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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29

skimmilk, fed five times a day; mix
ture No. 2 in shallow tray containing a
little of No. dry always before
chicks; shredded green food and fine
grit and charcoal scattered over food.
Five Days to Two Weeks Old.-No. 2
in light litter twice a day, No. mois-
tened with sour skimmilk, fed three
times a day; No. always available.
Two to Six Weeks.-As above, except
that moist mash is given twice day.
-Four to Six Weeks or Until Chicks
Are on Range.-Reduce meals of moist
mash to one a day, mixture No. in
litter twice a day, dry mash always
available.
Six Weeks to Maturity-No. and
No. hopper fed; one meal a day Of
moist mash If it is desired to hasten
developments.
Observation-Disclosures fine grit, char
coal, shell and bone from the start
Give grass range or plenty of green
food; fresh water. Feed only sweet,
wholesome seeds. Avoid damp and
soiled litter. Disinfect brooder fire.
Quently. Provide shade, fresh air and
protection from the sun. - Kansas
Farmer.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29

quires some skill and practice. The
chickens selected as broilers may be
forced more rapidly than those saved
for breeding stock. Quick growth can
be produced by dividing them into
flocks of fifty or less and combining
them to small pens for fourteen to
eighteen days before they are market
ed. Feed in the morning and at noon
a wet mash Of six pounds of cornmeal,
four pounds of low grade wheat flour
and two pounds of bran or middlings,
mixed with sl1immilk or buttermill1 to
the consistency of oatmeal porridge
If no milk is available add one pound
of beef scrap to the mash and give
some green feed daily, using only
enough water to make a crumbly mash.
In addition to either of these mash
feeds, give all the cracked corn that
the chickens will eat for the evening
feed.
Higher prices are paid for the early
broflers, those Matched in March and
April, than for those Matched in the
late spring and early summer. Pull
lets Matched early also make the best
fall and winter layers and are the
most profitable to raise. Broilers are
marketed both alive and dressed.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
CLEANING THE BROODER.
Important That All FiIth Be Removes
and Utensils ScaIded.

Important That All Filth Be Removed
and Utensils ScaIded.
Cleanliness is an essential in good
brooding methods. Each night after
the chicks have "retired" we wash and
scald thoroughly all dishes connected
with their food and drink, writes cor
respondent of the Orange Judd Farmer
For the first two weeks we clean the
brooder only when necessary, because
the chicks stay out for short periods
only and seem frightened when too
much disturbed. We aim to keep the
litter of fine chaff reasonably clean and
wholesome. Since cleaning is essen
tlal, 1t is done thoroughly. The soiled
litter is brushed out carefully. The
floor of the brooder is then cleaned with
a whisk broom and kerosene, and the
fresh litter is busted with lice powder
When the chicks have passed their
second week and are reasonably safe
from their "baby" ills, their care often
becomes mOnotOnous, and it is easy to
let neglect creep in. This is where we
appreciate good hOvers. 1t is such a
simple thing each morning while the
chicks are enjoying their first exercise
to hang the burlap covers for an hours
summing and airing and to set the
frames against the side of the house
and thoroughly clean the floor where
they stood, leaving all sweet, clean and
dry. No cumbersome brooder boxes to
move or to accumulate filth and YER
min means great saving in work.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
PLANTING HARDY STOCK.
Work on Small Fruit and Trees Should
Begin In Early Spring.


Begin In Early Spring.
Asparagus, rhubarb,, Strawberries,
raspberries, blackberries, currants and
all the small fruits, hardy roses and
shrubs, hardy perennial plants, lilies,
iris and all fruit and ornamental trees
can be planted as soon as the ground
can be worked in the spring.
In planting trees and shrubs make
the holes larger in circumference and
deeper than necessary. Loosen up the
soil to a good depth and pulverize it.
Mix well rotted manure with the soil
in the bottom of the hole and cover
this lightly with soil, as no manure
should touch the roots. Trim off
broken roots with sharp knife, max
ing clean cut. Spread out the roots
carefully in natural manner and fill
in the soil, tamping it firmly as the
filling process advances. Water thor
oughly before the hole is filled, using
several pals of water. Most trees and
shrubs should be pruned back well be-
fore planting. Trees properly set out
will mature much earlier and make
finer specimens than trees carelessly
planted. Gardeners doing the work
will bear close watching. Not every
gardener is a careful worker and, al
though he may know better, may take
advantage Of his employer and slight
the work
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
Ruined BY Rust.

