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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-16

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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-16
Summer Care of Fowls.

AS the summer months are the most
difficult ones for rearing chicks, per-
haps the article below will prove help
full to all interested in raising fowls:
Many people have an idea that to
insure success in poultry raising they
have only to give fowls all the corn
they will eat and gather up the eggs.
These are apt to find that when the
first part of the program is carried out
the last part will amount to very lit
tie.
The farmers flock generally needs
very little feeding during the late
spring, summer, and early fall, if CIV
en- the range Of the farm, unless an
unusually large number of fowls are
kept.
But saying they need no extra feed
ing is not saying that they need no
care during these months; in fact
there is no month, no week, no day in
the year when poultry can be neglect
ed without entailing loss, or the risk
of loss at any rate. They must have
plenty of pure water, not only two or
three times each day, but accessible
at all times, and [ think [ am quite
sure they prefer their water without
salt, as some writer's advocate.
Their quarters must be kept abso-
lutely clean to insure freedom from
lice and mites. Not just cleaned out
once or twice in long while, but kept
clean, and about twice a month their
bodies should be busted with some
good insect powders. Tobacco dust
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-16
Effect of Feed.

Any one who has observed eggs
closely has noticed that some EGGS
have what poultrymen call greater
consistency than others. That is, Oil;
of dozen eggs bought at store half
may have thick whites and yOlks that
stand up in an almost hemispherical
shape when broken and turned out of
the shell, while the other half will
have whites and yolks so thin that
they will spread out thin and wide and
be almost flat.
This is the effect of the feed given
the hens producing the eggs. Hens
that are fed on milk and grass and al
lowed to pick up their living about the
manure pile produce eggs with thin
yolks and whites, and these eggs are
invariably insipid and tasteless, and
when boiled or poached are not exact
ly appetizing. There is a flavor about
such eggs that is not altogether pleas
ant in any case and often it is posi-.
lively repulsive to one who under
stands that this flavor comes from eat
ing impure feed
Take lot of hens and feed them on
milk and grain and their eggs are firm
and consistent, and they have a flavor
that makes them relished by the most
fastidious. The grain furnishes the
mineral constituents and the albumin
Gus portion, in connection with tie
milk, and the combination is one that
makes good eggs. Hens fed exclusive
ly on grain do no. produce egg : Of the
best flavor, but +he'l eggs are Infinite
ly better than those from hens that
must depend on themselves for their
living.
The quality Of the eggs depends al
together on the feed the hens eat, and
where this is understood, consistent
eggs are val'le1 as being worth twice
as much as those lacking consistency.
Poultry Herald.
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Chickens on Farms.

The farm is the best place for rails
ing chickens. Everybody seems to
have a better appreciation of this fact
than farmers themselves. The man
on a little town lot only wishes from
time to time that he had farm upon
which to raise poultry. How he would
spread out and make showing if he
had some broad acres for his chick
ems. The city man on still more
circumscribed area, when he feasts
on spring chicken, wishes he had
farm where he could grow all the
spring chickens he could eat The fan
cier in the suburbs of small place
likes to advertise that his fowls are
<'farm raised" He knows that buyers
would rather pay out their money for
breeders that have been raised under
farm conditions and with farm en-
virOnment. The farm-raised fowl is
the better for being grown on a free
and unlimited range. The greater the
exercise and the more varied the diet
the larger the growth and the strong
er the constitution.
The farmer who has visited the nice
buildings and the nice little yards
fenced in with wire netting of the
town poultry grower feels that he
would like to have just such an ar
rangement for his poultry, and the
fancier, having all these things will
visit the farm and long for a broad
expanse for his fowls, where they may
roam without being penned up in
small yards with expensive wire net
ting. The farm is the best place for
growing poultry and it is to be regret
ted that it is too often the place where
so many valueless birds are grown. If
farmers would only study the posi-
bilities of the farm poultry business
they would no longer harbor mon
grels.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-16
Dust Baths For Hens.

