Than Few Years Ago—Get Qual- ity Rather Than Quantity. much easier and more than it was a few years ago prominent breeders are getting large a proportion of exhibition speci mens from their matings as are breeders of any ers who are buying eggs get value for the money they invest course, one must be careful to birds, for breeders who breeding the quality that are ply it to their customers be sure to mark them to the breeding pen all according in which mature you will know their breeding are going tion stock, to keep for your if you have only one male and one female that suit you, you had better use only for the first year's breeding. It not quantity that the beginner wants -—fit is quality. Next season your best pullet and mate back to the old male and mate the yearling is son's cockrels These reasonably sure to produce plenty of quality, {if buy the eggs bres ier who has line bred his prop.rly you FOLDING COOP FOR CHICKENS Ends and Sides Turn Down When Not Being Used—Of Great Conve- nience in Shipping to Market. coop, designed and in for raising chickens it interest a sides and ends of beneath the ends Wisconsin man, present mania will probably by a view of the great many people the coop are hinged When the . wT rin cw * wa . RE Paa 4 Folding Chicken Coop. extended the sides to the ends, in the the four corners tacle is support firmly clips coop is collapsed, pins lock the fold ing parts and Keeps down As will be readily understood, a coop of this kind will be a great convenience to poultry farmer who ships his chickens to market to a poultry gtore After the live fowls have been disposed of a « all are held position by and extended at them the or ozen of these improved tied to 4 an be folded up, back from at They 3 1 + the chicken receptacles « one bundle place where ti ext v equally 1 and shipped small are farm. y Came handy on will Fall it Drop and Contents to the Floor. A good way to build hens’ nests Is to have the bottom attached small hooks and staples. nests are to be cleaned the bottom Dumping Hens’ Nest, can be dropped and all the contents will fall out. The nests should be at least twelve inches square, and for the largesized breeds fifteen inches will be better, Turkey Raising. Because of their natural roaming disposition a great many persons think that turkeys are hard to raise, but to those who understand their habits they are the easiest to raise of all do mestic fowls, says a writer in an ex. change. 1 think I say “domestic” ad- visedly, although 1 know there are some who consider it a misfit when applied to turkeys, but surely no one could call a flock of turkeys as tame as mine anything but domestic. This quality of tameness esn be bred in tur keys and should be cynsidered by all careful breeders, as well as size, shape and plumage. cation Automatic as Chicken Helps Itself to Water, Ope of the most | i | the insecticide shown in the designed by poultry farms is tion It Ohlo man. was an ing preparations for every fowl apparatus here makes this aplica tion automatically as the chicken drinks.. A central support is placed in the water pan and two tubes are Insecticide Applier. suspended from the sides A strip down from each tube to a point close water. The tube is filled with liquid insecticide, which keeps this strip continually saturated. When a it has to push under the flap and in this motion and by the action of withdrawing its head, the feathers on head and neck soaked with the t As fowl to solut missed in this treat both become ion every has is TO FORCE EARLY MOULTING Fowls Should Be Confined for About Ten Days and Given About One- Quarter of Usual Ration, To bring fowls ters about about in August 1, early moulting, eon- various quar and for ten days of their During this time they at the their only allow them usual rations loge flesh and Then liberate and feed them all the corn, sunflower seed and wheat they will eat This causes a rapid moult and the new feathers start at The hens soon recover and begin to lay reg ularly about October 1 The ration {i laying hens not be too heavy, but one-fourth 3p laying oats, peas, Once $8 3 should should be varied at frequent intervals. With your grain ration animal food such round flesh meat and essential Some green food be given Experiments at the New York station showed that the product of eggs {rom hens fed on corn meal was from 28 to 57 cent, greater than hens vi per itrogenous ration as is must bones, LOO from Summer Gains Are Rapid. The gains made by chickens during the summer rapid, and men are fast beginning to realize iarge must have abundant range during the they are growing and de are pouitry. that have healthy birds they period when veloping Let the chicks have plenty of free range The young chicks rowing The first requisite in fattening fowls is a good coop To make chicks grow plenty of good fresh air; them to crowd. Keep plenty clean for your lice and mites, Much loss is suffered by poulterers from a failure to properly fatten their stock for market Fowls, to fatten well, should be con. should be kept firat don’t allow of water fresh and and for onfi aed Now that Rucker, Barger, Bell are pitching good ball Manager Dahlen is ¢ his team will Scanlon Brooklyn, dent that ond division s0n the the lead the close of sea at DOYLE LOOKS LIKE VETERAN Chicago Cub's Playing at Third Base Clinches Position for Him-—Made an Excelient Start. baseball season steadily carving for » position of permanent y as the Jimmy Doyle Cree fant is feels a is tean n the Chicago every game his work improves, and he is succeeding exceedingly well in working Tinker. Daily he is lessening Heinle Zimmerman's pros pects of regaining the job at the far corner when Johnny the team His work in the fleld and plate is taking on the aspect of a = with Evers returns to the at vet Jimmy Doyle. in, As he is gaining yw led g« For has no idea of field The possibility of Doyle rapidly and experience the present Manager Chance taking him off