EE Sa! ‘ THE STANDARD BIRD. Greatest Profit in Pure Breeds of Fowls. | The Bureau of Animal Tndustry has: should be placed against the end of the | house opposite the door or under the roost platform, and should be darkened. It is well to have several small boxes | inst | €aR hen yields more money annually just prepared a short bulletin embody- ing a number of useful hints to poultry raisers. In submitting the text to Secre- tary Wilson, Chief Melvin of the Bureau stated that the article was pre- pared with the special end in view of furthering the purpose of his Bureau to give the raisers of poultry, especially the general farmere the best informa- tion possible in a very concise form. The article is written by G. Arthur Bell, Assistant Animal Husbandman of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Selection of a Varlety, Pure breeds are desirable, says Mr. Bell, as with these one hag a flock of 2 GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL for shell, grit, beef scraps, ete., ag: the walls about for the fowls, The Feeding of Hens. sary to have healthy, properly fed, should be fed grain, animal, and green vigorous stock, keep them in good condition but not overfat, and should be induced to take a ——— PLYMOUTH ROCKS—A PAIR OF PRIZE WINNERS fowls which will produce ecarcases and eggs of a much more uniform shape, color, and size than will mongrels, all of which aids in finding a ready If one already has a floc) 10NLT fowls and cannot afford to buy pur breeds, e@ a purebreed breed preferred and ew of the best mon- 1, if carefully ill give he should choo followed high-grade fl as good as pu conditior are Choi on the pur kept—whether eggs alone, meat, or meat alone | whether white-shelled or eggs ard desired; and orn itters are wants Egg Breeds~Nonsitters ers of whiteshelled eg; and Minorcas. General purpose breeds —Sitters and producers of brown-shelled -Ply- mouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Orphing- tous, apd Rhode Island Reds, Meat Breeds. Sitters and producers of brown-shelled eggs—Light Brahmas, Cochins, and Langshans. What Kind of Houses, t an « ation haw we away fr conce ill dépend largely fowls are otheges and CER Locat S ing a natural building, a dry, | sandy or drair m the + J att bumping his h ead agalr - wi! Tr ’ rules can be tions vary, sthods of fes ollow for winter ETAaln ons indicated: 00 pounds wheat bran. is corn meal. gluten meal, pounds beef scrap. GROUP OF YOUNG Another mash may be mixed as fo) 8, in the proportions indicated: 00 poun y | 0H Do ' poll A House for Fi The best hots 3 fty toSixtyFo few t wis, is 20 feet, doubl roof, if than one-t used, oneq the front, or south placed two windov the top and 3 feet fi 10 inches is a good in a twelve. light sash about 3 by 9 Inches ! inches wide. A door 2% feet may be made in one of the end walls, and also a small door in the front wall, for [A A ] : Y oung » ’ racked grains h ) five or six weeks old, the prepared chick od and cracked corn, racked wheat, hulled oats, etc, fed to them instead. If the « ean not get grass, provide green feed such as lettuce and 3 kena Ra YAY) 5 . J " 1 Soe LP (oo) SINGLE COMB BUFF | POMORNS Cock was Awarded First Prize. St. Louls Pxposition. the fowls to pass In and out of the building. Interior Arrangement, The roost platform should be placed the rear of the heuse and extending ength. The platform should foot wide and 3 feet from floor, with the perches arranged or 10 inches higher. The nest cabbage which are very good for this purpose. Some kind of meat, such an green eut hone or meat seraps, 1s valu. able an a food and it is well to keep In a box where the chickens can help thomselves at all times. Water should bo ided from the start, placed In a dish that the chickens can not pot Into it and got wet. 16 to 18 inches above | ~~ FRB Be a ple y the floor. If cement or wood floors are | ©6588 as low as a cent a plece—a very used, a dust bath should be provided | In order to obtain eggs, it is neces- To do their best, hens food. They should be fed enough to] el16 to Noven | Ar @ at the The Greal American Hen, Rightfully comes she by the title, according to statistics the Ameri- {than any other one farm product; With cheap and nutritious food—a well bred hen laying about two hundred eggs a year has a value of $2. An | estimate Is made that $1 a year will keep her in comfortable if not luxuri- ous, quarters. The trouble is that millions of barnyard scrubs do not yield a hundred eggs a year, According to Government ties the earning from the egg and | poultry industry amounts to about $28G,000,000, Cotton, the king of crops | with a value re aching up to $259,000. 900, is thus dethroned by the magnifi- | cient earnings of the fowl | During 1905 the total value of all the | gold, silver, wool and sheep produced {in the United States was $272,000,000. | The wheat crop, considered the most { valuable of all agricultural products {had a valne in the game period of | $229,000,000, The great | hog, consumed at home was valued at about $186.5 | sugar production of the country was r $20,000,000, The combined value of the oat and potato crops was only $160,000,000, The industrioup little | gallus domesticus projluces enough eggs to require a train of refrigerator cars 900 miles long filled with 43,000. { 000 erates, each of which he 260 {eges. The value of the egg as a food equal to that of any food authori- ano and abroad, | 1.035. 