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Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-04-19
Local and Personal.

Nels Peterson was visitor to Pull.
man yesterday.
Oscar Larson went to Spokane on a
business trip yesterday.
When in Troy try sack of Genesee
flour. Sold by w. M. Duthie.
Found: keys. Owner can
get them by paying for this notice.
Erickson, the photographer, is at his
studio in Troy every Saturday of each
week.
Frank Stoll left Monday morning for
Pueblo, COL, to spend the summer
with his father.
Hoarhound and Rock and Rye for
colds. A new shipment just received
by c. w. Tompson.
Oscar Larson is improving his resi-
dence property by grading up his lots
and covering the clay with black soil.
Olson & Johnson have given the
front of their hardware store a coat
of new paint. It's a good example to
follow.
Miss Barbara Mcmillan, we'll known
in Troy, has recently undergone an
operation for appendicitis. She is now
living at Langdon, N. D.
If the horses could only talk what
would they say about being forced tc
drag heavy rig over the public roads
OF this section of Latah county?
B. H. Hilliard, now resident o.
Charleston, Wn., was in Troy Saturday
visiting old friends. Mr.. Hilliard still
has property interests in this section
A little paint will improve the ap-
pearance of property and add to it:
value. The quickest way to dispose
OF property is to fix it up and make il
desirable. Then some other fellow
will want it.
Some people act just as though they
thought they were the only ones or
earth who ever drew an honest breath
or had an honest thought. They are
right and all the rest of the human
family is wrong and going straight tc
He'll.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-04-19

The following letters remain I'M
called for at the Troy Post office on
April 18th 1907. Edwin Sheldon,
Chas. Hill, Alto Gates, Mrs. Loora
Leezer CD F. w. Baller, Mrs. Stella
Cresswell, A. B. Converse, M. A..
Donaldson, J. L. Flame, Ed Galbreath,
Waldo Hamland, Emmett Thompson,
C. G. Martin CD F. Nicolas, M.
Narahara (foreign), Mrs. Mary Rel /
fehl. If not called for within 6 days
the above letters will be sent to tie
dead letter office. Olof Olson, P. M
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-04-19
Doino. Business Again.

"When my friends thought I was
about to take leave of this world on ac-
count of Indigestion, nervousness and
general debility" writes A. A. CHS
holm, Treadwell, N Y, "and when it
looked as if there was no hope left | was
persuaded to try Electric Bitters, and
rejoice to say that they are curing me.
am now doing business again as of old,
and am still gaining daily" Best tonic
medicine on earth. Guaranteed at G. v.
Johnson's drug store. SOC.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-04-19
Bitten by a Spider.

Through blood poisoning caused by
a spider bite, John Washington of Bos
queville, Tex, would have lost his leg,
lens Arnica Salve. He writes: "The
first application relieved, and four
boxes healed all the Sores" Heals every
sore. 25c at G. V. Johnson's drug store.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-04-19

The Troy Flour mill has a lot of good
posts on hand. Get your posts at the
flour MILL
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-04-19

I grind scissors. E. H. Anterior.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
A POULTRY HOUSE TRAGEDY
Mistake OF An Old Hand.

The oldest Of them do make blunders
at times, no one is infallible Farm
Poultry tells OF one such as follows:
The last OF March l met in the Con-
gregational bookstore, Boston, a bro
Their clergyman who like myself takes
some interest in poultry The last time
previously that had seen him was at
the Boston poultry show, where he
made me envious by the tale of what
his little flock was doing in the way OF
egg production. 81 tell you I never
saw laying like what I had. The nine
Rhode Island Reds gave me seven,
eight, and nine eggs a day week after
week. I thought l had found the per-
petual egg producing breed. I fed
them on a dry mash which has con-
siderable fish in it that I bought at a
poultry supply store here in the city.
Also, | had the table scraps from two
families, my own and another. There
was quite little meat in the scraps.
Well, a week ago Friday evening l
noticed one looked a little ailing, and
was worse looking Saturday evening";
but she went into a nest, and there I
found her dead at noon with her last
egg. I had to go away for Sunday, but
noticed that two more birds were look
ing badly. On getting back Monday, I
found three birds dead Since then two
more have died, six in all, and I am
curious to see how many of the remain
ing will be dead when I get home to-
day. I forced them too much. There
was enough, perhaps more than enough
animal food in the dry mash without
all they got from the table. An old
fellow like me ought to know better"
Here is an intelligent man who is
seventy-three years old, and all through
his life has had considerable to do with
poultry, yet when he changed his meth
DDS he decidedly made a mess of
thinOc
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
Plenty Of Eggs and Friers.

