At. TYR rs. CARE The OF EGGS IN HOT WEATHE AM following are among the re the in bulletin to placing the market agricultural of eggs on condition 1. Keeping only a eges of ing two Plymouth Island Reds, horns or farms produce not of eggs (weigh "AEC, Rhode Leg hens that goodly number moderately large size ounces each on an aver Rocks, Wyandottes, Orphingtons, and Minorcas that used varieties may be cted to do this are are that housing, regular feeding and, above all, clean Good and watering, dry ne Daily ga when the grees, gathering twice a 4. The ining of hens as s« as discovered. 5. The rejection doubtful of all eggs foun in a that visited the pre shouid used at may | } sts, and si de thering of eggs, is above day. all temperature broody as nest vious day be home, HICKE! N bloodthirsty neat pes ken the poultry with. It crevices building, the poultry the fowl chic common mite is the worst man has and breeds corners of the roosts, and elsewhere in It generally attacks the roost or nest. The best remedies for cleanliness, sunlight and spraying with disinfecting solutions The poultry house and fittings should be go built as to be easily cleaned. The walle should be smooth and as free from cracks as possible Nests, roosts and dropping boards should be easily removable allow spray- ing of their entire surface and the walle beneath them. There are several preparations for the eradication of mites, among the best of which Is cresol soap Shave or chop one fivecent cake laundry soap into one pint of water. Heat or allow to stand unt’ a soap paste is formed. Stir in one pound of commercial cresol and heat or allow to stand until soap paste is dissolved. Stir in one gallon of kerosene. For use dilute with fifty parts of water, which will make a milky colored liquid. Commercial cresol ig a coal tar by-product and may be obtained from the druggist at about cents a pound. Care should be taken not to get any of it on the hands or face as it will cause Intense smarting. Any of the commonly advertised coal tar stock dips may also be used with satisfactory results, They may be diluted with fifty parts of water. Apply with a brush or with a spray ing machine. A good gpraying mach ie is quicker and more efficient than a brush Great care be taken to fill thoroughly every crevice In the walls, and nests with the Hauid. These mixtures will ‘kill ery mite with which they come h cont but it Is impossele to get all of them with one spraying. lives contend in cracks, to and nests house upon mites are to of soft 50 must perches oy act, Two thorough sprayings should be on the first day. The careful examination should be mites can the house should be Although these solutions the adult mites, it is likely they will reach the mite eggs prevent them from hatching. The houses should, therefore, be thoroughly sprayed twice again at intervals of week. This wil catch mites that have hatched out fre laid previous to the first Indianapolis News. day a alive treated not that one any ym spraying CEES SIMPLIFYING CHICK FEEDING. For sixteen or seventeen years | chickens with got arse cracked corn of the morning last thing at night, of Farm Poultry, boy, on his further simplified been feeding food that the ch Of « young with the the fine feed in and got l writes k his count, feeding have same as old hens, exception icKens instead the middle shh the ditor my own ac the fifty, fed brought years past alts up annual by the advocates or the other methods For the purpose of their board and able tion the raised a quantity after keeping it for a killed it, leaving the undrawn, and pro experiments. The when poultry is temperature the un Boston Journal poultry reasor time length of drawing one portior and remaining ceeded with portion their report that in ordinary drawn ia preferable shows kept SELECTING THE The poultry-raiser who knows and understands the individual points of each hen in his flock is the one that will obtain auccess. He can do much to improve the capacity of his hens by setting eggs from those that prove the best layers. It is better to purchase eggs from a pro fessional breeder who deala honestly when he offers selected eggs at a higher price than to buy eggs of purebred fowls from second-class stock. If the breeder takes no care in selecting hiz own stock it will deteriorate. Poultry Record. NOTES. Give the setting dusting with fnsect powder two or three times during incubation. This may save your little chicks from lice and mites The demand for greater than the supply and increases more rapidly than does the supply. Raise the products and the market is assured. Why do farmers neglect their try when they have nothing else on the farm that would pay better? That is a hard question to answer. It must be because they do not think and are careless and negligent. The general farmer is the man to raise turkeys successfully. He has the range to furnish green truck and king and grasshoppers, which make a balanced ration. The gelling price is certainly high enough STOCK. to be hen a thorough poultry is far poul nl { THE DEAR OLD ii A There's a dear old tree, au ever Ereeu wwe, And it blossoms ‘Tis loaded with root, And it brings once a year, fruit from top to to all good cheers. its bloss candles white its fruit is dolls they all are and me Wess good Aella Wi For woms bright are And And and toys. free for both you little girls Ison Smith and in Be. ola MINNIE'S SCHOOL. Minnie only but she had attended for time 80 many things. bit, too, in a in very five years old, the Kkinderg: and knew ever She could tiny little book written letters And was Arien quite some read a big she could evel make sing $0 could : sllar when it's vers dark an’ sit hole Minnie answered {Of course, ashe beside a an her vila pia caich own ed it one.” on was Tabbs “Very good, Minnie. Then, asked “Hero, very gue at who replied Tabby, win turning did encouraged to Hero, she you ever catch a wicked tramp ‘at was twyin’ to get the stable to steal cggs? Then she replied for Hero “Yes, ma'am, teacher. 