POULTRY NOTES.
Metal troughs ure better than wood-
pn ones for breeding mashes, They
are easily cleaned and may be scalded
pocasionally. Trove comes from
{éeding mashes in sour troughs. Fer-
mentation takes place which causes
slokness. A fresh, clean mash fed in
a cleanly manned seldom or never
makes troubles
Poultry must have
winter. Green stuff
portant as grain.
Some cock birds are much more
gquarrelsome than others. Sometimes
it is an advantage to get rid of the
fighters.
In all
in
im-
vegetables
is just as
successful poultry plants
tendent’'s work and the fowls work.
Better poultry in city markeis
would increase sales,
likes poultry, but no one likes the ap-
pearance of a poor looking fowl on
a market counter.
There ig no such thing as luck in
the poultry business, When some-
thing goes ‘wrong there is a cause for
it and the wise man will hunt
the cause and pull it out Hy the roots
More eggs are being produced ev-
ery year, but the market for fresh
eggs has mever been fully
You can always eggs. but
can seldom buy good fresh eggs in a
city market.
Watery eggs, sometimes called weak
oggs, are caused by poor food—food
that is deficient in the necessary ele.
ments to produce a good egg. Poor
food not only reduces the quality, but
the quantity. It to keep hens
well supplied with good egg forming
material and plenty of it.
Farmers have
in winter, in on some
hens don’t lay for
use; and the
poultry is not kept right.
pick up all their living
barn yard, roost on wagon
and lay egzs at the same
may be turned out in
little while duri
the day to adv
have a warm
they must be taken care «
fed both and
If the hens don't
ing, they don’t
sufficient to produce eg
lazy it is generally the
feeder,
Too much green
or meat
fowls. A
fresh
uable, but
none all
lead to disease.
buy you
pays
sell
the
geld
in
fact
oges to
farms
household
the
Hens won't
around the
wheels
enou
reason is because
niokt
nizh
Keen 1
gcraps wil
HEtla
cut bone
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at
WHEN BUY
Never have a
ap or down t
stall and investig
tain details, wi
them
decide upon or t
F. M. Ware in
For instance,
manger and the
time past? He ma
nervous, delicate-—well
erinarian’s attention
Is the straw under
usually trampled or |
one of these irritable
ers” (horses which
from side to
also bad
Are the
tered or kicked?
(by day or night
and that of other horses)
tear or eat his blanket? Is
in any special way or gimply and
other horses ? Is he gentle to
approach and handle--no nipping.
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require
nervous “weav-
constantly sway
aide) who are generalls
fec and poor property
posta or sides bat
i3 own re
Does he
he tied
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are
to
fomo
Does he stand square on both
feet or rest cne cr both alternately
Does he back quietly from the stall,
picking up each hind leg without
den spasmodic jerking? And
he turns in the gangway does
80 smoothly does he flinch (In
front) as if the boards were not even
or his feet hurt him more or less”
Are his eyes staring and expression-
less, his ears alwavs forward-—indica-
tions of defective vision?
Once out of the stall, notice that
he submits quietly
over and betrays no resentment while
harnessing, at accepting the bit, bri.
-
he
or
attentions.
absolute docility of deporiment,
be sure that if the animal
either excitability, nervonsness
vice in the dealer's hands he will be
far worse ‘with you, for you know yon
don't know, and he will know yon
don't know, and those combinations
spell trouble.
In the same way see that be Is
led out and put to the vehicle to
which he is to be driven, noting each
stage of the process, viewing him
siways with lcily critical eye of the
individual who does not (yet) own
him. Excuse nothing and make no
allowances for less.” If he makes 2
move you don’t fancy say so frankly
and look further. There are plenty
of horges,
SELECTING A BREEDING SOW.
A good deal is required of the sow.
‘Bhe is expected to furnish milk for
from seven to ten pigs for several
weeks and to turn them off in good
thrifty condition so the; will keep
for
growing after wearning without a set
back.