NV. e. Edmondson, Colorado station.l
1t is a proved fact that machinery,
where exposed to moisture, rusts out
very rapidly. In fact, rust does more
damage to the exposed machinery than
lhe work which the implement is called
upon to do.
This is a needless waste, however,
because rust can practically be over
come by taking the proper care Of the
machine when not in use.
Farmers could get more than twice
as much wear out Of most implements
If they were housed properly. This
alone will not suffice in some climates.
A very good way to keep the rust from
attacking parts exposed to moisture is
to coat all the iron with a very cheap
oil. This oil should be thick and
heavy, so that when applied to the iron
it will not run off.
This coating Of oil viii keep all Of
the moisture away from the Iron and
win prevent rust from starting.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29

yet when wet weather comes and
frosts pulls and tugs the post will
yield and gradually slacken up.
The accompanying sketch shows one
way of bracing these corner posts.
While stones have been used for brac-
ing at the front and they give good
service, the use Of two other larger
stones farther from the base and at
tached by wire to the other posts ad-
jacent to the corner post will material
ly assist in tightening the burdens the
corner post must bear. Further de-
scription of how this is done is not
necessary, since the sketch shows this
very plainly.-American Agriculturist.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
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SOWING OATS.

3 Oats grow best when sown
8 with a drill in a fine and firm
= seed bed about two or three
= inches deep. Fall plowed land
3 is to be preferred. Seeding
= should be done early.
= Oats follow a cultivated crop
+ in rotation. Fall blowing is
: best. If the situation demands
= spring blowing the earlier it is
y done the better. Following
> spring blowing the soil must be
g worked back so as to unite the
= furrow Slice and the pan" A
= good seed bed can be made on
i clean land where corn was
= grown last year by two diskings
j and a narrowing with a slant
= tooth harrow.
% Drilling gives a more even
= stand than broadcast sowing
4 and covers the seed to a more
= nearly uniform depth. Less seed
j. also is required in drilling. The
4 seed should be covered usually
= about one and a half inches
4 deep. The rate of seeding should
+ be two bushels to the acre I'M
- der average soil conditions or
4 two and a half bushels on heavy
i soils.
4 Every two or three years oat :
+ seed should be treated for smut :
i to hold the disease in check. ,
+ This year is a good time to be- .
+ gin. A formaldehyde solution .
e will probably save your field sew I
+ eral bushels an acre. !
i A termination test is always !
= advisable, but especially so this !
i year, for tests are showing up !
. poorly. Rigid grading with a I
= tanning mill will also help to get 4
y high test-C. P. Bull, Univer. 1
+ sity Farm, st. Paul. 4
j = g j + 4, j. j. q, 3 - i j. j. j. j. j. q
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
MATURE Hens Best erseders.

While it is undoubtedly true that pull
lets will lay more eggs than hens, still
the hens are more valuable in the
breeding pen, for the progeny of hens
are sure to be larger and harder than
that from pullets. Another considera-
ton that must be taken into account is
that eggs for Matching can be used
from record laying hens and thus per-
petuate the egg laying qualities of such
hens. Pullets, of course, have no rec
ord till they complete their first sea-
sons work.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
RATIONS FOR CHICKS
UP TO FULL MATURITY

The Ration: Mixture No. 1.-RoIled
oats, eight pounds; breadcrumbs, eight
pounds; sifted beef scrap, two pounds;
bonemeal, pound.
Mixture No. 2.-Wheat (cracked), two
pounds; cracked milo or corn (fine), two
pounds; pinhead oatmeal, pound; mil
let, pound.
Mixture No. 3.-Wheat bran, three
pounds; milo, Kaffir or meal, three
pounds; wheat, middlings, shorts, three
pounds; beef scraps (sifted, best grade),
three pounds.
Mixture No. 4.-Wheat (whole) two
pounds; Kaf1r, milo or corn, two
pounds; hulled oats, one pound.
Mixture No. 5.-Kaff1r. milo or corn,
three pounds; wheat, two pounds.
The Method.-One to five days, mix
ture No. moistened slightly with sour
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
Looinu Younn Chicks.

