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RAISING POULTS
. DIFFICULT JOB
‘Sanitation Essential to Pre-
vent Dread Blackhead.
That the new methods of raising
turkeys are about to revolutionize the
industry is indicated by the success
adventurous turkey enthusiasts have
experienced in many parts of the coun-
try during the last season.
Word has gradually spread around
during the last two or three years that
the dreaded disease of blackhead could
best be controlled by raising the poults
under conditions where the sanitation
ean be carefully controlled. This has
given rise to experiments with incu-
bator hatching and artificial brooding
and to keeping the growing poults on
restricted range, says a writer in the
Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman.
As the result of considerable experi-
menting, the new method has gradual-
ly taken the form of a rather definite
program. Hatch the eggs in incuba-
tors; brood under artificial hovers;
range on fresh, clean ground, and feed
{an all-mash starting and growing feed.
| This is a summary of the modern
method now being tried with consid-
|erable success in. many different
places.
The writer has had the pleasure
{ef being enabled to visit three turkey
| patrons in three different states who
bave been remarkably successful in
raising turkeys by the method out-
lined above. These places were lo-
| cated in three different states—Mich-
\igan, Kentucky and Kansas, yet the
{methods followed were surprisingly
| similar and the results were uniform-
|ly satisfactory. The Michigan man
has been using the same methods for
two or three years and is specializing
lin turkey farming. He has a fine
{flock of more than 1,000 birds, and
claims that his losses have been very
low.
| The Kentucky grower lives in the
famous blue grass region not far from
Lexington, and is a general farmer.
He raises tobacco and other field
crops, and in addition to the turkeys
has a flock of more than 500 White
| Leghorn hens” It is worthy of note,
however, that the turkeys and chick-
lens are kept entirely separate.
There was nothing at all elaborate
about his equipment as he used cheap
portable brooder houses with small
coal-burning brooders, and had home-
made troughs for feed. He has about
250 turkeys left out of about 340
hatched. He claims that the losses
were heavier than normal because the
poults were chilled when he had some
trouble with his brooder stoves.
The Kansas flock was found at the
Kansas experiment station at Manhat-
tan. This was an experimental flock,
and the birds had been kept in close
confinement without outdoor range,
until they were sixteen weeks old. At
that age they were transferred to a
two or three-acre alfalfa field, and at
the time of my visit, after four weeks
on range, they were as fine and sturdy
birds as could be wished for.
During their period of confinement,
| these poults were fed plenty of lawn
| clippings for green feed, but otherwise
they had the same rations as growing
chicks. This flock contained approxi-
mately 100 birds out of 135 that were
| started.
Sufficient Range for
Success With Turkeys
A range of one acre of sod is con-
sidered sufficient for 100 turkeys from
[the age of eight weeks to marketable
lage. This area -should also be divided
into four sections and then each sec-
tion used for only one month. The
secret of successful turkey raising
rests largely in providing fresh ground
and the hopper feeding of all feed. In
the selection of range it should be one
which has not been frequented by
chickens and should not be situated
‘|where drainage from the poultry yards
may result in infestation. It is, of
course, desirable to have all the tur-
keys of the same age. There is no
question but that turkeys can be suc-
cessfully raised in confinement and
that it does not pay to allow turkeys
to range for their feed.
Separate Turkeys
Keep turkeys entirely away from
chickens because the excrement from
chickens may contain the worms
which are believed to harbor the germ
that causes blackhead, the most dead-
ly enemy of the turkey family. There
is always more or less trouble from
lice and mites with hen-brooded poults.
The best stock you can buy will pay
the largest profits. Experiments over
a long range have shown there is uo
money in scrub turkeys.
Material for Eggs
Feeding affects the texture of the
egg shells. It usually is necessary
to supply layers with materials from
which they may make the shell for
the eggs. Crushed oyster shell is
kept in hoppers so the birds may eat
it at will, as it contains a large per-
centage of lime. Grit also is kept in
hoppers, as it helps in grinding up
the feed in the gizzard. Some kinds
lof” grit also contain a certain amount
lof lime that helps the birds in the
‘manufacture of egg shells.
SOMERSET PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shaulis and
children, Ruth and Clark of Acosta
spent the last few days here with Mr.
and Mrs. John Shaulis.
Kenneth Gardner has returned from
a visit in Pittsburg with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Herring of Som-
erset and Mrs. Fred Craver of Listie
spent the last few days here with
Mrs. Emma Herring.
Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Ankeny and
son Junior of Hooversville, who had
been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Le-
roy Trent of this route, have returned
to their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Walker enter-
tained a number of friends at their
home here recently. Those present
were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Trent, Mr.
and Mrs. Leroy Trent, Minnie and Or-
pha Trent, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Beck-
er and children, Lillian, Perry, Josiah
and Mandax. ,
Mr. and Mrs. William Ling and
children, Luella and Fern of Listie
spent the last few days in Shanksville
with Mrs. Mary Snyder.
