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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
THE POULTRY SHOW.

III you hear rousing cock -a-doodle-
do and "quack. quack, quack." ON
the main street Of your town you will
know the winter poultry show Is In
full blast and should accept the clarion
call rs an Invitation 20 attend.
Every goose will rubber. aRd every
hen VIII cacklc. and every fow.. from
the dwarf Sebright up ;o ihc giant
Brahma. will give you rousing wei.
come. IL your business to attend tn
help boosr the rooster There are over
GOO exhibitions held In the United
States ever season millions ~ fowls
exhibited. millions of dollars expended
for priEss and expenses at these shows
all done 20 advance the poultry indus.
try
Through the activity of the poultry
associations aud their helpers thor
ouchbrcd poultry is gradually sun.
planting moncrcl stock q general tn
terest Is beiug aroused. scientific mcth.
DDS are coming into use. the docks are
giving better results. aul the UuItsI
States Is OF the pinnacle Il poultry
products 20 tie tune - SIW0m1uD
. year
Why. 81 course J viii help" oh
We knew you would" You're n0i
one % the croakers. kuorkerS. irrkers
nor strikers" -NouW pitch in aul
help the lor1i aSSo-iltia- o. surcess
snd while you arr down there admir-
Ing Tire pretty bens aDi rtoStsrs W.
bope you'l cer ehiclcn ,rlzy ard end
IN becoming au active aSssriatia.
member also
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19

desert air, for the White Wyandotte
is ahead, and you'll see 1t stay there.
It's fine as silk, good as gold and
quickly sold at bon ton prices. 1t wins
on the table and at the show. No
class has so large representation at
exhibitions or so many admirers or
wins so many trophies.
1t has over 1900 admirers in the
American White Wyandotte club, the
largest speciality club in the world.
Nature abhors an angle. Thus her
sunsets are framed In ovals, her fair
flowers are mostly circles and bend in
graceful curves, while her great bril-
liant round worlds swing in blazing
rings around the universe.
A Wyandotte cock from his rosy
comb down his curved neck, across
his broad. snowy back and up the
concave sweep to the top Of his pretty
poised tail is a double reversed curve,
and the rest is all curve.
And the gentle, cackling, snowy
white queens Of his harem present a
scene to excite the admiration and
test the skill Of a Rosa Bonheur
The White wyandotte is supreme in
utility and beauty.
On top to stay there.
Because you're the stun,
For meat rich and tender
And Just weight enough
On stop to stay there.
With many brown eggs,
With yellow plump body
And clean yellow legs.
You bet you're the daisyi
You're surely the 80.
You make me hen crazy.
You're just the whole show.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
Training Girl, For Farm Mork.

The Arseley House Colonial Train
ing school at Kitchens, England. is
devoting itself 90 the training Of girls
for life IN the English colonies. more
especially for farming life. Through
cut the whestfields Of Canada there
Il a continual demand for women to
help on the farms but the ordinary
servant is far from answering the re-
quirements. The girls at Arseley
House are taught plain cooking and
breadmaking (Which Is not expected
q an English cook. who gets her
bread from the hakeshopl. riding. driv-
inE. stable management and simple
csrpenterina- These unusual elements
of education are % make the Eirls r.
sourceful and capable members Of a
community far from any center Of
civnizztion-
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
LOOKING BACKWARD.

Nineteen hundred and eight has seer
successes and failures in the poultry
business just like other years. The
weak have gone to the wall: the sturdy
remain. Poor crops. high priced grain
and general depression have affected
| all.
The SQUAD men caught 1t hard. The
| artificial boom had brought backset;
then came high priced feed and a
glutted market. for squads are delica-
cies as yet, especially when people
ecOnomize. Some poultry journals
suspended. and a number of incubator
firms went broke.
There has been much retrenchment.
Flocks have been culIed closely.
But those who quit were mostly un-
schooled. impractical or carried away
by fabulous stories.
There are fewer weakingg in the pro-
fession. They left no gaps in the
ranks. The sturdy, practical pushers
remain. with better fiocks than ever
The business is booming
Enthusiasm is higher than ever.
Nineteen hundred and eight was the
greatest year to date.
Nineteen hundred and nine promises
vaster progress.
Join the profession. friend; help to
root for the rooster and boost the bust
ness
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
DON'TS.

