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|v & 1 LABOR-SAVING ROOSTS. One Can Walk All Aromd Then and Reach Almost An? Fowl on I he Penh with Kane. My poultry roosts are made of three feix-inch boards. For a 12-foot building they should be ten feet long to admit passage around it. Bore holes ip each end for. No. 9 fence wire as a support. Fasten wire to rafter and then pass the other end through hole in roost plank, first placing the board at any desirable height from floor tp suit the COMMON SENSE ROOST. flock. The two outside boards should be notched one by two inches and 12 inches apart. Having notched two boards and placed at height wanted, about seven feet apart, take good rodfing lath, one by two inches, about eight feet long, and lay cross-wise in notches. This will make a swinging foost, but fowls will soon get used to it and seem to delight in a swing. This roost one can walk all around and reach almost any fowl on the perch. for lice where lath cross the boards kill them with coal oil. Lath should be slightly rounded on top. Such a roost will accommodate 80 fowls if necessary to place as many together and all are on a level.—D. E. Shields, in Farm and Home. !•-Look to 1 WORKING AMONG BEES. When One l« Provided vritli the cainry Tool* It Is Not as Danger on* Many Suppose. Every farmer, who keejps bees should provide himself with a bee veil that fits over the hat and is secured under the suspenders inside the coat or vest. The hands and wrists may be protect ed by wearing mitts without lingers, says Fannie M. Wood, in the? N. E. Homestead. When one does not wear boots the pants may be tucked inside the stocking, leg a nervous man would not care abotft the bees creeping inside the pants. A good bee smoker is indispensable. Dry rotten wood, that will crush easily in the hands, makes plenty of smoke without much heat and never goes out. llubber cloths are useful. They are ''made of coarse linen or burlap, take up ^water easily, and are large enough to lap two or three in over and over'the sides and ends of the top edges of the hi\e. Wet find wring them out before using they will lie down smooth and |'r close. When I take the cover off a hive or super, one of these wfet cloths is laid on quickly. If any of the bees are next to it they will quickly get from under. It retains the warmth of the 4 bees, can be turned back as much as '^needed to take out a frame or more /without disturbing the rest of the ,^ bees. In changing supers it keeps all jLx the bees in their places, out of the way |t- 'of the operator. If smoked when wet and laid on the top of the hive the scentof the smoke will cause the bees to fill up on honey and they will be ^submissive. The farm beekeeper should have one or more feeders. They are inexpensive and come handy when necessary to feed the bees. Actual Experience Connt*.' The poultry business is as- much a trade as anything else, and must be studied and practiced. Would a man ^expect to go into the carpenter trade without studying it and expect to build fp a house successfully without first hav ing learned the important principles? •Yet a novice will go into the poultry business and expect to succeed by the knowledge he has acquired from oth- rs-T-secondhand. Farmers' Review. Now, this second -hand knowledge is good, very good, but it must be made available by ac tual experience, just as the young ear penter must learn by actually work ing at his business with his hands.— Eggs Wasted by Overfeeding. The man who feeds three times a day, and gives the hens so much kind ness that they will not scratch or •vork, but sit down and wait for him to come around at the regular hour, simply wastes time, labor and food. What is more, he wastes eggs, for such hens lay but few eggs, because they are in a fat condition. Of course, hens should not be poor in flesh, but there is no need of feeding hens more than |.f' they actually require. Eggs are costly ^"•luxuries when the hens do not lay reg ularly, and nine-tenths of the failures fi^iire due to overfeeding.—The Poultry 1 Keeper. Poultry House In Summer. One important matter in summer is that the poultry house in "which fowls -roost should be well ventilated. The house should also be frequently white i,. washed and the ground kept free from droppings. The perches should never be high—aboiit one or two feet from the ground being'sufficient—as in fly ing either up or down, if put too high, some' are sure to injure themselves sooner or later. Xjse flat, open pans for the water, and not only see that is fresh at least once a day, but take £are that the receptacles are as free from dirt as the water itself.