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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01
THE WINTER-EGG PROBLEM.
Mrs. lizzie B. Griffith.


The time is at hand when we should
prepare our hens for those high-priced
winter eggs by getting them over the
mott in healthy condition and pre-
pairing warm quarters for them. 1t is
best to rid the flock of all surplus
stock as it hardly pays to keep lot
of young cockerels after they are large
enough to sell for spring chickens
Usually they bring better returns
when sold as broilers then when kept
until later in the season. Selling
them saves bother and saves feed. A
serious mistake is made by most pOul-
try raiSers in not marketing their
surplus cockerels early enough. Town
poultry raisers do not often make this
mistake because they are in closer
touch with the market and in many
cases people come to them for these
small roasters during the summer.
1t pays any one to take some pains
to prepare place where the cockereis
may be shut away from the pullets.
With lot of young cockerels contin-
ually tormenting the pullets they do
not develop as they should and do not
begin laying as they should. Unless
birds are kept as breeders it pays bet
ter to sell the cockerels, when they
weigh from one and one-half to two
pounds each, or little more, than it
does to keep them until they have
grown full size.
I begin feeding now for winter eggs
The morning feed being bran mash
mixed with milk either sweet or sour
The noon feed is corn and Kafir-corn
and in the evening the whole corn or
Kafir-corn. Of course as the season adj
vances green stuff must be provided.
If you have any scrubs in your yard.
weed them out. Fill the vacancies
with standard bred ones and you will
be better satisfied, both with yourself
and your chickens. Grit and water
should be kept before them at all
times.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01
Maturing PuIIets.

A good feed to make the maturing
pullets get the cackling habit, is grain
in the morning in litter, about hand.
full to the chicken, and two handfuls
to the whole flock at noon. Then for
supper feed a mash made of choppc,-
vegetables, beef scrap or butchers
meat, boiled and chopped, with little
boiled wheat, cracked corn, barley or
oats to make it taste good, and bran
mixed up with hot water and feed
while it is still warm.
The beef scrap is very rich and it
must not be fed in too liberal quanti-
ties else disaster will follow. About
two tablespoonfuls to twelve hens a
day is a great sufficiency.
Never throw soft feed on the
ground Alfalfa is fine to produce
winter eggs. The third cutting is the
best, because the stems are fine.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01
Gapes.

A reader living at Mt. Vernon, Wn.,
asks the cause of gapes in chickens
and other kinds of poultry. The cape
worm develops from germ or egg
taken into the stomach of the fowl
with it's food when eaten from damp
ground. This egg matches in the
gizzard and intestines and finally,
after passing through the walls of the
digestive tract, works it's way into the
windpipe, where it clings by SUCTION.
Masses of these tiny red worms grow
there, and by stopping the air passage
to the lungs the chick is smothered
to death.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01
Green Cut Bone.

Green Gut Bone.
One pound of cut bone for a dozen
hens once day, which should not
cost over one cent a pound, will pro-
duce more eggs than five times as
much grain, because the cut bone is
complete in egg-making substances,
while the grain is largely deficient in
many respects. Some persons affirm
that it does not pay to procure bone.
cutter for small f1ocks. That is .
mistake. Bone-cutters are now cheap
er than many ordinary garden tools.
and are strong, durable and efficient.
The cost of the bone-cutter is soon
regained in the increased number of
eggs laid. 1t is almost indispensable
to success, no matter how small the
flock, for no one should keep a flock
unless fully determined to secure the
largest profit possible. The great saw
ing of bones and meat and the utiliza-
ton of materials that could not be ap-
propriated as food for fowls without
their use have given green bone-cut-
ters a place on all well-regulated
farms. They are sold at from SIS to
$40, a price which places them within
the reach of all, and they have added
to the profits of poultrymen, farmers,
butchers and poultry supply houses.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01

The Federal Paint and Wall Paper
Company's booklet entitled can APP
peal to the Artistic in the Home" is
ready for distribution. It's free, and
contains invaluable information for
those who contemplate redecorating
their homes. Write for it. It's free.
Address 1914 Second Ave., Seattle.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01
Poultry Questions and Answers.
A snhscriher writes.

