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$1.50 PER YEAR The Liberal is recognized as one or the Newsiest Home Papers in the Province of Ontario. Eight to twelve pages, all home print, it carries all the news of the entire district and our circulation is increasing every weekâ€"Subscribe to-day. .VOL. L. Professional And Business Directory. MUSICAL RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1928 DRS. LANGSTAFF North Yonge St. - Richmond Hill ADELMO MELECCI AND MISS DR, ROLPH L. LANGSTAFF- ROSALIND BUSH,‘ L.T.C.M. From the Toronto Conservatory of Music. will Iccept a number of pupils in Plano. I 'I‘ . much? Hillaory- Friday and Saturday For Information Phone 58.] MRS. MYLKB ____________._____ McDONALD’S ORCHESTRA THORNHILL Popular throughout the district for music suitable for all kinds of dances. Open for engagements. Telephone: Thornhlll 62. ____________â€"â€"â€"- FREDERICK M. POLLETT Pupil Of Ernest Seitz Conservatory Examinations Feesâ€"$20 per term (20 lessons.) Studioâ€"Mrs. A. L. Phipps, Richmond Streetâ€"Phone 13W. JOHN T. ANDERSON Piano Tuner 35 Years’ Practical Experience 878 Beresford Avenue, West Toronto Lyndhurst 2821 _ Telephone Glenn’s Drug_Store, Rich- mond Hill, for appomtment George Guy 48 Woburn Avenue. NORTH TORONTO Phone Hudson 09701 TUNER AND PLAYER EXPERT Certificate piano tuning Conservatory PIANO BUSINESS WRIGHT & TAYLOR FUNERAL DIRECTORS AMBULANCE SERVICE Richmond Hill Phonesâ€"15 and 142 Night Phone 15 Branch Offices Atâ€" THORNHILL AND UNIONVILLE Prices Most Moderate BERT HUMPHREY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMERS New Limousine Ambulances TELEPHONE Willowdale 69 HUdson 3679-W Stop 5, Yonge Street. Lansing JOHN R. CAMPBELL Veterinary Surgeon THORNHILL R. MACDONALD, B.V. Sc. Veterinary Surgeon Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College . Address: Yonge St., Richmond Hlll Telephone 182 J. T. SAIGEON MAPLE licensed Auctioneer for the County of York Sales attended to on shortest notice and at reasonable rates. Patronage solicited Office hours: 8: 10 a.m. and 6: 8 p.m. DR. LILLIAN C. LANGS’I‘AFFâ€"f (Diseases of women and children) Office hours: 1:3 p.m. Phone 100 DR. CHARLES S. DUNNING Poyntz Ave., Lansing. Willow. 140. Office hours: 124.15; 6-7.15. Capitol Bldg., Yonge St. Hud. 1133; Rand. 2121. Office hours: 8.30; 2-5; 7.30-9. DENTAL DR. L. R. BELL Dentist Office: Trench Block, two doors north of Standard Bank. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Telephone 32 DR. E. J. HENDERSON Dentist Office, Davies Store Tuesday'szâ€"9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday’szâ€"7 to 9 p.m. Gas Extraction at Aurora Dr. W. Finlay DENTIST MAPLE ONTARIO Office Hours FRIDAY, 1.30 P.M. TO 8 P.M. Telephoneâ€"Maple 3 Office hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evenings by Appointment. Telephone 80 Dr. M. J. QUIGLEY DE lV'I‘IST Standard Bank Building Thornhill LEGAL WILLIAM COOK & COOK (William Cook F, Gordon Cook Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. 'Toronto Oflice: 816 Federal Building. 85 Richmond St. West Richmond Hill Office (Liberal Office) every Thursday forenoon. Maple, Thursday after noon. Woodbridge, Saturday afternoon. Monev to loan at Current Rate NAUGHTON & JENKINS Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Telephone Adelaide '2108 85 Richmond St. West. Toronto Naughtou Block. Aurora Solicitors for: Aurora, Richmond Hill. King, \\'hitchurch, Markham and North Gwillimhlry. Walter S. Jenkins, Res. Phone Hill. 6048 J. Harry Naughtnn. Res Elwin Mills. Res. Phone 127.2 McGUIRE, MACDONALD & ROLES Barristers. Solicitors. Etc. Hon. W.H. McGuire, Vincent C. MacDonald L.S.B. James A. Boles, B.A. 0ffices:â€"â€"77â€"'78 Sun Life Building, Adelaide and Victoria Btu. Ofl‘ices : AD. 0177 