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golden buff, which is so much admired by
many fanciers.
Buff Wyandottes originated from light
colored Rhode Island reds In some in
stances: in others from golden Wyan-
dottes run out in color. Some buff Cochin
was used to perfect the color and some
white Wvandotte to perfect the shape
The result Is that the buff Wyandottes
shown today are almost perfection in
shape and color.
The hens have always been consistent
layers and steady filters of the egg basket
The chicks are strong and vigorous. max
ing rapid growth, and are easily salable
from broler size to maturity. Like all
Wyandottes. the bluffs are full breasted
and meaty with rather fine bone.
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poultry farm has a material advantage.
The above scheme can be recommend
ed for it's soundness and ease of attain
ment.
To summarize: I would not discour-
age the city man from going into the
poultry business. but l would earnest
ly caution him against going into the
business unless he has had thorough
experience, either at a short course or
on practical farm. or, better yet, both.
This experience alone will not insure
success unless he has capital enough to
finance the enterprise. My advice to
the city man with a good position
would be to get the fever, start along
the lines above mentioned. save up all
the cash possible from the city job, and
a the same time keep q few birds for
the sake of experience and to fine out
whether he is the possessor of a natu-
raj liking for such work.
Above all things know what it means
to care for chickens: not keep chickens,
for they should keep you.
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Preventing Losses Among the Chicks

The percentage of losses in poultry
raising is perhaps larger than IN any
other branch of animal husbandry.
The prevention of these losses there
fore becomes one of the most important
branches of poultry raising. Statistics
and experience show that the greatest
losses occur among the young chicks,
and it therefore requires the most care
full attention to the flock in it's early
days to insure development and even
tual profits.
The little chicks are most susceptible
to germ diseases, colds and other all
ments, but practically all Of them are
preventable.
Next weeks article will give many
suggestions on how to treat this really
big problem in poultry culture LOOK
for it next Sunday, appearing eNciu-
Siyely in The Star.
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Lights.
From Judge.

Mf. tlckielIly came home from his
club one morning about O'Clock. He
entered his happy home, crept up the
stairs softly. so as not to awaken his
spouse, then felt for the switch to
turn on the electric light. He could
not find il. and in the darkness stum-
bled over 4 chair.
Whats that came Il voice from
the bed.
Where i'll the deuce are the lights
i'll this house? Snarled Picklelilly try
ing to put a bold face on the matter
Lights" cried Mrs. Pickleliiy scath-
ingly. Pull up the blinds
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Questions and Answers.

question: have lot of young Ply
mouth Rock chicks that were two
weeks old last Saturday. They did
very well up to that time, being fed
ana cared for according to directions
IN the poultry columns of The Sunday
Star. Beginning SATURDAY | noticed
about dozen of them snaky on their
legs, and today find some so weak
that they prefer to eat sitting down.
have two that are more disabled than
the others: when they start to walk
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Copyright, 1859
BUFF WYANDOTTES.
BY LOUIS PAUL GRAHAM.

The coming of the buff Wyandotte was
hailed with delight. It was introduced
at the time the American breeders were
enthusiastic for buff-colored fowls of all
breeds, and its popularity quickly spread
throughout the country.
The buff variety possesses all the good
utility traits Of its white and colored
cousins, and has the plunlage OF rich
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Brief Decisions.

F rom Jld.'.
The young fool and the old fool have
more than years between them.
A peculiarity OF certain cranhs is
that they cannot be turned.
4 man who is in society and wants
to keep in must be continually going
out.
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The Necessary Experience.

