— Tr - WHAT IS THE BEST BREED? “What is the best breed?’ a ques tion asked by every beginner and of ten by those of experience. best breed.” If the question is the best breeder,” have more latitude in were asked, “Who then we would which to find question asked. The writer (breeding White Wyan- Cottes) is often asked if he considers them the best of all breeds. The sensible answer to a question like that would be, “For me, ves.” them and I have handled them success, s8¢ for me they have such satisfaction, that no other would do at all for me. My neighbor breeding land Reds, iz asked the tion and he answers the same way. Recently in a conversation a party asked if a certain breed was any good, saying at the same time they had never had any success with them, they were not the proper number of eggs. This cannot be the breed, for there are breeders handling the with grand success It is with the breeder who handles the breed as whether he the vitality down to a certain point where the strain of that breed becomes un- profitable. The very highest degree of vitali must be maintained insure proper renumeration from any breed. All breeds standard bred try are and all can be immensely profitable if properly car ed in the manner. extent capabilities of breed be determined reqni of that particu- given Rhode Is same ques getting fault of the hundreds of same breed to lets the to of pol good made for The any by lar situation. For to a market —it wonld trv to breed War Legh able Sh proper of the must r one the rements instance: If von to cater and that shelled eggs indeed Rocks brown t oniy are CEES, white market of fresh demanded : he very foolish to Plym with outh or dottes their CERS rng would profit fowl for von to nid Ivy broilers to he the keep vour im be to produce oar command the top fanc price « you dertalnly rhen eo wld not breed they 4d able If a selection for all, a high ly developed laving strain of one the American breeds. Either of these American breeds fiave the capability of being to a very high degree of excellency, with regard the laying qualities Too much attention has been paid to quality for the show room and at the seme time s more or lost of the real profitable side ity This leghorns with much profit, f yp 0 not make the market the Wrandottes good broilers do we would dare make we would insist on of bred special to feht fa leas util ghould Shor birds value are reall” of no if they have not the proper degree of quality from a utility standpoint Whatever breed will be best if make best, give never he the case ’ of intrinsic real value you are handling your part to advantage vou forward step you take. will put your favorite nearsr the top rounds of SHCCrRSs ~ H. Rion in the Farmers’ Home Jour. nal vou do it them. ever: Fount SUMMER Feather-pulling, dividual feathers, necks and hreasts a sirgle hen. the the f victim, and the other fowls soon and her example. It is mostly due to confinement and idleness, and not alwavs lack of any particular food. although in mans cases the cause dune to the food not containing certain essential ole ments demanded by the fowls Feath- ers when plucked from the birds and immediately eaten contain ble moisture, the taste is azreeghle the blood a bone content is relish- ed. The surest remedy is to kill the guilty ones or separate the rest of the flock, giving oppor tunity for plenty of exercise and feeding foods rich In nitrogen, such as cut bone, -animal meal and lin- seed meal, VICES bv loging known the in their the be started by male often being fowls eraduaite uanall beginning on mas rat rat learn follow to in comsidera- nd among the fowls. An egg becomes broken, the hen discovers that the contents is a luxury as well as a source of a “balanced ration.” and beging to seek food in that direction. Refuse eggshells should never be thrown into the poultry vard The nests should be at least a foot above the ground and should have a top over them so that the hen must walk into them and not Jump down from the top of a deep box. A good variety of food and favorable condi. tions are the best remedies for the vice. Fowls in confinement are a great deal more apt to eat their oges than those that are at liberty, Idle ness among hens generally leads to a great many vices.