Toronto AD. 0178 A. CAMERON MacNAUGHTON BARRISTER 511 McKinnon Building, PRENTICE 8‘ PRENTICE Corner Jordan & Melinda Streets AUCTIONEERS J. H. Prentice, 415 Balliol St., Toronto. Hud. 1347W. K. G. Prentice, Milliken. We are prepared to conduct sales of every description. Farms and form stock solos s specialty. Farms bought and sold on commie- sion. All sales attended to on shortest notice. and conducted by the most unprovsd methods. SILVERSIDES & FARMER Licensed Auctioneers Co_nty of York Pure Bred Stock Sales a Specialty. Phone 2703 S‘I‘OUFFVILLE A. STONEHOUSE CARTAGE AND EXPRESS Plowing and Garden Work . Sand and Gravel, Concrete Work. OAK RIDGES MEDICAL DR. w. SALEM CALDWELL Office floursâ€"«R to 10 a.m. l to 2 and G to 8 Telephone 3 MAPLE DR. 3. l’. Office hours: ONTARIO WILSON 9 to 11 a.m. 6 to 8 p.m.. and by appointment Office: Centre and Church Sis. Phone 24. Richmond Hill Power Farming Machinery Tractors, Threshers, Silo Fillers, Bail- ing Presses. Plows. Harrows. Road Machinery and Tillage Tools for 'Fondson Tractors. KANE BROS. â€" â€"â€" â€" HEADFORD Write For Literature. P. O.â€" R. R. 2. Gormley. Toronto. Phone: Elgin 4879 Denton. Macdonald & Dentou Barristers, Solicitors, &c. Manning Arcade, King St. West, Toronto, Canado Telephone Main 0311 Cable Address: “Dedo” Arthur A. Mucdonnld. Frank Dank-v » Laura Demon. l1.A. CAMPBELL LINE Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. \ Toronto Office Manning Chambers, Corner of Queen and Bayâ€"Fopposite City Hall. MAPLE HOTEL Maple Every Saturday. T. C. NEWMAN Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public. Toronto Office. 18 Toronto Street. Phone Elgin 1887. Every Saturday afternoon Richmond Hill Office, Liberal Office Phone Richmond Hill. 9 Mopey to loan at current rates. HAROLD J. KIRBY BARRISTER. SOLICITOR. ETC. 2135 Yonge Street Toronto. lll'dson 1898. MAPLEâ€"EVERY TUESDAY Standard Bank Building. THOMAS DELANEY formerly of Wm. Cook. Cook & Delany Barrister. Solicitor S: Notary Public 1207 Northern Building ,330 Bay Street Toronto Richmond Hill,Tuesda_v Afternoons Office, Yonge St. one door South of Hill’s Garage Money to loan at current rates Telephone Elgin 77122 â€".â€"_ ' Poultry Short Cours -â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"__‘_‘_â€"q PRINTING The Liberal plant is equipped to do all kinds of commercial and general printing and can attend to all order! promptly and at reasonable prices. NO. 37 nnd. At Richmond Hill Last Week Proved Interesting and lnstructive Varied Features of Successful Poultry Raising Covered by Addresses by Competent Speakers--Those Who Approach the Business in Haphazard Way Doomed To Failure. On Tuesday morning, February 28th Mr. Clark of Cainsville, spoke on “Housing and Equipment.” Too many people think that poultry keeping is a thing that needs no ex- perienceâ€"that it is simply a matter of keeping the hens reasonably clean, throwing them some feed and gather- ing the eggs. Those who approach the business in this way are doomed to failure. Start with a few hens and when you have gained experience enlarge the flock. HOUSING. There is an enormous amount of capital lost every year in too expensive housing. The hens must pay interest on improvement and for depreciation and it keeps them working too hard. They will lay just as many eggs in a moderately cheap building as in an expensive one. Don’t use lath and plaster or double walls of any kind as they harbor rats and mice. Use single walls. Thirty years ago Mr. Clark built two houses 60 ft. long with lath and plaster walls and deep concrete foundation and floor, besides being too expensive he has had more trouble with rats and disease in those houses than in any other. Choose a well-drained situation facing south, dig small trench spade Width and