HOPPERS FOR THE CHICKENS Details and Illustrations for Free De livery of Feed Into Trays for Young and Old. I make all my dry-feed hoppers for chicks, from one-pound coffee cans, and covers from flve-pound lard palls They are very satisfactory as well as cheap. With a can opener I cut a slit about two inches long, close to the bottom of the can, then at each end cut make a half-inch incision the top of the can. With a palr pinchers I bend back the tin, 8 hole large enough to al of low the For.Baby Chicks. to sift through but for a chick to get lest they get hung. Next I holes bottom of can af distance ir each other to the points wire corresponding nse the stap holes and bend fastening move top fr or bran the no chicks age The hoy i from a 1 i gh not large enough its head through, Pet tiie proper om admit of staple e pall igh a holes in th thro each point art le the four outward, COVE together, He Any di or wi us a u of ton te line pon Dry-Feed Hopper for Poultry, to allow fowls to eat comfortably, In fitting the front upon the cleats allow half an inch space from bottom one inch from back of hopper gives free dellvery of feed into the tray. SUNFLOWER SEED FOR HENS Russian Variety ls Most Prolific for Furnishing Good Quality of Rich Oil Feed, For poultry the Russian sunflower is the most prolific variety. Sow seed early in Jume. The sunflower is a profitable crop to grow for furnishing a good quality of rich oll feed to take the place of cottonseed or flaxseed meal. Bunflower seed is used In all the poultry mixtures now sold In the markets. The sunflower is a hardy plant, a vigorous and rapid grower, and a good plant to grow not only for its seeds, but also for Its bright, beaut! ful yellow blossoms. The plant, when in full bloom, makes a good food for honey bees. Have the ground deeply plowed and thoroughly mellowed, The ground should be rich to grow large heads full of seed. Mark the rows off three feet apart end three inches deep. Drop two seeds to the running foot. ‘When plants are up thin out the stand 16 to 20 Inches apart. Good eulture, free of grass and weeds, must be giv- en through the season, Yacation for Breeding Btock, Give the breeding stock, you intend to carry over for next season, a vaca tion in vacation quarters. If possible, separate the males and females anud give each flock outdoor quarters on ample range, well shaded. Let them occupy this summer range until time to house in winter quarters In the fall You will find that they moult out cleaner and earlier and that they will prove better in breeding condition, Reduce Egg-Laying Power, An ogg 18 a chemical combination, and if hens lack in thelr feed any ele power to produce eggs Is lowered. Well Kept Flock of Thoroughbreds Costs No More to Feed and House Than the Mongrels. (By MRS. H. FV. GRINSTEAD,) The person who ralses turkeys, urally feels a greater pride and ine terest In thoroughbred stock and, therefore, gives the flock better than would be glven to mongrels. No matter what kind of birds you have, however, applies, With the right kind of care and Interest your flock will yield abundant satisfaction and good profit and both of these are felt to a greater degree by the owner of the thorough« bred fowls, Houses, yards and feed cost about the same for either mongrels or full bloods and a well kept flock of thos oughbreds always attract attention and admiration from neighbors, who often willing to pay a much bet. ter price for eggs for hatching pure poses from such stock than ordinary eggs will bring Many buyers, every cellent results in the least by purchasing eggs fron to hatch pu bred stock st sulted your poss ynild be producer is and some of season, get ex. expensive which } breed and arve meat wl e 4 4 careful t+ buyer way r'e to ro ngs you wish the ‘ted. The best as a rule, a go go on, but with the hreeds able to know how will meet apple not, produ 2 ¥ “groper yight to he frvrah 151 iE what PLYMOUTH ROCKS. ARE FIRST Marketable Than ered Chickens, Says P pincott of Kan- Vhite-Feathw of. Lip- yarketalbl on Bi breed of Plymouth handed down a ie arred of pouliry-ralsing be a h blow white-feath. in demand other breed that be ard to ir theory that CRensg are narkets than any : have stood by your and you may take to the ruling of the court But white feathers don't count for 16 poultry prof BHEOT Bays. And made, In packing centers, an his more He ii, At to thelr Lippincott like thi White Rocks, Brahm assertions Prot us breeds mouth Rocks, White Plymouth hans, Leghorns, Scrubs, merit, Ww His : Y as, Cocchi Yellow shanks