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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03
= PoultryNotes

by that We mean the pullets hatch
ed in March and April.
In the case Of the Leghorns, An
conas or Minorcas, however, the
early Matched birds may not prove
as profitable for the reason that
they mature too fast in order to lay
unlnterruptedly throughout the year
pe1ore going into a mott. Febru-
airy and March Matched Leghorn
pullets are almost certain to go in
TO. mott in August or September af-
ter having laid for a month or so,
and that means that they will stop
laying for at least 90 days during
the season of the year when egg
prices are generally the highest.
In other words, they will mott right
along with the yearlings and COM
mence laying again at about the
same time the yearlings do.
April and May Matched Leghorns,
on the other hand, come into mat
urlty at just the right season of
the year to escape the fall mott, and
to lay when egg prices are the best.
The very best time of year in
which to hatch Leghorn pullets is
during the month of May and the
biggest profit, considering the usual
, iafm methods OF handling and mat
uring. will come from May Matched
pullets. Puliets Matched the early
part ofMay or the last week of April
commence laying by the middle of
November even when not pushed
along for early maturity; indeed
where they have the very best care
they will often commence to lay be-
fore that time. Pullets Matched
around the Goth of May will all be
laying by December 1st of the same
year.
1t requires an extra month or two
to mature general purpose breed
pullet and the early Matched pullets
in these breeds seldom go through
the fall mott mentioned because
they do not mature soon enough
to start laying late in the summer.
Plan to hatch at the proper time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03

Inc extremes of moisture after the
corn reached a good maturity with
the thaWing and freezing after the
grain was water-soaked is to blame
Tor the trouble. Much matured corn
spoiled because of the unusually wet
fall after an early hard freeze. In
early fall when the corn matured any
ear we'll filled out and responding to
the tests for a good seed ear would
have made good seed if picked and
put under shelter. But farmers grew
careless about picking seed corn.
Then came the rains before the ears
had time to dry out and the damage
was done.
termination tests, either conducted
at home or by seed house or ex-
pertinent station, are the only way to
be on the safe side. The candle glass
or bobeche test, the old rag doll, or
any similar device to see if the corn
will grow, should be used. The
quickest way is to split a kernel
selected from the center of the cob
iengthwise with a jackknife, reveal
ing the germ. If the germ seems
plump and solid it is probably sound.
If 1t is dark, discolored or wet in
appearance, the ear should be dis
carded as seed corn.
All seed corn sold by first class
seed houses is tested for termination
before it is put on the market so that
this supply can be depended upon TO
terminate freely. Tests of much of
the home-saved seed of last fall will
show that it will not grow at all. SO
1t is now time to look around if tests
of the home supply show it is
valueless, to locate supply of corn
of good viability. Seed corn which
has been given a reliable test by re-
sponsible people is the only kind that
should be purchased.
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Modern Sulphur
And MOlaSSes

The effective spring tonic no longer
comes from the drug store. 1t comes
from the sunny southern slope of the
pasture, the hollow by the brook, or
even the truck gardeners patch. II
is not the "treacle and birthstone
which Dickens schoolmasters admin
lstered as relentlessly as they in
1lcted punishment and which our
grandmothers served US as sulphur
and molasses under another name,
nor is it the one of the almost in
mite number of we'll advertised
nostrums which make a bid for our
collars by their sympathetic under
standing of our spring symptoms.
1t is the humble green.
Why do we need spring tonics ?
What causes the lack a classical feel
ing We call spring fever? Why are
greens the cure: Students of foods
offer us the answer.
They tell us that in winter in a
climate cold enough to prevent the
growth of green things, our modern
diet does not nourish the body, and
our spring fatigue is the fatigue of
starvation. Starvation? When WIN
ter appetites, stimulated by the cold.
nave consumed vast quantities OF
bacon, of cakes and syrup, of
mothers best pies and cookies? Yes,
starvation.
For food must perform several
tasks in the body and few foods can
do all. The winter foods furnish
power to keep US moving, heat to
Keep us warm, repair material to
build muscles. But more is needed.
Digestion needs stimulation. And
these foods, excellent as they are,
fail largely to do that. Material for
building the red corpuscles which
act as freight cars for the blood must
be supplied. The stimulants and
checks which keep the heart beat
nrm and regular must be present in
proper proportion.
In summer the situation is diff
ferent. No one has to urge us to eat
Strawberries and peaches. green peas
and string beans. They are so pleas
ant that We should probably eat
them even If they were yalueless as
foods.
But here we are, at the end of
winter with a problem. how can We
best bring ourselves up to par.
For most of us, the solution is not
buying tonic. 1t is rather getting
into our food in the next few weeks
all the early fresh foods We can.
For they combine the materials we
netd, iron and other minerals. the
nj! sterious vitamines. and the rough
age which acts SO successfully as a
challenge and stimulus to digestion.
We have a large variety of such
green foods in Maine. The wild ones
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03
Successful Method
Of Feeding Chicks

