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t FREE RANGE FOR CHICKENS 'Modern Wire Fencing, Which Has Neat Appearance, Will Keep All Fowls Out of the Gardens. The old method of free lange need not necessarily be changed. The ;fowls should not, however, be allowed ito run at will within the garden or Itn and about the farm buildings. iNothing is more aggravating or dis gusting than to have the nice veget ables or beautiful flowers scratched up, and the doorsteps, the porch, the barn floor and the farm machines fouled with poultry droppings. Sep- j arate the poultry also from the other ilive stock of the farm. If the fowls are to be kept near the farm buildings, provide ample range inclosed by modern poultry wire fenc ing. The latter requires ordinarily but a few posts, is easily put up and has a very neat appearance when in position. Another way of separating the fowls from the center of farm opera tions is to place the henhouses at a considerable distance from the farm stead, in a pasture where the fowls will have absolute range. The latter plan may entail some extra travel by the poultryman and there is the risk in some localities of depredations by foxes, hawks or other wild animals or by thieves. The young, strong farmer boy may find advantage in the second or so-called "colony plan," while the housewife will probably prefer the fenced inclosure near the farmhouse. Thirdly, the farmer is too careless In the way he disposes of his poultry products. He is usually content to trade his eggs at the nearest grocery store when by a little extra effort he could gain a select private trade which would pay far better. His pure-bred stock of one breed of fowls In their well-kept house and capacious grassy yards will be a great adver tisement for his egg products, and uniform clean appearance of the eggs . In their attractive package will prove an additional help in making sales. Then, too, in disposing of his fowls the farmer often sells the birds alive when by carefully dressing them on the farm and selling to his customers on orders he could secure far better prices. PLAN FOR SCRATCHING SHED Illustration Given of House for the Benefit of Small Pqultryman Where Back Yard Is Used. To give the small poultryman (the back yard man especially) an idea of what is meant by using his small piece of ground for a coop and scratch ing shed, the accompanying picture is printed. The picture is taken of a lay ing house used by D. C. R. Hoff at Neshantic, N. J. Such a design might be used by a man whose piece of ground faced the Plan for a Scratching Shed. south at the short side. That is. If his piece of chicken ground was 10x18, and the 10-foot sides faced north and south." If his coop proper was ten feet wide by eight feet deep he would have a 10x10 scratching pen. These figures are of course taken haphaz ard, and the idea would have to con form with the ground. Push the pullets along to rapid ma turity. The comb Is the chicken's health Indicator. Stimulate the hens to eat more by feeding a variety of foods. Start with Pekins they are the handiest and mature early. - Never allow ducklings to get wet until they have a good coat of feath ers. The nearer square you build a poul try house, the less the cost of con struction. Ducks are pigs for food, and gobble down pretty nearly everything that comes in their way. Pekins do not need water for swim ming, but they must have plenty of absolutely clean drinking water. We could n6t think of a more sim ple or efficient method of improving the egg supply of this country thar the production of Infertile eggs. 3 "! 7 "ST 1F THE SIEJyL in r.i : ......... m- rt.V - .. 111 1 llflJ j ' A MALL SEAL 'ATURE'S innermost secrets seldom long endure under the scrutinizing, penetrating eye of modern science, but the se cret held alone by the seal family is a mystery that has balked scientists, provided material for the poet's pen and mockingly lured ad venturers . on thrilling quests to - the middle of the Pacific ocean. Where do the seals and sea lions go? The mystery which in the palmy days of the sealing industry in the far north cost the old Alaska Com mercial company thousands of dol lars is seemingly beyond solution. From California to Behring sea, in a few weeks the seal family wilPagain quietly slip into the sea, and, leaving only a few stragglers, will disappear Into the depths of the ocean, probably to migrate to some far away place. They will disappear as completely as though swallowed up by the sea, only to reappear, again late in Feb ruary or early in March, when the an nual breeding season begins. Where the seals go during the winter can only be theorized. Acording to scien tists who have followed the course of sea lions migrating from California points, there is little question of their first destination. It is said that they join the great herds in Behring sea. Whether the same animals which leave the Cliff Seal Rocks at San Francisco in the fall come back again in the spring, or whether their places are taken by others is very uncer tain. Sea lions have always inhabited the Seal Rocks, it is said. On account of the peculiar climate surrounding the Golden Gate, it is seldom that there are not sea lions there. However, it is only the "bachelor" sea lion which will be seen by sightseers who go to the cliff two months hence. Followed by Investigators. In 18S6, before the period of pelagic hunting or shooting of seals at sea was practiced, the Alaska Commercial company, which was the first lessee of the Pribylov islands in Behring sea, attempted to trace the seals on the