—Farm and Fireside. IMPROVING THE FLOCK. How t6 Introdaee New Blond Wit hoot Gotnar to an Unnecessarily Heavy Bxpoase, In buying new blood one needs to use judgment. For instance, if one ia tend 8 buying cockerels they should be purchased early in the fall, when poul try breeders have a surplus of male birds and can sell cockerels for grad ing purposes very reasonable, says writer in the Poultry Herald. Then, if one has a large flock of common hens and does not intend to separate them in the breeding season, enough cock erels can be purchased to mate with the entire flock, for If there are any mixed roosters kept in the flock there is ^nore liability of the hens ipating with them than the strange males. As an example^ a case just recently brought to our attention where farmer bought two pure-bred males to run with his farm flock and kept also two of his own roosters in the flock. His two males fought the pure bred ones so that they would not Stay among the hens. In a case like that there would be very few of the chicks siredj by! the pure-bred cockerels, whereas, if he had bought four cockerels of a pure breed and killed off all of his males every chick he raised would be half pure blood, and in that way he would have been improving his flock and get ting value for his money investment in the pure-bred males. As ij is he gets nothing whatever from them unless it is the satisfaction of buying them and having them on the farm. Every farmer or poultry raiser should have a place where he can sep arate a few of his best hens for breed ing purposes (in most cases seven or eight hens will lay all the eggs wanted for hatching purposes) and then only one male is needed, and the keeper can afford to buy one of the better quality and make more rapid progress in the improvement of the flock. Some people, however, do not take interest enough to separate the flock for breeding purposes. In such cases it will pay best to buy a setting or two of eggs and raise the pure-bred cock erels, as one is pretty sure to get a nice lot of cockerels, and in most cases more than is needed, when he can often sell for more than the cost of the eggs the surplus cockerels and pullets to some one who desires to raise pure-bred fowls. MAKING A GUTTER. If Yon Follow the Plan Here Outlined You Will Have One Thut la Ab solutely Tight. Take two boards arid fif them for nailing together. Near the lower edge of each run the matching plane and cut channels, as shown in the cross sec tion at Fig. 1. When the two boards are nailed to- HOW TO MAKE A GUTTER. gether fill the bottom with cement, as shown in Fig. 2. This will make a tight joint, and the cement will not come out. When putting the boards together care should be taken that the nails, or screws, are put in in such a way that the joint may not readily open. Then the cement will keep the joint watertight.—N. Y. Tribune. BUZZINGS FROM BEEDOM. Extracted honey will lose flavor quicker than hooey left longer on the hives. If the queen bee be clipped or kept in the hive by an entrance guard, the workers will kill her. Clipped wings will not prevent swarms from going to the woods. Neither will entrance guards pre vent it. Grafting or inoculating larvae in the queen cells was practiced first by a German apiarist, Meuring, in 1866. He was first, also, to use comb founda tion. Moth eggs call for sulphur or bisul phide of carbon. The sulphur will not kill the eggs, but the bisulphide will. Either will be effective after the moth passes the egg stage. Alfalfa, alsike and buckwheat may lie considered standard crops for bees. Sweet clover is also a good crop for honey. These crops are valuable for forage, and this ought to increase their planting. Surely, every farmer, who has'a number of colonies of bees, will find these crops double yielders, giving both honey for the bees and forage or grain for other uses.—Ella Henson, in N. Y. Farmer. No apiarist has yet come to earth who can make his sections average just a pound of honey. Last season I weighed every section I sold, and not a single one in all the number weighed just a pound. They are sized to aver age a pound in weight, but the bees do not care for accuracy in this matter. When they get through with section they leave it, whether the unfilled cells are one, or five, or 20.—Rural" World. Boy's Essay on the Hen. A hen is an animal made by the Creator of the universe, which is cov ered with feathers, and has a bill. The hen stands on two feet, except when she is tired, and then she stands on one, and eats corn with her bill. When the hen sits, she sits down to lay, and when she lays down she lays down to set. The hen's eggs are good to eat unless they have been set on.—Ameri can Fancier. MINNESOTA NEWSL Miraculous Escape. Lightning played "Home, Sweet Home" with variations on the electric connections at the home of Louia Dunn, in Minneapolis. The front of the building was wrecked, and every carpet in the house ripped up. All electric wiring was burned out, and the bells fell to the floor, while the telephoiifc box went up in smoke. Forty people were in the house whe: it was struck, and that none of them were killed is miraculous. A recital was being given by Miss Anna O'Dowd, a sister of Mrs. Dunn. All of Miss O'Dowd's pupils had gathered for the occasion. Mr. Dunn and Mr. Gleason attacked the conflagration with bed quilts, and subdued the flapies in the lower part of the house. Then, proceeding to the attic, they had a hard fight, because the fire there had gained good head way. Fifteen minutes from the time the lightning struck all danger from fire was past. The appearance of the house inside was chaotic. A checker board which lay on the floor among the children