So long as the weather is dry fowls
will find ways of cleaning vermin
from them, and taking their kind of
bath by rolling in dry earth, out of
doors, if given the chance. 1t will
usually be in the garden too, especially
if one has made an especially mellow
bed for his growth of the seeds that
he regards as the choicest. The flow
err bed nicely levelled and smooth, and
as mellow as an ash neap, is the hens
favorite place. But it isn't fair to
blame the hen too much, for what, af-
ter all, is the fault of the owner. The
herself to keep clean. If a rainstOrm
comes on she cOOls her feathers with
oil to cause the rain to run off and
keep herself dry. Rolling herself in
fine soil or coal ashes so as to fill her
feathers full and then shaking her
self is the hens way of keeping clean.
If you will keep some fine soil in a
large box under shelter, where it will
always be dry, the hens will patrOnize
that whenever they need bath, and
they will keep themselves free of YER
min, which they cannot do in a wet
time unless some such dust bath is
provided Coal ashes are finer than
road dust and are therefore better.
Some should be kept for this purpose
1t may be well also to have
another box with dry earth on
top and some moist earth be-
low for use in extremely hot
weather. Hens are very sensitive to
heat, and one of the reasons why hens
prefer to take dust baths in summer is
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-16

with a little sulphur, makes an eff
fective insect powder, and spraying
the roost poles and everything con-
nected with them with coal oil means
sure death to all insect life therein. [
have heard the claim made that if one
would make their fowls roost out of
doors in summer they would never be
troubled with vermin, but 1 am in
clined to think it is only those who al
low their birds to roost out in Tie
weather who do not pay enough atten-
ton to them to know whether they
have lice or not.
Plenty of shade should be furnished
them during the sultry weather, but
they must also have plenty of sun
shine, and their shades should not be
so low or dense that it will not allow
free passage of air, and it is better to
have each shade, whether of growing
plants or constructed by hand, so that
the sunshine may reach every part of
it some time during the day. Especial
~ should growing chicks have plenty
of sunshine and their feed coops, roos-
ting coops and runs be kept thorough
ly dry.
People who sell eggs in summer
should either use china nest eggs or
egg gourds, Or else teach their hens to
lay without nest eggs, which we have
found to be much the best plan.
We gather the eggs every day, and
never think of leaving a nest egg, nor
do our hens expect it, having never
been accustomed to being humored in
this particular way.
Setting hens should be we'll fed and
not allowed to get poor, as they will
be in better shape to care for the lit
tie ones, and will go to laying again
much sooner, than if allowed to get
"snake poor" But they should never
be fed on the nest, as the eggs hatch
better if allowed the little cooling they
get while the madam hen is lunching,
drinking, and taking sun and dust
bath.-New England Fancier.
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because by digging down to roll they
will find moist, cool soil to roll in.
Therefore in summer the dust bath
should be moist below with a few
inches of dry soil on tOp.-American
CultivatOr.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-16
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-16
MEN and
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ambition haaJIftv VtiQOr

and cheerfulness soon disappear when
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Iowa Farms for sale, So per acre
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POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

Address all con munications to Poultry De-
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
WHAT'S IN \ NAME.
MANY TIMES NoTn1NG-soMETIME a
FUND or KNOWLEDGE.

