The Beaver Herald. (Beaver, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 20, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 29, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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FOR THE MAN WITH DEES.
An Uncapping Box Possessing Many
Excellent Features.
A few words In regard to the uncap-
ping box that I use. Tho upper boo
tlon that holds the clippings Is six
feet long 27 Inches wide and IS inches
deep. It has a heavy who screen bot-
tom n rim of narrow boards around
tho top with three cross-pieces to sup-
port the' combs. A spiko Is driven up
through the center of each of tho lat-
ter to rest tho frames upon when tin-
rapping tJio combs. Tho corners are
halved together in both sections.
Tlioro is a cover that fits on bee-tight.
The bottom section Is tho same size
only much shallower tho sides being
only live Indies deep. The ends are
seven Inches deep in tho middle but
nro reduced to five at tho ends. To
help support tho screen above a board
seven Inches wldo Is placed lengthwise
of tho lower section. To tho bottom
of this framo is nailed a sheet of gal-
vanized Iron six feet and one-halt inch
long and enough wider than tho bot-
tom so that an edge can bo turned up
A Mammoth Uncapping Box.
all round nailed fast and pour.Ccd
down so as to make a smooth edge
and a tight joint. At each corner is
nailed a piece of board as long as tho
end pieces nro wldo at tho middle.
These plecc3 furnish what might bo
called legs and keep tho box firm in
aa upright position. Each section is
furnished with handles made from
tugs cut from an old harness. There is
a honey gato at one end of the lover
section.
Here are some of tho advantages
of thl3 box explains a writer in Deo
Keepers' Review. Tho cuppings can
be spread out over a largo surface
which allows tho honey to drain out
much more freely than it does In a
small box or can; there is not only
plenty of room to spread them out but
they can bo stirred occasionally with
a garden rake; there is room and a
place to hang the combs after they
aro uncapped where tho drip will go
into tho box and they nro in a very
convenient position for tho mnn who
puts them into tho extractor as ho
has only to reach out with l;!s right
hand and pull a comb towards him;
there is room for three or oven moic
men to work at uncapping at tho samo
time; then their toes can go under
tho cdgo of tho box which allows
them to lean against the sldo of tho
'nox. Tho latter may seem llko a small
point but it counts for a lot in a long
day's work. Tho box may bo painted
black furnished with a cover mado
from sheet Iron when if set out in tho
sun the heat will go up from 110 to
120 degreos and practically all of tho
honey will run out especially If tho
cuppings are stirred occasionally.
Tho uncapping knives should be
kept as Bliaip as possible and somo
means provided to keep them in hot
or warm water. An extra knlfo or
two is an advantage ns It gives oppor-
tunity to exchange a cold knife for a
hot one. Knives ought to be ns light
as possible yet strong onough for tho
work; and a support in tho shank for
the thumb and finger is an advantage.
A HEN WATERING PAIL.
How It Can Be Made from Old Pall or
Butter Tub.
I send you a sketch of a pall wo aro
using for watering and giving mllktto
chickens writes n correspondent of
Rural Now York. They will not soil
the feed because they don't stand on
Good Watering-Pall for Fowl.
tho top. Take a candy pall nnd put a
hoop six inches from bottom of pall;
tako off tho top hoop then saw out
threo live-inch slots down near to the
hoop for tho fowls to reach through.
Better then glvo n coat of linseed oil
then two coats of pntnt and koep in
tho shade. Ours has worked a year
and yet looks now.
Break Up Old Crockery.
Old earthen and china dishes that
havo been thrown out should be
broken up into small bits by uso of n
hammer. It Is better than gravel or
oyster shells for grit There need be
no fear of feeding too much.
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A C'JOD POULTRY NCST.
Trap Nest Which Can Be Made Out
of Grocery Box.
A useful trap nest can be made of
grocery boxes. Those 1 have aro 12
inches each way
explains tho corre-
spondent of Farm
and Home. Tho
illustration shows
how they are
made. In the cut(
the trap is set read for tho hen to
enter. A cleat e 13 fastened to a
small piece of cord which Is tied to a
nail on tho side of the box. Set the
trap by raising it and resting tho
cleat on th nail with the oilier end
uudor tho aim marked a. This leaves
an opening from four to six inches
wide which is not enough for the bun
to enter. In going into the nest she
will be obliged to raise the trap door
which will let the cleat fall thus clos-
ing tho trap after the hen has gone In.
