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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01

evaporating through the shell. The
higher the temperature and the more
circulation of air there is the faster
the evaporation takes place. Eggs
grow stale in warm poultry houses, in
hot kitchens, on the farm or in the
cupbOards of the consumer. Egg deal
ers count that three stale eggs are
equal to a rotten egg and pay accord
ingly.
Gather your eggs daily and keep
them in a cool place. Market them as
often as possible-at least once
week-better twice week.
$15,oo0,oo0 Annual Loss.
Fertile eggs cause a great loss-a
loss estimated by the government ex-
perts at $15,OOO,OOO year.
Two years ago the United States
government experts conducted an ex-
pertinent in Kansas to compare the
loss from fertile and infertile eggs.
How Experiment Was Conducted.
Ten thousand eggs, collected from
different farms, were used in the ex-
pertinent. Half were fertile and half
were infertile, and every egg was alb
solutely fresh when it entered the ex-
pertinent.
These eggs were kept on the farm
under ordinary farm conditions. Some
were stored in parlors, some in kitch-
ems, some in cellars and some in pam
tries. Some were put in nests, some
under laying hens and some under sit
ting hens. The same number of fertile
and infertile eggs were always put I'M
der exactly the same conditions. In a
week the eggs were collected and sold
to the local grocery store where they
were candled. They were then shipped
to st. Louis, where they were again
candled.
Results Of Experiment.
While on the farm % per cent of the
fertile eggs were spoiled for food, as
compared with only 16 per cent Of the
infertile ones. On the way to market
ii per cent of the fertile ones were
spoiled as compared with per cent of
the infertile. This makes a total of
43 per cent of the fertile eggs unfit for
food as compared with only 25 per cent
of the infertile ones-a difference Of 10
per cent. Notice that the greatest loss
in both fertile and infertile eggs is on
the farm.
Fresh air is as good for hens as it
is for people. If you have an open
front or partly open front poultry
house you need not worry about the
ventilation.
Fresh air does not hurt hens, but
drafts are injurious. The north, east
and west sides of the coop should be
tight to prevent drafts.
Get the habit of cleanliness and you
need not fear lice and poultry dis.
eases.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01

Why not take better care Of your
hens and have them working for you
during the winter instead Of keeping
them at a loss during this period?
You can produce winter eggs. Put
your hens in q warm, comfortable, we'll
ventilated house, give them nitrogen
GUS food and furnish water, grit and
oyster shell.
OF course, it will be some trouble to
increase your egg production. Don't
expect results If you go at things spas
medically, doing one or two things and
letting the rest go.
Fowls need animal protein food.
Bugs and worms furnish this in the
summer; buttermilk and beef scrap
make good substitutes in the winter.
This chart gives the results of an
Ontario experiment. Twenty-Five hens
receiving buttermilk in their ration
made $11 profit in eight months; q
similar flock fed beef scrap made $40
profit, while flock receiving no meat
or milk was kept at a loss of So.
A similar experiment in Indiana
shows that hens fed skim milk or beef
scrap made profit Of 81 per hen an
nually, while those receiving neither
beef scrap or milk were kept at loss
Of four cents per hen.
If you feed beef scrap, get good quail
ity, testing 60 or 65 per cent protein.
Be careful not to feed too much.
Few people understand that eggs are
almost as perishable as meat or milk.
They belong to the same class of food,
but just because they are inclosed in
hard shell, people think they will
stand almost any kind Of treatment.
Government experts estimate loss
Of $45,OO0,OO0 every year from bad
eggs. This loss can be prevented by
better handling and marketing.
Loss From Shrinkage.
Five per cent of the eggs in the
United States are lost through shrink
age. The shell Of an egg is porous. 1t
is made this way so the developing
chick can get air during the incubation
period.
Seventy-four per cent Of an egg is
water. Whenever an egg is in a tenn
perature above freezing, this water is
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
POULTRY AND EGG CROP

