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THE FARMER PAINT8 THING8 WHITE. "The day's coining." said the farm- ' cr, "when every farm must sport white chickens to make a profit, and they must be White flocks or White Wyandottes too. That day's about here, and we are Just forced to breed these varieties." , "Why. how can that be?" i "Well, they arc I he only birds that really can fill the bill. We must leave

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to fanciers the breeding of Auconas, Andalusiuns. Crevecoeurs. Dorkings. Games. Uniuburgs, Houdans. Javas, La Fleches. Uiugshans. Minorcas. Orpingtons, Polish. Redcaps and Spanish, for these fowls with dark and .pink legs and pink and white flesh are no go at market, for the Americans have gone crazy on yellow skinned, yellow legged chickens." '*The dark feathered birds must go. too, even If tliey have yellow legs like Reds. Dotninlques and good old Barred Rocks, simply because the women are kicking up high jinks about dark pinfeathors." "But there are the Leghurus. Brabmas. Cochins and Orpingtons." "The Leghorns are not for market, but the champion egg farm breed, where they should be kept at free range. Bra b mas, Cochins and Orpington^ weighing to twelve pounds are hard to sell to ordinary trade, and the

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I Ink fleshed Orpington Is not the calL" -But why are White Bocks and Uottes so (sjpular with farmer and customer?" "Just because they are easily and cheaply raised, are a grand comblna- 1

- tlou TOr eggs and excellent fleeh, and , . they perfectly suit the demand for color, quality and size. "More farmers keep White Dottes ! because they seem hardier, their combe . can't freeze, they stand more forcing Tor quick growth and lay better. 'The Rock carcass Is not so attractive. as It is long and the skin rongb. but the Potre Is round, full breasted, of velvet skin and plumps quicker. It * Is prettier, cheaper and weighs a pound less than the Rocks, and that counta with the public. "But 1 notice." concluded the farmer. "that the White Rocks and Dottes are ahead In Eugland. which simply proves that white Is the rage and these magnificent American varieties win everywhere on merit" DONT8. ,l Don't feed young ducks whole corn. and never give tbem cayenne pepper. , _ Don't expect your uorse not to trample on the hens that roost on his feed trough. He shows horse sense. Don't worry your wife about those hens scratching up the onion patch if , e you are too lazy to pateb that feuce. Don't use auothct man's poultry cut j to advertise your culls. That may be i _ culinary art, but It's not acting a con- i sclentlous part. | Don't let the ducks walk In the t moonlight ttlnue. A fox will meet e .them far from home. For a duck stampede use moonshine; for duck parlysls use an electric storm. i » — — — • ■ — - — - . , . i THE FARMER. Who raises all the wheat for bread By which the human race Is fed? Who rise* with the sun at mom j To plant the field with golden corn. To sow the barley, oats and rye. By which man famine may defy? The farmer. Who rears the cattle on the hills. The sheep that pasture by the rills. The swine and fowl that furnish meat. The steed so strong of foot, so fleet? 1 Who is it makes a wilderness Smile with an Eden's loveliness? , The farmer. Who sows the wondrous cotton seed? 1 Who grows the flax and hemp we need? Who brings wool from his fleecy fold To protect man from wintry cold? Who Is the man that doth conjure The choicest secrets from nature? ' The farmer. C " , i_ Who twlhes the hills with fragrant vines Whose purple grapes drip richest wln»s? • Who plants the orchard's flowering tree That bends with golden fruit for thee? i On whose brave toll does man depend j For food and raiment? Name him, friend. The farm#. 7 What avocation, then, more grand 1 Than that of him who tills the land? Who could the scepter belter wield Than he who guides the plow afield? ' What man Is every inch a king? 1 To whom should nations tribute bring? , The farmer. C. M. B. DON'T BUILD LOW. The scars ou that chicken crank's bald head are uot necessarily from hen- | pecking. , He likely belongs to the old school . that teaches the lower theN poultry . house celling the better. But. oh. the , bumps! But not bnly cracked cranlums. for there is less air to breathe, and. ventilatiou being difficulL most of the moisture exhaled by the fowl rises to the low ceiling and settles ou the windows and there becomes deadly frost that , brings those winter diseases. The roosts, of course, are near the ceiling, and on a zero morning you will find that each fowl has melted its mark with the bent of Its back on the frpsty celling above It To prevent frosty walls you must have fresh air coming in and old air going out. and this circulating current , must be so conducted that it does not pass over the fowls. We have never seen a real low house : without bad air and dampness and frosty walls unless It was an open ; front boose or the person In charge i was an unusual expert on ventilation. ' It Is tjue a high house will at times show frost be damp and the air be offensive, but not when the building is dried out ventilated, bedded with dry Utter. dropplngB are removed regularly and there are not too many birds for the air space. A low bouse Is hot ter than a Dutch bake oven. To weak- . en stock and bring on the worst sumI mer ailments make birds sleep on I roosts where they pant aU night and alt with drooping wings, j Better let them roost on the trees or . Ottjragon whe«L

