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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
Railroad. to Cuba

whole series will be traversed through
Lower Metacomb, Grassy, Gravel, Vac
cas-, and then with an immense spring
across a channel $4,000 feet wide to
Bahia Honda, where little harbor
will be created, enabling direct train
communication with Havana even be-
fore the line is completed to Key
West. Deep draught vessels can Sc
cure admittance at this point, and the
distance to Havana is only twenty
miles greater than from the city at
the end of the crescent Of keys, where
ultimately great seaport. will be
constructed with terminals, wharves
and docks. From the harbor of Key
West the car floats, each capable of
conveying train of thirty cars, will
ply to the Cuban capital.
Nature has assisted in the project.
The little coral insects whose secre-
tons have been petrified so plentiful
ly all along the Florida peninsula
have prepared broad, fiat surface to
meet the needs of the engineers, some
portions of 1t appearing just above
the water in the form of keys-low,
fiat islands covered with sedge and
jungle in the uncultivated portions;
with pineapples, lemons and cocoa
nut groves where man has fixed his
habitation-some of it submerged a
few feet beneath the waves that tum-
BILE in from the deeper parts of the
sea. The coral rock provides natu-
raj ballast-one that may be dug out
in chunks large and small and used
for filling where the line crosses one
of the swampy tracts of the region.
The work is we'll under way. Each
practical problem is being solved az
1t arises. For a railroad thus to go
to sea is something new in the his
tory of engineering, but inventive gen.
uine is proving itself equal to the
task. The great expense is to be ex-
planned not only in the large mileage
Of bridges and viaducts, but in the
exposed character of the line, for the
cost exceeds that of average railroad
construction-about $4,000 a mile,
which is perhaps three times greater
than that in ordinary fiat country
where no long bridges have to be
built. The total involved is from
$15.OOO,00o to $2O,OO0,00O.
Work Began In 1905.
The construction work began in
1905 on the basis of surveys which had
been made previously. All the grad
ing of the section of the road on the
mainland has now been finished and
part of the viaduct work completed.
Over nearly all the distance, fortu-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
NEGRO AND STATES EXHIBIT BUILDINGS At THE JAMES.
IQMM EXPnSIlnM

Inc States Exhibit building the
.h the visitor study the products
fatSuing search The
poses The Negro Exposition building
biton anla SEPARATIONS
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
LICENSE PUBLICATION.

The fact that it may be difficult,
if not impossible, for the county au-
ditors 10 procure from the collector
of internal revenue the names of the
persons in their respective counties
who have procured government Ii
cense to sell intoxicating liquors, as
required by the law passed by the
recent legislature. need not handicap
the enforcement OF the prohibition
laws to any serious extent.
The general government, which
knows no sentiment, but adheres
strictly TO red tape rules. can not
furnish the county auditors with the
lists. The government books are open
for inspection, however, and the state
can secure these lists at its own en-
pense. They would merely give clue
to the possible violators of the law.
The purpose was merely to aid the
officers in locating the criminals.
But that law was passed before the
one creating a temperance commits
sioner, or it is probable the Haugen
bill, requiring the publication of the
revenue tax would not have been
passed. The temperance commission
er can procure at small expense the
list OF these licenses issued in this
state, and by keeping them secret,
would be more liable to catch the
violators than if they were forced to
either publish their own death war
rants or to have the auditors do it
through the paper. The enforcement
of the law would in fact give pub
lie notice to the violator that the
officers would be on his trail at once.
1t would be tip of to the man who
was violating the law.
1t is catching and Furnishing the
criminal that makes the enforcement
of the law. Driving them from one
place to another is merely shifting
the burden without relief.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27

Annexation of the disturbed Cuban
republic by rail; conversion of the al
ready thriving city of Key West into
the Hoboken of Havana" with its
docks thronged with huge double
decked ferry boats; construction of
a great railway line that goes to sea,
leaping from, island to island with
long viaducts and bridges on which
the passenger bound from New York
to Cuba will see from the car windows
nothing but the blue waters of the At
lantic on the one side and the blue
waters of the gulf of Mexico on the
other; an engineering feat involving
problems now solved for the first time
all that and much more is involved
in the extension now in progress of
the Florida East Coast railroad south
from Miami, its present southern ter
minus, to the tip of the long sickle
shaped series of coral islets which
the peninsula of Florida has thrown
out into the tropic sea. Within three
years, unless some unexpected inter-
ruption occurs, the tourist may take
an ocean voyage in Pullman, con-
veyed in highest comfort along the
line of the Florida keys, and thence
in a huge car ferry nearly 100 miles
across the straits, and out of sight of
land, to Havana.
A thousand pictureque undertakings
have marked the building of American
railroads. Untraversable mountain
ranges have been bored, suspension
bridges assembled amidst the swirl
ing spray of cataracts, bottomless
swamps filled in with the debris of
demolished mountains. Yet none more
pictureque has been evolved than this
work due to the constructive imagina-
ton of Henry NJ. Flagler, who has
projected an American railroad that
will go further to sea than any other
yet constructed.
Route of the Road.
From Miami to Key West along the
route which has been selected for the
gigantic enterprise it is 1874 miles as
the engine will go. In the mainland
section the line has already followed,
as far as possible, the spaces not
cross-hatched in the map with the
shading, which show swamp to HON.
estead, distance of twenty-four
miles. Thence across the vast, nearly
inundated prairie that borders the
shallow sounds protected by the long
reef of islands, over Jewish creek, to
Key Largo, the biggest of the entire
chain. On this key fifteen miles of
railroad will be laid. After that, now
with short, now with long jumps, the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
All Are Agreed.

