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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26

four miles an hour, but can make a
speed Of from 10 to Is miles, and Is
handled on the road under regular
train orders.
Tanks carried on the car platform
contain enough gasoline for a days
run. Through rows of burners spread
ing we'll beyond the rails, the flaming
gasoline is forced downward into the
weeds. killing root and branch, while
the old process did not stop future
growth.
It is not uncommon on western
branch lines, sidIngs and commercial
tracks to see weeds from three to
seven feet high, which form a great
obstruction to train movement, cause
slippery rails and make operation diff
cult The weed burner Is therefore a
solution Of serious railroad problem.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26

AfV HgasHSH 1Fef dfta TaAtca tiafa
Jane on the Hand.
see Lionel doing a two-step through
the farm lands with my Esmeraida--
not through the opera glasses
Clara Jane introduced me to His
Pinkness and he invited us in the club
house to throttle our thirsts.
ordered a rickey. Clara Jane called
for a lemonade. and Lioneps guess
was a pail Of yiehy and milk
When the suds rolled Up I gave the
Vichy stun the sad eye and Lionel
caught the gaze.
! could see that he wanted to back
pedal right then, but he waited until
the next round and then he waded out
among the high boys
Il was the bluff of bis life
His limit on bug bltters was i'm
ported ginger ale With q piece of lime
in It.
When he vas out registering and
didn't care what became Of him be
would tell the bartender to add dash
OF phosphates.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26
staIr.cIlmbIna Truck.

clearly shown by the dotted lines in
the illustration All jolts and jars are
obviously eliminated. insuring safety
to the contents Of the case on the
truck In addition, no unnecessary
strain is placed On the operator, it be-
ing possible for one man to handle
large, heavy articles with the truck.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26
AdlustabIe DrsmIna Roard.

some hardwood like ash or maple for
the supports viii combine Bghtness
with strength. II the whole Is fast
ened together with one-quarter by
two-inch stove bolts. instead Of nails.
1t can be taken apart readily and
packed in very small space.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26
8omE-mA1E DRAWING TAsLE
One Easily Constructed Out ef Weed
b. Boy Handy with Tools

Here is another style 81 table. adj
Unstable tor both height and slant
which presents the advantage Of be-
inc made easily Of wood says Popular
Mechanics The cut needs no explana-
ton ANY wood may be used, but
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26


cents a side and they were two busy
boys. all right, all right.
Nil had his sleeves rolled up to
show the mosquito bites on his mus-
cles. and Frank was telling himself
how he missed the fast bunker.
I asked MI what time It was and he
told me, Three up and four to play!"
I suppose that was central time.
handed Frank few bars OF polite
conversation but he gave me the Frost
burg face.
Did you ever have one Of those real
players pass you out the golilsh gIaraS
You for the snowstorm when yoa
get it-believe mel
Then Nil and Frank dove In tha
mudcan, cooked a pill, placed the BAN
on 1t, slapped it in the Stats, gave ua
the dreary day-dsy andswere on thelB
way
II must be awful to play for money.
At the seventh hole we found Jake
Roberts plowing the side Of hill with
his niblick.
He said he lost ball there one day
last summer and he wanted it back be
cause it belonged to a set
Jake said he went to three in four
with that ball once, but the folks
wouldn't believe him till he showed
them the ball
When introduced him to Clara Jane
he invited her to Join the hunting
party, and intimated that I'd enjoy the
new mown scenery further down the
line.
/ whip-sawed him with whistling
specially entitled, why Don't Yo1
Get a Lady Of Your Own?" and he
promised 10 be good.
After we trailed over the mountains
through seven farms, across three
rivers, up the valley and dowh the
railroad, we finally reached the end OF
the links and took the steamer back to
mother.
Clara Jane says golf would be a
great game If it wasn't SO far from
home.
Yours till the bench breaks-belieye
me!
JOHN HENRY.
Copyright, 1906, by G. W Dillingham; Coz
Consolation.
Benham--I don't like this getting
up mornings and making the fire.
Mrs. Benham-Well some day.
dear, you win be where they have
heat all the time.--N. Y Press.
Fortunate.
cobble--I had great luck in Wall
straat
What did you do?
aCame out even Life.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26

The railroads Of England and Ire.
land are Of different gauge Those Of
ireland are FIVE feet three inches and
England four feet eight and one-half
inches.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26

j. 4 grasshopper can jump 200 times
lEs own .ength.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26

motors, and consequently the greater
the effect that theY develop.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26

Consolation.
Benham--I don't like this getting
up mornings and making the fire.
Mrs. Benham-W Well, some day.
dear you viii be where they have
heat all the time-N. Y. Press.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26
Selling Your Poultry.

