WHEN AS
Isabel Ecclestsns Macksy.
When, a lad, at break of day
1 watched th fishers tall away.
My thoughts, Ilk Hocking- bird", would follow
Across ths curving sky's blue hollow,
Aid on and on
Into ths very heart of dawn I
for long t searched ths world! Ah, me!
searched ths sky, I searched the sea.
With muoh of useless grief and rueing-,
Those winged thoughts of mine pursuing
Fo dear were they,
Bo lovely and so far away!
I seek them still and always will "
Until my laggard heart Is still,
And I am free to follow, follow,
Across the curving sky s blue hollow,
Those thoughts too Meet
For any save ths soul's swift feet!
From Alnslee's Magazine
&fe Bunco Submarine.
A Tale With Pearls, Orientals, and Sharks In It
(Loudon
There were twenty cases of pearl
hell to bo trans-shipped from the
tore schooner to the ugly cargo tramp
rthat squatted on the flanks of the
company's luggers. A couple of whale
"boats plied aeiosa the straits, dodg
4ng' the skulking praus and trepang
4re(igeis, until the last case was safe
ly stowed In the tramp's after-hold.
4 A sccre of helmeted divers descend
ed In batches from the steps of tho
luggers to the reef-strewn floor of the
traits. The soft whining of air
jumps, the loud, unhealthy coughing
of some lung-wasted diver, broke the
hot aftorr.oon t.ilence. From cape to
coral bank the straits seemed alive
with wheeling sun-birds and slow
drifting craft.
A laughing Japanese boy steering
four Jap fishermen lu a half-decked
j-awl, swung fiom the bubble of drift
ing junks, and lay abeam of the pearl
ing fleet. In a Hath, It Beemed, their
long lead sinkers were out, and their
four tehapper lines whipped the water
simultaneously.
Captain William Hayes was at that
moment exhibiting several samples of
black-lip pearl to a parsplring shell
buyer seated abaft the BtlQing deck
house. Leaning over the rail, he
glanced daikly at the close-drifting
yawl. "Don't fly your blamed hooks
over ray shell grounds," he said
harshly. "These are licensed waters,
Mr. Japan."
The Assamese boy held out his hand
pleadingly. "You let us ilsa a little
while, Cap'n. Poor Japanese boy no
"work get."
"Get woik a gunshot or two from
this lugger," nodded the white man.
"Last month somebody's fishing hook
fouled an air tube and suffocated a
diver. Maybe you Shinto people fancy
It's a blamed tine Joke."
Tho four Japanese fishermen re
mained must as bronze images lit the
yawl. Save for the boy's anxious
glance at the big white Captain above,
they seemed unaware of his existence.
Hayes regarded thorn keenly as the
tide drew them nearer and -nearer tl)
vessel's stern. "They'd climb aboard
and loot tho galley if I went ashore,'
he said to the astonished agent beside
him. "They'd steal the lash off a
row's eye-lid.'
The Japs remained motionless; the
chnapper lines twined about their
fingers. Not once did they look up at
the baying voiced Captain.
"Heard every word I said," he con
tlnued, ' and they're digesting my
tnejclng like ostriches." Turning to
at group of shell openers squatting for
ward besides their heaps of rotting
hurley, he addressed them In a sharp
undertone. One of them, a half-caste
Burghls man, seized an un-opened
oyster and hurled It with boomerang
force through the air. The edge of
their shell struck the nearest Jap full
in the chest; another followed that
tkated dangerously between their
ber.is.
. There came no sound of protest
from tho Japs; the man who bore the
shell scar cn his breast yawned de
li'ueiately. Slowly, laboriously, it
seemed they heaved on their tattered
jigger end the boomsall caught the
falling slant of wind.
