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Show DIRECTIONS FOR ERECTING CONCRETE MILK CELLAR 4 Economtcally Constructed Affair that Is Useful on Any Farm as a Cooling or Storage Room By A. B. Houghton. THIS season of the year hardly "Ttrain leave any of the railroad a ata-tlon- s of a great city but what It beara half a doaen entbualagtic sportsmen In aearcb of the thrllla to be found only In the wood of the far north and northweat. Thousand of dollar are the purpose of securing a chance to for pent hoot an antleerd buck aa he roam over his native heath. Preparation for these trip are made tong in advance. A an old friend said one time about fox bunting, Half the fun Jn the sport la getting ready, hacking to the meefand the long ride home with plenty of good tobacco. So are the dayi spent on the trail, getting into the big game country, nearly always from 0 to 200 mile from' the end of the railroad. A Concrete Milk Cellar, On every farm there la a demand use care to Cut out the else of each tor a good outside cellar which can be step-i- n the erath; in heavy soil this easily and cheaply built of concrete. can easily be done. Tben all you have This can be used for a variety of pur- to do la cover the same to Ihe proper cellar, depth with concrete "to comlpte.' ; ' poses, such as a For tbe Inside arrangements you for the. storing of roots and vegetables aa well as any other use the can easily build the bins, needs demand. troughs or whatever Is desired by The cellar shown In the Illustration using the side walls as part of ths la of a handy size eight by 12 foot same and then constructing one aide floor apace and six feet to the bottom and end of a core of the slxe desired of concrete roof beams, which are for the Inside of bln; also another side and end for outside about four eight by eight Inches. The walls are eight Inches thick inches larger. These are used to mold the walla of and the floor and roof four Inches, the rpof being reinforced with quarter-inc- h the bln and as the fresh concrete will iron rods laid two to the foot bond with the side walla the whole should be as strong as if molded toeach way. After excavating to a depth of about gether. Where water or Ice Is to be 'used In five and one-hafeet, build a form of h boards, ten Inches wide, that the cooling tank It will be necessary Is exactly eight by twelve feet square to paint the Inside with a mixture of clear cement mixed In water. Apply and six feet eight inchea high. Set this in tbe excavation, the edge this with a paint brush just as you would paint and use several coats, of the earth to be the mold for Thla will give a much smoother sur-wall on three sides to the top of the ground level. Above the ground face to the inside of the trough or bln level build the form ot boards for and also if water Is placed in the molding the outside edge of wall, same it will not permeate the cement space for concrete to be eight Inches. so readily aa it would otherwise. For the front, or doorway, make a form three by six feet aa a casing to mold the doorway and set In place. ENGLISH GAME Board up where needed outside this COCK PLUCKY casing, which Is eight inches thick, and boards may be nailed to same for outside wall. For the side walls of the stairway So Variety of Chicken Approach s It for Constitutional Vigor build forms as for the regular side and Strong Frame By . walls and of a length of eight feet: H. W. Krnckeberg. If you want a small landing at the foot' of the stairway, the aide walls may be eight inches thick, but If deThe attempt to have the old Engsired to make as cheaply as possible lish games put Into the standard haa they may be built alx Inches thick. again called public attention to the Tbs forms for this should be the oldest class comprising several varieas shown ties known to the poultry fancier. As height of doorway In Illustration, and then slope down- all experienced breeder know, game ward IS Inches, If ths ground permits. blood la more or less prevalent In all In As soon as aids wall forms are now known chiefly breeds tbe popular place fill with ths concrete mixture, to economic and fancy poultry culture which la best made of one part Port- in both England and America. Owing land cement to two parts of fine sand to' the fact that these birds have been and four parts of coarse gravel. This extensively bred for sporting purIs tamped In thoroughly up Co the poses, more attention has been given top ot the forma. After making camp In the open along the, Yellowstone to fighting quality than to color of Before the forms are entirely filled plumage and other sections now so river on one of these nights, supper being over, and on tbe aides make three boxes eight much in vogue among tlje laying and Thompson, our guide, tarting one of his Indian tales with Inches square on the Inside and eight table sorta. It was thla defect that Gen. Miles. and himself aa the heroes, two cow punchers feet long. These are to hold the con- barred the English games rom recogrode up wlth a pack horse and asked If we objected to crete. Place three feet apart, as nition at the last meeting of the thew- - hvaktug campwilli saying sesezal.oUien.