Almost every farmer keeps some
poultry. The trouble is he doesn't
make the poultry keep him. Too many
Of them are ROSTERS. A lot more are
old hens that lay but few eggs and
then want to set. Whenever the price
of eggs gets high, the old hens go on a
strike. They lay in the henhOuse when
they please, but too much of the time
prefer to lay their eggs out in the
fence corners. That means they are
not gathered until they are stale-and
in consequence low price for the
eggs.
The average farmer considers poul-
try raising a 'side ISSUE" job for
women and children-a sort of neces-
sary nuisance in order to provide fresh
eggs and toothsome roast or fry. But
after all, this "side issue" branch of
the farming business, poultry, nets an
annual return in the United States of
over $6O0,OO0,000 or enough money to
build two Panama canals every year.
The Panama canal has been written in
to the pages of history as one of the
greatest achievements of modern times.
In it's construction our greatest minds
in the science of engineering, art and
medicine We're employed. Yet the farm
hen with little or no care closes her
yearly account with balance of more
than half billion dollars. Only a
very small portion of this vast sum of
money is earned by the well-cared-for
commercial hen. Ninety per cent of it
goes to the credit of the much neglect
ed fiocks ranging at liberty on the
farms of the country.
Hen Not Appreciated.
None of us half appreciate the
money-earning possibilities Of the hen.
For example, the cotton growing states
during a recent slump in the cotton
market due to the European war,
joined other cotton producing states in
an appeal to congress for federal aid
to tide them over the financial diff
Guilty. The appeal was for $150, 100000
to be distributed in the South through
the medium of the federal reserve
banks. If these one-crop states had
reckOned with the farm hen they
would have saved themselves the hui
initiation of asking Uncle Sam for help
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01

A new worlds record for distance
covered in ten hours, carrying a pas
senger, was made by Victor CarlstrOm
of the Atlantic Coast Aeronautical sta
tic at Newport News, Va, who made
661 miles flying in Curtiss twin mo-
tor land-and-water machine. His actu-
al flying time was hours and 40 min
utes.
injured as the result Of fire which
did damage estimated at $15O,OOO at
the plant of the Milwaukee Piano
Manufacturing company at Milwaukee.
Senator Charles A. Culberson won
Culberson's majority was $4,000. Gov
ernOr Colquitt was defeated by Gull
bersOn.
Fire destroyed nearly score of
buildings in Occoquan, Va. historic
village on the Potomac 20 miles south
of Alexandria. The loss was $5O,OeO.
In collision between two automo-
biles trying to pass each other in a
narrow country road near Fisher, ILL.,.
Miss Jenell Bailey, eighteen years old.
of st. Mary's, o., was killed.
Two automobile bandits held up and
robbed J. Isbell, driving Standard
Oil company collecting car, of $1,000
at Detroit, Mich. The bandits escaped.
Capt. r. ]. Spratling. F company.
Fifth infantry. National Guard of
Georgia, was shot and killed at the
state mobilization camp near Macon,
Ga. Mrs. III. G. Adams of Atlanta was
arrested on the statements of several
officers that she shot the militia Off
Ger.
A bitter attack on the entire Morton
family was made ut Delaplane, Va. by
Roger Bayly, husband of Helen Nor
broken In health and fortune and Is
about to depart for New York in an
effort to regain at least the latter.
Mrs. Bayly has sued him for divorce.
The most violent earthquake felt at
San Francisco was destroyed. rocked
the city and northern Humboldt
county.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
History Of Labor Day.

The celebration of Labor day was
started by the Knights of Labor by
street parade In New York city
In 1882. This was followed by an
other in 1884, and by a general move
ment Of labor unions to have the day
made legal holiday. In 1887 the
legislature Of Colorado passed a law
designating the first Monday In Sep
TENDER Of each year as public holI-
day. to be known as Labor day. Colo
RADIO was the first state to pass such
a law, which now exists In every state
in the Union. The establishment of
the holiday was not so much the sug-
gestion of any Individual as result
of changing conditions and social prog
reSS,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01

