POULTRY; NOTES BY C.MaENITZ VTfZSSWZ . PA. o eORRtSPOKDZNtr SOLICITED " . Crete "floors and use Hie old methods of extermination. Q. Kindly let me know If tallow rimy be used in ration for chickens and what for. A. IVbcn chickens are fed In fatten ing crates the last ten days of the twenty-four tallow Is part of the ra tion. It Is melted and mixed with meal. A little Is used at first till at the end of the period the proportion is one pound to fifty fowls twice a day. Copyright, 1908, by C. M. Barnltz. These article and Illustrations must not bo re printed without special permission. HIGH FLYING GUINEA3. "Buy guineas?" was asked the huck ster whose weekly call liroke the mo notony at the farm. "Nope; guineas are no good. No sale for 'em. Wouldn't take 'em as a gift." Ten years pass. Now read this: Wanted. 6,000 young guineas weighing three pounds to the pair. Will pay at least 60 cents per pair for the same. Wanted. 1,000 men and women to raise guineas and sell me the young ones when they weigh one pound each at 65 cents a pair. Poultry Item, Pennsylvania. "Waal, I'll swan!" says John Corn tassel. "What does city folks want FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. Pigeons that are continually flying are tough and taste no more like a real squab than your wife's first cooking tasted like your mother's. Our friends of the fancy are now working overtime building their birds for the show. They all expect a fair deal from the Judge. May they not do I otherwise to the other fellow who com- i petes with them! The country fair associations are very anxious for a fine, large display of poultry. The reason some of them don't get It Is because the fair asso ciation must share no expense and the poultrynian must spare no expense. It Is a mistake to think that poultry huycra are after lurge dressed stock. The call Is for n medium sized bird with n plump, sliaiely body. Rig birds have gone the way of the big "Merry Widow." Your birds leave the nest, the sguaus starve and the cgs chill. Turn up the nests and see them run. How cau a pigeon sit comfortably with a dozen mice wiggling under her any more than can you sleep In church with 5,000 guinea keets fur?" The guinea that screamed from the your wife jabbing you with a hatpin? big walnut tree has flown a notch in stealing ten tine chickens at higher. Buckhorn, I'a., the thief left his set The scarcity of game and the strict Lacey law have sent all the restau rants to guinea. WILD GAME PRICES. Canvaiback duck 14.00 Prairie chicken, broiled 3.00 Pheasant, broiled 2.60 Koaat quail 1.50 These are simply guineas In disguise the pretty polka dot feathered creamers of grandpap'g barnyard. But what's the difference? They taste good and gamy, have much dark breast meat and don't cost half the real thing. Then few know the anatomy of game so well that they can tell a guinea from a pheasant or a sparrow from a reedblrd. When the farmer offers guineas, nap them up, and remember French cooks deem guinea eggs best for bak ing and without equal for beating up quick and stiff. - Originally from Africa, these polka dot birds are most everywhere. The West Indies are alive with them. England keeps them In game pre serves. Austria, Germany and Trance re breeding them extensively. Uncle 8am Is going in for guineas. Better Join in. Tbey breed In April and May, mate in pairs, lay as high as a hundred eggs BKAIT FOB lUhKKT. season, hatch In twenty-eight days, and the little quail-like chleks run and fly soon as batched. Tire white or lblno guinea ts simply sport. The pearl la most common aud has purplish gray plumage with . white pots, coral red wattles, while ears and cheeks, bony helmet or crest ml orange legs. The males walk on tiptoe, have the coarser bead and "clack" Instead of "buckwheat" Being classed as game, they are dressed as In illustration. Thus they do not appear small, and their beautiful plumage makes the in more attractive. Guineas lore the woods aud vales, where they thrive ou insects, leaves, hoots, weds, buds aud berries. Now, Just Imagine the vast resources for guinea culture in our waste lauds aud the great national forest reservations. KURIOS FROM (CORRESPONDENTS Q. I am raising Belgians and a-k for the following Information: When bould young ones oin their eye, and when to It time to wean and why dues the mother eat ber young? A. From a week to twelve days. Six weeks. Because you do not give her water at time litter Is born. Q. I'lesae tell me how old squabs re when parent birds lay and hatch Sgsln and If the old birds desert them t that time. A. Pigeons