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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1912)
FARM AND POULTRY MINTS, HELPS ANO SUGGESTIONS EARLY MATING BEST. If tliut curii bird get» the worm, early inn ini fowl« beget I m * s I offspring mid tlieii hustling owuer gets tire top noti ti price. Ho get busy. (Jww, to Insure fertility. if stranger» to the plan*. »Iiould I h - mil tini tin* full before Otherwise. like bulinili«, they get homesick nini neglect business Geese. turkey« «ml ducks often lay and Latch very curly. «0 let them go to housekeeping early alni «void the rush. Hen« und rooaler* must In- bitched up lu plenty of Huie before naturul breeding »elisoli. Large breed«, like Cochins. «0 «low to mature, should be muted early In February. Marcii settings are all right for Hock«, Dones and lleda Bird« of tint Leghorn ly|ie are all right for April and May in win »t fini «bow« chick« ahould be out In January. To dll the pimi* of hen« that knock off laying In molt pul let« uni«! Im hutched in January mid Photo by C. M Ramili a JANt'AMT MATIMO February, but «uch pullet« make poor winter layer«, a« they moll after egg debut Vlgorou« adult Block that baa not been Inbrad uor forced for winter egg« ta beat, uud bird« ahould be «1 tailed well before muting so no change need be made. «■ mate« become greatly at tached to each other aud a separation and uew mating often result lu Infer tllity. Know your bird« individually. Know your breed’» characteristic« Mate for an Ideal. Mating birds with same defect In crease« It lu the offspring A «light de Photo by C. M Flarnlti s rixavAiiY nnt'i i>i\u ran. feet In one may be offset with a per fection In that re«|H-. 1 In another, but n good bin) cantlot eradicate 11 grows defect In the other The larger tile breed the longer for egga to become fertile, ten days mat lug being gem-rally sufficient. The proportion of female* to male In pen depends on breed Birds of Leg born style. fifteen to twenty five; American mid English breed«, ten to fifteen; Asiatic«, eight to ten HOGARTH’S RURAL HOME AN ILLINOIS INQUIRY. A reader of the««, notea who llvee near Edinburg, ill., not far from Hprlngfleld. writes stating that he live* It mny out be generally known that on u sixty acre farm especially well Hogarth's cuuutry bouse at Chiswick auited for a dairy farm and make» In Is preserved entire to III« memory. A qulry a« to the wisdom of going into the dairy busiuess lie staUm that be brass plate over the door la to this ef feet: "Thia house we« purchased In knows practically nothing of the dairy IMP'.’ by Lieutenant Colonel Hhlpway business, wauts to know how many cow« a sixty acre farm would support, In order to save It from being demol tailed, and by restoring the building he whether it would be better to sell milk ba» preserved It to the nation and to or cream aud what would be a reason the art world In memory of tire grnlua able estimate of the auiouut of milk a that once lived and worked within Its cow would give per day during the year aud what ¡»er cent of It would be walla." It was In 1740 that Hogarth acquired cream. While It would be impossible In the limits of such au article as this the houee et Chiswick, bla town real dance being at the corner of Irelceater to giva a novice In the dairy business Field« Between these two bouaea be a« full directions as be desires, never s|>rnt most of his life, uaually passing thel.su a few suggestions may be mad« the summer months at Chiswick The that will ¡»rove helpful. A suggestion which our corresfiondent garden as It aland« is somewhat abridged of its former dimensions. The make« in his letter la excellent-name ly. visiting und iuairectiug for himself atuble nnd palutlng room have disap some of the most successful dairy peered. but one Important feature re farms in the section lu which he lives main« This la the mulberry tree, un dcr whine «hade lie eulertalned the Here he can make Inquiries as to a little fouudllnga put out to nurse nt hundred and one details knowledge of Chiswick. Hogarth's marriage was which would be helpful to him if lie Is childless. and hl» affection went out going Into the dairy buslne««. while the Visual impresslomi lie will take away to «trunger children with him from a »hipshape dairy farm llognrth died nt the age of sixty ■even at III* house In !^*lce«tcr Field», will be a decided advantage to hliu where lie bad gone In a weak »lute Were we In our corres|x»iident’» ¡»luce after an Ulneee. The funeral wax at we would secure ten or u dozen tested Chiswick. Ills tombstone bears the grade cows of the breed which seem*- to be most numerous In the se« tlon In following inacrlptlon: which he live*, lie might bundle more Farewell, groat painter of mankind. but this would do for a »tart. These Who reached the noblest point of art. Whom pictured moral« charm the mind cows will cost all the way from »."