MANY TIMES NoTHGNG-soMETIME \
FUND or KNOWLEDGE.
lis "a good old saying, ana true one
10 Know all men by their works. Tie
public have been imposed upon 50 many
times 10y INSCRIPTIONS claims made Tor
selfish means Of profit. they look for
something more substantial; they ask fol
deeds. The little conqueror has earned
the reputation made in Michigan and no
imposition can steal il. From north TO
south. from east 60 west in every city,
town and hamlet in the state, people
stand ready 10 testify 10 merit. Grat
ltudc for comfort brought TO thousands Of
homes brings emphatic rcjoicings and
words OF praise the ike of which has not
been Cquallcd in modern times. Is 10 q
wonder the name DOan is a familiar Que
in every households Is il surprising the
public appreciate DOan's Kidney Pills
and will not be led astray by the ingenious
efforts of would be competitors \ De.
trOit citizen tells here WHY the name of
Doan is so dear 10 him:
Mr.. X. y. Elliott, of l43 High street,
Detroit, says. My knowledge of Doan s
Kidney Pills dates back to five years ago.
/ was then living in the town where DIR.
Il
kidney troubles and nflamatory rheuma-
tlsm. The doctor prescribed the pills for
me which have since become so justly IA
nous. Their use quickly eliminated the
uric acid from my system and with its
depar ture came the cure of the rheum-
tism nd the end OF the kidney trouble.
1t TOOK but few boxes TO accomplish thi,
end a nd feel that | owe DR.. Doau an
everlasting debt of gratitude for prescrib-
ing such a valuable remedy. | have taken
pleasure in recommending this medicine
to number OF my friends. l always
keep box of these pills on hand so that
should | take severe cold and feel that
it is settling on my kidneys few doses of
Doan's Kidney Pills relieves all apprehen.
sion"
Doan's Kidney Pills are sold by all
dealers. Price 80 cents per box. Mailed
on receipt of price by FosteT-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo. ". Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's aud take
no other.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
Forest Hill.

Miss Marie DuBoise, of Shepherd,
visited her sister, Mrs. c. S. Shue last
week.
The Central Michigan Normal Choir
entertainment, given under the auspices
of the X. O. r. NJ. last Friday night
was well attended considering the
weather. All were much pleased with
the entertainment.
Mr.. aud Mrs. IL. ~ Hayes OF Alma,
are visiting friends and relatives here.
Mrs. c. 5. Shu- was in Shepherd
Monday on business.
Charlie owen j., some worse ut pres
ent writing.
Miss Markham. of ltha a, visited her
uncle, Mr.. Sias Randolph last week
Bert Hamilton is on the sick list.
o. l.. Pembroke was in st. Louis
Tuesday on business.
Rev. G.. II. Carl Il in Sumner this
week helping Rev. Will, in Il series of
revival meetings.
Mrs. Moore, Miss Earle and Mr..
Richardson, OF Dushville visited Mrs.
Cora Wood last week "Wednesday and
Thursday.
Mr. F. b. Bates who has been sick
for some time is failing very fast.
Mr. l.. &. Leonard our new merchant
returned to his home in Coe Saturday
March It'll, owing to his illness. The
last news were that he was very low
He left his store in charge Of Mr. VIII
Bower.
Mr.. Lake, of Ithaca, visited hi, bro-
thcr, Edward last week.
Mrs. Richards, Of Sunheld, is visiting
her son, Frank, and family.
Anyone having black ash logs they
want to sell, Just let Shue y Pembroke
know. they will buy them wherever
they may be. and pay the highest mar
ket price.
Dogs played havoc with Cage Woods
sheep on Monday night, was found
dead with several wounded and the &
flock scattered all over the farm.
Potato buyers are very thick just
now Offering 80 to 10 cents per bushel
Everybody ha, lot, of frozen ones to
offer, but people are slow to oiltr good
ones just as they think will bt higher
after few weeks.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
Q Asst OF n.
s Bear. tn. ~ The Kind ,-z --- ---- Bought
Signature e' E1NEAI1$x
Elm Hall.

Mr., Wilson of Alma was in town
buying eggs, Saturday.
Mrs. Mattreson is very sick.
Albert Vance's family are visiting
with her parents, Mr.. Hollands.
Nettie Shannon, of McBain, is work
ing at +. j Blair's.
Mrs. Lyon p. Schatier commenced
sewing near Mr.. Sees Monday.
Leo Hill is quite sick.
Cnas. Brooks was in Alma Saturday.
Frank Russell and family had bust
ness in St. Louis Tuesday.
+. }. Blair's wood cutters will soon
finish the pile of wood logs Oh the mill
yard.
Little Thedia Leonard of near Vesta
burg, was left alone in the house one
day last week while her grandmother
went to the barn. In few minutes
the child ran to Mrs. Monkum with
her clothes liz flames. She was so bad
" burned that she lived but few
hours. 1t will probably never be
known how her clothes caught fire.
Thedia was five years old and the
daughter of Ed. Leonard. The funeral
was held at Sumner. lnterment was
made in the Sumner cemetery.
G. +. Kellogg, Mrs. Hildreth and
Mable were in attendance at the S. S.
convention at Riyerdale Sunday.
q. j. Butcher shipped bill of fur
niture to Elijah Kempler of Clare, one
day this week
Mrs. Mary Hyde fell and hurt her
self quite badly Saturday.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
COUNTY NEWS.
Hamilton.

