Twenty-fivesen
pure bred pullets and
th
two cockerel must be raised in the
third year, a composition must also be
writtene and submitted and the .same
sized sent to the fair as during
the second year. In this year May 1
In the fourth year each member is
required to raise at least thirty pure
bred pullets and three cockerels. The
hatching and rearing of chickens, the
condition of stock and cleanliness of
coops and poultry buildings, the cost
of producing eggs, accuracy and neat
ness of records, attendance at meet
ings, exhibits at fairs, and the written
articles shall ail be considered in the
rating of members and awarding of
prises..^* **&*.
mM Happens on Pot of Gold. ^s^.-
Oroville. Cal.After having pros
pected for years along the Yuba river,
with little return for his patient work.
Frank Davidson has finally made a
strikein an old Iron pot He was
walking on a sandbar when his foot
struck the pot, wbicb was half buried
in gravel. With the Impact a few
grains of gold rolled oat Davidson
scraped the pot and found dost worth
80%*- _,
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OLDEST UiMivcr^nr FOUND.
Ancient Tablets Prove One Existed In
Nippur Temple 3200 B. C.
'Philadelphia.The discovery of the
existence of the first temple of learning
in the world, where the first exponents
of the liturgical system congregated,
has just been made by Professor Ste
phen Herbert Langdon, professor of
Assyriology in Oxford, who is now in
vestigating the Nippur collection of the
University of Pennsylvania. The tab
lets were collected in three expeditions
to Nippur, in the southern part of Baby.
Ionia.
