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THT3 PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
THE POULTRY YARD. :
October Poultry Notes
Are your houses tight so that on
.these chilly nights the fowls will not
; suffer? Look after those old knot
holes and cracks. Cover them up, or
else roup will be the result.
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?, The cold October rains do not help
make the. pullets grow, so provide
shelter and wind-breaks for them. It
is far better to keep them stopped up
in their roosting and exercising room
: than to let them run around in cold,
i; rainy weather.
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Just because the weather has be
; come slightly cooler, do not for one
-time think that the lice have gone out
:of business. They are there yet and
it does not take many of them either
to absorb all of the profits. Go after
: them. Provide dust boxes. Keep on
whitewashing.
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October nights are cool and the
fowls need a little better protection
just now. Close up all-of the sides
tight, but the south. Leave the south
side open or partly so. Cover with
woven wire and provide a curtain to
let down in cold or rainy weather,
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Before getting the pullets into
their winter quarters,- give the houses
a good cleaning. Get rid of the filth
and lice by giving the house a coat of
. whitewash inside and out. Burn up
all of the old nest boxes, they make
good kindling wood. Provide new
ones and fresh nesting material. The
pullets will appreciate it, and you
know eggs and mites, never come to
gether.
Now is the time to get the pullets
into the new roosting rooms. Get
them in before they begin to lay and
then the moving will not check their
laying. Give them plenty of room,
and plenty of fresh air. Supply a
variety of good sound food and "Bid
dy" will fill the egg basket and -from
the way eggs are selling now they
will soon fill your pocket.
Many poultry diseases are caused
by crowding in roosting quarters. As
the cold weather approaches we some
times put too many birds into one
house and then close it up tight with
the result that they get over-heated
during the night and when they
emerge into . the cold frosty morn
ing air with the pores open a. deep
cold is the result.
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Cull closely and send them to mar
ket. One bad bird in a pen does a lot
of damage in looks to the rest of the
birds. Remember these same pullets
will be your breeders next year, so
watch them closely and pick out those
that are the most vigorous and the
heaviest layers. Look over the cock
erels and cull them again. An extra
cock or cockerel eats up lots of good
feed that could easily be turned into
eggs. C. P. MILLER.
HELPS TO EASIER WASHING.
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we usually rinse by hand, beginning
as soon as the first machineful is
through the second time, and by the
time the colored clothes are washed
the white ones are on the line, clear
and white enough to satisfy the most
fastidious. If the washing is 'done
by one person, the rinsing water is put
in the machine, and they are rinsed
as they are washed. Either way the
work is done so much more quickly
than on the board, and we would not
know how to get along without out
"1900 Washing Machine."
MRS. C. S. EVERTS.
How to Soften Hard Water.
Dear Aunt Mary ; No woman
should attempt to use hard water
for laudry purposes with having first
broken it with some chemical. Soap
used in hard water is wasted, and
the clothing gets a gray dingy color
and a still, hard "feel." The lime
in the water kills the soap. One of
the best and least' expensive com
pounds for breaking hard water is a
mixture of powdered borax and alum
-3 parts of borax to 1 part alum.
Tho i- n tit H oforl Viri'rnT will rnsr. ahmit
12 cents a pound less in bulk; the
alum will cost about 5 cents a pound,
and a pound of each will last a long
time, and will be found useful in
many ways about the housekeeping.
Mix in the above proportions -3
parts powdered borax to 1 part pow
dered alum, sifting and mixing thoroughly-
and put into a wide-mouthed
bottle, and cork for future use.
On wash days, dissolve four ounces
of this mixture in a little warm wa
ter, and add this amount to each ten
gallons pf water to be used, stirring
well. The water will "curdle,; and
if left to stand a few hours, the im
purities will all settle to the bottom
of the tub or barrel, and the clear,
soft water should be carefully pour
ed off. By having two barrels one
barrelful will be "softening" while
the other is being used.
Try this with a good washing ma
chine and wringer, and wash days
will lose their terrors, even for a
weak woman. Do not hesitate to
ask "John" or the children to help
you out by running the washing ma
chine. "ST. LOUIS."
To Keep Clothes White.
Dear Aunt Mary: Never boil; them
with any kind of soap except the
common, old-fashioned green soap
In making the starch, instead of
making a batter of flour, take flour
and water and make a lump of stiff
dough. Then take a little water in
a bowl and wash the white part out
of the dough. The yellow, gummy
part that is left is what tends to
make clothes yellow. MRS. L. S.
Paraffin a Help to Easy Washing.
Dear Aunt Mary: Monday being
always a day of odd jobs, picking up
and putting away after Sunday's
church-going or visiting, I never
wash on Monday, as so many do. I
put the clothes in soak late Monday
afternoon, rubbing soap on all the
dirty places. I cut up a pound cake
of paraffin in 20 pieces. I take one
piece of the paraffin, and one bar
of laudry soap, cut up both in small
pieces, put in a boiler with two or
three quarts of water. BoiV till all
is dissolved, then add to the water
in whioh I intend to boil my clothes. I
wring the clothes out of the cold
water and boil 20 minutes, take
them out, rub out of first water and
rinse. They are beautifully clean
and white, and the washing can be
done in half the time it requires to
rub out before boiling. 1
I make my starch while cooking
breakfast on wash day, and as I rinse
the clothes I wring out of starch and
han sr out. As I bring them in I
fold them, putting away "sheets i and
in
their
I iron
every-day underclothes
nroner Dlaces. and I the rest
early Wednesday morning, letting
all the other work go that I can in
order to finish the hard job
MRsi D. hJ
first
RUST.
Some Helps in Removing Stains and
. ' Soils. I
Dear Aunt Mary: Tuesday I pre
fer for laundry work. On Monday
the clothes are carefully sorted; the
table linen and the garments that
have fruit stains on them nave boil
ing water poured through (them and
then the spots are gone. Those that
have iron rust hav6 rubbed on, the
rust either lemon and salt or cream
of tartar and are laid in the sun to
dry. Dainty garments, that without
the "stitch in time" woulo come out
of the wash in tatters, are mended.
The pieces that' are badly soiled
have rubbed over them a washing
fluid made of equal 'measures of soft
soap and lye with Jnoe-fourth their
amount of sal soda added (this is
kept in a jar and is better with age).
They are then put jin colcj water to
soak. Next morning puij into the
boiler in cold water boil briskly for
20 minutes and rinse through three
waters; they should come out snow
white. A very useful home-made
washer is made of a 10-inch agate or
tin cake pan with tube; turn it upside
down and put a j straight handle
tightly in the tube. It will snrnn
you, if you haven't tried it, how use
ful this washer is.
-.: MARGARET.
, Laurens Co., S. C.
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