1t riquires considerable skill to
raise poultry to marketable age, at
a cost which will allow a margin of
profit. Yet when that is accomplish
ed, the work is only half done. They
must be sold and that is often much
harder to do successfully than it is to
grow them. The Feather says:
In selling your poultry, it is we'll to
study the market and conclude wheth-
er it will be sold live or dressed prior
to sending to market, and the locality
in which it is sold should have equal
attention-as, for instance, the market
in Washington consumes on the av-
erage of about one thousand turkeys
per day during the winter months.
One the other hand onetenth of this
amount will provide the wants of the
city out of season. How foolish it
would be to ship lot Of turkeys out
of season to a market where it would
be difficult to dispose Of them. 1t
is thought that about three to five
thousand chickens are consumed daily
within the District of Columbia, or, in
other words, twelve thousand pounds,
one thousand pounds Of ducks, and
One-th1rd as much IN geese Will De
consumed daily nine months of the
year. This is reduced nearly one-third
during the summer months. The
consumption of eggs and butter varies
about the same. Those who ship to
market should be thoroughly we'll
posted as to the demand of the mar
ket, where to send their stock, and
should avoid shipping it where there
may be a surplus where it will re-
duce the value Above all things,
have your poultry and eggs go into
the market in the finest condition,
whether sent live or dressed When
ever it is possible to sell your poultry
to nearby firm that makes a busi-
ness Of carefully dressing and send
ing to market, it is usually most ad-
vantageous to sell near at home.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26
Poultry Notes.

The proper mode of giving salt is
to season the soft food.
Two weeks is long enough to fatten
a fowl if highly fed
Generally one breed of chickens is
enough for any single farm.
The falling over of a rooster's comb
indicates that he is in bad health.
The nests must be cleaned regularly
in order to keep them free from YER
min.
A lazy, sluggish young cockerel is
sure to be sluggish and clumsy when
matured.
Fowls should not be confined any
more than is necessary, unless they
are being fattened
Inbreeding and cause of condition
are frequent causes of inferti1e eggs
and weak, sickly chickens.
While quality is not indicated by
the color of the skin and legs, yet as
a rule buyers prefer the yellow.
Fowls should never be kept in such
close quarters that they cannot take
sufficient exercise to promote diges-
ton.
Geese and turkeys require plenty OF
room, and it will hardly pay to keep
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26
POULTRY DEPARTMENT
Long Chicken Runs.

We copy an article on this subject
from the Farm Press. On the whole
it is very good, yet not many can
make such long runs as are recon-
mended, that is 200 yards We find
in practice that yard not to exceed 50
or 90 yards in length is easily plowed
with a one horse plow.
Inc the other hand writer in the
Florida Poultry and Agricultural
Journal rec( mmends dividing a run
40 by 90 feet into two nearly square
yards, this we should not do, but
would make the dividing fence the
other way. That is we should prefer
the runs 20 by 90 feet rather than 40
by 4S. The house could be set at any
point on the dividing fence and so
arranged that door could be open
ed into either yard as desired.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26
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The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26

them for themselves. This made, not
only cheap feed, but one of the
very best that could be grown. Should
be planted in July to make large
crop Of seed.
The Spanish Peanut is one of the
easlent crops to grow, and is one of
the best feeds ever given to chickens.
The tops make fine fodder for hors-
es or cattle.
There is no crop grown easier than
cassava and no feed better for chick
ems than the cassava root.
There is no difficulty in growing
any of the crops named above, and if
the soil is in proper condition and
contains a sufficient quantity of plant
food, the yield will be bountiful as
the most avaricious could DESIRE
Whether it will pay to grow them
each individual will have to decide
according to his circumstances.
Grown fowls having more strength
and perhaps more experience, are bet
ter able to pick the jiggers from them
selves and each other before they get
buried in the flesh, than the. young
chicks.
The jigger, however, is as much
opposed to water as tramp, and IS
very easily drowned out If the floor
of the house is the earth, as it should
be, one good thorough soaking will
clean them out.
A. F. Styles.
D1,;1i~c E1o
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26
them unless they can have a good

them unless they can have a good
range.
Large males bred on small hens are
apt to produce long legged eggs, while
small males on large hens give short
legs and fine bodies.
The slow feathering fowls are usually
the hardest, as the drain on the system
occasioned by quick feathering does
not weaken them.
The object of caponizing is to i'm
prove the quality and increase the
quantity of the flesh Of fowls. 1t must
be done while the fowls are young,
however.
Crop-bound fowls can trace their
trouble to lack Of gravel or sharp,
gritty material as we'll as to hbrous
substances, such as potato and apple
par1ngs or grass blades.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26
Philips, Fla.


