Washington County news., February 09, 1905, Image 7

PUTER IS CAUGHT
Attempts to Secure Big Tract of
Oregon State Land.
NINE MEN SWEAR FALSELY TO AID
Prospective Irrigation Scheme on Kla­
math Lands Would Have Been
Made to Yield Profit.
Salem, Feb. 4.— S. A. D. I ’uter, con­
victed of conspiracy to defraud the gov­
ernment in timber land cases, and
under indictment on further charges,
was caught today in an attempt to se­
cure title to 3,200 acres of stute school
land in violation of law, and the Btate
land board has $2,000 of his good
money and evidence sufficient to show
the fraudulent nature of the transac­
tion.
Basil Wagner, of this city, procured
the men to make the applications for
the land. As each filed his application
he told Clerk Brown that Wagner
would call for the certificate of sale.
Applications to purchase school land
near Klamath Falls were filed by nine
residents of Salem, whosworetliat they
wanted the land for their own use and
benefit, and had made no contract, ex­
press or implied, to convey the land to
any other person.
No certificates of
sale were issued, but Clerk G. G.
Brown called the attention of the state
land board to the suspicious applica­
tions, and an investigation resulted.
One of the applicants was taken lie-
fore the governor, where he was closely
cross-questioned, until he admitted that
he had made the application at the in­
stance of an agent of I’ uter, and made
the initial payment with a bank draft
furnished by Puter.
Governor Chamlierlain immediately
called a special meeting of the state
land board to consider the matter, and
Puter appeared before the board.
He
asked leave to withdraw the applica­
tions and receive his drafts, lmt the
land board refused to recognize his
right to have the money returned.
The drafts w ill lie returned only to
the jiersons who deiosited them, and
when these men appear, they w ill lie
brought up on the carpet and quea-
tioned as to the truth of their affidavits.
Whether the $2,000 w ill eventually be
returned or w ill be held by the board
as forfeited remains to be determined.
ONE O B S T A C L E GONE.
Way Is Being Cleared fo r the Klamath
Irrigation Project.
Washington, Feb. 4.— The house has
passed the bill recently reported by
the irrigation committee authorizing
the secretary of the interior in carrying
out any irriga tio n project undertaken
under the national reclamation to raise
or lower the levels of Little Klamath,
Tulle, and Goose lakes, or such other
river or other lxxly of water connected
therewith as may lie necessary and to
dispose of any lands which may come
into possession of the United States as
a result thereof by cession from the
state of Oregon and California or other­
wise.
If the senate accepts the house
amenmdents there remains but one
obstacle to lie overcome liefore the gov­
ernment liegins construction of the
Klamath 'irrigation project in Oregon
and California. That is to buy out the
Klamath canal «company and other
owners of irrigation works within the
area proposed to be reclaimed by the
government.
A satisfactory offer has
already lieen made to sell the Ankeny
canal to the government, and it is lie-
lieved
that
ultimately satisfactory
terms ran lie arranged for buying out
the Klamath canal company, although
it is understood that the company now
asks $500,000 for its works and rights.
That price is declared to lie exorbitant
and unreasonable.
It is probable that the senate w ill
agree to the bill as it passed the house
today and that it w ill lie promptly
signed by the president.
Build Warships at Home.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 4. — The admi­
ralty, having
definitely committed
itself to the policy of rebuilding and
greatly increasing the size of the navy,
although the details are not yet com­
pleted, is already being besieged by
foreign firms anxious to secure con­
tracts. These firms are having little
success. The admiralty has decided to
attract foreign capital to Russia for the
erection of new yards with the general
purpose of encouraging and creating a
vast shipbuilding industry at home and
securing an independent footing.
Suspension Bridge Collapses.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 4. — The sus­
pension bridge spanning the Fontanka
river collapsed today while a detach­
ment of dragoons were crossing. Thirty
men and horses were precipitated into
the frozen river, together with a num­
ber of calis, wagons, etc., the ice at
that point being weak.
The greatest
excitement prevailed,
but speedily
help was forthcoming, and the victims
were rescued, with the exception of one
dragoon.
Strike Breaks Out in New Place.
8t. Petersburg, Feb. 4. — A strike
began today in the Sosnovice district.
The strikers are parading the streets,
but the police have been tactful and
public order has not been disturbed.
The coi. Tositors’ strike at Samara has
ended, the employers conceding an in­
crease of pay and a reduction of hour*.
K LA M A T H B ILL IS PASSED.
President’ s Approval Alone Needed to
Execution o f Irrigation Project.
