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that hens, especially pullets, lay better 

 when they are not Avorried by the males — 

 especially the surplus males. Shall we not 

 all of us "sit up and take notice." 



MUSTARD FOR MAKING HENS LAY ; THE ORIG- 

 INAL "strikebreaker." 

 So many inquiries have come to me in 

 regard to the use of mustard, that I clip 

 the following from the Petaluma Weekly 

 Poultry Journal: 



"strikebreaker" formula. 

 Por the benefit of new readers of the Journal we 

 here reprint the "Strikebreaker" formula given 

 some time ago by Mr. Keyser, and referred . to by 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



him in his article this week. It is as follows: Blood 

 meal, five pounds; bone meal, five pounds; yellow- 

 mustard bran, ten pounds ; saltpeter, one pound ; 

 sulphur, one pound ; Venetian red, two pounds. 

 To be fed heaping tablespoonful to twenty-five hens 

 once a day in wet or dry mash. 



Of course, the blood meal is a good thing 

 for chickens of all ages; and so is the yel- 

 low-mustard bran ; and may be saltpeter is 

 also — I can not tell about that. Sulphur 

 is probably a good tonic, and Venetian red, 

 which is a salt of iron, may be all right. 

 You will have to decide the matter your- 

 self. As good results have come from the 

 mixture as given above, it may be all right. 



Temperance 



Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, 

 that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him 

 drunken also. — Hab. 2:15. 



Suppose I should paraphrase the above 

 by saying, "Woe unto the United States 

 of America if it continues to use its influ- 

 ence and machinery against our nation by 

 'putting the bottle to the lips' of our peo- 

 ple, especially the boys and girls of this 

 land." And we might add, "Woe unto the 

 United States of America if it persists and 

 continues in putting the bottle to the lips 

 of a people who have combined together 

 to make their locality 'dry territory.' " 

 And still once more let me say, "Woe unto 

 the people of the United States if they 

 continue to put the bottle to the lips of those 

 of foreign lands by sending shiploads of 

 beer on the very vessel that carries less than 

 half a dozen missionaries." Some liquor 

 speaker who was recently defending the 

 liquor traffic referred to ancient Greece. 

 He said they were the most scientific and 

 progressive people in the Avorld in their 

 time; and he added that they drank wine 

 and other liquors, and drank them freely. 

 Somebody in the audience "turned the 

 table" by asking the question why ancient 

 Greece at the present time is a mass of 

 desolate ruins instead of being the center 

 of science, civilization, etc. Just after 

 friend Doolittle's protest in our issue for 

 Oct. 1 came out, the following from the 

 Christian Endeavor World appeared. Read 

 it: 



All the party platforms are silent on this vital 

 question (except, of course, the Prohibition plat- 

 form) though they deal with a great variety of top- 

 ics, and enter into the elaborate discussion of all 

 other great social and economic reforms. 



The writer of this editorial has never voted the 

 Prohibition ticket in his life, but he is growing very 

 tired of the persistent ignoring of the saloon ques- 

 tion by the parties of numerical prepondenance. 

 Why is it necessary to ignore other questions in 

 order to speak out manfully on this question ? All 

 parties advocate the initiative and referendum ; why 

 should not all parties advocate a Constitutional 

 amendment forbidding the shipment of liquor into 

 prohibition States ? It is not necessary to leave one's 



party to vote in favor of presidential primaries, for 

 all parties favor the reform ; why should it be nec- 

 essary to leave one's party in order to bring about 

 local authority over the saloon question ? Are the 

 leaders of the great parties aware of the predica- 

 ment in which they are placing the conscientious 

 voters in their ranks ? By their insistence that the 

 saloon is not a political issue they are doing their 

 best to make it the overshadowing political issue 

 of the times. 



Perhaps 1 might mention right here, 

 what you all know, that we are finally to 

 have a parcels post, or at least a partial 

 ]iareels jjost, and we should be thankful 

 for so much. How did it come about, 

 when these politicians and a lot of our big 

 men were strongly against it? How did 

 it come about that the express companies 

 finally find themselves helpless? It came 

 about because common people like you and 

 me waged war against the flagrant injus- 

 tice of our postal laws of the past. Well, 

 when our people and our periodicals like 

 the Christian Endeavor World, with its 

 vast following, come out openly and de- 

 clare against the shipment of liquor into 

 proliibition States, something is going to 

 be done. For some time back I have been 

 saying repeatedly, in substance, that I 

 would never vote for a man or a party 

 that is too cowardly to come out in the 

 open and denounce the liquor-traftic. It 

 begins to transpire that I am by no means 

 alone in my declaration. Let me repeat, 

 by way of emphasis, what the Christian 

 Endeavor World has said — why should our 

 great political parties, year after year, go 

 into elaborate discussions over all other 

 reforms, and ignore and evade this one 

 crowning curse of our nation? A revolt 

 is coming. I do not know but I might call 

 it a revolution. In fact, it begins to seem 

 as if the time were coming for another 

 "revolutionary Avar." It is not altogether 

 the liquor-traffic. Pushing the cigarette 

 trade where the i^eople do not want it, in 

 China, for instance, is in the same spirit, 



