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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04

should occur on about every fifth one.
For exhibition purposes solid white
feathers, or too large markings Of
white are regarded as undesirable.
The hens are rated as nom sitters.
except in rare cases. hence the incuba-
ton must be done artificially. or by
hens of other breeds. The chicks de-
velop and feather rapidly. and reach
maturity at an early age. This breed
does best on free range, though excel
lent results have been attained where
the fowls were kept in confinement.
The birds are inclined to be nervous
and eXcitable, which is characteristic of
the Mediterranean. They are very ac-
! tive, and the best of foragers.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04

We ask de Lawd ter keep us in de
right road. but he can't keep us dar
eff we IL all de time inquirin' whar de
wrong road is. an looking fer de sign
post war de devil lives at.--Atlanta
Constitution.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04
BY RAISING PRODUCE
FARMER NAY PROFIT
Problem of Securing Moist
ure Easily Solved With
Pump and Well.
| WILL REPAY THE COSTS
Expense of Irrigation Will
Be Paid for in Reduc-
ton Of Bills.
WILL REPAY THE COSTS

Every farm home appreciates the
good, fresh vegetables that a small
garden produces not mentioning the
sections of the state it becomes a
difficult task to maintain a satisfac-
tory garden, with the exception Of a
few quick and early maturing vege-
tables.
The winter rainfall can be supple
mented, says Henry Holtz of the
Washington experiment station, Pull
man. from the well or spring, using a
windmill or gas engine for power.
Many additional vegetables and fruits
can be grown in the garden that it is
impossible to grow without such addi-
tional water.
The amount of supplementary wa
ter will depend upon the rainfall
! and vegetables to be grown. Ten
inches Of winter rainfall will pene-
trate about three feet in the average
soil type Of the dry sections. This is
moisture enough for many garden
crops with good moisture conserva-
ton. Other crops will produce better
| and more If additional water is added.
Three inches of water (about two gal
lons) on every square foot will wet the
soil about one foot deep. The fol-
owing table gives the depth in feet
to which some Of the common garden
vegetables feed:
Corn ...s.......-...,..6 Beans ..............-3h
Potatoes .-..........4 Beets ...............3
Peas ....-.-.........-....-5 Carrots .......31a
Such vegetables as lettuce, radishes
and onions, which are early maturing.
can usually be grown with the mois-
| ture from the winter rainfall, but late
maturing and heavy producing truck,
| as givenf in the above table, will pro-
duce much better with supplementary
! irrigation. The water is best distrib-
| uted i'm burrows six inches deep and
four feet apart
Bush fruits, as currants, berries
and large trees also respond to win
ter irrigation. After irrigation the
soil should be mulched by tillage or
with straw or manure covering, to
conserve the moisture
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04

Anconas are the newest of the Medi-
tcrranean breeds to be introduced to
America. Their cousins, the Leg'orns,
SC wei as layers that the Ancona was
accepted almost without question. They
were first introduced into England
about 1880. and some time later into
the United States. The first speci-
mems came from Italy. where they are
quite common. In size and shape the
Ancona resembles the Leghorn, even
to the white earlobes and lobbed comb.
The plumage is black, notified with
white. The nothing is in the form OF
white tip to a black feather, and
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04

For the Flathead valley, dairying
and Enthusiastically why not
nOw?'
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04

Poor matches are often blamed on
ties of Il perverse hen, when in
reality the quality of the eggs is en-
tirely at fault. The real start in in
cnhation begins with "A careful Sc
lection of the eggs; this is the sub
ject of our article for next week.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04

ginning. The poultry raiser must train
them, and here is where patience is re-
quired. The new brood should be
trained to take to the hover as it would
seek warmth and protection at the call
of q moi her hen
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04
Training Chicks to Brood.

Chicks should be removed from the
only are they easier handled when 1t is
dark, but they are more likely to re-
main where they are put under the
hover. For the first night or two they
hover for this reason.
If not carefully watched for the first
two or three days, chicks may middle
together in corner of the brooder
where they are likely to get chilled, or
trample one another to death in their
effort to keep warm. 1t only takes n
couple of days to train them to take to
the hover. The poultry raiser cannot
afford to discontinue his care and his
watchfuness. however. if he expects to
succeed with his young brood.
For the first few days chicks need
rest more than anything else If sun
light enters the brooder, they will
spend hours at a time huddled together
enjoying the natural warmth. This Is
good for them as it helps TO strength
en- them, Whenever possible the brood
| er should be moved so as to allow the
| sunshine to fall near the hover or in
| the warmest part of the brooder Since
| the chicks will surely seek the sun
| light, the aim should be to so arrange
| the brooder that they will not become
chilled as the sun moves away.
Feeding the Chicks.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04
Preparing the Brooder.

