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WINTER ROOTS FOR POULTRY Fowls Relish Beets and Turnips ss Substitutes for Green Food Better to Feed Raw. Turnips and beets are good green food substitutes, and fowls relish them. They can be fed by cutting in half and allowing the fowls to pick them to pieces, or they can be ground fine in a bone cutter and fed in troughs. It is better to feed them raw than cooked. Turnips contain 90.6 per cent water, 0.S per cent ash, 1.3 per cent protein, 1.2 per cent fiber, 5.9 per cent nitro gen. Sugar beets contain 26.7 per cent water. 9.2 per cen*, ash. 1.5 per cern, fiber, 9.9 per cent nitrogen free ex tract, and 0.1 rer cent fat. Turnip seed may be sown either very early in spring and an early sum mer crop secured, or later in July and August for winter storing. For early use plant in rews one to one and one half inches deep and twelve to eigh teen inches apart in the row. In field culture the rows are often thirty inches apart tb facilitate horse cultivation. The seed is sometimes sown broadcast from July 20 to Au gust 1, when a crop is grown for stock. Two to three pounds of seed are required for an acre. Beets are usually sown the latter part of April or first part of May. About the same treatment in planting is given the beet as is given the turnip. PLACE TO FEED THE CHICKS Difficult Problem on Account of Old Hens Eating Most of Feed-Runs Are in Favor. It is often hard to feed little chicks on account of the old hens eating most of the feed. To prevent this I make a feeding creep for the special use of the little chicks, writes Owen Crisman of Itussell, Kan., in Farmers' Mail and Breeze. To make one of these runs take six pieces of 2 by 2-inch lumber, 2 feet long, and saw one end of each to bevel. Nail two of them with the beveled ends firmly together. Nail the rest up in the same way. When fin ished they look like three V's upside down. Place the pieces nailed to Creep for Little Chicks. gether 2 feet apart and nail lath 4 feet long on these pieces about an inch apart. Put the bottom lath 3 inches from the ground so the chicks can slip under to get the feed. When through using the runs they may be set away for another season. By doing this they will last several years. They save both time and feed in raising chicks. HATCH CHICKENS IN WINTER While Outside Weather Conditions Are Unfavorable Youngsters Are Broodsd in Poultry House. Chickens hatched by the mother hen during thc winter are brooded in a poultry house or shed while the out side weather conditions are unfavor able. After the weather becomes settled, they can be reared in brood coops out of doors. The coops are made so that they can be closed at night to keep out cats, rats or other animals, and enough ventilation is allowed so that the hen and chicks will have plenty of fresh air. ESSENTIALS IN DUCK RAISING Select One Breed and Stick to It Fowls Should Be Fed Frequent ly-Keep the Coops Dry. Don't keep two or three different kinds of ducks. Choose one variety and breed for quality. Don't try, by mixing it with their food, to force ducks to eat more grit than they want. Don't be afraid of overfeeding. Ducks should be fed four or five times daily. Don't omit fresh vegetables and green stu if from their diet. Don't let their coops get damp and filthy. ' Don't forget plenty of clean, fresh water, and give them a chance to rest in the shade. Disease Becomes Epidemic. A disease that is transmitted through one generation of chickens to another is apt to become epidemic. Weaklings Most Susceptible. Roup is infectious and the weak lings are the ones to first become In fected. Hens Pay Biggest Dividend. A-welr*cared-for flock of hens will pay a bigger dividend than anything on the farm. Prevent Waste of Feed. Prevent waste and make every pound of feed bring the best resulta possible. .JSE OF CONVICTS ON ROADS Passed Through Pcricd of Hysterical Wrangle Into One of Actually Suc cessful Accomplishment. "The use of convicts on the public roads has passed through the period of J hysterical wrangle into a period of actually successful accomplishment and almost universal acceptation," stated E. Stagg Whitin, whose new course in practical penal problems at Columbia university was recently an nounced. Doctor Whitin holds that the under lying motive in convict road building must be to secure the great efficiency I for the state out of its possessions. I But the convicts and the roads are I property of the state, and the work I ing of convicts upon the roads should I eliminate many elements of waste in j the administration of road and prison departments. "The efficiency of the convict on the road gang," he continued, "differs greatly in different gangs. There is no doubt in my mind that the appli I cation of the efficiency records in use I at the present time in the Wisconsin I road camps for free labor will tend i even more perceptibly to raise the ef i ficiency of convict labor. "Incentive must be created before good work can be produced. Coop any of us up in a stuffy, unsanitary jail for several months, arraign us for trial amid the excitement of what we misname as justice, and then take a few months of breaking our spirit in prison surroundings and there is little j likelihood that the thing we call ginger I will be very apparent. There is defl I nite need of building up if the convict is to return to society and make good. "The great ne?d," Doctor Whitin concluded, "is for the foreman of a i convict road gang to throw his shoul : der to the task and inspire his gang . with the desire to be like him. The ! problem lies in securing such men as I foreman of the road gangs." j The graduate department of high ? way engineering at Columbia univer I sity has been in close touch with the ' national committee on prisons and ! prison labor, which is located on the ! campus, for a number of years. This ' work has been carried on under the [ joint direction of the department and Convicts Building a Road. the prison committee. Doctor Blan chard, professor of highway engineer ing, sees thc great opportunity for the highway read work, and. as he stated in a recent article in the Columbia Spectator: "The humane element must be a factor in thc education of the highway engineer of the future." This will be supplied through the co-opera tion of the national committee on prisons and prison labor and thc work under Doctor Whitin at Columbia uni versity. OIL PRESERVES COUNTY ROAD Surface Rendered Impervious to Wa ter ard Crown ls Almost Like Asphalt-No Signs of Wear. The only road in Berks county, Maryland, which is strictly a "county road" is the stretch of five miles be tween DouglasyiHe and Yellow House. By this is meant that it is neither a staie nor township road, but is entire ly under the jurisdiction of the county authorities. Recently the road was treated with a coating of crude oil, and no one doubts the wisdom of this action. The road is now not only dust-proof, but the surface has been rendered impervi ous to water. The crown is almost like asphalt, and there are no signs o? wear or tear. The Value of Roads. It cost France $612,000,000 to build the best system of roads in the world. For many years it has reaped untold wealth, enjoyment and benefit from them, and now those same roads have become the greatest single factor in saving the republic from destruction by invading enemies. 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