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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1912)
0 FOR SUMMER! FARM AND POULTRY HINTS, HELPS ANO SUGGESTIONS A Philadelphia surgeon baa lately dlscuverml Hint the Inside membrane of Ueu»’ egg» can b* successfully U»>'<1 aa a sulraillute fur liuuian akin In grafting operullon». The new akin forjned by thia method I» fluer than the old. but strung mid healiliy. For folka who hibernate in iaUtudes where the mercury la likely to allp down to 20 or 80 below aero there la absolutely no tn real meat that give» more generous or Immediate returns thau that put Into 11 thlrtyflvo cent soapstone, in the comfort which it yields It pays for itself every night it 1» used. If It was only sumnrar how happy I should bs*î I'd lisv» no blamed old fumaos atanta- lllln ms ' With It» black soot and ashes. Its dust puffed In my face. Ths lirlmslons «nd Ihs thick amoks a-flll- In' ths whois place, And all ths klda «.yellin', "1 am moat froas to das th!" Marlsr alwaya knockin', "That brlmalons taksa my bisalh!'* My hands all raw with bllstsrs a-Shovalln' that blame coal And all my money goln' up that conaarned stovepipe hole. If It was only summer- oh. ass that enow- drlft high! 1 cleaned that walk three times today and must again, oh my! My backbone la moot busted; I’m on tbs verge of grip; I got a fracture of the skull In that last awful slip. AUTO FOR HIRE If you want the services of an automobile in emergency cases, night or day, call Home Phone 4421, or notify E. B. Woodyard, & Co., Lents, Oregon I. F. COFFMAN Residence, 1 block south of carline The water pipes are busted; the twins both have the croup; The plumber and ths coalman have my nock tn the loop. Oh. how I wish twaa cummer! I'd lot the It is estimated that If the cost of skeetere bits. I'd gladly roast and roast and roast and hauling produce to market could be re duced by means of better highways roast all day and night! C. M BARNITZ. from 23 to IIH cents per ton the : furmen,, gurdeuers and runebmeu of FERTILIZATION ANO OEFERTILI- the country would be saved the enor ZATION OF EGOS. mous sum of 8250,000.000 annually. In That thia "watermelou stealln*" It Is often u question with poultry some of the Eurofiean countries which business la getting to be serious la raisers as to bow soon eggs become have good roads the hauling cost Is but shown In the discussion of the subject fertile after mating chickens and how , 10 cents per ton. while on some roads ; by a S|M>nker before the recent meet soon eggs become germless after mat leading Into London where motor ing of the Western Fruit Joblwrs' as ings are broken trucks are In use the hauling cost has eoclatlun held In Nt. Ixiuls Home one Two ex|terlmenta here at Riverside been reduced to as low as 4 cents per has suggested giving each melon n with a White Wyandotte cock and ten ton. if the "dollar*' argument Is need paper jacket, which would prevent the hens carried on for ten days. In which ed to give the good roads movement a melons from being exposed to view the eggs laid were set and tested, will boost It would seem to lie furnished In and thus reduce the temptation to be of Interest. On the third day after (be figures quoted. Steal them mating 2N per cent were fertile, on the fourth 40 pgr cent, on the fifth SO per | Grafting wax will be needed before if you would live long drink generous I cent, on the sixth 00 per cent, on the long In the orchard work An excellent amounts of sour milk or buttermilk Scientists have discovered that the | seventh 70 per cent, on the eighth 72 , wax Is made by taking four pounds per cent and on the tenth day 76 t>er of rosin, two pound» of beeswax and I family of bacteria that produce lactic . one pound of rendered tallow The | cent. acid-that la, cause the souring process Heventy-flve to RO per cent is conoid three Ingredients should be melted | In milk have the power to destroy or ered an excellent average fertility for carefully together, but should not be 1 neutralize anotlier group of germs that vigorous fowls under ordinary condl- | allowed to boll. The liquid should be [ are said to be responsible for the Im lions. so that ten days may be conoid ' poured while hot into a pall of cold perfect digestion of food in the lutes- time enough for excellent results i water and worked while submerged ! tinea, which in turn Is said to be the ered unless the breed la a very large, clum- ' with gren»ed hands, so that the mas» < chief cause of old age decline. will cool evenly. When cooled the ; ■y typs- ▲II too often it la the same horse that' The male and hens were then oefra wax should be taken from the water receives scant feed tn the Mall that is rated and the eggs as laid were again ■nd pulled until It has a fine grain 1 left without a blanket on the village set and tested to determine the dura The wax should then be molded into atreet in cold weather. Probably the tion of fertility after male was re frails and put In a cool place This ‘ chap who owns him gets three square moved. wax is good for all purtwraes. How On the third day after separation 74 ever. It can t>e made softer by the ad meals a day and when In town warms per cent of eggs were fertile, on the i dition