In Tua Nua “All I Wanted” 1988, Modern Rock #17 Irish for “A New Tribe,” In Tua Nua started releasing music around 1984, soon after signing with Island records. The recorded two albums, only the first got released and they took a short break. Then they got some new players on board and signed with Virgin in 1986. Two albums got released on Virgin including The Long Acre, from which the amazing “All I Wanted” comes from before the band split up.

They recorded a third album for the label right before they broke up and it finally saw the light of day in 2007. INXS “Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)” 1986, #24 “Kick” 1988, #33 “Mystify” 1988, #17 “Kiss the Dirt” was the fourth of five singles from 1985’s Listen Like Thieves and the most boring of the group (“This Time,” “What You Need,” “Listen Like Thieves” and “Shine Like It Does” were the others). It’s one of the few tracks on the album that doesn’t do a whole lot for me. On the other hand, I can probably sing the Kick album from start to finish and think it’s one of the best albums of the decade. However, I had no idea that both “Kick” and “Mystify” got any airplay at all. Both hit rock radio way before “Mystify” was released as the 5th single to Top 40 radio with “Kick” as the b-side to it. Strangely enough though I think the title track is the weakest song on the disc.

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Hey, have you heard about their new album coming out in 2011? They are rerecording their hits with various singers. Yep, Rob Thomas is on it. Donnie Iris “I Can’t Hear You” 1981, #47 “The High and the Mighty” 1982, #39 “King Cool” was the founder of the Jaggerz and worked with Wild Cherry as they closed their career before going solo in the ‘80s and he was totally the man in the decade. Leah!,” “Love is Like a Rock” and “The High and the Mighty” are some of my favorite songs of the decade. I’m a little shocked “The High and the Mighty” didn’t cross over to the pop charts, though it did have a bit more edge than the poppier follow up, “Tough World.” I dig “I Can’t Hear You” as well which was the follow up to “Ah! Leah!” from his first solo album Back on the Streets.

Iron Maiden “Wrathchild” 1981, #31 “Hallowed Be Thy Name” 1982, #50 “Flight of Icarus” 1983, #8 “The Trooper” 1983, #28 “2 Minutes To Midnight” 1984, #25 “Can I Play With Madness” 1988, #47 I talk about Maiden in my False Metal, Dead! Series where I’ve mentioned that I didn’t really get them at all until a few years ago. Amazingly I could never stand the theatrical vocals of Bruce Dickinson but after I saw them in concert my mind changed completely. I’ve since went back and listened to every album in the catalog and have grown to realize how great they are. “Wrathchild” is the only song here featuring Paul Di’Anno on vocals.

Dickinson replaced him in ’82 and the band released a mess of killer albums in a row, like The Number of the Beast, Peace of Mind, Powerslave and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I would assume any metal fan knows all of these tracks already but even if you aren’t you should recognize “Can I Play with Madness” and “2 Minutes To Midnight” at the least. But all these tracks are headbangers and it’s really worth getting all the album mentioned above. Chris Isaak “Don’t Make Me Dream About You” 1989, Modern Rock #18 “Don’t Make Me Dream About You” has an interesting chart history. Isaak released the amazing Heart Shaped World in ’89 and this track was released as a single and hit the modern rock chart.

“Wicked Game” also came from this album but didn’t hit until two years later at which point this was released again and hit #39 on the Mainstream Rock chart, still not crossing over into the Hot 100. Even stranger was that Reprise put out an album called Wicked Game to capitalize on the success of the single which was a compilation of tracks from his first three records. “Don’t Make Me Dream About You” wasn’t on it. Quick Hits Best Song: Iron Maiden, “Flight of Icarus” Worst Song: Icehouse, “Cross the Border” Also appeared in the Hot 100 Icehouse (4): “We Can Get Together”, “No Promises”, “Crazy”, “Electric Blue” Icicle Works (1): “Whisper To A Scream” Billy Idol (10): “Hot in the City”, “White Wedding”, “Rebel Yell”, “Eyes Without A Face”, “Flesh For Fantasy”, “Catch My Fall”, “To Be A Lover”, “Don’t Need A Gun”, “Sweet Sixteen”, “Mony Mony (Live)” Indigo Girls (1): “Closer To Fine” INXS (12)” “The One Thing”. “Don’t Change”, “Original Sin”, “I Send a Message”, “This Time”, “What You Need”. “Listen Like Theives”.

“Good Times”, “Need You Tonight”, “Devil Inside”, “New Sensation”, “Never Tear Us Apart” Donnie Iris (6): “Ah! Leah!”, “Sweet Merilee”, “Love Is Like A Rock”, “Tough World”. “Do You Compute?”, Injured in the Game of Love”.

Full text of ' UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOI LIBRARY Class Book Volur G30,5 Digitized by the Internet Arcliive in 2015 i 1 LIBRARY Of THE UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS Los Angeles January 3 1907 San Francisco The Wyandotte Family Pre-eminently the Breed for Broilers and Unexcelled as a MarKet Fowl — Good Layers, Setters and Mothers By FRANK H. Los Ang'eles THE WYANDOTTE FAMILY, compris- ing the White, Buff, Columbian, Silver Laced, Golden Laced, Silver Pen- ciled, Partridge and Black is strictly of American breeding, although this jjSjV: breed has in its makeup i^ji^, the Hamburg and Dark Brahma. In size they are halfway between the vi.-;'-' two, and many of the:>;^^v. Present characteristics of shape, comb and disposi- }.:;^^« - S'evlnin« and about the time they N'-^ Superior Light and Heat Co., 151 No. Los Angeles Vol. 1 Los Angeles, California, Thursday January 3 1907 Subscription $1 a Year Poultry Raising' in California Prices for Eggs in the Past Five Years Have Steadily Increased.

Some Practical Suggestions on How to Care for Poultry to Obtain Best Results in Egg Production By FRANK. Los Ang'eles, California IN GOING over the statistics of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture some interesting data is presented with reference to the commercial value of eggs for the past five years. These figures show that the average wholesale price for eggs in Chicago, for the year 1900 was 14% cents; for 1901, 16 cents; for 1902, 20 cents; for 1903, 17 cents; for 1904, 20^4 cents; for 1905, 22% cents. With the single exception of 1903, every year has shown a marked in- crease in the demand for eggs and consequently an increase in the aver- age price. These figures show the increasing value of the poultry husi- nfess and are markers for beginners in poultry work. It should be borne in mind that the poultry industry has not been overworked in the country. The supply has not been in excess of the demand.

There has been no glut in the egg market for many years. A largely increasing population cre- ates a larger demand for eggs. And then, too, the people who live in cities and towns understand that eggs are cheaper than meat, and use them largely in substitute for that com- modity. And the people who produce the eggs use more of them. Every condition which has made the price of eggs and poultry as meat high in the past, promises to continue long in the future, making the prospects for poultry and eggs better than ever before. A poultry dealer asked the question about Thanksgiving time, 'Why is it that the price of eggs does not decline more in the country during* the sum- mer months.'

The answer is clear enough. The increased capacity of cold storage plants, where thousands upon thousands of cases of eggs are stored from March until winter. Com- petition among speculators keeps prices above what they would other- wise be. It is claimed that cold stor- age keeps the price of eggs down in winter.

This may be true to a certain extent, but as a large portion of the hens of the country do not lay in win- ter the price of fresh eggs in winter Is bound to be high enough always. The cold storage speculators buy when eggs are cheapest and when the price would be very low if the were not in the market. They secure to those people who would never get eggs in winter a price at least 5 cents in excess of the price they would receive under the clci order of things. On the whole, cold storage is beneficial and has been the means of making the production '■f eggs more profitable. Just now, as we in California are going into our winter, in fact are there, it is an important matter to know how to care for our birds in order to get the best egg product.

In several of the eastern experimental stations this same subject is on trial. In Maine a number of breeds have been found to lay as high as 200 eggs ill (m«t year, and the results seem to indicate that by selecting and properly feeding the best layers for breeding purpose the average egg yield of a flock can be increased. This is done, of course, under strict test conditions, but it goes to demonstrate what may be done toward increasing egg sup- ply where chickens are properly cared for. There are several things which may be done by every poultry keeper that will benefit his fiock and not re- quire an overexpenditure of time — where results will be obtained and consequently money saved.

