South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 139, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 19 May 1917 — Page 7

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INTELLIGENT CARE NECESSARY FOR THE SETTING OF HEN AND RUNNING INCUBATOR

n a. n. smith. Author ;ind practical I'oultryman. The Kitting hen is still a LU factor In poultry culture. Most people v. ho keep h -ns make ue of her more or ks. She is a cheap and very !!icU-nt hatching machine for thousands who have not enough Lu.ines to warrant the use of the artificial method. YVhun comparatively few chicks are needed to repleni.-h the flock, and on many farms where time and help are lacking, the sitting hen thould be carefully studied and used to the ht-st advantage. The "termagant" should he skipped. The true mother spirit is of great Importance with hens as with folks. Foine broody hens are rough In their ways. They seem to have no retard for the safety of either eggs or chickens. uch hens are likely to break the eggs on which you place them, and if they succeed in hatchIn? any chicks, they, are likely to crush them to death with their bodies, trample them to death, or kill them outright by Firiking them with their beaks. The fitness of the hen for motherhood must be Judged by signs. The gentle, but firm and faithful bird, is the one to select. Fhe should be in perfect health and of Kood size, fc'he has a large task before her. It will not pay to waste time and patience on a small, sickly, high tempered bird. There are plenty of them. There are also plenty of the better kind. If you haven't the right kind, seek her among your neighbors. Many people are glad to sell a sitting hen. or 'loan" her. Poultrymen are everywhere disposed to accommodate one another. A hen that is really a successful mother is as profitable for hatching and brooding purposes as her 200-cgg ister for commercial egg production. Such a kind, and tender and faithful mother bird is worth keeping till she dies of old age. She may have small laying powers, but eminent hatching and brooding talent. Find her and make the most of her. Arranging tho Sitter's Nf(. It's a three-weeks' steady pull. and more. That means w ide ex-j trt-mes of weather heat and cold, wet and dry the burning sun and the drenching, chilling storm. It means als dangers from vermin, ranging from the deadly little spider louse to the v. easel, the skunk and the fox, not forgetting the rat. Have all these things in mind, and arrange the nest accordingly. Lot there be no possibility of danger to the brooding 1-ird under any conceivable conditions. If you do not thoroughly dust both nest and bird with the best procurable insect powder, there will be great danger of her being literally bitten to death. Thousands of deadly mites will hatch and mature in a marvelously short time. They must be foreMailed at the very beginning, or your best laid schemes will prove failures. A thick sod turned earth side up makes an excellent foundation for the nest. Do not make the nest depression too concave, lest the eggs pile up in the .-enter and break. Place straw about one inch in thickness over the dirt. This makes the ideal brooding nest. A space two by four feet in addition to tho nest s; ace will furnish sufficient room for eating and exercise once or twice a dav. It is better that the sitter f.hould not run at lirge with other! fowls w hen off the nest. Keep cracked corn and wheat, water and Krits. with material for a daily dust hath in the hatching pen nil the time. Arrange the nest so that it can he easily reached by th. caretaker. Hut he should not "reajh" it too often. Sclevt l'-gg" With Much Care. The egus are your seed. You will reap what you sow. It will take no longer to hatch thoroughbred chicks than to hatch mongrels. The former will pay you back many times over for the extra cost of eggs, not only in dollars and cents, but in pleasure and satisfaction. Look about lor the best full blood, heavy laying strain of fowls. Pon't expect to get such at fsss CO cents a dozen. You will get out of your business what you are willing to put Into it. Try some well-bred stork merely as an investment, and then see that you make good. Set fresh eggs the fresher the better. It is best that they should not be more than two weeks old. Two days will be better. The warm, freshly laid esgs. tili tetter. If preserved any length of time, the temperature should not be above 50 degrees, if possible. Give as careful thought to the handling of each egff as cui would if it were a fully matured fowl. Neglect of eggs cause? failure with chicks, and therefore with the mature birds. Pre-natal conditions count as much with chicks as with humans. When nest and eegs are all in readiness, the sitter Fhould be placed on the nest after dark. Handle her with gentle care. Place a few china egss under her at first. If she remains true to her trut on the new nest for a period of 2t hours, the s to he incuhatcd may he given e her Place thre cr four at a time successively at nut the ed-ze cf the r.et. permitting the wouhl-l-e mother the delight of preying them underneath her hody hy the use of her V r beak. This will help to make pleased with her surroundings. and ?" aid in contlrminc her in the prosecution of her important huslne.r. From this time forward only a tdight oversight will ho r.-.juired. It reicht be vell once in two or three

