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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

mature in a marvelously short time. They must be forestalled at the very beginning or your best laid schemes will prove failures.
 A thick sod turned earth side up makes an excellent foundation for the nest. Do not make the nest depression too con- cave. lest the eggs pile up in the center and break. Place straw about one inch in thickness over the dirt This makes the ideal breeding nest. space two by four feet in addition to the nest space will furnish sufficient room for eating and exercise once or twice day. It is better that the sitter should not run at large with other fowls when off the nest. Keep cracked corn and wheat. water and grits, with material for daily dust bath in the matching pen at all times. Arrange the nest so that 1t can be easily reached by the caretaker. But he should not reach" it too often.
 Select Eggs With Much Care
 The eggs are your seed. You will reap what you SOW. It will take no longer to hatch thoroughbred chicks than to hatch mongrels. The former will pay you back many times over for the extra cost of eggs, not only in dollars and cents but in pleasure and satisfaction. Look about for the best full blood, heavy laying strain of fowls. Don't expect to get such eggs at 30 cents dozen. You will get out of your business what you are willing to put into it. Try some well-bred stock merely as an investment, and then see that you make good Set fresh eggs-the fresher the better. It is best that they should not be more than two weeks old Two days will be better The warm, freshly laid eggs still better If preserved any length Of time the temperature should not. be above 5o degrees. if possible Give as careful thought to the handling of each egg as you would if it were fully matured fowl Neglect of eggs causes failure with chicks. and therefore With the ma true birds Prenatal conditions count as much with chicks as with humans,
 When nest and eggs are all in readi- ness the sitter should be placed on the nest after dark Handle her with gentle care Place few china eggs under her at first If she remains true to her trust on the new nest for period or A hours l the eggs to be incubated may be gwen her Place three or four at tune sue | cessively about the edge Of the nest, per hitting the would-be mother the delight 1 of nressinp them underneath her body 1 bv inc use of her beak. This will help i to make her pleased with her surround
 ines and so aid in confirming her in ! the prosecution of her important busi- i ness.
 From this time forward only a slight oversight Will pc requireo ~ ''itS"' De
 well once in two or three days to inspect I inc nest to discover whether any eggs
 are broken. Every particle of broken 1 shell should be cleared away The nest I shou1d be kept clean of everything that
 would foul it or that would be source 1 of discourageme or injury to the moth ] CT hen About the tenth day the egg nisbt he tested by candling, and all
 infertile eggs removed.
 | It is desirable to set hens In pairs l.rhis gives the advantage of having al tba chicks from two sittings of the same
 age. Accordingly. all can be placved
 with one hen at matching time The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

like Venice. A big rain sent rivers
 running down some of the streets. The
 ground contained so much water that cellars could not be built and the water supply was in cisterns above
 the ground In cemeteries all graves were above the surface, and the whole city seemed to float as it were, on swamp.
 Today. New Orleans Is like the city founded upon a rock. Il is bone dry" as far as the ground upon which 1t stands is concerned. Its people have an immense drainage system, consisting of more than 50 miles of main low level canals. into which the water runs from a network of tiles so distributed that a four-inch rainfall. such as would drown most other cities, disap- pears almost as soon as it drops The level of the city is such that the water has to be pumped out of the canals into other high-level canals, which carry it off into Lake Pontchartrain. There are 20 miles of such canals, and there are seven great pumping stations which lift the water up into them. When the additional pumps now being constructed are installed the total drainage capacity will be more than 70OO0OO,000 gallons per day
 The sewerage system is entirely sep arate from the drainage system. There are altogether 500 miles of streets, and the sewerage runs under these, by gravity, to pumping stations, out of which 1t is discharged into the river.
 The new city waterworks are equally wonderful The cisterns have disappeared, and New Orleans now has a great water and filtration plant which covers TO acres and delivers the best of water to the people at cost to the city of about , cents per thousand gallons. The water mains are 547 miles long and the consump- ton of water is more than a.0000o0 gal Ions day. These three systems of water drainage and sewerage have cost just about SS0 100000, but they have cut down the death rate from more than N per thousand to less than 20 per thousand. The death rate of whites is lower than that of almost any other city of the world. It Is only IS or IA per thousand.
 All this is in striking contrast with the New Orleans of the past. The vel low fever and the bubonic plague have been eliminated, and the city has been made as safe and healthy as any in the world. The cisterns which bred the vel low fever mosquitoes have been destroyed. and $S00o,000 has been spent in rat-proof- ing 136,O0O buildings It is the rat, as you know, that carries the buhonic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
Even the Roots of Superfluous Hair Vanish (EntireIy New Method; Works Won-
 ders)

