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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-04-15, Page 8!'•ter=+s. POULTRY ane EGGS PIGEONS FOR PROFIT.. 1 t W n a a to theRais- ing Best Methods of a ing Squabs For Market. To rear squabs successfully a per- son must know his birch, must know that there are none but working pairs, must keep them free from vermin and be in a position to notice anything ir- regular that may be going on in the loft, says the Farm Journal. This re- geires constant care and attention, and a loft of 200 pairs requires at least two hours' work per pay, besides one day a week for killing the youngsters and 1 cleaning up in general. The females, as a rule, are more delicate than the males. This is true In both old and young pigeons. ' Seldom do young pigeons produce their first squabs in less than eight months. and two pairs are about all they produce before they are one year old. The birds in the first pair are generally small. The best breeders are birds that are batched in April or May. These gen- erally do not mature before October and seldom breed until the following spring. This gives them a chance to Tho earthenware nappy Is a great convenience in raising squabs. it holds the nest material in place, and eggs and squabs do not tumble down on the floors as with the old, careless way. The old birds like the nappy and are not so likely to nest on the floor or tear up some other bird's nest. They stick to the clean, roomy nest, and there are no bugs to drive them out. The pic- ture shows a pair of squabs in a nappy. get fully developed, and they will rear much hardier and larger youngsters than those that breed when younger. Birds have been known to breed when only three months old, but such early mating should be discouraged. In order to avoid dark skinned squabs it is advisable not to breed from birds that have very dark legs or beaks. Some have an idea that a bird with black plumage is more like- ly to be dark skinned than a white feathered one, but this is not the case, as,some of the whitest skinned squabs that have been produced were from black pigeons. The winter quarters must be dry— but airy, of course—and perfectly free from drafts.. Don't throw food on dirty and damp ground. Tbis is a poor system. The grain becomes sour, damp, and if all is not eaten up becomes spoiled and wasted. The best plan is to use trays and feed inside the buildings where no dampness can spoil the food. Feed as much as will be eaten up clean at one meal. It is far better to have birds go a little hungry than to have food before them all day, as some do. BREEDS OF POULTRY. Varieties of Fowls That Find Favor With American Growers. The four classes of poultry which are of most interest to the commercial poultrymen are American, Asiatic, Mediterranean and English. The mem- bers of the Aeiatie are noted for their great size and include the Brahmas, Coehins and Langshans. This class matures slowly and lay brown eggs. The "egg machines" come from the Mediterranean class. They are the Leghorns, Minorcas, Spanish, Andalu- sians and Anconas. They are mostly small in size, mature quickly, are non - sitters and lay white eggs. For an all round breed great satis- faction may be had with the American class, which Includes the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, Buckeyes, Dominiques and Javas. All of these make good mothers, lay brown eggs and attain large size. In the English class the Orpington is now recognized as the best. This bird is finding great favor in the United States and from its records no doubt will continue to do so. It is a grand bird, of great size and lays brown eggs. All of the breeds mentioned have made good, and the beginner may safe- br adopt tiny of them. , Beginners In Poultry. Sb be successful the beginner will do weir to allow the old hen to hatch and rear the chicks, allowing them free I nage and with food in hoppers con - latently at hand. There will then be as equal chance for a steady, even devel- opment in the chicks, which will tell •i later in the breeders selected there- from. Ton have only to watch the ueramble and note the shy spedmena, mostly pullets, hovering about the edges of hand fed Sociis to apprediata this point. Pigeons For Breeding. Pigeons are at their best when three years'c old and are Seldom worth keel. ing Mere than seven yearn reit necks will average More than five prides of d squabs a year. It le true that some paira of breeders Will do better than ' tI' t, but other* Will not do alar 1111" 1 THE WINGHAM TIMES April 15th, 1915 FR $5°° BETWEEN BUFFALit ?LLEA'D t�'ON°���M•i' .� .}. - 4a;r ? w�.w a�'i 'Il.ra Croat Shiga t'..a; L: a� I ., ° ter'?rix c`A .. ��TFo e^t nrimo-te n .y a`c„et asy ." Vona :c)r15Co } r r . an41'41 t., Wu”" a.ea..,mcda- ' CITY C: is i :t0 —^ S `a• n:" �crc u r �z^.� s1 �_ "C . .. a.. t ' t',_ i'° BUFFALO—.c._?;,, M w n7:-0121VFI.A.Nn LenyaDufzalo - ]:OOPAT, 7. •iw(.. i . ". ).'.l* • Arrive C evclnrd • - i 1 A. N,a i - a a - i. J A,;.:. li n craw` t ,l a ,_141 Con,ectiona nt Cleveland so- Ce..ar i u nt ut- .. ,, �.