Before the commencement of the
Matching season every part of the
brooder should be thoroughly cleaned
and examined. The careful poultry
keeper will not place baby chicks in
a brooder without first having tested
it's heating device for at least "A hours.
This applies to both old and new
brooders.
If the heating device is new to the
operator it should be studied and tried
before the brooder is used Then if the
correct temperature can be maintained.
the new brooder may be regarded as
safe for the chicks. III providing for
the proper degree of warmth, the di-
should be followed
If an old brooder is to be used, don't
assume that it will work this season
because it did last year Some Part
may have become rusty, broken or lost
I have known a whole brood to he lost
in this way.
The matter Of proper brooder
warmth is also important. II the sea =
son is so early that severe changes OF
outside temperature are likely to occur
care should be taken that the broodel
has a sufficient amount of reserve heat
to meet this condition. The chicks arc
often chilled and lost as a result o.
rapid changes in the weather
The correct temperature for bah,
chicks is from 80 to 100 degrees. Tn,
brooder should be started at the highe
temperature and reduced a degree or 81
daily until the chicks are two to thre
weeks old. A brooder that will registe
100 degrees, an inch above the floo
line, under adverse weather condition
will usually prove safe and satisfac
tory.
Baby chicks must be broken TO tn
hover. They have no mother hen to ca
them. But they soon become creature
OF habit if properly handled at the be
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04

A baby chick performs Its first fnnc-
tons instinctively. 1t hovers under the
hen where it is warmest and in the
least danger of being crushed by her
weight. If chick goes abroad it soon
becomes distressed and is glad to re-
spond to the cluck of the mother hen
by seeking refuge in her warm feathers.
If left undisturbed a baby chick will
not be able to obtain food for at least
As hours. Nature has provided for it's
nourishment by means of the yolk OF
the egg, which will sustain the chick
for the first two days of it's life.
These are the lessons in early care
and brooding which natural incubation
teaches. Sufficneit warmth in early
brooding is the first step in the sue
cessful handling of chicks in artificial
incubation. The process Of Matching is
simple enough. but the brooding of
young chicks is likely to prove more OF
less troublesome. Whenever possible
newly matched chicks should be al
lowed to remain in the incubator for
about "a hours. BY all means avoid
chilling the chicks at the start.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04
Importance Of Fresh Air.

Next to warmth come ventilation and
cleanliness. As soon as the Matching
is over shells and unmatched eggs
should be removed from the incubator.
and the temperature should be rcgu-
lated to range between 100 and lO2 de-
grees. Fresh air in abundance should
be admitted Baby chicks need oxygen,
not only to strengthen their lungs. but
to purify their blood. The incubator
should be kept dark in imitation of
natural incubation. If the machine has
a glass door, hang a thick cloth over
1t to darken the interior.
In tempering the warmth with fresh
air, care should be exercised not to
cause draft on the chicks. This ap
plies while the little fellows are in the
incubator and after they have been
removed to the broodcr. Fresh air
should be supplied freely, but drafts
and dampness must be avoided. The
ventilation should be arranged to carry
off carbon dioxide and other poisonous
eases
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04
Feeding the Chicks.

AS previously stated, nature provides
for a chicks nourishment for the first
two or three days OF life. Chicks should
be given neither food nor drink for the
first As hours. II fed sooner it will be
harmful and not helpful. The unab-
supply the chick with nourishmcnt. Ad-
ditional food is likely to cause indigos-
ton and bowel trouble, which should
be avoided by all means. More chicks
are lost every season by overlooking
than by undertaking.
Let the brooder floor be covered with
dry sand and finc-cut clover or alfalfa
The sand will absorb the droppings
The chicks should be encouraged as
early as possible to take exercise, This
can be done by making them scratch
for their food.
Young chicks are easily trained to
eat, When hungry they instinctively
| peck at anything in sight. This habit
makes it essential that absolute clean
| illness be rracticcd At first they should
| be fed on board or shallow tray,
| which should be removed as soon as
| their appetite has been satisfied. Chicks
soon learn an attendants ways and will
| quickly come at a given sound They
should be fed regularly, and not less
than three times day. No food should
be left around to sour on be soiled. Bet
ter to feed too little each time than
too much. a little dried bread crumbs
mixed with bran, rolled oats and cut
clover makes splendid ration, wet or
dry for baby chicks. Sour milk is "A
fine addition to this ration.
When chicks are few days old. they
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04
Don't
. Suffer
From Piles
send For Free Trial Treatment.

