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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
OULTRY
CONSULTING DEPARTMENT
Some Essentials of Good Matching

Some Essentials of Good Matching
In successful Matching with incu-
bators the selecting of eggs for hatch
ing is to know that they are from
sturdy stock-stock that is capable of
producing eggs of strong fertility.
With the assurance that the stock
meets these requirements you need
have little fear of poor matches, pro-
vided the necessary details of incu-
baton are attended to with regular
ity.
Eggs selected for incubation should
be of average size and good shape.
Those ridged or odd in shape should
not be used for incubation; they may
develop life, but they rarely hatch,
because the deformity of the shell
prevents the growth of the chick.
When such eggs do hatch, deformed
chicks are the usual result. Thin
shelled eggs are wasted when placed
in the incubator, for they will break
in turning, not only causing loss
of the egg but also smearing neigh
boring eggs with the sticky contents
which is exceedingly detrimental to
Matching eggs.
Best results will be obtained if
eggs intended for Matching are kept
for two or three days before being
placed in the incubator. The period
of storage should not be too long, for
the longer the eggs are stored the less
chance there is of good hatch. While
there are records of good matches
from eggs stored for a number Of
weeks, best results will be obtained
from those stored not more than one
week. / should consider an egg more
than two weeks old not worth placing
in the incubator. Many times the
three-weeks-old eggs will not hatch
much over half as many chicks as the
week-old eggs. Delayed matches and
chicks of poor vitality are frequently
the result of eggs stored too long.
1t must be remembered that egg:
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
FERTILIZING TOPIC
FOR CLUB Meeting

The Fairview Farmers club met
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. S.
White March 81 with about forty
present. A beautiful day made all
feel happy. A most bountiful dinner
was served at high noon to which all
done ample justice.
A fine program, prepared by Mrs.
Peter Kohn, and Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old Gardner, the program committee,
was enjoyed by all. Not the least
on the program was a genuine sur
prise to Mr.. and Mrs. White, it being
their forty-ffth wedding anniversary.
Their friends all remembered them
with some very fine gifts for which
they We're very thankful and which
they greatly appreciated. The topic
for discussion was "Fertilizing," led
by Ira Richmond and Frank Davis.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Verne
Davis, the evening of April Is.
Grace Moon,
Corresponding Secretary.
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Lansing Will Entertain c. E. Con-
ton

UOn
Field Secretary Spafford of the
Michigan Christian Endeavor Union
together with the newly organized
G.. +. Union of the Capitol City are
planning one of the strongest pro-
grams ever offered outside of a State
Convention for the Fifth district con-
vention to be held in Lansing, April
20-21-22, 1917.
The Fifth District comprises the
counties of Ingham, Ionia, Clinton,
Shiawassee, Eaton, and Livingston
so that the goal set by the conven-
ton committee for 500 registered
delegates should not be difficult of
realization.
The delegates from out of the city
will be entertained in Christian homes
of Lansing both Friday and Satur-
day nights, including breakfast Sat-
urday and Sunday mornings.
The registration fee for the entire
program of the convention except a
large banquet to be held on Saturday
evening at maximum cost of so
cents a plate will be the extremely
small sum of twenty-five cents and
will also include a souvenir program
and special booster badge if sent
in advance. You may send your reg
istration to or secure further infor-
West St, Lansing.
Registration at this convention is
open to all interested in Young Peo-
Piles work whether they call them
selves Christian Endeavors or not.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
while the cooling process is going

it while the cooling process Is gong
on. H.: 49,
Cooling the eggs Is something tnat
can be leafned only by experience
and that depends upon the macnine
YOU are operating. 1t also depends
upon the temperature Of the incubator
room and the season. Ordinarily IN
cold room the eggs get enough airing
at first while being turned. AIter the
first week it is usually good plan TO
cool the eggs from five to fifteen MN
utes once day, and in hot, weather
the cooling may be considerably long
err. One can Judge on the feel OF the
eggs to tell when they are cooled
enough, and that generally Is when
they feel just warm when touched 10
cheek or eyelid.
In the perfect hatch the chicks be-
gin to pick the shells on the TWEEN,
fieth day. and all are out by the end
of the twenty-first day. Hatches that
are abnormally early or late are usu-
ally lacking in thrift and vigor; The
more nearly simultaneously a match
comes off, and the quicker it cleans
up, the better.
It is not good practice to help the
chicks out of their shells. IT they
haven't the strength to get out alone
they will not have the vitality TO live
or make profitable growth afterward.
Besides, it is always more or less
harmful to interfere during the midst
of the hatch. When opening the door
at Matching time it allows the cold
outside air to blow in over the weak,
wet chicks, chilling them and drying
out the moisture that is so essential
in the egg chamber at Matching time.
About the only time the incubator
should be opened is when the hatch is
two-thirds over. Then remove the
empty egg shells, put all the dry
chicks down in the nursery drawer,
and make sure that no shells have
slipped over the pipped eggs and are
suffcating the imprisoned chicks.
Should there be any crippled or de-
formed chicks in the hatch, they
might as we'll be destroyed promptly.
1t is usually a waste of time to try to
raise them, and even if they should
live are more bother than they are
worth. Do not be in a hurry to re-
move chicks from the incubator nur-
sery; allow them plenty of time to dry
off and gain strength. This is usually
about thirty-six hours. Chicks strug-
gle and gasp when first Matched, but
this is natural. Gasping opens the
lungs and struggling gives them
strength.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
Good Roads and National Defense