It is a fairly safe rule to select a
sow from a large litter that has turn.
ed out well, especially if the boar |
came from a similar family. It is rea.
sonably certain that a sow is a gooa
milker if she raises a goodly number
of pigs and does it well. Her milk.
ing qualities may not be transmitted
to her offspring but the chances are
very much in her favor,
It is generally noticed that a sow
pig taken from a large litter is more
likely to produce large litters. It is
like. Of course,
There 30
that nothing in the
are
many exceptions
great deal more likely to meet with
success when we folllw the rules thaa
we are If we take unnecessary
Generally a long bodied sow with
arched back, ribs long so is
through body likely to
breeder. There
good
bons
7
she
the is
satisfactory
are other requirements such as
legs, pasterns and plenty
without too much of a tendency
COArseness,
The finer points such as ears, shane
of face, nose, halr im-
portant; still they all mean something
point atten-
of
ete, are less
each should receive
tion,
Farmers,
attempting to
show
to
type as is
ital. It
in eding
money
back, at the same
usual thing, are not
fancy stock for
it does no harm
the animal
with one's CAp-
to follow a fad!
runs ivrto more
Hkelv get
more
and
a
breed
as
purposes. But
get as near to show
consistent
istake
until
than vou are
is a n
br it
fo
time there Is
profit in the show ty of hogs,
you
1
3
it vou
H A
BO
Fran
can gat it
LE VENTILATION
f is not
ir
n ani
al
¥nportance
ht of air
gs is
fond
crepter
jun
and wa-
jmes.
18t
const
hava
in
fond
ewaors' grainag
and managers
a dangerous
a great many
ave been conducted to
gront
y traced
ventilation. A
into a stable
withont
fart
trouble has
uficient
crowded
and shut up to Keep warm
onsequenc
regard to e8.~
BY
at
MOTH
New York
Agriculture, it
to each nurgsery
warning
moth, which
found importationd
seedlings re \ ived
The caterpillars have
Slinger
THREATENED THE
At
Stato
conference the
De
ided to
a
partment of
send
was de
State a jetter of
man of the
against the brown tal
“EYEE
heen in &
nas
of nursery ently ar
from France
fdentified by Professor
{ Cornell
of the
Entomologist
insect has not
lished New York, and
and orchardists who know
predations in Massach sseits will unite
The discovery ite
having been made at this
early date gives inspectors of
the Agrienltural Department ample
been
land, «
sor Parrott
and
Profes
station,
This
estab
University,
New York
Felt
become
mn
State
pest
narserymen
of its
in
1
fae
repress It © of
the
will co-operate. Weekly
FEED SHEEP REGULARLY.
Sheep must be fed reguiarly both
and night, the feeding
troughs should be kept clean as sheey
are more or less of a finicky nature
if their feed is thrown in the
of ap
Home
them and a loss
noticed ~Farmers’
disgust
petite is
Journal,
A variety of verses of Improved
quality have reached the Municipa/ |
$100 prize contest offered for the |
best “battle hymn,” to be used lp
the women's cause, A feature of the
offering 18 a preponderance of wom
en writers,
Prominent actors and musicians Ip
Berlin have been engaged for the
“shadow theatre” which will soon bs
opened In that city. It will be con
ducted, according to the proapegtus
that has been printed, as the.Schat
tenspieltheatre in Munich and a sim
lar place of amusement in Paris.
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Than Ever
rable Aliens
nstitutions
Undes
New York City Never before in
the history of the State of New York
have there been s0 many criminals
behind prison bars as there
present. The State prisons i:
crowded, the penitentiarie
overflowing and the worl
congested that the
each other's way
Prison officials and i
assign two reasons for ti
condition of penal ins
fos v33 58 F O04
imaties
of al institutions
the hard times prevalent for the
two years and the Influx of
ble aliens
State
men dr
land in priso
idan #
to the big «lf Of
Sing Sing Overcrowded.
There are more than
in Sing Sing Prison, originally
to house but 1600; the pris
doubled up in cells, lodged
houses and the chapels
said to sleep in the
prison. In order to
the horde of convicted
sent from this hey
been going in weekly batches
score or more—Warden
been compelled to place
beautifully decorated Pi
Catholic chapels
A batch of sixty-five w
ferred to Clinton Prison
protest of the officials of
tion, who say they have no
spare. Numbers of Sing
victs—sghort term men in
make room for the new
sent dally the site the new
prison now being constructed on the
west bank of the Hudson,
Island, and kept there in shacks un-
der the watch of keepers
are employed in the building of the
new structure
The same condition is reported by
the warden of the penitentiary on
Blackwell's Island. The census there
recently showed 111% men and eigh-
ty-three women in cells This is far
above the average census, and the
rate at which the courts are sending
prisoners there has alarmed the peni-
tentiary officials They are in a
quandary where to confine the prison
ers. As In Sing Sing, the problem of
employing all the convicts Is puzzling
the officials of the penitentiary, and
steps are being taken to put a number
of them at work erecting new bulld-
ings on the various islands owned by
the city and used for city purposes.
Reports from the Elmira Reforma-
tory state that that institution is
overcrowded, and transfers are being
made dally to the up-State penal in-
stitutions in order to relieve the over.
crowding.
