JACK RABBIT ROUNDUP IN A WESTERN STATE
W R IG L E Y S
DUCK RAISING ON
The largest electric sign
In the world advertises
IN C R EA S E
Long Island, N. V., Contains Large
Number of Commercial Farms—
There Are Three Classée.
WRIGLEYS
(P r e p a r e d b y th e U n ited S ta te s D e p a rt
m e n t o f A g ric u ltu re .)
According to the census of 1910
there were 2,906,525 ducks In the
United States, valued at $1,567,164,
showing a decrease In number of
View of a community Jack rabbit roundup In the West, where that animal does vast dumage by eating the crops. nearly 40 per cent as compared with
The government Is co-operating with the states and communities in exterminating animal pests.
1900. It should be stated, however,
that thty animal census of 1900 was
taken June X , and that of 1910 April
15, which fact would considerably re
duce the above percentage, although
only fowls three months old or over
i
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were reported on only 7.9 per cent of
I
the farms In the country and are most
numerous In the following states, ar
ranged according to their production:
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Iowa, Illinois, New York, Pennsyl
vania, Missouri, Tennessee, Indiana,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and
Ohio, the number rouging from about
225,000 head In Iowa to 106,000 in
Ohio. New York Is the only one of
these states which shows an Increase
In the number of ducks, while all the
others show a marked decrease. Long
Island, N. Y„ contains a number of
large commercial duck farms which
apparently are quite successful. It
would appear, therefore, that commer
cial duck farms are increasing some
what, while the production of ducks
It Is reported the Esthonlans have practically agreed on peuce terms with the representatives of the Ilusslan on general farms as a side Issue is
soviet government. The photograph shows the delegates of the Baltic states and Russia In conference at Dorpat decreasing, especially in the middle
West.
There are 11 standard breeds of
ducks which have been admitted to
N A V A L H E R O AND HIS W IFE
the American standard of perfection.
These may be divided Into three
classes : (1) the meat class. Including
the Pekin,
Aylesbury,
Muscovy,
Rouen, Cayuga, Buff, and Swedish;
(2) the egg class, which includes the
Indian Runner; and (3) the orna
mental class, composed of the Call,
on Times Square. New York
City: it is 250 feet long. 70
feet high. Made up of 17.286
electric lamps.
BALTIC DELEGATES MAKING PEACE WITH BOLSHEVISTS
T h e fountains play, the
trade mark changes, read
ing alternately WRIGLEY’S
SPEARMINT. DOUBLEMINT,
and J U IC Y FR U IT, and the
Spearmen **do a turn.**
This sian is seen niehtly by about
500.000 people from all over tbe world.
ÜÍÜLX W R I C L E V ' S
Sealed
Tight
J U IC .Y
F R U I T
ITALIAN BATTLESHIP IS SALVAGED
Kept
Right
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Kangaroo Farms.
Kangaroo farming is an important
industry In Australia. The hides are
valuable and the tendons exteremely
fine; indeed they are the best material
known to surgeons for sewing up
wounds and especially for sewing up
wounds and especially for holding
broken bones together, being much
finer and tougher than catgut.
NAME ‘BAYER’ MEANS
ASPIRINMS GENUINE
Safe, proper directions in
each “Bayer” package
Being Prejudiced.
Some of the world’s greatest men
have been prejudiced about most
things; and all women make a special
ty of prejudices—that Is one reason
why women are so delightful and so
exasperating.—Holbrook Jackson in
Today.
The Italian battleship Leonnrdo da Vinci wns sunk by nn Internal explo
sion In August, 1910. She upset and «ns regnrded ns a total loss. However,
the vessel recently was snlvuged by the nld of compressed air and was towed
Into dry dock, still upside down. It was n remarkable piece of engineering.
HAIG TO BE GIVEN HIS ANCESTRAL HOME
As we grow more sensible, we refuse
drug cathartics and take instead Na
ture's herb cure, Garfield Tea.—Adv.
Garfield Tea, taken regularly, will cor
Large Duck Farm on Long Island.
rect both liver and kidney disorders.
the Crested White, and the Black —Adv.
East Indtn. The common or so-called
“puddle” duck Is kept on many farms
W hy Archie Muffed It.
In middle West and South and Is gen
It was at a cricket match In Aus
erally of small size, a poor layer, and tralia. A tremendous skyer had been
nn undesirable type of market duck. hit and the fielder was in fair way
Excepting the Muscovy, all of our eco
nomic breeds of ducks are said to to catch the batter out. At this tense
have originated from the Mallard, or moment one of the spectators called
out, “Miss it, Archie, and I'll let you
common wild duck.
kiss my sister.”
The “Bayer Cross” stamped on tab
lets means you are getting true “Bayer
Tablets of Aspirin” proved safe by mil
lions of people—the genuine Aspirin
prescribed by physicians for over 18
years.
In every handy “Bayer” package are
proper directions for Colds, Headache,
Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, Rheu
matism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Neuritis
and for Pain generally.
Tin boxes of 12 tablets, cost only a
few cents. Druggists also sell larger
“Bayer” packages. Aspirin Is the trade
mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mono-
aceticacidester of Sallcylicacid.—Adv.
Lieut. E. V. M. Isaacs, photographed
with his wife at the Washington navy
yard, where he Is now inspector of
munitions.
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels hns nwnrded to him the Con
gressional Medal of Honor, the na
tion’s highest award.
