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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
Food For Little Cbicks.

Don't feed the little chicks corpmeal
dough as an exclusive diet. Mix a little
rather coarse meal with wheat mid
dlings, using skimmilk 10 mix it with.
Do not make this wet, but just damp
enough to make crumbly mass. If a
teaspoonful of meat meal or blood meal
is added to each quart of this mixture,
it will cause the chicks to thrive won
derfully. The meat is made of dried
lean meat ground fine, and the blood
meal is made of fresh blood dried and
ground. The first costs 80 cents for ten
pounds or So per 100 pounds the last S4
per hundred pounds. 1t pays to buy ell
ther of these feeds, but if they cannot
be got liver can be bought very oheaply
at most butcher shops, and this, boiled
and chopped, is good for laying hens
and little chicks
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
Culliug Poultry,

One of the secrets of successful breed
ing is the art of culling rays Rural
World. In doing this properly it is es-
sential that you know your breed thor
oughly (none but standard breeds should
be- kept, also that you have good,
clear comprehension of the results TO be
obtained and how to get them. Although
it takes some nerve, you should Gull
your fowls down to the best only. All
hens over az years Of age should be
sacrificed. You cannot afford to keep
Improbable hens, and this culling proc
ess should be gone through every year,
thus bringing up the average of your
fowls, and in time you will have q
choice flock. The farmer should Gull
down just as much as the town breeder;
it is just as much to his advantage. If,
however, ON account of market or other
good reasons, it should be impraoticable
TO kill so many fowls, those selected for
breeders can be confined early in the
spring and eggs from them used only.
This method, we are glad TO see, is praG.
tioed by many farmers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17

ing and removing the worms does not
seem after considerable experience with
the diseased fowls to be practicable for
very young chicks The trachea is Sc
small and so easily injured that it is
impossible to dislodge and remove all
Of the worms by such means.
at has been my experience, says
Mr.. Carmen, THAT chicks generally
recover without treatment when they
are attacked after they are half grown,
and hence fowls that might from their
size be treated successfully with a feath
er do not require treatment of any sort
1t is the very young chicks that suffer
most and the only remedial treatment
in their case that seems to me TO be sue.
cessful is rubbing the neck from time
to time with lard or vaseline thorough
ly mixed with little turpentine (three
parts of the lard or vaseline to one part
of turpentine). This treatment should
begin before the disease makes its APP
pearanoe. 1t will not help a chick in
the last stages of the disease Pure tur.
pentine will very quickly kill chick
when rubbed on the neck over the ira.
chea, fact which have several times
demonstrated ON badly affected individ.
uals.
Mr.. Carmen calls attention to the fact
that the noted French naturalist Meg.
min asserts that powdered garlic with
food has been successfully used in the
treatment of gapes in pheasants and
suggests that the same remedy might
hn af in NJ L., 1a 81
fowls. When the disease is under way
among brood Of chicks, it is i,eyond
doubt conveyed by way of drinking wa
ter and food from affected fowls to 9TH
ers. Chicks suffering from gapes may
sometimes be observed to dislodge worms
and discharge them from their mouths
during spells Of sneezing. According to
Megnin's observations young matched
from the eggs in the bodies of these dis
charged worms may live for some time
in the drinking water, where they swim
about like vinegar cells, ready TO be TAX
en- into the stomach of fowls. These
facts in the history of the worms show
why dissolving copperas in the drinking
water, isolatinR affected fowls and
changing the quarters of the others
sometimes have the effect Of checking
the spread of the disease. But when the
young cape worms are already abundant
in the soil such treatment will not avail
unless the chicks can be kept from the
ground Mr.. Carmen has found by ex-
pertinent that it is possible to prevent
the trouble completely by keeping chicks
on board floor from the time they are
Matched until they are large enough to
endure the attacks of the worms.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
Kept EnsIIage Over.

