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Evening star., 1915-09-12
BACK YARD POULTRY
WILL CUT LIVING COST
Twenty-Five, Hens Can Be Kept in
Comparatively Small
Space.
Waste From the Table May Be
Turned Into Eggs and Meat.
Ways of Starting.
BY REESE v. HICKS,

Former President of American Poultry Association
Copyright, 1919
Poultry keeping affords, one of the
most practical methods of reducing the
cost of living. Economy in the house
hold is secured by turning table scraps
into meat and eggs. Mr.. Hicks tells
how to start with home flock of poul-
try and gives directions for the care OF
the fowls.
Since eggs and meat are considered
necessities in almost every household
it follows that one of the most practical
means of economizing in household ex-
pense is to produce these at home. By
utilizing table scraps as feed. practical
ly every householder with room for a
fowls yield a profit of from 100 to zoe
per cent per annum.
A flock of twenty five hens will pro-
duce enough eggs for a family of six
Such a flock will largely live on the
table scraps that otherwise would GO
into the garbage can. In addition, the
small poultry raiser can have an oc-
casional fowl for his own table. 1t re-
quires only an average of an hour a
day to care for a flock of this size. This
care can be given in the morning and
evening before and after working
hours.
Eggs are increasing in price constant
ly, and this is true of meat of all
kinds. There is no better and easier
way of economizing than by keeping q
few hens in the back yard. There is
considerable satisfaction in having eggs
when one wants them without having
to pay high prices, particularly in the
winter. when they are most needed. and
it is worth something, too. to be able to
get strictly fresh" eggs without hav-
ing to go to the store.
Evening star., 1915-09-12
Avoid Expensive Buildings.

Most beginners who engage in poul-
try keeping on a commercial scale
make the mistake of erecting expensive
buildings Successful commercial
poultry plants keep the cost of the
buildings down to the lowest possible
tigure-seldom more than 81 per fowl
and practicable buildings can be put
up for even less than this.
For a number of years one prominent
egg farm has kept 500 laying hens in
a house 100 feet long and IA feet wide.
This house is nine feet five inches high
in the front, with a height at the back
of four feet, five inches. BY making
the roof high in front, the operator
can do his work easily without bump
ing his. head; and the lower ceiling in
the back helps to keep the house
warmer in winter. This house gives
more than three and one-half square
feet of floor space to each fowl, but
the fowls kept in it are Mediter-
ranean variety. which do not require
as much room as larger breeds.
Economy in the construction of poul-
try houses may be secured by using
prepared roofing. but the builder should
be careful to select only good grade
of roofing. Cheaply prepared roofings
go to pieces quickly, and it is economy
to spend few cents more per square
to secure several years longer serv-
ice
Evening star., 1915-09-12
Only Small Space Required.

The space required for twenty-four
hens need not be more than 1Ox12 feet
for housing and 12x50 feet for yarding
or even less. In fact, some successful
small fiocks of poultry are confined to
houses with four square feet Of f1ool
space for each fowl and equal space fol
the yard.
When kept in so small space the
birds. of course. require more care. and
if more room is available it should be
used.
The house should be what is known
as the shed type, with the roof slopins
from the front to the rear. 1t neet
not be more than five feet high in the
rear, but should be at least seven feet
high in the front. The house should
have a glass window, not less than 3x4
feet, in the front. and an opening OF
the same size covered with muslin OF
burlap. This opening is for ventila-
ton and should not be covered with
glass. The window should be KEEP,
open in nice weather and should be
closed only on stormy days.
Evening star., 1915-09-12

Do not neglect the frequent cutting
of weeds wherever they may happen to
spring up. Late summer and fall weeds
mature crops of seeds that are scat
tered all over the place by the winter
winds. and such sowings produce the
weeds that give every careful farmer
and gardener so much work every
spring and summer.
Evening star., 1915-09-12