What is the use of merely taking off the hair ends and not destroying tho roots of superfluous hair? Do you know the hair entire, including the roots, with ordinary phelactine? Just try it It is odorleSs. non-irritat ting and 50 harmless to depilatories, electrolysis. etc. It is sold by your druggise on a satisfaction- or-money- back basis. Get a stick of phe- lactine today and have the pleasure of actually removing the offending hair- roots at last-before your very eyes. Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
CARE NECES-
 SARY FOR THE SITTING HEN
Right Kind of a Mother Bird Shows Matching and Brooding Efficiency in Her Mannerisms-Rules for Running Natures h. cubator and BroOder-In- cluding Some Useful Attachments
By G. R. SMITH

Author and Practical Poultry man
 The sitting hen is still big factor in poultry culture. Most people who keep hens make use of her more or less. She is a cheap and very efficient matching ma chine for thousands who have not enough business to warrant the use of the arti- ficial method.
 When comparatively few chicks are needed to replenish the flock, and on many farms where time and help are lacking, the sitting hen should be carefully studied and used to the best advantage.
 The "termagant" should be skipped. The true mother spirit is of great inn portance with hens as with folks. Some broody hens are rough in their ways. They seem to have no regard for the safety of either eggs or chickens. Such hens are likely to break the eggs on which you place them, and if they sue ceed in matching any chicks, they are likely to crush them to death with their bodies, trample them to death, or kill them outright by striking them with their peaks.
 The fitness of the hen for motherhood must be judged by signs. The gentle, but firm and faithful bird, is the one to select She should be in perfect health and of good size. She has a large task before her. It will not pay to waste time and patience on small sickly high tempered bird. There are plenty of them. There are also plenty of the better kind.
 If you haven't the right kind, seek her among your neighbors. Many people are glad to sell sitting hen, or loan her. Poultrymen are everywhere dis posed to accommodate one another A hen that is really a successful mother is as profitable for matching and breeding purposes as her 2O0-egg sister for com mercial egg production. Such kind and tender and faithful mother, bird i' worth keeping till she dies of old age She may have small laying powers, bu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

of tho owner. and shipped off to Eu- rope or to any part of the United States. It is wheeled into one of the great fireproof compartments into which the vast building is divided. These compartments have steel doors. Their walls are of artificial stone and they have automatic sprinkling ar engagements running along the ceiling which will deluge the cotton if they are subjected to heat. The compart- ments are enormous They are 2S feet front, 40 feet high and 100 feet deep. Each is large enough to hold a 20-room house, and there are 124 in the warehouse.
 The cotton bales are carried to the doors and travelling cranes. which run along under the roof lift them up and pile them in place. They are put up In four great rows, so that they fill the room almost to the roof, and the bales are so marked and tagged that you can tell al a glance to whom each belongs.
 Connected with the crane is the ar engagement for taking out the bales. No matter how much cotton be piled above it, any bale may be removed without disturbing the other bales in the com partment. This machinery is almost hu- man in It's operation. Two steel arms run in over the bale and take off the strain, while steel claws sink themselves into it ana uTdB IL out dlIuOol III lle Nlllh ol an eye. In the ordinary cotton ware house large part of the cost of handling is in getting out the lots of the various consumers. Here any number of bales can be taken out on demand; and that at practically no expense, and within very few minutes. The machinery is worked by electricity and the pressing of but ton is about all the exertion required.
 Both the cotton warehouse and the grain elevator are fed by the Municipal Belt railway, so that the cars of any sys- tenn can come right to their doors. On the other side of them flows the Missis- sippf river, with such docking arrange ments that the cotton and grain go by machinery directly into the holds of the ships, which carry them to New Eng land, Europe, South America and other parts of the world.
 About one-half of the cotton of the United States is now raised in the coun- try tributary to New Orleans, and this warehouse means a great increase in the amount of shipping that will come to the port. As it is, New Orleans has a commerce of about 100000 tons per an- mum, and it is only surpassed by New York in the amount of it's incoming and outgoing shipping. The people here look for an enormous growth in the business of the port, and they have created facili- ties of warehousing and docking which their function. Another company is an- nouncing the advantages of it's canoes to Peru and Chile, where even water for sz Ia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
Unnecessary
From the Chicago Herald.

