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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

location ofePoultry Houses

tE' Il sssss-sSae'oH UIfeV ouitry houses.
i The location Of the poultry ,houseis
= matter that should receive more at
tention than it usually does receive.
Whether q few hens are to be kept
or many, a mistake in this matter is
likely to prove unfortunate. Not long
ago the writer visited a newly estab-
Ished poultry ranch where the owner
was devoting all his time to the BUSH
ness OF poultry raising. He had built
good houses, some of them of the
most expensive kind, and had con-
structed large yards for his fowls.
But the whole place Of several acres
was apparently undrained, and the
soil was heavy in character. After
rain, the water would be weeks in
draining off, and would remain for a
long time In the open bitches. 1t was
wonder how the fowls could keep
healthy In such a place. The owner
reported the loss of a good many
chicks from unrecognized diseases. It
was therefore no. surprise to the
writer to learn recently that he had
gone out Of the business. Not far
from that location is another poultry
farm on similar undrained soil, and
where the disadvantages from this
cause are very great. Poultry houses
should be located on soil that is dry.
II heavy, it should be most thoroughly
drained. In the case of poultry es-
Enlistment of considerable magni-
tude this means large expense, but
It Is an expense that cannot be avoid
ed. Otherwise, the surroundings will
be damp and so will be the poultry
houses; and damp poultry houses in
v1te diseases. When diseases once get
into such places they are difficult to
eliminate. One of our best poultry
men declares that failure in the poul-
try business is more often due to
filthy poultry houses combined with
dampness than to any other cause. A
dry porous soil ESQ naturally or by
underdraining) controls to very
great extent the amount of moisture
In the poultry houses. Such a loca-
ton should be selected if possible. "A
heavy undrained soil prevents the per-
collation. through it Of the droppings,
and they are retained near the sur
race. This soon renders the surface
unclean. A sandy soil will absorb
these droppings whenever there are
rains to dissolve them. This is a
matter of prime Importance in keep
ing fowls in healthy condition.
Where farmers are too busy to give
their fowls suitable attention, it is
all the more necessary to select a
naturally favorable location for the
poultry house.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

not Joy. The chauffeur in a racing
automobile is in a paradise of ease and
relaxation compared with him.
He must keep the boat in position
by his unaided strength. From the
time he gets the line until the ride
is ended he drives into a smothering
sheet of flying spray. When the sea
is high every billow is hit by the boat
with smash that wrenches his arms.
The strain on the wet line cuts and
burns his hands. And if he lets a
foot of it slip he is disgraced. Once
he is in it he is in it for good, with
no chance of help or relief till the
wild adventure is done.
Often the boat is hauled so close
on harpooned whale that the har-
pooner leans over on the butt of the
harpoon that is sticking in the great
sea mammal, while with the other he
drives the killing lance. Again and
again the long weapon is buried deep
in the black sides, until suddenly thick
black-red clots Of blood we'll from the
wound, showing that the life" has
been reached.
Then it is "back," sometimes for
dear life. A whale may take his
death so quietly, so passively, that 1t
is pitiable to see so mighty swimmer
killed thus easily by man. Or he
may fight till the boat seems only a
black atom in the sudden uproar that
-smites the ocean and sends tons of
water rising till they seem high
enough to wash the sky.
The danger from a fighting whale is
not only in the whale himself. The
boat is a perfect man trap of keen,
deadly tools. Lances and harpoons,
cutting spades, hatchets, knives, and
boat hooks, all sharpened to the finest
edge the ships grindstone can give
them, fill the boat. If the whale gets
at it and hurls it into the air the
men find themselves in murderous
company when the weapons come rain.
ing down on them.
So .. there are enough sporting
chances in the whale to excite and
content the most exacting of sports.
men. And the size of the trophy If
he bags" whale certainly leaves
nothing to be desired.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
PASTORS Long Record.

Retiring after q pastorate Of fifty,
one years IL the Reformed churches
ct Farm l y, Ne and Arndts, Pa, Rev.
Daniel 11ie :. Brend le, aged 81 years, will
have an annual pension Of $500 and ali
the marriage and baptismal fees that
come his way. He has never worn
spec tacles, has baptized 1894 con.
Yerts, Married ~ couples, Of. ,454
persons, buried RI ,221 parishioners and.
~ sermons.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
Naval Band a Poor One.

Rear Admiral Rodgers, new COM
mandant OF the Brooklyn navy yard,
is not at all pleased with the band
that has been sent him from Wash
<ington. The leader and all the mem:
sbers are Italians and none Of them
knows X q word Of EnglisE.:. Exasperat-
ing errors are made during the
marching exercises 81 the marines,
while the playing at all times IS very
bad: The pay in. the band service of
the navyi is so low that American mu-
ssicians will not enlist, SO most Of the
recruiting IS done at European sta
lions. 81 \. +. .$.3
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
Suffer From Cold in Fire.

