THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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inside and note th difference. Give re
gular attention to the poultry, it will pay
you.
Provide a dusting place for the setting
hens. Work in the poultry is always
necessary, use system and regularity.
Early hatched pullets are the best winter
layers, when eggs are scarce.
Do not have your fowls afraid of you,
keep them gentle.
Grit, such as sharp sand or coal ashes,
are needed and must be supplied. The
hens that are always scratching are your
best.
Wheat contains a larger percent of al
bumen than any other grain and for
that reason is one of the best grains to feed
for egg production, but do not feed it ex
clusively. Hare the children learn how to care for
poultry. The knowledge may prove a
blessiug to them, and can not possibly do
them any barra.
If you have common stock, get a thor
oughbred male to mate with them.
Uniformly colored flocks are pleasing to
look at, and will make it a pleasure to care
for them.
Lime water or boiled milk, are good
remedies for bowel trouble, but you must
first remove the cause. Asa general rule
it doe not pay to doctor a fowl, but, if you
wish to do so seperate it from the flock.
Exchanges
The Evergreen's adveit sing columns are
well patronized.
The Parker Purple will print only on
mure issue before it retires from its field of
usefulness for this school year.
The exchange columns of the Clintonian
are devoted almobt exclusively to jokes and
humorous sayings clipped from exchanges.
Our monthly exchanges for May are now
arriving and will continue uniil about the
middle of June, however there are a few
wide-awake school journals that am issued
at the first, of each month with great regu
larity and are a credit to their school.
The Reformatory Record's memorial
number is nicely gotten up in the national
colors, and contains some interesting
stories and poems.
The Chippeway Herald, published by
Indian pupils at the White Earth Hoard
ing school, Minn., is a welcomed addition
to our exchange list.
The last issue of the Indian News con
tains a write-up of Easter exercises held at
the Genoa, Neb., school. They failed how
ever, to say what they did last Christmas and
New Years.
Indians Present President Roosevelt
with a Blanket.
The citizens of Flagstaff presented Presi
dent Roosevelt, on his arrival at the Grand
CaByon, with one of the finest Naval) o
blankets ever woven by this tribe.
It was from one of their favorite chief,
and the designs were originated by their
most artistio dt-signei.
It is made from the finest and most ex
pensive wool, and the blanket wold sell on
the market for at least two hundred and
fifty Uol larp.
This blanket is a rare specimen of the
work of this tribe, and there are, but few of
these Navaho blankets left that contain
the original and genuine designs of this
peculiar people. This fact alone will
make the present appreciated by the Pi evi
dent, and not the intrinsic value It was
m de for a great chief and is a fit present
for the chief magistrate of this great na
tion, and he will so regard it. FiatjstNff
Gem.
"Well, that's enough to try the pati-nc
of Job," exclaimed the village minister,
as he threw aside the local paper.
"Why, what's the matter, dear?" asked
his wife. -
"Last Sunday I preached from the text
'Be ye therefore steadfast,'" answered the
good man, "but the printer makes it, Be ye
there for breakfast.' "-Glasgow Evening
Times.