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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-02-15
POULTRY NOTES.
ars in gold, it would not have been
nearly of the value to me as was those
old offensive bones.
Artificial incubation.

1t takes lot of big words and long
phrases perhaps to write up an up-to-
date article on Incubators but some
how or other | have been reasonably
successful with just common United
States language when it come to the
Matching question.
Let us be plain and call things by
their right names. A fertile egg is
seed, it must have the necessary
warmth to sprout and grow, tenn
perature of 1903; it also must be cult
vated-the eggs must be turned aired
and manipulated after natures ways
temperature of 1O3 seems to be
a standard, although very few recog
nize that placing the thermometer
differently would necessarily mean
that it would read differently but,
such is the case With the thermom-
eter between the eggs showing 1O3,
the same thermometer lying on the
eggs would show 104, or if suspended
above the eggs near the tank would
show still more. l prefer placing the
thermometer on the eggs, thus show
ing the combined heat of the eggs
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-02-15
BIanChard'S Poultry

high average egg record has been the
chief aim in building up this poultry piant.
Some of the pens are netting us as high
as $500 per hen per annum, at market
rates for eggs.
An exceptionally fine lot of Cockerels and
trios of the following breeds for sale at
reasonable prices
B. p Rocks, White Rocks, S. c.. Brown
Leghorns and Black Minorcas-Satlsfac
ton guaranteed.-E in season. The
Poultry Book free with each order
TT r. BLANCHARD, Hadlock, p. o.. Wash.
Eggs for Incubator Matching $500 per
hundred Sittings of 10, $1.5O.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-02-15
TIE LEChORNS

Buff. Brown and White, fifteen eggs,
$3.50, expressage prepaid. You don't
have to keep Leghorns, they will keep
you. High grade, standard bred Leg
horns exclusively. 1.-THE fancier adj
mireth the feather, but the farmer
loveth the egg basket" Write for
circular
G. M. SIMPSON, CORVALLIS, ORE.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-02-15
REGARDING BONE CUTTERS.

know if a bone cutter is necessary
for the best results in raising chick
ems. | will expect the truth from you
as you have had experience in this
line of business, and have no bone
cutters for sale. Very respt,
JAMES BARNES.
Genesee, Idaho.
A bone cutter is not indispensable,
hut whether or not, by the use of
one. better results could be obtained
I never having used one, cannot say.
With us, it has been debatable CUES
ton for several years, whether we
ought to get one-or need one. Not
being able to make satisfactory ar
rangements with the butcher shop un-
der which I could depend upon getting
fresh bone as often as once week,
we abandoned the notion of getting
a green bone cutter. In lieu of the
green bone, however, we buy the gran
ulated bone and are well satisfied
with results. 1t does not take very
much of it. For our laying hens we
use oyster and clam shells broken
fine, like wheat or corn, in mortar,
which can also be used in raising
chickens, only finer. | do not hest
tate to say that in my opinion bone
cutter would be an excellent invest
ment, provided the necessary bone
was available, as required. Unless all
the conditions were right, would not
buy, as there would be but little use
for it.
In this connection, cur experience
in securing the much needed lime for
our hens. as well as chickens, may
be useful to some, especially begin
ners. When starting out in the bust
ness, we learned somehow, that lime
in some form was absolutely indis-
pensible in the rearing and manage
ment of poultry. Old mortar suggest
ed itself to our minds, but that was
not always at hand, and when it was
it never proved satisfactory. In pick
ing up lot of rubbish one day for a
bon fire. several old bones from dead
cows, horses, etc., CHANGED to be in the
collection After the burning we no
ticed that the poultry spent much OF
their time scratching and working
over the ashes. Upon investigation
we discovered that it was the charred
bone they liked so well. 1t so hap
pened that a neighbor who had large
herd of beef and dairy stock, and who
frequently butchered beeves for the
market, finding much difficulty in NOV
ing about his premises on account OF
the animal heads that were lying in
Discriminatory almost everywhere, con-
Guided one day that he would "clean
up" So the boys were put to work
altering into wagons this quantity
IT slaughter house refuse. But what
to do with the stuff was the great
{ problem. He evidently had not dis
covered that they were of any value.
He, no doubt, having become so ac-
customed to their offensive smell,
thoughtlessly told the boys to unload
hem alongside the public highway
his created a little ripple OF disgust
mong the neighbors. | then told my
Joys to gather them up-consisting OF
enVeral wagon IOadS-and haul them
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-02-15
}. C. WHITE LEcHoRNs.

