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Poultry Breeders Are
Interested in Highways
Fowls W ill Respond
to
A f‘ ru,*‘r wh° “” d “lx “ ‘'“ / T
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town, over a mud road, wan asked why
Proper Care in Summer | he didn’t keep more chickens, when
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Pays to Market Spring
Cockerels at Tw o Pounds FOX A N D T U R T LE MEET
With the present price of ? » « ,!»
•ays the Ohio Agricultural college,
furmers cannot afford to keep Uielr
spring hatched cockerels until the
holiday season to sell them. A fter a
growing cockerel reaches IVi to 2
pounds It is an inefficient consumer
of feed for meat production.
The price of cockerels is always
higher during the spring and summer
months than In the fall when many
farmera dispose of their aurphis
cockerels The slump In price is due
to two causes:
(1) The large size
cockerel is less desirable on the table.
(2) The cockerel must compete on the
market with the surplus hens, with n
resulting slump in price.
In cate the cockerels are kept until
full they should he crate fattened,
as they will then bring a premium on
the market. The birds should be con
fined in a small coop or fattening bat
tery and fed twice a day on the fol
lowing ration: 70 pounds of corn meal,
30 pounds high grade shorts or mid
dlings, and 10 pounds of wheat bran.
Tlds should he mixed with sufficient
sour skim milk or butter m’lk to make
a mixture of the consistency of a thick
cream.
The birds should be starved 12 hours
after putting in the crate and then
fed all they will clean i p of the above
feed In 10 minutes.
The amount of feed fed can be grad-
ualy Increased until two full feeds a
day have been supplied. No water
should be given during the feeding
period.
A gain of 25 to 40 per cent can be
made in 12 to 14 days.
can Just touch it In the early morn
ing 7"
/''\VE morning Mr. Fox happened to
"Can’t say that I did,” replied Mr.
stop In the woods near some •ferns Fox.
where Mr. Turtle was resting. “Good
“ You hare missed a beautiful sight," {
morning. Grandpa." said Mr. Fox. “ I answered Mr. Turtle. "Have you ever
expect you must be pretty tired, you stopped to notice the ants at work,
travel so fast."
Mr. Fox?"
Mr. Turtle was slow to wrath. In
“ Can't say that I have," said Mr.
the first place he did not mind being
Fox.
called grandpa, for he was very old,
"You have missed a wonderful
and In the next place he was so wise
that he was sorry for Mr. Fox, he was sight,” answered Mr. Turtle. "Have
you ever watched the birds that nest
so young and flippant.
"Good morning. Mr. Fox," replied | near the ground feed their young.
Mr. Turtle in a dignified manner. T.j Mr . F o x T
No, I never have,” replied Mr. Fox,
am not really In need of rest, hut 1
I travel
like to take time to enjoy the things b«**H>n!ng to feel uneasy.
I see.
~ I fast and 1 have no time for trifles,
"Did you know, my good friend, thnt I Mr- Turtle.”
those who travel through the world
“ You have missed a great deal, Mr.
swiftly miss a great deal that is Fox. I may travel slowly hut I have
going on?’
j time to see what La going on around ;
I think I see about ail that hap- j me, ami that la more than you can
pens around these parts." answered j say. The trifles, as you call them, are
! the tilings that count In life ; remem
ber that, my young friend.
“Just because you have four legs 1 Edward Hoot Gibson, born in Te-
that carry you swiftly over th e! kamah, Neb., twenty-six years ago,
I ground, do not think you have seen stands five feet six In hi» socks and
I all there Is in the world. Many of | weighs 160 pounds. He has blue eyes
| the most wonderful and beautiful brown hair, and a most captivating
things In the world are missed by j smile. With ’the exception of a short
i those who run.”
] time spent in vaudeville and with a
"Well, Grandpa, that sort of reason- big show In Australia, he has seen
ing may be all well
enough for you, seven years’ service before the cam-
but If I went nosing about the ground era. He ia married.
! instead of keeping my head up where j ______ __________________________
| it belongs, I should miss being alive
| later, when he was safe In his den,
“ I Should Like to Know What I Mias.” | very soon and Mr. Dog__”
Off dashed Mr. Fox. for at that mo- ,hlnkinR of Mr T,,rtle- “ Llvln« d,> vn
Mr. Fox rather crisply, "and If I do ! ment Mr. Dog came bounding through there OD ,lle Kround as he does ,s dan*
say so, I travel at a pretty fast rate
"
the busher with a bark that made Mr. gerous. Someone might step on him.
of speed.”