—A Reader in the Indiana Farmer. RAISE CHICKENS. In some sections the farmers have an excellent opportunity to rafse chickens for the early season, for their crops do not need much atten tion until after that time and the labor car »¢ made to reap great prof its from the fowls. Retalis $e best Myers for the mothers and if the 2 i Z rofit , hens are not broody, which will prob i ably be the case, use incubators and { hatch ducks and chicks in time to | reach the late winter and early spring resorts and then hatch out another lot for the spring season. If the | other work on the fern has not tak- en too much of the farmer's time he can also continue and have chicks ready for shipment until late in the spring, but generally the farm work takes a great deal of time and if he utilizes his labor to advantage he will find that his fowls will have | reaped quite a profit as a side Issue. FOR MITES. Do not forget that the little red mites mutiply amazingly. Even if you think there are none about your place keep right on as if you there thousands of them. of crude carbolic gallon of coal oil and use paint about the perches inside the house. If about 50 cents in of the cheap mixture the house WATCH were Mix acid this two in as on will spray i spray t and week mites kind. be ounces a a the invest of Wit ump he over perches a of the be enemies inside will insect the You once not or of This is too important a neglected may be irely any matter enough poultry to because the prevent reduce mites about house t en and their the mas Farmers’ vitality Progress along Home extent that checked. that {sedge he o come BEAUTIFUL PLUMAGE Don't be afraid beautiful plumag: utilise in hand. I qualities coun ou can have of wellbred of ividuality and long this in a flock fowls than vou can ever {rom a catch-as you-can poultry. Have them one variety and col ve those only that are bred for the purpose them it alwarvs looks flock of well B88 CARY ill-sorted lot Poultry Jour t in the run, To ¢ more of hope to have assortment alike, Of 11 all q ai i Gf very best desire to have a ind to uniform f in awla f1va OW is just an National have this as have ¥ “ wd Oi anyin nal. EARLY MATURITY. Leghorn pullets will sometimes be gin to lay when thes but iz of them begin are four months no advantage to too as their are very small, and the task is great such young birds It is frequently the case that flock Leghorn pullets begin lay- ing when five months old. and keep at it until late in the fall. Leghorn iets hatched In June will begin to old, it have CRRS tO0 early. for of lay through the winter if kept warm and fed well—A Reader in the In diana Farmer, NOTES A hen of gnod breed ceases work in laying time only when out of con. dition . Fresh straw to work little chicks fust as happy as it does the older birds Shady runs hot weather: are good for but lonk damp That unhealthful Watch the brooder chicks rere hens in that makes out are not them If they with other poultry they are apt lousy before you are think about it If you have to keep the hens shut feed gond. fresh clean food and plenty grass, lettuce, clover and such things. Lice breed fast when the weather gets warm. Houses that have been occupied by broody hens will need close looking after If you can, change the chicken coops this vear to ground that never heen nceunied that way before Your chicks will do much healthier, Young turkevs are more suscenpti- ble to chill and rain than are chicks, The latter will stand confinement during a cold, wet period betier than the turks. Three times a day is not enough to feed little chicks. They ought to have at least five feedings, the first in the morning. the last about bedtime and the other three sand- wiched in at regular Intervals. Move the hen yard now and then, #0 that the biddies may have new, clean ground to run over. Plow up the old vard and seed it down new, That will rid the earth of any dis ease germs there may be in it. to got ing 1 nf Thinking Machinery May Rust “We read books nowadays.” sald ev. Hugh Black to the Dartmouth collegians, “to avold thinking. We seldom hear a volee which is not an echo of what some one else has sald.” Are we getting to he a race of pla. glarists? Ta it true that in these days of insurgency, of the exhalation of independent action, we are neglect. ing the fundamental right and privi lege of thinking for ourselves? There's a deal of truth in the warning. The program that most men cut out for themselves, and which they assume the world lays out for them, doesn't give them time to stop and think, They try to assimilate what others have thought and pass off the product as their own. But few men, even those who lead, ever actually stop work, isolate themselves asd think —Bos ton Herald, COLLEGE GIRLS LIVING ON $2 * WEEK. There are fow more interesting or less known features of college girl life than that called Tenney House, one of Smith College's dormitories. In it fifteen young women, of which all but three are in their teens, are living without apparent discomfort at the rate of $2 a week each for all household expenses. A club system that has as its executive a house gov- ernor. who is elected semi-annually by all the fifteem members, is the prevailing policy in Tenney House, ard under its beneficent but unyield- ing rule the girls concerned in the experiment find themselves growing happier and stouter