I made the trap door tho arms and
the cleats out of lath. Leave a little
space between tho boards in tho walls
so tho heat can escape otherwise it
will be too warm In summer. The
bottom board b in front should be
three or four Indies wldo and the
lower piece of the trap door should
rest against this so the hen cannot
get her head through ralso tho trap
and get out.
I have bands on one leg of each of
my hens and a record sheet on which
I keep account of the eggs laid by
each. It la somo bother to have trap
nests but I get more eggs since I
havo used them because I do not have
to keep tho hens that aro poor lay-
ers. I go to the henhouse every four
hours to look after tho nests and each
time I take something along to give
them thnt would otherwlso go to
waste. Mrs. Mollie Wachendorf Wau-
kesha county Wis.
BAD EGGS BARRED.
How They Spot the Careless Farmers
In Denmark.
Although the average person has lit-
tle chance to guard against bad eggs
in tho United States in Denmark they
apparently have solved tho bad egg
problem. In that country there aro
syndicates which control tho egg in-
dustry and It Is their duty to keep tab
on the farmers who aro in tho habit
of shipping bad eggs to tho market.
The headquarters of this egg syndi-
cate of course is Copenhagen tnd tho
members of it are tho farmers them-
selves. Tho members of this csg syn-
dicate throughout tho country aro pro-
vided with rubber stamps which bear
tho serial number of tho member's
certificate ns well as a number for tho
egg. Each egg is thus stamped with
tho farmor's name on it with indelible
ink. No eggs are accepted that do not
bear a stnnip. So this stnmp is a
guaranteo of quality. When tho eggs
aro examined in Copenhagen if they
aro found to bo" bad tho shipper re-
ceives notice nnd is compelled to pay
a fine averaging about ono dollar of
our money. If ho makes many ship-
ments of bad eggs ho Is very quickly
expelled from tho syndicate; thus all
bad and not perfectly fresh eggs aro
either sold to tho village grocer or
used at home. It has been found that
this system works admirably in keep-
ing tho open market stocked with eggs
that nro guaranteed to bo in good con-
dition. It is likewise stntod by offl-
cers of tho syndicate that very fow of
tho members havo ever been delin-
quent with their flne3.
HAWK SCARER.
Merely a Glass Bottle But It Is
Effective.
I havo tried this plan of kcoplng
away chicken hawks and it succeeds
says a wrltor in
Farmers' Mall and
Breczo. Take pint
or qunrt slzo
clear glass bottles
fill two-thirds full
of water and cork
tight. Tie end of
strong cord
around tho neck
of ench and tto
the other end around tho small
ends of lG-foot poles so neck
of bottle Is about one foot from
pole. Sharpen largo end of polo
and set in the ground. Set tho pole3
every ten or 20 lods clear around tho
chicken range. The wind blowing
against the bottlo causes It to swing
and turn around and at the same timo
tho sun shining on the bottlo of water
makes It throw beams of light In sev
oral directions. When tho hawk see3
this ho darts away as though he had
been shot at.
BARNYARD CACKLES.
"When roosters crow It is timo tl at
they go" Is a common motto among
many poultry raisers.
It Is a good plan to separate tho
cockerels and pullets aB soon as tho
sexes can be distinguished.
You will find It a bettor Investment
if you will train your fowls to como tc
you Instead of running from you with
fright.
Sloppy mashes aro not good for feed-
ing chickens my! if kept up ex-
cessively they Will eventually breed
disease.
Lack of vigor Is one thing to bo
looked after. None but strong- g-
orous stock should bo allowed in Ilia
breeding pens.
With n cement or brick floor under
tho pen nnd fine wire netting for te
enclosure thero Is small danger ot
rats or other animals getting at tht
smnll chicks '
WHY DO BIRDS
YEARLY MIGRATION OF FEATH-
ERED H03TS AN UNEX-
PLAINED MYSTERY.
OBSERVING NOCTURNAL FLIGHT
Can Be Seen with Opera Glass Cross-
ing Face of Moon Aristotle's
Kinglet Other Points in Con-
nection with This Species.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.
(Associate Member American Ornltliol-
ovists' I'nton.)
(CopyrlKht Joseph 11. Howies.)
Who shall explain tho mystery of
Iho migration? Regularly every year
at the first pulsing of tho spring and
nt the first chilling ot the fall the
great bird army takes up Us march of
migration. Why?
For centuries scientists havo been
striving to answer the question. An-
swers havo been given by tho Bcoro
but fls yet tho answer is to como
which shall spell satisfaction to the
multitudes who wonder nt the mys-
tery. It we conceive for a moment of a
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Fish Ducks from Life.
condition In which an army of birds
newly sprung to life finds itself in a
emperato country with foraging con-
ditions of tho best and then suddenly
finds Itself faco to face with frost and
famine wo can understand why the
army pressed by hunger and cold
should tako up tho march for another
and a better camping ground.