of the year the chickens live on grass,
clover, surplus garden stuff, gleanings
from the grain fields, litter about the
barn and feed lots, and more important
than all else, they consume weed seeds,
insect enemies to crops and other pests.
Record of Eighteen Ohio Farm FIocks.
Two years ago the Ohio experiment
station made study of the profits in
farm poultry. Records of 10 typical
farm fiocks were carefully kept.
These fiocks ranged in number from
SO to $40, some were purebreds; others
were mongrels. They were kept, fed
and tended just as the farmer had been
caring for them before the experiment
station asked him to keep record.
Here are the results of the investiga-
ton. For the sake Of comparison, we
have figured the profit from each flock
on the basis of 100 hens in flock.
The best five fiocks yielded respect
lively $247, $154, $153, $107 and $1O4
per hundred hens, while the poorest
five flocks yielded $67, $66, 500, $62 and
SIS respectively. In no case was there
loss. The average profit per hundred
hens Of the IS fiocks was $S7.
Poultry Profits.
One hundred hens are worth q hun
dred dollars-just about the price Of a
good dairy cow. Records of the cow
testing association in Iowa show that
the average dairy cow makes a profit
of $33. Which would you rather do
milk two or three cows or take care of
hundred hens?
Most of us fail to realize that poul-
try is profitable-the wife pays the
grocery bills and every now and then
gets new piece of furniture or new
dress with the Chicken money" But
probably not one farmer in a thousand
could tell just how much his chickens
are paying.
You probably have about a hundred
hens-that's the average size of the
farm fiocks in the United States. How
much profit are they producing? Ara
they above the average or below? Arr
you getting $247 or SIS?
Produce Eggs When Price is High.
Sixty per cent of the eggs are pro-
duced in March, April and May. Then
the number drops gradually until only
one per cent is produced in November.
Production remains low during Janu-
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What The average
farm hen produces

We will take Arkansas to illustrate the
point.
The average county in Arkansas con-
tains about 5000 farms. If on each
farm there had been 100 hens, each
laying through the year eight dozen
eggs, only about quarter of an egg
day, and the eggs had sold for 20 cents
a dozen, the income per farm would
have amounted to $16O. At this rate
the 5000 farms in each county would
have produced S4SO,OOO. Based on these
figures, the state of Arkansas with her
"A counties, would have produced near
~ 35,0O0O 00-dollar egg crop. This
sum is far in excess of the money Ar
kansas would have received as her
share of the federal loan and more
than half Of the value Of the annual
cotton crop.
This $35,O00000 distributed among
the banks of Arkansas would have re-
lieved one of the most critical periods
in the economic history of the state.
The earning power of the hen exceeds
that of all other farm animals
dairy cow not excepted.
Profit in Poultry.
Let us not overlook this opportunity.
ANY farmer can have poultry. He can
make more clear profit out of poultry
than the commercial poultryman can
make. @
First, the care of poultry fits well into
the other farm work the investment is
small; feed is cheap; the chickens con-
vert the waste products of the farm
into profits. During the greater part
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What she
should produce

airy and February and increases to II
per cent in March. The price goes
down whenever the production goes up.
Why not produce eggs in the winter?
Get the advantage not only of in
creased production, but Of high price.
In January eggs sell on an average
for about 80 cents per dozen. The
price decreases until in April eggs are
bringing only IS cents. A large number
of eggs are put in cold storage at this
time and this keeps the price fairly
high considering the great amount of
eggs produced. The price drops to II
cents during the summer months be-
cause there is such large number of
poor eggs on the market. In Septem-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Il Would Have Failed.

If union labor had been founded upon
the conception that capital Is the en-
envy of labor the movement would
have failed long ago. If men work.
ing for wages had been schooled to
believe that 1t was to their interest to
demand everything and concede moth
ing. 1t would have been impossible
for them to build up such splendid
organizations as the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01

about In condi-
lions of work and
In the workers
( h g m s e I've s.
a change that has
been due to their
or ga niz e d, eco
nomic power.
The labor move
ment has three
m a l n purposes
to establish q
s h ort w0rkday.
increase W a g e s
and better condi-
tons of life and
work.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Mexican War NezvS

