“ Poultr FONGSHING FOWLS FOR MARKET, The finishing of fowls for the early markets will now soon be in vogue. The feeding of yourlg fowls for mar- ket, to have them in prime condi tion is certainly a science. It will be neecssary to change from “soft” feed. Ing to a heavy grain ration. To do this without causing a “erash” and a «088 of time and flesh will be a very cautions problem The majority of feeders have fed an enormous amount bran the past season, owing to scarcity of greing, and the change froma bran to corn must be done with utmost care. We all know corn will put the "big fat” on, but we will lose time if we drop off soft food sudd. nly %0 eorn. If it were possible for all to use cotton seed meal at Hrst it would be a great saving. Stir it in the irat enough not to make it ap- Pear “smalvy” or “puddingy.” While ; fed grain continually the By feeding in this manne the birds will continue to {increase :n flash, as well as develop a rich yellow skin. If You have foolishly chosen a blue skin carcass, you have made a mistake. The Yellow skinned varieties are much more desirabe for broiling puidposes, and are in most all markets feeding you can have prime condition in Weeks. 1f by this time you 8ueceeded In placing the prime condition efforts have Deen in vain. In many instances where the not been skillfully dome the fowls will get and you can not hold thelr ration It wil weeks in all to fowls, but two all that shoulqd finishing touch. ean ve easily h of age. But ff yoy wish to ¢ Your carly fowls for them all they will clean up of corn and wheat for two or three and you will find they will be and plump, good en ugh for mes market. Don’t eharcoal and water for the f I fowls are fed too heavy FO on roost will have a tendency in the back ground If so fan compel them to go to roost a full erap find they fatten very adhering to grain given them When feeding a number of fowlsinone pen provide feed troughs so that every fowl will get a full meal. Otherwise you have some feeders thin at m It should be reme that Ing for market ig fous tar unless you intelligently proper food and equipments la the Indiana Farmer - ah His 18 De ration, mashos. ang increase the decreasing sought for By Your proper two or Your feedin £ h weeks overlook th eaders they will to put the that birds with you will will fast, every mbered a very te provi HURTPUL PREJUDICES Take the curious prejudice against dwck eggs. Any way eggs are except plain boiled, scarcely anyone would distinguish them from hen egg Some might not like them plain ed, some would even prefer And you get money in place of one pounds of hen 34: ' heavy setback to the duck industry that buyers discriminate against eggs in open market. trade has to he won by eonversion. It is hard When we have ap a strain of that best laying hens into the nwnbers, lot alone welght, for the latter « nearly equal 370 hen eews to have this wet Hanks: of thrown over us to discount it all. Not so in England. Trust an Eng- fishman to know what is good to ent And he dees not want the natural Raver of his viands obliterated with sommercial seasonings. He does not ask, “What are duck eggs foro Are they good tH cat” He will willingly pay a little wore for them, even in Berkeley. Shake. John! An eastern contemporary remarks hat where ducks are kept it is most. ly the Pekin: and the Indian Run. ners, though notable layers, seem to hawe dropped out of sicht Dressed the same as the common market Pekin at ten weeks old. the Indian Ranner is nearly quite as big, end the Englishman knows the flay. sr is finer of the colored dmek than used, boil them Your and half two pounds for ore t fa = duck iY private individual worked throw the shade in of eggs— they would POT FOAT- durks neidered prejudice month Pekin is bigger, and when cov ered with thick, white feathers looks out of all proportion. But a four pound or fivepound Runner for a pair) is a respectable roast, and they &re turning in the cash every week In the year, hesides. It looks like flying In tne face of Providence to discount the finest things we have been blessed to produce —Town und Desuntry Journal, FEED MILLET SERDS. I have seen some where, where you Jave recommended millet seed for small chicks. Will you please advise me the best method of feeding ft, and do you consider it a safe feed for chicks? EMMA B. DROWN, Answer: —Cortainly I do consider millet seed one of the very safest and most excolient foods for chicks, of any age. Where fowls are confined, and deprived more or less of getting prop er exorcise, feed In litter. This wil! provide an inducement for the fowls to get the reguired oxercise. They will grow and devolp very fast on millet seed. 1 would not feed millet r ro fit . ing elements. largely as the main grain ration, feed. rice. Fresh cut bone will also be raticns for growing chicks. to throw in litter to keep the chicks contented and growing. —J. C. Clipp, RAISING GBPESE. of raising geese. They do not re dinary shed will do that will Off the snow and rain. In bad weath er they will take to shelter, but in in the open, and any fench three feet high will turn them. | not troubed with lice and other all | ments, as are chickens and turkeys { It requires four weeks to hatch all j Boose eggs except the Chinese va | rleties, which takes nearly five weeks. They can hatched with chicken hens, but the mother goose often makes the best of incubators.