A correspondent of the Southern
Ruralist writing from Leon county
west Florida, tells of her experience
with poultry on farm.
Fifteen years ago I went to house
keeping, and commenced poultry rails
ing with 10 hens and 1 rooster. I have
steadily made one Improvement after
another until now | can safely say that
no one has better table or eats more
chickens and eggs than my family Be
sides this I sell from $75 to 500 worth
every year, and we eat over 300 chic
kens a year, besides dozens and dozens
OF eggs. | now keep about Is hens and
roosters. I sell off about 24 old hens
each spring when the price is good and
they begin to slow up on laying.
I save about II spring pullets and
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23

One Cause of Prosperity.
Florida

The causes OF the prosperity in this
country are many and varied, but one
of them is usually overlooked.
The Southern Agriculturist prints a
cartoon which shows a safe labeled u.
S. Treasury, on the top and opening
into the safe is an immense hopper full
of eggs. Perched on the eggs is hen
holding in her bill scroll bearing the
words, ''The American Hen
The title of the cartoon is Zone OF
the greatest contributors to American
prosperity"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
GETTING A START WITH
POULTRY.
Good Advice for Beginners.

A correspondent of the .Petaluma
Poultry Journal gives some good ad-
vice about the best way to get start
in the poultry business:
If one is going into the business to
furnish eggs and poultry for the market
the safest and quickest way to get a
start is to buy stock instead of eggs
for Matching, especially if there has
been no expense in Matching and rails
ing Chickens In buying eggs there
will be several months before there will
be any money coming in and the ex-
penses will be increasing all the time.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
Poultry Thrives on Alfalfa.
Mrs. E. Robertson.

do not find much written about al
falfa in any of the poultry journals and
yet [ have demonstrated to my salts
faction during the past year that it
excels clover, both as green food for
growing chicks and as winter relish for
adult fowls. We have a field of ten
acres sown to alfalfa stretching just be-
low the colony coops and pens where
[ raise my chicks During summer
year ago | noticed that as soon as I
gave the chicks free range they would
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23

But when one invests in laying
hens there will be something coming
in right away, and it is fully as cheap
to buy fowls as it is to raise them.
We do not suppose one would buy
at the outset as many hens as he in
tended to keep, but would gradually
increase the number as opportunity
offered, and if one is cautious about
buying stock there would be but small
loss and real start would have been
made. After experience in handling
layers and learning how to raise
chicks by Matching with hens at first,
then it will be quite safe to invest in
lncubators and raise chickens to build
UP as large flock as may be requir-
ed. In case there is bad luck in hatch
ing there will be the original flock to
iall back upon and there is a chance
for another start, while if all had been
invested at first in incubators, brood
ers, eggs for Matching and the chick
feed and disaster had followed, fail
ure would have been inevitable.
If not possible to obtain laying hens
young pullets three to five months old
may be bought very reasonably and
in a few months will be laying. But
if the first experience is with newly
Matched chicks the risk and therefore
the loss is much greater and dis
couragement is sure to follow. We
even read, about one year ago, OF a
man depending upon the chickens he
was trying to raise, to become so dis
couraged upon finding them dead every
morning that he finally committed
suicide.
One should not rush blindly into the
business, for poultry raising is not
easy or quick way of making money,
but it offers more inducements for the
amount OF money invested than anv
other business if one is willing to
work, is cautious, eager to learn the
best way OF doing things and deter
mined not to give up There is money
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23

