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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-07-01
, Mr.. D. Tancred:

= Mr.. d. Tancred:
Dear Sir-The last issue of The
Ranch has just reached me and what
you say about large brooder rooms
fits in with my ideas exactly. Now,
instead of using steam or metal heat.
er would not one made of brick be
better because it would probably hold
the heat to the right degree all night
when the room is very apt to get too
cold, unless coal is used.
Would like your opinion on this
matter III the next or following num-
Der of The Ranch. | think the room
should be built as warm as possible in
order to save heat, thereby keeping
the room at the same temperature
day and night.
Yours truly,
JAS. RELY
Kirkland, Wash. June l6.
In reply to Mr. Reily's suggestion
would say that the distillate burner
with needle valve gives good satisfac
ton, maintaining an even tempera-
ture and needing very little attention.
The houses should be built tightly,
but with plenty of ventilation. The
upper part of The ends of the house
should be open allowing lots of air to
circulate as the large number of
chicks reared in these rooms require
a great deal of air. 1t is better to
use an extra gallon or so of fuel daily
than to lose chicks through bad ven
tilation.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-07-01
TIMELY TOPICS.


to go after some of the Western ave-
nue. commission men and it looks like
a pretty strong organization. This is
the first time that the commission
men have been opposed by a really
strong organization of men possessed
of both business ability and the neces-
sary money to fight with. Criminal
prosecution is threatened in a number
of cases and it is to be hoped that they
are not idle threats. These men who
have conspired to juggle prices, fore
ing them upon the consumer while
at the same time defrauding the pro-
Queer of his r1ghtful share of the ul-
innate selling price, are deserving OF
punishment. The most pitlful fea-
ture of the present situation however
is the fact that we poultry raisers
have nc representative organization
that can cooperate with the hotel
men and perfect some method of deal
ing directly with these large consum
ers of eggs and poultry, eliminating
the man in the middle and, for the
first time in our lives, securing pro-
per prices for our product We are
ourselves to blame that we are not
able to take advantage of the present
opportunity.
The Northwest is swarming with
poultry associations but they are OF
small benefit to the practical everyday
chicken raiser, who most needs help.
But it is mainly his own fault because
as rule, the market poultry raiser
does not join the associations. or If he
does join, he does not display the prop
er interest in them. while the fanci-
ers, who are for the most part back
lot poultry raisers, attend the meet
ings and control the policy OF the as
sociations. The result is that the
poultry associations, without a solitary
exception that know of, have degen
Grated into organizations existing
for the sole purpose Of holding an an
nual show. They do nothing to ad-
vance the interests of the market men
among their members and they are of
no value to the practical business
of raising poultry, as they do nothing
to help their members buy their feed
at lower prices or market their pro-
ducts at better figures
This is all wrong. The real poultry
raiser should not be the tail to the fan
cier's kite but should take his proper
position in the poultry industry. The
real chicken raisers should organize,
ignoring the back lot men and their
old maidish fussing about ribbons and
feathers, and frame up representa-
tive organization, able to take advan-
tage of such situations as the present
one or any other that may develop.
With such a body in existence and
properly supper ted by its members we
believe that much would be accom-
plished in the way of better prices.
But no time should be lost. Strike
now while the iron is hot. Our
columns are open to all who can sug-
gest scheme of organization or any
other method that seems good to
them. Get busy gentlemen and let
us see if we can't get some where near
our rightful share of the consumer s
dollar
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-07-01

