Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-18
New Bible Glass.

Now Bible Class.
Tonight, at the parlors of the
Presbyterian church occurs the
first meeting of the new Bible
class just organized in that church
Any one wishing to join the class
ls invited to attend this evening.
Say, you business man, this would
be good place for you to spend
an evening once in while, for
there you will again hear the won
derful story your mother used to
tell you when you were a little
boy, and knelt down by her knee
to say your evening prayers. You
will get acquainted again with
whole lot of names that used to
be familiar to you, but whom you
haven't thought of since you COM
manced the hustle and hurry of
business life. Spend an evening
at this Bible class meeting and
you will again have brought to
your mind the wonderful "Speak-
ing tour of Him who died for all
sinners, from the time He was
baptized and commenced healing
the sick, curing the blind aud
raising the dead until He gave
up his life on Mount Calvary. 1t
will Ee a new story to you bust
ness men-will do you lots Of good
and will encourage the faithful
church workers to renewed energy
in the cause of the Master. We
don't charge anything for this in
vitation, SO it won't cost you any
thing if you accept. Try it and
see how much you will hear that
you have forgotten, and was
familiar with when you was boy.
Important to Poultry Raisers
The American Game Keeper,
which from the name should be
authority on the fowl subject,
gives the following simple direc-
tons for protecting setting hens
against lice and mites, which is
their besetting annoyance: A
cheap and easy method of destroy
ing these pests and keeping them
from the setting hens, it says is to
place one or two of the camphor-
ated balls (such as those displayed
in the windows of drug stores) in
each nest. They cost very little
AMI by putting them in the nest
the work is done, single ball
lasting through the entire warm
season.
Every time the hen goes on the
nest she imparts heat to it, and a
portion of the camphor odorizes
her body and also the material of
the nest; lice giving it wide
berth. One of the balls, ifplaced
in vial of sweet oil, and applied
to the heads Of the fowls end
chicks, on the shanks or under the
wings, will also prove serviceable
in preventing scaly-legs and des-
troying the large lice.
For chicks only use one or two
drops of the mixture, as grease of
any kind is injurious to chicks.
If preferred mixture may be
prepared by using part lard oil,
part llnseed oil, few grains of
camphor and 3 or 4 drops of oil
of sassafras, shaking the mixture
we'll before using.
Whitewash the top and sides Of
the hen house and use plenty Of
carbolic acid in the wash; put it
on thick over the roosts, nests, and
every board to kill the insect eggs,
lice, mites, and germs of contag-
ious diseases, il there is any, and
to purify and keep things healthy.
Chicks will commence to scratch
when they are but day old, no
difference whether they see the
old hen scratch or not. lie they
are Matched in an incubator and
reared in brooder, they will
scratch just the same. This
proves that scratching comes by
intuition and is natures plan
whereby fowls may get their liv-
ing. 1t is a sensible thing to be-
lieve that fowls should be made
to scratch for nearly all thew eat