We have a rev choice Single Comb
White Leghorn cockerels for sale at
So each. Our stock is second to none
in the Northwest. Correspondence
and personal inspection solicited.
Birds guaranteed to be as represent
ed. Ladd's Estate Glendale Farm,
Chimacum, Wash,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
CHRIST MAS.

Before another Sunday, the %happiest
day of all the year will have come and
gone. We wish our readers and ell North
Carolinians its fullest enjoyment. May it
bring them health, happiness and prosper
ity, and, above all. hat peace of God
which passeth all understanding.
Christmas. is indeed, the greatest fes-
tiy&I OF the civilized world. 1t bushes
the strife. the passions, the noise and
the furry Of human contention. and puts
in their place, if only for one day, p
feeling OF universal brotherhood. the de-
sire to see all the world joyous and hap
by. On this day no creature is so pCcI
a. to be miserable. no heart is so selfish
as not to open with sympathy fer some
one else. "On earth peace, good viii to-
ward men," was stamped upon the day
by the song of the heavenly host pro-
claiming to the world its newborn Saw
ior. Until that song is blotted from the
hearts of men Christmas will remain the
universal festival Of peace and good will.
Nothing better marks the character Of
North Carolina than her devotion to and
observance of the Christmas season. \
prolific people, fond of children-and,
roofing their affections deep down in
family life-and, so, with songs and tales
OF Santa Claus, with shoes and stockings
full and overlooking, with Christmas trees
and gifts with Inyactraino1 DCic, f,,
merriment, with fireworks and tin-horns,
children possess and enjoy the day. A
religious people animated by fear of God
and reverence for his word, md, so, from
seashore TO mountains the churches are
filed with worshippers to hear the story
OF the nativity and listen to the law OF
led A hospitable people, and, so, to
tables filed with every food to satisfy
the appetite of man will be invited neigh
cOrs and friends and even strangers, so.
j%ournlng in the land. A sympathetic peo-
pie, tull of pity II compassion, and, SO,
widows and orphans, the halt, the lame
and the blind, prisoners and captives,
ali the afflicted and unfortunate, from
What cause soever and wherever found,
Will on this day be visited and comforted
This is North Carolina, and this is Christ
mas.
May the spirit of Christmas endure for
ever: May North Cardinals Christmas
remain unchanged. May the spirit q
~brotherly love, of peace and good will
which Christmas day creates,so grow and
increase that it will fill up every day
in the year, and every heart in the world
May it animate all the nations in thcil
dealings with one another, and thus put
an end to strife and war.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF KILLING.

There is q world Of wisdom in a recent
statement OF Mr.. Murphy, the leader OF
lTammany Hall, which is another add
Itional proof of the good sense OF the new
leader OF the Democracy OF New York
city. For some years there was a feud
between Mr.. Croker and Mr. Hill. The
breach was widened by the talk OF mutual
friends. 1t seems that there are still
Democrats in New York who are thinking
more about getting even with other
Democrats than winning a victory in
1904. IS evidence OF this, a New York
Democrat IS quoted as follows by the New
York Sun:
Il know of my own knowledge OF a
Democrat formerly very friendly TO DAVID
3. Hill, who called upon Mr.. Murphy Of
Tammany the other day and said: Mr..
Murphy. we should all get together and
kill David b. Hill
Mr. Murphy replied: My friend, l am
not engaged in the business OF killing
Democrats. I am trying to kill Republi-
cans. IF Mr.. Hill desires to go as a del
egate-at-large to the national convention
there will be no objection; at least, none
from me-
The Democrats would have won a great
victory in 1896 if that spirit had prevailed
in the party. 1t has an opportunity to
win in 1904 if it will unite all elements
of the party. 1t cannot win by barking
back to the past, by f~actionalism, by pro
scription. 1t can win only by adopting
creed Of the party and burying factional-
ism. It would not do to nominate either
Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Cleveland, or any other
man. however good and able, who has
borne a conspicuous part in the differ
ences that have divided the party since
1892. An able Democrat who can com
mand the support of all factions must be
chosen and all men who profess the faith
Of Jefferson must be invited to help win
the victory.
In New York, Indiana, Illinois, Con
necticut, New Jersey and the other doubt
full States there have been sharp divisions
in the party. There is every indication
now of a reunited party. The spirit Of
Mr.. Murphy is needed in those States par
ticularly, and all good Democrats every
hope it will spread.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
TO WASH OR NOT TO WASH,

