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DIRECTIONS FOR YOUR Device Which Will Prove a Satisfactory Foster Mother fwv the Little Chicks. The object U lo get a warm, ven tilated box iu which chickens can he reared without a heu. Warmth is ob tained by means of a Ia:i so placed fhat Its fumes are not iierniit'ed to nter the chick compart meat. Fresh nir continually Hows Into the brooder and veutilules it. The box that forms the brooder is 34 laches square aud f. inches deen. inside measurement. It s made of 7-S-inch lumber planed on both sides. A nxl 0-inch chick door i-hoiild be sawed in one of the sides of the box; the chick Uor should be j hi rued at !!o top. The fiocr is 7-S-inch matched lum ber. At center of the Boor a round .hole (diameter 6V inchest should be sawed. The heater is placed in this oenin and rests on a galvanized iron rim ttuside diameter 5'a inchest. Four legs. 7x8x2 inches should be at tached to the box: they should project .Si inches below it. The roof is a light wooden frame. ,-overed on both sides with heavy cot ton. It should fit inside the box level with the top. and be supported on CROSS A MT L;4.lW' vA-As-Am Jilt hzz r 1111 ' i i 1 1 i v LJ - S3 PLAN OF CONSTRUC TION OF BROODER. A. Upper Smok Pipe to Carry off the Fumes of the Lamp. B. Cotton Covered Frame or Roof of Brooder. C. Heat Reflector. D. Heating Chamber. E. Two-Pty Flannel to Form the Warm Hover for the Chicks. F. Fresh Air Chamber. G. Lower Smoke Pipe. H. Galvanized Iron Rim on Which the Heater Rest. I. Warn Fresh Air Entering the Hover. half iuch cleats. The roof frame is 3 Inches square and ote inch deep, out bid dimensions. There should be a 4-inch board across the middle of the fiame. At the center of this board a 2-iach hole Is required for the upper smoke pipe of the heater. The run Is 2x3 feet. It should be huiied lo the front of the brooder on a level with the brooder floor. A three section hinged frame six inches high should be placed around the outside of the run to confine the chicks for the firs! few days. The floor of the ruu can then be lowered to the grottud aud will form a runway into the brooder. The heater is made of galvanized iron with the exception of the heal ' reflector. This should be cut from bright tin. The dimensions of the dif ferent parts of the healer are as fol lows: Lower smoke pipe diameter. 3 inches; length. 5i inches. Fresh air chamber Diameter. 6 Inches; length. 5 inches. The fresh air chamber Is attached to the smoke ltpe at the bottom. In the floor of the fresh air chamber one-half inch holes should be punched for the ingress of fresh air. The fresh air chamber is :lea at the top. Heating chamber Diameter, 20 inches; deilb. 3 inches. A heat-reflector (inverted coue) is placed in below the top of the bealinx chamber. ;he heat ins chamber. The diameter of he cone is IS iuches. depth IVi inch The apex of the cone is one-half inch tbovt the bottom of the heating cham "icr bf three chips at the top. 'The up er and tower surfaces of the heating chamber should be rigid: they can be tayed to the cone, or held by two wire tails driven through the chamber and soldered. fpper smoke pipe Diameter 1 lueh; leugth. 4 inches. The upper smoke pipe should be soldered one talf iuch Inside the heating chamber. To complete the heater two strips of Cannel should be placed around the outside of the heating chamber and tied with a. cord to It. The flaunel : riis should extend four inches below the heater. They reach to within one inch of the floor ot the brooder, and form a rrarui hover for the chicks. The si rips should bo cut every Tour Inches, and alternately, so as to prevent- the escape of heat. For tha lamp the diameter of the oil fount, SV Inches; depth, 2 inches; MAKING OWN BROODER ibial height of lamp (including chiui ueyl S inches. There should be a small handle on the oil fount, and a screw can for lillintr with oil. A large size burner can be used, or a special water-cooled burner: the burne" screws into an ordinary lamp collar soldeied to the oil fount. The iron chimney is about five inches high; th diameter of the top chimney is 2J inches; the bottom diameter is 3 iuches. A lVi-inch hole should be piniched in the chimney and covered inside with mica in order to see the flame. The top of the chimney is placed over the lower sn:o!ie pipe. The fumes of the lamp enter the lower smoke pipe and ascend to the center of the lower part of the heaiiug chamber. The heat -reflector compels their circulating to the outer edge of the heating chamber. They then as cend to the upper part of the chamber, flow back to the center of the heater and are carried off by the upper smoke pipe. Fuel is saved by this forced cir culation of the lamp fumes: the hover is warmer at the outside thaa towards CTiON the center, so that crowding of the chicks is materially prevented. Warmed fresh air is supplied to the hover by means of the fresh air cham ber. Fresh air enters at the bottom of the chamber. It is warnied by con tact with the hot smoke pipe, and flows into the hover below the healing chamber and above the heads of the chicks. Skim-Milk Fed Calves. So many people speak of the trouble of raising calves on skint milk. Now there is trouble in raising a calf by any method, if its mother Is used for dairy purposes. To let a calf to the cow and take it away when it has enough is more work than feeding by hand. Fur ther, there is no absolute way of tell ing when the calf has taken the proper amount of