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CANADA'S »:ECORD AT^LEADIN
AGRICULTURAL' SHOWS II•T 1922
The high place secured by Canada'
agricultural and horticultural pro
ductsat shows held in Great Britain
and the United. States, in 1922, is in
dicated by the following summary:
ONTARIO.
At the Imperial Fruit Shots+; held i
London, England, apples :from On
term secured eleven first prizes; nth
second prizes and one third prize. I
addition to this, a splendid display o
her far;
Thevisit' woe, net ,parp1
soon the Widow ellziihed.
ver and wient hfcconghixi
farm.
"That is the way lac ' did
the time," she said, tela;
ode to Debby Quuritts, ,la
omisto.73;Adelaide St. West, Torbrito who was of some ,age,
and very plain slaealsfnt
G pionship nine times in eleven years, "If 1 had husban.
not t„xhibiting one year and taking Blared Mase Quetta "1
second the other, the hair of: his head :'R.
s . No darn man could
- a,I,BIETA,; They're all alike, -cat f'
Once more Alberta upheld its rep"- ,,
teal= at the International Ha and A little of that bind:?
y ould do Vir e
Grain Show in Chicago,` in 1922, when wg a v/7Y�
grain from this province secured no agreed Mrs.';Tevzs.
less than three grand championships, "You're darn right!" •i
one being in oats, another in peas and Quatts. "they're all;
another in rye. In wheat, Alberta ex- Think how pretty Alma``
hibits gained 2nd, 8th, 10th 'and 11th In her --slender an
places. In oats, exhibits from Al- 'a flower. Now hooky ate
Berta secured lst and grand eeham- ihimier and fadeder^"ever
s pionship, as well as 12 other prizes ain't no shadder of
from 2nd to 24th. In barley, Alberta neither! He can 'be•;•
si exhibit's secured '1st and 5th places tries."
without his adVice
commercial apples and pears wa
made.- Seventy eases of choice pear
and apples, and six hundred basket
oT "Wealthy" apples, the only (lesser
apples ready at that timed
most imposing exhibit and attract
a great deal of attention.
At 'the exhibit• of Ontario dairy
cattle at the Nrtionai Dairy Show
held at St. Paul, Minn., Ontario cattle
won two championships,. two 1st
prizes, three 2nd prizes, and five 3rd
prizes, besides securing several other
awards in "string" classes. In the
Dairy Herd Class, Ontario stood.sec-
ond in the exhibits.
At Chicago, where the International
Live Stock Show has become ,the
greatest world's show of its kind, On-
tario achieved great distinction in
Clydesdale horses, carrying off the
Reserve Championship, two ist prizes,
three 2nd prizes.and several 8rd and
4th prizes, all classes being very
strongly contested.
The outstanding achievement was
the awarding of the champion carlot
at the show to Ontario, and the carry -
e
t Irepease Alberta exhibits secured 1st "It is his unchecke'
Sad championship, also 2nd, the widow. "As• a bo'
3rd and 4th. In rye, Alberta was at home. Now he is'
I given 1st and grand champion, and grown 'boy whom
in alfalfa won second place. spoil by yielding;
,� At the International Live Stock She thinks his Wo
Show, Chicago, 1922, Alberta stock thinks so too."
won,; the following places:
Galloways, lst and grand chain-
'
ionshi • Shorthorns :a 4th and a 7th
p P, , -
prize; Herefords, 2nd, 9th. and 11th
places; Grades, 1st and 4th, and
Shorthorn .special.
The livestock exhibit was prepared
by the University of Alberta.
The grain exhibit at Chicago
made up by exhibitors from
the province,- and was i
the field crops commies
Department of A gripe
ing o$ by an Ontario breeder of the
grand championship wether under
two years, and the grand champion-
ship of the show by the same exhi-
bitor. This was the first' time in the
history of the show that the top
prizes were all won by ane man.
The province . was represented in
the following classes: Southdown';
Oxfords, Lincolns, Leicesters and
Shropshires, and the exhibits won in.
all classes eight championships, thirty-
two first prizes, twenty-five second
prizes, and several third prizes.
In the, Shorthorn and; Angus classes
of general cattle, Ontario again stood
high, and the fact that. Ontario
breeders were chosen as; judges at this
show attests^ to the character of the
stock that is being raised y fhas;
province,
At the London'sho,w, one- thing was
broti ht'erble ':i
S ,... put v...rar y and that was
the need for establishing grades and
uniformity in order to compete in the
British market. For example, in but-
ter, Australia scored 100 points
against 97 for Ontario, and won first,
second and third prizes in the salted,
as well as the unsalted classes.