"You den't seem overpollte to visi
tors," ventured the agent when they
had gene. "Were they really Inter
fering1 with your dlversr"
"Guess if you were losing $500
worth of pearl a month you'd think
co. The Japs have a right, maybe, to
eit on the spike of this continent and
Csh, but If they're going to stick their
hooks into my air tuoes and smother
Innocent men in twenty fathoms of
water I'll uncover that machine gun
for'rd. It hates Japs like poison."
"You really think that some of your
fivers are in league with the Japan
k3 buyers?"
'"Thinking won't stop a $5000 gem
Sliding from ft diver's hand to a purse
at the end of a twenty fathom line,
sir. You've got to shoot at sight and
pursue your mental hallucinations af
terward. These Japs are rushing
about the Bast like kids at a picnic,"
he went oa, huskily. "They're mark
ing off things and places with pens
tnd cameras, and they want to see
'our many gates have been left open."
The agent stayed aboard the
schooner to be entertained by the
yuffvolced man named Hayes. The
I dilutes of shell sampling over, they
tat in their chairs under the double
awning away from the oyster heaps
nj listened to the babel of voices that
drifted across the Straits of Torres,
the northwest monsoon had fallen to
a three-knot zephyr, and the thirty
luggers belonging to the Queensland
pearling fleet rolled In a half -moon
formation on the eastern limit of ths
Vanderdecken Bank.
A LAD.
Sketch.) CO
A champagne cork popped under
the awning; the scent of a cheroot
rose like Incense amid the offal that
trails eternnlly In the wake of pearls.
The wine mellowed Hayes, sortened
the blade-like edge of his overwrought
mind until his laughter was heard by
the Trepang fishers across the bay.
"The man who owns a pearl lagoon
has got to soli his dignity and watch
the skyline," he said, after a pause.
"I've been In the business for eighteen
years, sir, and I know a thief schooner
from a nil be ion boat. I bought a la
goon once from nn old German down
in the Shoe Archipelago that cost mo
$6000 and my reputation as a Jap kill
er. "The Shoe Archipelago Is a long way
south of the Marquesas, but there were
shellers who'd have gone to the Ice
limit to put In a year's fishing at Eight
Bells Lagoon that was the name 1
gave It. From reef to reef it was
packed with golden edge shell, little
baby pearl the size of your thumb
nail, stuff that will tempt nine thieves
out of ten Into your waters. Golden
edge shell Is slow to mature, and 1
thought it worth while to sit down and
wait a year or so and give it time to
grow.
"The old German who sold me the
island had put up a notice Btating
that he'd gun the first poacher who
took an oyster from the lagoon. So
when the pearl banks became my
property I reckoned that the printed
notice had a claim on my ammunition.
"One afternoon a schooner ripped
Into the passage and started to wind
herself 'round the buoy. Before my
mate, Bill Howe, could bring me my
Sunday uniform a couple of Japs put
off In a dinghy and climbed up the
steps to my tradehouse veranda. Their
names were written on ivory cards
Matl Hanntgin and Sustu Ma. They
gave me to understand that they were
graduates from the Tokyo University.
"Then they bowed and showed ma
the diamonds on their fingers. I was
considerably impressed. It takes three
generations they say, to make a gen
tleman. I reckoned by the way they
kowtowed that their forefathers had
been practicing bowing since Colum
bus first pointed the way to Chicago.
"Their business was in a nutshell.
They had with them the skeleton of
a submarine designed and thought out
by themselves. It was an Improve
ment on the old French type and cap
able of destroying the largest battle
ship afloat Its construction was be-
SCATTERED TO THE FOUR WINDS.
A Boston paper tells of a boy walking along a downtown street
who carelessly tore up a piece of paper till he had a handful of bits,
which he then tossed away. A policeman stopped him and compelled
him to gather up every one of these floating pieces of paper. It was
not easy, for the wind hod scattered them. John T. Faris, writing in
the Epworth Herald, adorns this tale with another and points a moral
that nearly all of us could heed with profit But, he says, it seemed
a simple task to a passenger In a city omnibus, who, forgetting his sur
roundings, made to his seat-mate a careless remark about a mutual ac
quaintance Brought to his senses by the sharp glance of a stranger
who had overheard, he wished that he might recall his careless words.