migratory course. Expeditions were outfitted and when the migration from the islands began about Novem ber 1, 1886, the investigators at tempted to follow and learn definitely where the seals spent their winter. For several hundred miles the animals in great herds from the rookeries were followed. But one day, as though by magic, the larger portion of the herd suddenly disappeared. In another few days there was not an animal to be seen. AH were gone where? No body knows. It was apparent that the seals had taken to the bottomof the ocean, that they, evidently, went far below some warm current. Some say the seals im mediately began to proceed back northward under water. Seals ordi narily swim for distances of two or three milea before showing their noses above water for air. The theory that the animals swam several hundred miles under water has been contra dicted, inasmuch as no mammal is known to be capable cf staying under water so long without a supply of fresh air. Kipling is only one of various writ ere who wrote of the periodical dis appearance of the seal family. The Bureness with which the animals divine their course of travel has often been a favorite theme. Seals and sea lions make long journeys of many thousand miles and never go astray. During the spring and summer months these strange animals live on land, making the rocked slopes of islands their abodes. Then when November comes they slip Into the sea and dis appear, feeding upon fish. Fur seals are more strange In their migrations than are the "hair" seals, but they too leave their summer abodes and take .o the waters of a temperate or tropical ocean. Consume Millions of Fish. While the seal family is away from Its habitat many millions of fish are n consumed, in fact, fish and squids are the sole diet of the animals. There has In past years been an effort on the part of San Francisco and bay city fishermen to have exterminated the sea lions which inhabit the Seal Rocks at the cliff. These animals eat great quantities of fish, and, it is said, deplete to an extent the supply of fish for the local market. Every effort of the fishermen to make war upon the animals, however, has been balked by the government. Will the fur seal finally disappear, is a problem which is now urging the United States government to take every precaution against the extinc tion. Under the treaty entered into by the United States, Japan and Rus sia, the fur seals in the far north have a temporary respite, at least. No hunter is allowed to kill the animals on the Pribylov islands, and consequently there is a general belief that with the protection afforded them by the nations, the seals in the next few years will again increase in num ber. From 4,500,000 the great seal herds in their natural habitat in Behring sea diminished in number since the ac quisition of the Pribylov islands by the United States to less than 100,000. The reduction of the seal herd from millions to a few thousands was not by what might be called "legitimate" killing of the animals, but by the prac tice of pelagic sealing, in which the seals were pursued in the open sea, males and females being shot indis criminately. Of those shot a compara tively small number were recovered, the wounded getting away to die. The abominable practice resulted in the death by starvation of the young left on the islands by; the females which were shot at sea. Statistics show that there is no more inhuman and villainous practice than the pursuit of seals in the open sea. Japanese were largely respon sible for the slaying of thousands of seal by the pelagic method. It is said that some fishermen now occasionally shoot seals when not un der observation, but the practice has generally been stopped and the govern ment is able to regulate the number of seals killed on the northern islands yearly. WHAT MADE HIS HEART GLAD Lonely Man Was Glad to See Some Evidence of Possible Congenial Companionship. The hotel dining room was 80 feet long. A tall man sat eating a lonely breakfast at one end. A stout man was performing the same rite at the other. They passed out together. "Marooned," murmured one. "Are we the only inhabitants?" "With the exception of the help, we are alone." "These late vacations are awful!" "Yes; I'll never take another." Days passed dull days, lonely days. Sometimes they hobnobbed. At oth er times they . abhorred each other and kept apart. One morning the tall man eat dreaming on the veranda. He was dreaming of waltzes and of moonlight strolls. The stout man was on the bench. Suddenly he bent over some thing, and then began to beckon wild ly. The tall man sauntered down. "What have you found?" he lan guidly inquired. "Look at that, Robinson Crusoe I" yelled the stout man. "What is it?" "Look!" The tall man looked, then smiled feebly. It was the print of a gnTs shoe is the sand. Judge. Good Business. Why is an undertaker the mobc suc cessful business man? Ho never fails to carry out wua.t he undertakes. Nothing Beyond the Milky WASHINGTON. The boundaries of the universe have been discov ered, according to a report received at the National Observatory from Prof. R. T. A. Innes, director of the Union Observatroy at Johannesburg, South Africa. The announcement is regarded with Interest by astronom ers all over the world. The universe, Prof. Innes asserts, is contained within the space girdled by the Milky Way, and he figures that the most distant star in that wonder ful girdle is 540 light years distant from the earth. Inasmuch as the planetary system, of which the earth Is a member, is commonly supposed Hy astronomers to be close to the cen ters of the arena embraced within the Milky Way, and inasmuch as light travels 186,000 miles a second, or over five and three-quarters quadril lion miles a year, the diameter of the universe, by Prof. Innes's calculation is 6,334,951,000,000 miles. This is the distance light would travel in 1,080 years. A ray of light takes sixteen minutes and thirty-six seconds to traverse the diameter of the earth's orbit. 