An authority on poultry has taken
a turkey census, and finds that there
are about 100000 produced annually
in the United States. He also states
that the wholesale price ranges from
II to 20 cents pound. The maximum
cost of raising turkey is eight cents
"a pound, SO there is no reason why
they should not be raised more ex-
tensively. No meat produced on the
farm will show a greater profit. Farm
erS who live near towns can usually
dispose of their entire crop at retail
prices to private customers and thus
escape paying the middleman's profit.
Unless one is certain, however, that
he can sell his fowls that way, it is
better to arrange in advance with some
responsible dealer to purchase them.
Holding fowls after they are ready for
market decreases their value.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26
Growing Hen Feed.

Editor Poultry Department.:
Unless the climate, the soil, and the
chickens have materially changed in
the last twenty years [ can answer Mr..
Haskell's first question with a very
positive yes. My experience dates
back that number of years, but | i'm
agine is good for the present time.
| grew about two acres Of rice one
riety, quite largely. 1t was an ideal
feed, very easily grown, and after
cutting off the stalks at the ground,
the roots would run up fine crop of
second growth, which made the finest
kind of fodder for any stock.
| grow about two acres of rice one
year. The greatest difficulty is in
saving it from the birds. If near a
town, the income can be largely in
creased by harvesting the birds first
and the rice later, as there is always
demand for rice-birds at a paying
price. Sunhowers can be grown as
easily as corn. [ raised both the large
Russian, producing a single head, and
the smaller kind each stalk bering
many heads, the seed is good for an
occasional feed but care must be taken
not to use it too freely.
| grew what went by the specific
name Of "chicken corn" 1t was a
species Of non-saccharine sorghum,
with handsome branching head with
brown seeds. 1t was good chicken
feed, but just at that time there was a
great craze for ornamental grasses,
and | found it much more profitable
to sell the heads as 'fruit grass" than
to feed it to poultry
The seed of Sorghum (Chinese
sugar cane) is a god chicken feed, and
the stalks are excellent fodder for all
kinds Of stock.
Doura or Egyptian corn grows a
single head on stalk about four feet
high. The seed is about the size of
Kafir corn but not SO hard, and of
quite dark color. 1t is easily grown
and makes fine poultry food
I raised large quantities of COW
Deas-more especially the conch-
planting them SO near the chickens
could run among the vines and pick
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26
Long Chicken Runs.

The following from the Farm Press
contains some very sound advice.
| never yet saw a chicken yard too
long, but | have seen a great many
that were too small. | never knew
chickens to get sick and make trou-
bic when they had plenty Of room
and plenty of green stuff 1t costs
something to fence long run, but
it pays.
A yard twenty feet wide and two
hundred yards long may be plowed
and cultivated with horses. If Sue
cesslon of green stuff is grown, start
ing in the spring and reseeding at
different times during the summer,
yard like this will grow stuff enough
to almost feed thirty Or forty laying
hens. Such things as peas and oats
may be planted very early in the
spring and by having runs may be
closed and different grains and vege-
tables may be planted in season.
A great deal of picking may be
had from corn. They may eat off the
young stalks and they may let some
Of them grow up, but in any case the
chickens get the benefit. Rape is
another good crop to grow. It may
be planted almost any time between
spring and early fall. Radishes, beets,
buckwheat, in fact, almost anything
that grows on the farm, will come in
all right in the chicken yard.
You may plant in rows and culti-
vate occasionally, Or you may sow
broadcast. You may leave the chick
ems in the yard or turn them out until
the stuff gets fairly started, accord
ing to circumstances. 1t makes but
little difference how, you manage, SO
long as you fit enough ground and
plant enough to keep the poultry
busy.
| prefer poultry yard in an or
chard, preferably of small fruit trees
such as plums, cherries, apricots,
prunes and pears. The partial shad-
from the trees is beneficial to poultry
In this way you don't feel the ex-
pense of giving a whole lot of ground
to a poultry yard. You can just run
wire poultry netting down the rows
between the trees and partition off a
yard as wide or as narrow as you
want it. The width makes but little
difference; length is what you want,
SO you can get the horses in to do the
work.
| have seen little yards that were
supposed to be dug over frequently.
The digging gets done about once;
nobody has time after that for any
such backaching job. The only way
to have a chicken yard cultivated IS to
do it by horsepower You can't
work crossways in a narrow lot; you
can't have a chicken yard very wide,
but YOU can have it the whole length
of the orchard, and it will pay to do
it,
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-06-26