and yellow skin ars demanded above everything else, the decision says. Further, shanks must be clean and free from fosthers The body must be plump and of medi slize-—four to seven for roasting birds. The breeds that most nearly meet these requirements are the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, and Rhode Island Reds. The reason such breeds as Buff Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds do not appear in the list just glven is because they have not been bred In sufficient numbers to make an impression on the market. Packers are not acquainted with them, the um pounds, Look to the comfort of the fowls. Never feed whola corn except at evening. Direct sunlight is a great natural disinfectant. Don't neglect your chicks and fowls in hot weather. te the dlirty pen. It is a well-known fact that all hens are not good layers. The hot, sultry weather is trying to both fowls and men. Don't crowd sleeping quarters, Keep fronts of houses open. the same kind of feed. Heat prostration is common yards where there is no shade, Keep things clean, Use lice powder, Hee paint and disinfectants freely. As soon as the hatching season is over all sale birds should be marketed. Feed little, If any, corn or other heating foods while the temperature is high. It takes a good pouliryman to keep up his enthusiasm when the weather is hot, Success with poultry all depends on whether we have egg producers ot | drones, & A — i torial Embellishments. When Cleveland Los Angeles Dressed In Dicer and Backstop Reported to Club He Was Peaceful Valley Celluloid Collar. When Ted Easterly, who is playing a remarkably clever game for the Cleveland club this seabon, pried his REMARKABLE WINNING STREAK OF MARQUARD | member of the Los Angeles team, he was not particularly strong on torial embellishments. uncut,” Ted was a human when it came to getting the informa tion and was “wise” thing except duds, says the Sporting News. But put him up against the purple and flne linen game and his combined batting and fielding average would have been about .001 at the most When Easterly trip north harnessed dicer and a there were apparel cling was the hs him Thi built teenths of four to fi five wearer and reported for the first the Seraphs he in a Peaceful Valley celluloid collar. True, other articles of ing to his person, iberdashery stuff that the real sparkle 8 collar was th to an extreme hel an h, with but gave e ty that ght five-six is invariably from for the luster pe] of ind sizes large ghines Ted is bellaved to it in O00 all ac with a Its own. have umulated the scene of Celluloid iy pile Downey, Cal, which his tiv 1" OLIATS ue was fies ered qu amateur ad were consi rect in Downey at ne. C tow f Os nt , 4 that tin them, he time § ly iIratively waver, presse Wh tt Oakland Easterly a team Hogan, and Bras trafling along, d shack, nly on en near, yr a stogle to PORTE GC Bess PY Ted Easterly. nted this with a the same y of talk im sre playing sort and was handed pression that 1 with h-rate league These were h whi of al verbal vitriol wit ch to ents the happened celluloid omn Croll the Al" drawled gaze Ted 4 class A friend na egg collar on bus m a good cigar ked on over here and we Feert tt 1 dud Hogan had Another No Hit Game, Manager Ramsey of the team of the CO pitch geason arolina association ed the first no-hit game of the in his league against Greenville ning 1 to 0. Pitcher Van Charlotte team on lowed Winston its first hit after one was out In the eighth inning. being pitted against Ray, who defeated Char Pelt of the the same day al week before —— Chicago Boy Doing Well, Walter lLeverenz, a Chicago boy, making a phenomenal record is a former team-mate of “Lena” Black: has won eleven games for the coast | team this year. He Is being watched in the major leagues Defore very long The Baseball Bug. A man went Into a local office bulld: ing and asked the elevator operator if “Three to one in the first inning.” ! i : Rube Marguard, streak York sensation argun OF MACK'S GREAT FINDS Fills Place of Athletic With Much ON Amos Strunk Murphy in Captain Outfield Credit na of CAre any baseball” iearned that his bands into ‘'obb’s spikes et a long-distance t when he made | two consecutive In i } Eva; Kids don't It's all has Sharkey boxing 1 ’ Weave more about : Puck doesn’t pay to | argument with Edward Willet hitting mark for Ik two home runs in nings. i Baker and Cravath are doling more | were the games in which he partici | to distribute leather to faraway points | pated up to this season { than all the big Philadelphia