Imperial press., 1901-05-04

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 Boycott on Berries
 PHOENIX. Ariz., April 19.-The Ari- zona Berry Growers Association has been perfected. Plans were made for boycott of California strawberries, which are being shipped here in large quantities. Imported berries are of in- ferior quality and in bad condition by the time they reach here, and some of them. shipped out of here as Arizona f-uit. have caused serious damage to the reputation of local berries.
 Sick Chickens
 About the best way to treat sick chicken is to kill and bury it. If it is grown. cut off it's head, selecting a nlace for the operation where the healthy birds will not get at the blood. Bury the body near grapevine, II vou grow grapes. If it is deformed or sickly chick do not bother with it, but kill it and bury 1t near potato plant. It will give more profit there than it will in any other way. In most sicknesses the fowl is neglected until it has spread the disease. The attempt to doctor, if made at all, should be made just as soon as the bird begins to mope. Cholera, the worst disease we have to contend with. Is spread through the droppings. A cholera in fected bird may be kept in the next pen to the healthy stock with only wire netting to separate them and will not spread the disease among the flock
 But the trouble often is the sick bird is not separated from the flock soon enough. A poultry raiser of our ac- ouaintance is very successful, and he rigidly enforces the rule to kill every fowl that shows signs of sickness. He says that others may spend their time doctoring hens if they wish to, but he has no time to do it and does not care to run the risk of having sick birds about. He boasts of raising ninety chicks out of one hundred. In loft in his hen house he keeps salamander stove. which he can readily heat up, and in that stove he burns every sick fowl that he kills AS intimated above, we think a dead fowl can be put to better use than that and not endan- ger the flock either. On smaller scale I have tried the killing remedy and 1t mas WOTh6u we'll. DO JuC UCoS WO AaoJb and we shall lose chicks and have some sick fowls. However, cleanliness, ex- termination of lice careful feeding and care not to overcrowd will reduce sick ness to the minimum. Much of the trouble that comes to the young flock is the result of weak stock, and weak, sickly chick is better dead than alive. It is folly to breed from weak stock if we know it, but having done 1t, wedding out the flock is advisable, and necessity. Save the strong chicks and destroy the weak ones. Weed out as heroically as you weed out herd of cattle of sheep.-Optimist
 Heat in Wood and Coal
 Farmers as we'll as others have oc- casion to consider the fuel question as one of some importance in Southern California, and therefore they will be interested in the statement made by the Rural New Yorker that the pro- portionate heating power of coal and wood has been found by experience to be that one pound of charcoal heats seventy-three pounds of water from 32 degrees, which is the freezing point, to PIP degrees, which is the boiling point of water; that one pound of an thracite coal heats seventy pounds Of water in the same way, and one pound of dry wood heats thirty-five pounds of water the same, so that the coal has just twice the heating power that dry wood has. and little less than char coal has. Of course wood that is not dry loses proportionate heating value