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: vi ; - , i Home Course In Poultry Keeping IX. Seasoned Review of the Work. By MILO M. HASTINGS. Formerly Poultryman at Kansas Experi ment Station. Commercial Poultry Ex pert of the United States Depart , ment of Agriculture, Author of "The Collar Hen." Copyright, 1910, by American Presa Asso ciation. IT N this last lesson I shall apply the II suggestion given iu the previous II eight lessons by ntuuing briefly the things tlmt will require atten tion month by month. ' January. All stock saved for sale as breeders should have been got rid of around the holiday season or shortly there after, and the poultryman begins the year with a well culled flock of layers. In January the laying hens will re quire more uttentiou than at any oth er season of the year. JULo weather is severe, and as egg Wfzf are u'k'b every egg added to th&basket rep resents a good profit. See that the house is tight, except openings in the front left for ventilation. See that these windows are so protected that snow does not blow in. Whether you will keep the hens shut in or allow .them to run out will depend upon your general plan of operation. If feeding in litter is used, it will be best to keep the hens indoors as much aa possible, and careful wotcli will be necessary to see that the birds are kept busy and always too hungry to mope around, yet the January hen must never go to bed with an empty crop. When the temperature of the house is below freezing the hens should be given water with the chill token oft twice or, better still, three times a day. Sometimes eggs will have to be gath- WHITE WIANnOTTE COCKEBEL. ered more than once a day so that they will not freeze in the nest. Do not negk'ct to provide green food. If your supply of fall cabbages and oth er vegetables run out, It will be nec essary to use either steamed clover or alfalfa or to sprout oats. February. The February work of the poultry yard is very like that of the January. The main idea at this season of the year is to keep the hens laying. When the warm days come, the droppings thtit have accumulated In the poultry bouse wll! become damp and malodor ous and should be removed. If there Is a heavy fall of snow shovel a little strip In frout of the house, and if hens range around stables or In feed lots it will pay to shovel a path for them. During very sloppy days It may be desirable to shut the hens In, as it Is of little benefit for them to trail around In the slush, and it will result In the soiling of the eggs. March. With a well kept flock of poultry the March egg yield Is the heaviest of the year. Kggs are declining In price rnpldly at this season and should be marketed frequently. By this mouth any supply of vegetables kept from the previous fall will have been exhausted, r.nd with the feeling of spring In the air the poiltry,man must not forget that warm dn.vi will not bring the hens spring fooda. Dry clover and alfalfa are fair, but sprout ed oats are better, and It will be worth the -trouble necessary to prepare them. As soon as the ground may be worked all yards or, If on a farm, a patch of ground near the poultry house should 1 sown In oats. The chickens may pull one-half the crop up by the roots as It conies through the ground, but It is the chickens we are Interested in and not the oat crop, - If the Incubator is to be used for hatching It should be started about the 1st of March,' while the hens may now be set as rapli$y as they become broody. With the heavy breeds every' effort should be made to have the bulk of the ' chickens batch during the month of April. During the last two weeks In March .Incubators are to be set for Leghorns. , . 1 April. .With green food sown the previous month the egg production problem in April will simplify Itself considerably. The hens can now range abundantly, and the care necessary In the winter time to keep them busy and happy is Bo longer required: April Is the poul tryman's busy montbv Ills labors- with the layers consist chiefly . in gather Ins; the eggs, but tiie work is most ar duous with sitting hens and incuba tors, which are now running full blast, nd even more of t's time must go to the care of wee chicks. Of all the work of the poultry farm that of car ing for the newly batched chicks is the most difficult to systematize or to Intrust to the bands of hired labor. The coops or outdoor brooders should be well scattered about, as it Is not good for large (locks of young chicks to run together. Moreover, young chicks must be protected la their feeding quarters from the pres ence of old fowls, which In their greed to get at the food meant for the little fellows will run over and trample them. On the farm this is most easily arranged by having the food for chicks In a slut coop, which keeps out the grown fowls. May. May, like April, Is n month In which the hens take care of themselves. The hatching of the larger breeds should be finished the early part of this mouth. Hons of ail breeds will insist upon wishing to brood, but can be broken up by penning them in an out door coop for a few days. Little chicks will tequlre, a great deal of care, and tvheii thundersliowcrs come up some one must hasten out. fre quently in the rain, and see that the foolish hens and frightened brooder chicks get under shelter and do not crouch up In some fence comer. If percUjUtice some have been forgotten otie puld make a thorough search as ftSkijas the,-shower Is over -and bring- fit soaked chicks into the house to dry. Those found down flat on their backs and apparently dent!, if rescued soon enough and wrapped In woolen rags and placed ound the stove, will revive in a most astonish ing fashion, June. The hatching of Leghorns should bo brought to a close during the early part of this month and all male birds taken from the ynrds. The growing chicks will