The hotter the bouse the more cfcwl « ers and cluck era. We bear Leghorn < breeders claiming that their pure bred I birds never get broody. We would ttkr to test them In one of these low bull' ' chicken cookers. j < Rather think you'd see two-thirds or them broody In a short time. If they 1 didn't get cooked. Now. a man may { save a little at the spigot by building a low house, for it wUl coat leas, bu ! in the end be loses more than be gains i at the bunghole. We find a house nine 1 feet high In front and seven in the ' back very satisfactory for hen and I men. FEATHERS AND EGQ8HELL8. The Idea that a very yellow yolk ' is richer than a light one is a mistake c It's simply a matter of more coloring matter. If you are anxious for orange ■ yolk eggs teed lota of yellow corn, but U will also make fat and brass. i Fuel her abdomen and yon will de- < tect the egg. If not sure catch another ben and compere tbem. The Injection i of a little oil sometimes helps to eject ' the egg. Sometimes it Is caused by an < overlarge egg, but more frequently by « egg stimulants. "When my roosters want to fight 1 ' Just turn em loose and let "em fight < It ooL" Now, careless friend, that I word isn't piece makers; It's "peace < makers" and It appUes everywhere." Oh, what a foolish man to allow beau- 1 tlful birds to butcher and weaken 1 each other when so easy and profitable < i to prevent! < | The sale of so many squabs and ' pigeons in open market by farmers at 1 the low price of two for a quarter Is not very agreeable to squab breeders, 1 but Ifa a small matter to squabble over. We have never yet purchased a set.tlng of good goose eggs at a farmers' market. If good when laid the early morning chill and shaking spoil them, and tbey are often exposed for sale several market days before purchased Same with turkey, duck and gulncn eggs. When males Injure their combs ~re move them from the flock at once. I The cannibal hens will pick at the bleeding parts, spoil their shape and. blood smearing the feathers, will start : feather eating. Use hydrogen peroxidc for wounds. Your neighbor should have more sense than to expect you to exchange ( your thoroughbred for his mongrel 1 eggs. If our brother did such a thing ' we would rather think "the fools aren't j 1 1 all dead yet" The young fellow who writes the j 1 "loveliest" love letters doesn't neces- j ' sarily make the best life partner. Just | 1 so the poultryman who writes flowery j language and describes his birds with i ' the eloquence of a silver tongued ora- ' , tor may be a prize fake. ' It's a mean practice to make a hen hatch three settings of eggs in sncces- - blon. It's very seldom a hen does the 1 stunt twice well. Just remember that ' the vitality of a cluck brings the chicks 1 and not luck. i . 1 "WHO'8 WHOr 1 A tnlnk. a weasel, skunk and fox. Opossum, owl and coon Decided on a chicken raid Upon the next, dark moon. The mink and weasel got there first Lo. when they reached the pens Borne thief had played a dirty trick And stolen all the hens! chicken heads lay In a heap. Beside thetn quills and gore. Oh. how that mink and weasel wept And ripped around and swore! The fox and possum arrived next The coon and owl came, too. And when the latter saw the heads He hooted, mad. "Who's who?" The six sat round those bloody heads. ■ And all tried hard to name sneak .-ho swiped the big. fat hens And spoiled their midnight game. And when tney all had said. "Who"# j The wise owl cried. •• 'Tls clear must have been that nasty skunk. B Or why Is he not here?" Just then the skunk came rushing In I As If chased by a dog. , "Come on!" cried he. "I've got It treed! It's a foul human hog!" a M. B. t V «l KURIOS FROM KORRESPONDENTS ' Q. Will you please give me a sure * way to tell the sex of pigeous? I got v a method from a "big gun," and It re- f suited in my mating hens, as both laid. r. A. Take bird by feet with right hand li and beak with left. When It flaps its wings. If tall turns down, rooster; up. s hen. a Q. What Is a fishtail comb? I have read of it. but have never seen one. r What breed of eblckens has them? c A. The end of n comb Is called (be f blade. When this blade Is split the <•' defect is termed "fishtail." as It re- s sembles a fish's tall. The defect Is , found among single comb breeds, and * the new Standard to be Issued In 1910 will debar birds with such defect o from shows. Q. 1 rend that poem about your bull- t dog, Ted. and. tbougb dogs aren't f chickens, yet I wish some information * about bulldogs. My dog trembles a great deal In the legs and every once t In awhile gets a spell that he doesn't t eat. What Is the cause, and what a should I give him? r A. Your dog trembles because you t give him too much meat. It affects a his nerves. Feed him more milk and vegetables. His loss of appetite Is caused by Indigestion or worms. Give him a liver pill one day and turpentine j on bread the next; then you'll hit both troubles, as they often go together. j Q. Why do the egg packers prefer April. May and June eggs? A, Because tHey are very plentiful ' therefore cheap, and do not spoil so , quickly as July. August and Septem- , ber eggs. Q. When do pigeons break the shell? I am offered a pair of prtie winning Pouters for S3. Is that a fair price? A. Squalis break the shall on the

