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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-06-23, Page 54 THURSDAY, JUNE , 1910 THE WINGITAM . ADVANCE 6 25 Per Cent. OFF .. Straw llats The weather has been against the sale of Straw Hats this season -- there- fore, we have decided to clear out all this season's goods at a discount of 2 Per Gent. All shapes and all sizes in stock—get first choice. McGee & Campbell Clothiers and Men's Furnishers Merchant -Tailor Clothes Look ett.er They Always Have == They Always Will That elusive something called style cannot be made in a factory. Good tailoring—the draping and cutting and modeling of cloth —is an Art, nothing less. Every good merchant tailor believes this with all his soul. He knows it from his own year's experience, patience and toil as a craftsman. He knows that merely to fit is but a small part of a good tailor's art. The right sort of clothes—the clothes you want— appeal as much through fitness as through fit. Through an air of distinotion and elegance a good tailor can express the best there is in you. Ile eau make your clothes bespeak class. He can preserve individuality. He can give personality a chance. You want such clothes and they can be had in` only ono way—they must' be cut and made expressly for you, from faultless fabrics, by that artist of merchants—a merchant tailor. These are tailoring facts. In neglecting them you wrong opportunity. WILSON E. C. Y ♦ E 11T BLOCK ♦ ♦ INGHAM The Fashionable Men's and Ladies' Tailor z That's granted, But thelurniture in that room is worked overtime. To buy a new suite every few years costs money. YOU don't need to. "LACQUERET" will restore the original beauty of your dining -room suite, making it just as attractive as the day yott bought it. LACQUERET is not a paint, nor is it a varnish, but a beautifying lacquer made with soluble and permanent colors. It is elastic, bard drying and lustrous, and easily applied. Its original beauty is lasting, t1 Write for our booklet, "Dainty Decorator." It is entertaining and informing. A Post Card brings it, Most Hardware and Paint Doalsrs sell "Lacqueret" International Varnish Co., Limited :363 TORONTO—WINNIP$G Too 01" it ?(OTE.--" LAct UEi ET'"' N sold in fall Imperial inottllre packages only Per Sale By J. O. Stewart & Co, Witty/harm Home Course In Poultrly. Keeping V. -•-- The Raising of Chickens. By MILO M. HASTINGS, Formerly Poultryman at Kansas Expert. ment Station, Commercial Poultry Ex. pert of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, Author of "The Dollar Hen." [Copyright, 1910, by American Press Aliso- elation.) MOST of the arguments con- cerning natural versus arti- ficial incubation will apply to the question of using hens or brooders for rearing. The state- ment is generally made that the hen is the best mother. Recently doubt has been thrown upou this claim, ho never, for mnuy experimenters seem to have demonstrated that the discredit that formerly fell upon the brooder is due to the fact that incubator hatched KANSAS EXP1:RIMENT STATION BROODER. chicks are not normal and hence not as livable as hen hatched chicks. This loss of wee chicks is the most discouraging part of the poultry busi- ness. If this loss is much greater than 1i or 20 per cent there is something radically wrong somewhere, and the mistake must be found and rectified or failure IS inevitable. Coops For Chicks. The coops provided for hens with chicks should be one of the most care- fully constructed features of the poul- tryman's equipment. First of all, they must be rat tight and rain proof, but not air tight.' They must also be easily cleaned. These points are best ob- tained by building a platform and set- ting upon it a floorless coop. The shape of the coop is not important, but it should have an open front protected by a projecting hood, so the rain can- not beat in, and covered with wire net- ting or in cool weather netting cloth. The coop itself if built of cheap lum- ber Must be covered with roofing pa- per - From twenty to forty chicks may be placed with each hen, the number de- pending upon the severity of the weather. The greatest source of the loss of chicks with hens is from the hungry hen leading the little ones around in the wet grass after rain or Leavy Flew. The best way to over- come this Toss is to keep the hen shut In, opening the coop sufficiently for the chicks to come out and exercise. The lien if provided with corn and water within reach need not be given her lib- erty for several days after the chicks are 1ii,ttehei1 Hua should be shut in for several weeks when the grass is wet. Brooders for chicks have until with- in the last few years been heated with kerosene lamps. Lately a great fad has arisen in poultrydom for fireless brooders. These fireless brooders are simply boxes arranged for slow venti- lation. The chicks are kept waren by hovering under a cloth arranged in such a fashion as to represent the feathered body of the mother hen. Chicks can be raised in fireless brood- ers, and in warm climates the method is all right. In the colder seasons and climates, however, fireless brooders have not been found practical by the majority of poultrymen. Lanip Brooders