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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30
Egg Getherers Use Hair Ropes.

THE egg-gatherers Of st. Kilda
consider themselves rich II their
prospective brides are able to
furnish them with a rope of human
hair.
The ropes vary in length, a really
good one of forty or fifty feet being es-
pecially priced. The usual kind is
stout hempen cord wrapped round and
round with sleeps wool; over this is a
lining of horschair; finally brands OF
human hair.
TO manufacture such a rope is the
work of years, but the st. kildan girl
scrupulously saves her h2ir-com bings.
A curiosity collector wished to buy
fine specimen of hair-rope, but the offer
was refused.
The cord in question was veneered
with auburn hair-the thirty years COL
lection from heads of parents, aUnts,
and cousins.
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Visiting Card Match Case

II is perfectly wonderful what an in
i genious boy or girl can make out OF
ordinary everyday visiting cards.
Get your mother to give you A
handful of old cards from her card tray.
and try your hand at making things
out of them.
For instance, this clever little match
receptacle, which is simple enough, after
all. when you come to examine II.
There is no mucilage used at all. First
cut Sits In the various parts as indi-
Gated in the picture and tina whole thing
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CHAPTER II

Mr.. Jack Crow was the craftiest
scamp in Bird Land. He was said 10
be as old as the hills. Certainly he must
have been very, very old, for there was
not bird in Primrose Lane who could
remember the year when Jack Crow had
failed TO build his nest in the tall oak
tree that reared its great branches TO
the sky on the top of Mushroom Hill.
Jack Crow had not lived all those
years for nothing. Oh. dear, no! lie
knew the nesting place of every bird for
miles around. lie also knew that ii was
good to nourish young Jack Crows on
eggs. 1t was a diet they grew strong
upon.
IL took a good number OF eggs to feed
Mr. Crows hungry family; and many
nest had TO go bare every year to re-
plenish the old robbers larder. What
were the birds OF Primrose Lane 10 do?
How could they help themselves?
One morning in the height of the nest
ing season Nh. Jack Crow rose with the
sun, for, like the sun, he mad a great
deal 10 do that day. The three young
crows were tine, fat hedgelings D. TINS
time, ready 10 spread their wings ana
fly out into the world.
what would you like FOR breaktast.
my desrsg" he asked, Winklng sIyly
across TO his wife. AS If ne didn't know!
..ESgsI Eggsi Eggs piped the young
brood, hungrily. Eggsi Eggs. Eggs!
II am not sure there are any left,
the old rogue answered with a chuckle-
You have such appetites, you see.
But perhaps some fresh supplies nave
come in during the night.
With q long-drawn 'caw-w,' the thief
svooped down between the high hedge
rows of Primrose Lane. Neither did he
return empty-footed. IN his talons he
carried a large blue thrush's egS-a
new-laid egg.
Leaving this with Mrs. Crow 70 be
equally divided among the family, he
set forth again. and yet again. each
time returning with some fresh plumber.
Cant make it out" he said 10 MS
wife. after returning from MS thlro
Trim. cant understand it at all
whats the matterY" cawed Mrs.
s'Whv. all the birds Of Primrose Lane
have flown away. But down by the
BROOK met our OLD friend, Mr. Butcher
Bird"
Weir
"He told me that II we wished TO save
orr feathers we'd better leave home ana
av at least fifty miles away
sR,1t vvhy?" asked Mrs. Crow.
.sThat 1 don't know" said Jack Crow.
rrayeiv. You see, Mr.. Butcher BIRD
vas ia TOO much of a hurry to tell me
more By this time he anC his wife
and family are ten miles away.
I'VE are much too old 10 be scarce by
such idle gossip as that" said Mrs.
Grow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30
Football Originated with Chinese.

UOOTBALL originated with the Chi
nese, according TO Stewart Culin,
the expert on games.
Professor CulIn has for years studied
games as Edison has studied electricity,
and wonderful are The many discoveries
ne mas made
A curious and ancient Chinese drawing
unearthed by this investigator shows a
prime minister playIhS football with a
king and two chambSrlaInS. The time
is the tenth century, but tong before
that date football was recognized in
China as an exercise eXcellenC for SOL
diers.
an the eighth century football was in
troduced from China into Japan, as golf
was introduced recently from England
10 America, and the former game be-
came as popular in the Japan OF 500 A.
D. as golf is popular in the America OF
today.
From China and japan football spread
gradually all over the World.--St LOUIS
Globe Democrat-
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Wonderful Lake.