Be careful to burn all material cut
away from fruit and shade trees and
from the berry plantations. Such ma
teriaL if left lying around. often breeds
various diseases which are borne from
the heaps to the trees or the berry
patches by birds. and only by burning
the limbs. branches and canes removed
in the pruning process can this danger
be avoided.
The Washington times., 1915-12-29

gomery Blair. ir., Wilson Haywood.
James Phillips. Duncan, Phillips. lanes
b. Moore, Stedman Hanks, Capt. Eidtcy
ellis captain Talbot. Sidney Walcott.
Steuart Walcott, Arthur HELEN, Bowie
Clark, Eames MacVeash. Thomas sy,
mons, jr., John Henderson, Lieut., Paul
Bastedo. Capt William Merry. Aifonzo
Pezet. Arthur Campbell william Mar
row, Blair Lee. John Hemphill. Robert
Cowan, George Oakley Totten, Edwin
Morgan; Dudley Morgan, Mr. Watson
syIHsnnns I2 % Stokes T Mr.. Wilkinson Rob
ert Chew. jr.. Richard Chew. Manning
Stead. Colman Jennings. John Clifton'
Mr.. Hart. Mr.. Pratt. Mr.: Chandler. Jo-
seph Bailey. Weldon Bailey. Captain
combe. Lowndes Lavender, Charles
Hinkle. Robert Patterson, Lieut.. Walter
Davidson. CORTLAND Parker. Seward
Webb. Commander Gilmer. Franklin
den. Mr. Wiley, Streeter B. Flynn. Com
ma ander jewell. Lieut.. Robert Gatewood.
Mr.. Angel. James Baker, Mr.. Sinclair,
Mr McG""ap CAPTAIN S%hlsy, y, j. 1,,atcb a. g.
er. Alfredo Flam, Captain Williams.
Haywood Webb. Mr.. Aguilo. Raoul
| Barthe. Mr.. Armistead. Harrison Irwin,
Lieut. George Easterday. and Paymaster
owen Conger
| Miss Anita bite. one of the most
attra ctive buds Of the nGvy contingent.
| will be presented to society this after
! noon at q tea which her mother, Mrs.
| J. w. Kite. wife of Surgeon Kite, U. S.
! N, will give at her apartment in the
| Cordova. The dtninc room will be dec
GRATED with holly. Christmas green's,
and scarlet bells. but in the drawing
room. which is done in japanese style;
| and filled with rare and beautiful
things picked ur in the Orient. the orly
| flowers will be the quantities Of bCu-
/ quets sent the debHante.
| Assisting in the dining room will be
Mrs. Charles Walcutt. Mrs. Charles
doz. Mrs. J. j. Cheathanl, Mrs. Robert
Stccker. and Mrs H. =. Old. Others in
the receiving party will be Miss Char
lotte Capers, Miss Mareheritta Tillman.
Miss Mari, Sims, Miss Kites house
guest; Miss Dorothy Fuller. of Anna
polls: Miss 1iclcn Einmell. Miss Dor
othy bennett Miss Libbev Gibson. Miss
Tay Hull. Miss Elisabeth Chase. Miss
SoIsanne Chase. Miss Jane Gregory,
Miss Mary Garland. and Miss Esther
! Whiting.
Mrs. Kite will receive. the giests
wearing gown or white tullc oveI
white satin, trimmed with Old lace and
gcwned in white net emhroidered in
silver, made In the houfant STYLE ovel
white satin and will caT%N pink roses
and lilies Of the valley. Mrs. Kite viii
carry q bouquet Of lilies of the valley
vfol.ts, and orchids. Later in the even
ing the receiving narty and few sddi
tional guests will be entertained at &
supper and dance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Clay Habershan
CoInutt will entertain at dinner or
Friday evening, taking their guests
The Washington times., 1915-12-29
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later to the dance to be given at
Rauschers by sixty girls prominent in
Washington society.
Mr. and Mrs. Edson Bradley are
among those who have taken boxes Tor
the Black and White Ball to be given
at Sherry's on January II.
The tea dances which have been ar
ranged to take place at the Playhouse
under the patronage Of number of the
members OF the club will he inaugurated
on Friday afternoon instead of on
Saturday as previously planned. Tie
hours will be from to O'clock and
the dances will be held every fnday
during January,
Mr. and Mrs LEROY Ettle will be
hosts at dinper of ffty-three covers
this evening at the Chew Chase Club
entertaining in compliment to their
daughters. Miss Margaret Tuttle and
Miss Adelaide Tuttle. They will also
have q dinner of ten covers at the club
when the guests will be older people
Mrs. George Harrison will entertain al
two parties at the club. one of twelve
covers in honor of her son. Cadet Raw
Harrison. of West Point. and anothel
OF eight covers for her own friends
Others giving dinners tonight at the clut
before the mid-weeklv dance will in
clude Mrs. Edwin Seton. Admiral anC
Mrs. Albert Gleaves. Major and Mrs
James Shpton. ATTORNEY General and
Mrs. Thomas Watts Gregory. Gen. ant
Mrs. George Scriven. Commander II. c
Direer. Major T. r. Lowe. Miss Rutf
Hitchcock. and Mr. and Mrs. Ellwoot
o. WaGenhorst
-i.
Judge and Mrs. Sidney Ballou will en-
tertain a party of school girls and boy.
at a dinner tonight in one of the private
dining rooms at the Chevy Chase Club
which has been decorated with Christ
mas greens. confetti. and TOYS of va
rious sorts.
Former Senator and Mrs. Elihu Roo
of New York are STOPPING at the viii
lard. Mr.. Root is here to attend tn,
international law conference.
The Washington times., 1915-12-29
All to Go at Reduced Prices