He determined he would never again be guilty of the same sin.
Only a few days later, In the presence of several listeners, he was
once more guilty of a thoughtless remark about a friend. The words
were no sooner spoken than he longed to gather them up, as tho Bos
ton hoy gathered up the scattered bits of paper. But they were gone
from him forever, and, unless those who heard him have been more
thoughtful than he, they are already scattered to the four winds.
gun in the United States, but as the
model grew they discovered that their
ideas were being assimilated by local
experts. When you consider that
three European governments are will
ing to pay an immense sum for a re
liable navy-smasher, it seemed worth
their while to quit the States and com
plete the submarine in England.
"Arriving at Liverpool they learned
that two American torpedo agents
were on their heels. Not caring to
begin work they postponed all fur
ther trials until tbe coast wah clear.
But the agents were painfully early
risers and dogged their movements
night and day. To have started ex
perimenting on the open beaches and
rivers of England would have been
like handing their brains to a foreign
Torpedo Trust They got scared, and
finally hired a schooner that brought
them and their submarine to the South
Seas, where the deslgn-snatchers
snatchors could be dealt with If they
ventured within a bundred-mlle radi
us. "The Jap Inventors wanted the run
of a lagoon where stores and food
could be 6 ad. And they were willing
to p&y handsomely. I told 'em that
ths Island was mine beach, palm
trees,' ifade .house and ' lagoon and
that there wasn't a native In the South
Faclflc game to raffle a handful of
beads without my permission.
"We lubricated extensively, to eacfc
other's internal satisfaction. We also
smiled.
"I was to be a partner in the sub
marine speculation. A reliable sub
marine Is an investment that shoots
half a million into a man's lap. He
Is dollar swamped, and his life Is full
of music and press notices. I was pos
itive that the Jap's uivention was a
work of genius. I mightn't know a
twelve-Inch gun from a gasplpe, but
you could back horses on my instinct
when It came to drawing up an agree
ment. "I stood hand on hip while the war
splitting machine was landed at the
foot of the trade bouse. The deeps
of partnership bad been fixed up; it
was a concave agreement, with the
bulge In my direction. I showed them
Eight Bells Lagoon and the sky abova
it. I asked them if It would suit their
submarine.
"After sizing it all 'round they said
it would fit them to a yard.
"Before dinner we rowed across the
lagoon in my whaleboat. I was mum
about the golden-edge spat lying on
the floor. Couldn't see how it would
interfere with the submarine practice.
Then I exnmlned their credentials and
found 'em clean as a British ambassa
dor's. Putting one thing with an
other, I balled myself partner iu a
spac that would pull out on the sunny
side of $20,000.
"The fifth night the Japs started
maneuvering their submarine against
the wind and tide. Bill rushed into
i he trade room like a spring-heeler
rooster looking for a fight.
"That war machine's making its
fortune across the lagoon, Cap'n, says
he.
" 'Doing submarine work,' says I.
" 'With your golden-edged shells,'
says he. 'They've lifted and scraped
together half a ton of pearl an' pack
ed It away aboard the schooner. By
the time they're done with the lagoon
there won't be enough shell left to
cover a dinner plate.'
" 'You mean," says I, 'that they're
loading that barrel-shaped thief ma
chine with my goldenedged pearl?'
" 'An' maneuvering Cap'n.'
"I guess my intellect was off the
grass when it allowed a couple of
Shinto greasers and a patent diving
machine Into a lagoon that was packed
to the shore line with finest mother-o'-pearl,
and the schooner shipping the
stuff as fast as they could load her.
"BUI asked me to keep calm. 'Talk
sense and bring out the cartridges,'
says I.
