The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906, December 30, 1904, Image 6

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    OLD
FAVORITES
W " W H l Jll J
Mr AU Comntre.
I am far frs my bam, an' I'm weary
aftenwhiles.
For the langed-for hamc-brlncing. an my
Fsthrr'i welcom smiles;
Til ne'er be fu' content until mine tea
do se
The gawdco (ate o heaven, an' my ain
countree.
ana earth la flecked wf flower, mony-
tinted, fresh, an pay.
sua birdie warble blithely, lor my
Father mad them aae;
Rut these sk-hts an' these aoun'a will b
naething to m
When I hear the angels singing In my
ain countree.
Ie Ilia gud word of promise, that some
gladsome day the King
To hia ain royal palace hia banished
hame will brine;
WI een an wi hearts runnin o'er, we
shall see
tlhe King Li hia beauty, an' our atn coun
tree. My sins ha' been mony, an' my sorrows
ha beeu sair.
But there they'll ne'er mair vex me, ne'er
be remembered mair;
Ilis bluid hath made me white. His hand
shall dry mine ee.
When He brings me home at last to my
ain countree.
Like a bairn to Its mither, a wee birdie
to its nest;
I wad fain be ganging noo to my Sa
viour s breast;
For he gathers In His bosom witless,
worthless lamba like me.
And ne carries them himsel' to his ain
countree.
lie's faithful, that hath promised; Ile'll
surely come again:
He'll keep his tryst wi' me, at what hour
I dinna ken;
But He bids me still to watch, an ready
aye to be
To gang at any moment to my ain coun
tree.
So Pm watchin aye, an singin' o' my
name as I wait
For the soun'in' o' His footfa this side
the gowden gate.
God gie His grace to ilka an who
listens noo to me.
That we a' may gang in gladness to our
ain countree.
Mary Lee Demarest
Douglas, Don claa. Tender and True.
Could ye come back to me, Douglas,
Douglas,
In the old likeness that I knew.
I would be eo faithful, so ioring, Doug
las,
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true.
Never a scornful word should grieve ye,
I'd smile on ye sweet as the angels
do
Bweet as your smile on me shone erer,
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true.
O, to call back the daya that are not!
My eyes were blinded, your words were
few;
Do you know the truth now, np In
heaven?
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true?
I never was worthy of yon, Douglas,
Not half worthy the like of you;
Jnow, all men beside seem to me. like
shadows
I love you, Douglas, tender and true.
Stretch out your hand to me, Douglas,
Douglas,
Drop forgiveness from heaven like
dew.
As I lay my heart on your dead heart.
Douglas,
Douglas, Douglas', tender and true.
Miss Mulock.
QUEER THING8 TO EAT.
What Waa Served at the Table of a
London Epicure.'
Here Is a typical insect menu, of
which no one need be afraid to par-
lake, since every item has been known
and esteemed by insect eaters for gen
erations past It was served, not long
ego,' according to Pearson's Weekly,
at the table of a rich London epicure,
who is also an enthusiastic advocate
of an insectarian dietary! Green cater
pillar soup, fried locust with wood-
louse sauce, curried cockchafers, wasp
grubs baked In the comb, stag beetle
larvae on toast, moths baked In bat-
ter, deviled wireworms, grasshoppers
"an gratln."
The green caterpillars that compose
the soup feed entirely upon vegetables,
and mostly upon particular vegetables
most relished by man, such as cab
bages and lettuce,
In appearance the soup itself is not
unlike clear turtle, while Its flavor is
delicious,
The locusts, which constitute the sec
ond course, have, as every one is
aware, been esteemed by gourmets the
world over, and from the remotest
antiquity. "Eat ye the locust after
his kind," was the biblical Injunction;
and John the Baptist is recorded as
having lived for some considerable
time upon "locusts and wild honey."
There are, of course, many ways of
preparing them. They can be fried,
after their legs and wings have been
plucked oft, which was, as a matter
of fact, the process adopted In this
particular Instance. Or they may be
powdered and baked Into cakes, or
curried, or boiled, turning' red, like
lobsters, in the process,
The woodlouse sauce, If properly
made with fresh butter, flour, milk,
pepper and salt, will be found fully
equal to shrimp, which It much re
eembles in taste. Indeed, the wood-
louse, although he lives on land, is
first cousin to that much reushed crust
acean.
