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PROBLEM OF BREAKING UP BROODY HEN
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. Broody hens seem to be a serious
(problem for many, and some people
lhave objected to the Orpingtons be
cause of this. One man says he has
kept both Buff Orpingtons and White
Orpingtons and has never had much
[trouble with either of them. Of
course they will become broody, but
is not a hard matter to break up
a broody hen if the right methods
jare pursued.
The principle on which all methods
for stopping broodtness must be
based to succeed without real cruelty
to the hens, is to have something
under them that it will be impossible
for them to warm up. The easiest
Way to provide this is by having the
coop so open beneath that the air
will circulate up around them. A
hen will sit on a board and persist,
but she will not sit on a nest with a
cavity under it and a screen wire bot
tom. She will sit anywhere without
eggs under her so long as the condi
tions are right so eggs would hatch
if they were under her, but instinct
seems to warn her when conditions
are not right, and she will soon quit,
j Another thing noticed is that
where hens have been shut up for
broodiness there is a tendency to
'HOW TO OPERATE INCUBATOR
Temperature of Place Where Machine
Is Kept Should Not Vary—Use
! Only Fresh Eggs.
Care should be taken that the tem
perature of the place where the ma
chine is kept does not vary. To secure
;an even temperature it is a good plan
to place the incubator in an outhouse,
which should be locked up, thus pre
venting the opening and closing of the
door as much as possible. The build
ing should be well ventilated at the
top and be free from drafts. In the
imiddle of the house is the best place
ifor the machine, as this allows the air
to circulate around it. It should never
be put in a corner or against a wall,
as fresh air is essential during the
process of incubation.
The machine should stand either on
a low form or on the floor, as this al
lows the heat inside to be regular. If
the egg draw r er is but half an inch
lower at the front than the back, the
front will not be as warm as the back.
Fresh eggs, of course, must be used.
Where it can be managed, they should
be put into the incubator the same
day they have been laid. They may
be two or three days old, but the most
successful results are obtained from
new-laid ones. All the eggs should bfe
of as near the same size as possible.
And very small or very large ones
should not be chosen, as they often
prove unfertile.
HINTS FOR POULTRY RAISERS
Insure Uniformity of Product by Keep
ing Standard-Bred Stock —Gather
Eggs Twice Daily.
To Producers —Keep standard-bred
stock, thus insuring uniformity of
products. Sell only full-sized (two
ounce) fresh, clean, uniform eggs.
Keep nests clean; coniine broody
hens; gather eggs twice daily. Keep
in a cool place, free odors of all
kinds.
Do not offer for sale small, dirty,
checked, stained or doubtful eggs.
Most of these may be consumed at
home at full market value.
Fatten all surplus poultry, bringing
j’tcck up to standard weight.
To Shippers —Pack eggs only in
standard cases, with medium fillers,
using excelsior, cork shavings, cut
straw or corrugated board.
1 Store case in cool, dry place, only
free from odors, avoiding heat,
droughts and dampness.
Ship eggs often, at least twice a
week in warm weather, by express or
In refrigerator cars.
Ship live, healthy poultry in large
standard coops; dressed poultry neat
ly wrapped and packed in boxes or
barrels, to reliable dealers.
Pure-Bred Orpington Cock.
take them outside and away from the
othe/s and often in the open, covering
them over with something to keep
the rain off them. This method pro
vides the seclusion and darkened
place just to suit a hen, and then if
the coop rests on the ground the con
ditions are ideal to her mind, and she
cannot be blamed for preparing for a
three weeks’ stay. Hens will break
up sooner if they are kept in the lot
where the others are scratching and
feeding and are shut in a coop that
will not permit their sitting down and
warming up a nest A slatted bottom
located in the scratching shed, with
nests under it, has been used, and
three days was the average time re*
quired to stop them, and they some*
times began laying in a week.
Do not let hens sit on the nests a
week or two and then try to break
them up. It is much easier to break
them at once the first time they re
main on the nests at night, for they
are not very determined, and often
will not persist if kept up one day.
Then hens that are broken up at
once will go to laying sooner after
being broken up than those that are
left to sit a week first, and you get
the week of extra work also.
FEEDING HENS AND PULLETS
Profits Decrease Where Young and
Old Stock Are Kept Together—
Provide Separate Yards.
A good many people who might oth
erwise be successful with their poul
try have their profit decreased because
they allow the young arrd old stock
to remain undivided in the same house
or pen or both during the growing
period.
At this particular time the young
stock needs a great deal of food and
needs to be protected from the old
ones, which, if allowed to do so, will
abuse them more or less. If free range
is impossible, provide separate yards
and always keep the young in sepa
rate buildings, if possible, or in a sep
arate room at least. If you haven’t
a separate building you can very eas
ily provide an extra room of some
sort for them to roost in.