A subscriber writes:
II have some September Matched
chicks which I wish to grow to good
size for layers next summer when the
hens are broody. How much green
cut-bone can l give them? What will
it cost me to raise the cockerels to
broiler size? How much green bone
would you feed laying hsns?"
You can feed young chicks a tea
spoonful of green cut bone three times
week; laying hens a tablespoonful
three times a week. Beef scraps may
be kept before them all the time. An
average OF one ounce OF dry food per
day is required to bring a chick to six
weeks of age. They should weigh at
that time IRON one pound to one anu
One-quarter pounds. Wyandottes
have been brought to one and half
pounds at this age. A bird that will
dress a pound is the best size for
broilers in most markets.
A reader asks:
How long does it take a hen to
motif"
The length of time it takes a hen
to mott depends on her age, the food
and housing she has had, and her gen.
eral condition. With nourishing food
containing plenty of heat formers, and
a comfortable house, she should finish
melting in from six to eight weeks.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01
The Success" mo Lamp Incu-
batOr#.

The inventor of the Success
mo lamp Incubator, Brooder and
Automatic Nests, is the author of
some very excellent ideas in mod
ern poultry culture which are free
to any one for the asking. The
"Success" Ono lamp Incubator
and Automatic Nest Co., j. w.
O'Keefe, Pres, White Salmon,
Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01

them separate yard. Look carefully
after the pullets and give them good
warm house and roomy scratching
shed, and you should have a plentiful
supply of eggs this fall and winter.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28

NEW
YEAR
K W..
Jeweler and Optician.

Get a Leader Windmill at Chap
mans. 3-tf
Go to Donahues for Indian
Curios. 4o-tf
c. c. Davidson writes fire in
surance. 8 1T
c. c. Davidson writes fire in
surance. 6 Itf
CAB--All hours, day and night
phone IS. Io,-tt
Screen Doors at Foxworth-
Gailbraith Co. 24tf
Chapman has Hammer Paint. 1t
saves you IS per cent. 3-tt
Sanders Lumber Company sole
agents for Malthoid Roofing. Stf
California Port Wine at h e
White Elephant Saloon. If.
Edison Machines and Records
at Yaseen's jewelry Store. 5-tf
Morgan s Dodson. Coall Coall
Prompt delivery. Phone 81. +tf
Biggest assortment OF fine can
dies in packages at Donahues. 4o-tf
Work done promptly.
| 8tf Peters & Martin.
Toilet and Military Brush Sets
at Harry W. Yaseen's Jewelry
| Store. LIFT
Patterson X Donohoo at the
Court house get reports every day
from the la~ndIofice. I7tf
See our line Of high grade China,
Cut Glass and Silverware at va
seems JewelrylStore. SIT
The Union barber shop has space
for rent for a cigar and news stand.
See H. X. Grubbs. 2tt
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28

Four head of horses,
branded as follows: One Sorrel
horse, branded IF" with bar
above) on left hip; one bay, two
year-old, branded "GIS" on left
hip; one yearling, branded III F"
connected together) on left shout
der; one yearling branded "3-I-K"
on left hip. Owner may have
same by calling at Gus Mathis
livery barn and paving for this
notice. CRY PoUNDMAsTER. 7tf
Have your sign painted by
8tf Peters & Martin.
Peters & Martin, painters. S-tf
FOR SALE-Hotel of 20 rooms
or Smith street between First and
Second streets. Easy terms.
N. M. MILLER.
Bonded whiskey at the White
Elephant. Your choice of the fol-
lowing popular brands: Old Over
holt Rye, Old Grow, Green River,
Early Times and 0. F. c. Bour-
bon. 2otf
Examine our line of Souvenir
spoons. Harry w. Yaseen' Jew
eler, Top Notch Store. Off.
Painters and Paperhangers.
8tf Peters & Martin.
Go to h.nderson's second hand
store, east main street, to buy
good furniture and all second hand
goods. Auction every Saturday
at 1890; goods sold on commits
sion for private parties. lott
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28
Man Who Never Lived.