seek this field and spend hours in the
growing alfalfa, particularly when it
blossomed ready for cutting. By close
observation | found that they ate the
tender tops and purple buds ravenous-
ly and certainly seemed to thrive on
the food.
I tried sowing some seed in my
nursery pens and it was wonderful to
see how the chicks enjoyed it-wee,
fluffy fellows just from the incubator.
This set me to thinking. When winter
came on l housed one hundred pure
Buff Cochin pullets in a fairly roomy
and comfortable house. The large hay
barn was stored to the roof with al
falfa and millet hay. From the former
the leaves and dried blossoms, still
green in hue, fell in masses Of fine,
fragrant litter, useless to the cattle and
horses which only ate the bulkier stems.
All winter long I used this alfalfa chaff
for litter in my houses, bedding the
floor deep every day. The hens
scratched in it for their grain and ate
every available bit they could pick up.
By night the floor would be bare and
fresh supply was thrown in ready for
the morning meal.
My hens have always done we'll as
winter layers, but this season they have
outdone themselves and made record
which is the wonder and envy of all
my nelghbors. [ give the credit to
alfalfa, especially as some close neigh
bors with warmer houses-one of them
heated-who bought patent egg-mak-
ing foods, protein and blood meal in
large quantities and who have bone
| mills and feed green bone all winter,
with oyster shells, mica grit and cut
clover, got next to no eggs at all. In
fact the one who has the heated chicken
house, did not average three eggs a
week and the other barely got enough
for family use. One has flock of 500
Brown Leghorns and the other 250
Barred Rocks Both neighbors have
bought eggs for Matching OF me this
spring and are going to try Cochins
for winter layers.
In past winters eggs from my old
hens have been few and far between.
1t was the pullets that laid the eggs,
but not only did the hens lay, but
want to sit, just as if it was summer
weather. broke as many as dozen
at time last January. In the face of
facts like these l naturally give the
credit to alfalfa. This was the sole
addition to their feed and the only
grain they had was corn and an oc-
caSlonal feed of boiled oats, for we
did not sow wheat last year. At the
present writing I have over six hundred
thrifty growing chicks scratching in al
falfa litter for their grain, whereas in
the neighborhood the hens are only
laying few eggs. I have become an
enthusiast on the subject of alfalfa and
| say to all breeders of chickens, SOW
it in the pens and also store it as a
winter egg producer Ranch
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
HENS TEETH TER sat LIS

70 properly digest Its 1ood the fowl must
nave grit. What the teeth are to the human
ue1ng, grit Is to the 4owl. We can now furnish
ground oyster SHELLS, from which all the dust
and dirt has been screened, to supply this grit
which Is lacking in nearly all parts OF FLORIDA.
GOODS very lnterlor to ours and tull OF dust
nave been selling tor $1.O0 to $l.z5 per sack OF
iUv pounds.
E. .. PAINTER FERTILIZING co.
Jacksonville, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23

that number OF fall pullets every year,
and by so doing I always have eggs to
spare. My egg basket has not been
empty in years, neither is my yard ever
free of frying chickens. | now have
over hundred small chicks, partridge
size, which l will sell for 40 cents
pair in January. have just sold a
large drove of turkeys and still have
them all sizes from 2 days old to
years.
Now, how do I do it? Simply by
spending a small portion of my time
each day with them. | have place
wired in 80 feet long and 30 feet wide
with good poultry net. On the north
side l have a hedge OF some sort for
shade. l have privet hedge, which is
never trimmed, but grows as tall as it
may. The under limbs are cut away
about three feet high and it forms a
fine protection from hawks as we'll as
furnishes shade for the chicks. I al
ways try to set two hens at the same
time and when they hatch give all the
chicks to the one that will make the
best mother. Have coops made OF Stats
and use old barrel slaves to run through
the top to keep off rain, as the little
ones can't stand cold and wet. For
| feed use scraps from the table, cold
Irish or sweet potatoes or Feelings Of
| the same.
Put everything you have to spare in
pan and pour clabber or milk over it
to soften. Feed three times a day till
they get partridge size, then turn them
out Of the wire enclosure and let them
fare as the older fowls. My enclosure
is always planted in something at all
times of the year Plant sunfowers,
corn, collards, onions Or turnips and
one has something to help feed the
chicks. They love to eat the green
leaves and scratch among the growing
| things.
Besides, they find hundreds OF insects
among the plants. Always keep plenty
OF fresh water where they can get at it,
and ground bone, or beat up egg shell
or oyster shells are good for the chic
kens as we'll as the grown hens. II one
wants to get plenty Of eggs in the fall
OF the year feed plenty Of sunfower
seed and keep oyster shells beaten up
| for the hens. Have the stalks and all
cut and shocked and the hens will feed
| themselves.
For sore-head give one teaspooniul
Of salts to the quart of food and put
one teaspoonful Of copperas in the
drinking water For cholera use poke
root and red oak bark chopped fine in
the water. A little copperas now and
then in the drinking water will keep
them healthy
Have tried several varieties Of chic
kens but find that the mixed breeds do
best. A cross between the Brown
Leghorns and Plymouth Rock is good
Treat turkeys like chickens, but floor
the coops and feed cooked grits, chop
ped onion tops and clabber Keep
cooped until one month old and one
can raise them as easily as chickens.
Poultry Thrives on Alfalfa.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
DUST.