Much has been said and written up
on this important subject. Little did
we think when undertaking the task
we now have in hand of building up
the roads of our state and nation that
any great significance should be given
the subject from the viewpoint of ma
tional defence.
The countries of the old world evil
IDENTIFY have had this subject in mind
for years, but our own peace loving
people gave little heed or thought to
building roads for any other purpose
than to give better service along civic
lines and fort the enlargement and i'm
provement of conditions far removed
from national strife.
1t is not hard for us to understand
that the building up of the great ma
tional thoroughfares now outlined and
well defined will be of the greatest
service to our country in case we are
ever compelled to protect ourselves
against the foreign foe. No wiser ex-
penditure of money can be made by
the national congress.
Congressman Shackleford of Miss
ouri in an address delivered by him at
Pittsburgh not long ago gave utter
ance to the subject of good roads as
related to the preparedness of our
country that l wish might be read by
every good roads booster in America.
The following extracts / deem of so
much Importance that l give place to
them in this report, hoping that they
will be read with interest.
"And while am talking good roads
l might say something of prepared
ness. l am for an adequate prepar-
edness. You ask what can be term
ed adequate? That depends upon the
use you will put it to. The popu-
lar interest in national defence, now,
is due to the lessons we have witness
ed of late and which we do not fully
understand. This question has been
forced upon the world by the mighty
spectacle of the efficiency of the Ger
mans-and say this without any
comment upon their aims or ideals.
But most of us have not read that les
son Alright.
"Why is the German laundering to-
night atTthe gates of Verdun with ev-
erv prospect of attaining a victory
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04

which are allowed to remain in the
nests too long after being deposited,
when the Thermometer is below freez-
ing point, are next to useless for
Matching purposes, simply because
such a temperature is calculated to
disorganize their internal structure TO
such an extent as to render the normal
development of their life germs i'm
possible, if such germs are not de-
stroyed before development actually
commences. The eggs should be
gathered frequently while yet warm
and placed where they can cool down
gradually.
Rough handling of incubator eggs
is also important, for there are two
ways in which eggs are likely to be
roughly handled. There is first, the
desire on the part of the operator to
get the eggs heated up to lob or lO4
degrees as rapidly as possible; and
many believe that if the full tempera-
ture is not reached during the first
day the eggs are totally spoiled, OF
course. this idea is wrong, since arti-
fetal incubation is but an imitation
of the natural process, and when a
hen sits upon a clutch of eggs she
takes time to heat them up. She has
no extra heat available to turn on
with the object of attaining the full
temperature during the first day or
two; and experiments have shown that
the temperature Of eggs under hen
rises very gradually, and only attains
it's maximum height about the fifth
day.
1t should be the same with eggs in
an incubator 1t is positively injuri-
GUS to heat them up quickly, and the
operators should aim at attaining
about 101 degrees in the course of the
first twelve hours, and the heat may
then be gradually increased by only
one-half degree per day until about
the fifth day, when the desired tenn
perature will have been attained.
The other manner of rough usage
to which | have referred consists of
careless turning of the eggs in the
early stages of incubation. 1t is adj
visable that at this stage the eggs
should be handled with the utmost
care, so that their delicate organism
may not be upset, and if the machine
has an automatic turning tray | would
not use it until the infertile eggs have
been tested out 1t is no waste of
time to turn the eggs slowly and care
fully by hand, because they want to
be cooled, at any rate, and one might
as well turn them and take time over
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04