Pullets getting ready to lay need
more feed as a rule than hens which
have molted out well, because the
pullets need to finish their growth
and maturity, as well as make eggs.
This is another reason why the young
stock and the ol'd should be kept sep
arate. The feed question should also
be considered as the young hen often
needs different rations than the old
in order to produce certain qualities
which the one has and the other has
not.
PROVIDE SHADE AND WATER
Two Important Factors With Poultry
During Hot Days of Summer —
Not a Difficult Task.
These two factors are all important
with the poultry these days and should
be always at hand.
Watering but once a day will not
suffice. Even if supplied in sufficient
quantity, it soon becomes warm and
unpalatable, for the poultry appreciate
a cool drink on hot days as well as
we do ourselves. If you don’t think
so, try it.
Keep the water dishes in shady
places and so arranged that the water
will not become readily fouled with
dirt.
No shade is so acceptable to poultry
as the shade of trees, bushes, growing
corn or other plants. Every farmer
almost can provide this easily and it
is nearly a sin to fence the flocks from
it. But any shade is better than no
shade and if no other can be given a
shelter from the sun of old boards or
any material at hand will answer.
Water, shade and plenty of feed are
the three absolute essentials for the
growing chicks these hot days as
well as for the balance of the flocks.
See to it that your flocks lack none
of them.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
CALOMEL IS MERCURY. U SICKENS!
STOP USING SALIVATING DRUG
Don’t Lose a Day’s Work! If Your Liver Is Sluggish or Bowels
Constipated Take “Dodson’s Liver Tone.”—lt’s Fine!
You’re bilious! Your liver is slug
gish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all
knocked out. Your head is dull, your
tongue is coated; breath bad; stomach
sour and bow els constipated. But don’t
take salivating calomel. It makes you
sick, you may lose a day’s work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That’s when
you feel that awful nausea and cramp
ing.
If you want to enjoy the nicest, gen
tlest liver and bowel cleansing you
ever experienced just take a spoonful
of harmless Dodson’s Liver Tone. Your
druggist or dealer sells you a 50-cent
bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone under
my personal money-back guarantee
that each spoonful will clean your
CHARITY CLOSE TO HOME
Smith’s Seemingly Generous Action
Was Not Altogether a Matter of
Philanthropy.
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas
remarked the other day that Philan
thropy was not always actuated by a
beautiful and generous heart, and told
this story to back up his statement:
One afternoon a bunch of congenial
spirits were talking about the various
leading citizens of the town when a
parsimonious party by the name of
Smith was smilingly referred to.
“Speaking of Smith,” interposed an
other of the bunch, “I met him yes
terday afternoon going around town
with a petition trying to collect money
for a poor widow that she might pay
her rent.”
“What’s that!” exclaimed the
amazed crowd, all of whom knew
Smith. "Collecting funds for a widow’s
rent! Watch out for the millennium
at 6 a. m. tomorrow.”
“Oh, no, it isn’t as bad as that,” ex
plained the other. “You see, Smith
owns the house that the widow lives
in.”
DISTRESSING PIMPLES
Removed by Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment. Trial Free.
Smear them with the Ointment.
Wash off in five minutes with Cuti
cura Soap and hot water and continue
bathing for some minutes. Repeat on
rising and retiring. These fragrant
supercreamy emollients do much for
the skin, and do it quickly.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
“Old and Distinguished.’’
"Gerald,” said the young wife, no
ticing how heartily he was eating, “do
I cook as well as your mother did?”
Gerald put up his monocle and
stared at her through it.
“Once and for all, Agatha,” he said,
“I beg you to remember that although
I may seem to be in reduced circum
stances now, I come of an old and dis
tinguished family. My mother was
not a cook.”
Touch Pre-eminent.
"A cozy picture, eh? A man lolling
in an easy chair and his beautiful
wife leaning over him to light his
cigar.”
“You haven’t seen the companion
picture to it, have you?”
“W 7 hy, no.”
“It’s the same man savagely chew
ing the end of his cigar and writing
a check.” —Kansas City Star.
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
TASTELESS chili TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron
builds up the system. 50 cents. Adv.
Couldn’t Do It.
“I want you,” said the fair society
leader, “to give me a plain opinion
about my latest photograph.”
"Madam,” said the gallant cavalier,
bowing, “to speak in plain terms of
that portrait would be impossible!”
Logical.
Blobbs—Bjones is the most unlucky
fellow at cards I ever met.
Slobbs —Then I suppose he Is lucky
in love?
