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table than the whole-grain ration with
the growing chicks; and the same is
true of capons of equal weight from
these chicks, and from others of equal
weight and age fed alike before ca
ponising. No difference was noticed
in health or vlgor Of chicks or capons
fed either ration.
Clover hay, or clover clippings dried,
or green clover growing on the law
or in the field is great help to egg
production for two reasons: It fur
nishes the green food necessary for the
fowl, and it furnishes the nitrogen that
goes to make the albumen, which is a
large part Of every egg. If a hen is
fed corn all the time, from what source
is she to get the material for making
the large amount OF albumen that must
be elaborated BY her2 The corn In.
deed supplies a small amount of this
material, but clover hay is worth much
more for this purpose. pound for
pound
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GREATEST MISTAKES POULTRY RAIsERs

One of the greatest mistakes poul-
try raiser can make is to allow sick
and aiIing birds to run with the rest of
the stock. In this way the sick bird
drinks from the same pan that the 9TH
ers use, and the disease spreads most
rapidly. Chickens With the gapes or
any other trouble will easily transmit
the disease through the medium of the
drinking-pan. The safest way is to
take the sick bird out and keep It away
from the rest of the stock until 1t has
entirely recovered.
An old farmer who is now of the
active list. but still lives on the farm
and raises poultry as a diversion, says
he visited many of the largest poultry
shows in the country Just to inspect
some Of the best birds Of the new va
rieties, and he declares emphatlcally
that he has never seen anything better
than the Plymouth Rock and wyan-
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valid as there can be. Then, too, you
can fuss over COW, a horse or a dog
without feeling the inslgntfcance of
the labor, but when it comes to a hen
YOU just don't want to waste your
time, and SO you let it alone, and If
it lives well and good, and If it dies
it's no great matter. In itself It is
not, and far be 1t from ME to advise
fussing over sick hen. Let 1t die in
peace. but let it be a reminder that
it is well to learn how to avoid such
1nishaps in future.
Cost Of Feed.
According to the New York agrl.
culture experiment station, the cost
of food, per chick, to weigh one pound,
on Ground grain, is three gents; on
whole grain, three and seven-tenths
cents. After making repeated tests in
feeding, this station says the ground
ration proved considerably more prof.
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Oil and Gas.

At Raven Rock, Union district Tyler
county, L. C. White & Co. drilled their
test on the w. r. Myers farm through
the Big Inun sand and 1t is showing
for five.barrel pumper in the Big In
Jun sand. On Indian Creek, Grant
district, Monongalia county, the Car,
negie Natural Gas company has drill
ed a test on the w S. Snyder farm
trough all sands. It Is a duster and
has been abandoned.
On the west fork OF Green creek,
Harper district, Roane county, the Sid
ney Oil and Gas company's test on
the j. NJ. Hively far mis- a gasser in
the Big Iniun sand. On Upper Cam
creek, Union district, Clay county, the
United Fuel Gas company's test on
the B. v. and F. A. Samples farm Is
a fair gasser In the Big Injun sand
On Little Creek, Golf & Heck's No
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PUBLIC SALE

On Thursday. March s, 1917, at 10
a. M, will sell 30 head of cattle, 25
head of which are registered Jerseys,
and five other high grade cattle
Twenty Of these cattle will be fresh
on the day of sale. Two brood sows,
one mare, 10 years old. weight, 1900
lbs; one driving mare. years old,
900 lbs; one black colt, 4 years old;
two colts. year old; one road wagon.
one milk wagon. one rubber tire
runabout, farming tools, household
furniture and other articles too nu.
merous to mention.
The stock will not be sold until in
the afternoon on day of sale.
c. N. REAY,
Ellington, W. Va.
TERMS - On all sums Of IS or
more, credit OF six months without
interest.
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BURN DEAD CHICKENS
average PouItryman Is Not Care.
full About This Matter.
Good crema.ory Can ss Easily and
cheapIy Constructed Of Common
Cast Iron Box stoVe-Keep
Plant Clean az Possible. 81