-wer-cotning s shownjn Illustration, ao the top edge-i- American" Poultry Association from later with some cattle. Several others did coma even with topedge dr"sTdewallB.' standard recognition: and with them 6,000 head of cattle, bo we slept with the Foireonatttu- 1 A Quick Brace up from below to hold In herd surrounding ua on all sides; some grazing, while other would stand over one and look at the fire, while the place and fill with concrete and reinsforce with 34 Inch Iron rods. This were cowboys icontinually riding around the herd to keep enables the beams to bond with tbe tab op .the straggler. side walls and so make them stronger. . By breakfast ttiuq all were gone and our party was no good opinion of anything, and especially also ln lhe auddle hy slx oclock making for, the. game For the roof build four forms 31 hlmof a bad who IB good opinion of anyone inches-wide country.1 Tiyelgh feet long, place his beard of -After three more days of traveling we made camp near Ik " TlgUor till he called and he was a poor with top ledg.lt four spaces between the foot of saddle mountain, on Bannock lake and about but he was an beams In the names, at hand remembering 15 miles from the national park line, a line at The beams and brace up from below to fVe followed them for three cf&y-. expert in human meaaureroents. tlmea Quite hard to discover,' as It may run from to say hold In place. promptly proceeded young lawyer the top of .one mountain to a bronze plate In a about 'two Inches of Over this f lay watchbut "7 wbat he had to say. the squire listening, rock some xtx or eight miles away. concrete and then place your reinforcto was him for time it he thought made the drain hard to manage and keep In line; lng. Presently After resting a day In camp we started for one ing rodsln position and cover with tried to buck the elk head oft pony say something. concrete until the reof la tberequired the hunting ground with Thompson and had that was especially he began. .Hold on, Mr. McClpher." packed on him. He did manageto get " four Inches thick. cor gone only a couple of miles when we came to It twisted around so the prongs of th antlers the stiffly la lawyer name McNaught," My some frebh elk tracks, which we followed cauIt is best to leave the side wall In stuck him the side, and such 'capers as he cut rected him. we could see in place, also the roof-beafor. until far forma gome time, tiously then I have pever seen. besldes delaying the out"Excuse me, excuse me, apologized the squire iielow us in a park (a small clearing with lung forms, untU the concrete on the walls fit for nearly an hour.' The divide had to be and finished hit rerrjarks grass, on which elk are fond of feeding),' a small crossed by daylight, but. on reaching it, a dense It Was not long until the squire again felt called and roof haa begun to set or harden. band of elk, three bulls and alxeowg. Getting rfog settled over the whole This will require several day beto apeak. added which, upon country,, English Gams Cock. in. he wlthlnJrauge noiselessly was no easy matter, owstarted fore the permanent set Is sure to have Mr. McZero," to the snow, made It Impossible to see more than now, "Well, recondition Inbe to must of the but the after Then forests, was the dry name In they taken place. ing 10 feet lawyer McNaught, front of one,, Thompson, as usual, led I said my tlonal vigor, strong frame and pugnac-lty- , an exciting crawl on hands ami knees, we found the train, and aftergoing on the harrow ridge terrupted sharply moved ao the cellar can be completed. there is no variety of chicken J ourselves within about a hundred yards and unAfter forma are removed from the which approaches the game and for . that formed the divide, stopped to call and see it Again the squire apologized, apologized proseen by the elk. I picked my bujl and took a all were following, when there was a great scramfusely, and the lawyer concluded his consultation. side walls lay your floor in cellar and this reason an infusion of game blood shot for the near shoulder, while my guide shot bling and crashing of branches ami one of the He was not feeling very, kindly toward the squire, also in landing, aa Illustration shows, la, In the opinion ot many, a deslrablf the next largest; both nulls dropped, but mine-w- as horses disappeared over the precipice, which was 7 but he thought It wise mot to manifest his feel- - to a depth of four Inches. It desired, quantity. Its prevalence is more proup an off again immediately, following In the anywhere from 600 to a thousand feet dbep on Inga and said goodby with a fair degree of po- the bottom of the floor may be of nounced In the Red Dorkings, Brown ' as a best he could with broken rear of the herd ' either side and only about 30 feet on top. After liteness. smkll stones of about two or three Leghorn and breeds of like charactershoulder and a bullet In bis lungs He was going counting noses we found he was an unruly fellow Goodby, Mr. McNothlng," said. the qulre as In inches In. size, snd over this a con- istics. The chief kinds are the Brown f slowly an-- i easy to follow snd another shot some that we had not been able to pack, but was folnocent as a lamb, and as the visitor walked pom crete mixture poured and leveled off. and Reds, Silver Duck- - r bee yard further on, in very dense timber, ended lowing the others all right until he started to do pously out of the office the squire chuckled. is taken that the concrete wing and Pile, all ef which are hand-- fv care lf his roving i career. The remainder of that day a little reconnoUenng onrtls pun' account. UnIs tamped dw'a between the stone some and In the estlmatIonof the ws spent In skinning and cuttings up the meat doubtedly be was dead long beforc-b- e reached PINEAPPLE AS .A CUflATIVE and that the top course of mortar IS man with sporting blobd In his veins, j and hanging It high above the grounds out of the bottom of the precipice, sir we felt oar way Inches thick at least, the prime favorites because plucky been known that thq pineapple Is about 1 haa It long Teach of plow ling animals at night. For