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THE MADIS. ONIAN
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LADYBUGS TO DESTROY APHIS
Capture of Bugs In California It IntM
sting Industry Gathered and
Sent to lnsectory.
(By MRS. A. JQ8KPH. California.)
The rapturing of ladybuga to kill
aphis. Is a very interesting Industry,
In this state. During tbe early win
ter months, the miners are always on
the lookout (or the ladybuga, and they.
In turn, notify the State Entomolog
ist, and he has thorn gathered and
sent to the state lnsectory.
The bugs are gathered up, whlla
they are off guard, and thrown Into
runny-Backs. Then, they are trans
ported by pack-train, over the snow,
to the station, from which place, they
are forwarded by train.
Humbug Canyon is a favorite place
for the ladybuga. When the canyon
fills up with snow, in the winter, and
thoro Is no more food, they foregath
er in the higher places, where there
are great bunches of moss. The
warmth of their bodlea is conserved.
In this way. The little fellowa on the
outside worm their way inward, and
when I hey get w arm, crawl out again,
for a breath of fresh air.
In this way, they spend the winter
season. Like others, of their kind, the
lady bugs sleep through the winter.
Then the warmth of spring helps
tlieni to shake off the spell, and they
are ready for work.
In the insectory, an artificial winter
is made, with ice, and, by turning on
the raid, it suspends animation in ber
ladyship.
She will live for months without
food, some having been kept, In cold
storage, for six months, without food.
T,he ladybiigs are gathered In ad
vance of the melon and cabbage sea
son. The lnsectory will supply thou
sands upon orders from southern Cal
ifornia, where they grow melons and
cabbage.
As no spray will reach tbe aphis,
the lice, which prey on those vines,
lady bugs are the only cure.
FIRE BUGHT OF APPLE TREE
Disease la Caused by Bacterium and
la Very Contagious But One
Method of Eradication.
fainumgiat, I'nlversitJ arm, St.
Paul. Minn.) '
There Is a great deal of twig and
'branch blight of apple trees this year,
Indicated by the browning of leaves
euid blackening of twigs. Not only the
smaller branches are affected, but also
larga limbs, and, iu some cased, even
the trunks.
Tbe disease is caused by a bacte
rium, and is very contagions. Usuuily
the microbe is carried by insects to
the flowers, where it multiplies rapid
ly ;iml the blossom Is blackened and
killed, or It may extend along under
the bark, killing the twig and often
extending to the branches also takes
place through tender shoots. For this
reason, in orchards where tiie disease
has cained a foothold, nothing should
be done to encourage rapid growth.
The germs (sometimes live through
winter in holdover canker? and are
the source of new infection.
There is but one method of eradi
cating the blight from an orchard, that
is, cut it out, preferably in late sum
mi r or fall The branches should al
ways "e cut some distance back from
the diseased parts, and after each limb
is cut the pruning knife should be dis
infected by dipping luto a solution of
corrosive sublimate in the proportion
of one part of the poison to one thou
sand parts of water.
PROTECTION FOR THE TREES
Arizona Man Designs Covering, Ex
tending Around Trunk at All
Sides ti the Crown.
In describing a tree protector, in
vented by C. I. Helm of Phoenix, Ariz.,
tbe Scientific American says:
it Is the design of this invention to
Tree Protector.
provide a protector by wbich tbe tree
can be thoroughly protected, tbe pro
tector being adapted to extend from
the ground to tbe branches of tbe
t ee. and to holi a cylindrical body of
art a extending around the tree trunk
t all aide to the crown and among
tb(t branches, a shown la tbe accom
panying Illustration.
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IN PLACE OF THE PIE
OME RCCIPIt THAT WILL PftOVI
OF VALUE.
Amber and Chartreuse of Jelly Are)
Among tbe Best Hew to Prepare
Macaroon Rosettes -Coeoanut
Cream Also Qood.
Amber Jelly Two tablespoon gel,
tine, one-half cup boiling water, one
halt cup cold water, three cups sweet
cider, sugar.
Soak gelatin In the cold water tor
Ave minutes. Dissolve In boiling wa
ter, add cider and sugar. Stir until
dissolved and poor into mold.