now be old enough to need less care, and the chief source of the poritrymnu's-Joss will be' due to his cureleseness in leaving coops unpro tected from "varmints." Lice and mites will now begin to Invade tho poultryman's camp more abundantly, and with the approach of the warm weather more cleanliness In feeding vessels and about the house will be necessary. During June crops should be sown to supply green food in the midsum mer, when the grass and spring sown crops dry up. July. The poultryman's work Is consider-: ably relieved during July. Indeed.' this Is tho best season of the year for mm to leave ine cmcKen ninii iu the hired man and visit his klnfolk. Cleanliness to keep down disease and llc-o and care In gathering the epgs fre quently and marketing them promptly are the chief points worthy of men tion. Karly broilers will be ready for mar ket during this month. August. In August we have the same prob lems as tho previous month. Bo sure the hens have abundant water and green food. The egg yield should show a considerable Increase over July. The male birds of the heavier breeds should now be got into shape for market The poultry breeder should take careful observation of his growing stock and make selection of the most vigorous youngsters to be re served, from which to pick the breed ing stock. More green crops should now tee sown for the fall pasturage. All two-year-old hens and, if you have abundant pullets, a portion of the year ling hens may now be sent to market September. Eggs are now advancing in price, but It is neither right nor, in the long run, profitable to hold tbem. Sell all eggs promptly and try to get recognition for your honesty and quality of your prod uct. Voting male birds, especially Leg horns, should be separated from the pullets. The coops or colony houses in which the young pullets have grown should be gradually moved toward the house which is to be the winter quar ters and the pullets got into the habit of roosting in the layiug house. Nice secluded nests should be arranged, as a few precocious pullets will begin lay ing in this month. Sow wheat and rye for winter greeu foods. October. Tullets will now begin laying in con siderable numbers. If you have fancy trade keep their eggs, which are small, separated from the larger stock. Any remaining old hens that are not to be kept through the winter should be dis posed of. Utility pullets and all young male birds not needed for breeding stock should also be sent to market. November. This month should find the laying flock nicely installed in their winter quarters. November eggs are high In price and scarcer than at any other time during the year. The poultry fancier will now select iis birds and get them ready for the shows. As the nights grow colder use judgment iu cloning up the poultry house. If it Is closed tightly the hens which have been roosUug in the open air will t-utch cold, and roup will be the result. Keep a careful lookout for this dread dis ease and take immediate steps to Cor rect things if the symptoms of roup appear. December..' December Is the height of the poul try show season. The fancier will be a very busy man. Ills birds must be cooped, trained and, prepared for the shows. The poultryman himself may be away at shows, and some one else will have to look after, the flock at borne. By all means layers must riot be neglected. 'Not only are December eggs highly profitable, but layers that do not start In this month will be very liable to keep in the background until the warm spells of March. THE SUNDAYSCH00L Lesson XII. Second Quarter, For June 19, 1910. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesion, Matt, xiii, 1-9, 13 23 Memory Verse, 23 Golden Text, Jas. i, 21 Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. We step back quite a bit in the order of events to 'take up this and the nest two lessons ou the "Mysteries of the Kingdom," but perhaps it does not matter much how we step if only, we step into the light and keep step with our blessed Lord In Ills thoughts and purposes. Although, verses 10 to 17 are not included In our leeson we must look at them, as there we find the reus(i why He taught in 'parables. The rulers having delcrmliMxl to kill Illni (xiL 14) our lesson chapter opens with the statement tlmt the wiuio day He went out of the house and sat by the sclde. A simple statement of a fact, bht. ""pry suggestive of another fact that -e was about to go out from the house of Israel and begin to gather from the sea of nutkxis another people during this rtge' who will reign with IIIuj In the next or kingdom age (MattafcxlH. S7-; Acts' xv, 14-18). When the disciples asked. Him why He taught in parables. Ills reply was, "Because it fc given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heav en, but to tliem It Is not given." And then he quoted from Isa. vi he proph ecy concerning this blindness. The kingdom of (kid, or of heaven, was no mystery, for it was plainly revealed in all the Old Testament. The suffer ings and glory of the Messiah were oil fully revealed, but that there should be a long period between the suffer ings and the glory, that the kingdom would be at hand and then postponed for a whole age, this was not revealed until by the Lord in these parables, and later to and by Panl. A concord ance will enable any one to see that the word "mystery" Is used of God in Christ Christ In His people, the blindness of Israel, the resurrection of the Just, the development of iniquity, the end of this age. This whole age between the rejection of Christ and His coming again In glory Is the time of the mysteries of the kingdom which our 1,01'd sets forth In tliese seven par ables of this chapter. Mark and Luke each give tne first one the parable of the sower the understanding of which seems nil important, for our Lord said when asked for Its xigniiicance, "Know