The day of the scrubby hen is gone
forever. There hardly seems any ne
cessity for an argument on this point,
for any one who has ever understood
the true value standard-bred
poultry will never be with
any other kind. If nothing else were
involved than the mere appearance
any one can appreciate the difference
between vigorous, large-sized, uni
formly beautiful, standard-bred fowls
of
satisfied
hens which look as if they were not
worth scratching for, and as
as they look. A flock of pure
poultry is an ornament to 2ny
or farm yard, but this is not the
difference between them and
run-down Standard-bred
try will than
be obtained from the
yard stock, and the eggs will
valuable for the simple reason
during hatching time will
no trouble in
at least double market
When consider it
much in food, time,
etc., to hatch and
turity scrubby chickens
grown, will weigh bu: 31-2
per hen and 5 pounds
does to hatch and
pure-bred poultry
peunds
cock. A
more than a barnyard
requires more and no
labor, but the result 1s twice as
Is it not
buildings, time,
your money on run-d
both pleasure and
pure-hred stock?
It
are
lawn
main
their
cousins poul
produce more eggs
: barn
more
that
have
them
common
he
you
disposing of for
the
we COR/tS
labor,
out raige to
that,
pounds
per cock as it
raise to maturity
that will
and 10
fowl
weigh 7
per hen pounds per
well-bred requires no
food fowl
no time more
great
foolish, then, to waste your
your your labor
ywn stock, when
profit lie in the
fs the start that
1: fF In ANY RUCCES
Certainly this i
raising. Therefore
bette . # yvoorly on
repair
It
Diure
It a8 easy
€inning You do
large grounds
ings
To begi
most
money
thrown
to begin
a business that |
every There
poultry ng will
right
is just to make
And
AWAY
at
danger
“ane no
raising will e monopo!
ized by a
Usually the he $ begin
right where
There is
ver o
poultry
right
that little plot
There is money in pon
part of this country, though of course
Some parts are
poultry culture
busy’ Up to
fa 20.000 600
this
means”
40
toher at
for the
«
are
a gold mine
the hu
iitry In every
is ¥ ou
now
behind
better adapted to
than o
now tt os
dozen short
Do know
SOA/ON You
No ]
cent
wind
.
get hnay
Farmer
RATION
may interest
A GOOD
Here i
poultry raise vho have
small! ad it myself all win-
ter and
§f feed my ans ked
and ahout three pints, 1
small handful of salt, and make it
black on top with then mix
well and feed in the morning. About
two hours them cooked
potato peeling 1 save that
purpose} along all scraps
from table: 1 also salt this and
#tir in corn meal enough make a
good mash, and put in about a tablk
spoonful of coal oil which helps
keep them warm My hens laid all
winter: through coldest weather
1 got on an average of 14 to 16 eggs
a day from 18 hens, 1 think that is
pretty
is a
started on a
scale;
be a success
Cra com,
tn put a
pepper
later I give
{which
with
for
the
the
to
tn
the
is a simple and
good,
cheap rece] producer
It proved iis
has healthy
though they
would surely
it is cheap to try
me If any one
chickens that look as
to lay, 1 think this
work: at least
as cracked corn is
only 2c a pound. 1 use a half sack of
corn meal to a gallon of scraps and
peelings. The pepper has a warming
auality while the salt makes them
drink lots of water, which is healthy
to either foul or animal, and also fat
tening ; of course use judgment
and do not overestimate the thing,
for you could do harm by using too
much as well as in anything else
1 have ducks that have not laid this
season and 1 would like to know
something make them lay wil
you kindly answer through your pa
per? Mrs. R. O. B.
Perhaps you feed the ducks too
much corn, and make them too fat to
lay. Indiana Farmer,
ought
do the
but
to
THE POULTRY BUSINESS.