Cockchafers, curried or otherwise,
are delicious If selected of a servlce-
abl size and plumpness. So, too, are
their grub, when full grown- They
should then b at least two Inches In
length and fat In proportion, and may
b eaten uncooked. Ilk oysters, or
stewed In milk.
lVrtupa, however, th tuoat tooth
some of all Insect delicacies la that
which come forth on our "menu of
th day" wasp grub baked In the
comb. These grubs hav been fed by
their parents on a saccharine fluid com
posed of fruit and vegetable Juices
and are simply tiny balla of sugary
fat. possessing a flavor aa exquisite as
It Is unique. No one who has once
tasted them will ever again be surprla-
ed at the preference shown by fish for
thla particular grub when used as a
bait
The atag beetle larva is, of course.
Identical with the eossus, which the
old Roman epicure used to fatten for
their tablea upon flour and wine. The
sixth course should be served steatu
ing hot elnce there la no more ap
petising odor than that emanating
from a plump baked moth,
Deviled wlreworms are eaten In the
form of a paste, spread upon sippets
of toasts, and taste not unlike an
chovies when treated '- similar fash-
Ion.
WORDS AND THEIR USES.
About 5,000 Only Are Used by Edu
cated Peopl.
No oue can say how many words
there are In the English language, be
cause there are eo many words of
doubtful standing, says the Springfield
Republican, The Century dictionary
contains about '.225.000 words, and the
new edition of the Standard dictionary
lays claim to over 300.000. Of these
many are obsolete, and many others
are rarely used. Science has added
a vast vocabulary of polysyllables thnt
are scientific formula rather than real
words. They have no place In general
literature. The ordinary English vo
cabulary may be said to contain from
30,000 to 60,000 words, the latter esti
mate being large. . No single writer of
literature has used so many as the
lower number named.
Shakespeare, whose vocabulary Is
larger than that of any other English
poet unless It be Browning, used about
15,000 words, while Milton, whose
range was narrower, employed only
about half that number. The vocabu
lary of the Illiterate haa been set as
low aa 30 worda. but thla must be exceptional.-
It's more likely that the
'ordinary worklngman" uses from 2,-
000 to 3,000 words, while, of course.
he la familiar with several thousand
more, which he recognizes In print but
does not himself use. The common
estimate of the average vocabulary
of educated people la .from 5,000 to
8,000, but In thla case the number of
words which are not used Is enormous
ly Increased. A well-read college grad
uate should be familiar with perhaps
100,000 words, while In the course of
a year he might not use 5,000 of them
In his writing or conversation, short
hand reporters find about 2,500 word
signs and contractions ample for rep
resenting the words which are com
monly used In public speaking.
Dead Shots Are All Deaf.
"I see you are a rifle shot," remark
ed Philosopher Simeon Ford to a man
who after a good deal of sparring for
place at last sat down In the hotel cor
ridor by the side of New York's land
lord orator.
"How do you make that out?" asked
Mr. Ford's companion.
"Ob, easy enough. You are deaf In
your left ear. All rifle shots are deal
In their left ears. All the Creedmoor
ernprts are that way. I am deaf Id
my left ear myself and got It shoot
ing rifles. I met Gildersleeve once
and I was backing and filling and
dodging to get a position where my
right ear would bear on him and he
was maneuvering at the same time for
an opening where he could rake me
with his right ear. Then GUdersleeve
said to me, as I have Just said to you,
that be observed I was a rifle shot
It was the first time I had heard that
all rifle shots were, deaf In their left
ears, but I have noticed it ever since
and know it Is true.
"The reason of it is that all the
concussion of the rifle explosion comes
on the left ear drum. The right ear
is partly turned away and partly pro
tected by the gunstock being brought
Up to the cheek when the gun is fired."
New York Sun.
, 'Ho Got the Tip.
A certain literary person who ia
fond of giving an airing whenever
feasible to the foreign languages
which for the most part he is com
pelled to keep in cold storage happen
ed the other day into an odd little res
taurant where there is a single French
waiter.
He gave his orders in French. The
waiter stared. He repeated them in
English. The waiter understood him
at once. As the dishes were being
served the litterateur observed, per
haps in a slightly aggrieved tone:
"How does It happen that you don t
understand me when I order in
French "
"Ah, monsieur," said the waiter,
with exquisite tact, 'you see, I was
born In Alsace-Lorraine, where they
speak very bad French."
Com mo a to All.
Nell She and Mr. Gabble appear to
be talking very animatedly. They
seem' to have something in common.
Belle Yes. They're discussing the
weather. Philadelphia Ledger.