That the farmers of the country
are adopting more and more the prac-
tice of anlyzing their business care
fully and using this analysis in keep
ing books was brought out recently
in the hearings on the agricultural
appropriation bill before the Commit
tee on Agriculture of the House of
Representatives. The Office Of Farm
Management of the United States
Department of Agriculture has pro-
vided In Farmers Bulletin No. .66l
blanks for use in analysing. a farm
business in such a way that the farm
er can readily ascertain the various
sources from which he derives his. in
come, the ways in which he derives
his money, the total income from the
farm, and the amount which should
be charged off for interest on his in
vestment.
County agents, it was said, make
much use of this bulletin. They take
it to the farmer, sit down with him,
and work out with him a complete
analysis of his business, so that he
is able to see exactly in what re-
spects he is losing money and In what
respects he is making it. Further
more, these blanks are frequently US
ed when farmers write to the depart
ment for advice and assistance. In
such cases it is customary to send the
inquirer the bulletin, with the request
for him to analyze with its aid his
business. The information thus OBJ
tanned is compared with similar in
fo4ration on file in the department
and the specialists in the Office of
Farm Management are thus enabled
to point out the mistakes which are
S9using trouble in any one individual
Ease. 1t may be found, for example,
that a dairyman is spending from
three to four times as much money
for labor as other farmers conduct
ing business on a similar scale.
To secure the necessary data that
enable the department TO determine
whether or not a farmer is conduct
ing his business as efficiently in any
one respect as he should, extensive
farm surveys are made in representa-
tive localities. A group of from 500
to 700 contiguous farms is selected,
and detailed analysis of the business
of each one of these made by trained
experts. They ascertain what the in
vestment is, how much it is in land
and buildings, and how much live
stock, machinery, feed, supplies, etc.
The production of the farm in crops
and live stock is next studied, and the
returns from the sales of all products
ascertained. The survey also in
cludes an estimate of the amount of
depreciation of the building, work
stock, machinery, etc., on the farm
With his information it is possible
to determine approximately what the
average farmer in that section is do.
ing, and when this average is com
pared with individual cases it is pos.
sible to throw light on why the pros.
porous farmer is succeeding and why
his less fortunate neighbor is not.
Approximately one-third of the
farmers who have been induced *
analyze their business in this way, il
is said, are now keeping books. Hith-
erto, many farmers have been dis
couraged from this by the apparent
complexity of the systems employed
By simplifying these systems so that
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
Good Roads Department
Conducted Especially for the Banner by Hon. P.
T. Cogrove, President of the Michigan
Good Roads Assocat ton.

there? Some people say because he
has been systematically trained for
years. But look at the Germans be-
fore he took to the trenches; he was
leading the world in chemistry, in
productiveness, in trade, in philosophy,
in countless fields. He was prepared
for physical efficiency, for moral eff
ficiency, for mental efficiency, every
man and woman of him was prepar-
ed. Give our men this physical and
meutal and moral preparedness, place
them on sound footing and develop
them individually to the highest at
tainable points and they also will lead
the world; be prepared for anything
that is to come. To give this prepar-
edness we must make this nation not
merely isolated villages and towns and
cities, but unity it into one great ma
ton that speaks one thought, that has
a common ideal. Yes, we must have
guns and mines and torpedoes and
coast defenses, but before all else, we
must see that the individual ability
reaches its highest level.
"a Frenchman will tell you that had
it not been for the splendid French
road system, Paris would have been
ransacked long ago. The German
Will tell you that had 1T not been Tor
his great roads he would never have
attained the successes he has.
Il do not believe that America is
in danger of war, but if she ever en-
cages in any war, it will only be of
serious import because of tremend-
Gus combination of nations opposing
her. If this time comes, we will not
win on the high seas, we must fight
with our coast defenses, with armies,
with air fleets. And in the meantime
we must live within our borders. That
seems a big problem, but if our coun-
try is developed as it should be, we
would be able to live and maintain
ourselves in this country for fifty
years.
"In this good roads movement we
wish to build up sections and make
them of great productivity by unit
ing them more closely with the world
by means of great highways. We can
not do this without adding to your
wealth and to your opportunity, of
adding great selling fields to your
present patronage"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
TIRED OF LIFE
Constant Packache
and Rheumatism

Foley Kidney Pills fixed up Texas brakeman
so he's good as ever.
Almost down and out with kidney
trouble. Rheumatism so. bad he could
scarcely set up when he sat down.
Back ached all the time.
No wonder Mr.. +. A. Wooley, brake
man on the road from Dallas to jack
son, Texas, was tired of living"
II saw Foley Kidney Pills adver-
lisa" he said, II took some and after
snort time / was thoroughly cured
and am having no more trouble.
-our kidney ills will disappear
and with them the backache and rheu-
E>f sism, by the use of Foley's Kidney
Pr y. Once your kidneys become
strong and active, aches and pains
wHl disappear like magic.
There's nothing to equal the genu-
fne. viii help any case OF kidney or bladder
trouble not beyond the reach OF medicines.
Contain no harmful drugs. Try them.
WORTLEY & FRENCH
C0NNELL'S DRUG STORE
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
Today's Poem

