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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
CAGE FOR BRooDY HENS.

on the top, bottom and four sides with
laths two inches apart. Four strings
from the upper corners Of the coop are
tied to a central cord fastened to nail
in the roof of the poultry house. The
COOP should be raised eighteen inches
from the ground. The excitement OF
the outside chickens and the swinging
of the coop quickly dispel the Matching
idea from the hens. The sitters should
be fed and watered at the same time
as the laying hens. but liberal vege-
table and meat diet will induce early
laying.-Bulletin Canadian Department
Of Agriculture.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
SEPARATOR CREAM.
| Paying Fer Il at the CreaneRy-Tho
| MSurulus" or ~Churn Gain"

Paying For Il at the CreameRy-The
"surplus" or "Churn GAIN"
Bulletin 100 of the Vermont expert
ment station is perhaps more directly
helpful to the creamery operator, but 1t
is also of very considerable interest to
the creamery patron, discussing. as 1t
does, the payment for separator cream
at the creamery.
There has been friction in connection
with the test system at creameries ever
since it's inception. DR.. Hills, the writ
er of the bulletin, says that the use
of the test "has undoubtedly tended
to promote the keeping Of the ninth
and the breaking Of the third COM
mandment, yet there are not lacking
those who believe that the ninth COM
mandment is often broken through the
manner in which the system is manip-
ulated at the creamery" The treat
nent Of this topic in the bulletin Is
outlined as follows:
First.-Dairymen who sell hand sepa-
rator cream to creameries often fall to
receive their just dues owing to faulty
sampling, testing and accounting.
Second.-Suggestions are made as to
sampling methods. The moderate
warming of the sample and the use of
a fine sieve and pestle are urged as
means of promoting it's more thorough
mixing and it's accurate analysis.
Third.-The absolute necessity Of
testing a full eighteen grams of cream
is emphasized Eighteen cubic cent?
meters measured in the pipette seldom
deliver eighteen grams into the test
bottle. Weighing the cream into the test
bottle is the only known means where
by accuracy may be attained. A modi-
fication Of the cream testing process
which has some vogue. e., the analy-
sis of cream heated to 40 to $50 de-
grees #, results being modified &C
cording to a table of correction factors
has been tried, but did not approve It,
self.
Fourth.-A larger surplus is due to
those who deliver milk. A higher price
per pound of butter or of butter fat is
similarly their due. The extra "sur-
plus may be as low as rs, or, in very
exceptional cases, as high as per
cent. 1t averages per cent. The ex-
ira price naturally varies, but usually
is close to a half cent. The reasons
why cream patrons should be thus
favored are discussed at length. and ex-
amples are cited.
Fifth.-Several examples Of the sun
dry methods of determining milk fat
and cream fat SURPRISES, of calculat-
Ing payments on the butter basis" or
the "butter fat basis" ETC., are given.
The proposition concerning cream
payments Is certainly Of moment to
creamery patrons, and 1t is closely rea-
soned out Director Hills says:
The surplus" ''overrun" or "churn
gain" from fat in cream is greater than
that from fat in milk. A creamery
which gives no larger surplus to its
cream patrons than it does to it's milk
patrons is simply handing some of the
money due the former to the latter.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
,~or;cau Farmer the Best In the Word.

