POULTRY
WATERING TANK FOR FOWLS
Chicago Man Constructs One With
Automatic Opening and Closing
Valve for Supply.
REDUCE YOUR LIVING EXPENSES
Eat Golden Cereal Foods and recommend them to your acquaint-
ances. You yet better quality and more for your money. The» are.
made in your home state from the best Oregon Oats and Wheat,
l-anre packages contain a Handsome Premium ai d all rAda
guaranteed. Ask your grocer.
From a tank placed on a bracket
shelf near the ceiling of my chicken '
house I ran a one-half inch pipe down I
Golden Rod Data.
Golden Rod Pancake Flour.
and into the water dish, writes P ;
NEW
Golden Rod Wheat Flakes. Ralston Select Bran.
X rates
D. Merrill of Chicago in the Popular *
Golden Rod Wheat Nuts.
Golden Rod ( hick Food.
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Mechanics. I then made a float of a ;
PERKINs\^^
^WITH BATH
tin can and attached it to the end of 1
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a lever with the float resting in the
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IN THE HEART Of THE QTY
dish in such a position that an in- '
ÍTBATH $1« up
crease of the amount of water would
Most Centrally Located.
cause the float to rise and produce a
NOTE THE RATES.
KEEP POULTRY HOUSE CLEAN downward motion of the opposite end
of the lever. To this end I attached
Given Plenty of Good Food and Well- a cord which extended to a lever
English "Hunting Parson.”
Kept House Hen Will Solve the
above the water tank, operating a
The Rev. Lawrence Capel Cure, rec
Winter Egg Problem.
tor of Abbess Rodlng, whose dea*h ii
announced, was known throughout
est Essex as the “hunting parson.’ I Experience has led me to conclude
PHONES
PORTLAND.
He invariably wore the old-fashionec1 I that cleanliness is a profitable virtue
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OREGON
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in
poultry
raising.
Give
the
hen
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smock and tall hat and was a familI
lar figure at the meets of the Essei . plenty of good food and clean quar-
hounds, which he attended regularlj 1 ters and she will give no occasion for
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though in his seventy-eighth year.- worry over the winter egg problems.
M e who have followed the chicken
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Writer’s Character«,
for pin money or income, have heard
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“I suppose that when you left the
As modern men and women, Hr-
this time-old advice repeated with re-
ionvention you exclaimed: 'I came, I fng in a time of transition, ... I
ligious regularity every new moon,
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Advantage of Electricity.
iYthe NnrnthiS
Stova11 of Oregon Automatic Opening and Closing Valve saw, I conquered?...... Not exactly,” re have drawn my charcters often vacil
plied the delegate who changed his lating, torn between new and old. They
FarmSte\d’
Wh,en
a «uppiy Water Tank for f L|.
Electricity can not be frozen, neith we giveHt heL
mind. ‘‘That Is what I was going to are compounded of past and present
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er can It be adulterated. It work» "“ give it need, w© win* when wa Ipt
it pass, we lose
i C°Ck va,ve at the toP of the feed pipe say, but I modified it to 'I came, I opinions and standards, sera: s of
»qually well —
— -014 days.
Cleanliness in the henhouse and
*n the lllustratlon-
v s seen, I concurred.’ ”
books and newspaper cuttings, frae-
* Cures While You Walk.
the poultry yard is a very simple
1 C°i sI,rill8 holds the valve open
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1n,en,s of men, torn shreds of holiday
Allen’s Foot-Ease ii »,.
XT poultry yard is a very
very simple
simple when the water in the watering dish
eevt wjter’for billing "TZk''tor 'K.T Cri^s Bull a^Ore that now are rags, for thia Is
for the reason that it depends
[
is
low
and
allows
the
water
to
flow
Blue, the extra
value blue.
how the soul itself is patched togetib*
UP°® «‘“»Pie things. A few vears ago I in uniirZh. T7 I“”
Allens Olmsted,L o ^T y .1” A ddresi 1 experimented with fancy roosts, pat- L-
°at , rlses which closes
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sr.—Strindberg.
