A MODEL FEED-BOX.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3615, 30 January 1906, Page 4

A MODEL FEED-BOX.

||«M Cannot G«t Into It, Neither Can th* Gr*«4ly Bird* Crowd. Out the Weaker On**. Th» cut shows a feed box that the •«&• cannot get into, and' with which tiiey oannot crowd each other. The •otsr (which slopes bo that the hens *rill not fly upon it) in covered with wire „ JWtti&ff, which permits dry grain to be

tfcrowa Into the box without raising the cover. The hens, moreover, do not like to fly up and alight upon this netI ting. A square pan should be placed [’ A one end of the box to keep water in, I In this position it can neither be soiled ['Bor spilled.—Orange Judd Farmer.

Rational Diet (or ChlcKen*. . If It i» desired to create a glossy - plumage for exhibition purposes, a little kmlllet and sunflower seed may also be [ thrown occasionally into the scratch tpUe. Bright red combs and wattles [ come with good health, and are found 1 among laying hens. Good health comes [-M « result of good sanitary conditions, ■ pure feed, fresh water, and clean quari ters. Corn is a very wholesome article l;of debt for chickens, at times, and unI jlf certain circumstances. But the j eommon practice is to use it to the exlelueion of all other forms of food. IWheat is by far the best grain, and is [always permissible. —-Rural World.

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sonH . time the government has 11 making a trial of free rural rnai. very in *29 slates on 44 different ; Lg , These routes were located in "dy-scattcred districts, differing i each other in general character .hr as possible. The mountain dists of Arkansas, the back country diaUS of the middle west, the negro setaenls of the south, the farming dis;.;ts of other states —all kinds of terri;ry were covered in order to give thi .ii a thorough test. Perry Heath, whe i.i had the supervision of the* trim tys in his report that, according to e varying conditions of the country ’.versed, the rural carriers perform ■i r service on horseback or riding in ,h boards, buggies, two-wheeled cart; bicycles. In some states they have cross farms and pull down bars aim !c over fields to deliver and collect ; r mails. In no instance has any ~ous complaint been made of this ■vasion of private rights. On the con- . ~ the cooperation of the commum--rved has in every instance been ’ ;, :y and cheerfully given. The ■>crs, at their own cost, have put up at the crossroads and at all other iont places for the reception of ... is. The general results ob- * ■ ’"d have been so satisfactory as to , vst the feasibility of making rural ivery a permanent feature of postal ; ministration in the United States, not mediately or in all districts at once, t ! in some graduated form. P rorn this time on, therefore, we may expect to see a movement for the permanent establishment of such a system. The appropriation for the experiment was only intended to cover it as such, and for any further development of the system other provision will have to be made. This provision will naturally be ’■rmlual, inasmuch as the establishment .1 the system throughout all the rural !istricts at once would entail an enormous expense. But it has boon proved .hat the plan is feasible and that it neets a demand. Therefore it is only a question of time when it will be genorally established. —Dakota Field and Farm.