Yield Wanted. This is the time of the year when all successful poultrymen are trying to get a large egg yield, because when eggs are selling at from 40 to 50 cents per dozen it pays to give the hens good care and good feed. In select- ing winter layers, pick out the long bodied, well devoloped females, and make their quarters as pleasant as possible. A dissatisfied bird is never a success.

A house 16x10 is about!be right size for fifteen birds. Such houses should be divided into two parts by means of a partition. Use one part for a roosting and laying room and the other for a feeding and scratching room.

It is a good plan to ha-'e the fioor in the feeding room covp)-ed with straw to the depth of six inches, but remember that the same straw should not be left in the house all winter long. It should be chungpd at least every two weeks and a weekly change is still better. Regularity in feeding is one of the esLential conditions to good egg re- sults, almost as much as proper ra- tions, and proper rations embraces such a wide field that a single article nn that branch is necessary to prop- erly cover the subject. Suffice it to say. Hens need a variety of feed just as much as animals, or humans. They will never do well if fed continually on tlie same grain.

They must have diversified articles. All the bulletins on this subject from the agricultural colleges, all the writers in the great farm papers, like Mrs. Basley, and others are pronounced advocates of frequent changes in poultry feed. Re- memter this: the essentials in suc- cessful poultry management are com- fort, care and feeding.

Makes Hens Camfortable. A successful poultry raiser was once asked what he did to make his birds always look fine as they did. He re- plifd that he tried to have them com- fortable every day from the time they were hatched until they left the farm. And this it has always seemed to us, is in a nut shell the secret of suc- cesful poultry raising. If you will look around your neighborhood, no matter where you live, you will see that the best farmers are best poultry raisers; that is a branch of farming that always wins in the long run. If you can raise all the feed and grain that your chickens need, why do so, by all means, but don't neglect them v/hile you are doing this, nor after- ward. Better buy some from some less fortunate neighbor who has najr* feed than chickens.

There are oAe#^ things beside feed, too. Have you seen birds humped and shivering, day after day through the worst part of the winter? Did you think that those poor things were comfortable? Pic- ture yourself in that condition and imagine how you would like it. We don't see how some men can crawl into a warm bed at night and sleep soundly until morning, while their live stock and poultry stand half frozen all night.

Their feelings must be pretty well blunted. It doesn't pay in dollars and cents, either.

Now, it doesn't cost much to fix up a com- fortable shelter for poultry, when old Prize-Wir r ing' WKite Leghorn CocKerel straw can be had for almost nothing. When a man lets his stock of any kind suffer from the cold, it is a clear case of shiftlessnes. If this hits you, re- form at once. One of the hindrances of good egg production is: Over Fat Hens.

Can hens be made too fat to lay? Ask one of your neighbors, and he will say that it is a fact, that it is possible for hens to put on an amount of fat that will effectually put an end to egg production. The neighbor on the other side of you will ridicule the idea. He feeds his hens all they can be made to eat, and yet gets more eggs than an acquaintance of his who IS full of what he regards as the crazy notion that his hens must be fed sparingly if eggs in paying quantities are expected of them. This is a subject over which there has been much controversy, and yet we are tempted to say that there is nothing to dispute about.

Hens can b(.' Made too fat to lay by injudicious feeding at certain times of the year, and at other times they can safely be allowed all the food they will con- sume. Everybody knows that hens lay very few eggs during the molting period. The majority of hens lay no eggs at all at that time. The hen is then shedding her old feathers and putting on a new suit for the winter. Her food at this time should largely con- ' sfei»^ a kind which enters into the *inaVing*of feathers. In other words, it should be food which is rich in ani- mal matter.

Nature has made provi- sion for this in the abundance of in- sect food with which she has filled the fields and groves at this time. Hens that are given the freedom of the range will find a banquet all ready prepared for them which is exactly suited to their needs, if compelled to subsist upon this almost exclusive- ly the molting process will go on very rapidly, and will be done with in time for early winter laying. Heavy Feeding Injuries. Heavy feeding with grain at this time will cause the hens to lay on fat very fast. Grain food does not con- tribute in any large degree to feath- or-making, and as the hens are not laying while the feathers are being renewed, such food does not enter into the composition of eggs. Consequent- ly it is stored up in fat until the in- tfjnal organism of the hen is so en- cumbered with it that it is a me- chanical impossibility for her to lay.

Such feeding makes the hens worth- less as layers just at the time when they have reclothed themselves with a new suit of feathers, and ought to be in prime condition for the win- ter's work. The consequences are even more serious than this, as ex- treme fatness is the same in its ef- fects as a disease, and leads to the 'breaking down' or death of a large proportion of the flock. - In the vast majority of cases these ill effects are brought about by heavy grain feeding during the molting pe- riod. When the hens have completed that process and have commenced to lay they can be fed what they will eat without risk, provided they are made to take a reasonable amount of exercise. It requires a considerable amount of food to meet the bodily demands of a hen that is laying an egg every other day, and it is next to impossible for her to be overfed at such times if anything approaching good judgment is exercised in giving- her the variety of food suited to her needs. Individual Preferences.

There are as many personal prefer- ences in breeds as there are breeders. No special rule can be laid down to^ govern individual tastes. The great poultry shows this fall will furnish abundant opportunity for inspection and call out the votaries of the dif- ferent classes of birds in advocacy of their specially showy points.

Almost any breed will win if the owner likes it and cares for it as it should be cared for. But the best will fail if a slip-shod method is pursued in car- ing for it. So select the type you like best, study it and its peculiari- ties, and then adapt yourself to it. There is as much success in adapt- ability as in knowledge, and above all the highest endowment and the most essential requisite is a good big bump of common sense.

Poultry readers of The Cultivator, have you that bump? If not, you will waste time and dismally fail in the poultry busi- ness. January, 3 CALIFORNIA CULTIVATOR. NiEWBERrs PHENOMENAL berrkes The most up-to-date berry on the market. They will clear you more money to the acre than any other berry you can grow.

$750 clear profit has been made from one acre of these berries. The market price has been from 75c to $1.50 per crate of 16 half-pound baskets. I have taken ripe berries from my vines by the first of May.

Young Plants— I have for sale this year plants that I will guarantee will grow you large and healthy vines. Prices— I can furnish large orders on short notice. Price per dozen $1.00, per hundred $7.50. My plants are rooted from the tips, and will make you a strong and fast-growing vine.

Order at once to ensure delivery. NEWBERT'S To get actual size of the 'Phenomenal' measure 2 Inches length- Poultry and Berry Farm wise and 1 inch in width, then draw a circle around the points. Palmetto Av., Sacramento, Cal. SEND I FOR THE? Up-to-Date Berries IN CALIFORNIA CATALOGUE NOW READY A.

Mitting fir/fo^I.^I *•#>*# «#ll ll^tle mailed free tor giving the above information. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio. Also Mannfacturersof Dr. Hess Ponltry Pan.a-e,e-a and Instant I.onKe Killer. THE PETALUMA INCUBATOR CO., Petaluma, Calliornla. Paclllc Coast Distributors.

Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice. ' at Berkeley, there id plenty of worlc in the private creamery where 200 cows are kept to give a woman work that is well paid and suitable to her strength. The modern appliances make it easier to run and easier to clean than one's kitchen. The ordl nary engine and boiler in use is not any' harder to understand than the kitchen range and sewing machine, these no one doubt that a woman can run all right. In California during the rainy sea- son the farmer's wives find it almost impossible to keep the milk pans in a place of suitable temperature. Bac- terial growths are rampant all around. I found yesterday my best kid gloves that laid away in a room without fire, were spotted with mildew.

The right temperature, a want of fresh air and a lloating spore for seed had ruined the gloves. Now when the warm milk comes in it is strained into pans and placed in a room where the temperature is about fifty-five or a little less, the natural souring produced by the lactic acid bacteria life action in the milk, is checked and some of the 'forty-nine' wrong kinds that should not be devel- oped start up into life; the cream rises alread.v charged with them and they are stirred into the cream jar and more and more develop until they reach into billions and the entire batch of cream is tainted. Worse than all this is that every- thing the cream comes into contact with will be tainted, and require to be made antiseptically clean before the spores are gotten rid of.