Young America rarely enjoys keeping
Clean. This shows that to be unwashed
IS the natural state of man. From baby
hood till they have sweethearts. boys
nate to wash. How many birch trees
have been required to compel boys to
apply the needed soap and water since
the time Of Adam! During all the years
Of conflicts between parents and sons
as to the efficacy and ~desirability OF
soap and water, the parents have had
on their side the opinions Of physicians
and have been able to quote all the max
ims and proverbs. 1t seems now that
the boys will have an authority t, justify
their belonging to the "unwashed' bri-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
TO The Teacher.

Hark. list to our States loud call.
Follow the surgirg train.
See the towers Of honor and fame,
Drink in the musical strain.
Let your eyes speak admiration,
Join the notes OF praise,
Swell the heart with alteration
For these Education da,s.
Oh the power II Powers united.
Oh, the depth there is in love-
Strength and vision, pride and .#1
Shine 'mOng US as stars above.
Shine, and shining, blend together
Into one grand, glorious Light
To expel the gloom and honor
Threatening this our state with night.
Hail. haill to the builders braEe'
Sing, oh, Muse, to their works aud .
Echo, OH, mountain, the glad EafI#t..
And Ircmblc, Oh earth. with ut..-
Yet ny heart speaks 81 another,
Other tLan builders and hcroe brave.
The faithful Teacher, who la n ma.
Tolls for our children from cradle ~. g
See with pride what building stand
Planned and shaped b. her heart and .
The noble men OF character
The Giants II our land.
30, her prayers as sweetest incense
Rise above these walls So grand.
And her tears pure a. . fountain
Are caught and held ia Gods g@. .
Yes, the Teacher OF our children
We will love and praise today
And the crown Of laurel boldly
On her fair brow we viii lag.
For we feel her inspiration.
Like tho perfume Of the fovrcr.
And we hear the song her life sing.
Sweetening home-lifc every hour.
Oxford. \. G..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
FIGHT WILL BE BITTER

Those who will persist in cInsaa-
cars ISainst the continual recn-a1.
ton OF DR.. Kings New Discovery
CONSUMPTION, Will have q lonr @.-
tel fight with their trouble, II .at ..
earller by fatal termination. Read "
I R. Beall of BcalI. MIS-. has ="
Last fall my wife had every sgm.
OF consumption. She took Dr. n.
New Discovery after everything else
failed. Improvement came at o1e"
tour bottles entirely cured her q"
ahteed by All Druggists. Price, og'.
$l.0O Trial bottles free.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
a Half Dozen Holiday Poems bv North
Carolina Writers.
UNDER TIE SNOW.
CBy John Henry Boner.)

OBy John Henry Boner.)
The brown old earth lies quiet and still
Under the snow;
The burrows are hid on the-bEokcn hull
Every twir is fringed with mosy pearl.
The dropping cedars bend TO the ground.
TIE rose-bush Is drifted into a mound.
The white fakes noiselessly whirl.
The roads and fields are buried deep
Under the snow;
The hedges lie in a tangled heap
Under the snow;
And the little grey rabbits under them
While the twittering sparrows cunning,y
peep
From the sheltering brier. and oozily sleep
Under the snow.
The rough old barn ard the sheds near by
The mounded straws OF the wheat and rye
Are covered with snow;
The Struggling fences are softened with
Every post is white with beautiful crown
Of driftod snow.
And I think. as l sit in the cleaning here,
Watching the objects disappear.
How many things are folded low
Under the drifts of the falling snow.
There are hearts that once were full Of love
Under the SNOW.
There are eyes that once did beam with love
Under the snow:
There are lips that once were like the roses.
There are bcsoms that were stunE with
woes.
There are forms that once were praised in
song,
There are breasts that once were true and
strong,
o, there's a strange and a mighty throng
Under the snow.
Another mound viii soon lie deep
Under the snow;
And will with the Pale Ones sleep
Under the snow:
O God! stream on my heart Thy grace,
That in the love-light Of Thy face,
] may rejoice when Death shall pass,
And place my moulding body low,
Under the snow.
NOTE-The above poem was revised by
Mr.. Boner and appears both in whisper
ing Pines and in "Boncr's Lyrics under
the title of christmas Eve in the Coun-
try" Mr.. Theo. II. Hill regarded the
earlier form and that which here appears
as better than the lines in revised form.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
a Christmas Memory.

