days | so quiet that somehow I Jet her have her | To Save the Seal
t way,
J several days had passed, I wrote | A herd of six fur-seal pups, taken in |
Katy a note saying Ishouid be glad to | the waters near St. Michaels, Alaska, ha ts ab seseice Blac is that a
! been sent to the New York Aquarium. There is no service lik serves because
and her family. By way ; : he loves.—Sir Phillip Sidney.
with a photograph of the | ed with more interest, especially by the |
mills where she was employed, and aline | Bureau of Fisheries, than any other sea |
saying she was quite well, and they all | creatures yet brought to our shores. In
had work now. It was great luck; but fact, the seals will be the quiet beginning
FARM NOTES.
| FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN
DAILY THOUGHT. <
eee —Germany is the chief source of kain-
it, as well as all the imported salts ex-
cept the crude saltpeter. Of the muriate
imported in 1911, 431,000,000 pounds,
Germany supplied all except 3,250,000
pounds received from Belgium and 1,500,-
000 pounds from the United Kingdom.
Bellefonte, Pa., February 9, 1912.
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JUST OUR DOG.
A hostess who entertained on the date
of Lincol='s birth sent the invitations
proof possible. Instead ” the i
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He was just a dog, mister—that’s all;
glad to see back. 1 hope you did |she always did have such luck! of an experiment of far-reachi . | shape of a log, as a suggestion of Lin- ; a
And all of us boys called him Bub; not find h damage done to your| For a month I resisted my impulse to +s e, an rs hy age fs coln’s cabin home. house was deco- Uanprices paid to the farmers in the
gone be ' home?” | go and see Katy, and then decided to in- | these fast-disappearing animals in | rated in streamers of red, white, and blue, ML€C States on October 1, as compared
His tail froze one cold night, you see:
We just pulled the rest of him through.
No—he didn’t have much pedigree—
Perhaps that was frozen off, too.
He always seemed quite well behaved,
And he never had many bad fights:
In summer he used to be shaved
And he slept in the woodshed o' nights.
Sometimes he would wake up too soon
And cry, if his tail got a chill;
Some nights he would bark at the moon,
But some nights he wouid sleep verv still.
He knew how to play hide-and-seek
And he always would come when you'd call;
He would play dead, roll over and speak,
And learned it in no time at all.
Sometimes he would growl, just in play.
But he never would bite, and his worst
Was tobark at the postman one day.
But the postman he barked at him first.
He used to chase cats up a tree,
But that was just only in fun:
And a cat was as safe as could be—
Unless it should start out to run;
Sometimes he'd chase children and throw
Them down, just while running along,
“It was carried off, sir, every single bit
of it!”
You would have supposed, from her
tone, that she hk ig some won-
derful piece of good fortune.
"You never, in all your life, heard of
such luck! Mother and the girls got up
on the roof, and there they hung on till a
boat came and took them off. Not one
| of them was drowned—not a single one!
And just as they were saying what on
| earth would they do, came talk of houses
to let cheap that were damaged by water.
They founu one already for them: the
: cellar flooded, but the top floor dry as a
| bone; and then, they bought some wet
! mattresses for almost nothing.”
“What!” 1 exclaimed, “surely
water-soaked mattresses!”
not
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i “There!” and Katy laughed in that!
| droll, ingratiating way of hers, "you don’t
| need to worry one bit, sir—not one bit!
| Every sunny day Mother puts those mat- |
They'll soon be |
| tresses out on the roof.
| as dry as ever.”
1 smiled; and then, simply because the
: lines came into my head, J vores.
“God's in his Heaven,
| dulge myself in the fancy. t
. I'got out at the town where Katy work- | the plan succeeds it is more than likely of a :
It! that a great seal rookery may be estab- | made to climb in profusion over the logs.
| The place-cards had Lincoln pennies on
i Hen, and the souvenirs were tiny busts
lo
| ed, and found my wav to the mills.
! hurt me to think of her as shut up in that
| great, ugly building. Her voice came
i back to me as [ had heard it when she
| was singing in the office. She should be
| singing in a garden—my Katy!
i wh last words leaped from my heart
| and danced in my brain. I entered the
| factory and went up to the superinten- |
| dent's desk. As he told me what hud!
i happened, his eyes were fixed on me
! curiously.
i But 1 am always self-controlied. |
| merely thanked him and walked out of
| the place. He had given me an address,
| but for a time Idid not seem to know ex-
‘actly where | was going. 1 realized,
however, that the world had changed,
and that the factory town was hideous.