Chester Keith of Adams spent the
last few days here with friends.
John Miller of Somerset has con-
cluded a visit here with his daughter,
Mrs. Josiah Walker.
Elmer Stutzman of Shanksville
spent the last few days here with Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Fritz.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Coleman and
small daughter, Miriam, Mrs. Harry Sel-
lers, and Miss Emma Jones motored to
New Castle, Sunday. Mrs. Coleman and
Mrs. Sellers will spend the week with
their sister, Mrs. Oliver Hoch.
Mr. R. L. Coleman, of Somerset, and
some friends of Friedens returned from
a fishing trip to the Chesapeake Bay.
They caught a large supply of trout and
hard-head.
‘Miss Leoma Maust, of Somerset, was
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben-
jamin Maust, on North St, Berlin, Pa.
Miss Elizabeth Kooser is spending
the summer at the home of her moth-
er, Mrs. J. W. Roy, of South Kimberly
avenue.
W. D. Rummel, cashier of the First
National Bank of Jerome, was a busi-
ness caller here on Friday.
Miss Edna Gardner of Bakersville
spent the last few days with her
brother, Kenneth Gardner.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beam and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Beam and Mrs. Sar-
ah Heckard visited friends in Rock-
wood recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Orlo Weller of Som-
erset have concluded a visit here with
Mrs. Viola Faidley.
Mr. and Mrs. James Wood and chil-
dren, Sarah and Leora, of Somerset
visited with friends here recently.
Mrs. Katherine Beam has returned
from York, where she was the guest
of friends for a few days.
Adam Nicholson, of Lower, Turkey-
foot Township, spent the week-end
with relatives and friends in Somer-
set.
S. P. Menges, of Berlin, was a busi-
ness caller at the county seat last Fri-
day.
Attorney and Mrs. C. L. Shaver and
their son, Chester Shaver, returned to
Somerset last evening from a motor
trip to Cambridge, Mass., where they
attended the commencement exercises
at Harvard University. Their son
was a member of the class of 1929.
Harry Landis, cashier of the First
National Bank of Berlin, was a busi-
ness caller here last Friday.
S. W. McMullen, Chief of Police of
Windber Borough, was a business
caller here Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Glass and chil-
dren of Kingsville, O., have been vis-
iting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Lape of West Fairview street.
Irvin Frease has returned home
from a visit to New York.
Mrs. A. W. Kinzer and son of West
Main street have returned home from
a visit of several weeks with Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Kinzer of Pittsburg. Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin Kinzer accompanied
Mrs. Kinzer and son to Somerset and
will spend several days as the guest
of Mrs. Harry Heffley of West Main
street. Mrs. A. W. Kinzer is a
daughter of Mrs. Heffley and has been
making her home with her mother and
sister, Miss Grace Heffley, since the
death of her husband several months
ago.
Agnes Shoemaker of North Center
Avenue has been visiting at the home
of her friend, Miss Betty Beegle of
Bedford.
SOMERSET PERSONALS
Mrs. Susanna Horner and her
daughter, Miss Alice Horner, have re-
turned to their home in Somerset
township, after a visit with relatives
% |at Johnstown.
George Bender has returned to his
home in Friedens, after spending a
week at the home of his aunt, Mrs.
George Dickey of West Union street.
Mrs. John G. Emert, her daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Emert, and her grand-
daughter, Elizabeth Ann Saylor, have
returned from a visit with relatives in
Allentown.
Druggist and Mrs. J. S. Picking,
Jr., and Mrs."G. Stoy Sorber have re-
turned from Bedford Springs, where
they attended the 52d annual conven-
tion of Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical
Association. Mr. Picking was the
Mrs. Eugene Woy and Miss Ruth
Woy have returned from a visit with
relatives in Uniontown.
winner of the cup in the golf tourna-
ment. .
The Rev. Sebastian J. Urnauer, of
Pittsburg, visited friends in Somerset
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Neil, of
Windber, have returned from a visit
to Somerset.
William P. Meyers, of Meyersdale,
was a recent business caller at the
county seat
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Miller, of Hoov-
ersville, were visitors in Somerset on
Friday.
Stiney Roden, of Windber, has re-
turned from a business trip to Somer-
set.
Samuel Blough, of Seanor, transact-
ed business at the county seat on Fri-
day.
Miss Eleanor Johnson, of East
Main street, is spending several weeks
with relatives in Atlantic City.
Samuel Crimoni and Louis Cascio,
of Ralphton, have returned from a
business trip to Somerset.
Jackson Hanger and family, of Boyn-
ton, Pa., were business callers in Som-
erset Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week. They visited with Mrs. Elmer
Shaulis and officer Melker.