Once again the poultry breeders
attention is called to the proper dis
-posal Of dead poultry. On all plants,
large and small, some fowls and
chicks die or must be killed on &C.
count of disease. The average poul-
nyman is not careful about the dis
posal Of such dead birds, in fact he is
pften crimtnRlly careless and negli-
gent.
On some plants dead birds and poul.
ny offal from the killing and dressing
room, also are dumped in the hog pen
81 manure heap. On other plants such
carcass IS buried from time to time
% convenient, and more often is left
lying about, an eyesore to visitors and
= menace to the health of all stock
pm the plant, and the family as well.
Even when there is deep burial Of
aead birds, and it is fairly prompt,
here Is danger. Dogs and other four
Footed animals dig up carrion, no mat
Ter how deeply buried, and scatter It
lbodt the place. We generally ind
remains of dead poultry kicked about
pn the ground on every poultry plant
We visit, an exception to this rule be.
ng rare.
The remedy is simple and inexpen.
i've, says a writer in an exchange.
eremate all dead fowls and otal
regularly and frequently. a small
brick and cement furnace for this
purpose can be built at small cost,
but a good crematory can be had
cheaper and easier than that. A com.
non cast iron box stove or the cast
ron alright stove can be bought at
from So to So each and can be easily
Ind cheaply set up in any outbuild-
ng. Such stoves will burn anything
Ind do it quickly. All that you need
10 look out for is to have a safe
chimney to safeguard against danger
II fire. A stove of this kind can be
used to burn anything that can be
made to burn, and is easily brought
INTO quick action with chips, corn.
sobs. or other similar materials.
Make up your mind that you will
not bury, or leave lying about the
premises dead fowls or chicks, but
rremate them promptly. Clean up
The plant and keep it clean.
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FINANCE, OIL AND GAS

tnued its upward movement of last
Saturday. Trading was broad and
active the largest in fact Of any ses.
sion for several weeks dealings slack.
ening only during the noon hour when
attention was directed to the Presl-
dents inaugural speech.
Steel and iron shares munitions and
equipments shippings and coppers fig.
ured Importantly in the days opera.
lions with oils sugars motors, Cen.
trail Leather and the usual miscellan.
eous issues which invariably follow
the lead OF the more prominent spec.
ulative fayorites.
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FOR AALE
FARMS FOR SALE

FARM FOR SALE-on the beautiful
blue Muskingum river, three.fourths
mile from Beverly. In Washington Co.,
o. This Is 100 acres-20 A, river bot.
tom; 81 A., plain land suitable for gar.
dening; 70 A., hill land, all good land,
new nacadam read from Beverly to
farm; l0.room two.story frame house
with hall and cellar; barn S0x40 with
basement and horse stable; two corn
cribs; vehicle shed; chicken house 10x
l20'feet; coal house and hog pen; well
and cistern at house and cistern at
barn and plenty OF springs on hill
land; $50 apple trees and other fruit.
Beverly is clean town Of 120 0inhab.
itants on railroad, interurbsn road
and Manageable river, with fine schools
and four churches and good markets.
Call Or write Chas. A. Owen, Beverly,
Ohio. 2.26.6t No. 1947
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SELECTION OF BEST LAYERS
Look for Full. welI.osveIopsd Breast
and crop-Thls Gives Assurance
Of Strenath,

W ShGH8GHs
The selection Of the best.laying hens
may be made In several ways. II you
know that the mother hens were good
egg producers and the pullets have the
same formation Of the body 1t may be
reasonable to expect that the pullets
will also be flne egg producers. There
ls, however, one almost certain Sign
that may be used in selecting laying
hens. Look for full, well.developed
breast and crop, showing large pock-
ct In which to carry the food supply.
This gives assurance of strength and
vigor, and the ability to consume a
sufficient amount Of food to sustain
the body and produce the eggs.
She must have the ability to con.
sumo large amount of food and the
body and abdominal proportions to
handle and transfer it into the general
makeup Of the body and the egg pro-
duction.
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PRODUCTION OF BIGGER EGGS
Purdue Experiment. Station Thinks It
Possible to Produce Eggs Of Bet.
ter Color and Shane.

Is 1t possible to produce bigger
eggs, or more uniformly colored eggs,
or eggs with frmer white or yellower
yolk than we are at present produc-
Ing? The Purdue experiment station
thinks 1t is, and the eighth annual
Purdue egg show last May had on
display $40 dozen eggs. There were
represented the commercial class, the
fanciers' class. the experiment station
class, the students class, the high
school class, tho freak egg class, be-
sides several others. The object of the
show is to encourage the production Of
more Rnd better eggs.
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Grain and Produce.