�! -� o rJrt-nit and :•.11 ro` itn V':gt and tioutltwctt. '.giro:dti48rt.,readin; b,twee,' Euffala,an ,r far tuanrtati_n en our atcu;na•ra. A..i yatrt L t asst fir tic:. ot•ia'1.A 3 1.- ., • penutiful•y adored sactu,::ctipuzzgehnrt5s1:ur- } Lodi c.`.era r ac:,,a•ex F 2 n SI•'I,A: WIW ' pert en rm.e nt of r,ve cTa' a c'ov.. t u..a�e en i mn.i;n telco C.2.4 for oar 21 1 a a Piet mini a^d dc3criptivebonklct_ren. G its THE CLEV13LAIW & BUFFALO TRANLiei. CO., C1o`yolnnri, Oho t -.w �-r—�•-^..a-uR�s«r ;°J "• G'�": KaF' �' .u'Q�' • ny `� •••%a•'•atm li THE LAZY FARMER. My neighbor's gone to lots of toil, to make a seed bed of his soil; he disced the corn stalks all up fine, and laughed when I set fire to mine. He's fanned his oats and killed the smut, he's got the cow yard gates all shut, to keep from tramping,up the fields, for fear he won't get bumper yields. That fellow's rather work than not, his fields are like a garden plot; he's worked and disced the soil so much, the seed will grow to beat the Dutch. It takes more work than it is worth, to plow and pulverize the earth; to smash up every clod and lump will keep a fellow on the jump. It's hard on men and horses too, to get out early in the dew. and plug away from morn till night, I never thought that it was right, to work the poor old horses so; I'd rather let my seed bed go. Suppose I should get' larger crops; at harvest time the market drops, and I've got lots of grain to haul, with little profit in it all. If every one would llo like me, and grow a little crop, by gee, the price would go clean out of sight; we'd count our profits up all right, we'd count the money o'er and o'er, and never need to work no more! Walt. Mason • SELF -BETRAYED A sentry was giving close attention to his post in the neighborhood of a British army camp in England, chal- lenging returning stragglers late after dark. The following is reported as an incident of his vigil: "Who goes there?" called the sentry at the sound of approaghing footsteps. "Coldstream Guard!" was the re- sponse. "Pass, Coldstream Guards!" rejoined the sentry, "Who goes there?" again challenged the sentry. "Forty-ninth Highlanders!" returned the unseen pedestrian. "Pass, Forty-ninth- Highlanders!" "Who goes there?" sounded a third challenge, "None of your d—n business!" was the husky reply. "Pass, Canadians!" acquiesced the sentry. IL Du not suffer ' another day with Itching, Bleed- ing, or Protrud- ing Piles. No surgical oper- ation required. Dr. Chase's Ointment will relieveyou at once and as certainly curd you. COo. a cox; all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto. Sample box free if you mention this paper and enclose 2c. stamp to pay ,postage, A, Weals Ct,ubtptt ll;oy. "My boy Frank seemed weak -chested and took a very severe cold," writes Mrs. 1), Stevens, Ninga, Man. "The many medicines used did not wain to benefit him, until we tried Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine and found it to be exactly what was'wantod to cure him." No treatment is so thorough and effective as a cure for croup and bronchitis. R ' PERSIAN GULF PEARLS. Theoll w' f o ing is the report of the promotion examinations in S. S. No. 8, East Wawanosh. 6') per cent is pass, and 75 per cent is honours. Sr. 1II to Jr. IV—A. Page 76 per cent, A. Stapleton 65, L McDowell 61, M. Bolt 60, A, Menzies 55. Jr. III—J. Page 45, M. Menzies 41. Sr. I1 to Jr. III—A. Gibbons 83, IA, Henry 78, L. Bone 76, E. Page 72, A. Menzies 62, A. McIntosh 57, B. Leis!). ;nen 56. Jr. II • R Menzies 51, E. Gibbons 51, I to Jr, II—E. Page. Primer to I—G. Page.—M. A, Smith, teacher. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S - OA,STORIA Til UNE BRET. The following is the report of the pro. motion examinations for S. S. No. 11, Turnberry. To pass 60 per cent. on the whole total and 40 per cent on each subject. Froni Jr, IV to Sr. IV Total 725-0. Groves, 05 per cent. Sr. I I to Jr. IV Total 725—G Groves, 69; E Shrigley, 67. Jr. III to Sr. I1I Total 655—D Cleg- horn, 69. Sr. II to Jr. IIi—L Darnell, 69; A Kendall, 62. Recommended —M Dennis, L Cruikshank, A Lockridge. Pt. II to Jr. II—D Dennis, F Wilson, A. Wilson, G Finlay, E Shrigley, C Crtilkshank. Sr,•I to Pt. II --M Wells, W Darnell, H Kendall, M Hart. Jr. I to Sr. I ---C Wilson, Elmer Shrigley, C Deyell, G Deyell, J Cleg- horn, N Potter, E Shrigley, W Dennis. L. V. Johns, teacher. Build Up The Home Town F YOU want to live in the kind of a Town, C:, Like the kind of a Town you like, You needn't slip your clothes in a grip And go on a long, long Bike. You'll only find what you left behind, For there's nothing that's really new. It's a knock at yourself when you knock your town. It isn't your Town—it's YOU. REAL Towns are not made by men afraid, Lest somebody else gets ahead. When everyone works and nobody shirks, You can raise a Town from the dead. And if, while you make Tour personal stake, Your neighbor can make one, too; Your Town will be what you want to see. It isn't your