This ensilage was, to be exact about
30 months IN the silo, and still was
eaten with great relish and evident full
feeding value. Our plan of keeping the
ensilage is to cover to the depth of a few
inches only with old, wet and rotten
straw, tread it down as firmly as posi-
BILE and sow bushel of oats in it, Let
them grow and live as long as they will
and fill the straw with roots, and the
dead tops later on. This will make a
sort of Shiny mass, and the sealing
seems to be all that can be desired.
Last year we just raked oats into the
top layer of the ensilage, wet the sur
face little and let the oats grow what
they would. This did about az we'll, ex
cept that family of rats came from
somewhere and burrowed into the ensi-
lage from the top, and it caused quite a
lot of ensilage to spoil. Country Gen
tleman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
HEN AND CHICKENS.
Octave Thanet Brushes Away Some Illu-
sioDs About Nature.

II was also borne in upon MS during
years that the sellers have kind Of
cold storage system about eggs that
mars their usefulness. We seldom had
an order for eggs filled under a months
time, during which our appointed hens
tried to outwit us by having families Of
their very own, and gave us no end Of
vexation. We cannot feel, either, that
eggs collected for a month and jolted
over hundreds of miles of railway and
six miles of corduroy road are fit TO
offer conscientious hen. To corroborate
this view of the imported eggs l may
cite the fact that the eggs laid by our
own fowls never failed to give a pro-
portion of at least / o out of 3. should
say that the fresher the egg the better
the chance for the chicken. Simultane.
ously with our discoveries with regard
to the practice of egg vendors, we made
some gloomy discoveries about the bru
tai clumsiness of the mother hen. Hard.
ly family Of little chicks sees the sun
than one or two or three will not be
trampled or smothered or crowded out
of the nest to freeze, or in some way
| done to death.
Thus pitiless experience brushed away
our illusions about nature. One is al.
ways hearing how wise nature is, how
ingenious and how she is "cruel only
to be kind" But let any believer in ma.
lures great head 60 into the poultry
business for one brief spring and be
will see that she bungles like the rest
Of us. The hen very literally makes a
mess of it trying to hatch her brood.
She doesn't even have instinct enough
topush out the added eggs. There seems
to be no sense of smell in her bill. And
she cannot be sure of her own children,
but promptly mothers any little found
lings secretly introduced in her home
the first night after Matching. She CAM
count, of course, and takes care of II
children instead of six without a muir
muir. Harpers Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
TURKEYS In the West.

There is no part of the west that has
ever been overstocked with turkeys, and
the breeding of them is steadily gaining
ground in this part Of the country.
There was time not long ago when
Rhode Island turkeys stood at the head
of the market, and Narragansett tur-
keys were the best that could be pro.
duced anywhere. Now the Bronze tur-
key is at the head, and those produced
in the west sell as well as those pro.
duced in the east in any market where
they are offered, With cheap feed, un-
limited range and market that is rare
ly overstocked, those who breed turkeys
in the west are almost certain to make
more money those those who breed any
other kind of stock. Massachusetts
Ploughman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
The Coming Meeting OF Educators.

WASHINGTON, June 15.-All indica-
tions point to large and enthusiastic
gathering of teachers and educators
of prominence at the annual meeting
of the National Education association,
to be held here from the 9TH to the
18th of next month. Special attention
has been given the matter of provid-
ing suitable accommodations at rea-
sonable rates for all who attend the
convention and arrangements toward
this end have been carefully perfected.
The capacity of Washington to enter
tain the expected throngs is ample.
All availing themselves of this chance
to visit the national capital will be
we'll cared for.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17

forming 1 q story building. The wall
has four dead dir spaces formed by three
divisions of paper placed perpendicular
ly and the outside and inside boarding.
To construct the paper partitions %,
Fig. - between the studding strong
building paper was cut to half width
and bent thus - ana secured by mailing
common lath to the studding. To form
the outside and inside divisions "a a.
Fig 81 paper full width, reaching from
top of plate to bottom Of sill and Tapped
on alternate studs, was secured by nail
ing strips l by inches to the faces Of
the studs. The rafters are so framed
that the air can pass freely upward be-
tween the roof boards and the ceiling of
the upper room (see arrow, Fig. p, and
out at the extreme gable ends, through
a latticed window not shown in the dia-
gram. BY this simple continuance a
current Of air is kept constantly pass.
ing beneath the roof boards which
keeps the upper room cool in summer,
but not warm enough in winter to pre-.
vent freezing unless there is fire in
the room below. The windows should
be either double or double glazed. The
joists of the second floor are covered
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