John Yoder, of Holsopple, was a
business caller here on Friday.
Miss Blanche Jones has returnec
froma visit in Uniontown.
Mrs. Annie Uhl Synder and son
John were visitors in Johnstown on
Friday.
CHAUTAUQUA OPENS
MONDAY, JULY 1
AT EDGEWOOD GROVE
Here is a condensed program which it
“would be well for you to cut out to car-
ry in your purse or pocket for ready
reference.
MONDAY, JULY 1: Afternoon, The
Faubel Entertainers in sketches from
life, music, ventriloquism. Organization
of Junior Chautauqua at the Grove.
Evening, concert by the Faubels, and
the lecture none want to miss, “Around
the World on one Leg,” by Ellery Wal-
ter.
TUESDAY, JULY 2: Lecture by
Henry Cecil, “Open Doors to Fascinat-
ing Worlds.” The State Library will
have a fully stocked library truck at
the grove. Tuesday night, the Beech-
wood players in comedy drama, “The
Romancers” by Edmund Rostund.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3: afternoon,
concert by the Boston Musicians Quin-
tet, “Music masterpieces by Music Mas-
ters.” Evening, prelude by Boston
Musicians Quintet and feature lecture
by Maud Ballington Booth, known inter-
nationally as “The Little Mother of the
Prisons.” : =
THURSDAY, JULY 4: No program.
FRIDAY, JULY 5: afternoon, Mol-
arsky’s Marionettes and Junior Pageant.
Evening, this year’s Broadway Comedy
Success, “Skidding,” with a New York
cast.
Subscribers for adult season tickets
are requested to lift them at the office of
the Ferner Hotel at the earliest possible
moment to avoid. congestion on the last
days before Chautauqua.
Junior season tickets (ages 6-14) are
on sale at Beachy’s, Dosch’s, Parson’s,
the Somerset Drug, Ferner Hotel and at
the ticket booth at the Grove. Price
$1.00.
No adult season tickets are on sale,
except to advance subscribers. As long
as they last, tickets of subscribers who
have moved from town and who have
died may be had at the office of the Fer-
ner Hotel. These are being rapidly ex-
hausted.
The single admission price will be as
formerly. Adults, all afternoons 50c;
play nights, $1.00; other nights, 75c.
Juniors (ages 6-14), all afternoons
25c; all evenings 50c.
The two play nights in a four day
Chautauqua appeals strongly to the lo-
cal patrons, and with every number a
strong’ one the four Chautauqua days
will threng the grove.
OLD BORDER POST
NOW TOURIST CAMP
Fort Wilkins Never
Hostile Shot.
Fired
Fort Wilkins, Mich.—The unprotect-
ed borders of the United States and
‘Canada, an oft-cited example that two
;peoples can live in peace, revives the
story of Fort Wilkins, the last army
post on the northern boundary line.
Not since its garrison marched
away shortly after the Civil war have
its confines echoed to martial tread.
It now is a state park, and tourists
camp beneath its trees, where sen-
tries alert for the war cry of Indian
braves once walked their posts.
Just a cannon shot away, across the
water of Lake Superior, is the imag-
inary line separating Canada from the
United States.
Never once in the life of the old
fort was a gun fired from its con-
fines in hostility. Fort Wilkins was
established in 1844, temporarily aban-
doned in 1846, reoccupied in 1869 and
finally deserted in 1870.
The post was built at the end of
Michigan's thumb, the Keweenaw
peninsula, as a protection to early
copper miners and settlers against In-
dian aggression. There, too, lurked in
the minds of officials that the United
States some day might need to defend
its forthern frontier.
The first garrisoned troops, who
built the post, hewed the logs from
virgin timber. Later the buildings
were clapboarded and when the state
took over the post the fort was well
preserved.
Protecting the inclosure on the north
and east was a stockade of posts, fas-
tened with hand-made wooden pegs.
Lake Fanny Hooe provided protec-
tion on the south side, and there
was a rapidly flowing stream on the
west.
The post, although somewhat mod-
ernized by the summer's flow of mo-
torists, remains a page out of the past
in the industrialized present of Michi-
gan’s copper country.
Russia Draws Many
Workers From U. S.
Riga, Latvia.—Consular officials in
Riga estimate that 30,000 former resi-
dents of the United States are living
in Soviet Russia. .
Every month more enter and others
come out, while many of those who
remain bombard the American consu-
late, across the frontier in Riga, with
letters pleading for papers that would
permit them to return to America.
Most of the thousands who have
gone into Russia since the revolution,
looking for a worker's earthly para-
dise, are living in small towns, com-
munes and villages.
