The midland journal., February 04, 1910, Image 6

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CHICKEN miiK.
Do not feel too poor to put win
dows In the hen house. Light is a
good thing In the chicken house. It
exposed dirt, thus favoring cleanli
ness; It is invigorating, works as a
check on disease germs, and helps to
dry out houses. A dark house is a
cheerless place no mabter how much
we do to make it comfortable.
Turn oil the fowls before winter
nets in. By the law of variation some
Cowls are better than their ancestry
and some worse. It is only by weed
ing out the inferior and carefully im
proving the superior by right care and
feeding that any progress can be
made In the breeding of poultry.
■When (poultry prices are unusually
high the temptation Is strong to sell
the biggest and best turkey or chicken
hens and-, ljeep the smaller, less de
siraible birds. . This practice wtlj de
teriorate the quality'of any flock. The
best Is none too good for our own
Use, no matter for what purpose we
are keeping poultry.
failures come to every poultry rais
er-' evert under the most favorable
surroundings* and we are meeting die-
Water half Way when we keep related
male-birds. At harvest time the farm
er sees the effects of using poor
shed. At hatching time the per
nietous results of inbreeding are seen
In reduced fertility, undersized, puny
chicks that grow slowly, and are easy
victims of gapes and other ills. Noth
ing responds so liberally to good care
as poultry, and on itbe other hand
they degenerate rapidly when no at
tention Is paid to introducing fresh
Wood, and other neglects are allowed
to creep In.
It-is not Infrequent that good males
can be picked up near home, or one
may exchange with neighbors th.->t
have the same breed. The birds se-~
cured in this way may be no better
than your own but they will not be
related to your flock.
I hear farmers say they can’t af
ford to send away for breeding roos
ters. 3 know -these birds do seem
a little expensive when one counts
the cost of the birds and express
charges, but don’t let this prevent you
from getting new life for jw flock.
If you can’t get the kind of males
you want near home send away by all
means without delay. In a month or
six weeks from now they will not be
readily obtainable. Another thing to
consider—chipping a male bird some
distance unfits him as a breeder for
several weeks. A shipped bird must
have time ito get in condition be
fore the breeding season is on.
When purchasing males we make
calculations for accidents and get one
or two extras. Then if one dies or
gets crippled we have another to take
his place. It is a serious thing to
lose a breeding male at the beginning
of the hatching season, -when it is
almost out of the question to seoure
another to replace him. —Fannie M.
Wood, in the Indiana Farmer.
BOGS FOR WINTER
Never appealed very much to us,
and as we have always lived on a
farm, and had little trouble in produc
ing all the fresh eggs needed at any
season of We year, and believe any
r tenner can do ttye same, we give
very little space to egig “preserving’’
* in these columns.
Another reason for not doing this,
“is that we have very little faith in
any of the so-called preserving
methods. We dp not like "preserved’’
eggs, for we believe it an Impos
sibility to preserve them fresh and
wholesome. Nearly all methods we
have tried, or eaten, or tried to eat.
eggs put down in nearly all prepara
tions known, in not a single instance
so far, have we found the eggs really
fit to eat.
Many are asking us to name the
hast methods known, however, and
this season of the year is about the
cialy time we would think of putting
town an egg. If eggs can be kept in
cold storage, that is, about thirty
fiior degrees, they will undergo very
little change. Simply excluding the
ali- from the eggs, as most preserv
ing methods try to do, seldom works
r well
| A series of tests was recently
' made keeping the eggs for about
' eight months in some twenty differ
" ent ways. Immersed in brine all
were unfit for use. Wrapped in pa
per eighty per cent were bad. Pack
ed In bran or coated with paraffin
seventy per cent spoiled. Immersed
in a solution of salicylic acid fifty
per cegt only were fit to use. Coated
with shellac or co Mod ion forty per
bent wore bad. Packed in wood
ashes twenty per cent spoiled. Coat
ed with vaseline or immersed in a
solution of water glass or lime wa
ter all were .good. From these ex
periments, as well as many others,
It has been found that a solution of
water glass Offers about the (best
method of preserving eggs aside
from odd storage. Water glass is
the common name for potassium or
sodium silicate and is obtained in tne
shops in the form of thick liquid
something Mke glycerine. One part
of tills to nine of sterile water makes
, a preserving fluid of the proper
.. strength. The eggs should be packed
In a clean, sweet vessel pnd the solu
tion poured over them until they are
well covered. —Dakota Farmer.
NOTES.
Unless the late hatched chickens
are fed all -the growing foods they
will eat they may be stunted when
cold weather sets in.