Washington, Feb. 6 .— The Klamath
irrigation bill now lacks only the sig­
nature of the president to make it a
law.
The senate has accepted the
house amendments, which are entirely
satisfactory to the reclamation service.
As finally enacted the bill reads:
That the secretary of the Interior is
hereby authorized, in carrying out any
irrigation project that may be under­
taken by him under the terms and con­
ditions of the national reclamation act
and which may involve the changing of
the levels of Lower or Little Klamath
lake, Tule or Rhet lake and Goose lake,
or any river or other body of water
connected therewith, in Oregon and
California, to raise or lower the level
of said lakes, as may be necessary, and
to dispose of any lands which may
gome into the jHissession of the United
States as the result thereof by cession
of any state or otherwise, under the
terms and conditions of the national
reclamation act.
Had it not been for Senator Fulton's
insistence, Chairman Mondell, of the
house irrigation committee, would not
have withdrawn his objection to this
bill and it would not have passed.
C A LIF O R N IA W IL L HELP.
Bill Affecting Klamath Irrigation Dis­
trict Is a Law.
TWO ARE INDICTED
Mitchell and Brownell Held to
Answer Charges.
JURY MAKES ANOTHER REPORT
Mitchell Said to Have Accepted Pay
While Senator— Brownell Had
Men Sw ear Falsely.
Portland, Feb. 2.— The Federal grand
jury has spoken again and this time
two new and distinctly important in­
dictments have been returned, one
against Senator Mitchell charging him
with violating section 1782 of the re­
vised statutes of the United States,
which provides that no one holding
the office of senator shall receive any
compensation whatsoever for any work
done to further matters relating to the
work of the government in any depart­
ment; the other against State Senator
George C. Brownell, alleging that he is
guilty of subornation of perjury in hav­
ing induced Fred Sievers and John A.
Howland, two axmen formerly in the
employ of Surveyor General Henry
Meldrum, to swear falsely before the
grand jury in regard to the work done
by Brownell as a notary whije making
affidavits in connection with the work
of the surveyor general’ s office, all of
which is in violation of section 5393 of
the revised statutes.
It has been rumored for some time
that Senator Mitchell would yet have
to face another charge than the one
which has been hanging over him for
some time, but it was not known from
which direction the blow would fall.
Many theories have been advanced and
among them an entanglement with
Frederick A . Kribs, and this has proved
to be the correct guess.
It was for
work done for Kribs that the indict­
ment has been returned.
The senator
I ihb lieen indicted under the same sec­
tion of the statutes which was used
against Congressman Driggs, of New
York, who pleaded guilty to the charges
against him, and is also the same
charge brought against Senator Bur­
ton, who was recently convicted and
granted a new trial.
BIRDS T H A T D IS A P P E A R
M u s ic T r ic k
o f » lie
I ’ u rt
L itt le
autumn flowers and whttewood. In
some localities It is almost Impossible
to secure a crop of light-colored honey.
W e know of no way of making dark-
colored honey light; bleaching it would
Impair lta flavor and would be imprac­
ticable. We would rather have dark
good honey than light poor honey.
C a lifo r n ia
•
Young birds have to be taught a
great many things, but there ure some
feats which they know without instruc­
tion. In a large open-air cage in the
New York Zoological purk is a covey of
six California partridges, about one-
third grown, and tlieir little bantam
stepmother. She dozes at one end of the
l-uuge or walks slowly about, pecking
among the blades o f grass. The small
sextet keep close together, and if we
watch them for several minutes we
will see some o f the things which must
have come to them as their feathers
and little bills came— from the egg.
Unlike the hen, they are suspicious
of your every movement, but In a short
time they forget that you are not a
lifeless tree trunk or other harmless
object near their cage. They select a
sunny gpot, always on the dead leaves,
never on the greeu grass, and here,
nftor much cuddling mid pushing, but
never a peep, they squat, usually in an
Irregular circle with heads outward.
Unless there are dead leaves or some
similarly colored surface In their cage
they never settle down contentedly for
a sun bath.
W e watch them nestle close to the
ground and close their eyes; then some
movement on the part of the hen may
sttrnct our attention for a moment, and
on looking back again we are amazed
to find the bttle birds have disappear­
ed. It Is a fact that If we lose sight
o f them even for a short time the eye
at first refuses to distinguish them
from the dried leaves.