lay and act again from tea to fourteen days after squat are batched and generally feed them up to time of new batch, but after that re apt to be ugly to them. Q. What style bone cutter do you recommend me to buy? A. Self feeding, open hopper style, with partltUwi In renter of bopper and no exposed cogs. Buy ooe with leg. The bench bolted rr mint le nat aaaca. Q. We are thinking of raising few peacocks and ran And no literature bout them. We come to yoa 1th oar q orations: What color Is the egg? How many la n dutch? How ok! to breed? Are they bard to ral and gnod eat tog? A. The pen ben lays from Ire te eight whitish err aeaaoa. Breed log agm, twe to three seers. Ted like turkeys and krj-t on dry. rk h aoU, with bad, are easily raised. Males hard to chew, hens better, yoong a delicacy. Q. A dealer baa advised Be to as ferreta to eatrh tbe rats at aiy r-taat Will tbey catch chickens? A. Tea. Tbey are of the weasel tribe a ad will do scything a weasel do. If yoa get (ben, wstrh tbe baby, for tUj jrtf in Jt BrPer rt U of false teeth behind. If they were tough hens, what could the poor man do? Will those of our readers who wear "store teeth" please advise the poor man? Squabs twelve hours old are called "peepers," twenty-four hours old "squeakers" and a month old "squeal ers." Men may be divided Into work ers. Jerkers, shirkers tind kickers; also fakirs, fossils and fools. Yon are one of the good fellows. The eyes of racing homers protrude on return from a long race. This Is caused by their efforts to sight home at long distance. Their sight Is as re markable as their flight Canadian firms have been selling e?gs for hatching on credit If the cus tomer gives Ills note to the Standard Bank of Canada. But If the eggs are rotten how can they epg a man on to pay? "We would rather be right than be president." But we would rather be president than a poultrymau for a little while. Then we would "dee lltfht" In sending a "strenuous" mes sage to congress on the great American hen. ami we would send notice to some of these stale legislatures that appro priate nothing for poultry culture that If street cars are no longer run by mules some legislatures have n sur plus of Jacks. A HANDY HENHOUSE. If Cheap John ! bound to build of piano boxes, let him manage his own funeral. If you're only in to ie out, any old shack ill do. If you're a stayer, you're not employ ing a funeral director architect. Hero Is a neat, handy house that may be built fur a modernle price and Is especially adapted to cold climates, though the I in re plan Is standard foi any locality. HnieiiBlons, nine feet high In front, seven back, twelve feet wide and nnv length. Kink stone for foundation below frost and have two courses of stone at least alsive surface. We use brick above ground fur rats. Make floor of deep soaked packed ilnder topped with gravel, sand n ill reiuent and cover with Ixumls In win ter. Cover siili.itiiiilinl franm with rough hoards, cover these outside with two ply tar paper and then nail on the weather boa ids. A dead air pace will 1 formed when lath Is placed. Duster with cement. Hoof with shingles or galvanized Iron. The Ventilators should be pluced atsive the windows, the ent mines for man and fowl where most convenient, but no alleyways or aisles should le made through the building to waste spai. Ioes It pay to l.ul'd a house like this for chickens? Well. il.s It pay you i t If some of our poultry Journals that spend extra time and money on crowd ing their pages with big pictures would ouiy remeiulier that the majority of Journal readers nre after practical In formation they would confer a big fa vor on the majority and Insure renewals. A York poultryumu placed rat poison beneath his buildings for the rats, and tbe rats carried It out and fed it to the chickens, and they deceased. If poi son is mixed with chop, it cannot be distributed. If a hen does get a dose, Just give her a big dose of lard. If fattening fowls of nervou tem perament, like the Leghorns and An conns. do not keep them in a glaring I light, but In semi-dark pens In secluded spots. IH not keep ducks in a yard where water runs from the eaves. They will ptiU!!e along the foundation and loosen I he st4uework. In searching for the assets of a Pennsylvania cashier who stole $50, i they found a $1,200 henhouse, but no depositors' nest eggs, anil the golden eggs his goose laid were missing. Parlies ill Mount Joy. Pa., shipped ., worms to Forrest Park. St. Louis, to le fed to the birds at a cost of $3.75. It was worth that to count the wrig glers. To our friends who are