From the Chicago Herald.
 An Atlanta lawyer tells of a newly qualified judge In one of the towns of the south who was trying one of his first criminal cases. The prisoper was an old negro charged with robbing a hencoop He had been in court before on a similar charge and was then acquitted.
 Well, Henry" observed the judge. \ see you're In trouble again."
 "Yessuh," replied the negro. "The last time, Jedge. you will recollect, you was my lawyer
 Where is your lawyer this timer"
 q ain't got no lawyer this time,'' said Henry. "I's going to tell the truth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

The battle with Big Foot's band or Indians at Wounded Knee Creek, south Dakota, was fought December 29, lS9O Capt. George D. Wallace of the Seventh cavalry and about 30 soldiers were Killed, and Lieut. Ernest A. Darlington of the Seventh cavalry and 3s others were wounded. A large number of the lp- dians, including A squaws and IS pa pooses, were killed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

ranean varieties, such as Leghorns, An conas and Campnes, it is excellent for the production of "squab broilers.' to be sold at from three-quarters to one pound weight.
 The fowls are hardy, active, excellent foragers and small eaters and are of a rather wild disposition. They do better on free range than in limited quarters. In fact 1t is difficult to raise them suc- cessfully in small yards. In size and shape they resemble the White Leghorn. In both sexes the body color is white, while the neck. tail and saddle hacl1les are jet black. This coloring Is con- tinuous breeding problem with the fancier
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

OIner nen Will soon get pusy dsdlH dt egg production. In this way the work
 is simplified and much labor Is saved. After the first of May one hen is able to care for brood of from 20 to 25.
 Caring For the Chicks
 The first month is the emergency period Get chick well brooded to four weeks of age and you are reasonably sure of maturing it. The value of the full grown bird will be determined largely by the efficiency of the first months breeding.
 Plenty of water and grits are all the feed" the chicks need for the first 36 hours. At the end of this period they should be given finely cracked grain. Pin head oatmeal is an excellent thing for them. They like it, and it is almost perfectly balanced ration.
 A chance should be given them by the second day to dig their grain from light litter. They must have exercise from the first. Otherwise their muscles and bones and vital organs will be weak. You will have big chickens, but soft ones. At the end of 10 days or two weeks their bodies will be too heavy for their bones and muscles If they once ''go down on their legs" they will be stunted, dam aged, reformed for life. Feed five times day for the first week. Keep them happy
 An excellent coop for hen and her brood is of the "A" shape about two feet square. with slats in front nailed on vertically. Between these slats the chicks can go out and in, and can be fed away from the mother, A door may be ar ranged to permit the hen to run with them in the enclosed park as they grow larger. This outside park may be two by six feet or larger, IS space will permit. Chicks do better when they can get on the ground. Tender grass, lettuce, or some other form of green food should be furnished them in abundance. A little charco al every day will help to keep the digestion right.
 Many people lose a big proportion oi 1 the chicks matched They are permitted to run at large with the hen and shift ! for themselves. The result is that "ac- cidents" of all kinds overtake them. Spe. | cial care, keeping the chicks within prop CT bounds, at the same time attending l to their exercise, diet and digestion should bring from 90 to 95 per cent I through in fine form to safe period No chances should be taken on the safety 1 of the chicks. The caretaker should know 1 exactly where the mother and her broot are every moment of day and night. H. should know, too. that they are abso l lulcly SdIS 1TOil dll CiiChiACos dir1 AASii
 evey possible weather emergency | The mother hen should be kept witi
 the chicks until they are at least fiv' | weeks old If the weather is cold or wet and other conditions are unfavorable. sh' | should continue with them longer. Tn | judgment of the caretaker must b.
 brought into exercise in every part Of thi'
 fine business. Some disappointments arr 1 bound 70 result. But if the subject i
 thoroughly studied and the principles herr
 stated faithfully practice, success vii l be assured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

