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PRODUCING EGGS IN WINTER
Much Depends on Other Things Than
Feed-EarIy Mouted Hens and
PulIets Only Layers.

Egg production at this time Of the
rear depends on other things than
'eed to large extent. Hens that are
over three years old seldom lay at all
n cold weather, 30 unless they are
wanted for spring breeders because
of their individual excellence, they
should have been marketed as soon
as they stopped laying and began to
moult in the fall.
Young lens that moulted late will
not be apt to begin now before mid
winter, under any system Of feeding,
FOR 1t takes longer in cold weather to
get back to laying condition. The
early moulted hens and the well
grown pullets are the only ones that
can be expected to lay now, and wheth-
er they do or not depends as much on
their condition at the beginning of
cold weather and on general care as
On feeding.
The feed needs to be well balanced;
that Is, they need a variety of the
foods that contain all the elements of
growth and egg production. Plenty
Of corn and water" is not a good egg
ration and If that is practically all the
feed they get they can hardly be ex.
pected to lay many eggs, for they
haven't the kind of material they
need. Wheat is a much better food
for laying hens than so much corn,
and in the absence of that bran is
most excellent substitute.
A mixture of bran, meat meal and
bone meal may be fed dry in a hop.
per or the bran may be mostened with
milk and seasoned with a little salt
and pepper, with little Of the meat
meal added.
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A warm-day ration will moi satisfy
the hunger and appetite OF hen on
cold days. She needs some food to
counterbalnnce the inroads OF the in
tense cold on her system, besides the
usual allowance that should go to the
making OF eggs.
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If heifer is to make the best dairy
COW, she should freshen when she Is
from two years to 30 months old.
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DYNAMITE TO DIG DITCHES
Western Farmers Now Blow Up Earth
to Let Water Through-Swamp
Lands Difficult to Ditch.

western farmers are now employing
dynamite to dig drainage bitches. The
method is simple and effective in wet
and damp ground.
The first step necessary Is to de-
termine on where to put the ditch and
how wide and how deep it shall be.
Then holes are punched with a crow
bar at two foot intervals along the
course of the center of the proposed
ditch. In to each hole an eight-inch
dynamite cartridge is dropped and
tamped in with the mud.
After punching 75 or 100 of these
holes and loading them time fuse
and blasting cap is applied to the
center one. When 1t explodes all the
rest follow suit A long sheet of mud
flies into the air, and there is left
fairly well made ditch. The excavat-
ed dirt is scattered over the adjacent
land, much to its enrichment, and
there is little need for the shovel ex-
cept to even up the sides. The first
time the water goes through 1t trues
up these banks.
The depth of the ditch Is regulated
entirely by the depth to which the
cartridges are sunk. When an extra
wide ditch is required all that is nee
essary is to put In a double row of
cartridges. This center firing method
has been found to be possible only
where the soil is damp and compact.
In sandy or other dry and loose soils
the charge cannot be depended upon
to set off each of the others, but
separate cap and fuse must be placed
on each to make sure.
Swamp lands, it has been found,
are difficult to ditch in this way, be-
cause almost invariably they are un-
derlaid with hardpan, through which
the water has never been able to es-
cape. This hardpan is usually several
rect In thickness, and the plan fol-
lowed is to bore hole with an extern
sion auger down almost to the bot
tom OF the hardpan. Several cart
ridges are usually necessary to secure
force enough to break open the hard.
pan and allow the water to seep
through, thus draining II off and leav.
ing heavy top soils of great richness.
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POULTRY NOTES.