We unable enumerate all the books all the
different kinds of books which make this great colec
but among them will be found Books for the little Children
with coored pictures for older boys and girls who read easily
and few handsomely bound illustrated Books which
originally priced much higher.
Ficion-by both and old witerS-myStery and de-
tectpe store sentimental and sometimes almost Nuy
robust and active These abundance
Lop and
Hstory-of and foreign countries will be found
quantities, but good selections. Biographies of
of prominence large quani-
wokS of a Wde
{ Subjects few Bibles and TeSamenS, Serious
Essays, Confdng Cook Books, Nature Books and
& Out-ofdoor Volumes together with Books the
European war, Political Economy Sociology and Kin
ded Subjects
These make up partial list Of Books offered 1t pos
e catalogue them instances there but
of kind Persons interested will at the necessity
for an early call order the best of the offerings
noorF
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
The Milk Situation.
(Athol Transcript


The statement has recently been
made on competent authority that the
number of dairy cows in New England
is decreasing at the rate of 10000 a
year. Should this decrease continue at
the same ratio much longer the effect
upon the milk supply must be desas-
trous. The principal reason advanced
for the disappearance of the cows is
that the farmers and dairymen are oh
liged to sell their milk at less than the
cost of production. But it is not easy
to see just where the "obligation -
comes i'll. When most business men
find they are not getting enough for
their products to cover cost and yield
a reasonable profit they raise their
prices. If customers won t pay the
price they can let the goods alone.
Milk is a necessity, and if milk pro
ducers will only unite and stick to a
fairly remunerative charge they can
command their price. In many sections
this Is done, and business conditions
are satisfactory all around. Every one
knows that the cost of keeping cows
has been greatly increased in recent
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03

squirrels, wipe dry and broil over a
clear bright fire. When a golden
brown season well, cover generously
with butter and serve hot This dish
is for those hunters who have no con-
science about taking the life of the
joyous little squirrel.
Cabbage SaIad.-Put one-haIf cupfuI
of vinegar and one tablespoonful of
butter to heat in a double boiler. Beat
the yolk of one egg, one tablespoonful
of flour, one of sugar and two of sour
cream, cook smooth in the vinegar
Just as it thickens stir in the we'll
beaten white of an egg and pour over
shredded well sailed cabbage.
Apple OumpIings.-NIake a rich bak-
ing powder biscuit crust, roll out and
cut in squares large enough to wrap
a well cored and peeled apple. Fill
the apple with chopped peanuts, sugar
and bits of butter. Pinch each square
and bake in 8 hot oven. A most deli
cious crust may be made by using pea
nut butter in place of other shortening
in the making Of the dumplings.
Almond Salad.-Blanch and shred
nan SupIui VI dlLuOuuS, duu SIX owes,
stoned and chopped, a half cupful of
celery and half cupful of boiled
dressing or sufficient French dressing
to season well. Serve on lettuce leaves.
Dreamed Chestnuts.-rhis is a deli
cious dish where chestnuts are reason
able in price. Boil until tender a cup
full or two of chestnuts. Serve in we'll
seasoned rich, white sauce An egg
| may be added to the sauce to make it
richer or cream used instead of milk.
Serve as a vegetable
Corn 5read.-One pint of white corn
meal, one quart of sour milk, four
/ eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, one half
/ teaspoonful of salt Nix well and bake
| In muffin pans.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03