!. Do not feed the chicks until
they are 60 hours old.
2. For the first feed mix three
fourths pound rolled oats and one
fourth pound of the yolk of boiled
infertile eggs.
3. Place this feed on a board and
! allow chicks to have access to it for
twenty minutes. Then remove it
and in two and one-haf hours place
it before them again.
4. At the time of first feed place
a small amount Of sour milk or
buttermilk before the young chicks.
Continue this if possible.
3. When the chicks have been fed
rolled oats and yolk for two days,
change to the following mash and
scratch:
Mash-one pound finely cracked
corn, one pound rolled oats and one
pound cracked wheat.
Scratch-tWo pounds corn meal,
one pound rolled oats. three pounds
bran or cracked wheat, one pound
dried buttermilk and one-fourth
pound bone meal.
6. Feed this formula till chicks
are five weeks old, placing mash be-
fore the chicks continuously.
Z. Change formula as follows, for
feeding from fifth to eighth week:
Scratch-one part cracked corn,
one part rolled oats and one part
cracked wheat.
Mash--10 pounds finely ground
corn. 10 pounds oats ground fine, 10
pounds bran or ground wheat, 10
pounds middlings, two pounds dried
buttermilk, two pounds tankage or
meat scraps and one pound bone
meal.
s. Charcoal can be added at the
rate of one percent to mash or IN Il
separate cOntainer.
9. After chicks are eight weeks
old feed as follows to maturity
Scratch-Equal parts corn, oats,
wheat.
Mash-100 pounds ground corn,
200 pounds ground oats, 30 pounds
tankage and 10 pounds bone meal.
10. Supply an adequate amount OF
clean, fresh water from time chicks
are eight weeks old to maturity. If
one does not use sour milk or butter
milk for the first eight weeks, then
water must be supplied during that
time.
II. Get chicks on ground as soon
as possible.
u. Provide some green food,
sprouted oats, lettuce, onions, grass
etc.
10. Don't try to raise too many
chicks. One healthy chick is worth
a dozen weak, disease susceptible
specimens. o4,oa
Ia. Remember if your own methon
Is proving successful, don't change.
If not, then try reliable SUGGESTIONS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03

Dealers in agricultural seeds; in
fact, dealers in seeds of all kinds.
make every effort to get rid Of weed
seed before they place seed on the
market. It is an extremely difficult
task. requiring delicate machinery
and expert work. They have de-
veloped the business of weed seed
elimination to such high point that
often they are able to guarantee their
seed very nearly one hundred per
cent pure; thateis, it contains almost
entirely the seed Of the plants de-
sired. The scotsman is giving as
nearly {; bsolutely pure seed now as
it is in the nature of things pos
sible to produce.
Weeds will grow in spite of all ef-
forts to prevent them. The distribu-
ton Of agricultural seeds despite the
most earnest efforts of modern
science and machinery, which re-
duces the danger to minimum, Is
bound to carry some weed seed. The
farmer who grows seed for sale to
seed houses or to his neighbors can
assist materially in keeping down
the weeds by careful cultivation to
eradicate them from the source of
supply.
A farmer should learn to know the
seed of the weeds which infest his
fields so that he can recognize them
in grain after it is threshed and see
to it that the most dangerous pests
are not being distribu ID. There are
seven excellent reasd 5 why there
are bound to be some weeds despite
all efforts to prevent.
l.. A single plant sometimes Will
produce enormous numbers of weed
seeds.
2. Many weed seeds show great
viability, living 80 years or more In
the soil.
8. Some weed plants ripen and
scatter their seed before the crop
natures. and others when the crop
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03
List Publications
Available for Readers
OF Kennebec Journal

