would were
seed oats would be
yntained wild oats. —IL. C
oat for
oats if
bos
iQ
fo no
are
blossoms
big job
wild oats
It resem
some re
drooping |
do not
gone
the
just
it
over
show
to ©
is
¥
‘
bieg the
2nacts, it
they
fear wild
0
wil it
hold anywhere
first ask
Ai
very
ae
HOwD
Laer
CHANGING CROPS
1 have never seen so much changing |
abou! of farm operations as there has
this spring Many good
ness farmers who have precise meth
ods in earrying on their affairs have |
been adrift this spring and are break
ing up their systems. Many got
hurt in feeding hogs and sheep |
and have turned grain raisers, with |
rot a pig on the farm. 1 apprec
that it take nerve to stick a
game, but it looks very foolis
to turn any special line
werk because prices are against it
goason. The hog raiser and feed
er cannot lose money very long on ac
of low prices. The marke! us
swings back before another piz |
is ready to go. Stick to your |
If feed ia high, stand
vour stock and use closer methods in |
The man who lost his nerve |
and hag not a nice bunch of spring |
pigs out in the clover pasture now will |
be the first one to take up the faithful |
old brood sow next fall.—L. C. Brown. |
$ :
heen busi
by
ing h
8
n 0 from
for |
One
count
nally
crop
by ;
FEEDING OATS IN SHEAF.
There will be an uncommonly large
amount of oats cut this season to he
fed out In the sheaf. The object i: |
age from the one crop. If oats are ont
at the proper stage it makes firat
rate feed. It should be cut just after
the berry reaches the dough stage and
before the straw colors up very much
At this stage horges will eat the
straw up clean, If one is as careful
as to the time of harvesting and meth:
od of handling oats as of clover hay
the bundles will remain nice and fresh
until away along the next winter. Many
put up a few acres of their oats in this
way and for winter feeding run the
bundles through a cutter. The main
thing 1s to harvest the erop before the
straw becomes woody. If it Is left un.
til the straw ls well colored, then 1
should rather trash out the grain and
3 the straw for coarse feed and bed.
ding —1. C. Brown, In the Tribune
4a nothing better than the branches
Farmer.
4
The True Sportsman.
By Dr. Henry Van Dyke.
HIB true sportsman iz a man who finds his recreation in a falr
and exciting effort to get something that is made for human
use, in a way that involves some hardship, a little risk, a good
deal of skill and patience and plenty of out-of«door life. He 19
a survival, of course, of primitive man and of uncivilized ages
He represents what ks left of man's ancient necessity to us3
the bow and the spear and the hook and the line to obtain the
nature had put within his reach, but not into his possession
to him: “A bird in the bush is worth more to you than one ip
a fish in the sea is worth more to you than one in wour basket
them Learn to help yowrsell The courage, the skill, the
perseverance which were demanded by this effort counted for much in the
nt of the human race. And the same qualities which were brough!
out under the spur of necessity in the primitive hunter or fisherman would
be developed in the civilized sportsman by the influence of the true sport
ing spirit. He should not be a coward or a shirk; he should not be a bungier;
he should not ba a quitter or a luxurious idler. He should jove a ’
1 hard day's
work, and do his erafl, and take steep tralis
s
wliald
Nature said
your hand;
Go out and
Fol
gel
”
developme
best to learn the mastery of his
rude weather as they come, and be glad the hours that
ase and grateful for the spoil,
&F er &F
The Handicaps ¢f Authors.
By Rudyard Kipling.
rough of
he sp
i“
ther callings of jife
made
th regard to letters the
all that
shall
spt the original maker
important that men should
\ But whom
gh a family on letters
8 should be exemnte
cnstitute another handicap or
+ organization or their natural |
‘ MM urges a man of leliers to
to wages or the sentiments of
wr inspiration. Whichever it is, we muy
that at any moment a man of letters
skin, but in cash and credit,
iesires to pay. This rh
iz a law of his being, and a
&F &F
Parents-in-Law.
“hull An Affectionate Son-in-Law Address
Them 7?
By n Prospective Son-in-Law.
June :
9 ff all
has shall be hi
wor
writer may have created shall
a
become th property
This right
be helped to think
this
more
be {
should |
may
y than they
righteousn
they
law
calling Most
not to work noth
he may do so wilh
workers. This may |
1 fact and |
to pay |
work— |
hiz |
08 On Ry
nelimes
Soni«
i
sitor rom the of
%
a men are |
nstinet for
work,
fellow
the
CHOORE
face
may
for leave to do his
aps fair to himself or
$¥Y
aac
is pe not
such « t
vol
&F
titutes another handl
How
o get married next and what's
o know what I am
v Am | to «
them as Mr. Bo-and
followed my ows
yl them
if 1
or much |
could, out
Such
might a
of my
seme 10
all
jo;
ng un
a man must leave
men commonly
homes,
amid new
and they can
1 of their wife's father
and I don’t think that I
of other people who really feel
father—and he's a man
he called my mother's father an
m both very much and
him they could be, yet it never seemed as natural
bul did. because it was expected He says he did get
mother-in-law mother {or sh kind and gentle, bul
calling his father-in-law father, kind as his fatherin-law was
He that his fatherin-law always seemed just as man
not as a father, but A man who was {i to him and with whom
was on very friendly relations.
