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feeding and preparing market geese
EM DEN GANDER SHOWN AT HAGERSTOWN FAIR.
The following were among the re
plies received by the United States
Department of Agriculture to the
question, “What is your method of
feeding and preparing geese for mar
ket:
Vincent M. Couch, Moravia, N. Y.:
To fatten goslings, confine, and after
five to six weeks make cornmeal the
principal feed; add some beef scraps,
and allow them to have some grass.
Of the large breeds, they should weigh
from 10 to 20 pounds at ten weeks old;
and market at this age. Keserve the
smaller breeds until holidays.
F. D. Fowler, Carlinville, HI.:
Market geese are kept closely confined
and fed three times a day by measure:
Bran 2 parts, shorts 1 part, oilmeal
and beef scraps 1 part, cornmeal
1 part, dampened with water so it
will crumble. Whole corn is some
times given. Green food, grit, and wa
ter are always before them.
B. F. Ilislop, Milford, 111. : To pre
pare for market, as soon as weather
becomes cool, confine in small lots.
Commence to feed gradually mash
composed largely of cornmeal, mixed
with milk if convenient, otherwise wa
ter, giving enough forage or vegetables
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MALE TOULOUSE GOOSE.
CONTROL OF CHICKEN MITES
Unsatisfactory Growth in Summer May
Be Caused by Vermin—Destruc
tive Work at Night
When well fed and otherwise prop
erly managed, chickens do not always
make satisfactory growth in summer.
There is a cause for this which may
be wholly unsuspected. It is likely to
be due to the presence of chicken
mites.
This pest is a blood-sucking para
site. It harbors under the perches, In
cracks, and in other places. Its de
structive work is done at night. When
the chickens are at roost the mites
crawl from their hiding places on to
the birds. They gorge themselves with
blood much the same as a mosquito
does, and then crawl back to their hid
ing places.
If this pest is not discovered it
multiplies into millions in a few weeks
of hot weather.
If the mites become numerous, they
will suck more blood from a chicken
in a single night than the chicken can
produce the next day from the diges
tion and assimilation of the most nour
ishing food. And since the blood car
ries the assimilated food for the
growth of the different parts of the
to keep in health, increasing grain un
til they have all they will eat, twice
a day, never forgetting plenty of wa
ter and a box of grit. By the time the
goose market is on, say from Thanks
giving to New Year’s, the birds will be
in prime condition and bring top mar
ket price. To dress them, kill same as
other poultry. Commence to pick the
coarser feathers and most of the down
off as soon as the fatal stab to brain
is given and bleeding commences.
Then sprinkle and rub well with pow
dered rosin, scald and rub down off
quickly, plunge body in hot water then
cold, wipe, and hang up or lay on table
to cool before packing.
Mrs. M. Swartsley, Columbus, Neb.:
To give size and flesh, I feed half corn
meal, one-fourth ground oats, the bal
ance barley meal and wheat middlings,
all mixed together with scalding water
or milk, and feed as much as they
will eat four or five times daily, at
all times providing plenty of water.
M. B. Caldwell, Broughton, Kan.:
As soon as our goslings are grown up
we turn them in the hog pasture—ten
acres of alfalfa—and they feed on al
falfa and eat after the hogs, and get
very fat and heavy.
body, there can be little or no growth
so long as such a condition continues.
The time and the labor of the poul
tryman, as well as the feed consumed,
are thus practically wasted in the pres
ence of chicken mites.
During the summer every precau
tion should be taken to keep the pens
and roosting places free from mites.
This is not a difficult matter. The
mite is a Very small parasite, bare
ly perceptible with the unaided eye.
When not gorged with chicken blood
it is light-colored. It becomes red
when it has gorged itself with chicken
blood. For this reason it is sometimes
called the “red” mite. But this pest
is so delicately constructed that it can
be easily destroyed by spraying with
kerosene or whitewash.
VENTILATION IN THE SUMMER
Brooding and Roosting Coops Must Be
Open to Permit Free Circulation
of Air.
During the summer the brood coops
and roosting coops must be very open
so that plenty of air can circulate
through them; otherwise the chicks
will overheat at night, which will
check their growth and reduce their
vitality, making them less profitable.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
SOME CHUNKS OF WISDOM
Various Suggestions That Are the Re
sult of Many Years' Experience
and Observation.
Did you ever know that you could
test an oven s right heat for cooking
certnin eatables with a simple piece
of white paper? If the paper turns a
light yellow, scarcely perceptible, it
is ready for cookies or sponge cake;
if it turns a nearly decided yellow, it
is ready for pies, pound cake and
mince pies; if a deep yellow, it is
ready for bread. If it blackens the
paper, cool the oven right off.
