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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23

iel, Ruth Leverton, Lorene Warren
and Lora Beeson formed a campfire
party at Browns grove.
Mrs w E. Williams. Mrs. Homer
Williams, Mrs. OFT Crownover and
daughter. Frances. Mrs. o. III. Beeson
and Miss Laura Beeson formed
party with Mrs. Charles Kneise of
Cambridge City. They were entertain
ed at dinner.
Mrs. E. X. Westhafer, who has been
spending several days with Mrs. F.
NJ. Westhafer returned TO her home
in Indianapolis today. She was &C
companied by her neice, Miss Miriam
JWhitnack. as far as knightstown,
where the latter will spend few days
with her uncle. the Rev. George Whit
mack and wife. Miss Miriam spent
the winter here with her grandparents
and attended school. She is now Ell
route home to Illinois.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
PITTSBURG LIVESTOCK

PITTSBURG, May 2S-Cattle, sup
ply light, market steady, choice steers
bS75@9OO, prime $S.60@S.S0, good
ss25GS75. tidy butchers $S.0O@$S.15,
air $725Q7.90, common $650@7.0O,
common to fat bulls $5.50@S.00, COM
mon to fat COWS $3.50 to $3.50, heifers
S5.5O0S.0O, fresh cows and springers
S45O@S.uO, veal calves $10.00@10.5O,
heavy and thin calves $7.00@S.00.
Sheep and lambs-Supply light.
market steady, prime weathers $3.50
M6.OO, good mixed S55O@5.75, fair
mixed S5.00@5.40, culls and common
~S.OO@4OO, lambs $5.0O@S:35, spring
lambs $S.00Q11.00.
Hogs-Receipts 20, market lower,
prime heavy $50, mediums $50.
heavy workers. $50, light workers.
$50, pigs $50, roughs $7.50@7.75,
stays s6.75@7.00. heavy mixed $50.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
FARMER or CHESTER
SUFFERS FIRE LOSS
John Church Loses Large
Barn, Grain and Farm Inn
elements.

A disastrous fire started in an un-
known manner in the barn of John
Church on the Chester and Fountain
City pike at noon today. destroying
completely the barn and resulting in
the painful burning of Mr.. Church.
After Church had made repeated ef-
forts to rescue his stock, he collapsed
and was rushed to the hospital.
All the stock was removed from the
burning building, but farm imple-
ments, feed and supplies were burned.
The efforts of neighbors were concen-
trated in getting out the animals be-
fore the roof collapsed.
A farm bell rung for some time drew
the neighbors to the place where the
burning hay was sending up clouds of
smoke and flame. The fire was a
spectacular one with the score of men
and boys, some taking out live stock
and others organized into a bucket
brigade to extinguish the flames.
The fire was well started before any
attempts could be made to fight it.
After the live stock was taken out, the
men saw the futility of trying to save
the barn and concentrated their eff
forts in preventing the spread OF
flames.
How badly Mr.. Church was burned
is not known, but it is believed he will
be kept at the hospital for some time
The burns are extremely painful. II
is said Mr.. Church worked frantically
to save all animals from burning be-
fore considering his own safety.
The barn is still burning and proba
bly, will smolder for some time. The
loss is not estimated, but probably
will be large because of the wagons.
implements and feed in the barn.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
NEW YORK STOCK QUO
TATIONS
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

UNION STOCK YARDS, Ill, May
23.-Hogs, receipts $4,000, market
weak to slow, mixed butchers $4,000
$50. good heavies. $S.30@S.45. rough
pigs, s7.oo@s.1o, bulk Of sales $3.50
845.
Cattle-Receipts 200, market steady,
beeves $75OG930. cows and heifers
S3.75dS40, stockers and feeders $675
1850, Texans $725@S.50, calves
$85001O25.
Sheep-Receipts 1000, market
steady, natives and westerns $4.50@
S625, lambs $5.90M9.50.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
Circular Letter Tells HOw
Best to Cultivate Alfalfa

tility. Alfalfa needs soil well sup
piled with available plant food and
plenty Of organic matter.
Perhaps you did not inoculate. In
most cases alfalfa needs incubation.
Perhaps you did not have a well
prepared seed bed. Alfalfa must have
good seed bed.
Perhaps you did not SOW good seed.
Do not use seed grown south of Kan
sas.
Perhaps you sowed too late. 1t is
hardly safe to SOW after August Is.
Perhaps the weeds choked your
crop. Clean land is desirable.
Perhaps you pastured the alfalfa the
first year.
perhaps you expected too much
Three cuttings with a total of three
tons to the acre is a reasonable expec'
tation. Seed is rarely harvested in
Indiana.
THE feeding value of alfalfa out
ranks all other common farm crops.
Sow a field Of alfalfa this summer
and get in line with the alfalfa boost
ers.'
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
BRICKER MOVES