Lieutenant
Isaacs, according to the official cita
tion, wns enptured by the German sub
Measurement by Light Rays
marine U-90 when the U. S. S. Presi
The
most delicate measuring pos
dent Lincoln wns sunk and while a
Billions of Lead Pencil*.
sible, accurate within millionth of an
prisoner obtained extremely valuable :: GOOD P O U L T R Y HINTS
The world’s product of lead pencils inch, is done by means of light rays.
Information concerning German sub
probably
amounts to nearly two thou
Keep the nests clean; provide
marines.
After an unsuccessful at
sand millions a year, half of which are
tempt, he escaped from a German ;; one nest for every four hens.
Very True.
Gather the eggs twice dnfly. ;!: made from American-grown cedar. The
prison and gave the information to
That a man may be “down” and not
the allies.
United States makes about 750,000,000 out is also true of the match players in
Keep the eggs In a cool, dry
| room or cellar.
a year, or more than eight pencils for golf.—Boston Transcript.
Market the eggs at least twice ; each of its inhabitants.
On Her Own Resources.
Louise, age four, wns listening : j; a week.
Natural Alliance.
earnestly to a conversation between '■1 ’ Purchase well-matured pullets j ;
Daily Thought.
Poetry has a natural alliance with
her mother and a relative. The rela I; rather than hens.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with our best affections.—W. E. Channing.
tive, after telling at some length one
my
strength, not my weakness.—Amos
of her experiences, ended with the re
Bronson AlcotL
mark :
"And so I was thrown upon my own C H A N G E IN B R E E D O F F O W L S
resources."
The Easiest Way.
Louise pondered for a moment In Breeder Ought to Remember That New
Following the line of the least re
Variety May Have to Be Fed
the silence that followed the story,
sistance is what makes rivers and
In Different Way.
and then said: “Well, auntie, you
j Cincinnati authority says corns I
men crooked.—Boston Transcript.
could take lots of rides, couldn't you?”
dry up and lift out
If a breeder who hns always kept
The aunt was Duxxled and asked
with fingers.
No
Rent
to
Pay.
one kind of hens suddenly changes to
for nn explanation.
There
is
a
city
on
the
coast
of
south
“Well," said Louise, “you know yon another breed, he ought to remember
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said you were thrown on your own that the new variety may have to be ern California which is wholly built
Ouch ! ? ! ? ! ! This kind of rough
fetl and cared for in quite n different on stilts and where no rent is paid. talk will be heard less here In town If
race horses.”
way. That will call for study as to
people troubled with corns will follow
the best kinds of food, best methods
the simple advice of this Cincinnati
Peddler* Join In Singing.
How Much Per Helping?
authority, who claims that a few drops
The Breton onion seller, writes a of housing and many other things.
In South America two dainties are of a drug called freezone when applied
correspondent, was. up till the war, a
lizards and baked centipedes.
to a tender, aching corn or hardened
familiar figure in the Highlands of DRY MASH H A N D Y FOR F O W L S
callous stops soreness at once, and
Scotland.
soon the corn or callous dries up and
Visionary.
One day. In Caithness. I wns playing Mixture of Wheat. Bran, Cornmea'
lifts right off without pain.
Which
fruit
is
the
most
visionary?
some of Theodore Botrel's songs on
He says freezone dries immediately
and Meat Scrap Should Be Avail
The apple of the eye.
the piano, when to my surprise h pair
and never inflames or even irritates
able at All Timet.
of lusty voices joined In.
the snrrounding skin. A small bottle
of freezone will cost very little at any
Two onion sellers, hearing me from
A dry mash cnmimscd of inn |mnnd<
drug store, but will positively remove
the road, had come up to the window wheat middlings. 10U pound* «heat
every hard or soft corn or callous
to enjoy the melodies of their home bran, 100 pounds coni meal. 50 pound*
from one's feeL Millions of America's
land.
uf meat scrap, mixed and f»*l in hop
women will welcome this announce
We kept up a concert for over half per*, should be where the fowls will
ment since the Inauguration of the
an hour, to the extreme delight of all have access to It at all times. All the
high heels. If your druggist doesn't
the small boys In the vicinity.
have freezone tell him to order a small
skim milk shornd be given that they
Soap 25c. Oiotmrot 25 >o4 50c. T a k a 25c.
I bottle for you.—Adr.
will clean up In connection with this I
! Hurrah ! How's This •
This Is Bemersyde, the home of the Hnlg family for seven centuries,
which Is to be bought for about $250,000, raised by popular subscription, and
presented to Field Marshal Haig as a tribute to his services during the war.
The Danish government Is planning
to erect a wireless station at Copenha
An Instrument hns been Invented to gen for direct communication with the
permit draftsmen to draw perfect United States.
ovals and to draw two or more of the
same dimension*.
>
In Egypt cottonseed oil cake seems
to be proving a satisfactory substitute
In France a process has been In for coal. The present value of the ell
vented for treating gelatin or glue that cake Is lest than a fifth the cost of
produces a noninflammable substitute coal.
for celluloid.
The Rraslltan government has de^
Last year for the first time the creed that products offered for sal*
United State« exported more tin plate« as butter must contain at least 90 per
than Wale«, heretofore the leader In cent of butterfat and not more than 15
per cent of acid content.
the Industry.
SCRAPS
G ir ls ! G irls!!
Clear Your Skin
With Cuticura