«l to And th rough the eye correct It»« heart! »20 apie< e. de| »ending u|*>n their abil Ity to deliver the good* And In this If genlua fir« th«». render, «lay. If nature touch ths« drop a tear; connection it is well to remember that If nslther move thee turn away. it Is far bettor iu the long run to pay For llogurth'« honored du«t Iles tier« |IUo for a cow that the other fellow The*,* Hue« were written by hla would rather keep Ilian »40 or »50 fo, friend Dm id Garrick.—Architectural I one that hr Is quite willing to sell. Review Tlie "reasonableness'’ of an estimate a» to how much milk a cow would give would depend quite largely upon the AFRICA’S GREAT DESERT amount paid for her and also upon the Sahara 1« Not Aft Barran and Ha« Two fees! aud care given her. A cow that Diotinet Population«. give« 5.000 ¡«»und* of 5 |»er cent milk Tire Rahara. that vu«t ex|mn«e of In a year will produce 250 pounds of country lying to the south of Algeria. butter fat. approximately equni to 312 1» commonly called "the desert" by pound« of butter, worth at an aver Euro|>ean« The name Sahara In no age of 30 cents per pound. »03 Sub wise, however, means "desert” It 1« tracting cost of feed, about »3M. leaves simply the Arab ap|>ellatlon of thia ex- a net returu of »55 ¡»er year. A Hol tenalvo tract mainly comissted of stein to give the same return would great plains, which are even well pop have to produce not far from O.iww ulated In certain district« It la quite pounds of milk containing 3 ¡»er cent a mistake to Imagine that all 1« barren of butter fat While »lie would give and sterile, for there are to bo found more milk, her feed bill would also be large date palm plantations aa well as larger. If one 1« willing to pay the numerous flocks of sheep and great price he can rrosonubly expect n*g<»xl numbers- of camel« which man must results a» the«e nr better While the tend and care for. writer 1« not grqwltited « Illi the Imai The Sahara contains two distinct condition«. It would lu* 11« offhand population»-the one sedentary, the judgment licit sellli*« the «r-atti would other nomad. The former live in the be the better pr ipo*. t'o*i f -r while he town« and villages, cultivating tire soil might not get am more for ft than he and tending the date palm« The lat would for the «rhn’v milk, he would ter are shepherds, roaming from place have the sklmmilk left on the farm to place in search of pasture for their for hl« hoc«, i-nlri** und chicken«. cattle How few arc there In the which wou'd t»e natural byproducts of home land who have any Idea of the Ills dairy o|»erationa. If there I* not Sahara or of the Arab tribes who live already a »llo on our friend'« farm he there! Traveler» to these region« are should have one or two. depending comparatively rare, but all are amply u|M»n the uumlier of cows he will ulti rv|»ald for n visit mately keep If be doe* not have them Life muong the moving tent« of the already lie should subscrllM* for « cou- nomad» 1« deeply Interesting In It» pk* of good dairy pa|»ers and by read primitive simplicity The country it Ing them carefully and making Inquir self ba« a grandeur and beauty which ies of hl» neighbors who art* most »uc- 1« quite unique It« rolling dunes, cessful In the dairy bualness he will painted with ornnge nnd crlm*on and gather Information which «III be most gold against violet and purple «bud helpful to him. If ho can so arrange it ows at «uurise and sunset; Its green It would give him a good return on the ohm *, It« wild sandstorms. It« lovely money Invested if he would take a mirage», once seen are never to lx* for short course In dairying at the state gotten While the solemn alienee agricultural college strikes the soul with nwe. one almost realize* why the Arnim call all thl* A COSTLY FIASCO. "tile garden of Allah ' —Christian Iler If some of the would be statesmen aid that are representing or misrepresent ing u* down nt Washington would get Po«*ibilit>«a of Translation. An English writer made un esperi their I uiik I* off the ¡»ulltlcal wires long nieut once of the gain uud Io** of enough to puss a Imv which will pro vide for the rigid federal inspection of translation all ltu|H>rted nursery stock at |>ort of I heard that U would write my "tlfo' When 1 gave up my breath. entry mill tne Immediate destruction I felt that this Indeed would add of all consignments fouud diseased or A new delight to den th Infested with the eggs or nests of de This was translated Into another Inn strnctlve insis ts they would confer au gunge, then from that Into another, and lliestlinnble lieneflt