raising birds, quail and pheasants we recom mend the meal worm. Mix chop and bran and strips of leather together, get a few worms at the mill, add them lo the combination and watch them multiply. When you operate on a fowl for hard crop or find an open wound, be sure to use n strong disinfectant on the bared flesh to kill t lie germs and drive off the blowflies. Women are more and more taking an, active pari in poultry work. Among these are a number who have broken In health or whose husbands have been disabled by accident or paralytic strokes, and they have taken tip the work of support We wish them well, and may they meet no male fakirs In deals. Do not use expensive lumber for nest boxes. It Is a good plan occa sionally to burn the nest material in tbe boxes. That kills the bugs, and box can be cscd again. "TDe chickens were white as snow, and wasn't everything cleau?" Cement floors pay In every way, espe cially In a sanitary way. PIGEON DONT3. Pou't choose a damp location for house nor steep hill for fly. Don't forget nesting material. Put tobacco stems In bottom of nests, ond' birds will finish with fine straw. Pon't neglect to clean lip every week, hut be quiet about It. Don't forget the hospitals ill seeking a squab market. They want tne best. Don't fail In kindness, for that tells In profits ns well as good grain. PRESERVATION OF FOFESTC. THAT OLD HEN AGAIN. 'Twaa on a Sunday morning fair We all sat round the table. Disposing of h juicy steak. For which we all seemed able. When father chose to raise his eyes From off his plate just then And thundered, to our great surprise, "There's that hen again!" Mother tipped the coffeepot. Bill tpscl the table. Bridget dropped the tin (lishpun. 'Twas like the din of Isabel. But whore v:s father all this time Oh, friend, please do not' tell! He'd chased tl.at In n across the lot And fallen In the well. Wo fishc.l li!:a out all mirt ami wot. He, AYUun't ileiid. for when We got him lialfway lo (he top He yelled. "Where's lhat hen?" Now, preacher. don't, ask all was said, But when you ia:::s us then Don't think we're all la bed asleep. It's that blamed hen again. C. M. B. The Old Bay Stale Is Now Taking the Initiative. The preservation of the forests Is a problem second to none in present i:u poi'taute and In its outlook toward the future. Without trees our country would be a desert, and the rapid den udation of our New England hills is already beginning to have Its effect upon our streams and rivers and upon our water suiinlv. The Invention of wood pulp paper aud the rapid exteu fcion of the Industry throughout the country, together with the increase of newspaper circulation, have stimulated the destruction of the forests to such a degree that steps are already being taken to preserve them before It is too late. Congress has attempted to take a hand in the matter, but so far with little avail, and It now remains for the Individual states affected to see what they can do. The first step would seem lo be the development of paper making from some rapidly growing nud an nually reappearing substance, such as cornstalk fiber, Instead of from the slowly rising tree which cannot be re placed except after years of renewal and growth. As was to be expected, Massachu setts Is taking the Initiative. To the governors of the other five New .Eng land states Governor Guild has sent out a request for a conference, aud It will be held at the Algonquin club In Boston on the 14th of September. The six governors will then confer and deliberate over the best means to be taken for the preservation of our for ests, and It Is probable that arrange ments will be made for the calling of n New England business conference at some time immediately following the presidential election. If It should ben held, says Governor Guild In bis letter, It should come at that time "In order that Its work might not be confuse Willi the politics of the presidential campaign." One of the especial ob Jects of this meeting of the governo - ... . 