HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1913-08-21, Page 7U. S. MOP PROSPECTS.
The folloWieg is a summary of the
'ear:timid CM Reenert" of the Contioei.
tel end Commercial National lienk, of
Chicago:
Ines prodigal on the whole than last
year, the important erops of the eoun-
try are above the averane, ample for tio-
meetie use„ and an abunclauee of bread-
etuffe for export. The enormous; yields
of the previous ;season have left an un
-
=tally !ergo eurplus of mope consumed
on the farm, sio that with lighter yields
in corn ante oats the amount available
is pot far from that of a year age, d'ine
gradual and almost constant rise in the
yiela per are in thie country le Maw
tive of better farming metlieds. Ten
arid twenty years ago the climate con-
ditions such as were prevailing over a
lair) part of the country this year,
would have reaulted in almost a crop
'allure, but the restoration to the soil
of elm fertility et which it is in need to
assure a better return for ,the labor is
showing its resulte in average yields /at
a year of uncertain. etiolate.
The world's greatest need—wheat--the
chief breadstuff of the civilized world,
and of most of the people of this natiou,
hoes not only beea a good mop, but an
exceptional one. The aggregate yield of
739,000,000 top's last year's record.of
730,000,000, arid with 30.000,000 more
bushels in store in elevators, mina and
on farina at.the beginning of the mop
season, there is available a larger supply
pm capita than at any time la recent
years.
The wheet yield this year wen unttsu-
ally large in the winter seeded region,
that is of the kind of whea4 which is
sown in the fall, arta getting a good
start, eprioga up with the early months
of the year and goee to harvest in June
and eaely July.
The second of the ripeneng crops of
the country that figure in the nomestic
use, and whieh is amoug the three big
grain mope is that of oats. Last year
this crop reaehed the impreetelented fig-
ure of 1,146,000,000 bushels, exceeding, all
previous records by 22,5,000,000 bushels.
This year conditieue were unfavorable
to the fullest possible yield, a cold late
spring and early high temperatures in
the central states effecting the yield, so
that the total crop does not exceed
1,000,000,000 bushels.
Topping all our domestic crops is the
native grain, corn. Four-fifths of the
emit of the world is raised in the United
States. It is the one great crop of the
country; its use as a foocl for man and
!met ie not equalled by any other of
nature's grains. The huge volume of
produetion for ten years has averaged
2,V0,000,000, and worth on the fariut an
average of $1,500,000,000 it year. .
This year's corn crop will rive be a rec.
ord one. Our correspondents seedy in
the mouth, before the burning temerera-
tures swept through the Southwest dud
Ohio valley figured on a repetition
last year's crop, but we cannot ignore
the heavy damage that has occurred in
Nebraska, Ransas, Oklahoma, Texas and
portions of elissouri and Illinois since
that time whieh has cut off at least
300,000,004 bushels from the prospect,
and reduced the estimate to 2,800,000,-
000.
The consolation of the western farmer
Is the large crop of laet year, and the
enormous tarry over on the farm, The
corn crop, more them any other, is con-
sumed on the farm—eighty-five per cent.
never leaves the farms of the country,
except in the form of food animals.
The great rival of corn in weight and
value is that of hay, and to a large ex-
tent it can take the place of corn when
there is a sherd:we of that grain. The
hay crop has been above an average—
there have been some looses in the yield
In the dry area, but in the main the
erop is the second largest on record, with
e total of 66,610,000 tons as against last
year's magnificent yield of 72,691,000
tons, and tide Iarge crop, with at least
one-third of lest year's crop still on the
farm, will repair all the branches that
will be made ey it lessened corn yield.
)'be hay crop this year is valued on the
farm at it billion dollars.
The more important of the mincer
grains—barleyd-is 2 per cent. under last
year.
The rye crop is small in this country,
but one of the most, certain of all pro -
duets of the soil, is up to the previeut
year's revere'.
Cotton—the snowy fleece of southern
fields—promises at tide period. of the
year to be a great crop, much in exCess
of last year, and ranking next to the
prodigious yield. of two ewes ago. The
Indications are for 14,700,000 bales, cone -
pared with 13,700,000 last year.
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS.
Regularity in feeding and milking is
en important point in keeping up the
milk flow. One cannot milk and feed in
the inorning itt any time between half -
past 5 and half -past 9, and in the even.
ing between half -past 4 and 7, and ex-
pect the cow to do her beat. Experiment
-shows that there is a differenee of at
least 10 per cent. between regularity and
irregularity. Having it regular hourin
the morning to milk, it will not answer
tu lie abed until all hours on Sunday
morning. if more sleep is nanted, milk
the cows at the usual time and creep
hiten to bed again. Dairying properly
conducted ie an exacting employment.
There are many ebot.es about the farm
that two or three holm earlier or later
In doing them make no particular differ -
race, but milking and feeding the tuilk
cows is not one •of them.
