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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
POULTRY PARAGRAPHS.

The smaller the poultry quarters
the cleaner they must be kept.
After scalding poultry wrap for
five minutes in a heavy blanket. This
steams and loosens the feathers.
Care in emptying all water vessels
in the evening saves labor in the
morning, and loss from broken pans
and fountains.
Have all your henhouse doors, win
dows and gates fixed so there will be
the least possible chance for slam
ming or rafting.
You need not expect hens to lay
in winter, when "eggs are eggs, -
if wind and snow drift through the
chinks of their houses, and the dis
consulate creatures stand in bumped
up punches of misery warming first
one foot and then the other under
their feathers.
If big snowstorm happen along
take your snow shovel out and pile
the snow all around the lower part
of the poultry house. This will ado
to- the warmth inside and keep out
the searching windssthat make the
floor so cold. When a thaw comes
make gutter to carry the water
away from the house.-Farm Jour
nal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
PROFIT IN BEEKEEPING.
No Other Auxiliary Farm Industl
Pays Better Returns in Dollars
or in Enjoyment.

The inquiry of how much profit there
is in bees is of frequent occurrence.
The lack of knowledge in handling bees
and the value of the bee as a money
producer is astonishing. Very few
persons know whether a hive of
bees will produce dollars worth
of honey in a season or $40 worth.
Mrs. Gertrude Vandergen, in recent
number of Farm, Stock and Home, in
discoursing on this subject, says that
the bees will pay 100 per cent. on the
money, time and labor invested in
handling them. If had the persuasive
power, says Mrs. Vandergen, 1 would
go to every farm, and if in some shady
nook l did not find the little indus
trious bees working for their owner
while they boarded themselves, would
go to the master of the farm and tell
him how my husband bought two col
onies for me in the autumn, and how
they gave me 145 pounds of honey.
For what 1 sold of this honey l got
kept and consumed in the family, we
got more than that in health, gratifica-
ton of the appetite and other enjoy
ment.
The next summer took two colonies
out of the cellar. They were very
strong; from these ten swarms were
hived, valued at an average of two
dollars each; 165 pounds of honey
were produced, which sold at an aver
age of Ia cents pound. Ignorance,
poor hives, moth-miller and robber
bees spoiled five of the weaker colonies.
Three 1 doubled up; this left four ex-
ira strong colonies worth at least four
dollars each. Now, do you think the
bees paid for the nectar they slipped
out of the white clover of the pasture,
artichokes and vine flowers? Could
we have sold it to any purchaser for
so much?
1 am positive that if one had only
money enough to purchase one acre
of land and seed it with clover and
buckwheat, plant some fruit and
Eastwood trees, then purchase few
colonies of bees in the fall when they
are cheap, in few years he or he
would realize a fine return from the
investment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
LINES SHOW AGE OF EGG

about 90 degrees Baume and one gram
of concentrated salicylic alcohol. A
fresh egg, it is stated, will go to the
bottom of this mixture and lie there in
an almost horizontal position. An egg
from three to five days old will be at
an angle OF about 20 degrees; an eight
day-old egg will describe an angle of
As degrees, 14-day egg, of 60 degrees,
and a three-weeks egg will take a
position corresponding to Is degrees.
An egg four weeks old will stand up
right on it's pointed end; an egg of five
weeks will be suspended in the liquid
and an egg beyond that age or foul
egg, will swim on or near the surface
Of the liquid.
If these statements prove true, this
apparatus will prove to be useful for
cooking, preserving, Matching and all
other purposes. The glass face of the
containing vessel is. graduated to indi-
cate the aforementioned degrees
Chicago Daily News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26