—Farm- Home Journal. be i ©ISs FATTENING THE FOWLS. When putting young birds on a fat tening ration starve them for sbout 20 hours to begin with; then begin to feed sparingly, gradually increas amount until they have been for a week; after this feed will eat, but never allow eft before them more than | one-half hour at a time. Some feed times a day, others only twice. the first three weeks of the period it is better probably to f three times a day, but dur ing the iast week twisz a day Is suf Take care to supply plenty f 1 water, the chickens a chance to et all they want of this at least twice a day; also provide grit three times a week — COST OF EGGS. ordinary poultry raiser poultry know how much it costs to produce a dozen eggs? If he does he can easily tell the profit, Suppose you begin the first of April, 1508, and keep a strict account of the the poultry and on April 1910, you will have a lot of in teresting information to look over and discuss with your family and with your brother pouitry raisers. Do you | know how many eggs your hens pro j duced last year?—Farmers’ Home {| ing the feod they | feed to he § i On | three {eed cod flv $ aeient of pure Give two cr th ae Does of ordinary ! Tat NOTES. The drouth last year has caused | many farmers to have more respect the than was the case before The lay of the hens than one farmer from bill,” and we will lead to better care of { for poultry, | ever has more running "a hope it will the pouliry Nothing, unless the milk cow be ex responds more promptly tc than will poultry. won't help the matter sufficient room, and feed are rather more profit with a would be wisdom. twenty cents per jozen for in May, June and July is a very unusual thing for this | place; what they are when delivered i In the cities is of course, considerably i more, Prices for eggs will be high, per mnesaally go, all through the winter, even if shipped in large quan tities to be placed In colg storage | the cost at the time of storing will i compel a high selling price. If by extra care, the hens can be { kept laying all through the fall, and early winter, the eguzs will bring gilt | edge prices. It will daclidedly pay to | nse effort to hasten the pullets’ lay.’ ing time, and to keep the hens “on i the lay.” kept store CL pled good care More unleas hens provided - mor number Fizhteen ang eggs hang ing earlier than ten days or two wesks after the rooster has been put | with the hens Can | gen, Leg weakness sometimes affects the hens through mid-winter, and while not fatal, nor a contagious dis ease, it fixes the hens for the ax, and for nothing else. Their day of usefulness as ogg producers, is done. The chicks’ drinking fountain should be carefully washed. Bowel trouble often originates from the prac. tice of giving milk and wat from the same fountain on the theory that all the chickens want is a drink. Milk is never a substitute for water, be reasonably sure A a i a is Bonds by Special Train. The high rates charged by express companies for carrying documents of great value have prompted one con bonds of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company to a New York banking house by its special! messen ger, It was found less expensive to charter a special train, hire wo oot. peient detectives and have the bonds doliverel by RB. CO. Bradloy, one of the managers of the company, in per son than to pay §15.000 den nde] by the express comphny for transferring | them. — System, iL Be ————— Tuberculosis Killed 78 in the India Nine Causes Are Most Frequent--390.9 Deaths Washington, D. C. — partment returns ghow t! ber of deaths from all forn culosis returned in 1908 exceeding those of any pre of registration, but the 100,000 for 1908 is less 1907. Health fay a In all regis deaths from tuberculosis decline except in Colorado, and and Vermont Each of the death was respons 65000 deaths of male during the year: Typ berculosis of lungs, ear and paralysis, heart dig nia, Bright's disea ecldent. The total of ocen following ez ible mie 38, males, 17,434. Of the pled males, 29.422. or were due to tuberculosis and of the ocenpied females, 5 21 per cent., were due to the eause, In the registration area of the ted States during the 1 : deaths out of every 10 cupled males whe ages of 25 and 34 by tuberculosis of the Iu one death out of every thi the same age period 41.9 per the bookkeepers, clerks an 40.1 per cent. of the bar! dressers, 40.9 per cen vants, 44.1 per cent shoe makers, 49.2 compositors, printers ¢ 41.2 per cent, of the tall per cent. of the the registration arez Fo A { ne inne fo vo0vs di p28 iArmers victims of pulmo mong the pris a were the following, per 100. ¥ rates TN Ta subdivi a4 For the ye this disense nat 20 514 for under two Years old 00 of the t anks them in th