Sweden's Climate Like Canada's 12 *ioui& oi" liiOi'c v.n^ot »veauier or The climate of Sweden is not unlike warm room a fresh lot should be that of Canada. The summer though soaked daily), dissolve one tablespoonful short is occasionally very hot in June of salt in each bucket of water and July. The ground is generally used for this, boil two or three hours covered with sno\V from the middle of and so gauge the amount «of water November to the middle of April then used for soaking that at the finish the follows a brief spring, accompanied by water is boiled away. Feed warm but a rapid growth of vegetation. There not hot. White Leghorn pullets can is also a. short fall. The long summer SOUR MILK FOR LAYING HENS have these boiled oats twice daily, say days, when the sun only goes below at 10 a. m. and 4 p. m., and all they the horizon for an hour or two, have a will eat up clean. For old hens or Most Excellent Substitute for Meat peculiar charm. At Helsingfors the heavyweight pullets, one feed a day Scrap and Will Give Good Returns mean temperature for the year is 40, is enough and not too much at that, During Winter. while at Abo it is 41.' The annual lest they become too fat on this muchliked rainfall at Helsingfors is about 20 feed. While tltfe production of eggs during inches. the winter when high prices prevail SHOULD RETAIN BEST FOWLS is the result of proper breeding, CAREFUL ESTIMATE OF FEED hatching, rearing and care, proper Patriotic Farmers Who Desire to Do Mahometan "Marriages." feeding will always tend to stimulate Their Bit Will Find It Wise tc If Bran and Shorts Are Used Freely According to Arabian historians, egg production at that season. Keep Best Layers. in Dry Mash They Will Take Mahomet had only nine wives, who, One reason why hens lay well in Place of Grains. however, cannot be regarded as wives spring and summer is that they are Among farmers generally it is the at all. Thus Mahomet, after he became able to obtain animal protein, in the common practice to sell hens over a One is compelled these days to make an old man, married, or rather form of bugs and worms. During year old for poultry when they stop pretty careful estimates in regard to adopted, Ayesha, the seven-year-old fall and winter, therefore, the poultry kinds of feed for chickens. It seems laying in the fall. Under the usual conditions child of his faithful friend, Abu Bakr. feeder should attempt to imitate that bran and shorts are cheap as anything this is good policy, for as a Again he married or admitted to his summer feed conditions. The commercial on the market. If these are used rule only about half the flock lay well household a scolding old widow, whom poultryman supplies animal protein freely in a dry mash with cornmeal, enough the second year to be profitable, Omar and Abu Bakr refused to receive. by feeding meatscraps, but the making the shorts the predominant and the farmer who has pullets Among Mahometans marriage farmer often fails to provide this feed. part, the mixture will largely take the enough to replace all his old hens sees has a different meaning than that Skim milk, preferably sour, is a place of cracked grains. It can be fed no advantage in keeping any of them which it has among Americans. It most excellent substitute for meatscrap in self-feeders. It is a good mixture over. often means merely a tie of guardianship and will give good returns when for growing chicks whether or not This year, however, patriotic farmers or protection. fed to laying hens. Numerous experiments cracked grains are used, and can profitably who desire to do their part to increase have shown that laying hens be kept before them all the the poultry and egg supplies fed skim milk will double in egg production time. Indians of Chile. will find it desirable to retain a consid- similar hens fed no form of The Araucanians are the primitive animal protein. ai race of Chile, and one of the finest KEEP ONLY THE BEST FOWLS According to P. D. Crooks of the of all the American Indian tribes. Although Pennsylvania State college school of the remaining Indians are Owing to High Price of Feed Poultryman agriculture and experiment station, wards of the government not unlike Should Cull Out and Dispose the exact value of sour milk as a CARTOON FURNISHED THIS NEWSPAPER those in this country, the tribe is said of All Runts. source of protein, is difficult to state. &Y THE MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY. never