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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA. OREGON.
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1908.
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j THE POULTRY 'SNEAK THIEF.
The weasel as a sneak tblef and
oftly stealing assassin is beyond de
scription. Silently gliding like a serpent, he
allps through an Inch opening, bounds
on his harmless victim, sucks its blood
and wantonly cuts the throat of every
fowl. The beautiful thrush, nestling Its
young or on leafy branch caroling to
Its Maker, is suddenly seized and its
trilling throat pierced by the fangs of
the murderer.
Bis technical name, putorlus, from
putor," "bad smell,' is appropriate,
for, like the polecat, he throws off a
Tile odor. Diminutive in size, he Is a
consolidated devil a cross of deep
dyed villain, skunk and silent striking
copperhead. Behold that long, lithe,
wiry, restless, quickly moving, muscu
lar body! That fiat head, projected
from all the openings in his retreat
seemingly at once, sways from side to
side, like the cobra ready to strike.
THI IrCBJDEBKB MASKED.
Above are the feaiful jaws and
serpent fangs that cut the throats
of eighty chickens in one night The
skin is drawn back to unmask the
murderous killing weapons and to dis
play the intricate network of muscles
that work the powerful jaws, which
njake the weasel the most dreaded
enemy of the poultry keeper. Though
he weighs from five to eight ounces
and is from six to ten inches in length,
yet this little sausage shaped creature
Is much feared and formidable. He has
been known to kill the eagle and attack
five prong buck.
On Jan. 17 last a miner was ter
ribly lacerated and bitten by a weasel
, at Bear Valley shaft, Shamokin, Pa.
In the darkness the weasel seemed
master, but miners, hearing the cries
of distress, rescued their companion
and killed the weasel with drills and
hovels. This animal has been known
to kill six full grown hens, twenty tur
keys and eighty chickens in three
nights. His victims am not disfigured.
He bleeds a rabbit between the eye and
ear, but has been known to chase one
into a stone fence and open an artery
In the hind leg.
j He will clean the rats and mice out
of a barn and bleed them the same
way.
He bites old chickens in the arteries
of the neck close to the head. Young
chickens, pigeons and wild birds are
caught back of the neck and sucked
dry. If wounded, he will suicide by
sucking his own blood.
A hunter followed a weasel for
twenty-five miles, tho little animal
stopping to kill only eight rabbits dur
ing the race. At times he would dis
appear and travel undr the snow for
fifty feet. In this way he kills many
quail that seek shelter under wind
falls, the fanners In the spring re
porting them frozen by the hard winter j
weather. -
In one night a hunter trapped a dark
brown, light red and white weasel. The
most common color Is brown. Weasels
are dark and light brown, dark and
light red, maltese and white. Maltese
are rare. The weasel wears white in
winter. On the snow he can hardly
CAUGHT AT LAST.
be seen by his victim and enemy.
His white fur is the ermine of royalty
and august courts, and the dark spots
on these robes are the black tips of
weasel tails.
The mink and weasel should not be
confused. Minks reach two pounds and
have half webbed toes. When a chicken
Is ripped from the neck down the
back, it is neither a weasel, mink, rat
hor opossum, but a cooper's hawk did
the damage. Weasels are born from
April to May, six to two to a litter.
The young ones, nre great poultry
'Sends and arc easllv , caueht lu steel
traps. They are comuloh all over the
country, except In Arlaoua, New Mex
ico, southern California and the gulf
states.
JOHNNY, GIT YER QUNI
Johnny, git yer run! .
A. weasel's In th pen;
Clv It to Mm untight;.
Don't elioot tho speckly hen.
Hit 'lm with tha ax; '
Stab 'lm In the collnr;
Tha feller what flxea 'Ira
'II sit a ha'f a dollar.
Tou'ra a bully feller)
My, but you kin shoot!
Here's yer ha'f a dollar,
' An' fifty cents to boot.
Nail Mm to tha barn,
Warnln' to the real; , ,
Ekunka an' weasels alt.
It yer know what's best
Johnny's pulled hla gun;
Thig hain't nary lie.
Better go a mile aroun'
Else yer want to dla.
C. M. &
D0NT3.
Don't fall to advertise, but fall to tell
lies. .
Don't use the same trough in all the
pens. Epidemic
Don't" buy medicated nest eggs foi
lice. They are quackery.
Don't keep too many breeds. It
beats Kilkenny cats and will beat you,
Don't think how hard your work Is.
