CHICKEXS BY MODERN METHODS A? anyone is qualified to talk on the subject of chicken raising by modern methods, it is W. R. Curtiss, of Ran- somville, N. Y., one of the Curtiss ©rothers, who not only raise many thousands of ducks every year, suc cessfully, and make this branch of the poultry business pay them well, but who in 1908 also managed to raise about 25,000 ehicks with sue «eggs and profit. The proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof. Mr. Curtiss freely gave away the of their success or successes, address at the recent poultry insti- tute at Cornell University, He first laid particular stress on quality of the eggs used for hatching. This is the real. and only foundation. You have to have strong egss, and strong. ly fertile eggs, he said. Breeders that were fed by the dry mash sys- tem gave eggs of the highest fertility: the fertility of the season averaged fully tem per cent. better than when wet mash was given. You can't raise trong chicks from weak eggs, and a wet mash is more likely to give weak eggs than a dry mash. No inoubator ever made, Curtiss claims, can hatch as chicks as the old hen: we are yet atle to improve upon nature's way. We can't. however, large numbers chicks with hens: if we want a many chicks we must employ ial methods of hatching and brooding After the chicks are batched, we want to raise them, and not see one after another dropping off I'he hot water brood.r with hover at back was not found satisfactory. The plan of driv. ing the chicks out from under the hovers three or four times a day. to get them out into the air, was tried and helped some, but the results were not wholly satisfactory. Then the fiovers were changed. and arranged with a 6-inch space at the back, yond the pipes. and this was provement. There was room front and in the rear them out. Installing the Unive in colony gave 8s; sults he chicks grew crowded out of tion. The bufit an ) Mammoth incubators, high smeteg the second broader houvce. The lower ten fee! high and the eight feet, with a fat chicks are brooded by the p tem, using the heat from the heater which runs the incubators on the floor below. Universal hovers are placed over the in the hours a perature of 60 to 70 degrees tained, and 5, degrees under the hov ors. Mr. Curtiss matter much a8 you have good. strong, chicks. He feeds a variety prompts the chick to eat file eggs are bo'led hard, with other stuff to mass. For this purpose, iow grade of flour, with meal used. The floors of are covered with cut clove and ch food all through #. For a change, pin-head oat meal and pit head wheat given Try to give something new all the time “Don’t put too many in a box, 30 to 35 is enough. They lifted up the cover if ther appeared to be warm, and took off the cover al together towards the last The mal heat was sufficient They run into the box to get warmed ap: all rn in or all run out together Thelr coiony houses are 6x6 feet on the ground, and they put a partition in to prevent the youngsters crowding” The pullets should all be wel! housed befcre the cold equinexial storms come. Getting them into winter quarters in good season heads off colds. A lot of good air Is wanted im incubating eggs and brooding chicks. The hatches in the wellven tilated new incubator house average five per cent. better than the hatches used to be in the old cellar. After all, it is success that tells the story and tells it straight. And the Cur ties’ surely have the success —Prac tical Farmer. secrets in an the $0 Mr strong not grow of great artific nine apt closed, be an ‘m both ‘n for to run rsal hovers houses iendid re. well anid ioors their own vo! DC two story ond roof Be story The De SVS pipes tem is main. believes {it what you does feed. n« long Vigorous As variety The infer and mixed make a crumby bran and a a little corn it 20 ig the nens 3 is scattered is He save: chicks together ani PRESERVING BEGGS Farmers who have a good cellar and sell their eggs during the sum mer and fall at 12 to 15 cents o dozen are making a serious mistake. That eggs can be successfully kent for many months by means of the “water glass” method has now been thoroughly well “proven, and it is the part of wisdom to store away the eggs lald during this season when prices are low and then double one's money on them next winter when prices are soaring. Such practice is perfectly legitimate, for the eggs keop in the best of condition and each year ‘ millions of eggs are put away In cold storage, which amounts to practically the same thing. Water glass—sodium silleate—is a rircpy fluid for sale at all drug stores at prices ranging from 30 to 76 cents per gallon, depending upon how much profit the druggist de sires. To every one part of this sub stance add nine parts of water that has been well bolled and allowed to cool before mixing. Thoroughly stir solution while It is being mixed d pour it over the eggs, which have i been packed in an parthen or wooden vessel. Keep In a loca “ thon where the temperature never rises above 60 degrees, Be caweful J packed, because lot will spoil all best to keep a is, eggs from unmated hens. If these simple instructions observed there is reason why sults should not. more than isfactory in every way—and a Yenss money" in certainly worth tomist, are the are one bad egg in infertile eggs long time-—tha: no be ree Sut little a looking after.