to Miss Hunts big pasture field, and
said, 'Hully gee! Amt that bully
place for game?"
Miss Hunt was shocked at the lam
guage, but hope rose in her heart. 1t
might be possible that the exquisite,
cloudless weather favored her after
ALL She looked at the thin clothing
of her guests, and rejoiced that the
yellow almanac had truly predicted
"fair and warmer" for this New Years
day.
81 say, missus, is they any boys
round here? Lame Jimmy, he can't play
an we'd like to strike some kids fer a
match game" said one of the boys
eagerly.
Certainly, there are boys in the
village. If you go out and start a game,
I guess it won't be long till they will
all be with you," said Miss Hunt, who
had very little acquaintance with boys,
but had noticed that they were not long
in finding out if anything new was 60
ing on.
Before the location of the bases had
been settled, three recruits joined the
ranks and were soon offering to hunt
up enough more for the match game.
Dear me, Mary" lamented Miss
Hunt, as new difficulty stared her
in the face, 81 was just going to run out
with the cookies and some apples for
the boys, but there are ten or twelve
extra ones playing with them. They
must be hungry after their long ride
this morning, but what can do?"
"Sure an I'd run to Mrs. Browns
and get the batch she made Yesterday.
Her Mollie said their company couldn't
come to-day"
"The very thing!" And with load
off her mind Miss Julia fastened across
the street.
Sell them! L guess not. My Joe and
Ned are screaming out there as loud
as the rest. You may have them all,
and these pies, too, for Sister Jane
can't come to-day. I'll help you carry
them to the pasture field" said Mrs.
Brown.
"Ten minutes for refreshments"
yelled Lame Jimmie, who had by COM
mon consent been chosen umpire,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26

the afternoon, and they return on the
six o'clock train. Louise said all that
was necessary was to feed them well,
and | would have no trouble"
Maybe it will snow yet" said Mary,
examining the little house out of which
an old man was said to appear in case
a storm was brewing. But the smil-
ing little old lady was on guard, and
that is a sure sign of fair weather.
mo such luck" exclaimed the mis-
tress. "The almanac says fair and
warmer for tomorrow. Do you
think you will have time to hunt up
the checker board and dominoes in the
attic, Mary?"
'sSure an I'll do that as soon as the
bird is stuffed"
If thought they wouldn't break it,
I'd run over to Mrs. Browns and Dor
row the boys magic lantern. could
darken the sitting-room and show off
the pictures, but perhaps I'd better OF
risk it. How many ginger cookies did
you bake this morning."
"Four Dozen" replied Mary prompt
ly.
Let me see. Ten boys are coming
That will be plenty for each to have
three or four for lunch. Louise laid
such stress on having plenty to eat
that | am glad you baked too many
rather than not enough. You need
not make the tarts il we have mince
and pumpkin pie"
GLOW do you do?" said brisk voice
at the open door. ! just stopped to
tell you that the entertainment for
tomorrow is all off Two of the Gray
children are down with the measles
and as they had the leading parts
it can't be given. am around refund
ing money to the people who bought
tickets"
TROUBLES never come singly," oh
served Miss Julia as she exchanged
eleven bits of pasteboard for hand
full of small coins. Mary I'll be bacl
in half an hour. I'm going to the
store for some candy, and on the way
back I'll stop for the magic lantern
This house will look as if whirlwint
had struck it by tomorrow night, bu
it can't be helped, l suppose. I'll have
more sense next Time" she added
grimly.
AS the train stopped at the little sta
ton the next morning, ten boys rang
ing from ten to fifteen years, wereme-
by Miss Julia and escorted home mucl
as ii she were in chatge of SO many
Indians They were armed with balls
and bats. and before they were hal
way to the house, one of them pointed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
EGG-TESTING MACHINE.
German Inventor Has Discovered an
Apparatus Which May Prove of
Wonderful Value.