As | went on from street to street. the
ugly flat houses began to give piace to
litt'e homes, each with a bit of ground of
its own. | was getting more mto the
, country. Then suddenly I heard a wom-
an singing.
At the sound of that voice, at the lilt
he eastern part of the United States.
lished in the near future at some point
among the rock islands of the Maine
coast if proper climatic conditions can be
found.
The government took an active inter-
est in conveying the young seal pups to |
the United States last November, when
the six were brought from St. Paul
Island, and distributed in Golden Gate
Park, the Washington Zoological Park,
and the New York Aquarium. Unfortu-
nately, one out of each pair has died. No
other wild animal has been the subject of
international disputation so earnestly
contested and so long continued as the
fur seal. This is due entirely to the
value of the fur-seal's pelt. For more
than twenty vears' the American and
Asiatic seal herds have been under
almost constant discussion. Although
the sealing regulations framed by the
Paris Tribunal in 1892 remain in force,
the fate of the fur seal as the basis of a
valuable industry still is unsettled. Its
continued existence as a species becomes
Ii | and the table had a centerpiece made in
the form of a tiny log hut, with vines
Lincoln.
For one game they were given red,
white, and blue booklets and red pencils,
and were told to answer the f{oilowing
questions with words beginning with the
letters A. L., the initials ot Abraham
! Lincoln:
What is your favorite book? What is
i your favorite pastime? What is your fa-
| vorite study? What do you dislike most?
Who is your ideal man? Who is your
ideal woman? What is your favorite
play? Who wrote it? etc.
A suitable prize was awarded to the
guest who could give the most quotations
from speeches of Lincoln. A framed
picture of his home was given the one
who named the longest list of heroes in
Lincoln's time; and the contest in which
words were made from the letters in the
name Abraham Lincoln was puzzling as
well as amusing.
After supper anecdotes and stories of
with the same time last year, averaged
for potatoes, 30.2 per cent. higher: hay,
22.7 per cent. higher; oats, 17.4 per cent.
higher; corn, 7.5 per cent. higher; wheat,
5.7 per cent. lower; chicken 6 per cent, .
lower; butter, 9-2 per cent. lower; eggs,
10.7 per cent. lower.
—~Here are a few unexplained facts
about animals and insects: A fly will
crawl to the top of the window pane, fly
back to the bottom, and crawl up again:
hardly ever does it fly up and craw! down;
a hen always scratches for feed with the
sun behind it, so that its rays will reflect
on the tiny particles: cats seldom lie with
their feet to the fire, dogs invariably lying
just that way.
—It is stated that the cranberry crop
this year is held in the grip of a Trust
that refuses to release them for less that
$10.50 per barrel. Last vear there was a
good crop. and the berries sold for $6 per
barrel, and the $10.50 asked this year has
started investigations. The average an-
nual crop, amounts to about 525 barrels
of two-and-a-half bushels each, divided
practically between the States: Massa-
: s : ; . fart : a chusetts, New Jersey and \Visconsin
And then lick their faces to show i : : £42. of that Irish love-song, I stopped. I knew more doubtful every year, and renewed l-incoln’s life were exchanged, and a fun- EL ais ’
He didn't mean anything wrong. . i All right withthe world! 1 should see Katy; but I had not expect. efforts are being i © aug ny Dixie chorus entertained them with Massachuseits leading.
He asi a ile | “Oh!” Katy cried in delight. “Who ed to see her in a dilapidated old yard, A great seal herd, if it could be estab- 8rotesque songs and comical negrodanc- __ when filling the ice house. There
was chasing an automobi | said that?” with a brood of children about her. lished on the Atlantic coast, would be of ©S
When the wheel hit him right in the side,
So he just gave a queer little squeal
And curled up and stretched out and died.
His tail it was not very long,
He was curly and not very tall;
But he never did anything wrong—
He was just our dog, mister—that’s all.
—Atlanta Jonrnaj,
THE LUCK OF KATY DONOVAN.