Any of the publications listed below
will be sent to any one marking the
one they wish.
Editor Agri. Page.
Kenebec Journal,
Augusta, Maine.
Dear Sir:-Please send me the pub
locations marked below:
Check
here
Bulletin No..117 ] Self Feeders for Hogs
Bulletin No. lis ] The Home Made
Stave Silo.
Bulletin No. 11e { IA. B. C.'s of Potato
Spraying
Bulletin No. 10 Vegetable Storage on
the Farm.
Bulletin No. 123 [ / Matching and Rear
ing Chickens.
Bulletin No. 126 I ! Direction for Deter
mining the Percen-
tage of Butterfat
in Milk and Cream
BY the Babcock
Bulletin No. 127 ] Feeding Dairy Cattle.
Bulletin No. 1913 Farm Accounts.
Bulletin No. ISL [ ] Forest Planting In
Maine.
Bulletin No. 49, [ ] Preparing Poultry
and Eggs for tile
Market.
Bulletin No. 13s Poultry Housing.
Bulletin No. 135 ] Pruning Bearing APP
pie Trees
Bulletin No. 1873 I How to Make Pap
er Dress Form.
Bulletin No. 140 E ] Sweet Corn Culture.
Bulletin No. 145 ] Fireess Cooker.
Bulletin No. 14S ] Farm Accounts.
Bulletin No. las ] [ Estimating timber
in the Farm Wood
lot.
Bulletin No. ISL ! Care OF the Farm
Woodlot.
Bulletin No. 152 [ ] Hat Making in the
Home.
Bulletin No. 153 [ 1Plant Forcers-Cen-
struction and Man
agement OF Hot
beds and Cold
Poultry.
frames
Circular No. So ] Culling the Non
producing Hen.
Circular No. 81 orono Poultry Ra-
lions.
Circular No. IS ] Selection OF Utility
Poultry.
Circular No. so ! Winter Protection OF
Young Apple Trees.
Circular No. SO { ] Pest Control for the
Young Apple Or
chard.
Circular No. SO ] Spraying and busting
Schedule for Maine
Apple Orchards.
Circular No. IS I Bordeaux Mixture.
Circular No. Sc [ ] Potato Seed Treat
ment.
Circular No. 81 ] Control of Wild Rad
dish and Wild
Mustard.
Circular No. IS ] Treating Oats for
Prevention OF
Smut.
Name ................'.'...............
Address ..............:.....
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Readfield Grange

Readfeld Grange will meet in reg
ular session this Saturday evening
and the following Garden Day pro-
gram will be given.
Opening at 1890 A. NJ. business;
Question What l Plan to Plant in
Ny Garden this Year" To be
answered by the members. Recess
for dinner.
Meeting called at 100 P. NJ. Sing
Ing by the Grange: THE Importance
Of Good Garden" by Mrs. Laura
Cooper, Charles Crosby and Mrs.
Alice Dudley; Planting for Can
ming" BY Mrs. Minnie Nc kinnon
and Mrs. slary l.. Sawyer; vocal solo.
Mrs. Saustina Winters:
The committee in charge of the
INNER include Mabel Morrill,. Susie
raymond, Mildred Russell, Gertrude
aobnson and Herbert Raymond.
Attorney Charles Carter of Lewis
!on, who was to address the members
this meeting on the Hydro electric
question, will not be able to be
present.
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Burnham Grange

Burnham Grange observed chill
dren's night at their regular meeting
on Tuesday evening. A large number
were present and the program was
furnished mostly by the children and
the following was given: Opening
song by grange: reading, Laura
Dangler; recitation, Beulah Perry;
song by Beulah Perry, Mona Hunt,
Sarah Murphy and Frances Miles;
recitation, Carroll McAllister; recita-
ton, Oral Perry; conundrum. Will
liam McAllister:. recitation, Luther
Perkins; song by Donald Pease and
Ernest Young with Laura Dangler
accompanist; recitation. Mona Hunt:
song. Natalie Hamlin and Anna FL
lingwood with Iva McNally accom-
PIANIST: recitation, Frances Miles; re-
citation, Sarah Murphy: singing by
the Grange. God be with you Til we
Meet Again"
Arthur Wyman was installed as
sistant steward of the grange. At the
close of the meeting treat Of candy
was served and all enjoyed a social.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03
Chelsea Grange o

