SBLECTING THE LAYERS. It is just as impossible to tell how food a layer a hen 18 going to be as Br is to anticipate the quantity nilk a heifer will produce before somes in with her first calf. Trap aesting is the only. way of telling ex actly what a hen is doing in the eg3- producing line, but even that fr sapable of delving into the ure ind showing jong or marly she is going to lay. the trap-nest requires too much time for the find it practi i Observation about the guide bs this method that can be stated “ertain meaning, but it hens differ individually breeds, and a’ knowle dividual charac constant association with t careful observation their often is worth a great deal The hen that is always active busy, full of life and ready to scratch and make the usuail good layer. This is because her ¢ habits keep her in the proper tion for laying. Hence, we vise, in selecting, tet the hen and it w noticed ns the first morning night-— great possibly A and signs of ashe i8 iu how now resu Besides farmer to ab is farmer there 3 the to no fix to alwavs for g0 is teristics, hem of dust fly, is be retained: that such he to be off ti 1e D and Cer tain breed every bird from lavers. T leads and also the surest finds a lot of dr the thing to do is to as quickly from only The rule that holds with strongly as with a full realization of th lead to the production stock. It also male bird given consideration as has been well-proven of heavy laying is through the ber that all the this proximately with His 18 towards heav: or as possi the remai good boOrses or ¢at that is important be the same care! the females, that the troit often transmitt male bird; and male bird is the sire o shall and in influence equals, aj all +} aii tae 60 TES 65S remmen ¢ the chicks you his that raise, respect of whi do, in the Epi AN ARGUMENT FOR SHEEP. Ordinary than grass land more prof stocked with mixed bites the sweet ¥ that no otha anim but the sheep leaves grass of other parts and hungry cow, digestive any or less ordin Ary is oft on animals. A can the for whose apparatus foods. can hence parsimonious stock dealer difficulty to starve a cow age her by scarcity of food or eérness of diet. Perhaps a sheep suffers most, th fattening flock going back rapidly in time of drought or any unsuit able weather, and the breeding flocks suffering from abortion and other tlis when hardship or scarcity their unkappy portion. During a month of time the weol grows weak and the baver give leas for the fleeces, weak link In the chain test of its strength In all classes of horges it is a decil ed disadvantage to have twins, os they are generally dwarfs. but ther is no disadvantage in small sheen, as small joints are now in great re. quest, and the quaint old saying “When you bave done weighing vou Coarse other ot ford is bad because is the good. many twins breed of and triplets are sheep and by the ram. If the ewes are them low in con. for the continuation and preservation of the tribe, but she does not in filct upon the ewe 80 many cruel cases of double duty. Half fatten the ewe, however, ani nature then sees energies In store and she utilizes them for the advan tageous spread of the tribe. I have known of a flock of a hun dred long-wooled ewes dropping 200 lambs, but the number raised was only 161 which was the record in the istrict, The owner competed with his neighbors during many successive years with the same breed of sheen, but never again came out oft top — in the Indiana Parmer. hy FARM NOTES, The chickens told me to tell you® To dig up six inches of the poison ERA i — in their house, and carry !* away beyond their range, and fill 13 th pure, dry earth, To raise the earth one foot higher their | than it is on the douse it would keep dry in damp in Biu€, 80 her i of house wet fix the roofs ar To i zhed e hi would be them or ti and thu iA8 use 141 cold 3 " cause to 1x3, planed and would put In new roosts tinted n both ground, hs “id four sides, so they happy. dropping CAUSE leg ives OF causal among 18 shanks first they may thickening cf the scales, shanks become so encrusted with are double thelr orig size. These, filth, present a disgusting sight. is a trouble that is easily cured One ounce of sulphur rubbed into ten ounces vaseline will make a good that will This is ciuse but later the the they nal together with diet This of it { ointment cure Some make a chicken's shank by plece of cloth. which with some kind of has heen mixed with a Kerosene is a simple and applied cure for this troubls, ~Farmers’ Home Journal POST FOR HOG LOT Set a post in your hog lot and hog will rub against it. This gave the cue for a cheap and effective louge killer. Wrap the post tightly the ground up with quarter st a week the on 4 greased which gtnek ng sewing if for is kept grease estan #04 earily