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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23

Since eggs and meat are considered ne
cessities in almost every household. 1T
follows that one of the most practical
means of economizing in household ex-
pense ia to produce these at home. BY
utilizing table scraps as feed, practically
every householder with room for a small
flock of poultry can make the fowls yield
a profit of from 100 to 30 per cent, per
annum.
A flock of % hens will produce enough
eggs for a family of six. Such a flock will
largely live on the table scraps that 9TH
erwise would go into the garbage can.
In addition the small poultry raiser can
have an occa sional fowl for his own table.
It requires only an average Of an hour
a day to care for flock of this size.
This care can be given in the morning
and evening before and after working
hours
Eggs are increasing in price constantly,
and this is true of meat of all kinds.
There is no better and easier way OF
economizing than by keeping n few hens
in the backyard. 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 1t ia worth
something too to be able to get strictly
fresh" eggs without having to go to the
store
ONLY SMALL SPACE REQUIRED.
The space required for 4 hens need not
be more than 10xl2 feet for housing. and
12x5O feet for yardinE or even less In
fact some successful small flockS of poul-
try are confined to houses with four
fNr anl.f D,r
and equal space for the yard.
When kept in so small a space the birds
Of course. require more care, and II mora
room Is available it should he used
The house should he what is known
as the shed type. with the roof sloping
from the front to the rear. 1t need 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 or burlap. This open
Ing is for ventilation, and should not be
covered with glass; The window should
be kept open in nice weather and should
be closed only on stormy days
AVOID EXPENSIVE BUILDINGS.
Most beginners who engage in poultry
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 fgure-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 600 laying hens in n
house 100 feet long and II feet wide. This
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
RUTLAND HIGH SCHEDULE.
Football Team Will Play Four Cameo
Away and Six at Home.

Rutland. Sept. 19.-The Rutland high
school football eleven has arranged the
following schedule of games for the com
Ing season:
Out of town: October s. Vergennes high;
November 10, Burlington high: November
II, Middlebury high; November 20. Troy
Conference Academy: home games: Oc-
tober ID Middlebury College second team:
October 16, Burlington high; October 20.
Middlebury high; October %. Troy Con-
ference Academy: October 81. Vergennes
high; November %, Rutland high school
alumni.
An effort Is being made to arrange
game with Vermont Academy at Saxtons
River to be played on October .. 1t Is also
expected that two games each will be
played with Bethel and Bristol high
schools.
Arthur Sullivan is captain Of this years
Rutland team and Day Waite is manager.
The coach is Raymond c. Bridges.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23

house is nine feet five inches high In tho
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 humping 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 a Mediterran-
can variety which do not require as much
room as larger breeds.
Economy in tho construction of poultry
houses may be secured by using prepared
roofing, but the builder should be careful
to select only a good grade of roofing.
Cheap prepared roofings go to pieces
quickly. and 1t is economy to spend a few
cents more per square to secure several
years longer service.
Make the poultry house as simple in
| construction as possible. Fancy fixtures.
elaborate mess boxes. etc, add nothing
to its efficiency but add considerably to
the cost
Opposed to this system Of keeping many
fowls in one house is the colony house
system which is used successfully by
many poultrymen. The colony houses are
seldom more than Sx12 feet in floor area
and they are generally built on skids so
that they may he hauled from place to
place. These cost more per fowl than the
larger houses but have the advantage of
being easily movable and by being SER
viceable in the spring as brooder houses,
in the summer as homes for nocks of
young stock. and in winter for housing
| laying fowls or breeding pens.
DON'T GIVE SCRAPS To CHICKS
Adult hens may be fed entirely on table
scraps but young chicks should not he
, fed table scraps from the beginning
They should be two months old before
they receive an entire feed of table scra ps
by table scraps is meant the left-overs
OF meats, bread. pics, cake, etc, potatoes,
| cahbages. and other vegetables. This al
| 50 Includes the trimmings of meat, let
! tuce potato Feelings. and the like These
should be cooked together when fed II
young chicks. but for the older hens they
may be chopped fine and given raw.
When not enough table scraps are Sc
cured to feed the flock, the scraps NAV
be cooked and mixed with equal parts
| OF bran and corn meal. and this mixture
fed to the fowls three times a day When
n wet mash is fed this way It is better al
so to give the hens light feeding of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
Black WyandOttes.
Copyright, 1919

flnement. and the fowls always present
a good appearance.
The hens are strong foragers and this,
combined with other good qualities. makes
them n profitable farmers fowl. while, on
the other hand, they do we'll in confine-
ment, rs do all Wyandottes. This Is in
favor of their use in the small backyard
flock where the hens will keep the table
supplied with eggs. and If chicks are
reared You may have table poultry at any
time from broler size up.
Their splendid plumage, yellowish legs
and red comb and wattles make them IA
vorites with some fanciers. The stand
ard weights demanded in this breed are
6ia to ~ pounds for females and IN to
Sla pounds for males.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23