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Largo seeds germinate more dowly
than L2n811 ones, but the percentage of
germination is greater hi the case of
large than small. .As A general rule,
however, the depth of seeding, the varia-
tion of the compesition of the soil and
the like exert a melt greeter influence
on the germination than the site of the
seed.
--
If you must feed emit to the work
horses give tbem something else in tho.
grain ration. Corn alone is not a good
feed, as it is to fattening. A combina-
tion of corn, bran end a little oil meal
!nava an ideal summer ration for homes
if you are short on oats. A 1,000 -pound
horse wonld require about 10 pounds of
corn and 3 pounds of bran, with it little
oil meah per day. This will be equiva-
lent to 14 pounds of oats.
There is little danger in feeding the
pig' too notch if you are feeding a bat-
eneed ration. If skint milk is available
• it is timmaratively easy to make up a
tation that will promote the growth and
vigor of the pigs.
The delry eowa, when properly taken
care of, till coneerve the fertility of the
farm end pay the manager a profit While
he is building up the etel. Dairying le a
safe method of soil conservation.
..„
If all horses bed plenty of rash ere
Were kept free front drifts soul were reg.
tifarly led and exerChseditt a proper *WA*
SCALES, DANDRUFF
AND MING
Head so Itchy Could Hardly Stand
It, Dandruff Showed on Coat Col.,
lar, Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Cured In One Month,
e
223 etlIzabetie St., Montreal, Que.—"Clutl-
cura, soap and ointment cured me perm-.
nently from daridrutt mid scalp itch that I
was metering 'with since over a year. X had
an inatmuuation of the lungs and a vere
etrong fever. When I recovered, my head
was covered with scalar and dandruft, and
It wee eo Relay I could leardly stand It. The
dandruff !showed en my coat collar, I had
used various medicines withotie relief. I
heard of Quticura Beat) and Ointment and
decided to try them, and I am very elect of
it, because I am perfectly cured. I used
two boxes of Outicura Ointment with the
°encore Soap, It Mole one month to cure
me. 1 take pleasure ln recommewelne °en-
ema Soap mid Ointment to anyone who ki
Buffering with scalp or skin, diseases.'
(118Stuitt) Uector Perms, Dec, so, 1011.
TO REMOVE DANDRUFF' •
peones falling hair, remove crusts and
stales, anti allay itching and Irritation of
the wall), frequent shampoos with Cancun*
Soap, asserted by occasional dressings with
Ouncura Ointment. afford the speediest and
most economical treatmeet. They assist in
promoting the, growth and beauty of the
hair by removing those conditions which
tend to make it dry, thin, and lifeless, often
leading to premature grayness and loss of
hair. Cuticura soap and Camera ointment
are sold by druggists and dealers throughout
the world. Liberal sample of each mailed
IMe, with 32-p. Skin Dook. Address poet
card Potter Drug & 'Chem. Qom., Dept.
46D, Boston, If. S. A.
ner, the veterinarian would never grow
rich.
°Jibbing, or wind sucking, is a habit
that cannot be cured in the horse after
It is ouce thoroughly established. Horses
addicted to tbe habit are not desirable,
and sooner or later are ueually affeeted
with disorders of the digestive organs.
Cate ond young Iversen should not stand
near it cribber in the etable, as they are
liable to learn the habit from their eld-
ers. Idleness or lack of exereise are the
predisposing causes to the formation ot
the habit. If the young animal tamers
any signs of cribbing remove all feed -
boxes, racks and mangers from the•stall,
leaving nothing but smooth walls, which
will leave no handy place for -the young -
eters to bite on. Feed hay on the ground,
remove feed box as soon as done eating
and permit plenty of eximise.
Overfeeding and irregular feeding aro
the cause of more sickness among horsee
than any other known cause. The stone,
vett of it horse le so exceedingly small
compared to his size that he should be
fed and watered at leaet three times per
sits the eapanity of the horse's stomach
a pints. The capeity of it cow's
Pe 52 gallons.
trea drawn from the cow is gc'n.
ej4p J 2tod condition to make butter,
ties tion being where the enimal
lute .1, dee? on highly -flavored grasses
or wee, (gid overfed on potatoes, eab-
base, turielps or the like, or where the
water the drinks is impure. Nearly all
the bad milk becomee bad after the milk-
ing is done.
u 'en t
. OUR PRECISE ARTIST. I
WELL- HOW
DO YOU LIKE
IT?
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DIDN'T MVOR t115 SUIT:
Love of Life.
wide their branches
Cooling -with their •green shade the
sunny days of June?
Love you not the little bird lost among
the leaflets,
Dreamily repeating a quaint, brief
, tune 7
Is there not a joy in the waste windy
places;
Is there not a gong by the long dusty
way?
Is there not a glory in the sudden
hour of struggle;
Is there not a peace in the long qiet
day?
Love you not the meadows with the
deep lush grasees;
Love you not the cloud -flocks noise-
less in their flight?