On the farms, skinned milk is CIV
en- TO the pigs, when the chicks, both
old and young, should be given a lib
eral supply each daytime Poultry
Journal.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-04-23
SHAKESPEARE NOT SUITED
TO PRESENT, SAYS Ne

CHICAGO. April 23.-Prof Brander
Matthews Of Columbia university,
spelling reform advocate and member
of Carnegie's simplified spelling board,
turned his attention to the drama last
evening and declared that Shakes
peare's plays were so unsuited to the
modern theater as to be worthless I'M
til ''1nangled" to suit the occasion.
Prof. Matthew's views upon Shaks-
peare's plays were delivered in the
course Of an address before the Twen-
tieth Century club at the residence of
Mrs. T. B. Blackstone, 252 Michigan
avenue, last evening. His subject was
THE influence of theater and audience
upon the drama"
1.-The difference between the modern
and the early day theater means every
thing to the DRAMA" said Prof. Mat
thews. I'm Shakspeare's time the actor
was upon a platform down upon level
with his audience. He talked. argued,
and acted directly to them. Shakes
peare's plays were suited to this style
Of theater.
To-day. however, the drama Is pro-
duced In a picture surrounded by a
frame and over which a curtain Is
drawn from time to time. The audi
ence is separated from the enchanted
land in which the play Is being lived
by an invisible line. The scenery and
modern arrangements make an early
drama practically valueless for use to-
day."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-04-23
At KEYLOR GRAND TONIGHT.

Mr.. Lee Willard will present "A
Western Gentleman" at the Keylor
Grand tonight The strength Of the
play itself is assured when emanat-
ing from such pens as Joaquin Miller
and Mckee Rankin and is interesting
alike to young and old. In fact it is
based upon the early days Of our state.
when our forefathers pioneered and
died on the plains, by Indians and in
the Sierras. by snow storm and starv-
alton to reach the glorious climate of
California and the riches that have
made the world wonder.
Sandy Mckee. the leading charac-
ter of this play, portrayed by MIR.
Lee Willard, is a picture Of the type of
man that we are proud of for it de-
manded such rough. forceful, afraid
of nothing men as this character
represents to have overcome the cir
cumstances of those days of old: and
portrayed as it is by Lee Willard, who
is in every sense an actor Of excep-
tional merit. "a Western Gentleman"
is indeed a most interesting play.
But apart from the lead. almost every
character depicted demands most
clever people to portray them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-04-23

precate. and threaten mob violence;
players may use questionable language,
battle with one another, and return the
contributions from the bleachers, but
the umpire must be meek, lowly, and
long suffering, slow to anger, and ever
tolerant of those whom he has dis
pleased with his decisions.
With such we'll chosen observations
Sectary Taft could have put before
the Cubans the ethics of baseball as
understood in the United States. He
could have made it impossible for UNI
pire Borrato so to defy the best tradi-
tons of the game and avail himself
of privilege that belongs exclusively
to spectators and players. In charity
it may be believed that this man BOr-
ratio was ignorant Of the extent of his
offending and that he merely confused
his own position with that of the peo-
pie around him. And so there is cause
for general congratulation that the
game at Havana. with the slight eX-
ception of the umpire's error, con-
formed to the popular American
standards and that nothing was lack
ing to make it a notable exhibition of
splendid tumult and riot.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-04-23

but connoisseur in home cooking.
emerge in the play more comical than
in their original environment. Opulent
as is Mrs. Wigs" in character types
it has been even more richly cast and
the company is remarkable for it's
varied excellence and strength. AS a
dramatic force Mrs. Wigs is unique
in it's defiance of technique in play
building and it's sheer reliance upon
heart interest pure and simple. 1t is
a mine of truest sentiment. The play
opens in Mrs. Wigs cottage with the
wedding of Mis- May to Mr.. Stub
bins. Mis- May has been "sicked on
to matrimony by Mrs. Wigs, who has
sided in the winning of the "prominent
citizen of Bagdad Junction" by artis-
tic cooking which is passed off as the
brides own. Mr.. Stubbins sees his
life aureoled by delicious pies and
other culinary delicacies. The second
act shows the exterior Of Mrs. Wigs
cottage and it is in this act that many
comical scenes ensue due to the vinous
fall from grace by Mr.. Stubbins. The
final act shows the return of Mr.. Wigs
to the bosom of his family.