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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
POULTRY MANAGEMENT.
Has to Say About "POultry on
the Dairy Farm"

At the meeting of the Illinois Dairy
mems association, recently held at
Aurora, F. NJ. Munger, of De Kalb, ILL.,,
read a paper with the above title.
What he had to say would apply
equally as well to poultry on any
farm as that kept on one where dairy
ing is the leading feature.
Speaking of the things needed to
make poultry pay, he said the first
thing was: Do not feed the hens too
heavily or make it too easy for them
to get their food. Make them scratch,
and six inches of straw is none too
little depth in which to scatter their
feed.
2. The second thing needed is a
warm poultry house. If the house
can be made warm in no other way
bank it up with straw. Have the
house large enough as well as warm,
for poultry to do well must have
room and warmth.
Suppose you wish a house for 50
hens, build it 9x2O feet ground space;
have the stills and top plates of 2X4
stuff, use 12-feet boards cut in two,
the seven feet lengths for the front
or south side, the five-feet lengths for
the back or north side. The same
length boards will cut without waste
for the ends. Ten-feet boards will do
first rate for the roof if covered with
good tarred paper nicely put on.
Have ceiling of cheap boards COW
cred with tarred paper to add
warmth. Have the location dry and
give the full floor space to the fowls,
arranging the nests and perches and
shelf for droppings as suits your
fancy to secure this. Run siX-inch
or foot partition through the middle
of the building next to the floor to
make scratching-room.
No need of the whole south side be-
ing of glass, as was once the idea.
Have the building tight so there are
no drafts. A shelter like a belt OF
trees or high fence on the north and
west sides will add to the warmth OF
the house, and warmth we must have.
Have the house dust dry and well
ventilated and keep it scrupulously
clean.
Clover should be provided, as it con-
tains lime and other elements suited
to promote egg production-it is as
as truly an egg producer as milk
producer. Chopped clover moistened
with hot water or steamed may be
fed once every day. Chopped vege-
tables cannot be substituted.
Exercise, warmth, cleanliness and
variety in food are the essential fac
tors in egg production.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
SCIENCE GOSSIP.

Huxley declared that science is
nothing but trained and organized
common sense"
An Austrian suggestion, which the
Viennese are said to favor, is to app,
proach the north pole in submarines
boats
to the fact that canned tomatoes are
now being extensively colored, in orr
der to make them look attractive and
as if made from ripe fruit.
Astronomers figure out that the di.
ameter of the earth at the eGuator
varies 3,04S feet, so that our planet is
not only fattened at the poles, but
slightly squeezed IL the middle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
IMPROVING THE BEES.
To Accomplish 1t Queens Must BE
Reared from the Best Colonies
and with Great Care.

1t is very important that we rear
queens from our best colonies and
thus improve our stock. If we depend
upon natural cells at swarming time
from which to rear our queens, we
should be very careful to save all the
cells from the best colonies only, and
from no others. After the first swarm
issues, there will be left in the hive,
if the colony is good one, perhaps a
dozen queen cells, and we may save
the entire lot Dy starting some nu-
cleus and giving each a cell, leaving
one cell in the hive. This will pre-
vent any more swarms from issuing
from the colony.
If we raise our queens artifcially
we can select any choice queen we see
fit, and we may draw on this choice
queen to such extent that we may
requiem our entire apiary from this
one colony. This is one advantage
we have in thus rearing queens on the
artificial plan. We can improve in
any certain line of breeding much
faster. We can at any time secure
queen cells, whether in swarming
season or out of the same, by taking
the queen from the colony. The bees
will at once begin to convert some
ordinary worker brood into queens,
and will start number of cells, which
we will treat the same as those at
swarming time and thus rear queens
from them in the same way.
Most of the queens now reared for
the trade are bred on the artificial
plan. and many contend that they
are in all respects as good as those
bred naturally, and the difference is
not so great that any one buying the
same cares to ask whether or not
they are from the natural or artificial
rearing. Many OIL these queens are
bred from queens imported from Italy,
and almost every breeder who breeds
them for the trade has at least one or
two imported queens. 1t has been
said that we have improved the orig
inal Italian bees by select breeding
in this country, and there is no doubt
of the fact, and the demand for home
bred stock of this kind is ahead of
the imported.-A. ii. Duff, in Farm
erS' Voice.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
POLICE OFFICER RESCUED.
Omcer A. G. Swanson of the Council
Bluffs Force Tells an Intel-
esting Story.