Let us consider next that tho bird
army has left frost and famine behind
and has found a placo of warmth and
plenty. Tho months pass on tho ell-
.mate remains genial and tho food
supply remains abundant yet thero
aro signs of restlessness in tho ranks
of tho feathered hosts. Tho fields and
the forosts of tho southland at sun-
Set still hold tho army in battalions
and regiments but search at sunrise
land not even a straggler remains.
What Is it that has sent tho birds
ack to tho country which less than
.six months ago chilled them and
starved them Into tho deserting ot Its
jborders? No ono knows nnd thero
'aro thoso scientists who unlike most
of their brothors who never aro willing
jto admit any problem unsolvablo aro
not backward in saying that tho mi-
gration will remain a mystery until
tho end of time.
Arlstotlo 300 and moro yenrs boforo
Christ wroto of tho yearly movements
of tho birds. Tho scientist of today
Is writing upon tho same subject and
it may bo that tho scientist of moro
than 20 centuries hence will wrlto of
the migration and end his writings
with tho samo old Interrogation.
It has been said that tho birds fcol
tho touch ot frost and famlno and im-
mediately take up their march. This
is truo only In part for with somo
species tho southward flying movo-
ment begins in August boforo there Is
even a suspicion of tho yellowing of
tho leaf or a smack of frost in tho air
of tho night.
In tho month of September the war-
blers (family Mnlotlltldao) hurry
southward. Countless thousands of
thcin pass over tho city and country
In tho darkness of tho night. Tlioy aro
mites of creatures theso warblers be-
ing but a degree or two removed in
slzo from tho humming-birds and the
kinglets yet they undertake unchart-
Golden-Crowned Kinglet.
ed Journeys that for peril and distance
would strike terror to tho heart of
mnn armed though ho ho with reason
and foresight
Tho weaker birds seem to prefer tho
night timo migration. William Hrow-
ster of Cambridge Mass. has settled
this point probably definitely.
Ho belloves tho reason tho wrens
the warblors tho vlrcos and all tho
thrush family except tho robin profor
tho night Journey Is because they are
afraid of tho exposure by daylight or
nro unablo to continue such Journeys
"day nttor day without losing much
timo In stopping to search for food.
By taking tho nights for traveling they
can dovoto the days entirely to feed.
"Bold restless strong-winged birds
migrate cblofly or vor; freely by day
because being accustomed to seek
their food in open situations they aro
Indifferent to concealment and being
further able to accomnlish lone ills.
J Unces rapidly and with slight fatigue
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FLY SOUTH?
they can ordinarily spnio suniclont
time by tho way for brief stops in
places where food Is abundant nnd cas'
lly obtained. Under cortnln conditions
however n3 when crossing largo
bodies of water or regions scantily
supplied with food they nro sometimes
obliged to trnvol partly or porhaps
oven exclusively by night. Excellent
examples aro tho robin (Morula)
horned lark (Octocorls) and most Ic-
teiidao (bobolinks blackbirds and orl
oles).
"Illrds of easy tireless wing whlc'i
habitually feed In tho air or over very
extenslvo uveas mlgrato exclusively
by day bocauso being nblo either to
obtain their usual supply of food n
they fly or to accomplish tho longest
Journeys so rapidly that they do not
requlro to feed on tho way they are
under no necessity of changing their
usual habits. The best examples nro
swnllows swifts and hnwks."
If you who read this artlclo on tho
migration wish to havo an experience
thnt will appeal to you as being llttlo
short of startling tako a Held glass
with a two-Inch lens and focus It upon
the full moon nnd then tnko up a
nightly vigil. If conditions bo favor-
able you will koo clearly tho forms
of the southward flying birds ns they
pass across tho moon's fnce.
There is no cxporlonco known to tho
bird student perhaps which hna tho
Interest thnt Is hold by this midnight
study. It Is of course bottor to have
for observing purposes a telcscopo of
power so arranged thnt tho arm of the
obsorvor need not lire nt Its task. It
follows necessnrlly that tho lnrgor and
moro powerful tho glass tho more sat-
isfactory will bo tho resulte. For ono
fairly famlllnr with tho form and
flight ot birds It Is possible with
night's shadows falling all about to
distinguish and to call by namo tho
songsters as they scurry across tho
faco of tho moon.
