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JOHN W. CAUGHEY, PITTSBURG, PA.
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Indications point to a busy season among
our poultry breeders. So many ladies are
looking into the subject, that it will be sure
to grow in favor with them. How many
of our readers are going to start in, this
spring? _
When hens are used for hatching chicks, !
they should not have more than nine or
eleven eggs given them for the fl rd setting,
for if they have more, the eggs are liable
to be exposed and chilled through, thus
destroying the chicks in them.
Experience in breeding fancy poultry,
very often proves unsatisfactory, yet there
is a charm about it which stimulates the
breeder to renewed effort and enlarged
expectations. If the introduction of fresh
blood were not necessary, disappointments
would be less frequent, and the anticipated
improvements more often realized.
It is a common practice with careless
poultry keepers, to throw food on the cold
snow or in muddy places for their fowls.
Is that right? No—for in the first place
the birds are obliged to swallow a large
quantity of snow and mud with the food.
Economy leads to wealth. We must not
be stingy with food, and yet it is a waste
to throw it broadcast in winter. A little
ingenuity in the way of feeding troughs or
racks would be a saving; besides, the food
would be clean and sweet.
Do not try to use more breeding stock
than you need. It is often a great tempta
tion to breed from inferior fowls, when
there is a good prospect or brisk demand
for eggs. You may make sale of the eggs from
those inferor fowls you are keeping, at the
same price as those from the prime breed
ing stock, but you are deceiving your cus
tomers first and losing their custom last.
The success of nearly all old breeders is in
a great measure due to their observation of
a rule never to breed from any but the best.
Sulphur will not kill lice, nor will it
drive them from your poultry house, no
matter how freely it may be used, but
kerosene will surely kill them Pour
kerosene over your roosts and sprinkle it
over the wall and floor of your houses,
once in two weeks, between May Ist, and
October, lst.and you w ill never be bothered
with ben lice. Should your fowls have
lice on them at any time, mix a little snuff
with the dry sand and earth in their dust
boxes and the lice will disappear. Examine
your young chicks once a week during the
hatching season, and see that they are free
from these troublesome pests.
To our mind, there is nothing better or
prettier than a large fine fowl, such as
Plymoth Rocks, Langshans, or Light
Brahmas. I favor mostly, the Asiatics,
as they seem to be the most hardy and
healthy and the best winter layers. It is
not of much use to try to sell the farmers
of this country a fowl, unless it is a good
winter layer, and so far as our experience
goes, there is none better than those we
have named. Most people say that their
chickens quit laying when eggs get to be
worth anything. That is in fall and win
ter. We tell them they have not the right
sort. Some of them are beginning to see
the propriety of keeping pure bred fowls,
and are finding out that it pays to discard
the old dunghill and take in its place a well
bred fowl.
Egg soap is made from the yolk of eggs,
by the Tarters of eastern Russia. Albu
men is made from the white of eggs, and
egg oil from the yolk. Egg pomatum is
also made. Egg oil is used for oiling leath
er and wool in the woolen mills. Egg al
bumen sells for about seventy-five cents
per pound in France, while blood albumen
is worth only twenty-five cents per pound.
The yolks of eggs are also preserved in the
form of a powder, which is used in bakeries
and confectioneries. The yolk may also be
preserved in glycerine and salicylic acid
in the liquid shape, and is used in tanneries
in this form. In Russia a million dozen
eggs are annually used for these manufact
uring purposes, their cost being from five
to ten cents per dozen.
The Laced Wyandotte is made up of
crosses, none having the same type and
markings as the one evolved. Seabright
Bantams, Buff Cochins, Spangled Ham
burgs, and Dark Brahmas, have figured in
forming the breed. Once in a while these
composite elements struggle for existence or
mastery. Single and pea combs, feathered
legs, buff and black patches, mixed gray
backs, and white ear lobes “crop out.”
Still it is a pleading and stimulating grati
fication to take hold of a few Wyandottes
and develop and preserve their valuable
features and raise ♦hem high in the scale of
perfection, for it is a profitable pastime to
any breeder to develop and augment their
useful and handsome qualities. There
was an attempt a few years ago to vary
slightly from the present standard points
by breeding combs of a decided Hamburg
shape and uniform lacing on the breasts
of both sexes. And many honest, earnest
breeders who wish to preserve the valuable
qualities of the breed and add a point of
becoming beauty to the males, plead for
the laced wing. Whatever may be the
encouragement to a laced wing as most
befitting the breed, there is none for a
Hamburg comb, for such a comb on the
flat crown of a Wyandotte would look out
of place.