The same thing was true in cheese; 1
South Africa winning first prize, and
Ontario coming second, with another
entry being highly commended.
This competition with producers
from other countries opens up to our
farmers a vision of what world trade
"Yah!"- 'sneers
"When he is hung
to eat,, and when,
snore. .Ketch rise,"
man that way
bile this tfiner'e
Mrs. Tevis' ';
formation. •
"Huh!" ejau
tedQn throaagh to ;completion or ;'they would
b .total losses,
03._
, .and Alma •suffered even nacre than di
ets li v Yirge, His conceit was badly bumps
d ,liar but she was exit to the heart. Oft
at night her pillow wee wetwith tear
oft ,Qf Ons'day soon, following a' visit to th
Ccoxrett home, the' widow told Deb4. ;
girl,. ".;,.Ina has broken down under th
Omani. $he has a fever and is. `d
weight lirious part of the time."
"Just • as I expected!" declare
da- Debby.
im by The doctor gave to Alma'a 'case
ething! long-tailed Latif r azne, but the wido
ag me! and Deb' knew it, for old -fashions
I" brain fever. Thereafter one or th'
eatment other of them, was there : almost con
good;" tiunously. -Virge did what he could
•for he was not wholly callous, Th
ed Miss days dragged on.
coots, One afternoon when Virge had gon
;when he '.to the upstairs chamber to take a na
sweet as Mrs. Tevis. and Miss Quatts were in
aasee ing the sitting room' below. There was •
y. There stovepipe thimble, in the ceiling, ex
for' it • ( tending up though the floor. Possibl
ivhen, be the widow had temporarily forgotte
its existence and :perhaps she had no
•aid I "Do you .s'pose she is going to 'die?
spoiled the hired ,girl asked;"
�1 over- I "1 wiz afraid so, returned Mrs
mics; to Tevis '
where, "It oughter he. him !" said Deb em
!,phatically.' "When.I look, . at her lay
dhe1ing ;there, as thin as a shaving an
with her' eyes blazing with fever,
maid. feel just - exactly li e I don't
aa. rot • k d is t len
must ` blamingherelfwhat! To rfor the moaning
bleg. <ir
•daraz1- al • V
,w ked into with his eyes open, an
15,111' sthen trying' to tell `him she loves him
. f rrzighty near snakes Me bust-right,ou
belierin'! Loves him—the brindle cat's.
I foot! I swear, if I had a husband like
tts•. "It' that I'd snatch him around by the hair
the 'nn- I.of the head till he learnt some de-
,. eclipse cency!"And a good deal more of this
y don't sort `
same, By and by Virge quietly deseende
the back stairs, and passing part wa
't gest one around the house, stopped 'at the ope
; window of the sick room and listened
z'taanly n for a little while to the weak, hopeless
izag with." voice begging and pleading for for-
°z er, °Sbrt of. a given's. And seemingly` the scales
husband Treats" ltig e loath, fess fell from his eyes and he saw his wife
consideratioani,• than "k *o4ld..a 'work as the gentle girl he had` swora. to
mule, b'cuz a. mule wi 1 stand just so love, cherish and protect as 'long as
much andtheti lash out, while a wife his life lasted.
will endure anything,' asserted Miss Presently he stumbled blindly to the
Quatts,, barn, scrambled up into the loft and
Some days later.Mrs. Tevis made a tumbled face downward in , the hay.
hurried trip to.<•the city, grumbling to Lying thus he shook with sobs of re=
herself as she' went and"chuckling at Morse and beat his hands on the- hay
tines •:during ;� f return journey? ; until the dust •thereof `stuck to the
Afterwards'•; theta , appeared,'at the tears -that wet his face.
Gorrett place:ci pleasant -spoken strap- _• Came a: day not long.- afterwards
ger who introduced himself as P ''J: xwhen. Mrs. Tevis took her pen in hand
:Skerry: Be had° a `inind to alums the and ,rote, in part as follows, to one
a4oaring city and settle , dowii.+'in the Pain. ; J ' Skerry, son of one of her
country. Followe&considerable speak= 'nieces.first mania •
i an
d presently Vage sold;the fari -- zf ';your~ vacation didyou a
.to.,.Ske" a Y
_t ' th-r > ,ash n=, ;';, , ,. .. Y. ,. ..,
• a1' �..!er.> ,�. ,��...,., . 'tenth,as much. good•as zt•dxd.Alma•you
x.,:, _
p c. nr. 1
� f e th t 'our .
e
dG�� 'i r time was`vrel
a y 1.spent:
di
a. When Shall We Teach Betty" to Pitch 1,1p Her Playthings?
