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Show W DAIRY' CALF FEEDING WHAT TO FEED THE POULTRY Conflnsd to Coop With trtjs Ids Preventing Exercise. Birds Should May Be Left With Mother First Three or Four Days. : Should Be Given Just What They Will Clean Up Is Good for Them. , Readlly-Greerrase"- Slat-Bottom- (By VV. A LIPPINCOTT.) .The following Is an excellent 6f ME ration THE DUCHESS OF BEDFORD 'aV' V' atA w, . (By J. C. M'NUTT.) The calf may bo left With the cow for three or four days, or 'untIL the milk U fit for use. The calf should then be taken aw ay and placed in a separate stablerlf-- la possible, as the-co- will give less trouble if she B for fattening poultry:' 1 part corn meal, 1 part oat flour, t 4parb-barle- y meal, 1 TCTIC literature has always had a part beef scrap, 8 parts' buttermilk or. skim milk. fascination for me, and It has long This makes what Is called slop been my ambltlon to see somethlng feed, as It is thin enough to pour. The of the great frozen North; but, with best feeding result are five or six la the exception of a visit to Spitzber-ge- n number, are placed In i slat coop. when I went as far as The bottom Is -- of lattice -- work, and AmsterdanTIsIand and wasstopped THereJa that makes It by ice, I have not been able tor gratiplenty of room in the co5p, but the fy my wish. In 3.910 I visited IceIdea is to prevent exercise. one has been land. fj find thatIt when The crate should; be put In a; proassumed to is that country always tected place, but not In a house. Unmust one been have that Reyklavik der a tree or at the Bide of a build- and the Geyslrs. But Reyklavik and the' Gey sirs ing Is a good place, If It Is where oth- had no attractions for me, as I waa anxious to visit er fowls cannot molest them. They less parts. The north and east coasts are given no food for twenty-fou- r of Iceland and the Island of Grlmsey were the ob hours, pervious to jthe feeding period, ject of my voyage. which should last rprn two to three Grlmsey lies thirty mlleB north of the north coast weeks. The milk will be sufficient to To Grow Well Young Animal not see her calf. ,A ,rf$- - ' A t ,, ,vy j. , i A ' ,v.r .y 'r ' - ft ?'.. t vN. ? y. V self-cleanin- can- . By missing one feed the calf will usually be hungry enough to start to drink readily and will usually give lltte trouble when It finds the bucket of niilk, contains milk. per feed three times a day fob the first, ten days will give the calf a good start when a small amount of sklmmllk Jb3L.P CLiS UF LWJh i.iL,t h A tfJ Cc l,rc may he substituted fora dw1r-wl- ik, has about the aiimunl lif tin' sklrrr seventy inhabitants, who, with the excepway has brought, gains of from 25 to tion of the . milk the 8.V pastor, live in turf huts.' There is a very being increased, so per cent. It costs from five to small wooden church, across the Interior, of which calf Is a. month bid It Is getting skim seven cents' worth of grain to put on a milk entirely. When the calf Is two a large beam supports pound of gain. But If it did not pay the walls some two or from a feeding standpoint it would above the ' other ways, for the flesh of a bird three feetIf the in ( i1' pulpit. V'i pastor fattened in this way Is far better, being "If the stands upright In more whiter and much v.il ' appearance i come beam must f ?U. AW'Vt Juicy and much more palatable. media taly ln.f rout.of-h!afaa- e and .1 regret animaL proteia:.that; :1s :itece.s aryc::J n that' l ' was ' unublo to this way It takes the place of beef to a attend service $ee scraps, which Is a packing house prod- how the difficulty was ' uct- and somewhat expensive. It has solved. The Island U been, demonstrated that for every best known aa the quart of milk a hen will drink, she will Jersey Calf, Showing Excellent Form lay an extra egg, but of course the the onl; breeding place in r and Dairy Indications. limits the egB .KutopQI of j,. the - little. inability ttr drink-mucwas told that auk. i weeks old he feeds may bo changed production. aro. the inhabitants to two per day with the amount of noted chess players, unilk increased as tjie calf shows abil- BUILDING JOIST FRAME BARN andare sent to play ity to handle It. After'; three weeks ' tournaments far the calf will begin to rat a little grain: Rian Given Stands All Tests for In their own home. from An excellent grain mixture forcalyes Strength and Permits Unobstructan Island of chess Aa wheat is t.inde of corn meal, oats and ed Room In Hay Loft. players, Grlmsey may bran in equal parts, with a little Un-- to be far continue seed meal added. T" Herewith Is Bhown details of con- famed, aa the but To grow calves well they should a Joist frame barn roof. home of the little auk h ve lust what they will clean up structing. 