They are brought to Riga by steam-
ship companies in large parties and
sent into Russia from here. Each im-
migrant is obliged on entering a red
commune to have a minimum “capital
of $500 and to surrender his American
passport before entering the new
world that Lenin created.
Chew of Tobacco Solves
*
Mystery of Burglaries
York, Neb.—A chew from a plug of
tobacco was the undoing here of Leon
Hudson and led officers to the discov-
ery of the perpetrator of more than
forty burglaries in and near York
county during January and February.
Hudson had been arrested as a sus
pect. :
The burglar apparently had worked
with gloves, as no finger prints were
found, and the only clews left were
footprints and a plug of tobacco from
which a bite had been taken, leaving
a perfect imprint of teeth. 2
The sheriff at Aurora played cards
with a number of prisoners and in-
vited all to “have a chew.” Hudson
was the only one to accept and his
teeth prints were found to be like
those in the state’s exhibit. He: later
made a confession to all burglaries
of which he had been suspected.
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Some Are That Dumb
Bordeaux, France.—A man hailed
Jules Durand, taxi driver, and en-
gaged him to go to Bergerac, 50 miles
distant. Thinking the “fare” was
aboard, Durand drove to Bergerac,
where he found that the man had
never got into his cab. He's trying
to collect, but it's difficult.
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3,000-Horse Power Engine Built
Vienna.—A 3,000 horse-power rail-
way locomotive, said to be the largest
and most powerful in Europe, has been
built here for use on steep Alpine
grades. Auxiliary engines as pushers’
on mountain routes are entirely dis-
pensed with by the new locomotive.
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Green Bay, Wis.—A fourteen-
year-old gir! now rules the Me-
nominee Indians—the first of
her sex to head the tribe.
Princess Kenoke, daughter of
Chief Ernest Oshkosh, who died
a short time ago, assumed lead-
ership under a deathbed com-
mand of her grandfather, Chief
Neopit Oshkosh. She is known
outside the tribe as Alice
Oshkosh.
Previously it was announced
that the chieftaincy would be
taken over by Chief Ernest Osh-
kosh’s brother, Reginald. The &°
Menominees reside on ‘a reser-
vation near here.
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Here’s Proof That Curves Are Back Again
OUR beauties of tne
Fashion Parade, one of the daily events of the National Beauty Show which ushers
in the spring season at the Grand Central Palace, New York City.
chested boyish figure is passé, and the news is thankfully hailed both by American fashion experts and
the innumerable girls and women who have been starving themselves in their pursuit of the boyish form.
Standing, from left to right: Jean LaNer, Valeria LaMarr, Jean Carroll. Reolining: Marie Guimpire.
Paris has announced that the flat-
BOXING AT SOMERSET
JULY 6th FOR BENEFIT
OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
At Edgewood Grove on July 6th,
first bout starting 9:30 A. M., the
Volunteer Fire Dept., of Somerset
will stage four star boxing bouts.
boxing back into town and have in-
structed Matchmaker F. A. Jarres
to secure the best boys for the bouts.
It has been sometimes since the last
boxing show was held in town and
the Volunteer Fire Dept. desires to
put on a clean show with fast bouts
carded. The bouts are listed as
shown:
136 lbs—Ray Walters, of Mur-
dock, Pa., vs Charley (Mugsy) Cas-
tina, of Maple Ridge, Pa.
The fire boys intend to introduce
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140 lbs.—Rudy Meyers, of Hol-
sopple, Pa., vs Gene Miller, of Gar-
rett, Pa,
145 lbs.—Hugh Burke, of Som-
erset, Pa., vs Gene Gettings, of Je-
rome, Pa. -
160 lbs.—Ralph (Concrete) Get-
tings, of Jerome, Pa., vs Roy (Iron-
man) Lehman, of Meyersdale, Pa.
A change was made on one of the
bouts originally listed due to weight
agreement, and fight fans will be as-
sured clean and real fighting as ad-
vice from the boxers camps have it,
that the boys will be in perfect
shape.
The fans will have thrills a plenty
when Concrete Gettings and Roy
Lehman square off, as this is a re-
turn bout between these two boys
with Lehman returned the winner
in their previous meeting. Gettings
is out to even up things. Rudy
Meyers and Gene Miller will show
some real and fast boxing. Both
are good punchers, and this will be
followed up with another thriller
when Hugh Burke, Somerset’s Pride
will clash with Gene Gettings, the
(Go-get-em) boy from Jerome. Ray
Walter and Mugsy Castina will give
the fans some clean, fast and clever
boxing, both boys are shifty and
quick.
Confidence in Prayer
And this is the confidence that we
have in Him, that, if we ask anything’
according to His will, He heareth us;
and if we know that He heareth us,.
whatsoever we ask, we know that we.
have the petitions that we desired of’
Him.—I John 5:14, 15.
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