U|s>n the vast hor »0 on until a dozen versions had lieeti ticultural interest« of the country. Sec made Of course there was a different retary Wilson 1» authority for Ibe translator each time The last version statement Hint the United States Is read* a* follows: practically the only civilized country Dear. In my *onc you «till «hall live. having horticultural Interests of any Though under earth you 11« importance which does not require Ah. had you now that «race to give 1 ahould not n«ed to die' rigid lns|>ection of lm|»rted nursery stuck. For lack of the protection which Th« 8«wing Machine. «uch laws would hnve given our or Did you know a lighted match or ta chord* are Infested with various Im per would do wonder* with the sewlug |M>rled scale Insects, while the brown machine? Try it some day Light a tailed moth I* another pest which ha* candle or just u match and apply It to l>een lm|x»rted Into the country regu different parts of the wheel* mid cog* larly through lack of federal Ittapei Lint« nud threads will burn the «-tmr lion Imv* mid whl- h I* doing untold can l>e wiped off, and the uttublue will damage to orchard» mid shade tree« In run twice a* en«lly eastern states. It may not tie import! When a machine gums It Is advisable neat to inquire how long this fiasco to remove the head, place It tn a tub that Secretary Wilson refers to Is go and cover with gasoline It make* a Ing to continue. new nriclilne from hii old one Hla Tomb and Garrlek'e Tribute ta th« Great Caricaturist. DON’T*. Don’t let the merchant mix your egg« with other« nud sell them all for your«. I kind let lieu« make their neats un j der the buildings or In the horse «ta ble. Don't allow visiting during laying hour», lien« knock off laying when excited. Don't mark your poultry with pnlnt when a toe punch Is better and mark can't come off. Don't keep eggs In a tight vessel. Spread on a tray in n well ventilated, clean, cool room and market early. Don't neglect to change water often if feeding dry rnasli. as particles of Heroic War Maasurs». piash from birds' bills sour the water Chaka, a great African native chief, ' Don't use open water vessels. Hens trained a powerful army which was If a regiment was dip their combs and wattles In them, fnmou» In war they freexe and the hens knock off lay beaten It was slaughtered on Its re If any man turn to tire king's palace ing Don't use an old slat corncrib that I* lost his weapon in war he was killed a food supply depot for mice and hens for cowardice. If the chief wanted to when heavy wire is cheap and guard* see what kind of weapons were moat luccessful he would order a shnm fight the grain. with them In which real Uvea would Don't hnve rotten egg« In your poa session. It's conclusive evidence In be lost. certain «tiites that you are In the rot Worse Than the Upper Ton. and spot business. "Only the upper ten go to your church, don't they?" Inquired the plain person To Mot-tern—And Others * "Yea.” replied the organist of the Y01 can use Bucklen'» Arnica Salve swell church, "but they're not a clr- to cure children of eczema, rashes, tet enmstance to the uppish tenor In our ter. chafings, scaly and crusted humors, choir.”—Philadelphia Press »2.500 A YEAR NET. An Iowa farmer who (»ought a quar ter section farm five years ago at an acre has in the meantime kept an accurate account of nil receipts nnd expenditures. lie find* that besides keeping his family In comfortable dr cuinstiinces he saved »2.500 a year ♦11 cash, lie figures that there lias been mi average Increase In the vulue of hl* land per year of $.*> per acre, which, added to his net revenue, means that Als Income from the place has been net »3.300 yearly. Quite likely this I* a good deni better than owners of 100 acre farms will average, but It show* what can be done. It would be Inter estlng to know how many husky boy* thl* farmer had helping him with the farm operations Luxury and Labor. as well as their accidental injuries,— Alexander the Great, reflecting on hl* For Cause. cuts, burns, bruises, etc., with perfect ne—Why «re yon always throwing friend* degenerating Into sloth and a ifety. Nothing else heals so quickly. your money In my face? She-Because luxury, told them that It was n mo-t For boil«, ulcers, old, running or fever 1 can't keep It out of your bends Bal slavish thing to luxuriate and a most sores or piles it hat no equal. 25 eta at timore American royal thing to labor -Barrow. all deniers Listen To Sound Advice And Get Married There’s Nothing Like It And WHEN you get married let us print your wedding invi tations We Simply Dote on Help ing Along the Good Cause THE T)AyK and call on uj mt . scon PUBLISHING co. Biggest and Best in the District HERALD BLDG. MAIN STREET» LENTS