TaN no never Lived.
"A man." says a newspaper
story, made millions in his 90
years of life by never doing the
usual thing.
These were some OF the things
he never did:
He eve travelled.
He never joined anything.
He never paid for a ticket of
admission.
He never ate in a hotel or res
taurant.
His total expenditure for a
fare was less than one dollar.
For forty years he had not
voted.
He wouldn't smoke, not because
it was harmful, but because it cost
him IL cents a week.
And when be died he had
amassed $I,5oo,ooo.
Poor, lonesome old man.
The world was no better off for
this man. He took all it would
give, but he gave nothing in re-
turn, either of money or sympathy
or life.
So, when he died, they told
about him in the newspapers, and
now others will spend ths money
that he gave up everything TO
gather. There can't be many who
care whether he is gone or not,
probably he had a few who loved
him, because the most unlovable
of us are nearly always loved by
somebody. But there isn't any
.reet full of friends who feel that
ano"hing had gone out Of their
atop He hasn't left an empty
&c, for he never cared about
IS people or other things, or to
See and know and understand and
feel, and to put out his hand and
get hold of the hand OF the throb-
bling, living world around him.
People say, That's a queer
story"
It's more than a queer story
n is a real tragedy, because it is
the story of a man who died before
Ne had ever began to live.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28
c. c. Davidson writes fire in
surance. 6 Itf
Notice!

On and after December the first
we will sell for cash only. Owing
to the peculiar financial condition
that exist we think it the better
policy, by so doing we hope, to
give our many customers better
service, and trust that the pleasant
business relations that have exist
ed in the past will continue. We
beg to remain very truly yours,
Tit MORGAN & DoDsoN.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28

SHEEP FOR SALE will sell
1870 head of sheep, mostly Shrop-
shire grades-medium WOOL the
best on the market. Can be seen
at my farm, five miles west of Rev.
uelto Station, 2 miles up east side
ofBell pasture fence. Inquire at the
Office Of J. r. Daugbtry, Main ST,
Tucumcari.
If John SURCUy.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28
Not an Ananias.

Say" said the tired looking
man, as he paused in front OF a stall
in the fish market, throw me four
or FIVE of your biggest trout, will
your"
but why do you want me to
throw them2" quered the aston
ished dealer.
SO | a look my wife in the
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28

We are grateful for the splendid
patronage we have received in Tu-
cumcari and hope to merit it's con-
tinuance,
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28

FOR SALE-Horses, Mules
and Mares-5o head to pick from.
Will trade for hogs and cows or
will buy.
Gus MATHIS.
4otf Tucumcari, M. M.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28

eye when | get home and tell her |
caught Them" replied the other,
YEARLY. II may be poor fisher
man, but I'm no Ananias. Chi.
cago News.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1907-12-28
PROPER
VENTILATION
OF CARS

1t Is very important that railway
cars be adequately and properly
ventilated
In sleeping ears especially, passen-
gers appreciate pure air-an alb
sence Of that stuffy atmosphere
which means headache and car
sickness
All Pullman sleeping cars on the
Rock Island are now equipped
with the new Garland ventilator, q
a most effective device
The Rock Island was the first
western road to install the venti-
lator on It's coaches, and is today
the only line having them In gen.
eral use
1t Is just one more point of advan-
tage In Rock Island service
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
SUPERINTENDENT SELECTED

