The Davenport Leader. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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THE DAVENPORT LEADER, THURSDAY, APRIL 9. 1908.
THE COLONY PLAN.
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Chickens Do Be6t When Not Overw
crowded.
If you want vigorous chickens and
liens that lay do not overcrowd them.
Forty or 60 in one flock are sufficient.
If you have more than this number
by all means make a change for your
chickens are probably costing more
than they are worth. If you do not
«are to sell any of your birds then
start into the chicken business on the
colony plan. Divide your flock into
colonies of about 40 fowls each and
build houses for them in different
parts of the farm. For instance, if you
"have one henhouse on the east side of
the barn put another house on the
west side. Then if you have enough
birds put another house down by the
calf lot and another to the farther end
of the barn yard. A dozen different
places will suggest themselves if you
look for locations on your farm. If
you have made a failure in raising
chickens or your hens "don't amount
to much" try this method. It will sur-
prise and please you. Your hens will
!be healthier, will lay better and will
require less feed. The reason for thi3
will be easily seen when you have
•once tried it. Chickens, or anything
else for that matter, cannot stand
crowding. Also the colony plan gives
the fowls wider range and encourages
the birds to hunt for their living.—
H. U. Allen.
ROAD DUST.
Jt Is Greatly Appreciated by the
Chickens.
Doubtless you have noticed, when
tired, hot, perspiring and dusty, how
grateful and refreshing a cool bath
is, and what an aid it proves in
toning up the general health. A con-
siderate breeder will see that his
fowls enjoy this same comfort—only
in their natural way, a generous dust
bath.
A commodious box or large heap
of fine road dust should be kept in
easy reach of the fowls at all times.
This will greatly aid in keeping them
free from lice and vermin of all
kinds, and helps the plumage to re-
tain its natural brilliancy.
During the warm season a good
tupply of this dust should be gathered
and stoied in boxes and barrels for
use in the winter. It will be appre-
ciated by the fowls, and will be
found to benefit them in about the
same degree as in the summer time.
It is a good plan to sift the dust as
1t is gathered, discarding all the stones
and lumps. The fine dust should then
be placed in some dry place where
dampness will not affect It, until
wanted for use.
A HOME-MADE BROODER.
One Which Is Said to Give Satisfac-
tory Service.
The accompanying sketch shows
how to construct a brooder that will
not require much time to make, says a
correspondent in the Poultry Keeper.
RAISED FROM A SICK BED.
CAME AT INOPPORTUNE TIME.
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Inexpensive Brooder.
Secure a box and in the center of the
bottom cut a circular hole just large
enough to receive a common tomato
can. Holes are punched in the side of
the can and also a hole cut In its bof.-
tom large enough for a ly3-inch pipe.
A hole is then cut in the top of the
box for this pipe to extend through
from the top of the tomato can, which
rests on the bottom of the box, as
shown. A common lamp furnishes the
heat to the radiator formed by the to-
mato can.
Clean Eggs.
There is only one way to get clean
eggs, and that it to have clean nests
and clean poultry houses. An egg once
soiled is permanently soiled. The egg
when warm has around it a glutinous
substance that fixes the dirt on the
egg if the dirt comes when the eggs
are freshly laid. Hens that are kept
where they have to walk through dirty,
wet yardi, go into the nest3 with their
feet covered with mud. Tho mud from
th<Mr feet gets onto the fresh egg and
the- soiling is the result. Washing
will not undo the injury and such eggs
are* best used at home and not sent to
niwrket. A few such <'kks in a lot
will put the lot into the category of
"diirties" when the eggs are sold.
Eggs for the Incubator.
/ A great deal depends on the kind of
/ eggs you have to put in an incubator.
• The eggs should be fresh and from
' good healthy, vigorous stock. As the
eggs are gathered day by day they
should be kept where they will not get
too cold or too warm. Select eggs as
near an even size and color as pos-
sible. The eggs should be turned
once a day to keep the yolk suspended
In *he center. It is best not to keep
eggs more than two weeks. The
fresher they are the better.—O. W.
Watson.
Needs Variety.
One poultry writer truthfully says
that what the hen on the farm needs
.most is the proper assortment of grain
plenty of green food cud a full pro
portion of meal and grit. If this iu
provided and they are properly housed
and made to exercise you will havo
laying hens in winter when It puys
well to have them.
After Being an Invalid with Kidney
Disorders for Many Years.