Don't let chickens roost on the man
ger. You wouldn't want them on your
breakfast table.
Don't let them live in the corncrib
It's unkind to the horses, and fat hens
lay no eggs.
Don't let them rOost over the hog
trough. Oh, yes, hogs hog, but
you mustn't be bughouse.
Don't sell all your wheat to mill and
keep nothing those crops to fill. Egg
crop will be ni'.
Don't let the geese sleep in the snow
and drink ice Treat them righE; that's
nice.
Don't throw waste apples on the
ash pile Feed to the turkeys; they II
twitter and smile.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19

Il the name from a faucied resem-
blance TO a Turkish guinea fowl
But whats IN a nameF"
It's the taste makes turkey famous
The turkey Is Americas most nat
ural and most popular poultry gift to
the world.
Before that the central dish Of royal
" was the fat pig with rcd apple and
the gander In goose gravy. But the
turkey is now the national and inter
national bird.
OF ali varieties the Mammoth Bronze
Is king and the only true representa-
tive Of the wild turkey that once Gov
cred America. as be Is descended from
a northern gobbler and a Mexican hen
In that early day people were 50
few and turkeys 50 many that cur
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
tHIcKENs ON A TROLLEY RIDE

Perhaps you have seen real hog
on "A trolley ride. We don't mean an
end seat hog, but a porker in a pack.
ing establishment going around the
ring, where every fellow takes Il
whack at him until at the end he
comes out sausage and pudding
Likewise in the big poultry packing
! plants, the chickens head downward.
| take the fatal trip around the wire
The first man stuns the bird; the
second cuts the artery in the roof Of
the mouth or sticks 1t in the neck
right back OF the ear lobe.
1t swings along to a vat Of water
just below boiling point The next
man takes the fowl by head and feet
and dips it breast downward into the
vat and then gives It second dip.
back downward. and shoves the bird
along The next man grabs all the
breast feathers. the next man gets the
feathers Of underbody and sides: then
IN succession are stripped the back
feathers the wing and tail feathers
and the last man finishes and places
,be carcass on n rack to cool
When the animal heat has passed
III the fowls are graded. pressed and
frozen for shipment.
There are certain points IN the pack
ars process we observe.
Have system IN picking. finish
pluckIng before feathers get cold. do
not have wafer too hot. never dip legs
and head NJ waterfowl In hot water
and sprinkle fine resin on the feathers
before picklng 10 make the process
Easy
Hang turkeys and chickens by feet
when killing to prevent hruising and
the soiling OF feathers
Grade stock into heavy, medium and
!ightweights and never ship until per.
fectly cooled
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
cnLIc In HORSES.
Causes, synt'toms and the Common
Method of Treatment.

Causes, Symptoms ana "e So"'N'
Method of Treatment.
IT is more or less common on farms
having a considerable number OF
horses to each year have one or more
cases among them Of fatulent collie
More especially is this true where
horses are being fitted for the market
necessitating heavy grain feeding.
In work issued by the United
States department of agriculture, en-
titled Diseases of the Horse" this
subject Is discussed In detail. In which
are given the causes, symptoms and
the common methods of treatment. 1t
Is pointed out that among the most
frequent causes of this form OF collie
are to be mentioned sudden changes
Of food, too long fasting, food given
| while the animal Is exhausted. new
hay or grain, large quantities OF green
| food. food that has lain In the manger
for some time and become sour, indi-
gestible food, irregular teeth, crib
biting and. in fact, anything that pro-
duces indigestion may cause fiatulent
collie
The symptoms of wind collie are not
so suddenly developed, not so severe
as those of cramp collie. At first the
horse is noticed to be dull. paws
slightly and may or may ncxN" down.
The pains from the start are continu
Gus. The belly enlarges, and by strik-
ing 1t in front of the launches a drum
like sound results. If not soon re-
lieved the above symptoms are aggra-
waited, and in addition there are no.
ticed difficult breathing. bloodshot
eyes and red mucuous membranes,
loud, tumultuOus heart beat, profuSe
perspiration, trembling Of the front
legs signing respiration, staggering
from side to side and finally plunging
forward dead. The diagnostic symp-
toms of fatulent collie are the disten-
sion Of the bowels with gas, detected
by the bloated appearance and reso-
nance on percussion.
The treatment for wind collie differs
very materially from that Of cramp
collie. Absorbents are of some serv-
Ice, and charcoal may be given in any
quantity. Relaxants are also benefi-
cial in this form of collie. Chloral hy-
drate not only possesses this quality,
but 1t Is also pain reliever. 1t is
then particularly well adapted to the
treatment of wind collie and should be
given in one ounce doses In d pint Of
water. Diluted alcohol or whisky may
be given or aromatic spirits of am
monia In one ounce doses at short in
tervals. A physic should always b
given in datulent collie as early as
doses of Barbados aloes. Injections,
per rectum, of turpentine, one to two
ounces; linseed OIL, eight ounces, may
be given frequently to stimulate the |
peristaltic motion of the bowels and |
favor the escape of wind. Blankets
wrung out Of hot water do much to
afford relief. They should be renewed
every five or ten minutes and covered
with a dry woolen blanket This form
Of collie is much more fatal than
ramp collie and requires prompt and
persistent treatment 1t is entirely
Unsafe to predict the result. some ap-
mild attacks going on to
speedy death, while others that ap-
bear at the onset to be very severe
fielding rapidly to treatment. Do not
lease your efforts until you know the
lnimal Is past help.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
WHITE WYANDoTrE SUPREME.