CHICAGO, March 6.-Unexpeeted
smallness of decrease in the United
States visible supply total finally gave
bears the advantage today In the wheat
market. The close was unsettled and
Is and 11sc net lower with May at
$l.sSM to $1.ssas and July at $l.5sAs
TO 1851. Corn lost 70 to %@1c,
oats finished &c off to &c up, and pro.
visions at gains Of Csc TO Csc.
Article Open Close
mn. naN
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sent to the widow of the deceased and
that copy be sent to each Of the
county papers, also a copy sent TO the
Pythian Banner. and copy be spread
on The minutes Of the lodge.
Fraternally,
CLYDE LEONARD,
GLENN FLEMING,
J. LEE JANES.-AdY.
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New York

NEW YORK. Mrch s.--Except for
the first half hour, when lower prices
indicated disappointment at the fail.
ure Of Congress to adopt the admins
tration measures especially the armed
neutrality bill yesterdays market con.
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tests on the T. Archer and E. H. Stew.
art farms. Three miles west of Graf
ton, Taylor county, the Comet Oil
and Gas company drilled a test on the
Singleton farm into the Maxon sand
and developed a light gas pressure. 1t
Is drilling to the lower sands.
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70 GET MAMMOTH RoAsTERs
Cross Large, Vigorous White Plymouth
Rock ceekerel on Yearllng Light
5rahma Hens.

Mammoth roasters may be obtained
by crossing a large. vigorous, White
plymouth Rock cockerel on big, well.
developed yearling Light Brahma hens.
Feed them well, caponize the cock.
erels and you ought to get some IL or
I4.pound birds at nine or ten raonths
old.
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FINE 800 acre Ohio grain and dairy
farm. Very level. . houses, S
barns and small buildings. l mile to
village and creamery, ] mile to tine
High school. $4,000 down, balance
as long as desired at So per cent.
Write Franklin PEBBLES, S5U North
High Street, Columbus, Ohio.
1.16et M 1oEg u n n
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wild But Tame.

FatheR-see here, son, / don't
want to hear OF you being around
with that girl any more. She has the
reputation of being rather Wild"
Son-She's not wild at all, father.
in fact, can get up quite close to
her."-Squib.
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LANDsEEKERS

Splendid opportunity for farm rent.
ers and wage earners to get farm
homes. Small or large tracts suitable
for general farming, stock, dairying,
poultry, vegetables, fruit. Located in
Michigan's best counties, near towns,
schools, good markets. Prices SIS to
S25 an acre, IS TO 800 down, balance
small monthly or yearly payments.
Write for literature and full inform.
alton free. want to tell you all about
this country. Owner George W. Swig.
art, II 1915 First Nat Bank Bldg, Chi.
cago, Ill, 3l5-l2t No 1892
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FARMs-I have a few farms in Por.
lage county, Ohio. botn large and
small. A pamphlet of description ano
prices will be mailed upon application.
Write Van 7. Bean, Ravenna, o.
2.I3.g6t No 1904
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money To LoANl

MoNEY-To loan in sums 81 SO 10
$50 to anyone h=ving steacy work.
Can be paid In small monthly pay.
ments. No reference or Endorsements
required. Stric,.. confidential. Ad-
dress Box sos, Clarksburg, ". We.
6.SUff
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FARM FOR sALE-The Givin farm
OF 1856 acres, eight miles west Of
oadiz on the Cadiz and Laceyville
pike. Inquire Of Webb Givin, Scio, o.,
or 8. c. Forsythe, Freeport.
2.26.6t No. 1873
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FOR SAhE-SOacre farm TWO miles
from Piedmont, o., on the b. & y.
r. r. Price reasonable. j. w. Harris,
w. Ray St, New Philadelphia, U.
2.2S.6t No. 1867
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FOR sALE-lIO, so, 1923, 60, 100, 127
and 100 acre farms, all well i'm.
proved. Address j. D. Watson, Box
244, New Concord, o, 3.6.6t No. 1893
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WANTED