Mister" whined the professional,
"can't You spare few pennies to help
q pore man alongP
my friend, replied the elderly Bos-
tonian, pausing in his leisurely walk
and eying him from head 20 foot, "you
don't look like a man who needs TO beg
for living. On the contrary, you have
every appearance Of being an indolent,
worthless vagabond, whose only ambi-
tion is to go through life with as little
work as possible. Is the world any bet
ter, think you, for your living in it?
Do you entertain the idea that your fell
low men are under the slightest obliga-
ton to bear the burden of your support
or any part of it? If you do, my friend,
you are making serious mistake. 1
venture the assertion that you drink
beer enough every year Of your life to
swim in, and yet l will undertake to
say that you have not had bath of any
kind since the Mexican war. Men like
you are useless burden on society.
You are not worth the atmosphere you
displsce, The oxygen you consume is
total waste. If you had one molecule of
manhood in your composition, you
would starve before you would resort to
mepdioancy.
81 speak strongly because / have
deep convictions on this subject. Volun-
tary pauperism, sir, in the nineteenth
century is one Of the most discouraging
facts the latter day optimist has TO face.
1t seems to be in itself the refutation of
the theory or postulate known as the
survival Of the fittest. TO encourage
vagabondage, therefore, by contributing
Of the fruits of legitimate industry to
keep it alive is to commit an offense
against society considered in its larger
aspect. to undermine the foundations
of ones own dwelling and turn the
guns Of the fortress of civilization
against its own citadel. Yet, as you
have listened patiently to this exposi-
ton of my personal convictions concern
ing pauperism, I will reward your pa
thence by contribution which you
may consider you have thereby fairly
earned. -
The moldy pilgrim accepted the dime
extended to him by the elderly Bosto-
nian. inspected it carefully and put it in
his pocket.
ON take it, sir, he said in au in
jured tone, "but it amt enough con-
siderin. "-Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17

As the season for wet weather is APP
preaching fowls cannot fiIid dust beds
out of doors. In most cases where coal
is used for fuel the coal as9es make per-
haps as good a dust bath as can be had.
1t has the further advantage that the
bits of coal which hens find among the
ashes will be eaten by the hens and will
help grind the food in their gizzards.
The coal itself will also be- digested in
the process and may appear as black
specks on the eggshells of fowls who
have access to coal ash heaps. Coal ashes
make very excellent insecticide. They
are finer than any road dusi can be-
made and therefore are more effective,
closing the pores of vermin which
breathe through holes in their sides.
When these are closed by any fine pow
der, the vermin quickly die from suffo-
cation. Boston Cultivator.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
THE LETTER COLLAPSE.
The Chicago wheat PIunger Roasted by
British Papers, who Rejoice at
His Downfall.

LONDON, June 15.-The collapse of
the Letter wheat corner has caused a
panic in the Liverpool market In
London the news of the collapse was
received with equanimity. The con-
sensus of opinion of a number of oper-
ators in Mark Lane is that the Eng
lish markets will gain steadiness now
that 1.-The plunger operating without
regard TO market precedence is shaken
out" 1t is asserted in Mark Lane that
the collapse was due to Messrs. Armour
and Pillsbury. The newspapers gem
orally rejoice at the breakdown of
the Letter plans and point to it as a
moral. The Star says "If the prime
mover in this war against mankind is
beggared by his greed, the retribution
is well merited. Nothing can atone
for the awful suffering Letter and his
accomplices have caused"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17

Mckinley TO Go TO ohio.