1 often bark very loud at tramps ‘at creep round the stable an’ house at! night 1 wake up your papa, so ‘at he can chase the tramps away. I am a ver: brave dog, teacher.” Yed, you are very brave ted Minnie. “But don't you ever caught a tramp. one isn't eatchin’ of him.” “What sort of work do you like to do, Pugging?” Then she replied for Puggine who was now fast asleep on his chair: “1 like to into admit. say ‘at Barkin’ at you cats an’ to love to eat cake after chase stray bark at other dogs. An’ cake. May 1 have some school? But at this minute Hero got liis chair most deliberately and went ta the door leading into the hall Before the little teacher could get him back again he had gone leaping down the stairs and Minnie heard him barking at some passerby out of doors. Then Minnie turned her attention to the others of the class, and lo! Puggins awakened and was chasing Tabby round the room, and Tabby was enjoying the frol'c as much as Puggins. They were good friends. Only Florence and Jinks places, 8So Minnie before them, saying: "As ybu chil dren are the best in the class, T will give you each a half holiday. You may go to ride on the merry-go-roun’, Georgia May, gat In An' may: I'N ron an’ ask her” Then, while Hero barked in the in the sewing room, and Ceorgia ¥ May, Florence and Jinks sat quietly in their chairs Minnie downstairs to ask her mamma's per mission £0 to the park. “Oh, is school out?” asked mamma, interestedly. “Well, it's this way, Minnie. hookey very 10 mamma,” ex “Hero ran off to and Pugging and Tabby making such a fuss in the room the other pupils can’t study giving the good pupils a and I want to go to the with them May I?" ‘Certainly, little mamma “And on the porch just getting take a walk Run and ask with you, dearie. When Minnie take a walk w well behaved readily. course,” play are that Ho I'm holiday half park teacher,” laughed grandpapa ready to him to there is £0 asked ith pupils grandpapa to the consented and three he her yery ie “1 shall feel escort sald. be he much honored the fo an to kindergarten And And Hero, who the new teacher what do grandps WAR «1 Come along that?” at old speed vou think ACTOSS iawn. Ea h day all back somer somersanlt, one legs, on and ms week act, and all aiming about and that sort & good thing, ecret is just all." Newark g will learn ganit front walk on his hind nt eggs one 10 roll « Then. by got a nice ws 25 1 on peopie Are one a one Yer * on. the end of tha al YOu ve little the excl your years of patience uff of course, of » Patience is but the = ‘Know how That's Call CHILDREN THROW ~N IN. An alert little five-year-old was tak. ing a walk in a city park with her mother for the first time, and, when they arrived at the boat landing where the swan boats were waiting for passengers, little Elsie pulled away and declared very vigorously that she did not want to go, and, as her mother urged her, she broke into tears. This sudden fear was so that her mother could not stand it until she heard man's call “Come along, come along--ride clear around the pond-—only five cents for ladies and gents-——children thrown in! From the Register. unusual under the boat. FISHING WITH CORMORANTS On the banks of the River Ya we with their birds, which are very tame and intelligent. them from swal throats, to prevent turned into the water. small fish they can easily manage to bring back to the boat, they times needs the cooperation of two In this river salamander, a8 huge newt of lizard, twelve feet, the Ghinbee.- A short sermon m casiest remem bered, thinks the Commoner, A Will Restore Norristown is to schools, Bible. read in The be school board so cided The hibited by of the three Democratic against its reading Republican present his action three He IBing 10 agree to F the three Dmocrat wlled the anti-Bible Democrats dec action board Fall, bers voted the only for t. TH lock, the when and voled Calpe pub soy Bandit Destroy Big Ax Two Auto Turns ia John his an au mobhue Hurt ERrTas. 1 \ Weimer, of d chauffe recently pur nded a steep hill misburg, this counts gear struck ar fwung d. u pet i in men under the Both men and Ware they desce Ih +3 ne and I wily fre aroun ha uto Wore verely machine is injured wreck the a total Stole Soda Water Fountain, York Charged with stealing a fountain, Bert Richards, an in- surance agent was arrested here The charge was preferred by Andrew Orris, a restaurant keeper Richards declares he took the fountain for David Getz, a bottler, who claims a lease on it soda Boy Killed By Lightning. Gettysburg. —In a severe electrical storm which passed over this section Roy Stroup, a young Geltysburg boy, who had taken refuge under a tree, was Instantly killed when a bolt of lightning struck in the branches Mule Kicks Boy To Death. Pine Grove.--Alonzo Shollenber. ger, of Joliet, aged 19, employed ag a driver at the Lincoln Colliery, was kicked in the regon of the heart by a vicious mule He died instantly. The colliery stopped for the balance of the day. Finds Body Of Man In River. Hazleton Washed against some Foci the body of ar unknown man was found in the Lehigh River at Railroad, bv Hazleton excursionists at the annual pienie of the Presby- terian Sanday School of this city, The man was drowned, but whether through wsccident or otherwise will be determined Wy the coroner. loy Drowned In Schuylkill. Norristown. Harry MeCoy, 13 Years old, was drowned in the } ix iver here while swim- wag. dn a rowboat compan All water In midstream When they wore remily to got Into the boat asin the had drifted away and before : reached it MeCoy went under, oxhansie i, and sank. 1 Brevity. The comedian stalked stage and paused “Mother-in-law The audiencs “Spring The audience “Missionary and cannibals The laugh was a roar this “Mra. Newlywed's ple.” But there is a limit to what peo- ple can stand, even of humor, and the comedian Sorted just in time to save several from going Into hysterics out he sald. laughed Post jouder, oe ilaughed still time. A BAD THING TO NEGLECT. lect control Don't neg the vou lack Passages kidoeys aver the when secretions, frequent or urine is and sedi- No such Doan’'s They kid. pecome too BCAnLY Of Scotch Thrift. For Cl 4% DS and GRIP Time Hung Heavy On Hands, The as k First Creamery. HOW that state : was fora good many years confined to that part of the country Not until about 26 years Ago were any bul through the West iness creamer) it out — Secking Information, Absent-minded Professor (meet a friend unexpectedly on a tain peak) Hello! 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