OCR Text |
Show POULTRY-HOU- PLAN SE WITH SCRATCHING PEN a Hill to Avoid Standing 'Water Daring the Rainy Seasons ' Best Located on the Side of 7 By John Sorham. This is s poultry bouse which I think will stand the test of all climates I think It well adapted to the cold climate of Alaska, or the hot climate of Australia, as well as all temperate regions, writes John Sorham In the Poultry Tribune, itds-- beBt to flrst select a Btdi on which to build, so that the water will not be standing around or under the house during rainy seasons. I hare mine built on level ground, but shall remodel it soon, digging away about 12 IncheB of ground from under the house and replacing It with coarse sand. I shall also dig a trench around and close to it, two feet deep. t!t- - Poultry- In the novel of "Ivanhoe, Isaac the Jew tells the knight that he knows it is the custom Christians to put on Pilgrims garb and to walk I barefooted for - miles- - to worship dead mens bones. There Is something of a sneer lp Isaacs tone and Ivanhoe rebukes him with a truly heroic, Blasphemer, cease! I dont know how many thousands of Americans go to Mount Vernon to pay a visit yearly to the repository of a dead mans bones, but the number Is something enormous. If George Washington never had lived at Mount Vernop, never had visited there, never had died there, and bad been buried in the antipodes there would be excuse for the visits to the place of enough seventy times seven- -the number of the pilgrims who go yearly down the Potomac to stand on the towering hill and to look ofT down -l -- valley. - v . rfi , sctlon Through the paper ia prepared roofing. The floor is double, with a two-incdead air space, which contains word SentlmentaL" Tht llso a layer of building paper; toe Wonder was, and the pool lumber U good or tongued and bt was responsible for its remain grooved lumber.shtplap There is an opening wonder, If the father of bli country bad not In his quiet hour? been reading A Sentimental Jour the gentle Martha had MAKING GATE : ney" ,.i peeped into the pages and had re proved George because of what ab aw there one can Imagine his ready answer that the book was written bj k holy priest of her own chosen Plea tor Making Opening that Can Be Vnrted to Any - church. ' Size to Salt By The man with the megaphone ox1 H, H, Bryant. . the Washington rubberneck"' wag ens tells his audience of passengers In making a gate n a wire fence, they roll by the Metropolitan clut j U house: "This Is the club of the nobs. tme 6x6e for the gate posts and 4x4's la another minute, as the big sight tor the rest of the posts In the fence. seing bus passes another clubhouss The brace shown at A should bp a the megaphone man says: "And toll 4x4, and should be s placed ia the club of toe cranks." of toe height from .the ground on the "The club of the cranks, as this in d of the distunnatlon bowler calls it, Is toe Coe gate post and tance on toe second from the ground P10 a and most or club, Interesting faniution it is. Its membership la com post At B is shown, a brace made PMd of scientists, some physician! of wire which should be placed around and clergymen, n few lawyers not the bottom of the first post, and nailed three two or newspaper mea. The sclsnUsts srt so that It will not slide. The other end Is placed near the top of second - , to the great majority. By placing a post from the gate. It costs s pretty penny to join the Metropolitan stick in toe two strands they can be club and to pay the dues and to live the Ufe oi toe organisation The initiation fee at the Cosmo club Is rather Imall, and the dues are light, bul there are score, of members of the Metropolitan club, the club sf the nobs," who willingly would pay twice or thrice the Metropolitan's Initiation fee and the Metropolitans dues if toe expenditort could gain thein admission to the club where tot cranks foregai ter. Cutting Osteen Wire Panes. t h 016 Ornate the voyage down the Potomac. There are other objects every paddle-:- . tor on either aide are hills of rarethe hill. beauty -- crowned with trees that saw the and that In the faU are wear- ing the raiment which belongs to the kings of the forest On the boat going down there was INWIREFENCE n German Kentleman. who had 7.T5 an American wife. He waa ucb ,DterMted la the beauty of the Potomacs banks and In the history of the country banks and in the life beyond the George Warrington than history w. The German asked his American .he. wife George Washington was born Mount, Vernon. She answered WM which he wasnt not that a. any asked her 7 other questions, to each and one of which, but with unerring made answers. This was ,ccurscy, she a T! T whUe she was doing ws. rhapsodising on wnKt her the Rhlf. " an"? husbn1 ,Utmoblle r listen to his telling of hi. Ameriian trip .nd n the enthusiasm of the nature , manifest on the Potomac h wilMeft fw. iorlc truth. concerning