Turtle draw his head Inside his shell No, sir, I choose to have my swift
"Yes, that you do,” said Mr. Turtle, anil Mr. Dog ran over him without feet to use even if I do miss a few
cobwebs.”
"especially when our enemy Mr. Dog knowing he was there.
But, after all, Mr. Turtle was right
Is on your track, but, as I said, you
’’Foolish young fellow,” thought Mr.
in a way, for those who travel swiftly
miss a great deal.
Turtle.
“ I f lie kept close to the
I should like to know what I ground as I do, he’ would keep out through life often miss the little tilings
that go to make up the beautiful big
miss," said Mr. Fox.
“ Away down of trouble."
things In life.
there on the ground you must miss a
Foolish old fellow," said Mr. Fox
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great deal o f what I can see.”
“ I ’erhaps, perhaps," murmured Mr.
Turtle. “ Did you ever see a spider’s
web ail covered with dew, Mr. Fox,
under a bush or a leaf where the sun
“ It may be stated without fear of the town In question offered a good
contradiction." says A. C. Smith, chief market for eggs. Me replied that he
of the division of poultry husbandry lived too fur out, and had no automo
at University Karin, “ that under aver bile.
"Six miles Isn't much more than a
age conditions farm Hocks yield no
more than 25 per cent during the sum half-hour's ride with your team,” the
mer month*, while, if well managed, Inquirer said.
“ H alf an hour In summer, and three
tiie yield will practically be doubled
hours in winter," replied the farmer.
at small additional expense.”
It may not seem as If the good roads
The reasons given by Professor
Smith for the failure of farm flocks to movement affects the poultry business,
maintain April production are than at but it has a big Influence on the num
the season advances the supply of in ber of chickens kept. The poultry
sects and young, tender greens be breeder who supplies eggs In quantity
come* Insufficient to supply more than for private trade must make prompt
the needs of the body ; that external deliveries. If a hotel orders a case of
parasites become uhundant during the egjpt at certain Intervals, that case of
hot weather; that coops are poorly eggs must get there or the farmer
ventilated, and that broody hens are loses the trade. The criticism that
farmers can’t be depended on and the
mismanaged.
To maintain production, he says, packing houses can, lias been one that
flocks must be plentifully fed with a can’t be refuted for farmers as a class.
balanced ration of grains and animal There are exceptions, but the farmers
food and wirti an unlimited supply of themselves admit that there are times
greens, grit and oyster shells. War when they are at the mercy of the
must tie incessantly waged against roads. Winter eggs might be had, but
mites and lice. Mouses must be kept why try for them in large numbers
cool and comfortable by regulating the when there is a chance that they could
ventilation to suit the day anil the not get them to town if they were laid?
weather. Broody hens must be hrok- I There is the question of cold in win
en up ut once by removing them from ter. Chilled eggs are unfit for hatch
the nest and putting them where there I ing; the farmer who has to sell eggs
arts no nests and no pluces to set. for hutching only during the seuson
With good treatment and ample feed- j when he is not “ three hours on the
Ing the hens will soon return to work. I road,” would find his trade limited.
All sick hens must be removed while Aside from the cold, there Is also for
those that are healthy and In good hatching eggs the question of Jolting
flesh hut do not lay should he culled the germ to an extent that weakens If
out at leust once a month and sent to not kills It.
When the farmer lived upon the
murket.
Some of the university flocks are products o f his own farm, the roads
Geese W ill Bring Very
now giving 50 and 60 per cent produc did not seriously affect him. Today
they
do.
1
’oultry
breeders
are
among
tion as a result of proper cnre anil
Good Margin of Profit
management, according to 1‘ rofessor our most up-to-date business men. Of
“ One who has not had the pleas
course they are interested in the good ure to watch a little gosling pop out
Smith.
roads movement.
of the shell and see it grow to ma
turity would be surprised to knew
Popular Geese and Ducks
in how short a time it is done. At
for Market or Feathers
Engineers on
flrst It Is a little downy fellow,
Economical Highways weighing not over four ounces; a
Farmers are realising more and more
that nothing but purebred geese should
How to make the road home shorter round, fluffy little ’hall of wool. Thn
lie considered. Kor heavy geese, either by making it better was discussed wing feathers nnd breast feathers
for market or feathers, there Is little by engineers from Kunsaa and adjoin start to grow flrst.