If the placo of observation bo elevat-
ed tho interest is heightened by the
fact that while tho images of tho birds
fall upon tho oyo their notes as they
call to ono another through tho semi-
darkness drop tinkling down upon tho
ear. Though you may seo thorn not
bocauso their pathway docs not hap-
pen to -cross that of your lino of vision
yet you mny rccogn'zo tho call of tho
grosbeak tho twlttor of the swallow
or tho "chink" of ttio blackbird as It
marking tho timo for each successfo.
wing stroke
Ono observor moro lucky than lis
follows saw a sparrow hawk Btop sud-
denly In Its flight seemingly In tho
very heart of tho moon and thero
hover fully a minute whllo Its wings
boat with llghtning-llko rapidity to
koep It nt Its chosen hovorlng point
Tho sparrow hawk thus poises before
Barn Swallow on the Wing.
striking and what llttlo straggler of
tho great bird army fell a victim to
that hawk's rapacity can only bo a
matter of conjecture.
Thousands upon thousands ot birds
nro killed every year by (striking
against tho panes of tho llghthouseE
which line tho coasts of lakos nnd
seas. The blrd3 become bowllderod by
fog and rain nnd are attracted by the
light which is meant to bo a beacon
of safety for tho travelers by sea but
which proves to bo tho luro to destruc-
tion of tho wanderer of tho air. Ob
sorvntlons havo been mado systcmat
Ically at nearly ull tho lighthouses
under government control nnd tho fig-
ures of bird mortality aro startling
Tho student ot tho birds finds lilmsch
wondering whon ho contemplates tht
slaughter In tho bird ranks duo to the
shotgun and tho killings duo to foj
and storm that tho question of tht
migration of tho birds does not cease
to bo of Interest bocauso thoro aro nc
blrdB left to mlgrato.
Just a word on tho good that tht
warblors do. In a govornment roport
prepared by F. E. L. Renl of tho bio-
logical survey this appears: "Althougt
warblors aro individually small theli
numbers aro great and tho quantity ol
Insects they destroy in tho aggregate
must bo large. In tho month of May
when tho apple trees hnvo pxpanded
rosettes of small leaves and (lower
buds a multltudo of wnrblers of sev
eral species wero seen going through
an orchard examining theso rosottes
nnd npparontly picking something
from each. An investigation of tho
trees not yot reached by tho warblers
showed that each rosetto contained
from ono to a dozen largo plant llco
whllo a slmllnr Investigation of tha
trees explored by tho birds rovealed
fow of theso insects."
Watch sharply during Soptomber fo
a dnytlmo migration of tho hawks.
Some morning or nftcrnoon you arc
certain to see tho birds of proy flying
in great numbers over city nnd coun
try. I havo watched them travollng
over tho city from suurlso to sunset
on ono day and far into tho nfternoor
of tho noxt. You will seo thorn from
tho great rough-loggod hawk tr
red-tall tho red-shouldered and ttt
others down to tho diminutive spar
row hawk sailing over sailing sou'2i
ward across the blue.
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Art of
the Flirt
Uy IIUGUES IX ROUX
Notoi Trench Author.
X A"MHHICAK woninn nlrcntly a philosopher still a bit of a
Puritan suggests this definition of llirtntion:
"It is" says she "Iho sentimental association of tho two
sccs in n land whore tho man docs not dominntu tho woman."
Ono could not put it hotter if llirtntion were only n con-
versation. Hut between the conversation which is quite puro
nnd the (conversation which is called criminal because it is a
breach of tho vows tho married woninn has made there is tho
conversation what shall I call it? tho venial conversation
in which the dialoguo is out tip by silences. And for such flir-
tations a discreet nnd terrible definition has been found infinitely vague
and infinitely precise at least you know it? and bo in this I am not
passing aerob'S your illusions like a too hot wind mixing tho earth of tho
garden with tho purity of the frozen snov:
"All oxcopt all."
"All?" Thnt is understood. "Except all?" That is also understood.
It is the pleasure of the lion tamer. You havn scon thorn as t havo
thoso daring women who with look and with whip attack tho roaring lion.
Doubtless they would not approach tho beast in the desert where ho has
the certainty of his royalty and tho experience of his strength. They tompt
fortune only with a subject with whom they havo long been familiar and
who born in the menagerie i3 ignorant of tho respect that is his duo.