- A man Is away from home all day;
he wants to stay home In the evening
A woman is at home all day; she
wants to go somewhere in the evening
This, in a nutshell, is the cause of the
latest big quarrel.
Th French postal department haa
decldvd to replace Ha mall coaches by
electric motor cars. I
All BrltUh public men have popular
nickname. The recent arrival or ir.
Jameaon at Cap Town waa announced I
aa the -return of Sunuy Jim." .
. ..... .m .... I
ble In opvratlou to-day, and only SH,-
TUT mile are owned by governments.
The British cablea, which connect Lon
don with all parts of th world, have
a total mlleag of 154.000.
A little dog the other day fell Into
the rapidly running river at Covins-
water. Belfast and waa urownuig.
when a black retriever came along and
at once plunged into the river aud
brought the little dog ahor.
Pipe line are to be laid by the
Standard Oil Company from Red Fork.
I. T.. to the oil fields near Moreno
and Boulder. Colo. If the plan works
with success, extensions will be made
from Denver to the Wyoming oil fields.
A student of th population of the
anthracite reglou of Pennsylvania re-
ports that there are 630.000 people lit-
habiting that sectlou. or whom 4.o.o
are foreign-born. Of this latter num
ber more than 50,000 cannot road or
write.
Copper mining once flourished In Ire-
in.i The Hallvmurtngb mine, in
Wloklow County, averaged 0.000 tons
of copter pyrlte per annum between
S40 and 1813. Desultory prospecting
Is going on at the prosout day lu sev
eral localities.
After three months' trial of the re
sults of blacking out the betting news
from the newspapers In Ermondsey
(Ixmlon) public library. It has beeu de
cided to continue the practice, on the
ground that it excludes an undesirable
class of readers.
The largest British submarine was
launched recently. It Is called the i.
I. It Is 150 feet In length and eighty-
six feet In girth aubmarlnea have no
beani and Is about fifty feet longer
and twenty feet greater in girth than
any of Its predecessors.
Mount Soprla, near Glenwood
Springs, Colo., 14.300 feet above sea
level, Is to be made Into a summer re
sort Among the unique attraction
will be the perfection of a natural
toboggan slide which may be used all
through the summer months.
A modern church, built upon the site
of an ancient one at Llanderand,
Wales, had no bell. A fanner offered
one that was lying In one of his barns.
It turned out to be one that had hung
In the tower of the ancient church and
had not been rung for 300 years.
The Military-Medical Academy at
St. Petersburg has recently hung a por
trait of Its honorary member, General
Kuropatkln, In the main hall as a to
ken of gratitude for his gifts. The
academy owes to him the remodeling
and enlargement of several of Its sci
entific departments.
The Alhambra Music Hall, London,
placed at its door a box with a slot In
It for the receipt of suggestions from
patrons for the name of a new exhibi
tion to be given. When the box was
finally opened a number of coins were
found In it, contributed by people who
thought it had been placed at the door
for some charitable puriose.
The seven hundred shoemakers'
shops In Canton, China, employ eight
thousand men and twenty thousand
women, who work from daylight till
dark. Since the recent Introduction of
kerosene lamps their hours even have
been lengthened. They get from about
$2.60 to $3 a month in wages, and their
meals, consisting of rice and salt fish,
The statement, oft repeated, that a
Jap will fight for twenty-four hours on
a ration of two or three beans and a
sip of tea is at last explained. The
Japanese is not the common hortlcul
tural bean with whjeh our gardens are
acquainted, but a vegetable often a
yard in length and large enough to fill
a quart measure. A single bean makes
a meal for a hungry plowman,
There are In London 2,711 cab pro
prietors, and of these 2,224 own fewer
than five vehicles. As you see, It is a
poor man's Industry. There Is only
one large company the London Im
proved Cab Company, which owns five
hundred cabs. In the main, then, the
small proprietor the "Mush" who
owns a few cabs and drives one him
self controls the trade. Outing.
The highest-priced real estate in
London is near the Bank of England
Land sells there at the rate of $375
a square foot $16,250,000 an acre.
From this -center the price diminishes
in a receding tide, rising again in the
Strand to a price of from $C0 to $100
a square foot In Bond street, In the
West End, a still higher price of $175
a square foot, or more than $7,500,000
an acre, has been reached.