Chartreuse of Jelly Cut out the
center of a round sponge cake, leaving
the bottom and sides thick enough to
hold a quart of Jelly. Prepare a lem
on, strawberry, orange or wine Jelly,
and when it la cold and Just ready to
form turn Into the cake and set aside
In a cool place or on Ice. When ready
to serve cover the top with tbe chilled
froth from a cup of double cream and
a cup of milk beaten with a whip
churn. Flavor the cream with vanilla
or wine and add one-fourth cup of
coulectioner's sugar before whipping.
Macaroon Rosettes. One table
spoon gelatine, one-quarter cup cold
water, three eggs, one-eighth teaspoon
salt, one teaspoon vanilla, two cups
milk, one-third cup sugar, two-thirds
cup pounded macaroons.
Soak gelatine in the cold water five
minutes. Make a custard of the yolks
of eggs, milk, sugar and salt Add
gelatine to the hot custard and set In
a cool place. Aa it thickens add the
beaten whites of the eggs, macaroons
and vanilla. Serve on rosettes or In
patty shells, and garnish with red
Jelly put through a ricer.
Cocoanut Cream. One tablespoon
gelatine, one-quarter cup cold water,
one-third cup sugar, one teaspoon va
nilla, three eggs, two cups milk, one
cup cocoanut, pinch of salt.
Heat yolks of eggs and add sugar.
When milk Is about boiling stir in
eggs and sugar and cook until mixture
thickens slightly. Remove from fire
and add gelatine, which has been
soaked In the cold water five minutes.
When cool and beginning to set add
cocoanut and whites of eggs beaten
stiff, and flavoring. Line a mold with
sections of orange and pour in the cus
tard. Serve ice cold.
Corn Beef Salad With Cream Dressing.
Select a lean piece of beef and boil
It the day before using In enough wa
ter to cover It, pouring on the water
cold. Do not let it boil hard, but come
gradually to tbe boiling point, then
cook slowly until perfectly tender. Pull
out the bones, place in a diBh, cover
with a plate on which place an iron to
press the meat and so let it remain un
til the beef is cold. Cut one pound Id
tajirilf inch pUa -SHoulA vv.e Yrt
anyvat, remove most of it and make
the cream dressing. Two eggs, three
table? poonfuls of vinegar, one table
spoonful of rich cream, salt to taste, a
quarter tablespoonful of mustard and a
sprinkle of cayenne. Beat the eggs
well, add the salt and mustard, then
the vinegar and cream. Put the bowl
containing this mixture into a basin of
boiling water on tbe stove and stir un
til about the thickness of rich cream.
Cool and when cold mix part with the
chopped meat. Just before time to
serve have a head of nice lettuce
washed and dried In a cloth. Place
the larger leaves on a platter, mix the
small ones with the meat and over all
pour the remainder of the salad dress
ing. Caramel Custard.
Cook four tabiespoonfuls of sugar
until it is a light brown. Put into
a baking dish. Heat three eggs with
three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Add a
cupful and a half of cream or rich
milk, and u teaspoonful of vanila.
Pour It into the baking dish on top
of the caramel. Hake in a pan of
water until it is set. Instead of cook
ing this custard lu a big dish, a little
of the caramel can be put iu each of
half a dozen custard cups, and the
custard mixture poured over it. Then
they can be' baked and wheu they are
done turned out on individual dishes.
Serve cold.
Fruit Salad.
Beat yolk of four eggs till very
thick; beat Into them gradually one
cup powdered sugar and one-half tea
spoonful salt. Beat until sugar 1 dis
solved. Add Juice of two lemons and
beat again. Peel and slice thin aix
bananas and four orangea; put in a
deep dish layer of bananas, then of
dressing, then of orange and so on,
having bananas on top, and pour tbe
remainder of dressing over it. Serve
very cold.
Whipped Cream Sauce.
Whip a pint of thick sweet cream,
add tbe beaten white of two eggs,
sweeten to taste; place pudding In
center of. dish and surround with tbe
sauce; or pile up In center, and sur
round with molded blanc mange or
fruit puddlnga.
Cold Water Cake.
One and one-half cups sugar, one
fourth cup butter (I use half lard), ZV
cups flour, two eggs, one cup water,
two teaspoons of baking powder, sifted
with some flour. Flavor to taste and
frost if you like. This make a good
sized loaf.
Chines Salad.
Equal part of cold macaroni cut In
to small bits, minced ham, lobster and
cold boiled carrot, chopped. Mix well
and add some good mayonnaise dress
ing, with a few caper.
