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Show T1IE UB L1C AN, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 191 0. HERALD-RE- P 21 PROFIT IN THE TRACTABLE GOOSE AND HER OFFSPRING Leading Featured in the Breeding of Geese for Feathers and Meat. encflld Wales' ippillpilfil Ease in Rearing Goslings, Their Quick Growth and Their Freedom From Disease. III M. L LOVGHELD. Aolhor and Practical Poaltf-ymaaThe Kmden Is the general utility breed. Ganders are good husbands and protective fathers. Laying begins In the gravest February. Hatching claims Importance. Closllngs are thrifty and not menaced by disease. Food needs are simple plenty of grass and water, plus corn. Feathers add to value. Waterfronts desirable but not f - - - i - -- " ml . has Its staunch EVERY fowl Judging from the ratio reared of various kinds, the goose stands third In popular estimation. In consideration of Its intrinsic qualities, this is surprising. Of all poultry, the goose Is hardiest. It runs the gamut of temperatures extremes in the temperate climate undisturbed. "Whereas chickens, guineas and turkeys must be environed with watchful care lest disease assail. The gosling early achieves Independence. Of all the Ills to which the former are heirs. It claims no Inheritance. Fip, gapes, roup, cholera and their kind pass by the gosling. It Is because It is genuine vegetarian? Provide the gosling with water, a good range and a home at night, and it is happily sufficient unto Itself. Nothing else outstrips Its babyhood proportions e with such boots, as the gosling. Today It greets you, fresh from the shell, a plump, talkative, responsive bunch of golden dow,n; next week, a faded, gawky creature wobbles to meet you. clumsy, yet still trustful and friendly. There is something substantial and practical about the goose, a certain reliability that should commend it to poultry-raiser- s apart from Its profitable aspect. The flightly guinea and the Irresponsible turkey at times try the poultry-raiser- 's soul sorely. The goose, quiet and capable with her healthy brood after the first few weeks, la dependable and trustworthy. In as much Importance attaches to the selection of a varliety as with chickens. The demand of the nearest market usually swings the decision. In New York. Philadelphia and Baltimore, the white command best prices alive. Consequently, nearby sections favor a breed of this color. Of the seven varieties, three are most common. The large Toulouse is pro lific, but its gray feathers The Chinese goose, slender and white, or perhaps brown, with knobbed bill. Is noisy and small. The Emden seems to be the "general utility" breed, for besides its abundant thatch of white feathers. It weighs almost as heavily as Its gray relation, the Toulouse. seven-leagu- goose-raisin- g, are-nferio- r. electIB the Breeder. fi. i flock may number from three geese one gander to geese and ten ganders, dependentthirty upon the farmer's resources In grass. The prevalent size numbers twelve, from which the farmer may average seventy-fiv- e goslings. Flocks are assembled In December, likewise all changes made therein. If young geese are wanted, they should d be taken from the goslings. Individuals are selected for size, shapeliness and proportion. Young ganders and geese are distinguishable only by experienced persons. The male carries a high head on a longer neck and utters a call not so shrill as that of the goose. He may be larger also. Otherwise, no notable difference exists. In the laying season, when the female develops a dewlap, the sexes are plainapparent. Breeders should always ly be" marked to Insure them from being mistaken for well developed goslings A first-hatche- ' , I compare favorably with the as a layer, and with the Aylesbury for weight. In the course of his work he not only produced buff ducks, but a blue variety, and both are .now largely-bred- . Mr. Cook attached the nam "Orpington to these ducks, after thi, name of his country place in England. Breeders are very enthusiastic over their heavy laying qualities and their when the final separation takes place . ii H" urn l. a reputation as cuauiisn layers of large and many eggs, and as sensible mothers, they are good for Some families record long service. keeping certain geese for twenty years. Few are permitted such longevity, but it Is possible and the elder mothers are undeniably best. been tested, unnecessary alterations are tested, unnecessary alterations are unwise. The goose that lays small or deformed eKS-- , or proves to be a frivolous parent, should be disposed of." For various reasons; ganders are often changed, chiefly to improve the stock and to increase the size of the offspring. To Introduce one strange gander into the flock Is to Invite dissension. The old ones flay him unmercifully. The better policy Is to make a clean sweep of all ganders at