"Then an idea floated into my head,
and after I'd rubbed its edges and
smoothed it into shape I commanded
Bill to kill a pig. 'Cut it into a doz
en pieces and scatter it about the
lagoon entrance,' says I.
" 'What forT' says Bill.
" 'It will bring up my bull pups.
You watch the pearling industry by
and by, Bill.'
"There was an old hog In the com
pound of no particular account BUI
walked' 'round it with an ax and got
In first blow before the hog could
Btrlke an attitude. We spent two
hours cutting It up and scattering1 it in
the deep water at the lagoon mouth.
Then Bill heaved the hog's head and
feet astern of the Jap submarine.
"I was hard at work on the edge of
the shell spat, moving here and thero
as the 'skin' divers worked the shallow
floor. 'Great Scott!' says I, 'they're
sprinter at the game.'
"I could feel that the big-barreled
machine was glutted with my golden-
edge pearl. I was more like a hallow
bathing house when it opened out, and
I could hear the clatter of shell in
side as the divers spilled it from their
loaded baskets into the receiver.
" 'I guess these people have been
working the same game for the last
ten years,' say I to Bill. 'But wait till
my bulldogs come in. Gilbert tfnd
Sullivan's operas won't be in it
"We bad a whiskey each. Then Bill
clawed the air and theorized about let
ting off his gun. Up to tbe third whis
key he kept to the point; after that
he talked hyperbole and frivolity.
" 'You ain't the man you was, Mul
ly,' says he bitterly.
" 'Fighting is sinful,' says I, 'when
you can pawn and dislocate your ene
my without getting out of bed, Wil
liam.' "We walked round the lagoon, keep
ing well In the shadow of the woods.
The moon was up and the water leap
ed and gurgled over the reefs as the
tide crawled in. Bill held my arm
to a hundred ghost-light flashing from
the ocean into the lagoon.
" 'The bulldogs, says I.
' "The bloodi-scent had fetched' 'em
from the north and south big, gray
backed sharks, thirteen feet long. You
could see and hear them moving in
droves across the lagoon.
" The pig did it' Bill looked at the
harks and chuckled.
' 'It was a noble thought,' says I.
'A better man would have covered' It
with patent rights an hour ago.'
"We heard a scream; theres no es
caping the yellows of a 'skin' diver
when a thirteen-foot shark mistakes
him for an elongated prawn.
"Next moment we saw the two
Japs astride the submarine, waxing
their knives at the frothing water
around tbem.
" 'One of 'em bitten on Jhe foot,'
says I. 'We'll measure him for a pair
of crutches later on.'
' 'The schooner's dinghy will be
round by an by to see what's the mat
ter,' says BUI.
" 'Depends on our shooting,' says L
"The two Japs astride the sub
marine saw us in the moonlight One
of 'em stood up and waged his arms.
" 'Anything wrongr says I.
" 'A slight miscalculation,' says he.
The hob-nosed twiner has become en
tangled in the Aaron-Johnson adjudi
cator. A three-Inch whelp Incinerator
will neutralize the poisonous expul
sions.' He waved bis arms cheerfully
at me and BUI.
" 'Rub with gasoline,' says I, 'and
wire results.'
"I was cool; my temperature would
have surprised a thermometer. It oc
curred to me and' Bill that the Japs
were collecting their feelings. You
could have repaired a broken icehouse
with their faces.
" 'Gentlemen, I mistook your ma
chine for a Panama Canal excavator,'
says I. 'Be calm; don't let me hurry
you.'
"BUI Bay my speech would have put
a Fenian Into Parliament. The Japs
looked hurt. Matl unscrewed the top
of a manhole and slipped Into the
shell-collector.
" 'Funk,' says BUI.
" 'Triple expansion of the nerves.
Gone below to commit suicide with
the oyster opened,' says I.
"Tbe other Jap, astride the machine
seemed to be watching the fleet of
gray-backed sharks swarming around.
One big fellow with a shovel snout
looked at the stradling Jap like a hun
gry policeman shepherding a pie.