One OF the wonders O, law. is n lalee
or boiling mud, two miles in circum-
ference, In the centre of which immense
columns of soft, hot muI continually
rise ana fall. Besides these columns
there are two gigantic bubbles near fhe
edge, which fill up like huge balloons
and explode on an average three times
pev minute.
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Not Her Kind of Garden.

"A POOR, little neglected-looking child
N attracted the attention of a certain
charitably inclined lady W h o
CHANGED TO be going througe the mar
ket.
Thinking to learn something OF the
child's life and perhaps do something
for her, the lady ask !:
Little girl. do you 30 TO the kinder
garten?"
Turning pair OF wondering eyes on
her. the child replied:
''No. ] don't know anything about
tnat kind of a garden. Our garden is a
later garden. and p-p put some beans
and onions in It."
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This is sea anemone; if you can rinse
it In clean water--salt water, Of course
you will find that when the mud has
gone it will look very different. Those
bristles or spines will now appear tinted
with beautiful colors-pink and blue and
yellow. so that it IS quite lovely OBJ
iect to look at. Somebody once said IL
looked as if It had been dipped in a rain
boW
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Polly Evans
Puzzles

a SHIP CARPENTER had piece
~ OF board Sx9 inches in size. maxi
ing y square inches. He had TO
fill a hole 6x12 inches in size, also
making - square inches. BY a lit
tie figuring he saw how he could divide
his board into two such pieces as, when
properly put together. would exactly I'LL
the hole. How did ne do it?
Draw pictures TO show.
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Puzzle in RHYME.

II your pussy cat had six little kits,
And my pussy cat had four.
And Nelly's puss had five baby cats.
All running about the floor;
II those kitties and cats had each q
wee mouse,
And each mouse had babies three.
And all We're scamperins over the
house,
How many would there be7
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paper, the drops OF water will not be-
have In the fashion just described. Can
you tell Tom Tit why the paper 'ust be
blackened with lamp smoker
Try this experiment next:
Draw two figures with charcoal on a
wall-Say, the head of an old man and
the head of an old woman At the
mouth of one put little gunpowder,
fastened on with isinglass; at the mouth
OF the other. put a morsel of phos-
phorus, fastened on with isinglass.
When you place lighted taper near
the Gunpowder mouth, the explosion
will put the light out; but If you place
II next near the phosphorus mouth the
taper VIII suddenly light again.
IhlS is a curious phenomenon. and IL
you nave made your preparations In
secret, II will seem most mysterious to
your friends.
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Famous-People Puzzle.
ne names of famous men and WON

CThe names OF famous men and wOm-
en-
l. Mother Goose. .. Louis Agassiz. s.
r. w. Emerson. a. Robert Burns D.
Clara Barton. 6. r. A Edison I
Charles Dickens. s. Napoleon Bonaparte.
9. Oliver Cromwell. IL. William Penn.
II. Rudyard Kipling.
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What Fishes?
American Geographical SAINT.

/. Perch. ?. Mack-ereL 3. Pike. 4
Min-now. 3. Herring.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30

/. St. Adams Wt.I . st. Augustine
CFla.). 3. st. Cloud (AIinn). L. St
Charles CMo.). .. st. Joseph (Mo).
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Similar Words.

1. 'To games of CHANCE" .
Tempt FORTUNE too far 8. Caused
That Terrible ACCIDENT" (. INCL
DENTS OF Cavalryman's Experience"
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2henss
CIPHER Puzzle.
Can you

CIPHER Puzzle.
Can you read this?
You o a 0.
But l 0 thee;
O, 0 no 0,
But, =, D mel
No, o, let my 0
Thy 0 be-
Now give 90
/ 0 thee
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Young Japan ceases TO be Interest,"
ing when he dons nat cap. Euro
pean Shoes and blue spectacles. but
in baby hood he is irresistfble; and
ones heart goes ou1 10 these dear
little shaven- pated pickaninnies, placid
an6 plump, looking cut on life from
the folds OF their mothers kimono,
with Tiny twinkling almond eyes and
funny little snub noses
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" many would there be7
Aunt Harriet's Age.