once. Kquality makes for peace. The family life of geese abounds with interest. The gander chooses one mate to whom he devotes himself assiduously. He Is Jealously suspicious, whence many bloody battles with other.ganders. He accompanies her When they walk together, he stalks ahead. He has been seen to bio k her way deliberately when she evinced an Intention to choose her own direction. Durinjr the winter the season of courtship geese begin to need more Mcst growers agree that oversight. over-fa- t geese produce the greater number of Infertile eggs and guard aaalnst such conditions accordingly. Thin geese, on the other hand, defer This laying, which makes late broods. In turn curtails weight at shipping tirm-- . The profitable medium Is the goose of average weight laying early in February. Such eggs may be set In March The goslings break the shell in time for the earliest tender grass. From this hatching come the best breeders. , The goose house,. In deference to thatfowl's strong attachment for Its quarIn December, f . -- ' i ' ' 'y early maturity. Qne record from California shows that a flock commenced to lay at the "age of sixteen weeks. Another record shows that two'ducks laid 238 eggs in six months, which is greatly in excess of the average duck's production. The plumage of this variety is a soft buff over all, with the exception of the male, that has a seal brown head several shades darker than the body color. The bills on both sexes are green- Pe-kl- I "n 3 EXPEXSIVKJ. And, remember, tula water is NOT You will be able 4o secure it at n total cost of not to exceed 312 per year, including; the very nuinll ii mou nt you will pay toward the maintenance of the waterworks system. iW iL i:- - Come out to Val A'erda TODAY! Take a ville car at Main and Second South streets every minute of the hour; nxk to gM off at Val Verda- - where an acre means independence- wee with your own eyes the beauty of this land, where a man can buy an acre, grow everything still conhis family will eat for 12 months and twenty-fiv- e town Just in his work tinue with iilnuteN awa- - by street car. A MAX, AN ACltB AM) INDEPENDENCE! Our walesmcn will be on the ground all day todaT - BUFr ORPINGTON DUCKS old-fashion- ed pound?! 1!H6. Copyright. It is rare that any fancier seeks to originate area new variety of toducks. conBreeders generally satisfied vatinue with one of the rieties that have been selected to meet the requirements pf their particular market. A decade ago the late William Cook, famed as the originator of all the Orpington fowls, spent much time in perfecting a new utility duck, one thatn would iat rift F ftlth-fully- 'and V - Water lM.F.M'V OF WATER for yonr home and your acre of ground nt Val Verda! Cme out nnd sec the great reinforced concrete reservoir, capacity 2,10,000 gallons! Come out and see for yourself the fine waterworks system that will pipe the water every acre Inline at Val Verda, under pressure of 133 v " - ? '' i i , i r'&vv . EH! 9. Tuesday, Decoration day, t (Sunday) and next Verda. (irasp thl opportunity show you Val out your acre. y'()W. Come pick and today and SMOO up and Kcmember. the priccn are but the terms 923 cah and flO a month. s. yr - Ti' ish yellow. ! The aim has been to breed only those laying white eggs, and to this end careful breeders are hatching only the T. L. HOLMAN whitest eggs. A few years, of this selection will produce the desired result. Candidate for Congress The weights required of these ducks Theodore L. Holman, assistant secare six to seven pounds for males, and active In the Interest of legretary of state, has had an interesting ticularly five to'six pounds for females.' islation roads, rural affecting career. Fifteen years ago he left the communities and thelabor, of the upbuilding farm to carve a career, and today oc- agricultural college. 4 cupying a high public position, he asIn 1913 Mr. Holman was I pires to Congress, and his candidacy assistant secretary of state, aappointed deserves sound consideration. Moved which he now holds. Working position harmoseason's the Inext poultryman layers, . i i r .t . . . by honorable ambition he has climbed niously with his chief he has had much lb annual, t lain iu imu mmseii. i111 from farm boy to school teacher, fin- to do with the reorganization of the possession of an equal number lit-of ally securing a degree. In department along efficient and dignicockerels, for which he has but swift succession he college advanced to jour- fied lines. Personally he devised the tle need. These surplus cockerels nalist, legislator and to his present es- system and designed the equipment of can be, turped to a profitable account j teemed position in the state govern- the new office, pronounced by experts If they nre handled properly, which ment. The honorable which the. best equipped and appointed office aris the substance of next week's