Ame ral effect on the death rate as heart Yaus CIiOgs ; umonisa, disenses upon all per- Marion, Ind. — Professor Brown, an expert from the Musgeam | of Natural History in New York, ar-| rived in this city with paraphernalia | necessary for excavating, preserving | and shipping the skelstons of prehis- | toric animals, to find that the inatitu- tion he represents has been the victim of misrepresentation, For more than a year Frank Mart, a farmer, has been in communication | with the museum regarding the sale | of the skeletons of prehistoric animals | which he sald he had found on his land. Mart informed the institution | last spring that he had found the | skeleton of an animal, while ¢xcavat- Garpum | i | i { i : ing an open ditch, which had been pronounced to be that of a ero by a professor of an Indiana colloze He sald that he had exposed twenty eight feet of the skeloton, but had not reached the end of it. Mart endeav- ored to sell the skeleton to the insti- tution for a Inarge sum of money, Arrangements were finally made for Professor Brown to come after the skeleton. When he arrived Professor farm two weeks ago and had left this Professor Brown made a trip to the farm in hopes of find the skeleton, but was unable to find even an open ditch on the place. Steady Increase in of Unemployed is Cause. Washington, D. C.—The army of | in Great Britain has | grown steadily, and now has reached proportions that are causing the Gov- ernment great uneasiness. In a spe- Btates Consul-General at London. ment just issued by the royal commis. sion on the poor law and relief of dis- trons, The commission declares that dur- last the number of persons without talled thirty-one In every 1000 of population, while in the flscal vear preceding only fourteen per 1000 made application for assistance. The number of men who applied for relief in the last fiscal year constituted Three Seats In Prussian Diet Cause Great Joy in Socialist Party. Berlin.—Elections for four repre sentatives of Berlin In the Prussian Diet were held, and resulted in the re- turn of three Bocialists, with one elec- tion still undecided. Socialists were elected to the same sents at the lastelection, but thelr ve. turn was nullified on techuieal mnds. he of the candidates fol. Jowing similar victories in Coburg. win miiar : . has caused jobila. den and Saxony, v 4 1-10 per cent, of the workingmen of England and Wales, while during the previous year they constituted 2 1-10, and the year preceding that only 1 9-10 per cent. work for the wnemnloyed is general cities and towns in the United dom. A striking feature of the situa- tion Is that the men seeking work are life. by the employers and the working men may be brought closer together. The Government also is seeking to discover gome means of cutting off the supply of unskilled and unintelli. gent labor by training boys to enter regular and permanent work. King to Publish a History of Nu. mismatics, in Which He is Expert, Rome, Italy, — The Tribana an nounces that King Victor Emmanuel will publish a book shortly on the history of numismaties. It is written by himself, : : The King has been a colin collector for years, and has already writ a treatice on the subject, which was je sued for private elrenlation sinong his friends. ’ The new book, which is to be richly illustrated, fa the result of long study by the monarch, i % CREAT BACRIPICE FOR EQUALITY Few women, we suspect, appreciate the magnitude of the sacrifice they would be required to make to be plac ed upon a plane of absolute equality with men. They cannot hope to ac quire equal rights and privileges with out assuming simultaneously equal under relizious as well as secular law To those who with the inestimsa they now possess in the prohibitions Decalogue wppon tain spesified reptance of ful responsi bility elunifas Uttle, if 2ny. addition to the burdens now borne. Wiser the extent Lhe now en hesitate for tem likely here are unacquainted which exempt oie boon being from by the an in acts revpect of ce #4] ac vhi hb r well xe, for mere a position ! in the opposition establish equal based, in part, the minine lization of ne y of waiving this we cannot say; atl no woman should throurh ignorance or n, to Course tend to her undying re came is that gdopt women but are from the require inference, religious ments vy to men ex- as Indirect. oar Were of men, mposed upon wuseholds, and regponsibility of the tribe provid » randment, not do an work, nor thy daughter, nor thy maldser- is within the i are comprised within the tion ex one. "Nor thy ot appear, and some have to suppose that the signifi gion means that "thon™ in husband and wife. The quite different, anger that All members of “5! been lod e¢xplanation Is immediately perceive with the Tenth Com Thou ahalt not covet thy ¢, thou sha't not covet j-servant, nor his anything in- the “thon™ does not with the husband: to the head of the house . Yer. of his properly forbidden prop- specified North who neirfibor's Are value. - some of which rdar of their rican Review LEPHONE ETIQUETTE get into ong conversations