1t is safe to say that more failures in
poultry farming are due to lack of eX-
perience on the part of the one taking
care of the birds than any other one
cause Multitudes there are who wish
to raise chickens, and many of them
think that it requires no special knowl-
edge.
There are many ways in which a city
man can gain poultry experience.
Move to suburban community and
keep from eight to ten hens in the
back yard. BY studying these closely
much can be learned. Subscribe to a
number of reliable poultry papers and
read them intelligently and carefully.
Secure number of poultry books, of
which there are number of excellent
ones on the market, and read them
carefully-with the idea of applying
the knowledge gained to the manage
ment Of the hens. Get in touch with
the state experiment station and re-
quest its bulletins and circulars. DO
not hesitate to ask Its questions by
correspondence or fail to visit the col
lege plant and become acquainted with
the experiments under way and the
men in charge. Get in touch through
correspondence with the federal De-
partment of Agriculture at Washington
and request Its published material
pertaining to poultry keeping. Visit
successful poultry farms. This is a
good occupation for Saturday after
Moons when work In the city is not
pressing. Wherever possible get in
touch with an educational poultry as
sociation in the community. If there
is none get busy and form one. Such
cooperative action on the part of en-
thusiastic amateurs results in the Sc
curing of wonderful educational facili-
ties. just before taking the final
plunge spend a winter taking the short
course in poultry husbandry at one of
our state agricultural colleges. These
courses are designed to give city men
just enough Of the theoretical side to
make practical operations clear. II
possible, a year spent on a commercial
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Copyright. 1915

"Shall | give up city position to
raise poultry" This question ex
presses the thought in the mind of
many city men at the present time.
Back to the land and to nature is but
the wholesome craving of wholesome
heart. This question has been put to
me many time III my official capacity
at the New Jersey State Agricultural
College. My answer to such query
usually is, ASK yourself the following
questions: Have I ample capital with
which to finance the enterprise? Have
l enough training and experienced?
And last. but not least, Have ! per-
sonal liking and adaptation for the
work. " If the city enthusiast can an
swer these questions satisfactorily in
the affirmative, then he should not
hesitate to make the change
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FOR PROFIT
VERSUSC|TY POSITION
Salaried Man Should Consider Every
Angle Carefully Before
Making Change.
Experience, Capital, Enthusiasm
and a knowledge of Business
All Are Most Essential.
BY PROF. HARRY R. LEWIS,

Head of the Department OF Poultry Hushandr,
of the New. Jersey State Agricultural
Experiment station.
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How Much Capital.

The amount of capital to be invested
in the farm and it's equipment will de-
pend upon the size of the venture. the
number of birds to be kept and the ma
ture of the products to be produced. 1t
will require from $4,000 to $1,000 to buy
and equip a small poultry farm of ap-
proximately ten acres to carry ace to
500 birds, which is enough birds for
any person of limited experience to be-
gin with the first year. Such an in
vestment will also require the keeping
of a reserve or cash balance of from
$500 to $500 to act as operating or sur
plus capital.
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1t matters little what il is that YOU
want-Whether a situation or a servant
Ia want ad in The Star will reach the
person who will NIL your need.
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Subsoiling and
Green Manures.

the direful effects OF repeated deep
blowing He had an idea that soil in
tended for agricultural uses required
deep blowing: and he also had more
than a suspicion that the land he
bought as worn-out land wasn't really
worn out at ALL but that it had been
surfac ce exhausted by the shallow plow-
ing plan.
The year before ne bought the tract
1t produced about fifteen bushels of
middling poor corn per acre: that was
it's limit. after nobody knows how
many years of alternate deep and shall
low plowing, the deep" plowing never
getting down more than four or five
inches. He set about remedyins con-
ditiuns by having the entire tract sub
soiled with dynamite, the charges be
Ing exploded at three and a half feet
deep. Then he piowed as deep as a
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WHAT TO DO IN THE GARDEN.