The Yankee is a great rooster in
ventor.
Not content with making his coun-
try the marvel for machinery, be
tinkers with flesh and blood.
1t is a race horse to beat the world,
a mule to pull more and kick higher,
a COW to give more milk, a hog of
| heavier ham or a cock-a-dOOdle of
finer flesh, fancier feather or fairer
form? He tackles the contracts and
delivers the goods.
When he invented the White Wyan-
dotte he created the ne plus ultra.
To attempt to add is to subtract.
OF standard varieties it is most pop
ular because 1t just fills the bill for
economic value and beauty. with a
balance over.
1t meets the market demand for a
yellow, plump, pretty medium sized
mature fowl without dark pinfeathers,
feather leggings, rough skin, coarse
fiber large bones and Objectionable
weight of the big breeds.
1t satisfies the call for best broilers
and roasters, as young birds plump up
prettier, quicker and cheaper than
chicks of all other breeds.
1t fills the need for a dual purpose
fowl that natures and lays earlier
and oftener than the other meaty
cacklers Of chickendom.
Yes, this velvet skinned, yellow
tlnged, plump breasted, round bodied.
short backed, butter ball bird is in
class by itself, and all the booming
of pink f1eshed fowls is wasted on the
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward fos
my case of Catarrh that cannot be cured BY
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F j. CHENEY g. CO., Props, Toledo, o.
We the undersigned, have known F. j. Che
ney for the last 10 years, and believe him per-
lectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
tions made by their firm.
WEST a TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
WALDING, KINEAH & MARVIN, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold By al
Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19

hogs shell the waste green corn; the
turkeys fill up and turn up their toes
But government experts proclaim
green corn the cause of hog cholera.
If a long shouted, raZorbacked rooter
! can't survive. how can turkey keep
| alive?
A fire at Stafford, Pa, burned two
bulldogs worth $500 and prize win
ming Plymouth Rocks worth $1.50O.
Fire started from stove where food
was being cooked for the dogs and
fowls. Be modern in feeding and
avoid fire. Cooked food for chickens
is a back number.
Be careful in banding your fowls
to make allowance for future growth.
Examine the legs occasionally to see
that they don't get imbedded In the
flesh. If such should be the case care
fully cut the band with three corner
file.
The attempt of one of the new IL
censed judges to pass motion at Nj
agara Falls to force the poultry $3.50
CIdllOuS " ullG liNOuoSu vas
certainly an exhibition of unlicensed
greed Not all the first prize hogs are
seeL at the county fairs.
Every merchant should candle the
farmers eggs. Then when he finds a
bad lot he can easily prove to the
farmer that they are bad few such
demonstrations to farmers will set
them to doing the simple Gambling
stunt themselves. But If merchant
and farmer refuse to candle then it's
time for the customer to make a few
demonstrations.
If some persons who think they have
stock would view the
models in the standard they would he
almost as much shocked as the wo-
nan who was twenty years behind the
styles when she saw the MERRY Wild
wv"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
kURlos FROM CORRESPONDENTS