would like to have the addresses
Of one or two of of the best poultry
papers. Is the the Petaluma Poultry
Journal good? Also I am using tire-
less brooders. How old must chicks
be before l can take the breeders from
them. l enjoy reading the poultry de-
partment of The Ranch very much
and get lots of good things from it.
Yours truly,
q. e. OLIPHANT.
Thanks brother for these kind words
We surely value them, for brick bats
and hard knocks are generally our
portion. In answer to your question
about poultry papers would say if you
are raising the Mediterranean breeds
the Petaluma Weekly Poultry Journal
is the one best bet; but if interested
in other breeds would recommend the
Pacific Poultryman published at 1907
Pike Place. Seattle; the Northwest
Poultry Journal, Salem. Oregon; or
the Pacific Fancier's Monthly, San
Jose, California. These are all good
papers and of value to the Coast
poultry raiser. In The Ranch we can
not give so much SPACE to poultry
topics as do the papers publish
ed in the interests of that in
dustry alone but perhaps for that very
reason we escape publishing a good
deal of the hogwash that gets by the
best of the poultry paper editors and
into their columns from time to time.
AS to your other question; in mid
Leghorns after three weeks, from the
late feathering breeds at four weeks.
but be careful not to make the change
on chilly evening.
Get rid of the surplus cockerels just
as soon as they can be marketed. The
broiler trade is improving every year.
People are learning to eat small broil-
ers and there is fair demand for %
pound Leghorns, though greater
weight is required in the heavier
breeds. The sooner you market
them the more you make or the less
you lose, which is pretty nearly the
same thing. Broilers are a necessary
incident to poultry raising and with
the best of luck there is little profit in
them. But prices have been higher
this season than ever before and for
the first time it has been possible to
make little on all the youngsters
turned off, instead of marketing
them, with the possible exception of
few very early ones, at a loss as in
former seasons.
Get after those mites and lice with
out loss of time. Watch the growing
chicks closely, for il the vermin prey
upon them for a few days it will pnt
serious dent in your seasons work.
Ii chicks are very young, put just
little lard or vaseline on their heads
to kill the nits and powder body very
lightly. Do not mix kerosene with the
grease used on very young chicks If
mites are found in the coops, the
chicks should be transferred to other
quarters while the pests are being de-
stroyed. A thorough spraying twice
a week with coal oil and 5 per cent of
crude carbolic acid added will soon
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-07-01

Follows letter from a correspond
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
Own Your Own Mind.

Have you ever considered the pos
sibility of doing this? Remember that
living in rented mind, furnished with
opinions bought on the installmeut
plan, never offers any inducement
with it for the future. Not only this,
but you are not saving up anything.
The advantage of owning your own
mind will be apparent at a moments
thought
In the first place, you come to take
a personal interest, which you do not
feel when it is owned by some one
else. Then, again, the natural increase
in value rebounds to your own profit.
You have no one to dictate to you as
to the inside furnishings and decora-
tions. Besides, it makes you more
particular with regard to what you
put into it. If you live in a rented
mind, you don't care much You will
drive nails in the walls, and get gem
orally careless about it. But when
you own your own mind, you are con-
|stantly going about picking it up. You
take real pride in it.
Be it ever so humble, there is no
place like a mind that you own your
slf--Life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
$500 Reward, s1O0.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being
a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
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directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby de-
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and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing it's work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers that they offer One
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fails to cure. Send for list of testimon-
ials. Address:
F. j. CHENEY &c CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, Use.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
TO BE A YEAR OF CONSERVATISM.