——Epk OLD HENS laying hen seldom after the second or third year, and to say the least old hens are not as profitable as young ones. Then is the time to weed out undesirable specimens. For several months the molt will practically stop egg production, and 80, of course, the birds will return no profit. Conse quently it better to sell the dead weights at once than to hold them for the cent two advance in price that will ‘obtain in the fall winter Old hens cannot, In nas ture of things, expected re. turn a very fancy the ket. Still if they properly tonded they will bring from cents each, accord’ nz to the m and that is an amount that « cannot be despised has enough of them to Even though the figures fo room growing » can age y old «THE The ordinary pays her keep is or or the very be to mar fat (£5 ] price on are 50 arket, ertainly one sell than 11 ad mentioned let they visable once, for lee and better ads than there the led by the stock much ungste AS Begides, young be on has- spent to the been.” emall-—and vant the always a rather large-—perce among old ~Epitomist sometimes fowis during hot weath POUT Don't tolerate won't seep the est place pos iffect the On Work water saeltoer hot, few drops of drinking water 8 the Wied bird only “wh sé Ip a the chicks what allow feed once, Don't around and become filthy chicks eat it Sunshine is a ctant. Let is before and dis ground rane cheap t gwesten the and #t the on the pade up vards, some £Tan rateh it Fowls are nat in a flock is ness on the part of t er. This is j hy the expert POR ickens The , oullets vear shoul pril and larger breeds OODR = q¢ out iraliy hardy, and con tagion due to careless keospn that he poultry roved fact _ poult raisers have ve fow ntended for layers next have been hats and even earlic with and they should be that they November hed ip hed along so will begin lay about The aim % ue to of the poultry keeper ought comiortabls hia much stired abun make his fowls and wh can rest as an and contented on ished he g accomyl i a safe of wavy to CRE # 18 ib daopt yield Ser uTe THE CHICKS short, green run for young and grass neat jittle chicks er desirable. Dur GRASS RUINS FOR A clean surface grass makes the best chicks. Tall w quarters for the run through ate nes ing wet weather the damp morn ings of summer when everything wet with Jew, tall growths are excel lent breeders of colds The chicks wili become thoroughly wet in a very if permitted to run through growths, of coeds to the OF shirt time, the tall apt to follow These places alse make good hid ing places for cats and rats, making it easy for them to slip up on a chick unobserved and make way with a meal Cats are gly about stealing chicks, rarely attempting it where they may be seen, but once they learn a method whereby they can take a chick without being observed a whole brood will disappear in a short time —W. F. P,, in the Indiana Farmer PRACTICAL POULTRY -- POINTS. Where the attention of the male becomes a perfect harassment, the nervous derangement may decrease the egg product. It is therefore sal est to have not less than ten fe males mated to each male bird, and after breeding season remove the male from the flock al together, i i with them, A broiler should be short in head, well rounded; the back short, broad and flat at the shoulders, and the skin should be a rich yellow. The legs should be short and the thighs American Cultivator. in a ct wall Tae in the Indianapolis News STRIKING FEATURES OF CELEBRATION, THE participate whi h will Rano nner In a naval fwo division York meet in Net October clude counterpariz of Half Moon and Falton's mont Hudson's {ler than five hundred thou i children will partici. stivals in Manhattan bev 9 IVE 3 ~ of the celebration on aturday, Oete The cxpe will esceed $50 fge 00d Excell bril New York City ing in mag nitude of scope and ance de gign any celebration ever held in New York. the Hudson-Fulton celebration will begin on Satarday. September 25. and close on Saturday, October % The commission having in charge the details the sued official circula: the schedule of events for The interest cole a fi has 5 inouncing the first time shown by foreign na- | tions pecially England. Germany France and Holland. in the successful outcome of the celebration was a source of great encouragement Lo the cominission ia the early days of its] labors The countries named, to speak of others in South America and the Orient. will be represented in the biz naval parade on Bestember 28 by from one to five war ships. all representative of their class The United States war ships then in the harbor will join in the naval pageant. While from time (0 time fragment. | ary items bearing upon the Selebran | tion have been published, they lacked | the auiboritative stamp of the com- | mission. The oficial schedule now is at hand, and it is an imposing array | of events. The celebration will begin with a rendezvous of all foreign and | American vessels in the harbor, dip- | ping of flags, firing of salutes and other evidences of the entent cordiale | existing between the United States and the world Powers. Then will] follow the first naval parade, daring | which the foreign war ships will be | encircled. after which there will be! a reception of officials and other not. | 110th street and Riverside! three o'clock in the after. of an an not drive, at noon, The evening of the first day will} witness the opening Hluminations, If one can imagine the light a bunch of six billion wax candles, burning si- multaneously. ran send to the clouds, then one will have some idéa of the brillianey in and about Manhattan nightly during the celebration. Mar- iners say lesser illuminations have been seen from the decks of ships one hundred miles at sea, so that it is ship will view the glare before the corst has been sighted. There will be nothing doing of- ficially on Sunday, September 26, that day being set aside for religious ob- servances, ‘The following day, Mon- day, there will be official receptions, various which is the of ter. of nature nounced la airship exhibitions, to be an and the _beginning of flights over New York The 1} rical Ditade is scheduled Tuesds September 28, and pageant all nationalit lite ed The: will be oving iihex rv the in will he dozens repre of Revol ties eRe the ficated. The be known as Bore and the chief ration will 1 ! at There will be in Borough and 3 reption States officials and 4 at West Foint The military Thursday tw rt borough Richmond United f +h jostle of the city to piace This arade is to take eptember 30 icipated in by United regiments, Navy and corpse, the National Guard, Naval Militia, veteran organizations and marines and sailors from foreign vessels The par on wil States Marine nde of naval vessels, mes boats and description Oct. 1 It one starting other from Al- The divisione will meet at relebrated in Revolution. a general good time in Newburg Bay in north will be the by Dutch sailors the mariners of Hudson's day. and the Clermont, the first boat built by Fulton, operated by her own steam Ceremonies will be held on both these at the joining of the At Newburg there will reception and the like and fireworks in The vesseisz taking part in the naval parade will return to New York and the Manhattan histori- cal parade previously mentioned will be repeated in Brooklyn The school children In New York Curren eYers » on Frida) two divisions York, the will be division Half Moot in the cos enjoye vessels two divisions be a parade, flluminations the evening October 2 There will be exercises in fifty centres in New York, con. | ducted in view of more than five hun- dred thousand children of the pub. lic and private schools. The two dis visions of the naval parade will be There will be a historical par. Island and dedicatory burg ade on Staten a decigive battle during the Revolu- tion, In the evening there will be a carfiival parade in New York. in which there will be seen fifty brik liantly iHuminated floats, escorted by various organizations. The final week of the celebration will be devoted to events on the Hud. gon north of New York from October Special ceremonies with the historical floats in parades will take place in all the river cities and larger villages with neighboring smaller municipalities participating in egeh of them. On Monday, October 4, the chief celebrations will be at Poughkeepsie and Yonkers: Tuesday at Kingston, Hastings, Dobbs Ferry Irvington and Tarrytown; Wednes day, at Catskill and Nyack: Thurs day, at Hudson, Ossining and Haver straw: Friday, at Albany and Peeks kill. and Saturday at Troy and Col! Spring. held at Cohoes on Monday. October 11. The carnival parade in Brookiyn. Saturday evening, far as Manhattan is concerned, become a bull or a bear, asserts the Chicago News, usually winds up by | making a _monkey of himself, We trust gt the Chicago man who has just Bad a lamb's bone grafted Into his leg will keep away from the wheat pit, says the Ohlo State Jour. - « Nephew Despite Law. Pittsfield. Mass. —Mrg, Adeline Rucks, of Wichita Falls, Tex., came all the way to Massachusetts to marry her young nephew, Eli Ballinger, and ia on her way back to Texas with her husband. B8he is Afty years old, twice A widow, wealthy and weighs 250 unde. ie tbs tie scales at 118. otwithatar jug tha that it is Nealon hat a. Racks ad Ber veohe to marry, Mes rocured a Two Masked Bandits Hold made for the two masked men, who, armed with pistols, held up Cashier man Bank here and ors were kept in the room by order of one of the rol VIOLET Even on FIlLOWER day, the sign NOT THE rar wedding press Eugenie received a omen, ording to Morris in the Woman's Companion. The mar ket women of Paris presented her with a mountain of the day of her marriage poleon. Miss Morr] “And those market bolled ! They yelled ed and dens. They s« for the empress, do« opened, on the please, mass of en had “Then shrieked out at tee "Pigs! ldiots! BOrrow have to her! quick another raved out, “It or of mourning that bride of the empero ple violets Devils! It evil! “And then Dieu! They one anothe gendarmes when a clear 13 1 aurt Em of ill nee Clara 1 violets © to BAYH women i push they an palace and screameq last a win ped Ou over crowded the gar into reeched until at and Eugenie ste] balcony, and ever held in hands a violets y her the she grea the gent suddenly those of the It “ne sent marxet her one o tae you Pigs omen—4a to a bride! is an the mon tear The der, out don’t any soldier on eart! dame