Most of the Elmira recruits come
from this city, and with the six
Courts of General Sessions working
dally the number of youths committed
to the reformatory weekly from this
county averages twenty-five. An av-
erage of ten a week are committed
there from the Brooklyn criminal
courts. A batch of seventeen was
transferred from the Tombs recently
to Elmira, making a total of 110 sen.
tenced from this county during the
month of March.
Workhouses Are Congested.
It is in the workhouses on Black-
well’'s, Hart's and Randall's Islands
that the Increase of poverty is ap-
parent. Hundreds of prisoners—mea
and women-—are housed in these in-
stitutions, all committed from the po-
lice courts of this city and Brooklyn,
many of their own volition. The cen.
2000 convicts
built
DDers are
in
mai
men rec
city and th
Frost
ents
otestant and
trans-
the
as
sgninst
room to
order
to Of
ty
Before—Hard Times
Are Chiefly Blamed.
and
re ed that In the work-
n Blackwell's Island there
1025 men and 579% women serve
five days to
enses
nstitution
riy-seven
sus ent
i house
Werle
ing terms
on
| prisons
to do the cleani
greater
| sioner
aere
game
crovwde pris-
j ons, thickly tenanted workh
| an ever increasing demand for admis-
gion to almahouses
The overcrowded ion of peni.
New York
this State,
indicate
prevail in
York prison
two circum-
and the in-
{ tentiaries
State is 1
io
ubjoined
i that itions
many : New
officials 3 uted it to
stances
| flux of undesirable aliens
| Courts Less Lenient,
i Boston.——Massachusetts Countyand
State reformatory and prison institu-
| tions are crowded at the present time
as they have not been for years, The
authorities attribute this condition to
the establishment of juvenile courts,
leading to the arrest and conviction
{of many petty lawbreakers who here.
tofore have escaped with a repri-
i mand Gesides, they say, the courts
of late have in very many instances
imposed sentences where previously
j they have put the accused on proba.
j tion The probation plan has not
worked out as satisfactorily as it was
hoped,
Hard Times Blamed.
Philadelphia. — For the last five
| years the penal institutions of Penn.
| ayivania, both State and county, have
been inadequate. The crowded cone
ditions in the Eastern Penitentiary,
in this city, were relieved somewhat
a few days ago when a score of Fed.
eral prisoners were removed to the
new Government prison at Atlanta.
The hard times have been the cause
for an increase in petty crime, but it
is not believed that there is any
greater proportion of alien criminals
than formerly.
Maryland Like New York.
Baltimore, Md.—All the penal in.
stitutions of the State and eity are
more crowded than ever before with
minor offenders. It is attributed by
fimes
the preaence of foreign undesirables.
In a report to the Governor recently
it was stated that while there are
fewer cases due to the enforcement of
the anti-cocaine law, there is a large
increase in police court cases. The
mates than it has had at any time
within five years.
number of petty offenders, saying he
ing the city jail.
the State. Bay View Asylum, the city
almshouse, is so packed with paupers,
sane and Insane, that vigorous pro
tests ore being made against the con.
ditions prevailing there.
Kentucky Mobs Resist Collector
and Governor Will Use Militia,
Frankfort, Ky. — On receipt of
| word from Tax Collector J. W. Peck
| that he has been prevented by mobs
{and organizations from collecting
| rallroad taxes In the counties of Car.
| ter, Boyd and Elliott, Governor Will-
| son announced that he would use the
| State militia to assist the official.
The railroad taxes, which a number
of the counties In the State owe, are
heavy, and have been unpaid for
when the troops enter the mountains.
African “xplorer Sees Tame
Iunting Ahead of Roosevelt,
New York City.—"Mr. Roosevelt,
in my opinion, will find hunting in
Africa like shooting cows in the back
yard,” sald Dana Estes, publisher and
traveler, from Boston, who arrived
here after eight months spent on the
other side of the world. "Of course,
Hons, tigers and other sa beasts
a Ta of Ihe rhs
ap)
nt Asi abroad
the ground Roosevelt will
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TION.