Approximately $4,000 men of Ohio
Vermont and Kentucky National Guard
regiments, held in state mobilization
camps, were directed by the war de-
partment at Washington to proceed to
the Mexican border.
The Twenty-second battalion, So
nora infantry, was practically ami
hilated after it had been ambushed by
Yaquis near Batamonte, Mex.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
AOST IMPORTANT
news OF WORLD
Dl0 HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Kernels CuIied From Events Of Mo-
menS In All Parts Of the World
Of Interest to Al! the
People Everywhere.
European War News

Within q few hours after declaring
Var on Austria Hungary. Roumania
hurled an army across the border of
hungary for an invasion of Transyl-
vania. The Roumanian troops attacked
the Austrians in the passes of the
Pennsylvania Alps. Roumania's dec
laration of war was followed within a
few hours by retaliatory declaration
on the part of Germany.
Contrary to the Bulgarian COM
munication of the Goth. Serbian
troops, far from having suffered de-
feat in the region of Kukuruz, have
made an important advance and re-
peatedly have defeated the enemy,
says the official report from Paris.
The rumor that Emperor Williams
son. Oscar, was seriously wounded by
bomb early in the year is declared
to be true by citizen of Wilma. who
escaped and made his way into the
Russian lines in the region of Pinsk,
says dispatch from Petrograd.
all northwestern Macedonia before the
Bulgarian advance, according to Sofia
dispatches to Berlin. A Bulgarian
force which reached the Aegean sea
is driving the British back on their
base at the head of the gulf of Or
fanO.
Charges that the French have intro
duced new body of men whose sole
duty is to assassinate all living Ger
man soldiers in conquered trenches
were made in statement given out
by the semiofficial news agency at
Berlin.
An official announcement issued at
Berlin says: 1.-THE Italian govern
ment has declared, through the Swiss
government, that from August % Italy
considers herself at war with Ger
many" The declaration has been ac-
knowledged formally by the German
government.
A five-days' leave of absence has
been given to General Dousmania,
chief of the general staff of the Greek
army, says dispatch from Athens.
Gen. Constantine MoschOpOulOs has
ben appointed acting chief of staff.
He is friendly toward the allies.
All but one of the forts about the
Greek port of Kavala, on the Aegean
sea, have been occupied by the Bull
gsrians. Two British monitors and
cruiser bombarded these posi-
ticns, according to dispatch from
Paris.
Petrograd announced that the Rus
slams have resumed their advance
along the entire Asiatic front. The
Turks have evacuated Bitlis, in south
ern Turkish Armenia near Lake Van.
Eight persons were killed and 36 in
jured in Zeppelin raid on England at
night, it was announced officially. One
hundred bombs were dropped. One
Zeppelin reached the outskirts of Lon
don.
The Bulgarians have attacked the
Greek port of Kavala and the impOr-
tant Greek town of Drama, both held
by Greek garrisons, says Paris war
Office statement.
The capture of the German steam
ship Desterro, with cargo of iron
ore, was made by a Russian subma-
rine flying the Swedish flag, says the
Oversee News agency at Berlin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Learn From Observation.

Take a day off and visit someone
else engaged in your line of work. Per-
haps you can learn something from
their methods.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Sporting

AID WOlgast, one-time lightweight
champion of the world, got a licking
from frankie Callahan in ten-round
bout at Washington Park, Brooklyn.
The oft-tafked-of Heinie Zimmerman
trade finally was consumTated ct Chi
cago. Heinie has been traded to the
Giants. In return the Chicago Cubs
got Larry Doyle, captain of the east
erners; Jacobsen, a recruit Outfielder.
and Hunter, first baseman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Domestic