Birds that were almost black were not
uncommon among Silver Laced Wyan-
dottes in the early days of that variety
In 1885 an Ohio breeder mated a pen OF
his largest birds, and by constant selec-
ton he and others produced the Black
Wyandottc, which was recognized as a
pure variety in 1893
Black Wyandottes are excellent layers,
grow fast and make excellent broilers
and table fowls. being plump and COM
pact. with rich, yellow skins. They ma
ture early and begin laying probably soon
er than any other Wyandotte. They do
we'll in small space, and are excellently
adapted to the backyard poultry plant.
Their brilliant Ereenish- black plumaEe
does not show the dirt and soil Of con-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS SAY
The Carnegie Report and Middlebury's
Buildings.
(From the Rutland Herald.)

(From the Rutland Herald)
No work done for the benefit Of Yer
mont was ever more wickedly misrepre-
scented than the report Of the Carnegie
foundation on Vermont schools followed
by the report of Gov. Fletcher's commits
sion and the adjacent bill submitted to
the Legislature, and yet every little while
fresh evidence of it's essential truths is
developed.
recent example is the gift of COM
mons or social hall by A. Burton Hep
burn to Mddlebury college, deed die
tated and inspired by a conviction based
on reading the much malgned Carnegie
report The particular section of the
report reads In part as follows:-
Few factors In the life OF young man
between the ages of IS and 20 have more
influence than the day-by day environ
ment of the room in which he lives. A
college is intended to develop the whole
man. 1t may well be doubted whether
four years of Latin and mathematics
and science in the classroom can over
come the effect of n living room untidy
and Ill kept. Simplicity and order are
neither expensive nor difficult to obtain
seeing THESE dliIcultles existing In
Middlebury. Mr.. Hepburn comes for
ward with n logical proposition to aug
ment the influence and environment OF
the mems dormitory with commons
hall or club room. which ought to have
Its own important and marked effect.
1t is extremely gratifying that one low
err of our state institutions has been able
20 recognize one of the fundamental
Qualities of the Carnegie report, despite
the chorus of Misrepresentation which
accompanied its appearance. The work
is destined to be something of a classic
ence It becomes removed from the ignoble
Influences which attempted to destroy
its value.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Electric searchlights and helmet lamps

Electric searchlights and helmet lamps
are now being used by fremen.
1t Is said that one pound of coal burned
under the boilers In the big power house
of the Interboro Rapid Transit company
in New York will carry one passenger
over a distance of two miles.
The Lake Erie & Northern railroad of
Canada will soon be electrified for the
whole SO miles from Gait to Port Dover.
Hydraulic power vii be used and the new
electric cars will be in operation next
November.
The Cooper Hewitt lamp Is radically
different from the ordinary type of arc
lamp In that the arc stream Is produced
in sealed tube and the light given out
from luminous gas. 1t was invented
by Peter Cooper Hewitt of New York In
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
SMALL POTATO CROP.
Only Half the Average Yield Expected
This Fall.

Brattleboro. Sept 1o.-Tn the opinion Of
A. w. Sweeton, Windham county agri-
cultural agent not over 90 per cent. Of
the average potato crop Of the county
will be marketed this fall. The extremely
long season Of very wet weather and
the late blight dry-rot which has been
prevalent thi sseason are tho two prin-
cipal reasons for this small crop. The
acreage this season Is about the same
as for several years past. but In most
cases where the potatoes were planted
In moist ground they are not being dug
The low places stood in water much OF
the time and there was no crop
1t has been some years since late-blight
has bothered the potato growers OF tho
county very much. and in fancied security
most of them this year failed to spray
as n preventative In consequences, they
are paying for this failure with very
poor crops. Not only are many of the
potatoes unmarketable when dug but
others begin to decay almost Immediately
after being placed in storage.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
LIBRARIES GET THOMAS
PAMPHLET.

The Eighth Vermont Regiment asso-
citation has produced in pamphlet form
with many excellent illustrations the
Hon. Joseph A. DeBoer's address at the
dedication OF the marker at the birth
place of General Thomas. Through the
generosity of the Hon. Frank NJ. Cory
and the interest of b. r. Bowman of
Randolph a special library edition" was
printed for the library commission and
given by Mr.. Cory to every library In
the Etato
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
DEATH OF AGED WOMAN.

Brattleboro. Sept. l9,-Mrs. Amanda
(Bemis) Smith. ST. widow Of Nathan Smith
OF Royalston, Mass. died here in the
home of her daughter. Mrs Charles II.
Grant, this morning. Mrs. Smith was a
frequent contributor to New England pa
pers. A poem which she wrote after the
Johnstown flood and gave to the governor
of Pennsylvania had widespread sale.
and all of the proceeds went to tho flood
suffererR
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
LEFT FAMILY DESTITUTE.