1d a / —— _Winter Egg-Laying Contest, A novel egg-laying {the Lady Warwick's Lad | tural Colle is Daniels at Sheffield, lusions reached are ths not govern s0 much | strain or families of « | veloped @8 ex | | four Buff Or Con report ha once have the their credit. etition what good stead is not that the winner of a medal, ! ts mother and grandmather were wonderful layers, and that its WHITE LEGHORNS, ™N male parents also cameo of © good lay ing strain. — - Ducks don't need water to thrive There are many farms in this country, | where thousands of the fowl are raised each year for market, and where there is not even a puddle for them to flounder in. One of these establish- ments #9 sald to furnish 20,000 ducks A JOAr, Ne) on Not the Laying Kind. rather bashful The | LONGWORTH GUESSED WRONG, Missed the Opportunity to Get Fam« ous Horse Named After Him, When a man becomes famous, all the incidents of his past life are laid bare. There 18 a great story going around of how Nick Longworth came near to attaining to fame gome years ago, In connection with horses. “The story runs,” according to a prominent horseman, “that some years ago H, M. Ziegler, of Cincinnati, the noted owner of thoroughbreds, and an intimate friend of Mr. Longworth, took the latter down to his Kentucky thoroughbred farm to show him his collection of fine yearlings, “All of these yearlings were as yet unnamed. “ ‘Longworth,’ sald Ziegler, as they strolled about the stalls, ‘you'd better let me name one of these yearlings after you. They're a swell bunch, and almost all of them are well-nigh bound to do something big in the world. “‘lI dou't mind,’ was longworth's | American | { | WHITE COCHIN COCK First Prize Bird at New York Show in 1904 reply. ‘But I'd like to be sure stowing my cherished Ol name on a real I'd hate to have a bad running in my good one one that 1 think | that, In the most astute w | HAT, seeing belief of many of horsemen in this eoun- &ry, Hermis was absolutely the finest race horse ever foaled In the United States, a speed and distance marvel, bulldog who never knew when he beaten, and an al worthy to nked with the ry greatest race or any other the deliberats anin the one that named kK wa utd wit hilson T : "east ! of his own way fair handicap horses, about twenty times to ta 2 hy 1 and he lost win, and it to that Mr. Lon ati | ved him unmereifully about his namesake horse. Mr. Longworth never, of course told his guying friends that he'd actu ally had the an » get so noble an animal aa Hermis alter him He probably felt that the situation was bad enough as it wa ons really { ye pa rworth's_ Cincinnati friends g eo! nn 1 named ————— THE NEGRO AS A FARMER, Becker Washington Says Ne Io at His Werst in Large €ities Booker T. Was in an address t Washington -) trod hington a D. C., re 3) AK few days ago a young woman went Ir grocery store witl ell, She Ir to a Southern | some chickens to} quired same time put hers on the ounter. The clerk not le the chickens’ feet were tied, and asked if they would lay there. She bit her handkerchief, turned her head, and sald, “No, sir, they are roosters.” -— Extending the Weather Service. In order that the work of the Weather Bureau may be of greatest possible benefit to the people of the United Btates, and especially to that class which Is dependent upon the weather, Prof. Willis 1. Moore, the chief, has been making arrangement by which such agriculturists as have telephones and want the service, may obtain weather forecasts within a few minutes after | didn't ¢ that her the announcement of telephonic advice as to the state of com. ing weather, This Is operating In New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan and other states, Recently the Weather Pureau made arrangements for an ex tension of this service In Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia — The bloodhound ia generally thought to be very ferocious, while, on the con. trary, it in really an gently as almost any other kind of dog. —— A The Pennsylvania Rallroad iz eon. templating entting a tunnel through the Allegheny Mountains, and the South. ern Pacific will eventually, tunnel the Slerro Nevada range, Tall persons nsually live longer than short ones, while those born In the have sounder constitutions than born during the other seasons, the price of fowls, |’ ’ and at } @ 3 where he ewns and aid the demand in the groes trained for teachers a leaders in the class room, and the factory was tremendous: but more pr ng yet was the demand from the hw of that tion for ner charge of eir farms, dairies ahd other industri Thi le mand is shown he said, the fact that every one of the 525 students who left Tuskegee last summer had been en © SDOAKer § outh for nes white people "OO we 10 ake th by gaged weeks before the end of the term Washington is solicited mall, tele graph, and in person to furnish trained negroes, and could have found places for twice the number had they been forthcoming, “Association with the white people has given the negro new wants, de sires and ambitions,” sald Mr. Wash- ington; “To these, education is neces sary. both to appreciate fully the newly awakened feelings and to provide means for thelr rational satisfaction Hence, from the most selfish point of view, the right kind of education Is beneficial for the negro.” That the negro is not naturally an idler is shown, the speaker sald, by the trobling of the South's industrial wealth in the last twenty years, with. out any appreciable Increase In immi gration, his advance Is due, he thought, In great part to the well directed labor of the negro. 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