Love you not the cool wind that stirs
to meet the sunriee;
Love 'you not the stillness of the vvarin
' summer night?
HaVe you never wept with a grief that
slowly passes,
Have you never laughed when a joy
goes running by?
Know you not the peace of rest that
follows labor?
You have not learnt to live, then; how
can you dare to lie?
—Perth's VanDyke In August Scribner
•• set
Tht Average Man.
111e face bad the grimness ot granite;
It was bleached and bronzed by the Sun.
Like thecoat on lila poor, narrow shoul-
ders;
And his hands showed the work he bad
done.
Dia dim eyee were weary and patient;
.And he smiled through his pallor and
ta it •
A wistful, sad smile, as if saying: „
"Pin only an average mate
. I
"I can't be a hero or poet,
Nor a dictator wearing a crown;
ten only the hard-working terystrit
of those set above Inc. I'm droWn;
I'm down, and it'm no use complaining
I'll get on the best way 1can;
And pee 0' these days '11 eome mernIng
And the rest for the average mac."
Ile 'Wages ell battles and win therit
lie builds al turrents that tower,
OW walls Of the etly to tell
Of the rulers and pi•lests of the hour.
Without his the general is
The nem, but a pies, and a roan;
ens moves all end clothes ell end' Ueda
ia4-zm$11n average man, „
Grasshopper Armies in Countless
Numbers Swarm Over
Western Country
Farmers In Desperation Begin Organ-
ized Warfare to Save Crops Next
Year; This Year's Gone, Fruit, Corn
and Alfalfa—Wheat Has Miraculous
Escaped
( By W. H. Album)
Dodge City, Kan.—Whele Kansas
and the south-west have been kiln-.
dried and bake' in weeks of intoler-
able heat, little Mr, Grasshopper leas
been haying the time of his glad
young life, He 'should worry about
the heat!
This semi-arld country is swarm-
ing with hoppers, from Great Bend
west to the foethills of the Rockies,
from "No-Man'i Land" down through
the Parhandle and New Mexico.
.
A cold spell a month ago kept the
•
•••
pest dormant and saved the Wheat.
Then followed the hot, dry spell
that hatches out 90 per cent. of the
eggs laid by the millions of lady
hoppers in the ground last fall. The
ground became- alive with gnat -like
ineects—the baby hoppers—foraging
for food and growing rapidly. Soon
armies were on the move, marching
through fields of late wheat, young
corn, kafir and mike As their wings
grew they spread faster and attack-
ed the orchards. Now with grass and
weeds eaten up or killed by the
drouth, they are a growing menace
to all crops.
To -day I walked into the country
to the east ot this old "Cowboy Capi-
tal." At every step my foot started
a little cloud of rasping wings and
legs, yellow, brown black and green.
Photographs direct from grasshop.
per country, taken by Correspandent
Album, In circle, what the hoppers do
to the stalks In a hill of corn; eat
leaves then puncture stalks and first
breeze blows them down—Grasshop-
pers try to yet nourishment out of a
fence post.
I saw apple trees striped Of every
leaf, green peaches gnawed till bare
stones alone clung to the bougha, torn
leaves devoured and juicy stalks
punctured tin they fel, alfalfa leveled
to the ground, fence posts. plastered
with green hoppers enjoying their
siesta.
The destruction thus far is lese
real, calamity than a warning. The
farmers Mar the loss of their forage
and fruit crops and a worms, plague
next year.
And for the first time Kansas farm-
ers are banding together to fight the
pest systematically. The commission-
ers of Ford county have announced a
hopper killing bee. The county fur-
nishes the "dope" free and the farm-
ers agree to spread it on their fields.
The
Housekeeper
•
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111,0
Stale breed is always useful for bread
sticks and croutons to serve with soup.
Out into slices half inch thick. For the
croutons cut into • cubes, and for the
bread etteka cut threteinch length&
Spread before cutting with butter and
toast a golden brown
To take the scorch of linen or silk, dip
the article into quite cold water and
hang dripping with water in the air.
When dry, if not quite eelar, tepeat the
process.
When dropping durnplings in a
kettle, first dip the spoon into the.
broth, then dip it into the batter,
and the soft mass will slip off with-
out sticklag to the spoon.
Parasols may be kept from splitting
through the winter it stuffed with
tissue paper. This keeps the panels
from creasing in the centre.
Bananas pulped and mixed with
lemon juice make a nice filling for
brow u bread sandwiches. Thee bread
should be buttered.
When next cooking cold corn niush
dip each slice in salted, beaten egg,
roll in cracker crumbs and try in deep
fat and it will be delicious,
A' bit of camphor in a small iron
cup, placed over an altehol lamp 'with
flame turned low, evill put flies and
mosquitoes to flight.
To embroider initials easily drew them
neatly with it pencil and carefully go
over your lettere with closely -placed
Freston. knots.