BY ORA A. CLEMENT, 4
Betty's mother had just gotten the be successful as`4 poultry v a'mprn your
e little four-year-old settled down for must work' with Nature --;You can't''_
her afternoon nap, oppose her."
d " o I '11 not much more "thread hou tful� ,a
And n w wz
She drew a star d gh ly nd
a than get this room put to rights be- then went on: "It is odd, and it istil
fore she wakes up again, she' laugh -more interesting to watch the s>ftlpe
ingly remarked to her college friend, thing' in children. Did you ever think
now .:a primary teacher, who was what a powerful urge there must 'lie
spending a few days with her. in the little child to keep him tryia;c,I','
1 "Why ,, not leave the •playthings to walk in spite of the discouraging
e where they are and let -Betty pick falls he gets?
` them up 'when she wakes? .rhe friend "All through Betty's` childhood and
e aslFed. youth she will be led by instincts and
"Sometimes I' do, but she always desires through which Nature strives
p wants to make play of it and it really to produce and develop perfect wo-
n
takes more time to keep her at it than manhood. And in handling• children,';
it does to do it myself." as it: poultry raising, it saves us. much.
l Her visitor said nothing for a few pain and trouble if we work with
minutes and when she spoke again it Nature.
t was without referenee'to Betty, "What "Just now Betty is passing throug
e did, you .de with those cunning chicks what students of" child life -call th`
you took out of, the incubator this 'imitative age.' She imitates• every
morning?" she asied. y thing she sees you do." -'
"Oh, I divided them up among three The mother ensiled knowingly. She',
- or lour hens who were -simply wild to loved the baby's little make=believes,;
be enothering "something. Noveethe lit- "She plays set table, and sews?:
d tle ones are cuddled up snag and sweeps, kneads bread 'and makes bode'.,
Home Edication
"7'hwa Ghlid'>a :Flr$t School i* tha Famlly"mFroebel.n.
warm under real feathers,, and they as you do. If you work with Ivatura
oma, have no idea in the.world that they now you will save yourself and . Betty*
an are, by' rights and,inheritance, poor, a great deal Of grief in the -years to.
ge machine -hatched little, orphans." come."
d Why did 'you put them with: the Yon are thinking of the p aything
hens so soon?' Would it not have been on the floor," exclaimed the cubo" stess,
safer to have cared for thern yourself "Yes. While Betty wants th do just
NOVA SCO
The winnings ' of th
Nova Scotia at the Inc
Show, 1922, were as follows,
British Empire Section—
`Dessert apples, best 20' boxes,
prize.
Culinary apples, best 20 boxes, 1st
prize.
The prize consisted of a gold medal
and £50 cash in. each class.
In the Overseas Section, Nova Sco-
tia took third place, being preceeded by
Ontario and British Columbia.
The combined winnings in the two
sections were two firsts; three seconds,
means, and what must be done in
order to compete
SASKATCHEWAN.
At the International Grain and Hay
Show, Chicago,- Ill., 1922, Saskat-
chewan growers' won eleven prizes for
wheat out of 26, thus maintaining the
province's reputation for the produc-
tion of the finest hard spring wheat.
Many successes were also secured in
other sections: The complete list .is
as follows:
Threshed wheat, Sweepstakes, uses
and 5th (Hard Red Spring) ; ..6th,
12th, 18th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 25th (Re-
serve), 7th (Hard Red Winter).
Threshed oats, 11th, 18th, 26th, 29th,
84th; threshed barley (two -rowed),
8th; 'threshed rye, 12th; threshed
clover, Oth; threshed peas, 1st,.
In connection with the above, it
may be stated that Saskatchewan
growers have won the wheat chain -
PRESCRIBING FOR
VIRGIL
BY TOM P. MORGAN.
five thirds, and. £183 cash. •
NEW BRtl'NSWICK.
New Brunswick fruit growers did
not exhibit at the Imperial Fruit
Show, 1922. It might be `mezitioned :
however, that :, at the' show held
192 ,, N:ew Bru lawicic apples achie- ed
a notable °success In.'"tha "her
exhibits" f McIntosh and 'Faneuse.
two ckt Canada's most,:Eamous varieties
of apples -obtained first prize with
gold medals and two special prizes of
45. Third prize medals were secured
for Golden Russets.
