Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-21


pay imported artists for their Offer
ings, but we will be able to assure
them warm welcome and good time.
In fact, Have q Good Time" is to be
the motto of the Friendly Neighbors'
Club and all of us are looking forward
to the coming season with pleasant
antcipations.
erative selling and buying association
out of 1t seems to have been dropped
entirely. | haven't heard the matter
mentioned for months. few of US
still are talking of an Independent
poultry association, but doubt if
anything will come of it. Since our re-
cent meeting, when we did nothing
but indulge in useless wrang,ing, sew
eral suggestions have been made that
sound good, but l haven't any faith
that they would be agreed to by suf-
ficent number to make the undertake
ing worth while. 7 acted as chairman,
at the recent meeting and it was ad-
yourned subject to my call. | am not
going to issue the call until there
seems some better prospect of accom-
plishing something.
Looks Like Waste of Time.
If there was manifested any willing
ness of spirit to engage in co-opera-
ton it would be different, but ! have
about reached the conclusion that l
had better devote all my spare time
and attention to our own poultry BUSH
ness than to try to force benefits upon
a community which j. doesn't appear to
want. With the program we have
mapped out for Sunny Knoll there is
sons crops have been harvested and
put away farmers are supposed to take
life easy, but that suppostion will
not apply to my case this winter. with
the days getting shorter, I will not be
able to do as much work out of doors
as l have been doing, but I'll need to
put in every hour at it I can.
I'll have to depend. of course. on Lee
GUSTS doing the bulk of the work, con-
tenting myself with general supervi-
sion. He has the poles cut and hauled.
and next week we are going to put up
the shed, which is to shelter the stock,
in place of the burned barn. When
this is finished we are going to start
eighteen acres, win several divisional
fences to follow. Probably not more
than one-fourth of our total boundary
is now fenced. and l have a very in
1t will not seem like our ownership Of
the land is complete until we have 1T
fenced to keep our own stock in and
other peoples stock out. I would like
to inclose the place with good woven
wire fence, but I can't stand the ex-
pense, so have compromised on three
strands of barbed wire.
Buildings for the Poultry.
Another job we want to get at as
soon as possible is the building Of an
incubator cellar, with a brooder house
above it. We are going to put this
building on the slope of the hill facing
south. The floor Of the brooder house
upstairs will be about level with the
ground at the back. and there the out
side runs will be. At the front the in.
cubator cellar will be about one-half
under ground. This will afford ample
protection from the cold north winds:
but with sufficient air and plenty of
sunshine from the south. The walls of
the cellar are to be Of concrete, with
concrete floor.
The brooder house Is to be we'll built
of good lumber, double floors and walls
and as absolutely proof against wind
and dampness as We can make 1t. All
other poultry buildings, now and In
the future, are to be constructed as
cheaply as possible. but I am not going
to scrimp on the brooder house. We
want to make a success of the chicken
business, and to do SO We have got to
I,oor he ha nv chicks alive. r. S. M.