1 . i" Popcorn Can Be Profitably Raised on the Farm THIRTY dollars' worth of popped corn in the form of 5-cent packages for the market represents an outlay of only about $1 or $1.50 for raw ma terial, according to a farmers' bulletin (No. 553) just issued by the depart ment of agriculture, entitled "Popcorn for the Home." Sufficient popcorn to make $30 worth of 5-cent packages can be grown on a piece of . land 40 feet long and 20 feet wide. The specialists in corn investiga tions who write this bulletin say that popcorn has considerable value as a fowl and when properly prepared for the table it . is superior to many of the breakfast foods now on the mar ket. If it is desired to grow popcorn as a field crop, the surplus stock not wanted for home use can usually be sold to local merchants at a fair price, or it can be profitably sold directly to consumers. Dealers who put up popcorn in 10 cent packages for the retail trade us ually have a number of good recipes printed on the outside of the package. Some recipes for popcorn confections that have given good results are the following: Chocolate Popcorn Two teacupfuls of white sugar, two ounces of choco late, one-half cup of corn sirup, one cup of water. Put these ingredients Into a kettle and cook them until the sirup hard- Gilded Horse on Weather HE gilded horse that once trotted, galloped, pranced and dazzled on the weather vanes above many of the stables of Washington has become rare, but he is not extinct. He may be tarnished, but he still holds up his bead and tail. He is not so forlorn looking as most of his brother and sis ter horses in the streets. The writer early in the spring wrote an honorable mention of a gilt horse on a weather vane on a stable converted into a garage on Columbia road near 18th street. That horse is still there and he still .seems unconscious that his neighing, nickering and champing Labor Department Clerks CLERKS of the department of labor are nursing blisters and calloused spots on hands and knees, and the new quarters of the latest executive department of the government smells of arnica and healing ointments. Mov ing day for the department came around, and. as the appropriation for moving covered only the transfer of the furniture from the old quarters te the new, the clerks were pressed into service to rearrange 'the desks and filing cabinets and olher para phernalia. "Oh, it was fun," said Chief Clerk Watson, displaying difficulty in mak ing his stiffened fingers grasp a pen .nd wincing when he attempted to et out of his swivel chair. "The work had to be done, anyway, and the clerks were the only available persons to do IL It's all in a .'ifetime, and don't U's belnns to the department of la- Way but Empty Space The so-called ."helium . stars," the Johannesburg astronomer avers, are the most distant of all stars from the earth. The helium stars are peculiar to the Milky Way. . ... Is there anything outsid s the uni verse? On this point Prof. Innes does not venture a positive opinion, but he says that the most powerful tele scopes penetrate far into space, be yond the boundaries of the universe revealing nothing. In particular, he says, there is absolutely no sign of other universe of similarly constituted systems. He looked out beyond the universe the air in South Africa is very clear but his telescope discovered in those far-away clouds called "nebulae." which some astronomers suppose to be star-systems in process of forma tion. Many of these nebulae are spiral-looking, and the conjecture is that they are whirling around and around, condensing themselves into solid globes, on which life may later ap pear. The number of stars, according to Prof. Innes, is limited, falling far short of the number of people on the earth. Ho estimates the mass of the universe as equal to 441,000 times the mass of the sun. That is to say, the combined mass of all the globes, big and little, in the universe is as heavy as 441,000 suns. Of stars 100 tiies as massive as thn sun there are 300; of stars ten times as massive as the sun there are 5,000; of stars equal in mass to the sun there are 200,000; and of stars smaller than the sun there are 16,000,000. (THii CO IS too much uke HOftiE FEED (TO 3UIT MF ens, when put in cold Mater. Pour over four qv.arts of crisp, freshly pop ped corn and stir well to insure the uniform coating of the kernels. Sugared Popcorn Make a sirup by boiling together two teacupfuls of granulated sugar and one teacup of water. Boil until the sirup strings from the spoon or hardens when dropped into cold water. Pour over six quarts of freshly popped corn and stir well. Popcorn Balls One pint of sirup, one pint of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter, one teaspoonful of vinegar. Cook till the sirup hardens when dropped into cold water. Remove to back of stove and add one-half tea spcMjnful of soda dissolved in a table spoonful of hot water and then pour the hot sirup over four quarts of fresh ly popped corn, stirring till each ker nel is well coated, when it can be molded into balls or into aay desired form. Vane Not Yet Extinct mates below have gone and