"The Jap Inside tho machine bob
bed his head through the man-bole
and heaved a piece of raw meat into
the water. About 200 full-f.own
Bharks closed round It and fought for
ten seconds In a solid heap, turning,
rolling and snapping at each other like
tigers.
"Tbe Jap at the manhole disappeared
like an African falling1 through a pil
plt .
" 'Goln' to measure himself for a
new llghtnln'-conductor," says BUI.
'I counted the sparks in his eyes.'
" 'He moved greasily,' I put in, 'and
not without a certain elegance of man
ner.' "We saw a sky-colored light Jon
from the stern window of the machine.
It kicked1 the floor of the lagoon and
whitened the top. Two seconds later
the water bulged and drew Itself to
gether as thought the submarine had
given it a headache. Up and up It
heaved, high as a schooner's malnyard,
and then the blamed thing split in
nine pieces. Whoostl Bang!
"Sand1, mud and shell ripped the
air. The lagoon Bhook as If it had
swallowed a ton of gun-cotton., A big
wet, smelly fish whipped Bill's face.
A pair of sharks weer blown to the
roof of the trade bouse, knocking the
flagpole endways.
" 'Banzla!" said the Jap at the man
hole. 'Wlhat do you think of that,
Bully Hayes?'
" 'Considered as a side show It
beats whaling or football,' says I.
'Why not put your water elevator on
the market? It would' 'sell in thous
ands as a pick-me-up.'
" 'It would go well with soft drinks,'
says BUI, wiping dead fish from his
eye.
"The Jap at the manhole promised
to consider my proposal at an early
date. Then he asked if we had any
more sharks to spare. "There were
several floating round, that looked
hurt and! tired,' be said.
"I followed Bill back to the trade
house. Nothing that bad any bearing
on the Japanese submarine was left
unsaid. At sun-up Bill complained
bitterly about the small of dead shark
on the roof.
" 'it's the only blamed thing they've
left us,' says he.
"But he had to admit that the ma
chine was no fly-tray."
MAIN FARM FOR MISS KELLER.
Will Move to the Country That Her
Work May Be Uninterrupted.
Miss Helen Keller, the noted deaf
and blind young woman, must leave
Wrentbam, Mass., to escape social
claims. Tho proximity of her present
home to Boston has resulted In & con
stant flow of visitors and has serious
ly Interfered with what she intended
to be her life's work.
John A. Maoy, one of the editors of
The Youth's Companion, who has been
a resident of Wrentham for nearly five
years, has purchased a fine old es
tate at Fennellvllle, about five miles
from Brunswick, Me., and with him
and Mrs. Macy, MIsb Keller will make
her permanent home in that state.
Miss Keller is planning several
books, and In order to write them she
wishes leisure and seclusion. Living
near Boston entailed a great many so
cial engagements, but by removing
Into the country she bones to be able
to devote a large part of her time to
her work and to her large volume of
correspondence, brought about by her
interest In the blind and deaf. Her re
cent book has brought out an ex
tensive correspondence from all over
Europe and South America.
A man's beard Is generally heavier
nn the right side of his face.
!THE FARIVlEBf5 HOME ANDACRES
Value of Salt for Cows.
The Mississippi station has found
that three cows kept without salt will
produce fifty-five pounds loss milk in
a week than they will when they have
all the salt they want.
Lime for Egg Eaters.
Professor J. E. Rice, of Cornell Unl
verlty, Ithaca, N. Y., In the course of
an address at the poultry Institute or
Guelph, Can., said one of the results
of withholding lime from pullets was
that they ate all their eggs. This may
account for not a little of the egg-eating
about which so many farmers are
now complaining.
Care of Lambs.
Examine the udder of each ewe and
were necessary to cut away al locks
of wool so that the lamb may have
free and unobstructed acceEs to the
teats; otherwise the lamb is liable to
suck and swallow seme wool, which
forms Into a ball In the stomach,
eventually causing death when the
lamb Is three or four weeks old.