Commodity prices are now again so
high as to press heavily upon the econ
omy of the people. They can not go
higher without forcing a most trouble
some and disturbing wage and salary
increase movement, and against their
going higher is the fact that imports
are now pouring into the country in
unprecedented volume, tending to turn
the balance of trade against US; and
the further fact that new gold produc-
ton is meeting a check by that very
increase in costs of production which
1t has brought upon other industry.
We may thus rather confidently look
forward not to a boom year in the ordi-
nary acceptance of that term, but to a
year of moderate and well-distributed
speculation and of great business vol
ume keeping everybody actively en-
ployed and transacted on a limited
margin of profit"
The above extract from the Spring.
field Republican expresses a view that
is becoming widespread. les now rec
ognized that the high prices that pre-
vail are in measure clog to pros
perity, that the purchasing power of
the people has been considerably dim
inished and that the demand for many
lines of goods necessarily must suffer
&tailment. In this way high prices
may bring remedy in their wake
Manufacturers, too, fearing that there
may be sharp decline later in values
are somewhat fearful of stocking up
heavily with raw supplies, or of pro
ducing greater quantities of manufac-
tured articles than they can immed-
lately market. Such high prices as we
are now having mean anxiety and sus-
pense generally. They are unnatural,
eXorbitant, and beyond the means Of
the vast mass of the people. The check
they impose on speculation and over
trading, though, may prove a very
beneficial thing to the country at large.
The natural tendency after the depres-
sion of 190S-O9 was to rebound into
unparalleled activity, to inaugurate a
season of tremendous expansion of ac-
tiyity. The danger that lay in such a
course has bSe, avoided through the
medium of to high prices prevailing
Business men have their bump of eau
ton very largely developed when pric-
es are high as they are to-day and
conservatism J more than apt to lie
the prevailing tone of 1910.
The plea in the past has been that
high prices mean prosperity. They
may in a few instances, but to the
great body of the people they spell
! something else. A fairly remunerative
scale of prices, well sustained, would
be far better to producers in all lines
and to consumers, than prices that
check consumption and disorganize in
dustry. 1t is an open question wheth-
er it would not have been better for
the cotton producers if values had
| been kept around II to 10 cents and
the absurd and ruinous Quotations OF
the past week avoided.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
Editorial Room, Telephone 80.
Americas, Ga, January 10, 1910.
AS STARS LOOK ON THE SEA

When stars are in the quiet skies
Then most | pine for thee;
Bend on me then thy tender eyes,
AS stars look on the sea-
For thoughts, like waves that glide b!
night,
Are stIllest when they shine;
Mine earthly love lies hushed in light
Beneath the heaven of thine.
There is an hour when angels keep
Familiar watch DER men,
When coarser souls are wrap'd il
sleep
Sweet spirit meet me then
There is an hour when holy dreams,
Through slumber, fairest glide,
And in that mystic hour it seems
Thou should'st be by my side.
The thoughts of thee, too sacred are
For daylight's common dream;
can but know tn ee as my star,
My angel, and my dream.
When stars are in the quiet skies,
Then most | pine for thee;
Bend on me then, thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea.
E. L. Bulwer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19

For Macon, Atlanta, Angus
ia and Savannah 4:25 a m
For Albany, Dothan, Lock-
hart, Troy and Mont'ery $50 m
For Albany, Dothan, Lock-
hart, Troy and Mont'ery 2:07 p M
For Macon and Atlanta =. *1:45 p m
For Macon, Atlanta, saw
annah and Augusta :. .*10:40 p m
For Columbus ... !3:45 p m
For Columbus 49,. !! 800 m
For Columbus, Birming-
ham and Chicago ....... 1886 a N
For Albany and Jackson
vile .*12:10 a m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19

From Savannah, Augusta,
Atlanta and Macon H10:30 p m
From Lockhart, Dothan, Al
bany, Troy and Mon'ery *10:40 p m
From Lockhart, Dothan, Al
bany, Troy and Mont'ery 1:45 p m
From Atlanta and Macon 1907 p N
From Augusta, Savannah,
Atlanta and Macon T." $50 m
Prom Columbus and inter
mediate points $500. *12:10 m
From Columbus and inter-
meediat points !!11:S0 q m
From Columbus and inter-
mediate points Il. !11:45 N
From Albany and Jackson
vile .................. 1896 In
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
4 CAMPAIGN OF DOING WITHOUT