KimnoNAL
sniMSnBn
Lesson
(Pr ft. O. BKLLRKS. Director of Kvenlna
tvprment. The Moody Bible Institute.
Chicago.)
LESSON FOR DECEMBER 21
DIVISION OF THE LAND.
LR880N TTCJCT-Jonhua 14:1-14.
OOI.lKN Tr.XT-"8k ye flret tlie
kingdom of Ikxl and his rtghteounnma;
bnd all these things shall be added unto
you." Matt :S3.
Following trie defeat at Al we see
Joshua building an altar at Ebal (ch.8)
and reading again "all tfcat Moses
commanded" (v. 35), to the, Israelite
and the stranger a well. Then fol
low an account of hi campaign. A
military critic ha classed Jyshua with
the Alexanders, Caesars, Napoleons,
Wellington and Grants of all ages,
tlie dealing with the Gtbejnltc and
it after effects was one eiror in hi
campaign, for he failed to take coun
sel of Jehovah. At tbe close of the
war (ch. 11) Joshua is revidy to divldo
the long-promised inheritance, chap
ters 12-21.
I. Those left behind, vv. 1-5. Read
carefully Numbers ch. 32 to recall the
story of those who, like Lot of old,
saw good grazing land and chose It in
preference to that on the farther side
of Jordan, that possessed by the "chil
dren of Anak." Subsequent history
reveal the foolishness of their'choice,
for they were the first to fall before
the enemies of Israel Vben the king
dom was broken up. The Levitefl
(v. 4) were not to have a portion but
rather they were to dwell in selected
cities with suburban property.
Caleb Not an Israelite.
II. Caleb claim hi Inheritance,
vv. 6-12. Joshua was old and stricken
In years (13:1) and now Israel is be
fore him, each of the remaining nine
and one-halt tribes, to have appor
tioned unto them a permanent dwel
ling place after the long years of wil
derness wandering, and the more re
cent campaign of subjugation. Before
Joshua casts the lot. however, Caleb
recalls the promise Moses had made
to him 45 years before (v. 10). From
a comparison of v. 6 II. V., Gen. 15:19
and Josh. 15:13 it appears that Caleb
was not an Israelite by birth, but nev
ertheless he claims an inheritance,
among them, based upon the pronlfe!
of Moses, "the man of God," became
be had "wholly followed the Lord my
God" v. 9. His name literally meant
"a dog" yet this dog of a Gentile gdt
more than tbe crumbs that fell frorl
the master's table, Matt 15:26. Cali
rested upon the sure word of God, aA'
to remember thi'a,;,,;sa,.7L!
ae"d.-.imiJeic. -. -ow those vent
In the valley of Eschel must hav
stood out in the memory of Caleb an
Joshua.. They remembered how th
companions caused the hearts of til
people "to melt" Num. 14:37. Th:
day's work was one of serious resu!
and so shall it be for their lniitatoa
of the present day. To see the giantVi
and not, a Caleb, to see God had
brought death. In his heart, however,
Caleb treasured God' word and now
at eighty-five he has not alone been
"kept alive," but be is as strong as
on that day. when in the prime of his
manhood, Moses had sent him forth
with the twelve.
Remembered God's Promise.
III. A promise fulfilled vv. 13-15.
Joshua at once recognizes the Justness
and validity of Caleb's claim. lie re
membered God's promise, Num. 14:24
30; Deut. 1:36-38. therefore he at onte
grants tbe request and adds to it bis
blessing. Hebron, means "joining,"
"union," "fellowship." Thus we see
Caleb entering into all the lights,
privileges and blessings of any of the
descendants of Jacob. Is this not
typical of our privilege in Christ Je
sus? John 15:5; 14:20; I. John 1:8.
See also Matt. 8:11, 12. Tbe only con
dition Is that of faith In God and in
hie Word, Gal. 3:7, 26. 29. "Thus faith
in tbe case of Caleb is revealed as tbe
principle which follow fully, waits pa
tiently, asks for new opportunities tor
its exercise, and gain Anally a vic
tory." G. Campbell Morgan.
