GRIT BOX IN CHICKEN vous | _IDANVILLE GETS PUPIL OF MORDECAI BROWN | Much Trouble Gan Be Be Saved to Poul | try Ralser by Using Device Shown in the Illustration, IT you want to feed your chickens grit, make a grit box like this to hang in the chicken house and the trouble will be over, writes George W. Clark of Noble, Ill, in the Farmers Mall and a AY yt or Games Breeze. The sides (1) are made of eguiar Fiaye 7-8-inch boards 20 inches long on the w T ’ of Few Years Ago. back side and 17 inches on front side, i fo p \ -—m 2 inches wide at the bottom where the ? the trough and 4% Inches Front of hopper (2) 12 and The the HARD LUCK |VETERANS WERE BEST | Old-Timers Were More Rugged, Says Rhody Wallace. | Nothing Less Than Splintered Neck | or Fractured Spine Would Keep often wonder just why the it a> Louls sldes meet 1¢ wide at the top is %%-inch thick, 17 inches long Rhody KEEP LITTLE ONES GROWING a Young Chicks, When Allowed Range, Are Too Often Neglected Eon &F ! | and en t and Begems Stunted. ¥ Te # \ | i Pod d tBaidars 5 § Now, take the old days. of today are inches wide back ( ia 3) to | even Ot ound N. BE. CHAPMAN, Poultryman, Min the y yh W nesota College of Agriculture.) worliug under. Pat Tebeau Most chicks are well fed and cared nd ynifores ha for while thelr mothers are confined | | | i] . vent through in coops; but when allowed to range | \ / 4 regular feeding is too often neglect ed, and as a result growth is retarded and they become what is termed “stunted.” It appears from statis furnished by produce dealers that but seven per cent, of spring chicks mar- | keted we four pounds December 1. | By this all the stock of the general purpose like Rocks, ndottes Rgds 'OTARS pou it have poun by dev (By in the season ECZEMA BEGAN BY ITCHING : Oem gan in Ty oars | we GINoG very tics Gol fered dsboro time spring breeds, Orpingtons the WW and least six | {8 outh should live at 3 nlea 3 "et nds Rock eiopaen Anthony Carlo, Youngster Southpaw, strides & the ved fed rere Ha ute | to Da chicl an ening or eating. Coops be furnished, cure from league, all career as i att hls, al PI PP APN AANA AAI NANA PrP ROCHESTER'S BRIGHT STAR Fo New York AAA PPS i Clean WAY Fountain, “C rer ozy” Dolan, sshoppers, and pic making material, When they have reach all those intended for be put In fattening ground feed and skim m weeks An average of y oun per head may be added to the welg of { ng, by this meth od at about five cer pound. By all means keep growl and fatten them ting them on gr t i is ywis, old and 3 ' a cost of the cl ng before put. the market, PARTITION IN CHICKEN coop Found Especially Conveniont in Fore- ing Fowls Toward Door at Eith. er End of Pen. A good retaining pen from which to sell poultry may be had by building a coop of the desired size and placing in it a sliding partition for use In forcing the fowls toward the door at either end, enabling a person to take out one at a time. The sliding partition may be used for dividing the pen into two compart. ments by placing the partition In the Sliding Partition, center of the coop, says a writer In the Popular Mechanies, The pole which runs from the center of the gliding partition through a hole at one end of the cage for pulling the partition back and forth may be used also as a roost when it Is desired to leave the fowls in the pen for several days for faitening purposes. Band for Pigeons, To place a band on & pigeon, hold the hind claw back and press the front claws through the ring; draw the ring close up to the knee Joint, and then, when on a level with the extremity of the hind claw, gently pull the hind claw through the ring, and the ring will be #n positien and will not, unless it has been placed on at too early a date, fall, Desire Meat for Ration, are you ry ’ breediag--~lice, mites ok to the comforts of your stock want good resu nore profitab is to feed r corn is considered a stimuks by the pigeon breeders Nux vomica is a good stimulant and appetizer If fed In moderate doses Preparations are frequent in yards that have no shade these hot days The poultry business is a legal business, and yet we must have wa tered stock to do business A hen, if given the opportunity, that does not keep the lice on her body under control, is not worth keep ing Feed your poultry very little corn, if any, these hot days; the mites a kerosene emulsion and make the lice “bite the dust” Good breeding and exhibition stock is scarce this year, and will be gearcer after “Johnny-on-the-spot” gota through selecting his Now that ducks have stopped laying turn them out to pasture, feed lightly and give lots of shade, as ducks are very susceptible to heat. Spray once or twice a month with a kerosene emulsion or some other good cCisinfectant and use lime with a little sulphur added in the nest boxes. Speaking from observations and not from experience breedy hens are like love-slek lovers In one respect-they ent less than when in a normal cond! tion. ts le to feed poultry vermin ing water, just enough to make it a claret red, will kill all