'here the barn la 36 feet wide or 1 fear It is doomed.. V&fBJfrG, (WriiAX&r readiljrat each feed. Plenty of green less the construction. Is shown on the grass Is good for them, but in very right using 1 by 12 brace la of suffi hot or very cold weather a flue quality, clent HUT'S CirGXZMSZY- strength. Where the width ot of clover hay will produce excellent the building exceedB 36 feet It la ad ' .results. vised to frame the roof as shown at Calves should have milk until they the left, using extra pieces for short ter ' 37 degrees, and v ' are five or six months nld, for best re- cross bracing. rThe rafters should bs there was a fresh, sults. If they are forced to subsist on northwesterly breeze. coarse feeds and grain too young they We continued our voyw ill he stupted,' as their digestive age round the east system is not (leveloped enough to coast, and here the handle such food exclusively at an sea was so calm that early age. we went fairly close m ' Colton seed meal should never be shore, as It seemed fed to calves under twelve months of ' A' ' .v. j probable that L could age. It glways proves detrimental to land. We stopped in -development of the young calf. This VH?UZ3 ATfCUOJZTZZA WmZJUG ZTSrQIf sixteen fathoms of wav being true, It Is better to feed such ter, nearly a mile from ts. feeds brau and corn, which been had it and good holding ground In the of the Ice, shore, pnetaor, and steamed away pursuit are known to be satisfactory.' to He anchor, but as we should It course our I poBsible but that might stipulated good size the animal should conAVllle were right in front of the glacier, whlch straight-tn- " the direction of Jan' Mayen. The tinue to grow steadily until mature. doubtful what the was it m. we 8 to a. comes the down was and and at weather clear, 'sea, bright If allowed to stop growing, through case it would in and and bottom would any be. ourselves between a like, distant iceberg sighted neglect in feeding, or other causes, so. do to have been unwise for us the Greenland coast. At 11 a. m. there was no they become more or less stunted. Joist Frame Barn. The cliffs on this coast are very precipitous, other sigir of ice, though we had come over fifty were very scarce, generally only could I have landed, Mt would only have miles. Birds and, 2 by 12V FORMULA FOR A WHITEWASH ot 2 by'6's, the floor joists were In sight, and I had seen been one two or fulmars possible to walk about half a mile along and the braces running from the botnarrow strip of beach. As it was, we found, two guillemots, two Arctic skua, and a few the tom of plate to the Inner posts are miles. as we approached It in the dinghey, that there At 2 p. m. we had steamed eighty-fivConstant Requests for Recipe Justify best made of 2 by 8'a doubled. Thla a too much surf to allow of our attempting 1L fulmars No and few Ice seen. been had was of Has One only That Reproduction all teats fot stands construction I had to content myself with rowing along the and within of kittiwakes and Been Printed Before. yacht. sight qame strength and permits of unobstructed 7:20 p. m. Log 148 miles. A northerly breeze within a few yards of the shore. Floating Ice room In the hay loft. sprung up, and the temperature v the later iv&a An excellent formula, for making stopped us In one dlrecUon and heavy stlhf In It2 rs hours had THZ IJTiT4AIJK hefn of glaucous gulls wete sit- HOTU? Ythe whitewash Is given below In response degrees two r 1 seen in one r earlier. had Razorbill above the' ting the same: only marf and gf pourse werd r to constant requests-fokittiwakes-9:1During my visits I never saw more than a dozen afternoon .and a few - fulmars an This has been published before, but very tame. Hundreds tf Brunhlch's guillemots wf these Interesting little birds. Their breeding-place- t and fulmars flew around us, and I saw one black p. m. Log 180 miles. Very clear weather.' as It Is constantly being asked for we are boulders on kmon? Jhe The 6un set at about Jl:15 p. m. The wind was thq most accesguillemotf probably U. mandtl. Not until I flref give ft again. sible parts of the shore, and an egg collector, who Take a half bushel of uuslaked lime, my gun had L any idea of the number of birds westerly, and as there waa a vefy heavy swell, Horses should be carefully handled has lived a great number of years at Akureyrl on the. cliff above me. Probably owing to the little sleep was. to be- - had. Bright sunshine slake It with boiling water, cover it (the principal port on the north coast of Iceland) cheered me. when 1 looked out In the early hours nature of the soil and the fact that the lava during the process to keep In steam, in cold, stormy weather. to Rowing, morning d.T.here was :jtlo Sign of strain the liquor through a fine sieve - In the ease of sheep. great; atten- boast ed JLo me. that, there ..were no, llitla auks ,IefJL.. slopes are lesa preclpitoua tan the granite cliffs breeding In Grlmsey, as he had taken every, egg.. where seafowl generally congregate, the ivuat ice, and evidently none had been seen, or I should and' add to it a peck of salt, pre- tion must be glven to