A German genius says he has dis
covered method by which he can
tell the age of an egg up to five weeks
from the time of Matching, indicating
not only whether the egg is fit to eat
or not, but also testing eggs for
Matching purposes much more accu-
rately than can now be done by the
Gambling method. Herewith is given
an illustration of the simple appar-
atus which he uses, and also the COM
plete formula for the liquid in which
the tests are made, as given in the
patent papers filed in this country.
The liquid ought to be of about 1,035
specific weight, and is composed Of
one liter of water, 26 grams of or
binary salt, IS grams of glycerin OF
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26

FLOOR PLAN OF HENHoUsE.

ting but the dust box is separated
from walk by doors made of matched
boards or sheathing and is practically
dust tight.
The second part, or scratching house,
is 1sx12 feet, with Az feet posts, and
the side down two feet, and one-half
of the end. Running along the glass
side the entire length, and level with
bottom of glass, is a box three feet
wide and six inches deep, containing
soil in which lettuce, radishes, ETC.,
are planted. This is shut off from the
chicken and protected by door
which is made of poultry netting. Here
the hens live mostly in the daytime.
keep the floor covered four or five
inches deep with straw, leaves or
sawdust, and scatter the corn, oats or
wheat in this and make them work
for it. The entire house is underpinned
with brick extending 2h feet below
the surface of ground and six inches
above. Both houses have ventilators
My yard fence is built of posts ~
feet long, made out of old one-inch
iron pipe, sharpened out at one end
SO they can be easily stuck down into
the ground. Five-foot poultry net
ting and bottom board II inches
wide was put on. The fence is easily
and quickly put in place and can be as
easily moved to pillow, etc.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
"HulIy Gee Amt That Bully Place for Game 2 >

since, as shrewd newsboy remarked,
''No feller'd hit cripple even if his
decisions was FOUL
In less than half the time Jimmie
had allotted, the cookies and apples
disappeared, and the game was again
in progress. On the way out Miss
Hunt had said: well let them eat all
they want, and then put the baskets
by the fence where they can help them
selves whenever they get hungry"
Mrs. Brown, who was the mother of
four healthy boys, said nothing to this,
but thought her friend would have her
eyes opened as to boys appetites be-
fore night.
For PHYS sake" said Miss Hunt,
looking at the empty baskets. Il
never saw the like. must go right in
| and tell Mike to kill some young
| chickens. My turkey and the roast
| beef will never be enough at this rate
I'm sorry 1 declined your pies, Mrs.
| Brown"
"I'll go right home and bring them, -
said Mrs. Brown. 81 have some fresh
cake that | can spare, too. My Mollie
can look after our dinner if you need
any help. Perhaps l can do something
for you"
"Indeed you can," said Miss Julia fer.
vently. Its only nine o'clock. but
shall begin peeling potatoes at once
No wonder Louise said over and over
again to prepare plenty of food"
81 saw you going out with a lunch
for the boys" said Mrs. Race, coming
to meet them with q large basket. 81
suppose my three are out there, so il
is only fair that 1 should help. Dc
you think they will like these?" an6
she displayed lot of warm, sugary
crullers.
"L;ke them!" laughed Mrs. Brown
"They ate every thing we had in five
minutes. Don't take these out now
Wait till we have a chance to tax.
something. 1t is always well to have
reserve.
Eyes, indeed" said Miss Hunt. 81
you can come in and make up abou
bushel of cookies, shall be indebted
to you forever, Mrs. Race. | though
l had enough dinner for twenty boys
but am afraid not now"
All three women were so busy pre-
pairing dinner that an hour slipped
past before anyone thought of the
baseball players. Even then it il
doubtful if they would have been re
membered if the whole troop had no
come to the house ostensibly to get
drink, but really to see if more cookies
would not be Forthcoming. Miss Hum
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26

boxes resting on shelf, and which can
be removed to clean and whitewash.
Beneath the nest box shelf for one
half the length of house are boxes for
feed, lime, plaster, etc. These can be
easily drawn into the walk, being
placed on rolls.
The boxes are made large enough to
contain two bushels, one each for corn,
oats, wheat, shells, grit, bone, lime
and plaster. Corn meal, shorts and
meat meal are kept in the house. That
part of the roosting place which runs
beside the walk is separated from walk
by door, which swings up, made of
poultry netting, thus making it con-
venient to clean the board, and secures
good circulation. On the opposite side
the prison is also made of poultry net
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
Don't Neglect Small Thincs.

