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STOP UP THE CRACKS.
twelve each were placed in them
One house had been sheath eel on the
inside and covered wi'h building
paper to make it tight an 1 warm;
both houses being boarded with
matched Biding and having shingled
roofs. The two flacks were fed ei
actly alike. In the morning they had
a mash, which was made of corn
meal, ground middlings and ground
oat?, and at night whole grain was
scattered in in the scratching litter;
they had plenty of freah water to
drink, grit and granu ated bone.
The experiment was started Nov
ember 24th, and was continued five
months and the eggs laid during
each period of thirty days was as
follows:
1 2 8 4 5 Total
Cold House 39 106 103 121 114 486
Warm House 87 130 138 ISO 154 629
A. F. HUNTER,
.Malce tlie Poultry House Secure
Against All Drafts Mid. Avoid.
Colds auu Houp Experi
ment Slio win the Ef
fect on Eggs Pro
duction. NOTE : Bearing out our argument for tight
.houses, we submit the following article by Mr.
A. F. Hunter, which appeared in a recent
number of the Reliable Poultry Journal. Mr. J There 18 the argument that appeals
Hunter's experience with poultry dates back j fco u f th convincing argumtnt
a half century ; iu fact, Mr. Hunter is one oft ' r
the "Nestors" of American poultry culture, 1 OI lid more eggTS from tne Hock in
-and is considered high authority. f ne warm house than from the flock
in the cold one. Leaving the ques
tion of expediency on one side and
the matter of avoiding the bother of
colds (and possibly roup resulting
from the colds) there is the substan
tial benefit of some thirty per cent
more eggs from the birds sheltered
from the winter cold. It does not
require anything more than these
convincing figures to show the sub
stantial benefits to be gained by
simply shutting out the cold, and. so
we repeat: "If you would have your
hens lay at seasons of the year when
eggs are scarce, they must have
summer conditions." ''Stop up those
cracks at once."
As the weather begins to get
colder, especially at nights, it is in
creasingly important that the birds
shall be snugly sheltered from winds
windstorms. We do not mean that
they shall be shut up tight so that no
fresh air whatever can lvach them,
but that "drafts'" shall be phut off,
ior it is to drafts that most of the
jolds of autumn and winter are due.
The farmer thinks: "Yes, it's getting
-colder guess I'll shut the hen house
door to-day," but he does not recall
that there are several cracks in the
walls and around the window and
door frame3 that he meant to stop
up sometime, but he hasn't found
the convenient time yet. Those
cracks have been growing larger.
The house is only four or five years
old, perhaps, and when it was built
the joints were made tight and the
pernicious drafts didn't exist.
The first summer's sun and rains
-seasoned the boards and opened up
the seams a bit in two or three
places, but not seriously; the next
summer's sun and rains added to
the seasoning and in one or two in
stances a bit of light could be seen
through the crack and no it has
gone on until now there are several
THE SMART SET FOR DEC
EMBER.
Tie Smart Set for December
contains forty-four signed ar
ticles, stories and poems, yet it is
not so much for quantity as qual
ity that the number is notable.
The leading feature is a novelette
by Edwards S. Nan Zile, entitled
"How Captain Came to Remsen,V
which is fairly hilarious in its de-
decided leaks in the walls, where the j pict'on of a prosaic lawyer who
winter winds whistle through
make piercing drafts in the pen,
even tnrough windows and door be
tightly closed.
Drafts and dampness are the cause
of most of the colds, the dread pre
cursor of roup, and if we will but
close up those c'raaks so that "cur
rents" of air are prevented wehave
gone fully half way in heading off
that most troublesome aad costly
ailment. And "prevention", is so
much easier and simpler than 'cure.
Anybody who has wearily .battled
through a seige of roup jWill say
'"amen" to that. And it is so easy,
too, to stop up the cracks. With a
few cents' worth of "Neponset" or
"Paroid" or "Ruberoid" roofing
material and a hammer, (the nails
and tin head come with it) a man
can close in the walls of the house
and effectually shut out the winter
blasts. Either of those roofing ma
terials properly put on make poultry
iiouse (or barn or any outbuilding),
both wind and water tight, and
-thereafter the ventilation of that
-building, by window and door, is
wholly within control.
With the cracks stopped up and
direct drafts prevented the fouls can
go to roost at night in comfort and
the owner will not be likely to be
.greeted with sneezes, and other
symptons of the dreaded colds when
he opens the door in themorning.