Their little
backs are dull, dark brown In color,
broken by irregular fine white lines,
very much like the mold lines on fallen
leaves, while the lighter sides of tin
head, Instead o f being at all conspicu­
ous, are exactly like the lighter shades
of some old leaves, the Imitation being
more perfect from the fact o f the color­
ing being thus broken up. Even the
little brush o f upraised feathers In
their beads— hints of the beautiful re­
curved helmets of tbe old birds— ap­
pear like small, frayed-out pieces of
grass or leaf.
I f we look toward them with half-
closed eyes not n trace o f the birds Is
visible. A ll appear sound asleep, and
tbe little heads sag drowsily to one
side, but at the slightest noise each
black bead o f an eye Is wide open and
six scurrying pairs o f legs or rounded,
whirring wings, parry, their owners to
the farther side o f the cage, as if an
unfelt wind had suddenly caught up
some of the dead leaves before us and
tossed them along the ground. It Is all
n beautiful bit of magic, which never
becomes less wonderful, no matter how
many times w e witness It.
When we see how wonderfully these
llttlepartridgesare protected from dan­
ger by their color we cease to wonder
bow the mother partridge keeps bidden
during her three weeks’ vigil on her
nest. The male bird Is Indescribably
beautiful— dotted and slashed, stained
and shaded with different tones of col­
or, some o f his feathers looking almost
like the scales o f fishes. Ills bead Is
decoruted by two Interlacing white
lines nnd the tall helmet o f beautiful
recurved feathers, which, added to his
black throat, make him a very con­
spicuous bird. We find that bis little
w ife while to a certain degree sharing
many o f his beauties, has them In such
subdued tones that they do not make
her at all noticeable among surround­
ings of dried grass and weeds.
Tbe young blrls are still further pro­
vided with means of escape from their
many enemies, for almost from the
moment they are batched tlieir little
wing feathers shoot out, and when only
a day old they can flutter a full yard
Into the air. “ In fact," says C. W il­
liam Beebe In tbe New York Tribune,
" I have knowrn one o f these hardy
chicks to fall out o f a nesting box
eighteen inches from the floor, and
somehow' get back alone on the day of
hatching. Imagine a common chicken
attempting this!’’
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 6.— Two sen'
ate bills became laws today upon being
signed by the governor. One was the
Coggins bill, permitting the lowering of
the water levels of certain lakes in the
northern part of the state in furtherance
of irrigation and reclamation work of
the reclamation service of the United
States. A similar bill has recently
been enacted by the Oregon legislature,
and important legislation by congress
bearing on the work in question has
been passed by both houses and is
ready for the president’ s signature.
Under the authorization now given
by the California and Oregon legisla­
tures, it is understood that $4,000,000
w ill be expended by the federal govern­
ment on reclamation of the Klamath
district, in Northern California and
Southern Oregon, and that 200,000
acres in California and 100,000 in Ore­
gon w ill be placed under irrigation.
The other bill signed by the govern­
or is the b ill appropriating $70,000
G REATEST OF W ATERW O RKS
for a California exhibit at the Lewis
and Clark exposition. The last legis­
lature appropriated $25,000, so that Croton Dam, Largest Piece o f Ma­
sonry o f Modern Time.
$95,000 is now made available for the
exhibit.
New York, Feb. 2.— After 10 years
of labor and the expenditure of $9,000,-
000, the new Cornell dam, nearCroton-
FINISH C A N A L IN TE N YEARS
on-IIudson, in Westchester
county,
from which this city w ill draw largely
Report o f Minister Barrett Says P ro ­ for its water suplpy, has been practical­
gress is Good.
ly completed. It is the largest piece of
Washington, Feb. (1.— In connection masonry in the world, except the Pyra­
with the lack of public information as mids of Egypt. The Hood gates have
to the status of the work of canal dig­ lieen shut down for the first time and
ging on the Isthmus of Panama, and as the dam has begun to fill with water.
It is estimated by the engineers that
to the exact amount of work executed
so far by the Americans since they took it w ill require atiout two years to fill.
up the task, the American minister to When the water reaches the base of its
Panama has, after consultation with coping it w ill make a lake 16 miles
Chief Engineer Wallace and a close long. The water w ill rise 30 feet above
personal inspection of the route of the the old dam. The new dam w ill hold
proposed canal, submitted to the state 30,000,000,000 gallons of wuter. Half
department a report upon this subject. a dozen towns which occupied the site
The communication is practically a were abandoned.
brief summary of the vast amount of
detail statistics ami facts that w ill
A M E R IC A N BEEF T O O HIGH.