The asylum board of trustees went
into session again yesterday for the
purpose of choosing successor to the
late j. b. Thomas, since John Fable, of
Wauwatosa, failed to accept the posi-
ton of superintendent offered him.
Another candidate for the position
entered the field this time-Jos. Roehl,
of Milwaukee. The trustees were in
session all afternoon yesterday and did
not arrive at a choice until late. This
morning they made known the name
of the successful candidate and he
proved to be the gentleman last men,
toned.
A contract was made with him to be-
gin his duties Nov. LIST. at a salary of
81, 200 per year, which is $3.50 less than
was offered MIR. Fable. He was also
bound by agreement to not interfere
with any of the present employees of the
institution as long as they perform their
duties to the best interests of the asylum
and to Marathon county, which means
that Miss Margaret Thomas is retained
as matron. MIR. Roehl is steward of
the Milwaukee county hospital for
chronic insane and has been with that
Institution eleven years. He is said to
be very pleasant gentleman to meet,
and is farmer of experience, as well
as having knowledge of how to care
for the insane. He will move his wife
and three children here the latter part
of the present month.
The selection of successor to Mr..
Thomas has been no easy matter for
the trustees, whose aim was to give the
institution a superintendent who would
be satisfactory to everyone. They de-
sired to get man of practical ex-
perience as well as executive ability.
AS Mr.. Roehl came highly recon-
mended by members of the state board
of control and the Milwaukee asylum
board, they make their selection
guided partly by such recommends
tiOns.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
ORGANIZE A. S. E.

At meeting held in the town hall of
the town of Texas last Saturday a
branch of the American Society of
EQUITY was organized. The attendance
was not large, only about twenty-five,
due to the fact that the meeting had
been advertised only short time in adj
vance and many farmers could not leave
their fall blowing.
The society was organized with
twelve charter members and officers
were elected as follows:
President-HermaHD Deli.
Vice-P resident-John G. Chiber.
Secretary-ieo. Panke.
Treasurer-Carl Plautz.
The members will make united eff
fort to get every farmer in the town
into the organization. for little can be
accomplished in carrying out the plans
of the society, unless it is strong in
membership and thoroughly organized.
AS branches have been organized in
other towns it is thought the society
will have large membership in the
county before another year passes.
The main object is to centralize
markets and help the selling conditions
for farmers In other localities the
society is building warehouses for the
storage of farm produce and creameries
and cheese factories are being pur-
chased and controlled by the farmers.
Down near La Crosse the society is con-
templating the erection Of a plant for
the distilIation of dnnatured alcohol.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
APPOINTED INDIAN FARMER.

John F. Miles, of Ashland has been
appointed Indian farmer for the La
Pointe reservation for Chippewas and
will have his headquarters at 0danah.
Mr. Miles was, until sixteen years ago,
resident of Wausau. He was for
many years filer and millwright in
the mill of the Alexander Stewart Lum-
Der Co. During one campaign he was
a candidate for member of assembly,
Second Marathon county district, on
the labor ticket. He is an old soldier
and while here took an active interest
in G. A. r. doings The Ashland Press
has this to say of him:
lone thing is certainty, and that is,
that Mr.. Miles viii deal honestly with
the Indians, and in addition he has had
considerable experience in handling
men. He has been q resident of Ash
land for sixteen years, and has been q
mill man, scaler and lumberman, most
of his life. He was formerly st the
head of the mill mems union in this
city. The last time Senator Spooner
spoke in this city. Mr.. Miles introduced
him to the audience at st. Agnes hall.
The appointment is also nom partisan
MIR. Miles is Socialist in politics, not
one of the wild eyed variety, but q
pretty sensible sort of man."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
STOLEN HORSE FOUND HERE.