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This is one ejf the old breeds of poultry in Holland, whence it was introduced to Fngland, Germany and America. The first specimens made their appearance in this country about a doze n years ago. The Lakenvelder is thought to be of Campine origin and shows similarity in shape, head and in the leg color, which is slaty blue. Like all small bodied breeds of poultry the Lakenvelder is a good layer. It produces a lartre number of eggs, which are described as being of porcelain whiteness. The Lakenvelder is not recommended as a table fowl, though, like all Mediterranean varieties. days to inspect the nest to discover whether any eggs are broken. Evry particle of broken shell should be cleared away. The nest should be kept clean ef everything that would foul it or that would be a source of discouragement or injury to the mother hen. About the tenth day the eggs might be tested by candling, and all infertile eggs removed. It is desirable to set hens in pairs. This gives the advantage of having all the chicks from two sittings of the same age. Accordingly, all can be placed with one hen at hatching time. The other hen will soon get busy again at egg production. In this way the work is simplified and much labor is saved. After the first of May one hen is able to care for a brood of from 20 to J5. Caring Tor the Chicks. The first month is the emergency period. Get a chick well brooded to four weeks ef age and you are reasonably sure of maturing it. The value of the full-grown bird will be determined largely by the efficiency of the first month's brooding. Plenty of water and grits are all the "'feed" the chicks need for the first CG hours. At the end of this period they should be given finely cracked grain. Pinhead oatmeal is an excellent thing for them. They like it and it is almost a perfectly balanced ration. A chance should be given them by the second day to elig their grain from light litter. They must have exercise from the first. Otherwise their muscles and bones and vital organs will be weak. You will have big chickens, but soft ones. At the vud of 10 -days or two weeks their bod '.es will be too heavy for their l-cnes and muscles. If they once "tfo down on their legs" they will be stunted, damaged, eleformcd for life. l"eed five times a day for the first week. Keep them happy. An excellent coop for a hen and her brood is of the "A" shape about two feet square, with slats in front nailed on vertically. Between these slats the chicks can go out and in, and can be fed away from the mother. A door may be arranged to permit the hen to run with them in the enclosed park as they grow larger. This outside park may be two by six feet er larger, as space will permit. Chicks do better when they can get on the ground. Tender grass, lettuce, or some other form of green food should be furnished them in abundance. A little charcoal every day will help to keep the digestion right. Many people lose a big proportion of the chicks hatched. They are permitted to run at large with the hen and shift for themseles. The result is that "accidents" of all kinds overtake them. Special care, keeping the chicks within proper bounds, at the same time attending to their exercise, du-t and digestion, should brmg from i-0 to S3 percent through in fine form to a safe period. No chances should be taken on the safety of the e hicks. The caretaker should know exactly where the mother and her brood are every moment of day and nisht. Ibshould know. too. that they are absolutely safe from all enemies, and from every pos. jle weather emergency. The mother hen should be kept with the chicks until they are at least tivo weeks old. If the weather is cold or wet. anl other conditions' are unfa orahle. she should continue with them longer. The Judgment of the caretaker must be hremght into eercie in every part of this nr business. Some disappedntments are bound to result. But if the subject is thoroughly studied and the principles here stated faithfully practiced, success wii be assured.