Don't expect too much of any bush
ness, though we now apeaking
more especially of the poultry busi
ness. Some people are imaginative
and boost a business beyond all res
son. This is what some did with the
Belgian hare business and it caused
many people to lose money in it. In
a similar way unprepared people are
caused to go into the broiler, duck or
in the squab plgeon business only to
become disappointed. Any of these
are good businesses to the right party
in the right way, but not to every.
re
body. Nor is any one business the
hn
at AR, Rt
for Individual
Too
any form
simple
anybody is prepared to pursue it
but this they
thing evervhody
adaptation must he considered
many jook
poultry business
of
that
BUC:
mistak.
the poultry
or for the fun
ia sure to be dis
the poultry
best.—I, H. in
Journal,
people upon
as so
cigefully; in
en No
business as a
of it. If he does he
appointed. And yet
ness is one of the
the National Poultry
are
one should enter
pastime
bus
y
vary
AND
old
lay
SUMMER
notion that a hen that
in winter is not worth
but a hen that lays all
lay all summer. If
she will
fn the spring, and if she
accommodated, she may
found on an old ox voke, or in a bare
dry
LAYERS
It is an
does not
keeping ;
ter
win
will not she
heavy y breeds
to sit
be
iI5 not
goods box. , For summer layers |
have Brown Leghorns hatched out in
well, f
them
animal meal and oyster
yt push hem until
! almost
plenty o
shell
late
give
do n
hen
11
troubl
In these
summer
davs
hen
Farmers
YOUNG (1
Filth more i
than to adult fowls
is
that a
everything
sanitary conditions
come handy to make the
ers and
Keen
times, but
“40
mothers
the
water by
if
the water be
this has
#
Zive We
Try treating inflamed and
eyes of poultry with moderate
salt water,
Allowing
barn
lice among the horses
Don't
them set "his wi
not toe
the caus
and
pen up the Inveterate ao
is
very
COWS
let rid needs
chicken, and |
it. too
Do not give
to
Boil peelings,
f vy @
ood hona
es z-ahells
Twenty or thirty fat
Thanksgiving
turkeys about
Christmas will
bill wonderfull;
some turkeys
A damp, musty cellar is not a good
place to eggs. If you wish to
keep eggs for a short time for home
use keep them in a dry, cool place.
help
Don’t
or
out the grocery
have
forget to
store
Baby Snatched From Death.
When the engineer passenger
train No. 4, on the Colorado Midland,
rolling down the western slope of the
Continental division at thirty miles
an hour, rounded a curve at Glen:
wood Springs, Col, he saw a boy, 2
years old, in the middle of the track
laughing and waving at him. He get
the emergency brake, but the heavy
train slid down grade and he saw
that he could not stop it before it
reached the child, Fireman John
Baker had seen the child ag soon as
did the engineer. He dashed through
the cab window, aped along the foot
board of the swaying engine and
out upon the pilot.
Just before the engine reached the
child Baker made a jump, threw an
arm around the child and rolled
with it off the track in front of the
forward trucks. The child's father
had just left the spot, having freed
a horse from the barbwire fence of
the raliroad’s right of way, and had
not noticed that the little tot follow.
ed him to the scene,
of
A WIFE'S DUTIES.
A girl should marry when
Capabie of understanding
duties true
thorough housekeeper, and never
fore,
is
and fulfill
wife
she
and
be
be
ing the of Aa
No matter how old she may
Managing a
of it she
if she i8 not capable of
house in every department
old get married
When she promises to take the posi
tion of and homemaker, the
man who holds her has ev.
ery knows
If she
unwill
consider
how
is in
ig not enough to
wife
promise
suppose that she
to fulfil it.
incompetent or
right to
self
her competent
be
ing he has good reason to
cheated No matter
may be, If it
the
home
husband's
kept and
simple)
ordance with Means
the
serv
clean ta
his
ights
and he finds it
meals (no matter
ining dishes and
1
hushand will leave
tho
shot
Ha
and
much powel
making a happy home
ge Cann
P. A
VOArs
odd ra :
devoted parents and
to he
f
tion forbids all quarrel
ge where there
he children
not to be
their
thes
are little
and gentl 7
family
and
a chance
quarrel
close for
earth unt
rednearnated n leas
fome surroundings.” Talbot how
over
pointed out that the people have
not © the importance of
New
t grasped
and sanitary lving
Preas
fresh afr
York
PUTCH RED CROSS WOMEN
Mabe]
of the
Boardman, national secretary
American Red Cross, presented
turesque women to President
Mra. Taft, at a garden party in
White Holise grounds. They are
oncsges Alute and Ufford, two
the Red Cross of
Holland, but who are visiting in Wash.
ington as the guests of the Minister
from the Netherlands and Mme. Loud.
on The two quaint young women,
dressed in the severe costumes pre.
geribed by the law of Holland, at.
tracted much attention. They wore
stiff starched linen caps and full plait.
