POINTERS ABOUT POULTRY HbUSES; ' h WARMTH AND DRYNESS ESSENTIAL Double Boarding One Way of Keeping Frost OutTar ring Method for Single-Wall Houses Location an Important Item fay tho Poultry Editor TKH rtz of poultry houses' for the fancier on a rnnall scslo wan Considered last week and the aummary of opinion was that from four to six square feet should be al lowed for each bird. This, of cdurse, applies strictly to the house. Tor the ran from five to ten square feet should be allowed 'each Wrd as a minimum, nnd as much tnore as the area, of the backyard or the place 'will make possible. Tho beginner should be cnu ttoned "about crowding his quarters. Hi may thlnK that a few more fowl will not make any great difference, but they win make all the difference In the world of poul try, that between thrifty, laying, profitable Rooks even though small and puny non laying fowl. There are o.thor considerations In connec tion with the henhouse. One of these Is location. 'Wherever possible the building should be located on ground a bit higher than that -Immediately surrounding. It Is posslbleto fill In on a small scale It neees nary, and If this Is done n couple of tons of sand may bo mixed with the dirt In the case of a city yard tho drainage will bo 11 right just as the yard stands In the averago house lot, but In suburban places due precaution should be taken. Never put a poultry house In a hollow. This means dampness, and dampness Is a foe to healthy fowl. Itotip and like diseases aro always L present when the winter quarters are damp. It Is a matter of, common sense that the 1 poultry house should bo located and com struoted to avoid d I sen so conditions. An ounce of prevention Is worth many pounds of cure, for sick chickens Bcldom get en tirely well. The fowl should be given every comfort, for comfort means contentment and contentment means eggs. First requisites of comfort are dryness and warmth. So before sawing a board or driving a nail tho plans should bo care fully mado. The construction should be such that the birds will nt alt times be protected from drafts, especially when on the roof at nights. Cold air In drafts Is a menace to tho safety of tho flock. There ' are numerous plans tor building a poultry houseEo that It can bo kept comfortable without resorting to nrtlflcl.il heat. To In sure warmth In what would otherwise be cjld poultry houses a double-walled house "TOOTG LEDGER-paXCADEImAWBDNSBDAY, NOVEMBER 1, $BJ$ i. & i --- THIS HENHOUSE IS SIMPLE Tho arrangement shown is easily constructed and can bo made mov able. Tho ample door provides ' easy access for cleaning. ils sometimes used. That Is, the house Is bbarded up both outside and lnjrOe, and straw or leaves or similar filling material Is packed in between, Btufflng the air space. Borne poultrymen say that the air spaces do no harm and therefore do not use the stuffing. It Is not necessary, however, to nave a double wall to prevent the entry of frost An Inexpensive and at the same tlmo warm house with" single wall Is made by using matched boards for sides and roof and covering all the outside woodwork with prepared roofing paper. Sometimes the walls and root are covered with heavy tar and a little coarse sand or gravel sprinkled on tho roof. A house of this type Is wind' and water-proof and will endure a long time with an occasional rocoatlng of tar, say every two years. In case an old shed or building on the premises Is used for a henhouse It should by all means have the Cracks covered with paper and then the entire structure should be tarred, Shingling is also used to ensure, warmth for the chicken house. It Is excellent tor a single wall poultry house. Economic Diets The price of grains this fall is causing many Fhlladelphtans to cull their poultry a great deal closer than usual or to plan, only B. restricted number of fowls. The culling Is a good thing, but the de crease In the total number kept Is a mistake. There never was a time "when poultry of fered a better source of Income, whether same was merely pin money or the source of the living. - With all grains htgh,he thing to do Is to feed less grain and more dry mash. To feed everything In the way of waste vege tables, like small potatoes, turnips, pump kins, eta, boll them, with a very little salt, mash and thicken with a mixture of equal parts bran, corameal, middlings and ground oats, adding ten per cent gluten meal, if possible and not omitting ten per cent ot CONVENIENT FOR FOWL This shingled house follows open front principle, which insures hardy birds. good beef scrap. (Feed a good beef scrap, no matter what the price goes Jo.)( . This mixture makes a good wet .mash or warm mash without the vegetables, mixed with either hot water or hot skim milk. Cabbage must be fed with great discre tion. Fed heavily, ybu have a miserably watery table egg and a poor hatching egg next spring. A direct substitute for Wgh-prlced whole wheat, and a good one. Is barley, Oats soaked In cold waer twenty-four hours or more and then boiled until fairly dry equals wheat as an egg1 producer or egg basket niler. These must bo red, tnougn, on a clean board or In a trough. Kiln-dried bakers' bread In sacks Is now adays available at many places and Is a good, cheap poultry food. Helpful Hen Hints The hen that Is warm and busy Is In the best laying trim In cold weather. Do not allow chickens of different bIzcs and ages to uso the same coop or same yard, but house and feed them separately if you want tho younger to make good growth. Fresh, crisp, succulent green feed Is the secret of success In egrf production. Feather-pulling may crop out with either young or old fowls, and It Is a very serious trouble. The writer has seen several nocks of brooder chicks and old fowls which have boen almost denuded of feathers because their comrades pulled out and ato the pin feathers as fast as they appeared. In fact, when this vice once becomes established they will even go so' far as to pick holes In one another. The picking' Is a kindred evil, but It