of a little more tallow or ! his shins by the grocery tire. fourth 70 per cent, on the fifth 62 per tougher by Increasing the amount of Teana raises the largest number of cent, on the sixth 55 j»er cent, on the beeswax called for In the above rec turkeys of any state lu the Union, but seventh 4H f>er cent, on the eighth 15 Ipe. The writer ha» found that an Rhode Island raises the largest num ( (>cr cent, on the ninth 3 per cent and ' excellent way for keeping the wax soft tn cool weather Is to place It In an \ ber of large birds the forty pound ou the tenth day none were fertile. milk and chestnut fed kind-which old flat bottomed kettle on an old grace the president's holiday board soapstone, which can be heated occa FEATHERS ANO EGGSHELLS. and which fetch 40 cento per pound. When your fowls get roupy don't sionally. shut them up In a band box. I-et them ' The country auction aale sort of Olla have fresh air, but no drafts. Itemem the place with the men which the tier this Is the fresh air era when pa- . BE GOOD TO THE HENS. neighborhood sewing bee does with tletits with respiratory afflictions sleep A hen can't lay unlers it baa an the women folk Ou the showdown. | In the open. not In the oven as of old however, the bee la ahead of the sale ' It is handy In some respects to take | abundance of feed. Egg production in that some sewing gets doue aloug eggs to market in a ls>x of onta. sell the ; isn't made with a one-grain diet, either with the visiting. eggs and feed the oats to the horse, Hens like a variety in the menu, and but eggs are cleaner and look so much , It takes something more In the way nicer in a handy crate, and such can ; they have to have it before many egg» of encouragement to make hens lay be Imught. the teu dozen sine, for only ' are laid. To be up in the front rank« in egg j when It la below aero than picking a quarter. The hen that lays Is the ben that [ production, benz mint have in their corn off the ear lu the shade of a barbed wire fence. Treatment any stays, should lie the rule on every bill of fare graine of various kinds, ani-! where near approaching this Is calcu- i farm, poultry plant and In every back ■rial food, green food, grit, and fresh lated to freeze the genial current In a lot woop If we could only get rid of water. Not much of a variety, but hen's circulatory system. Anyway, It the undesirable citizen as easily as the many poultrymen are asleep, and aren’t stops egg production. drone hen. the millennial dawn would furnishing their chickens with the pro * _ sure move up a notch. per feed stuffs. Yet such men do the In all latitudes where the T-ombnrdy ; The Buff Minorca Is the latest on poplar will live there in nothing In the j de< k. California the place of origin. most complaining about their bene not tree line that excels It aa a windbreak, We should like to get our judges to being on the job. About an ounce of food a day is need it has the advantages of growing gether nnd examine them on old and j quickly, being tall and occupying a recent breeds and varieties and their ed for every pound a hen weighs. This minimum amount of ground space. In characteristics Wouldn’t they flunk estimate is followed by many successful the Hood river valley, which 1» re kerplunk, and yet most of them ad poultrymen. Enough lime is found in nowned aa an orchard section. this vertise as expert judges of all varie one pound of oyster shells for several poplar Is very generally used for wind ties. dozen eggs. Clover hay, well cured, break purposes. While the customs authorities have will furnish the green part of the ration. decided for keel* that a hen Is not a GOOD CARE IS NEEDED. A couple of farm lads we reud of bird, there was a wrap down at Atlan The welfare of chickens must be the other day had trained the old fam tic City as to whether a hen is an ani looked after during the growing period, Uy tabby so that she was of a good mal when a Chinn man was arrested I for cruelty to animals for not feeding I as no amount of pampering and petting deal of help to them In hunting rab bits. She would promptly run down and watering hie flock. The mngis- | at maturity will compensate for neglect any rabbit bole the boys put her iuto trate made the hen n;i nt’lmal mid I then. Preparation and foresight must be practiced aa much in poultry culture and wns better than a ferret In that fln-sl the pigtail S10 Next she did not stay In the hole If no rab as in the successful growing of a wheat A Connecticut farmer uenr llur vln bit was there Here ia a suggestion ton contests the opinion of the cuslo.us or corn crop. The man making a mark for other members of the not over court that a hen is not a I.lid by pro in any undertaking takes a look ahead worked feline tribe. ducing a hen on hi« 1-y" til.’