subsoil pillow drawn by a big. power
ful team could be sent turning under
as much stable manure as he could get
put not pound of lime or commercial
feftlilzer. He planted corn the
tract, and at the last cultivation OF
the corn he planted cowpeas thickly
between the rows. When the corn was
harvested and the fodder was cut he
piowed the tract again--this was early
IN Septcmhcr-and seeded II TO Grim
son clover The cowpeas had made a
rank, heavy growth. and the vines
were turned under instead OF being
cut and cured for hay. Neighhors held
up their hands in horror at the waste
ful extravaganza of this. and then went
TO town and gave their notes for com
herc3al fertilizer TO put on their poor
starved fields.
The crimson clover made good
stand long before the frost came ana
continued to grow during the winter
VI course. the tops killed down when
ifeezinS weather arrived. but under
heath the withered tops the clover kept
on growing. green aud luxuriant the
neid being seeded heavily enough that
tne growth was thick and matted.
Shickens. of which this man had
couple of hundred. foraEed on the
clover. finding all the juicy green stuff
they needed under tho withered tops.
IN the spring the clover. by that time
forming mat six inches deep. was
p!owed under-again using the subsoiI
pioW-and the field was planted to corn
again. This time no manure was used,
but when the corn was laid by cowpeas
were again sown thickly between the
rows and again, when the corn was har-
vested. the cowpeas We're turned under
and the ground was seeded to the crimson
clover. This year, however, the yield OF
corn had jumped from fifteen bushels an
acre, the limit the year before the placa
was acquired 10y this man. and twenty
one bushels, which was th., Yield for his
hrSt year. To thirty-tiva bushels an acre
The tract has been cultivated in exactly
The same manner Tor six years corn hci,1r
grown each year as the main CROP Last
Sunliil~r the yield WAS at the rate of loo
bushels and "A fraction Tnr acre Seven
years ago fifteen hfsnels per acre was !,
bis crop for this ground One dressing
OF stable manure. applied SIX years ago
ms sltring, is all the gro4nd has had
aside from the two crops each wear Of
green hlahnfe--cowpeaS plowed under II,
the late summer. and crimson clover
turned under in the spring Last summer
a measured acre OF this little farm pr,e
duced 266 bushels of ma rletable potatoes
A potato held of a neighbor lust over a
renee, yielded at the rate of tifty-one
bushels TO the acre of marketable. no
iatoes. Deep blowing and green mauur-
lis. ana nothing else, restored the fer
tllity of the soil
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Apply Test to
Garden Soil.


though in this section there is little
likelihood that the latter condition ex-
ISIS. An easy way of testing the soil
10 ascertain whether or not it Is too
sour is to mix teaspoonful of the
son with water in a glass, filling the
glass almost full of water and stirring
the son until II is thoroughly mixed
with the water. Then dip into the
muddy mixture a strip of blue litmus
paper which may be bought at
almost any good drug store for a few
cents. If the paper turns red the soil
IS acid. the degree of redness deter
mining the degree of acidity of the soil
Hydrated lime. which really is lime
that has been slaked either by the
air-siaking method or with water. is
the cure for acid soil Deep blowing
III the late fall or in January or Febr,i-
dfy also helps to take the aciditv out
OF the soil; so does a crop of ry..
turned under as green manure n
you do not feel like making a test
yourself, send = sample of the soil
from your garden to the bureau Of
soils, department of Agriculture, or 20
the Maryland Agriculture College, to
be tested; in this case. however, con
siderable delay is likely to be ey-
peI1enced, as the soil-testing labor
alofy IS always overworked ANYHOW
me test Is simple as A y g. and il is in
1ali1ble; If the blue iitmus paper turns
req IN the mixture of soil and water
the SOIL Is acid, while if il doesn't the
son is either neutral or slightly alkf-
line.
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The writer has in mind small tract
in nearby Maryland which, few years
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Before beginning rca
erations it might be ,
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Poultry Book Sent Free
Mark and Mail the Coupon

Mark and mail the coupon and you
viii receive handsome 64-page book
giving full information regarding the
opportunities in Poultry Culture
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POULTRY, DOGS, PET STOCK.

ENGLISH BULL and Boston terrier puppies for
sale. pedigrsed. :o3 9th ST. NV. Phone NJ.
IIS3 21~
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WHITE WYANBOiTES. the best all-round
breed eggs for Matching: exhibit matings
81 and 81 Der Is: ntiitv uIatlng> 81 per 1J.
Marsh. r. +. n, I.anltam Md.
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AlREDALE TERRIER, years old this month:
pedigree furnished; champion stock; SIS. Ap
ply Apartment s. the. Sheridan. phone
\ort.I 1861.
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FOR SALE ab White Lezhorn hens and pullets,
laying 30 cents per head oslo P'ney Branch
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PLYM0ITH ROCK.
owen strain. 81 a setting.
3112 South Dakota ave. ne. Woodbridge.
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WHITE ORPISt;TON SO settings 80 now
$50. Also several cockerels at half price
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Young and Irving F. Rice strain: Is eggs
500; $500 per hundred Thos. c. Pollock.
" q Phone Line ltiIO
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s C. WHITE LEGHoRN. d. w. Young and
wyckon strain. Is eggs. 81; IS per hundred.
Also Barred Rock, Bradley strain, - eggs. 81.
So per hundred Dsy-old chicks, $l2 per hun
dred A. C. Johnson. 2.14 Naylor road Sc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-24
RURAL PENSION FUND
FOR TEACHERS URGED
Prominent Educators Favor
Plan and Comment Favora-
bly, on Tomkins Bill.