few days. Kerosene against this Home Journal, DUE TO DRINKING WATER. The bowel! trouble, which kills many chicks when they are from one to two weeks of age, may often be corrected by taking away the chicks drinking water and giving instead, scalded milk to which a little cinna. mon Bad been added. -Farme:s' Home Journal, London now has lis Lambs’ Club, which has Just been opened in Jermyn street. It 1s not on quite the game plan as the similar socléty ii New York. post, e- Farmers’ Building blocks of glass are in com- mon use in Silesid - ¥ i py Nl rr 4 yA NG, MO ins 5 WV i Ww" J fit (%i - si VMS i tl Ey ER 0 PRESIDENT rid T 6 y Ney 006 OF SUGAR FRAU tices—Xothino He Intense, in * ana Thay wir Ald, : { nis He . y gction was taken Earle’s Personality, Mr. Ear yeorge H. Earl most law) the of 8r.. one of le is gon ers of the Phi imeelf he company hi Mr. Earle “recotirge or recovery,” with- of a pen to safeguard would be manifestly improper ie to disc case at this time,” sald . “because I am still an offi- ser of the court in my capacity as re. spiver of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re- ining Company.’ “Does the same apply to the Gov- srnment and its agents?” he was wsked “Oh, yes, I suppose go. They did 10t care to discuss the case two or hree years ago, and I prefer not to alk about ft now, for the more par- feular reason that we have agreed pon a settlement and I consider it iwardly fair to agree to a settlement ind then participate in an expose of he other party to the bargain. Then, 00, I must keep in mind the fact that he court has yet to review the terms ind conditions of our settlement, and might be subjected to some criti- dam for commenting upon the case it this time.” Gave Warning in 1006. “Is it true that you directed the wttention of the Government to the wale frauds and rebating more than wo years ago?” “Mr. Frank L. Neall, of Peter Wright's Sons, told me about these raunds so long ago that I cannot now 1x the date, but I certainly wrote to the Attorney-General about them on November 8, 1906, as the papers in the Pennsylvania Refinery case will show, “if am not fixing responsibilities. { am not naming men who performed ‘heir duties, nor am I pointing out ny one who failed to measure up to ‘heir responsibilities. “1 must not be placed in the posi- | kimmed Milk Sale legal in New York City. i Albany, N. Y.—According to a de- | ‘islon of the Court of Appeals the ale of skimmed milk in New York | Sty ean be stopped. {The court sustained the lower | \ourts in overruling a demurrer of a lairy company to an action brought | 35 the State to recover a $5000 pes- ity for selling skimmed milk. he | sompany demurred on the ground | hat the statute under which the ac- gon was commenced was unconstitu. lo » President, ¢ § i“ i that } I must act alone Documentary Evidence, “1 have not gi the details ‘vice, of the United ne details The your into I have, they are at fq or that wrney-General Slates Of will and that all this I have upon mation; but f the peculis of this erime has been the ties engaged in it, whether made less by past successes and immun not, have left a perfectly Inco: ceivable amount of documentary evi- dence of what | believe to be their crimes “1 am overwhelmed with the duties thiz receivership it is compli jut I trust that you will understand that I shall at any moment give up any time necessary to inform You of the conditions that I have found exist ing." Earle Appealed to Moody, President Roosevelt acknowledged the receipt of the document through his secretary's secretary. Six weeks later Mr. Earle addressed a last ape peal to the then Attorney-General, William ‘A. Moody, who now sits upon the Supreme bench of the United States. In his letter of appeal Mr. Earle gave Attorney-General Moody an outline of the/essential evidence in his possession, and in closing said: “Standing alone, is this a case that the Government of the United States can afford to ignore? Has there ever been another like it in wickedness?” In justice to Mr. Moody, It is right to set out with particular emphasis the fact that he was then about to re. tire from the Roosevelt Cabinet to go upon the Supreme Court bench It was agreed by all parties con- cdrned that it would be manifestly improper for him as Attorney-Gen- eral to pass upon a case which he as a Justice of the highest court in the Course You one Of that iy a Judge. naparte, after carefully reviewing the correspondence and without calling for the more detailed evidence at wrote to Mr. Earle, setting out his belief that the Knight case finally | disposed of the matter under discus. sion. That was the end of it, so far | as Mr, Bonaparte figured in the case, Liquor Man Warns Trusts That Properties May Be Confiscated. Atlantic City, N. J.