BRITISH. COLT/USIA..
At the Imperial Fruit Show, 1922,
British Columbia suffered from the
fact that the Okanagan and Kootenay
growers; were practically unrepresent-
ed, although, in 1921, they were very
successful.
A special prize of £20 was awarded
to Creston for the best British Colum-
bia exhibit in the British Empire sec-
tion. The variety was Cox's Orange.
In the Overseas section, Creston and
Kelowna each ;won a first with Cox's
Orange and Spitzenberg, respectively:
Creston won a third with Fameuse
apples, and- a first and third in any
other variety, besides a first for pears
until they were a: week or so old, and as you do, train her in habits' of order -1
strong enough to run with the older lines' -and cleanliness. The imitative'
chickens?" age will not last long. After that,
Betty's `, mother laughed, "That about the time she goes to school, there'
shows that you do not know chickens, will come a period when your little
I tried that plan the first year I used girl will be lawless, careless and self-
ish, inclined to put her ,will and. he
judgment against yours in everything,
If she has become orderly and'''neat
from habit before that -time comes it
will be a great comfort .to'you and of
ir_estimable value to her while she is
going through the trying `Big `Inj un
age. If she has not, you Will leave t
make up your mind to pick up; afte
her for many years to come, for there'.
will never be another time during her
childhood and youth when it will b
easy to teach Betty the lessons o
order."
"Thanks for your little lecture4
Grace," said Betty's mother as she;
rolled two little stockings into a ball.
S
l
"I had never thought of it that uvay�
before -4 shall begin at once to train
Betty to•`follow'."
a an incubator and I learned something.
It is only for a few days that a foster
en mother can be introduced to incubator
prided himself'pa being's shrewd .bar. Vir it is oin :his -best .. to make
. : ,. .. . �. g g g ,, ale
gainer, Was agreed', upon The larger amends•:and ,not onl,' says that the -
1 ,, y yun
part of Skerry'' fur -d0, so 'll -Stated," `finished conveniences will- be complet-
were at the' moment "in the Perm of ed, ;lint` actual y seems trying to find
bank time deposit .certificates, which others. `to install for -Alma's comfort.
would not•nlature for some little while. I have informed the creditors that I
If he should'demand'the eta* on theist will be responsible for any debts he
before the expiration of at period may unable topay,butit is myin-
he would forfeit the interest:'
tendon to let him do all the paying he
In the interval he would fay Virgil can without my aid.
$100, cash in hand, to bind the bar- Alma is. growing • plum and her
gain, and .complete the 'transaction
P
when the certificates came due. Mean-
while he wished to board at the Gor-
rett home and pay for the privilege.
He desired to begin certain improve-
ments at once.
When Virge triohantly,xelated
certain of the ,detai t e4ransac-.
tion to Alma :befoi: 'aa consum-
mated and she offer' id.olijections
he was at once co at he was
driving
a good ban and replied
Two special prizes in this section were in substance that. • ew nothing
awarded to Creston for the best Brit- about business. the pros
ish Columbia apple exhibit. pective deal, Au,
At the Portland, Oregon, Interna- the Gorrett farm
tional Live Stock Exposition of 1922, reason with Virgi
British Columbia Iive stock winnings jection snorted d
were as fellow's „ "Aw, let hien' and get
In the classes. for Clydesdale horses stung!" advised
the winnings were, Senior and Grand A little Iater M sported to
Champion; Junior Champion and the hired girl:
Reserve Grand Champion. Also seven "Mr. . Skerry is a lot of
firsts and a number of second and changes; putting 11 water all
third prizes, through the hous now; Virge
• In the classes for Dorset sheep the has a windmill k for the
winnings comprised two champion- stock—"
ships, and 14 first and five second "And lets Alma • aEer from
prizes. the well!" conclude Qu tts. :'
"Yes, and Skerry Installing a
his wife. Therefore he opposed both portable plant and h' g the entire
the idea and its purveyor, and without house wired for electri y."
analyzing his feelings was disgruntled "Gee -whiz!" comme: d Debby.
because Alma had accepted anything, "He is going to puti • ,a'»heater -with
even advice, that he had not graciously registers all through the house. A big,
deigned to hand down to her from his porcelain sink has come • for the kit
superior altitude. ehen. He ,plans to add' a • screened
So he growled that the poultry was verandah at the baele' repaint the
tithing but a bill of expense, anyhow, house, and so on."
