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Show Kent's New Livery. MAKING - - structing On. - Samuel Kent, cJManager. George Meldrum, House Painting and Decorating, HEADQUARTERS FATTENING FOWLS. Provide the Right Conditions to Get Good Results. In order to fatten poultry at a profit, the right facilities must be provided and proper food used. Probably among the best are fat meat residues, com meal, potatoes, rice, cow's milk and oatmeal with milk. If anything, oatmeal is preferable because of effect on color or fat, says a writer in Successful Farming. The point is to fatten fowls in the Will Meet Prices on First Class Work. - - Utah. - VsTW (n any quantity and for any kind of building by calling on A. B. MANAUSA, Manufacturer, Garland, Utah. PRICES QUOTED ON APPLICATION. FAMILY LIQUOR S QRF Q. A. The Coop. shortest time possible. A good way is to confine in coops like the one shown in cut. The open part may be made You Can Get Woodward, Proprietor, CORINNE, UTAH. We keep the Choicest Wines, Liquors, Tobacco and Cigars. 7 ( "2U 2 2 V ISfJ A Pi TURNING by Ccn hens hatch about the same time as their incubator i then give the chicks FOR WALL PAPER. Tremonton, !. Some people try to have a lot of UTAH, HEW HORSES, NEW HARNESS, NEW CARRIAGES, Everything First Class and Up to Date. Reasonable Charges. BROODEI Simplify Care of Little Chick aAt rear of Hotel Kent, TREMONTON, A to the hens Hut 1 have found by experience that is a mistake, writes a poultry keeper in Farmers' Mail and Breeze. The hen will take them out and drag them around in the dew, and if it happena to rain she will sit right down where she happens to be and lose from three to half a dozen, or perhaps all the flock; while if the chicks had a brooder they would run into it and be safe. I make my own brooders. Tbey work all right out of doors and I never yet have lost a chick with them. I take a piece of sheetiron 20 inches wide and 2 feet long. Then two pieces of 1 by 8 3 feet long, and in each board make two holes 18 inches apart. Run gas pipe through these for the sheetiron to rest on, and fasten the boards 2 feet apart. Make a rack out of lath to sit on top of iron and cover with thick brown paper. Use two pieces of 1 by 10 2 feet 6 inches long from which to make a cover; fasten on top of first boards with hinges and hooks so they can be turned hack to clean out brooder. Outside the brooder make a board floor level with the sheetiron floor for 8 inches, then slant to ground so as to make a run for the chicks to go in and out. Set the brooder lamp under the sheetiron and place the lath rack and thick paper over the iron. The chicks will never get too hot unless the lamp explodes, which has never happened yet for me. The cost of this brooder is about $1.50, lamp and all. of lath or wire netting. Keep pen dark except when fowls are eating. Throw thick covering, old carpet or quilts, over exposed part and the pen will be so dark that birds will move about In the very little between meals. morning if fed boiled potatoes, crushed while hot and thickened with corn meal, and a little salt and pepper for seasoning, chickens will fatten very fast. They should be fed three times varied as a day, and their HATCH ABILITY OF EGGS. or much as possible. Pumpkins squash may take place of boiled pota- Observation Shows That There is Fresh bedding toes occasionally. Great Difference in Eggs. should be supplied frequently, and the coop and spot it occupies kept clean. Each bird has its own individuality. By that I mean that there are certain AUTOMATIC POULTRY WATERING. birds which lay eggs that are nearly always hatchable. With one hen we System Used by Dr. A. H. Phelps found that she was a good layer, a Described. hen that laid fertile eggs, but the eggs were not hatchable under hens or in One peculiarity of these Upon each floor of my poultry house incubators. iron pipe which passes eggs was that the chick would develop I have a the whole length of both the main only to about the eighteenth day, or floor and loft from west to east, at the we always found a fully formed dead latter end projecting outside the build- chick in the shell. We call that a fering. This pipe runs along the floor, tile egg, but it is an unhatchable egg. passing through each of the warm We have also found other hens that roosting rooms, in each of which is a will lay equally as many eggs that T joint, surmounted by a are nearly all hatchable under natural is conditions, hut they are not as hatch-ablOn the top of this screwed a cast-irodrinking cup 8 under artificial conditions. There inches in diameter and 4 inches deep. are a few hens, and I am sorry to All are set at the same level. state that they are In the minority, At the west end the inflow takes whose eggs are 'ftatchable under al place through a tank supplied with a most any condition. In other words, float valve, like that used for flushing these hens in the latter class seem to a closet. This tank and valve are ad- have so much vitality and their eggs justed to the same level as the drink- are so strongly