? lays in The same applies in rearing chickens , a l>ox placed In a tree end file» around for egg production. A whole lot of supi>osedly honest folk the farm in te. <1 of w.t.' !: t’-'-e may Winter eggs come from hens of a goo-l I who would be shocked If you would be one of those “biiriyr.td pheasants suggest they might take money from a that our city hunters shoot ou the wing laying strain, boused in large, comfort able quarters—well lighted and dry — neighbor’s purse or property from bls nnd pass off for the real thing If these re premises nevertheless consider It a "That hen's a ho:C" exclaimed her and an abundance of food. clever bit of business If they can get a owner. "She's n cnndldnte for the quirements have been tilied and still an | ride on the cars for nothing or exact ax. She's up the first to ent and egg production isn't forthcoming, look excessive damages from a rallrvuid or scratches for feel the Inst!" We ask for lice or mites. Perhaps the pullets ' other corporation. Fundamentally the ed him to test her for eggs befora weren’t hatched early enough, or the i two latter Instances are Just as dis sending her to chicken heaven. To hens aren’t getting exercise. Possibly honest ns the former, yet are winked his surprise he found she was the best they are too old to lay. at In the popular mind. layer lie owned. We have never seen Don't overfeed the chickens, or the j a great layer that wasn't a great eater. winter egg production will go glimmer While It Is of somewhat rare occur The dropping board beneath the roost rence. one now and then runs across a Is such an easily arranged convenience ing. If the food gets down in the mud , case In which men are called upon to no poultry raiser can afford to be with it becomes dirty, is wasted, and disease Make the hens do things alaint the house usually con out. it catches nnd saves all drop is likely to be spread. sidered as ainoug a woman's duties to pings nt night nnd makes it no ensy to scratch for their feed in cold weather. such an extent that it amounts to a clean up nnd save the valuable ma- When hens are made to scratch, the positive ImiHisItlou on the man. as well uure. I’ens where the excrement is al losses from disease, especially cholera, as a serious handicap to his own effl lowed to accumulate in the old bug are held in check during the shut-in ciency as ii worker. IVe believe ii man house way always smell and are insan perials of cold weather. Hens will be should be considerate and helpful itary. healthier, and the drones will be obliged touching the header work about the The Rose Comb Rarred Plymouth to use up extra energy, which promotes house, so far ns Ids time iiermlts. but Rock Is now being discussed with a because he Is willing to help he ought vengeance on both sides the Atlantic, a full circulation of the blood. A SCRATCHING YARD. not to be Imposed upon. and there la a light as to Its admission Provide a scratching yard or a scratch to the standard. But why should it Recently a patent has been granted not be admitted? It comes straight ing shed in which wheat or oat straw is to an Inventor In Germany for a de from the Rarred Rock and gets Its strewn at a depth of six to eight inches. vice In which a wire is used tnstend comb honestly from the Dominique Then throw the feed into the straw. of a toothed saw in cutting timber that was In the cross that made the Coarse chop, kafir corn, oats, and oats The device consist« of a smooth steel Rock, and that's more than can be with other feeds, sugar cane, millet seed wire which encircles the tree, the ends said of the hybrid single co’mh Silver aud chopped roots are suitable for feed of which are fastened to the arms of a Penciled Wyandotte that was recently ing this way. It is likely that an open power machine in such a way that the standardized Into a Sliver Penciled scratching yard would not be very satis wire la pulled back and forth quickly. Rock by the American Poultry asso factory if near or in range of the farm The friction causes intense heat, with elation. dwelling, on account of the straw being the result that- a -aneootb groove to blown about by the wind. Under such burned through the trunk of the tree Half the news of your home paper lies conditions it probably would be advis In operation this machine will cut a Read them. tree through in about one-half ths time in the ads able to fence the yard tight with boards required to saw it by hand. around the bottom. Patroaixe Herald Advertisers. • u — LENTS IS GROWING AND SO ARE WE Lents is growing and building up faster than any other suburb of Portland—there’s a reason. We are growing and selling more lumber than any other one firm in the district—there’s a reason. OUR EXPERIENCE has lead us to select only the highest grade of building mater ial—the kind we would put into a house or store ourselves. We personally select and inspect this stock before it is retail ed to our customers, giving you every assurance that it is just as represented. OUR SUPPLY is always equal to the demand and is continually being added to. Each day sees a new carload or two, yes sometimes even three, added to our stock, hence we say “no order too large and none too varied. OUR METHODS are such as to warrant your continual patronage, once you buy a bill of lumber here. Our prices are as low as the mar ket permits and our terms liberal. We deliver and deliver promptly. Believing it would be to our mutual advantage for you to deal here we ask that you give us a trial order if you are not already a customer, if so you will gladly verify all we have said here. THEE. W. MILLER LUMBER CO. “Growing With Lents” Opp. Bright Reality Co. Foster Road East