The Plymouth Rocks are notorious for
being always fat, while the Leghorns are
said to be never so. A Brabraa chicken
will not fatten perfectly, but, when grown
takes on fat quickly. To reduce the fowls
in flesh without depriving them of food,
may be done by forcing them to scratch
for a living, and giving them oats only, and
but once a day. Select a dry portion of the
yard, or if in wet weather, the floor of the
fowl house, and cover it with leaves, cut
straw, or hay, and such waste materials as
answers, throw the oats into this, and let
them hunt for the grains. Feed nothing
in the morning, give the oats at noon, and
allow nothing at night. On very cold
nights a little corn may be fed. Watch
the fowls carefully, and do not carry on the
process any longer than may be necessary.
Moistening the oats to swell them a lit le
before feeding, and also parching them
occasionally, will be sufficient change dur
ing the feeding for reduction of fat.
Mend Your own Tinware!
If every household had a simple outfit for re
pairing tinware, mueli trouble, time and expense
might be saved. Frequently an article is thrown
away because of a single hole which might be
easily repaired. For 20c. we will mail you a
neat little phamphlet giving full directions for
preparingall necessary materials, and for doing
the work. Address:
The, TIMES, Bridgewater, Dak.
TO MOTHERS.
Every babe should have a bottle of DR. FAHR
NEY’S TEETHING SYRUP. Perfectly safe. No
Opium or Morphia mixture. Will relieve Colic,
Griping in the Bowels and Promote Difficult
Teething. Prepared by DRS. D. FAHRNEY &
SON, Hagerstown, Md. Druggists sell it: 25 cents.
Trial bottles sent by mail 10 cents.
A Hot Springs, Arkansas lady writes. “Some
time since 1 bought five dollars worth of Dr. Camp
bell’s “Life-Renewing’ Arsenic Complexion Wafers,
and gave one-half to my mother; the other half I
used myself, and they have changed the color and
appearance of my skin MOST WONDERFULLY;
before using them my skin could only be called
BLACK, while my face was COVERED with pim
ples and blackheads ; NOW’ it is entirely free from
those hideous disfigurements, and I shall NEVER
cease to be grateful to Dr. Campbell. The liniment
you sent is doing my mother lots of good for rheu
matism and lama back.” By mail.Sl (Liniment 25c.)
Depot 220 6th Ave., New York. Sold by druggists.
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SEEDS! SEEDS! SEEDS!
Fresh and sound, from generous southern soil,
and better adapted to the country, than any
other Seeds. I send everything, except my nov
elties, at 5 c6nts per packet; postpaid. I send my
“Buncombe” Cabbage, Hybrid Tomato, Prize
Oats and Champion Pearl Corn at 10 cents per
packet, postpaid. Send for catalogue to
J. W. Vandiver, Seedsman, Weaverville, N, 0,
BEAUTY’S RETURN.
Use Dr. Campbell’s Wafers when
Your face is blotched or freckled; then
Your beauty will return again.
LIFE I
Though people say and doctors view
Your case as hopeless,, yet for you
There’s “life” in Campbell’s Wafers, too.
THEIR POWER.
CAMPBELL’!, WAFERS will revive
The lost complexion, keep alive
The weak, and make the sickly thrive!
By mail, SI. Dr. Campbell’s “Bee Bread” Liver
Pills, 25c.; Dr. Campbell’s Safe Family Liniment,
25c. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
Depot 220 6th Ave. N. Y.
CHILDREN ARE IRRITABLE
Feverish, sometimes craving food and eating ra
venously, again refusing wholesome diet, tossing
restlessly in sleep, moaning and* grinding the
teeth, then you may know Worms are sapping at
their life and unless prompt measures are taken,
spasms and finally death will follow. B. A. Fah
nestock’s Vermifuge never fails to cure.
Try and see for yourself, it has stood the test
FOR. SO YEARS.
WYANDOTTES.
For sale 10 Trios of Extra Fine Silver Wvn
dottes. Six Trios of pure Langshans at $5.00 per
Trio, also 1 extra fine White Wyandotte Cockerel
at $2.00. Eggs in spring from Golden. Silver and
White Wyndottes, Langshans, White and Barred
P. Rocks, P. Cochins, White and Brown Leghorns
and Imperial Pekin Ducks. Address,
B T. GLEAVES, Mt. Juliet, Tenn.
SHORT HAND FREE I
Ten Lessons without charge. Address with
stamp, Hudson's College of Short Hand, Colum
bus, O.
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instantly. -
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ask for agents’ terms, or send for one to try at home.
JOHN W. CAUGHEY, General Agent,
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