First Care With Cow. The first care must begin with the cow she must have wholesome food clean water and a dry bed. She must be clean, if her back and thighs arc plastered with manure, it will be hart to have sweet clean tasting butter. If she is in this condition, use the first bright day to soak off the dirt with water and then clip the hair close on the legs and udder. If you can bor- row a horse hand clipper the worh will be easier. A pair of sharp scis- sors will do the work if you have? Comb to cut against.

Then providf a drv place for the cow to sleep. Li the stable has only a dirt floor it wil only take a few wheelbarrows of dir^«£r^ Cure. Milk Feve Outllti See O J. Wel>er Co, 555-557 So.

L«i An««lcs St. I Live Stock And Dairy. CALIFORNIA CULTIVATOR. January, 3!alled.

Then in disgust he took a )inch of dry manure from the gutter )f the cow barn and stirred it into.he milk afterv/ard straining it. Again ^he set of samples were tasted and all pronounced flat until the last was •eached. This was said to be fine. Meedless to say, it was the sample lavored with extract of stable filth. (Vhere one is accustomed to the milk 3f a number of cows they dread the aste of one cows milk, knowing that t will be apt to be 'cowy.' Try tast- ng the milk on the table critically. Vlilk is a mild, almost tasteless fluid, lightly sweet and should not taste at ill like a cow stable smells.

BUTTERMAKING ON THE FARM. Fred Rasmussen of the Iowa Experi- Dental Station, in discussing the sub- ect of butter-making on the farm says that on account of lack of uni- 'ormity in flavor, color or salt, the jrocer to whom the bulk of farm made Dutter is sold, is unable to dispose of t for private consumption, but sends t to the renovating factory where it s worked over, purified, made up into iiniform packages and again put on the narket. Farmers in California suffer the same loss in price for inferior butter IS do the farmers of the.xiddle West.

They are compelled to take less for it jecause of its inferiority, often having 0 exchange it for merchandise at the 5tore receiving about one-half Its sell- ng price after it has been renovated it the factory. The renovator is the )nly party who makes a profit on this Dutter, as he is able to hold it in cold;torage either before or after it is re- Belted, and thus put it on the market when butter is scarce. It then often jells for only a few cents less than creamery butter. This should not be so, for the farm, n many respects, is an ideal place for Baking butter, because full control can je had of all the essential steps in-,'olved, from the milking of the cow mtil the butter is placed upon the narket. It is understood that condi- ion and equipments are often poor, jut, if it is desired to continue to make jutter, it will pay to improve the con- iitions so they will become more suit- ible.

Jare of the Milk. The care the milk and cream re-;eives before churning will determine he flavor, says Mr.

Rasmussen, which s the most essential quality of butter, IS it is used more as a relish than as 1 food. Faults that butter may have, iside from flavor, are all due to care- essness or lack of skill in the process )f making. If the underlying princi- ples of butter-making are understood, t is not a difiiculf problem to make I uniform grade of butter from day o day. As long as the agricultural ind dairy papers, dairy schools and ex- periment stations answer free any in- luiry, and can explain the cause of nost difficulties, there seems to be no!xcuse for making so much poor but- er on the farm.

It takes the same abor to make spoiled cream into but- er and do it without paying attention,0 temperature, overchurning, prop-;r working and salting, as it does to '.burn well-ripened cream and do it in m intelligent way. The difference is hat in the latter case about twice as nuch per pound of butter will be re- •,eived, and butter-making is made a paying business. Nteiligence Needed.

There never was a time when so;reat a premium was paid on intelli- gence as there is today. Many people lave enough money to buy good com- noflities, and for such there is a strong lemand, even at high prices. Especial- y is this true of farm produce. Near;very town invariably there are some people who receive more for their;ooda than do others. The main rea-.on is that those people deliver a uni- orm product, an article that is al- vays up to the.standard, put up in t neat, attractive way.

It is marked )y an individuality for which the con-.umer is willing to pay. There is an inwritten guarantee with such an ar- icle. The producer established a repu- ation by skill, intelligence, and hones- ly. He knows that to try to put out tn inferior article under the special irand would be folly, as the small emporjiry Kain would hf- inslKnificant compared with the loss it might bring in the future.

Attractive Form. Sherman, the writer holds that next in importance to making a uniform grade of butter is to put it up in a neat, attractive way, and bring it to the consumer's attention. This can be done by putting up the butter in one-pound prints, neatly wrapped in parchment papers, upon which is stamped the name of the farm or a special name under which the butter is sold. A great deal can be done to distinguish the product by some at- tractive feature. It should be some- thing catching, suggestive, easy to re- member, so that thinking of butter, a certain name or picture that has been seen once in such connection readily presents itself to the mind.

Butter should be made so that there is no necessity for making it over. The fewer middlemen between the producer and consumer, the greater the profit to the producer.

Interurban roads are being planned, and built in all parts of the country. This means increased shipping facilities, which enable the farmer to profit by the demand in the city for unformly good farm produce. If better methods of making and war- keting farm butter are applied, the present amount of renovated butter will be a thing of the past and the money it takes to operate the renovat- ing factories and their profit will go directly into the farmer's pocket. But this condition can only be reached when the farmer is brought to understand that his butter must be made as good as the creamery prod- uct both in fiavor and in form.

'Any- thing worth doing is worth doing well,' and when this fact is applied to country butter-making, the farmer will be in position to receive the profit which the factory now obtains. Queries Kicking Cow. Will you tell me how to cure my cow of the kicking habit. She is young and somewhat vicious. Here is what Hoard's Dairyman says on this subject. 'We read of all sorts of devices to cure kicking cows.

Like balky horses, kicking cows are usually made so by the men who handle them. The best device we have ever seen is to put a ring in the floor overhead and with a halter on the cow draw her head up pretty taut. She can not kick very well in this position, and the beauty of it is she does not know what it is that prevents her, as she soon comes to know if a strap is buckled about her legs.' Please give me some method for tying coY.' Will cows raised on the range do well if tied in barn?

The cow, range-raised, does not take kindly to stanchions. We had strong round poles placed upright in pairs between each cow and against the mangers. On these iron rings that moved easily up and down were placed, a short chain connected the ring with the chain on the cows neck, she was tied from, both sides with about four inches of play in the side chains, this allowed her to move that much to '=!ach side as well as that much back from the manger, when she laid down the rings dropped down and when she got up the}' rose with her.

The side chains must be short or she will get tan^^led by putting her front foot over one of them. II* lor Saaltery MniT for Rheii- mntlam, Hprulua, 8oi-e Xhroat^ etc., it ia invaluable. Every bottle of CaiiMtIc Baliiam sold ia Warranted to ^ive satisfaction. GO per bottle. Sold by dru«p:istSj or sent by ex- press, charges paid, with fvill directions for its use. Send for descnptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc.

Address THE LAWRENCE-WILIUMS COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio. Ohio Feed and Ensilage Cutters Hand and Power. All 8iz«8 This cut. I' i, r.:, u.; 1*1CC Ftfl Composed of ten different Seeds and Grains, ■ ^lUV.Xt. Be^f Scraps and Charcoal, makes a complete balanced ration which insures health and rapid ^owth in baby chicks. F2i*« T il1of li^illf Is made of pure skim milk, dried and ground to about IA «lllUA«lt«;U IWUlKt. The size of cracked grain.

It contains 50% protein and!' ,>' pure albumen.

$3^0 per 100 lbs. Main Henry Albers Co. ^!i,^.Sfr 0 C?

A/l I d BAkRhD AND WHITE DtiiTllO PLYflOUTH ROCKS Durint? ) and 1906 1 have exhibited at Hajrwards, Sacramento, Alameda. San Francisco, San Jose and Phoenix, Arizona; and my birds have taken many prizes, ineiudinsr many of the Special Prizes 1 am able ti>furnl.sh the best birds and egKB at moderate prices. Ekks for hatching from choice matinss 16.00 per setting of 15 hkkb. 1 cannot fumiah large lota for incnbators.