every day. Reg- ularly the governor appoints one of her companions to do the marketing, another to clean the windows, a third to dust, and scrub, cook and clean. Constant changes are male in the “help” and in guence no girl works more than two or three dave a week, the rest of her time being as free as that of the girls The house hardest to hat Tenney resident Dr. others to Conse in every other dormitors governor, ia worker of all, is supposed arbiter of every trimming House is member Florence of course, the for she thing, be from to salad dressing in of charge of the Gilman, who sects gener overseer It is of the fifteen girls engaged in this trial of the low cost of living are able to pay higher price for their board lodging in of they joined the House it seems, ontery ane college facult ns and the CABOS squad, popular majority Tenney from plague against the of the college JPEN AIR NERVOUSNESE The doctors that ner vous debility an alarming low spirits and morbid irritability The chiefly attacks women who remain too much Sometimes staving a matter of gooms 10 inform us is increasing extent among us to accompanied disease those indoors in the house is indolent he account of the presstre of and not infrequently induced or more or duties by a of {4 i uraged 1 f : is ened dread, less 1] ounded A distressing symptom of the mal is a chronic of for boding. The victim of nerves studies herself, her ailments wants. her loneliness: or she is forever anticipat ing trouble for her husband and her children. living within her it CARY fall a gtate evil her so much in for her to into or imaginary condition injury to This works of warrey only her health, not but until re she known then is made go from what is and home matters ns A A un- becomes perhaps 8 "nagging woman.” matter of course, comfortable, and wWOorae of this if the more out of doors ants of Southern Europe legs from nerves than the farther north because fo Mach he { nly would ould The inhabit suffer much iv live trouble woman whn climate we the air. Nervous debility iy increasing among well, therefore, for know that the best in drugs pure air and in Woman's Life is unfortunate us, and it is overs one £0 relief in sunlight, diversion. e fg not to but 1ocoent TICE The political woman has been much in evidence since Congress became so unruly. Those who lecture on cur rent topics are overwhelmed with the Cannon upheaval In Washing all the wives of men prominent in public affairs study poll tics. Mrs. Eugene Hale has the history and knowing it more correct Iy than any other woman of her gen eration. Mrs. Hale prefided over the home of her father, Zach Chandler, in the days of his power. Mrs. Frank Briggs, daughter of Senator Frye, is another excellent politician. Mrs. La Follette not only talks politica well, but she can throw light on the most intricate question when it comes to writing. Mrs. Cummings is another shrewd politicien, and she can make one of the best off-hand speeches. Mrs. Champ Clark is versed in poll great national game and she gives political dinners in which every sub ject save public affairs tacitly is avoided. Mrs. James Bryce, whose mother was an American, studies all that relates to national policies In this country with zeal and Intell gence. Bhe passed many hours in the galleries of the House when the great debate was on and her com sympathy New York Pross. WIVES, SHOW THIS TO HUS BANDS, A sunshiny husband makes a mer worth having, If a man is night and renews her vouth in bation and admiration, You may think it weak or chufldish, if you please, but it is tls admired wife who hears words of praise and receives smiles of commendation, who is capa ble, discreet and executive. I have seen a timid, meek, self-distrusting little body fairly bloom into strong self-reliant womanhood under the ton ic and the cordial of companionship with a husband who really went out of his way to find occasion for show- ing her how fully he trusted her judgment, and how tenderly he de ferred to her opinion. In home life there should be no jar, no striving for place, no insist: | ing prerogatives or division of in terest. The husband and the each the complement of And ft just as much duty be cheerful as it is hers patient: his right to bring the as. it hers to and garnish the on wife | the | his | i« Joy. | sweep pleasant interior, says Woman's Life. A family where | daily walk of the father makes | life a festival is filled with something | like heavenly benediction. are other is to be i door nto is the DUKE PROPOSES IN (Ct WAY. Sienkiewicz Pan as TRIOUS Po fm- | European : accredited bid ! the au VOArs Duke 1a nd provident noblemen standing at in as known wicz, is most of the have no His pri of brother of as Sienkie who court for fame is that "Quo Vadis' Wh aOed Mrs Dorothy during 4 He knew +) the (ime