Barre town authorities are looking for
Bruce. an East Barre man who has not
been seen by his relatives or acquain-
tances N n fortnight. He neglected to
provide for his family. which is said
to have been destitute. practically. until
assistance came from the poor depart
ment.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
Vermont Notes
News of the State Gathered
Here and There
Christian Churches Of This state and
New Hampshire Meet in Wood
stock This Week.

The annual session of tie Merrmack
Christian conference will be held in tho
Christian Church at Woodstock Septem-
Der A-26 The conference comprises the
Christian churches of Vermont and New
Hampshire. Among the principal speakers
will be the Rev. George a. Coneybeare.
d. D., of Fall River. Mass, and the Rev.
Alvah II. Morrill,, D. D., Of Woodstock.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
NO STRAIN.

Grubbs-Why is it that Founder IL so
popular as pianist?
Stubhs-Hc makes SO much noise when
he plays that his non-masical hearers are
never required to try ana puzzle out tho
shade of sentiment he is endeavoring to
conyey.--Ilorida Timcs-Union
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
FREAK CALF ON EXHIBITION.

Among the exhibits at the State fair
at White River Junction was a freak
Holstein calf owned by q New York
man. who purchased him from man in
Castlcton. Tho animal has seven legs.
but is perfectly healthy and normal in
other ways.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
COPYRIGHT, 1915.

Poultry-keeping affords one of the most
practical methods of reducing the cost
of living. Economy in the household Is
secured by turning table scraps into meat
and eggs. Mr. Hicks tells how to start
with. a home flock of poultry and gives
directions for the care of the fowls.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
THE VERMONT REUNION.

The members OF the 7th Vermont
Veterans association held a reunion at
Rutland Friday Comrades living In
Illinois. Michigan, New York, Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire answered
the roll call. Twenty-Five members have
died during the past year.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
PASSING OF 4 VERMONTER.

When we write down the list OF Yer
nnonters who have blazed the way In i'm
portant changes OF worldwide influence
we should remember Albert II. Copeland,
q native Of Middlebury, who died recently
in Milwaukee. Wis, at the age OF IS.
In 1862 railroads had no telegraph serv-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
SHELDON CALLS PASTOR.

The Rev. U. f. Brown of Ontario has
been chosen rector of Grace Church at
Sheldon and is expected to arrive soon
with his family to begin his duties.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
POST IN RUTLAND SCHOOLS

The number of students enrolled in the
public schools at Rutland is 2,OS7. Tho
number is smaller than usual owing to
the new law which prohibits children en-
tering the first grade unless they will
be six years old before next January.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
MARRIED SIXTY YEARS.

Mr. and Mrs Joel c. Page of Melrose,
Mass. have just celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of their marriage. They
were married In Montpelier September
10, 1856
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
THROWN FROM HORSE

Effie Gray 10 years old, of St. Johns
bury, was thrown from her horse the
other day and broke one arm, being
tossed against a fence. She also suffered
many bruises.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23

large part of his fathers business. He
has three grandchildren. Healey Akeley
Randall, Belle Gleason Randall and
Pearl WATSON Randall.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
T wo Dozen May Be
Kept in House 10x12
Feet and Yard 12x5O
Feet or in Smaller
Space If Necessary.
Waste from the Table
May Be Turned into
E g g s a n d M e a t !;
, Three Ways of Start
: ing.
Nv Drr-CC W rIrrIyo

BY REESE V. HICKS
Former president Of American Poultry as
ISOLATION, and now general manager
Rancocas Poultry Farms, Browns
Mills, N. ].
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
If THE BABY Is CUTTING TErr,

be sure and use that old and we'll.
tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup. for children teething. 1t soothes
pain. cures wind collie and is the best
remedy for Diarrhosa. TWENTY-FIVE cents
q bottle.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23

II the FACTS about your property
will mako 1t interesting to home-hunters,
your advertisement will WIN,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23
"GOD! SAVE THE pEoPLEw

When wilt thou save the people?
O God Of mercy. when?
Not kings and lords, but nations.
Not thrones and crowns, but men,
Flowers of thy heart, God, are they.
Let them not pass, like weeds away,
Their heritage, a sunless Gay!
God save the people
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23

lion shooting stars in ono Sierra meadow.
Now. when that plant becomes known It
will become as famous as the cdelwelss''
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-23

Strength aiding still the stonS?
Is it thy will, q Father,
That man shall toll for wrong?
No. say thy mountains: no. thy skies;
Mans clouded sun shall brightly rae.
And songs ascend. instead of signs,
God, save the people!
When wilt thou save the people?
O God of mercy when?
The people Lord, the people,
Not thrones and crowns, but mens
God save the people; thine they Ara
Thy children, as thine angels fair.
From vice, oppression and despair
God, save the people
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