The Bricker Auto company will
move into their new quarters at 1115
and 1117 Main street the last of next
week. The company at present has
temporary offices and repair rooms at
the rear of the Doan & klute under
taking establishment. but hopes to be
located in the new garage by the end
of next week. The Bricker company
will have one OF the finest and best
equipped garages in Eastern Indiana
with the completion of their new
home
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
LA TOILETTE LAUOS
WORK OF GOV. FOLK
TBY LEASED WIRE1

MADISON, Wis, May 23.-United
States Senator LaFollette in his mage
zine today editorially praises Cover
nor Folk, chief counsel for the inter
state commerce commission for lay
ing bare the corrupt methods en-
ployed by the New Haven railroad,
and urges that President Wilson ap-
point Mr.. Folk as successor to Attor-
ney General McReynolds.
president Wilson made good job
when he attached Governor Folk to
his administration" the editorial says
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
MILTON

Mrs. o. Ferguson has gone to the
country to spend few days with Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Caldwell.
Mrs. Elmer Weaver visited friends
in Richmond Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lycurgus Beeson enter
tanned Boyd Mundelle of Washington,
D. c., at dinner Friday.
Francis and Ray Matthews Of Cen
terville, are spending few days with
their grandmother, Mrs. Amanda Need
ham.
Misses Ruth Mccormick. Mary Stills,
Irene Crook, Augusta Miller. Mildred
Warren, Laura Bertsch, Florence Dan
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
MAzATLAN CITIZENS
FACE STARVATION
JBY LEASED WIRE1

MAZATLAN, Mex, May 23.-(Via
wireless via San Diego)-That the
rebels surrounding Mazatlan would
soon gain a bloodless victory was the
opinion here today. The food supply
here is very low and the residents
face starvation. The water supply will
barely last twenty days. Scores of
animals are dying, and the death rate
among the residents is increasing
daily, due largely to the horrible san
itary conditions existing in the city.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
AUTO CRASH KILLS
6 BUSINESS MEN
fBY LEASED WIRE.)

AKRON. O.. May 23.-I.awrence
Winum. 20, son of Joseph ID. Winum.
Firestone Tire company official and
former president of the city council.
was killed and five companions were
injured in an automobile accident yes
terday. The men were speeding in
from Barberton. and in trying TO pass
a street car turned a corner. making
too wide a swing All were hurled
over the windshield. All the men are
prominent in business.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
SOCIETY TO MEET

The monthly meeting of the Olive
Branch Bible class of the First Eng
lish Lutheran church will be held Mon
day night at the home of Henry Knoll
lenberg on South Fourth street. There
will be a program and after the bust
ness session. a social meeting will
take place.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
MASONIC CALENDAR

Observation-Disclosures Lodge, No. 1876,
F. and A. M. Called meeting; work in
Fellow craft degree.
Wednesday-Webb Lodge, No. "a, F..
and A. NJ. Called meeting; work in
Master Mason degree, commencing at
Z o'clock sharp. Light refreshments.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
FIRE AT DUMP

The third fire in city dumping
place broke out this morning in the
dump on Randolph street, West Rich
mond No. company had hard work
to extinguish the blaze. This week
the Doran bridge dump and the South
Fifth street dump also had fires.
Chief Miller complained to City At
torney Bond today that Rudolph Rock,
a driver of a delivery wagon, drove
over fire hose while the firemen were
fighting a north end blaze yesterday.
He may be prosecuted.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
HEALTH OFFICER
TO CONFERENCE

F. w Kruger, county health Off
Ger, will attend the meeting of state
health officers called by the state
board of health, to be held at Indian
apolis next Tuesday and Wednesday.
The attendance of all health officers
OF the state is obligatory. These an
nual meetings are of vital interest to
all health officers, the program deal
ing with the various details of health
work
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
USE NEW ENGINE
AT HAGERSTOWN

HAGERSTOWN, Ind. May 23.-The
fire department was called out Friday
afternoon about o'clock to the home
Of James Rhodus, where a fire of I'M
known origin had started in the wood
shed. The new chemical fire engine
was called on to help and the fire was
soon put out.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
ELECT KENWORTHY