No matter how long or how bad - 60 to
your druggist today and get q 80 cent
box Of Pyramid Pile Treatment. 1t
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04

may be given a good chick feed mixed
with oatmeal and wheat. This provides
one of the most nourshins rations for
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-14

When the truth is in your way you are on the wrong road.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-14

strong men sit by their caches with the tears running down their cheeks, and their hands raw and bleeding Guns, tents. machinery, tools, camp equipment, huge tins of matches, flour, bacon, and all sorts of experimental diets could be seen thrown aside and discarded as their uselessness became apparent to the gold maddened crowd.
 The stranger and his wife fared q ! little better than~the average mushers on account of an apparently unlimited amount of specie, and a desire on the part of the hardy, experienced pio- neers of the crowd to lend the woman helping hand whenever it could be done without being seen by the hus- band, who daily grew more morose and disagreeable. Many times his wifes efforts would be greeted with a curse. or a jeer and so abusive did ] he become to her one afternoon while the party was working over particu- larly rough part of the glacier trail that a delegation of mushers waited on him and told him that abuse of the woman would be no longer permitted. After this affair things went on bet ter altho the wife's eyes would be sus- piciouslv red many mornings as if she had watered the pillow with her tears instead of taking the much needed rest. If he abused her it was done secretly. and she was too plucky and too loyal to complain.
 The party worked over the glacier and down to the headwaters of klu tina lake where the camp was pitched while the party whipsawed lumber for the unwieldly scows used to float down the swift waters of the Klu tina river into the Copper. The man and his wife moved their outfit about mile down the lake to point re- mote from the rest of the crowd, and also s,ar,ed to making a sawpit to 1 get out lumber for boats.
 In the party were two brothers, one of whom was a general favorite among the mushers for his ready wit, his good nature, and willinness to lend a helping hand to those weaker than himself. Slightly above the average in height, with large brown eyes, a
 shapely nose, and a mouth full of pearly teeth. he was the life of the camp. His baritone voice could be heard at all hours of the day or night
 rolling out sea chanties or songs Of the day He was i'll great demand among the mushers on account of his
 vast fund of stories and experience in camp life. He had been one of the first to raise his voice in bitter protest at the treatment accorded the wife by the cheechaco, and was member of lthe committee who waited on the hus-
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-14
ALASKA MYSTERY
 STILL UNSOLvED
Man and Wife Disappear on Way
 To Interior and are Never Hear of MOre-UnknOwn
(Valdez Miner)


 i Away back in the early days of the
 rush over the glacier to the interior 1 ldiggings a man and his wife landed i in Valdez one morning and assembled
 their outfit on the icy shores of the i bay. secured packers and started over the first reach of the trail to the gla- cier. The man was tall and dark, with
 piercing black eyes and a heavy head of jet black hair So surly was he that few people bothered about trying to form an acquaintance or to help him in any way and his packers, whom he had engaged from among the miscel. laneous gathering at the chief gamb-
 with him. The woman was the oppo- site of her husband to such an extent as to cause wonder in the hearts of trail companions that she would mate with so churlish a man Light sunny hair a bright smile for all around her she soon was a great favorite with all who met her.
 The couple kept strictly to them selves as much as possible. the man rarely being seen outside his tent af-
 ter il had been erected for the night,
 the woman rustling her own wood a
 great many times. and cooking the
 meals. washing her husbands heavy
 clothing and her own and helping pull
 on the sled lines when the necessity demanded The weather was extreme lv cold at the time and a gale was
 blowing over the face of the glacier,
 making travel difficult and extremely
 dangerous. Both the man and the wo- man had expensive furs and their out fit denoted that they had been used 10 spending money lavishly.
 After working up the glacier the couple camped on the summit near the turn for day and two nights,
 packing their outfit several miles at a
 portage and returning for other loads,
 which would also be moved forward
 and piled. The trail at that time pres
 ented most picturesque spectacle.
 Every conceivable article from a
 mans pocketbook to gold pan could be seen cached along the side
 of the trail, while the weary owners
 struggled with their outfits. Many of the prospective millionaires were un used to the hardships of the trail,
 and it was pathetic sight to see
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-14
LOCAL NOTICE MARINERS