If you do not give thought and at
tention to the poultry, do not be sur
prised at the small returns. 1t is one
OF the largest interests in the world,
and you might as well gain from
their possession as others. An equal
value of hens will bring more dol
lars than the COW. If we could only
give this our thought and thoroughly
learn of the true value of the hen
when properly handled, more people
would be in better condition finan-
cially. Despise not the day of small
things; one egg is small item, but
in one year the total value of the
realty of some states is equaled by
the value of the eggs consumed in
our country alone.-Commercia
Poultry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
By Hilda Richmond.

The weather certainly was queer for
the last day of December. The sun
shone brightly down on leafiess trees
and brown fields, and fresh warm
breeze blew from the south making it
like a day in late September. The
wide eXpanse of meadows and wheat
fields stretching away back of the
dozen farm-houses that composed the
tiry village seemed to be basking in
the mellow, hazy sunlight that covered
the whole landscape as with a garment.
With sigh Miss Julia Hunt hung the
yellow almanac behind the shining
stove IN the kitchen, where yellow al
MANAGES had hung for more than fifty
years, and then went to the dining
room to pack away her precious china
and ornaments.
There's one thing" she said to
Mary Finnegan, the maid of all work,
''those boys are not going into the
parlor. I'll lock the door tonight and
not open it till they are gone. I'm
not going to have my mothers furni-
ture scratched and spoiled by lot of
city boys. 1t was very foolish of me
to promise Louise that | would enter
tain part of her mission class of news
boys and bootblacks, but she begged
SO hard that 1 couldn't help it. She
says one day in the country is like a
glimpse of Heaven to those half starved
little creatures, but Pm afraid it will
not be like glimpse of Heaven for us.
l had planned to have Mike take them
for long sleighride in the bob sled,
but here the weather must turn as
warm as May and spoil my plans. If
we get through the morning, we shall
be all right, for / have tickets for the
entertainment at the schoOl-house in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
The Selection of puIIeas.

When culling the stock and select
ing the young pullets that are to
make the foundation of next sea-
sons breeders, bear in mind that if
there is any lack of vigor in them
then they will not be hardy when
fully matured. Hardness is every
thing in a flock, for if any of the old
or young stock cannot pass through
the warm season of the year with
freedom from disease, they will not
prove profitable as layers or breed
ers. The getting of eggs from the
hens during cold weather depends on
the selection and management of the
pnllets in the summer s1d fall
Poultry Keeper.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
|p0u]LL[T IRWIN
- \AMR Ie$ga SD
81 5B[EiSzS
FOR WINTER LAYERS.
Description OF a Poultry House
Which LIS Considered an Ideal
Structure by Its Inventor.

My henhouse consists of two parts,
connected by glass door and sliding
window The main part or roosting
house, laying house, etc., is 2ox1O feet,
with seven-foot posts, and is divided
into various compartments as shown
by accompanying plan. The dropping
board runs the whole length of the
house, and over it are two perches or
roosts arranged one little above the
other, as the elevation plan shows.
Under the dropping board are nest
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26

The area under crop in Western
Canada in 1902 was 1,9S7,33O acres.
Yield 1902, III, 922,754 bushels. Wealth
waits on industry in Canada. There
is Plenty of Room.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26

Prices have advanced in Western
Canada so per cent. in the last two
years, and the upward movement
seems still on. The migration into
Canada is becoming notable. Some.
body has estimated that $4,000 acres
of Canadian land are sold a day to
people from the United States.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-08-30
STILL NEEDS THE WORKERS.