fertilized that they ing cups so that when the cups are wtTT"stand abuse in the way of tem full the float shuts off the inflow, and perature and other conditions that are as the water is used out, it falls just present in some methods of incuba- enough to allow the cups to refill, tion, and yet will hatch a chicken that again closing when the proper level is fairly thrifty W. R. Graham, is reached. In this way the water is tario. not wasted. At the outflow at the HIVE SCRAPER. west end a gate serves to flush out the whole system. Inside of this gate an overflow pipe, placed at (he prop- Most Servicable Tool Can Be Made Out of a Buggy Spring. er level, easily prevents the possibility of the cups overflowing and thereby I have been using a cheap and pracThe pipe flooding the floors. is of that size to render clogging Im- ticable hive tool which can be made of possible. A pipe from the hot water a wagon or buggy spring, writes a corThe healer in the brooder cellar is con- respondent in Bee Culture. nected with the inflow pipe, making it possible to supply hot water to the system. Orange Judd Farmer. e nipple-couplin- e n SCR ATCH NGS. I Is it the business hen this year, or only a boarder? The farmer who raises poultry cat: always obtain ready money. A chick that Is continually chilled seldom amounts to much, because vitality is used up to resist and overcome abuse. It is not a good plan to feed grown up fowls too much soft food, as it tends to make them dyspeptic. In estimating the cost of keeping poultry it is best to allow one bvmhel of grain a year to each laying hen. With hens it is much better to keep the appetite sharp compelling them to be active and search for food. Pick all small, slow going, indifferent appearing pullets and save them for broilers. Keep for maturity only the best of the whole lot of pullets. Experiments show that the yearling hen lays 40 per cent, more eggs than the heu two years old. r o 1 The Scraper. broken end of a spring can generally xi found at any blacksmith shop, and the thin end can be filed sharp for ten or fifteen cents. Have it sharpened as per the illustration, the thin end sharpened and one side about two inches back, to be used as a scraper or screwdriver, and the thick end can be squared on one edge to drive a nail with. I find It very handy for all purposes around an apiary. Number of Hens to Rooster. have often read in poultry papers if you put more than eight or ten hens in the breeding pen the eggs will not hatch. My experience has been that 2") or 30 Leghorn hens with only one cockerel lay eggs which hatch chicks, every one. In 1896 I bad a pen of 50 mixed pullets In a place 10x18 feet. bad a brown Leghorn cockerel thai bad no use for, so put him In with this lot. In March, writes the In Orange Judd Farmer, one of wanted my neighbors to so to sot, exchange eggs let him have 30 eggs from this pen. 1 did not tell him about the way they were mated, as I had some doubt about their hatching. Hut he got 28 i hk'ks from the 30 eggs and came back for 30 more, getting 20 chicks the last time, or 54 chicks from 60 eggs I Poorly Fed Hens. Occasionally a flock that is so small that it is fed mostly from the table We have scraps Is really under-fed- . seen people boil small potatoes for their hens and add these dally to the potato parings and other table scraps. If salt was added In a small amount the fowls ate them well, but such a flock is always underfed. Because the fowls have their crops full If not proof that they have the substantial things out of which to eggs. There Is such a thing as overdoing a good thing and this Is one of the cases. The potatoes and such stuff are made up almost wholly of starchy matter and do not give the Light Seed. material out of which to make allm Light seed will produce light grain men, whose base must be nitrogen. It times. Is possible to make a hen think she This has been proved many Night seed has not suflicletn power to ts being well fed when she Is not ush the young plants during the early of growth, and It become;, i,igea Clean Up Seed Grain. stunted. Clean up all the need grain, and do Double-DisIt now while you can take plenty ol the Corn Stubble. time for the job. Don't use any old the corr, By all means double-disThen mill, with sieves nil rusted out. Good i nibble before sowing to outs mills, with all attachments, are cheap If you will harrow with the disk and oss harrow, yon will not worry abott now, and It pays to have one that will vour seedlvd. clean out all weed seeds. 1 I J;trflH I ? 