Favorable comment was expressed In
this city today by teachers and school
officials on the Tompkins bill providing
for Statewide system Of teachers pen
sions. The bill is now under consdcra-
tion by the Legislature.
Men and women In the ranks OF the
local school system were unwilling to be
quoted, but higher authorities were un-
qualified in their approval OF the plan.
In Philadelphia ample provision has been
made for the retirement OF superannuated
teachers, but instructors in other parts
of the state, especially in the rural dis
tricts, are not so fortunate.
Henry II. Edmunds, president OF the
Board of Education, explained that this
city, classified as FIRST class school dis
trict," has three distinct pension funds.
There is the Lewis Elkins fund, estab-
lished by a legacy. There Is also fund
maintained Jointly by the Board of Edu-
cation and the organized teachers. as well
as a beneficial system organized by the
teachers privately.
From these three sources sufficient
means are obtained to enable every re-
tired teacher TO live comfortably for the
remainder of his or her life. Mr.. Ed
munds Is of the opinion that n somewhat
similar system could be maintained
throughout the State.
THE Commonwealth Is morally obll-
gated" he said, ITO those who spend the
best part of their lives in the preparation
of boys and girls for citizenship"
DR.. John +. CARRIER, associate superin-
tendcnt of schools. prominent for many
years in the Philadelphia Teachers Asso-
citation, said:
'T am not intimately acquainted with
the provisions of the Tompkins bill. But
as a general proposition | am in favor OF
State system for the financial benefit
OF retired teachers. The individual teach
ers, as well as the schools themselves,
would profit under the plan.
often teachers are unable to retire
from the profession when they feel that
they have earned a rest. This is a hard
ship.
Furthermore. the public suffers when
good teacher Is drawn away from n
community that refuses to pension its
teachers. Tho thought that certain
school district will care for its employees
when they are old may attract the
teacher to that district. The community
that cannot offer such an induccment is
the natural sufferer. | believe that a
pension system would be especially ad.
vantageous to the rural school system. "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-24
CASSIE NICHOLAS, CRIPPLED
BUT HAPPY, GOING TO A DANCE
Girl Whose Spinal Cord Was Severed by Bullet ID Year
Ago Will Be Guest of Honor-Joyous
in Anticipation.