he has attained among position his fellow men of its kind in the country. He is the ticle by Prof. James B. Morman." proves that his high ideals, coupled author of the new motor vehicle law, with honesty in word and deed, were bringing automobiles under police suworthy of rich reward. pervision, and which raises approxiMr. Holman was born on a farm In mately $100,000 annually for loters, should always have the same central purposes. in 1884. His Pennsylvania cation. Any style of architecture suits early Mr. Holman Is the author of importdays were spent in tilling the the goose. The nest is the Important soil, but measures affecting the duties and ant he atstudied at night and feature. Boxlike nests, 15x22 inches, tended the country schools, of administrative departments until at 17 powers built side by side on the earthen floor, years of age became a the of and the corporation laws, state, in teacher the with a liberal filling of hay. straw, school. With the money' thus due to his efforts, have been made dead pine leaves or other litter, are district he prepared himself for college. more equitable. an excellent accommodation. The eggs earned Mr. He Holman is a. Republican and studied acadshould be collected daily and marked emy, near athisthe New Bloomfield a new order of things withfor Mercer-burstands g home, and at with ink or Indelible pencil with the He is a champion of the in the His litparty. fondness for academy. date of laying. This enables the raiser erature, of file the party and In every and rank and debate brought eggs first, for him muchoratory always to set oldest the battles of the he. convention in honor and fights the various in this business as with all poultry, contests he won are as well friends His people.. political many handsome cash his the "older the egg for incubation, the . in loyalty to and friends, personal prizes. the weaker the youngster," In savingsafe-In the fall of 1904 he entered Knox his friends he never figures the ' 'cost eggs till brooding time, certain ;7 and worked his way through to himself. are needful. Kggs should ne college guards rour-yefor In his congressional the candidacy It course, and finishing set on end. turned often and protected In three" years and with the honor Mr. Holman bases his aspirations graduating sudden extremes of from drying and flannel-lineon his record In public service and his A. B. of d decree or box A temperature. Mr. Holman came to Utah in the undisputed fitness afor the position. He old feather bed in an unheated room rich experience In had not only Is often favored, the eggs being covered spring of 1906, having just finished his has the state governof branches two the to ment, but he is familiar with pillows. junior year in college. He went with the needs Natural Incubation Is to be preferred work for the Bingham Coal & Lum- of the people. He is a forceful speaker, to artificial. For the purpose of get- ber company, shoveling coal and pil- a clear and concise writer, and posthe flock, at least ing lumber. At night he worked in sesses a thorough training in parliating more eggs fromset coincident with the local newspaper office. With the two hens should be law. He has the faculty of enabled to mentary his each goo?e. Kach may cover five or money thus earned he was In ideas into laws. He will writing second and his for year college. Mr. six, depending upon size of hens re- pay an campaign wage independent In 1907 he returned to Utah and ashover the eggs. One goose can own 1912 to Miss in married was Holman and of the sumed the management of the old L,ora Bean, the daughter of a promisultant hatching of her hens. For every dozen set, one goose Bingham Press. The following year nent pioneer family of Utah. may be broken from sitting to resume he purchased the Bingham Bulletin, a her second laying. These last eggs, rival newspaper, 'and consolidated the th.e name of the laid In warm weather, unsupervised, two papers under 1913 he became asIn .well. hatch phenomenally usually C. C. and J. T. with be to sociated life' face Judge Though the goslings In the publication of Goodsupported on the tough grass of June, Goodwin they grow rapidly with supplemental will's Weekly. Mr. Holman had been a resident of feeding and become worthy, if belated, members of the season's flock. Utah but a short time- - before he beNormally, a goo.se egg hatches In came active In politics. He was elected twenty-eigh- t days, but it may be pro- to the state Legislature In 190S and Tardy goslings may require again in 1910. During the. 1909 session longed. aid to emerge from the shell, but In-it he was chairman of the committee on Spirited Demand Displayed for must be cautious, else permanent labor, in the House, ranking as a memlack These unfortunatss results. ber of the judiciary committee. Durjury Homes in Attractive New stamina, but may outgrow