Sunlight will aid in driving away
disease.
Glover leaves and chaff are good for
laying hens.
Kill disease and insects before they
kill the birds.
One Of the best green foods for win.
ter Is sprouted oats.
AS a laying feed wheat is cheap at
twice the price Of corn.
Oats, wheat, bran and middllngs
are good g-producing foods.
Do not attempt the use of artif.
cial heat in the poultry house.
1t is known that too much watery
vegetable matter will lower the egg
yield
Too liberal feeding OF fresh meats
is apt to make fowls irritable and
cross.
For chicks on free range cracked
corn can be fed alone with good re.
suits.
For laying hens 1t is better to have
the corn cracked rather than to feed IT
whole.
No other green food is needed dur.
ing the winter If the fowls eat up the
alfalfa
A few crystals Of sulphate of iron
In the drinking water is good thing
for the fowls.
1t is a bad plan to use any birds
for breeders that have ever been Sc
riously Ill with roup.
Arrange to have the houses and
yard so that the hens can have sunny
and protected places on cold days
Corn meal mixed with skim milk
and fed three times a day. all the
fowls will eat, is one Of the best fat
tening diets ever tried.
Skim milk contains variety OF
food elements in ideal proportions for
egg production, and the feed Is easily
diyested and sssimilsted.
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The colts system requires con
siderable amount Of bone and muscle
building material, and this can only
be had by feeding nftroganous feeds
such as oats. little bran, oil meal
and, II obtainable, some clover hay.
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fAfa lL2

Usage or locust poles and bore a "
inch hole through the large end Of
each. Place them on the long iron
rod with blocks of wood between the
poles to keep them apart.
Each post is set in the bank about
five feet deep. The rod for each post,
on which the poles are strung, is set
with It's top extending through the eye
bolt in the post. The poles should lap
like a rail fence in the center of the
stream about four feet below the line
of the posts. They may rest on a
rock or concrete block where they lap.
They will swing down stream when
the creek Is up and may be laid in
place again after the water goes down.
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TWO PRACTICAL FLOOD GATES
illustration Shown and Directions
Given for Making Two Useful De-
vices for lrrIgating Water.

To make an excellent flood gate for
water gap, take an Usage post for
each side Of the stream. Put them
into the ground or gravel or feet.
with feet above ground. writes ]. M.
Proctor in the Breeders Gazette. Run
a cable Of No. wire across the top.
Six or seven wires will make a good
strong cable. Then make gates OF
'1x6-inch stuff feet long and swing
them from the cable.
Another useful device Is made with
two good heavy posts, each having an
iron rod tx inches in diameter and 9
feet in length. Bore hole In the top
of the post and put in an eye bolt
with nut on the end. Then take
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Houses for Winter Farrowlno.

Provide good individual houses for
sows due to farrow in cold weather.
A canvas or burlap curtain hung in
the door will keep out the cold and
make the house more comfortable for
the young litter.
A lantern hung in the sowhouse on
very cold nights when the pigs come
will temper the atmosphere and aid
In saving the lives OF some OF the
pigs.
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Milk rapidly.
Cowpeas are profitable.
The work horse needs care.
Use fresh eggs in the incubator.
Weeds delay the curing of grain and
hay.
Fowls will eat quantities Of sand
and gravel.
Sweet ensilage is said to be safe
food for work horses.
Plenty of exercise for the ewes In
the winter time is imperative.
Finely broken charcoal occasional
ly, makes an excellent conditioner.
About an ounce of food a day Is
needed for every pound of hen weight
In fitting horses for hard work in
crease the grain ration but not the
hay.
At present prices Of corn and hogs,
hog feeders are just about breaking
even.
Do not have the trees come before
you are ready to put them into the
ground.
Sheep should not be kept with
horses or swine, for they are liable to
get killed.
Sheep do best on high, rolling
ground low ground produces foot-rot
and parasites.
Millet will yield between three and
four tons of hay per acre under favor
able conditions.
Fruit trees are slow-growing plants,
and therefore do not need quick-acting
fertilizers as a rule.
A herd of good dairy cows Is the
best insurance against hard times or
a slump in prosperity.
Filthy cows, and in many cases un-
clean mixers also, have their effect
upon the milk produced.
The COW that is to do her best In
the winter must be well fed, well shell
tered and we'll cared for.
One of the best forms of investment
on the farm is the liberal feeding Of
farm animals of all kinds.
The winter feed Of the eve should
contain the essential food nutrients
In their proper proportions.
If heifer is to make the best dairy
COW, she should freshen when she Is
from two years to 30 months old.
Roughage for calves should first be
fed at two or three weeks of age,
when the calf begins to eat grain.
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COUNTY OFFICIALS.

Clerk and Recorder. S. T. Gregg
Treasurer-M. Baker.
AssGssor-Shelby Rhea.
Sheriff-Joseph Dennis.
Surveyor T. Williams.
Coroner, II. s. Burton.
Judge-A. D. Jameson.
Supt. of Schools-Elizabeth Helm.
berger.
Commissioners-El West, Robert
Downs, August Johnson.
District Judge-Charles Mccall.
Clerk of Dist Court. NJ. johnson
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STATE OFFICIALS.