american farmer is the greatest man
the lid to-day because he is master Of
IN ueo;,Nhe is gaining in intelligence quite
the son I'll, az his products are increasing in
as raP.ud Our recent combines of capital
rnag:.nd States measured in money are
in ms ms vet such figures sink into insig-
enofnoa when compared to the money,
nihcanud hrawn invested in agricultural
BRAN . @% For instance, the farmers of
lnouo.ota and Dakota have received $780,
NM lnoo for their products in a single year.
co.. co. forrner knows what Nature will bring
ny t, for him from his experience IN the
loi .t He knows if certain seeds are
PIao..ed and properly cared tor that Nature
Pill ";ii take care of the rest In the same
Will a,, o,,s master of your ozOn destiny.
Was soJ,,;d;nq YOUR blood is in good order, it
L,!L.needs little effort on your own part
oni tyoen healthy and strong-rid your body
70 70 t tI,e nelson's that are apt to accumulate
Ol -" ,.orr system is ready to ward off the
anu of the germs of disease. DR.. Pierce's
S Go1den Medical Discovery makes rich red
U TooJ NV increasing the number of red
i9i ,ooJJ cGrnuscles. There is no alcohol in
Gi3o great tonic to shrivel up the red blood
t W.. As an Alternative extract made
co oiI, Of herbs and roots it goes about its
rork in natures way. 1t stimulates the
liver into proper action, and leeds the
I rrt nerves, stomach and heart on
onre blood. Used for over third of a
century it has sold more largely than any
other blood medicine in the United States.
wnre hotties of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
n;scoverv are sold to-day than ever before
thot is true test of its medicinal value after
thirty eight years of deserved popularity.
Dr Pierce's Medical Adviser" sent on
,eceipt of stamps to pay for mailing only.
Send 81 one-cent stamps for book in paper
covers, or 81 stamps for cloth-bound vol
ume Address DR.. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, NY.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
AN IMPROVED HoTBED.
Interesting Pointers About Buildlna
and Managing Frames.

lnteresting Pointers About Building
and Managing Frames.
Various forms of shutters or protect
ors for hotbeds have their relative con-
venience and excellence, but all are
common in one respect, and that is In
shutting out light. Even the light Of q
moonlight night is of value in plant
growth, but not only must this be shut
out, but also the twilight Of the after
noon and two or more hours of frosty
sunlight In cold mornings. This, added
to cloudy days, leaves only an average
Of seven or eight hours Of good light in
every twenty-four in March. although
the days average nearly twelve hours.
Added to this are the constant care re-
quired, the lifting on and off Of covers
and the changing Of amount Of ventila-
tor several times day. In fact, a hot
bed requires about as much looking
after as q nursing infant If one would
have uninterrupted and healthy plant
growth. For this reason busy middle
class people and farmers who do not
as a rule keep a gardener cannot afford
to run a hotbed, because the time need
ed is too valuable to spend on it. This
shuts out many from enjoying fresh,
early relishes and vegetables.
81 know Of no more serious annoy
ance as we'll as hindrance to best re-
suits than the difficulty of airing the
common hotbed. After several cloudy,
cold days and large amount of con-
fenment beneath Opaque shutters the
sun bursts out suddenly some morning
for a twelve hours ramble through an
unclouded sky. The plants are drawn
and soft and dripping with moisture,
and it is absolutely necessary to have
air or everything will cook. The only
way is to tip the sash more or less and
admit big volumes of outside air direct,
untempered in the least until 1T strikes
the shrinking plants.
Mr.. l.. B. Pierce thinks he has solved
some of these difficulties and found a
remedy in a form Of construction which
he illustrates and explains in Country
Gentleman, the sketch showing dou-
BILE sash arrangement in north and
south elevations. e f is the ground
surface, in which Is set the ordinary
frame to be filed with manure. This
may be of rough lumber, the only re-
quirements being true corners and a
neatly dressed top edge. On this /
would At a neatly constructed frame
five or six inches high, divided at every
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
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[ |'|I'B .I,I]1I dlNQ So e

