Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-04

that Is needed for the buggy, wagon and
farming implements.
I have been figuring on building a low.
shed-roof stable adjoining the barn,
large enough for about six stalls. That
would provide for all our present stock
and allow for future increase. and would
bench on the barn floor. something
need badly. Such a shed Bile would
not need be OF expensive construction.
i and while II would lack lot of being
success justified the building of a new
barn.
Another structure ] have got to erect
between now and November is a corn
crib. Last year I piled my corn in a
corner Of the barn loft. The rats ate a
lot Of 1t and ruined lot more As I
am going to have a much larger crop
this year; and as I am now an owner
| an absolute necessity. / am going to
put up a substantial crib with capacity
for about 200 bushels Of corn, but as Lee
Custis will do the work after the sea
sons rush is over the cost will not be
| Between now and the middle OF o.
| tober quarters have got to be provided
| for about 100 additional hens. but 1
money on this project. am
! thorciHh convert to the doctrine OF
cheap chicken houses. So long As they
are dry and wind tight on three sides,
most elaborate hen emporium ever
| construction. have fixed so cents n
| hen as the maximum cost OF housing.
and l am going to keep within that
| limit. Not long ago I visited a farm
owned by a wealthy Washington man.
There was chicken house with a
| capacity OF $50 hens that had cost more
than $500 to build. The manager told
mo that not only were eggs scarce,
| but that they were low in fertility:
| that more than half the chicks Matched
| died the first three weeks. and that
roup had made serious inroads on the
| flock of old chickens We never have
| had case of roup at Sunny Knoll.
and while our hens have not laid as
\ well as we thought they should, the
eggs have averaged above 30 per cent
house was a dilapidated old shed.
which I made over. and the addition
| built to it cost just 3s cents per hen.
not counting my own labor. SO, while
/ have got to put up another chicken
house. it is going to lack a lot OF being
| palatial structure.
One Cause Of Lament.
| Though I do not harbor one regret
that we bought the addition Of ten
acres to our land holdings. I can't help
| now and then but mourn the absence OF
some of the improvements we had
planned to make to the house. My
chief lament always has been and still
| is that we have no bathtub. Coming
| real bathtub full Of water would be
| a luxury beyond compare. But We
| can't eat our cake and have IT. too.
We hope and believe the additional
| and other things justifiable. In the
| meantime, it is possible for a man to
get himself clean in a galvanized iron
| wash tub, pumping water from the
1 we'll, heating II on the stove and car
| rying the tub out to empty it.
| We thought. even after We bougnt
the additional land. that we would
carry out a part of our program OF i'm
nothing at all to the house this year
We simply are afraid to use the money:
1t is costing more than we had figured
on to get the place in running order.
and IL we went ahead and fixed UP the
house we might find ourselves con-
fronted by the necessity Of curtail'nS
our scheme of development. The money
the improvements to the house would
surance fund against failure. When
our farm program has been rounded
out and the undertaking is on pay
ling basis we will feel safe in laying
tractive. Pending that time the house
will give us shelter and all the essen
tial comforts. and certainly no one
around the place seems unhappy or
, idtecOntenten.
Boys Return to Camp.
Jim and Ned and Buster" Robinson,
reinforced by Bud" Brown, are again
sleeping in their tent down in the
; edge of the woods. Their experience
lin being chased home in the middle OF
the night by a calf from the Brown
place destroyed for time their fond
ness for camp life. But with all the
scare worn of and the cause OF their
stampede disclosed they grew ashamed
of their fright
Their returned valor, however, was
, not unmixed with discretion. As 2.
precaution against future nocturnal
. visitors the boys gathered up a lot OF
old barbed wire and built an entangle-
ment around the tent, fastening the
wire to trees. 1t wasn't because they
were afraid, they explained. but they
, didn't want their sleep disturbed oy
any more pesky calves
There isn't any doubt the boys are
having a lot of fun out of it, even II
things are kind of "skeery" when
darkness falls and the screech owls
begin to screech. They have run
camping outfit and cook their break
fasts in front of their tent I haven't
vet gotten up SO early in the morning
that ] didn't see the smoke OF their
fire. They wanted to cook all their
meals at the camp. but their mothers
were not willing to take that long
chance on permanent indigestion.
E. S. NJ