spade depth, fill trench with broken stone or cindbrs to pre- vent heaving and cracking of the wall. Make concrete wall six inches high and six inches thick, andwhile still soft place six inch bolts head down about six feet apart and two inches from outside of wall. After concrete is thoroughly set bore holes in the scantling to be used for sill and drop over bolts. Do not buy expensive lumber, Mr. Clark bought an old building and put up a house 20 x 40 for less than $100, it may not be as nice to look at, but produces just as many eggs. Use cheap lumber and cover on the outside with a good grade of roofing well nailed on. Roofing companies sell “seconds” which are quitn good on- ough for walls though not for roofs. He has had one of these houses in use for 18 years. Paint the lath to strip the outside to make it look better and wear longer. After years of experi- ment it has been found that the straw loft house is the most satisfactory kind for Ontario as the loft keeps the house dry in winter and cool in summ- er. Open front houses all right for winter but too hot for the summer months. There must be ventilation above the loft, a hole one foot square cut in each end of the building at the peak. Lack of ventilation freezes hens combs. Cement floor is .the cheapest and most durable, one inch is thick enough it put on top of three or four inches of drainage material but don’t put ce- ment directly on the ground. A dry floor makes the litter last lonsrer. if hens’ feet are \vet and cold it will im- nair egg production very quickly. Don’t leave any harbor for rats under the floor, they can even eat through cement in timeâ€"and rats hayn plenty of time. Mr. Clark usos no dropping boards in his large poultry houses as it is too much labor to keep them clean, hens get their feet dirty and then go to nests, they also harbor mites. Windows for ventilating may be hinged at bottom and let down slightâ€" lv from the ton with burlap down the sides to prevent draughts. Have the front rif house nearly all light. wire foundation celluglcss has been found \‘erv satisfactory but not the wax cloth. This house is ~10 x 20, is six feet high fro'it and back and has windows two and a bclf feet from the floor. Two hundred hens may be kept in it, it is advisable to put a partition in the middle of house to lessen danger of drai'vshts and to make an epidemic leasier to control. Euuipment. DRY MASH HOPPER is perhaps the most necessary part of poultry l‘nouse equipment. It is best rm :1 stand lor suspended from ceiling, if hen can liust reach it she will not waste the ’mash. DUST BATH. If hens lif‘YO ‘1 (Mad ‘dust bath the}: will keen nmlvcs free from lice. Ground ll!‘."?i“'ll‘(' '1 host dustinrr 'lii-TTCl‘lill as it will nu' float in the air and make lxrmtliing difficult for The lions, DRINKING FOI'NTAIN A mlâ€" Vanized iron trough about six inches {deep raised so litter can't be «watch- led in. Keep coated on inside with roofing cement to keep from rusting and it will last indefinitelv. Place near dry mash. give water first thing in the morning and renew warm wat- ,er three times a (lay in cold weather. iIn cool weather it is not necessary to give water :15 well as milk. HOPPERS with grit and oyster shell Should be kept before them all the time. ELECTRIC LIGHTS for forcing winter egg production are all right if used judiciously. Don't force produc- tion over fifty per cent. or the hens are apt to lose weight and force a moult. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Benson of the Dominion Department of Agr1~ ____.â€"._._____.____.._._._â€"_ __â€"_â€"__.__â€"â€"â€"____ ___â€"___â€"_.