DELAWARE, o., June l5.-President.
Mckinley has promised to attend the
centennial of Ohio Methodism, which
win be celebrated here next week.
The train will leave Washington
at 3;45 Monday afternoon, arriving
in this city the following morning.
The presidents reception occurs on
Tuesday evening, after which he will
leave for Washington, arriving there
Wednesday morning.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
0EIE&|ZRREANERl.
DAIRY HOUSE.

Scientific Milkroom Easily Built, venti
lated and Kept Clean.
The dairy professors at Cornell uni
versity had model one room milkhoust
constructed some years ago, which il
described in The Country Gentleman al
follows
Durability, convenience for work ant
a cheap wall capable Of excluding cold
heat and moisture were made prominen
features in its construction. Stones vary
ing from ten pounds to few ounces
were used to form the foundation of th,
floor. The larger stones were placed a
the bottom, the mass thoroughly satu
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
Crossinr Not Advantageous.

Breeds of opposite characteristics will
not blend Experiments with the cross.
ing of cattle. using the beef and butter
breeds. have not been satisfactory, while
the man who would attempt to improve
the fine Merinos by using the mutton
breeds of sheep for crossing would be
considered unwise. The attempts that
have been made with poultry have been
equally barren of results as with larger
stock. 1t is not a matter of record, as
every farm furnishes abundant proof.
AS a rule, nearly all farmers have at
times procured pure bred fowls, but
crossed the breeds, and the mixed, mot
ley nondescripts which can be seen by
the score on the majority of farms are
the evidence of the attempts to secure
vigor by crossing. They have no fixed
characteristics, no two Of them are alike
in color, and they do not pay as well as
pure breeds. Farm and Fireside.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
Small Flocks DO Best.

Small flocks of poultry usually do
better than large ones, and there are sew
eral reasons why this should be so.
They receive more care and attention i'll
proportion to their number. One could
scarcely keep a flock of 10 without de.
voting half hour per day to them. At
this rate one would only care for 800 in
a day of 10 hours, yet many think they
can take care of about thousand in
that time and not keep very busy.
Spending so much time among few,
one gets to noticing the personal pecul-
iarities of each one. He can soon tell
which ones lay five eggs a week and
which only three, and if one does not
visit the nest at all for weeks he knows
il and is soon rid Of those that are all
expense and no income. If he desires to
raise chickens, he can by little care
select eggs from those hens which ma
tured earliest and have been the best
egg producers, and thus he is breeding
for eggs. And last, but not always least,
the item of table scraps and waste veg
etables, for which usually no charge il
made in itemized accounts, are really
valuable to the small flock as furnish.
ing some variety to the ration and an
amount that may really deduct some.
thing from the grain bill, while in a
flock of 100 or more there would not be
in an ordinary family enough to give
each hen a fair bite. This makes the
expense of keeping each fowl something
greater in the large flock if the variety
of food is bought for them, and the re-
turns little less if it is not.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17


rated with water, and all forced into
the earth with heavy wooden pound
er. A thin coat of gravel was next spread
over the whole and solidified in the
same way. When the superstructure
was completed, the mass was again wet
and treated with coat of thin mortar
composed of four parts of sand and one
of water lime, and this solicited as
above. When sufficiently hard TO sus
tain the workmen, the whole was Gov
cred with coat three-quarters of an
inch thick made of three parts sand
and one of Rosendale cement. Akron
cement is better than water lime and
fully as good as Rosendale After about
"a hours the floor was sprinkled with
water, and also whenever thereafter il
had the appearance of drying too rap.
idly. The floor appears to depart too
much from a straight line, but a long
use Of the building shows that this is
the best form. The descent from end to
end of the building is about six inches.
IL is found in practice that the labor of
keeping the floor clean is very much
diminished by the rapid descent.
A six inch vitrified sewer pipe is
placed at the lowest point, which car
ries off all the water.
The stills are 4 by 4, the plates are 2
by doubled, and the studding 3 by a.,
IA feet long. placed 10 inches apart,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
NEWS NOTES.