Rev. Murray s. Kenworthy, of this
city, was reelected president of the
Ministerial association of the Indiana
Yearly Meeting of Friends at the an
nual meeting of the association at
Ludlow Falls, O., Thursday and Fri
day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
MRS. MARY STARK
DIES AT DAYTON

Mrs. Mary Stark, mother of Robert
P Stark, formerly of this city. died
Thursday afternoon at the Miami Val
ley hospital at Dayton. o. Her death
was caused by injuries received when
she fell several weeks ago, breaking
both arms. Services will be held at
the cemetery chapel at Eaton, at 2:3O
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Her hus-
band, B. F. Stark, died two years ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
STUDENT ADMITS
ATTACKING WOMAN
TBY LEASED WIREl

FLORENCE, Italy, May 23-Pietro
Rossi, student at the institute of social
science, was arrested today on the
charge of shooting and robbing Mrs.
Mary Flavelle, of Chicago, on a train
between AreZZo and Montevarchi,
Thursday. The prisoner confessed the
crime.
Mrs. Flavelle showed further i'm
provement today and her physicians
said that if no relapse occurred she
would recover.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
INVITED TO MUNCIE

H. A. Pettijohn, boys secretary Of
the Muncie Y. M. c. A, formerly serv-
ing in the same capacity here, has
asked the local officials to send the
leaders team to Muncie to give an
exhibition of the work at the opening
of the Muncie association next week.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
CHICAGO "PRIVATE"
BANK CLOSES DOORS

. CHICAGO, May 23.-Ogden Park
bank, a private institution, closed its
doors today The liabilities are not
$4,000 1t is "one man" bank, it's
president being Allen N. Baumgart-
ner. This is the fourth private bank
to close in Chicago during the week,
one OF them, the Franklin Savings
bank, going out of business today. pay
ing all depositoys In full
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
TO SCOTCHMAN
IRY LEASED WIREl

SANDWICH, England, May 2S.-J.
l.. C. Jenkins, a Scotchman, represent
ing the Troon Country club. is now
amateur golf champion of Great Brit
ain. He defeated G. .. Hezlet, an
Irishman, up and 2 to play in a
heavy storm today.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23

choice heavy steers $S.50GS.S5, light
steers $675@7.5O, heifers $7.5O@S.50,
COWS $6OO@750, bulls $6.75@7.25,
calves $5.O0@1O.O0.
Sheep-Receipts.1 400. market steady,
prime sheep $5.OO@5.50, lambs $1,000
725, spring lambs $S.OOMs.50, clipped
sheep $5.OOQ5.5O, Slipped lambs &c..
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
Chautauuua GuarantOrs.

The meeting Of the Chau-
tauqua guarantors called for
this evening has been post
poned until Thursday even
ing, May %.
F. F. Riggs, Secretary.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, May 23-Wheat suffered
losses of "a a ssc but reacted late from
the lowest levels reached, a for May
anu 1ac for July and September. Corn
was Is sc higher and Oats were
a a sc higher to unchanged.
Provisions were fractionally lower
and easy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
INDIANAPOLIS LIVE
STOCK

INDIANAPOLIS, May 23.:-Hogs, re-
ceipts 1000, market steady, best hogs
$3.50, heavies $3.50, pigs $750@S.0 90,
bulk OF sales $3.50. -- ..---.--.....--
Gattls-Rscei2ts ESQ market steady
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
RICHMOND MARKET
LIVE STOCK
Corrected daily by Anton Stole.
Phone 1870

Phone 1876
HOGS.
Primes average 200 lbs.) per 100
lbs. $S.25; heavy mixed, per 100 lbs,
1925; roughs, per 100 lbs, $7@7.50.
CATTLE
Choice steers, per h., &c 20 71Ac;
butcher steers, per h., 7c; cows, per
h.. SC to &c; bulls, per lb, Size to &C.;
choice veal calves, per h., S1ac.
GRAIN MARKET
Corrected daily by Richmond Roller
Mills. Phone 2c19)
Wheat, per bu. .93c
Oats, per blu Observation-Disclosures. 3ac
Corn, per bu MISREPRESENTATION. zoe
Bran, per ton ................ $500
PRODUCE
Corrected daily by Ed Cooper,
Phone 2577)
Old Hens Give weighD per Id. 80. 12c
Old Chickens, dressed per lb 15c to zoe
Young Chickens, dressed, Id. 20 to 22c
Country Eggs, per dozen ........ 18c
Country Butter. per lb. 90. 20 to 25c
WAGON MARKET
Corrected daily by Omer Whelan
Phone 1879
Oats, per bu. ................... 4Oc
Corn, per bu IOc
Timothy Hay, per ton .......... SIT
Straw ............... So.oO
Bran OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $500
Mlddllngs ................. >oO.VO
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
BOB SEEKS DIVORCE
IRY LEASED WIREl