thor of he had Crouse For Norris to life | annual her of her trips Paris eventful from D of marriage | millionaire who remember He knew the one better hee Potulecka. After gained her freedom, the ith first to brewer Syracuse, i failed or hia wife | time Ohio came the Countess Duke ardor, h the courage al whe re the told her phrased it clgarettes when she 3 gir the Countess pressed his suit = much never could make the muster a direct | He Domenicix was stopping, he and to ropes One day in tol Countess of his loneliness wanted for me” he some The one buy ; Coun promised ¢ pro the ne ring upon her finger match, the an was made public a few days afterward New York Press, LOGIC FOR GIRLS. that to teas 0 vide we him with ! cigarettes. and i ped a betrothal That made nouncement day he slip the and 1 self is great- | manners and Remember est obstacle self is always Surface the good with polish mas us hide self. but scratch that surface it will pop. sometimes in guise As there is nothing harder to fight than self, the woman who aspires to | be truly polite had better go to work i earls thinking of others first. ! only can she hope have t politeness which is more to be desired than the polish that from training. but conceals a selfishness within Indianap and out unlovely on Thus that hear fo Comes deadly olis News DANISH CREAM a pint of cream to's stiff a quarter of a package half 4 cupful of cold | when dissolved add the of two oranges Strain four oranges, stir in half sugar. Put half a pint of | cream into a double boller beaten volks of three oggs | atifring until! the cream begine thicken. Add the gelatine | and from the fire Let it! stand for a few mindtes and add the | Orange and sugar. Bent until | about the consistency of custard, then add the whipped ecroam Mix well together and turn into a mould to | harden Serve ice cold-—New York | Press in unwhipped Stir in the and continue tO remove fuice CANNED STRAWBERRIES : When the berries have been picked | over, lét as many as can fill the pre serve kettle at once be placed on a platter. To eich pound of fruit add three-fourths of a pound of sugar and let them stand two or three "hours until the juice is drawn out. Pour the juice into a kettle and let it come Then put the berries in very carefully. As soon as they have come while boiling FASHION NOTES. Blue suede shoes are quite smart for street wear, when one's costume is dark blue. Supple popling, fine serges and tis. sues of open meshes are used for For street wear there is a growing fashion for the severe frocks of striped linen. ; Furze wood, maple and bamboo seem to be the favorite woods for parasol handles this season. Hand-painted scarfe, ribbons and dress stuffs, as well as parasols, are decidedly smart. Neck ruffs of tulle, the exact tone GOOD ROADS AC CAH as RURAL CARRIERS AND ROADS. The Tennessee Rural Carriers’ As- sociation held a meeting in Nash- viile and devoted most of its time to the question of good roads The earriers adopted a number of resolutions dealing with the subject, They recommend that there be schools of instruction for road fore men: that there be a State director of highways, three engineers, one for each grand division of the State, and also a competent in every county. They favor State and national aid for the public highways they favor a tax on all kinds of vehicles for the benefit of the roads They ssk that the plan first to be adopted in building good roads be build from county to county the “and roads feeders other roads.” recommend property own look after the cleaning out ditches along their property investigation of POE the of Tennessee re 0 DOG the Federal deposited the some Vv class of men the needs rural car road prac pursuance and engineer to the county, seat adjoining can be one seat of these for They that of all and urge the of $ eibility State from old bonds Government in embody NO with the the in wee vd vy or ering 0 with the fifties The resolutions alu. able suggestions is more familiar the highways than riers. They are tically all their, duties mail “Hie ¥ road of on the time of lecting tion 1 good give better than over Assistant I said the States miles In but carriers, day, ly these servants rural travel ures there and they Sunda more sho hit HONOUS oF On heat and w 0 can ap : n thoroughfare a proved and thoroughly as on earth roads sy 4. tha y > ervbods fi do ng and inl ia: carriers a benefic work when their influence in behalf of improve ment. Louisville Courier-Journal are the exercise 81 THAT BUILD ROADS most ph interest In good all fall ENTHU One of of t he SN ¥ the nomenal evi All o wt dences Around to tho Georgia held of the Albany it had been several roads cont the result be next was meeting rain that t appointed to roads dificalt steadily for “% ov LE 4 dares jer of ii in S800 0 at Albany