Sunday evening, a horse hired at the
livery stable of JAS. Menier, at Merrill
was stolen. The man who hired it
stepped into store for few minutes
and while he was in the building two
young fellows came along and were
seen to get in the rig and drive away.
MIR. Menier called up his brother,
Frank, in this city, informed him of the
theft and described the horse. The lat
ter, by inquiry, learned that the rig had
been driven into his stable during his
absence. the young fellows requesting
that the horse be cared for over night,
but as the barn employees had no room
for the horse and did not know of the
theft, they turned the rig away.
Mr.. Menier started out on still hunt
and in time located the rig at the Math-
ews stable. Then he started to look up
the young fellows and found that they
had engaged a room at the Winkley
hotel and gone to bed. He secured a
police officer and had them arrested,
and notified his brother of results. Tho
first mentioned MIR. Menier and Sheriff
Bartelme came down from Merrill and
when they saw the boys they recognized
one as the sheriff s son and the other
as a well known young man of Merrill.
AS the sheriff settled all costs arising
out of the escapade of his son, the own
nv IF bo VII will not ,,roaao,,ta
The boys did not intend to steal the
rig, but merely wanted to see a good
live city, and concluded they could find
such place by coming here. They in
tended to return the rig yesterday
morning and settle the costs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The board of education held its regu-
lar monthly meeting last evening in the
offices of Hurley & Jones. The main
business transacted was as follows:
John Ringle. chairman of the special
committee, reported that in order to
make the old brick school building on
the Longfellow grounds disable, too
great an expense would have to be in
Cured, as it would have to be repaired
inside and out, and would be still poor
ly lighted and ventilated, therefore the
board decided to offer it for sale.
The board authorized the purchase of
sewing machine for the domestic de-
partment in the Franklin school, a
typewriter for the commercial depart
ment in the high school, and small
bill for the high school gymnasium.
MIR. Stone, chairman of the building
committee, was authorized to make
final settlement with Miller & Krause
for the Franklin school building
The question of closing schools for
the Teachers Assn meeting was re-
ferred to committee consisting of w.
w. Albers, chairman of the teachers
committee, the superintendent of
schools and principal of the high school.
The usual grist of bills wss allowed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-15
PRICES
erss'nB Baking Powder
Made from cream OF tartar derived
solely from grapes, the most DELI
cious and heaIthful of all fruit acids.

The stovepipe enamel sold By Callies
has stood the test of years aud has
proved % be the only enamel on the
marke' eff practical value.-CSllies.
Julius Schram, brick maker en-
ployed at Ringle, was shot through the
hand with load of fine shot Sunday
while hunting. The injury is due to
the accidental explosion of his own
gun.
The Presbyterian Hull mission held
its first harvest home festival last Sur
day and there was good attendance.
An address was made by Rev. Jos.
Brown, of Marshield, synodical mis-
sionary.
Otto Neuendank, of the town of
Ringle, paid fine of S25 and costs yes
terday because he killed partridge
Sunday and could not show hunting
license when requested to do so by
John Foster, game warden.
The second donation made to the
Wausau library by Andrew Carnegie,
amounting to $4,000, was received by
the library board last Saturday. OF
this sum part will be used in paying
off an Indebtedness on the building and
the balance for improving the grounds.
The Senior C. E. society of the Pres
byterian church will entertain its mem
bers at a social to be given in the
church Friday evening Every member
is requested 10 bring souvenir Ipostal
card. They have been kept in the dark
as to the object to be attained by this
feature
There will be a special meeting of the
Women's Missionary society of the
Presbyterian church, on Wednesday
afternoon, in the church, at which time
there will be interesting reports read of
the synodical meeting recently held in
Milwaukee. 1t is urgently requested
that there be large attendance of the
ladies.
Miss Mary Jaeger. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Jaeger, residing at
TIP Chicago Ave, died Saturday even
ing after q weeks illness. Deceased
was twenty years of age and for some
time previous to her last illness was
sales lady in the N Heinemann store.
The funeral will be held Thursday after
noon from ST. Paups Lutheran church.
Local brewers state that for twenty
years they have not paid as high prices
for barley as they are obliged to pay at
present. This condition is not brought
about, they say, by any shortage of the
crop, but rather to prevalent soaring
prices on everything produced in this
country except postage stamps. Barley
of just an ordinary grade is bringing
so cents.
The library has recently purchased
and mounted upwards of 400 geograph-
ical views for the use of the schools
The pictures consist of places ara
objects of interest in Europe, Asia, and
America, over 200 of them being vio-s
in the United States. These pictures
may be made very useful in the teach
ing of geography. Teachers may draw
ten or more at Il time in the same way
as books. The library has also large
collection of unmounted bird pictures
which will be loaned to the schools upon
request.