In several Western cities there has
been inaugurated a campaign against
high prices that takes the simple form
of doing without. In Cleveland 5000
men, representing total of 10000
population, have signed an agreement
to cut meat out of their households
Tor thirty days In another large city
in that section housekeepers gener-
ally have united in an agreement to
reduce their consumption of meats by
one-half. If they have had meat twice
a day they will now have it but once;
if once a day they will hereafter serve
it every other day. Probably they will
improve their health as well as their
bank accounts by this method Of strik-
ing at excessive values of food prod
ucts.
This is the only practical way that
people can unite in forcing values
down again to the point where the
average wage Garner will stand any
show at all. Many of the things we
regard as necessities are really not
so and a little deprivation would do
us no harm physically and better us
greatly financially. The whole Ameri-
can people are accused of being too
heavy eaters of meats, too heavy con-
sumers of food generally. Much of
the indigestion and considerable OF
the other complaints we are subject
to as nation are said to arise from
the continual stuffing we subject cur
stomachs to. A little abstinence might
improve our physical status consider
ably.
If the movement to do without, or
to curtail consumption of articles
that are unduly expensive, makes the
Roadway that is expected it may
prove very eff1cacious in bringing the
cost of living down. Another way in
which this could be assisted would be
in the avoidance of the wastefulness
that marks so many American house
holds. 1t has been we'll said that a
French family would live off the
waste of an American family in the
same position in life. If this waste
were avoided there would necessarily
be less purchasing and more ability
to meet bills. In the South, as a re-
suit of the system of Indifferent negro
help, waste is, as it has been for many
years, a marked feature of many
households. If it could be eliminated
or considerably lessened, the pinch OF
high prices would not be felt to the
extent that it now is. Maybe that is
one of the unseen blessings that the
present era of expensive living is
bringing with it. Once our people get
down to careful attention to the prop
er use of food supplies the wealth OF
this section will be immeasureably in
creased with every year. Wastefnl-
ness tends to keep us poor. Prodi-
gality is not to be commended
though parsimony may be condemned
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
IS YOUR
MONEY
INVESTED
WELL !?

Next to having money, the most
important thing is how to take care
of it-how best to invest it.
A Banking Institution of this kind
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interests in a careful, conservative
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facilities in every department OF
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the
BANK OF SOUTHWESTERN GEOR.
GAS SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
and enjoy the advantages that accrue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19

The busiest and highest little thing
that ever was made is Chamberlain s
Stomach and Liver Tablets. They do
the work whenever you require their
aid. These tablets change weakness
into strength, listlessness into energy,
gloominess into joyousness. Their ac-
ton is so gentle one doesn't realize
they have taken purgative. Sold by
all dealers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19

Have you weak throat? If so, yor
cannot be too careful. You cannot be.
gin treatment too early. Each colo
makes you more liable to another and
the last is always the harder to cure
If you will take Chamberlains Cough
Remedy at the outset you will be saw
ed much trouble. Sold by all dealers
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
.paily. Except Sunday. !!sunday only.

Except Sunday. !!Sunday only
N
sleeping
Louis and
informa
o J.E t.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19

If Uncle Sam ever gets into a war
with Japan no band can play Red,
White and Blue" with sufficient pa
thos to make us feel like enlisting."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money if ii
fails to cure. e. w. GROVES sigma
ture is on each box. 25c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19

No criticism is made by the Presi-
dent or by any of Mr.. Ballinger's
friends in Congress of this most ex-
traordinary conduct on the part of the
Secretary of the Interior in address
ing his complaint against certain for
estry officials" to the Congress rather
than to the President.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
CENTRAL GEORGIA
RAILWAY
Current Schedules Corrected to DATE
DeDartUres.
Arrivals.

