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INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS
This Breed Thought to Be Most
-~ Profitable by Many. 3
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Ducklings Reach Marketable Size
‘When About Twelve Weeks Old
’ and Find Ready Demand in
Hotels and Restaurants.
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The Indian Runner is rather small,
fully matured ducks weighing from
four to five pounds. Drakes from five
to six pounds, live weight.
But they grow very rapidly while
young and are easy to raise. What
they lack in welght {s more than
made up for in their other good quali
ties.
To begin with, they are very prelific
layers; beginning when about six
months old. Their eggs are pure
white and a little larger than those of
& Plymouth Rock hen.
They are superior in quality to any
duck’s eggs that we have ever eaten,
apd as a rule they bring higher prices
ia the market.
The ducklings reach a marketable
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Indian Runner Drake and Duck.
Bize when about 12 weeks old. When
forced, they will weight four to five
pounds at two months.
The meat of the Runner is of su
perior gquality; fine in the grain, juicy,
and excellent flavor. Hotels and res
taurants pay fancy prices for duck
lings.
The eggs are in good demand also.
In winter when eggs are high the In
dian Runner is “on the job.” Any
enterprising person can work up a
trade among hotels and regtaurants
thet should prove highly profitable.
There is no great danger of strong
competition, as comparatively few
poultry raisers have taken up this
branch of the industry, notwithstand
ing the fact that nearly all kinds of
poultry products are bringing un
heard-of prices in the open market.
Duck culture, in the past, has been
more or less neglected, owing to the
general belief that ducks cannot be
successfully raised without a stream
or pond of water, The fact is, how
ever, that the Indian Runner requires
only sufficlent water to drink. They
are small feeders a&s compared with
other ducks.
In summer, the Indian Runnper,
when given free range, will find the
greater part of his living in the flelds.
But, of course, when being fattened
for market, they need some grain. It
would be well to say right here that
for best results the grain should be
either ground or cooked.
A great many would-be duck rais
aers fail because they insist upon feed
ing the duck, both old and young,
whole grain.
The matured birds can get along,
but the young ones most certainly
cannot. Don’t try to raise ducklings
on whole wheat, cracked corn and
“chick feed.”” They simply cannot!
digest it. About the only kind of grit
that a young duck will eat is sand,i
and whole or cracked grain requires
gsomething sharper than sand to grind‘l
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Those who have Indlan Runner
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Sour swill will often cause scours in
bogs.
Keep the young pigs in out of cold
gpring rains. i
You cannot afford to use cheap salt }
in your butter. {
Keep few good cows rather than |
many poor ones, 1
Keep the cow’s hide clean and freei
from barnyard filth. +
Sheep require succulent food to |
keep in good health. !
Petter pork at less cost should be |
the aim of all farmers, |
The wastes in dairying come from |
apparently slight causes. i
Ewes that loses their lambs should |
raise some twin or orphan,
A serub bull as the head of your:;
herd means ultimate faflure. |
The cow which will not eat abun- |
dantly will mot produce liberally. |
The greatest leak in the dairy busi- |
pess ls-the lack of knowledge of es- |
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duck would do well to keep them over |
winter and see what they will do to- 1
ward keeping the egg basket filled |
when biddy is on a strike. Begin by
| culling out all the surplus drakes and |
| undersized specimens. It is not &
good plan to keep closely related
birds. One drake for every seven or
eight ducks is about right.
| Drakes may be kept for seven |
vears, but ducks will not lay so well
when of that age. Few duck ralsers
care to keep old drakes unless they
happen to be high-priced birds.
In many sections, Indian Runner
ducks are so scarce that food spect |
| mens bring almost any price asked. |
1 A house 16x20 feet, with a yard at- |
| tached will be large enough for 35 or |
| 40 ducks to stay in at night, and dur ‘f
ing the cold days in winter.
| 1f there is no sultable house on the
| place a duck house can be buflt at |
small cost. Rough lumber may be
| used for the floor and siding. m{he
rafters, plates and posts may be de
ot poles cut in the wood. Any kind |
| of root that will turn water will an
| swer.
: if the house {8 to be used for your
ducks during the spring and summer
| months, there should be two large
| doors. One at each end of the house,
tor a door on one end and a window
at the other. Some duck houses are
built with the entire south side open.
Small mesh poultry netting is nailed
to the posts, and a heavy curtaln is
attached inside. The curtain is to be
used in cold weather. It will some
times be necessary to nail or tack the
curtain to the floor and also at the
gides.
Keep plenty of straw on the floor.
If it is several inches deep, it need not
be renewed every day. We take &
pitchfork and turn it, or remove that
which 18 badly soiled. It is best to
keep everything as clean as possible,
then there is less danger of disease,
Tucks are not troubled with lice; and,
as & rule, they are very healthy. :
Their food should consist of both
raw and cooked vegetables, cornmeal,
bran, beef scraps, stem-cut clover, ete.
\ The ground grain should be moistened
.} with milk or water,
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| COTTON DEPLETES THE SOIL
1 Staple Product of Southern States Has
: Robbed Land of Its Fertiiity
and Productiveness.