the discrep- ing the 1911 session he was chairman of the judiciary and sifting committees. ancy. Suburban District. He was also majority floor leader durManagement f Goslings. and personally-activGoslings are removed from the nest ing thein latter session shaping the greater part of Since Kimball & Richards, land mer- lest they be crushed. The second garthem to the mother, who is the legislation enacted. He was par chants, placed their new half-acr- e given a roomy coop with sod floor. For food they like a liquid mixture of meal and bran In a pieplate, often replend ished. Coarse sand is accessible. bread I egg, chopped grass, crumbs In milk, etc.. are not needed by limdems. Goslings revel In sunshine aridd grass, flanked with water. A coop with slat sides, 8x6x2 feet, which Is easily moved, is efficient in confining the mother and allowing the gosling3 range for a week. Thereafter they may trudge abroad with their mother, attended by a proud daddy. Most misers limit goslings to the lawn or small lot for ten weeks, when they ' ! to the pasture and Independgraduate -4rr-rr.. ence. esWater fronts are not absolutely sential to successful goose raising:, but add to the fowl's comfort. Parasites are not so troublesome If there Is unhampered arcess to water, and the ;:i plumage Is cleaner. In August, and thereafter at periods --- IS of seven weeks, the flock Is plucked of its "ripe" (ready to be shed) feathers. fowls Three pickings from seventy-fiv- e aggregate at least fifty pounds of cents. choice feathers at Plucking and' fattening have a close connection. Immediately after the last "picking," goslings should be fattened. thev add no more When weight till after another shedding, and are therefore ready for shipment. With their sale, the farmer pockets his most profitable fowl and least troubleResidence of Charles Smith in Federal Heights, one of the most pretentious some crop. homes built there this year. MISS SILLIMAN RELEASED however, include many of the most operations are progressing numso Building beautiful and picturesque locations in fast in Federal Heights that a thouthe entire district, which are American Teacher Allowed to Keniime ber of new homes, representing sands of dollars' worth of work, will be a big factor in the deals now proving being Journey to Germany. in Federal Heights week. Tellumade this the completed by practically . 27. An announcement Berlin, May above is that rite. Realty company-The was made today of'the release of Miss of Charles Smithpictured in Federal Heights The homes which are under construcis one of the most pretentious tion in Federal Heights Just now repMary Silliman, a teacher In the Ameri- and to be built there this resent an Investment of over $18,000 can school for girls at Constantinople, homes in effect and the homes which were completed new discounts are now year.' The who was arrested on suspicion of on properly owned by the Telluride during the last building season brought company in Federal Heights the total up to over a quarter of a milespionage at Warnemunde, German, a Realty the' company stated yesterday that lion dollars. month ago, while on her way to the and ot sales has been closed the The building restriction in Federal a number Miss been United States. Silliman has week which would be announced in Heights is $4000, which means that no past home costing less than this may be allowed to resume her journey home. a day or two. At the time of her arrest, it was alThere is not a question, say members built iu that district. This, assures a leged that the draft of a code for the of th Telluride Realty company, but section of beautiful homes and grounds season and desirable neighbors. transmission of messages had been dis- that the clooe of the present covered in her trunk. Miss Silliman will find all the building- - sites now Up to date improvements have been that the papers probably uwiitnl by the Telluride Realty com- made. iu Federal Heights and the propexplained were placed in her trunk by a revenge- pany owned by private home builders. comerly solo by the Telluride ful pupil. The lots for sale in Federal Heights, pany includes all of these. Realty SKlrk ISSS, Postoffice Amertcan Illdg Main St. and2030. Place. Phone Was. 7 . A i t--i 1 I 1 road-buildi- ng . - r ar ' Press-Bulleti- den tract. Burton acres, on the market about two weeks ago, over two-thirof the big lots have been sold and are investimany prospective buyers ds gating: the property.. The tract is located near State street and Twelfth South and is within two street car lines. blocks of two Kimball & Richards have already started development work and several hundred shade trees have been planted been and some of the streets have The firm will also lay wide graded. cement sidewalks in front of all property at their own expense and make every ximprovement In., all of their tweuty-siearners