des Halls verybody stopped And they, laugh and off the bloc and mes and megs leurs and shout, stands now by and throw viole all below And retire Yes, the abi gent! $ ' then »i she But The var: that any writer in 1 would be a and if cation we shou many tears middle-aged women wh robbed of thelr all guile them into investing In that should not have taken in The son of a family against want by of a trade by port himself. Th are not We take a their marrying and sometimes thes if they against marries wife and sick, or sufldenly confronted sify of not only earning butter for herself, but for husband and a seful when ghe has taught no was earth of making a penny. Even if a girl does marry, mother geld takes the trouble prepare her it. Yet an knows that happiness and suc in atrimony depend mainly the wife knowing ber business, a go0d manager, a good cook No to practice law out having studied the science yet a mother will let marry withou! having taught her the firet thing about how to run a home ft isn't fair, it isn't just, it isn’t Kind to send a poor, little girl out imto the world to chances of happiness and through ignorance help she can get, and parents to give it to Give the daughter a i ald Bb that id not ve to shed ne ever misfortu have men over 0 who schemes a baby by sort majority long etimes Som don’t capable even and if he die, often with bread and the invalid of children, on hou heen her ym 10 for every COss ma upon a good father medicine gets his son with- is or her ruin her success it's up to her gauare FINISH WHAT YOU BEGIN. Finish what you begin, my The curse of the average woman tha: she has no perseverance. She undertakes four and five things at onee and leaves them unfinished without scruple if she sses something else which she prefers to do Now, this is bad traizing, that's all 1f vou allow a child to grow up this way, throwing away one thing for she will never amount to In affairs of the heart she In affairs of the heal will friends. is anvthing. will be fickle. she will be as unreliable as a who You The world is full of people keep changing their positions. one month doing one thing, says the Utica Observer, and another month they are engaged in just the opposite. They are intellec tual tramps, and it is impossible for them to stay in one’ mental attitude any. length of time Nothing is 0 fascinating as the lure of change uyp- Jess it is that of chance Once you get a liking for that sort of thing it possesses and cripples vour will, . Unfortunately this world is not Sulit on that plan. The prizes go to those who stay put and make good. Chere never was a truer proverb than ‘he one that rolling stones gather no fuoss ~New Haven Regiate 3 20000000 RUIN alin, WOMEN Hugh CC declares ruined He says it is URES BCBIpLOY havo fashion ble for a wom- he GHA ear and next and still preserve peed lines He points that THEIR FIL the Boston omen's fig devotion that w $reR been by to IDOSS { an to p-walisted freed; Was the artistic f Year or so ing their waist ent frocks hang estion of a waist hits the truth women were that $5 ago ping and pres ioose wi Bardly line, Cains when SURE tainly the fashions crable to look like women hie in are and twice Lis sulniner are taste are y loot men stand it, the NS any SPW WORK NTA VMAadcox nan s WOTrKing f th ror of girls unde permitted ¢ at night or t morning Mr of the most country is New York fegislatic Press CHARITY wpating $90,000 religious educational institu of Miss Miriam = resident of Massa Boston whoze Among the lesley Re Mount Hermon American Board Foreign Mie Associa RAVES Publ { are 3 $00 006 TY bequests SgRTY provided for twenty-six an n the Shattuck, i will old avenue, death recentls beneficiaries are Wel Northfield Seminary, Northfield; an occurred Sehool. of sions, Amerjean Missionary tion. American Bible Society, and the American Tract Soctety, all of New York City: Tuskegee Normal and In dustrial Institute and the Salvation Army, Boston which receive $5000 each INSURANCE FOR OLD MAIDS Frau Wiehe Bereny, wife of a ml fonaire merchant in Copenhagen, has formed a society in that city which enables a girl whose chances of mar riage are slim to take out a policy which will insore her a liberal an nuity if she still is unmarried at 40 She pays a small amount every year and if she marries before 40 her po! fey becomes void. If she marries after 40 the annuity ceases. The so clety has a steadily growing mem: bership, and Frau Pereny says the idea should be adopted in those parts of the world where women are in a majority over the men, and the chances of marriage to that extent decreased —New York Press. PREFERS BEAUTY OF NECK. The Countess of Scarborough, who bas introduced many American women in London society, persists In her hobby of never wearing a collar. In England. as in America, the fashion at present is to wear oollars high up about the ears bul the Countess hia vot made the slightest concession to the extreme style. In the morning, in the afternoon, at weddings and <o clal affairs of all kinds she appears with her neck bare. The explana tion, of course, i8 obvious. The Countese has one of the best-turned necks among Englishwomen of titles New York Press Berlin's population . decreasing, s
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