Sure,” came in a warm’ caressing
brogue, “1 do always have the greatest
luck!” Then, with a dash into nasal
twang and current idiom, “What time
does the boss come in? I hear he thinks
an awful lot—"
Here Timothy giggled, and nudged ber.
That boy has eyes in the back of his
head, and ears like a pointer’s. I longed
to tweak one of the latter as he scuttled
by me. What was it | thought an awful
lot of; and why had Timothy giggled so
knowi ?
I EY re new girl if she were the
one the typewriter people had sent. She
said she was, and we got to work. By
noon I had her without further
trial. After luncheon we got the desks
cleared out and rearranged, 1 am a patent
lawyer, and my office is overrun with
of queer devices and with queer-
er le. Also, there are endless papers
to in order and endless letters to
answer. But by four o'clock, thanks to
the new stenographer, we were straight-
ened out, and she knew where things be-
longed. Then, in a sort of lazy reaction
from my busy day, my mind reverted to
the conversation I had interrupted be-
tween Timothy and Miss Donovan.
“We are in great luck to be through so
early,” I rem =
"Yes, sir,” Miss Donovan agreed, but
I always do have the greatest luck! i
“I hope you brought it here with you.
“I hope so, sir, for it was my luc
brought me. They had fifty girls on
their list, all waiting.” :
That, doubtless, was the piece of good
fortune she had been discussing with
Timothy. But what of the allusion to
myself? “They know what 1 want,” I
said. "I am very particular about some
thi ”
"Yes, sir.” -
“For instance, neatness!” As I spoke,
I picked up one of the letters she had
typed, held it out for her inspection. The
paper was slightly soiled in handling.
.“Oh—1'm sorry! She blushed, :
she looked up, it was with a droll, in-
gratiating air, as h to say, “Don’t
you be too di about me. All I
need is a bit of telling!”
t presence wait-
PC iE . Katy, with blue eyes
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reason, that
going well with me, and
1 asked, quite involuntarily, “Well, Miss
Donovan, what luck now?
“Oh, sir, the best ever! Yesterday I
in the street. | took
1 whistled. :
“But that wasn't the best of it. Just
when I was wondering how to find the
owner, | saw a bit of paper with a name
and address on it. It was a place way
over east, but I went right away, and
Young air
ing. When she saw what I'd brought,
she stared as if she couldn't believe it.
Pd been saving it for a whole year!” she
said—‘a whole I"
“What for?”
ly.
YuShe didn't say, sir; but I'm sure it was
something v But wasn't it
good luck . 1 always do have
the greatest luck!” .
To the last remark I became quite ac-
customed as the days went on.
when one morning Katy looked downcast,
wondered whether her luck
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| “Why, is it poetry?” Katy asked. “Sure,
| it seems to me its just—just true!”
i ts true when you are about, Katy,” |
| said.
| Her name slipped out of itself—I had
| called her Katy so long in my thoughts
—and the clear red rose to her cheeks.
And now I fancied, as the days went
She was tying up a rose-bush, and one
{of the boys—the youngest of all—was
helping her. He called her attention to
| me. She turned, and gave a little cry.
i When I learned at the factory that
| Katy was married, | expected to find her
| the mistress, at least, of a new-made
| home; but thisold place, and the swarm-
ghtened me. |
remembered the friend who had lost his
k | have it, all ready to take his place in the
or quite involuntari- | try
And | of her to revert. to the business relation-
morning,
:. | would have felt concern.
ting children, had enlj
on, that Katy became a thought less con- |
fiding and spontaneous in her manner
with me. She doubtless felt, poor little 3
girl, the chasm between us, and realized | gruous, in the light of this, seemed my
that she must guard her feelings. { mood of an hour before.
That summer, when I went away for| Katy asked me to come into the house
my vacation, I gave Katy a vacation, too. | and have a cup of tea, and soon every-
wife, and whose place Katy had taken in
the mills when he was ill. How incon-
radiant. I tried to pursuade her to go to ! freshments, for all the children had fol
the mountains or the shore; but she in- lowed Katy; and it seemed a merry
sisted upon going home to Paterson. enough household.