over this times or dis allow yourself! to People who do the De annoying otions of party for consideration urgently desire to telephone over which the case of Particularly in wires in there exli » phe oles mas this are gossiping of the calling naecessary. telonhone you are it is absolutely ighiless women often make a oon this re Po not use the whom Tho enre of their friends in Your hostess may not wish you into the part of the the telephone is sit freanently done, iit expense pert. to take house in which nated, when may prove a considerable to her Da. not hours if yon can If it is necessary brief as possible Do not tell things which vou do net wish known over the telenhone Conversations are often audible to all of the persons in the room with or up men in business possibly help it to do so, be as call I it i= a business conversation, it beforehand Orders or re throtigh the hesitation and changes blenees of the person giving them Finally, temper justice with mercy in your treatment of the young wom- an operators who answer your calls. to be always eagerly attentive. New MR§ YOUNG'S POSITION. Mrs. Ella Flass Young, superinten dent of the public schools of Chieago, will raveive a salary of $10,000 a year. She ie 64 and was born at Buffalo, N. Y. Her parents moved to Chicago when she was a child and she was educated in that city in the high achoo! and later in the normal school. later she studied at Chicago Univer sity, where she took the defree of Ph. D. , At ¢he age of 17 she began teach. ing In a West Side school at a sal this place the sity of Chicago, holding until she was chosen head of Chicago Normal School in 1905. In recognition of her work the women principals of the Chicago pub lic schools formed an organization several years ago which they called the Ella FF. Young Club. Mrs. Young is a member of the Every Club and the Chicago Woman's She is an advocate for equal New Yorx Bun, HOUSE Fl. Mrs. Bernard leans, is the war that has the Crescent City house fly. Posters depicting its cf the house fi; for and ease ! through the Southern 3 ENEMY Y's Tiche of Or Tous New leader in recent 0 extern gatheri SCTE are He of respectability bh ed, and known to al her domains is put with those ous insects In cities all stable to regist their and they not prevent the breeding chief object of ths the house fly, with ths any heousckees ow 2a wha are pros stroy breeding the country perma: Chicago Dalls FO following PARTY The called “A br carried out young married be, On AE. Ty Matlrin : g & the invitation | place the word will lend a touc: { affair and give th | to gpeculate about On each pace the following ranged 80 as to { The hostess caz supply 3 i questions she chooses taking oa | however, that nothing personal or | pleasant produces a jar Can love's young dream a reality? How can a timid man bx propose? Should of ladies’ hats” Have you met ideal? Is there any one here whose en gagement is yet secret? What can be done with a man who | reads the newspaper at the breakfast | table? Has be ever mentioned biscuits? Give your ideas of a Should men study ence? Do you prefer & young or a aged lover, Do you believe in a lors? is ® true that to good sense? What wil for money and he you do with that last year? —New I"RRY Hurry means physical 1s where, and exhaustion afterward ry means loss of d and Hurry means fear, fear is greatest enemy to Can we stop hurrying? Some an swer that we must keep up with the procession or drop out entirely us if we cannot conserve our strength, at least in small ways. Let us take thought and begin to reform Az tension expresses itself in bod ily movements, we must first learn muscular control. Relaxation means letting go, and while we are learning to let go we are getting ourselves trained to take hold again when the time comes for relaxation teaches far more than rest In vain people try to attain a calm manner with a tense body. When we have relaxed the muscles at will we may casily become guiet in manner and peaceful in obit The bodily condition is the basis of real rest. We will not hurry when we know the danger to the nervous system: made tu men meddle in the affairs your mother's moiel lover domestic fax on men prefer when says, “What did dollar I gave you Haven Register, YOu sas ask H nsion some. Hur ignity power and the EUCIORR Let son power by working quietly: when we believe that we are living in eternity now.~Theodore Dreiser, in the Delin eator. ALEXANDRA BSCHEWS FORMAL ITY. Queen Alexandra has got rid of much of the stiff formalfty which marked the English court when Vie toria was on the throne. Alezandra now favors being addressed as “ma dam,” where a fow years ago such an every<ay term was taken as an unpardonable offense, She also has extended to the women of the cour: the privilege of sitting down In her presence when they please. Vietoria kept her ladies In waiting standing until sha directed them to keeping them on their feet for pro tracted periods. Alexandra is as domocratic In her ways as her hus band, who only insists RR
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