good birds so cheap. j| Q. Do yon find It true that soft mash I makes egg* infertile or brings weak I ; chicks? A- No; that is a getup of the fel- I lows aening hoppers for dry feeding. Of all Interesting Inquests just listen when neighbors "view the remains" of fowls that have been foully dealt with "Rats did It" says one. "Nope; possums." says another. "Been smellin' any skunks round yere?" aska-a third. "Oh, anybody can see that was a weasel!" exclaims a fourth. "Bet my bottom dollar that was a mink." declares the old realdenter. Take a vote of the coroner's Jury, and about the sure conclusion Is, "Dem cbuckens done got kilt by sumpln." "1 ketcbed an awful big weaael last night" chirps Rube Corn tassel, "an" It was duck footed." Rube just moved down from the mountains, where weasels are "thicker than grasshoppers." When he lives along the creek longer he'll know a mink .when be aeea It and that they are bnllt on the bullfrog plan, and their half webbed feet make them expert swimmers and divers. • Minks can clean out a trout stream before a game warden can say "Jack and when they dive and come up under a flock of ducks there's something doing among the quacks. The miuk is larger aDd stronger than the weasel averaging two pounds In weight and In color Is brownish chestnut. with black along back to the end

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of the tail while his upper lip. throat and underbody are often white. Those who Uve along streams have j mink tales to tell. One farmer lost forty ducks in a ! night and a third trapped two minks i and five young ones after they killed | 150 chickens. | A poultryman had fifty chickens and the next night his neighbor opposite lost sixty, all through one mink family. Mr. Weasel Is as much a murderer This little sausage shaped sneak weighs as low as four ounces and has been known to slip through an Inch mesh. Skunklike, he throws off a vile odor a great traveler and glides so qui -I; from place to place that one weasel

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can set all the chicken cranks in a bir • j town to yelling: "Weasels! Weasels!" ij Tbey are dark and light brown, dar! j and light nil and mallese. with light. | : underlxxlv. though often in winter I [ tbey change white, except the tip nfj! their tails. | j This is thi ermine of royalty. Whll ' j the mink isi stronger, being known in ' J a large Murk a mile, tbe weasel I- | ' wiser, bolder and quicker. He will j j suicide by isuckiug his blood 1.* | i wounded. wIlArelease his mate if trap- { pod aud has been chased 1 wen iy-five |j miles and yet escaped, at times travel ing fifty feet utider the snow. | i He will scoot before '-yon aim u> « shoot, clhnb a tree "quick as a wink" * and disappear before you can think poultry fiends und often kill 'all In the ' coop. They kill In same way. bite old ; through aneries of neck an. I I catch young stock back of neck anil : J suck them dry. % Steel imps and raw meat doped wl;h strychnine are used t" il.-strvy l!icr OU rendered from fish and smeared j Contrary lo report, both varmints ; will return to a dead victim unless j fresh prey Is foun.l or you are i-u;e j enough to catch tbem. Young minks and weasels, being new j to the game, are easily caught and - j ten venture out in daytime. Old /.in very suspicious, aud a disarrangement of carcasses or humau scent ou- - them or the traps will often scare them A Changed Condition. "It is nearly six months now since 1 . tasted meat." 1 "On a diel eb?" I "Yes." "Have you noticed any change In your condition?" "I should say I have. I've been able to pay up nearly all my old debts. In another mouth I'll be absolutely lode pendent"— Chicago Record-Herald. I I

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