Resurrection
An Easter Carol

All lIdSOCf SdIOi
(By Frederick Meres)
The tomb was sealed, the watch was
set,
Within the portals lay the form
Who by the host of heaven was met,
AS he arose on Easter morn
When the angel rolled away the stone,
The risen Lord in glory shone,
And though the tomb was sealed,
Resurrection was revealed.
The Roman guard in terror fled
From the angel bright, with fam
ing sword,
When the Son of Man rose from the
dead,
And spoke to frightened souls the
word
That conquers sin, prevails Ger death,
Transports the soul at parting
breath,
And though the tomb was sealed,
Resurrection was revealed.
The Magdalen with pious love,
At early morning sought the tomb,
Was met by angel from above,
Who pointed to the empty room,
The gave clothes on the floor were
spread,
Not with the napkin that pressed
his head;
And though the tomb was sealed,
Resurrection was revealed.
"Who seek We here?" the angel said
To Mary, who was bound in prayer
"The living Christ among the dead,
He is not here, but will appear
In glory, filling all the skies,
The pardoned sinners sacrifce;"
And though the tomb was sealed
Resurrection was revealed.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
F A r M A N d
O r. G H A X d


the farmer can tell what the figures
are all about and how to use them,
the department is greatly increasing
the amount of bookkeeping being done
on the farms of the country.
Nut Trees, Concord Grapes and Maple
Trees for Home Planting
This year promises to be banner
year for Central Normal school In
their distribution of plants for Arbor
Day. Orders are being received by
the hundreds and it is likely that bet
ter planting movement will be bigger
than ever. The plants distributed this
year are as follows: two and three
year-old black walnuts and butternuts
at 2h cents each; two and three
year-old sugar naples, four, and five
feet high at four cents each; two-year-
old Concord grapes at seven cents
each. These are sent by parcel post
prepaid. Order must amount to at
least % cents. Those movement is
carried on by the Department of
Agriculture, Central Normal, Mount
Pleasant, Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
Agricultural Department
Conducted by C. W. PeHett-AsrcuLturaI Teacher
in High School
The New Concentrated FOrmaldehyde
Treatment

The New Concentrated Formaldehyde
Treatment
Use formaldehyde at the rate Of
one pint to fifty bushels of grain.
Put the amount of fresh formal
druggist into a pint or quart hand
sprayer (cost rs cents) and spray
the grain which has been spread
out on the barn floor. Spray the
grain as it is shoveled over and
over. Keep the sprayer close to
the grain and the penetrating
odor of the formaldehyde will
give no discomfort.
When the right amount of for
maldehyde has been applied show
ell the oats into heap and cover
for exactly four hours . with a
canvas blanket.
The grain should then be
spread out for few hours airing.
1t may be sown at once, or
stored in clean or disinfected
sacks. This method was devised
by Cornell University.
Notes on Smut Treatments
With either treatment, avoid rein.
fecting the grain with old sacks OF
with the drill. To disinfect the sack:
in formaldehyde two tablespoonfuls tt
pail of water. To disinfect the
drill, pour this solution through it
The cost of treatment is less than two
cents bushel. Ask your druggist
for fresh formaldehyde.
The patent smut cures contain for,
maldehyde as their active agents
Formaldehyde costs 35-40 cents &
pint, the smut cures cost 50 or NOR,
pint for weat formaldehyde solu
ton. Do you see the point?
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04
Will Veneer His Home

c.. A. Drake is arranging to place
his house on a good wall this spring
and veneer it with black veneer conf
crete. He will make the blocks him
self and intends doing most of the
work. He has a plan of his own and
when his house is finished it will be
cool in summer and warm in the win
ter.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-04-04

Rice is not thrown at London we'd
dings. 1t is bad form to throw away
anything that can be eaten when food
is scarce. Perhaps the present high
prices of foodstuffs will stop the rice
throwing custom in this country.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-02-09
Economy Dry Goods Store

The Y. P. B. met Tuesday evening
at the Methodist chapel. A short
business session and program which
was followed by the social hour. De-
licious refreshments were served.
The newt meeting will be held at the
Christian Church Parloss on the first
Tuesday in March
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Stoufer enter
tanned at seven o'clock dinner Friday
evening. The delicious dinner was
served cafeteria style aRd each table
had an individual color scheme and
four tables were beautifully arranged.
Beautiful rose buds added much to
the color scheme and decorations.
The place cards worked much amuse-
ments among the guests; they were in
the form of tiny kilograms but were
marked dinnergrams. Each guest re-
ceived different message. The af-
ter-dinner hour was spent at five-
hundred. The invited guests were
X
Messrs. and Mesdames Stevenson,
German. Zimmerman, F.
E. Summers. C. w. Edison, T. w. Cav
and ]. G. Ault, Miss Nellie Berry and
Mrs. Lillian Cavanaugh, Mr.. Chas.
Taylor, Eugene Fortney, Robert
and James Edison.
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