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mum I'M-- -.: :.. !' :f M' . ' t 'At i ,,a :!'. . - .1 1 . '. i .'M-v. r.' ttJ1 K. t . li i t I sf.r.'ai . -ft it ' Hi 4 5' s-i ? '1 p i mm at ft. f ' i! THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. Thursday, December 23, 1909. 16 ' , , , . . . i THE POULTRY YARD. The Farm Incubator and How to Handle ' It. The Selection of the Incubator Don't Get an Inferior Machine -Don't AVait Until You Want to Use It Before Ordering Don't Think It Will Run Itself. H T IS NOW the season of the year when people who have been contemplating the pur chase of incubators are earnestly con sidering the matter. We all want to hatch a nice lot of chicks as early in the spring as possible; and we are all aware of the fact that it would be impossible to hatch them in very large numbers, or early enough: to make the most out of them, without the use of incubators and brooders. An incubator on the farm where as many as twenty-five hens are kept is as essential to the successful up-to-date farmer as is other labor-saving machinery. I would suggest by way of advice in selecting an incubator get the best that is, the machine you think suits you the best. There are several good makes on the market, but much more depends on the person who runs an incubator than on the incubator's name. I am Very skeptical of the machine that will run itself. The . maker cannot give the machine brains, evevn though he may have a surplus. The oper ator of the machine needs brains as well as the maker. Operate Machine According to Mak er's Instructions. Nor does it follow that all brainy people can successfully run an incu bator. They must have practical ideas along tins line of work. I be lieve the average rarmers wife will make . a success of incubators and brooders. Farmers' wives are practi cal people aDd will observe cause and effect. If they fail once they will find the cause and avoid the mistake next time. That there are cheap, worthless incubators on the market is a lamentable fact, but there are so many good ones there is no use in any one being deceived by makers of poor machines. I think if direc tions as given now with each, ma chine are closely followed, that al most any one of practical common sense can operate them successfully. Study the instructions and refer to ' the machine in studying, so that you can get the manufacturer's ideas and operate the machine strictly accord ing to instructions, and not follow the instructions offered by some one who may be operating another style or make of incubator. Test Incubator Before Putting Eggs in It. One great fault with people pur chasing an incubator is that they wait until the day before they want to use it before it is ordered. This is a great mistake, as the machine should be purchased at least a month pre vious to the time you intend to com mence hatching. After you have re ceived the manchine see that it is set up according to instructions. Af ter this you can fill the lamp and light it, allowing the temperature to come up slowly, and it should take 2 4 to 36 hours' time to get the tem perature up to 103 degrees. Adjust the regulator so that the damper opens about inch. Run the ma chine at least three or four days be fore you place any eggs in it, so that you will be sure you have it properly adjusted and can manage it easily according to instructions. Next week: Best location, putting in the eggs, and management for 21 days. UNCLE JO. Some Farmers' Bulletins the Poul tryman Needs. - Write to the Secretary of Agricul ture, Washington, D. C, for these bulletins, and study your work; 51, Standard Varieties of Chick ens; 200, Turkeys; 287, Poultry Management; 357, Methods of Poul try Management. Kindly give me address of parties from whom I can buy the Indian Runner duck. J. W. R., Reynolds, Georgia. Charlotte poultry and Pet Stock Association, Charlotte, N. C, January 14-18, 1910 E. G. Talden, Secre tary. ' Quickly Prepared Christmas Gifts. (Continued