GOOD POULTRY H iJTS
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Keep tlie nests clean; provide
one nest for every four hens,
(lather the eggs t\vi--e daily
Keep the eggs in ii coni. dr\
room o>’ cellar.
Market the eggs at least twice
a week.
Purchase well-matured pullets
rather than hens,
CHANGE IN BREED OF FOWLS
Breeder Ought to Remember That New
Variety May Have to Be Fed
in Diffjrent Way.
If n breeder who has always kept
one kind of hens suddenly changes to
another breed, he ought to remember
that the new variety may have to be
fed and cared for in quite a different
way. That will call for study as to
the best kinds of food, best methods
of housing and many other things.
DRY MASH HANDY FOR FOWLS
Mixture of Wheat, Bran, Cornmenl
and Meat Scrap Should Be Avail
able at All Times.
A dry mash com posed of 100 pounds
wheat middlings, 100 pounds wheat
bran, 100 pounds corn meal, 50 pounds
of meat scrap, mixed and fed in hoi>
pers, should be where the fowls will
hnve access to it at all times. All the
skim milk shoffid be given that they
will clean up In connection with till*.
Birthday of Airplane.
In view of the marvelous achieve
ments in long-distance flights, and the
various uses to which flying machines
have been put in the war, as well as in
the postal service of the United States,
It Is interesting to recall that the six
teenth birthday of the airplane has
Just passed.
Orville and Wilbur Wright, who
owned a bicycle repair shop In l>ay
ton, O., used their spare time to
“tinker" on a flying machine. The
neighbors considered them crazy, but
harmless, and perfectly safe to be at
iarge. Finally they hit upon a con
traption to which twin propellers and
a 16-horsepower, four-cylinder gasoline
motor were attached—a winged affair
with a movable or elevating rudder In
front, which looked like a cross bo*
Ancient Mesopotamia.
Survey research work in Mesopota
mia has revealed the fact that in for
mer times the country was covered
with a network of canals, showing that
a very celebrated system of irrigation
must then have been In vogue. Some
of these canals were 20 feet deep with
steep embankments. This interesting
Information was stated by Lieut. Col.
G. A. Beazeley, royal engineers, in a
lecture given by him at the British
SHIRKING
RESPONSIBIL
ITY.
Little Ethel—
Did the doctor
leave this baby
with us?
Her Mother—
Yes, dear.
Little Ethel—1
s’pose he got
tired taking care
of it himself and
that's why he pul
It olT onto ua
>»-rm
You Trade at Jeffery’s
We have a car of
I
wire and nails in
transit. Also a car
of good flour in tran
sit. Get our prices
before you buy.
Jeffery’s
BATESVILLE
DO the HARD THINGS FIRST,
tt you have something hard l« do.
Just go to work and do It.
it you conclude to put it off
You’re pretty sure to rue it.
The task that’s hard to do's the on*
That needs your first attention,
And, do'ng it, you may escape
A lot of reprehension.
Pitch in, and do the hard things first,
Let easy ones come after.
Make this your rule, and life will mean
A lot of Joy and laughter.
• ut if you let the hard things go.
Your enemies will taunt you
With serious duties unperformed.
And all your life they'll haunt you.
TRAGEDY WITH FEW WORDS
Parlor Drama in Which the Seen*
Might Be Set in Almost
Any Home.
She came into the room, where he
tat alone. Her clenched hand could
not totally con
c e a 1 the cold,
w .e glitter of a
knife.
Her face was
pale and drawn,
her eyes wild and
hloodfhot.
He, the man—
the man whos#
name she bore,
the man whom
she had sworn to
love, to honor, and to obey—sat deep
In thought by the warm fire grate. So
deep in thought tiiat lie did not hear
the slippered footfall of the beautiful
woman who now stood behind him,
with a strange, bitter smile upon her
lips.
Suddenly, with a gasp, she cast the
knife aside, and it fell elutteringljr
upon the fender.
“I canflotshe moaned wearily, "1
cannot!”
A pitying expression swept acros*
the Gothic granite of his cheek.
“What Is it, darling?" he murmured.
Rut she spake no word. Only, sha
raised a pointless black lead pencil.
She had been trying to sharpen it.
But in vain!
Dressed Beef.
It is reported that Sir Francis Web
ster Is a wealthy manufacturer of
hemp goods in Scotland and the own
er of a stock range In Texas on which
thousands of cattle runge, clad, during
the winter at least, in garments other
than their own hide and hair.
Sir Francis’ cows, it appears, wear
suits of hemp cloth made In his own
factory which protect them from c<>14
and snow, make them less susceptible
to tuberculosis and irvrease their daily
yield of milk.
Each cow, it is said, has two suits ft
week. They are not elaborate affairs,
by any means—simply overall blank
ets that lit loosely. There are 1,000
cows in his dairy farm and they use
2,000 hemp blankets a week.
That, of course, means added ex
pense, but the yield of milk during the
cold weather is about 27 per cent
larger than from cows not thus pro
tected.
Old American Church.
Commemoration of the one hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the organi
zation of the parish of Christ’s Episco
pal church, Newton, N. J„ the second
oldest church in northern New Jersey,
took place in the presence of Bishop
Edwin S. Lines of Newark, wit* many
persons attending.