The Golden Text The essential
value of this lesson Is expressed In
these words of our Lord. To seek the
kingdom of God and his righteousness
first, 1 tbe matter of supreme Impor
tance and Involve following tbe Lord
fully. Frequently, constantly, this
mean a long postponement of th
day of our visible vindication. Yet
uch postponement I not tbe result
of the capriciousnes of God. nor la
It delayed beyond the hour necessary
for tbe working out of the plana ot
Jehovah, In accordance with the very
best mean. As Caleb waited those
45 year his strength waxed not, and
all thing needful were supplied. Tbe
point 1 not so much that be at last
gained tbe Inheritance, but that dur
ing tbe period of waiting bis suste
nance and bl raiment were provided.
All through tbe year we have been
bearlnw of promise wbich were con
ditional upon loyalty to God and obe
dience to bi will. Today we see a
fulfillment of tbe promise made over
and over again that Israel should pos
se tbe Promised Land. Dr. J. Wil
bur Chapman asked Oen. William
Booth for the secret of bis success In
tbo Salvation Army and bl reply was,
"God ba bad all there waa of me."
' Caleb' was) a vigorous, bappy old
age; be Baa not wasted anxious
thought on the morrow; be kept alive
his Interest Id tbe ever-throbbing pre
Jtt
ICATIOII
II
Everybody Should Join in the
Universal Farm Uplift.
FARM METHODS ARE LACKING
Farmer Can Easily Grow Twice Aver
age of Staple Crop Many Great
Industrial Corporation of
Country Are Interested.
i By O. It. ALPORD.)
We have between the average and
the best In farming in tbe cotton belt
an attainable 1,000 per cent. This dif
ference of 1,000 per cent, against the
average farmer Is due wholly to con
dition which he can easily control
with the necessary knowledge. Every
corporation and business man Interest
ed In the welfare of the country should
Join forces with the United States de
partment of agriculture, agricultural
colleges, experiment stations, state de
partments of agriculture and other
forces and conduct great educational
campaigns until the foolish and crim
inal waste that Is going on every year
by reason of unscientific methods of
farming is a thing of the past.
Our farmer can grow easily twice
the average yield of our staple crops.
This increase would pour many mil
lions of dollars annually into our
Industrial channels. Such an addi
tion could not be made without touch
ing every corporation, every bunker,
every storekeeper, every doctor, every
lawyer, every editor and, in fact, every
person In the country.
Many of the great Industrial corpo
rations of tbe country have already
joined forces with nationul and state
institutions and are helping tbe farm
ers to larger production and to larger
life, and are thereby contributing to
the prosperity and uplift of the whole
people. Some people may attribute
this to pure selfishness, but from out
of that selfishness will evolve a better
condition among the farmers, greater
comforts in living, and more luxuries
of life and better opportunities for the
farmers to educate their sons and
r'aughters thus the presumed sclfish
uess contains within it a resulting
philanthropy.
During the last ten years our acre
yield increased, but not half as much
as the Increase of population. There
fore, there is every inducement to do
good farming, and to do good farming
we must decrease tbe number of the
acres of cotton and increase the num
ber devoted to pastures, forage crops
and live stock. We have all heard the
old Dutch proverb quoted before, but
"""; -du IU ------ - l,lo
grass, no stock; no stock, no'tnanure;
no manure, no crop." Holland is al
most entirely a grass and stock coun
try, and lands are worth on an aver
age of $500 per acre. These people
have found that they can make more
out ot land from grasses and live
stock than they can by cultivating it.
Unnumbered acres of hill land in
the cotton belt are making less thun
one-third bale of cotton per acre, and
at the same time making poverty for
those tilling them. The cost of com
mercial fertilizer applied annually is
appalling. The razor-back terraces,
covered with weeds, grass and briars,
and the circled and short rows pre
vent tbo use cf labor-saving imple
ments. Millions of acres of poor hillside
land now producing less thun one
third balo of cotton per acre should
be plowed deep, well fertilized with
acid phosphate and some nitrogen and
some potash, when needed, and plant
ed In summer and winter legumes for.
say, two years, and then sodded in
Bermuda grass, lcspedeza. crimson and
HOW PLANT FOOD CAN BE
RETURNED TO SOIL
f By Barnyard Manure.
2 By Growing and Feeding
Clover, Alfalfa, Etc.
3 By Plowing Under Green
Crops.
4 By Plowing Under Corn
stalks, Stubble, Straw, Etc.
5 By Applying Commercial
Fertilizers.
burr clover. Only by this method
and atock raising can our wornout,
gullied cotton land be restored to fer
tility and only In this way can tbe
people ot our eouthlaud become pros
perous' and contented.
