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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Within the last 20 years fanciers who have admired the handsome plumage of the Light Brama. but preferred a smooth legged fowl, have worked hard to pro- duce and perfect this plumage in our most popular American breeds. The re- suits have developed the Columbian Wyandottes and Columbian Plymouth Rocks. The latter are increasing in pop ularity, not only with the fanciers, but with those who discriminate in favor of fowl possessing valuable utility quail ties.
 Like all Plymouth Rocks, the Colum- bian has rich yellow skin and legs and presents full-meated, plump carcass, free from dark pin feathers The fowls do well in confinement or on free range, are good foragers, and as profitable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
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farmers fowl they equal their cousins, the Barred variety. The hens are splen- did layers of large brown eggs, and the chicks are strong and vigorous and make rapid growth At maturity the males weigh from 71a to pounds, and the fe- males 51a to 61a pounds, although many specimens exceed these weights. The hens make good mothers.
 In cclor these fowls are marked like the Light Brama, the neck hackle of the male being striped with an intense black. The flight feathers are black, also the tail, and the female has the same color ation. The mark of beauty for which the fanciers strive is to have the back white and the small feathers covering the base of the tail a rich black finely edged with slvery white.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
A Notre Dame Lady's Appeal

To all knowing sufferers of rheumatism. whether mus cular or of the joints. sciatica lumbtgos backache pains in the kidneys or neuralgia pans to write to her for home treatment which has repeatedly cured all of these tortures She feels it her duty send it to all sufferers FREE You cure yourself at nome as thousands will testify-no change of climate being necessary This simple discovery banslss 0ric acid From the blood oosens the stiffened joints puiifes blood and brghens the giving elasticity and the whole system If the above interests you. for proof address
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
To Mend a Tablecloth From the Farm and Preside,

When a tahlecloth begins to break or small hole appears, cut piece of white paper somewhat larger than the place to be mended. haste over the hole and stitch on sewing machine, lengthwise and crosswise, very closely and evenly. It will look much heater and is easier than alarming or patching by hand. also mend sheets and bedspreads the same way The paper will disappear when washed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

which nothing is greater handicap to a young brood of chicks. The sitting hen should be thoroughly dusted with a lice expelling powder and given a clean, fresh nest to herself.
 Remote corners in the barn and under sheds are unsuitable for the sitting hen. Such places frequently abound in rats. which are a. constant menace, and they are apt to be visited by an inquisitive cat or dog. Then, too, in having the nests scattered in this way, the hens are troublesome to feed and water; they may be overlooked, and neglected, in which case they will neglect their nests. Furthermore. when the hatch comes off the hen and her brood will have to be removed to an outdoor coop, and this changing her quarters is seldom accom- plished without difficulties.
 Under natural conditions the hen builds her nest on the ground, where the mois- ture from the soil will assist in hatch ing; she selects a secluded spot protect ed from storms and other annoyances, whence she can go to and fro for eXer- else. feed and water without fear of hay ing her nest molested The poultry ra ser will do well to initiate these conditions, not alone for the comfort and security of the fowls, but for the convenience of the attendant as we'll
 A special coop for the accommodation of the sitting hens may be built at very little expense or trouble. It need be but a shed-]ike structure, "A inches high in front 36 inches deep, and about feet long. The interior is divided into five nests ch pens, the partitions running rne narrow way of the coop, and having a small door at the front of each pen. No
 bottom is required to the coop, unless desired, for it may rest on welldrained spot of ground and the nests built upon the earth. The rear of the pen is the
 nests or pens, the partitions running toe
 be used for placing feed and water be- fore the hen. The roof of the coop should be hinged, which will greatly facilitate
 the attendants work A wire-covered run, about 10 feet long, and divided into five narrow yards, the same width as the nests. is made in separate section from the coop. These are for use when the
 broods are newly matched, when they should be confined more or less, after which the yard may be removed and the hens given greater freedom
 A coop of this kind may be built from odds and ends of lumber about the place or from packing box material and the roof is the only part. that need be made absolutely water-tight. This may be GOV cred with tar paper or, for a permanent job. patent roofing should be used.
 The advantages of the coop are numer- ous-better matches, less mortality among
 the chicks. freedom from vermin and the minirnGm amount of labor in caring for the heps-everything is centralized. ' Was last easons flock of turkeys a disappointment? If SO, in what respec, did the results faI, below expectations: Was it in the care, the breeding the feeding or in the marketing? The mpor- tance of these elements is described ir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
The Antidote