Is confined entirely to the baby chicks In the brooder. The skin of their feet and toes la very soft and tender, andwhen a too be comes injured and a blood clot forms the other chicks pick at It Both of the troubles mentioned arise from tho same cause lack ot meat and ash in the ration. It Is not normal for fowls to do these things and they will never do them If they have free access to good meat scraps, or. In the case ot young chicks, receive some lino meat crisps sev eral times a week at least. (Next Wednesday: Ventilating the Chick en House.) HELD CITY JOBS 20 YEAItS; QUITS George 'T. Smith Resigns Chief Clerk ship of Taxes Revision Board Qeorgo Taylor Smith, who has held the position of chief clerk of tho Board of He vision of Taxes since July 1, 1914, resigned today, giving ill health as his reason for quitting tho 2500 position. Ills resignation becomes effective Janu ary 1, at which time he will have com pleted more than twenty years continuous service In various of the municipal depart ments. . Mr. Smith has been active In Republican politics In the Fifteenth Ward for many years and It Is understood that his suc cessor, when named, will be a follower ot Senator McNlchol. The vacancy will be filled by the members of tho Board of Re vision of Taxes. i . VICTOR AND HOME VICTOR Multiple System . Water Heaters for House Heating Heats Bath and Kitchen Dotler. too. One store and one Are year round. No Slpei to disconnect. Ther i notHlnir like It. Send for booklet. S, V. Reeves, Mfg. S NOttTII SECOND 8T Patented PARCEL POST Comfort Durability Economy In Philadelphia-Made Shoes PhlUfetphla leather, Philadelphia workmen. All our shoes are made and laited by hand. We carry In stock ahoM made c: our custom laets. Call and aea our stock, or write. U C. MeCLOV. 09 Cherry St.. Falls. t On the Second Day of November - (Which is Tomorrow) WANAMAKER& Brown will register a departure in the November clothing trade of Philadelphia by offering . 3000 AMool Overcoats Rt Prices Below Normal! Details in tomorrow morn ing's newspapers. Waflamaker & Brown Market at Sixth for 3B yiars . MANY PfflLADELPHIA FIRMS SHOW INTEREST IN NEW SHIPPING LINE Concerns Not Affiliated With Commerce Chamber Ask Freight Rates to South America SLOW QUOTATION RAPPED More than twenty-flve Philadelphia firms not connected with the Chamber of Com merce have Inquired from the Chamber as to freight rates by the new Philadelphia South American line since publlo attention was called to the attempts by British Inter ests to throttle tho line through underhand cutting of freight rates. When asked what action the Chamber of Commerce was going to take to bring to the attention of President Wilson, un der Section twenty-six of the act to estab lish a United States Shipping Board, tho unfair practices pursued by alien Interests, the omcers of the Chamber said they were not prepared yet to tako any action tilt thoy should liavo a consultation .With Mr. Wright, tho rcprcsntatlvo of tho steam ship, line. Mr. Wright Is expected In Phil, adelphla today. According to P N. Poo. head of thd bu reau of foreign -and domestic commerce of the Chamber of Commerce the mnungement of the new steamship line is not blameless In tho matter. Many merchants, he says, who applied for rates have not received any attention whatever, and It Is Impossible to get rates quoted from South American ports to Phlladslnhla. From another source It was learned that-l me possioie reason for this Is that the steamship ma'nacement has arranged to load the vessel at 'some South American port with Iron ore, which will bo brought to New York and unloaded there. "FATHER INJECTED BAD BLOOD IN MY VEINS," SAYS SLAYER Youth Confesses Me Planned Murder of Fcent EASTON, Md , Nov. 1. Bryan Langsdale, the yotah accused ot shooting and killing his father yesterday afternoon, has con fessed the shooting to State's Attorney Charles J. Pettier. Ha ealdi "I had been thinking over killing my father for a day or two, It was a question whether I would commit suicide or take my father's life. I had placed some arsenic In the stable and I went to the barn In the morning to take It, but I changed my mind after I had reached the barn. I decided then 1 would go back to the house and take father's llfo. I went to the room bBck of tho odlce and waited until father came Into the omce. When he came In I went to the door between the two rooms and when father's back was turned I fired." He further said, "Father Injected bad blood Into my veins and made me a bad man. 1 had a spell of Insanity last spring." A Jury of Inquest, with Mayor M. n. Nichols as foreman, will meet m the court house today. Deputy Tax Collector Dies Francis S. Stallman, deputy collector of delinquent taxes In the Twenty-second Ward for the last twenty-six years, dlod yestorday at his home, 20 East Clapler street, Clcrmantown, after an Illness of more than a year. Funeral service) will he conducted at homo nt 2 o'clock Satur day afternoon and Interment will be made In St. Thomas's Cemetery, Whltemarsh. Mr. Stallman, who was appointed to the tax oflic In April, 1110, by Certain Jefcn Taylor, former Receiver ot Taxes, was ac tive in rupuDiican pontic in the Twenty eecoml Ward for many years. He U sur vived by his widow and two daughters. If at first you don't succeed in getting glove style and glove service; you can either buy, buy again, or you can insist on a pair of Fownes, and be sue cessful right away. fOWNE that's all you need to know about a GLOVE. THIEF SUSPECT ARRESTED Police Say Man Has Confessed to Many Robberies NOmtlSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 1; Bert Tay lor was arrested last night at Cofysho hocken. In connection with robberies In which Jewelry and money to the vnluo of several thousand dollars were taken. After his arrest he escaped from tho police sta tion and was captured only after Frank Harvey, wire chief of the telephone com pany, was notified. Harvey captured Taylor as he was leaving. 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