Council Bluffs, Ia, Feb. 4, 1901 (Spe-
cia) .-Kind-hearted Officer SWANSON
OF the local police force, IS very pops
ular in this city. He has lived hers
for seventeen years, and has enjoyed
many high offices in social and societD
work. He is now vice president of the
"Dannebrog" Brotherhood, the larg-
est Danish secret society in America,
which combines benevolent with the
social features. Owing to the con-
slant exposure and many hours on his
feet, which his duty as Police OFF,
Ger makes unavoida BILE, Mr.. Swanson
became the victim of serious Kidney
and Liver Trouble. He was very bad,
but has entirely recovered. He gives
the story in his own words as follows:,
II have been a sufferer for many,
years with Kidney and Liver Trou-
BILE, and have tried many remedies,
some of which gave me temporary re-
lief, and others which were absolutely.
worthless. 1 began to think that.
there was no help for me, when N.Y.
nephew gave me a part of box of
Dodd's Kidney Pills which he had left,f
saying that it would do no harm to:
try them, as they had certainly fXedl
him all right. What he gave me
helped me so much that 1 felt justified
in purchasing more, and I grew slowly.
better. 1t took almost two months to
effect complete cure, as mine was
very bad case, but can cheerfully
and truthfully say that 1 am a welE
man to-day, and I am very grateful.
that Dodd's Kidney Pills were thus
brought to my notice"
The wonderful cures effected by,
Dodd's Kidney Pills in Iowa have
created quite a sensation in some
parts of the state. There does not
seem to be any case of Lame Back,
Rheumatism, Kidney or Bladder Trou-
BILE which these wonderful Pills can.
not cure. They are certainly pop
ular here, and the sale through the
local druggists is very large.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

Women use II times as many gloves
as men.
The record running high jump in
feet 81 inches.
Eleven Indian languages are still
spoken in Mexico.
An American bank has been organ
lied in Rotterdam, Holland.
Great Britain is shipping firewood
from Victoria, Australia, for the use
of her troops in China.
One authority on botany estimates
that over $4,000 species of plants are
now known and classified.
The golden eagle has great
strength. It lifts and carries off with
ease weight of 80 pounds.
Ten million eight hundred thou
sand English people live in the coun-
try; over 100000 in towns.
The Chinese are essentially cotton
consumers, the majority of the peo-
pie dressing in clothes of that fabric.
The tube of a twelve-inch gun has
fifty spiral grooves inside, which
cause the shot to revolve seventy-fve
times per second as it rushes through
the air.
The crust of the earth under Japan
must be comparatively thin, judging
by the number of earthquake shocks
in that country. They average 500
year.
The Salvation army has received q
gold medal at the Paris exposition
for its American exhibit, showing it's
method in retaining the fallen and
outcast.
The marquis of Salisbury keeps
about seventy indoor servants, not
counting dependents of higher
class, such as private secretaries, Ii
brarians and chaplains.
In Paris all artists must have rest
ed quietly in their graves for ten
years before their handiwork in the
shape of pictures can be hung on the
walls of the Louvre gallery.
In ton of Dead sea water there
are 1877 pounds of salt; Red sea, 90;
Mediterranean, IS; Atlantic, 81; En-
glish channel, 72; Black sea, &c; Bal
tic, IS, and Caspian sea, II.
A Cleveland rheumatic, who could
barely walk, took to his heels and
ran like deer when he was held up
by footpads, and since then claims
that he is free of his malady.
Bangkok is a city of waters. 1t is
an Indo-Chinese Venice. More people
live in floating homes on the Menam,
"the Nile of SIAM" and the many
canals than in permanent buildings.
In Borneo and Labuan postage
stamps to the value of 100000 were
sold last year, though the postage
on the mails from those two coun-
tries does not exceed $4,000 a year.
1t is the collectors who buy the
stamps.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
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10 BEE S2Xk
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FOR EARLY MATCHING,
How to Con struct a Barrel Nest Which
Is Sure to Keep Eggs from
Getting Chilled.

The shrewd poultry keeper long ago
discovered that it is the early chick
that pays the greatest profit, hence
1t is worth taking some trouble to
get out early broods. Unless great
care is taken and but nine or ten eggs
placed under hen, the eggs are
quite certain to get chilled when "cold
snaps occur. Put Stats across the in
side of barrel about foot from the
top and put layer of hay over them.
Make nest in the middle and build
up around the nest and the top of the
barrel with hay. Drive wire nails
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
Cut Green Bone for Hens.