Town—it's YOU BE LOYAL TO YOUR OWN COMMUNITY The Divers Are Practically Slaves of the float Masters. Bombay, noted for its pearl markets, is net a ,pearl producer, though the gems are bought there for shipment to all parts of the world. The pearls sold in Bombay come from the Bahrein islands, a small archipelago on the western side of the. Persian gulf, which, although adjacent to territory under the control of Turkey, is gov- erned by an independent sheik under special British protection, the British government maintaining a political agent there. Of this group of islands only those of Bahrein and Maharak are of any size. Their importance, however, is out of all proportion to their extent, for they are the great center of the Persian gulf pearl fisheries, which are the world's chief source of supply for pearls. The sheik of Bahrein is said to nave a customs revenue amount- ing to about $400,000 per year, which makes him the richest ruler in the Persian gult. The pearl fisheries un- der his control may in a good year bring to his islands as much as $2,- 500,000. It is difficult for newcomers to ob- tain the services of good dryers owing to the system in vogue, which prac- tically makes this class of men slaves to the masters of the pearling boats. The men's earnings in the majority of cases are insufficient to keep them all the year round, and consequently' they take advances from their masters year after year to such an extent that they can never repay their debt. When a diver elects to engage himself to tun - other boat the owner of the latter has to pay up the debt due to the former master should he engage him.—Argo- naut. SCRAPS AND A DiNNER. A French Chef's Feat With Food That Had Been Discarded. A year or two ago I was chef in a country gentleman's household in Eng- land. The morning after my arrival I looked around the kitchen garden, and in the dust bin that stood in the back yard I saw a mixture of food that could have been turned into a first class dinner. 'Ln about four quarts of milk that bad turned sour were swimming stale half' loaves, drumsticks of fowls, old barn hones, cold boiled potatoes, trim- mings of dough made for pieerusts, I racked eggs. some old codfish and some spoiled macaroni. Next day I found a second consign- ment, very similar, about to be carried way and thrown out. I stopped this lot. sorted it out and, with the help of a little stock, half a dozen eggs and 11 hare that had been shot on the es- tate, served a seven course dinner for a family of ten that night, and the master of the household called me up and complimented me before the whole family on the best dinner they had had for a year. Afterward his wife sent for me and told me that, though pleased with the dinner, she feared I had been too ex- travagant and said that her rule was net to allow more than 7 shillings per head in housekeeping. It was a se- vere shock to her to hear I had fed the family on the sins of the cook that had left the day before, the cost being not over ninepence per head.—From an Interview With a French Chef in Na- tional Food Magazine. The Market In Cauls. We believe that there is still some market for cauls among sailors,who retain their belief in the efficacy of the membranes as a protection against shipwreck and drowning. Notices of "Cauls For Sale Within" were to be seen recently in windows in the vicin- ity of the docks of both London and Liverpool, but it is some time since we have noticed an advertisement of a caul for sale in the daily press. It may be remarked that the sale of cauls, so far from being a very ancient custom, is a comparatively modern innovation. The witchcraft of the middle ages de- clared against the caul retaining any virtue whatever if parted with by gift or sale to any but a member of the child's kindred.—London Lancet. A Spanking Team. "Now, Tommy, this little story says, 'The rich man had a spanking team.' Now, what's a 'spanking team?" "1 know, My pa and ma's one."— Baltimore American. Was Troubled With Nervous ProstratioN. Many people although they know of nervous prostration do not know what the symptoms are. The principal ones are, a feeling of fright when in crowded places, a dread of being alone, fear of being in a confined place, a horror of society, a dread of things falling from above, fright at travelling on railroad trains, and disturbed and restless, un- refreshing sleep, often troubled with dreams. Mrs. George Lee, Victoria Harbor, Ont., writes: "1 ant writing to tell you of the experience I have had with Mil- burr's Heart and Nerve Pills. I was so nervous I could not do my own work, I did not want to see any one, or would 1 go any place. My nerves were bad for three years, and my heart was so bad it }rade me tremble all over. I took three boxes of your pills, and I never was better than T am now. I weigh 20 pounds more than 1 ever did." Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are 50c per box, 3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. 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