An all day meeting of the grange
was held Thursday. Apr. l. There
was q good attendance. After din
ner the lecturer presented a very
interesting program. Song by the
grange; readings by H. L. Hayes and
Laura Corbin; Mrs. Lottie Mears
read a poem on Maine, written by
Mrs. Emma Foye of Pittston; poem
on Maine" written and read by
Mrs. Florence Thompson; questions
on Chelsea by Lottie Ralston. The
grange is to have a bee in the near
future to clear the land around the
hall. This land has been given the
grange if they will clear it of rocks
and bushes and grade.
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Jersey Cows Join
Select Class

Ayredale's Joy from Maine 546l'o'
Junior two year old Jersey cow
owned by f. w. Towle of North
Vassalboro, Me-, has completed her
test in 314 days in which she produc-.
cd 402. OF lbs. of fat and $500 lbs. of
milk. Her milk averaged $3.50 but
terfat for the test. With this record
she qualified for the Register OF
Merit Of the American Jersey
Cattle Club.
Red Birds Triumph 5319S9,
senior two year old Jersey cow
also owned by L. W. Towle, has COM
pleted an official 800 day test IN
which she produced 454.47 lbs. of tat
and $3.50 lbs. of milk. She carried
her calf for III days of this time and
her milk averaged $3.50 butterfat
for the test. With this record she
qualified for the Register of Merit OF
the American Jersey Cattle Club.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03

will be available first. Cowslips,
dandelion lambs tongue. fiddleheads
and many others are used. Those
that come as a by product of farming
or gardening are important later
kale, turnip and beet tops cut or
pulled to thin the patch. Spinach
and swiss chard are grown as greens
and yield large returns for short
row.
PEARL S. GREENE.
U. of NJ.
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lowed to attain good growth and
for winter protection should never
be cut in New England after Sep
TENDER l. Top growth and root vigor
seem to go hand in hand. Two
cuttings of alfalfa hay will always
be secured. The yield should run
about ~ tons per acre on the aver
age.
FORD S. PRINCE.
Soils and Crops Specialist,
u. of n. H., Durham.
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to Hatch Pullets

The best time to hatch pullets Will
depend upon the chief purpose one
has in mind and the variety or
breed that is being kept. For the
general purpose breeds. such as
Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island
Reds, and the like, the early hatch
ed birds will be the most prontaple.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03

The large egg pictured above was
laid by a last springs Rhode Island
Red pullet owned by George A. Pike
Of Winthrop. This unusual egg
measures 9-5ss inches by So inches
in circumference and weighs one
half pound. This egg was laid on
March 25 and according to a note re-
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Winthrop Grange

The regular all day meeting of
Winthrop Grange No. 209 will be held
Tuesday, April 6. Business session
and Question box in the forenoon and
miscellaneous program in the after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Peck are the
dinner committee.
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ceived from Mr.. Pike. "Biddy" is as
comfortable as could be expected"
Mr.. Pike feeds his hens no special
egg producing feeds but they are
served a warm breakfast each morn
ing Of bran mash with which are
mixed chopped potato Feelings and
the usual table leftoYers.
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Seed Corn Needs termination Test

Seed corn in many sections was in
bad shape last fall and there is
greater need than usual to test all
seed corn for termination 1t will be
necessary to replenish stocks to some
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Free From Danger

The Maiden-"Wasn't your life
constantly in danger travelling
through the forest filled with those
terrible lions and tigers?"
why, certainly mott" returned the
traveller. There wasn't a single
motor car in the whole forest to
dodge."-Philadelph Inquirer.
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THE WEATHER 4 YEAR AGO

MsnIey Of th: city
will inter ssting which
coming to u month:
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J News from the
Oranges
Pomona Grange Dates