You can clean your little braers tea-
kettle with salt and vinegar.
One pint of salt, and three gallons of
Water will keep eggs for winter use.
A teaepoonful of ammonia and one
of turpentine in one pint Of warm
water is fine for cleaning black silk.
A nice cologne water may be made
veins sixty drops of oil of lavender, '
sixty of* hergamont, sixty of oll of'
. lemon, sixty or orange, and me pint of
Cork well and shake well.
To reanove the ordinary grease spot,
take &mat parte of other, ammonia, and
sleet ol.
Silver that has been stained with egg
Is quickly cleaned by rubbing with a
salt or with a cloth dampened wit
ammonia.
A splendid way of washing Chinese
crepe is to make it strong lather of boil-
ing watet and white soap. When it is
mealy cold 'wag). the crepe cmickly and
rinse in it strong sotution of salt and
eater. Hang to dry in the open air.
To make dly-eoper, tatke equal pants
of boiled linseed oil ana resin, Melt them
and add SOW boned. Poole the paper ln
ft strong solution ot alum, then dry be.
!ore applying the nbove,
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"POPULAR" SONGS.
(Toronto Telegram)
"I should worry, X should card
"/ should merry a millionaire,
"If he should die, / should ery,
"2 (should marry another guy."
The above -quoted wordare a, earl-
eature of the songa that =laical and
literary genius has placed on the lips
of the tram -Atlantic daughters of Anglo-
Seecondorn.
There Is truth in the caricature. The
words are not more emend, Ignoble and
vulgar than the verbiage ag the typieiti
song of to -day. How is Idealism to xecm
Its plate In the lives of a nation's Men
and women If Idealism le to have no
plea In the Songs of the llittlowe YOWL
don't think Auntie will attn.
Rho didn't bring lior trunk. johnny—
ilethI Intek how long the baby ttite
doted, eta he didn't brin
ng aythningee
Boston Ttetord.
ABERDEEN CLIPPER.
Passing of a World -Famous ClaSS
of Ships.
A famous elass of sailing ships, the
clippers, is recalled by the passing away,
he somewhat d.ramatie feshion, of one
of the meet famous of them, the Then
mopyhte, formerly of the Aberdeen
Line. She made many brilliant per-
formances ae it fast sailer, taking a,
leading part ni the raees from China
with the new season's teas that used to
be the great everting events of the
maritime world. But with the suppres-
sion of sailing, vessels by steamships the
clippers were completely effaced, and
for several years pest the Thermopylae
elid humble duty its it training ship at
the mouth of the Tagus. She became
too old, RS well as too small, for even
this services, and so was discarded. The
Portuguese Government, however, did
not like to sell a vessel with her repu-
tation, and decided to give her a
"naval funeral." She was accordingly
towed out to sea and sunk by two
Portuguese' men-of-war.
The clipper has been characterized
as the highest 'development of the wood-
en sailing ship in coustruction, speed,
and beauty. However, much or little
there may be in the suggestion that
the name is derived from an old mean-
ing of the word "elip," to run or fly
swiftly, a clipper was at any. rate it
ship built expressly for speed, though
latterly it was so constructen as to
combine the greatest carrying capacity
with the form beat adapted for speed.
Speaking generally, and avoiding tech-
nical terms, the clipper was longer and
• narrower than the ordinary sailing ship,
was very sharp at the bows, and was
gracefully fined away towards the
stern.
The first Aberdeen clipper was built
for an association cif traders to com-
pete with the paddle steamers to Lon-
don. The firm of Alexander Hall &
Sone constructed for these merchants
a schooner of 142 tons, experimenting
In the eulestitution of a sharp cut -
water bow for the broach bluff bow
Shat was then common. This was in
1830, and the vessel—the first of its
kind in Great Britain—was called the
Scottieh Maid. The experiment was
isulecessful, although the time it made
on the trip to Loudon -40 hours —
eeeme ludicrous now. Other three
schooners were built on the same
model, and the "Asberdeen clipper bow" ;.
became celebrated.
While Aberdeen took the lead it soon
Ceased to hese it monopoly of clipper -
baiting, The Lord of the Dees, built'
on the Clyde, wits a very noted clipper
In her day, and other prominent Clyde
clippers were the Sir Lanneelot, the
Teteping, the last four taking part with
the Fiery Cross of liverpool In a re-
markable ocean race in 1806, This, was
the het of the races at which premiums
for eirtit arrivals were awarded, and
with the openingof the Suez Canal in
1869 and the deyeleptenet of stettio
shipping the halcyon days of the clipper&
came to an end. The 'clippers by that
thne however, had thoroughly accom-
plished the purpoeci for *Allele they
Were deisegneel, and had ream -cat the
Chinaeneofr.eight trade from AMerican do-
81188.1106.