They will con
B
■■at the s
j MAR1J
to choose between the Toulouse, Knt- ing states in the second annual road
tinue to have a downy appearance
den or African. Kor quick growing, school held ut the Kansas State Agri until they become two or three
MARSHALL
heavy laying, small geese, either the cultural college recently.
months old and then the feathers
DUFFEE
White or Brown China is good. Kor
The work being done in Iowa to de will begin to replace the down. Dur
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market, I’ekln ducks ure grown; for termine fuel consumption on roads of
ing their growth they will generally
By M ILDRED M A R S H A LL
laying, Banner ducks are one of the different kinds and different grades, average an additional pound for each
best, and for home table ducks there showing how much saving in the cost
month.
From a commercial stand
W A T C H YOUR WORDS
mal In your speech rnther than use
Is only one superlative duck, the Mus- o f gasoline cun he effected hy a change point the geese will bring a v-ry good y Fact* atout your namt ; Ut hhtory;
the slang thnt will brand you as a lit
— lining ; mhanct Il mai derivi J ;
covy. Why this duck Is not more gen- from a steep to a level grude, wus ex- margin of profit, for the cost of feed
W o r d * are but the shadow s o f ac- tle second rate by the persons with
lignificane!;
your
lucky
day
ttons.—Plutarch.
erully kept by farmers la a mystery. plained. Approximately one-half the ing them is very small where they ‘ an
whom you wish to succeed.
and lucky Jemal
Certainly, were It more generally gasoline la used In the resistance with range upon vegetation
The demand
Here are some of those little second-
known what good eating they are. how in the car and one-half in tractive e f at the markets for these fowls dur
T T ERE Is a 4>lt of worldly wisdom
rate words and expressions: "Swell”
easily they propagate themselves, a fort. On one road In Iowa the cost of ing the holidays is much greater than
for the young man or woman who
and “ tony,” which may have been well
KIIOD A
great many more would he growth Al a change from earth to u hard surface the supply, and the price# at which
is striving to appear to best advan
enough once but are now decidedly
though the size of a large duck, they will he paid In eight years, with ttie this product sells at this period should
tage in a circle slightly higher up on
are not really ducks but geese. They saving of gasoline alone, on a certain
be a good inducement to those who A MONO the flower name« which the soclnl Bcnie thnn the one to which out of good usage. To say that you
have
been
under
discussion
ap
went to a swell dance and met some
will not, though, interbreed with other other road, ttie speaker explained, the
have the facilities to r.il»« »lore
pears one name which Is not generally he or she is accustomed. Nothing per tony people would suggest that you
ducks nr geese.
saving would not cover the cost within geese.
recognised as belonging to the list. 1 haps counts so mach for or against were unaccustomed to either.
They are silent or quackless. They any reasonable length of time.
It Is Ithoda, the graceful Greek name, ! you as the words you use. Your dress
ilo best If allowed to make their own
Sixty-three types o f road In Illinois
‘ ( lassy," though not so out of date
which has completely lost Its Identity j may be irreproachable nnd your tnble
nests and hatch and rpnr their own whs the subject of a discussion hy Green Feed Is Valuable
has a second-rate sound, especially
manners
perfect
but
if
you
don’t
use
Importation and is now regard
young and are remarkably successful an engineer from that stHte. Tests re
for Its Mineral Matter under
ed rs purely English and American. ; discrimination In the words you use when used hy more mature persons
at this. Muscovy ducks come In two suited in a new design of Illinois pave
for
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Green feed 1* valuable, not only for The name signifies "Bose.” It is taken you may be dropped like the proverbial We can excuse a boy of eighteen
colors (black and white) and white. ment. The cost of the experiments
that he had a “ classy time” at
Its succulence, which make* It palat from the Greek word for the flower. hot cake. So go slowly. If you are
Their principal faults nre thnt they amounted to $189,000. The saving in
able to poultry, hut also because it
It was apparently transplanted in In doubt as to the usage of any word his high school dance but when a wo
are Inclined to he puhnaclnu* with construction o f the new over the old
contains mineral matter, including nu tact to English shores, as there is no or expression don’t use it at all. Bun man of forty describes a man acquaint
other poultry and on being moved may design for the year 19212 was $1,000,000.
tritive conatltuents. netessary to sus record of Its evolution from n Gr^ek the risk of being thought a little for- ance as "a classy gentleman” we are
not he good breeders the flrst year or
less lenient.