details. to rheumatism are have heard of it. I knew that Jan Mayen could Fortunately, a few have escaped him. but the evidences of a great breeding resort were ' absent susceptible Hogs viously dissolved In warm water, not be far off. At 7: 13 a. m. I again looked out. --The glaciers arp not as fine there as lh three pints of ground rice boiled to a If allowed to Bleep iq Wet or jjamp birds have evidently enormously decreased since Spits the Island was visited by Ilantsch, the German and saw a dim outline of cliffs ahead, lost above thin paste and stirred in while hot. beds. ... . bergen, as they are covered with lava dust, and Get the brood sows out on the naturalist. in mist and cloud. Great numbers, of Brunnichs Add five gallons of hot water to the the wonderful blue Ice, which is so characteristic ' Snow lh and black their beautiful will soon as us buntings, the weather of that countfy is absent. Neither are the tops well few and stir guillemots, fulmars and a few., kittiwakes were ground let stand a mixture, white summer plumage, were the commonest-bir- ds - flying round, awure sign of the proximity of land. -of the mountains so jagged,, and I cannot agree days, covered as nearly alr-- t ight a J permit. sound the huts. Red nocked phalaropcs, from The thermometer on deck registered 45 degrees have colt shelter Let the with Scoresby that it reminded me in any way of possiMe. It can be colored by adding Fahrenheit and the log 290 miles. Gradually the As It was inadvisable to go down ochre, lampblack, ground keel or blu- storm, but let him have access to purple sandpipers, meadow pipits and ringed ploSpitsbergen. vers were very abundant. all nest ducks Fider beautiful also. to suit. west qmsture volcano, Ihe we returned by the southeast Beerenberg, coast, ing aboVe-t- h e :cloud, A w Mate up the teams Intended for round the dwelling houses, amFare so tame that ed -atU: 40.l:p2 m7 work in the spring atieast a few days the Islanders stroke them when sitting on their 'in mist, except jnst above sea level, where one As we steamed routid the South East cape, we IMPORTANCE OF FARM WOMEN ' eggs. .' could trace the dimoutllne of land. As we ap- before they are needed. could see the whole of this weird and wonderful The commonest of the cliff breeders are the Handle the brood sows so that .the stretched proached. a long, Island from end to end in cloudless sunshine. peninsula By Thtir Labors Poultry Industry Has young pigs will begin to grow from fulmars, puffins, kittiwakes. razorbills, and Brur-- . out to the southwest, and as 4he mist cleared off But for the surf, no one could have seen it un-dAssumed One of Greatest Places nich's guillemots, grey phalaropes. when tears, and opened up the 'high cliffs in front of us. time of their birth. the more perfect conditions,, and probably witb-ou- t In Farm Outputs. rd -a ro- - seetv we..:could sPe. that the tops were ..covered with The horses should i?e hitched .up.. ,;h)tJ5;& wa.gta U s ra ve ns --a the wind we. should have had Tog.. --Already it was creeping up to eastward of us, and at 5 p. m , vegetation, and snow lay only in patches in.the occasionally and put to some work, If in smaller nuqibers. About three hundred and fir MBS. A. M. Kr.l'PKH.) ten milwe N.NJ. Of Iceland and two hundred and A. for an hour or two. deep ravines. The whole Island Is apparently when we were well away from the island, we ran only "Farm women bald a peculiar and studded with craters, and the tops of the cliffs Success in the sheep business de- forty miles from the coast of Greenland, lies the into it. . After the fog we had an easterly gale important place in, the world. y They pends as much or more upon the form huge rugged basins: The cliffs are a curiisland of Jan Mayen. 1 had read about it In and dangerous sea, which obliged us to are creators of change wealth;, 'for by ous 1910of color. various vooks Arctic as Upon the sheep. ; shg travels, and In. rusty red (Fuggestive of ironl mixed. our course for a time. But f had seen-Ja- n their Ubors-th' poultry industry lias 1 should .blackLUavA .with to half on the .that a my jokingly the gested There is captain great tendency greaOy care what happened! assumed one of the .most important w as only the sight of them which frightened my of many to neglect the colts On like . to .g6 hererAS thecdhstTuctlbn of my part In Ust ; of the. places. the farm during the winter. yacht Is not adapted for encountering Ice., he captain, but. at all events, he believed his commillions of jxnmds of butter annually Colloquy of the Boobs. ; A pleasant, cheerful, fearless dispotreated my. suggestion even less seriously than-passes to be Affected, and was not enjoying himFirst Boob Mhacha do last summer? vouch for their unremitting toil; the had hoped, and for the time being 1 had to self as much as"! was Alopg the short was a In a road-is a Second Boob Morkedin .the lumbering and home garden, shelves 'heavy laden sitionor a valuable, quality line of broken ice. The temperature of the water agree. However. the thought that I had been general purpose horse. V" staving business.with filled fruit jars all those bear ster hours of that coveted goal lay at 9 a. m. was 41 degrees and at 10:50 a. m. 36 It is reported that great numbers of within twenty-siFirst Boob Yea? testimony to their thrift. 