GeTrie WanZ which he learned from his American w It may be that some of the Germans know something of the life of the American gen? eral who was tbs friend and fellow Steuben win come to think, as some XTeriLn. have oome to think before this, tost s American history might be included ln toe court ot study of the average American and that not a dollar should be spent on girl, her passage money to Europe until she knows without sto to think whether1 It was George u'Abbim L1"'ln .whc croed the Delaware, Mmethlng later, forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. This may seem to be a matter that Is beside the mark, but, while the listener had none too thorough a knowledge of American history, there were some said on the boat plying down the Potomac1things that Se i r two-third- one-thir- H-- 2f JtSSJJXS. u t, b, a,, ia ought to hart brought -- boy M him a flogging. Mount Vernon has'' been written about by pretty nearly everybody who has seen the place. It hasn't fallen to the lot of everybody to see It in the fall. It is a noble place, a fitting resting , , ground for tha first American. It seldom falls to mans lot to see such heroic trees. There is a giant oak which stands root Inal over burial place of Washing- st the-fir- three-pl- y t eJfTttuVernon rev-optio- Interior. tbo game way, excepting jovered with T .3 ton. ' The bodv was - . 7e" whir.l,,u1L!,h,lt W,hlD8ton selected the place d !eft Instructions DtW 1,e one Chnw of Plcl should be maJ. Tht7. Sui wbIch uaed the first grave for thre centuries, The vtow ,place U lPlring enough to rokindle dead The view from toe new wr. but it Is as noth- Ing r,?P ot rlTer- - bill tops and for-ests whfrh the ey" tr the place wnere Washington slept for 30 years. Hundred, of visitor, go to Mount Vernon tb tomb and - then IShtw.V I hou- e t of T0rgf tUcb My of toe betonrfngi but Jt aeems to be a legitimate reyre that of the thousands who Mount ,ntreat the ror wbic? Wuhinetl if!! WheB he ,hTd and In toe spoon ,f be ate Pridgeto farSeJtw hl,lnP?rridw fore8t tree, under which he wZvZ and the garden , whose hedaea nf CUt Were pIaBtd w,th his own hud Indoor, at Mount Vernon everything outdoor, everything is garden are InsUnct with Washington forest tpntA 0f ftia b0ns r dust. There yeal Ihtereat, however, library of toe old home. i the main toe ia toe books are simply copies of those which were on the shelves In Washington's time. The original as I understand It, are in country; There .re two SglnaST however tItIe Pa o tost If toe lTehtrZ S onBt read Washingtons name miy ,B,d written his own band and toe title of toe book ?Vf Eve7 Monda Cosmos club night Is called social night nl Of course the clubhouse Is open at ell times, bat in Monday evening the members make e special lort to be present and there it always a large tbering la the great, sweeping toe where once Uved Dolly Madi- - mlr-P,D- g 4 They dont 1e ide shop upon you ln tbs Cosmos club. Thi members are a genial body of n,en aPd tbey ha many guests from all of the orId- - Thr id out what too guest part likes tc talk about and tb some one who knows tbe sub: lect I promptly in oduced to him. There are few Wr,d SUWeCU n which you cannot get an Cosmos club. If Par their bobbles corner of a room there aa be wijl astronomical group, and thers will be another corner wltl a fish group and another corner with a bird grotp and, another corner with. It may be, a mushroom group, it Isn't all science, however, ia toe Cosmos club. . The member play billiard, and pool. ad bridge, andthey have a flni time of It generally and at no great expense foi It Is obe of the hard facts of earth that men do-htT ttle money. Learning IoUd bring high pay in the market. - course, , , o one . I Ing Pen, take out the Utter and when it rain the fowli all go under, the house fop shelter, r have two windows in every pen (above the floor, of course), and when but one pen is built, I also have two windows (one on each side), on the sides. The windows should all be hinged at the top, so as to admit fresh atr alt ov&rtoebousewhenneeded. and there should also be a shutter fop every window, to be shut on winter nights. These shutters should be made of tongued and grooved lumber and hinged with loose pin steed butts so they tuay be taken off tn warm weather and put out cf too way. I always like to bare plenty ot light and sunshine in the cold whs- ter days, but you know toe more windows in the poultry bouse the colder it Is at night, tout you see here la where your shutters come handy. There la also another point ln tola house which should not be overlooked, that is, toe covered roosts. , A binged hood projects over the roosts which keeps toe fowls combs from frees-In-g in severe cold weather. This hood is fastened with loose pin binges Ilka the shutters and may be taken off is the Spring. . The hoods are also supplied with hooks and may be booked up