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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-20
NOTES ON HOG RAISING

Do not fail to SOW field Of rye this
fall for the hogs.
BY the time the rye is eaten off next
spring grass will be big enough to keep
them going.
Sow rape early in the spring--one or
two acres--and then pasture it by
means of portable fence, moving the
hogs from place to place.
Sour and decomposed food will not
make growth in hog any more than
in man, and is apt to produce dis
ease.
Some men never think of giving their
hogs clean, cold water, but make them
get along with the liquids they find in
Stops This is a serious mistake.
Make use of the cheap foods on the
farm for fattening pigs.
Pasture. rape and forage crops will
produce gains at a moderate cost.
Light grain rations, fed in connec-
| ton with these succulent foods, pro-
duce a high quality of pork and at a
| low cost.
Bran is coarse, fibrous food not
| adapted to the digestive organs of the
pig.
| Better feed the bran to the cows and
buy middliDgs Tor the pigs
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done all the little things, such as
watching the incubator and taking out
the chicks as they Matched. l was in
town at work and my mother, though
an invalid, was able to do that for me.
With the coming of the chicks the
cost of feeding them must be taken
into account, but with me it was reck-
oned along with my regular weekly
grocery bill and l never knew just how
much those first chickens cost in the
way of food.
The following autumn l began SELL
ing eggs to my employers and / have
been supplying them ever since. From
the day l brought my first dozen eggs
I don't believe l have ever come into
New York without basket on my arm,
and that basket filled with fresh eggs.
deliver all my own eggs and the
year around get 60 cents a dozen.
guaranty them to be less than twenty
four hours from the hen and untainted.
Untainted eggs always sell for more,
and now that people are beginning to
understand their value from a health
standpoint as well as from that of the
taste they are more and more in de-
mand.
To produce untainted eggs the hens
must not only be well bred and healthy,
but they must be fed on the best clean
food and have access to clean, fresh
water.
l never buy hens and kill off all the
old ones when they attain the mature
age of years. Young hens lay bet
ter, especially during the cold months.
| The old hens, or fowls for stewing,
| -. =.
as | call them, | sell just as | do my
eggs-pack them into baskets ready
dressed and deliver to my regular GUS
toners.
l have only regular customers, and
! they include some one in almost every
office in the large downtown building
in which / work as a stenographer.
| In Matching chickens of course there
I are often more roosters than 1 need.
These are the only young chickens /
| ever have to sell, and if / wanted to
boast 1 think might say that had
/ all l will have to dispose of this spring
| engaged FIVE years ago.
1t was just that long ago that | sold
my first pair to the senior member of
the firm that employs me and he told
me the next day he would take all |
had to sell as long as he lived.
To get healthy eggs hens must have
/ exercise every day in the year. OF
course this is easily managed in the
| summer, but in the winter, unless the
size of the henhouse is considered, the
result is not satisfactory.
In building my latest henhouse l al
lowed ten square feet of room space
for each hen and the result has been
most satisfactory. l keep the floors
covered with straw and throw thei1
mornings feed and grain in 1t 40 that
they will have to scratch for 1t.
In building houses for fowls only
wood or paper should be used, never
4 stone, brick, cement or plaster Imake
my floors double, and as the lot is quite
dry I raise them two feet off the
ground thus giving the hens cool
place in the summer. l have found
that fowls suffer as much from heat as
cold
/ also am careful to make my houses
alright everywhere except in the front
and so avoid drafts. which I have found
>i>eut as injurious to hens as to WON
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trough first and one pound of cotton
seed meal per steer poured over it. It
was the aim to let the steers have all
the corn they would eat and still re-
tain good appetite. The two lots
We're fed equal quantities of mixed hay.
Lot / was fed corn stover which is
the fodder without the ears, the auan-
tity fed intended to be Approximately
as nearly equal to the hay fed as prac-
ticable. Lot was fed corn silage in
such quantities as they would eat up
clean. 1t should be borne in mind that
tne Stage contained the ears, while the
slower did not. The hay was fed after
the grain ration in the evening and
the slower and silage after the grain
ration in the morning.
The hay, grain, slower and silage
were weighed. During only two periods
was any uneaten silage left in the
managers. One was at the beginning of
the test, before the steers had become
accustomed to the feed, and the other
was later, when some damaged silage
was fed by mistake. The steers ate
all the hay given them
AT the beginning of the test the sto-
verified steers averaged 22 pounds
heavier than the silage lot, but at the
close the latter averaged pounds
heavier than the others.
The individual gains of the silage fed
steers in every case was larger.
In making up the cost corn was fig
ured at 40 cents per bushel, cottonseed
meal at $50 per ton, hay at $40 per ton
slower at "a per ton and silage at $3.50
per ton.
The feed eaten by the stover-fed
steers cost $103.73. while that eaten by
the .silage-fed steers, cost $1O991.
While the difference in cost is very
slight, the silage-fed steers were better
in general condition and would prob
ably have sold higher than the others
on a discriminative market.
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en- The first day of May / celebrate
by removing all the glass windows and
substituting wire netting.
For food I use only the best grain.
with as much cooked and raw vegeta-
bles as in my judgment they need. 1t
is impossible, so far as l can see. to
give hard and fast rules about feeding.
The vegetables give my fowls come
from my own garden of less than a
quarter of an acre. They are always
given fresh and any food that is left is
taken out the next morning.
The only assistance 1 have on my
place is a young girl who waits on my
mother during my absence and a man
who comes two days a week during the
gardening months and half as often in
the winter. He not only does the work
outside the house but all inside that
requires to be done by man.
Unless a woman is fond of her home
and is willing to make sacrifices both
in time and labor for it l should not
advise her to attempt to raise chickens
after working all day In an Office
I love my home and it gives me more
pleasure to work around it than te
spend my evenings elsewhere.
I have not the slightest objection to
bringing a neat-loolsing basket into
town with me mornings. AS ] am q
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-20
AN OLD BOYS SAY so