CHICAGO, May 23.-Bob Fitzsim.
mons, former heavyweight champion,
today filed suit here for divorce
against his wife, Julia Clifford, the
actress.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-23
INDIANAPOLIS GRAIN

INDIANAPOLIS, May 23.-Cash
grain: Wheat No. red 971a; Corn No.
white "A; Oats No. white Ala.
TOLEDO GRAIN
TOLEDO. 0. May 23-Close: Wheat
cash and May 971s: July Ssas; Sept.
ssh. Corn cash and May TN; July
7OA Oats cash and May 4312; July
47as: Sept 40 Cloverseed cash $7.75;
October and December 1915; March
$3.50 Timothy prime s2.421a; Sept.
$3.50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Births Reported.

The following births have been report
ed to the health department during tn.
past twenty-four hours:
Michele and Crazia Dallisantri. boy.
Alexander and Pattie Maitland, girl.
Daniel c. and Agnes q. Shankle, boy.
James A. and Mary A. Curtin, girl.
Albert and Francis L. Kirk, boy.
Noah and Blanche Sechrist, girl.
Harris w. and Mildred Barnum, boy.
Clifford s. and Isabel E. Lewis, boy.
John s. and Eleanor Conway, boy.
Joseph and Mary H. Goldberger, girl.
Edward H. and Wilhelmina Young. boy
Vician C. and Anna S. Wells. boy
Ernest w. and Anna C. Alsop, boy.
Charles F. B. and Mary E. Price, boy
Eldridge and Myrtle Grimes. boy.
Samuel NJ. and Josie H. Croft, boy.
Early B. and Mabel Dovell, girl.
George W. and Goldie Swami, boy.
Thomas p. and Nora Splawn, girl.
William ]. and Leslie M. Owens. girl.
Albert e. and Anna Dabbs, boy.
r. Warren and Rose Payne, boy.
Andrew and Hattie Carter, girl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
GIVING BACH PRELUDE,
CHILD WINS APPLAUSE
Feature Of Program at Commence
ment Of Won Unschuld Univer-
sity Of Music.

A feature Of the commencement exsr-
oises OF the Won Unschuld University Of
Music. held last night at the First Con
sresAuonal Church. was the playing 0,
little evs-year-old Madeleine LAxard Won
Cnsshuld. whose rendition Of the Bach
preaude won her great applause
The following program was given before
large audience: Concerto, b fiat miner,
first movement (TschRikowski), Miss Ger
trude McRae; Ballad" A fiat major
Chopin. Miss Frances Gutelius; .Pre
iude." G major. from well TEMPERED
ClAvichord" (Bach). Miss Madeleine La
card Won Unschuld; 'Maxurka" uN-
schetisxky). Miss Constance FYnkeI; Ron
do Capprfccioso. opus IA (Mendeissohnl
Master Morton Gittelman: '.Mazurka
Chopin. Miss Charlotte Lcibei: Con
certo." = nat major GisZt). Miss Ardala
Moore; Concerto. A minor. first move
ment fSchumann). Miss Mabel Anderson
"Polonaise," sharp minor tChopin,, Miss
Frances Finkel: "Fruhliugserwachen'
(Walter), Master Raymond Gittelson
"Valse" Poldinp, Miss Carrie Bruce
"Liebestraum," No. 3 Lisst). Miss Ethei
Coffin; concert "Arabesque' on THE Blue
Danube (Schuitz-Evler). Miss Gertrude
The graduates Of the teachers. train
ing class are Mise Ardala Moore Of
Washington. who has Just been ap-
pointed chief assistant to Nine. Won
ton recital at Concordia Church
McRae Of Washington. who has been
appointed instructor of piano at
Queens College. Charlotte. n. c.. and
Monday evening at Temple Baptist
Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
LAWN PARTY TODAY FOR MIR.
AND MRS MARSHALL.
Marriage Of Miss Sullivan and Mr..
Fitzgibbon-0ther Events.
Notes.

