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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1909)
I WrHk Groceries Oh! Mam We don't sell just "Ham." We sell Armour's "Star." The ham of hams "The Ham what am." L , " BEAL 123 BOX BUTTE AVENUE Alliance - Wholesale and Retail Dealers in APPLES and PRODUCE Buy and Ship POTATOES for which the highest mar ket price is always paid wmmmsmmKmmmmmmmmmmmmBmmmmmmmmmmmKmmmmmmm ' " " ' iviariSOiv fletcher FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY REPRESENTS THE FOLLOWING INSURANCE COMPANIES. Hartford Fire Insurance Company. North American of Philadelphia. Phoenix of Dlooklyn. New York. Continental of New York City. Niagara Fire Insurance Company. lonneciicuii nro Commercial Union Assurance Co.. London uormania tiro ins. Co. Kocuestor uortnan ins. to. Statu of Omaha Office Uo-Stnlrs.rietchcr niock. ALLIANCE HOSPITAL GRADUATED NURSES IN ATTENDANCE HOSPITAL STAFF Dr. Belhvood, Dr. Bowman, Dr. Hand, Dr. Copsey Open to All Reputable Physicians. Address all communications to THE MATRON, ALLIANCE HOSPITAL, Alliance, Nebraska. I H fEHbSaHKflHB- bt?i?j Mf I tmjh WW m W fflBWi II iiliv.F k V7 N MtHLHiBHHIHirHWaiSmi m iHIUHKMHi v i... 5WfirC3SJ 1 I WPj'.jIjiLjiil.1 :&&,UiiiiJE3m -- " Acheson Bros, fl Refrigerators ce Cream Gasoline Stoves and Ranges OPERA HOUSE BLOCK and Meat Jas. Graham U ON THE BROS. 3ST e To x a. b 3s: a Liverpool. London and Globe Ins. Co. German American Ins. Co., New York. Now Hampshire Columbia Fire Insuranco Company. Philadelphia Underwriters. Phoenix Ins. Jo.. Hartford. Conn Flromans Fund Insurance Co. Wallace's Transfer Line U - r riV 1 v-I -x -J r -j iiuuacuummjvua . mrrn nrnmnr v and transfer work solicited. Phone i Frank Wallace, Prop'r. rut. - t?y-?j-i ' VHP Boards of all descriptions for any part of a house or barn. DierksLuraber &Coal Co. Phone 22 D. Waters, Mgr. Freezers CORNER HOLSTEN'S Headquarters for School Supplies TABLETS NOTE BOOKS COMPOSITION BOOKS NOTE PAPER PENCILS PENS, INKS CHALK CRAYONS COLORED CRAYONS ERASERS and PAINTS RULERS GIVEN AWAY AT HOLSTEN'S Shoe Repairing PROHPTLY DONE All Work Strictly First-Class fl. D. Nichols BOX BUTTE AVENUE ist door north of Herald office . id. nsnETW Al'CTIONI.ER ELLSWORTH, NEBR. Col. New has had 25 years' experience and is one of the most successful auctioneers in the northwest. Dates made at this office. When a Plumber is Needed send for us. We have plenty of time now lo attend to all classes of work This is not our busy season and it will pay you to have your PLUMBING, HEATING, FITTING, etc., attended to now before the rush of work begins. We are thoroughly posted in our business and an order from you will promptly put all our knowledge and Bkill at vour service. The cost will not be great. Fred Bren nan FACTS Q The news items of the home com munity. jThe things in which you are most interested. J The births, weddings, deaths of the people you know. J The social affairs of our own and surrounding towns. These aro the kind of fact IhU paper tirei you in Try iue. They are certainlf worth the iubcript!oa price. jMmmMmmW k. www Making Money On the Farm X. Poultry Houses and Equipment By C. V. GREGORY. Author of "Homo Course In Modern Agriculture" Copyright, 1909, by American fret Annotation FOR tlio mouoy invested nnd work applied poultry Is onu of the most prolltnhlo buIo Hues on the farm. Indeed, ninny farms re run at n profit with poultry nlone. If poultry Is ptofltahlu on n place where nil tho feed must ha bought It should be doubly so on the general farm, where much of Its feed Is made up of waste products. Too often tho work of caring for tho poultry Is left to the women and chil dren. Much of It la light work that they can do all right, but tho inau of the plnce should not consider it be neath his dignity to lend n helping hand when It Is needed. if poultry is to be kept at a profit Boino kind of shelter other than tho machine shed, tho apple trees or tho cow stnblo will hnvo to bo provided. A good, warm poultry houso is abso lutely necessnry If winter eggs nro to be secured, At SO to CO cents n dozen Winter egga will soon pay the coat of building n house of this kind, to Bay nothing of the superior health of the Hod;. The theory that poultry docs best when left to Its own resources Is about exploded lu enlightened communities, it has been demonstrated over and over again that no form of domestic creature kept for profit responds more readily to good treatment than this same barnyard fowl. 