gullied and Yet, in the one hundred thusiasts fr ell Thomas « and ster mecting at the seat of Dougherty It is relntnd that on Various rile f nities meet The were heavy of navigation ‘a oa mt thepe th conditions and fifty good roads et olquitt, Worth ¥ 3 n $3 Mitch and ounties braved the formed part of a rey eat thriving 80 keen rivalry bhetw the towns the COCSEATY to ou pative routes, the definite to mad~ later. Each ue ists present. many of them important i that improvement ® 7 to was finally be of county officials cent men: for running munities The sum. ing Georgia is reported highway hizh in their respective com the paortior grip of a tal of that in the Albany meet of South road is that all never approached in the history of the settion Conditions are, moreover, simply of conditions in other towns and counties on the 1.000 mile swing outlined around Georgia. Developments of this practical na ture are especially gratifying. They mean that the zest has had the effect expected by The Constitution in concentrating atten. tion on that vital phase of upbuilding associated with highway extension and improvement if the contest of last year gave the canse of rood roads a tremendous im petus in Georgia, it is difficult to fore. cast to what bounds the present con test may not go. Certainly. present indications are of the most insniring deseription.— Atlanta Constitution. An Afternoon’s Work, The city boarder looked with sap erfluong pity at the son of the prop rietreas of Maple Hill Farm. “You poor boy,” she said, coming upon him, hoe In hand, on his way down the hot road, “do you mean.to say you have to hoe potatoes in this heat? How long will you have to work?" “Well, 1 can't exactly tell how, many hours, ma'am,” sald the boy, “bat ‘twill be just an afternoon's work.” “Then you must know how long that will be” said the lady. who wag a person given to suspect ing others of evading the truth. “No, ma'am, 1 don't,” asserted the boy as he moved away. “She said to me, ‘Dave, when you've got all the po tatoes all hoed you'll have done your 's work’ That's all she there duplicates a Cue naw Daves “What have you to this charge of bigamy; why did you have go many wives?” Rr 4 él j i, Ju ay to vy ted to ige, 1 i weed few of them later.” eX Ded out a RAW ECZEMA ON HANDS “1 had eczema on my hands for ten Years. 1 had three good doctors but none of them did any good. 1 then used one box of Cuticura Ointment and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent and was completely cured. My hands were raw all over, inglde and out, and the eczema was spreading all over my body and limbs. Before | had used one bottle, together with the Cuticura Ointment, my sores were pearly over, and by the time | had the third bottle, | was entirely To any one who has any skin or blood disease I would honestly ad- vise to fool with nothing else, but get Cuticura and get well My bands have never given me the least bit of trouble up to now “My danghter's hands this summer became perfectly raw with eczema. She could get nothing that would do them any good until she tried Cuts cur he used Cuticura Resolvent Cuticura Ointme and in two weeks they were cured. | have used Cuticura for other members of my family and it always proved suc- M. E Fallin, Speers Oct. 18, 1900." used well them ” He und mt ai entirely Mr Ferry, Va. The Wrong Sort old Irish wus fromt of his cotiage iy at his pipe. h he lighisd, pull ing hurd at pipe the while, until xt last the ground all round his feet WaE strewed with struck mziches your d Patzy,” ali peasant ong Bun- sitting ng away f ET +} Pe satch afl Iry¥Ous poy matcl £F we “Come in to mmner, length calied out his wife “Faith, and Of will in a minuie Bid- said “Molke Nulrooney has been atelling me that ff Of shonoked 2 bit er ghlass OF cud pee the shpots on the sun. Of don’t know whether Molke's been s-fooling me or whether Of've got hold ay the wromg kind of ghlase "—Boraps Seeking Comfort “I've got 8 long way to go end T'm used 10 travel” sald the applicant the rallway ticket office. “1 wani to be just as comfortable as 1 c=, regardless of expense ” “Parlor car?” “No. 1 domi ili 8 “Slsaper “No I want watch the scenery Then what do you want™ “Well if wouldn't be too much trouble, 1 wish you'd me up in ane these refrigerator cars I've read so much about” care for parior fx- or svake =n’ to Stuy - is put of An Unnecessary System, “You ought to have a burglar alarm system in your house.” sald the elec trical supply ageni, “so that you will be awakened If a burglar raises ome the windows or opens a door atl night™ | “Np burglar can get in bere whinle we are peacefully sleeping” replied Mr. Newpop. “We are weaning our baby.” i of Not Really Famous. “Did he ever attain real eminence? “f don't think so. 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