milk. You just have to guess at it. The calf that is fed by hand can be raised on skim milk after a few days, and the cream saved. The calf that takes its nourishment front the cow consumes all the cream in the milk, hence au expensive calf. The hand-fed calf will soon learn to eat grass, hay, or grain and will make as good growth, with care, as the calf fed in the natural way. It lives on cheap feed, is always contented, and through constant handling becomes a gentle aud serviceable cow. Those who have tried the two methods find that the skim-milk method is safe, easy, and profitable In every way. A Good Indication. The cow with a deep udder, the forequarter of the udder well down away from the body, which udder, when milked out, is slack, deep, and pliable, and empty. may be looked upon as an excellent milker. Point of Cheapness. Cheapness in production is the first point to be mastered by the beginner. In his breeding he should work for large lit ters, early maturity and quality. Year's Record Tells. A cow must be kept the whole year, and whether or not she Is a paying investment de pends upon the receipts from her for the full time she is kept. Put Manure on Garden. Begin to prepare for next year's vegetables by fertilizing the garden aud getting it ready to plow if it was not plowed this falL . . t HOLDS WORLD'S m - f ) I 1 g sf 4. aA Norval Baptie of North Dakota the other day at Minneapolis regained his title as world's skating champion, which he lost through an accident a short time previous. Baptie defeated John Niisson of Minneapolis in two stsright events. The time in the hal f-mile, wen by Baptie by 20 feet, was 1:15. Baptie also took the mile by half a lap in 2:35'2. SMALL FORTUNES SPENT BY TEAMS IN TRAINING Annual Trips to the South by Big League Clubs to Acquire "Form" Are Costly. The major league clubs are at the present time pouring $100,000 into the strong boxes of southern railroads and hotels. And for what? Why, for that mystic, intangible something called "form." A vast army of big leaguers are now at their training camps looking for championship form, which is almost as hard to find in the southland or any where else as the fountain of youth. Pennantitis is the consuming fever that is causing the magnates to loosen the purse strings aud send their talent into every state in Dixie, looking for the end of the rainbow, where lies the form that will win a championship. And the southern training camp is no longer the privilege of the rich major leaguers. The more important of the minors have taken np the spring prac tice tours, for they are just as anxious to bring pennant glory to their respec tive cities as the big fellows. Does it pay? In nine cases out of ten the answer, financially speaking, is "No." Artistically? Well, that de pends. President Comiskey of the Chicago American league team took his White Sox on the most elaborate junket made by any of the teams. They went to San Francisco on a special train, which was an exact duplicate of the Overlan-t ;.iuiiied. Swell training trips are a 1 bby with the "Master of the Sox." and he spent 56.000 for his train alone. That is as much as the average club spends for its entire training trip. But Commy says he will get it all back, and more. too. Possibly he will, for he has scheduled about seventy five games for the two sections of his team, and. inasmuch as he has the whole of the far west practically to himself, it looks like a reasonable guess that the Sox will have proved themselves bread-winners when the trip is over. There are two good reasons for the indifference with which the southern fans view the coming of the big league squads. One is that they don't like to see their own pets whaled so frequently, and the other is that the stars from the north don't extend themselves to the point of showing off all their fine points. That is to say, the swell sliders don't slide, and the top-notch flingers are content to go along without displaying their be wildering benders. It is the most dif ficult task for a manager to make his team work its hardest in theexhibition games in the south. Every spring there are a larger number of players who ask to be ex cused from the southern trip. They promise the management they will re port in "the pink of condition" when the championship season opens. Since there is no way to force a player to take the practice jaunt, the manager has nothing to do but bow gracefully to the star's request and wait to see if the promise to report in the "pink' is made good. In most cases the player who sidestepped the practice in the south is timid in his batting when the bell rings for the opening game ot the season. The swatting orb is trained in only one way, and that is to swat steadily every day. Association Staff of Umpires. The American association will have the smartest umpire staff in its history the coming season. President J. D. O'Brien has announced the personnel of the arbitrating department for the year. Six men will compose the staff three of them having worked under O'Brien last season. The list follows: W. J. Sullivan, Rochester, N. Y.; Gerald Hayes, Beaumont, Tex.; Clar ence Owens, Kansas City, Mo.; E. A. Eckman, Chicago; E. J. Conihan, Ches ter, Pa., Charles F. King, Frock ton, Mass. Sullivan, Owens and Pajes worked in the A. A. last season. SKATING TITLE COMMITTEE LIKELY TO AMEND FORWARD PASS Rule Makers Are Expected to Changes at Their Coming Session. Make The time is at hand for the regular