How many Of our boys are thinking
OF the great things that they would
do II they only had a chance? Now,
boys, don't always wait for this chance
to come.
Do not dream and chafe at the COM
monplace surroundings that the farm
affords you, but strive to make your
own chances.
Do not neglect the homely duties that
are crowding about you in your every
day life and always be waiting for
something to turn up so that you may
show that you are made of a little
better stuff than ordinary boys.
1t is all in the boy and not in the
chances, and the boy with the right
kind of stuff in him will seize the first
chance that comes to him Oppor-
tunity seldom knocks at boys door,
and when it does he should be ready
to grasp it.
Above all, do not feel above the oc-
cupation and calling of your parents.
Perhaps the old farm home does not
have the charm for you that it should,
but do not be discouraged and think
of leaving father and mother but stop
and think how you can make it better
and how you can make it more pleas
ant and attractive and how you can
Improve your chances of finding some
profitable occupation
Above all, do something to improve
your leisure time.
The boys who are spending their
idle time about town are doing it be-
cause they have nothing to interest
them at home. They become lonesome
and go to town to find company not
at first to acquire bad habits, although
these soon follow
| Try to find some occupation at home
that will prove pleasant and profitable
before you form a desire to spend your
time In town. Take the word of an old
boy for this-Samuel Franklin.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-20
TURKEYS AND THEIR CARE

The White Holland variety are
among the heaviest layers.
In-breeding, lice, dampness and inn
proper food are causes of great mortal
ity among turkeys.
Never breed from the same gobbler
more than one year unless the same
breeding hens are also retained for an
other season.
Maryland and Philadelphia dry
picked turkeys command the highest
market prices not only for the reason
that the turkeys are fat and usually of
a fine grade but that they are well bled
in killing. which naturally gives the
skin bleached white appearance.
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GREEN FOOD FOR THE HENS