A city of FED, white and blue greet
ed the opening of the golden jubilee
encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic at Kansas City, Mo.
Curt Gosnell, Muncie, Ind, grand
circuit driver, was still unconscious at
st. Alexis hospital, 4S hours after be-
ing thrown at the North Randall race
track at Cleveland, o.
Disappearance from the mails of
$4,000 in currency became known at
Glens Falls, N. Y. with the arrival of
post office inspectors to conduct an in
vestigation. The money was being sent
by the Lake George National bank to
New York city.
John D. Shoop, superintendent Of
Chicago schools, suffered injuries in
an automobile wreck near Paris, Ill.
Those hurt besides Mr.. ShOOp are: DR..
E e. Jones, Frank F. Hager, McFar-
rem Davis, editor of Nation news
paper.
Marion Arnold of Chicago and Jack
Peacock of Brooklyn were killed and
eight other drivers and mechanicians
were injured when IL racing cars piled
into a heap at the quarter-mile track
at Kalamazoo, Mich, on the getaway
of the third annual auto derby.
William A. Brady, the theatrical
producer; Jules Eckert Goodman,
playwright, and John Turk, Brady's
business manager, were injured Sc
.vereIy at Dunellen. N. j., in an auto
mobile accident.
Samuel G. Dixon, commissioner of
health of the state of PENNSYLVANIA.
decided that all schools-public, pri-
vate, parochial and Sunday schools
In Pennsylvania, must remain closed
until September Is, because of the
prevalence of infantile paralysis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Corn for Houuino Down,

An ideal variety Of corn for hog
ging down should have small stalk
and with ears set low down. Here is
an opportunity for corn breeders.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Control Apple BIotch,

Don't think that lime-sulphur will
control apple blotch as well as bor-
deaux mixture.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01

No Place for Check-Rein.
( Give the horse his head. The field
Is no place for q check-rein.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Sow Rape in Corn.

Sow rape in the corn at last cult
walton if you would have good late
hog pasture.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Select True Breed Type.

Always keep in mind the true breed
type and never select an animal, either
male or female, that does not conform
to the type.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Foreign

Lieut.. Sir Ernest FL. Shackleton, the
anarctic explorer, left Punta Arenas,
Chile, on the ship Yelcho on a third
attempt to rescue members of his ex-
petition marooned on Elephant island.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Dipping Is Recommended.

Dipping with good dip tightens
up the wool, thus preventing dust and
rain penetrating too far down the
fiber.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Washington

President Wilson's plan for new leg
islation by which the threatened rail-
way strike may be averted was adopt
ed by the senate steering committee
at Washington. An eight-hour day, to
be compulsory on interstate railroads
within 80 days after enactment, is the
pivot around which the new legisls
ton will be constructed.
Following series of stormy sessions
ut Washington, the railroad presidents
agreed to make a counter-prOpOSal to
President Wilson, conceding the prin-
cirle of the eight-bOur day, but de-
handing arbitration Of the question
of the wages to be paid for such day.
The house at Washington concurred
in the senate amendment to the army
bill, and the measure was passed. con-
tanning revision of the articles of
war, but without the clause that caused
the president to veto it last week. The
bill now goes back to the president for
his signature.
The federal trade commission, ac-
cording to one of its high officials at
Washington, will take steps on it's
own initiative to prevent any increase
in the price of bread If the present
agitation among bakers for an in
crease continues.
Secretary Lansing and Scion Menos,
minister from Haiti, signed protO
col at Washington under the terms
of which the United States will estab-
lish a financial protectorate over the
island.
With the railroads of the United
States insisting that they must have
higher freight rates IL increased wages
are to be granted to trainmen. four
large associations of shippers appealed
to- the interstate commerce commission
ar Washington for rate reductions on
food products.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Level Bed for Onions,

Onions do best on a level seed bed,
with perfect drainage.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
Personal

Rev. Thomas B. Cleland, D. D., one
of the most prominent men in the
Presbyterian church, is dead at Mime
apOlis, Mimi. He was a member OF
the board Of directors of Manchester
college of st. Paul, and of Mccormick
Theological seminary of Chicago.
Archbishop John Lancaster Spalding.
noted prelate of the Roman Catholic
church in Illinois and a resident of
Peoria continuously since 1877, when
he was chosen for the position of bish-
OPP of the newly created Peoria diocese,
died at Peoria, Ill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
PURPOSE OF THE
! LABOR MOVEMENT
With Some of the More Impor-
tant Things That Have Been
Accomplished.

BY SAMUEL GoMPERS.
AS the years have gone past, ire
mendous change has been brought
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01
sI;d;no Doors Preferred

Sliding barn doors are better than
hinged doors.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-09-01

Der the price begins to rise and in
creases gradually but rapidly until it
reaches 20 cents in December.