1 c America, was scarcely nneiy ro u known to the Indians of Virginia. Yet the potato was undoubtedly Introduced In England as part of the cargo of one of Sir Richard Grenvllle's ships and landed at Plymouth, and the ship had gone direct from Virginia and called nowhere on the way. On the voyage home, however, it had encoun tered and captured a Spanish ship from Santo Domingo. The potatoes were a part of the cargo of the latter vessel. The Useful Sunflower. Sunflower aeeds are said to give an extra fine flavor to eggs and are much used by the French people for mat pur pose. Remember this when you plant your garden and drop in some eeeue around the edges and in tne oaa cor ners. A few planted near the sink drain will help to keep away miasma and give you heads of seed tnat win be mammoth in size. . THE MUSHROOM HOUSE. For hot climates like California, Florida, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the canal zone the hip roof or mushroom house is excellent. It is covered with a water proof roof, is generally lx n ML'SHBOOM HOUSE. feet square, and the four foot sides may be covered with painted canvas or sacking. Tbe house stands on two foot legs and need not be cleaned, as it Is moved from place to place. The ladder to roosts should be re moved at night to avoid preying ani mals. In the rainy season wire screen may Inclose the bottom, and a ditch should be dug around to avoid flooding. If desired windows and ventilators may be added. Hoof In style preferred, This Is not only a cool, movable, sani tary house, but the fleas that breed In tbe accumulated dust under fixed abodes have no biding place. a-i i i n -t n- H era -T-T-kV - S-- - v " HALr UkJtllOl SB. buy a g.wl all wkI Milt or an Imita tion nool shoddy that u Istgs at the knees and g.n to the ras tag? If you're going m make g ni l money out of liens, you muM put go.nl money into giKl rua. POULTRY HOUSE FLOORS. When we left home mother said, "Goodby, boy; don't forget to pray and keep jour feet dry." Mighty good advice for everybody. We pass It to jou and add keep your heus dry In winter. If you let the pens pet foul and damp, Your hens will set the roup and cramp, if you let your hens wade in the snow. The egg record will drop down low. "Doesn't matter," said n smarty. "If pens are wet underfoot. Just so they're dry overhead." But there were several wet spots ou bis cheeks when he dumped twenty five beautiful Brown Leghorn hens on the alley ash pile. An ounce of prevention might have saved 111 in a hundred pounds of pure bred Leghorns, worth $50, Fifty dollars bought 1.800 square feet of inch planed boards for our scratch ing floors, and $110 paid for' 2.125 square feet of concrete. We give thanks for the Invention of cement every time we cross the floors. In winter we cover the cement with boards, but store them iu the warm season. We find heavy litter on bare cement satisfactory, but consider boards warmer aud have never found either conducive to rheumatism. We have no quarrel with the fancier who prefers a ground floor, but will give you our reasons for not using one. The excrement of a hen Is eighty pounds per year, or 8.000 pounds to a hundred. Half of this Is water. if hens are confined, excremeut falls on the ground floor, which absorbs most of the moisture. Slow evaluation In a henhouse tneuns dampness, disease, death. Yon concede that moisture more quickly elaborates from straw on boards or cement than from straw mixed with dirt and droppings. Thus In whiter a dirt floor fancier Is up against a ventilation problem. He must contend with natural mois ture In air and grouud. moisture from fowl breath, dropping boards and the Tea, there are aouie deserted n,.u!trv plants around tbe eouutry. J.im a tucre D,,,;,,,"r droppings alvnrbed by dirt are some forsaken factory l.ucdiiic j ' T' here and there. "ere la explanation for frosted walls, Moat of three foraakrn ediflces are i "",er nJ nxmn no,r monuments to uea bo .11.1 lurlr look- I ''vel,,,. the bens dig up tbe floor. lug after they lrad. - wi:i au'i I "' ,tH',r piumag In the dirt tbe air your ri)iertuient !th lut.-rvt nn,l If , " ,oul- ,n'r ,r hiding places for eggs. yon are siK--ewful may o Int.. the I ml,- mice and lice, and. with bunlneaa Biyarif." aalj a WasMnsMa ! Ju5', "'erhead and filtb underfoot, the gvntlemaa te a jouut man a h. bid ,l,'ar 14 unpieasant for vWlora and at fttablbhed a tealcra plssi. ( OOViiKNOK UDILD OF MASSACHUSETTS. with his associates will be to devise means whereby a greater uniformity of action may be secured In the leg islation among the several states in the I'tiiou. But the greatest result should be In the stimulus It will give to public opiuicu ti'id In Its awakonlnir of us to tbe fact that the forests must cud shall be preserved. The First Potatoes. Sir Waller Raleigh, who f bares with Sir Francis Drake the honor of first introducing the potato iu Eugland. lived at Brixton. England, uear Eliza beth's House, i'jriiiby. iu Lancashire, also claims the honor of being the site of the first culture of tbe potato In that country. Tbey are said to have been grown there by a I'ormby man who sailed with Sir Walter. The earliest