Write for circular. BEMIS 1757 Nineteenth Avenue. White ind Buff Wyandotf es Prize-Winnin(f, EKif-I^aylUK, Wealth-i'roducin^ Strain. Iil7 Smn Cabrlcl.

Singe Gomb White Leghorns Exclusively Eb«s for Hatching, $1.00 per 13, $5.00 per 100. Hirn Fertility Guaranteed. Phone Park 682. Kiili, 901 St. Louis St., Los Angelas, Gil.

Basley, Hollywood, Cal. Orping'tons A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE Orpingtons may interest our readers, as a great many will be exhibited at the coming shows this winter. The Orpingtons are English fowls and the English are proud of them. A comparatively new comer in the poultry world., it has by sheer merit won its way not only to the first rank, but to the position of the premier popular breed of Great Britian. The five varieties of Orpingtons were all originated by Mr. William Cook of Kent, England.

There are now three popular varieties of Orpingtons in Eng- land, the Blacks, Buffs and Whites and two new and less known, the Jubilee and Spangled. Orpingtons have been popular in England ever since 188G, when the blacks were brought out and the Buffs in 1894, when they were first exhibited.

The Blacks were made by crosses of Black Langshan, Black Minorcas and Golden Hamburg. The Buffs of Buff Cochin, Silver Dorking and Golden Hamburg. The Hamburg has given them their great laying qualities, and having been planned for utility pur- poses alone, they meet all the require- ments of the 'dual purpose' fowl. The Buffs have been admitted to the American Standard and the Blacks are asking for admission. In England the Whites are not as popular as the Buffs and Blacks, partly because the major- ity of the fanciers are men (business and workingmen) who live in town and have only backyards in town lots, and we all know how difficult it is to keep white fowls looking clean on bare earth runs, hence the colored fowls are more popular in England than the White.

It does one good to see a true fancier, one who enthuses over his fowls and I do not know when I have had a greater treat than the day I visited W. Stewart's yards in Los Angeles.

He has first prize winners from the chief shows in England, the Crystal Palace, the Alexandra Palace (Dairy) the Royal Lancashire, the Lancaster and others. It goes without saying that with such birds he can capture any prize he wants here.

His Buffs show an even shade of rich, golden buff throughout, with under color a lighter shade of buff to the skin, the very quills of the feathers are buff to the skin. Fanciers in the glorious Golden West have sung the praises of that truly wonderful and justly popular fowl, the 'Buff Orpington' until they are as well known here as in their own home, 'The Tight Little Island Merrie Eng- land.' Now I would like to say a few words about the 'Black Orpington' to my mind the most beautiful, the grand- est, and the king of all the Orpington varieties. The black Orpington was originated by the late William Cook of Orpington, England. They were the first variety and were first exhibited in 1886. They were built out of cross- es between the Black Langshan, Black Minorca and Golden Hamburg, which gives them their great size and wonder- ful laying qualities.

It is strange that they have been so long overlooked here, for they certainly are a magni- ficient fowl, and both for utility and now a growing demand among fanci- ers and lovers of beautiful poultry (es- pecially among the rich who want something superb and out of the com- mon) for the majestic Blacks. In the last two years there has been a radical change in the type of this grand bird. A famous cock in England which was sold for $750, has never been beaten up to two years ago, would not have now chance of winning under a competent judge.

Up to that time the type was a round, cobby-shaped fowl, but today a much larger, mas- sive, square built bird, set on short stout logs with a tremendeous deep body from back to keel is wanted. This change in shape is a great ad- vance, as it gives a much larger amount of breast meat which is most desirable for a table fowl. Size is of the greatest importance in Black Orpingtons, cockerels should weigh 10 pounds and cocks 11 to 13 pounds. The back must be short and very broad, with a graceful concave sweep to the tail of medium height, with a profuse amount of graceful curving sickles. The eye must be dark as possible. The flesh pure white of very fine texture so much sought by mod- ern epicures.

The chicks are very hardy, easily raised, mature early and appeal strongly to the small fancier as they are bred true to type and color, and the per cent, of culls from good stock is the smallest of any breed. The plumage is abundant; the neck saddle and hackle in the male being very profuse. The hens having a great abundance of rich, glossy green-, ish black plumage. Color is of supreme importance and goes far to show the quality of the breeding. Pure black with a rich bottle green sheen is ab- solutely essential. Any dull brown, dull black wiin no sheen, or any signs of purple should be avoided, as these are very serious faults and good speci- mens cannot be bred from fowls that have them.

As layers, and particularly winter layers, they have no superiors and very few equals. I have no doubt that in the near future there will be a perfect craze for this beautiful and useful fowl. One could not look on a more beautiful sight than a flock of real-up-to-date Black Orpingtons, with their rich, glossy plumage flashing in California's glorious sunlight. To those who are on the look-out for making a big strike in the poultry business, I say 'go in for some real, good up-to-date- Black Orpingtons and reap a rich reward.'

(This article on Orpingtons has been prepared to furnish information about the bird of which so much is said of late.— Editor.) PREPARING BIRDS FOR SHOW. The individual who has given the minutest care to his exhibition stock from the time they were hatched until the present must be accredited with keen foresight. The training and special care of the birds must not be neglected until the time for the show is near at hand.

It should begin when the chicks are hatched — and going still further back, we might say that it should have begun for the several pre- ceding generations. We state this with the understanding that we are dili- gently trying to avoid saying anything that is in the least discouraging to you, reader; if you know that you have neglected this in a measure, do not let pass this season's opportuni- ties; put your best efforts forth with the stock now available and determine to be in a better position another year. The amateur will not find it the eas- iest task in the business to make prop- er selection of the stock which he must depend upon to win him honors.

He should prepare himself by study- ing assiduously the requirements of the American Standard of Perfection, the authorized guide for judges in awarding premiums. All information that he can gain in one way and an- other he should turn to some value. It is plainly evident that birds for ex- hibition have to undergo considerable physical strain therefore all specimens should have vigor of constitution; they should all be in perfect health. If your birds belong to a class in which weight is one of the first considera- tions, take those birds of large size which promise to come up to the standard weight when properly condi- tioned.

Do not select a small, under- sized specimen and endeavor to bring it up to weight by putting on excessive fat; the results will in more than one respect be unsatisfactory. There is no detail which in selecting show speci- mens can be overlooked; defects some- times almost indiscernible will throw a bird out of the competition.

All these things must be watched against. If you do not consider yourself capable of passing judgment on the fowls, ob- tain the services of some one who knows them well. Potts: 'They say that poets have to be born.' Potts: 'That's what they say, but I never could understand why. Profit In The Poultry Yard. CALIFORNIA CULTIVATOR. January, 3 15 4( The Chatham' Incubators and Brooders are sold on their merits only— you be the judge 84 day5 free trial Take^c>ff to prove that the Chatham is the ma- chine you want, then if not satisfactory- it costs you nothing.

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J _ enrv-W One-ThirA flS^li^ PRACTICAL!,':'^^^^'^j°s'„^'r;;:S LS«'^ L'™'!!' Ifl YEARS' G UARANTEE Cit.!™. NuciicJU.iit.M.,72os.imsLS.ijM.eii ENVELOPES 5END $2 for 1000 printed corner-card business envelopes. Quick delivery. $1.25 for 1000 business cards.

REYNOLDS & CO., Envelopes. Paper Boxes, Shipping Tags, 444 S. Broadway, Los Angeles Chicks Hatched From Brown Eggs, 4c From White Eggs, SJoC Minimum Charge, $2.50 per Hundred Eggs.

No direct charge for mfertiles. Bihn-Schoficld Method 51,000 Hatched Last Tear. Shipped to Five States Combined Egg Capacity', 4o.000 Bihn Bros. Schofield California Gardena l6 January, 3 PREPARING SHOW BIRDS.

Preparing Coops. Suitable coops should be in readi- ness for the stock selected, each bird being given a separate one. By all means do not crowd your birds into small coops. Have them of a reason- ably large size — six to eight feet floor space and high enough that the fowls can not strike their heads and combs against the top. Have everything ar- ranged as conveniently as possible.