from Page 9.) general store, may be covered with silk or something similar, by cutting a circle enough larger than the glass so that when the edges are turned in and drawn up on a gath ering thread and fastened, the edge will come over the front just far enough to be held in place. Giving Personality to Purchased Gifts. -Many inexpensive gifts may be purchased, and by the addition of a little hand work become much more pleasing and valuable. Plain hemstitched handkerchiefs purchased for men or women, can in about an hour's time, have an initial embroidered on them. A row of small' embroidered dots will not take long, but add much to their appear ance. ' A crocheted edge will not take a great deal of time. With the cro chet hook fastenj the thread at one corner of the handkerchief, make a chain of three stitches and fasten In edge of handkerchief just far enough away so chain will not draw. Repeat all around the edge. Second row, chain five and catch with single stitch into center of chain three. This may be repeated until the bor der is an inch or two wide, or if pre ferred, each alternate row may be one of picots. Sometimes lace collars can be bought "for a song" that would be beautiful except for a cheap looking What could be daintier or more ac ceptable than a pretty entwining of two or more initials, done in gold, and surrounded with a golden ring and the back-ground filled in in col ors? If the recipient belongs to high school or college, the school colors may be used. If one cannot design a monogram, some pleasing arrangement of the initials may be made, including a floral or geometric design. The same design should be painted on the flaps of the envelopes, though it perhaps should be somewhat smaller than on the sheets of paper. A Unique Calendar. Select thir- t0fln ftnvelones and decorate each with a sketch or picture suitable to each month of the year, using the thirteenth for December, 1909. In each envelope place a personal letter sketch or suitable poem, and seal. Separate the leaves of a calendar pad and paste one for the different months on each envelope. Suspend by ribbons. December, 1909, Is to be opened Christmas. Each month a new envelope is brought to the front, opened (when the back may be removed), and the message read. For the Wealthy Friend one wants to remember, but whose stocking will contain such expensive gifts that one hesitates about trying to give anything, one may make dainty booklets from letter paper with card board covers, decorated in water colors or with suitable pictures which are sure to be found at this season, or with unmounted photographs. A part of the pages may contain pho tographs, appropriate poems, beauti ful sentiments and helpful quotations MAMMHTU Bronze Turkeys ItlHItllflUIII BUFF White Turkeys Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes Ma i moth Buff, very rare Mammoth Toulouse" GEESE PlllMCAC African white UUl I lLHD Purple, very rare JOHN O. FOWKE. - - Baldock, S. C. 3 PO CLTRYMBN ATTENTION ! Seod for a premium list of th (treat show of the Virginia Poultry Association. You will be tempted to enter a bird in this, the South s Greatest Shjw, January 13-19. 1910. W. R. TO DO, Secy., : Richmond, Va. I I EGGS $1.50 Far Srttiai tf EGGS I S.C. White and Brown Tg horns. White Wyandottes. B. P. Rocks, Houdana, Block Minorca, Light IT Brahma8 and C. I Games. lLarge Pekin Duck Eggs, tl.25 for 13. . . flend tor folder, it's free. . ... WWW ROULT&Y YARDO, R. F. D. 7, Box 46. Charlotte, N. O. PAAO BUTTERCUPS, the new aLilllO chickeo- 15 egrgrs. S2.00 Barred Minorcas, the new . Minorca. IS egs, $ 5 00 S. C Rhode Island Reds. $2.00 for 15 eggs. C. S. TAIT, Brunswick, 6a. COCKERELS ! COCKERELS n COCKERELS ID We have a fine lot of them in S. O. R. I. Reds. Buff Orpingtons. White and Barred P. Rocks, and S. C. Brown Leghorns, and are now book ing orders for them at $1.00 to 110.00 each. Alse Poland China hogs and Fox hounds all ages. Say Just what vdu want and send a red stamp to LOCUST GROVE, - Haley, Tenn. White S. C. leghorn cVMUale n i ni or 25 & discount 1 Darren nymOlUn more than two are r" ordered. Plentiful Cukkk Farm, Plentiful, Va. BUFF LEGHORN COCKERELS FOR SALE l 00 EACH. Fine layinv strain. Pul et8 aying In November. MRS. B. T. BONNER, - AURORA, N. C. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS. (Flshel Strain.) Toms 16.00, hens 13.00: $10.00 per trio. None b tte Order now and get the BEST, they ARE CHEAPEST. U.S., WARD. - - Waltonburg. N. C. S. C BUFF ORPINGTONS , Ergs from exhibition stock, 13.00 lor 15. All eggs guaranteed to be 75 per cent, fertile. CLAUDE F. DEAL. Landls. N. C. ROSE-COMB RHODE ISLAND RED E5"& exhibition stock. 12.00 for 15; fin utility, $1.00: trios $5.00. Hens tl.50. 3. P. LOCKHART, - - Chapel Hill. N. C. Agent Prairie State Incubators and Brooder. Meadow Farm Barrmd Plymouth Rock Cockerel for ti.00. Henstl.OO. Berkshire Pigs for sale, at reasonable prices. .-.-. Address, W. M. MELLON, R.- F. D. l, Mooreavllle, N. C. written or pasted. Others may hP decorated with garlands of gray moss, with winter lichens, or with sprays of ' ivy, misletoe, myrtle, orange or holly leaves, pressed ferns, flowers, etc. If possible choose something distinctive, or something belonging to one's locality or home. Christmas Letters are always suit able and accep table, -T and often more expressive than any purchased gift could be. Wood's Poultry Supplies If you want egrgs during the win ter months when they are high priced, you must feed Animal Foods, such as Beef Scraps, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, to take the place of the insects, worms, etc. which the poultry get during the summer months. Oyster Shells and Granite RquI try Grit are also prime necessities. Write for prices and Special Poul try Catalog telling -what to use for suc cess and profit wiin poultry. T. V. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. We cany complete stocks of Cyphers'! incuDaiors ana Brooders. Poultry rooai. tgg Kroaucers. Lice and insect Powders, Poultry Remedies, etc. V Ueive?hefiAuay We have printed, for free dis tribution, several thousand cop ies of The Incubator Book. If you want a copy, get busy I Send a postal and book comes, all charges prepaid, by return mail. Ittellathethingsyouniust mow if you make extra large profits raisins: chickens. Sure Hatch Incubator The Incubator Book tells what makes the Snre Hatch" the Champion of the World. Tells all about the "bargain" incubators. Shows why they fail. More good, practical help for poultry raisers than in any other book ever sold for $2 yet it la free for the asking. Send today. Address SURE HATCH INCUB ATOR CO. Bsx 88. Fremont. Neb or Dept. 88 .Indianapolis, Ind. i Hp Successful Poultry Keeping The best and finest Illustrated Poultry Book' by men and women who have succeeded Price 81.00, postpaid. Order from II. B. GEER, Nashville, Tenn. 14! USemiosSSotl For 22-ln. Hog Fence ; 15 S-4e for 26-inch; 18 8-4e for Sl-lnch; 22e for 34-inch; 2e for a 47-inch Farm Fence. 60-lnch Poultry Fence S8e. Sold on 30 days trial. 80 rod spool Ideal Barb Wire SS Catalogue free. KITSELMAN BROS., Box 84 MUNCIE, IND. EPS Chick For Rabbits, Chickens, Hoes, Sheep. n ' M sar i If i J Horses, Cattle. 160 styles. Big ll he&w No. Q iralvanized Colled 11 ill Spring rust proof wires. Will defy VI 14 I 1 f 1 . 7 I 5 & t-e. 15 to 35c per rod. We pay freight Z SilelW "T1 Brown Fence & Wire Co.. gj fc'i uept. oq uiereiana, j. IFEWCE OSSSSf.. .Made of Hi(h Carbon Double Strength ,Oolled Wire. Heavily Galvanized to prevent rust. Have no agents. Sell at factory prlees on 30 days' free trial. 'We pay all freight. 87 heights of farm i and poultry fence. Catalog Free. I COILED SPRING FENCE CO. Box 72 Winchester, Indiana. f- mi III ILLJJJ Ornamental Fence LwXc; eteTiei, Publio Grounds. Also Vrought Iron Fence. Catalog free. Write for Special Offer. . . THE WARD FENCE CO., Bex 650. Deeaiur.lno.
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