The petroleum-bearing strata show
remarkable resemblance in formation
and composition the world over. Ev-
erywhere they are bituminous clay-
shales and variegated clays intertr.
fled with sand stones and conglomer- ed openings, across wmcn are sneivea
ates. Limestones, which may occur in containing pieces of pottery. The re
such series, contain tarry materials, flection of these with the portieres sus
but rarely true petroleum, the only pended below the shelves gives a most
notable exception beinar the Trnti pleasant picture for my mirror, and the
limestone of Ohio and Indiana,
LIFE IN
m rnMimt ouunuuSE.
It Oo Forward in Primltlv and Boll'
tary Fashion, Bay Writer.
Life In a sodhouse away out on the
plains, wnere lor months at a time
there is not a thing in nature to cheer
the eye or vary the silent monotony.
Is certainly close to first principles.
says a writer In the Pilgrim. When
th corn wavea on thousands of acrea,
or when the plain la green with grow
tng wheat, there la something to Inter
est th sodhouse dweller, but from
Octolcr to May no rlaaa of Intelligent
Americans live more dreary Urea than
these. One wonders what livelihood,
what future prosperity or pleasure can
repay a man and wife to live In such
huge sameness. The shifting clouds by
day aud a sky of fine stars at night are
ior wees ai a uuii in my siguia
to be aeen. Yet some of the most con-
tentea ana aspiring people we nave
ever seen are men ami women wuo
lived amid auch flat surroundings aud
dend solitude for years.
To realise In how primitive and soli
tary a fashion people can live and b
happy, one haa only to Imagine a man
and wlf tu a sodhouse fifteen miles
from the nearest village, In one of the
ipri(e,T ,etUwl dlstrlot4 of wcstcra
Nebraska or Kansas. For days, and In
some seasons weeka, they see no hu
man beluga outside of their own house
hold. Eveu begging Indians and tramps
are almost unknown In thla country.
Prairie dogs oast up their mounds and
found towns In the unmolested spots
about the place; gophers and field uiloe
burrow through the soil walla of tho
house; not Infrequently snakes awing
themselves down from the rafters In
side, or crawl In at the door to get
at the milk pun standing about At
night coybtos and some of the gray
wolves come up through the canyons
and skulk about the poultry yard or
howl close to the windows. Through
the day while the man U In the fields,
the herding usually falls to the worn-
lt Probably each takes a noon
luncheon In a paper, to save coming
back to the house until night
The woman attends to her neceasnry
household duties, throws a gunnysack
over her broncho's back, Jumps astride,
rounds up her cattle, and drives them
down the canyous to grate on the steep
sides, or in a low strip beside a creek.
Canyons are not aoctable places; one
cau scarcely have a conception of the
primeval unless he has walked through
a canyon; he thinks of the dawn of
creation, of the races of extlnot mam
moths, and wonders If centaurs have
not merely retired Into the Inner cav
erns. Wliat the Hounouae woman
thinks about all day long In solitude
like that Is hard to tell probably, the
mortgage on the farm, disease among
the stock, the prospects of crops, the
time when they can put up their frame
dwelling, the hard, unadorned facts In
the treadmill of her life, new plans
for the work, work, worn which Is ber
sole law of existence, l'erhaps she haa
memories of another time, other sur
roundings, but they must seem vague
and far away. Even the weather li
monotonous; there Is practically al
ways the cloudless sky, the brilliant
sun, the strong, dry wind that curls
the leaves of the young corn, and turns
the buffalo grass brown.
Living on the dreary plains and amid
such monotony, with never a thing to
appeal to one's esthetic, social or liter
ary nature, Is wearing upon most set
tiers, even If they are contented. The
life makes women, particularly, pre
maturely old. A few years of residence
apart from their sex usually makes
them careless of their appearance
dulls their ambitions and creates a sor-
dldness. Such a life miint have Its In
evltable mental and moral effect All
the sensitive, the esthetic, sometimes
the moral sense ltlf, becomes atro
pliled. The tragedies of a city are un
earthed and brought to light, but the
silent tragedies of these desolate lives
are swallowed up and lost In the re
looteness and lmmcnulty of the prairie
wastes.
MIRROR IN THE FLAT.
Haa Poaaibllltlea In Muking Cramped
Quartcra He era Uligjzer.