Place the coop in a poultry building, a well lighted, open-front scratching shed preferred, along the side of a wall. Arrange so that a light may be had in the house at night, as you will probably need to do some of the work in the evening. Into the coops put a quantity of straw, cut into short lengths perferably, excepting for feath- er legged birds, in which case the bot- tom of coop should be covered with sand. The coops should be cleaned twice a week and after the stock is washed, which is several days before the show, they should be cleaned daily.

To properly condition the birds they should be placed in these coops about two weeks before the show. This will give them plenty of time to become accustomed to their new surround- ings and all the work necessary can be done in that time. When around your birds, make no undue noises that might frighten them.

If they are naturally wild, they must be worked with to overcome this. When feed- ing them, approach as closely as pos- sible and stroke them gently. You will gradually gain their confidence and they will become perfectly tame. Training is quite important in pre- paring the birds.

Typical carriage or symmetry is one of the chief require- ments of fine birds, and training will induce them to assume a position which will show the specimens off to best advantage. It takes time and patience to train the fowls properly, but the results fully justify it. After some of the fear has gradually worn away from the bird, remove the coop and place on a stand. By gently stroking the bird under the throat it can readily be made to assume some- thing near the desired carriage. There are many means by which the birds may be taught to stand correctly, and the ingenious fancier will make good use of those which may be suggested to him. It takes an infinitely greater amount of work to properly fit white birds for the exhibition than it does the partial- ly colored ones.

In addition to all the other work, they will need to be given thorough washings to make them 'as white as the driven snow.' This is always an aggravating and patience- trying task, and right here frequently starts the fancier's discouragement. Now Need Attention. STrom the time the birds are washed 'until they are in the show room you should give them your closest atten- tion.

In every way try and prevent them from soiling their plumage. Do not feed a mash at this time — give them hard grains.

When sending them to.the exhibition be sure and start them so that they will arrive at their -destination in time. Have the sides of the shipping coops inclosed and the top slatted.

Watch your charges from the time they are started on their journey until they are safely home again. At our large exhibitions with ISO many fowls entered, there are very likely to be confusions, and it is best to take unusual precaution with their identification. On the shipping •coop have a card bearing your name 'and address, the number of fowls sent in coop, leg number of each, etc.

See that your entries are properly made. The size of exhibit you make will be governed by the number of extra fine specimens you have the time you 'Can give to their care, and the confi- 'dence you have in their quality. When conditions permit, it is the best to make a large exhibit, for several reasons. If you have a goodly number you will have a better opportunity of selling some of them, provided you wish to do so. It will make a better impression on those who may In the future be your customers.

Jones, in Commercial Poultry. It is well known that he seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope ts always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of reveling today on the profits of to- morrow. CALIFORNIA CULTIVATOR. Pro/it In The Poultry Yard. Flock of 3-months-old Pullets fed for first six weeks on Coulson's Special Chick Food, and afterwards on Coulson's Growing Chick Food.

Coulson Poultry and Stock Food Company - Petaluma, California Germain Seed Company, Los Angeles, Agents for Southern California WESTERN DISTRICT OF THE WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK CLUB MEETING. The growth of the White Plymouth Rock Club has been so great that the organization has been divided into five districts, each being represented by a governor. The western district comprising Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Montana and California, will hold its first yearly meeting in Salt Lake City January 23, to 26, 1907. The meeting is not simply to boom the White Rock, but to pro- mote interest in breeding fancy poul- try, and the members are urged to send their birds and if possible attend themselves. Tolintick of Jack- sonville, 111., will judge. The premium list of the Utah State Show does not mention the fact but I am advised by the secrtary, Mr. Sanders, that, in view of the fact that our district meeting is being held in connection with their show, that no entrance fee will be charged for White Rocks entered by members of the club.

Let us give them a hearty response. HUMPHREYS, Governor western district. THE SMALL FARM AS A TRAFFIC BUILDER.

If the railroads which received such magnificent gifts of public lands, a few decades ago, had possessed the light of the present day as to the superior traflic producing qualities of the small farm as compared with the big estate or 'ranch,' might not the history of railroad development have been differ- ent? Those lands were mostly sold in large blocks to speculators. These, holding them for a rise, forced immi- gration in thin streams farther and farther west, where the best lands were in turn tied up. The result was a sparse, widely distributed population.

The railroads had to build long lines in pursuit of traflBc, which, had the possibilities of the small farm system been known, could have been secured by shorter and less expensive ones. Irrigation in the West was brought about a reversal of former processes in development. Before the day of irri- gation it was almost invariably the case that the railroad preceded and attracted population. Now the popula- tion gathers, in the areas selected for irrigation projects, so rapidly that rail- road managers have to 'step lively' in order to meet its demands and se- cure its traffic. From its inception, every irrigation project is the source of a great transportation business; which, so far from diminishing when construction work ends, goes on in- creasing.

The Burlington road recently sent out a large party of its officials on a tour of inspection of the areas in the 'New Northwest' which are about to be irrigated with the purpose of mak- ing preparations in season for handling an immense traffic which they knew would follow. With the 'creation' of this traffic the road had nothing to do. The Reclamation Service and the set- tlers do the creative work; the rail- road simply profits by it. That is some- thing different from the 'development' which went on in the days of the land grants.

The first general convention of those vitally interested in the reclamation of the semi-arid regions of the United States by systems of scientific farm- ing is hereby called to meet in the City of Denver, Colorado, on Jan- uary 24th and 25th, 1907. When writing advertlaers mention Cultivator Starbuck's Barred Plymouth Rocks We Trap-Nest Our Hens. Bird Laying Qualities are inherited.

Why set from poor layers? We use pedigreed cockerels whose mothers have for over six generations laid over 200 eggs per year. Eggs from old hens, $1.50 and $2.00 per setting of fifteen; from pullets $1.00 per setting of 15.'

Wm, Starbuck Fullerton, Cal, 200-250 Egg Fowls WHITE WYANDOTTES Unsurpass«cal Creamery, 2-It), sq 77% VaJley Creamery, fancy '..75@77% Coast, fancy 70@72% Cooking 22@24 Cheese Cal. Young America, per tb 18 California Anchor 17 CaJ. Hand 19 Northern 17 Domestic Swiss 29 Imported Swiss 28 Eggs and Poultry Eggs have taken a tumble of five ■cents during the past week. Eggs, fresh ranch, per doz 35 Northern candled 34 BYesh Eastern 28 The following are average prices which dealers pay to producers for live weight: Hens, per Ih H Toung Roosters, per lb 16 BYyers 16 Broilers, per lb 18 Old Roosters 8 Turkeys 17 Geese 12 Ducks n Live Stock The following quotations are f. B., LiOS Angeles, on all stock. Hogs, 200 lb 7@7,25 Prime Steers 4 Cows 3@3% Calves, per lb 5 Sheep, ewes, per head 4.00@4.50 Lambs, per head 3.50@3.75 Wethers 4.75@5.25 Potatoes Salinas, per cwt 2.00 Burbank, Local 1.90 Highland 1.85@2.00 Sweets, Yellow, per sack 3.00 Vegetables Onions are firmer and some dealers ' have made an advance in their selling price.

Beets, per doz 20@25 Bell Peppers, Green, lb 3@4 Chili Peppers, Green 2%@3l^ Chili, Dried, per tb 20 ■Cauliflower, iper doz 1-25 'Cucumbers, per doz 1.00 Cucumbers, per box 75@1.00 Carrots, per doz 20 Celery, per doz 40 Casaba Melons, per crate 1.75@2.00 Egg Plant, per tb 12 Garlic, iper lb 6 Green Corn, local, per sack..75@1.25 Green Onions, doz. Bunches 25 Lettuce, per crate 1-00 Lima Beans, per tb, 6@8 -Onions, Aust.