131
and
Dea
widicea of wool and wide linen collars
They were decorated with
orders, which the Dutch
confers on such women
who have devoted themselves to such
gorvice and who bave accomplished
brilliant work They spoke only
Dutch and German, but all evening
they were the centre of a large throng
who wished to meet and speak with
them. They were shown through the
White House and the grounds and
were guests at an Informal supper
that followed. New York Preas,
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
GOOD.
“Marriage Is a mad gamble
bejeweled
BOTH
and di
This
philosophy
an nsurance policy
is the substance of the
held by A. (
lice magistrate
much
di
on
mad
encouraged
also
Plowden
i riage,
Plowden, a
He argues that there
London po
is unreasonable
and
marriage
prejudice
10 say
dangerous
should
and di
encouraged.”
no mar
arranged,
experiment You
that, “Ther»
‘I look on divorce sim.
policy of insurance
against
“1 look
and
he
| YOrce
Voroce EOe8 On
a8 a
Marriage
every
gamble
in
should be
that
however
is not an
prevent it
way
BAYS there is
carefully
which
cannot being
fore,” he says,
ply as a
ing
ried
of their
provid.
nity of
who
an opport release to mar.
couples through no fault
contact
and ca-
own, have come in
with unfo
lamities that
miserable I
ulties
reseen i
made their
the
have
3 1, \
think common
view is both parti to a
and
have
rea
riage want anceled
can satis they
mad
BONA LIN
ores
they
Ver
celve
AN INVITATION
do
not
ivitations not
eX
tion, It
awthormn
the wat
papers
exceeding:
Do not
than
resting »
for fu
write
long
without
work
hours together
read
tao
or
or
them
our eves and closing
+ Rs .
lly five nn Woman's Life
nutes
TROUBLES
phrase
The
come singly
“troubles
originated
Life,
that
WAS
never
by a
Woman's
married man
HOW GOOD THEY
wWouldan t
ARE
how
didn’t
We
gome
us
pect good
people are if thes
Life
FASHION NOTES
eff oq i8
tell
Woman's
Paisley
The touch
Poplin for
dence.
Crushed
much worn
Simplicity of cut is the note of the
wash sults.
Rep is a material much
separate skirts
Handbags of black satin with mono
grams and mountings of gold are
used.
There is yet no limit to the amount
of braiding put on gowns and sults.
Deep cotton fringe trims the bottom
of some of the coats of the moment.
Very neat are the zephyr ginghams
woven in fine dimity ‘checks or
stripes.
Among the new rubber camping
coats are those made with the check:
ed lining.
Smocking is seen on some of the
handsome lingerie negligees of soft
silk. ;
Silk and lisle stockings are worked
with rooster heads on instep and an.
kle.
The serge of fine twill is as firmly
established as ever for simple dresses,
Short coats, sloping shoulders, and
{ full underarm lines rule in present
| models
| Among the handsome scarfs which
{ the season has brought forth are
| some of crepe with hand-painted bor
| ders,
are much
of black
suits
in
is still
quite
Yogue
popular
in
is evi
guede or satin belts are
used for
VEAL
remains
SCOLLOPS,
of cold
grated nutmeg, 2 blades
and
1 dessert
roast veal, 1-2
The
teaspoonful
of pounded
to taste, a
spoonful
mace, cayenne salt
little butter,
of flour, teaspoonful of an
chovy sauce, juice half
and grated rind of same, tablespoon
ful of mushroom ketchup, yolk of
beaten up with 1 cup of
veal slices about
knife
cut
grate into
of of lemon
milk it the
2 Inches
Foret
ou
into
wide, across with
don’t cut through, and
the
fry in a
them nutmeg, mace, cayenne
salt, little butter about
3 ” vale
minutes, dish then and make
gravy in spider other
gredients, bring
the
bacon are
over veal
Whitehead
DOOR
There is a fancy
ing old door kuockers
ancestors d
ollecting that man)
re
sre Of
it adds
reprodus
Colonial
zon!