everything we could to give him fair
chance.
"Hc couldn't see it that way, though.
and so he shot me-fired two shots into
my back and then killed himself l was
engaged to be married then-in fact, we
had bought the wedding ring-but, OF
course, when l became an invalid that
was impossible, though my man said he
would never marry any one II he couldn't
marry me. And he didn't" she added
softly, with pride
Cassie Nicholas is walking for the first
time this year-a few steps at time
but her heart beats high with hope. She
wants to be able to get n good job and
take care of herself just like any other
self-supporting woman.
81 tell them at Thompson's that I'll be
back there some day yet" she said
brightly. but, of course, they don't be-
llevc me and so I'm just going to surprise
them"
Every day from now on Cassie intends
to practice walking so that when the
time comes she will he strong enough
TO be able TO attend.
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Cassie Nicholas is going to II dance
and she's so excited about it that her
knitting needles get all twisted up in the
jacket she Is making and her blue eyes
fill with tears of anticipation as she
speaks of 1t.
Everybody knew Cassie Il years ago.
Or knew her story, at any rate. She
was the pretty waitress who was shot as
she was leaving Thomson's Spa one sum-
mer night. Some people said the muir
derer and suicide was jealous rival
others a degenerate boy cra2ed from
cigarettes and drink, not even the doc
tors believed the girl would survive.
However crippled beyond any hope OF
real recovery, Carrie Nicholas, or Cassie.
as her companions affeCtonately called
her, Is still alive The pleasant llttle
woman with the big blue eyes and hNen
hair, who was never too tired to smile
cheerily Mt a hungry late-Comer, is trying
to eke out an existence knitting jackets.
On April s, some of her friends in Thomp-
sons will give her a benefit minstrel
show and dance and Cassie VIII be
brought in an automobile to he the guest
of honor
CHEERFUL IN HER AFFLICTTON.
In the tiny front room of her home at
1905 South 18th street outside of which
she seldom passes. Cassie works from
morning until night, never complaining,
never bemoaning her fate, only hoping
that her strength will hold out and that
she will be able to take care OF herself
in her old age.
EVERY once in a WHILE" she said
smiling just as sweetly as though she
didn't have n crooked back and could
not walk more than two steps without
having to stop and rest on her crutches,
my friends help me out and so | man
age to get along"
The eminent physicians who visited
her at the time of the tragedy said that
II wouldn't be possible for any one to
live with a severed spinal cord, cut in
two as clean as a whistle. No one had
ever done it before and, moreover. no
one has ever done is since. The best that
Cassie Nicholas had to hope for in their
opinion, was few weeks of paralysis and
then, mercifully, death.
But by sheer will power, or whatever
II is that keeps some people alive against
seemingly insuperablc odds, Cassie Mich
olas hung on to life. Young woman-
hood passed her by in those IA years
Her real lover. the one whose ring she
still wears died. Later she developed an
alarming tumor and while a hopeless IN
valid, had to undergo an operation Tor
that. But sorrow and pain seem only
to have sweetened her outlook on life
and the same pleasant smile which won
for the girl waitress so many lasting
friends, beams out from the faded eyes
of the middle-aged suffering woman.
FoRGIvEs BOY WHO SHOT HER
Not even for Romeo Helms, the boy who
turned the sunshine of her life into
shadows. does she hold any animosity.
"He couldn't help it, you know" she
said reminscently the other morning, and
her knitting needles clicked industrious
ly. HE wasn't just right. I don't think
he was jealous of me. I'm sure he
wouldn't have tried to kill me for that,
You see I was head order waitress and
he got it into his head that didn't like
him, and was going to have him dis
charged; whereas We were really doing
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-24
PROHIBITION QUESTION PUT
BEFORE NATIONAL PARTIES
Bryan Expected to Oppose "Dry"
Plank as Vote-loser.

WASHINGTON, March 24.-The activity
Of the Anti-Saloon League in indorsnS
candidates of any party who pledge them
selves for a local option program. which
was accentuated in the recent action in
Kentucky brings the prohibition question
squarely before the national parties.
Information in well-informed quarters
here is that Secretary Bryan will not
seek a dry" plank in the next Demo-
cratic platform, 1t is reported that lie
Will oppose such plank, either openly
or indirectly, on the ground that the time
Is not ripe, and that it probably would
defeat the Democratic party. His posi-
uon Will be that, for the time being, tho
states should deal with the problem.
Nor, is there reason to believe that the
republicans will take up dry" plank.
While there is powerful sentiment in the
Republican party for it, the Republican
leaders, will take about the same attitude
as the Democratic leaders-that the issue
is too uncertain from the standpoint of
Vote-getting to adopt it,
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WOMAN CONFESSES TO PLOT
TO DEFAME BEN LINDSEY
Entire Plan Seems to Have Fallen
Flat.

DENVER, March 24.-Investigation of
the alleged plot to defame the character
of Judge Ben b. Lindsey and to abolish
the Juvenile Court was reopened yester-
day. DR.. Mary f. Bates, head of the
Woman's Protective League, testified be-
fore the House of Representatives COM
mlttee investigating the Rowland money
package scandal.
Doctor Bates told the committee she
had sent an envelope containing $l5 to
ex-Representative Rowland, to be paid to
a woman detective employed to shadow
Judge Lindsey and "get the goods on
him."
'If that is true" she was asked. why
did you and Howland remain silent? Why
did you sit still and allow him to perjure
himself"
'Mr Howland and I remained silent
because we were ashamed of our con-
nection with the anti-Lindsey campaign"
replied Doctor Bates.
When told of Doctor Bates testimony
Judge Lindsey said: "There Is nothing
in her alleged contrition. She is a tool
I'm the hands of the 'higher-ups' who are
really back of the plot to attempt TO ruin
my character. have already submitted
evidence to Deputy District Attorney
sales, which he says is sufficient to send
these defamers to the penitentiary."