factories When Capt. Danny Murphy was in- | combined. | jured a short time ago the wiseacres Eddie Plank of the champions is In | gi4. “That finishes the Athletics great form. He belleves that he Will | connie hasn't got a good man to take { got another chance to trim the Giants | 4 place.” But they reckoned not the youngster whom Connie it | an at gel Ty ( Amos Strunk. {in the fall | with The Detroit club has purchased a worked with for the greater part of | shortstop from the Hannibal club of four vears. Amos Strunk was as { the Central Association. Olde O'Mara signed to an outfield berth, and be has is his name prove; by his terrific batting and bril i Montreal papers are charging that liant fielding that Connie's confidence | Chitck Gandll didn’t do his best for the and patience were nol in vain. International league team And, na | ssi turally, Chick is sore i Charley Doolin is actually trying the scheme of giving his signals while | standing. He thinks the old crouch shoes to protect thing will have to go. | tps. Protects His Feet, Umpire Johnstone of the National jeague wears a metal covering over his Moroa Funeral Custom. With Moroa people, on the death of a chief, his son (or helr if he has no son) must provide a mare, which Is led around the assembled guests by a laughing woman, who Is dressed up for the occasion. It Is absolutely nee essary that a mare should be obtained for the funeral--should the helr neg lect to do so, the ghost of the de consed will never give him any peace «and she must be sold afterward; if not, she will dle. Why the woman should have to be laughing is past well informed, in fact, learned.” Amd { am not that? he asked. “W1 I'm a graduate of three unl veraition, speak eight languages flu | ently, and know all the ologles!™ dhe shook her head “That isn't enough,” she said “Oh, | forgot to mention,” he made haste to add, “that I can give you all comprehension, but that Is the Moroa : custom, and after all it is quite a mistake to suppose that people must necessarily look glum on these oo caslons, i a ——— noi Education, He had asked her to marry him sev. oral times, but she had always said | no. Now, at last he determined tothe college athletic records for the know the reason why. | tant ten years, and the names of all After some delicate questioning, | the different parts of a motor car she replied, fnally: “Well, for ome and" thing, the man | marry must be very | “That'll do. I'm yours!” she cried. M——————————————————————————————— ter if It Could Be Coriducted That Way. Benator Williams, at Yazoo, sald in condemnation of ed tariff change: “They who advocate know just much if old lady knew about a dinner at a moot this change about the tar fire in an ag the purance, “This old office The ed and put it in her “But hold Bgent i the first year's The first ‘And hb ‘There the policy,” sald matter of $24. “ih * insurance barn 3.500 signed, seal and she out, the lady visited an insured her ivy os #% v drawn up, and for policy was over to b cabba and started ma'am, said ask premivm.’ premium,’ sald that be? handed er, an i v 1 fe must you, piease, or years ghe ow much will it is, written on t ‘A small ma'am the ager paid 11 hurry this prem! the barn b ECZEMA FOR TEN YEARS Walsh Bt, ' was afflicted with morning ms sia rns down.” laltimore, Important to Mothers ' mine carefully every bottle of To remove diginfect breath after boon all or sent posips The Paxton tha to Can't Afford Ar Ate MED: it. DOES YOUR BEAD ACHE? Try Ricks CAPUVD INE Ita Mguidnioas ant 10 take —efMecia immediatewgond to prevent Rick Ha iachen and Nervous Headaches aiso, Your money back if not satisfied. He. Bc and Be. at medicine stores, in order to have you ought to have your This tishe of year, your innings, outings Mra. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children tevihing, softens the gums, redoces Infamma tion, allays pala, cures wind collie, Be a bottle Man may be made of clay, but he fant always “as rich as mud.” SPECIAL Vaseline OFFER yar ToNic “It Saves the Hair" Tria! betthe sant on receipt of 10c. Write todas. Conmalideted a vag {0SSMAN'S PILE CURE The Standard and Reliable Remedy Malled on Hecelpt of Prices, 30 cents G. A. McKINSTRY DRUGAIST Hudson, N.Y. Y. DROPSY IRaaran airssues vv Ting and short breath in a Tew days and entire relief In bab days, trial trostosent FREK. 9h GREENS SONS, Bos A, dilantin, Ga, EARN MONEY NURSING Beads PLA SILA BOTIOOL, ~ COOK BOOK trys: vee, Fun BY Cowtaut Nowa,” Me ronriy. Sows W. N. 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