Will Lincoln of South Lyons was in
this ncighborhood last week visiting
relatives.
Don't forget the republican caucus
for March % at town hall. Turn out
and nominate good men or else keep
still.
There is prospect of much building
going on in the township this spring,
among those who will build are John
furois, barn; Tom Goodhall and j..
Simmons houses and Will Price a gran
airy.
Genuine March weather that we're
having now.
There's quite little sickness in this
part of the township in the shape OF
colds and lung trouble.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
Elm Hall.

0. NJ. Blair expects TO leave ion
Ypsilanti the last of the week, where
he will take business course. May
all good luck 60 with you. otto.
j. r. Shaffer Is moving the Old
blacksmith, known as the Kerwin
building on lot south of his store.
Mrs. Chas. Brooks took quite a or
der for silverware one day last week
c. +. Kellogg was in Ithaca oyer
Sunday.
Mr.. Lane Of Salem spent Saturday
and Sunday with James Toy.
Mrs. Charles Elliott is the proud
possessor eff a new organ.
The teachers of the Sunday school
met at the school building and decided
on the program for Easter Tuesday
evening.
Wednesday evening, March :, the
following young people met with
Claude Davis and organized mission
AIRY society known rs the White Ribbon
Society: Olive Hicks, Claude and
Floyd Davis, Earl and Mama Winters,
Olive and Burnette Ward, Grace Nor
ton and Lottie Tingley. The officers
elected are As follows: Pres, Floyd
Davis; V F.. Brunette Ward; Treas.
Claude DAVIS; Sec, Mama Winters;
Clerk, Olive Ward; Trustee, Eal VIM
ters. They will meet with Olive Hicks
March 10.
Martha Long left for VIckeryyille
Saturday where she expects to spend
two months visiting relatives.
Geo. Butcher, 7. j. Blair and Chas.
Brooks had business IN Alma last
week
Mrs. Butcher spent Saturday and
Sunday in Ferris.
Mr.. Crosby of Lansing was in town
Monday buying lumber.
Stella Nen, of Mcbride, former
pupil and teacher in our school, is very
low with scarlet fever.
The eighth grade examination will
be held Saturday in the high school
room commencing at Q "A. m. Mr..
futile will be in attendance.
Miss Eva Sturgiss of Ferris spent
Thursday visiting the schooi. Miss
Sturgiss has few weeks vacation
which she will spend with friends in
Ithaca. when she will resume her
duties in the Douglass district.
Second grade number ii are reading
stories from Garden and Field. Part
Monitors. Pearl Croton, songs; lima
Russell, paper; Kenneth Russell, letters;
Fred Elliott, counters; Frank Croton,
fireman; Hazel Tingley and Florence
Hall, copies.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
North East Sumner.

Al. Bosom has been making num-
Der of improvements around his place
prominent among which is the tearing
down of his Old house
Wesley PER-, who lives south west of
the center has bought = half interest in
hotel in Alma and Will run it. Here's
hoping that Wesley will make big
success
Frank Church is some better at this
writing.
A. Scarf, no relation believe to the
candidate for Judge, has moved on to
tis farm and will hereafter be resi-
dent of Sumner and not OF Grecnyille
NJ. Wood is preparing to build a
barn in the spring.
A few of our farmers have tapped
their sugar bushes and are trying to
make sugar. Better quit it boys and
raise beets. you can make more.
Speaking of beet raising ! understand
that Clint Nelson is to put in 60 acres
this summer for the Alma Sugar Com
pany
Our farmers are talking of buying a
cream separator, sort of stock affair.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
KILLED by an Engine.