Brown, sk 1.25@1.35 Onions, Y. Danvers 1-25 Parsnips, per doz 25@30 Rhubarb, per box 75 Radishes, per doz 10@15 String Beans, per lb 3 •Sugar Peas, per tb 7@8 Summer Squash, per box 40 Turnips, doz. Bunches 15@25 Tomatoes, per box 65@75 Wax Beans, per tb 10@12 Citrus Fruits Lemons 3.00@5.50 Valencias 3.50@4.00 Navels 3.00 Grapefruit 3.56 Grapefruit, seedlings 3.00 Fresh Fruits Apples, Bellefleur, per box 1.40 Apples, Spitzenburg 2.00 Apples, Fall Pippins 75@90 Flga, Black, per lb 8@9 Figs, White, per tb 8@9 Pears, Bartlett, per box 3.50@4.00 Pears, Winter Nelis. Per lb 6@7 Blackberries 12 Raspberries 20 Strawberries 20 Quinces, box 1.00 Grapes, Muscat 1.50 Grapes, Blk. Morocco 2.00 Red Tokay 2.00(8)2.25 Grapes, Cornichon 1.25@1.50 Dried Fruits Evap. Apples, fancy, per tb 'jVs Apricots 17 Peaches Il@12y2 Pears 13 Plums 11 Prunes, fancy 7@9 Beans, Dried Limas, No.

1, per cwt 5.00 Pink, No. 1 2.75(5)3.00 Lady Washington 2.90(@)3.n') Small White ZMm.!' Black Eyes 4.50(fi;5.T take the unsightly-looking stock.

Then they sigh for the navels and say that all navels look well. It is pointed out that the difference between the growth of oranges in the brillant sun- shine of California and the damp and cloudy atmosphere of the Florida sand dunes must be marked. Some time this fact will be even better appreo'- ated, but now the effect is to make the Florida orange a slow seller m compe- tition with the golden fruit from thd Golden State. NEW YORK MARKET. December 31, 1906:— Navels are doing better and show from 10c to 30c ad- vance. Lemons also show slight ad- vance. Six carload of oranges and on 3 carload of lemons sold today.

It is raining. NAVELS— _ AV. Camellia, ex ch, Mutual O. D Jd-Ui Highland, ch. D 2.i->Mariposa, ex fy, C.

^-jJ Producer, ex fy, Redlands O. P S W Alhoha, ex ch, Redlands O. P 2.75 Sunshine Grove, J. Bowen ^-9 J Sunrise Grove, J.

Bowen 2.9Q The Fates, King Ft. Co 2.80 Gavilon fy, Speich & Co -i-'O LEMONS— AV Independent, fy. Highland Independent, ch. Highland ^--0 Independent, or, Highland 3.j.j Stock Label, Highland 3.1'J Philadelphia Market. December, 31, 1906.— Market is steady. It is raining.

One carload of navels and one carload of lemons sold. Flori- da oranges sold here today at from $2.00 to $2.80, averaging $2.65. LEMONS— AV_ Visalia, fy, T. Fruit EiX 3.35 Lemon Cove, ch, T. Fruit Ex 3.15 NAVELS— Roughrider, fy, C. U 2.bc Boston Market.

December, 31, 1906.— The market la very strong. It is raining. One car on track., NAVELS— ^l- Mariposa, fy, C. U 2 »0 LEMONS— -^y. Pet, ex, ch, S. Ex 3.15 Pittsburg Market. December, 31, 1906.— The market is steady.

Weather clear and warm. Highland, ex fy. 2.90 Heapgood, fy, Patte & Lott 2.75 Lochinvar, ch, R. Ex 2.75 Labelle, st. A ^.90 Belt, ch, R. 0 LEMONS— ^, Harbor, fy, Chas.

Mohnike 3.^^ Standard, Chas. Mohnike 2. Dancehall Riddim Download. 80 A. Mohnike 3..-J St. Louis Market. December, 31, 1906.— Market iS weak. It is raining.

Six cars sold. Six on track. Floridas sold here today at $2.30.

Pepita, ch, T. Ex 2.60 Stork, ex ch, S. Ex 2.3a Peerless, ch, S.

Co l-'.>Full Value, st, T. Ft Ex 2.4a Badger, ex fy, C.

Tulare Co 1.80 Sunset, ch, Lemon Cove 1-23 LEMONS— -^X- Greyhound, ch, S. Ex 2.9a Cincinnati Market. December, 31, 1906.— The market is de- clining. It is raining. One car on track.

Florida Brights sold from $1.50 to $1.80. Russetts, $1.50 to $2.00. LEMONS— -^Y- Select, ch, S. Ex 3.60 Greyhound, ch, S. Ex 3.05 Pet, ex ch.

Ft Ex 3.0o Duck, St. Ex 2 95 NAVELS— AV.

Blue Label, fy, T. Lindsay 2.0:) Red and Blue T. Lindsay.190 Red Label, ch, T. Ex, Lindsay.2.05 Cleveland Market. December, 26, 1906.— The market is firm on good stock. The weather ii cold.

Three cars sold. Three oranges and two lemons on tracks. Three cars NAVELS— AV. Tuhp, ex, ch, T. Ex $3.10 Serenade, fy. Ex 2.9->Pepeta, ch, T. Ex 2.80 Mariposa, fy C.

U 2.70 LOCAL CITRUS SHIPMENTS. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31, 1906.— Fri- day, December 28, forty-eight carloads of oranges and eight carloads o£ lemons.

Saturday and Sunday, December 29. Forty-three carloads of oranges and fifteen carloads of lemons. Total to date this season, 1646 cars of which 377 cars are lemons. Total to same date last season, 323' cars of which 544 were lemons.

Seedless Prunes. One of the growing table dishes in the line of dried fruits is Seedless Prunes, prepared by the Selma Fruit Company. The savin.g in this article is seen in freight. It is nicely packed in pound cartoons and when eaten re- sembles very much seedless raisins in taste.

The Selma Fruit Company is the only one that seeds prunes by ma- chinery. DO VOV NEED HNV? You c»n always iret them at L. Bernson & Co^ the lariresi Kotlle and Sack Dealers ia Califor- nia 820-26 Stevenson Ave, Los Angel«« Phones; Broadway 4611, Home 34X9. CALIFORNIA CULTIVATOR. January, 3 19 Queries and Replies liners Grape Questions.

I wish to ask a few questions as 1 wish to put out a field of grapes and want late varieties. My land is most- ly granite soil. Cafion sloping to the south.

Some of it is clay subsoil, that is the height of it, and some of it is flat, somewhat bottom land. Which would suit Emperor grapes and which Golden Queen, Cornichon and Tokay.

Elevation is 1900 feet. Is Golden Queen as nardy as Muscat? Muscats do well here, but not so large as bottom land produces them. Do you think the McPike grape would do well here on such land as I describe? I also have some damp and wet land, which slope would suit grapes the best, facing south or north? Some seasons we have late frosts in spring.

Is it in- jurious to trim grapes late enough to make them bleed freely? Do you think winter Bartlett pears would do well in this altitude? The summer Bartlett don't always make a crop on my place, but are healthy otherwise. Apples do fairly well, but mildew some. Cornichon and Tokay do best on a heavy subsoil.

Emperor does best on a heavy sandy loam in Southern Cali- fornia. It is a poor bearer on light sandy land while Golden Queen is an enormous bearer on such land.

McPike bears well on a sandy land. McPike does this in the Sacramento Valley We would plant late grapes on the north slope as it would have a tend- ency to make them mature later and would also hold them back later in the spring and thus tend to skip the late frost. Late pruning will not injure the vines if it is not put off so late that it will cause excessive bleeding. It will have a tendency to make the vines come out later. Golden Queen is as vigorous as Muscat.— J. The Dual Cow.

A correspondent writes to ask our opinion of the dual purpose cow for California. The answer can only be made, we think,as the editor of the Journal of Agriculture has stated it: 'If you want beef cattle, get beef breeds. If you are running a dairy for something besides glory, get the dairy breeds. It is one of the impossibili- ties for a cow to be two things — a real profitable dairy cow and a fist-class beef animal. The functions are too widely different; the characteristics are too much at war with each other.' There are advocates of the dual-pur- pose cow, to be sure — there are advo- cates of every sort of theory. But it appears to our mind that that partic- ular theory is knocked out by the two questions of one of our leading scien- tific farmers: 'Instead of keeping a dual-purpose cow to yield $40 worth of milk a year, why not keep the special- purpose dairy cow that will yield $80 worth?