Some time ago our station published
a bulletin and gave many illustrations
of model and otherwise dairy barns in
our state, and in the number shown /
did not see one that had windows
enough in it. The same thing occurs
in the Dairyman's illustrations of COW
barns. Why is it? The fellows who
have covered pals with cotton, ETC..
are among the number who seem to
think daylight and sunshine are detri
fments to a cows comfort while con-
fined in the stable. My rule for win
dows in a cow barn is to make out
your bill for twice as many windows
as you think you need, and then when
your team has gone to town after them
telephone your lumber dealer to double
the bill at his end.
Now, there are windows and win
dows. The Dairyman showed what
was called model dairy barn. and the
windows looked more like knot holes
or woodpecker holes than windows.
Get good, big double sash. 10 by l.
lights, six lights to sash. and have
them not more than eight feet apart
along walls north, south, west and
east. Then put in skylights. 1t vii
pay big. Now you have windows
Make all doors double-that is, to open
bottom and top-and never shut to
door unless low temperature or storms
make it necessary.
When you have light buy barrel Of
lime and have withdrawing machine
and let your boys work it rainy days
Whitewash walls and ceiling and floor
IL they want to. More light will be the
result. A fly in our cow barn looks like
. black bear on the walls that are
white as-let me see-oh, yes, the cot
ton that is used to cover pals to keep
out dirt that can't be seen in the win
dowless COW barns. - Buff Jersey in
Hoard's Dairyman.
Keep Out the Flies.
It pays to protect good cows from
flies. This may be done with darkened
stables or sheds so constructed that the
breeze blows through readily, says Ten
nessee Farmer. They may be closed al
the north and south sides and open at
the east and west ends. It is important
to hang burlap curtains at the ends.
and the cows soon learn to brush under
them, and they show their appreciation
Of such attentions. The best and cheap
est covering for such sheds il hay or
straw, as the heat cannot penetrate g
foot thickness q such material.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
RATlONs FOR DAIRY COWS.

Cotton SEED Meal anA Cowpeas sap
ply the Necessary PRoteiA.
Feeding the dairy cow would be q
comparatively easy matter were 1t not
for the difficulty experienced in secur-
Ing sufficient amount Of protein tc
supply the heavy demands made on
her system in the production Of milk.
says Professor A. M. Soule Of the Ten
nessee experiment station. Cheap and
abundant fodder crops can be grown
with comparative ease to supply the
more bulky part Of her ration, but the
protein needed is much harder to pro.
vide I'm a desirable form at a price
within the reach Of the average dairy
man.
The abundance of cotton seed meal
In the south should offer a happy solu
ton Of the difficulty, but there are
many places where freight rates make
cotton seed meal quite as expensive as
in the states Of the far northwest, and
then 1t frequently happens that the
dairyman does not see his way clear to
pay out large amount of money for
cotton seed meal; for, as the old axiom.
puts it, "a penny saved is a penn.
made" So it is to his interest to dis
cover If possible means by which he
can produce the needed protein on his
farm and thus save the heavy drain OF
his resources required by the purchas,
of cotton seed meal or some other con
centrate rich in protein.
Cotton seed meal has now been fed
long enough to establish it's virtue a.
a feed for dairy cows, but it has alst
been shown that it is unwise to emplo!
it exclusively for that purpose, as it is
so rich, not only in protein, but in fat
and other constituents as we'll, that II
has a tendency to produce various de
rangements of the cows system, entail
ing serious losses that can easily be
avoided If the meal were employed in
rational manner.
Fortunately our soils are adapted to
the culture of several of the most i'm
portant legumes known to mankind
Among these the one that stands out
pre-eminently is the cowpea. 1t is well
adapted to an immense territory and
can be utilized to advantage in moro
ways than any other legume, and be.
sides making most excellent hay. rich
in protein, 1t has the power Of material
ly improving the mechanical condition
and the crop producing power Of the
land, an item of the most profound
concern to the farmer who has been
somewhat careless with regard to such
matters and has sold his cotton seed to
the oil mill because Of its ready cash
value, though failing to return to the
soil in some other form the equivalent
Of the plant food thus removed. AS a
result the fertility of much Of our lana
has been seriously impaired. and so ii
is particularly happy coincidence that
the cowpea can be employed to reha
bilitate the soil, produce hay rich in
protein which combines most happily
with cotton seed meal as a feed for
dairy COWS and can even be used tG
advantage as a substitute for wheat
bran or cotton seed meal under certain
conditions
According to the experiments recent
ly completed at the Tennessee station.
the dairyman can employ cotton seed
meal and cowpea hay as grain feeds
for his dairy cows and thus grow ali
the concentrates needed on his farm, a
matter of the gravest Importance.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
Di1erence In Eggs.