100 I 2 g -- 3 j r3 73 St 1 8 ? I I i 5 -- m matin-factur- IVP IT D--2 T v 1 " g 5' j 'J VANITY INTO MONEY By JOHN R. THOMPSON, Treasuier Cook County, Illinois. fPopyrlplit, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Why is It that thousands of intelli- gent men working for salaries or for wages are investing their savings in the stocks of wildcat companies against the advice of friends competent to advise them and in the face of their own better judgment? The obvious answer is: Because they expect to profit greatly by the investmentto "get rich quick," as the common saying puts it This Is only half the answer, and the other half often the more powerful is seldom brought out. It can be stated in one small word Vanity. This is not flattering to the Investors who have defied the sober counsel of experienced men of affairs and who have stilled their own natural forebodings and sense of caution, but the fact remains that vanity has. in hundreds of thousands of cases, been the one factor which has turned the tables against reason, judgment and good counsel and emptied the pockets of the wage earner and the salary worker into the coffers of the fake Investment shark. When the bait thrown out is equally attractive to the cupidity and the vanity of human nature the catch is almost certain and the clearness with which the latter human weakness is understood by the sharpers who lie in wait for the surplus savings of those who do the world's hand is evidenced work, by the fact that the literature sent out to lure the unwary is full of phrases like this: "Why not become an associate of men who are doing things'.' We want your influence In your community. The men who are in this enterprise are known in the business world and they desire cooperation of others who are capable of broad and independent Judgment, of men like yourself who can see beyond the rim of a silver dollar and appreciate large opportunities, men of constructive abilities who are ready to take a hand in the development of one of the greatest enterprises of the present day. Your adare vice, Influence and cooperation more valuable to us than your money." When this appeal is put to a man who has always worked under others, who has never been consulted by a business man, whose opinions on business matters have never been asked by any person outside his own family circle, the temptation to a new and is delightful feeling of almost inevitable. There Is not a clerk bending over a desk or a counter, a mechanic working at his lathe or bench, or a laborer toiling in street or field who has not at times felt that he has had ideas about some feature of business worth considering, who has not harbored a secret longing to have a place and standing among the men who pull the wires which move the machinery of business. When such a man and his kind Is legion receives one of these artful and insinuating appeals to his vanity he is rarely poised and gifted with common sense above his fellows If he does not feel that at last he has come into his own; that his abilities have finally been appreciated and that the stranger in the business world has understood him better than his associates, his neighbors, bis familiar friends and those under whom he works. The flattery of this appeal outweighs its shallow rawness and its obvious and cheap insincerity. But the real cunning of this attack upon his vanity is the fact that it appeals to his "independent judgment" and classes him among the men who see things shrewdly and in a big way and who scorn timidity. If he listens to this argument and generally he does he feels a new sense of self iniportar.ee and of independence and a corresponding disinclination to listen to the advice of those whose familiarity with business and finance would enable him to steer clear of the His judgment is rocks of disaster. pitted against theirs and he is aroused" to a determination to "show them that his opinion is better than theirs This antagonism against the reception of advice from men of experience is the one thing which the investment sharper most desires to awaken in the prospective victim, for It will prevent him not only from seeking sound ad vice but from acting upon It when it is put in his way. The schemers who have learned how Irresistibly the argument of "man age for yourself" appeals to the man who has never had a chance to try his hand at managing a business have not stopped at this point; they have also learned that men In the humbler walks oi life are clannish and Inclined to think and act together. Along with Ibis they have realized that It is easier and cheaper to hunt their game in (locks and droves than singly. When the sportsman wishes to get a big bag of game and get it quickly he goes after the birds Which travel In flocks. So with these gunners who are adepts In the use of decoys and "calls." They arrange tin i r hunts In line with this , idea of clannlshness, of mass and use the ammunition of "act for yourself" ho that every shot will be a "pol shot." Here Is an example of how this kind of financial sportsmanship is prosecutSome time ago an Inventor ed: brought out a machine for the making of print paper from the pith of com slalk.J. So far its making an impressive, scientific demonstration was concerned, the device was admirable, but when it came to Its ability to compete commercially with wood pulp mills and their products, that was a problem that did not greatly concern the preOteri with whom the Inventor move-merit- and patentee became associated. So long as the machine did its demonstration work with convincing