eventually be produced by the canal
commission, showing the actual con­
That is Why Army in Philippines is
struction on the canal accomplished
Supplied’ from Abroad.
since July 1 last, when Mr. Wallace
Washington,
Feb. 2. — Senator An­
took charge of the engineering depart­
ment. The most important statement keny today called on the quartermaster
general to ascertain why all army lieef
in the report is this:
“ If the next six months show a pro­ fur the Philippines is purchased either
gress corresponding to that of the last in Argentina or Australia, to the ex­
six months, it is the conviction of the clusion of American beef. He was told
best engineers in Panama that a sea- that the government can get Argentina
L i b r a r y Book T h ie v e s .
level canal can be constructed in ten or Australian beef delivered at Manila
“ No public library is safe from book
cents a pound, far tielow the
years and lie ready for large vessels by for 6
price at which any American dealers thieves. In the big libraries they have
January 1, 1915.”
The report says there is no ground w ill agree to deliver it. The war de­ spotters to watch men who ask for
until congress rare editions, but In the small libraries
tor the current rejiorts that little has partment says that,
lieen accomplished in advancing the passes a law requiring the purchase of we must depend on the girls employed
construction of the canal during the last American meats, it w ill continue to who happen to detect a thief by
supply the Philippines at the lowest chance. I f possible we catch the book
six months.
price obtainable.
thief before he reiuiies the door ami
ask him if he has not forgotten to
Canal Zone is Healthy.
Test o f Submarine Boat.
have the volume checked off at the
Washington, Feb. 6.— Secretary Taft
Newport News, Va., Feb. 2.— With registry desk. I f he is an old hand he
today received a report from Governor
Davis, of the Panama canal zone, stat­ representatives of the Argentine repub­ says:
" i have forgotten my card, hut I
ing that reports of health conditions on lic and British governments, among
the isthmns are “ cruelly exaggerated others, on lioard , the submarine tmat will tiring it around to-morrow.’
and that the sanitation of Panama is Simon Iaike “ X ” today was submerged
"H e hands back the book and disap
progressing as efficiently as that of any 38 feet and returned to the surface in pears to reappear in that particular li­
city in the United State«.”
He says 30 seconds. This cuts in half the rec­ brary no more 'or many months. The
that the total number of yellow fever ord held by the French type of subma­ majority of book thieves do not steal
Another novels. They go after works o f refer
cases originating in the zone since the rine, which is one minute.
Americans assumed control is 32. The record was broken in filling the jballast enee, almanacs, yetir hooks and such
report says there is no plague, no ty­ tanks for the submergence. The tanks things, that most of them probably
phoid fever and very little dysen­ were filled in 9>i minutes, the best need In their business, but cannot a f­
previous time being 15 minutes, made ford to buy. That is why such vol
tery.
by a French submarine.
times nre nailed down In many mira­
Cannot Depend on Troops.
rles. I have actually known a woman
Crop Outlook on Pacific Coast.
Berlin, Feb. 6.— German m ilitary ex­
to get away with a city directory un­
Washington, Feb. 2.— The weather : der her cloak.” — New York Ureas
perts familiar with the inner conitions
of the Russian army declare that the bureau’ s summary of crop conditions for j
H a d H I « Own H a r t a l P l a c e .
In <
autocracy cannot depend on the loyalty the month of January, 1906, says:
of any of the troops outside of the few the Rocky mountain region and to the | T ile fam ily of a member of parlla
regiments serving as tiodyguards to the westward the temperature was milder men! from Yorkshire has a private
czar and the grand dukes. M ilitary than usual, with more than the average graveyard and has had It for several
men here, in the light of history and precipitation in the southern plateau generations. The founder o f It was a
tradition, therefore, regard the recent region and Houthern California, and (junker and the rector of the parish In
mutiny of soldiers and marines at Se­ much less than average precipiattion, | which he llvea said to him after a dis­
vastopol as the most dangerous event of as a whole. On the North Pacific coast pute on religious matters: "W ell, If
the winter wheat outlook is favorable, , you don't come to church when you
all the recent turmoil in Russia.
except late sown in Washington.
are alive you will when you are
Kuropatkin Tenders Resignation.
dead." Hut the (juaker thought other­
Land fo r Irrigation.
wise and founded the burial placa,
St. Peterbsurg, Feb. 6. — General
Washington, Feb. 2.— For the exten­ which la used to this day.
Kuropatkin has tendered to the esar
his resignation of the command of the sion of the Klamath river irrigation
A IM tB eu lt F e a t .
forces in the Far East.