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such as Leghorns, Anconas and Campines, it is excellent for the production of "squab broilers," to be sold at from 3-4 to one pound weight. The fowls are hardy, active, ex cellent foragers and small eaters and are of a rather wild disposition. They do bette r on free range than in limited quarters. In fact it is J diflicult to raise them successfully in j small yards. In size and shape they j resemble the white leghorn. In; both sexes the body color is white, while the neck, tail and saddle hackles are jet back. This coloring is a continuous breeding problem with the fancier. Slices of Bread Thrown Away are A Vicious Waste A single slice of bread seems an unimportant thing. In many households one or more slices of bread daily are thrown away and not used for human food. Sometimes stale quarter or half loaves are thrown out. Yet one good-sized slice of bread such as a child likes to cut weighs an ounce. It contains almost 3-4 of an ounce of flour. If eery one of the country's 20,000,000 homes wastes on the average only one such slice of bread a day, the country is throwing away daily over 14,000,000 ounces of Hour over 873,000 pounds, or enough flour for over a million one-pound loaves a day. For a full year at this rate there would be a waste of over 319,000,000 pounds of flour 1,000,000 barrels ofv flour enough to make 365,000,000 loaves As it takes 4 1-2 bushels of wheat to make a barrel of ordinary' flour, this waste would represent the flour from over 7,000,000 bushels of wheat. Fourteen and nine-tenths bushels of wheat on the average are raised per acre. It would take the fruit of some 470,000 acres just to provide a single slice of bread to be wasted daily in every home. To produce this much flour calls for an army of farmers, railway men, flour-mill people. To get the flour to the consumer call3 for manyfreight cars and the use of many tens of coal. But, some one says, a full slice of bread is not wasted in every home. Very well make it a daily slice for every four or every 10 or every 30 homes make it a weekly or monthly slice In every home or make the wasted slice thinner. The waste of flour involved is still appalling altoegther too great to be tolerated when wheat is scarce. Any waste of bread is inexcusable when there are so many ways of using Ttale bread to cook delicious dishes. PRIVACY" A CROWING FACTOR IX AMERICAN LIFI-:. "We have on our statutes laws which authorize us to consider our houses as castles, which we may lawfully defend against Intrusion." says the editor of Farm and Fireside, the national farm paper published in Springfield. O. "This gives the stamp of legal approval to the privacy of the home. We are coming also to believe In the separate privacy of each one in the family. In the ideal home the children have separate rooms, the father has his. Vtr.ce' or 'den' and the mother is gradually being upheld by public opinion in her desire to have a room where she may rest an hour or so dvri'vr the day. ur.dUturbel rv the children and the demands of the household." The very name white diarrhea strikes terror to poultryrnm. F.very year thousands of bain- chicks are tricken by this disease, it is one of the most destructive f-rce! in po'iltry cult'ije. The best way to c"mbat it is by preventive measures. whb-h are proven hlehly suecessful. Iearn about these measures in next week's artide.

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F Organization of Pig Clubs in Sundry States Calls for Much Financial Aid. WASHINGTON. D. C. May IS. Since hogs afford the quickest means of increasing our meat snoply, continued and extended efforts of public-spirited bankers in furthering the organization of pig clubs by advancing to club members the money needed for the purchase of purebred sow pigs is doubly desirable at this time. Pig clubs have increased very rapidly during the past seven year the specialists point out. In 1910 there were 59 members In the United States; today the number exceeds 30,000, found principally in Arkansas, Alabama, California, North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, Oregon, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kentucky, Indiana and Massachusetts. These states contained 21,673 members last year, but pig clubs are being formed rapidly in other states. The demand for gilts and bred gilts by club members is unprecendented, even at the high prices at which they are held. Financial assistance to the pig club members has been the means of introducing purebread hogs in places where otherwise this might have been impossible, and has helped to build up the agriculture of the communities which the banks serve. These clubs stand not alone for greater pork production. By increasing the amount of live stock they encourage the production of much of the feed on the farm, and as their activities are coincident with or follow club work in the growing of corn and forage crops, they are part of a system that favors a sound diversity in agriculture and a rotation of crops that will maintain the fertility of fiie soil. Two plans have been followed bybankers in providing the sow pigs necessary to enable the boys and girls to engage in pig club work. One method is the so-called promissory note plan. The banker makes individual contracts with the pig club members. In each he agrees to lend them a certain sum of money at six percent Interest for one year, or longer if necessary. The member agrees to keep up a membership in a pig club, to invest the loan under the direction of the county agent or county club representative, and to repay it at maturity out of the proceeds of the sale of the orignal stock or the increase. As se curity for the loan, the banker takes the member's promissory note. The member's parent consents to the contract, in writing, and agrees not to claim any right in the pigs purchased or their proceeds. The other method is called the endless chain" plan. This also involves individual contracts. The banker agrees to furnish a registered sow pig. The boy or girl agrees to join a local pig club, obey its rules, care for the sow according to instructions, breed her at not less than eight months of age to a registered boar of the same breed, raise the litter according to the rules of the club, ard deliver to the banker two choice gilts (not less than eight weeks old) from the first litter. The member agrees also to take out registration papers for all the first litter pigs not sold for immediate slaughter. When these agreements are met, the original sow and the remaining pigs become the member's property. If the member is unable to return two sow pigs out of the first litter th3 agreement continues until this is possible. If the original sow dies before farrowing a healthy litter the banker bears the loss. If the member does not fulfil all agreements, rights to the sow; and her progeny are forfeited. The parent agrees to the contract, in writing, and acknowledges that the sow and increase shall belong to the boy or girl. When the banker receives the two sow pigs from the member and puts them out with other boys or girls under the same agreement, the endless chain feature of the activities is set in motion. This plan may be varied in details to suit conditions. For instance, the banker may require the return of only one sow pig. and stipulate that the boy or girl must Join a corn or peanut club, raise at least half an acre of green feed, and exhibit the sow and her offspring at the county fair or live stock show. Under similar arrangements, boys and girls have received eges of purebred chickens for hatching. It is urged that bankers in the south who have taken part in these projects heretofore continue their nid and others, both in the north and in the south, take up the work, as it is a patriotic duty at this time to increase the nation's supply of food. County ager.ts. state agricultural colleges, and the department of agriculture will answer gladly any questions regarding details of these activities. imr.Ks wrni citttimany. International New SeryW: WASHINGTON. May 1. Honduras has broken diplomatic relations with the imperial government. This information was conveyed tp the state department this afternoon In a cablegram from American Minister Ewln at Teguxifa-aloa.

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Many a Mickle Makes, a Mückle An ounce of edible meat lean meat, fat and lean, suet or fat trimmed from steak, chop, or roast seems hardly worth savine. Many households take Just this view of the matter do not trouble to put such an insignificant scrap into the ice box or soup pot do not bother to save for cookery' a spoonful or two of drippings or a tiny bit of suet or fat. Yet if every one of our 20,000,000 American families on the average wastes each day only one ounce of edible meat or fat, It means a daily waste of 1,250,000 pounds of animal food 406,000,000 pounds of valuable animal food a year. At average dressed weights, it would take the gross weight of over 75,000 steers, or over 3.000,000 hogs bones and all to provide this weight of meat or fat for each garbage pail or kitchen sink. If the bones and butchers' waste are eliminated, these figures would be increased to 1,150,000 cattle and 3. 700,000 hogs. Or, again, if the waste were distributed aevcording to the per capita consumption of the various meats (excluding bones), it would use up a combined herd of over 53S.000 beef animals, 291,000 calves, over 625,000 sheep and lambs, and over 2,132,000 hogs. Millions of tons of feed and hay, the grass from vast pastures and the labor of armies of cattlemen and butchers also would be scrapped by this meat waste route. But every' household doesn't waste an ounce cf meat or fat e.ery day? Very well make it one out of a hundred families, but keep in mind that all meat allow ed to spoil and all meat and fat rendered inedible by improper cooking, scorching or burning must be counted as waste. Make it an ounce every other day or one a month. Such waste tili would be unendurable, when meat is scarce and when fat is of such vital food importance to many nations. Waste of meat or fat is inexcusable. Every bit of lean meat can be used in soups, stews, or in combination with cereals; every spoonful of fat can be employed in cookery; every bit of drippings and gravy can be saved so easily and used to add flavor and nourishment to other dishes. The U. s. department of agriculture, Washington, D. C, or your state agricultural college will tell you how to use bits of meat to make appetizing and nutritious dishes and how to use leftover fat in cookery. WHEAT SUBSTITUTE CAN BE MADE OF FIELD CORN To Plant Corn Is Mot Effective Remedy for Wheat Shortage. WASHINGTON, May 19. The most effective way to remedy the probable shortage in the wheat crop is to plant corn, says the United States department of agriculture. Ordinarily the quantity of corn produced in the United States is from three to four times the quantity of wheat, but only a very small portion of the crop from 5 to 10 per cent has been used for human food. This amount may be estimated in normal times at about 200,000,000 bushels a year. Not over 5 per cent has been exported in peace times. A relatively slight increase in the corn acreage, therefore, will place mary millions of bushels more of human food at the disposal of the world without interfering in any way with the feed needed for the support cf live stock. In the past with an abundance of grain of other kinds, corn has not been in great demand for human consumption. But with other grains no longer abundant, circumstances will compel more general recognition of the value of corn as human food. The department is urging strongly the wider use of corn in the diet. It is the best substitute for wheat that we have r.rd can be utilized in breads, muhes and a variety of other ways. We should make every effort to avail ourselves of it. "Plant corn," then should be the motto of every farmer in a section suited to the crop. GOOD STOP rOIt ANY WAGON. "When pulling a heavy load up a steep hill," says a writer In Farm and Fireside, "it is often necessary to rest the team. Here is a simple device that will hold the wagon Tvhlle the team rests. Take a stout piece of wood four inches square and about :'0 inches long. Kasten a chain at the center. Put other end of chain around the rear axle ?o the block will drag about two inches behind the wheel. "When you wish to stop, let the wagon back a couple of inches and the stop is always ready to block the wheel. This device is extensively used by lumbermen in Oregon." bad cough? n:vi:itisii? GRIPPY? You need Dr. King's Ne-x Discovery to stop that cold, the soothing lalsam ingredients heal the irritated membranes, soothe the sore throat, the antiseptic qualities kiU the Kerm and your cold is quickly relieved. Dr. King' New Discovery' has for 4S years been the standard remedy for cou?hs and colds in thousands of homes. Get a bottle to-day and have it han'ly In your medicine chest for coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all bronchial affections. At your druggists, 50c Adv.

SWEET POTATOES NEGLECTED POOD

Can Be Made Important and Cheap Source Supply by Proper Handling. Sweet potatoes can be made an important and cheap tource of food, say specialists in the U. tS. department of agriculture. It is quite easy to increase the acreage enormously and the adoption of better methods of handling and sforjng would improve the product to such an extent that the demand would be greatly stimulated. Storing sweet potatoes has always been a more diflicult problem than producing them. A large part of the' southern crop is kept in' pits and banks, with the result that probably 30 per cent of the potatoes decay and even those which are lit to put on tho market do not keep well. Moreover, the pits and banks can not be opened during wet or rainy weather without risk of injuring all the stock in them, so that it is not uncommon for growers to be unable, because of weather conditions, to get out their potatoes at the very time that the market demand for them is greatest. Storage Houses Needed. These difficulties can be done away with to a great extent by the use of sweet potato storage houses, the management and construction of which aro discussed in eletail in Farmers Bulletin 548 of the department of agriculture. Records covering the storage' in such buildings of 22S.31S bushels of potatoes for an average period of 124 days show the average decay to be only 2.4 5 per cent. If they were to be adopted generally by growers in the south, it is estimated that at least $10,000.00) would be added to the value of the crop each year. The sweet potato Is, however, like practically all other crops, subject to disease in the field as well as to decay in storage. Black rot, scurf and soft rot aro found wherever the crop is grown. Stem rot, foot rot and other diseases of minor importance are severe only in isolated centers andvilh the exception or foot rot. all the diseases do more damage in the north, where the crop is grown intensively, than in tho south. In the north .the loss from disease is estimated at from 10 to 40 per cent of the annual crop; in the south, including storage diseases, at from 10 to 20 per cent. The best methods for the control of the various diseases are discussed in Farmeis Bulletin 714. Hare! to Resist Disease. Tartly because of the elifference in their ability to resist disease and partly because of market demands, more attention should be paid to the variety of sweet potato grown. For A Great Mr. Dickerson, I believe

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tible to stem rot, whereas most of the other commercial varieties are more or less resistant. On the other hand, the bellow and the Big Stem Jerseys, which are dry and mealy when cooked, suit the northern consumer and are the varieties commonly sold to him. However, the markets of the central west ard west wlil take the semi-moist varieties such as Nancy Hall and Dooley if they aro properly graded and packed. The highest price paid for carload lots of sweet potatoes on the Chicago market in two successive seasons was for southern crown Nancy Hall. In the south, a moist fleshed potato is preferred. A knowledge of such facts is essential to protitahle marketing of the crop, but at the present time most producers, especially in the south, grow a number of different varieties in the same field and store them miscellaneously together. The result is unprofitable confusion. Valuable as Truck Crop. Even as it is. sweet potatoes are. in point of value, the second most important truck crop in the United States, being exceeded only by Irish potatoes. The production, however, can be increased almost indefinitely for there are millions of acres of cheap cut-over lands in the south well adapted to the crop. By adapting the improvements suggested the demand can be increased proportionately, for tan attractive product can then be placed on the market throughout the year instead of for a short season only, as is now the case in many sections. It must be remembered, too, that the value of sweet potatoes as feed for live stock is not yet generally understood. Three to four bushels art' the equivalent of a bushel of corn for hogs and in connection with rich concentrates the potatoes are a good feed for cattle. On light soils that produce from 20 to 25 bushels of corn, the same care and attention will return 100 to 200 bushels of sweet potatoes. Finally, it is not product may be obtained which will keep as long as is desired and. because of .its reduced bulk, may be shipped long distances at a comparatively low cost. Government experiments along this line, however, have not been carried far enough as yet to recommend drying on a commercial scale. LOANS ON FARM LANDS. Ioans bearing Interest at the low rate of 5 per cent wdll be made by us on good productive farms which meet with our requirements. If you expect to borrow money soon, arrangements should be made without delay so that you may take advantage of this offer. All loans will be made for a term of five years, with the privilege of paying the principal, or any part thereof, in even hundreds of dollars at any interest paying date. Further deta'ls can bo secured by a letter or we shall be pleased to have you call ?t our office. THE STUAUSS BROTHERS CO. Advt. I.Igonier, Ind.

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