Slobbs —I suppose so. At any rate,
he has never been married. —London
Opinion.
To stop bleeding use Hanford’s Bal
sam. Adv.
Beautiful Neutrality.
The Venus of Mile explained:
“An endeavor to be neutral,” she
said; “arms are munitions of war.’
Men who are not used to society are
apt to get “balled up” in a ballroom.
Art at best turns out a poor coun
terfeit of nature.
You Look Prematurely Old
sluggish liver better than a dose of
nasty calomel and that it won’t make
you sick.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You’ll know it next morn
ing because you will wake up feeling
fine, your liver will be working, your
headache and dizziness gone, your
stomach will be sweet and your bowels
regular. You will feel like working;
you’ll be cheerful; full of vigor and
ambition.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and can
not salivate. Give it to your children!
Millions of people are using Dodson’s
Liver Tone instead of dangerous cal
omel now. Your druggist will tell you
that the sale of calomel is almost
Stopped entirely here.
Faded Sentiment.
That beautiful sentiment eventually
dies a sad death would seem to be
demonstrated by a story told the
other night by a southern congress
man.
Smith, who lives in the suburbs, was
about to bustle for the commutation
train some time since, when his wife
followed him to the door as usual to
make sure that his shoes were tied
and that he hadn’t forgotten his neck
tie.
"Say, John,” reflectively remarked
the good woman as they reached the
veranda, “do you know that this is the
fifteenth anniversary of our wedding?”
"Why, so it is,” returned John, do
ing some hasty mental arithmetic. "I
will bring you home a nice bunch of
roses.”
“Roses are very sweet,” was the
practical response of mother, “but you
had better make it some oysters to
fry for supper.”
He Hadn’t Been There.
“Mr. Daubyn said he would keep
house while Mrs. Daubyn was away.”
“Yes.”
“He wrote glowing letters to her
about his experiments in the kitchen
and the fun he was having washing
dishes.”
“Fine!”
“When Mrs. Daubyn returned at
the end of two weeks Mr. Daubyn, of
course, met her at the station and es
corted her home.”
"And the sequel?”
"At the door he discovered that
she had taken his latch key away with
her the day she left.”
Sacrifice for Art.
One cold, wet and windy night he
came upon a negro shivering In the
doorway of an Atlanta store. Wonder
ing what the darky could be doing
standing on a cold, wet night In such
a place, the proprietor of the shop
said:
"Jim, what are you doing here?”
“ ’Scuse me, sah,” said Jim, “but
I’m gwine to sing bass tomorrow
mornin’ at church, an’ I am trying to
ketch a cold.”
Extravagant.
“Well, my dear,” said the head of
the family jubilantly. "I closed the
deal for the new house today. I had
the title searched and found it perfect
ly clear. It cost me a hundred dollars
for the search, but —”
"Now, isn’t that a perfect shame!”
interrupted his better half. “All that
money wasted for nothing.”
A Change of Luck.
Hicks—How do you happen to be
going fishing on Friday? I thought
you believed Friday was an unlucky
day?
Wicks—Well, 1 always have, but it
occurred to me this morning that per
haps it would be unlucky for the
fish!
A Difference.
Angelina—And so you love me with
all your heart? Would you die for
me?
Edwin —No, dear.
Angelina—You wouldn’t die for me?
Edwin —No; mine is an undying af
fection.
We hear of new uses of Hanford’s
Balsam of Myrrh. In dehorning cat
tle, light applications help to stop
bleeding, making the use of a hot iron
unnecessary. Adv.
Not Easy to Do.
“Why is it that the dog Is always
referred to as the most intelligent ani
may?” asked the elephant.
“Because he knows how to get a
good living without doing any work,”
replied the horse.
>
Oh, Pickles!
Hazel —I don’t like windy weather.
It plays havoc with one’s complexion
Aimee —Perhaps you don't get your
complexion on thick enough.
You can safely place faith In Han
ford s Balsam of Myrrh. Adv.
A man will sometimes pocket his
pride, but a woman can never find her
pocket.
Becaus* of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use “LA CREOLE” HAIR DRESSING. PRICE, SI.OO, ratalL
WANTED TO SEE THE FINISH
Small Girl Did Not Consider That the
End of the Proceedings Had
Been Reached.
The short Interval that elapsed be
tween the visit of the little girl to a
commencement exercise and atten
dance at an old-fashioned camp-meet
ing may explain a remark 'that she
made at the religious event. She went
there with her granmother, and, very
much Interested in everything that oc
curred, asked numerous qnestions
which her grandparent attempted to
answer to the best of her ability.
“Who Is that woman up there and
what is she doing?” asked the little
girl, referring to a woman who was on
her knees in the “amen corner."