The natural products of the Abrabian deserts and other oriental regions which bear the name of mama have not the qualities of the mama of the Bible which the Israelites fed upon for 40 years untl they got the new corn of the land of Canaan. The mama of the scriptures may be regarded as wholly miraculous and not in any respect product of na- ture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

This is one of the old breeds of poultry in Holland, whence 1t was introduced to England, Germany and America The first specimens made their appearance in this country about a dozen years ago. The Lakenvelder is thought to be of Campine origin and shows similarity in shape, head and in the leg color, which is slaty blue.
 Like all small bodied breeds of poultry the Lakenvelder Is a good layer. It pro- duces a large number of eggs, which are described as being of porcelain white ness
 The Lakenvelder is not recommended as a table fowl, though like all Mediter-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

trial courses to ambitious young men Under 20 years of age and after a years service, bluejacket may stand the ex- aminatons for admission to the Naval Academy, to which 9 lads from the serv- ice are admitted annually. If he is stu- dious and ambitious the bluejacket may rise in due time to wear the much coveted four stars of an admiral.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
INDUSTRIAL. NEW ORLEAES- Frank G. Carpenter

plague. In all. more than 100000 rates have been trapped and killed, and today every vessel that lands at the Wharves must have rat-guards on any connection between it and the shore. These guards are discs of galvanized iron as big around as a dishpan. Each has a hole in the center and this is so fitted around the rope that no rat can pass.
 I might speak of other new things in the way of roads, schools and public im- provements one of which provides for an industrial canal to connect the city with Lake Pontchartrain. Altogether. within 2 very few years, these people have spent something like $100,000.00o In this sort of upbuilding, and great part of the work has been done and is now managed by public-spirited citizens who work without pay.
 But come with me and look at some of the state and municipal projects which mean much in these times of war and industrial efficiency. We shall first go through the elevator on which we are standing. The building all told covers some acres, and the roof is POO feet above the ground. It is being erected in units, and by the time this letter Is published it will have a capacity of more than two and one-half million bushels of grain. AS It Is now, the grain IS all coming Tn by rail, but the elevator is equipped for barges as well, and it can already swal- low such grain at the rate of 5000 bushels per hour. A great barge trade Is expect ed, and this capacity will immediately be doubled. The grain is sucked up from the barges through pipes, on much the same principle as the vacuum cleaner sucks up dust from the floor
 The grain can be taken from the rail road cars at the rate of 3o0,ooo bushels per day. It is carried into the elevator and dropped into mighty storage bins. from which it goes on endless belts into the holds of the steamers. I have watched the rivers of grain moving in and out of the elevator. They flow so fast that four great vessels can be loaded at once, and that at a rate of 100000 bushels per hour. Everything Is done automatically. ana the fireproofing arrangements are such that the insurance rate on the grain Is only 15 cents per s100. The elevator is a state institution It is not intended for profit. and the handling is charged for at a minimum rate.
 Even more interesting than the grain elevator Is the cotton warehouse which adjoins it. This warehouse was erected by the state of Louisiana for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