EFFECTS EGO PRODUCTION.
Shutting off the direct drafts pays
in another way: namely, in egg nro
duction,andis to b recommended for
that reason also. Warmth is a factor
in the production of eggs and the
shutting out of the chill blasts is the
first step towards securing that
desired warmth; absence of cold is
warmth. It is not wise to resort to
artificial heat, but it is wise to shut
off the direct drafts which make a
house so deathly "chill" and jcold
We have all noticed how a spell of
.moderate weather in winter starts
.h biddies to laying; secure that
moderate weather condition by shut
ting out the cold and we secure the
same result
The West Virginia Experiment
Station has tested this matter to see
how much difference,in egg produc
tion there would be between two
similar flocks of pullets kept one in a
warm house the other in a cold
house . Two houses that were exactly
alike and situated side by side were
taken for the experiment and twenty
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aUCl ; V o YYl f C"1 o 11 ti Iw (-- 1 wl m?(li T- n
spirit and genius of the immortal
composer. It is at ones a psych
ologic study and a travesty on the
theory of reincarnation. The
second contribution of length is a
story in play form, entitled "The
Castle-Builder," which is printed
annoymously, but from all the
ear-marks must have baen written
by someone high in social position
who is absolutely familiar with
the characters and surrounding
conditions of the recognizable per
sonages eo pitilessly dissected.
There has not in years been print
ed another such sensational satire.
The Infanta Eulalie writes for the
number a very interesting opinion
of "The American Girl, 7 whom
she studied on the occasion of her
memorable visit to the United
States. As a companion article,
Mrs. M. E. W. Sherwood dis
cueses a.menoiine' as she is
found abroad, particularly in
Paris. Both articles, one from
the viewpoint of the foreigner,
the other from that of a compa-
trion, are very interesting:. One
of the most brilliant of Edar
Saltus's series of essays in The
Smart Set is the present contri
bution, "The Seventh Devil of
Our Lady," which is wholly
characteristic and fascinating.
Stories that mu3t command atten
tion are "An Opal Ring," by Jus
tus Miles Formarj; "The Pathos
of Being Good," by . Kate Jor
dan; "Lord Cammarleigh's Sec
ret," by Roy Horniman; Art
for Love's Sake," by Laura Cleve
land Gay lord ; "The Problem
Play," b Doug'as Story, "Ex-
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itjunuu o'juih, oy vjruy oomer
ville, aad The HhhU of the
World,' by Marvin Dan. ; Con
spicuous poems a-e Scruple,1
oy juiien uoraon; "rierrol in
Autumn," by ' Bliss ' Caiman;
"Hammarizere," b y Clinton ScoU
ltrd;, "Too L8er," by Thejdosia
Garrison; ''Sonnets to a Lover,."
by Myrtle Reed, and "Super-
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Edward Will Blake no Distinc
tion Between Kings and
Presidents.
London, .November 14. In
view of the recent attitude of
Count Goiuchowski, the Austro
Hungarian Foreign Minister, in
regard to the difference in the
standing of the heads of re
publics and of monarchies,
the dictum of King Edward,
holding that the honors to be
paid to Presidents and crowned
heads at the time of his Majesty's
coronation shall be identical, has
special interest.
The question arose during a
discussion of the details of th e
decorations to be bestowed, and
the mode of entertainment of the
heads of states attending the
coronation. The King refused
point blank to distinguish be
tween the titles of President,
King and Emperor, arguing that
his object was to honor the state
and hot the man. No distinctions
will be made, except possibly in
the case of near relations of the
royal family.
. our pullets divided into two floska of 'Slition," by Madison Cawein
Dry, moist, scaly tetter, all forms of
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other cutaneous eruptions proceed from
humors, either inherited, or acquired
through defective digestion and as
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medicines Is dangerous.
The thing to do Is to help the sys
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published. ' '
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By virtue of an order of the Superior
Court of .w'ayne ounty, made by the
Clerk on the 12th day of November,
1901, in the proceeding of John 6.
Hmith, and wife and others to the
Court, the undersigned commissioner
will sell for cash, at the Court House
door in Goldsboro at 12 o'clock, on
Monday, the 16 h day of December,
1901 the lands described in the petition
in said proceeding. Being lot No. 9 in
the division of the lands of J. A. Kor
reeray, which is registered in Wayne
County, in Bock 62, page 261.
W T DORTCB,
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