was shivered into splinters. The bolt seemed to have dodged between the oc cupants of the apartments to do its work. ______ Crop Bulletin. There were rains nearly every day of the week. The rains came in very heavy showers, and generally accom panied by lightning and thunder. In Nobles, Murray and Redwood coun ties there were tornadic conditions on the morning of the 11th, with violent winds, covering small areas, and caus ing considerable loss to town and coun try buildings. In other parts of the southern half of the state there was hail at scattered points, which was very large in size, but fortunately in smaU amounts but the only crop in jury seems to have been in Big Stone county, where many corn fields were seriously injured. With seasonable temperatures and abundant moisture, all the small grains are doing splendid ly late sown flax and barley, and those seeded on spring plowed land, are coming up and growing nicely. Grasshoppers. Prof. E. B. Forbes has temporarily taken charge of the department of en tomology at the state college of agri culture at St. Anthony Park, and i6 now at work in the Red River valley exterminating grasshoppers, having taken up the work where Prof. Lugger left it at his death. According to a letter received by Dean Liggett, of the agricultural college, from Prof. Forbes grasshoppers are infesting that pa^t of the state in large numbers. The work of exterminating the pests with the famous "hopper dosers," the method used by Prof. Lugger, is being success fully carried out and will lessen the bad results this year. It is feared that unless all fields are carefully and thor oughly plowed this fall there will be great destruction of crops in the north* west next year. Strange Drowning. By the overturning of a boat in Snail lake, St. Paul, Thomas P. Cronin and Louisa Ellwanger were thrown into the water. Cronin started to swim to shore and asked the woman to cling to him, assuring her that they would be safe. Miss Ellwanger, however, clung to the boat and was later rescued by three boys. Cronin was caught in the mud and drowned. There was no part of the lake where the water was more ttia.ii four feet deep. Cronin was an employe at the St. Paul Foundry and Machine Works. Corner Stone Laid. The laying of the cornerstone of the Norwegian seminary at St. Anthony Park was the occasion for an outpour ing of the Norwegians of the Twin Cities. The delegates to the conven tion attended in force. When the cornerstone was laid fully 4,000 per sons were on the seminary ground. Nearly all of the officers of the United Church were seated on the platform during the ceremonies, and the service was in charge of Rev. T. Tjornhom, of Fergus Falls. Wound Up. The affairs of the American Mining and investment company will be wound up by Albert H. Hall, who was ap pointed receiver by an order of Judge Pond, and who furnished a bond in the sum of $5,000 for the faithful perform ance of his duties. This company has occupied an elegant suite of rooms in Minneapolis for some time and was exploiting stock in the Kettle Curlew and other alleged gold mines in the northwest. Mews In Brief. The total enrollment in the Minne apolis schools the past year was 37,539, a gain of 1,373 over the figures for the previous year. A 6-year-old son of Frank Meyer was drowned in the river at Hastings by falling from a skiff. H. A. Winslow, one of the best known horsemen in the northwest, died in Minneapolis from an accidental over dose of morphine. Mrs. Bertha Schilling was sentenced to 2}4 years at Stillwater for the mur der of Hazel Murphy in the Columbia theater brawl in Minneapolis. The office force of the Oliver Mining company has been moved bodily from Pittsburg to Duluth. For the fortnight ending June 17, 590 new cases of smallpox'were report ed to the state board of health. Secre tary Bracken says that the disease is increasing, and this is due to 'lax methods in various districts. The special election at Pine Island on the question of issuing bonds for waterworks and extension was voted down—75 to 47. Bishop Cotter, of, Winona, who has been sick at Rochester, is now out of danger.. THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY. New Zealand's,crown lands art now flisposed of for 090 years. .The Jewish population of London has more than doubled within SO years. The population of the German em pire includes 3,000,000 who use the Polish language. Germany and Holland are planning to lay a new cable to connect with the Dutch East Indies. Berlin has 30,000 dogs. The tax is $2.50, but officers and those who use dogs as draught animals pay no tax. It is estimated that the cost of re-\ storing the papal palace at Avignon, France, would be about $1,400,000. The British foreign office reports that 08 per cent, of the slaves of Zan zibar and Pemba prefer to remain slaves. After the model of the itowton houses in London, Milan will soon have an Albergo popolare, with room for 450 men. It will have electric lights, baths, clean linen, reading-room,.etc., and the cost will be only ten cents a day per person. AMBROSE M'KAY'S CASE. Rockbridge, Mo., June 24th:—The neighborhood and particularly the members of