Governor--John F. Shafroth.
Lieut.. Governors. r. Fitzgarrald
Secretary of State-James B.
Pearce.
Treasurer-Roady Kenehan.
Auditor-M. A. Leddy.
Attorney General-Benjamin Grif
fifth.
Superintendent of Schools-Mrs.
Helen NJ Wilson.
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Give the chickens grit.
Lime your corn ground.
Whitewash the hen house.
Keep sheep out of draughts.
A few oats make a good poultry
food
When you feed grit, have 1t good
and sharp.
1t is not good for COWS to lie on the
bare. cold ground
The fresher the eggs the better they
VIII be for Matching.
The sllo lends itself admirably to
efforts at intensive farming.
Keep the young calves growing.
Give them little grain every day.
Extra banking around the base out
side will make the hen house warmer.
Plenty of hay, oats and fresh air
relieves the horse of that skinny feel
ing.
Reject all damaged feed. 1t will
pay you in good milk and excellent
butter.
Ground limestone will prove to be
beneficial to an alfalfa field if the soil
Is sour.
The gospel of clean milk is not
strainer gospel, but a gospel of pre-
vention.
Currants and gooseberries need
very little, II any, protection through
the winter.
1t is important, before trying to
prune. to know where and how the
fruit is borne.
The White Leghorn Is the breed
kept on 90 per cent of the egg farms
OF the country.
It is not good plan to dehorn a
COW while in milk flow. Better wait
until she is dry.
The warmer the milk the quicker
the bacteria multiply and the quicker
the milk will sour.
Cows should have all the roughage
they will clean up well in addition to
their silage allowance.
Fall pigs often do not eat enough in
the winter-time unless special pains
are taken to make the feed palatable.
A broad patch Of sunlight on the in
side of the house costs little but pays
big. Not too late yet to put in some
glass.
has cake of manure on her thigh
without getting some of the filth into
the milk pail.
The quality of butter produced by
n dairyman depends very largely upon
the treatment of the cream previous
to churning.
Filthy conditions in the COW stable
and in the milk house are perhaps the
most common sources of bad fiavors
in milk or cream.
Corn sllage may be fed out of
doors, in hunks, in the stall, or. in
fact, any place where animals can eat
1t without waste.
/ Grain in the litter in the morning,
mashes at noon. and another heavy
grain feed at night make good feed
| program on n cold day.
| A pure-bred animal is the finest pos
sible machine fo" making beef or
pork or milk but hike other machines,
II needs both fuel nd care.
Remember the ere am has to be at
least degrees warm er on cold days
II the butter is to conn promptly Get
1t at about GO and you will have 1t
right.
It is n good plan to get all sorghum
hay and fodder fed up soon especially
II they are out OF doors FrceFing and
thawing when wet Injuries this kind Of
feed badly.
The colts system requires n con-
siderable amount of bone and muscle
building material, and this can only
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Roughage for calves should first be
fed at two or three weeks of age,
when the calf begins to eat grain.
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SOCIALISTS STRIKE SNAG.
City Administration of Schenectady
Enioined by Ice Dealers.

Mayor George r.. Lunn and several
others of the socialist city administra-
ton of Schenectady, n. Y, have had
their fingers badly frozen in a financial
way in their attempt to provide the
poor of this city with free ice Last
winter the administration, acting upon
the advice of the welfare board, pur-
chased 10000 tons of ice to be given
away during the present summer
Then the local ice dealers produced a
court Injunction which forbade the
city from disposing of the ice in any
way. This injunction has been made
permanent by Justice Charles c. VAN
kirk at Saratoga. 1.-The ice will have
to melt" declared Mayor Lunn, and
the poor Will have to suffer because the
local Ice dealers are greedy enough to
snatch at the nickels of the poor. We
are trying to do everything we can
for the poor people of this city, and
we hoped that We might make it more
comfortable for the babies and the sick
during the scorching days of summer
but alas 1T is not to be. Handicap ped
as we are in every way, opposed by
every interest, We are. nevertheless.
doing good work here in Schenectady.
Now the ice we bought will melt and
the city will lose the money invested.
for We cannot even sell the ice to. the
local dealers. We may yet find ways
and means to circumyent the ice trust
here. 1t is planned now to organize
a municipal ice company. which will
take over the stock of ice, the courts
permitting, and will sell 1T at cost to
the poor. the money to be reimbursed
to the city treasurer
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Program Arrangement in Progress.

