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TO RAISE HEALTHY CHICKENS
Lack of Vigor In Newly Hatched
Chleka It Often Traceable to
Weakneee of Parent
(Prepared bv the Unite Hutu Dprt
menl of Asriculture.)
To be successful In raising ehlrkcna
It la necessary to have health? and
vigorous breeding atock. for the lark
of vigor In the newly hatched chicks
la often traceable to weak parent.
Only the most vigorous and the brat
grown hlrda ahould ba put In Ilia
breeding yard. Kai h bird should be
full of llft ami energy and free from
any wrlou deformity. Yearling hen
are timinlljr better t tin n pullet for
breeder, fur the reason that the hen
are inure mature and do nut Iny an !
many rutin (luring t tic early winter,
and consequently do nut reduce their
vitality an much before the breeding
Season. Vlgnrou hen 2 to 4 yeara
bl run often be advantageoUKly
retained In the breeding yard. The
male, bird chosen ahould be young unit
active. An early hntrhed. well-dcvcl-
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Healthy and Vlgoroua Farm Flock.
oped cockerel la UNiiully aatUfactory,
or a good vlgoroua yearling or 2-year-old
cock may be chosen. The hern
awed for bredlng purpose ahould be
given tha beat cure possible; they
ahould ba provided with large runs,
and ahould out be forced for heavy
egg production during tha early winter.
DIPPING CHICKENS FOR LICE
Likely to Become Mora General Than
Dipping Cattle Beeauee Peat
la More Numerous.
(Prepared br tha tTnliwt Rtatea Depart
mant of Agriculture.)
Dip that chick I" It lan't dona Just
for the anke of making a rhyme for
"dip that tick," either. Dipping chick
ana la likely to become more general
than dipping rattle, because the
Chicken Inline la a more widely dlstrlb
tited Insect than the cattle tick. Tha
"dip" consist of 1 ounce of aodlum
fluoride to the gallon of water, which
ahould he at a temperature of 70 to 83
degree. The dipping ahould be done
on a clear, warm day never on a
cold dny. The old way of getting rid
of chicken lice wua by dusting with
dry aodlum fluoride. It waa effective,
but In the case of large flocks It waa
alow and wasteful, a great deal of the
duatlng material being Inevitably lout.
Recent dipping experiments proved
successful, and the results promise a
euro and apeedy menna of getting rid
Of one of the worst pests of poultry.
UP-TO-DATE SUMMER HOUSES
Colony Plan of Homing Poultry May
Ba Adopted to Advantage or a
Great Number of Farm.
(Prepared by the United BUtee Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
The curtain-front or partial open
front house la conceded to be the beat
type for moat aectlona. The colony
plan of housing poultry may be
adopted to advuntage on many farms.
This system dues away with the dan
ger of tainted anil.
The roosts ahould be built on the
ante level, 8 feet from the floor, with
ft dropping board about 6 Inches be
low them. Good roosts may be made
of 2 by 2 Inch muterial with the upper
edges rounded.
The nests may he placed on the
aide walla or under the dropping
boards. It la best to have them dark
ened, as the hens prefer a secluded
place In which to lay.
DOIJLWNOIEC
Let the hens help themselves to a
dry mush.
Market white-shelled and brown
shelled eggs la separate packages.
Ship or deliver eggs at least twice
or three times weekly.'
Cull the flock so us to eliminate the
early inollers and other unprofitable
producers.
Infertile eggs will withstand mar
keting conditions much better than
fertile eggs.
Murket hens which you do not wish
to carry longer as soon as they stop
hiving and begin to molt In the late
summer or fall
INVITES YOU TO PRINEVILLE
We Invite You
While taking in the Fair, to make your purchases from us. Our stock of Drygoods is being
added to constantly by express and freight. Our stock of Shoes is big. Our Grocery stock is
the largest in Crook County and is fresh and clean.
We Can Save You Money
OUR BIG VOLUME OF BUSINESS BRINGS OUR EXPENSE
OF DOING BUSINESS DOWN TO A VERY LOW FIGURE
WE HAVE NO HIGH RENT TO PAY
WE ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER
BUT IT PAYS TO WALK
J. E. STEWART & COMPANY
PRINEVILLE, telephone 2u OREGON
EQUAL TO THE EMERGENCY
American Genlua Quickly Produced
Precision Blocke Accurate to
Millionth Part of Inch.
One of America's little-known war
romances la revealed by John H. Van
Ieventer In his story of precision
gauges, which appears In Everybody's.
Virtually all of our munitions had to
be made to limit gauges which had to
be corrected by meana of precision
blocks to within a few mllllontha of
an Inch. 'Twenty yeara ago," wrltea
Mr. Van Deventer, "a Swedish tool
maker named Johansson made lip hla
mind that the millionth of an Inch was
the coming thing hunted during nine
years for a practlcul way to get It
and got It. How? Nobody knows ex
cept Johansson, and he won't tell.
For over nine years he kept everybody
guessing. Our best ahops Imported
his blocks and used them for check
ing the gauges. ,
"Then came the war, with Its won
derful stimulation of American ge
nlua. With It came also the need of
being Independent of the old world
In the matter of gauges.
"The war took E. C. Peck away
from bis job of running a great fac
tory In Cleveland and brought him
to Washington to take charge of the
gauging of ordnnnce products. It
brought William U. Hoke of St. Louis
to the bureau of standards, with an
Idea of how to produce precision
blocks. Colonel Peck and Major Hoke
got together, and In six months were
turning out precision blocks accurate
to the millionth pnrt of an Inch."
IS LARGEST OF INDUSTRIES
Statisticians Figure In Billions When
They Make Computations of
Live Stock Business.
The live stock Industry Is the larg
est and, In more than one sense,
the most Importnnt Industry In the
United Stntes. Its extent, measured
by the value of live animals, amounts
to more than $8,000,000,000. Its Im
portance rests In the necessity for
live stock to consume the products of
farms and ranges, 80 per cent of which,
according to census reports, Is fed to
live stock; In the maintenance of soil
fertility, which cannot be kept up con
tinuously and economically without a
considerable number of animals as a
part of the farm system; In the In
dispensable place which animal food
occnples In the American diet, of
which It mukes up 38 per cent, based
on the average consumer's food-expense
account; and Anally, In the far
reaching Influence which the growing,
fattening and marketing of live stock
haa upon the social and economic wel
fare of all classes of people. Including
producers, distributors, and the meat
consuming public.
Tbe slaughtering and meat pack
ing business la the largest manufac
turing Industry In the United States,
according to the United States census
of manufacturera. The sales of live
stock in the Chicago market alone to
taled nearly f 1,000,000,000 In 1018, or
over $3,000,000 a day, and the dally
sales at all of the centralized live stock
markets of this country total close to
$20,000,000.
England Harbors Ex-Queen.
England will sown he the land of Ave
queens, a potential and powerful group
either In politics or poker. Tbe figure
resemhles a misdeal, but It Is ex
plained by the fact that England has
a queen and a queen mother, while
there are In England the one-time
queens of two other countries. They
are soon to be joined by another. Em
press Marie of Russia. ' She and the
two other foreign ladles are deep Id
unhapplness three of the saddest
queens, as an observer has remarked.
In modern history. The two whom
Empress Marie will Join are Empress
Eugenie and the queen mother of Por
tugal. These three women plainly tell the
story of greatness. One of them was
driven from her throne and her son
was killed fighting for another coun
try; another was exiled after having
been robbed of her husband and son,
and her other son driven from the
throne ; the last was widowed and her
son, her grandson and her grand
daughters brutally murdered.
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