wANTED-A Small safe. Address p.
A SaccI, Box 100, City.
SGT No 1874
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NEW CATALoG Vermont farms now
ready. N. j. Potwin, South Royal.
ton, VT 2.24.26t No. 1851
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CENTRAL OHIO FARMS. Located all
over Harden, Logan, Marion and
Union. Send for big list, stating size
OF farm wanted. Il. +. Wood. Ridge.
way, o. 2-19.26t No 1923
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FoRsALE-Farms IN Ohio county,
near Wheeling. Milton Hedges,
West Liberty, ". Va, Bell phone 1lO6,
ring IL. 2.S.26t No. 1856
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MONTANA 460.acre homesteads. New
towns, business opportunities. Send
25c for maps and information. Ad.
dress U. s. Commissioner, outlook,
Mont. 2.l4.Z6t No 1911
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TWO FARM bargains, Ashtabula coun.
ty Ohio. 95 and 100 acres. Terms.
Own a good farm at right price. l.
]. Miller, Jr., Williamsfield, Ashtabula,
Ohio. 3l-6t No 1917
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FOR sALE-Farm IS acrLs good soil,
good buildings tx miles from
Wheeling Ferry, Belmont Co., Ohio
Will sell cheap. F. ]. Nelson, Bellaire
Ohio. Pell phone 407-J. .3.2.6t No. 1877
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Bonds
$4,000 Pbs Coal deb SIS. 100 81
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-12

highway commission be given the
tine Wednesday morning from tn
O'Clock to noon for the purpose Of
addressing the board.
The amendment was duly carried,
and the motion as amended was car
red.
The annual report of T. A. Tbomp-
son, register of deeds, was presented,
read, and referred to the committee
on finance. 1t is as follows:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-12
TUESDAY EVENING SESSION
1880 p. III.

The board met at 1880 p. M, pursu
ant to adjournment. Quorum present
The minutes of the last session were
read and approved.
Petitions for county and state aid for
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-12

The report of the soldiers and sail
ors' relief committee was presented
and referred to the committee on fin
ance. 1t is as follows:
ANNUAL REPORT OF SOLDIERS
AND SAILORS RELIEF COM
MITTEE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-12

Seven petitions for aid for bridges
and two petitions for county and state
aid for roads were presented and re-
ferred to the committee on highways,
bridges and ferries.
On motion Of Mr. Eastman, the
board did then adjourn to meet at 7:3O
o'clock this evening.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-12

The annual report Of the county
clerk on the mothers pension fund
was presented, read, and referred to
the committee on finance It is as
follows:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-12
Proceedings Of Grant County
Board, Nov. 1917, Session
GRANT COUNTY HERALD
TUESDAY MORNING SESSION,
NOVEMBER ID, 1917.

The Board Of Supervisors Of Grant
County, Wisconsin, met, pursuant to
statute, in annual session at the
court house in the city of Lancaster
in said county at 10 o'clock a. m.
The board was called to order by
Hon. j. T.. Bennett
Call of the roll Of members showed
all members present excepting only
Messrs II. G. Brown, Or. e. Mcdonald
and David James, who arrived later
The roll as completed is as follows:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-12
Report Of receipts for recording

Total receipts for year--$2,482.47
T. A. THOMPSON,
Register of Deeds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-12
ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNTY
CLERK FOR YEAR ENDING
OCT. 81, 1917.

Received in fees from
253 marriage licenses -$126.50
Tax deeds -----.- --.--------- 3.15
Registration Of physicians, OPP
tometrists and profes al nurse 200
E. G. Brick, bal. in fund OF
Village of Bloomington, tran
silent paup. refund---------- 1900
Jacob Shrake refund co. order
burial of soldier 5000
Total amount received -$198.72
Paid county treasurer-------- 1882
The Pensacola journal., 1917-06-15
NATIONAL INDOLENCE.