The Reason Why.
ent drop boards, intricate nest shelves, the valVe and shuts oft the flow until
“Madam. I am just out of the hos
the water is again lowered In the
Origin of Pawnbrokers’ Sign.
and various other contrivances calcu dish.
pital, and ” “Don’t tell me any such
On the doors of early Florentine lated to make the hen lay, and to
story as that!
You are the same
MEXICAN’
make cnicken
chicken raising easy.
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bankers was the three-leaf lily sign matte
These'
mai / uih . .
man I gave a piece of pie to not two
the lily being the emblem of Flor have all been discarded. They entailed I MAKING LATE HATCHES PAY weeks ago.’
“Yes’m, dat was just
ence, and claim is now made that too much care, and involved far more
’fore I went to de hospital.”—Houston
this is why the pawnbroker of today labor than the simple, common sense Cockerels Will Grow Rapidly and Post.
Come in Nicely for Winter
has the three balls as his sign, which methods. I have found nothing bet
Mothers will find Mrs. W !uslow*s Soothlnn
“Springers” for Frying.
appears to be an evolution of the ter for roosts than those of the saw
-yrup the best remedy to tiso ’or theii eblldrau
■ unug ।he teething period.
three-leaf lily.
horse pattern. This gives a roost
1 Midsummer chicks are as a rule
Dignity and Justice.
CURED A CUT HORSE.
Red Cross Ball Blue gives double value for vour
not a success. The main reasons are
money, goes twice as far as any other. Ask your
Hourly and earnestly strive, as a
Fred DeNeffe, Mar.b.11, W«.h., write*
that the hot weather and insects are
Roman and a man, to do what falls to
I have used Mi-xicnn Mustang Liniment
against them. But late hatches will
lor some time and am well pleased One
Insuring Private Cup.
ot our horses ha.I a deep cut in her breast
fi equently do as well as early ones your hand with perfect unaffected dig
and we used all kinds oi medicines wit hout
To insure the owner of a private
I with equally good care. For late nity, with kindliness, freedom and jus
etleet until we tried Mustang Liniment and
tice, and free your soul from every
♦h I”6 CUP kept ,n a barber shot
it healed it up in lea* than 10 daya."
hatches set hens or the incubator any
2Sc. 50c. $ 1 a bottle at Drui & Gen'l Store«
, at He is its only user there has beer
time in August, to have the chicks other imagination.—Marcus Aurelius.
invented a paper cap to cover it
come off in September, when the
which cannot be removed withou;
Carpenter's Horse Poultry Roosts.
'leather is cooler and the summer In
breaking a seal.
sects have begun to diminish.
about three feet high, and each one
Cockerels from early fall hatches
long enough to accommodate at least will grow rapidly and will come In
a dozen fowls without crowding. nicely for winter “springers” for
Placed side by side, rather than one broiling or frying. Pullets from these
above the other, they assure perfect hatches may not grow to be so large
cleanliness. They can be easily re as spring-hatched pullets, nor will
moved from the house for cleaning they lay this coming winter, but they
and treatment with lime, emulsion or will begin to lay next spring, and will
lye.
ith a smooth board floor this continue to lay all next Summer at a
allows a chance for cleaning the hen time when other hens are off duty in
The First Step Towards
house perfectly; and I have found it the egg business. With a good num
Good Health is a
a good plan to give the house such a ber of fall-hatched pullets a contin
Strong Stomach
cleaning twice a week.
uous egg supply for all the season»
The next boxes are also removable, is assured.
so as to allow a thorough cleaning
and change of straw, the old being
BROODER HOUSE MADE HANDY
burned.
SEND YOUR MILK AND CREAM TO
MUSTANG
LINIMENT
Be Well!
Is Your Appetite Poor
Is Your Digestion Weak
Is Your Liver Sluggish
Why Eggs Don't Hatch.