"I womjer that dwellers in cramped
quarters do not make more use of mlr
rors to add light and apparent size to
their narrow apartments," Bald a wom
an whose hobby Is artistic furnishing,
"In my own case 1 have found nothing
more effective in certain rooms than a
generous expanse of looking glass,
'Take, for Instance, my ball. It Is
poorly lighted by day, and It Is a mite
of a place anyway; yet it bos to serve
the double purpose of reception hall
und an apology for the much-abused
music room, by which I mean it must
contain the piano and music cabinet
"What Is more, the ingenious arch!
tect contrived to cut a door where one
is entirely useless, and the piano must
stand across the corner directly In
front of that door. It Is a most awk
ward arrangement and I thought till
my brain was numb trying to evolve
some scheme for that Impossible cor
uer.
"At last It came to me. At a dingy
little shop I purchased a mirror, buying
it at so much a foot, which made It
quite inexpensive, and had it set in a
plain pine frame. The whole tiling
was as long as my piano and about
two and a half feet wide.
'I stained the frame a green that
toned with my wall paper. Then I had
It hung Just above the piano, w.lth a
soft silk drapery filling In the awkward
space between the mirror and ceiling,
"ht anle at wbIch mirror is
placed causes it to reflect light from
three rooms, two of these having arch-
effect upon tne ngni ana airiness 01
mv little hall Is quite remarkable."
Keyf York Bun.
Accounted For.,
"Young Spendem Insists
that he
doesn't care for money."
"Of course not He nas none to
care for." Detroit Free Press,
Never try to dictate to a woman
unless she Is your stenographer.
1 1 - .1 .
wn22i- -A i
' Mammoth llroua Turkey.
The accompanying picture shows a
perfect type of tho mule and female
bronse turkeys, the largest and perhaps
the moat generally bred of all the tnor-
oughlired turkeys. The males ofteu
attalu a weight of forty-five or wort
pounds, and the females thirty-eight
They are the reault of a cross of the
wild turkey, though they hav become
thoroughly domesticated.
It la sometimes said that they grow
dcslrablo for
HHO.NZK TUnKKYt.
market, but while this would doubt-
lex ln true of old fowls. It Is not the
use with young ones. April and May
hutched bnnr.e turkeys will be Just the
right slxe to bring tho best prices at
Christina, and It la doubtful If any
other breed can ever supplant them
with those who raise turkeys for
protlt.
How liar la Wasted.
Many pretty good fanners lose
money every yenr by allowing tho rnln
to wash out the substance of their uay
cropa. Most of the vuluablo parts of
hay are easily washed out by rain
This Is made elenr by taking a wisp of
hay, placing It lu a bucket and (muring
boiling water over It The result Is
brown fluid which haa received the
name of hay tea. Cold water will ex
tract the Juices In a similar manner If
little more time U allowed. This.
then, la what takes place when half
made hay Is allowed to He abrond over
tho surfuce and Is not made Into cocks.
No water draws ten so well as soft
water, aud rain water Is soft, and It
draws the hay Junt on tho same prlncl
pie as It would draw ten. When the
nlr Is fairly dry tho material tedded
In early morning should bo tedded
again lu the afternoon. On tho second
day an endeavor should be made to
get the hay In such form that on tne
appearance of rain It may rapidly be
run qp Into large cocks, In which it Is
safe. Assuming that the work Is car
rled on as far as possible by machin
ery, the first operation Is to horserake
the bay Into rows, and the tedder
should be set to work along the row
so as to throw tliem out Into beds
about four yards wide. From time to
time the tedder should be made to re
peat the operation, until the approach
of evening, when the beds may be
drawn Into rows and then collected
into large cocks.
Itcvlce to Cut Horiiliuni.
The accompanying sketch shows n
device for use on a mower to prevent
sorghum and other rank growths from
hecomlnir tangled, when cut. In cut-
tlug drilled sorghum It will leavo the
SOKQHUM-CUTTIJiO DEVICE.
cut row leaning agalust the next stand-
ing one in excellent tunpe to pick up
and shock. This Is a great improve-
ment over letting It fall at random. A
Is the tongue of the mower. C, D and
E are pieces of 1x3 wood, the circle F
is made from old buggy tiro, and the
brace G, of -Incn iron; 11 js tne cutter
bar or tne macnine.
Root Cropa for Pig.
It has been demonstrated that seven
or eight pounas or mangeis nave as
. . a a
great feeding value as one pound of
grain, when given to pigs or hogs, and
that sugar beets have even a greater
value, so It is hard to understand why
pig raisers are so careless about grow
ing root crops for tnelr animals. Not
only have the root crops a high feed
Ing value, but they do more for the
good health of the hogs than one can
estimate. In regard to their feeding
value It has been demonstrated time
and again that when mangel or sugar
beets, or uoth, an fed In connection
with light rations of grains, using mid-
dllngs instead of bran, pork of high
quality can be produced cheaper than
in any other way, With the possible ex-
ccptlon of the substitution of ensilage
for the root crops. If root crops can
b bought at 'reasonable prices, better
too large, and are not
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some for feeding thla fatl and
Inter, and next season, grow your own
supply.