John Armstrong. Cloverport, Kjr.,
says: "I was an invalid with kidney
complaints for many
years, and cannot
tell what agony I
endured from back-
ache. My limbs
were swollen twice
natural size and my
sight was weaken-
ing. The kidney se-
cretions were d ls-
colored and had a sediment. When I
wished to eat my wife had to raise
me up in bed. Physicians were un-
able to help me and I was going down
fast when I began using Doan's Kid-
ney Pills. After a short time I felt
a great improvement and am now as
strong and healthy as a man could be.
I give Doan's Kidney Pills all the
credit for it."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
DON'T LIKE LITTLE STRANGER.
Community Just Then Looked with
Disfavor on Wart Curers.
"I have come into this wild country
to tell my famous wart cure," an-
nounced the wandering faker.
"Wall, stranger," drawled Amber
Pete, "it would be advisable to leave
by the next stage. The last man that
introduced a wart cure in this section
is dead."
"Indeed! And what kind of a cure
was it?"
"Wall, he had some cotton in a
satchel and he told the boys if they
wanted to get rid of their warts all
they had to do was to rub the warts
with the cotton. It turned out to be
gun cotton."
"And did they get rid of the warts?"
"They did, and they got rid of the
wart doctor, also. That's his tomb-
stone by the borax mountain. Don't
step on it when you leave town,
stranger, and see that you leave town
early."
SKIN TROUBLES CURED.
Did Ever Youngster Welcome Advent
of Little Brother or Sister?
The mothers were talking shop.
"When little Harold came," said the
first mother, "his older brother Regi-
nald was very curious about him.
" 'Yes, Reggie, dear,' I told him, 'the
little baby is a Washington's birthday
present to us from the angels.'
"He frowned in thoughtful silence.
Then he said:
" 'Well, mamma, if we wrap him up
carefully and put him away and don't
use him, we can give him to some-
body else next Washington's birthday,
can't we?'"
The other mothers smiled and
sighed. The second eald:
"On the—er—advent of my little
Miriam, Hannah, our five-year-old, was
taken upstairs by the cook to see the
newcomer.
"Hannah looked her little sister over
sternly. Then, turning to the cook,
she said:
" 'Jane, you can keep that in the
kitchen.'"
Again the mothers smiled and sighed
and nodded sadly.
"Yes, it is always so," they said.
Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear-
ing quality of the goods. This trou-
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great-
er strength than other makes.
Gazetteer Humor.
Many specimens of unconscious hu-
mor are received by the editors of that
monumental work, the new Imperial
Gazetteer of India. A district was
said to be "an extensive rolling plain,
consisting of alternate ridges of bare
stony hills and narrow fertile valleys."
An interesting item of natural history
was afforded by the remark, "the buf-
falo differs from the cow in giving a
milk which is richer in fat, in voice,
and in having no hump."—London
Globe.
State or Onto, Citt or Tolido, I ,,
Lvoac Coutt. f
Frank J. Chkvey make* cnth that h« la senior
partner of tUe firm of F. J. Chknet & Co., doing
Duaint-M lu tho i lty of Toledo. County ami Butn
af •r«sald, and that said firm will pay the sum of '
ONE lU N'DHED DOLLARS for each and every
caao of Catarrh that cauoot be cured by the use of
iiall's Catabbu Curb.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my pruseuoe,
this tith day of Ducember, A. L>.. HUM.
A. W.0LEA90N,
Notabt Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure !• taken Internally and arts
dlrectlf on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
■ttieiii. Send for testimonial-, free.
F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O.
Bold by all DruggWtN. 75c.
Take Hall's Family rills for const!patton, r
When It Came to Raising.
"I hope, now that you've become a
young wife," said the enthusiastic
anti-race suicide lady, to the newly
wedded country girl, "you'll make good
use of your blessing and raise many
children.
"Wall," Spoke up tho rural husband,
who had overheard this utterance and
deemed it akin to interference, "a deal
o* her time outside th' kitchen'll b^
put t raisin' vegetables!"—Illustrated
Sunday Magazine.
The Entire Family.
Grand Pop used it for Rheumatism.
Had for Cuts, Sprains and Bruises
Mammy for Burns, Scalds and Aches.
Sis for Catarrh and Chilblains. I use
It for everything, and it never disap-
points any of us. It surely yanjts
any old pain out by the roots.
Hunt's Lightning Oil is what I am
telling you about.
Couldn't Catch Her.
"I've just been done in oil by P.