Aberdeen clipperwere remark -
telly immune front disaster; but eine of
the largest and very beet built, the
Sehornbarge 2,606 tone, Winched in 1855,
Was leet on liar firet voyage, 'being
wrecked on the smoke at Cape °teeny,
180 mile west of Melbourne.
NO; cA' vout
(aucph Ilietteci)
Many people go to church, but few
Ore thee* Woo remember the telt. Bort. ,
w.• OM*, O*11 you remember the este your
10044W litesebed from on Suridant
'LORD BALLYROT IN SLANGLAND.
One evening, while paying a social
call, I happened to observe a hand-
some phonograph in e corner of my
host's a rawing room. 'Well, old thap,
I'm a bit of a music lover, and I re-
quested the young master of the
household to start it in. operation,
you know. Forthwith hebawled to
his sister: •
"Hey, Ste, our roast -beef friend
litre with the one -cylinder ..eye -glass
wants to hear the sawing of the hag-
nteney mill. Slip a platter of Caruso
warbles into the melody tra.p and
give us an earful of canned tenor
stuff. Come on, kiddo, start the grand
wore. riot!"
MY WORD!
-1
Rome' in May.
Rome has moo na of glory which meet
and challenge the most exultant heart.
Take, her in midgering, when the roses
are blooming everywhere, rioting over
She walls and gateways, climbing the
stems of the tall tone pines, hutking
amid the rates, denehig from window to
window down the length of a sober
street; when the fountaine Sash in the
open squarce and dream among the
bird -haunted shedowe of the flex
grovel; when the Formu and Palantne
ere soft with vino; and gay with pop -
plot; when the marbles in the museurne
glow and the atomics in the churches
sparkle like jewele; when the Orimpagna
gram is int thick with flowers that pod
can hardly walk, and the larks singing
over it Ore 'embodied joys." Rome is a
sheer intoxicatiou then:There is noth-
ing to do but give ()nee self over to her
in het; preheat aepect, not remembering
her ?diet or speculating upon her futufe,
but glorying uterly with her in her Inn
mediate, nee+. One site by the hour in
the Porghose or Mediel outdone, dream.
leg wielt the fountaine; one oteuples an
intense, narrow shadew on the edge of
the CoIoaseum erne, etre leeks up at
the great sweep of the eunebaked
Will Retie care for their siginficance,
but With A dazzling appreciation of their
mountsenguege effect 'against the vivid
tsky; one even kneels on the old pave.
Monte °fettle eerene, eool churches, and
forgets that tbry were not made yostma
day. Oolor nead fregrance, warmth and
%Mid—that 16 Rome 115 Mfty.-.-Atlantic.
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LANSBURY% GRAVE (ERROR..
- (Philadelphia Iteeord)
Mr. ransbury ens astoniehed Itis wife
by Winning hie hunger /strike. Ile went
without Tod eent days, and the tedielertirttav"oIt°eioeaer l bein tinfont%
to upbraid Mrs. Lanabury beesttese dinner
len't reedy. If he tan go without food
three days in Ail he can Wait hls
eonvenience for food. Mrs. Lapel:err
said 0116 never saw a men so dependent
On hie regular meals aeal pre -dieted that
h. Would ,starva to death in eix- honed
11* ettalkyriorobrueirmlnwilhog, itign tehteir,atila
Old MAY.
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and most healthful baking pow.
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BRITISBI Eke -GI -LAYERS ATIIIIAD.
At least three Araerlean hens and
three liritisb hens ore In a close race to
be the first to reach the 200 egg mark
in the Met eight months of the nation-
• al egg laying contest an Mountain
Grove, Mo, .Au American hen has only ie
it record of 200 eggs in eight znontles. 41, pay. Proper equipment meat bp ob-
tained, as in any other line of lewdness,
tan eggs to lay in fifteen daps to make !
All these hens have made a etter re-
and the larger one goes inot it the more
b
cord so far then Lady Showyou had capital is required.
The better the plans end equipment
mane at this time lest year. The lead -
the more money can be made. trhere aro
Ing pen record thus far this year ia
lots of little things that make poultry
about 200 egos ohead of the leading
raising easier and more prfoitable. There
pen record at tine time last year, The
are plants making money vvithout shade
English pen of sh. white Leghorns is 250
tor. Two of the a10118 ill this
eggs in the lead of its neareet compete.
pen did - made with aback. There are plente that
for the fo'wls, yet more money could be
are compelled to feed all the green food,
not lay an egg In June, ana thie cone
yet more neoztey could be made If the
theme some of the other pane may yet youngsters bad free range and. grams.