'That It has al ways more than paid Its way even when neglected shamefully is but nn indication of what It would do under better tteatnient. Locating the Poultry House The poultry house should be loented near the other buildings. The chick ens will go to the barnynrd to scratch nnyway. and If the poultry houso Is -rt&Pss- "JKtoiZ 21 yu&r - FIO. XIX SMALL l'OUIiTHY IiOUSE. too far away they will roost In tho barns and sheds rather than return to It The poultry house should not be too far from tho dwelling either, in order that it may uot be too Incon venient to care for the poultry. The ground where it Is placed should be fairly high and naturally well drained. A damp poultry houso fosters all sorts of diseases. The slw of the poultry houso de pends uhiu the number of fowls kept, it is estimated that about live square feet of tloor spate should be allowed per fowl. If they can be out of doors most of the time they can get along with considerably less. Tho best kind of house to build Is the scratching shed type, built with u shed roof. The high Bide should bo to the south. About half of this house should be parti tioned off for a scratching shed. Tho south side of this shed part is to bo left open, covered only with wiro net ting to keep tho fowls in. If tho back and sides of this room nro tight and the bottom boarded up a foot or two there will be little draft and tho fowls will be comfortable oven in the coldest weather. The iloor of this shed part may be of dirt and should be kept covered with several inches of straw. The remainder of the liouso should have n tloor, preferably of cement. A cement floor Is easily kept elenu nnd Is little more expensive than a wooden one. The chief ndvantngo Is that It keeps out rats and other crmln better than any other kind of tloor. Neither does It furnish any crevices In which lice nnd mites can hide. The.se pests nre the worst enemies to poultry cul ture, and care should be taken hi build ing u house to leave as few cracks whero they can hide na possible. Value of a Curtain Front. There should bo several windows in the south side of the house to supply light. Light Is one of the best disin fectants. It docs much to keep tho fowls free from dlsensc and happy and contented. To provide for ventilation there Is nothing equal to the "curtain front." This Is a largo squaro of mus lin fitted into a frame tho same as a window. This allows n gradual ad mission of fresh air without drafts. The exchange of air takes place .slowly enough, so that it docs not "lower the temperature of the houso too much. Considerable light comes through the curtain also, and less heat escapes through It at night than through glass windows. The curtain has tho further advantage of being cheap. No poultry I -.we should be put up without one. vVhelher built of lumber or of some n!Kr material.- the poultry liouso ebould be tight. Drop siding Is good material for the hide walls. A single wall Is the cheapest nnd answers the purpose vory well. It costs only n llt tlo extra, howevor, to lath and plaster tho inbldc, and buch a house Is more " "" . J. .A HI . It.. . . -VW. - . , 1 desirable in regions where tho winters nro extremely cold. It docs not pay to paper the Inside of tho house, na tho Dittos will And a congenial homo bo tween the paper nnd the wall. Roottc and Nest Doxes. Part of the main part of the houso should be given ovor to roosts nnd the rest used for nest hoses. It Is hotter to have the roosts nlong the north side A muslin curtain in ranged on a roller, so that It can be lot down lu front of tho fowls on cold nights, does much to keep them comfortnble. The roosting space to be allowed to each fowl Is s to tvole Inches, according to size. Two by fours set edgewise, with tho sharp corners rounded off, make good roosts. They should be set'In notches, fo that they can be easily removed to ho cleaned nnd disinfected. The drop pings should be removed every week or two nnd not left for a year, as Is so often done. If plenty of straw Is used on the cement under the roosts It la hut n short Job to throw the excrement out of a hole back of the roostB nnd put In fresh bedding. It la labor that will bo well repaid, for a clean, sweet smelling houso Is essential to egg pro duction. A little slaked lime thrown around under the roosts helps to keep down bad rdors. Sprinkling the houso with coal tnr dip nnd whitewashing tho roosts nnd walls onco In awhile aro also good practices. The nest boxes should be provided with a cover and so Arranged ns to bo dark and secluded Inside, na the hens prefer to lay In this kind of plncc. Where n specialty Is made of poultry It pays to use trap nests. Those aro bo arranged that the hen Is caught when bhe goes In to Iny and cannot get out until tho attendant comes along nnd releases her. lly having tho hens numbered with leg bauds a record can bo kept of the eggs laid by ench one. Thus those thnt never lny can be culled out nnd sent to the butcher nnd the egga of the highest producing ones kept for raising pul lets to Increase the flock. In this way the average egg yield enn be lncronsed considerably. It Is Important In this connection to make especial note of those hens which do most of their laying in the winter months, ns they are of considerably more vnlue than the ones thnt lay In the summer, when eggs nro cheap. Yards and Fences. On the farm there Is little need for many yards about tho poultry house. The chief need for fences Is to keep the poultry away