Furthermore, he didn't thank Miss "Whew!" ejaculated Miss Quatts.
ritt for dipping into his affairs, Thus things proceeded, for a space.
hose officious Home Demonstrators Aunt Tevis went to the•Gorrett place
lid Agricultural Representatives every little while and generally took
ere nuisances, coming around with Virge aside and spoke her doubts con
their confounded theories and telling cerning the whole matter, Who knew
real dirt farmers how to farm. And but that the stranger `„was playing
o' on, to considerable length. some sharp game? It seemed to. her.
The tirade was of sufficient loud- that the improvements ought to wait
ess t6 enable the Widow Teviss, who until the entire purchase money was
ad come over in her hiccoughing fliv paid. Thereupon Virge ;would distend
er from her farm to fetch a basket his chest. He was. capable of looking
f her big, blushing peaches, to hear out for himself. Nobody could put
as she stepped up onto the porch and anything over on him,
ood for an instant or so, listening • Then one night, for, no ,apparent
amelessly. There were fiivvers reason, Skerry disappeared, leavng no
lough passing along the road to trail behind him.
ake the sound of one unworthy of "Virgo is, acting like :<�� ct•azy' Man,”
otiee, Virge did not own ono, Nor reported Aunt Tevis,
d he raise any peaches. "I betcha he blames Alnia 'for it all,"
In a little while the visitor backed commented Miss Quetta, and stated
from the porch, and then stepped the case accurately,
p on it and approached the open door If Alma had not displayed so much A Pretty Fon Feebler'
th tread unnecessarily heavy for so interest Skerry would not have gone A navy and white Costume for cool
ght art 'old lady. Virgo ceased his to such lengths, Virgil raged, Ile was fa'1 days 1s composed of a striped o
sgruntled declaiming. Ile was not ruined, The eost of the'tnaterial was .akist,• and "a coat trinixned with white i,
penally fend et his wife's aunt. The unpaid,. Certain of the bs were. not stripes' and suede• belt„ The sisevea r.
if ciency with which. she carried on yet finished and:must . •be carried !nave tiny turn beak caste.
color is like' that . of a young girl.
Little Alma has learned to love` her
father. Conte down. here next summer
for your vacation and get acquainted
with the real Virgil. As Deb says,
"Darned if he ain't got the makin's of.
a man in hiinl"
Your affectionate grand -aunt,
LYDIA TEVIS..
It costs $1,82 to keep a rat for a
year. That looks high, but if we lop
off the dollar the rat is still an ex-
pensive luxury. The eighty-two cents
stened to would pay big interest on money in
leavored to rat -proof cribs and bins.
ad her ob-
n
Virgil Gorrett was indulging in one
of his periodical pouts, and the more D
his wife strove to placate him the T
stronger grew his determination not a
to be appeased. When Virgil felt that w
way, whatever Alrna. did was in his
estimation done wrongly, and. that
which she did not she' ought to have s
done and according to specifications
furnished by himself. n
Upon this occasion she had v entured 11
the suggestion that the poultry might v
be made to return a better profit if the 0
boarder biddies were culled out and
sold, and, the layers provided with st
more suitable rations, better quarters, sh
and so on, all as a result of words e
spoken by the Agricultural Represen-
tatives Roane Der,ionstrator a few:.
days before..In thus saying Alma
lead no selfi.dh motive, for the egg
money was not diverted to her use and
benefit, but lost its identity In the gen-
oral farm fund,
Virgil's objection Cama chiefly Irani
di
off
ti
wi
sir
the. fact that ho had net thought of di
the innovation himself, and, approv- es
frig of it, passed the discovery on to e.
chicks. If they are put with her dur-
ing the first few days of their lives
they will adopt her and follow her
obediently till' half-grown, like. chick-
ens hatched under a hen, but after a
week alone they seem to get used to
being orphans and they will not fol-
low a hen no matter how much she
coaxes and chucks and scolds. Isn't
it odd?"
She had the playthings all in order
and settled herself with her mending
in her lap.
"Instinct," said the teacher. "Nature
puts an urge into the little chick that
makes it seek a mother at the time
it needs her most. And if you are to
THE CHILDREN'S
1HOUR
THE TOOLS OF ANIMALS.
Did you know that many animals
have tools and machinery for making
things? All the silk that is used in
the world is made by worms. The silk
worm has a set of machinery for spin-
ning silk. It winds up fine silk threads
as it spins them. Men weave these
threads into many beautiful kinds of
goods.
The wasp knows how to make paper.