____â€"__ | l culture spoke on SANITATION. Methods of sanitation in poultry keeping are too often neglected. Some poultry plants neglect sanitary preâ€" cautions and fail in the business as a direct result. Don‘t allow one poor, thin, diseased bird to live in the flock. It is a dis- ease carrier, don’t put off killing and burning it. Do it now. Don’t feed the hens old spoiled food, that is a common practice and should be avoidâ€" ed. It pays to give them clean feed free from mould, harmful bacteria are carried in spoiled feeds. Don’t allow hens to drink from barn yard puddles or open drains. A story Was told to illustrate this danger. A man in Prince Edward Island had a flock that was gradually dying and asked Mr. Benson to look them over. He found that the hens were dl'll'lkll’lg the nice warm highly flavored water from the house sink, and of course the salt, soap and lye etc, was having a deadly effect on the flock. It is a bad practice to let the flock work in the manure yard especially in warm weather. Keep drinking vessels scrupulously clean. Don’t throw dead birds on the rub- bish heap, the other birds will eventu- ally find and eat them thus spreading the disease. Destroy them at once. All these sanitary precautions, if carried out, mean success and build up that most necessary of all qualitiesâ€"â€" flock vigar-â€"without which no flock can function satisfactorily. Mr. Clark on CULLING. Mr. Clark drew the attention of the audience to the difference in types of poultry. The slow, heavy sluggish type which fatten easily and lay few eggs. The flat sided. deep bodied, closely feathered, clean cut, alert hens which fatten slowly but perform well as egg layers. Then the intermedi- ate type having certain characteristâ€" ics common to both. The head is the thermometer which indicates what may be expected in the body type and performance of the hen. The head be clean cut, medium size, not long or crow-headed and not short and fat and bunty. Those with crow heads have low egg producing ability and lack constitutional vigor. Short beefy heads indicate a tendency to sluggishness. good fattening ability and low egg production. Four birds of the desirable and. undesirable types Were on exhibition to illustrate Mr. Clark’s remarks. tween the two types was readily ap- preciated by the audience. Space does not permit a full account of the art of culling but if those who are interested will send to the Ontario Department of Agriculture for “Farm Poultry” Bulletin 329 they will find the subject completely covered. On Wednesday Morning, February 29th, Mr. Clark spoke on POULTRY DISEASES. COLD IN HEAD. This is caused by the bird roosting in a draught, also by lack of Ventilation. Treat it as soon as the eve looks bubb- ly, use small oil can with fine spout and drop coal oil in the little hole in front of the eye. Don’t neglect a cold as it may lead to more serious disord- ers. ROUP. Roup is often carried by sparrows and at present large num- bers of crows are dying of it. difficult to recognize at first as bird naturally turns good eye towards you. ,_ Isolate any bird with swelling in head . “j and trout with coal oil. control the growth becomes cheesy with pleasant. smell. If the bird is killed in the first stage before it loses weight the flesh is fit for food. DIPHTHERIA. A white growth in- ::idc mouth and throat. Trout with coal oil or permanganate of potash. Sometimes a white growth which apâ€" pears on the end of the windpipc may be removed into mouth, removing growth with hairpin and then disinfecting. (‘llICKl‘INâ€"POX. Small blisters on comb and Wattles. Isolate It is easy to RIB-ROLL the Permanent Roofing for Barns, Houses, Sheds LOVVin initial cost. . . comes in big sheetsâ€"easy and quick to lay...pennanent...leak-proof... handsome in appearance. BIG vents fires . . . increas...