Tust tho same like temptresses they dure him with a little dizziness behind
their boldness to eco what is going to happen. Soon they tiro of making
him give his paw and jump through ring3. They open his mouth they
plunge their rash little heads into thoso devouring jaws. I know. 1 know;
they count upon their presence of mind to withdraw themselves from peril
nt the right moment lint tho jaws of lions aro mado to close upon what
is put into them and universal experience teaches us that occasionally as
soon as pretty tamers introduce their charming heads into tho mouth of
Sullan suddenly Sultan closes his crushing machine upon tho temptution
ho could not resist.
"Vc havo ascertained that all the men in tho United Stales seem to
belong to ono class they aro all men who havo hopes 1
In tho samo way passing from fnctory to ofllcc from offlco to college
from college to societ' wc ascertain that all tho women of the United
States are of tho same essence. They are not born as with us peasants
artisans shop girls young bourgeoises heiresses to castles. They nro.
born purely and simply Americans. It is one and the samo seed falling up-
on dido rent soils. Transplantation from a poor soil to a rich soil is enough
to turn a honeysuckle into ono of thoso large double hcavy-pctalcd rosea
which ore called "American Ueautics." Now tho quality tho distinctive
mark which these "American Beauties" owe to their seed itself unique is
woman question is by no means new. Prehistoric woman it may safely bo
assumed was already in the movement and tho remains of embryonic
JLorms of modern Suffragettes have certainly been found amongst tho
fossils of the Silurian strata. Thero is no "now woman" under the sun.
"Woman has always been the spoiled child of tho planet. Like all
spoiled children she is now a thorn in the side of those who cherished and
loved her when all tlic world was young. Poets who aro seldom men of
tho world pninlcrs who aro generally experts in the llcsh and novelists
who make copy out of tho Prince of Darkness himself all havo conspired
to give to woman a collossal conceit of herself. They havo rather overdone
tho adulation of their own especial heroines and even the best of women
havo found it a hard task to endeavor to live up to their ideals. Tho
poet's woman was always bo very very good that compared with her tho
average woman was positively horrid. The painter's ideal endowed woman
with a beauty and glamour that was positively unearthly. Did any ono
oyer seo any woman like those so presented on canvas presented at court
or any other purely mundano function? Alas) those beauties of the brush
aro as seldom met with in fact or in Fleet street ns the palpitating crea-
tions of tho poet's pen. '
It is nevertheless clear thut woman has taken herself at tho valuation
put upon her by the virtuosi in paint and printer's ink. Sho prides her-
self therefore on her having just stepped out of her gilded frame or
escaped from tho oppressive atmosphere of a b!x-
thilling "shocker" to seo how things are bogging
along in our drab and prosaic world. A goddess thus
descending as it were from tho clouds is always
a condescending goddess. So wc have become accus-
tomed to bo patronized by tho printed woman and
plagued by tho painted one. Put in our heart of
hearts wo have long ago plumped for the plain woman
who has been neither printed painted nor puffed in-
to ait undue estimate o hpr merely human attributes.
This is after all tho kind of woman whose place in
Nature is in tho hearts of men.
Divorce
Unusual
a Century
Ago
By HELEN 0LDFIELD.
tion of affairs which could not bo altered and which it only could be hoped
to make the best of. Divorco was so unusual a to be considered as scarce-
ly short of disgrace and the woman who had children for those children'!)
sake would endure to the limit of strength and of life rather than resort
to its help. Moreover it was regarded by our ancestors merely as a matter
of wliat they called "proper pride" that dirty linen should bo washed in
private behind locked doors and drawn blinds.
When a man or woman awakes to tho bitter consciousness that mar-
ringo is not all that fancy imagined it would bo; when tho beloved falls
6hort of fond expectations and the sharp pang of disillusionment is felt
the brave thing to do is not to give way to vain and fruitless regret to
vcep and to wail; still less to utter reproaches which do harm rather than
good; but to hide the sad fact if such concealment is possible and valiant-
ly to set to work to make the best of things ; to gather up the fragments oi
the broken idol and piece them together as well as rnav be. - .
Brought to Point
o Perfection by
American Woman
MMMMHMIM
It is much to be doubted whether allow
ing for the increase in population the num-
ber of unhappy marriages nowadays is pro-
portionately larger than it was a century
or two ago. It scarcely is to be denied
that there is more talk about it.
Our forcmothcrs nnd forefathers some-
limes made sad mistakes in marriage but
as u rule they kept tho fact of their hav-
ing done so as far as possible to themselves.
Murrir.go in thoso days was regarded as
final and as practically indissoluble. Wom-
en especially wore taught to accept the situ-
ation as something foreordained a condi
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