During the warm period of the year
the question of supplying green food
for the fowls is not a serious one, espe-
cially if the fowls are given free range
where they can gather bits of grass
and other green's.
But it means something different
during winter, and it is Important that
the matter be not sighted
Fowls seem to relish green food best
in the morning, and it will be noticed
that if given cabbage or other winter
greens the first thing upon opening up
the houses they will pitch into the stuff
to the exclusion of any grain that
might be within reach. 1t seems to act
as sort of "bracer." eye opener or
tonic"
Cabbage, raw potatoes, beets, tur-
nips and other roots chopped up about
the size of whole corn are all keenly
relished and do lot of good
A very good substitute for green food
is cooked or steamedout clover hay OF
alfalfa. This can be mixed with an
equal quantity of ground grain. Espe-
cially laying hens should be regularly
fed cut hay during winter, as 1t Is
bulky food and contains considerable
lime and other ingredients that go to
making eggs.
Boiled vegetables are relished, but
care must be taken that they are not
too freely fed, as there is tendency to
overfatten and cause bowel troubles
Every mixture of ground grains
should have proportionate part of it
made up of bran, which has the same
effect on the fowls system as has green
stuff.
Green food properly fed will keep
the bowels in proper condition, keep
the fowls in better health and grow
more and larger eggs.
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SILAGE FINE STEER FEED
Slower Too Cheap and Fattening
but SiIage Beef Firmer and
Generally Better
BY THOMAS I. MARS.
Pennsylvania Experiment Station.

During the feeding season of 1867
test was conducted to determine as
far as possible the relative value of
shredded corn slower and corn silage
for fattening steers.
Twelve steers We're divided into two
lots of six each the aim being to have
the two lots as nearly equal as possible
as regards weight and quality These
steers We're high grade Hereford and
Shorthorn yearlings which had been
bought in the Pittsburg market for fat
tening in the college barn. They Were
tied in two rows of stalls in the base
ment of the college barn and had water
constantly before them
The two lots We're fed the same kind
of grain, viz, broken ear corn and cot
tonseed meal. They We're fed twice
daily, the corn being placed in the
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ing things on the place on stormy days
when outdoor work was out of the
question. l induced the boss to At up
shed as a workshop with small
portable forge, an anvil, wise and a few
other tools, and with these I have
saved good many blacksmith's bills
| paint all the machinery, too, and fix
up the broken wooden parts, and dur
ing two days in October when 1t rained
cats and dogs" made a pretty decent
looking set of bookshelves for the ma
dame. It's easy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-20
MUST KEEP CHANGING CROPS

To the Editor: The effect of contin-
uously growing the same crops on the
SOIL year after year is shown on the
once rich prairie lands of the west.
where this method is fast exhausting
their fertility. The results are more
plainly evident on some of the aban-
doned farms of New England, whose
fertility was once mined rather than
cultivated when they were new and
rich.
Though different crops are all COM
posed of the same elements taken as
food from the soil, they do not use them
in the same amounts. Thus the root
crops require potash, the grain phos-
pilates and the forage crops nitrogen.
Plants have different methods. of get
ting the same kinds Of food. Clovers
can get nitrogen from the air and near
ly all classes of plants differ in their
root systems and consequently in their
foraging area in the SOIL So if we
grow one crop all the time it will ex-
haust one part of the soil while not
using the other.
A shallow-rooted or deep-rooted plant
should not be exclusively grown upon
any one soil. We therefore practice
rotation Of crops-that is, growing a
different crop on the soil each year
from the one grown there before. In
this way we give the land different
kinds of treatment in preparation for
the crop and during it's growth. Some
crops are intertilled and some are not,
and so we give the weeds different
treatment. 1t is well known that GER
tain insects and diseases infest certain
crops. If we change crops we disturb
the home of the insects and cut off
their supply and allow time for the
diseases to die out before we plant the
same crop again.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-20
ARTIFICIAL EGG MATCHING