It brings on grumps and lazy prostra
tion. Don't dust the mother hen with sul
phur. Make sores and blinds chicks.
See?
Don't get your troughs and water
vessels mixed. Roup, cholera, chicken
pox, canker, are contagious.
Don't use rotten eggr. for ojst eggs.
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Don't expect a five dollar cockerel
for a dollar. Have you any real five
dollar birds for a dollar bill? We have
never bought any and would like to
try It.
Don't forget when chicks, ducklings
and poults appear that they should be
kept separate from each other and the
old stock. The old gander will guard
the gosling.
Don't forget heredity A crooked tall
on a hen puts a crooked tall on a cock
erel. Hat ditto. A crooked beajt on the
cock puts a lopsided mouth' on the pul
lets. Where did you get your crook
edness? '
Don't spend your time writing spring
poetry, but raise spring poultry. The
former will bring you an N. O. check
to your aspirations, but the latter will
bring a check to pay for your wife's
Easter hat
8ETTINQ A HEN.
Test her first with doorknobs and
corncobs. If her enthusiasm Increases,
arrange' a roomy nett, so she may
turn and leave and return without
breaking the eggs. Underlay the oat
straw with tobacco stems and dust
the hen with louse powder two days
before you give her egjrs and redust
the fifteenth day.
Hint A hen will not eat at once after
dusting and will soil the eggs if put
right back on the nest. Set ber in a
secluded spot and you will get a good
hatch if you have a good heu, good
eggs and you are a good fellow to
tend her.
Bill of Fare. Whole corn, grit, wa
ter, dust box; no green food, meat
scrap nor mash. If you are faithful, It
will not be twins nor triplets, but on
the twenty-first day she will serve a
whole family of cblcklets on the half
shell.
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
Ducklings, white clover and honey
bees are a bad combination. Better be
careful.
To get a white flesh market chicken
feed white ground oats and skimmilk:
corn for yellow backs.
When you buy dressed low Is, if the
bird is healthy kick against a packed
crop. Too high for corn. It's against
the law to sell packed crop chickens In
some states. Call the cop.
It's common sense to keep fire ex
tinguishers handy. It's no joke to
grab a redhot incubator and fire it out
wide the fire zone. Swish, swash, hiss,
and the extinguisher has saved you
! from being beaten by the Insurance
company!
The yield of farm products for 1907
reaches $7,412,000,000, or $057,000,00:)
above 1900. The farmers' poultry did
their part. Who cot tit- hiannJl? "The
I "Tr? """"""iwitb am n-noked material, can you?
IRENJ THE
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trusts," lays the farmer. Yes; thj
play their trick, and the farmer gets a
gold brick. '
Chickens that pick toward the sharp
point of the shell seldom get out. They
do not absorb the yolk; It bursts, and i
they drown. Sometimes a chicken will '
stick fast to the shell. You can help It
to liberty, but the majority of these
stickers have erooked backs, crooked
necKS nuu crooseu leer, ami amount i
nothing. If nature cau do uo better
"Dear reader. If John Brown's pretty
peacock gets over your fence and lays
an egg under your rosebush and you
get It, whose egg is that?" "Mine, of
course." "Yours? Well, prove It."
"Oh, that's easy! I've got the egg, and
possession Is nine points of the law."
"Sure your right?" "Well, I guess,
aud If you weren't so pigheaded you'd
see it." "Well, then, my dear, would
it make any difference if that egg had
been laid by a pretty peahen?"
Who ever heard of a goose special?
Well. then. Itussla is ahead. A special
goose train of twenty to forty cars
steams over the Russian border Into
Berlin every day. Each car holds 1.200
cacklers. imagine 48,000 geese honk
ing and hissing while a multitude of
our good natured German friends bid
for them! Berlin's "goosey gander"
bill is 12,000.000 n year. The German
1
emperor relishes ronRt goose stuffed
with onions, decorated with liquid hops.
Tills Is not lose majesty.
SIGN OF A BEATEN MAN.