. easily overtake them, suys the St. Again crowding (due to lack of ppulti7
Louis Post -Dispatch.
junwaa scorcher in Missouri, Bev- housing) Is indulged in, More and bet-
e a te
eral death e were reported in. different e poultry would result if proper nous-
irT were provided.
sections of the State as it result of the eurobaso hatching eggs, day-old chicks
• heat. It was, of course, also hard on or etoek as near home as poseible, pro-
file hens. There were 183 broody contest viding you can obtain what you seek. If
liens in broody coops at one time this not, go 3,000 miles for it. It pays in the
month, Thirty-eight were put up one ehid. The day of the haphazard breeder
•
day and tweuty-five another, and. such
a large per ent. being broody a,t once
/s passing swy and the poultry inlet°
cut down the egg yield. for June, Other
c
is going to be edumted in the fact thet
cOnteit pa,ya to start with the beet. Cheapets which had nearly fifty per cent. etock or eggs are seldom top-notch qual-
of their pens comppsed of Li
eghorna, had ty. It could not be, for there is %Imp
• little broody hew, of course and made a. demand far good stock eggs or cheeks
is little higher average for June. The
eontract are caused by careleasne,s on
the One band or by too much core on the
other.
The time to prepare for the poultry
eeason of 1914 ie now. Build the liouses
required, so that there will be no °hence
for not obtaining the reglit *tart. Wait-
ing until, the lost momeot to order the
hatching egge, day -ole &lens, stock, in.
eubatore or btooeere does not pay.
Poultry is always profitable when pro-
perly menaged on is snail scale, and the
outlay of money not large, but wham en.
tering it to make a living It Is altogeth-
er it different proposition. The expendi-
ture must be considerably larger to make
total yield for June Was 10,411 eggs, and at living pricee.
(
e tee --
the grand total to date is 70,286 eggs. --
15
The Legherne in the North American A SUIVIMER IDYLL.
contest at Storrs, CoAn., had made
about the same average up to June 1 The Friends of an Ottawa "White
as had the Leghorns in the Miseouri
Wings."
contest. The larger breeds in Missouri
had made a little higher averages than The story is of an Indian white
the mind breeds in Connecticut as a wing, some birds and sotn.e bread
rule. At the present time the records
crumbs, end might he. called a summer
are very nearly the same on an average.
The twelve highest pen records to iddel.
July 1, being the record of ten hens The scene is laid in the heart of
Ottawa, in e. spot not without inter.
or eullets for the previous seven menthe
eating Mese history and sentiment.
and a half, are as followe:
•Withen its boundaries was old ley-
Penni°. 2, s. c. white Leghorns,
England.. 1,529 eggs town's cemetery, iw Inch in later
Pen No. silver Wyandottes,
years the school bop or Ottawa's
/ewe ...... 1,270 eggs early days played hide and sate among
Pen No. 57, black Langshans, Mis- , the tombstones during recess.
The Sparks street end of the old
souri 1,243 eggs
. street site is now oecupled by ,buel.
Pen No, 20, white Wyandottes,
nen d
Arkansas „. „. ...... 1,222 eggs houses. The Queen street en
Pen No. 30, buff Wyandottes, is kept by its ownera In a grassy
Vermont1,212 eggs lawn, above •whielt an old elm affords
. . ..... ,
ni.shade to workmen of various( callings
Pen No. 33, barred Reeks,
who, unforbidden, enter from the\ street
Pen No. 11, black Minorca,s,
inois .... 1,192 eggsgss and enjoy their noon hour in tea little
private park.
Pert Ilno: 20, buff Wyandotte,s, The Italian "white wing" follows
Missouri ..
Iowa , 11:119902 eeggi the .proaaie daily work of Ida pro -
Pen No. 6, ac. white Leghoen• • hfeettion in Queen street between Elgin
California ..... 1,185 eggde e
:and Metealfe. At noon each working
s
day lie throws down hie tools; leaves
P. eInlliNnooia2.3.,.si,lv.er.y.Wandot.t.ee. '1,182 eggs tilt)
glare of e the .Travernent; pasrmi
Pan No, 59, black Ilinorcas,
Missouri ..... 1,117 eggs
Den No. 9, s. 0, brown Leghorns,
Missouri ... .. 1,180 egga
A thing which is worthy of consider-
ation le the fact -that pen No, 11, black
Minorcas, from Iowa, is a pen which
W88 entered in bite last year's contest
and made a -very poor record. The own-
er was not diecouraged and entered the
same hens again this year. More than
half of them are two-year-old hens and
they were among the leading pens laet
month, and tied. a pen of Anconaa from
Missouri for the silver cup for June,:
elechpen laying 212 eggs. A pen of white
Leghorns from California also went in -i
to the ranks of the first twelve mulch
ane. others enoved up the list, as will bed
seen by comparing last month's reportb
and this, The hens and netts which con-
tinue to lay a reasonable number of
eggs during the liot weather are going
to be the hens and pens which win.
through the open tif;' taiZe'r
beneath the elm, and opens his dm -
tier pail, His coming is eagerly
watched for by the birds. Other work-
men may come a few minutes before
noon, the "white wing" may come a
few minutes after noon, but until his
white uniforin. appears in the gate-
way the birds are silent and invisible.