Aunt Harriet was trotting along and
stopping now and then to rest. when she
met the doctor.
Good morning, Aunt Harriet he
said. You are an old woman TO be
walking all this way. How old are
you, anyway"
Deed. massa, I dunno how old / f..
] is about seventeen year older dan Miss
May. and she's about ten years older
dan Marse George, and he wuz about Is
year old de year de war begun, but 1
dunno how old any OF we all is"
AS the doctor rode on, he counted
Aunt HaTriets age as near as her fig
ures would allow. Can you tell what
her age was?
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En- glish Puzzlers.

1t is simply astonishing how many
puzZlers boys and girls find in our every
day English language. Following are
some: Can you tell Polly Evans how to
make each one right?
]. Rip done as he was asked.
.. / seen the bird the tree.
] would have went to Washington
IL would have came home in time.
4. She found on the bank these pair OF
slippers.
;. Her eyes shown with eagerness.
6. You must leave the slippers be.
Z They went down until they reached
the seas bottom.
S. ViOlets grew on the Tiverlit's bank.
9. Her mother was disturbed by her
absence.
10. She got tired Of the water and
wanted TO return back home.
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Answers to September q
Puzzles
What NationsP

W nat NaJl0nSF
l. G-E-R-man. 2. French. 3. Persian.
T. American. 5. Chinese. 6. Japan
csc.
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UANTOCK's great grandmoth
you remember, suddenly ex-
pired before she had quite told
the dwarf the secret OF the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30
SeaShore Friends

a LII the boys and girls who play on
y the sands have seen starfish.
They are very common. But /
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-03

We all know that there is big money
in poultry. How much there is in it for
us, depends entirely upon ourselves ana
whether or not we are keeping up with
the procession in raising the kind OF
chickens which bring the most cash
and in getting them into the market at
a time when the demand is greatest.
The value of poultry production for the
United States this season was but a
shade under that of wheat or cotton,
amounting to over half a billion dol
lars. Since the perfection of the in
cubator, the importance of the indus
try has been greatly augmented. By
the use of this splendid device it is now
comparatively e.sy to bring in large
quantities of chickens for the winter
and early spring market when p 'ces
are very attractive. Hens can be
urged but they can not be made to set
if they do not wa to: the incubator
can be set ut any time. All that is
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Had Learned fhe Business.

An honest and. singular as it may
seem, a stupid Irishman. who had work
ed for a coal dealer half a year. and
shown nc capacity to learn his duties,
was finally DISCHARGED. eco to the Office
and get your money. I've been pattern
with you, but you are too thickheaded to
learn anything, said le proprietor. All
roight. sir" answered 3arney; "mehbe
Dim t'ick-headed, as yez say, but Owe
learned wan ting, n away" "If YOU
have. and learned it we'll. I'll not dis
charge you," said the proprietor, banter.
|inqlv; "now. what have you learnedH
"OTve learned. sor, that seventeen hun
bred makes a ton in this place" replied
Barney, and he went back to work.
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THE AMERICAN INCUBATOR IN TURKEY.

I'LL AHLkiSAN HNSOOAiON !" 'ONNL''
After testing, it is stated that 80 per
cent. of those remaining will hatch.
This style of incubator probably
would not suit American requirements,
)ut the idea of utilizing the heat of the
room during the later stages of incuba-
tion is very valuable, as it economies
both heat and space.
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machine-one which will 10 it's work
WELLS usually SO successful that
others. in the neighborhood quickly fol-
low his example. Nevertheless, there
Is no danger of the poultry business
being oyerdone. 1t is one of the most
staple and profitable lines of business
in the world to-day, for its products
are always in increasing demand in
every town and city in the world, and
throughout the entir~ year.
But before going into the incubator
business it is necessary to have some
good egg producing machinery, that is,
good. laying hens and comfortable and
cheerful quarters, along with Il go Il
system of feeding. to induce them to
lay. The fertility of Eggs is also af-
fected by the conditions Of the hens.
The agricultural papers and poultry
journals are replete with information
upon the management of i%ncubators.
and many books have been published
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NCUB4TORS.
Peculiar Facility of Chinese for Artir
fiCIaI catching.