Associated with Col. Stevens in the ar
rangment of the program for the con-
struction and maintenance section are
Col. William D. Sohier. chairman. state
highway commission Of Massachusetts,;
John A. Bensei, state engineer Of New
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TO LAY SPECIMEN PAvEMENTs.
New York Plans Experiment With
"Durax" Granite Blocks.

AS a result of criticism of New York
pavements made recently by board of
engineers the city will advertise for bids
for the laying of several specimen
blocks of a pavement which is popular
in Europe and which in certain CONT
mental cities has lasted with little repair
ing for more than twenty years. It is a
nom patented pavement, known abroad as
the durax, and derives its strength and
durability mostly from the fact that the
surface blocks are small, carefully fitted
by hand and so arranged that none of
the joints are at right angles to the NOV
ing lines of traffic. This produces an al
most noiseless surface and gives a good
foothold for horses. The blocks are made
of granite, cut in cubes about three inches
on each side. On a bed of ordinary dirt
or clay, which is pounded down hard
with a ten-ton roller, a foundation of
concrete six inches or more, according to
the weight of the traffic. is laid, and
over this a half-inch bed of granite chips.
The granite cubes then are laid on top,
fitted to one another as evenly as posi-
ble The interstices are filled with pitch.
When completed the street looks like a
great piece of mosaic, the lines of the
cubes curving off into regular arcs in
various directions. The surface at first
is slightly rough, but after a few days
or weeks of pounding from the steel rims
of the vehicles 1t wears smooth and beau
tiful.
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CLUBS OF WASHINGTON
REFLECT CITY GROWTH
Every Important Organization in Capital
Has Built New Home In
Recent Years.

afternoon was informal, the formal OPEN
ing being delayed until the fall, when
many of the members who are now away
for the summer will have returned to the
city. At the formal opening it is thought
President Taft will attend, following the
precedent established by President Harri-
son, who lent his presence to the auspi-
cious opening of the old clubhouse in
1892.
The opening of the new club was cele-
barted with a dinner, in the spacious
dining room and in the roof garden. The
service of the old club closed promptly
when the doors of the new building were
thrown open to the members, and the
staff of employees walked across the
street into their new home few minutes
before the members. in order to be pre-
pared for their reception
The annex has a private entrance, for
wives and families of members only. On
the first floor, near this entrance, is a
dressing room and reception ROOM with
a private elevator to carry the women
to their private dining room, on the top
floor, where all the dining rooms are
located.
The building contains the usual recep-
ton room, reading room, library, news
paper room, conference room, assembly
hall, billiard room, and other features of
an up-to-date club In addition it con-
tainS seventy-twO bedrooms. The gar
den. which occupies nearly the entire
roof, is another innovation.
The club is perhaps the most luxurious
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NINE RECENT SALES
REPORTED BY BROKERS
Boss & Phelps, Inc, Complete
Transfer of Properties
Worth $4,000. i