Did you ever know that if you want
ed anything cooled quickly that by
placing its dish in a pan of heavily
salted cold water, you would get re
sults as quickly as if it were set on
ice?
Did you ever hear from old-fash
ioned folk that all vegetables that
grow above ground must be put to cook
in boiling water and all that grow be
low ground, but new potatoes, must
be put to cook in cold water?
Did you ever know that in eating
you must not mix too much fruit and
vegetables? Cabbage and apples are
not intended to be eaten together, but
by those who have the strongest of
digestive organs, and these can soon
be abused. Grapefruit, or an orange,
and cereals and milk, eaten at the
same meal will sometimes, after a
while, and occasionally very soon, set
you to wondering what has gone
wrong with you.
TABLE LINEN REQUIRES CARE
Must Not Be Laundered in the Usual
Ways, if Best Results Are
to Be Obtained.
Good table linen, in the first place,
means much. But care of the same
linen means more.
Strong bleaches must never be used
on tine table linen. Of course, table lin
en is often badly spotted and needs to
be cleansed in some way. But boiling
water removes coffee spots, cold water
removes cocoa spots, and sunshine re
moves many stains. When stronger
acids must be used, they should be ap
plied and removed by intelligent hands.
They should be allowed to remain on
the spot just long enough to eradicate
them, and then rinsed thoroughly out
with clear water. For if they remain
on too long they remove not only spots
but pieces of linen.
Some old-fashioned housewives oc
casionally have their table linen dipped
in buttermilk to whiten it. The linen is
allowed to remain in the buttermilk for
a day or two, if necessary, and is then
thoroughly rinsed in cool, clear water,
later in warmer -water.
For fruit stains, pour boiling water
through them while the stains are
damp, if possible. If they dry on, rub
them with lard and put through the
usual washing process.
Always dry table linen out of doors
in the sunshine. If possible, have a
little bleaching green of grass, pro
tected from the inroads of cats and
dogs.
Mint Ices.
To make a refreshing mint ice, rinse
a small handful of fresh mint leaves
through several waters, then bruise
thoroughly and steep for an hour in
a cupful of lemon and orange juice
mixed. In the meantime prepare a
sirup of one pound of granulated su
gar and one pint of water. Add the
mint, strain and freeze.
Mix the juice of two oranges and
four lemons with six tablespoonfuls
of sugar sirup, using four tablespoon
fuls of tile mixture over each glassful
of shaved ice. Place sprigs of mint
on top of the ice and fill the glasses
with mineral water.
Washing Knives.
Table knives are not always well
treated at the hands of the dishwash
er. One special point about washing
them is to keep the handles out of the
water or they will become loosened
from the blades. Wipe the soiled
knives clean on a damp cloth, after
wiping them on paper, then stand them
with the blades downward in a jug of
hot water in which a little baking soda
has been dissolved.
Boiled Dressing.
This is a good Doiled salad dress
ing: Beat the yolks of two eggs un
til creamy. Mix with a teaspoonful
of mustard, the same of salt, three
tablespoonfuls of sugar, two table'
spoonfuls of cream and one of butter.
Over this pour two-thirds of a cupful
of hot vinegar and cook over hot wa
ter, stirring until thick and smooth.
Cool and use with vegetable salads.
Way to Save Gas.
When you have a couple of hours’
ironing to do, or if you have meat or
vegetables to cook which require two
or more hours time, put a teakettle
full of water on the unlighted burner
next to the one you are using. Then
when your ironing or cooking is done,
you will have a teakettle full of al
most boiling water without burning
any gas for that purpose.
Cream Cake.
Break two eggs in a cup, fill with
cream, one cupful sugar, beat until
sugar is dissolved. One and one-half
cupfuls of pastry flour sifted, with two
teaspoonfuls baking powder, little salt
and flavoring to suit taste. Bake 20
minutes in a hot oven.
Melon Frappe.
Add one-fourth cupful of lemon Juice
and one cupful of sugar to one quart
>f cantaloupe pulp. Press through a
ine sieve and freeze soft.
A Soother.
“Bliggins Is an optimist.”
“No, he isn’t. He talks that way
because things Just now are going
pretty much the way he likes and he
doesn’t want anybody to make a fuss
and disturb them.”
IMITATION IS SiNCEREST FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita
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Insist on “La Creole” Hair Dressing—
it’s the original. Darkens your hair In
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price sl.oo.—Adv.
Industrious Collector.
Mistress —You say you are well rec
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Maid —Indeed, ma’am ; I have 39 ex
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Mistress —And you have been in do
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Stories.
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"Yes. Those old stories of the Tro
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about war without danger of starting j
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