germs In the water, and Is an excellent disinfect ant for the digestive system of your birds. Limberneck is caused by the fowls having access to decaying vegetable or animal matter. If you find any can es In your flock look for something dead lying In some corner that has commenced to decay and yerr birds have commenced to eal it " ls Playing Clever Manager Ganzel, 4 ghlander, Game for Rijn Poonam wry “Cozy” Dolan. International league to find a greater pair on the left side of the diamond than Dolan and McMillan. Harry Wol- verton made a big mistake when he let Dolan get away from the Yankees without a thorough trial, Pitcher McConnell in Demand. Pitcher George McConnell must be highly thought of as a twirler by many of the clubs in the big leagues, even Hf he is not by the Yankees. When the New York team asked for tional and five in the American were willing to take him at the walver Players and Writers. Bobby Wallace Is one of the star players who does not believe that a player can be a good writer and a good player at the same time. He is sutspoken in demouncing the effort of some players to write about their fel. ‘ow plavers. ere John mu when more ma more than tw much The nit ex 391 f tha toam is Team is n't the fans “that ear? on ing. "( ask ally develop be” are en Griffith rea this SPORTING AXIOMS, If the game be tale, the spirit should be the letter of the law. Game sportsmen try harder in the face of unexpected mis. fortune. Men who quit under ies never won a pennant baseball, It is not the high rollers who make the highest flights in bi planes. Prices being equal, class has all the magic of the opening punch, Never try to be unique if it's going to make you look ridicu- lous, When you're hunting for the big game never stop to pick wild flowers. Airship has ceased to be edi torially synonymous with fool killer, it takes a real optimist to dis cern a good omen In the wrong turn, Adversity tries men's souls, but prosperity lays bare their hearts. Make friends while It's yours, or you'll be naked when you lose it. Success that comes by hard work will not repeat automatic. ally. difficul. in Ca Rhody Wallace, ger is lucky who can put his regulms i p into play for a week's stretch. “And that's why I was wondering-- | wondering why twenty-five piay- ers today, who have the advantage of | thorough training, who are handled | with the greatest care, who take the | best possible care of thelr own condi. | tion, In general, are not able to keep | going. While twenty years ago eleven | diamond men with no spring training who took littla or no care of them. selves off the fleld——could jump in and fight through a season without ever | knowing what a hospital looked like, and two pitchers could work a | schedule out then and keep In shape, | while eight can’t do it now without | caving under all along the route, | seems hard to understand.” so i *% ball Latest Fad in Baseball, It is getting to be a common thing nowadays for the managers of major league baseball clubs to have an as gletant manager, who does a little scouting work on the side. McGraw hag Robinson, Griffith has Schaefer, Harry Davis has Paddy Livingston, Dahlen has Willle Keeler, Jennings has Jim McGuire and Joe Sugden, and Callahan of the White Sox has “Kid” Gleason. Gleason is an old-time play- all over the circuit. His playing days are over, but he Is very useful to Cal team, Flick as Pinch Hitter, Elmer Flick, the former Nap, is starring as a pinch hitter for Topsy SLIP E444 400000000044 | Hartsol's Toledo Mudhens, HOW MANY OF US Select Food Nature Demands to Ward Off Ailments? Fail to A Ky, Baye a all kinds Ome reason, In prostration set ir "After | had run down my attention was called to sity of some change in my diet, and I discontinued my ordinary breakfast and began using GrapeNuts with a good quantity of rich cream. “In a few days my condition changed in 8 remarkable way, and I began to have a strength that 1 had never been possessed of before, a vigor of body and a poise of mind that amazed me. It was entirely new in my experience. “My former attacks of indigestion had been accompanied by heat flashes, and many times my condition was dis tressing with blind spells of dizziness, rush of blood te the head and neural gic pains in the chest “Since using Grape-Nuts alone for breakfast 1 have been free from these troubles, except at times when | have indulged in rich, greasy foods in guan- rity, then | would De warned by a pain under the left shoulder blade, and unless | heeded the warning the old trouble would come back, but when 1 finally got to know where these trou lady, Ww ’ of seriously the neces i | Nuts and cream and the pain and dis “I am now in prime health as a { result of my use of Grape-Nuts.,” Name | Mich. “There's a reason,” and it is ex plained in the lixle book, "The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Hvar read the ahdve lever) A mew ome appears from Sime to thme, ave genuine tree, asd full of homan TwmEe Tear,
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