{ r'm‘ie of property. Made of famous “Council Standard” galvanized sheets. Give size ofroof for free estimate. I’Vrite to: Eastern Steel Produc- (muted PRESTON. ONT. Successor to Metal Shingle and a :5 ‘3‘- The difference be-l It is ' l' in first stages but not after I un- ‘ by shoving windpipe up " birds quickly, coat comb with carbolic vaseline or other disinfectant and give a teaspoonful of Epsom salts in two 3â€"0 capsules. This is a better way to give medicine than in liquid form. Give salts in drinking water to dose the whole flock. FLU. A bronchial disease preval- ent in recent years. The bird breath- es with its mouth open, can’t dislodge mucous and dies very quickly. Re- move affected birds, clean and disin- fect drinking pans and pens. Keep hens in good health to resist disease and feed liver to stimulate flock when some birds have had flu, TUBERCULOSIS. Poultry on farms more generally affected than those of poultrymen. Mr. Clark thinks bovine T.B. and avian T.B. are closely related and that hens get the infection from cow manure. Al- though doctors say that the flesh is not harmful to eat if well cooked Mr. Clark would not risk it. At post mortem the liver shows raised white spots. Enlarged liver without spots is caused by forcing for egg producti- on. INDIGESTION. The crop muscles become weakened and food remains in crop. If it can’t be loosened by giv- ing Epsom salts and water open crop, remove contents, wash and sew up with silk thread. Feed bird bread and milk for a. few days and give nux vomica in a capsule as a tonic. DIARRHOEA. Ordinary diarrhoea is simply another form of indigestion. Give one teaspoonful of castor oil in capsules. WHITE DIARRHOEA. This is one of the most serious of poultry di- senses and most difficult to recognize. There may be a “spreader” in the flock which will give it to the othec birds. The only sure way to recog» nize bacteria pullorum is by a blood test, some flocks are tested and tho hatching eggs guaranteed. It is here~ ditary and one chick can infect a whole incubator. To guard against this keep incubator dark at time of hatching and keep chicks in darkened chick boxes until they are old enough to feed, then put in brooder and feed at once. For first two weeks put two teaspoons standard iodine in drinkinr»; water as a precaution. If a chick shOWs signs of white diarrhoea kill it at once and burn the body. BROODER PNEUMONIA. Is caused by mouldy feed or mouldy litt- er. Listen to sick chick’s breathing to see if there is a. little cracking noise in lungs. Get rid of such chicks at once as they are no good even if they do recover. INTESTINAL WORMS. The sym- ptoms of the presence of tapeworms and roundworms are very similar-â€" birds become weak and unthrifty and the condition of the flock is poor. Mr. 1 (Continued on Page 7) l l Baby Chicks S. C. White Leghorn: Barred Rocks. WALTER ROSE STOCK Prices)J Subject to 10% TERMS:â€"20% deposit with CUSTOM HATCHING Yonge Street l-I - R. R. Richmond Hill, Ont. \V‘dIQl‘ZV ' i RICHMOND HILL DAIRY Latest Tests February 24th . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 February 1371b . . . . . . . . . . 3.51 0UP. Mth FORE BEING FILLED. Phone MARCH HATCHES, APRIL HATCHES, LEGHORNS . . . . . MAY HATCHES, LEGHORNS . . . . . . . JUNE HATCHES, LEGHORNS . . . reduction in lots of 200 or more ROCKS . . . . . .. $ 30.00 per 100 , 25.00 per 100 22.00 per 100 20.00 per 100 orderâ€"Balance before delivery $5.00 PER 100 EGGS SPECIAL RATES 0N LARGE ORDERS Poultry Far Opposite Orange Orphanage . G. MECHEDY Phone, King 16-r-26 ‘ Every day a Perfect Day When Using . Richmond Hill Dairy Milk Richmond on Dairy nan It has more than standard of Butter Fat. GOVERNMENT STANDARD 3.25 Butter Fat H IS SCIENTIFICALLY PASTEURIZED AND .: BOTTLED UNDER SANITARY CONDITIONS WITH THE LAT- 1, EST EQUIPMENT ON THE MARKET. 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