Instead of a dual-purpose cow that will raise a steer which at two years old will bring $40, why not keep the special-purpose dairy heifer which at two years will produce a calf, con- vert her -ood into milk and herself command as high a price upon the market as the steer of the same age?' The dual cow is not so profitable in California as in the Eastern States, because we do not have the roughage to feed, nor do we have the summer pasture to range the cow on. The feed we give costs too much to attempt the raising of the dual purpose animal. We can succeed with any of the well-classi- fied types of dairy cows, if we will, but the dual breeds are experimental and will remain so until we have ar- rived at knowledge of how to raise the roughage to best provide for the general purpose cow. Pasture Weed. Can you tell me what the enclosed plant is. It grows very thickly in my pasture.

Is it Australian salt grass? Will the stock eat and will it run out pasture grasses?— J. G., Porterville. The plant having neither flower or fruit we cannot determine with cer- tainty what it Is, but it is not a salt grass fatriplex.) Whether it will 'run out' your pasture grasses or be eaten by the stock is for you to de- termine by observation, we have no better means for finding out than have you. If it is what it appears to be in the eyes of our botanist, it is a plant growing on low alkaline flats, conditions peculiarly suited to its successful growth, but not for grass. Moving Palms.

A friend of mine gave me a fan palm which I want to move onto my place. The palm is as large as a wash tub near the ground. Please tell me the best time to move it, and tell me what I should do so I can get it to grow after I get it moved. If you don't think it will grow after mov- ing, please tell me so in the Cultiva- tor. Hoping to hear from you soon. This matter was very fully treated in The Cultivator some time ago — more fully than it will ever be again — such articles are worthy of preserva- tion. Defer moving as long as possi- ble.

February is soon enough. Do not ball or box but take along as much earth as clings to roots. Set up and prop until earth is firmly settled.

Give lots of water, preferably in the trunk, close to top and allow it to run down to basin below. Trunk needs water to furnish in lieu of sup- ply stopped by cutting roots. Na- tive fan palms are easy to move. Bean Planting.

When may beans be safely plant- ed to avoid the weevil? D., Los Angeles. We understand that July 10 is as early as planting is really safe.

This would shut out planting in districts having a well-drained soil and no ir- rigation water. We also wrote to Mr. Neff of Analeim as many beans are grown in his district. He replies: 'I have made some inquiries about time of planting beans as a means of preventing damage by weevil. The largest grower here says that he has never had any damage by weevil in beans that were planted as late as July, 10th and that he has escaped weevil sometimes on those planted two weeks earlier. He says he has beans on hand now that are two years old and that are as good as when gathered.

This of course refers to the small white and Lady Washington. He says he never saw weevil in Limas.

I was shown some weeviled small white beans that were said to have been planted about July, 4th, but the grower was no*^ quite sure of the date.' I have a cow that has a caked udder. Tne bag is hard and sore.

Give the cow a full dose of physic (1 1-4 pounds of Epsom salts and an ounce of powdered ginger, steeped in a quart of warm water) drench. Fol- low this with 1 ounce of fluid extract of poke root, and two ounces of po- tassium acetate dissolved in a quart of water, twice daily, and rub the ud- der well after each milking with the following ointment: Take of Re- sublimbed iodine, 2 ounces; lanolin, 1 pound; mix well and apply. Breeding Cow. I have a Jersey cow that leaps any fence I can raise. Have tied a weight to her, but she goes over, weight and all. Can you suggest something to keep her within bounds? An inverted ox bow set in a four- inch eucalyptus stick about two feet long with a pole extending out in front, just long enough to clear the cows nos^ when she raises her head to jump the fence, will remedy the trouble.

Don't keep dehorned cows and cows with horns together in the same yard. Dehorn them all. It pays to look after these little things. Do it before bad weather sets in.

Grape Pruning and Sour Sap. Please answer through The Culti- vator two questions and oblige. (1) How is the proper way to prune malaga vines, one year old, and is it necessary they should be staked? (2) I notice so much sour sap at the forks and base of my peach trees; orchard is two years old; eight acres; trees are in fine shape and look healthy, but would like to know the Liner Advertising Advertisements in Liner Column I'/s cent« per word. Eight words to a line.

No adverti»e- ment taken for less than 25 cents. WASHINGTONIA FII.IFEKA AND ROBUSTA and Euretia eduliH palms, from 5 to 10 feot high, to exchanne forothcr kinds of nursery klock or sold for ca^h. Enough for carloail lots. Erickeon & Heinz.

Brawle y, Cal. RANCHES AND ACREAGE WANTED-WH>L sell your propi-rty for you if your price is ritfht. List it with me.

Colwell, West Second St., Rcx)m 101, Los Angele p, Cal. FOR SALE — BURBANK'S PHENOMENAL Berry Plants, true to name, in (luantities to suit. For terms apply to E. Thomijson, Box C:iO, Fresno, Cal. FOR SALE— FIVE THOUSAND MAMMOTH Dewberry Plants will produce 600 crates to the acre.

Write for prices to Oak View Berry Farm, Gridley, Cal. FOR SALE— TWO THOUSAND SANTA BAR- bara Soft Shell Walnuts from 3Vi to 8 feet hi^h at 10 to 25 cents each. Hickson, Route 2, Burbank, Cal. C ANDREWS, 332 THIRD STREET, LOS AN- • geles. Yards, North Southerland Avenue, Hollywood. Partridge Wyandottes.

Winners at Los Angeles. POR SALE — WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK Cockerels, Fishel strain. Some fine ones, $2 and up. Young, Lawndale, Cal. WANTED — SOME MISSION OLIVES.

Peaches, and some varieties of Grape Vines. Imperial Valley Nurseries, Imperial, Cal. WANTED— HIMALAYA BLACKBERRY. McDowd Berry and Longworth Strawberry Plants. Give Price and all particulars. Address Lock Box 64, Gridley, Cal.

DUFF LEGHORN COCKERELS FOR SALE. Also some Black Minorca pullets. Sell to make room.

Warrick, Corning, Cal. Real cause of the sap appearing? Prune your one-year-old Malaga vines with two branches with two buds to each branch. For the third year and from then on prune to one short spur with two buds and one spur with four buds. Some fungus disease has evidently attacked your peach trees and no doubt you will get relief by spraying with Bordeaux mixture. You might write to Prof.

Smith at Whit- tier. He has a peach disease man in your part of the State now. Dahlias and Olives. Please tell me if dahlias do best in sun or shade, and what is the best olive for family use. — A Subscriber, Kingsburg. Dahlias should have full sun as they grow too much to vegetation rather than bloom if in whole or partial shade. The best all around olive is a large type of mission.

It makes good oil and is one of the best pickle olives. Kaffir Corn For Feed. I should like a little information. I plant KaflSr corn for green feed, com- mence to cut it as soon as it is large enough and of course the second growth springs up and is nice feed, or would be if I dare use it, but I have a neighbor who came from Kansas where they grow a great deal of Kaffir corn, but my neighbor tells me they never feed the second growth as it kills the stock.

So I have not used it. Do not care to experiment as I have some very valuable Jersey cows. Do you know anything about it? Is the second growth considered poisonous to stock?

Is it or is it not used as feed? An answer through the Culti- vator will be thankfully received. There is often trouble from corn- stalks when over-fed or when the corn is frosted and then mildewed. There is iu, regular disease from feeding the second growth that prevails in the East but I have never known of it in California.

Here the trouble is simply bloating, to overcome this feed the cornstalks in the mangers. Some- times when mildewed the cows scour badly, this however happens with any musty or sour feeds. The mares with colts are even now running in our corn fields and it makes the best of feed for them.— M. 'The trouble,' said the dentist, as he probed away at the aching molar, 'is evidently due to a dying nerve.' Groaned the victim, 'it's up to you to treat the dying with a little more respect.'

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Price on eggs from sel- ected stock. $2.50 per setting of 16, $4.50 two settings. Incubator lota $10.00 per 100. A fevy cockerela for sale, 8 months old, $2.60 and upwards. Coulson Poultry and Stock Food Co., Petaluma, Cal 1 A Man and His Club ^'^T OU WAIT,' Eleanor said to me Y whenever I complained about i Jerome's remaining at home evening and never going to the club. 'In a year's time you will be begging him to graciously grant you an oc- casional evening of his society.