The dryer the air in the incubator
The more rapid the evaporation
The eggs in the incubator throw off
rery little heat for about the first two
weeks.
A high temperature during the early
part of the hatch is apt to prove fatal.
A rise of temperature to 10 degrees
On the eleventh day, if not too pro-
longed, will not necessarily prove fatal.
After removing the infertile eggs
from the machine spread out the fer
tile ones so that they occupy about the
same relative position to one another.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-20
GIRLS SIDE Line is EGGS
Stenographer in a Big City
ddsThree Hundred Dollars
TO Income Every Year.
BY ANNIE c. EMERY, NEW YORK,


do not see why it should be con-
sidered wonderful feat for a young
woman to make money from chickens
and eggs and keep up her work in the
city at the same time, but as my eff
forts have attracted much attention l
will tell other girls how to do it.
began in May with less than $50
capitalize be exact $50. l invested
the whole amount in an incubator and
eggs-White Leghorns' eggs-and as
good an incubator as there was on the
market
BY the time the chicks Matched / had
saved enough from my weekly salary
to buy an So brooder and enough wire
to make running pen. / did every
thing myself and there was nothing to
pay.
OF course I can't pretend to have
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nail through the board ana cleat, leav-
ing out one end in the form of hook
Put the stout end into the entrance so
as to catch inside of the hive. This
board will not get out of place either
in the hive, on the ground or on a
bench Bend the wires at such a
length as not to allow the bee sto jump
over from the board to the hive-D. L..
Morris. Linsey, Va.
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vigorous woman, l don't object to it's
being rather heavy, either.
Three hundred dollars year means
labor whether it is made by doing extra
work on the typewriter or raising eggs.
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This can be done by pruning plants as
soon as branches appear. This con-
fines the growth to the main stock.
Grown in this way plants can be moved
to the open field when they are two
feet high without checking their
growth. The picture shows tomato
vine six feet high, trained on a post
and which bore more than a bushel of
fine fruit. Make up your mind to try
it next spring and you will never grow
tomatoes in any other way.
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A LIGHTING BOARD FOR BEES

The picture will show how lighting
board can be made for beehives. Put
two small cleats on the under sides
of the boards with nails, then drive a
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the same time. A trough ten feet
square placed at the intersection Of
four fields will serve the purpose Of
watering animals in all four at the
same time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-20
GROWING TOMATOES ON POSTS

When picking your tomatoes out of
the dirt to find them rotted by the
damp ground you will doubtless wish
for some way to grow them differently.
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DOUBLE WATERING TROUGH

A watering trough made either Of
cement or wood placed as below will
serve to water stock in two fields at
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THE FARM AUTO IN. PRACTICAL USE

It is now not uncommon to see har-
rows and other light machinery, such as
mowers and hay rakes, attached to au-
The Newtown bee., 1908-04-03
EASTER VACATION.

BY JOHN WARD STIMSON. Awake! sweet Harp of Life! and let
 thy voice ..l Like song of some spring bird on dar-
 ing flight m. .- Piercing the tattered robes of wintry
 night, ..5. P. l... Upborne on balmy brsezes now, and
 rejoice!
 Break forthagain with youths rejubi-
 lantsnoise And summon ap fair Flora to the light. Lest, slumbering heath her frosty man.
 tie white, She miss the dance of maidens and of
 boys. Let loose the children's Iocks-unbind
 their hairI Close up the desks where tired heads
 re,lines Give OCT the ferrule stroke, the weary
 task resign; And. open wide their portals,to Gods
 air! .... . Seal upthose darkened chambers of
 despair! The kite string and the topcord now
 untwine. & o,breathe, with them, these odors SC divine;
 And walk, with them, through naturs everywheret Whereunto shall we drift on broker oars,
 Poor mortal sailors on Life's stormy seas, If nevermore we sip the,Lotus' ease Nor rest our shattered limbs on lam
 bent shores? Nor smile again while Triton's trum pet roars Its summer summons that dark pillow:
 cease; That aching hearts regain Gods holy C peace;
 And Times conflicting stuggles, quiet
 peace.
The Newtown bee., 1908-04-03
Brideewater.
AFFAIRS ABOUT TOWN.