From the New York Times.
 Huldas mistress often boasts of her readiness of resource
 She's the best housemaid in the world" is the enthusiastic commendation from her employer. One day I returned from motor trip through the park to be met with the starting news that the baby had swallowed a button
 And what did you do, Hulda? asked. in some anxiety. although trust ing that it had been the right thing.
 '' Why said Hulda, I made him swal- low buttonhole right awayv"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
RENTING A FURNISHED APART-
 NEWT"

By c. Smith Stanton. The J. S. Oglivie
 company, publishers, 57 Rose street,
 New York.
 MT Stanton, who is also the author of Where the Sourtsman Loves to Linger" and When the Wildwood Was in Flower" is the son of Henry B. Stanton, for many years political edi- tor of the New York Sun in Charles A. Dana's time, and Elizabeth Cady Stan ton, whose name has gone down in history, as the founder of the "Wom- ans Rights" movement. E.
 In Renting a Furnished Apartment" the author tells of the experiences of family accustomed to life in the coun- try who decided to try life in city apartment for the winter.
 We often hear the assertion that the unwritten diary, and what goes on be- hind the scenes, are the most interest," ing. Fortunately for the reader, but unfortunately for the author the fam fly rented what is known as rear apartment, and the author has endeav- ored in his accustomed humorous language to disclose the unwritten diary
 The 45 illustrations are very illumi- hating to the text, and all those who have had experience in renting and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
THE AFTERMATH OF BATTLE

THE AFTERMATH OF BATTLE" By Edward D. Poland. The Macmillan
 company, publishers, New York.
 MT. Poland has done the difficult thing-set down the things that happened around him in all their simple horror, without shrinking and without philoso- phizing-and in brief narrative, he has taught us far more of the horrors Of war and it's effect on the individual who is thrown into it than volumes of those who know merely as spectators or fear to depict awful details, Perhaps the most pitiless description of what war actually means that has yet been written about the present strife. The book is a notable one, for it sue ceeds in taking it's readers into the midst of the war scenes.
 Through it all shines the cheery. strong personality of MT. Toland and his read CTS will feel that if ever it were their fate to be carried into a crowded field hospital it would be well if he were one of the orderlies. New York Times.
 MT. Toland's story is told with all the freshness and conviction that denote a personal narrative. One feels that pen in hand he has been re-liying those ex- citing hours spent within sound of guns, and the reader feels grateful to him for being allowed to share his impressions.' Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Will give the reader a better sense of the sufferings of war than any num- Ter of volumes of battlefield correspon- dence. New York Evening Post.
 'One is led to expect remarkable writ ing by Owen Wisters preface to Edward Toland's hospital notes called The Aft ermath of Battle He speaks of ele- mental. spontaneous, simplicity. That he does not overpraise is speedily evident" Boston Herald.
 CANADA IN FLANDERS By Max Aitken George H. Doran Co.,
 publishers, New York.
 There has been no more critical pe riod in the great war than the days of the battle of Ypres.
 It was here that the Canadians, volun- tary soldiers, made the heroic stand which saved the empire, the cause of the allies, and changed the history of the world.
 This story of the magnificent achieve ments of Canadian troops in the battle of Ypres Neuve Chapelle, Givenchy and Festubert, must ever rank with the greatest of war books
 These men, our neighbors, our friends lawyers, college professor business men fought and triumphed for the principles of true democracy.
 THE LIGHT THAT LIES" By George Barr McCutcheon, with illustra- tions by F. Graham Cootes, Dodd Mead & Co.,, publishers, New York.
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 THE SECOND COMING"-(A vIS- ION). By Frederick Arnold Hummer and Henry P. James. Dodd, Mead & Co.,, publishers, New York.
 CHILD AND COUNTRY" By Will Lexington Comfort George H. Doran & Co.,, publishers, New York
 THE PASSIONATE CRIME" By E. Temple Thurston. D. Appleton & Co.,, publishers, New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