There are two main reasons why
“ggs do not hatch. One reason is
j too many hens with one male bird
| Another reason, keeping the eggs too
long a time before setting them, eggs
I being too old. The yolk of the egg
: softens and when they reach that
; point the egg will not germinate. In
| sending eggs by express the germ
। of the egg is started by the heat of
being closely packed and kept in hoi
express cars too long, also by being
I kept too long in very warm express
offices.
These
are Nature’s warning of
stomach weakness and im
pending sickness.
You
should try
HOSTETTER’S
STOMACH BITTERS
AT ONCE.
ff WILL HELP YOU
Never, in a moment of forgetfulness,
advise the parents of a child whom
you operated upon a year before for
the removal of adenoids that the child
Is suffering from impeded nasal res
piration and should have its adenoids
removed.—Medical Review of Re
views.
Stop coughing! Coughing
rasps and tears. Stop it!
Coughing prepares the throat
and lungs for' more trouble.
Stop it! There is nothing so
bad for a cough as coughing.
Stop it! Ayer's Cherry Pec
toral is a medicine for coughs
and colds, a regular doctor’s
medicine. Sold for seventy
years. Use it! Ask your doc-
tor if this is not good advice.
Unless there is daily action of the bow
els, poisonous products are absorbed,
causing headache, biliousness, nausea,
dyspepsia. We wish you would ask your
doctor Sivut correcting your constipation
by taking laxative doses of Aver’s Pills»
The illustration shows a verv con
venient style of coop for the poultry
keeper. It can be made any size de
sired, from 2x3 to 4x5 feet or more,
says the Farm and Home.
The
smaller coop is sufficient for a hen
and her brood, while the larger size
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Breast Is Main Thing.
Warning to the Doctor.
Why cough?
Stop it!
Convenient Coop for Poultry Keeper
Can Be Made Any Size Desired
—Cover With Netting.
In a market fowl, the breast is the
main thing, but in order to obtain a
desirable breast it is necessary to
have a good body first. So far as ac
tual quality is concerned, the color
of the skin is of no importance. But
when the market calls for a yellow
skin, ft is important that only such
be served. Poultrymen can neither
afford to quarrel with the demand,
nor try to reform it.
Brooder Colony House.
will hold a brooder and accommodate
a flock of 100 chicks.
The yard should be made In three
sections of 1x2 or 1x3 Inch strips
covered with one-Inch mesh wire net
ting. If covered over the top with
wire netting, It will be proof against
cats and other intruders. The coop
and house should be moved to fresh
ground weekly.
Killed by Kindness.
More brooder chicks are killed by
kindness than die of any other com
plaint. A chick that is a little hun
gry will take exercise sufficient to
Molting season Is at hand
keep in good health. Make your ra
tion for
chicks about one-third
Pullets hatched in March should be
cracked cane seed, and you will not laying now.
Vermin breeds much faster In warm
have much bowel trouble, and sprinkle
the floor of the brooder with good weather than in cool.
clean sand every day or two.
Filth and vermin are the great
profit killers «nd yet good remedies
are In reach of everyone.
Telling Sex of Eggs.
If our chicks or older fowls are not
There is no possible way of deter-
thrifty, let us look Into our methods
mining sex of eggs. Mapes
truthfully says that the best way to and And out where we are to blame
When the hens begin to climb trees
tell whether an egg contains a rooster
or a pullet Is to hatch the egg under to roost, it is time to look to the vent!
a hen, and watch the chick for about lation and cleanliness of the houses
Hen afflicted with scaly leg cannot
year—If it crows It Is a rooster; if
possibly give the beat service in egg
It lays eggs, it is a pullet.
production, and rough shsnks look
bad.
Getting Most Money.
Do not use harsh methods in break
It la not the great number of fowl« Ing up the broody hens. Remember
we raise that brings most money, but that broodiness Is nature's provision
the one« we can comfortably care for. for rest
It takes food and labor to care for
The appearance of the fowls Is not
poultry. Twenty hens properly cared very attractive now. but when the
for will give better returns than 100 molting ordeal is over they will look
only half fed and poorly housed.
all the prettier
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