from the garden nnd house. For this purpose woven wlro fence with hexagonal meshes Is best The meshes should be small enough at the bottom to keep out tho small chick ens. The wlro should not bo. smaller than eighteen or nineteen gauge. An Important point to look to Is the gab vanlzlng. This gnlvanlzlng is n layer of zinc that is coated over the wlro to keep It from rusting. Thero nro two methods of galvanizing, known ns "aft er" and "before." Tho former is ap plied to fencing galvanized after it is woven nnd tho Intter to thnt galvanized before. The "after" galvanized fenc ing can be told from the fact that tho Joints where the cross wires nro twist ed together nre filled with zinc. When tho wlro Is galvanized beforo weaving tho zinc is cracked moro or less in the weaving process nnd rust readily gets n foothold. The "after" galvanized wire sometimes costs n little more, but it lasts about five times as long. Coops. Tho chief equipment, aside from houses and fences, is coops. It Is more economical to mnko these fairly large, so us to hold n hundred chickens or so. A coop sixteen feet long, two feet wide nnd about two feet high In front, with tho roof sloping toward the back. Is convenient nnd cheap. It can be dl vldcd Into eight or ten compartments nnd will do for ns many hens and their broods. The partitions should be about six feet long nnd a foot high. Thla will allow them to project In front nbout four feet Laths aro nailed nlong the front and over the tops of theso parti tion boards, making n little runway In front of each coop. One of the laths should bo removable to let tho lien lu and out as soon as tho chicks are big enough to follow her nbout. While such coops nro cheap, they have one serious fault, and that la that they are not big enough for the chickens after they get to bo two or FIO. XX SELF VEKDINO UOri'KK. thrco months old. "Thero is no place like home" to chickens, nud it Is a great deal of trouble to teach them tc forsake .their coops and go Into the poultry houso nights. This trouble can be avoided by building a number of small colony houses. A convenient sizo for these houses is 8 by 10 feet. Buch a houso will hold a hundred chicks until they nre nearly full growu It may bo built on the same plan ai the main poultry house without tb scratching shed part. It should be built on runners, bo that it can be hauled about from ono place to an othor, as is most convenient. Thes colony houses nro practically Indlspou sable v hen poultry raising la conducted on a large bcale. In such case It Ii best to build thche houses in n Bubstnn tint fashion, bo thnt they may be used many seasons. Ah much attention should also be glvon to keeping them in good sanitary condition as Is due the malu poultry house. Miss M. Ruth Taylor TEACHER OF PIANO 324 West Idaho. Phone 205 Edith M. Swan TEAOllIAlt OI5 PIANO, HARMONY and Musical History Studio 424 Loromto Avcnuo t'hnnn VI J f ' GEO. W.MILLER GRADUATE PIANO TUNER Repairing a Specialty Phono G03 507 Sweetwater Ave. WILLIAM MITCHELL, ATTORNEY AT uaw, ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA. EUGENE BURTON Attorney at Law Office In rooms formerly occupied by U, C. Noleman, First Nal'l Bank blk 'Phono 180. ALLIANCE, NEB. H. M. BULLOCK. Attorney at Law, AJLLIA-TNOIS, ISIBB. WILCOX & BROOME LAW AMI LANO ATTORNEYS. Long experience in state and federal courts and as Register and Receiver U. S. Land Office is a guarantee for prompt and efficient service. Offlco in Land Offlco llutldlnR. ALLIANCE - Nr.llHASKA. DR. G. W. MITCHELL, Physician nno Sargeoa Day nnd night cells. OOlooovor Uoruo Btoro. Phono 150. Drs. Copper noil & Petersen OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS (Successors to Drs. Frey & Uftlfo) Over Norton's Store Office Phono 43, Residenco 20 DR. O. L. WEBER DISEASES OF Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Scientific Refraction GEO. J. HAND, UO.M EOPATIIIC PHYSICIAN AND SUKQEON Formerly Interne Homeopathic Hos pital University ot Iowa. Phono SSI. OfUce over .Alliance Shoe Btore Residence Phono 51. DR. C. H. CHURCHILL PHYSICIAN" AND SEHGEON (Successor to Dr, J, E. Moore) OFFICE IN FLETCHER BLOCK Offlco hours 11-12 a.m., 2-4 p.m. 7:20-9 p.m. Office Phone 62 Res. Phone, 85 H. A. COPSEY, M. D. PliTHlclan and Surgeon Phono 300 Culls answered promptly day and night from odllco. Qlllces: Alliance National Bank Uulldlng over the Post Olllce. RrCHAsTETsLAGLE WITH DR. BELLWOOD Special Attention Paid to Eye Work Drs. Bowman & Weber PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS First National Bank Iildg. Rooms 4-5-6 Office hours, 10 to 12 a. m., 1:30 to 4, 7 to 8 p. m. Office Phone 65 Res. Phone 16 & 184 Dr. H. R. Belville All first-class up-to-date work done in most careful manner PHONE 167 Opera House Block Alliance, Nebr. T, J. THRELKELD, Undertaker and Embalmer OFFICE PHONE 498 RES. PHONE 207 ALLIANCE, NEBR. THE GADSBY STORE funeral Directors and Entbalmers FUNERAL SUPPLIES OFFICE PHONE 49S RESIDENCE PHONES 207 and 510