My own mother says that she always called
not simpls and mother, but Father
the So-and-#o standing for my father's parents’
want a father and mother, much affec
but nformed fo custom and added to thos
the sense and a good idea in that I'tI have
ence and p for use, I've heard my mother,
} want any but own chil
exactly mean this, but you 8«
working in the other
self that if 1 had
my daugh
do as they wanted to: 4 if 1
who really wanted to call
i rae, and I'd be pleased i
ased if she called me Mr, Soand-
And I'm quite certain that if 1 a
yddress me by my proper name and title
way I feel about it. My wife will be all in all to me, and for
1 have the most profound respect and admiration and affection:
still 1 have but one father and mother: and 1 don’t want to call anybody
by those titles,
Of course 1 want
going to do abot '? This worries me
&F &F
Useless Playthings.
that
what
their old
interests
mother,
BAy8
be
getil
forget
fey er
in
Ve Nos aotiaer while they maj
Ing
ever 20
Just
ar
aa
and
could
Fs 1 £ ai { seem
address $10 And the:
the sams
lees gg
father
both ust
plenty way
own
did
Yam. 4 ew
ae fided 1
: oe
My
always
while
good to
them so:
ne weer af
+ TR To,
At othes
they were
to him
an
Lie YEE RO never
alwavs
SAYS another
ns = O01
my
father S|o-and-w
here
’ tho
Laem
oy tion
titles
fo put
loving
iren
khe ¢
was
priaans
wouldn't her
doesn’t
direct
and
( me fa
ning and affection
why she should
but 1 think I'd
the way it seems
up
maar
ters-ir thet
want
had gon
ne
olge
right but what
a
in
unt
to do whatever and
tieetn
iitie
pr Ope fis
ar
Elaborate Toys of
By Dre. T. 8S. Powler-Schonen.
in his
is
when he
Cpe
iE infant begins to play eradle with his toes and
fingers. A healthy child playful, wants
play incessantly, except is hungry, or other
wise uncomfortable. Play is nature's method of educating the
It a natural the
hy el mental and mora! nature,
Almost all a mother's talk to a child up to school age
in the nature of play. As she provides food for the child's body, so in her
play with him she furnishes food for his mind It is sometimes asked if it
fa right to try to teach very young children anything Positively no mother |
can help doing I!
earliest infancy by play. She is teaching him language as she talks to him
She 1s teaching him motion, form and direction as she dangles a bright ball
before his baby éyes.
Games train the body and the mind
child. so wearing to older persons, he is developing every muscle
ball is one of the best gymnastic exercises ever invented
own
and he
sleepy
always
chil is development and (raining of
In the ceaseless activity of the litle
Tossing a
!
kind of mental training. He Is developing taste, judgment and ideas of avchi
{ecture,
A very small child takes great comfort with a nest of blocks, all of which
he can put inside the largest ome, and then take out again,
very much a p'ayihing which can be taken to pleces and put together agaln,
a horse that can be harnessed and unharmesced, a doll that can
be dregacd and undressed. Any ono who watches little
childrén must see how they love little, simple, monotonous actions; how they
will sing the same little refrain or repeat the same meaningless phrase over
and over again, till an older person is nauscated with it. The child's mind
is simple. A child is overstimulated and wezried by the elaborate, finished
toys given him nowadays. If you do not think 80, examine the hoard a young
child will collect for himself. 1 exaniined ome such hoard stored away by a
little girl who could have any plaything she liked. Among her treasures were
various old empty spools, the handle of an old brush broom, a clothespin and
various such things, including one battered rubber doll, the only toy she had
taken from an elaborate collection. I do not Know what meaning she attached
more than a spool to her imagination. The child lives In an unreal world,
the world of play. His imagination Is always at work. Sometimes, if we can
get into his worll ourselves, he will tell us his little Imagininge and we can
get a glimpse into the fairy realm where he lives. Bat usually the child’ is
shy with us, because we have left that fairyland and forgotten what was there.
He knows that the grownup will sot understand and will laugh, The ehild
does not like to be laughed at any more than a grownup, It makes him
ashamed and miserable. Or, if he grows to lke it it lg very bad for him,
hen he becomes pert and seilconscious,
IRA D. SANKEY'S
VOIGE HUSHED FOREVER
The Greatest Singer
Hymns Dead.