"I don’t know who she is, but she's
going to get religion,” was the reply.
Some time elapsed and the woman
remained on her knees. Finally, the
grandmother of the little girl became
tired of the service and announced
that It was time to leave.
“Oh, let’s not go yet,” exclaimed her
granchild. “Let’s wait and see 'em
give It to her.” —Louisville Times.
Why We Eat Hens' Eggs.
"I am a firm believer in advertis
ing,” said a great advertising expert.
"I impute a great part of my own suc
cess to ft.”
Here the expert’s sunburnt and
healthy face was illuminated by one of
his rare and charming smiles.
“When a duck lays an egg,” he
said, "she waddles back to the duck
pond In Indifferent silence. But when
a hen lays an egg her frantic cackle
makes It known.
“The hen advertises.
“And that, my dear friends, is why
the world eats hens’ eggs instead of
ducks’ eggs.”
Settling It.
They were just about to get married
and were discussing the details of do
mestic economy.
“But I’m afraid, dearest, we shall
not be able to afford a servant at first,”
he said, looking tenderly at her.
"Oh, Harry, whatever will the neigh
bors say when they see me doing my
own work?”
"Why, darling,” replied Harry gen
uinely puzzled, "whose work do you
want to do?’
One or the Other.
"Do I make myself perfectly plain?”
asked Miss Fortysmith, who Is intel
lectual, concluding her argument.
“More so than anybody I ever saw
before in my life!” answered J. Fuller
Gloom. “Er —er —well, either that or
you were born so.” —Kansas City Star.
All telephone operators in Egypt are
required to be able to speak English,
French, Italian, Greek and Arabic.
For mosquito bites apply Hanford’s
Balsam. Adv.
It Isn’t a good plan to collide with a
man who is riding his hobby.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s
CASTORIA
The Kind Ton Haro Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
- and has been made under his per
rs * ■ onal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good '* are bat
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children —Experience against Experiment.
What Is CASTORIA
Castoria Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotie
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it
has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation.
Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles ana
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
VHC CENTAUR COMPART, new vowc citt.
PREVENTION^
better than cure. Tutt’a Pills If taken In tIOM
are not only a remedy for, but will prevent
SICK HEADACHE,
biliousness, constipation and kindred diseased.
Tutfs Pills
W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 34-1915.
CURED OF PELLAGRA;
WOMAN IS SO HAPPY
Ratliff, Miss.—lda Creel, of this place,
writes: “I am enjoying fine health, bet
ter than I have in years. My weight ie
116; when I began taking your treatment
it was 98. I sure can praise your treat
ment; can eat anything I want and it
don’t seem to hurt me.” \
There is no longer any doubt that pel
lagra can be cured. Don’t delay until it
is too late. It is your duty to consult the
resourceful Baughn.
The symptoms—hands red like sunburn,
skin peeling off, sore mouth, jthe lips,
throat and tongue a flaming red, with
much mucus aed choking; indigestion and
nausea, either diarrhoea or constipation.
There is hope; get Baughn’s big Free
book on Pellagra and learn about the
remedy for Pellagra that has at last been
found. Address American Compounding
Co., box 2091, Jasper, Ala., remembering
money is refunded in any case where the
remedy fails to cure.— Adv. _
Made a Difference.
At a dinner party the other evening,
reference having been made to the
good old days In the little brick school
house, this story was recalled by
James L. Rice, coach of the Columbia
college crew;
The teacher in a public school was
giving a demonstration in mental arith
metic, and after speaking at some
length she turned to a bright-faced boy
at the head of the class.
“Now, then, Willie,” said she, "do
you think that you can answer me a
question In mental arithmetic?”
“Yes, ma’am,” was the confident re
joinder of the beaming youngster.
"Well, then,” resumed the teacher,
“how old would a person be who was
born in 1876?”
“That depends,” quickly rejoined lit
tle Willie. "Was the person a man
or a woman?” Philadelphia Tele
graph.
For Burnt and Scalds.
In case of burns and scalds apply
Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh and get
relief. Apply It to cool the skin and
take the fire out. Have a bottle al
ways on hand to use in case of acci
dents. Adv. '
Some Drink.
“What are you doing?” demanded
Marc Anthony, as Cleopatra dropped
a priceless pearl into her glass of
wine.
"I’m Inventing a new summer
drink,” replied the queen. "I’m go
ing to call it pearl sundae.” s
If you wish to Interest an audience
tell It a story about a bully being
whipped by a pale, studious and retir
ing young man.
What is worth doing at all Is worth
doing well, unless you are going to
make a fool of yourself.
TRY THE OLD RELIABLE
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