Farmers' Home Journal.
Liming Yards.
The scattering of fine lime over the
yards occasionally (and also on the
floor and walls of' the poultry house)
Is often of very material assistance In
keeping down lice. In case disease
develops In the flock, give the house a
thorough clearing out and dust the
lime over every part, and z'&o in the
rums. The same measures will also
act as preventive. Sucn treatment of
the soil also adds to Its fertility, and
if at any time a crcp should be grown
In the poultry runs the manurial and
chemical effects of the lime will be
noticeable. Another good thing is to
make free use of lime under tbe roosts,
as It deodorizes the manure and keeps
the droppings platform sanitary and
the air pure and wholesome. R, B.
Sando, in the Epltomlst.
Rhode Island Reds.
Rhode Island Reds date back about
fifty years to the rocky coast of Rhode
bland, when some of the small farm
ers began to cross the large red Malay
cocks which were Imported from
Southern Asia, with the Cochin China
hens. The Idea was to produce a
strong bird, about the average in size,
which could stand the cold, rough win
ters and hustle pre'tty well during the
rest of the year. The mating proved
very satisfactory, and the cross was
bred for egg production and uniform
ity in size, color, and markings. It
was not, however, until the year 1886
that the name Rhode Island Red was
given to this Rhode Island production.
It cannot be said that the origin of
the Rhode Island Reds was an acci
dental happening. It seems to have
been carefully planned and splendidly
worked out Epltomlst
Variety Essential for Poultry.
There Is no difficulty In providing
a variety for a small flock, as the table
scraps will assist, but tor fifty or a
hundred fowls, resort to foods that
are easily obtained is required. Cut
clover, meat, milk, linseed oil cake
and cabbage will all serve to vary the
diet. It Is when fowls are fed on
grain during the whole time that they
refuse to lay. But even tho grain may
be varied If corn Is wltheld and oats,
wheat and buckwheat are used In ro
tation. Fill a trough full of corn and
place It where the fowls can eat all
they desire. They will soon begin to
refuse it, as they require something
which the corn does not contain, and
they will not produce many eggs until
they are gratified. Variety of food Is
not only essential to egg production,
but assists in keeping the flock in a
healthy condition. Weekly Witness.
Build Poultry Houses Early.
Now is the time to build your hen
houses for next winter so they will
be done and the ground will be dry.
Build either out of shlplap or dry lum
ber, for if built of common lumber,
the cracks must be striped.
Three years ago I built two hen
houses ten by twenty-four feet, five
feet high on back and eight feet front.
The last three years I have only kept
from 120 to 125 hens. I will give you
the egg record we have kept through
the winter and show the gain we have
made by different feeds:
Jan. ..1072 eggs lu2 eggs 1815 eggs
Feb. ..1361 " 1821 "
Mar. ..2228 " 3085
Look at the gain from the first to
the last 743 eggs. The gain was more
than enough to pay the expense of
feeding. The feed of the morning is
corn, wheat cats Cnd kafflr corn mixed
and put In litter of straw and shredded
fodder about eight inches deep.
At noon every other day feed one
gallon of milk with bran and four
pints of dried beef scraps made in
a stiff mash. At night, feed as much
corn as they will eat and keep oyster
shells by them all the time. Keep
plenty of tresh water by them at all
times. Feed the hens early in the
morning so they will know where to
go to get their feed and they will
soon learn to know where to find It
Water them early, too, for laying hens
like plenty of fresh water. I never
fed kafflr corn until this year, and find
it to be one of the best grains I can
feed.
Clean out the hen house where they
roust once a week, using a broom af
ter you get all you can with a shovel.
Clean out the scratching part every
two or three weeks. I sprinkle lime
and ashes under the roosts. I have
100 Single Comb Buff Leghorns and
23 Single Comb Buff Orpingtons.
Last week we gathered In 105 eggs
one day. We use glass eggs In every
nest. Feed end water regular and
the hens will lay regular. E. E.