to have been formally conquered, Numerous feeding trials, however, urthermore, the blood of the ArauCanians Now that poultry feeds, like all other place its value at 50 cents to $2 per QE/MUI/SE LOYALTY is widely disseminated and gives 100 pounds. feeds, are high in price, *he poultry to the Chilean people their distinctive keeper should be more careful than Skim milk lowers the cost of producing character. Spectacles Once a Sign of Wealth. ever to cull out and dispose of all a dozen eggs. On the farm it The Sardine. Spectacles were invented in Italy runts, weak specimens and those which may mean the difference between The fresh sardine is a beautiful Utile are in any way deformed. While these about 12S5. 'they were at first *ery profit and loss in connection with the fish. The scales on its back are Was Anxious to Know. expensive, so were worn only by farm flock. Sour milk has a medicinal are allowed in the flock, they are consuming an iridescent blue-green, the exact One evening while the family were wealthy persons or noblemen and so effect also. It keeps hens in good food and using coop and house tint which the sea so often takes, •seated in the living room the conversation came to be regarded as a mark of health and helps prevent disease. room which could be more profitably while beneath the scales there shows was mostly on the subject of •rank. The larger rhe spectables the devoted to strong, more perfect stock. up the most wonderful peacock-blue. guardianship for the grandfather, and higher the rank, and so the glasses SPROUTED OATS FOR FOWLS There are bars on its back arid sides several times it became quite a heated grew to prodigious size. There are KEEPING MALES IN SAME PEN when it first comes out of the water, Plymouth .Rock. debate, which greatly impressed the Champion Columbian t^vo or three busts extant of Italian like' those of the mackerel, but they Recommended as Green Feed for Poultry little three-year-old, Irene. The next gentlemen wearing "specs," and in erable proportion of the yearling hens, seem to fade and disappear the moment by Specialist of Department Not Wise Plan to Permit Two Roosters morning upon opening her little brown one of these cases the lenses are three making such addition to their poultryhouse of Agriculture. it is exposed to the air. The rest With Hens—Use Them on eyes, she sat upright in bed and said inches in diameter. equipment as may be necessary of its body is silver. Alternate Days. "Mamma, did they get that guardian to properly accommodate both pullets The poultry specialists of the IT. S. tied on grandpa yet?" and hens. Overcrowding must be department of agriculture advise that It is not best to allow two males in Burma Excels in Rice Growing. Danger in Using Drugs. sprouted oats fed as green feed to avoided, as neither pullets nor bens the same pen together. If it becomes Burma is the world's great rice-exporting Any drug that sufficiently masters hens confined to yards cost about 10 will do their best. Jiujitsu for Girls, necessary to keep more than one in center, and Rangoon is the rhe organism to produce sleep is a cents per hen a year and one cent The same pen, only one should be allowed Japanese women never have the chief rice port in the world. The dangerous remedy, unless prescribed per dozen eggs, not including any with the hens the same day. nnckache. are rarely stoop-shouldered BOILED OATS rOR CHICKENS amount of rice exported each year by one's family doctor. It should not charges for labor .and equipment. In.the and in endurance equal their brothers. It is a good plan to let one run with from the four ports of Burma is about be used in any other way. By promiscuous experiments of these specialists the hens and the other one the next One 'Of the reasons given for this is equal to that shipped from Siam and Favorable Results Obtained by Pennsylvania drugging to secure sleep that the Japanese^girl.s are taught jiujitsu day. The male sliould be kept in a French Indo-China combined, and the Department of Agriculture—Feed many well-nigh incurable cases of insomnia pen by ftimself when ho is not with wrestling and are made to feel export from Rangoon is nearly equal Warm. have been established. However, the hens. proud of their athletic prowess. Grown to the combined export from the ports in cases attended by much nervousness, men and women practice their jiujitsu Poultry experts in the