that, a machine creaks and snorts where they lived. If you are walking along G street between 6th and 7th and will look to ward the northern sky you may see high up, always heading into the wind, another gilded horse with flowing mane and uplifted tail, and probably distended nostrils, though his position is too far up in the air to determine that point without field glasses. He is trotting on a gilt horizontal bar and seems to be striking at least a 2.20 gait. He is well extended. He seems to be about to win. No other horse is near him. He wears no har ness. No sulky or drver is behind him. He is a bold, proud-looking horse and it is refreshing for horsemen to look up and see one of their four footed friends who has not the de jected mien which so many horses in the streets wear. It is a pleasure to them to contemplate this horse, even if he is a giit horse. Have to Do Real Work bor? And I believe we made good." The ordeal continued several days and although the department of com merce had loaned all of its available laborers, charwomen and messengers to the flitting laborites, the muscle weary clerks had to lend their as sistance. The work of the department of la bor is dropping behind as a result ol the exodus. PORTUGAL NOT LIKE SPAIN Wonderful Country With Most Salu brious Climate In Europe Cold at Lisbon Unknown. New York. It . is more than prob able that he will need to disabuse his mind in the first instance of the idea that Portugal is merely Spain in min iature,' Charles L. Freeston writes in Scribner's. As a matter of fact, there is little kinship between the two. On paper the languages of the two coun tries bear considerable similarity, but the ' pronunciation of Portuguese dif fers so materially from the Spanish that no advantage of convenience ac crues from a knowledge of the latter tongue. In all other aspects, more over, everything about Portugal and the Portuguese is distinctive to aD absolute degree; the most Jaded trav eler, Indeed, will find there a fresh- ,-.w.v.-.v S; t-A ' """" "-THr In the Portuguese Hills. . ness of aspect, in- one direction or another, for which be will assuredly be wholly unprepared. Need it be said that this of itself is paramount as an attraction? Almost unlimited is the list of char acteristic features for any one of which the country is worth visiting; and each in its way is so Important that priority of mention must be en tirely fortuitous.' Before descending from the general to the particular one may attempt a summary of these as follows, but with the premise that they might be given in any other order: The climate is the most wonderful in Europo. A polyglot crowd of scores of thousands flies annually to the Riviera from every part in Eu rope in order to enjoy the supposed maximum of sunshine, but often to be undeceived by weeping skies, and with the cruel mistral as a certain ty. At Lisbon, on the other hand, cold weather as understood elsewhere Is literally unknown; the temperature is not only higher than that of the Riviera, but is equable to a degree that almost defies itself. What this means in practical effect is illustrat ed by the fact that, in March last, I met an English lady on board ship who had stayed six weeks at Mont 'Estoril, near Lisbon, and had bathed in the 'sea every day in February! Nor was the season exceptionally warm. 1 YOUNG BOY OF TEN A SLEUTH Son of Police Chief Has Caused Ar rest of Many Thieves in Bir mingham, Ala. Birmingham, Ala. Only ten years of age, Daniel Allen Badeker, son of Chief of Police Badeker of Birming ham, Is a clever amateur detective. He has caused the arrest of all sorts of offenders, mostly thieves of various sorts, leading to the recovery of not less than $10,000 worth of stolen goods. Car robbers, bicycle thieves and shoplifters have come to grief through him. He is also the terror of blind tigers. Ever since he was five years old, when his father was chief of the Bir mingham secret service department, he has been much around police head quarters, and before he was seven years old he manifested analytical powers, and on occasions gave the de tectives useful "tips." Sometimes his father or others carried him along in working up cases. Ho became known among the men as "assistant chief" after his father was . elected chief of ' police. Two years ago he donned the full uniform, including cap and gold band, gloves and leggins, and was given special officer's badge 53. Joining the mount ed police squadron, he appears regu larly on his Shetland pony at the head of police escorts at all public parades. He is a skilful horseman. "I want dad's job," Dan says. "To wear his badge is my ambition." TEACHES GIRLS TO HAMMER Married Women Admitted to Carpen. tering Class in Toledo Public , Schools. Toledo, O. A young woman's class in carpentering, with 18 enrolled the first day, has been organized in con nection with the manual training de partment of the public schools. Sev eral married women have been admit ted with the girls. Members of the class are to be first taught the use of hammer and saw and later instructed in making artistic furniture. The class is believed to be the first of the kind in the United States. Hadley Won't Live In Chicago. Chicago. Ex-Governor Hadley of Missouri told the representatives of the railroad systems in the Mississip pi valley that he would not accept the $25,000 a year job offered him for five years if the acceptance of It meant hia real living- in Chicago. He desires to remain in Missouri to oppose Senator Stone for re-election.
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