Fargo FOrum.)
Many papers in the state conclude
the Grand Forks Herald is opposing
the denomination Of President Roose-
welt.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
NOLLYCODDLE.

President Roosevelts "mollycoddle"
Is no new members. The word was
used centuries ago by old English writ
ers to designate an effeminate, and has
been in almost constant use ever since.
A molly" is husband who stays
around the house too much, meddling
with the domestic affairs of which his
wife should have charge. ITO molly"
Is to follow the wife about to see that
the household duties are not sighted
and to find fault with everything. This
has nothing to do with ''hot tamale."
Times uzanfe will s,,s,rl.. ,.-...
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
Showing Up the CRATER.
(Eoroo Eor,,,,,

The Grand Forks Times has at last
discovered Packard's tender spot. The
muckraker has begun to squirm un-
der Davis jabs about the money
Packard drew as a clerk in the re-
cent legislative session.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27

ing March 4. 1909, as he is living.
Rooseveltism is spreading in every
state and it will sweep over the coun-
try with such irresistible force that
1t will carry the puny opposition be-
fore it, and place the man whom
the Office is seeking at the head of
the nation.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
Six CONTESTANTS.

There are six contestants in the
preliminary contest to be held at Cav
alier on May for the purpose of
selecting high school representative
to compete in the state defamation
contest
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
A Deliberate Mistake.

A Deliberate Mistake.
pink Paper-Dem)
The Grand Forks Herald is good
paper; too good a paper to be unfair
to anyone. even to Senator Hans
brough. An erroneous statement
agaist ones worst enemy can be ac-
knowledgei and corrected without
loss to dignity or manhood.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
Pulse Of the Pnes,
Thirty.Six the Reason.
(Hannah Moon.)

The Grand Forks Herald cannot
permit Senator Hansbrough to enjoy
an after dinner chat without criticism.
If Editor Winship covets the senator's
position why doesn't he come out fiat
ly with the statement and then we
know what he is driving at?
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14

quality. They raise their young them
selves without any Cared. L. Bruen,
Platte County, Neb.
Fall Chicks.
Editor Poultry Department:
If you have been careful about
cleanliness in your yards, houses and
nests, and have no mites, and very
few jigger feas, if fowls are in good
condition and not weakened by yer
min, be sure it is just as easy to raise
chicks every month in the year as in
winter. Early in the season, I use
incubators and brooders, but when
hens have been laying long time and
then show inclination to set, think
they might be allowed their maternal
instinct, and SO unless I want to have
a large number of one size, I let the
hens have their way. My yards are
bare of grass, but have plenty OF
shade. Weeds, grass, ETC., can be had
by running in the grove Small chicks
are kept from the larger fowls, or
they'd soon be tramp1ed and not
amount to much. I have found that
while fall chickens do not attain as
large size as earlier, they will COM
mence to lay at least two months
earlier, SO you see the advantage is
you can have eggs continuously as
we'll as fryers for the table.
Mrs. Gomperts.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14
Another WAY to Cut Spurs.