Pennsylvania of Saigon and Bangkok. the bromides may safely be together and it is not infrequent that department of agriculture report favorable Seward Named Alaska. used, in doses of 15 grains at bedtime. he man is worsted. results from feeding boiled oats, I The name "Alaska" was first apI —Exchange. Couldn't Prove It by Him. and state they are the cheapest poultry (died by W. H. Seward. Prior to 1867 Lyle was the owner of a puppy of food now obtainable. Boiled oats have it vas known as Russian America. Concerning the Farmer. .vliich he was fond. So when the dog largely, too. superseded tlie sprouted I The won! is said to be a corruption of First Use of Oars. Let us not be deceived by politicians became sick and had to be killed everything c/ats so much exploited a few years the Aleut, word, "alak sliak," or "al-ay The idea of propelling ships independently or self conceit. Farmers are possible was done to keep Lyle ago, as they are better, safer and less I i-dt-su." meaning a great country. of the wind first led to the not perfect Nor have they a monopoly from hearing of it. Some time afterward fussy. use of oars. The discovery of land vehicles upon honesty and integrity. As a I went to call on his mother, To prepare, soak good, heavy oats and the means of propulsion class we have the unfaithful as well and, not knowing of the dog's fate, I of land vehicles soon led to attempts as the faithful, the deserving as well asked Lyle where it was. "Oh," he to utilize it on behalf of vessels. as the slothful, the dishonest as well said, "it's dead. I guess, but I don't It is claimed that the first attempt as the honest. Men are not perfect know it."—Chicago Tribune. MEAT TASTES at this propulsion was made in any occupation.—Exchange. by Blasco de Garay, at Barcelona, in 1583. Device for Sprouting*Oats. Advance the Result of Experience. Beet-Sugar Production. BETTER COOKED The world's advance is due only to the hens ate on an average in one In 1747 a Berlin chemist discovered rhe hopes, the plans, the progress and World's Greatest Maelstrom. year about 1.3 pounds of oyster shell chat sugar could be obtained from the tfork of living men and women and 0.7 of a pound of grit, which together The greatest whirlpool in the world beets, and since then the percentage of who have tasted of'the waters of life is the maelstrom off the coast of Norway. cost about one cent per hen. sugar has been increased so considerably for themselves and know what it is It is an eddy between the mainland by selective breeding of the vegetables to live and are determined that the rest And tobacco now tastes much and an island, and when the current that nowadays a ton of it is derived CLEAN-CUT POULTRY HOUSES of the world shall have life more is in one direction and the wind is from ninp tons of the roots. The better toasted abundantly. in another, no ship can withstand the average person in this country consumes Let Only Odor Be Suggestive of Cleanliness—Lice fury of the waves. Whales and sharks two-thirds of his own weight of You'll know this when you and Mites V/ill have been cast ashore and killed. The sugar in a year. Beginning of Postal Systems. Increase Rapidly. smoke the famous Lucky Strike current is estimated to run 30 miles an The complete organization of a system hour. of postal communication in England Clean out the poultry houses, coops cigarette, the real Burley cigarette. Rabbit Wool. did not take place till the reign and nests and thoroughly disinfect Rabbit hair is supplanting wool in of James I (1606). Doctor Franklin them. Keep them clean and let the Open Rebellion in Atchison. the feU hat making industry of Australia, was the father of the present gigantic only odor about them be one suggestive Some evangelists tell us to love where there are 30 factories in postal system in the United States. of cleanliness. The time is at operation at present making use of every person—but to hate the ways of hand when lice and mites and bluebugs rabbit fur for this purpose. It is said wicked people. It .can't be done. One will increase rapidly and overrun to be superior to the finest marino, and can't separate a man and his ways. Orchid's Drinking Tube. the place in a little while. The best millions of rabbit skins are made use His ways are a j?art of himself. We One of South America's curiosities weapon to fight them with is cleanliness. of annually. absolutely refuse to love every ornery .s an orchid which has a peculiar tube cuss that comes alo»ig^at least, we refuse that it lets down into the water when to kiss him.