'Ske look-et- horses in at the "back of my second visit to Iceland the degrees. Aswe steamed along from South Cape Kurope have been successSecond Boob Yep. 'Well to the ways of her house-- , Lumbering down the street "to South Fast Cape we saw that Beerenberg,' following year, though I did not mention it until fully vaccinated against glanders. and staving off my creditors. Cornell Widow. hold.? which at first' appeared part of the cliffs in front It ds 'a fact that there Is more dan- 1 saw what the weather was like at Grlmsey. 1 I... of irrovidingmyselfi.th.ihe of us, was separated from them by a low stretch x ger from & spreadfcl : glanders in this f A Long Route. ' : Care of Colt's Feet. of land, one mile and a half wide, and apparently country than. moat people are aware Austrian chart of Jan Mayen, which 1 knew- my ; tWiHis How do you suppose-Jacoif ihe colt In proper of happened' Keep little above sea level,' Had there been no surf,' ' to see that captain would consider unnee'essarjY;. Ow ing to v ladder up to Heaven In his I stretching use the of some bad had to by time shape it looked an easy place to land, but underthe wait at Akurevri They 1 Sheep are such sensitive creatures , . ; dream? t should be leveled at least as often as that 1 little to Grim-sev- , circumstances it was impossible. By the time In care and feed (North Iceland ) before I could things Gilis He had probably all once a month. Their, feet should be make for success of failure no matter spent afternoon go . we reached this isthmus the- - whole island was and duping this time a naval lieutenant, who ing up to his seau ZZZ In the stand at cleaned frequently--withad been with the a foot' pick. what the Jbreed Mikkelsen expedition clear, except for a' few fleecy cloudy, over the some football game! Puck. When tid y become packed with filth southern CndT. Leaving the isthmus behind us. Corn breeders claim that It is pos- to, Greenland, came to Call upon rhl Unfortunate In the creylces between the frog and sible do double their we passed, the remarkable, crater. crops bv Im- ly,. I was not:on board, and he intenfiewed the .Egg Riuff. 'soles they are pretty sure to become Unemotional. T believe, an island, .but' now apparently-connectecaptain instead. He told hfm that ice had been once, Is not methods. for it, proved I don't believe possible ' Gridleyi has. a single red coraffected with thrush. with the shore. One. side of It has us to double our .pig crop without seen off Grlmsey. .four days before our arrival, in puscle, his veins.'''" of. course, scorned the idea of our going to and,' been worn away by the sea- It is 603 feet high, keeping more sows? "What makes ypu think so? ? ul. Jan Maven. The pNspect'did not and from its inner wall steam Is said fo be alLength of Farm Days. Tie can sit througha football Professor Boss of the Minnesota ... Plain that ways rising.-, Pten for Future. once raising ... his voice "above, a It was the, warmest day w e had had since leav- round a college, sayS thgt ataUstica Wlien planting trees on the lawn tone. soon as we met with it As we had perpetual of the actual hours of labor on the Is well to consider the lug England, and I spent the whole morning on and future 'farm invesUgated show that farm- not plant trees too close da? this suggestion 'fmind favor. the bridge without, a coat Shortly after went passing together overtlsK ; . Hopeful Sign. ers work ninjS hours a day In the Then there will be where the ,0 Inhabitants onlr'cooGrimsey. Bluff, we steamed under; Beerenberg, which, .Egg of Dress Sergeant (after loppingsummer and hetween tour and five In off limbs or firnied whal had worrying on new Brown, the and s this heard, cloudlesa expected glorious, 'V having sh&da so dense dazzling in for two hours F Right about,-fac-ra should meet Ue winter. J about ice with rrnjt, northmiles Its whiteness. At noon forty snpwy the thermometer that grass won't grew. own Thank I'm goodness, about oTjthe island, tv ts.ru on,July,?9th we weighed right registered 40 degrees, the temperature of, the wa- at last V well-know- KOur-poun- n J L1 that-whe- V 1 evlt . n - iffc I I V - -- . h . BI1 'N - a . .... hi ' rsr' ,cs . as-oa- have-been- . - puf-fln- e i ' aZ other.-Iiumbe- e9v high-wate- - xjs Notes of-lh- -- i I -- -- snow-covere- d was-slvre- ud elo - : low-lyin- g er nd-othe- r-hi s- . , care-take- - e -- . farm-outp- uts I ' - ' x h j0k - - . the-fee- t - . : ! . go-o- . ver in-ro- h : -- . - -- seem-hopef- , . , no-nee- d - day-wa- - V 'I some-thing- Tit-Bit- V i . . A |