I know men and their ways.' Privately, I pitied my sister Eleanor; she had had such an unfortunate mat- rimonial experience and was so sour- ed by it. 'I don't think you know Jerome,' I tofd her, patiently. ' He is the kind of unambitious man to settle down at home in a perpetual attire of dressing gown and slippers and let all of his in- teresting men friends drop. I have coaxed him, night after night, to go over to the club, just to keep in touch with his old set, but he won't listen to me; says he is perfectly happy and does not want to see anyone else. I believe in a man's running into his club now and then, if only to make him appreciate home the more.' 'Poor misguided child,' said Elea- nor, commiseratingly.

This conversation took place when Jerome and I had been married ten months, and just six weeks later my husband came home early to dinner. This unusual departure from his cus- tomary habits filled me with consterna- tion, but although I felt that some- thing lay berind his promptness, I was totally unprepared when he remarked: 'I believe I will run over to the club this evening. Election is pretty close, and I want to see some of the fellows about a deal in our district.' 'By all means,' I assented, cheerful- ly.

'I am so glad.' I did not sit up for my husband. Once upon a time I read something somewhere to the effect that nothing irritates a man so much as to return from a pleasant evening to find a wife waiting for details of just how he spent the hours away from her.

There- fore, I went to bed and to sleep. Never- theless. I was scarcely prepared to find Jerome still absent wljen I awakened shortly after midnight. However, I pretended to slumber when he finally came home about 2 o'clock, and re- frained from any comment on the late- ness of the hour. The next evening we resumed the pcrsual of a book in which we were both much interested, Jerome reading aloud while I sewed. We were obliged to stop at a most thrilling point by the advent of some chance callers, and.1 could scarcely wait until the next night to continue our story, but, alas!

Just as we were finishing dinner Jerome cleared his throat curiously and said: 'I find I must go over to the club ag;iin this evening. Hart said he want- ed to see me on a matter of the ut- most importance.'

To say tha,t t was startled would be expressing it mildly, but as I have al- ways prided myself upon being con- sistent I swallowed my disappoint- ment and managed a very creditable smile. 'All right,' I said as cheerfully as possible, and then as he rushed off, added: 'Have a pleasant evening.' 'It won't be very pleasant, arguing with a lot of men,' he grunted. Resolutely I went to bed at the usual hour, but in spite of the utmost en- deavor, sleep would not come.

Eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, one o'clock struck; two o'clock, half -past two and still no Jerome. Mamiya 6 Serial Numbers. It was in- conceivable that he should linger so over a mere matter of politics or busi- ness. Could it be possible that some- thing had happened to him?

Some ac- cident? Stung into uneasiness by the horrid fear, I stole out of bed and to the win- dow. The street stretched before me an avenue of silence. I bit my lips with nervous terror as the moments passed and no one came. Then at last a step resounded through the stillness.

It was Jerome, it must be he; but the man, a small, thin person who walked with a jump, passed quickly. Another length of silence, then the sound of carriage wheels. My heart stood still. He was hurt, then, and they were bringing him home to me, maimed, perhaps unconscious. The cab drew up in front of the house and Jerome sprang out alertly.

He came up the steps like a man well satisfied with himself. I shivered back to bed, speechless with fury, but again feigned slumber and said not a word to my miscreant spouse. The next morning Jerome was cross- er than usual at getting-up time.

'I am worn out,' he remarked, with the air of a martyr. 'I should think you would be,' I re- torted, 'considering the time you came home last night.'

'Yes, I thought I never should get away. How those men can go on- liv- ing like that, sitting around and smok- ing and arguing all night long every night, as they do, is beyond me.' This was somewhat mollifying, but he continued: 'The worst of it is I have promised to go over again to- night. Hart has a banquet or some- thing on, and you know it is very necessary that I stand well with him.' I closed my teeth with a little click. 'How about our reading?'

I de- manded. 'Awfully sorry, little woman, but you had better finish that book yourself; there is no telling when I shall be able to go on with it.' 'Then you mean to go out every evening hereafter?'

I inquired, con- trolling my voice as well as I could. 'I expect to have to go pretty fre- quently for the next few weeks.

Of course, any time you want me es- pecially to go out with you, just let me know a little in advance and I will try to arrange it.' 'And do you intend to always return at 3 a. M., and require the services of a cab to land you home in safety?' My husband flushed furiously. He hates criticism.

'You have been at me all along to go to the club,' he said angrily. 'Now that I am obliged to go you are making a row about it. If that is not just like a woman!' I shrugged my shoulders. 'I wanted you to go to the club oc- casionally, but had no idea you would suddenly take it into your head to spend every night there.' 'That is just about the way you usually exaggerate everything,' sneer- ed Jerome. 'And you need not expect me to be- lieve that you do go to the club,' I continued warmly; 'you would never keep such hours with a lot of men.,, 'Oh, now you are getting silly,' said my husband, and he flung off, slam- ming the door behind him without a single attempt to pacify me.

Of course this strengthened my sus- picions. Some one has said that there is al- ways a woman behind everything, and I wondered, miserably, who the other woman might be in my Jerome's case. When Eleanor called that evening, accompanied by her newest admirer, CALIFORNIA CULTIVATOR. January, 3, 21 She found me writhing upon the bed and deluged with tears. I told her everything in short, brok- en sentences. It was a relief to un- burden my mind, and I knew she would blame my husband quite as much as he deserved. Eleanor never made ex- cuses for the men.

She stared at me when I finished my pitiful story, as one who might say, 'I told you so,' but her first words were: 'You are surely not going to stay here and mope?' 'What else is there for me to do?' 'Put your things right on and come to the theater with Mr. Harvey and me.

We called to get you both, but as Jerry is not here there is no reason on earth why you should not go out and have a good time instead of mak- ing yourself miserable alone. Then you must come home with me and spend the night,' she continued. 'Oh, Eleanor!' I gasped, 'I couldn't do that.' 'Jerome would be worried to death.'

'I do not see why he should not be the one to worry instead of you. Teach the young man a lesson, I say.' 'But he would never forgive me.'

'All the better, if he cares no more than that. I should think you would have more independence. Besides he will forgive you; men always do, and when he thinks you have run off and left him for good, he will be willing to grovel, if it will only bring you back.' The thought of Jerome's groveling was particularly pleasing to me, and I began to dab the tears from my eyes. I might as well have been at a funeral instead of the theater that evening, for all the enjoyment I got out of the performance. Neither did I sleep a wink the whole long night. I stole into Eleanor's room.

'I am going,' I said, rousing my sis- ter with much difficulty. She sat up and blinked at me. 'Well, for goodness' sake go and leave me alone!' She retorted, and dropped straight back to dreamland.

I hurried through the deserted streets, feeling the chill of early dawn in my heart. Suppose Jerome should refuse to for- give me. He was fearful when aroused. I stole into my own home like a thief, moving as quietly as possible, but before I was well over the threshold mv husband confronted me.

He looked very unlike himself, with clothing dis- arranged, disheveled hair and wild eyes. He cried, and the next min- ute I was lying on his heart and there were really, truly tear-drops on my face, a strong man's tears. 'Oh darling!' I sobbed, 'I am so sorry.' 'Where have you been? What has happened?' With genuine shame I confessed my petty jealousy and how I had tried to punish him.

Jerome looked very serious. 'Dearest, I have had to go to the club these evenings. I did not like it one bit better than you did, but you know you want me to get on in the world and amount to something.' I nodded an affirmative. 'Well, if Johnny Hart carries the district he can put me in the way of doubling our income. You do not un- derstand these things, and I did not like to talk about it when there was nothing certain.'

'Oh, sweetheart! Can you ever for- give me?' 'There is nothing for me to forgive, since I must have hurt you cruelly to make you run away from me; but, be- loved, we must try to understand one another better and have more confi- dence.' 'I shall always believe in you after this,' I announced, firmly, 'no matter what happens.' And I meant it, too.

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