The browning advantage of finely cut
green bone is it's succulency and it's
partial solubility from retention of it's
natural juices; hence to cut coarse is
to fail of best results. This valuable
hen food should be fed sparingly.
Three pounds per day is about the right
quantity for 100 hens and the best re-
suits will be obtained by feeding it in
the morning, say one-half ounce per
fowl with warm mash. Through the
day allow your fowls all the cut clover
and vegetables they will eat. Give va
riety of vegetables from day to day
and always keep supply of clean drink
ing water and sharp grit within reach
of your fowls. Toward evening give
them light feed of corn or wheat or
other hard grain.-Ohio Farmer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
Made the Indian Real Mad.

Senator Stewart the other day related the
story of an adventure with a big Indian
when he was prospecting for gold. The In
dian asked the future senator for ride II
a high wagon, and he was told to climb in
In less than a minute Stewart saw poor LIZ
signaling to another Indian behind rock
who was sighting a gun at Stewart.
Il guess they needed my Wagon, and my
mule and maybe my scalp in their business
My only chance was to grab that Indiar
around the waist and hold him in front Of
me. You bet l did that, and at the same
time yelled at my mule. That critter hao
some sense, and in few minutes we were
out of range. But it was close shave"
As the senator stopped the curious man
in the party asked him what he did with the
Indian.
"Why, I broke his gun, threw him out Of
the wagon, and then kicked him along or
his hands and knees until think he got
real mad. Washington Correspondence
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
Vermont Wonder,

A report is published from Vermont that
the electric light plant of town in the
Green mountain state was frozen up the
other night. When it comes to freezing up
electricity Vermont beats the record. Up
to date nothing equally startling has been
heard of, unless the story told by Bob Bur-
dette be excepted. Bob used to describe a
wonderful section out west where everything
was petrifed-even the law of gravitation.
And Vermont could not surpass that.-Troy
Times
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
To Florida Vim Cincinnati.

New Pullman train, Chicago to st. Au.
gustine, drawing room sleepers, magnificent
diners and observation cars, through to
Florida without change. Leave Chicago
uary l4th, Big -Four Route, Monon-C. H. &
D. Penna Lines, Queen & Crescent, South
ern Ry., Plant System and F. E. G. Ry.
Call on ticket agents any of lines named.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
Hone Springs Eternal.

Alittle New Zealand girl wrote to ask Mark
Twain if his real name was Clemens. She
knew BETTER she said, because Clemens was
the man who sold patent medicine. She
hoped not, for she liked the name of Mark.
Why, Mark Antony was in the Bible!
CAS- Mark Antony has got into the Bible, u
Mr.. Clemens characteristically remarked in
telling about it, ''I'm not without hopes my.
self."-Youth's Companion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
PLAN OF INCUBATOR ROOM.

walls. 1t is banked on three sides,
leaving one side unbanked for en-
trance door and window. The in
cubator room need not be large, so
the labor of banking it in this way
will not be great. Many are not able
to secure a suitable place under
ground for a cellar and for such the
above plan will prove advantageous
American Agriculturist.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
Low Rate Winter Tours to the
Sunny South.

The Mobile & Ohio will run Special Low
Rate Excursions, good until June the first,
permitting invalids and others to stop. at
first-class hotels enroute at very nominal
rates to all points in Alabama, Mississippi,
Georgia, Florida, Cuba, Central and South
America. Low Rate Homeseeker's lst and
3rd Tuesday of each month. One Way Set
tiers same days at Very Low Rates. Any
ticket agent or j. T. Poe, G. T. M, Mobile,
Ala c. NJ Shepard, G. P. A, Mobile, Ala.
M. H. Bohreer, D. p. A., 35l Marquette
Bldg, Chicago, ILL.,, 7 West Fort Street, De-
troit, Mich
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08

The Mobile & Ohio will have special Low
Mardi Gras, at Mobile and New Orleans.
Tickets on sale February 18th to 18th.
Through Sleepers and Palace Day Coaches
from principal cities for this occasion. For
further information and tickets to Rex Ball.
special rates at hotels, call on your nearest
ticket agent, or address c. M. Shepard, G..
P. A, Mobile, Ala; or NJ. H. Bohreer, D. P.
A., 35l Marquette Bldg, Chicago; West
Fort St., Detroit, Mich.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
A Bad Blunder.