He picks off' the finest bits of wood
with his mouth, and then gathers them
into a little bunch. He makes this
into a soft pulp, and from the pulp
he makes the paper with which he
builds his nest. It•is very much like
common brown paper which we use.
Indeed, the wasp was the earliest
paper -maker in the world; and the
first wasp made just as good paper as
any wasp can make now. Hornets,
which are a kind of wasp, make for
themselves large, fine houses of paper,
in which are doors and windows and
many cozy rooms.
The elephant can draw up water
with his.trunk; and so we might say
that he carries a pump with him. It
is with a pump something like the
elephant's trunk that many insects
gather honey from the flowers. The
mosquito has such a trunk also. By
the side of his trunk he carries a pair
of; lancets with which he cuts a hole
into the skin of his victim. When
these have dome their work,' lie pumps
the blood .up into his mouth.
The cat uses her rough tongue both
as a brush and a comb. When she
makes her morning toilet, she gets off
the dirt and smooths her coat with it„
just as the stable .boy cleans and
smooths the horse's coat with a curry-
comb: When she wishes to smooth the
hair of her head, she must use her
forepaws for a comb, because she can-
not reach her head with her tongue.
There is a' kind of fish which,' uses
its mouth as a gun for shooting flies
and other insects. It can shoot them
not :only 'when they are still, but
they are on the wing. It watches them
'as' they are flying over the ter and
hits bne of `thein, whenever it can do;
so, with a line stream of water from
its little gun. The insect, stunned by.
the blow, falls into the water, where
it Is quickly _aught acrd eaten by the
fish.
There are litany other animals,
which have tools for doing certain
kinds of work. Some use their tools in
building nests or houses; others in
gathering their food; and still others
in defending themselves against their
enemies. Nature has given to each solution,
animal the tools which it, needs most.
'POULTRY,
witted through a. flock, of .fowls is by
means of the common drinking vessel.
No drinking :fountain has yet been
devised that will not be contaminated
by litter, manure, etc., being scratched!'
into it, ..>inless; such vessels are
upon a table low enough that the few
can fly upon it, Therefore, a harmless ^
antiseptic should be used in the drink-
ing water.
Permanganate of potash is the bes
harmless antiseptic we have tried. W
used it daily for chicks, putting it int;
their drinking water, and the result'
was that they were_free from colds
which are so common among young,,'
growing stock, especially during rain
and chilly weather. We noticed that;i
the chicks were more vigorous• an
active, and from babyhood to 'nature
ity kept in the_best of health.•
A crate of cockerels, from a mai
who was raising poultry for us, ar'
rived on the farm hi a pretty bad cont
dition. Fully two-thirds of the bit
developed colds, and some cases we
quite serious. The sick birds wer
placed in separate enclosures and wet
given no other treatment than per;
manganate of potash in their drink
ing water. With the exception of o3
that was too far gone, all birds
covered.
One hem on the farm'had canker
the mouth, and another had a "re
tling in the throat." These were
once removed to separate quarters an
given the permanganate •trea+tnen
and in about two weeks' time their al'
ments were gone.
A neighbor had two cases.
chicken -pox, and we prescribed, ale
with a physic of Epsom salts;
carbolated 'Vaseline rubbed aft t
sores,• that nothing but permangana,'
water be given for drink. One hie,
was worse than the other, and its he,p:
,was dipped into the water. Both cos'
rapidly recovered.
Another hen with a cough and
yell that could be. heard a hund
yards away, was successfully treat
in the sane way—she was given
thing but the permanganate water
drink.
A friend assured us that he c'ule
two cases of roup by first preseeh
the nostrils of the bird so as to loon
the discharge; and then pl�unging`tl
head of the fowl into the pernnal'agiin�
ate water for about half.. a niiniui:e.
This, he said, distributed` the: solutio
through the nostrils and the ca4'tials.
Permanganate of potash (potasskt
permanganate) is a dark' reddt
purple crystalline substatlee which Yat
be purchased at any drug store,
For convenience sake we pia' a
ounce of permanganate of potash Int
a. quart bottle of water, and lot it set
over night, so that' the. crystals weal"
dissolve. This made' a stock saturate
the bottle was about two-thirds,erap
it was amain filled with water, and thi0
was kept up until the solution beearad
very light in color, when a :eresh I
Was made. Two teaspoonfule of ethi
e(Aution is enough to calor the Vea
in an eight or ter quart pail, Th
was the only drink Ate foWls get' daskeee
, Our forefathers reasoned that much
f the sicknesa among fowl.was due to
y Which infectieue diseases are trans. i
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