General Orip- project, the Interior department today
"That fellow I Just brought In. Iiet>
penberg has lieen removed from the ordered the withdrawal from all forms
tenant, is aw fully clever.”
command of the Second Manchurian of disposal of 448,640 arres of pnhlic
"In what way?"
lands
in
the
Lakeview,
Or.,
land
dis­
army at his own request, having de­
" I caught him passing a $3 counter
clared that he had lieen dishonored by trict; 229,520 acres in the Redding,
felt and he said he’d make It good.” —
Kuropatkin’a oilers to retreat at the Cal., land district, and 109,440 acre«
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
in the Sueanville, Cal., land district.
battle of the Hun river.
F r o m G ra ss to D r y F e ed .
H a n d P lo w
f o r S n ow .
When there la such a quantity of
ground to be cleaned o f snow ns Is
found around the average farm home,
something more than the ordinary
snow shovel Is needed. I f tbe snow
is deep and the space to bo cleared
considerable, tben one should bring
Into use u large plow with the horse
to pull It. For a hand plow nothing
ts better than the simple on# made in
the following manner:
Select two pieces o f board free from
knots, each three feet long and six
Inches wide. Bevel the end o f each
l»oard nnd nail them together In the
form of a V. I f necessary they may
he braced at the wide end by a strip
three Inches wide nnd the necessary
length. Then put in a pole five feet
long with a cross piece at the upper
end. To strengthen the end In which
the handle Is Inserted cut a block o f
wood as large as possible, and fit ft
Changing farm animals from grass
to dry feed Is a critical time In the
fattening period. While the stomach
o f a crittar la abla to withstand con­
siderable 111 treatment without caus­
ing death, yet at the same time sud­
den changes In the ration may great­
ly Interfere with hts general thrift.
The secret o f success In making the
change is to do It so gradually that
the system w ill not be deranged. A
little dry feed should be given at first,
this being gradually Increased until
tbe animals become thoroughly accus­
tomed to It. It Is better If animals
may have access to old grass for sev­
eral weeks after they are placed on
dry feed. Borne adopt the practice e f
hauling a little hay to tbe pastures
lata In the fall, and claim that this
bridges over the change period In a
most satisfactory manner. In making
the change It la better to underfeed
during the first week or two rather
than overfeed, because It may taka
months to correct the Injurious result
o f overfeeding at such a time. Thera
are those who make the claim that
an animal overfed at any period o f its
existence will never completely recov­
er, but will appear more or lesa stunt­
ed even up to the time It goes to the
block as a fat animal. Where fatten­
ing animals have had considerable
range It Is a great mistake to confine
them In close ynrds suddenly, because
they will fret considerably and may
refuse to make gains for
several
weeks.— Iowa Homestead.
T h e M o r t g a g e P a id .
In the end where the two pieces of
board Join.
This will make It easier to Insert
the handle firmly nnd will make the
side pieces stronger as well. The small
cut In the upper part of the Illustra­
tion shows clearly how this block of
wood should he formed and the handle
inserted to get the best results.
T h in n in g A p p le « .
We ain't havin' many luxuries, like city
fulkses do,
,
We ain’t weariu' all the latest style» a»'
all our clothes ain't new;
O f our honesty and goodness we ain't
i .n> parade.
But we’re harin' all we want to eat an’
got the mortgage paid.
We ain't pilin’ up a fortune for the boyt
to fight abont
When our last day’s work la over an'
we're steppin’ down an’ out.
But It's good to have succeeded in ths
effort that we made
For to keep things runnin’ smoothly an'
to get the mortgage paid.
We have had our share of ups and
downs, as other people do.
But we've tried to keep our spirits u|
when things were lookin' blue;
W e'll be ready for the ending when ths
game of life Is played.
For we've raised the children best we
knew and got the mortgage paid.
— Tbe Gentlewoman.
Thinning apples may be a profitable
operation under some circumstances;
but as fruit Is ordinarily marketed In
the commercial apple-growing sections
o f New York, It Is not profitable. In­
vestigations In thinning by the New
York Agricultural Experiment Station
(Geneva) were carried on for four sea­
sons In a commercial orchard. The re­
S m o k in g M eu t S a fe ly .
sults, In Improvement of the fru it In
Take an old stove nnd lead ths
size, In color and In quality, were
marked, whenever fair to heavy crops smoke through a long stove pipe, b,
were borne on the trees, but the quan­ Into a large box, a. Bet the box a
little higher than ths
tity o f fruit was usually lessened; so
stove.