plausibility their immediate purpose was fully met. The paper production In which they were most concerned was that upon which the handsome stock eertifl-eate- s of the company were printed. He immediately turned his guns upon wage workers of the printing and paper trades. By personal solicitation and printed literature he plied the members of tlose trades with th argument: Make this your own industry! Here is the opportunity for you to keep In your own hands the thing which Is going to revolutionize the paper business just as the typesetting machine has revolutionized the printers' craft. You can, l: comft g In now, with a small Investment per man. place yourselves in control of an industry which will hold in its grip a product of millions of dollars a year a product upon which the whole paper and printing world depends for Its existence." This was an argument which every man in the mechanical department of a newspaper or a commercial printing establishment, and every paper null or paper company, could understand. It met him on his own ground and he began to see 'visions of himself as one of the "powers'' In the very Industry in which he was an obscure wage worker. What a turning of the tables there would he when the world awakened to the fact that this great "revolutionizing invention" was controlled by the men at the type case and machines, the printing presses, the stereotyping tables, the pulp vats and the paper warerooms! Then the "last" would become first, the paper industry would be ruled by the men from the bottom of business; the Journeyman would be the magnate and would know the feeling of power and authority! By scores and hundreds the wage workers In these trades rallied to this cry and the leaders among them were "taken care of" in a way which made them feel that they had already come into tlleir own. These of the craft marshaled their follow-ingwith a sincere confidence that they were leading the way to a financial Utopia and the promoters rubbed their hands in satisfaction at the rate at which their illuminated stock certificates were demanded by the workers who wanted to become captains of industry and "manage for themselves." Certain "subsidiary" and "allied" companies were organized for the purpose of giving more of these men official position to distribute to a wider number the thrill thai ( dines from pulling a hand on the pilot wheel of "affairs." The outcome of this revolution to place the trusting wage worker in the control of an industry of his own. is fully covered by the suggestion that the farmer is still "plowing under" the dead cornstalks upon which the news of the world was to have been printed. Meantime hundreds of faithful workers in the printing and paper trades are finding it more difficult to "manage" their own personal finances because of the deficit created by the investment which was to "make the Industry their own." The ambition of the wage earner and the man on salary to better his condition, to "make his surplus work for him," to And a broader expression for his individuality and abilities in a business way Is both natural and commendable; but he will make a poor start in the line of that ambition If he fails to realize, at the outset, that finance is as much a technical trade as that which the typesetter, the ma son. the carpenter, the machinist or the plumber follows, and that It would bo no more absurd for the banker or the man of finance to attempt to set a galley of type, lay a brick wall or serve at a machinist's lathe without a technical training, an apprenticeship, than for the journeyman In any of these crafts to take a financial operation, no matter how modest, into his own hands. Independent of thp guiding council of the man who knows the ropes of finance. And the investment in a stock or a bond is a transaction in "finance" In the strict and lull sense of the term. The man of small means, uischooled in the ways of finance, might Just as safely hand his pocket money or his savings bank account over to an utter stranger who promises to meet him at a certain place, at some future time, and give him something valuable In return, as to put his money into the stocks and alleged securities which are being foisted upon the public today by the beating of publicity .drums and the blare of promotion trumpet One of these transactions does not require a whit greater stretch of credulity than the other. Let the man who has an ambition to manage his small saving-- ; keep steadily In mind the fact that the concern whose literature or solicitors attempt to Influence him against seeking the advice of men familiar wMa i!e ins and outs of finance is an enemy to his welfare and usable to stand the light of Invest gallon. The man or the company having something to sell which is sound and worthy has no need to make an underhand appeal to prejudice .ind vanity In an effort to prevent you from seeking counsel from those of experience. JOHN R. THOMFI V s s Bufialo Died of Apoplexy. buffalo cow at the Wichita tional game preserve dld recent).ipoplexy. A na- ot |