Americas failure to realize the inter
national situation-or, perhaps, we should
say, Americans failure-was illustrated
few days ago in New Orleans when two
young men, entering a hall where benefit
euchre party was being given, discovered
large German flag flying alongside the
American flag.
They promptly tore it down, and were
ordered to leave the hall; they were fur
thermore insulted by the doorkeeper, who
declared he intended to reinstate the flag,
but did not when they announced their in
tention of returning to tear it down again.
1t was explained afterwards that the
flag was not there for demonstration pur-
poses, but had been left there from a pre-
vious celebration and that the young men
were elected for disturbing the peace
but it was established on good authority
that they caused no disturbance whatever,
going about their work quietly and meth
odically.
Disturbing the peace! By the same
reasoning the Mobile guardsman who
knocked off a man S hat while Our national
hymn was being Played was disturbing the
peace; Senator Lodge, when he felled his
belligerent pacifst, was disturbing the
peace, and any American wholresented
German propaganda or avenged an insult
offered to the president, would be guilty
of disturbing the peace!
Let us assume that no disloyalty was in
tended; the fact that such an oversight
should have been possible, shows the
national Incidence that does not rise to
"a conception of patriotism. however
loudly profeSsed; the fact that resentment
instead of gratitude should have been the
reward when someone with quicker pre-
ceptiOn corrected the offense, must be a
severe shock to the earnest spirits who
learn that the flag they are offering their
bodies and their fortunes to make respected
abroad, should be treated with SO little ap-
| probation at home
The Pensacola journal., 1917-06-15
CRESTVIEW,

Crestview, June 1.-The board of
county commissioners met in regular
session here yesterday and employed
S. J. Welch, of Pensacola, as the
architect to prepare the plans and
specifications for the Okaloosa coun-
ty court house to be built in Crest
view.
Bids will be received at the next
regular session of the board Of coun-
ty commissioners for bonds to the
amount of $4,000.
The Okaloosa county board of edu-
cation has adopted plans for a brick
school building to be erected in Crest
view in the near future. They have
also advertised for a contract for the
construction thereof for their next
monthly meeting in July.
The brick buildings now being built
by Mr.. Spivey of Crestview, are near
ng completion.
Crestview's number of residences
is increasing fast, several being un-
ueG construction now.
Mrs. T. Fl. Edney, a progressive
worker among the young people OF
Crestview, chaperoned her Sunday
school class on an all-day picnic tc
Camp Walton on Tuesday of this
week. Having risen at an early hour
this happy band was ready to start
on their long trip before Crestview'
business men had reused from theil
slumbers. Breakfast was served OF
| the ground at about the half wa!
mark, after which the journey wa!
continued until they had all safel!
arrived at Camp Walton. The COO
breeze was refreshing and delightful
and the day an ideal one for these
merry-makers. Mrs. Pryor, of tht
Indianola Inn. added much to theiI
pleasure by serving a most delicious
| dinner, and all did justice to the occa
sion as only such a crowd can. II
| the afternoon came time for tht
| greatest event of the day, bathing
in the surf, then all were anxious
| to return home to tell of their gooC
times. Among those who went were
Mesdames Edney and Rucker, Misse
Opal Bush, Bessie Perryman, + lor
ence and Pauline Driggers, Helel
Savage, Alice Frater, Thelma Webb
Elsie and Bessie Rice; Messrs. Ev
erett Spivey, Spencer Savage, Dalla
| Cobb, Mallie Dubois and r. D. Bush.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-06-15
Florida Recruiting

Jacksonville, June 14.-First Lieut..
Joseph T. Clement, infantry, recruit
ing officer, announces the result of
recruiting for June IL, 1917, within
the state of Florida for the United
States army:
Quota of district of Florida, Lass.
Number obtained, 945.
Number still due, 521.
Daily average to complete quota
June so, 50.
Registration is no bar TO voluntary
enlistment. Due credit will be given
each county for every man who volun-
tarily enlists therefrom.
Honor Roll This Date.
James D. McTaddy, Miami, Fla.
Geo. P. Richardson. Miami, Fla.
Robert o. Smith, Waycross, Ga.
Eddie Osteen, Ft. Christmas, Fla.
Oliver Redditt, Ft Christmas, Fla.
Letcher' c. Jernigan, Orlando, Fla.
Clarence Andrews, Tampa; Fla.
Fred Thompson, Tampa, Fla.
Curtis NJ. Eanes, Daswell, Va.
William o. Summers, Lake City
Fla.
Jim B. Hale. Williston, Fla.
Walter l.. Perry, Pensacola, Fla.
Anthony J. knecht. Tillman, Fla.
Gaines Hill. Groveland, Fla.