winter meeting of the football rules committee. There may be less interest than usual in the session this year, in view of the fact that the rules as now revised are acceptable in the main, and few changes of a radical nature can be looked for, but there is work to be done and two or three questions of more or less importance must be threshed out. The forward pass, which is slowly but surely becoming "The Old Man of the Sea" to the rulemakers, will, in all probability, be the leading subject for discussion. The play is comparatively new to football, and for that reason it is not surprising that' the rule gov erning its nse has not proved entirely acceptable as first promulgated or as amended since. It developed during the season last fall that the forward pass was not so successful as in 1907, due in all proba bility to the latest amendment, when the effort was made to so restrict and limit the play as to discourage its in discriminate use. The chief value of the forward pass lies in the weakening of the defense, by compelling the op posing team to spread out its indis criminate use by making it more de ceptive possibilities, which make other offensive plays more effective. Just how to maintain this good point with- out opening the way to the "wild fling." which marked its use to a large extent in 1907. and still increase its value as a ground-gainer is the prob lem the rulemakers must solve. It was thought that the rule adopted last year would lead to the develop ment of more accurate passing, and discourage its indiscriminate use by making it more dangerous. The trou ble is that the rule discouraged its use to too great an "extent, and consequent ly did not lead to the development of more accurate passing. It seems that some middle ground could be 'discovered by which the pen alty for an incompleted play need not be so severe, without opening the way once more to its indiscriminate use by a -weaker team, with no other purpose than to trust to luck. ' Morris S. Halli day, one of the Cornell coaches, has expressed the opinion that the present 15-yard penalty for an incompleted for ward pass is too severe, while Glenn Warner, the coach of the Carlisle In dian team, goes further and suggests that it would be well to abolish the restriction that the pass must clear the line of scrimmage five yards from the center or else eliminate the play entirely and supplant it with the rule that a kicked ball may be caught on the fly by the kicking side. Alan Storke. the Pittsburg utility infielder, may be sold to the Boston Nationals. After holding out for a month Ollie Pickering has signed a Minneapolis contract. The Portland (Ore.) Pacific Coast league club has signed Catcher Arm bruster. formerly with the White Sox. Manager Ganzel of the Rochester club has put through a deal with the New York Nationals for Pitcher Beecher. Pitcher Justus of the Lancaster, O. team., who will be with St. Louis this season, is credited with pitching four no-hit-no-run games last year. "DISPLACED LABOR." By machinery one man can plane as many boards as conld have been planed by sixty men with hand planes. "Fifty-nine men that the world does not need:" One man can shell as much corn in an honr as a hnndred and ten could Lave shelled half a century ago. "One hundred and nin n.en that the world does not want!" One man and two boys will turn out as many hanks cf yarn as 12,000 men fifty years ag&. "Nearly twelve thou sand men that the world has no use for!" That is the way Health-Culture pats the problem of the unemployed. But those men; it does want them; it TTou. Are TO in Any Time Next Week TO LOOK AT The Finest Gas Range Ever Built Designed for homes where an appliance of character and beauty is desired. Large oven capacity. Plenty of ing space- Can be built with colored enamel to match finishing of kitchen. Lincoln Gas & Elec tric Light Company OPEN EVENINGS Grocery Specials Saturday California Fine Gano With Your Order for One ADDITIONAf SPECIALS NOT INCLUDED Fancy Sunkist Navel Oranges. 30c size, per doz -22 Satin Flour (patent), per sk.. 1.35 Fancy Evaporated Muir Peaches. 3 lbs. -25 Table Peaches, large cans. ea. -IO Swifts pride Soap. 9 bars .25 Sour Pickles, per gal .25 Rub-No-More Naptha Soap. 6 bars .25 Early June Peas. 12 He grade. per can .10 THE DAYLICHT The Lincoln Walloper & Paint Go. A Strictly I'rSa SS SSiSSS Modern Decorators, Wall X ttJAU f IVXUUlUUld, JrUe 230 S. Iltfc XL Asia has us- for them. TTw proof is In the fart that m, many pmple ' planed board-: and can't Kr thru, m many want shelled corn and esa f get it. so man want bank of jrm but must go without. I'ntil every Mm and daafebter of Eve has all h 'want, Ubnr machinery win hoc explain th prob lem of he unemployed. The explana tion must be MHutht for in road it irm that prevent whom "the- world does not heed." w bom "the world does not want." for wbotn the world ham wo use." from exchanging labor with those wbo do need cheat, who 4rt want them, who do have aw for them. The Pnhiit. Invited THE Off: Scgar I4'2 lbs. CI.C3 Dollar's Worth of Groceries Fancy Spiced Roll Herriajc. eau J3 BunUe's Premhxia Chocolate. 25c cakes, each . .18 Sal Soda. 3 lb. j Schepp's Edelweiss Shredded Cocoanat. per lb .IS Steel Cat Ontmeal f for chirk food), per It. Jt3 Gloss Starch per lb. ..-OJ 2 Fresh Lettuce. Green Onions. RasV ishes. Pie Plant. Celery. Grape Fruit. Red. White and Yellow Onion Sets. New Garden and Flower Seeds. 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