Complaints already are heard about
losing chicks, and yet nearly all the
loss could have been prevented, for
the trouble has come because the
chicks were fed too soon after being
Matched. The yolk of the egg, which
is imbibed by the chick a short time
before it is hatched, provides sufficient
nOurishment for its sustenance for at
leafs two days, and any food given it
before that time is a detriment
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
POULTRY
Gua EGGS
BRoILERS FOR MARKET.
Separate the Chicks Chosen For This
Purpose and Feed Well.

Separate the Chicks Chosen For This
Purpose and Feed Well.
Broilers are young chickens weighing
from three-fourths to two pounds, the
latter weight being the most common
size, says the Farm Journal. The pro-
duction of broilers as a special bust
ness has been tried without success on
many poultry farms In the northeast
ern part of this country. Broilers,
however, are raised successfully and
at good profit both on poultry farms
and also where only few fowls are
Kept, the broilers being the cockerels,
which are byproduct in the raising
of ,pullets for egg production.
The general purpose breeds of fowls,
such as the Plymouth Rocks, Wyan.
dottes, Rhode Island Reds and Orping
tons, produce chickens making the best
broilers. These chickens should weigh
from two to two and a half pounds
Give weight at eleven to thirteen
weeks of age. The Leghorns are not
so well adapted for broilers, as their
chickens are smaller, but they make
fair broilers, weighing from one to two
pounds. All Leghorn cockerels, except
those saved for breeding stock, should
be sold as broilers, as they are not we'll
adapted for market after passing be-
yond this size
The cockerels should be separated
from the pullets as soon as the sex can
be readily distinguished, the NEST
promising chickens being saved for
breeding stock. The sex is usually
told by the development of the head
points, tail and general male charac-
teristics in the cockerels, and this re-
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
Rracina Corner Posts.

Whoever has had anything to do
with wire fencing knows he is up
against it constantly when he comes
to the corner posts. Try as hard as
one will, that corner post will sag and
turn in in course of time. You can
brace it with rails in the ground or
pile stones in at the front Of the post
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
Hoppers Save Time.

A poultry feed hopper capable Of
holding a large quantity of feed is
great labor saver. By allowing the
birds access to its contents a satisfac-
tory growth is obtained and an oppor-
tunity Is given them to balance the
grain rations fed.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29
POULTRY GOSSIP.

\ Onion tops and tender dande- !
i lion leaves, chopped and fed to !
y incubator chicks when confined !
+ where they cannot get green !
+ grass. will be eaten by them !
Y with a relish.
+ If chicks have bowel trouble !
+ try putting common ball bluing :
+ in the drinking water 1t will )
i not injure the chicks and has :
y cured many after all other rem !
+ edies failed. :
\ The mild weather we are now !
+ enjoying is life to both chicks !
y and fowls. !
y The fall egg crop will depend !
y largely upon the number of April !
y Matched pullets.
i At the present market price it
+ is more profitable to turn the
+ eggs into chickens than to retail !
i the eggs. !
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29

Much of the loss in raising chicks
In breeders can be obviated by
keeping the floor of the breeders
and brooder houses covered with
an inch of clean sand. Cut corn
slower or cut straw should be used
on the sand for scratch litter. Such
material as clover or timothy chaff
or buclIwheat hulls is objection
able in the brooder house. The
chicks pick up the particles of the
fuzzy stuff and are not able to pass
them through the crop. The brood
er coop shown is common in Rhode
Island.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-09-29

White chickens make the most at
tractive and easily dressed broilers,
as their pinfeathers are not so APP
parent when the chickens are pre-
pared for market. Chickens of the
general purpose breeds make good
market poultry after they pass the
broiler size, but many of these, espe-
cially those Matched early, are mar
keted to best advantage as broilers
on account of the high price paid.
The chicks shown are White Wyan-
dottes.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-08
DEAD IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Tw" i.icutennnts I'm American Field Ar
ttilcry Killed, md Two Other Wen
Seriously Injured.