the in when Evers returns being begins to re have a little Paovie moved is when slump. There geems to chance of ; place, as is reach height of his ambition That is to become be to the i the permanent player of a major league elud He has made an excellent start and says he is make a noble fight to keep It up No strong objections can be made to able exceptions to a little poor field ing That probably was due to a streak of nervousness a youngster usually posseases when given his first nervousness is rapidly wearing away, recent games ness, and kept perfectly quiet poultry. with which to grind their feed. Charcoal pounded fine and kept in and old birds in good condition. caused by a sharp draft on the fowl, from some small knothole or crack. Grit must be provided for fowls, but the substance should be sharp and of size for poultry as for man or animals, To keep a hen In good health she needs nearly seven times more fresh air in proportion to her size than does the horse. If the hens are expected to lay heavily during the winter, they must be cared for every month of the year, fall months come on. if you are in the thoroughbred poul try business, do not sell your cull stock alive. Dress it and see that the culls are not worked otito the markets ag your particular gradn. - Family Reunion at Their Home in Kalamazoo, Mich, After twenty-five years the Ganzel fumily held a family reunion at home The Ganzel made thelr names fa- John Ganzell is Rochester team in the Eastern league and was at one time manager of the Cincinnat! squad of the National league. He is now a bench maanger. Charles, Jr., of Boston, now retired, is a welltodo business man of that city. He was a catcher in the Detroit team of 1887, when the Tigers won the world’s championship. Joe Ganzel of Grand Rapids won fame as a first baseman with various teams In Michi gan while George Oanzel of Kazoo played with professional teams behina the bat and was a star. Both Joe and George had chances at the profession: al game, but preferred business life. The Ganzel family is one of the best known professional ball playing groups in the country, "We he says anything on Ware do it with No team in the lea the box as strong elsewhere talking the second will us in Bola . ad pennant Instead divisgion.' NN NPN NS NNN NIN SANA SANS SNS Nd indefinite sus ar as Magee next spring the Athletics an was moving in St. Louis, and lost hing written City promise tried fan the Of ITEAan ta find out whether elect ris tip of his pit finger Kling has friends in been given gome of that he has of the man the Boston team next sea Kansas the son The Pitcher club is to the Cincinnati Rube Henton, 7.500 lem this summer Arthur Devlin has evidently lost hia He has been in the last corner of the infleld for eight years, but Cubs Land Another Zimmerman. merman. “Heine” fielder and just at present he is the sensation of the Atlanta Southern league club, He was recommended to the West siders by President Mur phy's brother, who returned after a lengthy scouting tour throughout the south. When the Cubs sent Southpaw Foxen to Atlanta, President Murphy was given an option on Zimmerman and the Cubs’ boss stated that Zim. merman would be purchased before the time expired. Another Sprinter From the South, Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Tris Speaker and other famous American league outfielders will be forced to take to the tall timber when Long of Gadsden, Ala, reports to Washington. This young man, who is a discovery of Mike Kahoe, leads his league in base running and batting and is, according to Kahoe, the fastest man he ever saw, Kahoe saw him beat out an in fleld hit, steal second, thirdiand home with the winning run in thd tenth in- ning. That certainly is go some. 3 BIG LEAGUES’ RAID Baseball Stars. Major Company Is But Four Years—Game Has Advanced Along Scientific Lines. One of the lawe of organ zed profes baseball provides that between Au gt 20 geason 16 clubs whit Amer and CATTY 25 players This means that during the most im- of the campaign 400 intained on the salary ths, Of this to he ex- two great for eight years and After August 2f begin their annual raid on gional May the 20 and of each In comprise the ican National leagues can on their rosters three months players are ma lists of the major league cl number nearly onesixth—45, ict-—-have been playing In principal organizations of the outdoor leagues more }the big leagues will the in the minors a8 been said by nose w ho have baseball for ife of the pro- {WO major § can read- t is recalled » drafted or pur- south aueh ENoUuEgn taken from back to honor rites thewson, and eorge | IS] ariel FRIRLIANG UMPIRE MAKES UNIQUE RULE Willing to Compromise on Foul Ball That He Had Declared Fair By Calling it Double. “1 was Buffalo,’ against Buffalo Joe Jackson, beaten 10 to 5, but they scored three runs in the last of the ninth and had three men on bases with none out,” says the Sporting News, “The Buffalo catcher hit a ball that seemed to travel about a mile. It fell foul by two or three feet, but the umpire called it a fair, and four runs scored. “We kicked on the decision. The umpire sald: ‘Well, [ don’t want to gee my home town boys lose, and I don't want to cheat Greers, so I'll com- promise and call it a double’ That just beat our team.” THAT BACKACHE Cured by Lydia E. Pinknam’s Vegetable Compound Morton's Gap, Kentucky.—*1 suf. fered two years with female disorders, PF y Amy health was very ¢4bad and I had a continual backache which was simply awful. I could not stand on my feet Along enough to cook Aa meal’'s victuals Awithout my back nearly killing me, and would have such dragging sen. sations could hardly bear it. I wad soreness in each side, could not stand tight clothing, and was irregular. 1 was completely run down. On ad- vice I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound and Liver Pills and am enjoying good health. 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