ever be expert enough to recognize
incipient tuberculosis or know what
cardiac murmurs mean heart disease
and which do not. / have not the
least idea that one of every AZ children
has heart disease, as the recent exami-
nations of school children seem to
show. It is impossible for practi-
TONERS not especially trained in those
things to recognize and treat the de
fects of school children effectively.
/. :. If the state is ready to pay ply
sicians to diagnose diseases, then it
ought to follow up diagnosis by treat
iment. -. Only in school clinics will
treatment ever be effective.
This gives an idea of what might be
expected in Vermont in few years if
the state board of health is allowed
to have its way. If it succeeds in
making school inspection by physicians
compulsory it will soon be undertake
ing to say what physicians shall treat
our children after they have been eX
amined.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
Member of the Associated Press.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH >, 1915.
A SERIOUS MISTAKE.

There is no doubt that the town of
Brattleboro made a serious mistake
yesterday in voting to have three in
stead of five listers. The work which
this department has to do is extremely
important and it must be done legally
fairs is to be forthcoming. Hereto
fore five listers, three of them men of
long experience in the work, have
found it extremely difficult to make
and file the grand list within the time
prescribed by law. 1t can therefore
be imagined what a task confronts the
three now in office. They cannot pos
sibly hope to complete the work be-
tween April l and June unless they
secure clerical assistance, and even un-
der this arrangement they will be Sc
verelv handicapped for the reasons
that clerks will not have the authority
To take lists. Having curtailed the
board of listers under the mistaken
impression that they were effecting a
public economy, the 80 voters E. Of .4athe
town face the unpleasant prospect of
losing hundreds of dollars in taxes
through the haste that will be necessary
to complete the work within the legal
| time Under these circumstances il
certainly behooves all taxpayers to as
sist the listers in every way possible.
/
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03

naQ no appetlCe. Since l nave taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound the aches and pains are all gone
and feel like new woman. / cannot
praise your medicine too highly. Mrs
AUGUSTUS LYON, Terre Hill, Pa.
1t is true that nature and woman's
work has produced the grandest remedy
for woman's ills that the world has
ever known. From the roots and
herbs of the field, Lydia E. Pinkham,
forty years ago, gave to womankind
a remedy for their peculiar ills which
has proved more efficacious than any
other combination of drugs ever com
pounded, and today Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is recogniz d
from coast to coast as the standard
remedy for woman's ills
In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, are files containing hundreds of
thousands of letters from women seek
ing health many of them openly state
over their own signatures that they have
regained their health by taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound;
and in some cases that it has saved them
from surgical operations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03

Bills dealing with tuberculosis are
now being considered in % state legis-
latures, according to an announcement
made by the National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tuber-
cuIosis. In six states, Alabama, Ari-
IONA, California, Iowa, Tennessee and
Washington, bills are being considered
which call for the reporting and
registration of all living cases of tuber-
culosis. Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and the
District of Columbia are working for
laws which will require that con
sumptives who refuse to observe san
itary regulations and are a menace to
others may be removed and detained
in hospitals. In Alabama, Arizona,
California, Illinois, Maine and Mis-
souri,, legislation permitting the es-
Enlistment of county or local hospitals
for tuberculosis are being discussed,
and in California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine,
Missouri and New Hampshire state
subsidies of So to So per week per
patient are being asked for such insti
tutions. n more or less complete reor-
ganization of the state health work is
sought in several states, especially
Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebras
lla, Texas and Arizona. In Indiana ant
Alabama bills providing for full-timt
county and city health officers are be
ing considered. AS an aid in futher
ing these and similar bills, the Ma
tionaI association has issued a pamph
let entitled Tuberculosis Legislation
which contains a digest of existing
laws in this field with comments anC
comparisons of some of the most i'm
portant ones. tuberculosis is a pre-
ventable disease and many eases ar
, cureable. 1t has been one of tn
world 5 greatest scourges, but the tim
, will come when it will be banishe
r from the face of the earth.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
MEDIEVAL PUNISHMENTS.
Queer Old Laws of England That Have
Never Been Revoked.