and
modern
fitted
those
niche wherei
tiful supply of
and gay, the
hour, or
By lucks
nstance
the k
chance
this happens to
bedstead and
placed fou
the the fire
wage deviaed
bookshelves
shoe C11
Serve
reading lamp during wi
boar
them ag a table for candle
or electric
ful hours
in the day
dressing for
that
or that
pleasant lul
hour
which it
away with an
bedroom
book, the chair and
together. "Housing of
the Home Magazine,
half befora
dinner,
restful to while
ing book
if only the
time come
Books,” in
amus
over one's fire
the
HINTS
Mothers should caution their chil
dren attending school not to put pen.
cilg in their mouths, especially since
diphtheria has been communicated in
that way in some of our large towns
Some people do not know how much
can be saved by using suet and less
lard. While lard is 18 cents a pound
suet can be bought of the butcher
for five cents a pound Cut up in
emall pieces, put in kettle or spider,
try out and strain. It may be used
for frying doughnuts and shortening
for many Kinde of cooking It is bet
ter to melt it and use hot for shorten.
ing
Much valuable
dirty gauncepans
water until yon
them
Jelly bags are not
clearing jellies and soup. A clean
glass cloth tied over the lege of a
chair turned upside down and a basin
placed beneath answers admirably.
When the color of a fabric has been
destroyed by acid, ammonia is applied
to neotralize the same, after which
an application of chloroform will in
almost all cases restore the original
oolor.
time
are
Are
is saved if all
filled with cold
able to wash
necessary for
i
{
Waiting Their Turn,
“Did your folks
see Halley's
the visitor
“Nope repli ¢ native “We
never big
until ¢ p if v payed a
foe
i:
down in Bingvilie
BPTI asi
or
ng:
shows
yar in
NEW York
He Had Feared
The pr
It Would,
il ESE
BUInIner
were
$ printin
Hobert W
patch,
Epidemic of Itch in Welsh Village.
“In Wales, about
fifteen years ago, families were strick.
én wholesale by a
the itch, Believe me
terrible of its kind that |
know of, through your
body and makes your life inferno.
Bleep {8 out of the and you
feel ns if a mil OU8 were
attacking you time, 1
knew a dozen were so
affected
“The did their best. but
their remedies were of no avail what.
Dowlais, South
disease known as
most
it is the
diseas
ae
question
ion mosquit
at the same
families that
doctors
ever. Then the families tried a drug-
glat who was noted far and
his remarkable cures
to him from all parts of
for treatment, but his n
matters st
they
wide for
People came
the country
mada
resort
a friend to use
I am glad to
days’ treat-
1edicine
a8 a last
were
Olatment
fas wWonger-
was a perfect curs
may add that my three brothers,
sisters, myself LE
three 11 ou
our
iA
and all
users of the Cuticura
{lies have been
Rem
Hugh,
fil., June 2
[ESF hr
idl Lier Cy
Na
edies for fifteen
™
ifomas
years
8t., Chicago,
Huron
38."
1650 West
¢
9. 1%
Ie
rh.
J
mrs
i »
the country
has had
hydro
to have
only one case
phobia, an found
been diagnosed erroneously.
SUD PORE of
this was
For raising oranges or grape fruit
Porto Rico windbreaks
ely necessary If the grove
posed to the trade winds, which bi!
continuously fi
are abs
is «
ir nine months
which cripple unprotected trees.
Letters curiously
ten with red cha
formed and writ.
K, says the New York
Press, on a card the window of a
frame buflding S00 yards from
Columbia University announce: “Day
Bored and Vokel! Music Tausbht ™
in
not
There's vitality, snap and “go”
In a breakfast of,
Grape-Nuts
and cream,
Why?
Because natura stores up
In wheat and barley
The Potassium Phosphate,
In such form as to
Nourish brain and nerves.
The food expert who originated
Grape-Nuts
Retained this valuable
Element in the food.
“There's a Reason”
Read the famous little book,,
“The Road to Wellville,”
Fourd in packages.