A gentleman commonly credited
with more practical knowledge Of
Game cocks than can be legitimately
used in most states, sends us the fol-
lowing:
"I do not want to be quoted, but [
noticed several letters in your column
of information about cutting off the
heels and spurs of breeding fowl. Of
course, everybody knows when these
heels are long they sometimes injure
the hen SO that they are of no use
for breeding purposes, and also de-
creases the fertility Of the eggs.
II am enclosing a clipping taken
from your late publication, where
somebody makes the reply that they
can cut the heels and spur off as far
as it is dead Now, everybody that [
they can take fine saw, same as they
cut metal with, and cut the heels off
just as close as they want to, and then
if the heels bleed, all they have got
to do is to put on powdered chalk or
sulphate of iron, to prevent the bleed
ing, and in that way will get the very
best results from the male bird, and
avoid injuring the female bird on ac-
count Of the long spurs on the male.
81 am giving you what little infor-
nation l have on this proposition, and
there is no reason why you should not
suggest to your readers that this pro-
cess can be carried out without any
injury to the male bird; in other
words, they can be sawed off just as
short as a man desires to have them
sawed, that is, about one-half to three
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14
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The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14
Advantages of Keeping Guinea Fowls

Advantages of Keeping Guinea Fowls.
The American Agriculturist prints
the reasons given by several poultry
men, for keeping guineas, as follows:
One reason for my keeping white
guinea hens on my farm is because
they are good watch dogs at night
If stranger comes around they let
me know. The white are the best
kind, tanner than any other, and are
better table fowl than the other
varieties. They mate like birds, or
pair Off There is little or no market
for them.-T. R. Mcdonald, Clark
County, KY.
[ consider guinea fowls almost a
necessity on the farm, as they are such
great rangers and do away with all
insects within their reach. The Pearl
is the best variety, easiest to raise,
and when small cannot be seen so
we'll by henhawks. They must have
their liberty in order to do we'll There
is a good demand for young ones at
market for broilerS, and they command
a high price.-Mrs. J. Clara May,
Hillsboro County. N. H.
Guinea hens keep away hawks. If
prowling strangers come on the farm
at night they make great noise. The
Pearl guinea is the hardest, like quail.
Their meat is extra fine, having a gamy
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14
Poultry Notes.

Make the hens work Do it by scat
tering mixture of fine grains -millet,
oats, wheat, corn, etc.-in the litter in
the morning. Hens that work have
good appetites Their circulation is
better, their combs are redder and
they are happier. A laboring hen is
the mother of vigorous, bound-to-1ive
chicks.
fact is not sowell known as it should
fact is not SO we'll known as it should
plowed ground, and one well-known
poultryman plows up alternate strips
of his chick range so that the young
stock can have their choice of either
fresh ground Or grass ground. He
insists that the youngsters spend most
OF their time on the plowed ground
Professor w. R. Graham, of the On
tario Agricultural college, is of the
opinion that, on an average, the in
cubator, under proper management,
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14
Wonders of a Hens EGG.

A late number of the Rural New
Yorker contained a reproduction Of a
photograph of one of their regular
contributors to the poultry depart
ment, taken while weighing a large
hen on pair Of old-fashioned steel
yards. In regard to that photo, the
original said:
The photograph shown in Fig. 272
was taken last fall and was a snap shot
taken as [ was weighing one of my
White WyandOtte pulletS. do not
remember now what the weight was,
but anyone can see by the length OF
her body-nearly third of a man S
helght-that she was no under sized
bird. [ remember that the cOckerels
of the same brood weighed 8, 8 IA
and 8 I-2 pounds when less than seven
dottes I ever raised 1t doesn't seem
possible that this great creature was
inside of an egg only a few months
before. The potentially of an egg
does not depend upon its size at all,
for three-pound Leghorn hen lays
much larger egg than an eight or
nine pound Buff Cochin, for instance;
also she lays more than three times as
many of them. That the small brown
egg of the Cochin should contain
within it the possibility Of fowl three
times the size of that within the larger
egg of the Leghorn is one of the
wonders of nature. One of my Gus
toners this summer wrote me that
out of the hundred eggs sent him
there were half dozen so small he
should not set them. It was the first
complaint of the kind l had ever re-
ceived. [ Immediately wrote him to
set those eggs under hen as favor
to me and mark the chicks to see if
they were any smaller than the others
when full grown. | suppose every
breeder Of large numbers of fowls
find there are times when the eggs
seem to run smaller than usual and
think this is apt to occur after the
hens have been laying extra we'll for
some time, and [ have noticed that
scant supply of meat in their food will
also have tendency to reduce the
size of the egg. Part Of the time this
spring [ was bothered with eggs too
large; had more of them than we
could use in the family, could not get
them in the egg crates, as they stuck
up above the paper "1llers," and they
became quite bother for while,
until we thought of reserving them to
fill the top layers, which were sufl-
GENTLY lower than the edge of the
crates to allow of the eggs projecting
above the filters without liability of
undue breakage.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14
May Her Tribe Increase.

A rat killing hen is owned by Mrs.
Maddy, of Newcastle. Mrs. Maddy
witnessed the killing of full-sized rat
by her biddy. and vouches for the
truth of the story. The rat, in this
case, was trying to steal an egg from
under the hen, and paid the death
penalty for the bold attempt at rob-
berry. Every egg from this hen should
be carefully set and Matched. There
will be good demand for all of this
kind of stock.-Indiana Farmer
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14
Feeding for Broilers.