—Atchison Globe. it wants a drink. At other times it is SHELLS, GRIT AND CHARCOAL Marks. Tattoo kept curled up. It is possible to get rid of tattoo marks by having the ink dissolved out Composition of the Ark. Too Many Farmers Do Not Realize lmportance with acid but this destroys the skin of Supplying EggMaking It's toasted to develop and seal The first ship built of which we Dry Town and Dry Vegetables. and leaves a scar, ft is also possible Materials. aave any description is Noah's ark.' A dehydrated or dry vegetable is one in the Burley tobacco flavor. to have the tattooed skin cut away and Assuming a cubit to be 18 inches, the from which all the water has been extracted, replaced with grafts from some other Too many people who raise poultry ark was 450 feet 'in length, 75 feet but a dry town is a town portion of the body. do not realize the importance of supplying in beam, and 45 feet in depth. It was .where there's nothing but water.— their flock with an abundance built of gophir wood, or of cypress, Portland Press. of oyster shells, grit and diarcoal. In which, like cedar, is suited for parts Had In Reserve. Supply order for them to keep in the best of of a ship under water. Mother had just finished washing A Plea. health and produce the best results, her hair, wlitn our neighbor entered. "And why should I give you a kiss?" poultry must be well supplied with she exclaimed, "you have heautiful New Rock-Boring Machine. 'Scientists say a man needs sweets." theia. hair." Charlie, who was standing "What of it?" "I*m going without A new machine fitted with pneumatic near, broke out saying: "Well, sugar. Now's your time to encourage hammers and chisels is able to FOWLS TOO CLOSELY YARDED dat's not all she has more in on de patriotism, girlie." bore through hard rock at the rate dresser."—Chicago Tribune. of about nine feet in 24 hours. This They Have Little Opportunity to Supply machine was used in subway work In Themselves With Necessary Sense of Relief. New York city, and marked a great Match for the Polar Bear. Amount of Grit. "How did the shortage of gasolin* advance in swift, safe and cheap rock The only animal in the arctic regions affect you?" "Well," replied Mr. tunneling. that can successfully fight the polar When fowls are closely yarded, or Chuggins, "it was a kind of comfort ta bear is the walrus. The bears will attack during cold weather when the ground know offhand exactly why the old machine the baby walrus, but are afraid is frozen or covered with snow, they wouldn't run." Better Than an Alarm Clock. of the long, sharp, ivory tusks of the have little opportunity to supply themselves Exe—''Why not have Bridget shift srown-ups. with any kind of grit or its the kitchen door mornings? One can Care of Flutes. substitute and are liable to become smell the, breakfast all over the Flutes sometimes suffer from any sick, due to indigestion. house." Mrs. Exe^-"Shut the kitchen Wor'k Most Important. abrupt change in the weather, and door? I guess -not. The smell is all Nothing can bring you peace but should therefore be kept in chamois AVOID DAMPNESS IN HOUSES that gets the family up."—Boston yourself and the triumph of* principles. leather. .v Evening Transcript. Do your work and you shall re-enforce Dark Buildings, Lacking Direct Sunlight, yourself.—Mary E. Haskell. Are Conducive to Disease Coconut Butter. Some Fish. —Clean Them Up. European factories each week make "In my entire piscatorial experience," Look for Love. about 16,000,000 pounds. of artificial said thp truthful traveler, "I To be able to see the lovable traits Damprjiouses, especially if dark and butter with coconut oil as a base. never came across a fish so accommodating in people is a wonderful help to happiness. lacking direct sunlight, moldy litter, as the shovel\ fish of South and filthy nests and ro9sts are conducive America. It lifts a snout the shape Of to disease. Chicken pox finds?'*' Play Cheerfully. shovel and it will jump on the bank* Only the trained hand can bring music a good breeding place under such conditions. ,/j Optimistic Thought. and dig bait for you to catch it with,'* si out of an instrument. Life will Clean, u^, and "let a .little Reform to be useful and durable N a is ^.iiinile'unless you learn -how- to play it. sunshine in!" must he gradual and caution^ V-.: