Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1915 — Baby Chicks [ARTICLE]

Baby Chicks

The baby chick Business seems-to be crowding out the setting egg ordders to a large extent A great many people prefer to pay for the chicks rather than buy the eggs and take a chance on incubating them. Probably the number of chicks hatched in a season is considerably Increased by this arrangement as the large hatcheries can get better results than shipping the same eggs to fifty or a hundred small incubators to be hatched. At any rate the purchaser is sure of getting the number of chicks that ho wants.

Those familiar with the eastern mistletoe only have no idea of the great losses due to this pyasite In the forests of the west, where it counts next to fire and insects In the amount of damage-done. At least 25 per cent of the larch timber over large areas in eastern Oregon has been killed or weakened by mistletoe, and the forest service is taking steps to combat the pest It Is estimated that the govern* meat's Grand Canyon game refuge, in Arizona, now contains about ten thou-