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A mill for grinding bones is a help to egg business and can be bought for
about six dollars. One of our guests, Mrs. Wilson told of an
effectual remedy gapes in young chickens. Put it in a box
which has a division in it, and a hot soapstone in the other
side. Pur nearly a tablespoon carbolic acid on the stone and
cover the box with piece of carpet. Leave the chicken there about
3 minutes. This must be in early stages of gapes.
More profitable to sell chickens at $3.00 than to keep longer for
higher price. At this point our hostess brought in her
whole [illegible] of one chicken of a good frying size,
but evidently the prospect of gapes and hot carbolic fumes
and being sold for a quarter was too much for its nerves, and
it has taken out in manifest terror.
A time hoored subject was brought to the front by
the question of the best way to make hard and soft soap.
It is said that some years ago this was a favority theme
with this society, but whether the recipes failed or the
price of soap went down in the housekeepers became too
wealthy to care for the outlay of a few more cents is not known,
but all the questions gathered was to feed skins and cracklins
to the chickens and buy soap from the store.
A mother of a small boy at Sherwood asked him
boys could be prevented from playing rough games at school.
She seemed to think the games were rougher than in by gone
years but at this interesting point two very young
grandfathers confessed that in "their" school dayts their
favorite amusement was in sending a boy to the top
of a tree and then cutting the tree down, even with the
prospect before them of having to bury the boy afterward.
This proves conclusively that times have changed