Rockbridge Lodge, No. 435, A. F. & A. M.t are feeling very much pleased over the recovery of Mr. Ambrose McKay, a prominent citizen and an hopored member of the Ma sonic Fraternity. Mr. McKay had been suffering for years with Diabetes and Rheumatism, which recently threatened to end his days.. His limbs were so filled with pain that he could not sleep. He was very bad. Just then, someone suggested a new remedy—Dodd's Kidney Pills—which has been much advertised recently, as a cure for Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, Rheumatism and I^idney Trouble. After Mr. McKay had used a few doses, he commenced to improve. His pain all left him, and he is almost as well as ever. He says Dodd's Kidney Pills are worth much more than they cost. They are certainly getting a great reputation in Missouri, and many very startling cures are being reported. This eard C. A.caotleld (larmt Producer U. B.y. BwwkK, of BakemjteUU^J. Send for 10c. 25c. 50c. ALL DRUGGISTS. PIIDC CHICAGO CRUDE OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA. Organized December, 1900. CAPITAL STOCK, $1*000,000. Company owns l»i feo 160 Acres KfiILN RJVER DISTRICT. We have three wells The Mow Bicycle. Bicycle manufacturers state that tW bi cycle for this year will be practically Uhe •ante model as 1900. as improvement seems to be impossible. PER CENT. MONTHLY DIVIDENDS BY OCTOBER 1st, 1901. lfrerr acre hli proven to be oil producing. One well will be put down to the sere, thus in creasTng^he ing capacity of the itock annually, making the purchase of the stock an ABSOLUTELY SAFE INVESTMENT. NO RISK OF LOSS. CERTAINTY OF URGE PROFITS. Only a limited amount of the atoclc is nniold and is offered to the public at PE1R as Cents Cash oa Subscription, as Cents July so, 1901. as Cents August so, 1901. ag Cents September so, 1901. Precisely the same is true of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It repre sents the limits of soience, and it is impos sible to npake a better medicine for the stom ach, liver, kidneys and blood. Try it for dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, flatu lency, or sour stomach, and you will be con vinced. Never take a substitute. He Stopped Hla Paper. "Sir!" exclaimed the oldest citizen, as he walked into the business office of the daily paper. "I see in your sheet of to-day, (ir, an article to wjlicnl take exceptions, and I want my papfr stopped, sir! And when James F. Anderson says stop, sir, he means stop, sir!" "Phil," wearily murmured the circula tion manager, "go out and tell Bobt' stop th' press an' lock up ol' man Anderson has quit us!"—Denver Times. GEORGES WASHINGTON'S QVEtJB, It Hid Luxuriant Salt of Straight and Very Darlc Hair. The7 Father of his Country concealedya luxuriant suit of hair beneath his queue wig. Many now wish the old fashion were in vogue, to conceal thinned hair or baldness. Yet no one need have thin hair nor be bald, if he cure the dandruff, that causes both. Dandruff cannot be cured by scouring the scalp, because it is a germ disease, and the germ has to be killed. Newbro's Herpicide kills the dandruff germ—no other hair preparation will. "Destroy the cause, you remove the effect." There's no cure for dandruff but to kill the germ. Soelnl Training. Miss Gotrichkwick— Please, sir, is this a training school? Principal—It is. "Please, sir, I wish to learn how to est olives."—Columbus (O.) State Journal. Do Tour Feet Ache and Bnrnf Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease^ a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes Feel Easy, Cures Corns, Itching, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore and Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y. Her Lnelc. The Illinois woman who called her hus band a jackass and then got mad because he called her his better half does not seem to know such a thing as justice.—Denver Times. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever lsed for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm, 0. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10,1900. Don't say you work like a slave: slaves do,not work very hard.—Atchison Globe. Charity's argument is short, but it has a long reach.—Chicago Daily News.- of Oil Producing land in the heart of the famous Now Pumping 1,000 Barrels Daily And Earning 6 Par Cant, on Entlra Capital Staak. Will have 8 wells completed byjuly 1st earning IS per cent, and will have 17 well« pump. lag by January lit, 1902, earning 33 per cent, on par value ol the stock and warranting tel. (PrMldent of Axtac, C.ntral Point Comtoliuated A Senator Oil Co.1), "-1., SECRETARY. ia, VM»Tille, Cal. full information and prospectus giving statement oftlie condition of the company to date. 'Subscriptions received in amounts from 25 shares to 1,000 shares. Address H. M. MclNTOSH, 50a—77 Jackson St., CH1CAOO, ILL. XNVXSTIQATZ ASS YOU WILIi invlST. CASCARETS, ST I illll V" on the stomach, bloated bowels, foal Ullllb month, headache, tndlsfestlon. pimples, pallia after eatln®. liver trouble, sallow complexion and dizziness, when jroar bowels don*t move regu larly jron are getting sick. 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