Engineers are advocating no particu tain life, promote growth, esd a.aure
root. The Rohals which appeared In
two, or may not breed at all. They are lar type of road except as local condi
reproduction. Foremost amen* these France and named the wife of Gilbert
My friend,” “ my gentleman friend "
very hardy and long lived.
tions and prospective traffic warrant, constituents are the vttamlres :he ab
“my young man," are used not infr’e-
de daunt is thought by etymologists
discussions In the school brought out. sence of which from any ration, wheth
quently hy girls to Indicate tlielr
to have arisen from the Latin “ hros,”
Engineers ure trying, not to make all er for humans, animals or birds, will
Most Effective Plan of
fiances or admirers.
They are all
meaning fame, rather than to have
roads the best roads possible, hut to ultimately prove fatal.
been taken from the flower. Indeed,
taboo
in
good
usage.
Fiance Is the
Keeping Flock Healthy uinke them the most economical roads,
Therefore It behooves every poultry most of the derivatives of the femi
only way to express the man you are
all
things
considered,
it
was
decided.
Systematic whitewashing o f the In
keeper, whether backyarder, specialist, nine name, Ilose, are believed to have
engaged to in ordinary conversation
side o f a poultry house winter and
or fanner, to make provision for an come from this source.
and unless you are engaged you should
summer la one o f the most effective
ample »apply of green fee* ia somn
Thus Rhoda Is almost unique In her
refer to your admirer merely as “ a
Work Resumed on Many
means o f keeping the flock healthy.
form, and in view of the shortneaa of place and significance ; likewise It has
man friend ’ or “ an acquaintance.’’
Whitewashing makes the quarters
Forest Road Projects our growing season, and the late never suffered contraction.
Unless yon are quite sure of your
lighter and purifies, transforming dnrk, <Pr«i>er«il by tht Uett«d State« Department spring experienced this year, no time
The ruby Is Rhoda’s tallsmanlc getn.
o f Agriculture )
audience don’t use slang at all
To
should be lost.
dingy, smelly houses Into light, clean
It
possesses
the
deep
red
color
which
With the opening of the forest road
be sure, slang passes current among
rooms. To clean and disinfect effec
Is likewise her talisman, and prom
men and women of the most desirable
tively. pour half a pint of formalde construction season now at hand, tha
ises her the fulfillment o f her ambi
bureau
of
public
roads
of
the
United
social circles, hut the slang that you
hyde Into each gallon of whitewash.
tions, bodily and mental health, and
States I*ep#rtnient of Agriculture re-
This purities the air.
use may be discordant to the ears o f
poise of bearing
Tuesday Is her
ixvrts that there are no projects In
your new acquaintances and they may
lucky day and 5 her lucky number.
volving 717 miles of road upon which
I>ucks should be fed wet mashes.
misjudge you because of It.
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work is being resumed and a number principally.
In ordinary conversation he earefnl
of new projects for which contracts
of using too frequently such expres
have been recently let.
W heat oats and barley are the
sions ns “ said I" or “ he said” “ I
The project* upon which work la best o f *tna!l grains for poultry.
says” or “ he say«" a* nppDe.l io th.
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being resumed are distributed as fol
past time Is positively ungrammatical
If your hens do not produce morw
low* ;
but even the correct grammatical form
than
nlnsty
eggs
each
a
year
they
ars
Breeding ducks lay more fertile eggs
State.
If repeated often, mars the best-told
P / o J . c t. M ile a g e
| not making a profit.
If allowed bathing water In a pond or A l e a k * .....................
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tale or the finest repartee.
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small stream. The breeders should be Id eh o ............ » ......... ............ 17
n o oo
B ID ALTER L
Monte ne
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Be careful about using the adjective
s
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T ’ e early chick Is stronger, mors
given plenty of pasturage.
VVefthlngton ........... ............
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ROBI NSON
form “ awful.” “ dreadful" or “ terrible”
shle to overcome obstacles than his
O r e g o n .............. ..
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Now. to w y that a friend Is wearing
later hatched brother.
Bugs, worms
When a hen leaves her nest, or t ' e l i f o r n l * .............. . . . . . . . «
40 00
an "awfully pretty hat," o r thnt you
when the temperature of the Incubator C o l o r e d « ............ . ............ 7
10S 00 and green feed supplement hts diet.
t
clothes
and
Jewels
and
cannot
dupli-
DON’T
BE
“COPY-CAT’’
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n oo
gels loo high or too low weak chicks ftouth I > * k » t * ........ ............ 2
cate their neighbors’ motor* a large, are terribly sorry" that she ha, such
W y ornivi*
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i
n-snllnes* Is essential In raising
will result. A chick that needs to he A r k e n e e « ................ ............
| unfortunate class And little Joy in a "dreadfully hn,i cold” may Indicate
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M
ITA
TIN
G
Is
poor
policy.