: An ordinary crop of cotton takes
from the soil on one acre of ground
| more than 26 pounds of chemical salts.
| There is withdrawn from the earth
nearly nine pounds of phosphoric
| acid, more than a pound of sulphuric
| acid, nearly two pounds of lime, and
| over three pounds of magnesia, be
| sides other salts. With this data on
i hand, one who reads the advertise
| ments of southern lands for sale need
not wonder at the cheapness of the
| price attached to these estates. Cot
{ ton has been a staple product of the
| south ever since long “befoh de wah,”
|the land has been stripped of its
'lfertmty, robbed of its very life blood
| and, like some emaciated bit of hu
man clay, it must be built up with
the constituents that will give new
life and energy. It is the old, old
| story of taking everything out of the
| soil and putting nothing back. If the
old-time planters had rotated their
| erops, and had raised live stock, these
| depleted. acres would not now be on
’»the market at such small prices.
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t Profits From Cow.
The two principal items In deter
mining the profits of the cow in the
dairy are her production and its
cost. She may produce enough, but
at too great a cost, as her cost mdy
not be large and her productions too
small for profit. To give the best re
turns her production must be large
and the cost small. In this the rea
sonably small cow has an advantage
over the large cow, as her cost of sup
port is less. The food of supporf
comes before I.}}o food of production.
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Some of your cows may be eating
your money in feed and not even be
giving back the interest,
Watch a sheep that is seen to
gtretch; see if it is constipated. If
gO, give wheat bran and oil-meal
Spray the chicken nouse with a
one to twenty solution of lime-sulphur.
1t will effectrslly destroy all nits and
lice,
Middlings and corn meal wet with
%skfimmlik make an excelent forcing
treed for culls that are to pe mar
| keted. '
| 1t a ewe does not come to her milk
{at once, let the lamb nurse on an
| other ewe, or give it milk from a
i fresh cow.
! Too much cannot be said in favor
!ot the farm cream separator. The
! arguments for its use are many aud
! gonclusive.
i if the young.pigs are very fat and
i want to stay in the nest, get them out
} on the ground or you will have cases
: of thumps.
| Green bone is good to promote eggs,
fbut should not be fed too freely, or
' it is apt to cause more trovble thau
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ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE
OF SEASON’S PARTY GOWNS,
Original and Distinctive, the Costume
Adds to the Natural Grace and
Beauty of the Wearer—Fol- ‘
jows New ldeas In Lines.
All at once everyone wants alice
blue-in gowns and millinery. It is no
wonder when one sees how well it
looks developed in party gown in vis
iting costumes and f{n afternoom |
‘tollettes. Here is an example of Alice |
blue silk muslin made according to a |
Jate model. It is admirable because
it will do duty for a party gown or
for dress occasions at home.
Except for the arrangement of thez
draping the design follows closely |
the new walistless and hipless models. |
They are very new and i{f rather |
straight up and down they suggest |
the youthful figure. |
It seems the walst line is vanish- |
ing. Coats for summer wear look as
it they aspired to be llke the outer |
garments of the Chinese. Dresses |
have made sash-like draperies |
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ing to the thigh. Considering theh'§
extremes the little gown shown here |
s conservative, following the new |
lines tentatively. |
Lace and gayly colored embroidery |
‘are introduced in the bodies, with |
small rhinestone buttons holding the;
ldrapery down the front. An embroid-
Lery medallion holds the skirt drapery
at the front. Altogether the gown
contrives to be graceful, at the same
time embodying the new ideas ini
lines. I
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SHORT, BRIGHT, LITTLE COATS g
Russian Blouse Reaching Almost tol
the Hem of the Bkirt, Is the
Latest ldea.
The long, classic jacket for tailored
castumes has this spring Dbecome
shorter. The fronts are rounded or
cut square, and the general effect is
very smart. The Russian blouse is
suggested, but the lower portion Is
plaited and made to fall very long.
This 18 not so effective in woolen
goods as in soft stuffs guch as crepe.
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BOTH DAINTY AND ORIGINAL
Costume Appropriate in All its Detalls
That Was Central Figure at a
Recent Wedding.
A dainty straw toque, worn at a re
cent wedding, was of prune color, with
plaitings of maline in the same color
encircling the crown. There were two
plaitings below and two above a nar
row band of prune-colored velvet rib
bon, and at the front a knot of the
velvet seemed to hold the base of a
tall fan of the plaited malines which
roge some inches ahove the hat. This
hat accompanied a wonderfully
draped gown of prune-colored satin
procade and lansdowne in the same
shade; the silk and worsted lans
downe forming an underdrapery be-}
neath the brocade which was lifted
toward the front at the knee, reveal
ing the swathed lansdowne skirt‘
slashed at the center front—or rather
draped in such manner that the dain
tily booted foot showed at intervals.
Patent leather boots with buttoned
tops of prune-colored cloth maitched
the prune gown and hat and the only
strongly contrasting color note was in
a deep, red velvet rose at the girdle.