Ilis appearance is the signal that
• beiuge the 'down in a whirring rush
to tile lauxe where they surround him
ann impatiently chatter "to eaoh other
while he leisurely pries the cover off
his dinner pail: '.A.nd what a remelt. -
able pail it is—so different from the
pallsof the other men on the other
tide of the lawn, and, unlike theiree
eppazrently, always has soniething in
it. What It really containe in its
depths ally the "white wing" knows,
but the birdev-know ,that just under
it,s cover, andtherefore, the first to
come out, is "delleious bread, whiett
'the man in white," as, they cell him
NOTES. when they talk about Ma to one an-
* other privately, breaks off and scat. -
There Is no sense need often =eh harm) tors before them on their table of
in drugging a whole flock to care a fowl grass. He does this before he pushes
elek individuals. his hand down below the bread to
Free range, plenty of shade and loosoe bring up for lemeelf, meat and other
aoll, good feed end clean water are es- foolish things which the birds wonder
sentials in the growth of young elticken how he con eat.
Suck treatment means large, early ma -e Although the "whet° wing's." littld
tered end vigorous codkerele and. causeete feathered guests are, served first and
pollens to lay early and continuously. bountifully they continuo to hop
Don't think thet pure bred. ehickenst ,aronmi the grass, less noisy now than
eleen to be ereseed in any way to enekee when they, arrived, while the num in
them better. If you are not eatisfiede white is having his nap. By much
with the kind you have or the nutobere 'diligence they find, a trumb or two
eggs they lay, dispose of thent ande after he haa gone. Then they fly away'
get some other standard variety, and wait for the ocenieg of 'tognorroof
There is muck to learn by close obseh-) --that is for every to -morrow except
vation of the birds in the breeding pens. ;Sunartys. Sunday 751 a day they can -
Do not be in 8 hurry at the; time to die -i met tuulerstarel, end has senseleme cue -
pose of all your old hens. Find. out thee tome which they disiepprove of. For
best layers, the beet flat around and de -i one thirtg—on Sundays- the gate teed -
amble 'hens, and hold on to them for ing from the street to the little.park
breeders year after year. is cloud. and while they can easily
Many eases of so-called ebolern in fly overftho fence, they are sure the
fowls ere not eholera it all, but simply man in l'Aite cannot, and that he
leak of attention, of the right kind of must know the gate is closed, for
food 0..na of it good grit. e lie 'toyer' conies oh that nay. Ifeeornee
It does tot pay to visit the sh00% and Again on Monday, and they have tiotie.
tall people yon beve muck better onesi efie ed, and, have talked about' it, that,thed
home and then you oottln easily bat the t is theedny on which they are jug, twice
'prize whiner. it6 Intiegry arta tailke as wilily as they
It &MI pay to hop thoteughbrodse are on any other da3a—OttaWa Citizen,
poulta7. Pays better in Meet, itt eggsdt
in growth, in satisfaetion. I With And 14 a Will.
it is the food and not the breed which),
makes the able fowl par excellenee,
time in 'flits form of whitewash ott thee eergeant was drilling the re -
thing wont emoothly until blank eert-
crultesquad the useiof the rineeEverv-
Wells Amid be applied at'least twice ass ridges were distributed. The recruits
year. /./ we're instructed to load their peeees and
thie ad"nt4g6 P°8'es'ed branotand at the "ready," and then the tor-
thot It omitting is stir proportion of thee ,geant gene the coin/nand:
phophates and fat that may use4 "Fire et wiled'
with the ration In order to render it Private Ihinn wag puzzled. IT lower -
complete.
e ed his entre
Obercoal le one of the beet disinferde chyle& ono4is wint»,he talked...oxeye
tote end purifiers of the SYSt6h14.1 wArk post
l'houghornt will lay fewer ego when " 044.00, • 11,
moult:Avg than the Plymouth 'Rooks, Wy- "Time i4 moneye quotied he -Mae GUI.
endottee nr Lartgaliene. Whatever the *Yes, but the trouble ie it is SO eel-
Legliorns do they do with a will. When, dom an even trade," Ridded the Simple
they ley they ehell out the eve ale Mug,
thotigit they were pend for the job, and One good, turn may (legatee intestine',
'When they moult 'they !simplymoult. but sometimes it's is mighty Iong*Isse
Moot Of the diseases which our feneleeeentteellsell. 1=04 e /A,
ROYAL WEDDINGS
; Connaught—Fife in the
Chapel Royal.
Wales
keteenteeenne
to Attend
Manuel s.
King
London, ug. 18—Queen Mary wishes
to be in town in plenty of time to
help with practical suggestions in
connection with the Connaught -Fife
wedding in Octeber. It is underfitood
that Her Mitiesty, as well as the Prin.
me Royal, mother of the bride, would
prefer the wedding to take place in
the private Chapel of Buckingham
PaIttee. Queen Alexandra, had it fallen
for Windsor, where the parents of
the bridegroom were married in 1879.