Drive nails
that unless a higher price Is secured
through the top of
for the Improvement In quality the ex­
the box aud bend
pense o f the operation Is not repaid.
them Into hooks, c,
Full details of these tests are given in
to hang your meat.
Bulletin No. 239 o f the station, which
any apple grower or other person in­ BOX SHOKS House Make a small door In
the side to put the
terested may secure without cost, by
sending his name and address to the meat through. With a stove you can
director, with a request for this bulle­ control your fire and It Is also much
tin. Any available station bulletin safer.— Henry Nessen, In Farm and
Home.
may he obtained In this way.
S t i r r i n g C o o k in g
Food.
Where more or less food for stock
is cooked. some handy way of stirring
it ought to tie devised. Of course, the
old-fashioned ladle, or the great wood­
en spoon. Is always available, but If
the quantity Is large, to use these In­
struments means aching arms and
shoulders. A stirrer which will save
much labor Is readily ninde In the fol­
lowing manner. Make a shaft of a
strip o f wood two Inches thick nnd
long enough so that It will extend
three or four inches above (he top of
the kettle. At the bottom o f tills shaft
make paddles by crossing two thin
bonrds two or three Inches wide.
Fasten a crank to the top o f the
shaft and to this ernnk fasten n pole,
or not, as preferred. Then prepare a
strip o f board six or eight Inches wide,
bore a hole through the middle,
through
which to pass the shaft.
K i l l O ff th e C a b b a g e L ic e .
Cabbage aphis Is one of oar wors4
cabbage pests. The lice multiply very
rapidly when conditions favor them
and are a source of great loss and
annoyance. They may he killed only
by Insecticides that smother, or kill by
contact; ordinary poisons have no e f­
fect on plant lice. Kerosene emulsion
diluted with 10 parts o f water, applied
thoroughly to the lower side o f the
leaves when cabbage plants are small,
is effective In a measure. Fumigating
seed stocks In spring with carbon bi­
sulphide gets rid o f the original brood.
The pest Is nasty and should be treat­
ed wherever found.— Farm and Homo.
H oad fille t f o r th e H e n n e r y .
Collect a few barrels o f dry earth,
road dust, fine dry dirt In tbe cornfield
or potato patch, or anywhere that Is
most convenient.
This is a handy
thing to have In the fall nnd winter
for sprinkling under the roosts and on
the floor o f the poultry house. It ab­
sorbs ammonia, keeps down smells,
and keeps things shlp-slmpe. It will
pay to attend to this when It can ba
so easily done. It costs lmt little and
is a real advantage.
Home In c u b a to r Ifln te .
Do not turn the eggs for three days
from beginning the hatch, nor after
tbe nineteenth day.
Bee that the Incubator sets perfectly
match both ends to ni over the handle
of the kettle and at one end fix a level, otherwise the egg chamber will
slide and a set screw to hold It In be warmer In one place than another.
place.
I f the cooking o f the food
Use only the best oil. and feed and
for stock Is done away from the trim the lamp every morning, no mat­
house, as It ought to he. one should ter how long It might hum a Itbout
build a fireplace o f bricks and cement doing this.
In which to set the kettle. The illus­
Open the egg chamber only when
tration shows both the fireplace, or turning the eggs. Take the eggs out
pot. as suggested, and the plan for to turn them, and shut the egg cham­
making the stirrer nnd It will t>e seen ber while they are out. Let the eggs
that It Is comparatively easy to ar­ cool for from ten to thirty minutes, ac­
range the device as suggested— Indian­ cording to the weather, every day.
apolis News.
Leave chicks in the Incubator from
twenty four to thirty six hours after
C o lo r o f H o n c j.
The color o f honpy varies greatly, they are hatched: they do not need
ranging from water white to a very feeding for at least thirty six hours
dark brown. The bees themselves after they come from the shell. Ma­
have no control In regulating the color ture has provided for their sustenance
o f honey; In fa c t It seems to make no during this time.
Do not o|ien the egg chamber after
difference et all to them whether It Is
light or dark, as there is plenty o f It. the chickens begin to pip the shell,
Light honey is not always the best In even If some chick seems to be having
flavor, thongb It doe» always bring the s hard time to get out. A chick that
htgheet price. Light-colored honey la cannot get out o f the shell without
gathered from such flowers as clover, help Is not worth saving. I f the chit ka
bass-wood sud mountain sage, while gasp and struggle, do not bother them
the dark la gathered from buckwheat, i — It Is good for them.