Q. Have you ever seen a chicken
with Il beaing eart | have prize
winning Orpiugton ben with the trou-
bic. Is it durable?
A. Your hen has a cankered ear.
Remove the cheesy matter gently and
apply hydrogen peroxide generously
twice a day and 1t will soon be all
right
q. would like to know how you
keep your hens from laying at night.
find some mornings four or five eggs
under the roOsts and remnants of 9TH
ers that were eaten.
A. You are either feeding egg stin-
ulants or too much soft feed. If your
hens cant lay without dope you should
buy new stock Take out the perches
and make them sleep on the litter for
week. Feed oats and wheat alter
nately in heavy litter and only give
small mess of mash for breakfast
twice u week.
Q have a beautifully shaped White
Leghorn cock that is very brassy.
Please tell me how to feed it out Of
him and if he is fit to breed from.
A. 1t IS an exception when confirm
ed brassiness can be made snowy
white by feeding Creamy plumage
can be made white and white plumage
cream by certain feeds. There is uoth-
Ing like trying, however. Cut out corn
and clover and use wheat. oats. buck
wheat, cut bone with bran and mid
mash. Never use brasSy breeder.
.. Which is the most profitable
goose, considering the cost of raising.
fattening, quality Of flesh and price
and quantity Of feathers:
A. The Embden
Q. | have Il rooster that is contin-
uaIIy picking the hens and chasing
them from the feed. He is valuable
bird and | hate to kill him. What
would you do?
\. Just put n larger rooster into the
coop and let him lick the mean fellow. |
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19

pilgrim fathers need only TO pluck
them off the trees.
Today turkeys roost high. There are
90,000,O00 people and only 100000 of
the fowls raised annually.
May the industry so advance that
the birds will increase in proportion to
the population, that on festal day all
may say, I'VE enjoyed a fat turkey
today"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19

In the drawing is shown a handy,
inexpensive corncrib which possesses
several advantages not possessed by
the ordinary slat corncrib. 1t is made
on by 4 posts with pans at their
SUBMITS to prevent rats from climb
ing in. The sills are by 4. scantllngs
2 by and two feet apart. The fenc-
ing is nailed to. these on all sides, and
the door frame is similarly covered.
The roof is made wide, so as to shed
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
KILLING LICE BY MACHINERY.

Cleaning off lice by machinery Is
done just as easily as churning butter.
Indeed, the process is similar, only
chickens are used instead Of cream.
The louise machine Is shaped like a
horizontal churn. There are no pad
dies inside. and It is made of canvas.
except the ends and frame.
You simply open the top side, drop
in five or six hens, sprinkle louise pow
der over them, close the top with a
drawstring and turn a crank ten times
The fowls turn around In the louise
powder and become saturated with 1t.
Their feathers are seldom broken.
They are not injured at all. and, If
good powder is used, the next day you
cannot find a crawler
1t takes no time to run hundred
through, and think OF the saving IN
time, patience and powder. and you
are saved from breathing the nasty
dust
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
FEATHERS AND EccsHELLs

The Bronze turkey seems to be the
universal favorile. The foreign jour
nails Sing his praise. ana long columns
| Offering breeders for sale offer no other
| variety May his tribe increase
Advertisements for guinea eggs in
any quantity show that the guinea in
| dustrv is gaining There is much disap.
pontment in the testing and hatching
of these eggs because their age is I'M
| known and the farmers often do not
mate them by pairs.
Cock pheasants are great fighters,
especially in breeding season. They
often XIII each other full grown
pheasant can generally whip pit
game and will attack children.
No; those green shelled duck eggs do
not hatch any better green ducks than
the white ones. The fellow who swore
at the duck ranrher for cheating him
when he sent the two colors did not
know that nanny duck paints them
thar way
The number Of women who are be-
coming experts in poultry culture is
amazing. The majority of these are in
the west Some are skilled poultry
Journalists. When some fool man gets
of an unsound theory it's fun to watch
them do him with the last word.
Something dropped when the Maine
experiment station declared that after
several years experiment with trap
nested hens for increased egg produc-
tiou the trap nest method is a failure.
What will the fellows who sold eggs
aud stock on their use have TO brag
on now Good thing for them that hot
air is eNhauStleSs Bring on the next
fad
II your show birds are not just up I'm
weight make up a ration Of boiled po-
tatocs mixed with cotnmpal and stir
ia q liitl, beef tallow and Suuriover
seed. Put sugar in the drinking YES
sci until the water Is quite sweet.
A number Of poultrymcn are making
siloS In which they preserve green food
for winter use Just sink a tight
barrel into the ground. OH It up with
good green stun, then open In the win
ter and see how nice It is
The reason many fowls get rheuma-
tism at mott or after is because the
sulphur given them for a blood puri-
fer is administered In wet weather.
The examining system for fattening
and finishing poultry is getting hold
IN this country. Imagine a hose from
a sausage suffer being placed in the
fowls throat and its crop forced full
of liquid fattening food. and you have
an idea 81 the process. The railroad
station restaurants VIII use this meth
ID next
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19
FEATHERS AND EeesHsLLs.