Best. Lamp brooders holding from 50 to 100 chicks have been successfully used for many years and are considered the best menus yet devised for handling young chicks on a large scale. Steam or hot water heated brooder houses have never proved very successful, and as they are expensive, to start with, I should advise the poultryman to be very sure he knows what he is doing before investing money in a plant of this kind. The brooder should be large, having not less than nine square feet of floor space. The greatest trouble with brooders in operation is the uncertain- ty of the lamp. The brooder lamp should have sufficient oil capacity and a large wick. Brooder lamps are often exposed to the wind, and if cheaply constructed or poorly inclosed the re- sult will be a chilled brood of chicks or perhaps a tire. In a lamp heated brooder one must see that the heat is provided in such a way that the chicks ill attennpting to get were) wilt not crowd in corners and trample each other to death. The best brooder heater or hover consists of a tin drum, inside of which circu- lates the hot fumes from the laulp. 73eneatti this drum the chicks hover. The best form for the heating drum Is a disk with a hole in the center, some. —Between Jtute 21 and 30 three Ort- tarlo farmers are to be hanged. In each of their eases effort hae been made to have the sentence changed from hanging to life imprieonment, but the department of justice has de• ceded not to interfere with the regular course of jtietloe. In at least enc case a clever youngg criminal lawyer has rats direct appeal to Kiztg George, tiling on' trig -order of a dauglinnt. This bole in the center acts se a vena lating flue and causes a gradual aircu. lation of warm air to pees up through the center and down over the sides of the heating drum, thus keeping the chicks uniformly warm and at ,the Sante time providing thein with fresh air, The exact temperature of the brood. er .is .p2 no particular consequence. The warmest part of it should always. be just a little too warm so that the chick may go toward or from the heat, as it pleases. The cocr.fortable chick sleeps squatting down with its head stretched out, If Cold 1t stands up in an effort to get nearthe heat which is above 1t. These attitudes of the chicks are by far the best thermometer for the brooder. The arrangement of the brooder for the sleeping accommodations of the chicks is important, but this is not the only thing to be considered in a brooder. The brooder used in the ear- ly season, and especially the outdoor brooder, must have ample space pro- vided for the daytime accommodation of the chick. This part of the brooder must be well lighted and somewhat cooler than the hover. As soon as conditions will _permit get the chick. ens out on a large floor or, better still, on the ground. Keep the chicks scratching in daylight and sleeping stretched out at night, and the most difficult problem of poultry raising has been solved. Feeding Chicks, Little chicks should not'be fed for forty-eight to seventy-two hours after hatching., Nature has provided for their nourishment during this period,, and people who worry about them starving are wasting pity. Another error made by kind hearted people is in thinking the chickk* needs bread and milk, hard boiled egg yolk or some other soft food or wet food. On the contrary, the chick should be given the same class of food that It would get if it first saw daylight in its na- tive Indian jungle. The natural diet consists of seeds, insects and fresh sprigs of grass. This we must duplicate the best we can. A. chick may be first fed any grains that chickens eat in later life 1f the particles aro small enough for the chick to swallow, and they do not need to be so small, either, for newly hatched chicks can swallow Kaffir corn or whole wheat. Hulled oats and millet are two of the choicest grain foods for young chicks. Wheat, crack- ed corn and Kaffir corn are staple poultry food. Feed small quantities and as often as is convenient. If the food is burled in a deep litter they must work longer getting it out. The idea is to have thein always hungry enough to hunt for food and always a little food for them to find. If the chicks are at liber- ty feeding often is not so important. Three times a day would be sufficient. while if they roam far In the fields, finding much food, morning and even- ing feeding is all that is necessary. It is highly important that the young chicks be given a little neat food in some form. Commercial beef scrap, to be had at the feed store, is the best meat food for any sort of poultry. For chicks hatched in the spring of the year and allowed to range outda-drs-no special provision for green food need be made. If hatched in the winter it is highly important that this be pro- vided in some fotin. There is nothing better for winter green food than kale, which if planted the season be- fore will keep green all winter in al- most any climate. Early lettuce and PR;ISD AIR COLONY DOUSE. other greens may be planted by those who are engaged In chick growing in a small way, but n cheaper and more feasible way is to sprout oats. Oats are sprouted by being soaked in warm water and allowed to remain nln