If we are to look the beginning
of any particular industry. we are
usually told that we might find that
this particular work was first carried
on i'll China. This applies as we'll to
the artificial Matching of eggs.
Throughout China the Matching of eggs
by heat is Il very large and important
industry and has been practiced since
very ancient times. The Oriental who
desires to hatch eggs by artificial heat
first constructs n building of sun
dried brick, plastered on the outside
with mud. Completely fill : one
side and the other also. except for
door space and sufficient room for a
man to test h eggs, are round, bar
rel-like mud brick walls with earthen
Jars set into them. This jrr is very
deep, and within six or eight
inches of the ground. The conical bot
ton is filled With ashes to the depth
of eight or nine inches, to keep the
temperature more uniform and to
avoid sudden changes of Temperature
when doors are opened and there is a
strong wind. On tho ton of the ashes
is thrown a bit of old mat or similar
material to keep the baskets of ec~s
clean and TO prevent raising a dust
Wnen UneV are IaFHn our. For Mold
ing the eggs a basket is used that
leaves a a of about IN inch he
tween 1t and tho inner wall of the
jar. Round and full, these baskets
each hold from 1900 to 1880 EGGS.
After the q are put into the has,
ket n slow smot1ering fire. made with
very fine charcoal, is started. After
a day the eggs are taken out, a hand.
ful nj n time. and put into A similar
basket. This is done from two tC
-four times each day according to the
temperature. The Chinese use NJ
thermometer to test the degree Of
heat attained in the Incubator, the
eggs being simply touched to the eve
ball. After being in the Incubator fol
-four days the eggs are tested to sex
IL thew contain a living germ. by hold
ing them up to TIE light and looking
! through them. Eggs containing nj
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POULTRY FEEDING.
An Important Phase of the Chicken
Growing Industry.

Poultry feeding is sometimes a most
serious problem to those who desire to
make this line a speciality. Expert
ence has shown that there are certain
special lines of agricultural operations
with which poultry raising may add
vantageously be connected. In dairy
ing there is usually a large quantity
of skim milk or butter-milk which
may be utilized to furnish a consider
able part of the poultry ration. Upon
the fruit farm fowls are also Of adj
vantage. They keep down insect pests
and they may have a free range a
greater part of the season without the
possibility of doing any damage. Plum
growers have found poultry especially
useful in obliterating the curculio, and
even the apple crop has been consid-
erably benefited. If it Is found that
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BROOD OF INCUBATOR osTplChts.

purpose. the waste of the email fruits,
etc. If properly cared for the hens
will bring n ste~.,y and reliable in
come during the winter months.
Dried clover, roots. tubers, etc, should
be saved for them during the winter.
These should be steamed and fed with
the mash or cabbaGes, and beets may
be fed raw. \ catch crop of buckwheat
or OATS and peas will furnish much
food at little expense. pran. meat,
meal, wheat screenings and oats pur.
chased for poultry will bring good re-
sturns In eggs and will also id ma
terially to the fertilizer supply.
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BIG PROFITS IN CHICKENS.
U ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

overcome, and there will be little
trouble in teaching the uses and man.
agement of the ordinary Matching ma
chine.
Not Dif.icult to Manage.
While there is nothing complex or
difficult about the successful operation
of an incubator, close attention and ex
actness are necessary; yet the results
are more than worth the effort. The
woman who fills her lamps regularly
every morning, and the maj who
winds his watch or clock at the
same hour every evening, need not
fear the task of running an incubator;
but unless one is willing to attend to
the few wants of his machine ut the
right time. it will be unreasonable to
look for a good Matching of chickens
from the best incubator upon the
market.
The writer has used incubators and
has found great delight in Matching
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-03