A miner to Shenandoah UaJ coal
mine pushed his bar into a assure
and to his surprise pried out a perfect.
y shaped petri6ed ben. Il surely Is a
Barred Rock. Pity be didn't dig far.
ther. He might have found q Rock
Dove the parent Of the pigeon tribe.
The Increased interest tn turkey eul-
ture Is shown BY the presence Of 50
many az the fairs and shows. The
Bronze and White lead. Certain tur.
key breeders are not overan1Ious %
promote the Industry. shown by the
eHorbitant prices they quote. A bun n
china shop Is had but a hog IN q tur.
key pen ts q Ne plus ultra.
The farmers who lst their turkeys
follow the boes iato the coru6elds need
uot worry about turkey prices. The
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1909-01-19

all possible water. The height. length
and width may suit the farmers con-
venience. A convenient width is about
FIVE feet at the floor, widening to sew
en- feet at the caves. Owing to the
very open nature of this crib, corn
dries more quickly than in a slat crib,
and as there is less chance for water
to lodge in the cracks the crib will be
more durable than II built entirely Of
wood
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-19

expectancy of fall racing. 1t is also
assured that if Santa Anita opens an
attempt will be made to open meeting
at the Emeryville track.
Our old friend, Fat AL, the Bellringer,
spectator at many a ring battle which
has gone down into history. to fame or
perhaps to infamy SAT back between
gongs at the old fight shed, wiped a
meditative brow with the red hand
kerchief that always does duty on
these auspicious ocasions, especially if
two men are lighting for a champion
ship, carefully tuckedpaway the ticker
which has tolled many an aspiring pu-
gilist into oblivion, and heaved a big
sigh. 1t was between bouts at a pork
and-bean show, when AL had an OPP
portunity to breathe twice in success
sion without losing his dignity
Funny, isn't it?" remarked AL as an
opener to the actor man, Dick Ferris,
who is always found beside him when
Dick is "at home" in Los Angeles.
Funny how these fighters change.
Funny, too what a difference a defeat
or a victory makes to them.
NOW, that there young feller," and
Fat AL, with a lazy roll of the fleshly
and comfortable looking mitt, waved
his hand toward a shock haired youth
who was just quitting the ring after
taking a beating that would have
made his maiden aunt turn over in her
grave, that there chap was one of the
chippsrest lads you ever saw a couple
OF days ago. He walked around tell
ing Just what he was going to do ia
the other chap and the last day put on
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-19

NONSTERNATION over the leaking
out of their plans for a winter
~ race meet followed the publication
in The Herald several days ago of the
agreement made at a meeting Of the
officials of the Santa Anita Racing as
sociation to hold five weeks meet at
the Arcadia track with an experiment
tation of the oral system of betting
used in the east. Denial of the story
In toto also followed, but naturally this
was to be expected. Further details
of the plan show that the horsemen
look upon this as merely a temporary
ARRANGEMENT, relying on the campaign
now being secretly conducted by the
turfnen against the Walker-Otis bill
to later permit racing with bookmak-
ing. The present plans include the
elimination of the small bettor, who ii
is generally admitted has been the in
direct cause of legislating the game
out of existence in California, A gate
of SO or So will be charged under the
plans now proposed. and no small bets,
Of course, will be accepted. Therefore
the bettor desirous of wagering a small
sum on a horse will find it impossible.
and thus one Objectionable feature will
be eliminated-the beggaring Of the
"pikers" who are able to follow the
game only by laying down a dollar or
So at a time. That the Santa Anita
track will be running before New
Years is the general opinion of racing
men, and those who are closely con-
nected with the powers that be. while
refusing to talk, are not denying their