“Drop me a line,” I said, “and let me | And Katy, clearly, was the center of all
know how your vacation goes. Have the | the content. "I looked after them,” she |
best time you can.”
while I was away, and when I got back
to town, I hurried down to the office,
feeling sure she would be there first and
have it in readiness for me. The sun
was hot, and my vision of the cool, shaded
room, with Katy waiting in it, was dis-
tinctly agreeable; so much so that I felt
quite cheerful about returning to work.
But Katy was not in the office; it look-
ed as it used to look, and 1 felt as I used
to feel on coming back from my annual
outing. Then, as I turned from the win-
dow which I had opened, Katy appeared
in the door.
"You see, sir,” Katy said, when she had
put that bright, tidy look on things which
follows her moving about a lace, “you
see, sir, it was this way. I got
home Lfound that a friend of mine—the |
one whose wife died and left the little
children—was sick and couldn't work.
And there was I, as good luck would
ed, stroking the hair of the you
who sat in her lap. Then, "Joe's the
know—I always do have such luck!”
and that of his children. As to my own
—-well, I have never felt again as I felt
that day whenl went to find Katy.—By
Virginia Yeyman Remnitz, in the Wom
an's Home Companion.
Paper of the Bamboo Pulp.
pulp be derived from the bamboo fi
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| tific station near Kobe, Japan.
mills and hold it for him. If you'd seen
his mother’s face when I told her! She
lhe there and takes care of the chil
ren.”
“So,” I said dryly, “you didn’t have any
vacation after all. I was paying you, it
seems, to work for another man.”
Katy's face crimsoned, and she drop-
ped her eyes. “I never thought of it that |
way,” she said ina low voice. Then
added very quietly, "I will pay it back to
you, sir.” | no recent discovery.
“Nonsense!” I said briskly. "I wasn't |
thinking of the money, Katy; I was think-
ing of the rest I had planned for you, and
I was wondering how any man rob
you of it!” , only bambos ts, for the evident rea-
last words may have been un-' son that the shoots can be more readily
kind, but I felt I should implant in her | worked up.
mind a proper ating about this man's The new Sompany Bu use all kinds of
acceptance o p. Imagine, then, | bam young t particular}
my surprise when Katy lifted her head, | a variety called “kei chiku,” of which
her eyes flashing. “He took it so the old The
mother and the little children wouldn't
go hungry, and so he could well to
Bt is
you don’t understand about people like
us, sir. And hie means to pay Ine back.
She went to her desk ell to work;
but it was some days before she recover-
ed her full measure of radiant cheer.
This is why, when I opened the office
door Ghe sorNEg and heard her blithely
singing, I was
It was an hd love-song, and she
might have been ina garden out of doors,
so fresh and lilting was her voice. I think | It
she had forgotten the office and the mur-
mur of the crowded street below. I stood
still in the doorway until she turned and | 1912.
saw me.
rae. Sih jaa pt Jam) she cried.
“I'd no t to nging in a place li
this. You'd think it was off in the coun-
we were, on a picnic!”
“I wish it were, 1” [had gone to
her and taken one of her hands in mine.
“I don't, sir,” she said; “there's work
enough for us here, not to be running
away from it.”
That was true and of course it was wise
with bamboo pulp. It has been
a perpetual lease of 8,000 acres of boo
month.
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to tell her so; but here a sort of con-
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a beating at my pulses, a warm,. stealing
delight in my blood.
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ceedingly primitive—no chemicals enter- |
The Chinese use |
the utmost economic and scientific value.
Before the great ocean-sealing fleets came
into existence the catch of seal-skins was |
made on the islands in Bering Sea, where |
animals breed. As the fur seal is highly
polygamous, there is always a natural '
surplus of males available for commercial
purposes. With the development of ocean
or “pelagic” sealing, the killing of female
seals began, and this naturally resulted
in the rapid reduction of the breeding
stock.
