The Republican journal., 1910-05-19

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A full attendance of the ladies of the G. A.
R. is requested for Tuesday, May Path. to
make the final arrangements for Memorial day.
The Frederick W. Brown house on Cedar
street has been sold to Daniel ingalls,, who has
taken possession. Mr.. and Mrs. Brown have
taken rooms in the Hall house on Cedar street
recently vacated by Mrs. E. F. Bramhall and
family.
j. R. Russell of Old Town, contractor for the
work on the Savings Bank building, arrived last
Monday morning and began operations Tues
day. The building will be carried up to full
three stories, some additional windows put in
the Church street side, and the present stair
way to the second floor will be moved from its
present location to the upper side of the build
| ing on Main street. No change will be made in
the present banking rooms, and this will leave a
small store or office for rent on the ground
floor. The third story will not be finished I'M
less rented, and the whole second floor will be
| occupied by the law firm of Dunton & Morse,
| who are occupying offices in the Masonic Tenn
pie until these Improvements are completed
| RUBBISH IN THE STREETS. A new law has
| gone into effect in Boston which makes ''the
| placing in, or throwing into public way
the sidewalk of public way public alley,
| of any filth, rubbish or other substance a mis-
demeanor and if the offender when requested
| by officer to remove said filth, rubbish, or
other substance, refuses or neglects so to do
and if the identity of such person is unknown
to the officer, he may arrest such person and
detain him in a safe place without a warrant
until his identity is ascertained." Belfast has
an ordinance (Chapter Is, section 81 which
reads:
| No person within the limits aforesaid shall
cast or deposit, or cause to be cast or deposit
| ed, in or upon any of the streets, lanes or
highways aforesaid, any dirt, filth, SCOT, ashes,
| garbage, carrion, manure, shreds, shavings,
| oyster, clam or lobster shells, dead animals or
| fish, gravel, stones, brick-ba or mason's rub
bish or any other rubbish OF nuisance whatever,
| nor shall any person cast any carrion or dead
animal into the waters of Belfast river.
| That this ordinance has not been generally
observed or enforced goes without the saying.
Some years ago the Improvement Society fur
nished barrels in which to deposit rubbish and
| for time we had clean streets. This is a mat
ter in which an ounce of prevention is worth
pound of cure. If people would only refrain
from throwing rubbish, waste paper in partic-
ular, into the streets there would be little
labor required in keeping the streets clean.
| A BELFAST POULTRY FARM Did you ever
call four or five thousand chickens about
supper time? Such chirping, piping, tweeting!
They have the same number of English spar
rows beaten to standstill. There are now
between four and five thousand chickens at
the Ferguson Poultry Farm on Northport ave-
nue., from those who have just graduated from
the incubator to those who have almost attain
ed the dignity of broilers About one thousand
of the latter in the chicken houses scatter
ed about in the orchard which is enclosed by
! wire netting. When the chickens are first
| taken there they confined to run in front
of the house, but in short time this is re-
moved and they run at large during the day
and at night the different focks return to their
respective houses. The smaller chicks are in
| the house built this year and which is
| found most satisfactory in every respect On
| each side Of central passageway is row Of
pens, and the "hovers," which take the place
of the breeders, are warmed by hot water from
I two heaters, one for each side. These heaters
are compact, simple, can be regulated to give
any degree of heat required and work auto
matically. AS the very young chicks require
more heat than the older ones they are placed
| on one side, with the more advanced ones on
! tho 9TH ciI Tbo saving Of labor nv this
system of heating, to say nothing of the abb
sence of all risk from fire-a risk ever present
where kerosene is used-is incalculable. To
fill, trim and care for the number of lamps
that would be required for four or five thou
sand chicks would be an endless task Mr..
! Ferguson is building additional chicken houses
in the orchard and intends before long to ex-
tend his present poultry house back toward
the orchard nearly doubling its capacity. The
| chicken house stands at right angles and to the
south of the hen house, and here Mr.. Ferguson
intends to put up central building for store
house and which will connect all the buildings
This year he will have all the farm back to the
orchard under cultivation. 1t was ploughed
last fall and the droppinga from the hens will
furnish all the fertilizer required. 1t will be
mostly in grain-both the grain and the straw
are used in the business-and there will be an
acre or so of cabbages for winter food for the
hens. The old orchard the place has re-
ceived attention and the result was an in
creased yield of apples last year. New trees
have been set out to take the place of those
that had died and in the poultry runs num-
Der of plum and pear trees have been set out.