T* /' 'gy 1 •
Heavy egg -production is not so
■ much a result of the breed, but
rather a careful culling of the non
layers and breeding from the best
• 'layers.
Give the ducks a spring mattress
1 of clean, thick straw. Remember,
■ that unlike chickens, they roost on
the ground which is a cold lumpy
bed.
White ducks are easier to prepare
for market. Since the pin-feathers
are white, they do not show as con
spicuously as the darker ones, and
the cleaned carcass has a neater look.
Ducks grow faster when there is
no water for them to swim in; but
there must be plenty of water in the
troughs. These troughs should be
placed on platforms, ©o they cannot
puddle up the ground along side;
Laying hens are in their prime
during their first and second seasons.
The bens that moult early can
generally be depended upon to lay in
winter.
(Charcoal is one of the best inex
pensive preventives for (poultry dls
-1 eases. It may be obtained commer
cially or is usually present in wood
ashes.
SAVING HEN MANURE.
Professor Morse, of the New Hamp
shire station, after referring to the
loss of fertilizer value; and answer
ing the question how best to retain
it, says the best materials for this
purpose are gypsum or land plaster,
acid phosphate and .kainit, a cheap
potash salt. Each of these chemicals
has the power to form new com
pounds with the ammonia as fast as
it is set free from the original com
bination. Wood ashes and slaked lime
should never be used because they
cannot combine with ammonia, while
• they do force, it out. of its compounds
and take its place. Piaster is apt to
produce a dry, lumpy mixture when
used in large enough quantities to
arrest tbe ammonia, while kainit and,
acid phosphate produce the. opposite
effect of a moist sticky mass. /
Bulletin 98 of the Maine experiment
Sta., says that, using their results as
a basis of calculation, the weekly drop
pings of a flock of twenty-five hens,
when scraped from the roosting plat- 1
forbi. should be mixed -wwith about
eight .pounds of kainit or acid phos
phate and a half peck of sawdust.
THE BLACK HEAD.
I have a large flock of turkeys, and
a disease started among them about
a week ago; they lie around at home
and do not go with the rest of the
flock for two or three days and then
die. Their heads look dark, and the
discharge is of a green color, and they
eat a little.. Have lost six in the last
week and several seem to be affected
Please give the cure or (preventive.
C. K.
Answer: Your turkeys are suffer
ing with what is known as “Black
head.’’ Tbe land on which the tur
keys are grown or brooded should
be thoroughly top dressed with lime,
plowed and thoroughly worked, then
planted to some quick growing crop.
. Feed your poults sulphur in the masb
feed, allowing a teiaspoonful of sul
phur to each five turkeys. To birds
Shat are dangerously ill give three
drops of pure xereoline, mixed with
a tablespoonful of water twice daily
Feed your turkeys byt little fattening
food until cold 'weather; over-feeding
will increase the disease. —J. C. C. in
the Indiana Farmer.
A FREAK HEX.
Mrs. Joseph Tefenthaler, of Aber
deen. Wash., owns a fowl that has a
. genuine rooster head, a large red
comb, wings and tall like a male,
• crows loudly, shrilly and quite fre
quently, and yet lays eggs. Instead
i of cackling after laying an egg, as
hens do, it crows loudly and' proudly.
Mrs. Tefenthaler has recently receiv- !
; ed several flattering offers from mu- j
: seum agents to sell this freak, all •
■ of which she had declined.—Farm
Journal.
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SCALEY LEG.
i This is an unsightly disease, and
unless attended to Is a eause of much
discomfort to the birds. Wash the
legs thoroughtly with hot water and
• carbolic soap; when dry apply with
; a brush (an old tooth -brush answers
the purpose) extract of tobacco mixed
• with a little castor oil—the mixture
must be well brushed in.—Farmers'
Home Journal.
MUST HAVE GRIT.
It must not be forgotten that with
out grit even soft foods 'Will be slowly
■ and poorly digested. Laying hens
- suffer more for the want of grit than
• any other kind of poultry. The hens
• can not produce many eggs unless
they have grit to assimilate their
food.—Farmers’ Home Journal.
Destruction of a Tree.
Thousands of people, who know
: the poem "Spare, Woodman, Spare
I the Beechen Tree,” by Campbell, -will
; be interested to learn that the tree
i pleaded for in the poem was blown
■ down in : cne of the November gales,
this year.
It stood in front of tbe mansion
i of Mr. McCulloch. • Ardwell House.
Kirkcudbright, Scotland. It is im
possible to prop the tree up again
and the suggestion has been made
! that the seed from the famous tree <
be gathered and planted near the i
same spot next spring.—New York j
Journal.
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THE DEPOSED DESPOT AND DICTATOR OP NICARAGUA.