Stephens Passage-Point Gambior Light reported Not Burning December l, 1917, will be relighted as soon as practicable. Sumner Strait-Spanish Island Light reported Not Burning. December ii, 1917. will be relighted as soon as practicable.
 By direction of the Commissioner of Lighthouses. W. c. DIBRELL, Light house Inspector.
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band and warned him to desist from his brutality.
 The woman never showed any pre- ference for any man but her husband, and could not be induced to leave him any longer than wa absolutely neces- sary. While many questions were asked as to their identity and their destination no one ever succeeded in finding out anything at all in regard to their past or their future.
 In due time the boat was finished, and paying of the men who helped them over the glacier and to the lake the couple entered the boat and start ed down the lake. They were seen to enter the Klutina river and there after all trace of them was lost The boat was found several days after floating in an eddy in the Copper, but out a sign of either outfit or occu- pants. Whether they left the water and struck back into the hills or whether they had been overturned by some sawyer or sweeper was never known.
 Everyone was in great haste to get to the diggings, and but little time was wasted in those days upon the misfortunes of others. But the couple never came back by way of Valdez, nor were they ever seen again by the thousands of mtishers who travelled the long trail to the interior in '9S.
 How they perished and where they came from will probably forever re- main one of the thousands of myster- ies which were crowded into those frezied rushes. The young musher who had been the only one in all the crowd whom the patient little woman ever spoke to outside of a necessary command. was drowned the next year in the Nizina, and the thousands Of gold.seekers scattered to the four cor ners of the world and they were soon forgotten But Valdezans who re- member the strange couple often won der what tragedy they were fleeing from. and from whence they had come into the bleak Northiand.
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Serial o2924 UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, Juneau Alaska

Notice is hereby given that Wards Cove Packing Company, corporat- ion, has filed In the U. s. Land Office for Juneau Land District, at Juneau, Alaska, it's application to purchase un- der and pursuant to the provisions of Section 10 of the Act of May IA, 1898, as Trade and Manufacturing Site, the following tract of land situated on the Northeast shore of Wards Cove on Tongass Narrows, a navigable arm of the Pacific Ocean, and on Revillagig- edo Island, at latitude 55' 23' 30" N., and longitude 131' AZ 50" w., in the Territory of Alaska, designated as U. s. Survey No. 1907, and more parttc- ularly described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at corner No. l, at line of mean high tide of Wards Cove; whence U. s. l.. M. No. bears N. 15o 25' E. 57.33 chs. dist; thence S. 42' 55' E. TIP chs. dst;
 to corner No. 2; thence s. 47' 05' W. 1461 chs. to corner No. 3; thence N 42' 55' w. 7.72 chs. to corner No. 4; situated on line of
 mean high tide on Wards Cove;
 thence along the meander line 1 of Wards Cove, in general North
 easterly direction to corner No. l:
 the place of beginning; containing ! 1O.50 acres. Mag. var. 29' 35' E.
 duly authenticated copy of the plat of said Survey No. 1907, together with a notice of the said application to purchase, were duly posted at a conspicuous place upon said premises
 ' the 2nd day of October A. D., Nine- : E Hundred and Seventeen. i Dated at Juneau, Alaska. Oct. 23, 1917.
 c. B. WALKER, Register. First Pub. No. l, 1917.
 Last Pub. Jan. Il, 1918.
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LIST LEAVE TT TO THE
 WOMEN

Smith College is the largest woman's 5 college in the world It's enrolment for 1918 is over 1919 students, out stripping the Christian era, so to speak.
 In Chicago there is a woman steep lejack who fits around in the azure deeps on flag staffs and 456-foot stacks as clear headed as the most expert and veteran men steeplejacks.
 In Des Moines. there is a lady but cher.
 The cotton jin is commonly attribut. ed to Eli Whitney was i'll all truth i1l- vented by a woman.-Catherine Little field Green of Georgia.
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Opportunity waits for no man, therefore if you have an appointment with it don't fail to be Johnny on the spot.-Chicago News.
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IN THE CRATE FOR THE FIRE we have special grate coal which you will do well to use. It burns evenly and with a glow that brings many pictures to the mind of the benolder. It is a splendid heat producer, too.
 Seated before a grate fire. fed with our coal, there is a charm ana com Fort that only a grate fire can create.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-17
CONVENTION NOTES

In letter read by Secretary Brown,
all the delegates were invited to visit
the College of Hawaii, either Monday
or Tuesday at their convenience. The
invitation was extended by Arthur l..
Dean, president of the college.
An announcement was made that
special cars were to bring the visiting
ladies of the delegates from Waikiki,
where they are being entertained this
afternoon by the ladies of the Out
riggor Club, to town at $50 o'clock,
where they are to meet their male
escorts and attend the Pan-Pacific
banquet at Laniakea at p. m.
Another announcement was that the
visiting ladies are to be entertained
at the home of Ex-Governor w. F.
Frear tomorrow afternoon. After the
banquet at the Moana hotel tomorrow
evening, the delegates are expected to
go to the Frear home and get the
ladies, after which all are to meet at
the Young, where dance for the clos
ing evening of the convention is
planned.
Following the dinner at Laniakea
this evening, the delegates and their
ladies are to attend the Honolulu Ad
Club show ct the Bijou theatre. There
will be seat reservations, by delega-
tons, it was announced today.