EXILE"
 GAN OUTPOST OF EMPIRE). By Dolf
 Wyllarde The John Lane Co.,, pub
 fishers. New York
 With as clear a vision as is demon strated in her previous works, Dolf Wyllarde still sees life as it is and writers of 1t with a fearless pen. The setting of her present story is British outpost in the orient which she calls Exile" little group of Britishers is to the reader in the first chapter, among them Richmond Her vey, government engineer, and Claudia Everett, wife of the chief justice-the most beautiful woman in the colony. women, detests Claudia Everett for her when fate thrusts her happiness into his hands. Her husband is an unmiti- gated rascal, whose rascality has so far been successfully concealed from his wife. At the opening of the story, however, he writes letter to Hervey disclosing some of his nefarious schemes, and finds out only when too late that he has shown his hand to the wrong man. He cringes to Claudia, knowing her to be a social power in the community, and tells her to offer Hervey anything for the return of that letter. It is here that the story reaches it's dramatic height: these three work ing for and against each other; the tragedy that comes of it and the hap piness that follows tragedy. There are many minor episodes of interest woven dexterously into the story and the characters are unusually appealing even for a Dolf Wyllarde novel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
HER HUSBANDS PURSE"

By Helen R. Martin. Doubleday, Page
 & Co.,, publishers, Garden City, N. Y.
 Her Husbands Purse by Helen R. Martin, has a note in it not found in the earlier novels of this "fictional his torian" of the Pennsylvania Dutch. There the author depicted, principally through dialect, the Mennonites, the Dunkards, the Amish, and the people of other queer religious sects with whom she has a unique acquaintance.
 And though Her Husbands Purse IS again a comedy of manners, portrait Of some quaint members of the human family, it is also a drama Of clash of ideas, study of an aspect of the economic dependence of women, and deals with the money question between husband and wife. Daniel Leitzel is newer type of Pennsylvania DutchmAn altered by material prosperity, an ex- pensive education and a strong, local. social position. He is a multinlillionaire, amazingly tight listed man, who holds Mass" missed the main chance" and was "a dead failure;" and who re- proves his wife for making herself common with persons he feels beneath him. Margaret Berkeley, a dowerless bride, who is driven by two goading cir cumstances into taking on'' Daniel and his extraordinary kin is a high bred southern girl open-hearted, bubbling over with mirth and the joy of living. This story is the story of two tempera-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
MT. Weat-and-Cu
 Here's MT. 'Gets-It'
The New Plan Corn Cure That's as Sure as the
 Rising Sun

''Cflad meat y0u!" says the to the corn. 'I'n bleed for you!' the Razors and love other Corns love to be cut picked. gouged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

salved. pastered and jerked out-they grow faster. MT. and Mrs. Went and-Cut It realize it now-they use Gets It. instead-its the wonderful simple corn that fails. Stops pains. You apply 1t seconds dries once, Is doomed. Nothing stick the stocking press the It means gocd-ni to plasters saves diggers bundng You smaller shoes. Your cerns will right off. clean whistle" Never in flames healthy flesh. The worlds biggest selling corn
 
 Gets It is sold by druggists everywhere 25c a bottle direct by E. Lawrence & Co.,. Chicago, Ill. Sold in Birmingham and recommended the worlds best remedy by Eugene Jacobs Drug Store. 1904 Second avenue. Birmingham; Gale Drug Co. t2 stores. 3o7 First avenue and Pratt Station. Pratt City Ala-Ady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

Was last seasons flock of turkeys disappointment? If so, in what respec. did the results fal, below expectations? Was it in the care, the breeding, the feeding or in the marketing? The impor- tance of these clements is described in next weeks article, in which M. L. Long field also tells how to profit by past fail ures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
USE MACHINE FOR TWO WEEKS