MT and Mrs Charles Marshall have been spending a few days with Mrs Marsnall's sister, Mrs John Harris.
 Mrs Richard Harris has been staying with her son, John Harris, for few days.
 Charles Marshall had the misfortune to lose his horse while in Bridgewater.
 David Marshall is spending few days with his aunt, Mrs John Harris.
 Treat district school closed last Fri day for weeks vacation.
 J. D. Wooster of Bridgeport was a guest at E. R. Wooster's, this week. While in town he repaired the organ at St Mark church and tuned pianos. A. D. Jacot and family, who have moved from Staten Island to the farm recently purchased by them, stayed at the home of MT and Mrs H. w. Treat while their goods were in transit, and are now getting nicely settled in their new home.
 John Hall has left s. P. Treat and is now employed by Charles Tyrrell of New Milford.
 Miss Alice Wooster of Bridgeport is spending week or two with Mrs B. R. Wooster.
 Miss Vivian Wooster, daughter of Dr c. M. Wooster of Tarriffville and a student at Ingleside seminary, was the guest of her uncle, F.. R. Wooster, over Sunday.
 R. M. Warner has purchased of George Stone 20 acre tract of land or Main street.
 Miss Sadie Taylor is quite sick and under the care of Dr Leslie. <
The Newtown bee., 1908-04-03

More aaan 25, 600 persons have voted for Mrs Freeman or Mr Pemherton since the beginning of the New York Herald 8: Anglo-American competition and the race is barely half run. Not only have the readers in the towns and cities outside New York shown their interest in the contest by sending in a very heavy vote, but they have proved their intelligence by the quality of their criticisms. Members of women's clubs, business men and students in towns all over New England, up the State. in New York and in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have had their say and many of them have won prizes. Every week $40 is paid to bright men and women who put their thoughts in suceinct form. The criticisms are making very interesting reading 50 mnch so that mary criticisms of the criticisms are now being received. The Herald has long held that the average reader was as well qualified to express
 an opinion on subjects of this kind as is the professional critic, and this exper- iment has verified the truth of the the ory. Many persons do not realize what they can do until they make the effort to express themselves, and they do not make an effort until some opportunity like this contest presents itself. Then they find that they have new pleasure and interest in life. No one objects to receiving the money prize, of course,
 but, after all, the satisfaction derived from the discovery that one possesses a power hitherto unknown is we'll worth the efforts that it costs. It is inspir- ing to think that all over the country,
 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Cuff to Canada. thousands are reading the same stories and giv- ing opinions about them. Every critic
The Newtown bee., 1908-04-03
Woodbury.
WHAT'S GONG ON IN TOWN.

J. H. Cowles and family of Water bury spent few days at E. H. Cowles' the first of the week.
 Mrs Sophia Bacon of New Milford has been recent visitor at A. W. Mitchell's.
 Mrs 0restes Hickox spent day or two at s. ". Munsell's, last week.
 Mrs Walter Gibson has so far recov- cred as to be able to be about the house.
 Henry Galpin has moved into the Central hotel.
 Miss Carrie Strong entertained few friends at whist, Tuesday even- ing.
 The fire sale at J. D. Kimball's has
The Newtown bee., 1908-04-03
BrookfieId.
FARM CHANGES.

Carl Anderson, who has been running the E. c. Smith farm for the last wear moved into the tenement house of s. B. Hawley in the Center. He will work for Fred Johnson during the year.
 Selectman F. P. Elsenboss has been over town fixing up the badly washed places in the roads by which they are made quite passable. Miss Flora Griffin returned, last week. from a visit to Ridgefeld, Ct. Miss Muriel Beers is home from Storrs Agricultural college for the spring vacation. e.. . The vacant school house in East Iron Works has been solo to parties in ,Iron Works who will move it up there and make it into club house.
 A MT Lawrence from near New Brit ain moved into the tenement house on the E. c. Smith farm on Thursday. He will run the farm the coming year. John Carlson, who has been working the Thomas Halpine farm, has moved to farm near Hartford, which he will run the coming year.