High and Tight Stocks.
A good many high fight stocks of
lace and net and silk and satin are]
worn, and there is a trimness and
smartness about them which the flat
collars do not possess, They bid fair
to find great popularity so long as the
days are comfortably cool, but {n mid
summer they will probably be sup
planted by flat open collars,
supple silk or mousseline. One of
Poiet’s best examples of this cut is a
blouse that becomes a kind of redin
gote, plaited from the waist and fall:
ing almost to the hem of the oyster
gatin skirt. The redingote is in buff
.moussenline, with bid red and green
roses. 3 ;
When any of the rich, dark-colored.
tailor suits have to be brightened this
is done by introducing “flies” or three
eornered ornaments, embroidered in
silk. These are put in the corners or
seams or in darts. The color is gen
erally red, yellow or violet. Some of
Poiret's tallor costumes are trimmed
with white bone buttons sewed on
with the same shade of silk as makes
the flies. A very dainty cream white ‘
eponge is treated in this way with
cerise. In the same manner Foiret
sometimes combines green and red,
green and blue, red and blue, etc. |
New Dressing Jacket Dainty. |
An entirely transformed garment is
the dressing jacket. It used to be a
very utilitarian and generally homely
jacket, made with a deep frill of lace
at the neck and the same trimming
on the elbow sleeves. But the mod
ern dressing jacket 18 a daintily beau
tiful article, and serviceable as well,
for it is invariably made of some pret
ty washing material. A charming
dressing jacket is the “Dresden china”
model. It is made of white wash silk
patterned with delicate wreaths of
pale pink roses, and is trimmed with
blue satin ribbon. The jacket is edged
with ‘a deep frill of the net, and is
draped just before the frill with the
gatin ribbon. A long draped and
pointed collar.of pale blue silk is edg
ed with a shorter frill of cream net,
and the elbow sleeves are finished
with net frills tled up with satin rib
bon.
Toilet Table Silver.
Quadruple-plated silver articles for
the toilet table are more than ever at
tractive, and if a “witch” cloth is
kept conveniently at hand, the metal
may easily be made bright. Just a
rub ovcr its surface and, presto! the
dust is removed. Turee-plece sets—
hand glass, brush and comb—in plain
or striped design are considered ultra
gmart and to go with them, although
gsold separately, are pin trays and
graceful vase-shaped hatpin holders.
Because taleum and face powder, cold
cream and rouge are the better for
being kept in glass, there are jars of
the four correct sizes in crystal pro
vided with either flat hinge-tops or
with detached covers of plated silver
matching the other toilet articles.
| Dresser Cover,
For a pretty dresser cover, take
three embroidered handkerchiefs, sew
' a row of insertion together, and sew
'a narrow lace all around each one,
‘then join them together, and sew a
l narrow lace around all; line with any
preferred color of cambrie, tacking at
each corner so it can easily be re.
moved for laundering. Place at each
corner a bow of ribbon the color of
the lining.
| Baste in Colors. ;
I have discovered that the use of
colored cotton instead of white for
basting white material makes it much
eagier to follow the seams accurately
on the machine, writes a contributor
to Good Housekeeping. Also the bast:
ings can be more ecasily and quickly
removed and are less apt to be over
looked.
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] Temptation.
E Representative Solomon Francis
.| Prouty of the Seventh district of Illi
| nois ig the only man in the house of
| representatives who chews gum, and
, | he chews it with a remarkable avid
| ity. He took the gum habit after a
| conference of lowa physicians had
| warned him that he must either. stop
| smoking or fill a grave. They sug
| gested chewing gum as a substitute
i for my Lady Nicotine.
| The only time he has smoked in ten
.| years was on a hot day last summer
| while out campaigning. He stopped to
_{ talk with an old farmer who was puft
.| ing at a corncob pipe. The smoke got
. | into Representative Prouty's nose, and
a8 soon as he reached town he rushed
into his office, grabbed his secretary
by the arm, and almost shouted:
9 “For goodness sake dig out that pipe
| of yours and give me a puff! Lock
| the doors and keep every man out
: who looks iike a doctor. I've got to
| smoke or bust!"-—Washington Star.
_] Scissors for Memorial Wreaths.
.| The police of Berlin applied the
| censorship of the scissors to a recent
| demonstration at the cemetery where
are buried the soclalists and anarch
ists who fell in the revolution in Ber
lin March 18, 1848. Hundreds of visl
| tors brought wreaths, the socialists
| red and the anarchists black, to lay
| on the graves. The police, with scis
| sors, stood at the entrance to the,
| cemetery. Every wreath was sub
| mitted te them, and the sentiments on
the ribbons had to undergo the cen
| sorship of the scissors.
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! Indian Com, cooked to
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perfection and toasted to a
delicate brown without the
| touch of human hand.
! You get them in the
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i A dish of Post Toasties
f for breakfast and lunch,
with thick cream or rnich
fruit juice, is a dish that ep
icures might chortle over.
Nourishing, economical,
delicious, “more-ish.”