Allette Dauber," remarked Mrs. Old-
stock.
"Now isn't that too bad!" exclaimed
Mrs. Justgotlt. "One of them smooth
fellows tried to sell me a bunch of
oil stock a spell back and 1 turned him
down hard."
It Cures While You Walk.
Allen's Foot-Ka«e in a certain euro for
hot, sweating, callous, and awnllen, aching
feet. Sold by all I>rugnintH. Price 2.rx\ Don't
aooopt any xubftitutc. Trial package FRBfi.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, J^e Roy, N. Y.
Less Apt to Break.
"There's many a slip 'twixt the cup
and the lip," quoted the moralizer.
"Yes." rejoined the demoralizer, "lt'i
safer to drink out of a tin bucket."
It takes a woman to sit down and
cry when she happens to think what a
hard time her children might have had
if soma ether woman had been their
mother, ;
First Had Itching Rash—Threatened
Later With Blood-Poison in Leg—
Relied on Cuticura Remedies.
"About twelve or fifteen years ago
I had a breaking-out, and it itched,
and stung so badly that I could not
have any peace because of it. Three
doctors did not help me. Then I used
some Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Oint-
ment, and Cuticura Resolvent and
began to get better right away. They
cured me and I have not been bothered
with the itching since, to amount to
anything. About two years ago I
had la grippe and pneumonia which
left me with a pain in my side. Treat-
ment ran it into my leg, which then
swelled and began to break out. The
doctor was afraid It would turn to
blood-poison. I used his medicine
but it did no good, then I used the
Cuticura Remedies three times and
cured the breaking-out on ray leg. J. F.
Hennen, Milan, Mo„ May 13,1907."
Gentle Persuasion.
A young chap from the south, who
recently took up his residence in Bos-
ton with the purpose of pursuing cer-
tain technical studies at the Hub, en-
gaged board and lodgings at "a select
establishment" in Columbus avenue.
It was not long after his install-
ment therein that the southerner
found himself obliged to complain to
the landlady with reference to the
noisy doings of some of his fellow-
lodgers.
"The people in the room next to
mine," said he, "quarrel in a loud tone
regularly every evening much to my
distress. What's the trouble, any-
way?"
"Oh, you mustn't mind them," said
the landlady. "That occurs very often,
at least once a week. It's only Prof.
Whiteside, the hypnotist, trying to per-
suade his wife to go to the band con-
cert."—Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
Starch, like everything else, Is be-
/ng constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat-
est discovery—Defiance Starch—all in-
jurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in-
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap-
proached by other brands.
Watered Stock.
Edward R. Emerson, the president
of the American Wine Growers' asso-
ciation, came from Washingtonville to
New York the other day and lunched
in a Broadway cafe with an editor.
Mr. Emerson, naturally, is a con-
noisseur of wines. The editor deems
himself something of a connoisseur,
too, and introduced Mr. Emerson with
some pride to a Rhine wine, pre-
sumably of the famous '95 vintage.
"Well," he said, "how do you like
this Rhine wine, Mr. Emerson? De-
lirious, don't you think?''
"Not bad," said Mr. Emerson, "only
I fancy there's a trifle too much Rhine
in iL"
With a smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt-
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; it will havo the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to tho
iron.
"There's a man who buys cham-
pagne on a beer income." "How can
lie do it?" "lie's a brewer."—Louis-
ville Courier-Journal.
PUBLIC LAND OPENING.
245,000 acres of irrigated govern-
ment Land in Big Horn Basin, Wyom-
ing, will be thrown open for settlement
May 12, under the Carey Act, afford-
ing an opportunity to secure an irri-
gated farm at low cost on easy pay-
ments. Only 30 days residence is re-
quired. A report containing official no-
tice of the drawing, maps, plats, and
full information has been published
by the Irrigation Department, 405 |
Home Ins. Bldg., Chicago. Anyone in-
terested may obtain a free copy by ap-
plying to the Department.
SADLY MISTAKEN.
The extraordinary popularity of fine
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch a matter of great im-
portance. Defiance Starch, being free
from all injurious chemicals, is tho
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics. Its grcirt-M-jHingfch ^ a etiffen-
er makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with the result of
perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new.
He who lives but for himself leads
but a little life.—Damlcn.
Ata Sausages to Win Wife.
When Hefnrich was courting MarjH
he had a rival, one Johann Biermani^
Tho two met one evening at her homo
and got into a dispute as to their ca-
pacity for frankfurters.