1t is strange to think that the &C.
tors in the inferno scenes in Dante.
which Sir Henry Irving has produced
in London, suffer principally from cold.
The fire is wonderful Illusion, and
the method by which it is produced
makes the stage Of Drury Lane. thea
ter very drafty. Many Of the actors
caught cold during the rehearsals, and
the sufferers on the stage have been
heard to sneeze in their fiery graves.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

So many American whalers are 60
ing to seek the big Fish" in the BAT
fin Bay waters this season that the
Canadian government has decided to
charter q sealing steamer to cruise
there to prevent the Yankee from "vlo-
lating Canadian custom laws" It
looks as if the "prostrated American
industry" were about to awaken to
something akin to vigor.
Years of more or less desultory
whaling have given the sea giants a
chance to recuperate, and that they
were not guilty of race suicide during
their time of rest is proved by the fact
that whales are plentiful in all the
seas again.
For rich American, eager to try
real sport, there is great chance now.
Whaling, one Of the Oldest forms of
big game hunting known, is the one
field which has not been f1ttingly ex-
plotted by the amateur sportsman. In
a time when lion and tiger shooting
are mere routine sporting affairs to
hundreds of wealthy men, the whale
SuOuAu dPH0AA Will 81 CoC AOA SO'
Few landsmen ever have the oppor-
tunity to participate in the sport.
When a whaleboat lowers to fight a
sixty foot whale the business is too
important to incumber the craft with
unskilled passengers. And not many
landsmen would really care to go into
the whaleboat even if they could when
they behold, wallowing in the sea, the
huge thing that is to be attacked.
The ride begins after the whale has
been harpooned and when the boat
header considers it time to draw up
alongside and begin lancing. The
first thing that is done is to haul in
upon the harpoon line until the boat is
brought as close to the running whale
as is consistent with the extremely
delicate margin that the whaler al
lows for safety. Safety" to the whaler
really means to remain just about an
inch or two beyond the reach of the
vast hukes with which the big beast
is beating the sea.
Having hauled as far up on the
whale as possible, the boatheader
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
Big Fruit on Young Wood.

From the writings of Prof. Golf we
take the following: "Now, the ques-
ton is, how much can we do and how
can we do it to regulate the size of
the fruit? think that the principle
that we need to observe is this, that
large fruits will grow on young fruit
spurs and they will not grow else
where. II we have young fruit spurs,
we Wall have large fruit, provided, of
course, that we have a vigorous
growth, and generally speaking, the
younger the fruit spur the finer will
be the fruit + this: is true, then we
must SO prune our trees as to have
young fruit spurs rather than old ones. =
You all know that a Duchess tree that
Is twenty years old is just one mass
OF fruit spurs, and sometimes these
Will branch like deer's horn. II we
could in some way prune our trees
that we could have young fruit spurs
instead of old ones, we could grow
fruit just as well on Duchess twenty
years old as one. of six or seven T
believe. Then the next question is.
how shall we do it? do not claim
to @. have answered this question fully,
but I think that one secret is this:
we must-with the Oldest fruit spurs.
that is, one step in doing, that is
we must thin our fruit; then we must
prune our trees in: such a way that
we shall grow some strong new shoots
In other words, we must adopt some
thing like "a renewal system, such as
we use in the grape think that we
can gain a great deal by pruning our
trees rather strongly, SO as to start q
new growth. know there is dancer
of starting too much new growth, but
I believe that we should aim to grow
up two or three strong sprouts every
year, with the view that they VIII
come II pretty soon and take the place
Of some old and feeble branch thss
has done its. work and that is no long.
er able to nourish its fruit so that the.
fruit will grow large. d. .z..s.z...
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
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How Wives Make Business.

It was in a decorators: shop, and
one Of the employees was reporting to
the proprietor. 4 advised Mr.. Cooke
to have the whole house decorated
during his wife's absence in Canada,
as q: surprise, :, he said. $50 we've
got the job" Good" cried the pro-
prietor. enthusiastically. .Then wen
have tosdo it all over again when she
comes B back: Say, you deserve hol,
iday for working that SO well!3'' u. NJ, z=
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
Stocks for Apple Trees.