subdivisions. who want to and men living on salaries,Wage own in raise their their spar-living: at iBur-to- n time, are buying a half-acr- e acres because it is close to their work beine: only twelve minutes' car ride from downtown, and because it is on the car line. Never since Highland Park was first openedso lias this beautiful home place been attractive as it Is With over 100 modern homes andtoday. bungalows completed and many more under con . : iM -- r'ftri fidinr I - - - struction, the district is rapidly becoming: one of the most populous subWith the positive urbs of the assurance of city. a school on Chadwick avenue, this fall, street, near new Stratford homeseekers with small many, children are moving to Highland Park. Highland drive, the main paved highway through Highland Park, is one of the most popular auto drives in the city. With the completion of street paving on Eleventhwill East, another open directly popular thoroughfare into Highland Park. DAYLIGHT SAVING PLAN IS ADOPTED IN ROME Rome, May 27. The daylight saving scheme has been adopted in Rome. An official decree published tonight orders that the clock be advanced one hour beginning at midnight June 3. There are about operations in the manufacture ofeighty a gold pen. - in j- . r.r..1r inm-n- r Tr - BURTON ACRES n. SALES LARGE Many Visitors Take Street Car to Val Verda e day-restore- s Hard-boile- 'A 11 Charles Smith's New Home in Federal Heights -- r 4 W lifj .vv&i -- . ' V wire-toppe- - uz.- - Street car on the Centcrville line snapped as it passed in front of Val Verda, "the man and an acre" property, lying seven miles north of Salt Lake. car at Second South and Although the week has been unusu- Centerville of Main streets at 13 minutes of the hour ally cold. sine the announcement Sun-rtthe location of Val Verda last home-site- s any time of the day and Just ask the conductor to stop at Val Verda." thu beautiful tract of acre Two carloads of iron pipe were unhus been visited by scores of visat Val Verda the past week, itors who have looked the ground over loaded and men and teams are working as fast for themselves, report the officials of as tan to coryplete the waterthe Bettilyon Home Builders company they of Halt Itke. who say that just as works system at the earliest possible soon as the location of this tract seven moment. miles north of Halt Lake was disclosed, ValTh Bettilyon company in securing Verda. seven miles north of Salt a larce number of inquiries were and sev- Lake and within twenty-fiv- e minutes the property regarding the business section of the eral deal were closed for acre homes ride of has without doubt acquired what city, at Val Verda. is one of the most beautiful In the meantlni the Bettilyon comtracts of acre homesltes in- all Utah. pany Is pushing construction work on the property with all speed. A Soil In Fertile. considerable sum of possible has been money The richness of the soil at Val Verda an In of Immense is best proven by the remarkable recthe buildlnsr expended resords made by farmers on surrounding 2;W0rt gallon reinforced concrete ervoir and thV installation of a com- ground. In raising su'-fruits as pears, plete waterworks at Val Verda. peaches, prunes, apples, cherries, walnuts, hazel nuts and vegetables of Snlenmen on (iround. sort imaginable. every Mr.' Itettllyou announced yesterday A portion of Val Verda Itself has that there will be a number of sales- been under cultivation and yielded men at Val Verda all day today, and fifty bushels of wheat to the acre. Mr. Bettilyon, Val Verda Is all day next Tuesday. Iecoration to conduct visitors over the tract day. and theQuoting the man who is tired of for place Val on answer V. ed - to all inquiries concerning Verda. "We shall he very glad to take v.e who wants to see Val Verda. out our automobiles," states Mr. Kettil-yo'"It Is only a ride by street car from the center of Halt Liko, nowrver. and tho."e who wisii to go by street car can take a n. twenty-five-minu- te a small lot In town, and who living wants to move his family onto an acre of this soil where practically everything the family will eat during the year can be raised, while he still retains his position in town. There are schools near Val Verda or the children can easily be sent to Salt .Lake to school. 4i if W vi "Tlr Life rvri -- full-fledg- ed A fe-- l Healer. ... - . VM Xoarly a Quarter of a Century of Uniform .and Dependable Quality. The continuous mining' and shipping of Castle Gate and Clear Creek Coals for so many years has standardized their production to a degree that insures YOU the consumer a high and uniform quality in every ton. He member, these are the two famous Utah coals clean and free turning and the standard by which all other coals are indeed. Mined and shipped exclusively by the UTAH FUEL res-idtne- ; v - . .3 t ' : . e I i CO. I i 1iV irn vihm V |