Georgia
Railway Meridian
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
IA q a CURES
.SoS)oSb BLOOD POISON

Removing
outbreak
of
making the circulation healthy
stest the
winch are most in their blood purifying and the
nave Contagious Blood Poison will
nee to all THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co. ATLANTA. GA
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
See M. {. VenabIe

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or calsomining done. Estimates fur
nished on all classes of painting
House signs and carriage work. At
present at 1874 Spring street. Phone
S2S. All work guaranteed. 1-4-1m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19

For 80 years Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy 70
female ills. No sick woman does Justice t.
herself who will not try this famous medicine
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, am
has thousands of cures to its credit.
- If the slightest trouble appears whicl
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free and ALWAYS helnful.
Evening journal., 1910-10-06

company, responded and addresses
were made by others, including VIII
liam Barthold Of the Darby Fire Com
pany, which will be entertained by the
Independence Company. This COM
pany brought with It the Darby
Ram, this old hand engine having
been built in 1S40. The machine will
be shown in the parade to-day.
Two companies from West Chester
and also two from Coatesville are ex-
pected to make hit In the parade.
Heading the Washington company of
Coatesville, will be the Iroquois Band,
OF Lancaster. of thirty-five pieces, and
ahead of the Brandywine company,
of the same town. will be the Star
Band, one Of the best known musical
organizations in Pennsylvania.
These two companies will have
about $50 men in line. They came to
Wilmington in a special train this
morning, bringing 500 excursionists
with them. The Fame boys will be
headed by the West Chester Band and
the West Chester No. / will have the
Quakertown Band, and will be headed
by eighteen fire police and followed
by Dr. j. G. Green, aged SO years, who
will be the oldest fireman In line Dr..
Green has been a member of the COM
pany for many years. He will ride In
Evening journal., 1910-10-06

Wilson, OF New Castle. leaving the
battleship yesterday. Lieutenant r. G.
Holcomb introduced himself as her
cousin. The genial lieutenant said:
when the three Holcomb brothers
came from England to the United
States, nearly 200 years ago, one set
tied in New Jersey, one in Connecti-
cut, and the other in Virginia. You
come of the Connecticut stock and
am descended from the New Jersey
side. Therefore you see we arc
cousins"
Mrs. Wilson. in coming back to
Wilmington. was introduced TO lieu
tenant who is stationed on the Idaho.
In the course of conversation he said
he had warm spot in his breast
for Delaware. This was caused by
the kindness shown to him by w.
Walter Wilson at Annapolis. Mrs.
Wilson being Walters sister-in-law,
soon called her husband, John NJ
Wilson. and a pleasant time was spert
by the trio. So after all America is
cnly one big family home.
Evening journal., 1910-10-06
OUR FIREMEN
NJ. C. Robbins.

Hail to the men who stand to-day,
Guardians Of home and land.
They never fail us in our need,
But firm and brave they stand.
They work through snow and sleet
and rain,
They work our homes TO save,
Then give to them a welcome.
And say God bless the brave!
At morning, noon or night they come,
Just at a moments call
They're ready life to sacrifice,
They do It one and all.
They go where danger theatens.
And work our lives to save.
They never falter, never fail,
Then say God bless the brave.
They mount the highest ladder,
They scale the trembling wall.
Through smoke and flame they make
their way,
Until the buildings fall.
Then shower flowers upon them
And let bright colors wave,
Remember they are noble men.
And say God bless the brave.
So decorate our little town,
And let the flags float high,
Twill cheer our firemen's hearts to
see,
That one and all will try
To make the time a jubilee.
That they'll remember long,
Then fill the week with music.
With happiness and song.
So let us all a welcome give,
Unto the men that come,
Wen open hearts and hands for
them,
And take them to our home,
For they have worked so faithfully,
Our homes and lives to save,
Then welcome give our fremen.
And say God bless the brave.
Evening journal., 1910-10-06
MAYOR WELCOMES
FIRE ladies

Mayor Spruance was kept busy at
the City Hall to-day receiving visit
ing fire companies. He received about
a dozen companies, making addresses
to the men from the reviewing stand
Each company gave the mayor
rousing cheer. The Weccacoe Com
pany escorted all its visitors to the
City Hall to be received.
Mayor Spruance, in the course of
his remarks, told the visitors that the
city latch string was on the outside
and they were given the freedom Of
the city. He said the key TO the door
OF the city, so far as they were con-
cerned, had been thrown away, and
he hoped they would have the time of
their lives during their stay in Will
mington.