Although the stocks. like the pillory
and the ducking stool. have been done
away with. a lot Of punishments sur
vive in England which are every bit as
medieval.
The most ludicrous of these exist in
the two services-the army and navy
which We're renowned in the past for
the cruelties practiced in them in the
name of justice. "Keelhauling'' as car
ried out in the navy used. Of course. to
amount to execution by drowning.
while in the army running the CANT
let was Il popular way of Furnishing
troublesome soldiers.
Here is another queer punishment
which never has been removed from
the statute book. If you are motoring
or driving in England beware lest you
run over anybody. for if you do so and
cause his death your motorcar or car
riage can be confscated. Even fall
ing tree that caused the death of hu-
man being can be taken from its owner
The strangest punishment which still
survives under modern law in England
is that of ''outlawry." Only a few
years ago-in 1906 to be exact-a law.
yer charged with forging a check was
''outlawed" in the Glasgow high court
By this sentence the person of the &C
cused is declared forfeit. He cannot
bear testimony in court nor sue not
defend an action. He cannot act on 6
jury nor vote at an election nor act as
tutor or guardian to another person
| If any one robs him he has no redress
| If any one kills him it seems rather
| doubtful if that person can be hanged
-Pearson's Weekly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
Mason S. Stone.
Rutland Herald

The resignation of Mason S. Stone as
state superintendent of education came
as a decided surprise to Vermonters
generally and particularly to those who
have watched the recent course of ed
ueatlonaI progress in the state.
Mi. Stone s Is years of service in
Vermont have been full of valuable and
conscientious work Whatever progress
Vermont has achieved along broaden
ing educational lines must be attribut-
ed IN Il large measure to his efforts.
In connection with the ''Greater
Vermont movement of few years
ago, Mr.. Stone and his 'troupes of
volunteer speakers carried the gospel OF
progress into every town of the state,
and the fairly unanimous demand for
better and more practical rural schools
may be traced in a large degree to the
propaganda OF. the past decade.
The introduction of vocational train
ing and domestic science, of teacher
training classes and expert supervision
have all been accomplished during has
administration, but perhaps the most
marked effort of his tenure of the of
flee has been in behalf of the rural
schools.
First, last and always, Mr.. Stone has
been a friend of the country school
the farmer s boys and girls and the
training OF the country teacher.
Whatever the reason which prompted
his resignation, Mr.. Stone will surely
take with him into other lines of ser
| vice the respect and affection of a very
! large portion of Vermont 5 rural popu
, lation.
This considerable portion of The
state s communities will join The Her
| aid in a most sincere wish for his con
| tinued prosperity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
One of New York,s Tiny Streets.

New York has some queer streets.
and Edgar street is one of them. 1t
has been built up solidly on both sides
from end to end for generations, but
it has no numbers, and no one lives on
it, and no one does business there.
The letter carrier never stops. 1t has
only one door, and that is kept locked
and never used. Fifteen long steps
take one along the sidewalk from one
end to the other. Queer little thor
oughfare is Edgar street. lying be
tween Broadway and the Hudson, be
low Rector street. in oldest old New
York.-New York World.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
Who Bought the Melon.
(Rutland News.)

An exchange notes that the Sears,
Roebuek mail order house in Chicago
cut big melon this week, when it de-
elared $20,O0,00O dividend to the
stockholders of $40,0O0000 worth of
common stock. 1t is stated that the
head of the concern will get over 81
100000 of this dividend, and that its
real value will be over $4,000, 900, as it
is in the form of extra stock. This di-
vidend is worthy of note because it is
made possible by people who send their
money to mail order houses instead of
patronizing their local merchants. The
point Is that none Of the money that
goes to a mail order house ever comes
back into town to help pay taxes or
circulate among the folks who send it
away.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03

The head of the Boston board of
health's bureau of milk inspection has
discovered that calcium sulphate (plaster
of paris) and ammonium chloride are be
ing used in the manufacture of bread by
certain Boston bakers, and has offered a
bill for presentation in the legislature to
remedy the situation, there being at pres
ent no Massachusetts law which defines
what shall constitute bread There would
be little local interest in these facts if it
were not true that considerable Boston
made bread is shipped into Brattleboro
because of a demand based on the mis-
taken belief that the Hub product Is
superior to bread made in this town.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03

As an illustration of the view of
certain medical men on the proper
method of handling school inspection
we quote from recent address of
DR.. Richard c. Cabot of Boston:
1t seems to me entirely irrational to
have in the schools all the means of
finding out defects among the children,
and then do what amounts to leaving
them unremedied. We now send chill
dren for treatment to the family ply
stefan or to hospitals. The family
physician will never be expert enough
to know what adenoids are to be
taken out and what left in. don t be,
lieve that the family physician viii