If your fowls are troubled with lice or eng
gers send $l.1 and get 1v0 pounds ct tooaccs
dust and sprinkle It In your coop. Inc t.
Dacco 10 guaranteed to be unbleached. Send
cent stamp tor sample.-E. y. Painter terti-
'izer 80, Jacksonville, r."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-03-07
AN IOWA PRECEDENT.

William E. Curtis in his Washing
ton gossip repeats this conversation:
ION the first Monday of December,
1S49, more than 81 years ago." said
General Wilson, l was appointed a
page in the United States. senate by
Robert Beale, sergeant-at,arms, upon
the recommendation of General Geo.
w. Jones, the first senator from Iowa,
who was an intimate friend of my
father. General Jones was a re-
markable man, very tall, straight and
dignifed, and exceedingly versatile
He served two states in congress,
being sent to the house of repre-.
sentatives from Michigan and to the
senate from Iowa. He was more
active than anyone else in securing
the admission of Iowa to the Union,
and the early history of that state is
filed with anecdotes and events in
which he was the chief figure.
Augustus Caesar Dodge was the
other senator from Iowa a1d occupied
q oSoS Oh lIIc uSluOCIdLlC Siue DeSIuS
his father, Henry Dodge, who was a
senator from Wisconsin. 1t is the
only case of the kind on record. In
several instances son has succeed
ed his father in the senate, but never
have father and so1 been members
of that body at the same time except
in the case of the Dodge family. 1t
is also remarkable that in the same
congress a father-in-law and son-in.
law, Thomas II. Benton and i'm G.
Fremont, sat together. That never
occurred before or since.
"At that time the senate was com.
posed of remarkable body of men.
| do not suppose so many famous me1
were ever together in the senate be-
fore or since. Among them were:
Henry Clay, John c. Calhoun, Thomas
H. Benton, John P. Hale, Benjamin
z. Wade, Hannibal Hamlin, Jonn C..
Fremont, William NJ Gwia, Henry s.
Foote of Mississippi. Pierre Soule,
Daniel Webster. Lewis Cass, Stephen
A. Douglas. Salmon P. Chase, William
H. Seward, Charles Sumner, General
Sam Houston. Solomon Foot of Ver-
mont. Jefferson Davis, David L. Yu-
lee."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-03-07
IONA Is EVIDENCE.

Iowa was well represented at the
annual meeting Of the Inland Daily
Press Association neld in the com
modious room" of the Press Club of
Chicago this week. In fact, the
Hawkeye state had more representa-
tives present than any other OF the
seven represented, except Illinois.
The secretary's report shows that
ninetysiX of the leading daily papers
in the middle west are now members
in good standing and the number is
increasing from month to month. Tne
organization represents a combined
circulation of about 100000 papers
daily.
In the election of officers, the high.
est honor, tnat of president, went to
Will Curtis, of the -4ewanee Illiaois)
Star-Courier. He was also endorsed
by unanimous vote as candidate for
treasurer of the National Editorial
Association.
Will V. Tufford, of Clinton, Iowa,
was reelected secretary, and Dave
Brant, of Iowa City. was made mem
Der of the Executive Committee. II.
e. Oates, of Clinton, was made Iowa
Vice President of the Association,
and e. P. Adler, of Davenport, ana
Phil Hoffman,, of the Herald, were
elected delegates to represent the as.
sociation in thu meeting of the Ma,
tional Editorial Association, to be
held at jamestown, Virginia, during
the Exposition. The trip will be made
in June together with representatives,
of the Press Club of Chicago and an
interesting itinerary has been ar
ranged
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-03-07
UNITED PRESaYTERiANS.
Missionary Meeting Held at the G. w.
Lyons Home.