We have worn out our lands In the
quickest possible time by growing cot
ton and rigidly excluding grasses,
clover and live stock. We hav de
pleted tbe loll of vegetable matter
and It haa washed away. This poor
oil boss ns a poor people, and the poor
Place for Mixing Feed.
A good, tight, clean barn floor la a
good place to mil the grain Intended
for the cow, emptying first the light,
bulky feeds, such a corn and cob
meal or distillers' grains, spreading
thy out live or six lucbn thick,
pouring on th next lightest, etc.
Tbeo begin at one edge, shovel tbe
feed back luto a pile a couple of
feet; to the right or left. Under ordi
nary, condition, twice turning over
and the final shoveling into tbe kin
will afford a uniform mixing.
HI
SOUTHERN
FARMS
people mean bad read, oncomfor-'
able home, poorly equipped farm,
very little education, the credit sys
tem, and all that retard civilisation.
The last censu chow that our pop
ulation Increased 21 per cent, in the
preceding decade, while our meat- pro
ducing animal decreased more than
10 per cent. We are facing a very
erlou situation. The meat-producing
animal must be grown on the farm.
The farmer will not long continue to
grow stock at a loss. The condition
must be such that stock raising 1
profitable or the farmer will sooner
or later go out of the business en
tirely. Tbe cotton belt ha an overwhelm'
Ing advantage over every other Mo
tion In live stock raising. W have
Farm Ownership and
Tenantry.
Percf mat ot Firms la th U. 9. OfwraMd
by Owners or by Tenant.
"Census 100."
Cottoa D
Tobacco EZ3
Sugar
Hay and Grain
Rice '
Vegetable
Miscellaneous EZZZS3
Dairy Products EZZZZZZZ3
Live Stock
Fruit " '
Flowers-Plant
Nursery Prod EZLZ!LLZZZZ3
Classified by Source of Income.
great climatic advantages that per
mit outdoor pasturing and feeding dur
ing the whole, or the greater part, of
the year. We can obtain large yields
of oats, leguminous crops, Johnson
and Bermuda grasses, sorghum cane
hay and an abundance of corn for
making silage, the most economic
form of carbohydrates. Tho keep
ing of good cattle and the Intelli
gent use of thoroughly good, perman
ent pastures and grazing crops, and
the economic use of the silo and cot
tonseed meal will make our lands rich,
keep millions of dollars at home that
are now sent to tbe north and west,
and make our people prosperous.
The calamity howler says: "What
about the lack of lime In the boII?" Dr.
Talt Butler, probably tbe best-posted
man on southern agriculture, says, in
summing up a most excellent editorial
on "Lime in Southern Feeds:" "We
have shown: (1) That our soils are
not deficient In lime as regards the
plant food requirements of our crops;
(2) that plants grown In the south
have aa much ash as the same plants
grown elsewhere, and that the feed
crops of the south, especially the
legumes peculiar to the south, contain
as hlgh-i per cent.- of. ash oa. the J
red-uVoJbf other sections; (3) that
typical southern rations are those
made up of typical southern feeds and
contain more ash than typical north
ern feeds. Tbe conclusion is, there
fore, that while our animals fail to
get the mineral matter they need, it
is not because this material is de
ficient in our feeds, but because our
animals do not get sufficient of our
feeds."
In the cotton belt, live stock farm
ing lias been avoided maiuly for two
reasons: (1) Because all-cotton farm
ing paid better until the soil became
poor; (2 because of the cattle tick.
Now. millions of acres are too poor
to grow cotton profitably, and we can
easily eradicate the cattle tick. Since
the work of eradicating the tick was
inaugurated, nearly 200,000 square
miles have been cleaned for all time;
this is an area over three times as
TUrge as Alabama. The tick Injures
the hide, reduces the milk flow at
least ten per cent., make it very dif
ficult to fatten cattle, prevents the in
troduction of good cattle to breed up
our native cattle, lowers the price of
our cattlo on the markets and destroys
more than enough cattle every year
to pay for Its eradication.