Lata Calvea.
Owing to th Increasing demands of
the great centers of population, farm
era hav to enter Into contract to sup
ply quantities of milk all th year
round, and In conseuuence ar com-
pjtinl to bar fresh calving cows com-
j- lnto proflt UHt t one period mre-
, Tne n,lM,t &ftcxlt p-rioj to cope
wjtn j, th fj or the autumn and Juat
before winter. Farmers who hold such
contracta And It pays to time one third
or ,m)rt 0f tj,r roWB t0 CRve tt that
period. Those who do not go In for a
pedigree herd will prefer to get rid
of th autumn calves as soon as pos
sible. If reared on milk aubstltutes
will have to be employed, as th entire
milk of th cow would hav to be sent
away dally, but milk substitutes hav
now been brought to a high degree of
perfection. Thesa will b thickened
with meals as tlio animals get a HtU
older. They will soon take to root
pulp. Calves thus reared would b In
prime condition after March, to thrive
well on the green fodder of spring,
rye, lucerne and winter nuts, Intermix
ed with vetche and trlfollum.
Head-Work on th Farm.
One of tho beat farmers keeps a
slate hanging up' In th barn, and on
this slate makes entries something Ilk
this:
Weak place In west field fence; Jo
repair It at once.
Take cultivator shovel to ahop next
time buggy goes.
Repair Jack's harness and Bob's
bridle first wet day.
Red cow will probably be In heat
May 15; watch her closely.
Frank, sea Smith, and toll him to
bring log cliuln home.
Two sows due to farrow May 10;
keep sharp lookout.
Bunch of red sorrel lu south field.
near shade; for self. -
Woodpile must be watched; haul
some first chance.
Plan for Country Cottas.
A very modesCneat and attractive
plan for a quit small family or for
your farmer's cottage Is herewith pre
sented. It consists of three rooms with
pantry and hall, the kitchen the light
est and cheeriest room in th house, as
Is quite right when the bast of Its oc
cupants spends much of her tlm there,
and three good bedrooms above. This
OnOCKD PLA! OF COTTAOt,
cottage should be built In good style
for $1,200. The wai may be either
talnflI or plastered.
Use for Hurplua Potatoes.
The abundance of potatoes In this
country the present year suggests tho
possibility that new uses will need to
bo found for the crop within a few
years. In Germany the manufacture
of alcohol from potatoes is one of tho
mainstays of agriculture. Before the
Industry was started potatoes were a
drug on the market, .now there Is a
regular market for the whole of the
produce and the Importance of the
potato crop has vastly Increased. The
alcohol Is treated In such a way that
It Is unfit for drinking purposes and so
not liable to special tax. It is used
for heating, lighting and motive power,
varnishes, etc., and last year two mill
ion tons of potatoes were used In this
way.
, Poultry Picking.
The mongrel Is a thing of the past In
profitable poultry culture.
Chickens should never be allowed to
go on the roosts until ten or twelve
weeks old.
An overfed hen Is stupid, lazy and
unprofitable. Tho eager, nctlve, hun
gry hen Is the proflt maker.
Fowls must have a variety of food
to do well, wo one gram will long be
relished by the fowls If made an ex-
elusive diet.
in breeding high-class fowls it Is
Quality, not quantity, that counts. A
combination of both is desirable, but
not aiways obtainable.
A mtl. iingeei meni in maK
occasionally will tend to add luster to
tue plumage and promote digestion.
I - . . '
uut it must be fed sparingly.
Every poultryman should be a stu
dent He should by careful study and
close observation equip himself to mas
ter the emergencies that are certain to
arise sooner or later.
The early-laying pullet should be
marked and kept for the breeding pen
next ,eaBOn; fM& n J otherwise
a00 blrd- I,n nearly a" cases the
Pu,,et that be8lna to la7 early In t
la thft one tnat w111 ,ay 0 largest
number of eggs in a year,
Any man or woman of ordinary in-
telligence, with the proper application
of Industry and perseverance, can
make a success of the poultry business,
The man who says "can't" simply ad-
mita that he Is lacking In the quallfl-
cations that are essential to success.
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