The Woman's Missionary Society OF
the Uaited Presbyterian church was
held at the home of Mrs. G.. w. Lyons,
112 Second avenue west, Friday,
March /, at 2:S0 p. m. fhe society
was well represented, quite a number
being present. @u-r.
the study for the afternoon was
taken from the first chapter Oh "CnrIs-
tuS Redemptor," an outline study of
the island world of the Pacific.
Mrs. Thomas Stevenson and Miss
Ollie Morrison were the leaders.
The meeting was opened with pray
or by Mrs. A. NJ. Frost and Mrs. X. H.
Burnside. The program for the after
noon was divided into FIVE parts. lat,
The Tahita Island, Mrs. Thomas Stew
enson; I'd, The Astral and Pearl ISL
ands, Mrs. Luella Helm, Sd, The Her
vey Islands, Mrs. Emily ]. Coryell;
Attn, Sketch of the Life of John Viii
liams, Miss Minnie Mprrison; 5th,
The Raratonga Islands, Mrs. Grin Ly-
ons. Each number showed tnat much
care and study was given the subjec.,
as each lady told her story in very
interesting manner.
This was the time for the election
of officers for the coming year. but
the trustees of tie church wished to
present some business for the consid--
Grafton Of the ladies and on account
Of the length of the program, the
amount of other business that was
transacted, and owing to lateness OF
the hour, the election of the officers
was postponed until the next meeting.
Flowers were. sent to sick members
of the society, some to Miss Sallie
Wilson and to Mrs. M. I. Glasgow
Dainty refreshments were served, and
a social good time followed.
Every lady member of the church
should be a member of the mission
ary society and enjoy these meetings
1t is good to be there. .
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-03-07

others would nave failed He mas
had a part in the stirring crises OF
the past ten years, whea history has
been made fast by the United states,
and III every and all events he has
never been found wanting. He has
never lodged a vote, and never been
afraid to declare himself on any pub
lie question. 8
In his retirement the nation loses
a hard worker for the interests of
the people. arau public servant
whose place will be hard to fill. On
the other nand. Oskaloosa welcomes
him home, as the city will prohL by
his presence. Energy and push were
born into him, and he could not help
exerting them II he tried. They will
be thrown into the activities OF every
day life, ald Oskaloosa and Mahaska
county will have another booster,
Who will make their proud Position,
and the acknowledgment. Of their
worth move faster to the front.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-03-07

gay dress, merry song and sunny dis
position At first appearance II the
carly spring he looks innocent enough.
and those who have praised him in
the past appear to have been padly
hoodwinked by the mischievous little
rogue. The experts found after
long and careful trial that the houo-
LAX behaved fairly well In the nort..
but wnen the frosts begin to tint me
naples and heeches in this part OF
the country In the early fall, MIR. pos-
olnk and his numerous family Of rel
atives gather together in great crowds
and light out for the rice fields of
South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas.
There he loses his merry note5,adopts
a chirp uglier than that of the homely
sparrow and literally devastates the
rice fields. His depredaticns are es-
.timatei to cost the gulf farmers up.
ward Of $2,G00,000 each year
The robin. the blackbiri, the spar
row. the .woodpecker and even the
crow were found to be fast friends of
the farmer. True. they have been
known to pick the choicest of certain
berries in the garden and some OF ...B
early ripening fruit in the orchard,
and the CROW, and in some rare in.
stances the blackbird, has been caught
in the act of pulling the sproutlng
corn from the farmers fields The
stomachs of thousands of these ulrds
were examined and ell showed that
the greater part of the food of these
little fellows was composed OF III.
sects. Most of them live almost ex-
clusively on insects, which are known
to be great pest of the agriculturlst
ani 10 the horticulturist. They ne.
stroy millioas of these pests annually
and all of them were voted frienas
of the farmer instead of enemies.
The average farmer knows that the
good work of the birds greatly out
weighs the bad. And even If the ex-
perts had not exonerated the little
feathered chorus of being jetriment,
where is the plowman who would will-
lngly give up the merry serenade in
the nearby grove while he drives HIS
horses across the field from morn till
dewy eve. We are glad the birds
have beaten the Indictment.
AS to the sad predicament of lne
hcbolink, we advise him to stick to
the minstNlsy as he sings it in Mis-
souri, and to behave himself as bird
of his ability should behave. If he
fails to do this, then he must take the
consequences and continue to be
baked in pies for the tables of the
southern planters.