#' In a discussion on" apple-tree stocks
at an Illinois convention. H. Angus.
tine said: The American nursery.
men went to France for seed because
they could get more, vigorous, strong
er and better seed from the wild ap
pie OF France than they could any.
where else, and because the apple
seeds from our mills here were not
satisfactory in any way. I think ev-
cry nurseryman here will bear me
out in that statement. You take
Bellefower apple, and take dozen
seeds from it, and you have dozen
varieties of apples. Why? Because
II has been pollenized by something
else, and that something else you can
not tell how hardy or how weak it is
IL may be that one of those seeds
Will produce a tree that is harder
IMAM anything that we have got in
our orchard, and it may be that the
otner seed will be weaker than any
tnlng we have got. Now, then, let us
go 10 work and take that theory, and
let us select the seeds from the best
specimens Of apples, and the best
varieties OF apples, we will say. Even
II we were going to follow that plan,
where would we get the apples from.
II all the f1rst~class apples had been
taken and cut to pieces that have
been grown in the state of Illinois
and the state of Missouri together
this year, do not believe that there
would have been enough seed even
for one single nurseryman who is in
the seeding business to grow his
plants. know of men that are
planting 100 bushels of apple seed
that they shipped from France and
do not believe that all the apples in
the state OF Missouri and state of ILL
nols together-the first-class apples
would produce that. l want to say
mere that the nurserymen are plant
ing the very best seed that can be
found, and I do not suppose there is
bushel planted now that is taken
from the cider mills. We do not want
that seed; it is not vigorous enough.
1t does not sprout we'll enough; it
mas not got strength to come up
through the ground. The seed that
IS being planted now is either the.
seed from France. from the wild ap-
pie that is grown on the mountains
and hills and ground up, from which
tney make the national drink, and the
seeds are washed out and in perfect
condition and sent to this country,
and 1t makes strong seed propagat-
ed from its own kind. Or else we get
the seeds from the mountains of YER
mont, along those hills where the
wild apples are growing; I would just
as leave have them as from France.
And I believe I am correct in the
statement that the seed grown from
the Vermont seedlings, or grown
from the French seedlings, is decid-
eddy better and decidedly stronger
and decidedly harder than any seed
we can select from the best varieties
of apples that we have, from the very
fact that they are pollenized from
their own kind: and our seeds that
we gather here might be pollenized
from the very weakest and diseased
kinds.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Minorca, like that OF so many others
Of our profitable poultry, is much in
doubt. Some are Of the opinion that
they originally came from Minorca, an
island in the Mediterranean Sea, one
of the Balearic Isles, while others
contend they are a variety Of the
Black Spanish. Be that as it may,
they are one Of the most profitable
breeds of poultry for the farm that is
known. For table purposes they are
good, the flesh being white or light
colored and fine grained. Their chief
property is their egg production.
They are nonsitters and year-around
layers. AS winter layers they are ex-
ceptionally good when kept under
fairly favorable circumstances. + f.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
Prizes for eest-kept Lawns.

Mayor: Hiram NJ Summers Of Otta-
wa, o., has published q notice offer
ing q number Of prizes 70 the persons
who will maintain the best-kept gar
dens and lawns III the town this sum.
mer. Already q number 81 citizens
have registered their names as con-
testants. "A committee will tour the
city thee times and from the result
g their observation the prizes will be
rlrded. ssss. d
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
Minorcas.

This variety OF fowls belongs to the
Mediterranean class and they are
placed next to the Leghorns in laying
qualities. They are in appearance
very similar to the Leghorn. Their
general outline is, in. fact, that of the
latter, but of more length of body and
heavier In mold. Indeed, they are
the only variety of the Mediterranean
class that has a given weight (which
approaches that Of the, Wyandotte,
being only one-half pound lighter than
the last named. The origin of the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

A German physician has revived the
bee-sting cure for rheumatism, and de-
scribes the case of a patient who atser
being stung 6,952 times experienced a
complete cure. And yet there are peo-
pie who prefer to believe in mental
healing. ?, X r.. ..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Article of the constitution of the
American Press Humorists, just organ
lied at Baltimore, reads: "The annual
expenditure shall not exceed the an
nual receipts" II all the members
live, up to article 8 they will always
feel like Joking, I VII. 0 s:s .s. ". + a;
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
Waste Of Land by Washinu.

The agricultural report, year 1885,
page 1873, says: The same agencies
which form the soils are also wasting
and carrying them away. During ev-
cry rain storm, transportation Of soil
goes on, as the, brooks and rivers show
after long-continued rains, by the yell
low, muddy color Of their waters, that
they are carrying a vast quantity Of
sediment towards the sea. The run
ming streams bear along the trans
ported matter and gradually deposit
it as the current diminishes its veloc-
ity. When the stream reaches q fat
or level track and over which its
waters can dow ii flood the suspended
matter; consisting princip ally Of sand
and mud, is depo sited and constitutes
the alluvium Or new. land.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

ith some farmers, the idea is. still
prevalent that when a mare has. be-;
come useless for any other purpose,
having become old, Of broken down By.
work sprained, spawned or perhaps
diseased, she win do well enough for
raising colts. How good results can
be expected from such stock is be-.
yond comp tension. Good pregeni-.
] tors only can pro- uce good Offspring.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
China i Riddle 70 Europe.