—Charges that big corporations kave financed anti saloon movements are given as the reason for the warning jssued to the | trusts by G. C. Dempsey, of the Na- | tional Liquor Dealers’ Association, Chairman Dempsey declares that prohibition laws have acted as prac. tical confiseation of the breweries and distilleries, and says that similar legislation levelled at corporations would huve ly the same el: fect on their properties, wi stab ariesienatastei Household Notes EE TO WASH The easiest WINDOWS to wash windows and have them clear and shiney— first take 4 dry cloth and wipe all the dugt from the inside. then take a clean cloth, dip it In vinegar and wash the window thoroughly; then take another dry eloth and iry. After it is with 1 pa per.—Boston ray wipe dry polish gsue Post, A SMALL IRONING BOARD, Anvone nuisance « hoard to who experience should thicknesses into ting 8 sewed Press. iozen sy svsbi Ia # ipright, + gideg and the BLIR ILL he blossoms #135 0d iieq forward in 1 mata a fine ‘ehowi DAKE A Tine SHO0WIil manteipieces and hem and SR | in arge, full One 5.1 a4 able er looks be several smaller ones org n avoid a cf 1 low 1 that +¢ gether, and as possible A few yards of a irape smilax gtoond add Afior plants while 1 in a sunny a good with massed greatly the use ial made fo pois to on 1 can be they window or light. if the Nvine house overheated, plants bloom longer if they are taken at flight into a tem. perature of not more than 60 degrees, Never let pots go dry, but do not keep soll watersoaked ‘ut off blos goms dg soon as they fade —Buffalo Courier. nart of the is will RICIPRES fice and Cheese With Gravy —Stir grated cheese into bot boi season. and moisten wiih gravy. Baked Bean Soup.~-Put three cups of cold baked beans in a saucepan with three pints of water, two table spoonsful of drippings and two sliced onions. Simmer for half an hour and then stra®*n. Add two cups of strained tomatoes. Season this with salt and pepper and thicken with flour Creamed Codfish.—Pick up cogifish, Freshen it by pouring upon it boil ing water, Sut do not soak it. When ' the fish ls freshened to taste place led rice; brown cover it with cold milk and add a mall bit of butter. Cook, stirring tonstantly, until soft and thick. Then season. Moston Baked Deans --8oak In cold water twelve hours, drain, cover with | fresh wader, cook slowly until tender. | For one quart of beans scald the rind | pork, make cute in the rind onedhalf | inch apart: put beans in the pot, | bury the pork in beans. Mix one tablespoon salt. one, tableapbon mo- lasses, three of sugar and one oup of | boiling water. Pour this mixture over | the beans, then add enough more wa. | top. Make slowly for at least three hours. “Cambric Toa This is good for children. It is made of equal parts ad to St Joule and water, sweeten ® | i How Old is Biddy? English authorities hold that there Is no certain test of age in fowls But they admit that, in general, the epurs both of hens and cocks will tinguish a two-year-old bird, There are exceptions, however, in which really young birds develop old. looking spurs, while really year b.rds preserve the short, rounded spurs of a cockerel dis- second. The texture of the to BOme exi« ’ cacy and freshn Appearance brick if after bei appearance Ex nerimer yeETriae nl It Pays to Caponize, ¥i€ ¢ bull Are roo meat 80 When they oe ase do a COCK capon will three to fou hundred and being paid nty-Ave dollars often 100 capons plus cockerels J et of full Instructions for using. $2.50, and only ordinary quired. For caponizing, cockercls must less than six weeks old and weigh a pound or more. be Favorite Geese, A flock geese of well-bred Toulouse These are about the best geese for average farm conditions. Incubator Chicks, Chicks must be kept clean either with hens or in a brooder. To clean them every day is not too often. The heat from the brooder makes drop pings produce foul alr, as do hens when brooding chicks. Give no feed until the clutch is at least thirty-six hours old. They do not need it for the yolk absorbed just before hatche ing provides them until that age. Leave them i the incubator or under hens until reddy to give the first feed, which shouldbe fine gravel or sand on the bottom of the coop or brooder. They will eat quite a lot of it, and it provides the gizzard with grit to grind food. ao, Points About Poultry. The yolk of the egg spoils much quicker than the white, It must not be forgotten that food flavors the flesh as well as the egg. If not on free range, have good yard for exercise and have this vard limed and plowed at least once a year, A French naturalist asserts that the nse of pounded garlic with the usual food has been made to com- pletely eradicate the gapes among pheasants in Europe, i
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