Arthur Nichols, miner, fell TO his
death in the Boughton mine, Galena,
Kan.
The Ottawa (Kan.) Chautauqua as
sembly opened on the 18th with pre-
liminary exercises by DIR. j. L. Hurl-
but.
The president on the 14th sent to con-
gress report made by the third assist
tant secretary of state upon the Paris
exposition. In transmitting the re-
port the president said: II cordially
renew my commentator that a
liberal appropriation be Immediately
uraptad
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
GAPES IN CHICKENS.
CAUSE OF THE COMPLAINT AND
METHODS OF TREATMENT.

Row the Disease Becomes Established In
Land and Renders IL Worthless For
Poultry Raising-Food and Drinking
Water Are Means of Infection.
In recent bulletin of the agricultur.
al department H. Carmen discusses the
subject of gapes in young poultry.
The immediate cause of the trouble
is of course the presence of the well
known cape worm in the trachea or
windpipe. These worms obstruct the
passage of air to and from the lungs,
and thus occasion the characteristic
gasping movements of the suffering
chicks. The commonly recommended
practice of introducing into the trachea
a partly stripped feather, or a blue grass
top, and by twisting motion dislodg.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
Not Out of Danger.

The Neighbor-Where have you been?
The Doctor-l'~e been up to see Ben
edick.
II didn't know there was anything
the matter with him?"
"Well, there is, oil the same"
as he out of danger?"
"No, indeed, he's not. \"
whats the matter with him:"
"Why, he was married this after
noon. I've been to the wedding; that
all "-Yonkers Statesman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
Lee to Head an Army for Havana.

WASHINGTON, june l5.-Maj. Gen.
Fitzhugh Lees corps may not go to
Porto Rico The provisional division
of the Fifth corps, formed at Tampa
by Gen. Shafter when he expected to
take GO, 600 men TO Santiago, is to be
utilized, with some additions from the
Porto Rico movement. This body,
composed of volunteers, numbers
about 10000 men. Under the re-
arrangement of plans the war
board is considering the advisa-
bility of having Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
remain here and get ready for the
main Cuban invasion rather than take
his corps to Porto Rico.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17

is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
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after they were given up by the doctors,
and all hope was gone. Many of these
have permitted their experiences, names,
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DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser. Any sufferer may write TO them
The rColden Medical Discovery" is the
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il drives out all impurities and disease
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all nervous troubles. Sold by all dealers
in medicine,
Jno, NJ Hte, of Audubon, Audubon Co.. Iowa,
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gave up all hopes Of my recovery. would cough
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Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
.INsloE = ntArcreO eoARpS
OOT5iDE : COMMON 5IpINo
FIG. In-PARrIrIoNEp WALL.

with heavy paper on the bottom and
top before the ceiling and flooring are
laid, The inside of all the room is COW
cred with matched Georgia pine and
treated with two coats of lard oil.
The cold room has been found very
satisfactory not only for dairy purposes,
but for keeping apples and grapes, and
wherever the objects sought are similar
to the ones sought in this case the above
plan is unreservediy recommended.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17
A Nc Allister Crew.

Excited Lady (at Atlantic City,
Why isn't something done for that ship
in distress6 Why don't some of you
Life Saver (huriedly)-We have sent
the crew line to come ashore, mum.
Excited Lady-Of all things Were
they waiting for a formal invita6en?-
New York Weekly
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-17

ATcHIsoN, Kun, June 9.-.Plans for
the organization of a four-club base
ball league, to be known as the North
ern Kansas league, are about complete,
and meeting will be called at Topeka
June 20 to organize and arrange the
schedule. The league will be repre-
sented by Atchison, Topeka, Salina
and A hilena