Pierre Lott does not believe that:
there will ever be 8 real i understand.
Ing between Europe and: China. II
his LAST volume, which describes his.
experiences during the late var, his
refrain 90 Airs viii always remain
asriddle to Us
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Young Willie X. Vanderbilt wept
when his automobile broke down the
other day and he had to drop out of
race. Yet some people think being
rich is just fun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

A Chicago young man jokingly ask
ed a girl to marry him and now by
way of playful repartee she has come
back at him with a breach ofpromise
suit
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Although every one who enters the
court room where the Kentucky feud
is being investigated is obliged to
check his weapons the wise man who
has business there will wear a piece
of boiler iron on his back. ~~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Cytotoxis serum will extend life to
the 120-year limit. If man refused
treatment, would he, under the laws
of New York state, be liable for
prosecution on the charge Of attempt
ed suicide?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

The Nebraska man who went to
Chicago to answer an advertisement
for a husband and had $500 taken
away from him was pretty lucky
after all. He escaped without getting
a wife.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

The fact that the sum of $1,000
was paid for Poe manuscript is like
ly to encourage many modern ballad
lists to waste valuable storage space
in holding on to their copy.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Automobile racing has become too
deadly a sport for France, in which
country the French duel will prob
ably keep on being the most popular
amusement
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

If you have complement and am.
boceptor in your blood, you can make
faces at bacilli, scrape acquaintance
with fever germs and laugh at all
forms of disease.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Amid all this admiration for Elmer
son, it is we'll to recall that his teach
ing was that it is better to be your
self than to be the best man that ever
lived.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

The milliners and the Audubon
society have agreed as to the birds.
That will settle the matter If the
American woman will sternly refuse
to encourage any breaches. of the
agreement.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

If the church goes in for pawn
broking, what is to become of the
'uncle?" The relation of the church
being maternal, can it also assume
the avuncular status? ...y
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Two-thirds Of the American people
would like to see Jeffries whipped,
but three-fourths of them think the
job is too big for Corbett.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Mr. Carnegie has taken to endow-
ing home culture" clubs. The pros
pect for his dying poor grows dis
tinctly brighter.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

The stogie trust has suddenly in
creased it's capital stock from $4,000
to S11,976,000. Cherootsalem, vot q
jComp!
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

A glass arm is one OF the worst
things a baseball pitcher can have,
especially if every glass contains a
highball.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

There is a slight fall in the price
of pig iron, but the grocer says he
must ask as much as ever for lard
and sausages.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Sing Sing, N. Y, may change it's
name as often as it pleases, but SEN
tence by any other name will be just
as long.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

That Nebraska cyclone was almost
as fatal as the Paris-Madrid motor
race, and not any swjfter.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

One unfortunate thing about the
baseball business is that this seasons
remnants cannot be awarded right now.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Four tutor students and a professor
have been arrested at Yale for assault
ing one man. Brave fellows!
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

The Washington Post incidentally
remarks that silence is essential to
successful fishing. *?<Sz
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

It is rumored that Schwab is i'll
again. Some of these stories must be
very disappointing to his doctor.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

The man who wore a silk hat In
Texas might have escaped with his life
If he hadn't ordered lemonade.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

Next thing you know the Cinnamon
will be insisting on their right to have
appendicitis.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
A stumbling block becomes step
Ding stone if you know how q use IT.

The New York teachers aressevident-
~ tired Of speaking softly Without a
big stick.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

The cushion Is the mass 81 feath-
ers over the rump Of q hen, covering
the tail chlefy deve loDed in Cochi Inns,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25

q thing of beauty may remain ! low;
forever 4 you act the otbe. fellow
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-07-25
BIBLE. WRITTEN BY HAND WORK OF ART

Like the monks of the middle ages,
Mr.. r. p. Johnston of Glasgow, Scot
land, has written the Bible by hand
and beautifully illumined it. His was
a herculean task, in this day of rapid
achievement and expeditions pro-
cesses. Mr.. Johnston worked seven
years over his Bible manuscript and
not long ago put the finishing touches
upon the unique book.
One striking thing about the produc-
ton Isl that the letter text does not
vary from Genesis to Revelation. The
work is done on post quarto paper,
and looks like the production of some
medieval ecclesiastic.. The artistic ar
rangement, the spacing and the align
naent of the text are due, in a large
measure, to- the fact that Mr. John
ston lis q practical printer. :. =
In my work of rewriting the Scrip
tures," said Mr.. Johnston, II discov-
cred two typographical errors. These,
you know, are very rare, and are re-
garded as statutory offenses, for which
penalty may be imposed"
The hand print made use of by Mr..
Johnston has commended itself to
firm of London printers, who have
prepared types from it, paying him a
large sum for the original design. 1t
is Mr.. Johnston's idea to have his
hand written Bible issued to the public
in parts by the process of photo.litho-
graphy.
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