Yet
on
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I
chickens.
See that alt houses and
a lax use of w ord* but we all do u«„
helped out of the shell Isn’t worth N e w H e m p « hi r e . . . ............ 1
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every hand we find people living, living. Others work and growl all
V i r g i n i e ........ .. .. . . ............
saving.
these
intensifying words more or less
1
7 01) coop« are thoroughly disinfected bo-
!
along
their
pathways
because
they
dressing and amusing themselves the
rteh
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I t va fore the chicks are placed in them.
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way others do for no particular reason ! spend too much In order to imitate and we say things are terrible awful
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A healthy turkey love* to roam and N e w M e x i c o . . . . . . . . • • • • • • • I
and dreadful that are not so at alL
other than, perhaps, to satisfy their ; their fellow men.
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To t * ducks seldom thrive on whole
should be Indui'ed to do so by not
No
Individual
ever
stands
out
from
<£ * T *‘ eC,« r« N .w ip ap., S ja d lc t« >
desire not to permit anyone to get
TIT 0* grain - o f any kind, and leg weakness,
being fed too liberally In the morn { T o t a l .................... ............ X»
I his fellows unless he does something
ahead o f them.
lug. When about time for them to : One hundred and seventy five proj | the worst f.># of successful duck rais
Frobably nothing proves a greater j valuable which others cannot or are
come home to roost, have feed, water ect*. Involving 1,497 mile* of forest ing. Is sure to result from Improperly obstruction to the progress o f the to*' lazy to do. It, therefore, la not
balanced ration*.
and grit near their roosting places
road, have already been completed.
world than the folly of Imitating. Cep difficult to understand why the few
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A LINE O’ CHEER
*h o occupy places of real honor are
A well developed, vigor m*. young
Minorca» are not considered very tatnly the desire so to do results In so few. Nor Is It beyond understand
B y Jortp K s n d r i c k B a n g *
tom usually proves a *>>>*1 I feeder, hut Biif Arirument in Favor
good winter layer« In cold climates a great amount o f unhappiness to men Ing that so many seek high places and |
and women everywhere.
females leas than a year old Should
°
n
| .
... ,
| hut make good summer layers. They
success la rain, because they either
of Gravel for Highway lay very large, white shelled egg».
The only real advancement In any
never he bred from.
TH E STORM
, do not t t j to distinguish themselves
community
or
for
the
public
at
large
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I One of the great arguments In favor
j by « o lfit one Important act which
H
E
T i l l th u n d e r* c ra s h
Enough egg« *re v> i< ■d through ! of gravel for roads I* that It Is possible
* Th
It la o f extreme Importance that i must come through people doing new ‘ then fail to accomplish, or else aim
---- li g h t n i n g s flash
careless handling every y ir to make to driln and gr. te and »uaface a rued poultry have aeecsa to plenty of things or old things In different ways. no higher than others.
Bu7whl,
S 7 . " r c ,lr fre*
fifty men millionaire«
Frv«h. clean, with It with Utile or no Interruption coarse grit, as well as oyster shell and 1 Every Important wlvanrv, with prob * When one tiles to Imitate he Is
F o r tempests h|e h .
ably
a
few
exception*
has
come
to
In
w ell-packed eggs bring aperte! profits. of traffic. The going may not always charcoal.
And blasts that batter me?
more likely to make a miserable fail
dividuals and nations as ^ result of
s e e
he flrst class, but It Is a tot better than
ure than to succeed.
The w ind nnd rain
not of pain.
Feed« for newly-hatched geese and I the long and often almost Impossible
Turks«* must have freedom as much men or women taking new paths In
Muskrats Imitate the beavers In
order
to
accomplish
something
worth
ducks should contain a large i>er cent I detours necessai v with concrete con ts poxsiMe and free range In summer
°
W
t
,hvr
.
, ,h' " i * s care
of dol*
housebuilding In the wilds along Lake
Nature
T o c le a n *, th . air.
o f greens from the atari. No feed struction, lasting often two or even If they are t$ do well
They will i while for them«elve^and their fellow * Superior, but they remain muskrats
Because they cannot live in houses
. « J 1 w fr.M hen UP my soot
ahonld be given for the first twenty- three seasons where a road is improved do well on the same rations u chick
Juat the same.
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as fine as other* cannot wear as fine
roar hours after hatching
ia small sections.
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Right Time
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