No matter what is said to the contra
~. there is great difference in the ma
yoring of an egg. Eggs laid by an &C
tive, healthy hen supplied with good
fresh food are much finer in flavor. col
or and smell and taste than those tnai
are laid by hens that are the common
sea yengers of alleys back yards anc
pigpens.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
To Cure Broodfness,

An effective way to overcome broodi-
ness in hens is to place the ambitious
sitters in swinging coop. The illus
tration shows the construction. The
coop is simply a wooden frame two
feet square and two feet high, covered
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17

Do you need Glass for Hot-beds? Glass
is cheaper than ever before. Mail postal
card for price Hardware Co.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
OF the First Order.

Agriculture is science Of the very
first order 1t counts among its hand
maids the most respectable sciences,
such az chemistry, natural philosophy,
mechanics. mathematics, natural his:
tory and botany.-Thomas Jefferson.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17

IMPROVED HOTBED CONSTRUCTION.
f. B, top sash; G D, inner sash; E +.
ground line. Arrows indicate air circu-
lation. Sashes may be three inches
apart.1
sash intersection with an inch board
of the same width as the outside frame.
Either end and the south side should
be entire boards, while the north side
must be Of two pieces separated the
thickness of an ordinary sash, say one
and a half inches. Cleats an inch wide
may be nailed upon the inside of the
divisions and at the ends near the bot
tom of this upper frame, so that the
sashes may be slid in from the north
until they strike the south side, where
thin cleat may also be nailed, max
ing sure that it is a trife below the
side cleats, so as to slide clear.
The frame being constructed so as to
be covered with an ordinary sash, or
six feet from outside to outside, the
sashes slid in &C d. will project two
inches at the north end, but as the
sash end is usually nearly three inches
wide there will be no opening. By
laying other sashes "a b. on top Of
the frame we shall have a thoroughly
protected bed, with space of warm
air between two transparent cover
ings. These may remain on night and
day in very cool weather, and if de-
sirable the upper sash may be removed
in warm weather. However, my ex-
perience In using glass covered beds
inside of greenhouses goes to show
that enough light Is admitted through
two thicknesses Of glass to answer all
purposes. provided the glass is kept
clean, which, however, is impossible
when both coverings of glass are set
fixedly in one sash, frequent practice
in high ATTITUDES.
A hot bed constructed as in the illus
tratiOn Is not only protected from rap
i'd changes Of outside temperature, but
has rare ventilating facilities. BY
drawing out the inner sash two inches
there is an opening the thickness of
the sash bars, but mainly below,
amounting to about three-quarters of
an inch at the north side and an open
AAS VI IWO AuCucS ucAt luc SOutA SAOC
at the other end of the same sash.
Now slide the upper sash down to the
south couple Of inches, leaving an
opening on top Of the north end, and
outside air is admitted, which passes
over the surface of the warm inner
sash, drops below at the south end
and finds its way out at the north end,
the we'll known laws Of air circulation
doing the business. There is thus
constant circulation Of tempered air.
This wheel within wheel or house
Of glass inside greenhouse is no new
discovery, but it's application to hot
bed construction will, believe. help
those unfortunate enough to have to
depend on the uncertainties of fer
menting manure and the tickle Febru-
airy and March sun.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
LIQUID Electricity y " .s s:=''

out it. Every pain instantly relieved by one
thorough application. Sprains, bruises. stiff
joints, headache, toothache, pain in sides or
back 1umbago, sciatica banished like magic.
Study the labels on the bottles for it's use
LEWIS HIATT, Olga, General Agent for San.
Juan County.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17

Bargains in Doors, Windows and Glass.
Glass is cheaper than ever before. -Morso
Hardware Co., Bellingham.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
The Honeybee Holds the Patent.