ln day time if desired. The roosts (C) are above the nests, between which there I a large dropping board. wfeldLalm whew w way (D) for bens to enter the nests. This passageway Is open at both ends. You will notice that in my plan have only ode entrance, this is in 'the( middle pen, while toe other pens have a small door for the hens to pass ia and out If you Uke you may have a door Into each pen from single door at the end of the building. I -- , -- , , ; Corn and Perk. who has a number. iff. SL spring pigs ready for toe fattening pens should devote a Utile time to the study of feeds and their influence on the quality of meat produced. When it is desired to produce pork, or rather el une kind of feed 'is When the desire is to hare necessary,. lard for toe market, no other kind of bogs feed should be used. Corn is a feed, and when the feeder wishes to produce an animal with a great deal of fat to supply the lard trade nothing Is better than corn. When the is to produce animals for meat alone nothing Can be a poorer feed than corn. . . .. The Influence of com on toe per. centage of fat should be borne in mind and toe ration mixed to accomplish the best results. Tblrmer -- -- de-si- re Manure Currants. Were you dissatisfied with toe sit of your currants T Let us n secret. You can improve whisper toe fruit greatly bfr heavy manuring Now is a good time to apply It The wood Is rip and is going Into it long rest. You may pile straw manure about the bushes so heavily that the grass and weeds, If any, will be amothered, and all the better for tbe currants. This twisted and brought taut The sec- fruit needs mulching enough to keep ' ond brace shown at E should be made toe surface cool. o'ut'Of 4x4 Jastened to the top of the Need of Cream Separators, second post from the gate and secured at the bottom of the third post The With average cows and using too gate frame shown at H, C and F should cream separator it Is estimated that be made out ot 3x3 well put together. from f 50 to $75 per year can be aaved Stretch the fence wire across the ln bntterfat with ten cows. This gate, and cut after stapling firmly to amount will about pay for s good the frame of the gate. Of course, this cream separator, and ttkjasefulnesa-wllast for many years, making toe plan can be varied to any size of lehgtb to suit the builder. buying of one a good investment. Beg ing able to sell tbe cream without hauling the milk to the creamery also Spraying Fruit Tress. Dont spray only the trees from saves much time and labor. which you expect to get marketable froft.'- - fipray" ail the trees. otherwise Value of Potato the trees you go to the trouble. to . On account of the starch they conspray early ln the season may become tain, potatoes, are valuable aa food. trees. Infected later by tbe unsprayed The potato tuber consists mainly of a mass of cells filled with starch and Money in Sheep. encircled by, a thin, corky rind. As gome men haVe cleared 100 per stated, the chief value of the potato cent, on their money In sheep" for as an article of diet consists in toe these are the real shep- starch it contains, and to a less years;-b- ut in toe potash and other salts. herds. Not every man has toe shep- herd instinct; but we may all do bet- The quantity of nitrogen in Its comter than we do. , position ia small. i ex-te- nt - , is 8ub-8eratc- -- It is with an utter shame It Is confessed that after four ' that residence in Washington one years man American born and with some lurk-ta- g pride, of patriotism In his makeup never until recently went to the pUce where the father of his country and the exponent of the American cbo! teacher Ideal of truth lies curled. which the hens may pass up and down. The step (B) is hinged at the back, with a hook ha front so it can be hooked up, con pletely covering the opening in the floors; each pea is arranged this way. The floor is built two feet from the grou nchandthehensaretedin this-und- er basestory in winter. On-thment floor there should be at least six Inches of scratching material t keep the fowls busy. This scratching shed under the building is closed up on all sides excepting the front. Each pen la 8x24 teet, making 192 square feet of floor space in which can bs kept a flock of 60 hens.' In summer X with one foot wide, and shall fill in one foot of loosestones,coverlng"with one foot of ground. Tile would be much better than stones to keep the ground dry around the house. The house which I have planned Is 8 feet wide, 26 feet In length, consisting of three pens (although it can be divided Into any number of pens) each pen being 8xH feet. The bouse" Is 8 feet high in front and 6 feet at the back, and Is built with a cheap grade of lumber which is not painted, but a layer ot building paper Is tacked on, over which Is placed a two-plroofing material. The roof ls covered ASHINGTON. the House in the floor through t t - i |