ye not this parable? And huw, then, will ye know all pa rallies?" (Mark iv.) From our next lesson Ave learn that the field is the world (verse 38), and we must bear iu mind that it is a world lying In the wicked one aud that he is the god of it. It Is an evil age and ever growing worse as far as the fear of God Is concerned (I John v, 10; II Cor. iv, 4; Gal. i, 4; Koui. xii, 1, 2; II Tim. ill. 1-G). Alongside of un paralleled progress on many lines there is unparalleled Iniquity, unbelief, re jection of the Bible as tbe word of God and of the deity of Christ and of His atonement for sin. We are no where taught to expect any improve ment in these matters during this age, but we are faithfully to sow tbe seed of the word of God everywhere and expect Just what we are taught In this parable. Some set their hearts on certain results and say we must have this or that, we must have fifty or a hundred conversions, we must have a revival, the town must be taken for God, etc. Happier are those who are in harmony with tbe Lord and who rest on His assurance that His word will accomplish that which He pleases (Isa. Iv, 11). It Is Incorruptible seed. the word of life, and He has promised to watch over It (I Tet i, 23; Acts v. 20; Jer. i, 12. H. V.). The heurts of men are the soil, and some are beaten so hard by the going- to and fro of the things of. this life that the seed can scarce find entrance, and the devil is always watching to cateh it away lest they should believe and be. saved. Other hearts are hard within, rocky hearts, but with enough soft soil to re ceive the seed. Such appear to enjoy the word; they say it does them good, they receive it gladly, but they are easily offeuded, cauuot stand any per secution. In others the soil is good enough to gsow thorns and the seed does find a lodging, and it grows, but the thorns grow so fast that there Is no fruit The cares and pleasures of this life, the deceltfulness of riches, the' lusts of other things, choke the word, and no fruit is brought to perfection. In the first two kinds of soil there is no Indication of salvation. I am Inclined to believe that this third kind of soil indicates a possibility of salvation, but saved as by Are (I Cor. 111,14, 15).! The fourth kind of soil is good by"! tbe grace of God. There is' an honest re: ception of the truth. Tbey .hear. it and understand it and keep It' and bring forth fruit with patience, -even" to thirty, sixty or a hundred fold. All through this age this is what "we are to expect and only this. ' It Is ours to sow the seed, the pure seed of; tbe word of God,, everywhere and at all times, with confidence, in Him .that He will accomplish Ills pleasure by It always. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when He Cometh shall .find so doing. Who can estimate tbe honor of being a laborer with God? Who would not say, t'Here am I,' send bier Bat we must be sure that we preach only the preaching which He bids; us, that we carry only His message. GREAT LACE IN BEDS. Will Take 45 Years at Present Rate To Care For All Consuuiptivts. At the peseut rate of increase, nearly forty-five years must elap6e before sufficient hospi-tal ac onioda ticus to provide far all tbe indigent cotsumptivfs in the United Butes will be provided, declurts tbe Na tional Association for tbe Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis iu a bullentin issued today. Although over 7,000 beds in hos pitals, sanatoria, camps, and wards for tuberculous patients.were estab lished last year, tht re are are fully 300,000 indigent con-unutiveH who ought to be placed in such insiitu tions and a total of only 22,720 beds in the entire country. On Ma? 1st, 1909, there were 15,244 Deds for consumptives and 294 institutions. The annual report of the National Association shows an increase of 99 institutions aDd 7,500 beds. In seven states, Alabama, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Wyo ming, and Utah, with a combined population of over 5,000,000, not one bed for consumptives has been provided. Ia nine states and terri tories,' Alaska, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia, the number of beds for consumptives in each case is less than 50, while the combined popula tion of these Btates is over 7,000,000. On the busis of 400 deaths to a mil lion of population, which is approx imately the present rate in the Uni ted States,' there would be nearly 5,000 deaths annually from tubercu losis in these fourteen states with at least 20,000 cases of this disease all the time, and less than 500 beds to caie for tbem. New York state leads in the number of beds for consumptives pro tided up to May 1st with 5,476 beds; Massachusetts is second with 2,403 bed; Pennsylvania, third with 2,347 beds; Colorado, fourth with 1.489 bedt-; and New Mexico fifth with 1,104 beds. As yet, not one state in the country has made ade quate provision for its consumptives, New York has set itself tbe task of having "No uncared-for Tuberculo sis in 1915,' and several cities in otbei parts of the country have aoopted siroilar programs. . The Natioual Association says that tuber culsis will not be stamped out until all cases of tl s disease are cared for either in their I oine3 or in institu tions. With bis end in vL-w, ef forts will be made to increase the number of iiosp'tul beds in this country to at least Ua.OOO by .May 1st, 1911. Wauta to Help Some One. For thirty veai s J. F, Bi.ver, of Fertile, Mo., needed help and coulcii.'t lind it. That's why be wants to help wime one now. Suf fering lo loog himself he feels for all distress from Backset e, Nervousness, Less of Appe tite, Lassitude and Kidney disorders. He shows that Electric bitters works wonders for such troubles. "Five bottles," he writes, ''wholly cured ma and now I am well and hearty .'' 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