cultivation of tbe iHjtato In the British islands was probably at Youghal. on the south coast of Irejand. where this great uavigitor bad an es tate. It has Uvu generally accented that' the- potato was taken to Europe from t irglnla and that it was cultivated there by tbe uatives. Sir Joseph Banks aud De Coudelle both lent tbe weight of their authority to this view, but It bas been ascertained that the Indians of Virginia, though they used a number of tuberous roots, did not know our po tato. One of these was the plant sometimes grown as an ornamental climber in our gardens and called by botauista Aploa lube rota. The Indians called the roota potatoes, and the French Canadians knew them as pomtues de terre. and our potato, lirg a native of South "This la ant aa eiiwimeal," rrp.'k-t tlie plucky fellow. -This I cot a try or teat rase. There's no i,u U tut It Before we went luto thi bnaineva e detuooatrated tbe pracil ral worth of our uethuda. Y e orkel oo tbe laa of tbts p'ant for Are year tfre a aail a as diiveu. and bow. If ur boors d"t crack, we'll bare nc (" That reply aboalj I frantrd ta ftd aad Its spirit followed. and rEATHERS AND CCfiSHCLL. Hk-a do lore ta eat a Ita tbe 4- If a roue boot auj Sad lin e quel and efr oa tbe f.r and raa't andrreUad It It la hrraoa yoa have a&Biated birds la par pea and d I kauw R. Yva'U grt tbe full awaaing tajoa b ta tbe.lfr , . . temlanla Whit a tk to renew Hirer nra In g-ouo.1 flour plants! Our -rmaucnt sanitary floor bas ao altik h.i,- to trap your f.t aud make morale water vessela. ronta and net al-t. la thirty mlDutra we can renew the litter oa 1 ) square feet and In ooe b-vir Uy the board If Uwnls or cement abow dampoeaa, we simply draw back tbe litter at ol;ht sprinkle tightly with slaked lime. jand la tte amcnlng all la dry and se-t To rk-aa such a poultry boose Is boy's piay. A lady kied Into tbe pens a boa full of cUk krM. sniffed aad said. "Wby. there t oo usrll bere.- Two rfei'a-le'pia ntwrters I'adloei ahl ieoTirij in plant aere otertward to : V ' II.-' II FEATHERS ANO EGGSHELLS If newspapers that waste space on fake stories of three legged calves, hens hatching snakes aud bulldogs adopting ducks would print legitimate poultry news and practical poultry in formation, they would be helping their readers to get more cash to pay in ad vance. In preparing young roosters for roasters keep them out of the gymna sium. It matters not bow much corn meal you feed, much exercise will be nntlfat and keep them tbln as a slat The longest bird flight is from the isles of Bering sea to Hawaii and Fanning Islands, a distance of 2,200 miles. Birds arrive unexhausted. Per haps they rest by floating iu the. air, as swimmers do In the water. Most of 'the fairs are held in the molting season when the birds are unsightly. The fair directors compel the graceful oriental dancers to don dusters and yet allow the other heus to show In full dress. Is this alto gether fair? We find the best way to feed char coal Is in soft mash. Otherwise some fowls get none, for certain birds uever visit the hopper. The way some incubator chicks get lice Is easily explained. An old hen's chick gets half drowned and Is slipped luto the Incubator for a minute to dry off. Tbe lice crawl off the chick on to tbe eggs, the eggs hatch, and the lice crawl off the eggs on to the new chleks. Try It ' Secretary Wilson of the agricultural departpieut at Washington has started a crusade against the sale of storage for fresl eggs. Thought when storage got Into tbe Washington eggnog some thing would effervesce. One of our friends who set bis goose at the same time we set our goose in cubator left the gate open, and the hogs ate the eggs. Chickens have a mighty poor chance to escape from hungry hogs. Clean and screen that hogpen. There is no reason why state arid agricultural colleges should go to Can ada or England for Instructors lo poultry culture. If the trustees of these institutions are uuluformed. we take pleasure in notifying them that their I'ncle Samuel Is way ahead of Johnny Bull. . PIGEON DON'TS. Don't fail to put in spring doors. Keeps in pigeons, keeps out cats. Dun't forget that bemp and canary seed are luxuries. Don't think pigeons care nothing foi green food. Try the in with lettuce Tbey lore It. Feet ef the Celts. Keep tbe feet of colts even or un fHioduew may result Do not allow the toes to grow too long Rlngbonea are often rained by long toee. Keep tbe colts' stales well littered. One alip oa a wet floor Bay rula a valuable eolt For Liver Ills. 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