Ty Henry Jerome Stockard.)
The hour is late, the fire is low,
And WY winds from northland's snow
Around the caves are moaning;
A spirit roams the world tonight
From land to land, in silent fight,
As fast as flies the Gawning.
The snow is trickling through my blinds;
The owls, hid in the horded pines,
Their Solomon's greetings render;
Back into other years ] steal
4 child at mothers knee ! feel
That gracious hand and tender!
hear-and how my bosom swclls!-
| hear the neighboring village bells,
Blent with the temFest's booming;
Out in the w~hirling snow | hear
The mufflcd tramp Of nimble deer
Old Santa Claus is coming.
The rockets mount with trails Of fire
Ger roof and elm and lofty spire-
Up. up 10 skyward ~winging;
Thank God for Christmas. Man ne'er grow
so old but that he loves the SHOWS
And bells of Christmas ringing.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
His Catalogue.

We'll, how you feelin' in dis weather.
Misery in de bones!"
Dat all?''
"Rattlin' er de brain!"
"Nuthin' else?"
"Loosin' er de j~oints!"
"No MOP"
Yes; de doctor lone told ne dat |
got ter swear off befo' Christmas en- New
Years."
de Christmas time said Brother
Cooley, lis de time Wen we makes so
much noise celebratin' salvation dat de
angles can't hear deyse'f singin', en- has
ter stop de cracks in de winder er haav-
cn!'-Atlanta Constitution.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
A Christmas Carol.

0By Appleton Oaksmith.)
From north and south, from east and west
Come. gather, friends with me,
And drink the toast that each loves best.
Around the Christmas tree:
And as WI light its branches up
With all their glowing cheer,
To this sweet day well drain the Gun
The brightest OF the year.
Then fill, fill up the Christmas cup,
Bring in the wassail bowl
The day most dear of all the wear
Has come to warm he soul.
How cheerily the yule logs blaze.
How bright the candles burn.
lis sweet to think this price OF d.vs
Doth with each year return.
And sweeter still to think that ne'er
III Time itself shall cease.
Viii men forget the happy wear
That brought he Prince of Peace,
What joy to hcar the merry feet
In even cadences fall,
"nen III the dance fair maidens moot
Brave youth within the hall.
How fair it is o see them glide
with faces all aglow.
AS happy as a b~lushing bride
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22

A few years ago the Lilly Whites in
Louisiana numbered over twenty thous-
and. The news now comes that they have
almost all returned to the Democratic
party. The hope that some people enter
tain of "a respectable Republican party
IN the South is can iridescent dream"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
A New Year Greeting.
(By Christian Reia.5

~ 0AtiA'NA"tt 'N"ht.#
"a happy New Year" So wa lightly .m
To those around, in cdrel,-, 5..a #H...
Bat all what years are happy 'a.tl# ..
Whose paths are altogether pleasant #
And 80 to YOU, my friend, / fliu waa1l
Another greeting for the coming year.
A greeting that through all is days BOO.
live.
As tender music fingers on the cas-.
We know tire year that holds the 1n.
prime,
Holds, too, the winters icy STORM M
frost.
The changing blasts Of springs capri
The mellow autumn when the wa-.
lost.
In beauty, Ike a dream, when golden
Sail softly on us with the falling .a..
And purple hills are wrapped in rad.
Lik the enchanted mist that F..
Ueaves.
So, too, the years Of changing human
Hold many a season clasprd in their ."
Days bright with hope, days dark M
weary strife,
And days serene with fair, pathetic E-
Shall I, who fain would call upon M
Lies highest blessing, wish for
alone
From sunny skies on howery meadow >
Not SO God blesscs those lie msa. .
Souls tapped in glowing sunshine
rise
To face mlblcnchcd Tho driving .a.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22

If Judge Robinson had carried his di-
plomacy, with his "spike-tail' with him
to Washington, he could have gone into
the dinner and filed his mouth with cot
ten instead of Nj. Hanna's delicious
y:ands. He didn't leave the court house
when Hon. Kope Elias was speaking. He
merely stuffed his ears with cotton SO us
not TO hear anything.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
All For$1.70.