dinner along very cautiously and anxiously until sudone of the healthiest of fruits, but Us real medici- floor will be as strong as' If of solid possessed of great endurance. that evening we had elk's liver and steak and denly the cloud we wefe in lifted, when the gonal qualities probably have never been realized. In concrete. ' quite a celebration over our early'suecess. Pack V- ing was moderately fair until we made camp for Cob-Pip- e This can also be applied to the Itawail experiments have been made to determine Corn: AaxJttie.nmiL. hides and heads back to camp the night, all very thankful that we bad not been found has It of these alx even atones of inchea properties. small something walls, In the Missouri river bottoms a vathe next day and kepFTBe Uire?"6F ua encountered more serTousTTsaTterr "that' "thefruirST TttrtfflmaTPlB corrtshtsw--d Igeqttve IB" dtametep-ea- ahe-- Instertad-l- a the riety of ra-hw a- - as- p! pe busy. Ua action, mortar when forms are filled and thus corn Is Later, several short excursions were made principle closely resembling pepsin in for Althat grown purpose. As my companions from the east shot a fine from the ranchhouse, on pne of whkh I shot ' and to this Is probably due the beneficial results save the amount of cement used, and though the yield from the grain of bull several' days later on, we took a rest from a good blacktaU deer, and another time a young of the use of the fruit in certain forms of dyspep-- ' tot this class of work the strength is this corn la of less than that variety hunting and devoted soliKt'YIme to fishing. Trout bull elk, with only spikes. The blacktaU was sia. On the casein lof milk pineapple juice acta ample for alf, need and (ha expense of the other improved varieties, ths rose well, so all were satisfied slid on feturnlng. standing In the sqow' with three does, sheltered aa a digestive in almost the same manner as ren- of building Is materially lessened "Hfet returns from the corn and the a. X or Is well Illustrated placalso action. scrub ,plne ar() h had by net; and the :ip For the steps of the stairs set an cobs exceed that of the other varle-- from my pony at a coyote that was galjoptng . heat. hef seen me first, tor 1 was then at UactKyTTbg ITTEBr pUv.-yegafw o "ejght4Bch-board,uprtgh- U Unches oiitjjtleg by four or five dollars pen acre. across the blow ot the hill. It always seemed to . (be does running off. I took A quick shot and the slices of fresh pineapple, where in tbe course of a from the doorway and brace in post Missouri producei"anftuaity about 1 me to 'Lave been more good lurk, than good buck made a tremendous leap of at least 30 feet, Is completely changed. few hour Its character Fill the space with concrete to 25,000,000 cob pipes, the yield from tion. are little for these things always marksmanship, but it was his last,as my' first soft nosed bullet In diphtheritic sore throat and croup pineapple a width" of 15 inches and a depth of one sere, alone being estimated at hard to hit. but hi skin now lies over tbe back bad mushroomed considerably on go ng through Juice has come to be very largely relied upon. In eight inches. , 7 from two to three thousand , cobs, of s chair before my fireplace. false The Common. Is f the shoulder and completely torn his lungs away. countries where the fruit If you have not cut out the stairway These cobs are sold at 62.50 par of cause .the the throat which After bunting without any luck for perhaps closing membranes The spike elk was much harder to kill, or our In the earth aa shown In 'the Illustra- sand. a week, we finally came on soma rather flesh seem to be dissolved by the fruit acids and relief , 4 tion, the step need he but four inches o having Pur ' Is almost Immediate. beep tracks and decided Immediately to go after - Gluten Feed.- in thicknesa '. f .7 crss valley and up the sldqpof a mourn rfn them. It was quite the hardest climbing and Gluten feed, fed with corn sfiag As fast, as one step Is molded move -hunting" I ever did without any success, but we tain to head him off. At any rate It took four Concrete Building In China. use or 12 board placing' another, good the hay and other feeds that followed them for three days and at times must of my guides buland three of my The construction ot bouses and walls of con- inches farther froto the door. This easily raised on the American eati t 1 iarr have been wlihin a couple ot hundred yards of let to bring him down. was lhatltuted centuries several Every ball had hit him, crete In China will give the steps a wldth of 12 inch- makes a ration that most feeders as common In and .hem, although we never had a shot. extensive is and peculiarly ago, but none es and a rise of eight inches until the familiar with and by the ua of whir' spot until the last Swatow, where It originated in the building of a top lsresched. Menacing clouds had been gathering for some result can be attained .that are gra: hen Sage and shooting rabbits Jack coursing absence of any chapel by a. French priest The 'lays, with title snow' flurries, and Thompson said with a work of building the step can tying to one who is feeding for elthx The greyhound and a collie dog offer good brick structures or walls gives ample proof of the be made easier if In excavating you largej-ecords- . t good deal about getting back to the ranch, pleasure or profits. Mch was a two ef the concrete sport for the hunter in this trip, and aa he said if we : mllk-coolln- g mllk-coolln- g lf one-inc- at-to- -- u, -- fJlTboh Shot edge-even-wlt- h-io ' -- ' Black-breaste- d J anJt con-auwe- d ne tbe-cofe-- thol 1 's 30-3- 0 1 7 , days country. stability |
