Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-15
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 According to the Newspaper Press Directory for 1905, there are now pub lished In the United Kingdom 2,48l newspapers, distributed, as follows: England, 1881; Wales, Ill; Scotland, 26l; Ireland, 191; isles, H. or these thse are 1s4 daily papers published in England, ! in Wales,y1s in Scot land, IS In Ireland and 4 in the Brit ish isles. In the year 1848 there were published in the United Kingdom 551 Journals. Of these l4 were issued daily-l2 in England and in Ireland.
 10 those cOnnOisseurs who evince great pride in their collection of Ores den china it will come as a great shock to learn that today there is no such product under thu name, although sold as such. In the course of prose cution in London, where a. firm was prosecuted for selling ware as Dres- den and marking the goods as such, 1t was stated that no china is manufac- tured at Dresden. The name Is ap- piled to the products of the royal fac tory at Meissen. Furthermore, many pottery decorators at Dresden work upon china that is manufactured at different places, Is transferred to that city, receives its imprint, and is then disposed of as Dresden china.
 There was a good, sharp shower last night that laid the dust and made things pleasant today for peo- pc Who object to swallowing the dirt or the streets in large quantities. Af- ter the rain ceased it blew up cold and was chilly enough this morning 10 make one feel like looking around for his heavy coat. Our cousins who drove into town during the day claim that there was slight frost, but it didn't do any harm to speak of. al- though if the weather should continue uncertain for a week or 30 1t will make late spring. The farmers have not yet done much planting, but they w0uh like to make a commencement right away and If the weather condi- tions suit them they will be the busi- est lot of mortals in the world from now on. Some will tell you that busi- ness is not rushing in the stores, but you wouldn't take that view of It If you could see the number. of people who are running from one place to another purchasing seeds of one kind and another, looking over spades, shovels and such things in the har- ness market. This is the harvest time for people who deal in these lines of stock and the clerks are on the jump waiting on customers. Most of them know what they want, but others ap- pear to be strangers to the business and need lot of coaching regarding the best method of sowing farm pro duce. This is especially 50 with peo- pie who are doing their first spring planting and there appears to be a great many such persons coming into the center from the outlying sections.
 While some might not think so Wa terbury is becoming great town for raising fowl and at the present time there Is big demand for setting hens and if somebody could think out some scheme for coaxing chickens to take to
  tune, in the business A man was about town to-day wanting to know where he could buy. a. dozen ssettfng hens. He said he had grown tired ~Of the incubator and decided to go back to the natural way of matching chick ems. He had tried both plans and thought that everything considered there is nothing that cai beat hen for converting eggs into chickens and taking care of them when they are able to run about. They hatch all right in the incubator, but for some reason which he could not account for, 1t is hard to raise them and in the end he believes that one gets better results from the old plan. The only trouble he experienced in carrying out his idea was the difficulty in securing d sufficient number of ''setters." Near ly everybody who has good setting hen wants it and wouldn't part with 1t for love or money. He said some hens grow tired on the eggs and leave them after a week or so and others de- sert the chickens while they are fledg; lIngs 90 that a hen thnt can he depend ed upon to do its work, well is very valuable and the owner is not apt to part with it for what one can afford to pay, a sum which varies from seventy five cents to $1. If he knew that the birds were just what he wanted he would invest $1 each in them, but he wouldn't take the other kind as present.