Every square mile of the sea is es- timated to contain 120. 100000 fish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

The very name white diarrhea strikes terror to poultrymen. Every year thou sands of baby chicks are stricken by this disease, it is one of the most destructive forces in poultry culture. The best way to combat it is by preventive measures, which are proven highly successful. Lean about these measures in next week s article.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

their function. Another company is an- nouncing the advantages of it's canoes to the inha bitants of the nitrate fields of Peru and Chile, where even water for steam engines is imported.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

Arranging the Sitter's Nest
 It's 8 three-weeRs' steady pull, and more. That means wide extremes of weather-heat and cold, wet and dry the burning sun and the drenching, chill ing storm. It means also dangers from vermin, ranging from the deadly little spider louse to the weasel, the skunk and the fox. not forgetting the rat.
 Have all these things in mind. and ar range the nest accordingly, Let there be no possibility of danger to the breeding bird under any conceivable conditions. If you do not thoroughly dust both nest and bird with the best procurable insect powder there will be great danger of her being literally bitten to death. Thou sands of deadly mites will hatch and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

Even more interesting than the grain elevator Is the cotton warehouse which ad1oins it. This warehouse was erected by the state of Louisiana for the good of the public and in order that cotton may be shipped to better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
Arranging the Sitter's Nest

eminent matching and breeding talent. Find her and make the most of her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20

other hen will soon get busy again at egg production. In this way the work is simplified and much labor is saved. After the first of May one hen is able to care for brood of from 20 to 25.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-26

FOR SALE AT : BARGAIN
LOT and Ar. cottage, bath, toilet,
ELECTRIC lights, phone. ete;i blk
from Logan school. Call Main
1889.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-26

THREE lots, good Groom partly
furnished house, porcelain bath,
18th St car line. Price $500.
Miss Smith Main $3.50.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-26
WANTED--REAL
ESTATE

P s. B. & T. co. wants almost any
thing in houses or bungalows, up
to seven rooms. Twenty-Five
people are waiting now for some
thing to live IN. They are tired Of
having rent raised or houses sold
over their heads. The demand Is
terms. Some of them will buy
places nearby In the country or
suburbs. Come in right now and
tell us about your place. Invest
ment Department. Puget hound
Bank q Trust Company, Ills Pa
cific av,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-26

MEN and women. learn the barber
trade; big demand for BARRIERS.
Moler System of Barber Colleges.
1912 Hacific ave. Tacoma
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-26
BARGAINS
Good Acreage Cheap

UOOU Acreage SalSdp
S $3.50 it, by BOG #. with broom. house, at East
Larchmont
S 6OO-212 acres near Bismarck; no improvements
5 600 acre at So Goth and Madison ST., right IN
city, with 3-rm. house; land all cleared, IN
fruit, and city water.
$1S00-5 acres at East Larchmont, 12 cleared, with
some fruit, and 4-rm. house.
s 700-14 acres near Glencove; good land.
$l200-20 acres near Long Branch partly cleared,
with house and outbuldings.
700-5 acres good land, near Midland.
$2400-19 acres all in high state Of cultivation with
good orchard and good buildings
$750O-2O acres Kent, all in high state Of culti-
walton, with 6-rm. modern house, and dandy
home
TERMS ON all W cash, balance to suit.
WE have party that has city block at Grangeville,
Idaho with arm. modern house. good barn, that is
all clear that he would trade for home here and pay
difference if any, in cash. Will give good trade.
SCANDINAVIAN LAND co.
|507-8 Bernce Bldg Tacoma, Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-26

BY OWNER $500 To sell or trade for
good car or property. 40 acres OF
best wheat land east of noun
tains. In Okanogan county, worth
$35 per acre, fenced and improv-
ed. small house, water. etc. 4848
Puget Sound av., So. Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-26
10 ACRES

FOR SALE OR TRADE-New A.
room house, two lots, stationary
tubs. bath. lights. Phone Main
40T1. a146 SO. O st.