of Revival
After Five Years of Blindne:s He Passes
INSANE MAN MURDERERS
SON AND DAUGHTER
Religious Fanstc Deucpitates Boy
With An Fx
Always Tock with Him,
New
Sankey, the
r 1 { 524
York { Seq
singing
Many years
Dw
nmign
Thursday
drookily
YEATS Ago
blindness,
bad
He
publications
B, BZ
he
and
lived in ret
weeived a
aud
estate
siderable
Mr
fown of
Sankey was
Edinborougu
gust ob,
Sankey,
gerveqd
Newcastle
ame
He got
Methodist
man
work
in the
and later
there
The
ian
work of
Association
attracted him and he
ber
of years pi
ciation branch
the
heard In
young Sankey
cous
sounds of civil
the ciamorous
y and
Pennsylvania infantry
caress
4
He
quen proveq
it was t sntil 1%
Sankey
10a Year
n
tet
M:
¥ +3
io
gale of
Associal
veh
ion the
fon f
nn O13 A8%00C3
There
thes +4
Gel: Ww (
indianapolis
the first time
Whose names were
famously
riends
about six
men became
gelistic work taa
Es Their fir
h
18111
The)
& very
linked
irom
mont
BERD
i
a af
ns a
fal
(Ei
§
Gone ’
in ag
cankey servi
hour
after
a short
“6
by
Moody
He
0 SiG 50
of song
which Mr
sermon
upon Mr. Sankey !
apropos of the
he had preached
sonality of the six
and the
3f the hymns
Sankey rarely
impression on
in 1871 the two we
Great Britain and started th
series of memorable Moody aun
would
wouia
theme
The
voice
friends
key evangelistic campaigns
The songs of Philip Philll
ginging evangelis
and Sankey's
ade 1
ymual that he
se frst
un Chicago
organ
ried with
those early
hymns and plaved
panimentis at ail th meetings
Loved That Little Organ.
kept
up He
evangelist
Brit
Sanxe
went
years of
and Great
that Mr
him wherever
days
a little
ne
he «
ih t
th
GIgall
was
Mr, Sankey at i
till the day of his death
his greatest pldfaisure and recreation
after he was stricken with blindness
to be led into his library and to
fittle bench before the keyix
where he would spend happy hours
playing the old tunes and
ginging the well-known old
hymns
For nearly
gan was his constant compan!
carried it all over the earth
other musical instrument played
important a part in the religious
history of the world. Under the in
gpired touch of Mr. Sankey it
the singing in little Western towns
where oniy a few
and it led 20,000
cultural Hall in
the members of his family loved
the little organ more than anything
else he possessed. Battered It is
by many miles of traveling,
ivory keys are worn thin
i:
the
beloved
dear,
or
He
40 years this little
Fe
i
were gathe
voices in Ag
London Next
red,
ri
ri
io
he
“
as
touched them. On this he composed
ail the songs that added to his fame
And not only did Mr. Sankey com
pose his own songs on this organ,
not only did he use it in nearly all
the meetings in which he took #0
prominent a pari, but on it he tried
the songs of others, which were in
cluded with his own in the hooks
that he edited -—-song books that have
had a circulation exceeding that of
any publication with the exception
of the Bible
Mr. Sankey played on this organ
long before he dreamed of becoming
an evangelist He always loved mu-
sie, and he could not remember when
be did not ging He bought the or
gan not long after he returned from
the Civil War, and he composed 500
Gospel hymns upon it.
Fourteen Hurt In Runaway.
Corry, Pa. (Special), Fourteen
persons were*injured, Mrs, Hilda Ab.
bott seriously, in a runaway accident
The entire party wis returning in
one vehicle from a plenic, when the
driver lost control of his horses, and
they dashed wildly down a steep
hill. In the darkness they collided
with another team, upsetting 1h
wagon, brulsing or cutting every oc.
cupant: The runaway horses were
4
i
£0
HINES)
When
sie
fy
HnEged
1
pt
Suddeniy
$4,000,000 Opera Houve
Ber]
g Opera Hou
{ KSperial
i
grade product
Price
MMasscs
expected
of
railway
leaned out
His
a 1
brains
he
i Biso
nianeous
ina
Was
Agricultural Depar
Dizgtrict of Columbia
Entombed Miners Saved.
Six of
Me
miners
sico City
{ Special)
who wore entombed In
Santa Gertrubis mine near Pac-
hued, Hibalgo, were rescued alive.
The mei became imprisoned five days
By a cave-in Twelve are still
ground and tappings on 2
jndicate that some of then are
Rescuing parties are work-
shifts boring through
pipe
ing in shout
evoured ny Lions,
Mexico City, Mexico (Special).—-
Two hungry n long entered
the hut of Her hlany Flt in’ the
village of ledeza De faballo, state of
Ialisto, and killed phe whole family
consigting of Floref and his wite and
two children. Thh cries of the vic
times attracted thf: viliggers and tae
animals were driven off. bur no
until they had devoured the two
children.
Little Reward For His Crime.
Spokane, Wash, (Special) «The
highwayman who held up a Northern
iacific train Friday night near Trent
secured about $25, according to ¥
15. MeMillan, post office inspector
who arrived in Spokane on the first
train following the hold-up.
Ionia
Pn
HY,
Growth Of Cigarette Habit,
Washington (Special). — Govern-
ment statistics just jssued show an
enormous growth of the cigarette
Labit in the United States during the
fast year when 55,402,336,113 “paper
wipes” were smoked. Counting the
number of men and boy smokers at
25,000,000 this gives an average per
smoker of 2,216, and when {t is con-
sidered that there are thousands of
smokers who use tobacco in some
other form it brings the average for