Mr.. Kip (angrily)-That's nice thing you
say about my business in your paper this
week.
Editor-What?
"Read it."
Editor (reading): eff you want to have
a fit, wear Kip's shoes-Geerusalem- stop
the press!"-Ohio State Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
| New Through Pullman Sleeping Car
Service to Hot Springs, Ark,
| Via Little Rock.


On Jan. 9Th of the present year, the Kan
sas City Southern Railway Co., known as the
Port Arthur Route, made new addition to
itsmany advantages by offering to the public
new through Pullman sleeping car service
between Kansas City and the famous Hot
Springs of Arkansas, via Little Rock. This
new through route in connection with the
c. 0. & G. R. R. and the l.. r. & II. S. w.
K. R. forms the shortest line between Kan
sas City and Hot Springs, makes the best
time between these two points, and is abso-
lubely the only line offering through Pull
man service. Leaving Kansas City at HOO
A. NJ, you arrive in Hot Springs at 9:55 A.
M. the next morning, without change of
cars. All main lines running into Kansas
City make direct connections with this fast
through train. If you are going to the
Springs, this is the season to go, and when
you do 60, see that your ticket reads via
the famous Port Arthur Route. All infor-
nation desired will be cheerfully furnished
by addressing s. G.. Warner, G. P. & T. A.,
Kansas CITY Mo,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
Career and Character Of Abraham
Lincoln.

An address by Joseph Choate, Ambas-
sador to Great Britain, on the career and
life-his early struggles with the world
his character as developed in the later years
of his life and his administration, which
placed his name so high on the worlds roll
of honor and fame, has been published by
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
and may be had by sending six (6) cents in
postage to F. A. Miller, General Passenger
Agent, Chicago, III.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08

into the top to keep the cover raised
an inch for air. Cut door in the
side of the barrel and fit a curtain of
bagging to draw over it. A jug of
hot water set inside the barrel during
'cold snap" will keep the eggs from
getting at all chilled, even when 10
eggs are in the nest.-Webb Donnell,
in Farm and Home.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
AN INCUBATOR ROOM.
Plan Suitable for POultrymen Who
Cannot Secure a Place Under
ground for a Cellar.

The cut shows an incubator room
that is built on the surface of the
ground, and yet is surrounded by
earth, banked up against its stone
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08

Mr.. Gallagher-"Rumors fly, don't they.
Missis Flannigan?" Mrs. Fiannigan-"IG.
dade they do; awnly this week wan left me
widout payin' his nt."-Ohio State Jour-
nal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
A Distinction.

When a man is bilious he admits it, and
takes pills; but woman begins to talk about
life being struggle and the Indebtedness
of her MISUNDERSTANDING Globe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
Always CAUGHT.

If young man goes into jewelry store
to look at ladies' rings, the worst gossip in
town is sure to step in and catch him at it.
Atchison Globe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08


troubi had leucorrhoa, but since taking Nervura that
has disappeared feel strong and last able
to do the work for fourteen in family and weigh 163
pounds vas SO weak before, nobody knows how
worked, but had to work for my children sent two
bottles of Nerura to my brother in Nova Scotia and it
did him lots of good recommend Dr. Greenes Nervura
to every one"
Women have absolute confidence in DR.. Creene's
Nervura, more so fhan In any other remedy, be-
cause it is purely vegetable and a famous regular
physician prepares it, which is guarantee that it
is perfectly adapted to cure. As an additional assur-
ance of cure. DR.. Greene, 35 w. 18th ST., New York
City, gives you the privilege of consulting him with
ot charge or COST either by calling or writing abeut
your case.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-08-15
Death of Mrs. Cleveland.