Assuming, then, that the poultry Keeper wishes to have his chicks brooded by hens, he would do well to consider com bining the virtues of the incubator as time saver. Briefly, the scheme is this: Place the eggs in machine for the first two weeks, and after they have been tested for fertility and dead germs give the known to- e-fertile eggs to the hens for the remaining wee.l of incubation. In many cases they will hatch every egg. This method not only saves two weeks of the hens time. an item of vital inn portance on the egg farm but it also enables the poultry keeper to commence his matching two weeks earlier than if he first waited for the hens to become broody. Furthermore, it saves the less of time incurred by the hens sitting on infertile eggs or those which are too weak to develop.
 When the eggs have been kept in the incubator until the eighteenth and nine teenth day the results in chicks matched under hens by this plan have been very satisfactory. Generally, the matches se- cured from three hens make comfort able broods for two hens, whereupon the remaining broody hen is made to sit over again on another lot of ''fertiles' from the incuba tor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
COMBINED VIRTUES OF NATURAL <
 AND ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION
The Hens Time Is Valuable and Should Be Conserved as Much as Possible-Cen- tralize the Sitting Hens in a Coop Build for the Pur- pose

owners of small flocks of chickens, es- pecially farmers, will continue to do thelr matching by hens because they have not the time to devote to rearing the CHICKS by artificial means. There is wisdom ID this but on the other hand the hen time is valuable too Why not perform the matching with a machine, and leave the responsibility of breeding to the hensq The idea is entirely practical and economical.
 The hen will continue to be the means of matching and rearing chickens for large number of poultry keepers, especial ly those who have small flocks, or those who have not the time nor inclination to adopt artificial breeding methods, despite the fact that the natural way has several disadvantages; mainly-the difficulty or securing broody hens early enough to produce fall layers, especially if the win ter is severe, and the loss of the hen time from the laying house, Whereln sne would have probably laid couple or dozen eggs. To offset this loss however there is no gainsaying that the natural method has it's advantages.
 EASlEh 1O 1lNSO DALI
 All things considered, the hen is bet ter brooder than man has yet invented which is to be expected, and the same may be said of her as an incubator, al though the relative merits Of artihclal and natural incubation do not seem to be as important as the broodlng. In other words incubators have reached state of perfection whereby their efficiency
 compares very favoraply with the best ef-
 forts of Mistress Biddy. We are better able to initiate matching, perhaps, than breeding, because in the first process we are better able to control our charge. The egg is inca apable of voluntary mo- ton; it cannot stray from the conditions best suited to it's development, neither has it a propensity for immoderateness. The chick, on the contrary, IS gullty or many indiscretions, and sometimes ne IS Iincorirgible. Frequently, our greatest CT
 forts are unable to frustrate an evll, ana
 what is more hopeless, we have not the gift of being able to divine the strange convolutions of the chicks mind
 Strong vigorous chicks are not always
 obtained from properly incubated eggs,
 whether the hatching IS done artlncialiy or naturally. A successful hatch depends on more than the methods Of lncupa- ton; it goes further back, 10 the selec-
 tion of strong, fully-matu.,cd breeding
 stock, well mated, and properly fed and
 housed The novice, therefore. is often ready to condemn his incubator when a
 few unhatched eggs are found on the
 trays after a hatch is completed, when
 in reality the quality of eggs lies entirely
 at fault Moreover, the eggs usually
 set in a machine are collection from an
 entire flock, and on much larger scale
 tIo,, cof a
 very often steals her nest and sits on
 none but her own eggs. We do not bother
 at finding two or three unmatched eggs
 under a hen, whereas the same per cent of unhatched eggs in an incubator seems unsatisfa ctory and wasteful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
CENTRALIzE SITTING HENS

It is customary to set hens in out-of- the-way corners, sometimes in the hem house, or in boxes or barrels scattered about the outbuildngs and barnyard pay ing little heed to the hens ideas in the matter, or to the safety of her brood. This practice is wrong for many req sons. The sitting hen is entitled to just as much consideration as the brood mare or COW, and it is the only way to obtain the full benefit of her efficiency.
 It is mistake to Set hens in the reg ular poultry house. for they are certain to be annoyed by the other layers The laying hens regard sitters with contempt: they will lay in the sitting hens nest, fight and crowd her off the nest, very ofteE breaking her eggs and seriously en- dangering the safety of the hatch. More- over the nests in the poultry house are very apt to be troubled with vermin. than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

ments utterly different springing fron entirely dissimilar soil.
 It is, finally, a story of marriage. And Mrs. Martin has a theory, which she expressed in recent interview that men of the class of Daniel Leitzel, per haps all men, ought to go to school for marriage" That men should go to school to learn some of the essential requirements for marriage-understand ing, for one thing.