There has never been offered
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Thus for One Dollar and
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For particulars, address
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
The Star Above the Manger.

(By Theo. II. HID
One night, while lowly shepherd SWANS
Their fieecv charge attended,
A light shone DER Judea's plains
Unutterably splendid.
Far in the dusky Orient
A star. unknown in story,
Arose to food the armament
With more than morning glory.
The clustering consultations, erst
So gloriously cleaning,
Nan2d when its sudden splendor burst
Upon their paler beaming.
And Heaven drew nearer Earth that night
Flung wide its pearly portals
Sent forth from all its realms of light
It's radiant immortalS:
They lowered in the golden air,
Their golden cnnsers swinging,
And woke the drowsy shepherds there
With their s2ranhic singing.
Yet Earth, on this her gala night,
No jubilee was keeping;
She lay, unconscious of the light,
In silent beauty sleeping:
She lay entranced, her Ethiop breast
So long with anguish heaying-
The earnest Of eternal rest
The Christ OF God receiving.
No more shall brightest cherubim
And stateliest archangelS
Sy mpnonious sing such choral hymn
Proclaim so sweet evangels
No more appeal that star at eve.
Though glimpses of its glory
Are seen by those who still believe
The shepherds simple story.
In Faiths clear armament affair."
To unbelief a stranger
Forever CLOVIS the golden star
That stood above the manger.
Age after age may roll away,
But on Times rapid river
The light of its celestial ray
Shall never cease to CULVER.
Frail barges on the swelling tide
Are drifting with the ages
The skies grow dark-around each bark
A bowling tempest ages.
Pale with alright, lost hclmsmen steer,
While crcaking timbers shivcr
The breakers rOa"-grim Death is near
O who may now deliver.
Light! light, from the IIcraldic Star
Breaks brightly DER the billow
tn storm, rebuked, is fed afar
The pilgrim seeks his pillow.
Lost lost ipdacI bic bpart must no
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
THE BLESSED SEASON.

From the New York Sun.
Stelia-Don't you believe it is more
blessed 20 give than to receive.
Bella-Yes, indeed. There is no tantel-
1zlng ignorance Of how much the gilt
cost.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22

| gades. Prof. John Dill Robertson at the an
nual meeting of the Chicago Electrical and
Surgical Society at the Auditorium, made
this sweeping statement:
when people leave off bathing there
will be little or nothing for the doctors
to do. Pneumonia, colds and a hundred
other ills result from the foolish habit
OF washing the body. To battle is to be
dirty, for you thereby make a sewer OF
the skin. Blood, attracted by the skin.
gives UP products that should be left 20
seek d natural outlet, and soils the skin
Professor Robertson asserted that tn
theory that the closing OF the pores Of
the skin would result in death IS false.
He said that all physiologies which made
such an assertion were wrong The habit
OF taking dry baths was also de
nounced. The rubbing of a rough towel
over the skin, according to Dr.. Robertson,
removed the natural scales of the skin
or the false skin" This, he said, con
duced to the growth of bacteria on the
skin.
The doctor cited the case of an Eskimo
brought from Greenland to Boston, who
had never been i'll in his life.He was
given d bath, contracted pneumonia, and
died in two days.
MORAL: Don't take a bath.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22
NCLE JOE CANNON'S PICTURES
QUE AUTOBICGRAPHv

Uncle Joe Cannon, Speaker of the
House OF Representatives once dictated
his autobiography as follows:
M. cannon was born Of God-feerirg
and man-loFing parents. Hc made him
sell, and did a darned poor job of it
The Worlds Work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22

Every man expects to wake up some
day and find himself famous As a rule
he does not get as far as the w~aking-up
part.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-22

The argument of Attorney General
Knox in the Northern Securities case
shows him to be a lawyer of splendid
ability. He presented the case for the
government strongly and ably and in a
way to carry to conviction to the minds
Of thoughtful mon.