Metal Folding Bed.
In view of the popularity of the
metal bed, it was only a question of
time when there should be metal
folding beds. It was an Indiana man
who u U ijUi me uew metal loiding
bed.
This bed consists of a bed on which
the framework stands upright when
hot in use for sleeping purposes. A
curtain hangs from the raised foot
and not only conceals the furniture,
but provides a sort of screen behind
which clothing may be hung on the
wall, if space is much needed. The
whole is held in an upright position
by clamps which engage the fulcrum
rod and the standards.
By loosening these clamps the bed
is released and may be let down to
the floor, a cross-bar at the foot
keeping It the proper height. The
bed is pivoted to the base at its head
and the base acts as a support for
this end. It will be readily noted
that one of these metal folding beds
has the advantage of being easy to
keep clean and there is no danger of
a powerful spring closing It as you
lie sleeping.—Boston Post.
He Was an Old Hand.
“Do not anger me!” she said,
sternly.
“How am I to know when you are
angry?” he asked.
“I always stamp my feet,” she an
swered.
“Impossible," he said. “There Isn’t
room for a stamp on either of them! ”
That fetched her.—Lippincott’s.
Of the 861 sorts of birds found in
Great Britain only 140 are residents
all the year around.
HOW THE UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE SHRUNK.
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iviufcittm aaowiDg me ciecauence 01 iue American merchant marine and
the remarkable growth of this country’s international trade from 1860 to
1908. The figures, officially supplied by the Government, show that ths
United States’ enormous foreign trade is now transported in foreign bottoms
and to the pecuniary profit of rival nations.
A Quaint Indorsement.
J. Pierpont Morgan at the recent
diocesan convention in New York
amused a group of clergymen with a
story of a minister.
“He was as ignorant, this good
man, of financial matters,” said Mr.
Morgan, “as the average financier is
ignorant of matters ecclesiastical.
“He once received a check the
first he ever got in his life—and took
It to a bank for payment.
“ ‘But you must indorse the check,*
said the paying teller, returning It
through his little window.
“ ‘lndorse It?* said the old minister
in a puzzled tone.
“ ‘Yes, of course. It must be In
dorsed on the back.’
“‘I see,’ said the minister. And
turning the check over, he wrote
across the back of it:
“ ‘I heartily indorse this check.’ "
—Washington Star.
The Comet Approaches.
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; THC Oftßir or H4LLCT 1 COMCT.
A Case of “Laboratory Cholera.”
The Russian medical journal the
Vratch published in July last the fol
lowing interesting details of a case
of cholera contracted In the course of
laboratory work. A lady student
working in a laboratory in St. Peters,
burg was Investigating the agglutin
ation characters of a cholera vibrio
isolated from a sample of water taken
from a manufactory in the city. By
accident some of the contents of a
pipette entered her mouth. In spite
of immediate efforts to disinfect the
mouth a typical attack of cholera fol
lowed. Fortunately the patient re
covered.—Lancet.
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[ WORTH QUOTING |
M we could only deal with Sugar
bandits as we do with the Central
American kind, sighs the New York
American. '
No man has any rights, declares
the Chicago Tribune, that lead oth
ers wrong.
Of course, women, are hot mercen
try. admits the Atchison Globe; but
satnWihg seems a greater sin to them
whdn you • lose.
iHearts are a good deal like recopds,
muses the Pittsburg Dispatch. You
can break them ever so many times
without damaging ithem in the least.
A good many people are making a
personal test to see whether Mr.
Taft’s judgment on “What Is
Whisky?”' is correct, notes the Bal
timore Sun.
It’s when a man burns the candle
at both ends, announces the Phila
delphia Record, that he finds the
same worth the candle.
Why do Ve speak of the discovery
it the north pole, when there is no
pole there to be discovered? demands
;he Christian Register.' We reach
the equator, but nobody speaks of
discovering it.
The falling oft of 80,000 barrels in
the output of Milwaukee beer would
indicate that prohibition is more real
m many States than casual observers
Save reported, thinks the New York
World. If in spite of prohibition
laws drinking was .practised to the
same extent as before, the brewers
would certainly know it.
Says the Los Angeles Times: Just
u long as there is such an enor
mous increase in the production of
the precious metals and no large
increase In other productions, just so
tong it will take a larger number of
dollars, whether they be' In gold or
In silver, to buy a bushel ot wheat
nr corn, a hale of cotton or a sack
af potatoes.