The church was established under a
barter signed by King George III. The
parish was organized December 28,
!7C0. The first church was erected ia
1.823 and was consecrated in that year
by Bishop Cross. The corner stone of
the present church building was laid
In 18GS.
The oldest church in northern New
Jersey is the Dutch Reformed of Wal
puek Center, built in 1737.
China’s Coal.
The best Chinese coal is quite
as good as the best coal of flip i'nited
States; and the various fields of mer
chantable coal are probably as great
in extent as all the rest of the coal
coal fields in the world, so far as they
are known. Anthracite of excellent
quality is mined in four provinces.
The largest field now worked is in
Shansi, and the famous mines of Bing
Ting produce an abundance of it. In
this district coal and iron are almost
within a stone's throw of each other.
HE HAD BEEN
THERE.
What is the
quickest way to
the police sta
tion, young man.
Insult an of
ficer, is th*
quickest, I
guess.
Rastus’ Property.
Lawyer—Well, Rastus, as you want
me to defend you, have you got any
money*'
Rastus—No; hut I’se got » mule,
•onie chickens, an’ a hog or two.
Lawyer- Those will do very nicely.
Now, let's see—what do they accuse
you of t' ding?
Rastus Oh. a mule, some chickens
■»' a hog or two.—Providence Journal.
Ready to Qualify.
"You want to be a government
watchman?”
“Yes.”
“You must take a civil service ex
amination.”
“All right. G’innie somethin** to
watch.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
I
PAINT AIDS POULTRY HOUSE
Adds Greatly to Appearance and Serv
ice of Buildings—Whitewash
Is Cheapest.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Painting adds greatly to the ap
pearance and service of all buildings
ami appliances. One may buy ready
mixed paints or may purchase paste
pigments and oil and mix them. Ail
surfaces should he clean and dry be
fore they are painted. Use a priming
coat made of equal parts of paint and
linseed oil and cover with one or
more coats of paint, which should be
thoroughly brushed Into the surface.
Whitewash Is the cheapest erf all
paints, and may be used either for ex
terior or interior surfaces. It can be
made by slaking about ten pounds of
quicklime in a pail with two gallons
<>f water, covering the pail with cloth
or burlap and allowing it to slake foi
one hour. Water Is then added te
bring the whitewash to a consistency
which may he applied readily. A
weatherproof whitewash for esterloi
surfaces may lie made as follows
(1) Slake 1 bushel of quicklime in 12
gallons of hot water; (2) dissolve 2
pounds of common salt and 1 pound of
sulphate of zinc in 2 gallons of lioil
mg water; pour (2) into (1), then add
2 gallons of skim milk and mix tho
oughly. Whitewash is spread lightly
over llic surface with a broad brush.
FIND PERFECTLY FRESH EGG
Quality Is Largely Determined by
Ease With Which Volk Moves—
Hints on Candling.
(Prepared by th« United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
It is necessary to rortite an egg be
fore the candle If one is to obtain an
accurate knowledge of its condition
By tilting at various angles, the loca
tion and size of the air space can lie
Been, and very often the position of
the yolk. But the quality of the egg
U very largely determined by the ease
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A Kcr.'.w-Made Egg Candling Outfit.
with which the yolk moves and the di
rection of its motion. The operator,
therefore—•
1. Gr.isps tlie pointed end of the egg
with the tips of the fingers.
2. Holding the blunt end uppermost,
places the egg closely against the
opening, or spout of the candle.
n. Gives the egg a quick turn to the
right or left, watching the movement
of the yolk.
If the egg is perfectly fresh It may,
be difficult to find the yolk at firs«
glance, but as the egg is turned a
glimpse of It will be obtained.
MENU HINTS FOR HENS
;i; (Prepared by the t'nlted States ;1
Department of Agriculture.) ;c
;j; Use 1> aide-grown grains and ;;
:j; their by-products supplemented
with meat and fish scraps, or -I;
milk. Mix these feeds to make
a properly balanced ration. ij!
Feed a scratch mixture of 1
ij: whole or cracked corn twice
daily. Feed a mash, either dry ;j:
or wet, made of ground grains ijl
;j; and meat scrap.
Make tlie hens exercise for |
■ i! their feed.
Provide a light feed of corn
• in tim morning, supplying only ;i;
what the hens will clean up in
; a half-hour. Give a full feed
;\; in the afternoon, especially in ;j
J: cob] weather.
MAKE PROFIT FROM POULTRY
No Reason Why More Farmers Cannot
Make Money by Selling Breed
ing Stock and Eggs.
Many farmers are now breeding
standard hred poultry, exhibiting the
same, advertising, and making a good
profit front the sale of breeding stock,
*ggs for hatching, etc. There Is ae
Hue son why other farmers cannot An
*j well.
Reynard Lost His Cunning.
While hunting with three friends,
Thomas Comalle of Winsted, Conn.,
who hud no gun and had remained in
th.o auto after the others had pene
trated the hunting grounds, discovered
a fox sitting in a lot not far away. He
left the auto, crept along and told the
hunters. The quartette finished the
last lap on their hands and knees to
avoid detection. Then Cornalle, nest
ing his gun on a stone wall, shot the
fox twice, but the animal neither fell
nor ran away. The hunters went over
the wall and found reynard had been
caught in a trap.
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P
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