I.AWToN. OKLA. May 7.--lIcuten-
ant Herold S. Naylor and Lieutenant
Edwin l.. Pritchett. OF the Fifth Field
Artillery. we're killed. and J. l.. Me-
Mahon. Jr.. of the Second Field Artil-
lery, and Lieutenant Richard G. Scott.
OF the Fourth Field Artillery. We're
seriously injured in an automobile ac-
cident at Fort Sill early to-day.
The party was returning 10 quar-.
ters at the post. after attcning party,
when tho car, which Naylor was driv-
ing, suddenly swcrved from the road
way, and crashed into tree. The ac-
cidcnt. it is believed, was due to the
explosion OF n tire.
Scotts face was badly laccratcd, and
it is feared the sight OF one eye has
been destroyed. McMahon is not he
llcVcd 10 be seriously injured.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-08
GERMAN FORCES GAIN
GROUND FROM FRENCH
GERMAN ATTACH STOPPED
RY FRENCH DAURAGE FIRE

Especial Cable TO The Times Dispatch. ]
PARIS, May 7.--Aftcrnoon oficini:
south of the Somme the Germans. ar
ter intense artillery preparation. made
an attack last evening on our trenches
south of Lihons. They we're stopped
bv our barrace fire and their forces
dispersed before tncy reached our wire
cntanG!cments.
In the Verdun region the night was
marked only by n continuous and vio-
lent bombardment in the region OF
hill S04 and al the Thiaumont Farm.
in the Haudremont sector.
South of st. Mihiel wc repuised n
strong German reconnoitcring party
which attempted to attack one Of our
small posts to the east of Bislec.
In Lorraine we surprised Il patrol
which had crossed the river Seille near
.Lanfroicourt. southeast Of Nomeny. We
returned with fourteen prisoners.
During n sruall tile day before yes
terday about twenty OF our captive
balloons broke from their moorines.
Some were carried into the German
lines. while others came down within
our lines. Most Of the observers were
able to descend back OF our lines,
through the use OF their parachutes.
We are without news of a few OF them
who were carried into the enemy lines.
The official communication reads:
ION the left bank OF the Meuse a
bo,nbardment of extreme violence.
which lasted without cessation for two
DAYS in the region of hill 30i, was fol-
lowed to-day by n powerful German at :
tack delivered against our front be-
twocn hill 3O+ and lie Mort Homme
Tho enemy. after repeated efforts, PEN
etrated tho underground passageways
east Of hill 304. Everywhere else he
was repulscd with serious losses in
nicted by our machine guns and bat
terles. which energetically bomharded
nhn German lines.
"On the right bank, after intense
artillery preparation, the Germans de-
livered several successive attacks
Continued on Second PaEe.)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-08
FIERCE ATTACKS
WIN FOR GERMANS
French Lose Further Ground
on Both Sides Of
Meuse.
VERDUN DRIVE CONTINUES
Crown Princes Forces Gain
Footing in Trenches of
Defenders.
VERDUN DRIVE CONTINUES

