POULTRY
POINTERS FOR DUCK RAISERS |
Pekin is a Great Layer.
Possess Firmness of Flesh of
the Aylesbury,
The market price for duck feathers
about half that for goose feath-
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FOR BEGINNER
Two Dozen Hens Are Plenty to Start
With for One With No Experience
—American Breed Best,
one who has had experi
two dozen hens
It
vith poultry
begin is Detter
American
literranear
Well Dissoly
Slaked Lime
alcoho let them
ving
bran or
oft the VArT
coat
When
each CER a
awdust
ish
want.
and they
ire
TREATMENT FOR 'BROODY HEN
Unique Plan Is to Provide
Boxes With
Fowl
Screen Bottoms
Soon Cools Off.
A unique broody
hana is
wr
curing
ing
plan fe
od out by
geroeon
mak
boxes with bott
attached to keeg
ground and free
air, savas the Jowa Homestead
mon all th
allow
window screen is
Box for Treatment.
for a bottom into these
the old hatchers until they
up hatching Several days In
such airy quarters cool them off and
hey go to laying
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be used
place
give
Kerosene.
sure death to lice if
spray. Spray the walls
roosts, comers and nestings and the
oll will kill all vermin. Sprinkle
bottom of the nests with It and cover
with a heavy coating of straw.
Kerosene is also very valuable in
preventing and curing scale disease
in fowls. If it Is used freely on the
roosts once a week you will have no
gealy legs. It promptly destroys the
red louse that preys on the fowls at
night, sapping their very life blood
and retires to the roost poles during
the daytime,
Kerosene is
applied as a
France the
to birds
and
In
applied
Beason,
term “duckling’” is
hatched the previous
not the present year, as
this country
In England it is
the Pekin
not the
maturity of the
The Cayuga,
claimed that while
a great layer,
of fiesh nor the
Aylesbury
the
it
is not has
fineness early
onl; American va-
fine flavor,
ut on
y
‘ayuga
Americar
COMBAT POULTRY-YARD FOES
of Lo An
Caused
agites—
Much
Par-
Amount 8s and
noyance by Insect
How to ntrol.
wiv
Hundred Ac
braskas Utilized
Breeding
res of Land In Ne
by Ranchman for
of Birds,
Nebraska ranchmar
has
14 land t
Pal
ore
I acres of oo dry
$1
ion without irrigation
i and
good raising t
ir
ugh ti
ETrow
nro ia
alot
ai0n
¥
trees
BOm«
Cotton wot
About
sown t
acres of this
i
o alfalfa, and
POUEIRYNOTES
Deairable
sald t
dozen
deve feather-pulli
d them to market
an egg producer that the In
has galned the most
egRs are
o8 to the
0 weigh
<4 ounce
te 3 1
11d
ii Aens
1hout
lop the ng
abit ser
It is
at once
as
fame
Poultry
they
balardee thelr own rations if
are given le variety of
to select from
Eggs that cents
will bring $7 to 28 when
sold as brollers
It is usually mere guedswork to tell
the age of a ‘hen her anpearance
wi 1
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Bn wi foods
cost 25 per dozen
hatched and
by
A hen over two years old is fit
only for the pot and to mother chick
ens. She is past her profitable laying
days
All young stock on hand now that
you do not intend to keep through
the coming winter should be mar
keted
they are needed for
season
Goose eggs require from twenty.
eight to thirty-two days to hatch, ae
cording to variety and method of
hatching.
Hens, when thye cease laying, fatten
very easily and a fat hen is a thrifty
breeders next
Jlspases.
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STORY OF QUEER PLAY | WOLVERTON TO
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Pitcher Strikes Out Player
Makes Out Himself.
Recovers Lost
Catcher's Mask
Time to Retire Batsman and
Win Game for His Team.
Rube Kissinger
From Behind
occurrences in basebal
Odd
interest to the fang, especially
0re
figure
Arthur
won a
acy vith the pl
18ed to t
ston with
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SHECKARD
Out
feasiona
Cub elder Has Been
Baseball for
Seventeen Years
ard
of the
Tommy Leach
ty a sight the
when he racing
trying to beat
Harry Davis is still undecided about
{ his future plans The chances are
| he will be able another job as
| a manager start of next |
| asgeon
i Topsey Hartsell, who is making a
good record as leader of the Toledo
{team this season, is most likely to
be appointed manage the Naps
next vear
Umpire O'Brien says the job of um
piring in the major leagues Is easy. |
That's the reward an umpire gets
when he does good work Othera
please take notice
Manager GriMith of the senators will
have Walter Johnson and four other
members of his pitching staff operated
on for the removal of thelr tonsils
after the seanon ls over
With the release of Chouinard and
stare
akes ale
fans
around
a he
want
the
as
is
out ime ran
to got
before the
Jim Sheckard.
to
he played with the Marietta and Lan.
caster gemi-professional teams, Thence
he moved to Portsmouth, Va. going
in the following year to Brockton, in
Now England.
Brooklyn corralled him next, and
after one year with Baltimore he
went back across the bridge again,
With the rest of his baseball career
James was popular. Toward the
Curtis Des Moines has an entirely
new outfield. in Collinge, Morris and!
Wetzel, Curtis has gone to his home
‘in Philadelphia. Choulnard may be
back next year if his health permite
team Sheckard's work fell off, and
there were those who sald that he
wna shirking. He spruced up prompt
BACH
Terry Turner.
siderable trouble with his arm, which
kept him out of the game for a long
time. It was reported at one time
that he would never be able to play
again, but Terry seems to have come
He has
been batting in the neighborhood of
320 all genson and has regained the
slace In the hearts of the Cleveland
{ans he occupied a few yoars ago.
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