The Invasion of the boll weevil and
the consequent reduction of the profits
of cotton growing is forcing many
farmer to grow crops which must o!
necessity be marketed through the
agency of live stock, and It is the func
tion of live atock on tbe farm to fur
nish a market for the crop that are
grown, enabling the farmer to con
vert grasses, forage crops, cow peas
and soy beans, and so on, Into higher
priced finished product and to return
to the soil the plant food taken from
it. The greatest need of tbe farmer
of the cotton belt at present Is more
grass and more live stock, and those
who assist in eradicating the cattle
tick and In otherwise helping to
create condition that will enable
farmer to grow two good animal In
the place of one scrub -is surely aa
great a benefactor aa those who cause
two blade ot grass to grow where
only one grew before.
Live stock should certainly be given
a prominent place In the agricultural
development ot the cotton belt. Next
to baviug good and intelligent people
in a country, good live atock la
probably of tbe tn'st importance.
Avoid Cold.
Look out that tbe young stock doe
uot crowd in the roosting coop or
hen bouse and overheat. If (hey
crowd together and get too warm dur
ing tbe night Ihey catch cold a soon
a they are let out In tbe morning
and their strength I reduced by tbe
heating.
Profit In Sheep.
There la Just aa much profit, if not
more, in raising sheep a 0 breeding
cattle or twine.
POIBLTW
HKTS
FOR BETTER POULTRY STOCK
Keeping Bird Healthy and Improving
Them Can Be Den by Adoption
of Few Systematic Rule.
In railing stock or poultry It should
be the air of everyone to keep It
healthy and Improve It. You can do It
very easily by adopting systematic
rule. These may ba summed up In
brief a follow:
Construct your house good and
warm, o a to avoid damp floor and
afford a flood of sunshine. Sunshine
1 better than medicine.
Provide a dusting and scratching
place where you can bury tbe grain
and thus Induce th fowl to take the
needful exercise.
Provide yourself with aome good,
healthy fowls, never to be over three
year old, giving one cock to every
12 hen.
Give plenty of fresh air at all times,
especially in summer.
Give plenty of fresh water daily, and
never allow tbe fowls to go thirsty.
Feed them ystematically two or
three time a day. Scatter the food Bo
they cannot eat it too fast or without
proper exercise. Do not feed more than
they will eat up cleun, or they will get
tired of that kind of feed.
Give them a variety of both dry and
coked feed. A mixture of cooked
meat and vegetable Is good for a
morning meal. j
Give soft feed In the morning and
tbe whole grain at night, except a lit
tle wheat and cracked corn placed In
tbe scratching pens to give them ex
ercise during the day.
Above all things, keep the house
clean and well ventilated.
Do - not crowd too many into one
house. If you do, look out for dis
ease. Keep the house, nests, etc., sprayed
with some good disinfectant, in or
der to keep down the lice and mites.
Wash your roosts and bottom of
laying nests, and whitewash once a
week in summer and once a week in
winter.
Let the old and young have as large
a range as possible, the larger the bet
ter. Do not bred too many kinds ot fowla
at the same time. Better have one
breed and understand it
Introduce new blood into your stock
every year or so, by either buying a
cockerel or a setting of eggs from
some reliable breeder.
BROODER HOUSE VENTILATOR
Devlee Invented by New Jersey a'.an
Prevent the Delivery of Teo
Strong Current of Air.
The Scientific American, in de
scribing a ventilator for brooder
houses, the design of C. W. Brick or
Crosswlck, N. J., say:
This invention relates particularly
to a means for ventilating brooder
houses, and provides an Improved
Ventilator for Brooder House.
form of ventilator and In connection
therewith, means for beating the air
Induced by the ventilator; and to pro
vide a safety valve exteriorly of tbe
brooder bouse, whereby to prevent tbe
delivery of too strong a current ot
air thereto.
Feed plenty of abarp aand or grit
with the food.
see
Please the consumer and you can
raise tbe price.
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Systematic marketing will over
come overproduction. N
e e e
Pekln duck do not make good It-
tor use a chicken ben.
S
Good development before beginning
to lay 1 bet for the pullet.
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Duck must hav plenty of green
food or tbey will not tbrlv.
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Impure water will not produce many
egg of any kind, and none that are
good.
e e
Fewer and better bird, and all as
much alike a possible should m
very poultry keeper' motto.
e
Tou must know that a duck ha no
crop. Tbe food must be soft be
cause It pasaea directly Into the gin
sard. e
Pure whit exhibition birds will
have their plumage made yellow by
constant feeding of corn, though a
little corn occasionally will da no
harm.