If you have market for broilers,
the following directions for feeding,
from the California Cultivator, will be
Of interest,":
If broilers are wanted, separate them
from the others at about six or eight
weeks of age. Up to this time they
green food twice a day, with an addi-
ton to their supper of eggs and bread
crumbs or johnny-cake Now COM
mence at their supper to give them a
mash, mixed very dry, composed Of
equal parts Of bran, cornmeal and oat-
meal, mixed dry and crumb1y. Let
them eat all this they will before going
to sleep, then take away the remainder
Continue giving them the chick feed
and green food during the day, but in
about five days give them a breakfast
of the above mash, and five days later
give the mash three times a day, mix
ing it fresh for each meal The reason
for mixing it fresh is that if it is the
least sour it will cause trouble and
cost you perhaps the lives of many
chicks, and certainly cost you much
more food, labor and money, for you
will have to feed a much longer time
to get them we'll again.
[ would like to explain that sour
milk, when fed as c1abber, or mixed
in the mash, does not injure chicks,
the acid it contains is Tactic acid, which
does not harm them, but when the
mash turns sour it is a fermentation
that injuries chickens, although it does
not hurt hogs.
The broilers should have some heat
at night if the weather is cold; in
fact, it is not advisable to make any
radical change in their quarters nor in
the way they are housed Changes
are apt to give them a setback, So,
be careful to make changes gradually
and carefully. Broilers should weigh
about pound and half, but there
are now epicures who demand what is
called "squab broilers,' or chickens as
small as pigeons, weighing only one
pound; these are either younger chicks,
or else chicks from smaller breeds,
like bantams, which are very delicious
Fryers should weigh two pounds
and upwards. Roasters, four pounds
and up. 1t takes just about three
weeks to feed the chicks for market
with this forcing food. This food
given three times a day with green
food twice a day and a little chick
feed left in the litter to keep them
busy and amused, is all they need; it
will make the flesh juicy and delicious.
In England, barley meal and oat
meal, equal parts mixed with milk, is
the fattening food In France, buck
wheat meal, oatmeal and cornmeal.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14

will hatch as large a percentage of
eggs as the hen, although some hens
will hatch a higher percentage than
the machine Tests made at that sta
ton have shown that when 24o eggs
were placed in an incubator and the
same number under 20 hens the num-
Der of chicks Matched was about equal
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-08-14
POULTRY DEPARTMENT

eighths of an inch from the leg, and
with the process enumerated above,
it will prevent the bleeding, with no
danger to the bird, and with much bet
ter results to the breeding PEN
Farm Poultry.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-05-09

80 For the use OF young ladies'
who may feel like making their
SWANS unhappy during those JOYS
Gus times. there Is o card with an
envelope containing small mitten
attached. Butonly very hard hearted
ladies' would send such o mlssive
now.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-05-09
some strange superstI.lons.

Superstitions peculiar TO different
people and countries are very inter
esting. Here are some Of them
A great many people firmly be-
lieve that bees will not thrive II
people quarrel near them. a stili
more common superstition Is that II
death occurs where bees are kept
the bees must be told about ii or
q piece Of Grape tied TO the hive.
Otherwise the bees may possibly
die.
When birds have been In the habit
Of SINGING in certain garden for a
long time they give the owner a
farewell concert" when ke leaves.
Iiyou drop your comb when do
ing your hair, set your foot on il and
wish.
II you drop pen accidentally,
and sticks upright ID the floor, wish
before you pick it up.
II you see the FIRST star in the
evening before any others are out,
wish. In all these cases your re-
quest Is sure 70 be granted.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-05-09
DIX. j. M. Cook,
Jan F-tf. MICH ANlcsyILLn.
F0R SALE.

z Registered yenrIing Hcrlord bulls
Registered Berkshire pigs supplied 0n
reasonable notice. Apply 10
~ d, DUKE Il BROS,
May II sVUy. Valley Lee, Nd.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-05-09

The habit 81 STOPPING over when
reading or. writing has bad effect
On most eyes and should beavoided,
especially II one IS nearsighted.
When people approach Athe age Of
forty the morning paper is apt to
appear blurred, and they complain
the printing is getting bad. The
trouble ID they need glasses. If
they dc moi got them, later On their
eyes viii deteriorate 50 rapidly they
will be obliged TO wear theia a'l the
time, On tho other hand, Il D person
puts Oh glasses when the fifs warn
ing of tired ayes u received he will
meyer ho pbliRe % wear them the