Nine recent sales. i'm which the realty
involved had an aggregate value of $685.
600, were reported today by the real es-
tate corporation of Boss & Phelps.
The residence at 1866 Kenyon street
northwest was sold for the Perpetual
Building Association to Mrs. Linda NJ
Britton. The house contains twelve rooms
and three baths.
For Cahill e. DUNCAN the sale was
made of the residence at 1s17 kilbourne
place. This is one of the row of new
houses recently finished by the building
firm, and the price realized was $4,000
The apartment house at No. IL Todd
place was sold for John c. Deichmann to
Mrs Elizabeth Johnson.
Mrs. Martha Hodge purchased the
twelve-room house at 1906 18th street.
from Mrs. b. r. Chamberlain.
For Charles Z. Wire. local builder.
the sale was made of the new ten-room
dwelling at 124S Columbia road. Mr..
Cowling being the purchaser. The house
No. 1904 street was sold for Mr.. Cow
ling.
To John r. Haislip. a lot was sold on
>Crittenden street, Saurs Addition. The
lot has frontage Of fifty feet and
depth of 40 feet.
Four lots on kalorama road between
18th street and Ontario road were sold
for Mrs. Johanna Fogarty.
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which was constructed following the nre
Of couple of years ago, which complete
ly destroyed the old clubhouse at 18th ana
H streets northwest. The Cosmos cup
within the past year not only has had
it's original quarters rebuilt, but it has
added a new wing to its building, which
more than doubles the size of the historic
clubhouse at the corner of Madison place
and H street. Within the year also the
Chevy Chase Club has taken possession
of it's new building. which is one of the
most elaborate of the country clubs in
this section Of the country. A short dis
lance further north on the line OF Con-
necticut avenue is the equally new and
attractive home Of the Columbia Country
Club.
Newest of the organizations in which
the business men of the city chiefly are
interested is the Commercial Club, and it
is the possessOr of a large and thorough
ly modernized home on Madison place
near Pennsylvania avenue.
The latest additions to the list Of hand
some clubhouses IN Washington are
Navy Club and the University Club. The
Army and Navy Club at the corner of
18th and / streets northwest was fin
ished and opened to it's members only
yesterday. The new University Club at
18th and l streets northwest even now
is in course of construction. and it will
be ready for it's formal opening about the
middle of October.
The new Army and Navy Club was
built. at cost of about $ooo.OoO 1t
stands opposite the clubhouse which
served the organization for the past
twenty years, and it is among the finest
in the city. Its opening introduced an
innovation in capital clubs by the open
ing of a womans annex, a feature much
used by clubs in other cities.
Club Opened Yesterday.
The opening which took place yesterday
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Since the progress of a city is in direct
relation to the success Of the business
and professional men who constitute It's
units, it is but fair to assume that the
external evidences of the prosperity of
community are the best criterion of its
standing. And the best external tndlca-
ton of the material expansion of any
city undoubtedly may be found In survey
of its clubs. The membership of the
clubs Is drawn almost exclusively from
the men who are in the active walks or
life in a community, and If the commun-
ity itself is in a healthy condition the
clubs will reflect this fact.
If this rule be applied to washington
only one answer is possible, and a merely
cursory census will suffice to Indicate
that the National Capital is growing
along firm and steady lines toward the
goal of the greatest capital of the great
est nation on earth. Probably no city IN
the country can show so many of its i'm
portant clubs housed in such new and
elaborate quarters as can the city OF
Washington. Every one of the larger
clubs of the District of Columbia either
is now or soon will be located in a club
house which is the product of the latest
ideas in the builders art. Just how i'm
pressive is this showing possibly cannot
be better expressed than by listing the
recent building activities of the different
local organizations.
List Of New Clubhouses.
The Metropolitan Club is in building
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ly furnished of any south of New York.
The land upon which it stands was
bought for $4,000, and the building was
erected at a cost of $4,000. The fur
nishingS cost $4,000.
Commissioner Johnston was the chair
man of the building committee. while
the interior decorations We're made UNI
der the direction of Mr.. Marshal, senior
architect. Maj f. M. Markham, assist
ant District engineer commissioner. was
the inspector in charge of construction.
Members Buy Stock.
Work on the new home of the Uni
versity Club was begun April 1. The en-
terprise was financed first by bond is
sue of $4,000 and second by stock
subscription among its members. The
ground was purchased at a cost of $50
COO, and with it's furnishings included,
the estimate has been made that the
new clup Will represent total invest
ment of 100000. The structure was de-
signed by G.. Oakley Totten, jr., archi-
tect, and +. T. Nesbit & Co. are the
builders. The construction will be fin
ished about October ]. but 1t is thought
the interior decorators Will require two
weeks longer to complete their work. so
that the opening will not occur before
October II.
Ever since the University Club was
founded, it had occupied the present
building at 18th and X streets northwest,
but for some time this has been made
quate to accommodate the growing men,
bershp. At the present time the club has
about 600 members, with about 2UO nom
resident members. The building of the
new clubhouse is expected to materially
increase the list of nonresident mem
bers, because it is believed that many
professional, men whose duties quite fire.
quently bring them to Washington, VIII
affiliate with the club. 1t was with this