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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



GIVE ME LAND 

 By Minnie C. D. Smith 



Little care I just where my honu- 



may be 



But give me land. 

 If not of rich, black loam; then give 



me sand; 

 Land I demand. 

 Droughts may destroy the crops on 



fertile loam 



Where rains should fall. 

 Water to irrigate my desert land 



Comes at my call. 

 Work must accompany the call, 'tis 



true ; 



Rain must be stored; 

 And ditches dug to carry to my land 



This precious hoard. 

 This system once established, I'm 



equipped; 

 The fight begun. 

 Unconquered yet, he who can claim 



as aids, 



Water and sun. 

 Winner I, in duel with fate, because 



I shall demand; 



That, as I have the choice of weap- 

 ons, we 

 Be given land. 



POULTRY POINTERS 



The price is not fixed by the com- 

 mission merchant. He can only ob- 

 tain what his customers will pay. 

 When the market is well supplied the 

 customers have a large stock from 

 which to select, and they always 

 choose the best, leaving the second- 

 class stock to be sold at hazardous 

 prices. 



The most important egg foods 

 mixed with exercise are grit, bran, 

 charcoal, cornmeal, middlings, pure 

 water, clover or alfalfa hay, vegeta- 

 bles, green cut bone, cracked oyster 

 shell, ground oats, scalded oats, 

 sprouted oats, linseed meal, meat 

 scrap or meat meal. 



Study conditions. Don't feed too 

 rich a mash. Feed according to appe- 

 tites. Active fowls are always hun- 

 gry. It is just as important how you 

 feed as what you feed. Wholesome 

 food is always a source of economy. 

 A very important point in feeding 

 poultry for market is to feed regu- 

 larly. 



The hardest task in maintaining a 

 constant and continuous egg yield is 

 to keep the laying stock in prime 

 condition, says Col. E. O. Roussle. 

 This means such a condition of per- 

 fect health that the eggs will not 

 only be laid regularly, but that they 

 will be uniform in size, according 

 to the breed laying them. Under 

 such conditions we should have 

 large eggs from Minorcas, White and 

 Buff Leghorns. Plymouth Rocks and 

 Brahmas. When such breeds lay 

 small eggs, abnormally large eggs, 

 with perhaps double yolks, or soft- 

 shelled eggs, the stock is out of con- 

 dition and usually overfat. The eggs 

 will thus be laid irregularly, and many 

 times laying will stop entirely. Lav- 

 ers should be kept active, and activ- 

 ity is induced by short feeding. A 

 hungry hen is usually a good layer. 



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