a warm place for several days. They are ready for feeding when the sprouts are two or three inches Ion; and are devoured greedily by chicks of all ages. This absurdly simple idea has been extensively sold as a get -rich - quick poultry scheme. Young chicks should be provided with grit of some sort. Special care is necessary to keep fresh water before them at all times. The water dish In the brooder ought to bo partitioned off in such a way that chicks can reach their heads only to the water dish; otherwise they will get. themselves wet. The customary chick watering fountain is made by inverting a bottle or can in a shallow basin se that the water will run out as the chicks re- quire. It is especially desirable that all young growing poultry be given free range, as there is no time in the life of an animal when exercise and liberty are so essential as during the growing period. Chicks from the age of four weeks to six mouths are very easily taken care of, ns practically the only loss during this period occurs from the depredation of thieves, hum= or ani - real. If good rat tight coops aro pro- vided which are closed at night and fresh water, grit and hoppers of beef scrap and cracked corn are kept before the chickens at alt tttnes 'they will thrive upon the ranch and need little caro. —lion, Sydney Fisher, Minister of Agriculture in the Dominion Govern• ment, has begun a campaign against that household pest and dieeaee ear• vier, the common fly. It has long been established that the fly is a filthy, dangerous animal, and Mr. rieheir should be welt supported in his efforts to get rld ae far as possible of the annoying rand dangerous pest, CHURCH UNION !COMING.. (13y Observer in Guelph Ilorald) If the question of superanuation Is the only thing that JR against church union—and apparently that is the only objection urged -then the union of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational churches is not a great rnan-y moons off. It speaks volumes for the liberality of thought pervading these three de• nominations that all the far more momentous questions have been so adjusted that only a minor one of fin- ancial dealingawith the retired minis- ters is now left, and even this difficult. ty only exists in the minds of a few. The majority are satisfied, and oven if they were not the question is not so important when you think of the larger question which has been over- come. That liberality of thought in even religious matters is progressing by leaps and bounds is evidenced by what has so far been accomplished towards church union. Observer has always been a warm admirer of the project, believing that while it need not change one single doctrine of any church, it can be made such a power for good in the evangelization of the world for Christ. Just as laymen of all denominations get together to ad- vance some good cause, either nation- ally or municipally, so they can get together as church members in spreading the Kingdom of Christ. Church union will make for a more liberal spirit in all the churches, and it will mean a great forward move- ment in the missionary field. The various denominations will not here- after be content to see each overlap- ping the other in fields where the vineyard is poor, while elsewhere the grain is white unto the harvest. There are so many millions of those whom we term heathen to be saved that jealousy and overlapping of work is ludicrous ; there are enough and plenty for all. A. little more common sense, more business prudence, and a unifying of Christianizing forces will materially shorten the time to when the world is converted to Christ. It is a good sign that old feuds are dying out, and liberality of thought taking their places, when church union presses forward successfully to this great common goal. Success to it, and speed the day when it is finally consummated. A Great Age. The oldest lady in Cornwall, if not in all Canada, Mrs. Alexander Ross, passed away on June 15th, aged 104 years and 0 months. She was born in Glengarry county on St. Andrew's Day, 1805, her father being Archibald McMillan, a native of Scotland, who had come to Canada 15 years earlier and settled near Alexandria. In 1830 she married Alex. Ross, of Cornwall township, and came here to Iive, a couple of miles from Cornwall. She enjoyed unimpaired mental faculties, and was able to move about with the aid of a cane till a few months ago. National Importance To Public Health. The fundamental importance of the subject of pubiio health to our nation- al civilization and industrial efficiency was concleely expressed by the Chair- man of the Commission of Conserva- tion in his inaugural address before the First Annual Meeting of the Com- mission, In this. connection Mr. Sifton said in part ;—"The physical strength of the people is the resource from which all others derive value. Extreme and scrupulous regard for the lives and health of the population may be taken as the best criterion of the degree of real civilization and re- finement to which a country has at- tained. It cannot be said that it has received too much attention, though the Provinces, the Dominion, and the municipalities have health laws and health administrations