In the demonstration which followed
' both ate 47 links, when Johann be-
came ill and had t #ke hors de com-
bat. Johann will^i^t as best man al
tho wedding.—Exchange.
Virtue is the first Tpfallty to be co®
sidered in the choice of a friend—"
j Johnson.
N
jgplgil
Hubby (disgustedly)—The doctor is
a fool.
Wifey—What's the matter, dear?
Hubby—He said I need exercise.
Think of It! Exercise! Exercise for
a man who has looked after his own
furnace all winter, and is now con-
templating the opening of the lawn
mower season!
HOW TO APPLY PAINT.
Greatest care should be taken when
painting buildings or implements
which are exposed to the weather, to
have the paint applied properly. No
excellence of material can make up
for carelessness of application, any
more than care in applying it can
make poor paint wear well.
Tho surface to be painted should be
dry and scraped and sandpapered
hard and smooth. Pure white lead
should be mixed with pure linseed oil,
fresh for the Job, and should be well
brushed out, not flowed on thick.
When painting is done in this manner
with National Lead Company's pure
white lead (trade marked with "The
Dutch Boy Painter") there is every
chance that the Job will be satisfac-
tory. White lead is capable of ab-
solute test for purity. National Lead
Company, Woodbrldge Building, New
York, will send a testing outfit free to
any one interested.
A Stayer.
"Mildred," said the prudent mamma,
"I want you to treat Mr. Ketchley, who
called on you last evening, with some
consideration and respect. He may
not be particularly handsome or at-
tractive, but he is sensible, well con-
nected, highly successful in business,
and is regarded as one of the coming
men."
"I wouldn't mind his being one of
the coming men," said Miss Mildred,
"if it didn't take him so long to go."
The Plain Plucker
If a burn or a bruise afflicts you rub It
on, rub it on.
Then before you scarcely know it the
trouble will be gone.
For an aching joint or muscle do tho
same.
It extracts all pains and poisons, plucks
the stings and heals the lame.
Hunt's Lightning Oil does it.
Two secrets of popularity are keep
a cheerful courage burning and say
nothing but pleasant things about peo-
ple or say nothing at all.
To insure the direct and quick cleans-
ing of the system, take Garfield Tea, the
Mild Herb Laxative. It purified the blood,
eradicates disease and bring* Good Health.
Seeking the Elusive.
It Is the dim haze of mystery that
adds enchantment to pursuit —
Rivarol.
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$210 Buys a Farm
Dr. Chas. F. Simmons has Cut Up His 95.000 Acre Ranch lust South ot
San Antonio and Will Sell You a Farm, ot From 10 Acres to
640 Acres, (Including Two Town Lots) tor $210.
Payable $10 per Month Without Interest.
DO YOI'H CI.OTIIKS LOOK Yl'.! I,OH f
If so, UM Red ('ron* H ill Kim It W1||
them white as snow. 2 oz. package j c< nts
No man is so prosperous that he can
afford to dispense with the rest of
mankind.
At
the
Change
W. N. U , Oklahoma City, No. 15, 1903.
San Antonio, Texas, April 22, 1907.
Dr. C. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Texas:
Dear Sir 1 have iuat returned from a trip over your AtaHcona County
properly, and to fay that 1 am surprised at what I saw, but fairly expresses
my feelings, i had expected Homethint; pretty Rood, because 1 have consid-
erable faith in your agento, whom 1 happen to know, but what 1 saw is far
beyond my expectation. 4
I drove hurriedly over probably twd'nfr-five miles of ground, pausing sev-
eral of your (lowing wells and tanks, ana I don't believe that there is aa
acre of ground that is not tit for first-class cultivation.
Upon my return to Little Rock I .shall take out several more shares
before they are gone, and will advise my friends all to take as many as the/
can afford. ♦ •
1 have just written to my brother in Indiana, advising him to do this on
my judgment.
I certainly think your proposition is ..f the most liberal propositions
I have ever seen offered, and I certainly think that the people of South Texas
will owe to you an everlasting debt of gratitude for the method you are
using to settle tin- writable garden of flSaen with new people.
1 thank you for the courtesies extended me en my recent visit, and I
trust the time will not be long when the division will occur, and I certainly,
shall return to Little Rock figuring on eventually coming back to Atascosa
County. Yours very truly, E. A. KI NOBLE Y,
City Engineer, Little Rock, Ark.
Write today for full particulars and photographs showing views on the ranch*
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