Please send in dates, also notify Us
II dates are not correct.
April 3-KnoX. Highland Grange,
Warren Highlands.
April 6-Waldo, Riverside Grange,
Belfast.
April S-Excelsior. Hiawatha Grange,
Pennington Falls.
April 10-Aroostook, New Sweden.
April 13-West Washington.
April 14-New Century. West Peru.
April 14-Kennebec, Manchester.
April 15-York, John +. Hill Grange,
Eliot.
April 24-No. Penobscot, OlamoH.
April 26-Hancock, Sedgwick Grange,
No. Sedgwick.
April 2S-Sagadahoc, Dirigo Grange.
Brunswick.
April 2S-Green Mountain, Bayvtew
Grange. Salisbury Cove.
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Maine Fair Dates
Aug. 23-26-Bangor.
Aug. 31-Sept. 3-Waterville.
Aug. 1-Sept. 3-Gorhanf.
Sept. 6-101Lewiston.
Sept. 13-16-Skowhegan.
Sept. 21-2+South Paris.
Sept. 2S-Oct. Harrington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-07
Bic Game Hunters
In Chase for Zoo
Leopard at Large

BY the Associated Press.
RED BANK, n. J.. August e.
Although an Indian leopard which
escaped from private zoo at Mid
dletown was still at large today,
fears of nearby residents were
somewhat allayed by the reassur-
ing statements of experts that the
animal would harm no one unless
cornered and by the fact that it
has bothered no person since it
gained liberty last Thursday.
Armed posses have secured the
territory for miles around, hut
without locating the beast. Dis
covery of feline tracks were re-
ported at several places.
The chase today was Joined by
several experienced big game hunt
ers. Foxhounds also were pressed
into service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-07
Coming Congress to Consider
Bill Modifying Rules on
Religious Question.
GALES IN CONTROL
OF LEGISLATIVE BODY
Leaders of Both Sides Silent on
X. of c. Demand for Lifting
of Armament Embargo.

Be- the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY. August THE
impasse in the struggle between the
government and the Catholic Church
in Mexico may possibly be solved
through the enactment by the new
Congress. which convenes September
]. of religious regulations less drastic
than those which went into effect
week ago--at least, that is the hope
held at present in some circles.
Legislation on the religious subject
is expected to be one of the first
things taken up by the new Congress.
II may result in congressional reaf-
firmation of President Gales regula.
tions. in a contest between the Presi-
dent and Congress on the subject. or
In the passage of milder regulations.
Bill Being Prepared.
Hope of congressional modification
is based upon an announcement by tne
department of the interior that 1t is
studying and preparing a draft OF
law regulating article 130 of the con-
stitrItion, which is the religious sec.
ton. The department will submit this
bill to Congress.
President Gales PRONUNCIATION regu-
lated the religious clauses OF the con-
stitution, but included amendments to
the penal code. Congress itself has
not passed q. law enacting the reii-
gious section of the constitution and
can still do so. This law, IL approved
by the President. would supplement
the present regulations.
President Gales dominates Congress
-. n.N1 10 vfaks4af ffNH
to continue-.and dominates his own
government. Therefore, in the last
ANALYSIS the matter of modification
will remain in his hands unless there
Is A congressional revolt.
In some quarters it is pointed out
that il congress demanded modifica-
tion, Gales might gracefully yield to
the expressed will of the peoples
representatives, affording agfeeabie'
solution. This is pure speculation,
however, as the president thus far has
not shown the slightest sign of yield
ing.
Both government officials and Cath
olic leaders thus far have declined to
comment on the resolution adopterd by
the knights OF Columbus convention
at Philadelphia calling upon the
American Government to raise the en-
barge on shipment of arms into
Mexico. No Mexico City paper has
published the resolution, and the gen.
eral public is unaware of the action
taken by the knights.
Correspondent Is Beaten.
Manuel Gil, travelling representative
for Ell Universal, arrived at his Office
here today, his face swathed in band
ages and his features almost hidden.
where's the revolution?" asked
the managing editor.
II don't know" replied Gil, ''but il
there is one anywhere please send
me to cover 1t and put somebody else
on the religious story"
What happened?" the editor asked.
II rambled into church ir Guiana
iuato and a crowd of women there
decided that l looked like govern
ment agent" Gil replied. This is
what they left of my face"