However, the Chapel Royal, St.
James', has been chosen, for tWo read.
ous:
1 ---That only a comparatively lima,
ted number ot His Majesty's subjects
could witness the street pageaut at
Windsor, while the London thorough-
fares afford space for a very great
throng,
2—That the Chapel Royal, St.
:fames', affords much more space for
guests than either of the °thee two
chapels mentioned,
Prince Arthur of Connaught is said
to have given his fiancee the cele-
brated mascot ring which nelonged
to the "Red Prince," It was it gift
to him from his mother, 'who is a
descendant uf the "Red Prince." The
ring is in the form of an anchor, and
the "Rea Prince" was uniformly sue-
eessful in his undertakings whenever
he wore it.
It is understood that Scottish home -
spurts will play a prominent part in
the young Duchess' trousseau. She in-
tends to wear not only a bit of tartan,
but to carry a bouquet of white heath-.
er on her wedding day, and the scar-
let outriders that always distinguish-
ed the Duke of Fife's progress in his
Younger days will escort her home.
The pukes of Fife always exactea
and received a great deal of homage
from their retainers. The late Duke
was always attended bareheaded by
Itis servants, no matter what weath-
er,
FOR MANOEL'S WEDDING.
London, Aug. •IS—The Prince of
Wales will represent the King at the
marriage of Manoel of Portugal, and
Princess Augustine Victoria, of Ho-
henzollern, which is definitely fixed
to ,take place at Sigmaringen, the
home of the bride, Sept. 4. Manoel
leaves for Sigmaringen to -day, Eighty
royal princes and princesses will at-
tend the ceremony.
The wedding presents include a
magnificent set of silver for the table
from King George and Queen Man,
the largest piece ofwhich bears the
inscription, "To King Manoel on the
occasion of his maigiage, from his
affectionate cousins, King George
and Queen Mary, Sept. 3, 1913."
Another wedding present for King
Manoel is . a gold wine flagon from
Queen Alexandra, with the greeting,
"For my dear Manoel, King of Porto -
gal, from his affectionate aunt, Alex-
andra."
4:1
RAINS IN TEXAS
And Cooler Temperatures
After Terrible Heat,
Kansas City, Mo„ Aug, 18.—Heavy
showers yesterday over most of the
eastern half of Kansas added to the
relief that came with the rains of Sat-
tryeeenternitels, neejleyed the drontb
is now effectually broltene'Tifeereins
came too late to be of much bend;
to the corn, that has' been withered
with two months of dryness and hot
winds, except for fodder, but forage
and alfalfa crops will be greatly help-
' ed. The mitts will also refill the
ponds with water for stock, the Mole
of which has been a serious matter.
The rains of the past two days were
local in character, but indications am
for more rain in most sections, With
the rains came cooler' temperatUres
all over the State. Showers fell yea-
terday in southwest Missouri and
northeast Oklahoma. Two inchee Of
rain fell at Joplin In 24 hours. Tulsa,
Oklahoma, reported a rain of almost
an inch late yesterday, accOmpanied
by a fall of twenty degrees in the
temperature. *
:
WANT HER TO SHOW
British Exhibit at San Fran.
cisco Urged.
London, Aug, 18.—Leo GOOVIZO MGM.
Money and other publioists have articles
an(1 letters in the Daily Chronicle to-
day. giving their reasons whv Great Bri-
Lain should participate in the Panama-
Pacifie Expusition. The Chronicle also
prints an editorial, which expressre the
belief that the Government will reverse
btossictlie(enils.ion not to take part iu the ex -
Lord Myth, evlio lute been the chair-
man of the organizing committees for
various exposition)), in whieh Great Bri-
tain bes partieipated, and who bee writ-
ten extensively on the fiscal and cow-
mervial policy of the Empire, in a long
letter to the Times toelay, warmly urg-
ing British participation at San Fran -
mho, neks: eliow cent we expect AM.
1.1'1011 to eupport the. Peace Centenary ex.
hibition hi London in 1014 if we &Mine
to bit' repre.,_sentPil at 8an Francisco?"
TYPHOON AT HONG KONG.,
Hong Kong, Chhea, Aug, 18.,—A ty-
pluton, which raged here yesterday,
attained it velocity of 105 Miles an
hour, and, when it was at ite height,
Caused the gunboat Wilmington, at-
tached to the third division of the
Mated States Asiatie fleet, to fire
dietress signale. A tug towed tho war.
HIIt
NIPhe'41
lo8titetly%
Vphoon had Moderated
the British deetroyer Otter steamed
out of the harbor in search of the plea-
sure. Yeceht Truer, which had On board
the °raters of the British receiving
ship Tamar. The Officere were safely
landed by the destroyer,
A uumber of email boats in the
bor foundered,
Many it man Saddles himself 'With it
wife; and the hopes the girth will
break.
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