What Beeminrly is Il new great Of
fenSiva. with it's objective ,hc capture
~ Ncrdun. has bccu launched BY the
Germans northeast and northwest OF
u" fortress III both sectors gains
Tor The Germans are chrcnic!cd in the
latest French official communication.
In tn" former sector between
Haudrem"nt wood and Douauin ont.
French frst-linc trenches over nearly
- thlrd Of milo were entered by the
Germans. while northwest OF Ncrdun.
10 the east OF hill 3oi. they penetrated
underground passarcuays of the
French
Except near hill ah,. however. the
entire attack, which Was thrown aEains,
tho sector between hill 30t and I.c
Mort iIommc. was rcpulaed with scri-
"ls losses I" the Germans : similar
tate befcN the attacking forces in tho
northeast except in tho region OF the
Haudreinont wood. Both attacks were
delivered after heavy preparatory bonn
hardments.
Aside from these attacks. only bonn
hardments have been in progress on
the line IN France and Belgium The
artillery action has been extremely
heavy In the Woevre and n, the foot
nf The Meuse hills, in tho region east
0f Ncrdun
GERMAN POSITIONS
INEF'FECTUALLY SHELLED
Russian torpcdo-boats have ineffec-
tualiy shellej German positions on the
northern coast OF Cour!and, according
!" Berlin. In Galicia, along the lower
S,ripa River, the Russians have made
further advance against the Tcu-
tons, while IN the Caucasus region.
Turkish attacks in the Black Sea
littoral were repulsed.
rhe Turks. who had been contextinc
tho advance Of the Russians toward
Bagdad H. the Serinalkerind region.
have retreated hastily. after having sus-
tanned heavy Losses, leaving behind
them their tents and war mcte-ial
Small infantry encounters "a, vari-
Gus points along the Austro-italiam
front. in which what advantage there
was rested with the italians. have
served TO vary the usual fighting with
the htE guns
Hcrlin reports the recent siukinE In
tn" Mediterranean. by "a mine. Of an
entente allied transport with coo Rus
SLAMS on hoard. and the destruction Of
s. British acroplaEe and the capture
of another aircraft in the North Sea.
:, British official communication nd-
rll,S tho loss OF the TWO aeruplanes,
lu' denies claim by the Germans
tha, the submarine E-3l was SUNK by
the Germans. declaring that tho vessel
has returned safely to It's hasr
GERMAN FORCES GAIN
GROUND FROM FRENCH
PARIS, May Tn fierce attacks on
both banks Of tho Meusc to-day the
German forces gained ground from the
French. They entered the French com
municating trenches east OF hill 3O4
and gained footing In the first
French line between Haudremont wood
ana Fort Douaumont over an extent OF
neariy third of a mile
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-08
WILSON TO VISIT HAMPTON
Tentatively Accepts Invitation to speak
nj Ogden Memorial
Meeting.

WASHINGTON. May President
Wilson has tentatively accepted an in
vi1ation 10 speak OH Friday at q Rob
ert c. ogden memorial meeting. TO be
held by the Hampton Normal and In
dustrial Institute. He may go TO Hamp-
ton on weekend cruise ahoart! the
yacht Maynowcr. Tomorrow the Pres.
idcnt will listen for an hour to speeches
by members of the antimilitarist COM
mittee, opposing his preparedness
measures
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-08
IMMEDIATE STEPS
TAKEN TO FOLLOW
FLEEING OUTLAWS
Whether Men Were Villa or
CarranZa Followers Is
Not Known.
FOUR TROOPS, OF CAVALRY
START AT ONCE FOR SCENE
Small Detachment at Glenn
Springs Stands Off Attackers
for -Four Hours.
VISIT TWO OTHER SETTLEMENTS
New Development Only Matter Dis
cusscd Mt Conference Between
Scott and Obregon.
Posse Of Texans
Starts IN Pursuit

Especial to The Timcs-Disputch.I.
MARATHON, TEN, May w.
*. ELLIS, heading posse of Atty
rcxnnE, started from here this nf-
ternoon to pursue the Mexicaps who
rnided Glenn Springs and BOnquiiias
Friday night md Saturday morning.
Every member of the posse is fn-
miiiar with the topography OF the
Zig Bend country, md liz expert
with both rifle and revolver.
The Mexicnns nre said 70 he
camped on both sides OF the river
between Bouquillns and BouuuiIIaS
Del Carmen.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-08
PROTEST TO GREAT BRITAIN
State Depar :ment Makes Representa-
tfOns Concerning Seizure of Power
Schooner on McAicnn COnst.

WASHINGTON. May 7.--Representa-
tions have been made to the British
government by the State Department.,
it was learned tonight. protesting
against seizure on the West Mexican
coast by the British cruiser Rainbow
OF the power schooner Oregon. The
vessel, owned by the Crowley Launch
and Towhoat Company. OF San Fran
cisco, was seized about ten days ago.