Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-07-18
FEATHERS AND EccsHELLs.

A novelty at the Elizabeth On. ~
poultry show was the Matching or
mosquito eggs and the development
OF the pestiferous insects 10 sight OF
the audience for their information so
that they may know enough to kill
one when they see 1t. We have heard
fanciers claim that. they got stung
when they bought New Jersey Leg
horns. and we now believe some OF
those Jersey fellers have got their
skeeters and chickens mixed
Those cute little ground squirrels
that cock their tails over their backs
are expert egg robbers and are often
the sneak thieves that get away with
Mother Turkeys eggs. They raid the
grain fields and the fruit also and
should be exterminated.
Senor Jose Canalejas. the late as
sassinated prime minister of Spain.
was much interested in poultry cul-
ture. When the international poultry
exhibition was held at Madrid he gave
a luncheon to the foreign delegates
and presented them to the king.
When hens drop their eggs under
roosts at night or soft shelled eggs ap-
pear it's nearly always case Of over
fat The hens should be examined
and fatties penned elsewhere and fed
light ration with plenty OF greens
and made to exercise for their grain.
Ireland is certainly forging ahead in
poultry. Her turkey crop in 1912 was
i.O34.552. while England, Scotland and
Wales together produced but 45S,0OO.
She is also ahead Of these three coun-
tries In chickens, eggs and goats.
There are many reasons presented to
the courts as grounds for divorce. The
latest is where Reading Pa.) woman
asked for divorce because her. hus-
band kept chickens in the house and
made her clean up the dirt The roost-
ers crowed from morning until night
and got on her nerves and wakened the
baby. She ought to have divorce.
AS with everything else. when fam
cier gets his first incubator there is
always deluge Of advice from out
siders how to run It As most ma
chimes are bought on trial. 1t is wise
to follow the manufacturers directions.
A beautiful bouquet Of flowers in
natural colors. made of goose feath-
ers. was on exhibition at the late Phil
adelphia poultry show. OF course no
woman would be goose enough to wear
them, but lots of them do and don't
know it. just as they wear dyed rabbit
for black fox fur and skunk for Alas
ka sable.
Very often commissions. wry neck.
timber neck. leg weakness and suppos-
ed ptomaine poison are simply the re-
suit of feeding moldy corn to fowls.
| When whole this Is easily detected,
but when the grain Is ground fine by
INSCRIPTIONS millers 1t Is hard to de-
tect unless one has very sharp, well
trained smeller,
An incubator with capacity of 150,-
900 eggs. or 100000 eggs per season,
has been set up at an incubating plant
at Port O'Connor, Tex. This Is the
largest single incubator In the world.
Milo r, Hastings, formerly of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture, is
in charge.
A farmer living near Montoursville.
Pa, set a spring gun for chicken
thieves, and the gun went of and kill
ed man who had served time in the
Eastern penitentiary for highway rob-
berry, This is the first instance. We
know, where the deadly gun trap
didn't shoot the innocent instead of
the guilty.
QO Mo.AAnnnnAtz. .