The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
returned last night from a trip to Indiana
and VIII be the guests OF honor at q
lawn party this afternoon at the home OF
Lieut.. Commander and Mrs. Chester
Wells at Chevy Chase.
Miss Augusta NJ Sullivan, formerly Of
Dubuque, Iowa. and Mr.. James E. Fftz-
gibbon were married this morning at St
Miss Marie Mcclure was maid Of honor
and Mr. Earl Coltryn was best man. The
bride. WHO spent two years at Trinity
College. following her graduation from
st. EliSabeth's Academy. New Jersey.
was gowned in an etnbrotdered white
gardenias. Her bouquet was also Of gar
denias and lilies Of tho valley.
The maid OF honor wore a white lace
dress and a pink hat and carried pink
roses. A wedding breakfast for twenty
guests followed at the Shorehan. where
the bride has made her home recently,
before the nevly-marTied couple left for
the north. They will travel for tho COM
ing fortnight in the White mountains. and
will reside in this city on their return.
in compliment to today's bride, when the
dining room Of her home and the table
were adorned with pink roses.
DR.. and Mrs. A. c. True, with Miss
Elizabeth True, were at Middletowu.
Conn, this week. during the commence
ment at Wesleyan University, where their
son, Mr.. Henry Hyde True. graduated
this year. The ladies will spend a part
OF the summer at Asbury Park.
Mrs. ]. Raymond Hoover OF Brook
land is visiting her parents, DR.. and
Mrs. c. Allen Snyder, at their home in
Dubuque, Iowa.
Mrs. Charles e. Keister and little
daughter Eulalia Of East Radford, Va,
are guests this week of Mr.. mad Mrs.
r. T. Buckingham at 1925 29th street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20

butter. and the owner of an orchard has
offered her as many bushels more a. she
wants at merely nominal price, on
condition that we haul them from the
orchard. The apples are not quite Of a
quality for shipping. but will mako
1t will be seen, therefore, that Jane
will be able to keep her homo cannery
pretty busy with fruit, regardless Of the
quantity of vegetables have to turn over
to her. It looks as II l will be able
to sell all surplus vegetables to the
basket trade. But she will experiment
with a few cans Of each. and If the
operation is success next year I'll
make a bigger garden and grow both
for the basket trade and for canning.
The more experience I gain the more
convinced become that l could make a
living on my eight acres, but caution
whispers that I had better hang on to my
government salary. With certain kinds
Of intensive farming eight acres is as
much as one man can handle TO adj
vantage, but for the kind Of farming
would want to do more land is necessary.
In order to make a small acreage pro-
duce an income equal to a government
salary a man would need be an expert
market gardener, and market gardening,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Permanent EXHIBITS
PLANNED BY PANAMA
United States Gets Donation of
Ground, and Building Bill Ponds
in Congress.

The Republic of Panama has decided
to broaden the scope of it's national
exposition, to be held next year. by
making parts of the exposition perma-
nent. This was announced today by
the Pan-American Union. To that end
the Panama government has arranged
that four permanent buildings are to
be erected on the exposition grounds,
two for Panama, one for Spain and the
other for the United States, the object
being to afford travellers who pass
through the Panama canal an oppor-
tunity of studying the activities of the
three countries mentioned.
The ground for the United States
building has been donated free Of cost
All that remains is for the United
States to construct the building and
then turn it over to exhibitors. The
money for the building has not yet
been appropriated. but a bill is now
pending in Congress appropriating
100000 for that purpose. The Pan
American Union urges that action on
the bill should not be delayed, adding
that an unusual opportunity is afforded
for the American exhibit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Still Afraid Of Chickens.

OF course, there are chickens. Eight
acres is enough ground for any one-man
poultry farm, but ! can't quite see my
egg basket. The magazine articles you
read and the literature put out by people
who have incubators and breeding stock
and Matching eggs for sale paint beauti-
full pictures Of an easy road to wealth,
but If it is all as easy and certain as they
picture 1t, why do SO many people fall
in the poultry business and why does
the price of poultry and eggs continue to
climb skyward? said when we first
discussed the project of raising chickens
on a commercial scale that believed
there was an Ethiopian somewhere In
the poultry woodpile, and am more con-
WINGED than ever that the dusky gentle
man Is lurking there. 1 don't say that
l have definitely found him, but since
March last we certainly have discovered
evidences Of his presence.
No doubt good many OF our expen-
sive failures were due to inexpenence,
but we are people of average 1ntelA-
gence and we followed as closely as we
could the directions set forth by ex-
business from A to 2. We may do bet
ter next year. but it Is certain If we had
attempted to go into the poultry business
on a large scale with limited capital we
would have gone broke months before
we had any income to speak Of. Ny ad-
vice to any city man who has the
chicken fever" is to go to small place
and try 1t on a small scale before he
plunges very deep. II he succeeds in the
small venture he can build up and ex-
pand and will have reasonably safe
foundation; but poultry farming under
the most favorable conditions should be
classed as an extra hazardous undertake