Ag the wife of one of the Senators
who composed the Committee of Ar-
INAUGURA-
“don, Mrs. Ralph Izard was an import
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Mrs. lzard, of South Carolina, had
but was now past her prime, though
iot older than Mrs. Adams. She
the granddaughter of Ftienne de Lan-
f, a Huguenot nobleman who
this country In 1686, In 1767
Ralph lzard, of Charleston,
QO
who had been educated at
he University of Cambridge, and af-
ler returning to America had passed
his winters in South Carolina and
in New York Four
marriage he went to
he
brilliant
the
Summers years
Lon-
inters
ifter his
lon, where lived several w
itn A BOCIeLY
vith conduct of the Ministry
th
ward the Colonies, he visited the
tinent, but becor
went back to
rted his influence
proaching war
1777 removed
LOR
vice
Franklin
Fg
iresses when they
: qd the gowns
son would be
of Ose
tury. He
garments
fullness
hips
line is 14
designed
in the
anid al
would be
eginning
at
th worn
long, with
i
}
T? doesn’t
below
mean
wn the Knees
said It
down to
take a
ran trimming or
down to the
f button at
or if you choose, you mas
tassel Slash the skirt {if ;
enough, and insert more trimming and
you have an uptodate gown’ New
York
means lines
the
Direct
are oO
Knees You
oire gOW
om
knees and
the end of the trims
the
vs §
nn
Press
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A string of thirty-eight
and an fllumined and
friendship book were presented
Mrs. Roosevelt as a token of ti
the
teem of thirtyeight of her friends,
embossed
0
0%.
ton, D. €. The two gifts were tak-
en to the White House by Miss May
Williams and Mrs. Rober: Hitt, wife
of Representative Hitt of Peannsyl
vania, members of the committes
which purchased them. They were
not presented to Mrs. Roosevelt in
person, but were handed to an attend.
The
names of the other donors have not
been made pubile.
While the cost of the string of
dipmonds is unknown, some estimate
of ts waive may He secured from
the knowledge that the contributions
ranged from §50 to $100 from each
of the thirty-eight donors. The cen-
tre gem weighs two carats and the
other thirty-four are graduated Jown
to the quarter carat disnronds at sith.
or side of the small clasp. The Tum:
inosity of the necklace’ is heighten.
ed by a platinum rim. The friend.
ship book, measuring 8 to 10 inches,
is bound in cream-colored calfskin,
highly embossed and lined with moire
silk. In the contre of the cover Mrs
Roosevelt's monogram, “E. K. R.” ap.
pears in gold.
The six pagos are of vellam and
on the first page a quotation from
“Antony and Cleopatra” is traced;
"Whose virtue and whose general
that which none else
can utter.” The book was designed
by Migs Florence Pike, a teacher in
| the Arts and Crafts Schoo!
{ graces speak
VARIATIONS IN CALLING
The size, shape and style of cards
are slightly different this season,
A thin, flexible pasteboard is
a number of may
without undue bulk
is almost, if not
{ quite, square, while a man's Is fully
as long and of but half the depth.
Old English lettering, shad-
ed or solid, Roman block 13 or
thé old-fashioned script, in
favor.
A married
Christian or
CARDS,
used,
{ 80 that cards he
| carried at once
A woman's card
either
pe,
are all
woman never
given name on her car
ghe always uses he
and
Bince
with
taing tha
r husband's name,
that is spelled out in full
widow's name
her In
a
that of
owhood
The
Mrs. Jones
Jones Ro
Jones
in
understood that
woman
and now
name
iE not
10
in
con
have
man
reads
hout the
Haven Register
materials,
promise
sitting
tions 3
gue sum have never yet
enjoyed
An entirels
is the st
ment,
panels falling straight,
and low neck
ittons are
aw
novel garment
like a priest's vest
and back, with
and with open
Ww and
le made
whole at front
in great abund.
used
Gray seems to be perennially pop
ular
Of
supply.
I Net
{ for
| and
Foulards are shown
long range of patterns and colors
« the spring
! PBven lingerie waists of the
costly sort have adopted the
soutache braid.
Metallic gold fringe used exten
gively on sashes, scarfs and even on
! tunic draperies.
nets there is a wide
metallic
to be used mot only
for gowns
promises
vokes and sleeves, but
waists
in an unusually
Cow
10
most
Bittle
is
GIRLS CHILD LABOR EXPERTS
The chances for a child labor law
in Pennsylvania depend upon the de
voted work of Miss Fanny Cochran,
who was graduated from Bryn Mawr,
and Miss Florence Banville, a grado
ate of Bowdoin College. These young
women have just reached Philadel
phia from a practical visit to silk fac
tories in scattered points. They work.
ed In no fewer than sixteen silk fac
tories, sindving the child labor prob
lem at first hand. Not once was
their disguise penetrated, and they
gathered information which is expect
ed to guide the Pennsylvania Legis.
lature in its deliberations on the
Child Labor bill. The young wom:
en, from the result of their investi
gations, believe child labor to be one
of the most pressing questions of
the country, and they have resolved
to give themselves exclusively in the
future to agitation for the relief of
every child from fectory work and
iI forma of drodgery.~-New York
. Press.
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Watches were firsl eenstruciod in
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