all doing effec- tive and useful work. There are, however, many branches of the sub- ject, general in their character, which merit attention. The Dominion spends hundreds of thousands of dollars in eradicating the diseases of animals, and the work, it is pleasing to know, is being done with thoroughness. But no similar effort is made by Province or Dominion to meet the ravages of diseases among human beings, such, as tuberculosis." That there is a great work to be done in checking the inroads of tuber- culosis is evidenced by the mortality statistics of the last census. In the census year there were 9,709 deaths from the disease in Canada, Or, in other words, twelve deaths out of every hundred in that year were due to tuberculosis. And yet tuberculosis is classed by modern medical science as a preventable disease, Blamed The Comet. A traveler who was in Kenilworth on the day the terrific boiler explosion tooklac e there,fan esteemed merchant of the ells• o tmbitious little burg. TI force of the explosion is said to have thrown goods from the shelves in the store. At the moment of the crash, the proprietor was carrying an armful of dishes across the store. On hearing the awful crash and seeing the contents of his shelves tumbling about him, he dropped the dishes to the floor, ejaculating an introductory expletive, and said—"The comet 1 Phe comet has hit us 1" PILES. You.wili find relief in Zam-Buk 1 It eases the burning, stinging pain, stops bleeding and brings ease. Perseverance, with Zam.. Buk, means ciirell shy not prove this ? du Drugw bcx Storee.— amTBLac pop. ALL. SUMMER 90R ,B, PEOPLE use ML Floorglaze for the hulls of sailboats and motor -boats, and are satisfied with the way it looks and lasts. That proves M L Floorglaze is water -proof. A good all-purpose finish, therefore. EOPLE use ML Floorglaze on vehicles, too,_Find find it looks better and lasts . longerathan any kind of varnish or paint. That proves M L Floorglaze is fade -proof and weather-proof. The perfect pro- tector for all woodwork, therefore. `) RULE find that M L Floorglaze helps JE housewives keep floors dust -free because the surface stays glass -hard and glossy. M L Floorglaze doesn't mind wet, sun, scuff of feet nor dragging of furniture across it. L FLOORGLAZE is the best thing you can get to help renovate the whole house. Fine for all woodwork, indoors and out. Makes old furniture look new again. Goes farthest, too—gallon covers 500 square feet. Choose among 17 pretty colors in solid enamel —seven Lacs to imitate hardwoods—and Trans- parent for natural finish. Comes in little and big tins. Easy to put it on right. Ask at your dealer's or write us for news of the hundred uses you could make of M L Floorglaze. The Inlperial'Varnish & Color Co., Limited, Toronto Recommended and Sold by all Reliable Dealers, including J. G. STEWART & CO. 3 aectuiae� a Hai k.v!sx=ermarv.ea�. iapii .__ r To realize the importanee of fru• gality is to acquire the habit of saving — and of depositing your sav- Inge in a Bank. You need not feel embarassment hi depositing as small a sum as one dollar in the Bank of. Hamilton, Such a step will mean for you the commencement of a new era of ease and content. C, Pi SMITH, Agent LARD'S 20 Per Cent. Discount Sale OF MENS HIGH-CLASS TAILORED SUITS. We make this BIG CUT IN PRICE to reduce our Clothing of in stook, which g must be reduced one-half in 30 days. Great chance to save 20 cts. on the dollar. Buy a Ten Dollar Suit and have handed back to you a two dollar bill. 110 Men's Suits to choose from, comprising Plain Worsteds, Fancy English Worsteds, Black or Blue Serges, Fancy Tweeds, &c. MEN'S PANTS in all the New Patterns and best makes and styles, at 20 per cent. off our close selling prices. BOYS' SUITS—Big Stock of new patterns ; two and three-piece Suits, made with the bloomer or plain pants ; your pick of the BEST SUITS at TWENTY PER CENT. off regular prices. TWENTY PER CENT. PROFIT for you if you buy your Clothing here. Move quick and get first choice. ViCanzszer E. Isard & Co. 50,010 Pounds Of Wool 'anted CASH OR TRADE We have in stock for the Wool sea- son the best Blankets, Sheets, Sheet- ing and Yarn, made from our. best Wool by Howe & Co. of Wroxeter. We also have one of the best stocks of Men's ready-made Suits ever shown in this store. Boys' 2 and 3 piece Suits, of the latest cuts and styles, from $2.76 'to $5.00 each. It will pay you to see these suits before buying elsewhere. Ladies' Suitinge, in all the newest shades, from 50c per yard up. Ladies' Wash Suit materials, in all the leading shades. See our Ladies' White Lawn Waists and White Wear. Wo also have the best range of Carpets, Rugs, Oil Cloths and Linoleum, shown in Wingham. Genuine Scotch Linoleum and English Floor 011 CIoths, just arrived from the manufacturers, which we are offering at special prices. Umbrellas and Parasols, Men's and Boys' Fine and Coarse Straw Hats, Shirts and Shirting, Overalls and Smocks of all kinds. We will give 10 per cent. off all the above goods in exchange fer Wool. Remember that we are selling No. 1 sugar at $6,45 per cwt. cash, and sugars are advancing. Best grades of Flour always in stock. ALL KINDS PRODUCE TAKEN. T. A. Mills WIN HAM