Twenty-five years ago, with perhaps
. nearly 4,000,000 seals in sight, it was pos-
She called it her good luck, and went off | one was busy making ready for my re- |
sible to kill annually 100,000 male seals |
on the Pribilof Islands without injury to |
the herd. Today, with 2a herd of less:
than 175,000 seals remaining, the island
catch of males is seldom more than 10,-
000. The United States government has !
, full control of the breeding-grounds, and
for many years only supernumerary males | t
| told me, "when Joe's mother was ill. And | have Buy y killed y Supe Tay, su- | cards make little fat hearts of pink
I had no word from Katy, however, | they're the dearest children!” She paus- | pervision. The government received an | and fill them with rose sachet. Tie a
est, | a
verage of $28.34 for the 13,000 raw furs
of the 1910 catch. This indicates what a
man ever was,” she went on. “But you | valuable asset is constituted by the seal
‘herds. It has been found impossible thus
Whatever my opinion of Katy’s luck, far, however, to put a stop to the slaygh-
there could be no question as to Joe's | ter of the females on the high seas.
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females leave their suckling young on
shore in the rookeries, and go long dis-
tances to sea in search of food. They
The most appropriate day in all the
year for the announcement of your
friend's cagagement is St. Valentine's
Day. Select heart-shaped valentines for
your invitations, Write the inscriptions
upon the back in gold ink. Spring flow-
ers, where available, are loveliest for dec-
oration. Great bowls of crocuses are es-
pecially appropriate, as they are consid-
ered in France to be sacred to St. Valen-
tine. A large lunch-cloth, covering the
_top of your table, is more effective than
the miscellaneous small doilies. For
your centerpiece, use a round caterer's
mirror edged with maidenhair fern. Up-
on the center of this, in a bed of the
fern, mold a large heart of wet sand, and
stick it full of pink rosebuds. Transfix
it with a large arrow of gold paper, and
| place two or three little bisque cupids
among the ferns and flowers. For place-
satin,
' gold arrow for the name onto each with
| a bow of pale-green gauze ribbon. From
each sachet carry the ribbon to the min-
! iature U. S. mail-pouch suspended above
i the center of the table. For the mail-
| pouch, purchase brown paper in imita-
| tion of leather. Cut the bag with a flap,
| decorate with a large heart and the
| words U. S. Mail.
Quince and White Grape Coctails
ing in wait for them. Thus the adult fe- | Clear Chicken Bouillon Whipped Cream
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forest in Gormoso, and is now _engaged | California coast, where they turn north-
near Kagi in installing the machinery for | ward and work their way back along the
a plant with a capacity of 300 tons of | Canadian and Alaskan shores, until they
| bamboo pulp a month, and the capacity | arrive at the Pribilof Islands, in the Ber-
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left to starve.
The most interesting and wonderful
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L orests | migration at sea for a period of some
tropics instead of being drawn from | seven or eight months, and the unerring
the forests of the temperate zones? A ing i
tentative affirmative answer to this ques-*
tion could be madeby a paper mill which = the obscure islets in the Bering Sea where | Cream Cheese
has recently made very satisfactory ex- the rookeries are located. The return trip |
periments with bamboo pulp at its scien- | is not made over the same route as the
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outgoing journey. On leaving the breed-
latitude of California is reached.
they turn abruptly eastward until off the
The adult males reach the
L . breeding-grounds early in May, and the
The making of paper from bamboo is | females appear just before the young are
] ry. For generations the | born in the latter part of June and the
Chinese have carried on this industry in | first half of July.
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French-Fried Potatoes, Small Soda Biscuit
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Bread Croutons
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This company has the utmost confi- | ing-grounds at the approach of winter the | Black Coffee
dence in the results of its i gn | seals pursue a southerly course until the | Tu
The quantities given inthe recipes will
serve ten people bountifully. The follow-
ing is a recipe for the quince cocktail: Cut
slices of a large grapefruit one inch thick,
remove the pulp; dice six or eight quar- '
ters of preserved quince; cut white
| grapes crosswise, remove seeds; place
mixture in slender-stemmed glasses,
sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar, and
add a teaspoonful of sherry to eachglass,
| Just before serving sprinkle little candy
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ounces, each, of flour and butter, add one-
of each, fill with mixture, and chill.