The world still needs the workers, though
II may sometimes forget
Thbt II owes the weary laborers an ever
lasting debt;
without the busy toilers gold would cease
at once to buy
The things that please the palate or are
grateful TO the eye;
The world still needs the people who must
labor day by day.
SUI the world keeps on forgetting. in its
~ easy-going way.
The lady in her satins. who Is beautiful
to see.
., skrorgets that those who labor lend her all
her witchery:
Without the busy toilers all the millions
she commands
Would not procure a scented piece Of soap
to wash her hands;
without the busy people who must labor
ali their days
AL her money wouldn't even buy new laces
for her stays
The migrate who looks proudly on his mill
lioE-Goi.ar yacht
Forgets TO give the carpenter single kind
ly thought:
he ceases to remember as he sips his splen-
did wine
That without the ones who labor there
would be no fruitful vine:
f1e forgets that all his money wouldn't
Clean the crumbs away
III there were no luckless people who must
ri labor day by day.
The ones whose names are famous, who are
high and great and proud.
Forget that pride would Ode without the
busy, weary crowd:
Without the ones who labor none could hope
for greatness here.
Without the busy toilers all We prize would
disappear.
Oh, the world still needs the people who
must toll through all their days,
But the world is so forgetful In its easy
going ways.
IS. E. Kiser. in Chicago Record Herald.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-08-30

and then we will pull up the anchor
and sail for home"
Three of the largest shrimp left in
the halt box he carefully impaled on
the hook. Then he dumped the re-
naming shrimp into the bubble and
yeast of the bay. They vanished like
snow on a pancake griddle. The line
ran slowly out, carried by the tide.
The twilight was deepening, the breeze
freshening. Sea lettuce, weeds and
grass foated down and lodged against
the throbbing anchor rope. The Sibyl
waved and plunged. Still the line ran
on and on until $50 feet Of water had
been covered.
Suddenly the line lifted over the in
tervening burrows of water. The
point of the rod went up in the air.
The line frightened until it sang tune
in the stiffening breeze, and little
beads Of water dropped from it into
the bay. Cynoscion RECALLS had come.
The angler braced his feet, for the
Sibyl was as uneasy as yearling colt.
The fish had struck the hook in the
white-plumed apex Of wave, which
the departing sun had dyed a vivid
crimson. In the red glare he shone
like refined gold. Urged by the resili-
emit rod and persuasive revolutions OF
the, silver windlass, the fish came near
er and nearer to the boat, in narrow
ing areas of a circle, crossing and re-
crossing the radiant waterway made
by the setting sun; the line cutting a
little jet of spray before its tense
fiber.
Only once did Cynoscion reveal his
silvern symmetry as he darted through
one water furrow into another in the
effort to rid himself of that memorable
line. Frightened at the sight OF the
boat, the fish dove and tore Is feet OF
line from the willing reel and the I'M
willing angler. But the hook kept his
mouth open, and he was slowly drown
ing. One despairing attempt he made
to rush under the boat, but the strong
wrist turned him, the landing net
slipped under him, and he was laid
tenderly upon the rounded, wave
swept free-board Of the Sybil. Rum
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-08-30
Latest Kansas Events.
Township VIII Run a Railroad.

The Kansas & Southern railroad,
a short line operating between Blaine
and Wetmore, has been placed in
the hands of receivers on application
Of the Rock Creek township board.
The road was built in 1899 by the
Thayer-Moore Brokerage company.
of Kansas City. The township gave
them S31, 500 in bonds and took stock
in exchange. The township board
contends the right to take the en-
CINE and proposes to continue the
operation of the road as soon as an
engine can be repaired. Representa-
tives of the receivers and brokerage
company are guarding the property.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-08-30

The board Of regents Of the state
agricultural college is having hard
time to find man to take the place
of Prof. A. M. Cottrell as professor
of agriculture and superintendent of
the college experiment farm. After
a trip through the east they first Of
fered the place to Prof. Gibbs, Of
Durham, N. Y, at a salary of $4,000.
Prof. Cottrell's salary was $1,000. The
offer of the board to Prof. Gibbs was
refused. 1t was offered to three
others, who likewise turned it down.