into a big laying, heavy weighted and
highly profitable flock, that it seems
strange that there should be a single
flock of dung-hills throughout the coun'
try. 1t costs no more to feed and care
for a broad breasted Plymouth Rock,
or a Wyandotte, or Il huge Light Brah-
ma, or any of Il dozen other splendid
standard varieties than it does for the
common scrub, and with the low price
at which good eggs, or practically pure
bred eockerels can be had, it is the
easiest thing imaginable to have, after
two or three years of systematic breed
ing, a flock of chickens producing
three times the profit of the original
flock.
Standard Kinds of Chickens.
A fascinating little bulletin has been
issued by the Department of Agricul-
ture Farmers bulletin No. SD which
is replete with illustrations of the prin-
cipal standard varieties of chickens,
the reading of which by any chicken
grower, however small, should certain
ly stimulate a New Year resolution to
make the flock a real money Garner.
Ttis bulletin, while it will prove, prob
ably, a mere stimulant for mo G
extensive literature on the subject, can
be obtained without cost from Sena-
tors and Members of Congress, or the
Secretary of Agriculture. and the proof
of its popularity is apparent in the
seven or eight editions which it has
been necessary to publish to supply the
demand throughout the country.
Caponizing Fowls.
One of the most attractive features
of poultry raising is the production OF
capons. This is a story all by itself.
1t is an experiment which n can en-
ter into and with Il very slight expend-
iture for a set of instruments, can fol-
low it to any degree desired. 1t re-
quires some judgment and a little at
%tention, but caponizing is not difficult;
it is one of those things which, while
it looks, in the beginning, to be a hard
proposition, gradually m to you all
of itself, so that the first thing you
know you become almost an expert,
and the reward is very considerable.
Capons always sell readily and at a
good advance in price. The birds be-
come very docile and easily handled
and are always money makers. The
readiness wit which the new capOn
RECEIVERS from the wound Is u reveal
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living germs are sold on the street for
food at about one-sixth of a cent
each. >
After being tested they are kept in
the lars for seven days, being
changed as before. This makes q total
of eleven days in the jars. Then they
are taken in a bamboo basket and
rolled out on a mat on the
platform above the jars. Here
they remain until Matched. The
only heat they receive Is from the
room, except during cold weather they
are covered with a heavy quilt. After
they are Matched the chicks are put
in shallow baskets for a short time to
gain strength and then they are ready
for sale. The hatch by tn remarka-
BILE method is from 60 to 20 per cent.
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Hours For Sleep

"Natnre requires ave,
Custom gives seven;
Laxine5t rakes nine,
And wickedness eleven.''
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large flocks of fine chickens from
them, but it was necessary to do a
little experimenting first to get the ma
chine in good working order, to keep
the lamp trimmed so that it burned IL
clear, white flame and to do a dozen
other little things, which in a very
short time made the owner as familiar
with the incubator as with any other
simple piece of farm machinery.
The period of incubation is always
one of expectancy and when the chicks
begin to come forth from the she'll
there is either keen joy or a decided
dampening of ardor, according as to
the results of the hatch. But don't be-
come discouraged if the first hatch
brings you only so per cent. of chick.
ems. Go right ahead, determined to
omit the mistakes of the first trial and
aim for 50 or 80 per cent. of the next
Matching, which you should get if you
have n good incubator and handle il
properly. After Il little practice you
come to know your machine, how it is
acting and what it will do. as we'll rs
you know your driving horse, in fact
you can gauge it even more closely,
for it is n machine and you can control
it to Il nicely.
There are hot air machines and hot
water machines, there are small
machines and big machines-machines
to meet every need and requirement;
the only thing is TO get u good machine.
.sln Attractive Side Lie.
The poultry business on the farm has
always been considered largely within
tue province of the women folks. and
the enlargement of the industry by
utilizing incubators has not changed
the situation, except that many others
than farmers wives are now raising
chickens from ~incubatorS.
Modern chicken raising, as it has
been adopted by thousands of people
owning small rural homes" said an
incubator agent TO me recently, "ac-
counts for the sale of an enormous
number of our ~incubators and brooders.
In fact, it is among this class largely
that we do business. and they are
making the money out of it. \ vast
field is still open among the more con
serva"ye residents of the interior farm
sections, who still stick to old methods.
unaware of the comparative simplicity
Of a good incubator and of the great
profit possible through its use
DraaH'nn liz &hA E.o.