The mint punci may be made either
and boil to a syrup. Then add the juice
of three lemons and a quart of water
sweetened to taste. When neatly. frozen,
with mayoennaise dressing,
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red . Butter individual molds,
the place Li of hard-boiled egg in bottom
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For the salad mix chilled cooked as-
with pecans, mold into a brick |
two inches square, chill, and cut in one- |
each slice lay a |
cakes: Melt together one |
of honey and one cupful of but- |
sake from she fits, and sd four cup-
almonds. Let the mixture!
overnight, then roll the dough one .
of an inch thick, cut in crescent
garnish with candied orange-'
course, |
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the ice-cream “going
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pencil and three
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is to write the name of | found that very
Is bears the name of ' onions or other bles, as they
Although
white kid gloves. If this
a bunch of rosebuds
are a few things that should be kept in
mind. For packing ice any insulating
material, or something that will prevent
the passage of heat through itself, is re-
quired. This should be placed on the
floor, up the sides and between the cakes.
Dry sawdust may be used, but it must
never be wet. If ice is broken finely in
cold, dry weather and packed tightiy be-
tween the cakes it will prevent them
from thawing.
A good, durable ficor may be made of
cobble or broken stone, 12 inches d
and covered with coarse gravel or sand.
The top should be covered with not less
than six inches of dry sawdust. If saw-
dust is not at hand a layer of dry straw,
chaff or hay 18 iaches thick before the
ice is packed may be used. The floor
should prevent any current of air inward
or outward, yet allow ready drainage.
~—It is a note worthy fact thatthe large
hotels and the select private trade are
afraid of farm eggs, and willingly pay a
few cents a dozen more for eggs that
come from the henneries of careful poul-
trymen. There is a reason for it.
The poultryman is careful in gathering
the eggs, is particular in marketing them,
and knows that itis important to give the
best quality of food. The select trade
claims that the farmers’ hens run wild
over the place, gather their grain in the
manure piles, drink water out of stagnant
pools, are exposed to all kinds of weath-
er, and lay their in hidden nests.
On the other hand the hens belonging
to the poultryman are confined to runs,
are kept busy scratching for their feed
among clean litter like straw, hay or
leaves, and provided with fresh, clean
water and the purest of grains, meat
scrap and vegetables, are never exposed
to bad weather, and lay their eggs in
clean nests.
—Food flavors the egg There is noth-
ing in the fad that the color of shell in-
dicates the quality of the contents. New
England pins her faith to the brown-
shelled egg, and New York pays a pre-
mium for the white-shelled. It is all a
notion. The quality is made only by the
feed given. But in catering to a market
wise poultrymen mect the call. If the
market prefers a brow: shell, only such
hens as lay a brown-sheiled egg are kept.
The farmer, as a rule, k mongrels.
With him a hen is a hen. The result is
that the shells are of different shades of
color and the size is not uniform. The
first appearance of the eggs from the
poultry farm is half the sale,
The poultryman feeds a variety of
grains, principally corn, wheat and oats;
he feeds kiln-dried scrap, clover or alfal-
fa hay, turnips, beets and other vegeta-
bles. He prevents the hens from becom-
ing over-fat, the cause of soft-
shelled eges, and eggs with streaks of
blood in . He gathers the sev-
eral times a day to prevent c in
from fresh mint or from mint syrup. If winter or staling in summer. He mar-
the fresh mint is used, boil a bunch of | kets at least twice a week, never allow-
mint in a quart of water, strain, sweeten, ' ing
an in his possession to become
over as days old. His hens lay in
glean hevinn Wich | guarantees him Safe
ng u, eggs, as is so 0
the case ith Pr farmer, whose hens
have ludden nests all over the farm. His
moral is that the farmer, if he
wishes to gain the of the select
| buyers, must have conditions the same
: as those exercised by the poulterer. He
must quarter, feed and care for his stock
in just the same way.
While there
eae the
average
wg in Stl
very
care, aside from gathering them.
loss is caused by dirty eggs, the number
being enormous, and according to the es-
timate of Secretary Wilson, of the De-
partment of Agriculture, this in
to the farmers in the United
amounts to about $5, SY ot
y
eggs often enough.
are found
‘This loss is very |
by not gathering the
I wet weather more diy ogi
than at any other time. is caused
by the fact that the hen's feet are
covered with mud or other filth, and
on the nest tolay she soils the eggs
already in nest.
An in the ns number of nests is often
ground and
the cause of many of the
stained, are classed as “dirties.
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found. Eggs are laid on the
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hens to
layers. On a farm where
every four hens is provided
Jhoeorh ders:
“seconds,”
are mixed with an otherwise
lot, they materially decrease the price
the clean eggs.
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