The Honeybee Holds the Patent.
The honeybee still holds the patent
royal on combmaking. The most that
man has been able to do in this direc-
ton is to furnish the base or pattern
for the bees to build on, which Is
called q starter. Starters are made by
running thin sheets Of plain WAX
through embossed rollers. and they
form TIE base Of the combs. - HI
ehanes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17

Ground shells for poultry food-a nee
essity in successful poultry raising. Put
up in lO0-pound sacks for $l.OO.-John
Lawson, Deer Harb0r. 9-24
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
For Sale Cheap-One SOS Invalid Chair
Morse Hardware Co., Bellingham.

Job Lot Galvanized Barbed Fence Wire,
% per 100 lbs.-Morse Hardware Co.
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
Competition It st.te r.fr.

COmpet1ttOA nj state Fairs.
In review Of the New York state
fair American Agriculturist remarks:
"A larger and more representative lot
OF farm products could be secured If
premiums were awarded for county
displays or Individual grange displays
from various sections. The exhibits
this year in Ohio were immense. The
credit was due largely to the fact that
there was sharp competition between
the different counties for prizes, rang.
ing from $165 for first down to $40 for
fifth"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-12-17
STRAWBERRY MULCH.

Things Satisfactory and Unsatisfac.
tory-Sawdust Manure.
We have used straw, leaves. chat.
buckwheat hulls, cracked cobs, corn
stalks, sawdust, evergreen boughs.
manure and, in fact. any waste that
was available at the time needed. The
most satisfactory mulch is manure
from stables where cut cornstalks have
been plentifully used as bedding. The
most unsatisfactory and the only mulch
that showed harmful results was buck
wheat hulls or chaff.
We keep three horses and four to six
COWS, and in the year use about 1000
bushels of sawdust as bedding. We do
not have much straw for bedding-only
what the horses will not eat from two
or three acres Of grain each year. Saw
dust is used in the horse stables all
the year to keep them clean. Summers
the horse manure goes under shed.
and winters it goes through the drop
in the cow stable and then all into the
shed.
When the first snow comes deep
enough to permit driving over the
strawberry bed without injuring many
plants, what sawdust manure has &C.
cumulated since spring is drawn and
spread on the berries at the rate of sixty
loads per acre. Sawdust manure mulch
is all right If it does not exceed two
inches in depth and is evenly distrib-
uted. The sawdust we get is hemlock.
hard wood and Eastwood, no pine. We
would feel safe in using such sawdust
II we could not do better, but would
not expect as good results as though
it had been through the stable.
After the berries are mulched the
wipter manure is spread on ground
for corn, cabbage or truck. 1t might
not be out Of place to add for the ben
eft Of those who wish to know what
effect sawdust has on land that we
have used sawdust at the above rate
on a twelve acre truck and berry patch
for the last twelve or fifteen years and
as yet see nothing but good results
from its use.-Cor. Rural New Yorker.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-20

department structure, and corrals, were
soon wrapped IN flames. So 1ercely did
the fre burn that the country for miles
around was Illuminated by the blaze.
In speaking Of the fire this morning
chief Bywater said:
1T was a long run out there, but We
made q IN good time When We got
there. the storage building was an In
flames We soon discovered that we
were helpless There was not enough
water there TO water a horse, We had
the steamer and had there been water
within any reasonable distance, we
could have saved at least $1,000 The
only thing we could do was 10 90 10
work tearing down the fences TO keep
the hre from spreading any more. II,
say $500 had been spent TO give the
place a proper water supply we could
have checked the progress of the
nrt in short order The alarm was
turned IN by qunrryman who saw the
flames As to the statement that there
~ suspicion that the building was fired
purpoaely. | can say nothing Il Ia I'M
possible to determine anything OF that
nature from the fire. because every
thing Is destroyed, but wc are lnvestl-
eating {. carefully ana of course there
may be- some developments before
long
When Manager West was asked for a
statement at noon Today he sald'
well, the whole plant is destroyed,
The two buildings We're worth between
$500 and $4,000. and the contents We're
worth between $1,000 and $1,000 Yes,
the buildings and contents were insur-