Show 11 ff aa HANDY CHICKEN FEED TROUGH where one thinks hopper best beat to keep before fowls all time good plan Is given i one of he greatest needs in a li lien hen en house Is a dry clean trough for feeding shell grit bran or the dry ration the man who has a ceilea house can try my method and ill guarantee he will like it writes mrs airs M L dean in the northwest farmstead cut trough for chickens through the ceiling board between the studding and take out the board put two small hinges on it replace and fix a button to hold it in place next cut a slit about two inches wide and nearly to the studding on oil both sides about a fool booi above the floor insert a trough running back and slanting to the outside clapboards allow the front edge of the trough to come a little above the opening in the wall so the feed will not overrun with a coal scuttle tile the trough may be easily filled and the hens cannot waste or get on top of the trough and foul it I 1 have three in my house tor for grit oliell and bran during the winter where one feeds grains and thinks it best to keep a hopper before the fowls all all the time this plan will be liked as it takes up no room whatever it ones house bouse Is not celled the boxes may be put on the outside of the troughs running through the tops of the baxes should slant so BO the rain will run off these of course will hav 16 ba felled from e W with ith alii this plant the teed feed drops down as fast as the hens remove it from the troughs INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS EXCEL Come sometimes times called egg machines ano ana also afford additional value by their feathers Although the indian runners are sometimes called egg machines we find they are of additional value toi for feathers by picking them at boulting moul ting time thus saving the feathers and also preventing them from being scat over their lots or run says a writer in an exchange while they are great foragers for agers in search barch of food they never tall fall to re turn home at night taking everything into consideration there is certainly no other fowl I 1 indman indian runner ducks that affords greater profit for the time and expense required than the indian runner duck and they arp are oot alono alone an all round practical fowl but ornamental as well their alert lively nature their graceful form beautiful colors and interesting habits appeal to the artistic sense of every one SOME SYSTEM IS NECESSARY poultry men should kep keep books same as in any fiher line of busl business ness it stops leaks poultry keeping is a business and should be conducted along business lines some system ot of iLe accounting counting is necessary the should keep records of 0 all the income and expenses of his business in order to know whether it is a paying proposition or not it it does not pay he should know it and either stop atop the leak or go out of business an elaborate cla borato system of bookkeeping Is not necessary if the wishes to avoid keeping full accounts hi he can at least keep a cash account this does not express the exact finan bial condition of the business busl nes but Is i IE A excellent help so far at al it t goes BEST FOOD AND BEVERAGES proper selection meana mean health anil and beauty to the woman who Is sensible since the miln main ot of all eating Is or rather should bethe be the obtain obtaining ng of nourishment that w will III build belld UP P the th blood the muscles tho 00 issues and the nerves comans womans wo mans road devotion to foods and liquids that possibly afford her body ont Is passing strange she la is so indifferent perhaps the reason to the nutritive alue V ot of her food Is because she imagine that lat her er appetite is given her that she may please her palate by swallowing tool fool ish and indigestible things if this ls is the state of affairs she bho willot will ot course when she reads this aril article Cle taboo tor for the future that taste deU clous but do nothing else worth and will pin her faith to to the foods that will steadily bulic up ajer system until her rc rosy sy lips pink and wite white skin and delicately roundel for m are te lad mi ration 0 bithos oi thos ear td her ripe fruits eat batel morning with crisp rolls an aej u up by a dish of oatmeal cooked flooded with rich q ci covered with powdered iou euga u iga ga br breakfast fit for a queen I 1 steamed rice horn hor 4 r barley served tor for luncheon 0 n w wl h cream are ideal it if this to Is no nol ugh for a ravenous appetite toll fell fillol u up with a baked apple or orT cAp oi a at e I 1 u tard soups broths booths fruits and bah also are desirable for luncheon as are baked potatoes now new peas and abol delicately broiled lamb chops what for dinner wily why a porterhouse steak flecked with daba dab of butter floating in its own rich juices and seasoned eca well with salt and popper pepper Is excellent excelle nL both for the stomach and the comp complexion lexion with this goes creamed poth potatoes toes fres freshly lily picked vegetables a lettuce salad and a erelt dessert last but not least the would be beauty should patronize malted milk as it will bring back iba 1 energy and flood bood the cheeks with rimson jc |