Hedrlck.
Farm Mechanic.
Every farm should have a workshop.
The building may be larg-a or small. It
Is not necessary to have It very ex
pensive. The tools may be few or
many, but what there are should be
good. No man can do good work with
poor tools, and good tools cost but lit
tle more than poor ones. A building
tea by twelve feet will answer for a
blacksmith shop with a small vice
bench In one corner. If this is fitted
with a good chimney, forge, anvil,
hammer, tongs and good steel vice,
considerable blacksmlthlng work can
be done to advantage.
There should be a Bmall stove to
make the shop comfortable In winter.
This is very Important because there
Is more time to work in a shop in
the winter and you can't work with
blacksmith's tools in a frosty atmos
phere. Carpenter's work is different. A
carpenter's bench may be placed
against the side of the building and
covered with a shed roof, for, If neces
sary, carpenter work may be done
outside if you have a covered place
for the bench and tools.
A much better arrangement Is to
have a blacksmith shop In one end of
a larger building and a carpenter shop
in the other end with a partition be
tween. There should be no shavings
lying about a blacksmith shop; there
Is too much danger from fire. For
another reason the two kinds of work
do not Jibe well together. It is com
paratively eaBy to keep a blacksmith
shop la order, but there Is a great deal
of litter about a wood-working shop
and a farmer never finds time to keep
such things neatly in order.
In buying wood-working tools the
best are the cheapest. It Is poor econ
omy to buy cheap tools. Not many
are needed for common repair work
and a good kit may be bad for a few
dollars.
Instruction books on mechanics may
help a good deal. The principles may
be studied out and applied in the shop.
The boys on the farm take up such
things easily and often make good me
chanics. Epltomlst.
Farm Notes.
Laying hens need animal feed. Sup
ply them with ground or green cut
bone. If possible, or good beef scrap,
which can be purchased of any supply
house. Skim milk, sour or butter milk
also Is good.
If the henhouse is damp ditch about
it so as to carry off outside moisture
as soon as possible, then fill up the
inside until the floor is at least six
inches higher than the ground out
side. Gravel is the best to use in a
house of this kind, where a floor Is not
laid
A hundred lice in a poultry house
will multiply to a thousand in a very
short time, and a million within a
month, unless checked. It is much
easier to dispose of them when they
number only a hundred than to wait
until they nave multiplied to a mil
lion. Good drinking fountains for young
chicks may be made by punching three
or four nail holes near the open end
of a tin fruit can, fill with water and
Invert In a saucer. The water In the
saucer will only reach the depth that
the holes are from the mouth of the
can. By using this they can not get
Into the water and a fresh supply Is
held in reserve in tne can.
It will soon be time for many of the
poultrymen to begin to dispose of part
of their breeding stock to make room
for the growing youngsters and It will
be a great chance to purchase good
stock at a low price, as birds are gen
erally sold at this season for less than
half of their regular value. Any one
desiring to begin the raising of thor
oughbred etock should look out for
these bargains.
The temperature of the. brooder can
be lowered 5 degrees each week until
it is down to 70. It should be kept
at that as. long as it Is necessary to
keep the chicks in brooders. They can
be taken from the brooder at the ago
of six or eight weeks, according to the
weather, and put in colony coops, put
ting about twenty-live to the coop. A
hundred-chick brooder will comfort
ably accommodate about fifty chicks
as long as they require artificial heat.
Never before in the history "'of the
poultry industry has there been such
an interest in pure-bred poultry as
there Is at this tife, and this Is no
passing fancy. This country is be
coming a great poultry country, and
the business has been taken in hand
by men who have to do, with the
markets of the world. There are now
In cold storaga thousands of fowls
which are to be shipped to Europe,
and this In the fac, of the fact that
our home demand; is as great as the
supply. '
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