Mrs. NJ. S. Cleveland died at her home,
Monday evening, the 9Th instant. In her
death Athens has sustained an irrepar-
able loss. A sincere, conscientious
Christian, a true wife, most tender
mother and kind, loving friend, she
will be sadly missed by all who have en-
joyed her ompanionship.
Although the disease which preyed up
on her WORKOUT system strongly affected
the brain, all clouds were lifted at the
last and che sank sweetly to sleep in the
arms OF the Savior whom she loved.
On Wednesday, amid the pouring rain,
her friends laid her tenderly to rest In
the family lot in the village cemetery.
Der pastor, Rev. j. E. Lombard, spoke
comforting words to the bereaved friends
and quartet rendered sweet songs, to
the accompaniment Of the organ.
Mrs. Cleveland was about sixty-three
years OF age, and leaves, beside the hus-
band and step-son, George Cleveland of
Skowhegan, an only daughter, Mrs.
Prince Stafford, and one beloved grand
CHILD, little Helen, on whom the tender
influence of this beloved mother and
grandmother will be lifelong; also one
brother, Mr., Stephen Wing, Of Pennsyl-
vania, and devoted cousin, who minis
tered to her during her short but pain
full illness with all the devotion of sister,
Miss Lillian Bickford Of Skowhegan,
with other more distant relatives, who
will have her In most tender remem-
brance.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-08-15
Jacknan.

Saturday morning we were all excited
over the report that Sullivan Newton's
store had been entered by burglars be-
tween the hours of I and 2. They were
discovered by his son Lewis and Nelson
BARLEY, who were returning home from a
social dance held that evening at the vii
lage. While passing by the store on
their way to the stable, Mr.. BARLEY re-
marked to his companion that he saw a
dim light in the store. Lewis went back
and looked through small space under
the curtain and saw two men sitting at
the safe. He then made disturbance
which aroused his father. and also the
burglars. They escaped by breaking the
lock on the front door, ran down the
track and got away. Mr. Newton thinks
the men got in by window at the side of
the store. They got away with about
SIS In entering the building, they l. #
their shoes on the platform, and being
obliged to leave in such hurry, went
away and forgot their property, which had
been left outside Mr.. Newton searched
with a number OF men Saturday but failed
TO find any trace of them.
Mr. and Mrs w. A. Morrill, OF Boston
arrived Saturday for stay of three weeks,
visiting Mrs. Morrill's old home.
Mrs. D. c. Holway and daughter Lizzie
of Mllinocket are visiting friends in
town.
Abe Smith has sold his stand to Hugh
Mcdonald.
Lydia Nadeau, who has been at Lubec
and Eastport, returned home. Sunday
morning
Miss Grace Murphy is at Bingham, Wis
iting her brother.
Mr. and Mrs, Dunton, Mr. and Mrs.
Ambrose Cooley and Miss Ada Newton
left on the noon train for few days out
ing at Mr.. Princes camps at Long Island
Saturday evening we had heavy thun-
der shower and rain. No damage was
done. N
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-08-15

daughters child. The last four are all
over so years old, Mrs. Barrows being
about IS. Maggie Stewart is serving a
three years sentence.
The resignation of NJ. l.. Mason OF
New York, as general manager and
treasurer of the Lewiston, Brunswick *
Bath Street Railway has been announced
to take effect, Sept. 20. He will be sue
ceeded by F. c. Farr of Lewiston, who
will combine the offices of general man
aeer and superintendent. NJ. II. Black
we'll has been elected treasurer.
One of the most disastrous accidents
that ever occurred in the great paper
mills of the ). D. Warren Co, West
brook happened at 100 o'clock Sunday
night In some way the main shaft
which runs the machinery of the drainer
room became br ,ken and as result
about DO feet in the length OF the
shafting and five large iron pulleys were
totally wrecked. One large wooden post
was knocked out, and portions OF the
shafting which were not broken, were
badly bent. Floors we're wrenched up,
and a space embracing 2,400 feet were a
scene of complete devastation. No one
was in the room at the time the accident
occurred, and so it is impossible to tell
lust what caused 1t. 1t is thought, how
ever, that some of the wooden posts
gave way, causing the frame to settle
and thus break the shafting.
The intention of the Waterville, Wis
casset & Pennington railroad is definitely
settled President Atwood said Friday
that the road from Wiscasset to Farm
ington will be the main line, and that
the track between the towns of Albion
and Burnham is to be replaced with
lighter steel, as that section will be
continued as branch, and not 80 heavy
steel Is necessary. The Wiscasset,
Waterville & Pennington railroad will
have connection at the latter place with
the Sandy river road, which is also a mar
row gauge line, and which invades the
northern forest as far as Bigelow, a
station at the base of Mt. Bigelow, In
the Dead river section. This gives a
through line between Wiscasset and
Bigelow, but few miles from Dead
River, and not great distance from the
nearest point where connection can be
made with the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The w. w. & F. road will cross the
tracks of the Maine Central four times,
and the tracks of the Somerset railroad
once.