Runner Who Looks Behind
Almost
Sure to Lose the Race. ,
"There are many more good distance
runners now than in my days," said an
old time champion after watching a
three mile scratch race at the New
York Athletic club games. "But the
habits of the runners have not changed i
any, for I noticed one little trick In !
the race that bore the significance that ;
nsed to attach to it. j
"To the casual onlooker there was
nothing to choose betweeu the two
leaders when they were beginning the
last quarter of a' mile. Right from the
crack of the pistol they were running
almost stride for stride with the low,
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umiuutc i untie . j
"Neither had called Into use the re-!
serve power which must be utilized In
the finni sprint for victory when they
turned into the stretch for the final
lap. Tlieu one of them slightly turned i
his head to seo where the third man
was- i
imi n-an ueaten.- was tne ;
thought which declined to me at once, i
and It proved true, as always, for when
the dash for the finish began he allow
ed his rival to j;et a lead of five yards
before going after him In earnest pur-
l suit.
"From that point to the finish there
was no perceptible difference in the
speed of the men, but tho man who
had turned his bead to make sure that
he would get second place, Instead of
bending every energy to win, of course
landed where his thoughts placed
him." New York un,
nrwpi nn
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housework. Apply Mrs. G. Zciglcr,
314 17th street. 7-30-4t
SITUATION WANTED.
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keeper or clerk or both; exper
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references. Address, J. II., Astorian.
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i 1
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ing team, buggy and harness; to
gether or separately. C. E. Barney,
with Warren Packing Co., Astoria.
rox RXNT.
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keeping and single rooms. Apply
77 Exchange street.
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FOUND PAIR GOLD MOUNTED
eyeglasses. Apply at Astorian office,
j 7-30-tf
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Hall, an umbrella; owner can have
same by paying for this ad and prov
ing property. 7-31-lf
FOUND POCKET
taining papers, etc.
torian office. ,
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WANTED TO BUY FARM IN
j the Nehalem Valley; state price
terms, improvements, location, etc
'Address!. H., Astorian. 7-31-tf
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BINDING OF ALL
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OLD PAPERS FOR SALE; PER
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weight about 1250 pounds; not over
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j gentle, also city broke.
; torian office.
Address As-
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HOUSE MOVERS.
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MASSAGE.
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torian, Ore.
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, 473 Commercial St., Phone
Have fine list of Astoria and coun
try property. All classes of labor
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
CHARLES K. ABERCROMBIE
Attorney-at-Ltw
City Attorney Offices; Clly Hall
JOHN C. McCVE
Attorney-at-Law "v
Deputy District Attorney.
Page Building lite 4.
HOWARD M. BROWN ELL
Attqrney-at-Law
Office with Mr. J. A. Eakin, at 420
Commercal St. Astoria.
OSTEOPATHS.
DR. RflODA C. HICKS
Osteopath
Office Mansell Bldg. Phone Black 206S
i 3 Commercial St.. Astoria. Ore
DENTISTS
DR. VAUOHAN
Dentist
Pythian Building, Astoria, Oregon
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Commercial St. Shanahan Bldg.
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COR. 21TH AND COMMERCIAL.
Office hcufs 8:.T0 A. M. to
8: P. M. Sunday 10:00 to
12:00.
Phone Number Main 3901.
Painless Extractions 5oc
Corner Commercial and 11th
Sts. over Dauziger store.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
RESTAURANTS.
TOKIO RESTAURANT.
351 Bond Street i
Op posite Ross, Higgins & Co.
Coffee with Pis or Cake 10 Cta.
FIRST.CLASS MEALS
Regular Meali 15 Cta. and Up.
U. 8. RESTAURANT.
434 Bond Street
Coffee with Pie or Cake, 10 Cta.
First-Class Meals, IS Cta.
FISH MARKET.
I
77 Ninth St., near Bond
Fresh and Salted Fish.
1 Game and Poulirv.
Groceries, Produce and Fruit
Imported and Domestic
Goods.
P. Bakotitch & Feo, Proprs.
none Rfld tlSI .
MISCELLANEOUS.
Smith's Special
Delivery
EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE
Leave Orders at Star Cigar Store.
Phone Black 2383
Res. Thone Red 2276.
Stand Corner 11th an Commercial.
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Owners practical teachers ' More Calls than we can fill
Teachers actual business men In session the entire year,
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PLUMBERS.
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PLUMBER
Heating Contractor, Tinner
AND
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KLL WORK 'GUARANTEED
425 Bond Street.
Younce & Baker
PLUMBERS
TINNERS
Steam and das Fitting
aii worK vjuaranteea. uo eighth
Street, opp. Post Office. Phone Main
4061.
LAUNDRIES.
WE WASH
Everything but the Baby and return
everything but the dirt.
TROY LAUNDRY
Tenth and Duane
Phbne Main 1901
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OF-
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Astoria, Ore.
P. O. Box 603.
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