The application of science to agri
culture Is ithe secret of the Increas
ing production of our farms per acre,
as well as growing the best corn in
the world, as Indiana has been do
ing for several years past, as wit
ness the awards of the prizes at the
World’s Corn Shows. It is proper for
us to say in this connection that the
Indiana Farmer has been the medium
showing the application of science to
agriculture now for more than 50
years, carrying from the laboratories
;o the farm every available hit of
Information gleaned from all sources
Ih the world.
If the Britishers should ever wake
up and set themselves to manufac
turing for ithelr colonies, first finding
out what the colonials want and then
pushing their goods properly, con
tends the Detroit Free Press, there
may be a change in the tenor of the
returns. Until that time comes, how
ever, American-Canadlan trade will
continue to develop, as it has de
veloped in the past in the face of
all that politicians have been able
to do to weaken It. Possibly Presi
dent Taft had the fact in mind when
he decided that the British prefer
ential .tariff was not an undue dis
crimination against this country un
der the maximum clause.”
dt is a commonly accepted belief,
admits Country Life in America, that
nothing short of being pried loose
will Induce a bulldog to give up his
grip on another dog or on an In
truder; bnt this is a mistake. A lit
tle household ammonia poured on him
—as near his nose as circumstances
will allow—will make him let go im
mediately. The fumes of ammonia
are so overpowering that a dog can
not .possibly aintaln his grip and his
breath at the same time.
Remarks the St Louis Post Dis
patch: The battleship Utah is the
largest and heaviest war ship evir
built in the United States, and ex
perts declare she has no equal afloat
as a first class fighting machine.
Needless to go over the figures ot
her length, her tonnage, her draught,
her beam, her armor, her armament
and her cost. Let It be conceded
that she is the greatest and most for
midable ever—and that she is ours.
Now that we have her, what arc we
going to do with her?
If Russia imagines that the Unit
ed States will compete with Japan for
the .possession of tue north half of
Saghallen, which is reported to be of
no use, ( .to Russia since she had to
give up the southern half to Japan,
submits the Philadelphia Record,
somebody has been cruel enough to
impose on her. The wave of imperial
ism which started with the sinking
of the Maine has nearly subsided,
and our appetite for islands is (pret
ty well' satisfied. When Russia (pats
her end of the island, whose chief
service .thus far has been as a penal
settlement, upon the auction block the
United States will not compete with
Japan in running the bids up to fancy
figures. /
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Many on’. Paw Paw Pllla coax me Brer Into
activity by gentle methods. They do not acour, gripe
or weaken. They are a tonic to me stomach, liver
and nerves; Invigorate instead of weaken. They en
rich me blood and enable the stomach to get all the
nourishment from food that is put into It. These
pills contain no calomel; they are toothing, healing
and stimulating. Kor sale by all druggists In 100 ana
15c sizes. If you need medical advice, write Hua
yon't Doctors. They will advise to the best of their
ability absolutely tree of Charge. MUN YON’S
03d and Jefferson Bts., Philadelphia, Pa.
Kunyon’sCold Remedy cures a cold la c day.
Price ZSc. Muuyon’s Rheumatism Remedy relieves
la a few hoars and cures In n few days Price Mo.
The manufacture of turpentine
substitutes in Germany is proceed'
ing with considerable activity and
commercial success, this technicallj
prepared turpentine being obtained
by the distillation of heavy petroleum
from Borneo.
The raising of hogs is an import
ant industry in Denmark. The lasi
census, taken September 1, 1909.
shows that there are 1,466,915 head
of hogs in the country.
IN CONSTANT TORTURE.
' How a Severe Case of Kidney Disease
Was Conquered.
Mrs. Sherman Youngs, Schoharie,
N. Y., says: “Doan's Kidney Pill*
saved my life after years of sufferini
that ran me down to such a degree
tof weakness that I
could do no work
and the pains I suf
fered would throe
me into spasms. )
was dizzy, worn and
sleepless, my back
ached terribly, I had
rheumatism and wai
nervous and all unstrung. I though!
I tried every known medicine, bat it
was not until I began using Doan’*
Kidney Pills that I began to get help,
The pains slowly disappeared, th
kidney secretions cleared up and in s
few weeks my strength returned s
that I could work about the hous*
again. It is three years since thea
and Doan’s Kidney Pills have kept
me well."
Remember the name —Doan’s. Sold
by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foe
ter-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
After Naval Revolution.
Secretary Meyer's reorganization
of the Navy Department is atlU a
novelty to some of the bureau chief!
who were so powerful a few month*
ago. One of them was approached
by a timid officer recently. The offi
cer had a slight request.
"H—, no!" roared the chief.
Then he jumped from his chair and
strode into the Secretary's office. Ha
talked to an aide for a minute. He
came out and walked up to the timid
officer.
"H—, yes,” he answered in a
modified tone. —New York World.
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