The big snowstorm was responsible
for the death Of one man and the seri-
GUS manning Of another at Port Huron.
a gang of men were engaged in Shovel
ing snow from the tracks in the tunnel
yard when yard engine bore down
upon three of them-Charles Sheman,
Gus Polatzkey and Charles Gurr. She
man was killed instantly, Polatzkey's
leg was broken and he received in
terDal injuries which are likely 20
prove fatal. The other man sustained
injuries to his spine and legs. She
man was terribly mangled, two wheels
of the tender passing over his body.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
Healthy Potatoes

Potato growers who want TO have
potatoes with bright clean skins, free
from scab, should not neglect 10 use
the necessary precautions TO have them
so. First. plant on new soil. or that
not already infested with the scab fun
gus. for it is proved that the fungus
Planting should be done where som g
other crop than the potato has been
grown for two years previous. Second,
having washed the seed potatoes, inn
merse them in solution Of corrosive
subhmate in order to kill any scab
fungus on the tubers. U,c two and Il
quarter ounces of corrosive sublimate
in fifteen gallons Of water Dissolve
the corrosive Sublmate IN Two gallons
Of hot water, and then add thirteen
gallons more of water. Use a large
tub or u barrel; metallic vessels will
be corroded By the liquid. Place the
potatoes to be treated in large, coarse
sack and sink it into the liquid, allow
ing it To remain an hour and half; at
the end Of that time lift them out and
turn them ont on a lloor to dry, when
they can be cut up and planted. The
sack of potatoes can be conveniently
handled in lifting il IN and ont Of the
barrel, by means of lever on post
near the barrel, sufficiently high to
work easily, something like an old
fashioned well sweep, and which any
one can easily and quickly rig up.
This will be necessary only when "a
considerable quantity of potatoes are
to be treated. a, the corrosive mix
ture Is poisonous, care should be taken
not to touch il To the hands, especially
if the skin is broken: also. 10 keep the
treated tubers away from poultry or
cattle. From Nick'. Magazine Tor
March.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17

Mr.. Smiths little daughter burned
her arm qmte badly 10y splitting tea on
it,
Mrs. Mary Hyde has sold her farm
formerly owned by Frank Hyde, to
Charles Shepherd
The following program will be used
for norning exercises for the spring
term:
Monday
Tuesday music; memory gems.
Wednesday-music; current events.
Thursday-muslc; recitatlons.
Friday-music; question box.
Glasses were organized il school
law, physiology and Michigan History
this week.
The third grade are studying the
map of Gratiot county.
Receipts were granted to Florence
Hail. Pearl Crotch and Claude Lavoy.
Pearl Croten's name should have been
in the lat last week.
The monitors Tor the week are a.
follows:
Hazel Tingley, paper; Frank Crotch,
fireman; Pearl Croton, word builders;
Veil sly and CrlS Norton, counters;
Willie Pratt copies.
The first and second grades are using
Longs Home geography and Stories of
Star Land
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17

President Mckinley has left for
Thomasville. Ca. for few weeks rest
and recuperatiOn.
Secretary of War Alger is contem-
plating an early inspection tour of all
the western army posts. Several staff
officers will accompany him.
The largest mortgage ever placed on
record in the register of deeds office at
Owosso was filed by the Michigan Tel
ephone Co. 10 the old Colony Trust Co..
securing s5.OOOOOO worth of per cent
gold bonds given Jan. .. 1899
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
Funeral Sunday at NJ. Il.

Friday. Funeral Sunday at NJ. T..
church.
Joseph Taylor one of the oldest
pioneers in the county, died of dropsy
Saturday morning. Funeral at the Nj.
r. church Monday.
The infant child of Will Myers died
Saturday. buried from the M. +. church
Monday.
Frank Goodnough Is able t. be out
again.
Miss Libbie Darlington is on the sick
list.
VIII Allen and vile have gone 10
Britton where they will make their
future home.
The mill has again started up after a
long resting spell.
, Mrs. John X. Wilson of ST. Louis,
visited her sister, Miss Burgess Wed
nesday.
/ Geo. Poland took business "Trip to
St Louis Saturday evening.